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(please accept my apologies for resending this message - if you would like to take part in the survey, the questionnaire is on the ALPSP website as a pdf, see link below) Digitizing your Journal Backfiles 01 December 2003 (13.00 -17.00) Chair: Simon Inger, Director, Scholarly Information Strategies Ltd This is a half-day seminar designed for journal publishers who are looking for practical information on journal backfile conversion. With major initiatives led by JSTOR, Elsevier Science and the National Library of Medicine, many smaller publishers are feeling the pressure to convert their own backfiles. Now that a number of publishers have converted and loaded these, it seems the ideal time to review their experiences and to evaluate the real costs and benefits associated with this process. The seminar will focus on providing answers to the following three questions: Why convert my backfile? How do I convert my backfile? Now that I've converted my backfile, what do I do with it? Focus: key issues to consider when approaching backfile conversion, steps in the process, beyond the cost of conversion, lessons learned. Venue: One Birdcage Walk, London SW1H To register online: www.alpsp.org/events/s011203.htm Fees: including lunch and reception (excluding VAT): ALPSP members: £82.00 SSP/SFEP individual members: £127.00 Non-members: £160.00 Survey: Apex e-publishing is conducting a survey on this subject. The results will be shared with the delegates at the seminar. Please take time to complete the questionnaire which is at www.alpsp.org/events/ALPSP-ApexQuestionnaire.pdf and return to [log in to unmask] by 15/11/03. ------------------------------------------------------------- Debbie Stoddart Marketing Coordinator Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers Tel: +44(0) 1780 757005 Fax:+44(0) 1780 762507 E-mail: [log in to unmask] www.alpsp.org