Preliminary Conference Programme & Schedule
Thursday, March 19 2009
| 11:00 – 11:30 |
Greetings
Augusto Marinelli (Rector, University of Florence) represented by Luigi Dei Download |
| 11:30 – 12:30 |
Opening Keynote
Maria Cristina Pedicchio (President, Technology District in Molecular Medicine; Professor of Algebra, University of Trieste, Italy) Private-Public Partnerships in Research - Examples from the Mediterranean Region. Andrea Bozzi (Director, Institute. for Computational Linguistics, Italian National Research Council CNR, Italy) Scholarly Editing Old Manuscripts in Digital Libraries Collection by Means of Computational Tools. |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:30 |
Session I: The Mediterranean region and its diversities
The session will focus on the unique characteristics of publishing in Mediterranean countries, where output is mostly "non-English" with a prevalence in HSS, which results in: monographs as the most important publication type, combinations of print and digital products, actual multilingualism (and need for translations). Chair: Klaus Kempf (Head of Collection Development, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Germany) Marco Cassi (General Manager for Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Malta, EBSCO, Italy) Online Services and Content Delivery in the Mediterranean Region Andrea Angiolini (Società editrice il Mulino, Italy) The Darwin project: publishing infrastructure and working space for monographs & textbooks Panos Georgiou (Library & Information Center, University of Patras, Greece) Digital Scholarly Publishing in Greece Download Adan Griego (Curator for Latin American, Mexican American & Iberian Collections, Green Library, Stanford University, USA) The USA Academic Market for Spain’s Publishing Industry Sara Yontan Musnik (Bibliothèque nationale de France, France) An Overview of Scholarly Publishing in Turkey Download |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee & Tea |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Session I (continued) |
| 17:15 - 18:00 |
APM Special Guest
Karin Heijink (Business development director, Europeana) |
| 19:30 |
Conference dinner - Palazzo Capponi www.palazzocapponiallannunziata.it
Location Map |
Friday, March 20 2009
| 9:00 – 10:30 |
Session II: Strength in numbers: co-operation to boost the impact and enhance the specific role of the university presses
Panel discussion with participants from Mediterranean University Presses on the specific advantages of, and expectations upon University Presses, and the benefits of networked liaison for quality scholarly communication. Chair: Patrizia Cotoneschi (Director Firenze University Press) Roman Schmidt (Sens public/Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris Nord, France) Request For Comment – Discussing the Role of the University Press in the University Download Gonzalo Cappellàn (President "Publican-ediciones" University of Cantabria Presses, Vice-chancelor University of Santander, President Editorial Board of Spanish University Presses, Spain) Editions G-9: a project of Cooperation for Spanish University Presses Werner Mark Linz (Director, American University of Cairo Press, Egypt) Publishing Cooperation with the Arab World and other Mediterranean Markets Saskia de Vries (Director, Editor in Chief, Amsterdam University Press, The Netherlands) The Future of University Presses: an 'Open Access in European Networks' (OAPEN) approach |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee & Tea |
| 11:00 – 12:30 |
Session III: Innovation in learning materials – demand and supply
The session will explore the demand within universities for new content and technologies to support learning and research and how these demands can be met via the development of supplementary products and services to accompany the textbook, such as fragmentation of publications, services for creating course-packs, etc. Chair: Cristina Mussinelli (AIE – Associazione Italiana Editori, Italy) Magdalena Vinent (CEDRO, Spain) Collective Rights Management to Facilitate Access to Learning Content Thomas Parisot (Sales Manager, Cairn, France) A Mutualist Approach for Distributing Online Contents in the Humanities Download Piero Attanasio (AIE – Associazione Italiana Editori, Italy) Why learning objects are a failure |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:30 |
Session IV: The outreach of scholarly publishing
In the knowledge society, university research is expected to influence the society as a whole. Publishing plays an important role in disseminating university research to the general public and industry. This is quite evident in some sectors (e.g.: legal publications are not addressed only to academics, but prevalently to professionals, and this is also true for business sciences, technologies, medicine, etc.). This session deals with the dissemination and the use of scientific content. Chair: Arnoud de Kemp (Digiprimo, Germany) Michael Mabe (CEO, International Association of Scientific, Technological & Medical Publishers) The Impact of Scholarly Publishing “Beauty Contests and Footprints in the Sand” Stephen Barr (Managing Director, Sage Publications) Experiments with Open Access Publishing Michiel Kolman (Senior Vice President, Global Academic Relations, Elsevier B.V., Netherlands) Outreach of Scholarly Communications: Innovation in Science Technical & Medical (STM) Publishing Paola Gargiulo (Electronic Information Resources Specialist, CASPUR, Italy) Barriers to Dissemination: Libraries and Consortia’s Perspectives |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee & Tea |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Session IV (continued) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Summing up |