Set E

Monday, May 21, 2007   •   2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

E1. Current Status of Open Access
Martin Frank, Executive Director, American Physiological Society; Julia Blixrud, Assistant Director, Public Programs, SPARC; Matthew Cockerill, Biomed Central; Peter Banks, Banks Publishing, Publishing Consulting and Services; Martin Frank, Moderator

Increasingly, funding institutions worldwide are requiring that research funded by them be made freely available. These policies are having a major impact on journal finances and publication policies and raise questions of intellectual property rights. This session's speakers will talk about the current status of open access policies and where this evolution is taking us.

E1 Presentations

Julia Blixrud
Matthew Cockerill

E2. The Role of Science Journals in Promoting Capacity Development in the Developing World (Follow-up from 2006 Meetings on Creating/Supporting Sustainable Societies)
Gavin Yamey, Magazine Editor, PLoS Medicine & Consulting Editor,PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Public Library of Science; Phyllis Freeman, Professor Emerita, Law Center, CPCS (College of Public and Community Service) Senior Fellow, John J. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, Center for Social Policy, University of Massachusetts Boston; Anthony Robbins, Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine, Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Boston; Theodore Wachs, Managing Editor, MRD Editorial Office, Centre for Development and Environment, Institute of Geography, Switzerland; Theodore Wachs, Moderator

This session will address the role editors can play in supporting and helping to ensure publication of research in developing countries and also facilitating access by authors in the developing world to publications in the developed world that allow them to reach a global audience. This session builds on some of the points raised by CSE's Richard Horton, as quoted in the article "Lost Science in the Third World" in Scientific American, August 1995.

E2 Presentations

Phyllis Freeman, Anthony Robbins, Barbara Gastel
Barbara Gastel
Anthony Robbins

E3. In Celebration of the STIX Fonts: Was the Product Worth the Wait?: Yes, Most Definitely!
Tim Ingoldsby, American Institute of Physics; Barbara Beeton, American Mathematical Society; Wim de Vries, Elsevier; Fran Zappula, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Moderator.

After more than ten years of development and more than $1 million of investment, the STIX Fonts have been released by their creators, the STI Pub Group (American Chemical Society, American Institute of Physics, American Mathematical Society, American Physical Society, Elsevier, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). In this session, the project manager will describe the process by which the fonts were developed, an expert in typography will describe the font contents and how they relate to the very important Unicode standard, and a production editor will describe how they can and should become part of every publisher's production process and how authors should use the fonts.

E3 Presentations

Barbara Beeton
Tim Ingoldsby

E4. Editorial Policy Committee Ethics Clinic (Part 1)
Heather Goodell, Director of Scientific Publishing, American Heart Association, Moderator

Ethical concerns in the publishing profession involve not only blatant acts of misconduct, but also the more commonplace behaviors that our industry considers incompatible with its values. The two sessions of the Ethics Clinic can be attended independently. These interactive sessions will use illustrative examples to explore the pros and cons of handling various ethical dilemmas, so attendees can consider and address issues they have or may face in the future. Join us and leave these sessions better equipped to advance practices that promote responsible behavior.

Part 1 will be a moderated discussion based on results that CSE members had to our survey on how to handle various misconduct or unethical scenarios, including ramifications of some decisions.