| Starts: | Tuesday April 13, 2010 at 8:00am |
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| Ends: | Wednesday April 14, 2010 at 5:00pm |
| Event Type: | Other |
| Location: |
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
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| Website: | http://conf.adsabs.harvard.edu/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=0 |
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| Keywords: | Astronomy, Professional Communication, Publishing, Electronic Libraries, Learned Societies, Bibliometrics |
| Intended For: | The main audience consists of editors, publishers, librarians, archives managers, officers of learned societies, as well as scientists involved in professional communication and publishing as well as in evaluation processes. |
| Organization: |
This meeting aims to provide an open forum to discuss the state and evolution of professional communicating and in particular publishing in Astronomy. The program will focus on the following areas:
* Publishing: state of the art and trends
* The role of learned societies
* Bibliometric and other evaluation criteria
* Communicating Astronomy with the public and other bodies
* The future of Librarianship