PRATT SILS E-PUBLISHING COURSE AT UCL 2009 15th to 26th June

WELCOME!

THE PROGRAMME:

This programme has been based on the successful programme from last year but we have provided a looser schedule to enable more discussion and more networking. The aim is to provide students with an introduction to e-publishing. The emphasis will be on scholarly communication because that is where the action is. The school/course will be international in scope but will draw upon the local resources. Fortunately London is a world centre of publishing and in particular e-publishing and in some areas there are centres of excellence and world leaders. All speakers and those giving presentations during visits have been encouraged to describe the publishing approach to the types of publication and communication and the products and services being described and analysed. Why is this publication being created and provided for its audience in the way that it is?
We appreciate that you are librarians or will become librarians and this will be taken into account in the programme (as you will see) but this will be secondary to trying to give you an understanding of publishers in the digital environment

The programme is divided three ways. There are morning teaching sessions on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday of Week One and Monday and Wednesday of Week Two. There are visits on the afternoons where there are morning teaching sessions except for the first Monday and the first Tuesday plus full day visits to Oxford on the Wednesday of Week One and to Cambridge on Tuesday of Week Two. The course ends with a high-level conference, which all students are expected to attend as an integral part of the course, on the Thursday and the Friday of Week Two. For the detailed programme see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/e-publishing/. Finally of course there will be social occasions. See below.

The teaching will be based on themes. The intention is that the teaching sessions and the visits will together cover to a certain level of depth those themes suggested by the overall title of the summer school. Characteristically in the teaching sessions there will be a mix of talks and question/answer and discussion sessions. Some of the visits will be a little lacking in time for discussion but that will not be entirely under our control. We are very fortunate to get access to some of the places where we are going. There will be follow up back at UCL. The themes will include:
E-JOURNALS
E-BOOKS – monographs and textbooks
E-LEARNING
OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING
DIGITAL REPOSITORIES
LIBRARIANS AS E-PUBLISHERS
DATABASE PUBLISHING
E-AGGREGATORS
Below are some contact details for visits, some sites, and some e-articles and e-monographs relating to topics to be discussed. These resources are all online. There are other excellent resources available in print only.


WEEK ONE:

Monday 15 June

Morning: Induction, Orientation and Introduction to the usage of e-publications

09.00 Henry Morley room HM4 (for location see www.ucl.ac.uk/about-ucl/location/maps/maps_2007.pdf).

PLEASE BE SURE TO ARRIVE PROMPTLY!

The first half of the morning will be mostly covered by an introduction to the department and to the course by Anthony Watkinson and Andy Dawson and personal introductions by students, a project introduction by Dr. Tula Giannini and orientation and registration procedures by Andy Dawson. For information about the department see www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies and www.publishing.ucl.ac.uk.

09.00 - 09.45 Coffee, welcome and introductions (Andy Dawson, Anthony Watkinson), explanation of student work plans (Tula Giannini)

09.45 - 10.30 Orientation and admission procedures

10.30 - 11.00 Refreshments

11.00 - 12.00 Presentation by Professor David Nicholas, who directs the Department of Information Studies, the Centre for Publishing and the CIBER research group on understanding the digital consumer, the usage of e-resources, and the implications for libraries and publishers. For information about the research of the group see www.publishing.ucl.ac.uk/research.html and www.publishing.ucl.ac.uk/publications.html.

