Academic & Professional Publishing and South Africa

08:30 - 09:15

09:15 - 09:30

Coffee and Registration

Welcome from the Chairs

Karen Bruns, Research Africa (confirmed)

Michael Mabe, International Association of STM Publishers

09:30 - 11:00

09:30 - 10:15

Session 1. South Africa Research Environment

Keynote. Maclean Sibanda, The Innovation Hub (TIH)

10:15 - 11:00

Panel

Moderator: Robert Kriger, National Research Foundation (NRF)

A broad based programme to enhance scholarly publishing in and from South Africa

Wieland Gevers, Academy of Science of SA (ASSAF) 

The 'Academy of Science of South Africa' (ASSAF) is the country's national academy for all empirical disciplines. Its scholarly publishing programme (SPP) takes as its point of departure the extensive evaluations of South African journal- and book-based publication outputs released as consensus reviews in 2006 and 2009, respectively. The programme includes improvement-directed, discipline-grouped  peer review of scholarly journals published locally; a code of best practice in editing and peer review; national forums for journal editors and scholarly book publishers; a free-online, fully indexed e-publishing platform (scielo-sa collection); and  a free-online writing course.

Ari Sitas, UCT

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00

Session 2. Academic & Professional Publishing in South Africa

Panel

Moderator: Veronica Klipp

A South African perspective on the scholarly journals of learned societies: history, status, trends and future prospects

Mike Schramm, Publishing Manager, NISC

A background to journal publishing by local professional, scholarly societies is presented, summarising the history and current status of this form of publishing. Case studies of selected titles are used to highlight particular challenges of society journal publishing and to speculate on possible future trends.

Elna Harmse, UNISA Press

Lynne du Toit, CEO, Juta & Company

13:00 - 14:00

14:00 - 15:30

14:00 - 14:30

14:30 - 15:30

Lunch

Session 3. Academic & Professional Publishing Internationally

Overview, Michael Mabe, STM

Panel

Moderator David Green, Taylor & Francis

Marian Griffin, OUP

Mayur Amin, Elsevier

Professional publisher (Tbc)

Session 4. Open Access, a debate

Chair: Brian Wafawarowa, PASA

 16:00 - 16:15

16:15 - 17:00

The essentials of OA, Carlo Scollo Lavizzari, STM

Wim van der Stelt, Springer

Dr Reggie Raju, Stellenbosch

T. Scott Plutchak, Medical Librarian UAL

Bob Campbell, Wiley

and interventions by delegates from the floor

Close, Karen Bruns

17:05 - 18:00

Drinks, sponsored by Taylor & Francis