[32] in Information Retrieval
[ganderso%ATHENA.MIT.EDU@mitvma.mit.edu: MIT Communications Forum]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
Mon Nov 18 16:39:55 1991
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 91 16:38:52 EST
From: tjm@Eagle.MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
To: elibdev@MIT.EDU
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MIT Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development
COMMUNICATIONS FORUM
Scholarly Communication
Thursday, December 12, 1991
Speakers:
Ann Okerson
Director, Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing
Association of Research Libraries
David Lazarus
Editor-in-Chief, American Physical Society
Alan Meckler
Publisher, Meckler Publishing
There is a major crisis in the world of scholarly communication brought
about by continuing growth in the volume of published information and
exponential increases in the price of journals, especially in scientific
and technical fields but also in the social sciences, arts, and humanities.
. . . Speakers at this program bring a wide range of expertise from the
fields of research librarianship, learned societies, and publishing.
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Bartos Theater for the Moving Image
The Wiesner Building
(E15 Lower Level)
20 Ames Street
MIT
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
for further information call 617 253-0008 or 3144
NOTE: You can plan to attend the Commications Forum after the NEARnet seminar
at BBN.
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