Re: UK Select Committee Inquiry into Scientific Publication

From: MCGRANE, Christine <MCGRANEC_at_parliament.uk>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:09:57 +0000

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE

HOUSE OF COMMONS

PRESS NOTICE

Committee Office, House of Commons, No. 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA

Tel. Nos. 020 7219 2793-2794 (Fax. No. - 0896) email:
scitechcom_at_parliament.uk

No. 22 of Session 2003-04, dated 12 February 2004

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

FIRST TWO EVIDENCE SESSIONS

Monday 1 March

and Monday 8 March

2004

at 4.15 pm

WITNESSES:

Monday 1 March

Reed Elsevier
Blackwell Publishing
Taylor & Francis
Nature Publishing Group

Monday 8 March

Panel 1
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)
The Institute of Physics
Oxford University Press

Panel 2
BioMed Central
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Axiope

For further information, please ring the Committee staff on 020 7219
2793/4, or refer to the Committee Office Information Line on 020 7219
2033.

Previous press notices and publications are available on our website C
www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/science_and_technology_commit
tee.cfm

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Notes for Editors

Under the terms of Standing Order No. 152 the Committee is empowered to
examine the Aexpenditure, policy and administration of the Office of
Science and Technology and its associated public bodies_at_. The Committee
was appointed on 12 November 2001.

The Committee announced its inquiry into scientific publications on 10
December 2003, see Press Notice No 03 of Session 2003-04. Further
sessions with libraries, academics and Government are planned for April
and May. Witnesses to be announced.
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