[Asis-l] The Impact of Social Media on the Future of Scholarly Communication

[Jill O'Neill]

NFAIS Forum on the Impact of Social Media on the Future of Scholarly
Communication:  Registration Discount Available Through April 10th.  

The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIST) is
organizing a one-day meeting - Social Media and the Future of Scholarly
Communication - to be held on May 1, 2009 at PALINET Headquarters, in
Philadelphia, PA, from 9:00am to 4:30pm.  Specifics may be found at:
http://www.nfais.org/events/event_details.cfm?id=55 

Why Attend?

The traditional process of scholarly communication is changing. Information
technology, the Web, and the introduction of social media have not only
broadened the geographic scope of scholarly communication beyond that of the
print environment, but have re-introduced social dialog and immediate
feedback into the scholarly communication process on a global scale.
Scholars worldwide are embracing this change, but for the most part those
traditionally responsible for managing the scholarly communication process -
publishers, abstracting and indexing services, libraries and scholarly
societies - have not. If your organization is looking how to adapt to the
newly-emerging conversational scholarly communication process or is in the
early implementation phase, this meeting is for you.

Who Should Attend?

If you are an information provider or librarian looking to utilize social
media to enhance existing products and services, a scholarly society seeking
to expand the value of membership, an information professional responsible
for implementing social media in your enterprise, or a technology developer
working to remain state-of-art in a rapidly changing information
environment, this meeting will provide a glimpse at how social media are
beginning to transform the scholarly communication process and how content
providers, scholarly associations and librarians are using social media to
meet the needs and expectations of 21st century scholars. 

Agenda

The program will begin with an overview of the acceptance and use of social
media from Steve

Paxhia, author of the Gilbane research report, Collaboration and the
Enterprise, who will highlight the applicability of social media tools and
networks to high-quality content such as scholarly articles and research
data. The program will also look at how innovative publishers and scholarly
societies are actively using social media and social networks to enhance
their readership and to increase the value of Society membership with
presentations by John Sullivan,

Chief Information Officer of the American Chemical Society and Jason Wilde,
Publisher, Physical Sciences of the Nature Publishing Group. In addition,
academic and public librarians will discuss how they are incorporating
social media and social networks within their library in order to support
faculty, students, and library patrons in general. The program will examine
the barriers to adopting social media and user-generated content, and will
end with a closing keynote by Darin McBeath, Director of Disruptive
Technologies, Elsevier, who will provide a glimpse of the future of
scholarly communication as shaped by social networks, new social media and
other disruptive technologies that are changing the scholarly communication
process. 

The preliminary program, registration form, directions to the meeting
location, list of nearby hotels, and general information on Philadelphia is
available at: http://www.nfais.org/events/event_details.cfm?id=55

Register early as attendance is limited to 60 attendees.  On or before April
10, 2009, NFAIS members pay $295 and non-members pay $345 (registration fee
includes continental breakfast, a box lunch and an afternoon refreshment
break).  After April 10, 2009, NFAIS members pay $345 and non-members pay
$395.   For more information contact:  Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director,
Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax);
mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org/.


http://www.nfais.org/events/event_details.cfm?id=55

Jill O'Neill
Director, Planning & Communication
NFAIS
(v) 215-893-1561
(email) jilloneill at nfais.org