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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.
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