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Workshop on Understanding The Impact of the Web on Scholarly Communication (UIWoSC)

14:00-17:00 Wed 18th March, Athens, Greece.

This half-day workshop is one of the N4WS series of international workshops to investigate the Web's impact on different aspects of society.

The aim of this workshop is to address the ways in which the Web is changing information and knowledge exchanges between scholars, scientists and society at large. Thus far the discussion has tended to be dominated by the economic and legal issues surrounding publishing and librarianship; the aim of this workshop is to create a deeper understanding of the processes that surround and mediate scholarship and science throughout society and the way that they have been altered by the Web's low-cost and ubiquitous information environment.

Delegates are asked to submit a short position paper outlining their perspective on the wider economic, social and technical issues surrounding the flow of scholarly and scientific information around academia, industry and society. Papers and presentations will be made available with the rest of the conference outputs in the WebSci09 collection of the WSRI repository and a joint paper will be synthesised after the workshop for publication in one of the conference-associated journals.

Registration

WebSci09 delegates can register for this workshop by emailing a position paper to the workshop organisers by the deadline of March 1st 2009.

Organisation

All enquiries to the workshop chair: Dr Leslie Carr, University of Southampton.