Keynote: Fear Factor: Membership Retention.  How has the electronic age affected society membership?

John H. Graham IV, CAE, President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE)

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Session 1: Extreme Makeover: Will Impact Factor Get a Facelift?

A single tool, even the universal remote, is not perfectly suited for every task. Access to a variety of tools allows an organization to determine the factors important to their discipline or constituency and pull from the tool belt accordingly. Learn about forces affecting an industry legend and about new methods and measures that will impact the way people look at your publication in the future.

James Testa, Senior Director, Editorial Development & Publisher Relations, Thomson Scientific
Jevin West, Department of Biology, University of Washington
Johan Bollen, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Session 2: Designed to Sell: Article Discovery, Packaging, and Dissemination

Packaging makes a difference when people view your offerings. Do all of your readers want to buy an entire issue? Would they prefer to buy a collection of articles from a variety of publishers or time periods? Are you giving readers the easiest way to search, or simply trying to keep the interest of someone who just clicked to your content for the first time? Hear about models for providing content that keep readers returning.

Bruce Heterick, Director, Library Relations, JSTOR | ARTstor
Ida Kubiszewski, Encyclopedia of Earth
Sean O'Doherty, Vice President, Sales, The Berkeley Electronic Press

Session 3: COPS: Protect and Serve Your Content

Some manipulated images show Sasquatch. Others show The Loch Ness monster.  And others still, possibly the scariest kind, show “enhanced” data. Do you know how to tell and where to get advice? Plagiarism detection will also be discussed in this session exploring emerging technologies and topics that protect your content.

Chuck Koscher, Director of Technology, CrossRef
John Krueger, Scientist-Investigator, Division of Investigative Oversight, Office of Research Integrity
Jason Bentley, Director of Copyright and Community Development, Scribd

Norka Ruiz Bravo, Deputy Director for Extramural Research, NIH