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Subject: UK Serials Group - 20th Anniversary Conference, 7-9 April 97
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*** UK SERIALS GROUP ***
20th Anniversary Conference and Exhibition
7 - 9 April 1997
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Programme
Monday 7 April
10.00 Registration and Exhibition viewing, James Watt Centre
11.15 - 11.45 Opening of Conference: Welcome and introduction
Will Wakeling, Chair, UKSG and Michael Breaks, University
Librarian, Heriot-Watt University
11.45 - 12.15 A Taste of Edinburgh
Sue Stuart, Edinburgh & Lothians Tourist Board
12.15 - 12.45 Keynote paper: Consortia licensing: a win-win situation?
Pieter Bolman, President, Academic Press, USA
12.45 - 14.00 Lunch and Exhibition viewing, Exhibition area
14.00 - 14.30 Back to the future: the history of serials 1997-2017
Ian Mowat, University Librarian, University of Edinburgh
14.30 - 15.00 Site licensing: lessons from the Pilot Site Licensing Initiative
Martin White, TFPL and CHEMS PSLI Evaluation Team
15.00 - 15.30 Refreshments, Exhibition area
15.30 - 16.30 Concurrent sessions
A Quality control in the e-journal environment
1. Ensuring the quality of the Chemical Internet
Henry Rzepa, Reader in the Chemistry Department,
Imperial College, London
2. The commercial journal publisher: tales from the
editorial back office
Rosie Altoft, Director of New Media Development,
John Wiley & Sons Ltd
B Preservation and archiving in the e-journal environment
1. The digitisation of journal literature: towards
sustainable development
Michael Breaks, University Librarian,
Heriot-Watt University
2. Virtual stacks: storing and using electronic journals
Michael Alexander, Document & Image Processing Manager,
British Library Information Systems
16.30 - 17.30 Product reviews
Exhibition viewing
18.30 Reception for first-time delegates
19.00 Dinner
20.30 Quiz
21.45 Scottish dancing
20.30 - 23.00 Informal coffee lounge
23.00 - 01.00 Disco
Tuesday 8 April
08.30 - 10.00 Product reviews
Exhibition viewing
10.00 - 10.30 Refreshments, Exhibition area
10.35 - 11.35 Workshops (see below for details)
11.45 - 12.15 All-or-none: there are no stable hybrid or half-way solutions
for launching the learned periodical literature into the
post-Gutenberg galaxy
Matt Hemus, Cognitive Sciences E-print Archive, University
of Southampton
12.15 - 12.45 Paper: the reliable technology?
Bryan Coles, Chairman, Scientific Information Committee of
the Royal Society
12.45 - 14.00 Lunch and exhibition viewing
14.00 - 15.00 Workshops (see below for details)
15.00 - 15.45 Refreshments and exhibition viewing
15.45 - 16.15 Online journals in the UK: eLib and beyond
Steve Hitchcock, Open Journal Project (Multimedia Research
Group), University of Southampton
16.15 - 16.45 Publishing serials for the information society: is there
a commercially viable future?
Mark Bide, Consultant, Mark Bide & Associates
16.45 - 17.30 Library poster session
(This is an opportunity for individual delegates or groups
of delegates to present a focussed study/project of interest
to the membership informally. Full details from the
address below.)
19.00 Coaches leave for Conference Dinner
19.30 Reception and Conference Dinner, Royal Museum, Edinburgh
After dinner speaker: Laurie Taylor, writer and broadcaster
22.45 Coach tour back to University
23.00 Disco
Wednesday 9 Aprll
09.00 - 09.55 AGM
Greetings from Claus Pedersen, Chair, European Federation of
Serials Groups and Beverley Geer-Butler, President of NASIG
10.00 - 11.00 Concurrent sessions
A Pricing and access control: the digital issues
1. Simple Simon's experience of buying a virtual pie -
the pieman's perspective
Suzanne Wilson Higgins, Director, B H Blackwell
2. E-journals - what price access?: the customer's view
Colin Harris, University Librarian, Manchester
Metropolitan University
B The customer is always right?: delivering new services
and products
1. Testing the water: a publisher's view
Anthony Watkinson, Intellectual Property Director,
Thomson Science & Professional
2. Agents: coming up with the goods?
Albert Prior, Publisher Relations Manager, Swets and
Zeitlinger
11.00 - 11.30 Refreshments, Exhibition area
11.30 - 12.00 Designing the e-journal: why bother?
Cliff McKnight, Reader in the Department of Information and
Library Studies, Loughborough University
12.00 - 12.30 You'll wish it was all over: the bibliographic control of grey
literature with reference to print football fanzines
Hazel Hall, Lecturer in Information Management, Queen Margaret
College, Edinburgh, and Neil Smith, Inland Revenue Scotland,
Edinburgh
12.30 Close of Conference and lunch
Workshops
It will greatly benefit all workshop participants if they can undertake some advance preparation
in their chosen subjects, and bring with them to the sessions any documentation from their own
organisations likely to be of general interest.
