[LIS-Forum] Colloquium on OAP: Models & Technologies

[I.R.N.Goudar]

Dear Professionals,
 (This is reminder about an important Colloquium)
KALA and SIS, Bangalore Chapter cordially invite for a Colloquium on
(Presentation 30 minutes each + Discussion about 40 minutes)
 
   "Open Access Publishing: Models and Technologies" 

SPEAKERS:

1. Ms. Judith Turner, 
   Editor, J. Electronic Publishing  
   Topic: "S.R. Ranganathan, Andrew Carnegie, and Open Access"

2. Dr. Eric F. Van de Velde, 
   Director, Library Information Technology, 
   CALTECH, California, USA 
   Topic: "Open Access Publishing: The view from the trenches at 
          Caltech"

Preciding and Moderosation of Discussion:

Dr. Shalini R. Urs
Director, Information and Communication Division
& Professor and Chairperson,
Department of Library and Information Science
University of Mysore


Date & Time: Saturday, 17th Sept 2005 at 4.30 pm.
Venue: Conference Room, British Library
       26, Prestige Takt, Kasturba Cross Road, Bangalore-1
       Tel: 080-22489220
       E-mail: naik.sadashiv at in.britishcouncil.org

Abstracts:
  "S.R. Ranganathan, Andrew Carnegie, and Open Access"

 Open Access Initiatives represent a new business model for
 publishing that is challenging commercial scholarly publishing. 
 The question is, must it be an either-or situation, or can the 
 two models thrive side by side -- and indeed support one another?

  "Open Access Publishing: The view from the trenches at Caltech"

 Caltech embarked on its Open Archives initiative, called Collection 
 of Open Digital Archives (CODA), in January 2000. Since then, we 
 have collected an institutional repository of over 4100 items. 
 Just about half of these are Caltech doctoral theses. Other documents 
 include: books, technical reports, preprints, reprints, oral histories, 
 and popularizing scientific articles. High usage statistics quickly 
 propelled CODA from a pilot study into a major strategic initiative of 
 the Caltech library. In this talk, I will cover some of the challenges 
 of this project, as well as our plans for the future.


I.R.N. Goudar			 Dr. I.K.R. Rao
President KALA & 		 President, SIS Bangalore Chapter	
Secretary SIS Bangalore Chapter

Prof. T.D. Kemparaj
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