A & I: R.I.P.?
Friday 13 November,
Staff House conference suite, Sackville Street Campus, University of Manchester
As institutional budgets come under increasing pressure, will abstracting
and indexing services survive, and do they deserve to?
The widely-held belief was that federated searching and cross-search
software developments would help save the A&I services but is this really the
case? Services such as Science Direct report that the majority of links to
their articles come from Google or Google Scholar. Do our academics,
researchers and students simply want Google Scholar attached to a huge PDF
dump? If so, why spend valuable funds on anything else?
Will new services - like Summon cross-search software which has an alliance
with publishers to index content - challenge the supremacy of Google?
Event Programme
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10:00 |
Registration and Coffee |
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10:30 |
Welcome from the Chair |
Roger
Hines, Information Specialist, Sheffield Hallam |
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10:35 |
Bibliometrics and the REF. What do researchers want or
need for the future? |
Tim Wales, Associate Director (E strategy) Royal Holloway |
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11:15 |
Rory McCready,
University of Liverpool |
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12:00 |
Mark Furneaux , currently from Wize Nordic and
previously CSA |
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12:30 |
Is there
evidence of library cancellations? - results of the JIBS survey |
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12:40 |
Lunch |
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1:15 |
JIBS Annual General Meeting |
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1:45 |
The Debate : This house believes that A&I is RIP |
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1:45 Chair’s opening comments 1:50 To Propose the motion Graham Stone, E-Resources Manager and Institutional Repository
Administrator at the University of Huddersfield. 2:20 Questions and comments from the floor 2:40 To Oppose the motion : Nick Woolley, Information
Specialist , Kings College London 3:10 Questions and comments from the floor 3:30 Final summaries from the speakers |
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3:40 |
Vote on the motion |
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3:45 |
Close |
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Venue
Staff House conference suite, Sackville Street Campus,
University of Manchester
How to get to the venue
http://media.stars.manchester.ac.uk/files/conference/meeting/sackstroute.pdf
Map of the venue
http://www.conference.manchester.ac.uk/meetingmanchester/location/sackvillestreetsite/
Fee
The workshop
and lunch are FREE to members of organizations that are JIBS members and 50 GBP
to non members.
To find out
if your Institution is a member, please see the list on our web
site.
Details about Institutional membership can be found at http://www.jibs.ac.uk/aboutus/membership.html. JIBS membership allows staff to attend our regular events
for free.
Booking Form
To book a place, please
complete the booking form. Closing date for booking: 5 November 2009
The debate
and lunch are FREE to members of organisations that are JIBS members and 50 GBP
to non members.
To find out
if your Institution is a member, please see the list on our web
site.