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APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING Open Access: a panacea or something to be panned? Date: Tuesday 18 January 2005 (N.B. as an exception, this meeting is held on the third, not second, Tuesday of the month) Time: 6.30 pm Venue: The Sekforde Arms, Sekforde Street, London EC1 Speaker: Professor Charles Oppenheim, Loughborough University There has been much comment on the Select Committee's report into scientific publishing, as well as on the Government's response to it. Charles will consider the arguments in favour of Open Access, publishers' reactions to the ideas, and the reasons the Government responded in the way it did. He will then draw his own conclusions regarding the likely future of scholarly publishing and the implications of such changes for information professionals. Charles Oppenheim has been Professor of Information Science at Loughborough University since 1998. Prior to that, he held a variety of posts in academia and the electronic publishing industry, working for International Thomson, Pergamon and Reuters at various times. He has been involved in, and published more than 100 articles and books on legal issues in information work since the mid 1970s. He has been on more committees than people have had hot dinners. Charles is an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. He is a member of the Legal Advisory Board of the European Commission. He was the Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords' Inquiry into the Information Superhighway. He entered Who's Who in 2004. He is a regular contributor to conferences and to the professional and scholarly literature, and is on the editorial board of a number of professional and learned journals, and of Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. His publishable hobbies include playing chess and wearing interesting T-shirts. CILIP in London evening meetings are free and open to all with a professional interest in the topic. Refreshments will be available afterwards. As space is limited, please let us know if you are coming. Contact Phillip Powell at [log in to unmask] or on 020 7416 5345.