The Economics and Usage of Digital Library Collections -- March 23 - 24, 2000 -- Ann Arbor, Michigan

PEAK: Pricing Electronic Access to Knowledge

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Conference Program

All events will take place in the Ehrlicher Room (411 West Hall) on the University of Michigan Ann Arbor's Central Campus

THURSDAY, MARCH 23
Welcome and Introduction

9:00 - 9:15

William Gosling, Director of the University Library, U of M

Conference Welcome

9:15 - 9:30

Carolyn Olivia Frost, Associate Dean of the School of Information, U of M [bio]

Conference Welcome

9:30 - 9:45

Wendy Lougee, PEAK Project Director [bio]
     and
Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, PEAK Research Director
[bio]

Conference Introduction
[Lougee in PDF][MacKie-Mason in PDF]

Economics and Usage Overview

9:45 - 10:15

Andrew Odlyzko [bio]

"The Rapid Evolution of Scholarly Communication" [abstract][paper in PDF]

10:15 - 10:45

COFFEE BREAK

Economic studies of projects

10:45 - 11:15

Bruce R. Kingma [bio]

"The Economics of Digital Access: The Early Canadiana Online Project" [abstract][paper in PDF]

11:15 - 11:45

Paul B. Kantor [bio], Carol Mandel [bio], Mary Summerfield [bio]

"An Early Online Books Project: The Columbia Experiment" [abstract][paper in PDF][slides in PDF]

12:00 - 1:15

LUNCH @ Michigan Union, Anderson Room

Economics of Pricing and Markets

1:30 - 2:00

Donald W. King [bio], Carol Tenopir [bio]

"Scholarly Journal & Digital Database Pricing: Threat or Opportunity?" [abstract] [paper in PDF][slides in PDF]

2:00 - 2:30

Leah Halliday [bio], Charles Oppenheim [bio]

"Economic Models of Digital-Only Journals" [abstract][paper in PDF][slides in PDF]

2:30 - 3:00 Michael Spinella [bio] "Pricing and Business Models for Electronic Scholarly Publishing" [paper in PDF][slides in PDF]

3:00 - 3:30

Mark J. McCabe [bio]

"Academic Journal Pricing and Market Power: A Portfolio Approach" [abstract] [paper in PDF]

3:30 - 4:00

COFFEE BREAK

PEAK Project

4:00 - 4:30

John Price-Wilkin, Wendy Lougee [bio]

"PEAK: Service and System Design" [slides in PDF]

4:30 - 5:00

Robert Gazzale [bio], Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason [bio]

"System Design, User Cost and Electronic Usage of Journals" [abstract] [paper in PDF] [slides in PDF]

5:00 - 5:30

Karen Hunter [bio]

"PEAK and Elsevier Science" [abstract][paper in PDF][slides in PDF]

Thursday Evening Events
6:00 - 7:00

RECEPTION @ Michigan League, Concourse Room

7:00 - 9:00

DINNER @ Michigan League, Vandenburg Room

    
FRIDAY, MARCH 24
Usage studies of projects

9:00 - 9:30

David Alsmeyer [bio]

"Economics and Usage of a Corporate Digital Library" [abstract][paper in PDF]

9:30 - 10:00

Kevin Guthrie [bio]

"Revitalizing Older Published Literature: Preliminary Lessons from the Use
of JSTOR"
[abstract][paper in PDF][slides in PDF]

10:00 - 10:15

COFFEE BREAK

Traditional library experiences

10:15 - 10:45

Carol Hansen Montgomery [bio], JoAnne Sparks [bio]

"Framework for Assessing the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Staffing Patterns" [abstract][paper in PDF][slides in PDF]

10:45 - 11:15

Hannelore B. Rader [bio]

"The Impact of Digital Collections on Library Use" [abstract][paper in PDF]

New approaches

11:15 - 11:45

Thomas Krichel [bio]

"Working towards an Open Library for Economics: The RePEc project" [abstract] [paper in HTML][slides in PDF]

11:45 - 12:15

Mary Case [bio]

"Capitalizing on Competition: The Economic Underpinnings of SPARC" [abstract][paper in PDF]

Conference Closing

12:15 - 12:30

Wendy Lougee, PEAK Project Director [bio], and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, PEAK Research Director [bio]

Closing

12:30 - 2:00

LUNCH @ Erlicher Room

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