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Open Access Program at AAAS Meeting
TRACK: Scientific Conduct and the Doing of Science
TITLE: Changing Scientific Publishing: Open Access and Implications for Working Scientists
DATE: Saturday, February 19, 2005
TIME: 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
ORGANIZERS: Bonnie C. Carroll, U.S. CENDI; Kathleen Cass, Committee On Data for Science and Technology; Barry Mahon, International Council for Scientific and Technical Information
PARTICIPANTS: * = invited, not yet confirmed.
Bonnie C. Carroll (Moderator), U.S. CENDI
Sir John Enderby (Speaker), Institute of Physics
Overview of the Classical Publishing Model and the New Model of Open Access
Mark McCabe (Speaker), Georgia Institute of Technology
The Economics of Open Access Publishing: a Strategic Perspective
Christopher M. Snyder (Speaker), George Washington University
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Helen Doyle (Speaker), Public Library of Science
Implementing a New Model for Scientific Publishing
Pieter Bolman (Speaker), International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM)
A Commercial Publishers Perspective on Scientific Publishing and Open Access
Lenne P. Miller (Speaker), The Endocrine Society
Publishing Model for a Not-for-Profit Publisher Per Concepts of Open Access
Barry Mahon (Discussant), International Council for Scientific and Technical Information
AVAILABLE ABSTRACTS:
Publishing Model for a Not-for-Profit Publisher Per Concepts of Open Access
The Economics of Open Access Publishing: A Strategic Perspective
Overview of the Classical Publishing Model and the New Model of Open Access
Changing Scientific Publishing: Open Access & Implications for Scientists
Implementing a New Model for Scientific Publishing
A View from STM: A Trade Association's Perspective on Scientific Publishing
SYNOPSIS:
"Open Access" to scientific publications is a technical, economic, philosophical, and political concept. It was precipitated in large measure by the economic challenges of rising journal prices and libraries’ inabilities to continue to provide access to the needed array of journals for technical users. This economic reality led to questions about new models to provide access to the results of research. It led to analyzing and questioning the traditional model of the scientific publishing. At the same time, enabling information technologies have provided new options for "publishing" and disseminating research results. Open access became one rallying concept for those looking for an alternative to the traditional publishing model. People began to experiment. Ownership of copyright, how to finance publishing, and many other aspects of traditional publishing were explored. There have been movements in some disciplines for scientists to lead publishing experiments. These experiments and the increasingly informed debates have led to a better appreciation of the complexities of the publishing process. From an initially polarized discussion between publishers and libraries, the issues of new models are being tested and clarified. Whatever the future of scholarly scientific publishing, it will have to deal with issues of acquisition (or identification of appropriate material), verification and quality control, production, dissemination (location and access) and archiving. There will likely be fundamental changes in scientific publishing. The purpose of this symposium is to review open access as a publishing model and to bring the working scientist into the discussion in the AAAS context.
Posted by Donna Braquet at February 21, 2005 05:14 PM