Symposium Announcement

[William Barek]

================= Symposium Announcement ========================

The Centre for Instructional Technology Development, University of
Toronto at Scarborough, is presenting a symposium entitled 

     BEYOND PRINT: SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING AND COMMUNICATION IN THE
            ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT, September 26-27, 1997. 

Speakers at the symposium will discuss the rapidly changing world of
scholarly and scientific communication as it evolves from a paper-based
model to one based on electronic networks that transcend traditional
publishing boundaries.

The implications of this shift involve the economics of the new forms of
publishing, control of the publishing media, peer review and quality
control, the role of government agencies and university administrators,
accessibility, legal and copyright issues, and questions of retrieval,
archiving, and changing technology.

Keynote speaker will be Dr. Stevan Harnad, an acknowledged pioneer in
the emerging field of networked scholarly publishing, and founding
editor of the journal Behavioural and Brain Sciences and the first
peer-reviewed psychology e-journal, Psycoloquy.

Other speakers will include Margot Montgomery, Director General of the
National Research Council of Canada; Taissa Kusma, Director of
Electronic Product Development, Academic Press; Lesley Ellen Harris,
author of the book Canadian Copyright Law; Richard Hulser, Consultant
for the IBM Digital Library program; Gregory Crane, Editor-in-Chief of
the Perseus Project; Shealagh Pope, Project Director of the e-journal
Conservation Ecology; Peter Boyce, Senior Associate of e-publishing at
the American Astronomical Society, Barbara Kirsop and Vandelei Canhos of
Bioline Publications; Ian Lancashire, Founder of the Centre for
Computing in the Humanities at the University of Toronto. (For a
complete list of speakers and agenda, see:
http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/EPub/agenda.html).

The symposium will be of interest to academics and researchers,
librarians and publishers, computer specialists, and anyone who is a
stakeholder in the realm of scholarly and scientific communication.

Proceedings begin at 1 p.m. on Friday, September 26 and continue until 9
p.m., then reconvene Saturday, September 27 from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. A
dinner/reception will be held on Friday at 5:30.

The registration fee is $60 for individuals from non-profit or
educational institutions, $120 for individuals from business or
corporations, $30 for students. The fee includes conference materials,
refreshments, and Friday's dinner/reception.

U of T at Scarborough is located at: 1265 Military Trail, Scarborough,
Ontario, M1C 1A4. 

For more information or to register electronically, visit our Web site
at:                          
           http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/Epub/1997.html 

or contact symposium co-ordinator Leslie Chan (chan at scar.utoronto.ca).
You may also call (416) 287-7505.

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Registration for 
BEYOND PRINT: SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING AND COMMUNICATION IN THE ELECTRONIC
ENVIORNMENT
                             
                         September 26-27, 1997 
                    University of Toronto at Scarborough.


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Fee:
Individuals from non-profit or educational institutions:   $60 Cdn
Individuals from business or corporations:                $120 Cdn
                                Students:                  $30 Cdn

Please make cheque or money order to :
                The University of Toronto

Send completed registration form and payment to :
                Centre for Instructional Technology Development
                University of Toronto at Scarborough
                1265 Military Trail
                Scarborough, Ontario
                M1C 1A4 Canada