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