[Asis-l] SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRONIC SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL, AND MEDICAL JOURNAL PUBLISHING AND ITS IMPLICATIONS

[Alan Inouye]

Some of you may be interested, especially if you are based in the
Washington area, or are likely to be in D.C. in mid-May.

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THE SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRONIC SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL, AND MEDICAL JOURNAL
PUBLISHING AND ITS IMPLICATIONS will be held 19-20 May 2003, at the National
Academy of Sciences Auditorium, located at 2100 C Street NW, in Washington, DC.

The symposium will bring together experts in STM publishing, both producers and
users of these publications, to: identify the recent technical changes in
publishing, and other factors, that influence the decisions of journal
publishers to produce journals electronically; identify the needs of the
scientific, engineering, and medical community as users of journals, whether
electronic or printed; discuss the responses of not-for-profit and commercial
STM publishers and of other stakeholders in the STM community to the
opportunities and challenges posed by the shift to electronic publishing; and
examine the spectrum of proposals that has been put forth to respond to the
needs of users as the publishing industry shifts to electronic information
production and dissemination. The meeting will be free and open to the public,
but advance registration is required.

For additional information and registration, please visit the Symposium web site
at: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cosepup/E-Publishing.html or contact the
project director, Paul Uhlir at (202) 334 2807 or e-mail: puhlir at nas.edu.

Alan S. Inouye, Ph.D.
Study Director and Senior Program Officer
National Research Council/The National Academies
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
500 Fifth Street, N.W., Room 958
Washington, DC  20001
(202) 334-2605
(202) 334-2318 (fax)
ainouye at nas.edu
http://www.cstb.org