Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:58:37 +0000
From: Leslie Chan <chan@SCAR.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: Scholarly Electronic Publishing Symposium

** Apologies for cross-posting **

SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING AND COMMUNICATION IN THE ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT

                         September 26-27, 1997
                  University of Toronto at Scarborough

New information technologies, and in particular the World-Wide Web, are
offering tremendous diversity of channels and media for scholarly and
scientific communication. At the same time, traditional paper-based
publishing is being rapidly transformed and severely challenged by
economic shortfalls and networking technologies. It is timely and
critical to examine how elements of the established scholarly
communication vehicle, the journal, can best be combined with the new
elements of distributed network publishing. The Centre for Instructional
Technology Development at the Bladen Library, University of Toronto at
Scarborough, is hosting an international symposium to examine the
changes in research practices and implications of electronic publishing.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
This symposium is intended for all stakeholders in the scholarly
communication processes, from academics and researchers from across the
disciplines, who are primary producers and consumers of published
knowledge, to librarians and publishers, who add value and order to
intellectual products, and to computer specialists, who are increasingly
called upon to design and maintain the conduits for information
exchange.

GOALS OF THE SYMPOSIUM:
  Promote knowledge of distributed network publishing among faculty and
  graduate students in the university and research communities,

  Draw attention to the wealth of scholarly and scientific information
  and peer-reviewed electronic journals already present on the Internet,

  Bring together librarians, computer specialists, publishers and
  academics to consider collaborative models that would further
  facilitate the scholarly communication process,

  Explore the emerging cooperative research, resource sharing and
  teaching models enabled by networked technologies,

  Examine the limitations and advantages of scholarly electronic
  publishing.

KEY ISSUES FOR DISCUSSION:
  The role of Government Agencies and University Administrations in
  promoting electronic publishing
  Peer review and Quality Control
  Legal and Copyright Issues
  Archive and Retrieval of digital material
  Searching, linking and New Tools for scholarship
  Learning to Publish in the Electronic Milieu
  Electronic Publishing in the Sciences
  Electronic Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences

SPEAKERS AT THE SYMPOSIUM:
Keynote speaker: Stevan Harnad (Professor of Psychology, University of
Southampton).
Invited speakers:
Gregory Crane (Professor of Classics, Tufts University), Peter Boyce
(Senior Associate of Electronic Publishing, American Astronomical
Society), Jean-Claude Guedon (Professor of Comparative Literature,
University of Montreal), Carole Moore (Chief Librarian, University of
Toronto), Leslie Ellen Harris (author of Canadian Copyright Law),
Katherine Denning (Editor of Assemblage), David McCallum (Principal
consultant of the Electronic Publishing Promotion Project, Industry
Canada), Anne Marie Corrigan (Vice President, Journals and Creative
Services, University of Toronto Press), Sally Brown (Senior
Vice-President, AUCC) and more.

REGISTRATION:
Individual from non-profit or educational institutions: $60 Cdn
Individual from businesses or corporations: $120 Cdn
Students: $30 Cdn

For further information on registration, schedule, links to speakers and
related resources, please visit the symposium web site:

              http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/Epub/1997.html

or contact symposium co-ordinators Leslie Chan (chan@scar.utoronto.ca)
or William Barek (Barek@scar.utoronto.ca)

The symposium is supported by the Connaught Committee and the Snider
Visiting Professorships of the University of Toronto.