From: Nawin Gupta <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 14:33:00 -0600

The Association of Subscription Agents and Intermediaries Annual
Conference is taking place 24-25 February 2014 in London. Early
registration rates are available through 10th January 2014. To
register, visit
http://www.subscription-agents.org/conferences/asa-conference-2014-booking-form.

The conference, "Transforming the Publishing Landscape," will cover
the evolving publishing business, and the forces that are transforming
it.

The two-day programme will open with a Keynote Address by Youngsuk
(Y.S.) Chi, Chairman, Elsevier, "The E-volution of Publishing: What's
New, What's Changing, and What's Staying the Same." Other featured
presentation include Dan Tonkery (CEO, Content Strategies) providing a
perspective on the role of agents and intermediaries; Kathy Misunas
(Co-Founder, Essential Ideas) offering valuable lessons about threats
and opportunities of disintermediation from the travel industry;
Sheila Lambie (Sr. Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University) telling us
about how future generations of publishers are being trained; and
Janne Järvinen (CEO, LM Information) discussing the agents and
intermediaries doing what they do best, adding value in the knowledge
economy.

The keynotes and featured presentations on the programme frame the
four sessions:

SESSION 1: Covering publisher perspective with speakers from Wiley
(Greta Boonen), Alexander Street Press (Stephen Rhind-Tutt), Springer
(Roné Robbetze), and the NEJM Group (Eileen Welch); chaired by Lorna
Summers from Turpin Distribution.

SESSION 2: Providing institution perspective with speakers from
University of London (Russell Burke), Portland State University (Jill
Emery), Research Consulting (Rob Johnson), and Imperial College London
(Chris Banks),; chaired by Paul Harwood from EBSCO.

SESSION 3: Discussing the evolving OA landscape with speakers from
California Digital Library (Ivy Anderson), European Commission (José
Cotta), Gold OA Infrastructure Initiative (Neil Jacobs), and Max
Planck Institute (Ralf Schimmer); chaired by Richard Wynne from Aries
System.

SESSION 4: Talking about the role of archives and aggregation with
speakers from EDINA (Peter Burnhill), Rittenhouse Book Distributors
(Clark Morrell), Schweitzer Fachinformationen (Jörg Pieper), and
Catholic University of Leuven (Hilde Van Kiel); chaired by Simon Inger
from Simon Inger Consulting.

The ASA conferences underscore ASA members' credo: maintaining the
highest standards of business practice, providing excellence in
service and support, facilitating transfer of knowledge to a growing
global audience, and helping sustain the knowledge economy.
"Subscription agents and intermediaries are at the absolute heart of
the scholarly supply chain, linking publishers and other content
providers with libraries and other content consumers; the annual ASA
conference consistently provides the best coverage of emerging trends
in the continuing transformation taking place in scholarly
communication," said Mark Carden, chair of the Conference Planning
Committee.

To learn more about the conference programme, visit www.subscription-agents.org.

REGISTRATION for the event is now open, and there are discounts
available for early bookings through 10th January 2014. To register,
visit http://www.subscription-agents.org/conferences/asa-conference-2014-booking-form.

NAWIN GUPTA, Secretary General
Association of Subscription Agents & Intermediaries