An open debate sponsored by the Academic & Professional Division of The Publishers Association
24th June at The Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS The debate begins at 2.00pm and will conclude with a wine reception.
Will all digital content need to be free? Does the Internet make that inevitable?
How profound is the current revolution in publishing? Or are current experiments just accelerating natural evolution? Will the established value chains hold up? Should they?
How can publishers best serve the academy? How can the academy best serve its students? How should research outputs be funded?
Will the academic, scholarly and professional markets still pay for content? Why should they?
Come along to the Royal Institution in London on 24 June to debate these issues first hand with an invited panel of guests – some managing change in established businesses, others looking for more radical alternatives.
The debate will run in two sessions in sequence, first one on teaching and learning in HE, then one on research and reference. Each session will be led by opposing debaters, then the debate will be open to the floor to interact with the panel. The event will conclude with a plenary looking to draw out ideas and observations from the debate that can help us to achieve our respective missions. How might we act together? How can content be sustainably delivered?
Panellists will include:
Teaching and learning:
Liam Earney, Collections Team Manager, JISC Collections
Eric Frank, Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Flat World
Knowledge
Roger Horton, CEO, Taylor and Francis
Dominic Knight, Managing Director, Palgrave Macmillan
Research and reference:
Nick Baker, Head of Global Medical Research, Elsevier Group
Louise Edwards, Director, The European Library
David Hoole, Head of Brand Marketing, Nature Publishing Group
Professor Charles Oppenheim, Department of Information Science,Loughborough University
Frances Pinter, Publisher, Bloomsbury Academic
David Prosser, Director, SPARC Europe
The conference will be chaired by David Worlock, Chief Research Fellow, Outsell (UK) Ltd
Who should attend?
The issues will engage all stakeholders in higher education and
research: strategy and policy managers, fund holders, library professionals, academics, researchers, publishers and students.