1. Electronic copyright
Sandy Norman, Library Association
This workshop will concentrate on the effects of copyright law on electronic media and the
issues surrounding digital copying and use of copyright protected works. Participants will have
the opportunity to raise questions and discuss solutions to the problems of balancing the need
to protect works and the need to give access to information and knowledge.
2. Serials in special libraries and corporate expectations: he who pays
the piper calls the tune
Liz Killean, formerly Civil Aviation Authority
This session aims to open up for discussion issues such as e-journals, the
Internet, journal costs and the value rather than the cost of services - such as those of a good
subscription agent - in relation to senior management's perception of the library and its worth.
3. Electronic current awareness and document supply
Michael Archer, Astra Charnwood
Current awareness services used to be manual - typed bulletins, circulated by post and
generating ILL requests. Now it is possible for users to do their own current awareness from
electronic sources and obtain the documents
'immediately'. Is this what is wanted? What are the pros and cons? Bring along examples of
your current awareness services - advanced or not - for discussion.
4. Article identifiers in an electronic world
Norman Paskin, Elsevier Science Ltd
This workshop will review recent and planned developments in the area of article (document)
identifiers. We will review, among other initiatives, simple identifiers (such as PII),
identifiers with some additional meaning
(such as SICI), proposals for identifier systems which can link to ordering
or rights databases (eg: DOTI), and activities from the Internet world
(URLs, PURLs and URNs). Questions, answers and contributions will all be welcome.
5. Subject searching on the Internet
Sue Welsh, OMNI (Organising Medical Networked Information)
In 1997 there is no shortage of search tools aiming to guide the Internet user to the right
resources - so why do we still find search and retrieval difficult on the information
superhighway? The variety of tools available can, in itself, be off-putting, as well as their
number. This workshop will review the current options available to the Internet searcher,
including search engines, virtual libraries and the subject based information gateways
(SBIGs) funded by the Electronic Libraries Programme. Likely future developments will also be
reviewed.
6. Bridging the gap - CD-ROMs
Paul Williams, B H Blackwell
The concentration of this workshop will be to bridge the gap on CD-ROM network licensing.
Networking of CD-ROM databases is now commonplace but the licensing issues inherent within this
can be a minefield. Licence scenarios will be discussed.
7. Official publications: towards the millennium
Glyn Price, The Stationery Office (formerly HMSO)
Significant influences will shape the way in which we gain access to official information in the
run up to the next century. Amongst these are the privatisation of HMSO in October 1996,
government policies on
Internet publishing and the trend towards publishing on demand. This workshop will summarise
the present situation and stimulate discussion on the implications for information supply and
delivery.
8. Focus groups
Elizabeth Hart, University of Huddersfield
This introductory workshop will provide a definition of focus groups, why and when they might be
used and the advantages and disadvantages of the method. There will be a practical session
which will allow delegates to see how focus groups could be organised in their libraries and the
time and resources required.
9. Training for change
Catherine Smith, NHS Executive Northern & Yorkshire
No-one likes to be left behind, but in this very fast moving world, how do we keep pace with
everything that is going on and how it affects our work and life in general? Are we going to be
eagles and soar high to achieve our aims, or are we ostriches as far as developments are
concerned?
How much do we have to enhance our skills and how much do external factors influence our
decision-making? How much and how often, and at what cost, is training undertaken?
10. Library management systems and serials
Mandy Lantz, Ise Valley Information Services, and
Brian Hackett, University of Huddersfield
The selection of a new library management system is a major event for any library. This
workshop examines the implications of moving to a new LMS for the serials librarian, whose
requirements may not be the prime consideration in the selection process. Subjects covered will
include what you should ask for in a new system and what problems you will be likely to
encounter during conversion!
11. Developments at the ISSN UK Centre
David Baron, ISSN UK Centre
In 1998 there will be significant changes in the way the ISSN UK Centre is financed and
operated. This workshop will provide an opportunity for customers of the Centre to find out more
about the proposed changes and to contribute to the planning process by taking part in a
discussion of the issues involved.
Full residential member fee: stlg 250 + VAT. Part- and non-residential options available.
Closing date: 14 March
For a full programme and booking form, or further information, please contact:
Jill Tolson
UK Serials Group Business Manager
114 Woodstock Road
Witney OX8 6DY
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1993 703466
Fax: +44 (0)1993 778879
E-mail: uksg@dial.pipex.com
Http://epip.lboro.ac.uk/uksg/
