From: Jill Emery <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 12:41:09 -0700

Examining the Present, Building for the Future

Advancing  Research Communication & Scholarship  (ARCS) has partnered
with FORCE11 and the Digital Library Federation to organize a series
of community sessions, called Future Commons, focused on articulating
a shared vision of scholarly communication, with the ARCS Conference
being the culminating event. We believe that the exercise of
discussing a shared vision will inspire collaboration and develop the
groundwork for the concerns a of this diverse group made up of:
scholars, practitioners, service providers, and organizations within
our shared information ecosystem.

By engaging diverse communities of scholarship and practice, ARCS will
offer a unique and dynamic forum for examining the scholarly
communication network, building collaborations, and affecting change.
The conference will explore what is and what can be, and the values,
economics, technology, and roles that influence knowledge sharing and
innovation. Conference content will be organized into three broad
themes: develop, endorse, share.

Our keynote speakers will be: William Noel, who oversees the
collections, research services and public programs of the Penn
Libraries Special Collections Center and is the founding Director of
the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies and Mónica I.
Feliú-Mójer, the Vice-Director and News Editor for Ciencia Puerto
Rico, a grassroots organization promoting science, research, and
science education in Puerto Rico, and manager of outreach programs at
the University of Washington’s Department of Biostatistics. To learn
more, see here: http://commons.pacificu.edu/arcs/keynote.html

If you've ever asked or considered : What are the fundamental tenets
of scholarly publishing? What is research data management all about?
Are libraries a natural home for research profiling and intelligence
services? What support do researchers want from information
professionals and librarians? What do you wish libraries knew about
scholarly publishing? How can publishers affect research reuse and
reproduction of content? How can publishers, libraries, and
researchers partner to make the transition to open access? Join us to
have these conversations.

Proposals for conversation topics can be submitted here:

http://commons.pacificu.edu/arcs/cfp.html

Registration is available here:

http://commons.pacificu.edu/arcs/registration.html

We hope you will join us in Philadelphia, PA, April 26 - 28, 2015.