Appendix A
Symposium Agenda
Symposium on Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications
Main Auditorium
The National Academies
2100 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20418
Monday, May 19
8:00 |
Registration and continental breakfast |
8:30 |
Welcoming Remarks Bruce Alberts, President, National Academy of Sciences |
8:45 |
Symposium Overview Edward Shortliffe, professor and chair, Department of Medical Informatics deputy vice president for Information Technology Health Sciences Division, Columbia University and symposium chair |
9:00 |
Keynote Address James Duderstadt, president emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering Millennium Project, University of Michigan |
Panel 1: Costs of Publication
Moderator: Floyd Bloom, The Scripps Research Institute
9:30 |
Opening Remarks by Moderator |
9:35 |
Overview Presentation Michael Keller, CEO, HighWire Press |
9:55 |
Comments by panel participants Kent Anderson, publishing director, New England Journal of Medicine Robert Bovenschulte, director, Publications Division, American Chemical Society Bernard Rous, deputy director/electronic publisher, Association for Computing Machinery Gordon Tibbitts, president, Blackwell Publishing USA |
10:25 |
Break |
10:45 |
Discussion of Issues |
12:00 |
Lunch |
Panel 2: Publication Business Models and Revenue
Moderator: Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, University of Michigan
1:00 |
Opening Remarks by Moderator |
1:05 |
Comments by Panel Participants Joseph Esposito, president and CEO, SRI Consulting Wendy Lougee, director, University of Minnesota Library Brian Crawford, vice president and general manager, Life and Medical Sciences, John Wiley & Sons Patrick Brown, professor of biochemistry, Stanford University |
1:55 |
Discussion of Issues |
3:10 |
Break |
Panel 3: Legal Issues in Production, Dissemination, and Use
Moderators: Ann Okerson, Yale University, and Jane Ginsburg, Columbia Law School
3:30 |
Copyright Basics: Ownership and Rights Jane Ginsburg, Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law, Columbia Law School |
3:50 |
Economic and Non-Economic Rewards to Authors Michael Jensen, Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Harvard Business School |
4:10 |
Licensing Ann Okerson, associate university librarian for collections and technical services, Yale University |
4:30 |
Discussion of Issues |
5:45 |
Adjourn |
6:00 |
Reception, National Academy of Sciences’ Great Hall |
Tuesday, May 20
8:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
Panel 4: What Is Publishing in the Future?
Moderator: Daniel Atkins, University of Michigan
8:30 |
Opening Remarks by Moderator |
8:35 |
Institutional Repositories Hal Abelson, Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
8:50 |
Preprint Servers and Extensions to Other Fields Richard Luce, research library director, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
9:05 |
Implications of Emerging Recommender and Reputation Systems Paul Resnick, associate professor, University of Michigan |
9:20 |
Discussion of Issues |
10:35 |
Break |
Panel 5: What Constitutes a Publication in the Digital Environment?
Moderator: Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
10:55 |
Opening Remarks by Moderator |
11:00 |
Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment Monica Bradford, executive editor, Science |
11:15 |
Publishing Large Data Sets in Astronomy—The Virtual Observatory Alex Szalay, Alumni Centennial Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University |
11:30 |
Data Curation and Integration with the Literature David Lipman, director, National Institutes of Health/National Center for Biotechnology Information |
11:45 |
Discussion of Issues |
1:00 |
Lunch |
Panel 6: Wrap-Up Session
Moderator: Mary Waltham, publishing consultant
1:55 |
Opening Remarks by Moderator |
2:00 |
Symposium Summaries Malcolm Beasley, Theodore and Sydney Rosenberg Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford University James O’Donnell, provost, Georgetown University Ann Wolpert, director of libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
2:30 |
Discussion of Issues |
3:10 |
Closing Remarks by Symposium Chair, Edward Shortliffe |
3:15 |
Adjourn |