12-00 –13-00 Presentation by Dr. Ian Rowlands, Reader in the Department of Information Studies and Director of Research for CIBER/Centre for Publishing. Dr. Rowlands will explain the Virtual Scholar research programme of CIBER and the recent studies that he and his group are involved in or have been involved in

13-00 – 14-00 LUNCH

Afternoon

14-00 to 15-00 Return to HM4 for a session with Anthony Watkinson explaining the programme of the course and answering questions. What are the aims of the course and why?
There will be no afternoon programme today after 15-00 in order to give you time to catch up on sleep/ start exploring London

Evening
17.30 Welcome reception at UCL (HM4)


Tuesday 16 June

Morning: Teaching

09.30 HM4 Review of Programme so far and plans for the rest of the day

10-00 to 13-00 E-Journals: Anthony Watkinson and Amanda Wilson (Marketing Director, Social Sciences and Humanities Division of Wiley-Blackwell) will give presentations on how journals are published in the digital environment when in most disciplines the online journal is the main mode of communication. Some useful reading is to be found at www.stm-assoc.org/2008_04_01_Overview_of_STM_Publishing_Value_to_Research.pdf and www.stm-assoc.org/2006_08_23_Electronic_Journal_Publishing.pdf.

10-00 to 11-15: Anthony Watkinson will discuss the role of the journal, how publishers develop journals, and the way in which the “manuscript” from the author is transformed into the published article.

11-15 to 11-45 Refreshments

11-45 to 13-00: Amanda Wilson will discuss the marketing of journals and platforms, how journals are sold including selling to consortia and both speakers will discuss the relationship of “commercial” publishers to learned societies as partners. On partnerships of this sort see www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/icsu/guidelines.pdf (Guidelines for Scientific Publishing)

Lunch 13-00 to 14-30

Afternoon - Visit

14-30 to 16-30 Return to HM4 for visit from JISC Collections (see www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/). Also relevant to this presentation and that of Julian Clayton on 18th June is www.jiscebooksproject.org/. The programme is as follows:
Liam Earney - About JISC Collections and our core activities (including NESLi2, working groups etc)
Caren Milloy - JISC national e-books observatory project - e-books in HE and, if time, the E-books for FE project [FE = VoTech or community colleges in US terms]
Ben Taplin - Licensing initiatives - NESLi2 SMP, Knowledge Exchange - see www.nesli2.ac.uk/ and www.jisc.ac.uk/aboutus/partnerships/knowledgeexchange.aspx

Evening
Free


Wednesday 17 June

Day in Oxford
Instructions on getting to Oxford by coach will be distributed in advance. Oxford is about 65 miles from London and the journey in morning traffic should take approximately two hours.

Morning and early afternoon at Oxford University Press

09.00 to 09-15. Arrive main bus station Gloucester Green, where Anthony Watkinson will be waiting and walk to Oxford University Press main entrance on Great Clarendon Street off Walton Street.

Morning – Oxford University Press [www.oup.com/uk/about/]

9-30 to 10-30 Procktor Room OUP: Presentation by Robert Faber (Editorial Director, Scholarly and General Reference), and Claire Dowbekin (Senior Marketing Manager Online Scholarly Reference and e-Books) on Oxford Scholarship Online, e-Book projects and the challenges of publishing a major print work in the modern market. See www.oxfordonline.com/

10-30 to 11-30 Break

11-00 to 12-00 OUP Museum (meet at Reception): A guided tour of the OUP Museum with OUP’s Archivist Martin Maw

12-00 to 13-00 The Gallery OUP: A Discussion of OUP’s experiments with Open Access led by Fiona Kearney (Director of UK Business Development and Rights): see www.oxfordjournals.org/oxfordopen/

13-00 to 14-00 Lunch at OUP

Walk through historic Oxford to the Bodleian Library

Afternoon – The Bodleian Library [www.bodley.ox.ac.uk]
Presentations in the Clarendon Building meeting room

2-30 to 3-30 Alice Keller, Assistant Director of Oxford University Library Services in charge of Collections and Resource Description, will give e presentation on managing collections and resources with special reference to the impact of the digital revolution.

3-30 to 4-30 Sally Rumsey, Service and Development Manager, Oxford University Research Archive, will give a presentation on academics and e-repositories. See www.iassistdata.org/publications/iq/iq31/iqvol313martinez.pdf and www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/ora.

