2009 Conference

16th / 17th February 2009

Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0RN, UK

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Day 1

Chair: Peter Lawson, Chairman, ASA

Survival of the fittest: Keeping up with the changing supply chain.
John Cox, Managing Director, John Cox Associates Ltd.

Agents: aspirin or migraine? Establishing a future role towards customers and publishers.
Paul Williams, Managing Director, UK and Ireland, Swets Information Services

"Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they are not altered for the better by design": Managing systemic change in the delivery of scholarly information.
Professor Derek Law, University of Strathclyde

11:00 Discussion followed by Tea/Coffee


Session Chair: Ann Lawson, EBSCO Information Services

eBooks everywhere? A review of the eBook market from the perspective of a non-profit publisher
Nick Evans, Chief Operating Officer, Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)

Everything you can do - I can do better. Trends in information management within Pharma: Out-sourcing or in-sourcing: do companies really need the go-between?
Henning Nielsen, Director of the Library & Information Centre, Novo Nordisk, Denmark

Agents, publishers and their customers: competition and collaboration in the information supply chain
Christopher McKenzie, Vice President and Director of Institutional Sales, Americas and EMEA, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

1:00 Discussion followed by buffet lunch


Afternoon session Chair: Nancy Buckley, Burgundy Information Services

Selling in Asia: A view of the markets in India and South Korea
Conrad Guettler, Wolfson College, Cambridge

Central and South America: Opportunities for growth in the New World.
Pinar Erzin, Managing Director, Accucoms

Opportunities and challenges: A view from China
Eric Newman, Publishing Consultant

Discussion followed by tea and coffee


Society and the ‘society publisher': Does 'value' have a future?

Douglas LaFrenier, Director, Publication Sales & Market Development, American Institute of Physics Publishing

How readers navigate to content
Simon Inger, Simon Inger Consulting

Discussion followed by Reception


Day 2

Session chair: Sarah Durrant, Secretary General, ASA

The morning after the night before: Is the future what it used to be?
Peter Burnhill, Director, EDINA

iTunes for scholarly publishing? What, if anything, can we learn from the successes and failures of the music publishing industry?
Geoffrey Bilder, Director of Strategic Initiatives at CrossRef
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Open Access & Open Source: opportunities for new business relationships with academic libraries
Lars Bjornshauge, Director of Libraries, University of Lund

Discussion followed by tea/coffee


Session chair: Robbie Frazer, Prenax

Using semantic technologies to bring e-content to life
Chris Clarke, Senior Programme Manager, Talis Information Limited
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Managing the here and now: the tools to meet market demand - today.
Chris Beckett, Vice-President, Sales and Marketing, Atypon

Doing business in a changing landscape
Judy Luther, President, Informed Strategies,

Discussion followed by lunch

ASA Meeting (ASA Members only)