DIS E-Publishing Summer School 18-29 June 2007

(in association with Pratt School of Information and Library Studies, New York)

DIS are proud to announce the establishment of a summer school on e-publishing in collaboration with Pratt SILS.

The school will run from 18-29 June and will include as its final two days attendance at the Bloomsbury Conference on E-Publishing and E-Publications (Models in flux - books and journals).

Although the school has been developed specifically to cater for the needs of Pratt students, who will make up the majority of the students on the school, it is open to all, and applications for attendance from others regardless of affiliation are welcomed. For further programme information please email Andy Dawson at andrew.dawson@ucl.ac.uk; for fee information and to register your interest please email Kerstin Michaels at o.manager@ucl.ac.uk

Programme details (links to downloadable presentations where available) :


Monday 18th June – Introduction; E-journals

Morning session in UCL DIS (Henry Morley Building) room HM4

08.45 Arrival and coffee
09.00 – 09.30 Welcome (Dave Nicholas, Director of the School)
09.30 – 10.00 Summer School introduction (Andy Dawson, Anthony Watkinson)
10.00 – 11.00 Orientation, admission procedures and refreshments
11.00 – 12.00 What we know about academic users of e-journals (Dave Nicholas)
12.00 – 13.00 How publishers have used the resources of the Web to innovate (Andrew Wray, editorial director of Institute of Physics Publishing)

13.00 – 14..00 Lunch

14.00 Assemble at Henry Morley building, walk to Macmillan (Crinan Street)
14.30 – 16.00 Session at Macmillan (Crinan Street) - How innovation has changed Nature (Katie Shea, Macmillan Publishing)


17.00 – 19.00 Welcome Reception in UCL for students and UCL staff and students


Tuesday 19th June –E-Journals; librarians as E-publishers

Morning session in UCL DIS (Henry Morley Building) room HM4

08.45 – 09.00 Review of day 1 (Anthony Watkinson)
09.00 – 09.30 UCL Library Services (Liz Chapman, UCL Deputy Librarian)
09.30 - 10.30 The library perspective on the library/e-journal interface (Liz Chapman, UCL Deputy Librarian)
10.30 – 10.45 Refreshment break
10.45 – 11.45 Publishers and library consortia (Nancy Buckley, Consultant, until recently Director of Journal Sales at Blackwell)
11.45 – 12.30 The role of digitisation as publishing (Alastair Dunning, JISC Digitisation Programme Manager)

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 Assemble at Henry Morley building, walk to Science Navigation (Cleveland Street)
14.00 – 17.00 Sessions at Science Navigation (Cleveland Street) – BioMed Central and alternative approaches to journal publishing (Bryan Vickery; Anne Greenwood, Managing Director)


Wednesday 20th June – E-books; libraries as publishers

Day visit to Oxford

Assemble at Victoria Coach Station 7.15 to catch the “Oxford tube” leaving at 7.30 (£14 open return)

Arrive at Gloucester Green (Oxford central bus station) 09-15 to rendezvous with Anthony Watkinson; walk to Oxford University Press

09.30 – 13.00 Presentations on major e-book projects including the OXFORD DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY, THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY and OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE and a visit to the OUP Museum (Susanna Lob et al)
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch (courtesy of OUP)
14.00 – 15.00 Google and the digitisation of the Bodleian’s out-of-copyright holdings (Michael Popham, Bodleian Library)

Walk to Bodleian Library

15.30 – 16.30 Tour of Bodleian Library (Vanessa Coorrick)

Students return to London in their own time.


