Programme
of the colloquium on the
Future Professional Communication in Astronomy
(Brussels,
10-13 June 2007)
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Sunday
10 June 2007
18:00-21:00 Registration
and reception
Monday
11 June 2007
09:00 Registration
opens
09:15-09:45
Welcome Address
(Houziaux)
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Chair:
Houziaux
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09:45-10:30
Future Professional Communication in
Astronomy: Questions and Challenges
(Heck)
10:30-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-11:45
The Journals of the American
Astronomical Society
(Marvel)
11:45-12:30 Some Publishing Statistics on The
Astrophysical Journal
and Sister Journals in the
Period 1990-2006
(Burton)
12:30-14:00
Lunch
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Chair: A'Hearn
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14:00-14:45
Learned Societies as Publishers – The
RAS and Monthly Notices
(Murdin)
14:45-16:00 Publishing for Learned Societies – The Secret
Life of a Scholarly Publisher
(Nicholson)
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:15 Publishing in the Next Five Years: A
Commercial Publisher's Perspective
(Blom)
17:15-18:00
Elsevier's Views on Future Professional
Publishing
(Clark)
Tuesday
12 June 2007
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Chair:
Burton
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09:00-09:45 EDP Sciences' Views on Future Professional
Publishing
(Quilbé)
09:45-10:30 Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics: The
SCOAP³ Model
(Plaszczynski)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:45 The ADS Position on Open Access,
Non-Traditional Information Retrieval,
and the New Realms of
Publishing
(Kurtz)
11:45-12:30 Open
Access: "A consommer avec modération"
(Mahoney)
12:30-14:00
Lunch
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Chair: Heck
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14:00-14:45 Plethoric Prose versus Salient Points
(Albrecht)
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Chair:
Albrecht
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14:45-15:30 Changing Sources for Research Literature
(Abt)
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:45 When the Dog Must Talk to the Cat:
Communicating Science to
Politicians
(Madsen)
16:45-17:30 Communicating Astronomy with the Public
(Lindberg Christensen & Russo)
17:30-18:15 The Pluto Affair:
When Professionals Talk to
Professionals with the Public Watching
(Lindberg Christensen)
Wednesday
13 June 2007
09:00-10:30
Editors' Forum
(mod.: Abt)
10:30-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-12:30
Publishers' Forum
(mod.: Mahoney)
The time slots
include 10-15min for discussion.
The
sessions will take place in the auditorium "Baron Lacquet" (NE
entrance, Boulevard du Régent/Regentlaan).
On Sunday
evening, the reception will be held in the Salle des Marbres (SW
entrance, Rue Ducale/Hertogsstraat 1, facing place des Palais/Paleizenplein).
Main colloquium page: http://astro.u-strasbg.fr/~heck/fpca.htm
List of
participants: http://astro.u-strasbg.fr/~heck/fpca_part.htm
Abstracts: http://astro.u-strasbg.fr/~heck/fpca_abstr.htm