In this section readers can find a chronological list of recent symposia on the issues concerning scholary communication in today's electronic environment. In each symposium, topics covered are described, lists of speakers are given, and the full-text or audio are available.
Carnegie Mellon University Libraries Open Access Forum October 2004
Held in conjunction with the University Libraries Advisory Board Visit, PANEL: Carnegie Mellon's Mark Kamlet and Mary Jo Dively, with Clifford Lynch (CNI) and Daviess Menefee (Elsevier). This is a video-streaming link to the panel discussion.NY State High ED Initiative: Symposium on Issues in Scholary Communication. "The Transaction to Open Access Scholarship: Can the Reward Structure for Faculty Publishing Change Fast Enough?", April 19, 2004
Highlights of the program include Dr. Guedon's presentation "Open Access Publishing-- Removing barriers to faculty innovation and increasing access to research." A session on "Valuing New Models of Scholarship in Promotion and Tenure Decisions." The keynote address by Heather Joseph, BioOne, "New models for scientific publishing in peer-reviewed open access journals," and a session on "Other disciplinary models". This site provides a copy of the program, list of speakers, and links to previous presentations of speakers. Transcripts of the presentations are not available.
University of Louisville: Scholarly Communication: Why It Matters to You and to the University. A Symposium of Current Issues and Solutions, April 20, 2004
Co-sponsored by the University Library and the Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning.
Some of the issues contemplated are:
Faculty members routinely give away copyrights in their scholarship.
Access to important journals has grown out of reach for many faculty and libraries.
Consolidation in the publishing industry has fostered unsustainable price increases.
Publishers of scholarly books can no longer fund many important scholarly works.
Promotion and tenure practices may not value the use of information technology.Speakers included in this conference are:
James G. Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University.
Kenneth D. Crews, Associate Dean for Copyright Management, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.
Julia Blixrud, SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resource Coalition).Transcripts of the presentations are not available. The list of panelists is available.
University of Kentucky Symposium: The Crisis in Scholarly Communication, April 7, 2003.
Issues covered in this symposium: The Scholarly Publishing Crisis; Affected Communities: Publishers, Libraries, Faculty; Alternative Models of Publication; Intellectual Property; Promotion and Tenure; and Long-term Access.
The panel of speakers included David Shulenburger, University of Kansas; Peter Givler, Association of American University Presses; Julia Blixrud, SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition); as well as several faculty members and academic administrators from the University of Kentucky.
This site provides a copy of the program, the list of speakers, and links to previous important documents related to the topic.
Transcripts of the presentations are not available.
The National Academies: Symposium on Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and its Implications, May 19-20, 2003.
The panelists included personalities from academic administration, teaching and research faculty, publishers, open access initiatives, and librarians. It is one of the most comprehensive symposia on scholarly communication for scientific technical and medical fields.
This is a two days symposium, on May 19th three panels were presented:
Panel 1 - Costs of Publication
Panel 2 - Publication Business Models and Revenue
Panel 3 - Legal Issues in Production, Dissemination, and Use.On May 20th the other three panels took place:
All presentations are available in audio Web cast for approximately 16 hours of audio recording.
Panel 4 - What Is Publishing In The Future?
Panel 5 - What Constitutes A Publication In The Digital Environment?
Panel 6 - Wrap-Up SessionUniversity of Calgary: Scholarly Communication; Taking Control Library Symposium September 28, 1999.
The full-text copy of presentations done by Dr. Stephen Harnad from the particle physics community, Dr. David Schulenburger, University of Kansas, and Mary Case from the Association of Research Libraries are available. Also, transcripts of a panel by Drs. Archer, Hunter, MacGillivray, and Webber all from the University of Calgary are included.
Sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities, this symposium took place April 23, 1998. "The Future of Scholarly Communication: Audiences and Constituencies" brought together as panelists UC Berkeley's professors from the departments of city and regional planning; English; history; mathematics; and geography. Probably one of the earliest symposia about new issues facing scholarly communication. Transcripts of the presentations are not available.