**Apologies for Cross Posting/Sending on behalf of Anthony Watkinson**
This is the fifth conference I have organized with the plan to
bring publishers, librarians and scholars together to discuss
topics of importance in scholarly communication in an academic
environment. I am hoping that some on this list will be
interested. For the programme and registration information see
<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/e-publishing/>
There are serious reductions for registration for those from
academic addresses and some organisations representing our
communities.
We are looking at the following questions among others.
How are social media being used by scholars in their research
work flow? Are the possibilities represented by social media
wildly exaggerated? How does informal communication using social
media tools relate to the traditional publication process?
These are all questions considered in the 5th Bloomsbury
Conference on Social Media and the Academy - Enabling and
Enhancing Scholarly Communication, to be held at University
College London, 30 June - 1 July 2011.
As has been the case with previous conferences in the series, the
emphasis is on the context in which scholarship takes place, the
evidence we have from research on the subject and what the
scholars themselves are actually doing with what tools. There
will be of course room for speculation and predictions and part
of a conference will be a consideration of the specific roles of
publishers. Time for interaction between speakers and audience
is built in.
Anthony Watkinson
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