UCL DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION STUDIES
E-PUBLISHING SUMMERSCHOOL 2011 DETAILS
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PRATT SILS E-PUBLISHING SUMMER SCHOOL 2011 20th June to 1st July

WELCOME!

We are all looking forward to seeing you in London! Anthony Watkinson is the organiser of the programme and the “teacher”. Andy Dawson has done all the logistics and will provide most of the amusing bits and he is assisted by Ian Evans. For who we are see the site – link{www.ucl.ac.uk/dis}TO{www.ucl.ac.uk/dis} - and if you need to contact us by email our addresses are:

Anthony.watkinson@btinternet.com
andrew.dawson@ucl.ac.uk
ian.evans@ucl.ac.uk

The most useful phone number is 0207 679 7204 which is the departmental office number (Ian).

Rationale of the Course in e-Publishing

Anthony Watkinson will teach the course, sometimes presenting himself and sometimes contexting other presenters. There is time built in for discussion and interaction. The theme is e-publishing. The emphasis is on how the digital revolution has impacted on publishers across a range of sectors. The emphasis is on academic publishers because they are the pioneers in the digital environment. However reference, educational and trade publishing will form part of the picture. The course deliberately takes the publisher viewpoint in order to challenge you as librarians but there will be presentations from librarians and aggregators. There will also be presentations on publishing that does not involve publishers as they are commonly understood: alternative approaches include publishing services run by librarians.

There are two days when we will leave London to go to Oxford and Cambridge but otherwise on 23rd, 24th, and 28th you will be going on visits to see the British Library and two very different publishers (see below). Note that on the 29th you will abandon yourself to culture and on the 30th and the 1st of July there is the Conference.

Anthony will be sending you some files in advance and during the course and also some web-links for independent study.


THE PROGRAMME:

Our base will be room G31 in Foster court. You can find three maps homing in on the Bloomsbury campus of UCL at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/locations/ucl-maps/ and/or view its location on the google map liked to from the useful resources page (see link at left).

G31 is in the northern bit of the building which is in two halves separated by a sort of tunnel. Do not be put off by this. Follow the numbers along the bottom floor of the building.

PLEASE BE SURE TO ARRIVE PROMPTLY FOR ALL SESSIONS. Refreshments will be ready for early arrivers!

Pre-programme walk and social
Sunday 19 June, 4.00

Before the main part of the course Andy Dawson and Ian Evans have arranged a tour of the Bloomsbury area by a registered guide. This tour will begin at 4 pm on Sunday 19th June meeting outside the engineering building on the corner of Torrington Place/Malet Place – see http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=529686&y=182096&z=0&sv=51.5229,-0.1321&st=7&mapp=map.srf and wil be followed by drinks and nibbles in the Marlborough Arms pub, where a room has been reserved for you.

WEEK1

Monday 20th June

08.30 - 09.00 Refreshments in Foster Court G31
09.00 - 09.45 Welcome and introductions (Andy Dawson, Anthony Watkinson), explanation of student work plans (Tula Giannini)
09.45 – 11-00: Orientation and admission procedures including ID card collection (at Access Systems, Andrew Huuxley bldg - please bring a form of ID with you!) and an orientation tour of the campus.

11.15 - 11-45: Refreshments

11.45 – 1-00: Anthony and Andy will explain the course and will also give guidance about what to see in London and what to do and not to do.

1-00 – 2-15 LUNCH. There are plenty of places on campus with cheap and sometimes good food. Andy will have shown you some of them when he takes you on his tour

Afternoon

2-15 - 3-30

Presentation by Professor Ian Rowlands, Director of Research for CIBER CIBER has been responsible for much of the international work on how scholars work online. Dr. Rowlands will explain the Virtual Scholar research programme of CIBER and the other recent studies that he and his group are involved in or have been involved in. For further information see www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/ciber/ His e-mail is Ian.Rowlands@ciber-research.eu.

Evening

17.30: Welcome reception at UCL with buffet in the Arts and Humanities Common Room (Foster Court room G24) for you to meet some of the faculty and hopefully students and for us to get to know you. The Acting Head of Department Dr. Claire Warwick will welcome you.

