Articles and Presentations
"Perpetual Access Reflections: How Long is Forever?", ALCTS-CRS panel, American Library Association, Denver, 1/25/09.
"The Law is the True Embodiment of Everything That's Excellent," United Kingdom Serials Group, 10/29/08.
"Institutional Repositories as Destabilizing Influences?", Wiley-Blackwell Executive Seminar, Washington DC, 12/7/2007
"Sign-on -the-Dotted-Line or Negotiate: A Copyright Primer for Scholars" (co-author: Professor Shyam Sunder, Yale School of Management), Social Science Research Network Electronic Library, 6/7/2007
"March of the Consortia: thoughts from 'the far side'" [PPT] Association of Subscription Agents (London, February 2007)
"Thank You, Google,", Serials Review 32.4 (December 2006), 225-26.
"Finding Institutional Courage: Copyright Issues in the Age of Mass Digitization" (Universal Digital Libraries, Second International Conference, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, November 2006)
"Online Access to Research in the Environment" on Where We Live on WNPR radio (11/9/2006).
"What Becomes of the Hedgehogs?" (Charleston Conference, November 2006), with linked PowerPoint presentation
"Contracting for Content in a Digital World: Exploring the new issues for a new environment in policy and practice," LITA Preconference Session on Licensing (ALA - New Orleans), June 2006.
"Yale, AMEEL, and the Prospects of This Workshop," Middle East Digital Library Workshop, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, January 2006
Reflections About Collections: With the Help of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Charleston Adviser 7.1(2005) -- originally delivered as the keynote opening presentation at the Seventh Fiesole Collection Development Retreat (Melbourne, Australia, April 28, 2005)
"The Global Record: Understanding Its Use and Ensuring Its Future For Scholarship", summary report of a conference held at Yale in March 2005, as published in the ARL Bimonthly Report 240(June 2005).
"What does open access demand of each of us?," [PPT] AAP/PSP Annual Conference (Washington, February 2005)
"Open access: reflections from the United States", based on a paper presented in the UKSG seminar, "Scientific Publications: free for all?," (with linked PowerPoint presentation) at the Geological Society, London, 23 November 2004.
"Unweaving the Rainbow: Institutional Repositories and Other Destabilizing Influences", [PPT] STM - 36th General Assembly (Frankfurt, October 2004).
"Consortium Building for Libraries" -- librarian workshops in Vientiane, Laos, and Phnom Penh, Cambodia, July 2004, sponsored by eIFL: Part I: Backgrounds and History, [PPT] followed by Part II: Operations and Management [PPT].
"Six Flavors of Open Access: Successes and Possibilities for STM Journals", Liber Conference (St. Petersburg, Russia, June 2004)
"On
Being Scientific about Scientific Publishing," Nature online
forum, April 2004 (if link fails, plain
text available.)
"The
LIBLICENSE Project -- Seven Years After": presentation to the Zwolle
Group, 13-14 February 2004.
"Library
Periodicals Expenses: Comparison of Non-Subscription Costs of Print and
Electronic Formats on a Life-Cycle Basis", D-Lib Magazine 10.1
(January 2004) [co-author with Roger Schonfeld, Donald King, and Eileen
Gifford Fenton]; also as presentation, "The
Non-Subscription Side of
Periodicals: Changes in Library Operations and Costs between Print and
Electronic Formats," IFLA Statistics Section (Buenos Aires, August 2004),
with Roger Schonfeld [PPT]
"Who
Pays the Ferryman: A Consortial Perspective," University of stellenbosch
Library Services, 6th Annual Symposium, October 2003
"Towards a
Vision of Inexpensive Scholarly Journal Publication", Libri
53(2003) 186-93
"Asteroids,
Moore's Law, and the Star Alliance, Journal of Academic
Librarianship, September 2003
"The
Matrix Reloaded: New Ages in Collections Development (includes
link to PowerPoint presentation): IFLA Preconference, Bayerische
Staatsbibliothek (Munich, August 2003)
"Licenses:
maximizing their benefits for authors, libraries, and publishers,"
[PPT] Symposium on Electronic Scientific Technical and Medical Journal
Publishing and Its Implications (The National Academies, May 2003);
summarized in Electronic Scientific Technical and Medical Publishing and
Its Implications: Report of a Symposium (National Academies Press, 2004),
pp. 43-45
"Library
Consortia: General Perspectives and Evolution of the ICOLC", [PPT]
Institute of Physics (Bangalore, November 2002).
