DASER-2 Summit POSTPONED till Fall 2005
Dear Colleagues,

After much discussion, we have decided to postpone the DASER-2 Summit till the Fall of 2005, approximately six months from now.

A number of colleagues have expressed interest in attending, but were unable to do so because travel funds for this fiscal year were already spent. In addition, this season has been a crowded one, making it difficult to choose. So, we hope that by changing the date, more of you will be able to partake of this excellent program.

The new dates should be available by 11th April 2005. The location will remain the same.

In addition, the program will remain essentially the same. Our key note speaker, Jan Velterop, and most of the speakers I've contacted today, have agreed to attend in the Fall.

We will keep you posted as the details become available.

Current registrants are being contacted now by staff members from ASIST. Should you have any questions or concerns in the mean time, please do not hesitate to email or even call me.

Sincerely,

Michael Leach
1-617-495-2878
mrleach@fas.harvard.edu

Speaker Profile: Jerry Cowhig (IOP)
Jerry Cowhig is Managing Director of Institute of Physics Publishing. The company publishes about 40 learned journals, as well as books and magazines. It has an active web site. It is based in the UK and also has offices in Philadelphia, Moscow, St Petersburg, Munich, Beijing and Tokyo. Mr Cowhig qualified many years ago in Nutrition at the University of London, and lectured for a while in the Biochemistry Department of Surrey University, England. He left academic life to become a medical journalist, spending 15 years as editor of a weekly news magazine for doctors. He then became a medical publisher from where he moved to his present post in physics publishing in 1995.

Online Registration Form Now Available
Colleagues,

The online registration form is now available at:

http://www.asis.org/Chapters/neasis/daser/daser2/registration_form.html

Don't forget: the "early-bird" registration cut-off date is coming up soon: 1 April 2005.

Michael Leach

Speaker Profile: Dr. Karla Hahn, Collection Management Team Leader, University of Maryland
Karla Hahn is currently the Collection Management Team Leader at the University of Maryland Libraries. In this position she is responsible for collection development and management of purchased or licensed materials in all formats: analog and digital. Since winter 2004 she has coordinated the team developing the Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (DRUM). DRUM was launched on the University of Maryland campus in August 2004. Later this spring she will be taking a new position as Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication at the Association for Research Libraries. Previously Dr. Hahn worked at the Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins and at the Health Science Libraries at the University of Michigan.

Advanced Degrees:
Doctorate in Information Studies from the U of Maryland. Her dissertation was a study of electronic journal publishing.

MLS from Syracuse University

MS in evolutionary biology from the University of Chicago.

Stevan Harnad added to program
Prof. Stevan Harnad has been added to the DASER-2 Summit program. The title of his presentation is:

"Institutional repository models: what works and what doesn't"

He will be speaking with Dr. Hays on Sunday morning, during Panel 5.

Here is a short biography:

Stevan Harnad (http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad) was born in Hungary,did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton university and is currently Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at University of Quebec/Montreal and adjunct Professor in Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton University, UK. His research is on categorisation, communication and cognition. Founder and Editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences http://www.bbsonline.org/ (a paper journal published by Cambridge University Press), Psycoloquy http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ (an electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association) and the CogPrints Electronic Preprint Archive in the Cognitive Sciences tp://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ he is Past President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Science, and author and contributor to over 150 publications, including Origins and Evolution of Language and Speech (NY Acad Sci 1976), Lateralization in the Nervous System (Acad Pr 1977), Peer Commentary on Peer Review: A Case Study in Scientific Quality Control (CUP 1982), Categorical Perception: The Groundwork of Cognition (CUP 1987), The Selection of Behavior: The Operant Behaviorism of BF Skinner: Comments and Consequences (CUP 1988) and Icon, Category, Symbol: Essays on the Foundations and Fringes of Cognition (in prep).

Speaker Profile: Peiling Wang, Associate Professor, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Dr. Peiling Wang is an Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She received a Ph.D. in Information Sciences from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1994. She also holds a B.Eng. in Chemistry and an M.S. in Information Sciences.

Her research areas include Information Seeking Behaviors, Knowledge Structures, Research Methodologies and Methods, Data Mining, and Citation Analysis. She has authored/co-authored more than 34 publications. She is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences. Currently, she is working on several research topics and funded projects:

• Digital Information Seeking and Use by Academic Users

o The use of e-scholarly publications in teaching and learning by faculty and students in Natural Sciences (Research Associate of an NSF NSDL grant)

o The use of e-resources in research by faculty and graduate students in Social Sciences

• Searching Behaviors on the Web

o Web searching behaviors of IS students and CS students (PI of a Research Grant form University of Tennessee)

o A dual approach to Web queries mining and redesign of user-Web interactions (PI of a OCLC Research Grant)

o Web users’ mental models

Her honors include the 1994 ASIST Doctoral Forum Award, the 1999 Best JASIST Paper Award, and the 2005 OCLC/ALISE Research Award.

Being an active member of ASIST, she has served and chaired several Awards Juries. She is on the Editorial Board of the Library & Information Science Research and reviews for several journals and conferences.

Dr. Timothy C. Hays of NIH added to program
Dear Colleagues,

Dr. Timothy C. Hays of the National Institutes of Health has been added to the DASER-2 program. He will be addressing the new NIH Public Access policy at Panel 5, Sunday morning.

Timothy Hays, Ph.D. is the electronic Research Administration Policy Liaison and Scientific Advisor within the Office of Policy for Extramural Research Administration within the Office of Extramural Research (OER) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Hays is also the Project Manager for the implementation of the NIH Public Access Policy. Dr. Hays joined the OER after working for five years at the National Institute of Mental Health, NIH as first the Special Assistant to the Deputy Director, NIMH and then as the Director of the Outreach Partnership Program, NIMH. Dr. Hays received his B.A. in Psychology from Purdue University and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Hays is a member of the Society for Neuroscience Public Education Working Group, and in 2001, he participated in the development of the Surgeon General’s supplemental report, Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity.

We look forward to Dr. Hays presentation.

Michael Leach

Registration & Hotel Information Now Available
The Hotel and Registration pages are now available. Please note that the online registration form is not yet available, but a pdf of the form is ready for downloading.

Michael Leach

Program Schedule Draft uploaded
Dear Colleagues,

The first draft of the program schedule has been uploaded today. All the speakers listed are confirmed. We are still working on the final three speakers and hope to have their names posted shortly.

In addition, full titles and abstracts will appear shortly.

Michael

Welcome to the DASER Blog
Dear Colleagues,

The DASER (Digital Archives for Science & Engineering Resources--pronounced like "laser" with a "d" for the "l") arose from a need of science librarians and science information professionals to communicate and collaborate with publishers and vendors in the STM fields. With support from the Scientific and Technical Information Systems Special Interest Group (SIG STI) and the New England Chapter of ASIST (NEASIST), the first DASER Summit was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in November 2003.

This web site is an expansion of that initial meeting. The members of SIG STI are now partnering with the Potomac Valley Chapter of ASIST (PVC) to bring us the second DASER Summit, details of which you will find elsewhere on this site.

Information on the DASER-2 Summit will be posted to this blog regularly, as will other related issues of importance to those supporting the STM research structure, as noted above.

In the mean time, feel free to browse, comment, or even send me email (mrleach@fas.harvard.edu) with ideas, suggestions, questions, etc.

Michael R. Leach
President-Elect of ASIST