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You will find details below of the forthcoming ALPSP International Learned Journals seminar. If you would like to book a place please contact Lesley Ogg on 01245 260571 or email [log in to unmask]
19TH INTERNATIONAL LEARNED JOURNALS SEMINAR
Who pays for the Free Lunch? Alternative funding models for research communication.
Friday 4 April 2003
One Birdcage Walk, London SW1H 9JJ
Chair: Declan Butler, Nature
Maximising access to research information is an objective which benefits everyone - authors as well as readers. However, many of the processes of traditional publication are still valuable - some more than ever, in a world of 'information overload'. These processes still cost money, irrespective of the medium of publication, and the costs of carrying them out still have to be borne at some point in the information chain - the big question is, by whom? And how do we get from here to there?
In this seminar, speakers will explore the rationale for 'Open Access', look at the functions of publication which still need to be preserved, and examine actual projects and forward-looking initiatives which test alternative funding models.
Programme
0930 Coffee & Registration
1000 Introduction from the Chair
Declan Butler, Nature
1010 Keynote Speaker
Free Access to information today. Who benefits? What are the risks? Who pays?
William Y Arms, Cornell University
1040 Coffee
WHAT STILL NEEDS TO BE PAID FOR ?
1100 What researchers really value: the ALPSP study
Alma Swan, Key Perspectives Ltd
1120 The value of scientific information: "authors want to publish more, readers want to read less"
Prof Dr Hans E Roosendaal, University of Twente
1140 What publishers add
Janet Boullin, Oxford University Press
1200 What it really costs
Prof Carol Tenopir, University of Tennessee
1230 Questions and Discussion
1245 Lunch
HOW WILL IT GET PAID FOR IN FUTURE? ARE ALTERNATIVE MODELS WORKING?
1400 Institution pays
Jan Velterop, BioMed Central
1420 Changing the model
Mark Doyle, American Physical Society
1440 Is there such a thing as a viable alternative model?
Declan Butler, Nature
1500 Debate
AND THE CONSEQUENCE IS...
1530 The end of the line for publishers (and societies)?
Sue Thorn, Society for Endocrinology
1600 Is there a way forward?
Mary Case, ARL
1630 Closing panel discussion
1700 Close and tea
Registration fees including lunch (excl VAT)
ALPSP member £175/$284
SSP/SFEP individual member £255/$400
Non-member £320/$495
For Further information: www.alpsp.org/s040403.htm;
Telephone +44 (0)1245 260571; email [log in to unmask] or register online
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