Thursday 21st June – E-learning; e-publishing in the humanities

Morning session in UCL DIS (Henry Morley Building) room HM4

09.00 – 09.30 Review of days 2-3 (Anthony Watkinson)
09.30 – 10.30 The e-learning context in the UK (Tom Davy, CEO Thompson Learning)
10.30 - 10.45 Refreshment break
10.45 – 11.45 The work of UNICA in the context of new modes of publication and dissemination (Paul Ayris, Director of UCL Library Services)
11.45 – 12.45 Moving a small humanities publisher online (Charles Watkinson, Director of Publications, American School of Classical Studies in Athens)

Afternoon at leisure (to be confirmed)

Friday 22nd June – E-books

Morning session in UCL DIS (Henry Morley Building) room HM4

08.45 – 08.45 Review of day 4 (Anthony Watkinson)
09.00 – 09.30 The research of the CIBER group (Ian Rowlands, Director of Research, Centre for Publishing)
09.30 – 10.30 How publishers put books online (Anthony Watkinson)
10.30 - 10.45 Refreshment break
10.45 – 11.45 Academic and student usage of e-books (Ian Rowlands)
11.45 – 12.45 The demand for e-books from academic librarians (Lorraine Estelle, Director, JISC Collections)

Afternoon at leisure (to be confirmed)

Monday 25th June – Database publishing; preservation of e-content

08.30 Assemble at HM4 to travel to Thompson Scientific (Hatton Garden)

Session at Thompson Scientific

09.00 – 09.30 Review of day 5 (Anthony Watkinson)
09.30 – 09.50 Introductions and overview of digital publishing trends (Bob Stembridge)
09.50 – 10.10 Tour of office (Simon Pratt)
10.10 – 10.40 Creation of the Derwent World Patent Index (Doina Nanu)
10.40 – 11.10 ISI Web of Knowledge, a new development strategy (Simon Pratt)
11.10 – 11:15 Conclusions & wrap-up (Bob Stembridge)

Walk to Euromonitor (Britton Street)

Session at Euromonitor

11.30 – 12.30 How the web transformed Euromonitor (David Gudgin)


12.30 – 13.55 Lunch and transit to British Library (Euston Road): assemble in the BL courtyard by 13.55

Session at BL

14.00 – 15.00 Tour of the library
15.00 – 17.00 E-repository and e-preservation presentations by BL senior staff


Tuesday 26th June – E-collections and e-aggregations

Day visit to Cambridge

07.30 assemble at Bloomsbury Theatre, UCL to board coach to Cambridge
07.45 Coach leaves for Cambridge

Arrive at ProQuest at The Quorum, Barnwell Road at 10-00

10.00 – 10.45 The development of Chadwyck-Healey Publishing (Dan Burnstone)
10.45 - 11.30 The ProQuest role as an e-aggregator (Roger Tritton)
11.30 – 12.15 The opportunities of e-monographs (Richard Fisher, executive Director, CUP)
12.15 – 12.30 Panel questions (All)


12.30 – 14.00 Transit to local pub for lunch; transit to Cambridge University Library, dropoff 14.00

Afternoon at Cambridge University Library

Arrive at CUL at 14-00 for 14-15 – contact Patricia Killiard at pk219@cam.ac.uk

14.15 – 15.30 Library provision in Cambridge; the Dspace project

15.30 walk to Pembroke College

15.45 Tour of the College (Anthony Watkinson) and presentation on the Treasures of Pembroke College Library (Patricia Aske, Librarian, Pembrocke College)

18.00 return by coach to UCL


Wednesday 27th June – E-government

Initial morning session in UCL DIS (Henry Morley Building) room HM4

09.00 – 10.30 Refreshments: review of days 6-7 and what we have learnt from the school as a whole (Anthony Watkinson)

10.30 Transfer to Whitehall

Session at Whitehall

11.00 – 12.30 Presentation on e-government

12.30 – 13.30 Travel by tube to the National Archives at Kew

13.30 – 14.30 Lunch at Kew

14.30 – 16.00 Making government records more useful by re-purposing – secondary publishing (Irene Griffin, National Archives)

16.00 Optional visit to Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew Gardens)

Return at leisure


Thursday 28th June

Conference day 1 (see separate conference programme)

18.00 – 19.00 Conference reception, Garden Room
19.00 – 21.00 Dinner, Old Refectory


Friday 29th June

Conference day 2 (see separate conference programme)

17.00 - 19.00 Farewell reception, Garden Room