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STM Spring Conference, 28 – 30 April 2009

What keeps Scholarly Publishers up at Night?
Political Environments: Threats & Opportunities,
Copyright Challenges & Web 3.0
Le Meridien Cambridge
20 Sidney Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.

Why you should register now
The STM 2009 Spring Conference will bring together industry and outside experts to confront and discuss business challenges publishers face from a variety of fronts.

The conference will provide publishing executives and senior managers with a program focusing on analyses and strategic thinking.

Join your colleagues and industry leaders and benefit from each other’s ideas and experience.

Some comments from STM Spring Conferences - 2008 & 2007
“Great networking with colleagues. Excellent venue. Lovely food. Informative talks & great weather.”
“ . . . Great idea to have academics, business outside publishing as speakers.”
“Not the usual program. Forward thinking.”
“It was extremely informative to hear so many presentations from outside the publishing industry.”
“Best STM program in years!”
“High-level. Pushing the envelope”

Preliminary Topics & Speakers

Political Environments - Threats & Opportunities

Public Access – Holy Grail, Inchoate Vision, or Both
Panel Moderator: Eric Massant, Senior Director, Government & Industry Affairs, Reed Elsevier
Speakers TBA
Public access has generated strong feelings and is driving government policies around the world, yet it is largely undefined. It has been proclaimed as the way to address a purported need to broaden and enhance access to research funded by the taxpayer. The concept over-simplifies a complex and dynamic system with many players, including: librarians who typically deliver access government agencies who manage the research, and private sector not-for-profit and commercial publishers who provide added value. Very little of the debate has recognized the degree to which access already exists.

This session with examine the state of access to federally funded STM research. Who has it – to what? How is it used? Who wants it? Who needs it? What does the future hold?

How we can use the government to our advantage?
Doral Cooper, President, C & M International. C & M is an international trade and investment consulting firm of experienced former trade negotiators, economists, and political scientists.
Getting over the anxiety of working with government – more effective ways of making government work for you. The new administration in Washington – what does it mean to publishers?

Copyright Challenges

Online Piracy
Keynote: Keith M. Kupferschmid, Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property and Enforcement, Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)

Subscription Fraud & Electronic Abuses
Justin Spence, Publishers Solutions International

Publishers working well (or not) with the academic community
Introduction: Mark Seeley, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Elsevier
Speakers: TBA

Innovations: Web 3.0 - It’s all about relationships: the Web, the Semantics,
and the Publisher

The semantic web is about mechanisms and metadata that understand the meaning and context of the information on the web. Semantic publishing will benefit greatly from the semantic web. In particular, the semantic web is expected to revolutionize scientific publishing, such as real-time publishing and sharing of experimental data on the Internet. The web will understand what you want! This makes it much easier to find the right information and the right people. So, it is also about collaborative groups and the social web.

The Semantic Wave
Keynote: Mills Davis, Founder and Managing Director, Project 10X, specializing in industry research and strategic programs.
Davis has interesting predictions on Web 3.0 and case studies from several different industry sectors, including publishing but also the consumer web, the finance world, government, etc. He also ties it all in with the social web.

A vision and the real world using social networks for scientists
A presentation explaining how scientists and publishers are using social networks.
TBA

The case study – An STM member’s experience with the semantic web: Opinions and analysis
TBA

Program Committee
Thomas Connertz, Director, Electronic Journals, Thieme Publishing Group
Jerry Cowhig, Managing Director, Institute of Physics Publishing
Gerry Grenier, Staff Director, Publishing Technologies, IEEE, Inc.
Valentina Kalk, Rights Manager, The World Bank
Roy Kaufman, Legal Director, Wiley-Blackwell, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Dominic Knight, Managing Director, Palgrave Macmillan, Ltd.
Christine Lamb, Director, New England Journal of Medicine
Eric Massant, Senior Director, Government & Industry Affairs, Reed Elsevier
Carol Richman, Director of Licensing, Sage Publications
Mark Seeley, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Elsevier
International Association of STM Publishers
• Michael Mabe, CEO
• Janice Kuta, Director of Marketing & Membership
• Eefke Smit, Director of Standards & Technology

Register Before 26 March 2009
Member $895
Non-Member $1200

After 26 March 2009
Member $1095
Non-Member $1500

Organizations registering 5+ people for this conference should contact info@stm-assoc.org for discount information.

Hotel information
The Le Meridien Cambridge is holding a block of rooms at a reduced rate of $259.00 per night (April 28, 29, 30 2009), if you reserve BEFORE MARCH 26, 2009. Remember to mention the International STM Publishers Conference 2009 room block when contacting the hotel directly 617-577-0200. BOOK YOUR HOTEL RESERVATION ONLINE.