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

[Janet M. Arth]

Sorry for duplicate posting ... fyi
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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