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ASLIB Biosciences Group Annual Conference
Death of the journal: will PubMed Central kill the journal in Health and Life
Sciences?
11th May 2000, 09.45-16.30
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Horseferry Road, London
In April 1999 the US National Institutes of Health proposed setting up PubMed
Central (originally E-Biomed) , a system that would allow the world's health
and life sciences research community to make their findings freely available on
the Internet. The principal is based on the e-print server for Physics based at
Los Alamos (used by some 50,000 physicists a day), but the proposal has a
number of differences that have generated controversy. This conference will
examine some of these contentious issues.
**Provisional Programme**
Keynote address: The journal is dead: long live the journal! Stevan Harnad,
Southampton University
Further presentations will then discuss the various aspects and viewpoints
surrounding the controversial subject, and will include:
* E-BioSci - An electronic repository of scientific reports from the life
sciences. Graham Cameron, EMBL, Cambridge
* Implications for BioMedNet and Elsevier. Lois Wingerson, BioMedNet
* All change: How the Internet impacts on journal functions. Tony Delamothe,
Web Editor, British Medical Journal
* BioMed Central - open publishing of biomedical research. Matthew Cockerill,
BioMed Central
* The Librarian's viewpoint Robert Kiley, Wellcome Trust
* The impact of preprint servers on the physics community Andrew Wray,
Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol
**Cost**
£50 ABG members; £60 non members; £20 unwaged (including lunch and
refreshments)
If you would like to join us and learn more about this topic, please return the
booking form by 1st May 2000 to:
Nigel Robinson, Tel: 01904 642816
ABG Meetings Secretary, Fax: 01904 612793
c/o BIOSIS UK, Email: [log in to unmask]
54 Micklegate,
York YO1 6WF
To avoid disappointment early booking is advised as places are strictly
limited.
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***BOOKING FORM - ABG Conference 2000***
Death of the journal: will PubMed Central kill the journal in Health and Life
Sciences?
Please return this form no later than 4th May 2000 to:
Nigel Robinson,
ABG Meetings Secretary,
c/o BIOSIS UK,
54 Micklegate,
York YO1 6WF
(Tel: 01904 642816; fax: 01904 612793; email: [log in to unmask])
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