Tuesday 21st June

08.30 - 09.00 Refreshments in Foster Court G31
09-00 - 09.30: Discuss what we have learnt from the previous day and what we are doing today and tomorrow. The remaining presentations on this day may be arranged differently
09-30 - 11.00 Anthony Watkinson will discuss e-journals providing a framework for later presentations and setting out the context. E-journals have been around since 1994 and about 90% of all journals have either an online version or are e-only. He will be sending you some presentations and links in advance.
11-00 - 11.30 refreshment break
11-30 - 13.00 Anthony Watkinson will give a presentation on library run publishing mainly in terms of library-owned university presses and publishing services provided by libraries. He will do this in the context of the crisis in monograph publishing and the open access movement. He will be sending you some presentations and links in advance.
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 - 15..15 Foster Court G31 for a presentation by a publisher of journals in the social sciences and humanities (to be confirmed)
15.15 - 16.30 Presentation by Brian Hole of Ubiquity Press (see www.ubiquitypress.com): this is a new open access press in archaeology started by a researcher at the UCL Institute of Archaeology (brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com)

Wednesday 22nd June visit to Oxford

0700 assemble at Baker Street coach stop Q to board Oxford Tube coach service: on Tuesday Andy Dawson will give you all ticket vouchers and a detailed direction sheet of how to get to the stop. Do not forget them!
Anthony will meet us on arrival at Gloucester Green bus station (Terminus) in Oxford at c. 09.00.
Morning Visit to OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS – the largest University Press in the world in its buildings dating from the early nineteenth century.
We shall need to be ready for the first presentation at 9-45. We shall be welcomed by Beverley Hunt. We shall be located in North House and our contact will Emma Webb emma.webb@oup.com and +44 (0)1865 353618
09.45 - 10.30: Beverley Hunt (beverley.hunt@oup.com) will explain the history of the press and how it is now.
10.30 - 11.00: Refreshment Break
11.00 – 11.45: Presentation by Robert Faber (Robert.faber@oup.com, who is in charge of Oxford Reference who will talk about putting reference online and on his special responsibilities for discovery.
11.45 – 12.30: Presentation by Claire Dowbekin (claire.dowbekin@oup.com) who is senior manager for online marketing and will talk in particular on bringing scholarly reference to public libraries
We then have to make a quick getaway and go straight to our lunch destination:
12.45 - 14.00 LUNCH at the Turf Tavern. This is a historic tavern in the centre of the historic area. We shall be eating outside but under a roof. Andy will pay for all our food and drink on behalf of UCL in honour of the 5th anniversary of the school.
14.00 – 15.15: THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY The Bodley (as it is called) is the second most important academic library in the UK (after the British Library) which you will be going to on the 23rd).
You will be split into two groups for extended tours of the library and explanations of its history and present. Contact person is May Grenaa at 01865 277224
15.30 Bodleian Main Quad: Reconvene and decide on options.
You can either visit New College, one of the oldest and largest colleges, close to the Bodleian and famous for its unique set of fourteenth century buildings and gardens (Anthony was once in charge of its library!) Or you can go to the main art and archaeology collection in Oxford (the Ashmolean) where there is currently an excellent Macedonian Treasures exhibition. Or you can do both – New College and then Ashmolean. Or you can just return to London as early or late as you like - your bus tickets are valid for any time.

Thursday 23rd June 2010

8.30 - 09.00 Refreshments in Foster Court G31
09.00 - 10.00 Review of what you learnt yesterday and discussion of the programme today. Both today’s presentations will be primarily about e-books but not from the angle of the publisher.
10.00 - 11.30 Ruth Jones (ruth.jones@ingramcontent.com). Ruth is the Director of the Publishing Business Development Group for Ingram Content Group, part of the giant US wholesaler. She will describe the offerings of the group in connection with e-books but concentrate on the aggregation channel of MyILibrary.
11.30 - 11.50 Break for refreshments
11.50 - 13.00 Anna Vernon (a.vernon@jisc-collections.ac.uk). Anna is the Licensing Manager of JISC Collections. JISC Collections is the branch of JISC which brokers deals with publishers for and does research on national digital needs of the academic library sector in most of the UK. Anna has specifically been project manager for a project looking at the needs of the FE (community colleges) sector.
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
Afternoon: THE BRITISH LIBRARY
14.00: Meet at G31 for walk to British Library
14.30 to 16.00: Tours of British Library in two groups. The main contact is Hannah O’Connell of the BL Welcome Team (0207 412 7676)
The British Library exhibitions will be open to 6-00 and you may wish to allocate time for looking at some of them

