ICSTI FORUM
EDITORIAL BOARD REPORT
ICSTI General Assembly, May 2004
Issues 43 (2003)
· Two issues of Forum published in August and December
· The August issue of FORUM (43) re-produced the papers from the 2003 Canadian Public conference and included the following:
o The Innovation Agenda - Gilles Rhéaume, Vice-President: Policy, Business and Society, Conference Board of Canada, Canada
o Canada's Innovation Challenge - Hussein Rostum, President, Bytown Consulting, Canada
o Measuring the Socio-Economic Impacts of STM information and STM Information Organizations – Perspectives of Study Participants – with papers from:
§ Marie Wallin, Project Manager and International Relations, Royal Institute of Technology Library (KTHB), Sweden
§ Elliot R. Siegel, Associate Director for Health Information Programs Development, US National Library of Medicine, USA
§ David Brown, Head, Publisher Relations, The British Library, UK, and
§ Bernard Dumouchel, Director General, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, Canada
o STM Information and the Knowledge Economy - with papers from:
§ Bruce Balcom, Professor and Director, MRI Research Centre, University of New Brunswick, Canada
§ David Macneil, Director, Network Relations, CANARIE, Canada
§ John de la Mothe, Canada Research Chair in Innovation Strategy and Professor, School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada
o Valuing STM Information: Selected Cases from Health and Economic Development – with papers from:
§ Jessie McGowan, Senior Information Scientist, Institute of Population Health/ Ottawa Health Research Institute, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada
§ Jan Annerstedt, Professor, Department of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen Business School, and UNESCO Chair in Communication, Denmark
o On the Lam: Libraries, Archives and Museums in the Creation and Maintenance of Knowledge Communities - John King, Professor and Dean, School of Information, University of Michigan, USA
o Framework for Measuring Impacts - Hussein Rostum, Bytown Consulting, Ottawa, Canada
Issues 45 (2003)
· The December issue of FORUM (44), focused on reference linking experiences and update as well as an update on the EU and information. Papers included:
o The European Union and Information - current status and some history - Barry Mahon, Executive Director, ICSTI
o Reference Linking: A Basic Overview - Jill O’Neill, Director of Planning & Communication, NFAIS
o The Practicalities of Reference Linking from a Secondary Publisher’s Perspective - Andrea Powell, Product Development Director, CABI Publishing
o CrossRef after three years - Amy Brand, Director of Business Development, CrossRef
Issues 45 (2004)
· Produced in April with the following papers:
o Serving Today's STM End Users - Martin Smith, The IEE
o Open Access - Personal View - Peter Gregory, Director of Publishing, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK
o Open Access Publishing Takes Off - The Dream is Now Achievable - Tony Delamothe, Web Editor, BMJ.COM, and Richard Smith, Editor BMJ
o The Promise and Peril of Open Access - Lila Guterman
Issues 46 (2004)
· Will be published in May as a paper Digest as well as online, and will reproduce many of the papers from the Public Conference.
Future Issues
· The aim is to produce four issues of FORUM in 2004, in September and December.
· Where possible subjects/papers will be commissioned that can be included in within CODATA also.
· Topics to be included in 2004 will include:
o The Virtual Library
o E-commerce in the library
o Libraries and the knowledge economy
o Copyright in the digital age
o Web shaped Information
o Data Mining and Data Visualisation
Martin Smith (Publishing Director, The IEE)
Chairman – ICSTI FORUM Editorial Board
28 April 2004