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.