A Short Conference Report by Professor Dr. Svenja Hagenhoff und Dr. Chris Armbruster will appear soon. Presentations and video recordings can be found at APE 2011.
APE 2012 will be held on 24-25 January 2012 in Berlin!
The 6th APE Conference was all about 'Smarter Publishing'.
The APE 2011 Conference Program has been developed by a high level Program Committee and offered the usual broad perspective, varying from research excellence, use of information with metrics, ratings and rankings, content innovation, funding and investing, business models, new types of information, enabling technologies, repositories, search engines, dissemination, access and sharing of knowledge.
Understand and be successful in publishing: The Pre-Conference Day offered a professional education and training course to all those, who deal with the acquisition, handling, publishing and dissemination of information, not only in Europe. There will be a special session on China. Participants will receive a Certificate and enjoy a special rate for the Full Conference.
The now renowned APE Conferences aim at a better understanding of scholarly communication and the role of information in science, education and society. They encourage the debate about the future of value-added scientific publishing, information dissemination and access to scientific results and offer an independent forum for 'open minds'. Participants have enjoyed a very good atmosphere with a free exchange of opinions and experiences between all stakeholders.
Participants are: academic, educational, scientific, technological, medical, legal and professional publishers, university presses, researchers, authors, editors, librarians, teachers, learned and professional societies and associations, funding agencies, politicians and policy makers, subscription agencies and booksellers, recruiting agencies and technology providers.
APE Conferences provide an inventory and show the way ahead in a collaborative effort involving all stakeholders. At the same time they are open for a review of new enabling technologies that may cope with new requirements and also look at sustainability given the changes of behaviour. In and between the private and the public sector there is still no complete understanding of the economics of electronic publishing and of the various functions in the value chains. This an ongoing discussion. Coherent indicators are needed to measure the actual use and value of scientific information as a basis for future funding in the public sector and for investments in the private sector.
As always there will be a lot of time for discussions and meetings with friends and colleagues and to enjoy the now famous Conference Dinner in the “Refugium”.
Please contact us for more information: info@ape2011.eu
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