Before returning to London there will be opportunities to visit Blackwells, the largest scholarly bookshop in the world (just opposite), to have a short public tour of the library or visit a historic pub (or all three)


Thursday 18 June

Morning: Teaching

09.00 to 9-30: HM4 Review of Programme so far and plans for the afternoon and Friday.

9-30 to 11-00 Anthony Watkinson will lead a discussion on e-monographs with particular references to the attitudes of academics in the humanities to e-books – see www.publishing.ucl.ac.uk/papers/2001Watkinson.pdf.

11-30 to 13-00 Julian Clayton (Vice President for Training and Educational Systems at John Wiley & Sons) will give a presentation on e-learning and its future expansion. For an example of one programme see edugen.wiley.com/edugen/secure/index.uni?protocol=http.

Lunch 13-00 to 14-00

Afternoon - Visit
British Library [www.bl.uk/] The British Library St Pancras 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB

14-00 depart HM4 on foot for the nearby British Library for a tour starting at 14-30 and ending at about 15-30. There will be handouts explaining the work of the British Library. Contact person Hannah O'Connell BL Welcome Team - 0870 444 1500

Evening
Free


Friday 19 June

Morning - Teaching

9-00 to 9-30: HM4 Review of Programme so far and plans for the rest of the day. The programme for the morning will concentrate on libraries as e-publishers

9-30 to 10-30 Alastair Dunning (JISC Digitisation Programme Manager) will give a presentation on digitisation including how libraries should run a digitisation programme [www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation]

10-30 to 11-00 Break

11-00 to 12-30 Dr.Irini Pitsaki ( Department of Audiovisual Arts, the Ionian University and formerly the Aegean University Press in Athens) will lead a discussion on academic publishing and the sustainability of university presses in the digital environment. Dr. Pitsaki is visiting the department and will be available for most of the programme.

12-30 to 13-45 Lunch

Afternoon Visit

13-45 Meet at HM4 to go by tube to the offices of the Scientific Division of Thomson Reuters (destination Chancery Lane)

14-30 to 16-30 Visit to Thomson Reuters, 77 Hatton Garden, EC1N 8JS. Contact person Simon Pratt 207 433 4176 [thomsonreuters.com/]


14:30 ­ Brief welcome and housekeeping

2:30-3:00 Thomson Reuters an overview ­ Bob Stembridge
Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information
for businesses and professionals. This presentation will introduce the
organization and describe how we combine industry expertise with
innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading
decision makers in the different markets we serve. Examples will be
reviewed of how our information is used in the healthcare and science
markets to inform all stages of the innovation process and to help our
customers accelerate research, scientific discovery and innovation.

3:00- 3:30 History of the Citation Index and its use for Research Evaluation.
Discussion of the nature of citations, the reasons people cite and the
differences in different fields ­ Simon Pratt

3:30-3:45 Coffee Break

3:45-4:30 The challenges of measuring research using bibliometrics. A quick
overview of some of the Thomson Reuters solutions ­ Simon Pratt
- Journal Citation Reports
- ResearcherID
- InCites

Background reading:
THE THOMSON SCIENTIFIC IMPACT FACTOR www.thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/free/essays/impact_factor/
UCL Research ­ Facts & Figures www.ucl.ac.uk/research/facts/

Evening - Free


WEEK 2

Monday 22 June

Morning: Teaching

09.00 HM4 Review of Programme so far and plans for the afternoon and Tuesday

09.30 - 12.30 Discussion led by Anthony Watkinson on a series of topics related to the summer school.
The overall theme will be the relationship between the publisher as a provider of e-content and libraries, users and the general public.
These topics may include the following questions but will adjusted when it becomes clear what the interests of the students are and what will be particularly useful. More information to come:
1. Is the value added by publishers worth paying for and why?
2. Should copyright law be transformed?
3. How can Open Access Publishing be funded?
4. Will consumers really take to e-books?
5. The Big Deal – how can it/ should it survive?
There will be a Break for Refreshments 10-30 to 11-00

