Talking to the Elephant in the Room


Pre-Conference Day - Monday, 28 January, 2013
Updates, Exchange of Experiences
Education & Training Course for Publishers, Information Specialists, Librarians and Students. Organised by Regine Reincke (Senior Publishing Editor, Springer, Dordrecht), Bas Straub (Director, Business Development, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam) and Arnoud de Kemp (APE 2013, Berlin).
Since seven years the APE Conferences start with a Pre-Conference Day on the Monday. This special day has been created for (mostly younger) publishers, librarians, information specialists and students of media, information science, publishing, bookselling and library courses, who want to get an update on what is going on in our world and to share information and experiences in an informal and international atmosphere. Participants enjoy a special discount of 20% if they also register for the APE 2013 Full Conference. Members of STM, ICSTI, ALPSP, Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels/AKEP and DGI enjoy a general discount of 25%. Group rates on request.
Venue of the APE 2013 Pre-Conference Day:
NH Hotel Berlin Mitte
Leipziger Strasse 106 -111
10117 BERLIN, Germany
PowerPoint Presentation will be available after the Conference, please click Program Pre-Conference Day for downlaod.
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Doors open for Registration (Coffee, Tea & Snacks)
Welcome & Opening Remarks by Regine Reincke and Bas Straub
Tina Harseim, Manager Corporate Social Media, Springer Science + Business Media, Berlin
Felix Evert, Manager Publisher Partnerships, De Gruyter, Berlin.
Coffee & Tea and Networking
The End of the Document? A Discussion with Provocative Statements and Intelligent Answers
With Richard Padley, Managing Director, Semantico, Brighton, Roswitha Nottebaum, General Manager, Aries, Langenfeld, Professor Dr. Stefan Gradmann, Institute of Library and Information Science, Humboldt University zu Berlin, Michael Dreusicke, CEO, PAUX Technologies, Berlin, moderated by Arnoud de Kemp, APE 2013, Berlin
Buffet Lunch and Networking
Alternative Metrics. The End of the Impact Factor as we know it?
Martijn Roelandse, Publishing Editor, Springer, Dordrecht
The Funding of Publishing: where the Money might come from?
Dr. Antje Kellersohn, Director, University Library, Freiburg
Coffee & Tea
Talking to the Elephant in the Room
A 2-hour discussion with the audience, moderated by Regine Reincke and Bas Straub with support from Professor David De Roure, Naional Strategic Director for Digital Social Research, Oxford.
Interactive with facebook and Twitter. Questions in advance
End of the APE 2013 Pre-Conference Day