From: Nawin Gupta <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:40:03 -0600
London and Chicago, 12th November 2013 — The Association of
Subscription Agents and Intermediaries is pleased to announce its
programme for the upcoming annual ASA Conference, to be held in London
on 24-25 February 2014.
The conference, dubbed "Transforming the Publishing Landscape", will
cover the evolving publishing business, and the forces that are
transforming it.
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.
The two-day programme is richly packed, featuring 24 speakers.
The programme opens with a Keynote Address by Youngsuk (Y.S.) Chi,
Chairman, Elsevier, covering the "e-volution of publishing." 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), Georg Thieme Verlag (Bernd Hess), 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), Imperial College London
(Chris Banks), and Catholic University of Leuven (Hilde Van Kiel);
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), Sheffield University (Rob Freckleton), 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.
ASA Secretary General, Nawin Gupta, said “with the volume and richness
of information available, in forms and channels limited only by human
imagination and available technological tools, the scholarly
publishing landscape is continuing to evolve, transforming roles,
expectations, values, and what some consider to be the business of
publishing." The 2014 conference will address these issues from the
perspective of publishers, institutions, librarians, aggregators, and
subscription agents and intermediaries.
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. To register, visit
http://www.subscription-agents.org/conferences/asa-conference-2014-booking-form.
NAWIN GUPTA, Secretary General
Association of Subscription Agents & Intermediaries
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