The International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) has announced that its Annual US Spring conference will be held from April 29 –May 1, 2014, at Washington Marriot, Washington DC, USA. This year's conference is titled 'Stewardship of Knowledge: Building a Framework for the Future of Scholarly Publishing'.
Publishers, authors, academic institutions, corporations, learned societies and governments are increasingly confronted with growing and changing responsibilities in providing, vetting, managing, and curating knowledge in ever-changing formats. There are many facets to the stewardship of knowledge - increasing issues of ethics and trust in publishing, problems of government funding cut-backs across the sciences, collection, curation and governance of big data. Who is responsible for what in the chain of knowledge? Who will be responsible in the future? This conference is the first to discuss these topical issues.
Topics include: Who are the stewards of the knowledge ecosystem?; Ethics and trust in journal publishing: How sound is the system?; Funding research: A dark future for science?; Communications in scholarly publishing; The life cycle of big data: Curating the new science; and Flash session presentations from publishers, dotcoms and vendors.
