Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 14:38:52 -0500
From: Peter Suber <peters_at_earlham.edu>
[This important conference doesn't yet have a web page. When it does, I'll
add it to the conference entry on my conference page,
<
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/conf.htm>. --Peter.]
ICSTI, the International Council for Scientific and Technical
Information,
http://www.icsti.org/ will be holding a two day meeting,
jointly sponsored with INIST
http://www.inist.fr/index_en.php
& INSERM
http://www.inserm.fr/ on January 23 and 24 2003 in
Paris. The subject of the meeting will be "Open Access to
Scientific & Technical Information, the state of the art" CODATA
http://www.codata.org/ is an associate in this activity.
It is designed to fit into the context of the proposed meeting on
public access in September 2002 organized by the US National Academy
of Sciences
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y12825DA1 and the UNESCO
Meeting on Public Domain information scheduled for March 2003.
The reason for selecting the topic is that OA is seen as overlapping
with issues of public access but it has specific connotations for
STI and also, in Europe, public access has different implications
in different countries, whereas OA affects all STI delivery. The
meeting is conceived to concentrate on the OA issues with an emphasis
on Europe, but not exclusively about Europe. The wider issue of
access by developing countries to STI is seen as part of the OA
development and therefore the meeting will provide an input to the
UNESCO activity and also, in part, to the WSIS (World Summit on the
Information Society) meetings foreseen for 2003 and 2004.
There will be (among others) a Report by Jack Franklin
http://www.btsf.org/ on his study on the development of OA and the
implications.
[This report will be commissioned by INIST with input to the
specification by ICSTI and INSERM and the report will be made
available to the speakers and participants before the meeting.]
Followed by discussion on the findings by:
The Publishers Arnoud de Kemp, Springer
The OAI Technical Community Herbert van de Sompel, Cornell
[The research community/authors Steven Harnad, Southampton University
Jean-Claude Guedon, U. de Montreal]
OA is taken to represent the whole spectrum of activities and
initiatives which are ongoing or planned and which are designed
to make available scientific and technical information by means
of modern technologies. It includes but is not restricted to: open
archives, pre-print servers, initiatives such as the Public Library
of Science and PubliMed, free availability of journal issues after a
certain period, etc. It includes overlap with public availability
issues - such as those being considered by the National Academy of
Science in the US, on mattters concerning the results of publicly
funded research.
The programme details will be finalised by September 2002.
Received on Tue Sep 03 2002 - 21:59:24 BST