Return-Path: Received: from [12.64.102.81] (HELO [12.64.108.19]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.3) with ESMTP id 132209 for cni-announce@cni.org; Mon, 05 May 2003 17:47:58 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: clifford@mail2.cni.org Message-Id: Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 14:28:50 -0700 To: cni-announce@cni.org From: Clifford Lynch Subject: NRC E-Publishing Symposium will be Webcast Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" I had put out an announcement about this symposium earlier; it promises a very extensive look at how scientific and technical publishing are changing in the electronic environment. (Disclosure: I am on the streering committee of the conference). The National Academies have recently announced that they will also be doing a free audio webcast of the conference for those unable to attend in person. The details are below. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI 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. If you cannot attend, you may participate in the symposium by listening to a live audio webcast and submitting questions using an e-mail form at http://national-academies.org. Listening to the webcast requires either RealPlayer or Windows Media Player. RealPlayer software is available free at http://www.real.com/player. Windows Media Player is available free at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads. For more information on using these players, see the respective Web sites. 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@nas.edu.