Programme for 2007 ASA Conference 'Policy Pricing and Pricing' announced

["Rollo Turner" <rollo.turner@dsl.pipex.com>]

The 2007 conference programme is now out and I hope as many of 
the list can come as possible. As normal the conference is open 
to all and acts as a meeting point for publishers, agents, 
intermediaries, librarians and consortia -- details below but the 
full conference details are on 
http://www.subscription-agents.org/conference/200702/index.html

The Purchasing Decision
Welcome and introduction
Peter Lawson, Chairman, ASA

The structure of purchasing decisions
Warren Holder, Electronic Resources Coordinator, University of Toronto,
Canada

Purchasing in the corporate organisation
Henning P. Nielsen, Manager, Library & Information Centre, Novo Nordisk A/S,
Denmark

Putting usage statistics to work in the purchasing life cycle
Terry Bucknell, Electronic Resources Manager, University of Liverpool

The Dark Art of Pricing and Business Models

Does the journal have a price any longer?
John Cox, Managing Director, John Cox Associates

Pricing the package
Nick Evans, Members Services Manager, ALPSP and Tamsyn Honour, Swets
Information Services UK

Business models that work
Ian Snowley, Director, Academic Services, University of London Research
Library Services, and President-Elect the Chartered Institute of Library and
Information Professionals (CILIP)

A Value Driven Approach to e-Journal Procurement
Armand Brevig, Global Category Lead, Scientific and Business Information,
AstraZeneca

Consortia (Chair: Rollo Turner, ASA)

Where are consortia heading? 1. The UK model
Paul Harwood, Director, Content Complete

Where are consortia heading? 2. The USA
Ann Okerson, Associate University Librarian for Collections and
International Programs, Yale University, USA

>From the licensing battlefield: consortia as the new middlemen 
between publishers, agents and libraries. A view from Europe

Nol Verhagen, University Librarian, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands

>From Discovery to Acquisition

New forms of discovery - The academic view
Margaret Flett, IT Services Development Officer, UCL Library Services,
University College London

Discovery - empowering the user
Mark Jewell, Director Business Information Services, Lehman Brothers

Intermediation in the new user environment
Chris Beckett, Director, Scholarly Information Strategies Ltd

Rollo Turner
Secretary General
Association of Subscription Agents and Intermediaries
+44 (0)1494 534778
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