Lunch 12-30 to 13-45

Afternoon Visit

13.45 pm meet at HM4 to go by tube (St. James Park) Room 1.26, Ministry of Justice, Steel House, 11 Tothill Street, London, SW1H 9LJ. The contact is Polina Eaton 020 3334 5237

14-30 to 16-00 Office of Public Sector Information [www.opsi.gov.uk/]
Presentation by Alan Pawsey (Head of Publishing Services) on e-goverment

Evening
Free


Tuesday 23 June

DAY IN CAMBRIDGE

07.30 Meet at a location to be advised but probably in Albany Street opposite Great Portland Street tube station to board minibus to Cambridge.

Morning Visit – Proquest

09.45 Arrive at The Quorum, Barnwell Road Cambridge CB5 8SW

10.00 - 12.30 Presentations by staff of Proquest: the main site for ProQuest is www.proquest.com/. The programme today will concentrate on the Chadwyck-Heley component of ProQuest – see www.proquest.co.uk/brand/chadwyck.shtml. Main contact is Hugh Tomlinson direct dial: 01223 271260 and switchboard number: 01223 215512

Presentation 1 - Presentation 2

Detailed programme to be received but there will be a digitization / arts and humanities focused presentation, an aggregation / developments at ProQuest session and perhaps a discussion about social networking.

12.30 to 13-15 Lunch at Proquest

13-15 pm – Minibus to the Royal Society of Chemistry, Publications Office [Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge]
Thomas Graham House (290), Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0WF
Tel: +44 (0)1223 420066 – contact is Carol Cowie – direct line 01223 426017

Afternoon visit – Royal Society of Chemistry [ see www.rsc.org/Publishing/AboutRSCPublishing.asp]

13-30 to 15-45 Presentations on the programme and plans of the RSC by Dr. Jim Milne and his staff with special references to e-developments which fit in with the work-flows of chemists

15-30 Minibus to car park and then by park-and-ride bus into the historic centre. Anthony Watkinson hopes to act as a guide to Pembroke College Cambridge [www.pem.cam.ac.uk/] including probably a visit to the library

18.00 (approx) Return to coach park for return to London. There will be a stop at a rural public house on the way back for food.


Wednesday 24 June

Morning: Teaching

09.00 – 10-00 HM4 Review of Programme so far and an introduction to the upcoming conference.

10-00 to 12-45 HOSTING/PLATFORMS/AGGREGATIONS OF CONTENT
The two presentations today are concerned with ways in which first books and then journals are made available to customers (libraries) and end-users

10-00 to 11-00 Camelia Csora of Elsevier, (Product Manager for ScienceDirect) will give a presentation on platforms for e-journals with special reference to the leading ScienceDirect platform [see www.sciencedirect.com/]

11-00 to 11-30 Refreshments

11-30 to 12-45 Presentation by Ruth Jones of Ingram Digital about e-book channels to market and opportunities for book type content. Ingram Digital is the biggest player among e-book intermediaries [see www.ingramdigital.com/]

Lunch 12-45 to 13-45

Afternoon Visit

13-45 meet at HM4 for a walk to the offices of Nature Publishing Company, The Macmillan Building, 4 Crinan Street, London N1 9XW

14-30 to 16-30 - Nature Publishing Company [www.nature.com/npg/]
The contact person is Grace Baynes, 020 7014 4063 The detailed programme is to be worked out but NPG is particularly noted for its innovation in publishing and this will be an important component. Their LINK{experiments in social networking}to{nature.ppt} with certainly be described

Evening
Free


Thursday 25 June and Friday 26 June

BEYOND BOOKS AND JOURNALS (conference)

For details of the programme for the conference see www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/e-publishing
This conference is part of the course.

Note that there will be a conference reception 17.30 to 19.30on the evening of the Thursday and there will be a farewell dinner on the evening of the Friday. Details of the dinner will be given later.