For Immediate Release-

NASIG and SSP Announce Joint Meeting on Information Policies
May 27, 2015

NASIG and SSP (Society for Scholarly Publishing) are pleased
to announce a joint full-day program, “Evolving
Information Policies & Their Implications: A Conversation
for Librarians & Publishers.”  It will be held on May
27th, 2015, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington,
Virginia (DC) on the first day of each organization’s
annual conference.

Attendees will learn about public policy issues ranging from
open access, grant funder submission and publication
requirements, management and preservation of data sets, to
access for the print disabled, intellectual property,
copyright law and fair use.  Speakers will address the
current status and speculate about potential developments,
all with a view to helping attendees gain a better
understanding of current information policy and its impact
on our current and future roles.

We have recruited three expert speakers to address these
topics from the perspectives of the publishing, librarian
and vendor communities that make up the core of our
respective memberships.   Jayne Marks, Vice President of
Publishing, Wolters Kluwer will represent the publishing
perspective.  T. Scott Plutchak, formerly Director of the
Lister Hill Library of Health Sciences at the University of
Alabama at Birmingham and now Director, Digital Data
Curation Strategy at the same institution, will address the
librarian viewpoint.  Caitlin Tresande, Head of Research
Policy, Digital Science and Senior Strategy Editor for
Nature will provide the vendor perspective.

In addition, two speakers who are intellectual property and
copyright experts will share their knowledge and opinions. 
The entire day will have ample opportunities for audience
questions and will conclude with a wrap up panel with all
five speakers sharing their predictions and responding to
questions.

“When then president-elect Bob Boissy, Springer, suggested
a joint program three years ago, we thought immediately of
teaming up with SSP as another organization devoted to
dialogue, communication and education that takes no position
on public policy matters.  We were excited to find a
conference location adjacent to SSP’s to make the concept
work,” noted Steve Kelley, Wake Forest University, NASIG
President.

Howard Ratner, CHORUS, SSP President agreed: “This unique
collaborative session between NASIG and SSP offers an
exceptional opportunity for our members to not only attend a
thought-provoking program, but to network with NASIG
members. More organizations should offer such joint
programming. ”

Registration for the event will open on the websites of both
organizations in March.  NASIG offers no competing
programming, but SSP will also offer preconference seminars
on the same day.

About NASIG:
NASIG supports a dynamic community of professionals
including, but not limited to, librarians, publishers, and
vendors engaging in understanding one another’s
perspectives and improving functionality throughout the
information resources lifecycle with an emphasis on
scholarly communications, serials, and electronic resources.
 www.nasig.org

About SSP:
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), founded in 1978,
is a nonprofit organization formed to promote and advance
communication among all sectors of the scholarly publication
community through networking, information dissemination, and
facilitation of new developments in the field. - See more
at: http://www.sspnet.org

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Charlene N. Simser
Publicist, NASIG, Inc.
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