We are pleased to announce SPARC's participation in the IFLA preconference,
"The Impact of Alternative Scholarly Publishing and the Budapest Open
Access Initiative," which takes place on August 15, 2002 in Glasgow,
Scotland. If you plan to attend IFLA this year, please mark your calendars
for what will be be a provocative, constructive discussion on the promise
of alternative scholarly communication models. Frederick Friend, Director
of Scholarly Communication at University College, London will speak on
behalf of SPARC and SPARC Europe.
Details are as follows:
"The Impact of Alternative Scholarly Publishing and the Budapest Open
Access Initiative"
Thursday, August 15, 2002, 14.00-17.00
McCance Building
University of Strathclyde
16 Richmond Street, Glasgow
Presentation by: JEAN-CLAUDE GUÉDON, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Reactor Panel to the Presentation:
- Frederick Friend - Director, Scholarly Communication, University
College,London
- Marianne Gaunt, Director of Libraries, Rutgers University &
Chair, ARL Scholarly Communication Committee
- Christian Lupovici, Directeur de la documentation, Universite de Marne
la Vallee
Reservations are not required.
For more information on the 68th IFLA General Conference and Council,
August 18- 24 2002, Glasgow, Scotland, please see
<
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla68/>. For questions about the preconference,
please contact Frances Groen, Director of Libraries, McGill University
<frances.groen_at_mcgill.ca>.
We hope to see you there!
Best wishes,
Alison
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Alison Buckholtz
Associate Enterprise Director
SPARC -- The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition
21 Dupont Circle, Ste. 800, Washington, DC 20036 USA
T: 202 296 2296 x115 * F: 202 872 0884 * E: alison_at_arl.org
http://www.arl.org/sparc http://www.sparceurope.org
http://www.arl.org/sparc/DI
http://www.createchange.org
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Received on Fri Jul 12 2002 - 13:18:34 BST