[Accessed September 30, 2004 at 10:00 CDT; 1500 GMT] 

Jointly organized by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers and Society for Scholarly Publishing
 
Registration is open to SSP and ALPSP members only, through September 30, 2004
Open registration begins October 1, 2004

Open Access: Does it really work in practice?

Chair: Robert A Kelly, American Physical Society 

Date: Monday, November 8, 2004 

Venue:
American Geophysical Union,
2000 Florida Avenue NW, Washington DC 
Fees including lunch:
ALPSP/SSP members: $249
Non-members: $399
*(registration for non-members is available after 10/1/04)

Further information:
303-422-3914

Sponsors:

American Physiological Society 
Open Society Institute 
Public Knowledge Project, University of British Columbia 
Science and Intellectual Property in the Public Interest, AAAS

Here is their synopsis:

"The Open Access journal publishing model - where there is no charge for access to primary research papers - is being strongly hyped by its supporters.  But many learned societies and other publishers are anxious about its effects - will they be forced to go down this path?  And if they do, what will the consequences be?

Open Access is not all or nothing;  there is a spectrum, from delayed Open Access (making backfiles available after a - relatively short - period), via partial or hybrid Open Access (where some primary research articles, but not all, are immediately freely available) to full, immediate Open Access.  Publishers may wish to test the waters before deciding whether or not to go all the way.   Whichever variant is chosen, the costs of publication have to be, to a greater or lesser extent, funded from sources other than subscriptions - either by payments on behalf of authors (e.g. from research or institutional funds) or from third-party sources such as grants.

In this seminar, hosted jointly by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers and the Society for Scholarly Publishing, we learn from the real-life experience of publishers who are actually testing various different variants of Open Access.    These publishers will share with us what really happened - to their finances, to their submissions, to their citations - when they tried to adopt their own form of Open Access.

From the experiences shared by fellow publishers, from the data collected more widely by OSI, and from the experience of the University of British Columbia in providing practical tools to enable partial or full Open Access, we hope to help our audience to answer the question 'Does it work?' and, thus, to consider 'Might it work for us?'"


"Overview - What's Open Access all about?," Peter Suber, Earlham College

"The economics of Open Access," Mark McCabe, Georgia Institute of Technology

"The effects of Open Access:  preliminary results of ALPSP/AAAS/HighWire study." Cara Kaufman, Kaufman-Wills LLC 

Real-life experience with models of Open Access:

1) "Delayed Open Access,"Ray Everingham, American Society for Cell Biology
2) "Partial (or "hybrid") immediate Open Access,"Margaret Reich, American Physiological Society
3) "Full, immediate Open Access," John Hawley, Society for Clinical Investigation
4) "Practicalities of moving to Open Access," John Willinsky, University of British Columbia

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