A date for your diary: 2005 ASA Conference: New Forms of Information
Supply - 28 Feb and 1st March 2005, RCN, London, UK

This year's ASA conference is about New Forms of Information Supply
including some interesting presentations on global and multi site
licensing as well as OA and Institutional repositories. Full programme
on http://www.subscription-agents.org/conference/200502/index.html but a
quick list of speakers and topics is given below. (apologies for any
cross postings).

The corporate need for information professionals
Cris Kinghorn, Director, Business Information Services - Europe and
Africa, Deutsche Bank AG, London

Academic requirements for information supply - virtual libraries in the
scholarly world

John Lancaster, Librarian, University of Huddersfield

Information management and the transition to electronic provision in the NHS

Scott Gibbens, NHS Core Content Group

Information management and the transition to electronic provision in the
defence research industry

Geoff Kerrison, Manager - Information Management, QinetiQ ltd

What's in a licence?

Arnold Hirshon, Executive Director, NELINET Consortium, USA

Site licensing and personal subscriptions - competitive or
complementary?

Della Sar, Marketing Director, Nature Publishing Group (to be confirmed)

How to budget for the multi-site licence

Stephen Phillips, Head of Global Business Information Services, Morgan
Stanley

Is pay-per-view more cost effective than global/site licensing

Per Sulg, Global Journal Service Manager, AstraZeneca

Access and infrastructure for the specialist community

Rossella Proscia, Marketing Director, Ovid Technologies

Open Access in practice Martin Richardson, Director - Journals Division,
Oxford University Press

Impact of Open Access

Jim Pringle, Vice President of Development, ISI

Open Access

Chris Beckett, Scholarly Information Strategies Ltd

Self archiving and the subscription model - impacts on publishers

Michael Mabe, Director of Academic Relations, Elsevier

Institutional Repositories - the state of the art

Rachel Bruce, Programme Manager and Acting Team

Rollo Turner
Secretary General
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