Institutional Repositories and Their Impact on Publishing - 24 June 2004 

Institutional repositories (IRs) have been attracting increasing attention 
since the launch of MIT's Dspace in 2002. Their contents - journal article 
eprints, theses, dissertations, datasets and other grey literature - are 
generally freely available and they are seen by their advocates as a 
promising route to open access to scholarly research. But how will they 
affect the traditional scholarly communication model? 

This conference, organised by the PALS group (the collaboration between the 
PA, ALPSP and the JISC), aims to go some way to answer this question by 
gathering together members of the publishing and higher education worlds to 
look at where the IR agenda is at present and how it is likely to develop, 
who is using IRs and how, and what the practical issues are for 
universities and publishers. The conference will hear from networked 
information guru, Cliff Lynch, on the likely developments in this area, and 
find out about Berkeley Electronic Press' experience with IRs, the 
technological and rights issues involved in IRs, what JISC has planned in 
this area and how OUP is experimenting with IRs, among other things. 

Find Out About 
- Strategically important developments in institutional repositories 
- How open access to the research outputs of universities via institutional 
repositories might affect the business models of publishers 
- Case studies from leading institutional repositories 
- The kind of content that is currently stored on institutional 
repositories and how this is planned to develop 
- Other key issues for publishers, including copyright, impact on journal 
author submissions and the effect on library budgets 
- The issues for universities and colleges developing an institutional 
repository 
- How one leading publisher is collaborating with an institutional 
repository 

Date - 24 June 2004 

Venue - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 27 Sussex Place, 
Regent's Park, London, NW1 4RG, UK. 

Chair - Jon Conibear, Managing Director, Taylor and Francis 

Speakers 
- Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked 
Information - Keynote presentation 
- Mark Ware, Director, Mark Ware Consulting Ltd, 
- Chris Awre and Catherine Grout, JISC. 
-Raym Crow, SPARC Consulting Group 
- Greg Tananbaum, The Berkeley Electronic Press. 
- Steve Probets, Technical Director, RoMEO Project/Lecturer, Loughborough 
University. 
- Leo Waaijers, Project Director, DARE. 
- Richard O'Beirne, Electronic Publishing Manager, Oxford University Press 
and Johanneke Sytsema, SHERPA Project Officer, Oxford University Library 
Systems & Electronic Resources Service 

Who Should Attend? 
This conference is essential for those potentially affected by the 
deployment of institutional repositories: 
- Publishers, especially in journal and academic publishing 
- Librarians, academics and other HE/FE staff involved in setting up and 
managing repositories 
- Senior university/college administrators interested in the policy 
implications of institutional repositories 

Costs 
£195 +vat (Total = £229.13) - includes lunch and refreshments 

About PALS 
PALS (Publisher and Library/Learning Solutions) is the ongoing 
collaboration between UK publishers (ALPSP and the Publishers Association) 
and higher/further education (JISC). PALS aims to foster mutual 
understanding and work collaboratively towards the solution of issues 
arising from electronic publication. For more information about the work of 
the PALS group, go to www.palsgroup.org.uk 

For more information and to book go to:-
http://www.palsgroup.org.uk/palsconference04 or contact Lesley Ogg on 
[log in to unmask] or 01245 260571.