UAB Synopsis, Vol. 24, No. 13, April 11, 2005
Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences Director Scott Plutchak has been invited to make several presentations at the National Press Club and National Library of Medicine on open access and other scholarly publishing issues.
Information Age Issues
Plutchak will offer a paper during the Allen Press Emerging Trends Seminar at the National Press Club on April 13 in Washington, DC. He will discuss, "What Really Happens: the Open Access Experience at the Medical Library Association." Also, Plutchak will speak at the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors annual meeting at the National Library of Medicine, Washington, DC, on May 2. His talk is "Impact of Electronic Scholarly Publishing on the Uniform Requirements for Manuscript Submission."
Plutchak's other presentations include invited engagements at the North Carolina Serials Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, "Point-Counterpoint on Open Access" on April 14, and the Special Libraries Association annual meeting in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he will speak on "Librarianship and the Digital Revolution in Scholarly Publishing," on June 6.