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The 2020 Scholarly Communication Symposium is seeking presentation
proposals for this year’s conference, which will be held on May 10-11, 2020
in Greensboro, NC.  The theme of this year’s conference is “Strategies for
Transitioning Journals to Sustainability”, and will focus on how libraries
and other academic institutions are planning and implementing
interventions, alternative publishing models, and other responses to the
ongoing serials crisis.

The past year has been notable because of the boycott of Elsevier by the
University of California system, as well as the unbundling of so-called big
deal subscription packages at many major flagship universities.  A key
category of questions this symposium will engage with could be summarized
as, “If not Elsevier, then what?”  Alternatives to monopoly publishers
include transitions to high-quality peer-reviewed open access (OA)
journals, OA mandates by funding agencies, and governmental responses to
monopolistic control of scholarly communication.

Major presenters who have already committed to speak at this year’s
symposium include our keynote Heather Joseph (SPARC Executive Director),
librarians from California and other states who have either boycotted or
unbundled Elsevier subscription packages, faculty editors from around the
world who have taken their journals independent of Elsevier, funding agency
officials who have instituted OA mandates, and legal experts who will speak
to government oversight of scholarly communication.

We invite proposals for short presentations regarding any topic related to
our theme of  strategies for transitioning journals to sustainability.  If
you would like to submit a proposal, use the CFP submission form at URL
http://go.uncg.edu/scs20

Registration is not yet open for the conference, but will be coming soon.
For more information and future updates, see the conference website at URL:
http://libconf.uncg.edu

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