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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For additional information please contact: Ann Okerson, Director Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing e-mail: ann@cni.org Scholarly Publishing on the Electronic Networks Proceedings of the Second Symposium December 5-8, 1992 The Association of Research Libraries announces the publication of Scholarly Publishing on the Electronic Networks: Proceedings of the Second Symposium. The meeting and the proceedings were co- sponsored by the Association of American University Presses, with support from the American Mathematical Society and the National Science Foundation. The first symposium on scholarly publishing on the electronic networks was held in the spring of 1992. One publisher commented that the experience was "like being a deer caught in the headlights of an onrushing truck." But by the start of the second symposium, participants had survived the shock of the new. They came forward with well-formed experiments, prototype projects, and questions about the ways and means of making the new technology serve the demands of the scholarly and scientific community. The objective of Symposia has been to promote information-sharing and discussion among people interested in developing the potential of formal scholarly electronic publishing, with particular emphasis on not-for-profit models. Presenters also discussed developing collaborative plans for sharing electronic publishing expertise among organizations in the academic publishing chain. Presentations ranged from a deliberately visionary look at electronic publishing "the day after tomorrow" to very pragmatic discussions about what it takes to make electronic text that can be used in the current network environment. Common economic concerns were evident in many of the presentations and included questions on such issues as those of cost recovery and intellectual property laws in a new and evolving technological environment. A riveting 'lawyers tour' was given of the realities of the the copyright law and its interpretation and application. Scholarly Publishing on the Electronic Networks was compiled and edited by Ann Okerson, Director of ARL's Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing. It contains text or summaries of 17 papers presented at the symposium, as well as two supplemental papers. The Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing (OSAP) undertakes activities to understand and influence the forces affecting the production, dissemination, and use of scholarly and scientific information. The Office seeks to promote innovative, alternative ways of sharing scholarly findings, particularly through evolving electronic techniques for recording and disseminating academic and research scholarship. OSAP maintains a continuing educational outreach to the scholarly community in order to encourage a shared information conscience among all participants in the scholarly publishing chain: academics, libraries, and information producers. Scholarly Publishing on the Electronic Networks Proceedings of the Second Symposium ISBN 0-918006-61-9 March 1993 182 pages, 8.5 x 11, pbk. ORDER FORM: Price (PREPAID orders only, Please): $20.00 U.S. Postage/Handling (Choose appropriate charge) North America: $4.00 Europe: $8.00 All Others: $12.00 Calculate TOTAL: Send check or money order payable to ARL to: Jeff Day, Program Assistant Association of Research Libraries 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036