London and Chicago, 12th November 2013 — The Association of Subscription
Agents and Intermediaries is pleased to announce its programme for the
upcoming annual ASA Conference, to be held in London on 24-25 February 2014.
The conference, dubbed "Transforming the Publishing Landscape", will cover
the evolving publishing business, and the forces that are transforming it.
The ASA conferences underscore ASA members' credo: maintaining the highest
standards of business practice, providing excellence in service and support,
facilitating transfer of knowledge to a growing global audience, and helping
sustain the knowledge economy. "Subscription agents and intermediaries are
at the absolute heart of the scholarly supply chain, linking publishers and
other content providers with libraries and other content consumers; the
annual ASA conference consistently provides the best coverage of emerging
trends in the continuing transformation taking place in scholarly
communication," said Mark Carden, chair of the Conference Planning
Committee.
The two-day programme is richly packed, featuring 24 speakers.
The programme will open with a Keynote Address by Youngsuk (Y.S.) Chi,
Chairman, Elsevier, covering the "e-volution of publishing."
Other featured presentations include Dan Tonkery (CEO, Content Strategies)
providing a perspective on the role of agents and intermediaries; Kathy
Misunas (Co-Founder, Essential Ideas) offering valuable lessons about
threats and opportunities of disintermediation from the travel industry;
Sheila Lambie (Sr. Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University) telling us about how
future generations of publishers are being trained; and Janne Järvinen (CEO,
LM Information) discussing the agents and intermediaries doing what they do
best, adding value in the knowledge economy.
The keynotes and featured presentations on the programme frame the four
sessions:
SESSION 1: Covering publisher perspective with speakers from Wiley (Greta
Boonen), Georg Thieme Verlag (Bernd Hess), Springer (Roné Robbetze), and
the NEJM Group (Eileen Welch); chaired by Lorna Summers from Turpin
Distribution.
SESSION 2: Providing institution perspective with speakers from University
of London (Russell Burke), Portland State University (Jill Emery), Research
Consulting (Rob Johnson), Imperial College London (Chris Banks), and
Catholic University of Leuven (Hilde Van Kiel); chaired by Paul Harwood from
EBSCO.
SESSION 3: Discussing the evolving OA landscape with speakers from
California Digital Library (Ivy Anderson), European Commission (José Cotta),
Sheffield University (Rob Freckleton), Gold OA Infrastructure Initiative
(Neil Jacobs), and Max Planck Institute (Ralf Schimmer); chaired by Richard
Wynne from Aries System.
SESSION 4: Talking about the role of archives and aggregation with speakers
from EDINA (Peter Burnhill), Rittenhouse Book Distributors (Clark Morrell),
Schweitzer Fachinformationen (Jörg Pieper), and Catholic University of
Leuven (Hilde Van Kiel); chaired by Simon Inger from Simon Inger Consulting.
ASA Secretary General, Nawin Gupta, said “with the volume and richness of
information available, in forms and channels limited only by human
imagination and available technological tools, the scholarly publishing
landscape is continuing to evolve, transforming roles, expectations, values,
and what some consider to be the business of publishing." The 2014
conference will address these issues from the perspective of publishers,
institutions, librarians, aggregators, and subscription agents and
intermediaries.
To learn more about the conference programme, visit
www.subscription-agents.org.
REGISTRATION for the event is now open, and there are discounts available
for early bookings. To register, visit
http://www.subscription-agents.org/conferences/asa-conference-2014-booking-f
orm.
NAWIN GUPTA, Secretary General
Association of Subscription Agents & Intermediaries
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