Program

All talks will take place in the Phillips Auditorium at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, USA. (see also map of area).

Speakers should prepare presentations as either Microsoft Powerpoint, Apple Keynote or PDF files and provide them to the LOC the day before their scheduled talk. You can deliver your presentation in person at the conference or email it to fpca_loc@head.cfa.harvard.edu. All presentations except for the keynote talk should be up to 25 minutes in length, allowing at least 5 minutes for questions. Additional questions and discussion are scheduled at the end of each session.

Tuesday, 13 April

8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast      
9:00 – 9:10 Accomazzi – Welcome      
9:10 – 9:40 Heck – The FPCA Meetings – Opening Comments   PPT PDF
9:40 – 10:30 Huchra – Keynote talk: Astronomical Publishing, Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow     PDF
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break      
11:00 – 11:30 Kurtz – Building the Astronomy Electronic Brain   PPT PDF
11:30 – 12:00 Fienberg – Communicating Astronomy Beyond IYA2009     PDF
12:00 – 12:30 Discussion      
 
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch      
1:30 – 2:00 Eichhorn – How do Commercial Publishers fit into Future Publishing?   PPT PDF
2:00 – 2:30 Boucher – Astronomy Journal Publishing: Serving the Community   PPT PDF
2:30 – 3:00 Clark – Publishing in Greater Depth: Article of the Future and Beyond      
3:00 – 3:30 Coffee break      
3:30 – 4:00 Chaix – Publishing Astronomy and Astrophysics: Article Numbering, Electronic First   PPT PDF
4:00 – 4:30 Jensen – The Future of the ASP Conference Series   PPT PDF
4:30 – 5:00 Discussion      

Wednesday, 14 April

8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast      
9:00 – 9:30 Abt – Have we Reached a Maximum Astronomical Research Output?      
9:30 – 10:00 Biemesderfer – Fully Digital: Policy and Process Implications for the AAS   PPT PDF
10:00 – 10:30 Vishniac – The Present and Future of The Astrophysical Journal     PDF
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break      
11:00 – 11:30 Marvel (via Biemesderfer) – Open Access: Current Status, AAS Perspectives   PPT PDF
11:30 – 12:00 Mele – The SCOAP3 Open Access Publishing Model   PPT PDF
12:00 – 12:30 Discussion      
 
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch      
1:30 – 2:00 Lagerstrom – Astronomy Librarians – Quo Vadis?     PDF
2:00 – 2:30 Grothkopf – Telescope Bibliometrics 101     PDF
2:30 – 3:00 Mahoney – Progress on the Declaration Concerning the Evolving Role of Libraries in Research Centres   PPT PDF
3:00 – 3:30 Coffee Break      
3:30 – 4:00 Henneken – Finding your Literature Match – A Recommender System     PDF
4:00 – 4:30 Accomazzi – Linking Literature and Data: Status Report and Future Efforts     PDF
4:30 – 5:15 Discussion and Concluding remarks   PPT PDF
 
6:00 Banquet (Legal Seafood in Harvard Square)