UNESCO, Paris, October 12-14, 1998

REPORT

PROGRAM

  1. DAY I
  2. DAY II
  3. DAY III

DAY I, OCTOBER 12, 1998

9.00 am Registration
9.30 am Welcome by Maurizio Iaccarino, Assistant Director-General for
Science, UNESCO
9.45 am Introductions; Project Goals and Workplan
   
SESSION I WHAT CONSTITUTES PUBLICATION IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA?
Moderator: Eric Sandewall,  Linkoping University, Sweden
Rapporteur: Wendy White, National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences
10.15 am       Martin Blume, American Physical Society
10.45 am Abel Packer, Pan American Health Organisation/WHO
11.15 am COFFEE
11.45 am  Rob Kling, Indiana University
12.15 pm Conclusions and Recommendations
1.00 pm   LUNCH
   
SESSION II: DEVELOPING CITATION PRACTICES IN ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING
Moderator: Dennis Shaw,  ICSU
Rapporteur:  Sally Morris, Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPS)
2.00 pm Mats Lindquist, Lund University, Sweden
2.30 pm Lorrin Garson, American Chemical Society
3.00 pm   Peter Boyce, American Astronomical Society
3.30 pm TEA
4.00 pm  Conclusions and Recommendations
   
SESSION III: QUALITY CONTROL IN ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION
Moderator: Ian Butterworth, Imperial College, U.K.
Rapporteur: Yves Poumay, University of Namur, Belgium
  The Role of Peer Review
4.30 pm  Robert Parker, Royal Society of Chemistry
5.00 pm  Zoltan Nadasdy , Rutgers University
  Maintaining the Integrity of Electronic Publications: Potential Problems and Possible Solutions
5.30 pm Richard Smith, British Medical Journal
6.00 pm CLOSE
   

DAY II, OCTOBER 13, 1998

SESSION III Continued
9.00 am Janice Fleming, Cadmus Journal Services
9.30 am  Conclusions and Recommendations
   
SESSION IV: BALANCING FULL AND OPEN ACCESS WITH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Moderator: David Russon, British Library
Rapporteur: Glyn Jones, Biochemical Society, U.K.
10.15 am   Steve Berry, University of  Chicago
10.45 am COFFEE
11.15 am  Frances Pinter, Open Society Institute, Budapest
11.45 am Michael Breaks, Heriot-Watt University, U.K.
12.15 pm Bernt Hugenholtz, University of Amsterdam
12.45 pm  LUNCH
1.45 pm   Conclusions and Recommendations
   
SESSION V: MAINTAINING PRIVACY AND SECURITY IN ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING
Moderator: Kai-Inge Hillerud, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Rapporteur: Gary Vandenbos, American Psychological Association
2.15 pm    Judith Axler Turner, Journal of Electronic Publishing, University of Michigan
2.45 pm   Kenneth Metzner, Academic Press
3.15 pm  TEA
3.45 pm Conclusions and Recommendations
   
SESSION VI: THE SPECIAL CONCERNS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Moderator: V V Krishna, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Rapporteur: Ana Maria Cetto, Universidad Nacional
Autonoma de Mexico
4.15 pm Open Discussion
5.00 pm Conclusions and Recommendations
5.30 pm CLOSE

DAY III, OCTOBER 14, 1998

SESSION VII: SUMMING UP AND NEXT STEPS
Moderators: Roger Elliott, ICSU and Mark Frankel, AAAS
9.00 am a. Review of those issues where group consensus is evident
  b. Review of those issues where there appears to be no group consensus
10.45 am COFFEE
11.15 am    c. Clarification of those areas where more study would be productive
  d. What need be done next
  e. How might future progress be achieved
  f. Other business
1.00 pm

CLOSE

For more information, please contact Mark S. Frankel.

Last updated January 1999.