Friday 24th June

08.30 - 09.00 Refreshments in Foster Court G31
09.00 - 10.00 Review of what you learnt yesterday and discussion of the programme today
10.00 - 11.20 Lynda Thompson. Lynda (Thompson, Lynda [L.Thompson@palgrave.com]) is part of the digital team at the humanities and social sciences publisher Palgrave Macmillan. She will set out their understanding of the digital needs and their policies for all the sectors they publish books in but will home in on e-textbooks
11.20 - 11.45 Break for Refreshments
11.45 - 13.00 Simon Mahony (s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk) is a teaching fellow in the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and will explain what digital humanities is and how it reflects the work of scholars and their publishing activitied
13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH
Afternoon
Visit to SAGE PUBLICATIONS
14.00 Meet at G31 to go to Sage Publications with Anthony Watkinson. This will involve a tube journey from Euston to Old Street.The address of Sage is SAGE Publications Ltd., 1 Oliver's Yard, 55 City Road, London EC1Y 1SP. The telephone number is 0207 324 8500. See sagepub.co.uk. Huw Alexander isour main contact. Sage is a major publisher in the humanities and particularly the social sciences. It is headquartered in California but the UK branch is large and important.
14.30 - 16.00 You will be greeted by Huw Alexander. He will talk about e-books but this time the emphasis will be on rights and technical issues in publishing such as digital rights maintenance (DRM) which are controversial in the library community.
Huw will arrange for you to be shown round the company and you will have a practical demonstration of the range of functions in a medium sized and growing company


Weekend at leisure.


WEEK 2

Monday 27th June Visit to Cambridge

07.45 Meet outside the Bloomsbury Theatre to board coach to Cambridge. Andy Dawson will superintend departure.
Morning Visit – Proquest
09.45 Arrive at The Quorum, Barnwell Road Cambridge CB5 8SW. Anthony Watkinson should be there when you arrive depending on traffic.... :)
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. ProQuest as some of you may know is a major publisher of packages of digitised content using specialised software for discovery. The presentations will emphasise how the collections are put together and their future plans. Main contact is Hugh Tomlinson direct dial: 01223 271260 and switchboard number: 01223 215512. His e-mail address is Hugh.Tomlinson@proquest.co.uk.
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 Coach into Cambridge historic centre for lunch at the Granta riverside pub, 12.45 to whenever we finish :)
After lunch Anthony Watkinson will lead a walking tour through the historic centre including a visit to iconic Kings College Chapel. There will be time for souvenir shopping en route if required.
16.30 Arrival at Pembroke College library. The librarian Patricia Aske is an alumna of UCL Library School. She will describe the role of the college librarian and how what she offers students fits in with the resources of the departments and the university library. Pat is attuned to contemporary digital needs. This will be followed by tour of this historic college (third oldest in Cambridge) by a member of the college (Anthony Watkinson). Her e-mail is P.A. Aske paa22@cam.ac.uk and the library phone number is 01223 (3)38121
18.00 Meet coach at the junction of Queen Street and Silver Street for return journey - the location of the coach pick-up point will be pointed out when we have lunch.

Tuesday 28th June

08.30 - 09.00 Refreshments in Foster Court G31
09.00 - 10.00 Review of what we learnt the previous two days and discussion of the programme today
10.00 – 11.15 One of the great changes in publishing in the last year is in consumer (trade) publishing where digital has almost become normal. Anthony will set out the general picture with special reference to what such publishers have to do in order to go digital and still make money
11.15 - 11.45 Break for Refreshments
11.45 – 12.30 Anthony Watkinson will give an introduction to the conference SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE ACADEMY which you will be attending on Thursday and Friday
12.30 - 13.30 LUNCH
Afternoon: visit to BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
13.30 Meet in G31 to travel to Bloomsbury Publishing (tube/bus). Bloomsbury is the publisher of Harry Potter but has diversified a lot in recent years using the proceeds from that copyright. However we will concentrate on the new digital opportunities in trade (consumer) publishing.
14.00 - 15.15 Presentation at the Headquarters of the company at 36, Soho Square by Stephanie Duncan, digital director. She is our main contact - Stephanie Duncan [mailto:Stephanie.Duncan@bloomsbury.com] and +44 207 440 2472. She will describe what her company is doing in this space including the production of apps.

Wednesday 29th “Cultural day” organised by Dean Gianninni: Further information to come.

Thursday 30th and July 1st : THE CONFERENCE: SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE ACADEMY

See the separate programme (link below) but note that at present the first day starts at 09.45 and ends at 18.00 pm with a reception at which you can meet the speakers for both days and other attendees. The second day starts at 09.30 and ends not later than 18.00.
This is an unashamedly academic conference. We hope it will stretch you rather than bore you! Do not hesitate to ask questions. There will be time to do that during the proceedings.
The full conference programme can be found at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/e-publishing/

NB that there will be a course farewell dinner at the Spaghetti House, Goodge Street at 7-00 pm on Friday July 1st at which presentations will be made! Further information will be given during the course. Dress will be informal.

We hope you have a wonderful time with us!
Enjoy your summerschool! :)


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