ALPSP and SSP Joint Seminar In Washington DC - Open Access: does itreally work in practice?

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ALPSP and SSP Jointly Organised Seminar
Open Access: does it really work in practice?
Washington DC, Monday 8 November 2004

Chair: Bob Kelly, American Physical Society                  
Venue: American Geophysical Union, 2000 Florida Avenue NW, Washington
DC, USA

The Open Access journal publishing model - where there is no charge for
access to primary research papers - is being strongly hyped by its
supporters. But many learned societies and other publishers are anxious
about its effects - will they be forced to go down this path? And if they
do, what will the consequences be?

Open Access is not all or nothing; there is a spectrum, from delayed Open
Access (making backfiles available after a - relatively short - period),
via partial or hybrid Open Access (where some primary research articles,
but not all, are immediately freely available) to full, immediate Open
Access. Publishers may wish to test the waters before deciding whether or
not to go all the way. Whichever variant is chosen, the costs of
publication have to be, to a greater or lesser extent, funded from sources
other than subscriptions - either by payments on behalf of authors (e.g.
from research or institutional funds) or from third-party sources such as
grants.

In this seminar, hosted jointly by the Association of Learned and
Professional Society Publishers and the Society for Scholarly Publishing,
we learn from the real-life experience of publishers who are actually
testing various different variants of Open Access. These publishers will
share with us what really happened - to their finances, to their
submissions, to their citations - when they tried to adopt their own form
of Open Access.

>From the experiences shared by fellow publishers, from the data collected
more widely by OSI, and from the experience of the University of British
Columbia in providing practical tools to enable partial or full Open
Access, we hope to help our audience to answer the question 'Does it
work?' and, thus, to consider 'Might it work for us?'

Directions available at: http://www.agu.org/inside/directns.html

Further information: Lesley Ogg, Events Coordinator, Email:
events@alpsp.org

Programme

09.30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

10.00 Introduction from the Chair
Bob Kelly, American Physical Society 

10.20 Overview - what's Open Access all about?
Peter Suber, Earlham College 

10.50 The economics of Open Access
Mark McCabe, Georgia Institute of Technology 

11.20 COFFEE

11.50 The effects of Open Access: preliminary results of
ALPSP/AAAS/HighWire study, Cara Kaufman, Kaufman-Wills LLC

12.20 Questions and discussion

12.30 LUNCH

13.30 Real-life experience with models of Open Access:

            Delayed Open Access 
            Ray Everingham, American Society for Cell Biology 

            Partial (or 'hybrid') immediate Open Access 
            Margaret Reich, American Physiological Society

            Full, immediate Open Access 
            John Hawley, Society for Clinical Investigation 

15.00 Practicalities of moving to Open Access
John Willinsky, University of British Columbia 

15.30 Panel discussion

16.30 TEA, COFFEE AND CLOSE

This event is sponsored by: American Physiological Society, Open Society
Institute, Public Knowledge Project - University of British Columbia,
Science and Intellectual Property in the Public Interest - AAAS

Seminar fees, including lunch:  ALPSP/SSP member $249, Non-member $399

Please book online at:  http://www.sspnet.org/i4a/forms/form.cfm?id=49
&pageid=3642  

Laura Cox
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