Meeting of the Academies of Sciences: Open Access as a Means to Promote Academic Publishing

January 16-18, 2003
CEU Conference Center
Budapest, Hungary
Background Paper by Jean-Claude Guédon

Thursday, January 16, 2003 – Background to Open Access

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 13:15 Welcome
István Rév, Chair, OSI Information Program Sub-Board
Jean-Claude Guédon, Member, OSI Information Program Sub-Board
13:15 – 13:35 Overview of open access
Melissa Hagemann, OSI Information Program
13:35 – 14:05 Production: transition from print to electronic
Jean-Claude Guédon
14:05 – 14:50 Retrieval & metadata issues
Eric F. Van de Velde, California Institute of Technology
http://library.caltech.edu/evdv/CODA.ppt
14:50 – 15:05 Beginning the implementation process: experience of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences
Sebastien Blondeel, Université Lyon2
Gajane Valchevskaja, Belarusian Academy of Sciences
15:05 – 15:30 Networking break
15:30 – 16:00 Evaluation
Jean-Claude Guédon
16:00 – 16:30 Business models for open access
Raym Crow, SPARC/OSI Consultant
16:30 – 17:30 Discussion, led by Fred Friend, SPARC/OSI Consultant
19:00 Welcome dinner
Club of the Hungarian Academy
Roosevelt tér
   
Friday, January 17, 2003 – Examples of Open
Access
9:00 – 11:00 Publishing activities of the Academies: Overview of current publishing (4-5 Academies to present their current activity and all encouraged to share their experiences)
11:00 – 11:30 Networking break
11:30 – 12:30 Increasing the value, visibility, authority and prestige of scientific publications: a discussion led by Jean-Claude Guédon
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 BioMed Central
Becky Fishman, BioMed Central
14:00 – 14:30 FIGARO Project
Bas Savenije, University Library, University of Utrecht
14:30 – 15:00 DARE Project
Lilian van der Vaart, SURF Foundation
15:00 – 15:30 Institutional repositories & SPARC Europe’s activities
David Prosser, SPARC Europe
15:30 – 16:00 Networking break
16:00 – 16:30 Preservation
Vicky Reich, LOCKSS Project
http://lockss.stanford.edu/
16:30 – 17:45 Where do we go from here? Jean-Claude Guédon
18:30 Dinner at the CEU Conference Center
20:00 Further discussion (Hopes, concerns, ideas), Optional
   
Saturday, January 18, 2003 – Break-out Sessions
9:30 – 10:00 Introduction to Break-out Sessions
10:00 – 12:30 Individual sessions will be held on the projects and ideas presented during the first two days of the meeting
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
14:00 Buses depart for city centre for those interested in sightseeing/shopping
17:30 Software presentation
Open Society Archives
Oktober 6 u. 12
18:15 Farewell dinner
Central European University
Nador u. 9
   
Sunday, January 19, 2003
  Departure of participants