For those who will be in the region the month after the AIR conference, you may wish to attend a one-day conference at the SUNY Buffalo campus on the future of scholarly communication. This is the first of what is hoped to be a series of gatherings on the topic, and we have some interesting speakers coming to talk with us. PUBLISHING THE FUTURE: Scholarly Communication in an Information Age November 11, 2003 Academic publishing and scholarly communication more generally are undergoing a period of rapid change. Positive change comprises a wealth of Web based services for pre-print collections, data warehouses, collaboration systems and more. Negative change comprises skyrocketing costs for academic journals that have forced a nationwide cutback in the average number of periodicals held by research university libraries. All this dramatically impacts the productivity and promotion of individual scholars as well as university budgets. James Neal (Columbia University) Chaos breeds life: Rethinking ways scholars create, communicate and conserve their work David Schulenburger (University of Kansas) Scholarly communications: A public goods dissemination model Clifford Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information) Technology and scholarly communication Julia Blixrud (Association of Research Libraries) Sociology of the Academy As well as faculty panels and other discussions. For more information, please see: http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/ScholCom/programs.htm Alex This email is: [x] blogable, [ ] ask first, [ ] private =============================================== | Alexander Campbell Halavais | | alex.halavais.net | | Assistant Professor, School of Informatics | | State University of New York at Buffalo | ===============================================