Editorial Preface

Chairman's Report

Programme

List of Available Presentations by Title

List of Available Presentations by Author's Name

Participants List

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18.00

RECEPTION

Tuesday 20 February

09.30-09.50

Opening addresses by the Director-General of UNESCO, Mr Federico Mayor, and the President of ICSU, Prof. J.C.I. Dooge

09.50-11.05

SESSION 1. INTRODUCTION: WHERE ARE WE NOW?

Moderator: R. Elliott

B.R. Coles (Imperial College, London): Electronic publishing in science: where are we now?
F.A. Mastroddi (Directorate General Telecommunications, information market and exploitation of research, European Commission, Luxembourg): Electronic publishing in science: where are we now?
V.P. Canhos et al.(University of Campinas, Brazil): Electronic publishing in developing countries: trends, potential and problems

11.35-12.50

SESSION 2. ELECTRONIC DATA STORAGE, ACCESS AND ARCHIVING

Moderator: C. Lupovici

D.G. Law (King's College, London): Electronic data archiving and access
R. Wedgeworth & W.H. Mischo (University of Illinois, USA): Research policies affecting the development of digital libraries in science and technology

14.30-15.45

SESSION 3. TOOLS AND STANDARDS FOR PROTECTION, CONTROL AND PRESENTATION OF DATA

Moderator: D.F. Shaw

E. Barrow (UK Copyright Licencing Authority): Rights clearance and technical protection in an electronic environment
D. Armati (Consultant, UK): Tools and standards for protection, control and archiving
A. Heck (Université de Strasbourg, France): Electronic publication and information handling: a few issues and challenges

16.15-17.30

SESSION 4. LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING

Moderator: T. Koskinen]

T.K. Dreier (Max Planck Institute for Patent Law and Intellectual Property, Munich, Germany): Unsolved copyright issues in the digital and network environment
C. Clark (International Publishers Copyright Council): The publisher in the digital world

20.00

CONFERENCE DINNER

Wednesday 21 February

09.30-11.00

SESSION 5.1. THE SCIENTIST'S VIEW OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING

Moderator: A. Authier

S.R. Hall (University of Western Australia): A scientist's view of issues and challenges
J. Voutssas & A.M. Cetto (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico): Electronic publishing: will it reach the whole world?
P. Ginsparg (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA): First steps towards electronic research communication in physics

11.30-12.30

SESSION 5.2. VIEWS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES AND PROFESSIONAL SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS

Moderator: A. Authier

J.G. Kircz & H.E. Roosendaal (Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, the Netherlands): Understanding and shaping scientific information transfer
H. Lustig (American Physical Society): Electronic publishing: the role of a large scientific society
P. Boyce (American Astrophysical Society): Electronic publishing and the American Astrophysical Society
J.-C. Sens (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland): Communication in physics

14.00-15.15

SESSION 6. ECONOMICS AND ORGANIZATION OF PRIMARY ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING

Moderator: A. Lefebvre

A. Okerson (ARL Office of Academic and Scientific Publishing): A librarian's view of economic issues in electronic scientific publishing
D.J. Pullinger (Electronic publisher, Nature, Macmillan Journals, UK): Economics and organization of primary scientific publications

15.30-18.30

Working Groups: identification of main issues

Thursday 22 February

09.30-11.00

Reports on initial findings of Working Groups

Moderator: R. Elliott

11.30-12.30

SESSION 7. OPTIONS FOR THE FUTURE

Moderator: R. Elliott

A. de Kemp (Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany): Options for the Future

J. Lederberg (Rockefeller University, USA; Chairman, UNESCO Advisory Council on Global Scientific Communications): Options for the Future

14.30-17.30

Working Groups: drafting of Recommendations

Friday 23 February

09.30-11.00

Summaries by Working Group Chairpersons and distribution of Recommendations

11.30-12.30

Approval of Conference Recommendations

12.30

Conference closes

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