Mailing List CNI-ANNOUNCE@cni.org Message #113841
From: Joan K. Lippincott <CNI-ANNOUNCE@cni.org>
Sender: <cgplmgr@cni.org>
Subject: Futures of Academic Publishing Symposium
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:52:31 -0500
To: <CNI-ANNOUNCE>
I am reposting a workshop announcement from Martin Halbert at University of North Texas.  The program on "Futures of Academic Publishing" will feature a number of perspectives on developments in this arena.  CNI recently released a report of an executive roundtable on Institutional Strategies and Platforms for Scholarly Publishing. There is growing interest in new models of scholarly communication and publishing and an ever increasing number of projects and initiatives seeking to test new models.

--Joan Lippincott
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Greetings,
 
The upcoming Futures of Academic Publishing Symposium will be held on May 30-31, 2013 in Dallas, Texas.  This event will bring together key stakeholders from academic research, funding agencies, industry, and the publishing field to explore the futures of academic publishing.  Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Scholarly Communication at the Modern Language Association, will deliver a keynote address that will challenge conference attendees to engage in an active discussion for two days of how scholarly publishing can evolve to most effectively meet the needs of academia and society. 
 
Other speakers will include Anne R. Kenney (Chief Academic and Administrative Officer, Cornell University Library), Charles J. Henry (President, Council on Library and Information Resources and Anvil Academic Publisher), Catherine Mitchell (Director at California Digital Library Publishing Group), Jim Gilden (Editor of SAGE Open Sales at SAGE Publications), and many others.
 
For the symposium website, see http://openaccess.unt.edu/symposium/2013.
 
Early registration for the symposium will open March 1 on the conference website.  A limited number of seats are available on a first come-first serve basis. 
 
This will be a highly interactive event, with conference participants actively working on new projects in innovative academic publishing during the two days of the event in workshops and clinics.  The symposium is made possible by generous sponsorship from the University of North Texas and SPARC. 
 
Best regards,

Martin Halbert, PhD, MLIS
Dean of Libraries and Associate Professor

University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle #305190, Denton, TX, 76203
(ph)    940-565-3025   (web)  http://dean.library.unt.edu
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