MLA '07: Symposium

Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 1:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

800 Scholarly Publishing Issues: The Challenges and Opportunities Facing Libraries in an Open Access Environment

Sponsored by the MLA Scholarly Publishing Task Force; Governmental Relations Committee; Collection Development, Leadership and Management, and Technical Services Sections; and Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries.

Cost: $175 (nonmember, $210)
MLA CE contact hours: 4
Attendance Maximum: 75

Over the past decade, the scientific, technical, and medical publishing industry has changed dramatically as open access models challenge traditional approaches to scholarly publishing. For librarians, the last few years have brought confusion and a new complexity to the scholarly publishing arena. The response of the publishing industry and government to these new models is having an impact on libraries, patrons, researchers, and publishers. The symposium will define open access and explain how it compares to public access. Speakers will explore the influence of open access on small and large libraries, and the ways publishers are reacting to the changes in scholarly publishing. Participants will have an opportunity to discuss how librarians, libraries, and MLA can respond to new developments in scholarly publishing and communications, as well as identify additional questions for our speakers.

Speakers

• Heather Joseph, executive director, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), Washington DC
• Robert M. Harington, vice-president and executive publisher, Life Sciences, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA
• Karen Albert, director, Library Services, Talbot Research Library, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
• Ann Shumelda Okerson, associate university librarian, Collections and International Programs, Yale University, New Haven, CT
• Mark E. Funk, AHIP (moderator), head, Collection Development, Weill Cornell Medical Library, New York, NY, and president-elect, Medical Library Association

The symposium will give participants the opportunity to:

• identify and describe the major issues and trends in STM publishing, resulting from open access initiatives, which have and will continue to have an impact on libraries
• describe the key factors in scholarly publishing that libraries must be aware of and approaches for coping with these major issues and changes
• identify strategies that their libraries can pursue to influence the future of the STM publishing industry and the scholarly publishing process

For more details about the symposium visit:
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/mlasymposium07/scholarlypub