The Association of Subscription Agents and Intermediaries has announced its programmes for the upcoming annual ASA Conference to be held in London on 24-25 February 2014.
The conference, dubbed 'Transforming the Publishing Landscape', will cover the evolving publishing business, and the forces that are transforming it.
The ASA conferences underscore ASA members' credo includes maintaining the highest standards of business practice, providing excellence in service and support, facilitating transfer of knowledge to a growing global audience, and helping sustain the knowledge economy.
The two-day programme is richly packed, featuring 24 speakers.
The programme opens with a Keynote Address by Youngsuk (Y.S.) Chi, Chairman, Elsevier, covering the 'e-volution of publishing.' Other featured presentations include Dan Tonkery (CEO, Content Strategies) providing a perspective on the role of agents and intermediaries; Kathy Misunas (Co-Founder, Essential Ideas) offering valuable lessons about threats and opportunities of disintermediation from the travel industry; Sheila Lambie (Sr. Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University) telling us about how future generations of publishers are being trained; and Janne Järvinen (CEO, LM Information) discussing the agents and intermediaries doing what they do best, adding value in the knowledge economy.
The keynotes and featured presentations on the programme frame the four sessions:
SESSION 1: Covering publisher perspective with speakers from Wiley (Greta Boonen), Georg Thieme Verlag (Bernd Hess), Springer (Roné Robbetze), and the NEJM Group (Eileen Welch); chaired by Lorna Summers from Turpin Distribution.
SESSION 2: Providing institution perspective with speakers from University of London (Russell Burke), Portland State University (Jill Emery), Research Consulting (Rob Johnson), Imperial College London (Chris Banks), and Catholic University of Leuven (Hilde Van Kiel); chaired by Paul Harwood from EBSCO.
SESSION 3: Discussing the evolving OA landscape with speakers from California Digital Library (Ivy Anderson), European Commission (José Cotta), Sheffield University (Rob Freckleton), Gold OA Infrastructure Initiative (Neil Jacobs), and Max Planck Institute (Ralf Schimmer); chaired by Richard Wynne from Aries System.
SESSION 4: Talking about the role of archives and aggregation with speakers from EDINA (Peter Burnhill), Rittenhouse Book Distributors (Clark Morrell), Schweitzer
