SSP Fall 2007 Educational Seminar Series (Karen King) Bob Persing 15 Oct 2007 12:11 UTC
From: Karen King (KKing@nutrition.org) To: SERIALST Re: Registration Now Open! Society for Scholarly Publishing Fall 2007 Educational Seminar Series Date: 10/12/07 6:41 PM Advancements in technology, economics, competition, and culture continue to transform the operations of scholarly publishing. And the challenges and opportunities related to open-access publishing, institutional repositories, electronic-workflows, pricing and licensing grow increasingly complex. Registration is now available for the SSP Fall 2007 Educational Seminar Series. The meetings will be held Monday, November 12 through Wednesday, November 14 at the American Geophysical Union in Washington, DC. Join your colleagues and a range of industry speakers to take part in thought-provoking discussions: *Opportunities for Publishers in a World of Institutional Repositories Monday, Nov. 12 (full day) Are IRs a threat to publishing business models? Or are they an opportunity for publishers to discover new material, create virtual communities, and enrich their books and journals? This session will examine digital repositories with specific focus on the opportunities they offer to all types of organizations. *Technology Blitz: A Practical Update on the Next Generation Technology Tuesday, Nov. 13 (am) Learn about the latest technology trends from industry leaders and hear real-world case studies from publishers now utilizing the next generation of technology. Hot topics: Web 2.0/collaborative technologies, anti-plagiarism detection, and search engine optimization. *Changing Workflows in Book Production Tuesday, Nov. 13 (pm) Front-end versus back-end XML? Which output formats for full-text e-Books? This practice-oriented seminar will help you navigate the dizzying variety of production challenges presented by new workflows. *New Business Models for New (and Gently Used) Content Wednesday, Nov. 14 (am) Do value-added features add revenue? Can aggregating and mashing create wholly new products? Will print advertising dollars move online? This session will explore how a broad range of educational, commercial, and scholarly publishers are capturing the "long tail" of their markets with innovative business models. *Innovations in Pricing and Licensing Wednesday, Nov. 14 (pm) Publishers are changing their relationships with institutional subscribers by virtue of new pricing models and licensing techniques. This session presents a variety of novel approaches being applied by scholarly publishers - from SERU to value-based pricing to open access models. Register for a single session or all. Session descriptions/speaker rosters and online registration are available at www.sspnet.org Thanks, Karen King American Society for Nutrition 9650 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20814-3990 Tel: 301-634-7053 Fax: 301-634-7892 Email: kking@nutrition.org Join us at the next ASN Annual Meeting, to be held at Experimental Biology 2008, April 5 - April 9, 2008, in San Diego, CA. For more information, see: http://www.eb2008.org/