"E-journal
usage: behind the veil," [PPT] Charleston Conference (November 2002)
"E-Journal
Pricing Redux: Perspectives from the Field," [PPT] Charleston
Library Conference 2002; print only version also available in K. Strauch,
ed., Charleston Conference Proceedings 2002 (Libraries Unlimited, Inc.,
2002),
pp. 73-76
"Rights,
Copyrights and Licenses: How They Work and What They Mean in a Global
Age" (includes link to PowerPoint presentation), World Library Summit
(Singapore, April 2002).
"I don't
ask for much, I only want trust, And you know it don't come easy!"
(with linked PowerPoint presentation), IUPAP Conference on the Long Term
Archiving of Digital Documents in Physics (Lyons, France, November 2001)
"Friends and Rivals: When Universities Compete, Libraries Cooperate,"
Invited paper for the conference Competition and Cooperation:
Universities, Libraries, and the Commercial Sector at the Beginning of the
21st Century, 2nd Wissenschaftliches Symposium des IBLC, Frankfurt
Buchmesse, 13-14 October, 2001.
"WANTED: A
Model for E-Reserves," (report of a consortial study to find out if
frequently taught information would make for useful new library partnerships)
Library Journal: Vol. 26, No. 14 (September 1, 2001): 56-58.
"Re-modeling
Scholarly Communications (a parallel tale from the U.S.) (with
linked PowerPoint presentation), National
Scholarly Communication Roundtable, no. 12 (Canberra, Australia, August
2001).
"Rights,
Copyrights and Licenses: the Basics and What They Mean", 7th
National Conference of Librarians, Archivists, and Documentalists (Porto,
Portugal, May 2001).
"What Price
Free", Nature online forum, April 2001.
"New Challenges for Scholarly Communication," Invited paper for the
conference Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Management in the 21st
Century, sponsored by the U.S. and German Embassies, Frankfurt Buchmesse,
21-22 October 2000.
"A History of E-Journals in 10 Years: and
what it teaches us", [PPT] EBSCO Seminar (Jerusalem, August 2000).
"Strength
in Numbers: Library Consortia in the Electronic Age", IDT Net
conference (Paris, 2000).
"Digital Revolution, Library Evolution," principal author of first chapter
and secondary author of collections chapter of LC21: A Digital Strategy
for
the Library of Congress (Washington: National Academies Press,
2000),
23-49.
"Electronic Information Resources: what have we learned in the last ten
years?" Library Trends (theme issue "Collection Development in an
Electronic Environment"): Vol. 49, no. 4 (Spring 2000): 671-693.
CONSAL Licensing Workshop, April 2000 (Singapore):
"The
LIBLICENSE Project and How It Grows", D-Lib 5.9 (September 1999).
"Midnight
in the Garden of Good and Evil? Academic Publishing, Copyright, and Other
Miasmas," in Universiteit en auteursrecht (Universities and
Copyright), University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law, 1998. Invited paper
given at the conference: Universities and Copyright law: 10th Anniversary
Conference of the Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam
(November 1997).
"The
World of Licensing: Issues, Concerns, and Promises," Canadian
Association of Research Libraries Workshop, Ottawa, 27 October 1997.
"The
Dimensions of Seriality", ALA Serials Section (summer 1997).
"Recent
Trends in Scholarly Electronic Publishing," Seminar on Multimedia
Scholarly Publishing, Helsinki, May 29, 1997
"The
Transition to Electronic Content Licensing: The Institutional Context in
1997," Scholarly Communication and Technology Conference
of the Andrew. W. Mellon Foundation, Emory University, April 24-25, 1997
"Licensing
Perspectives: The Library View," ARL/CNI Licensing Symposium,
San Francisco, December 8, 1996
"Buy or
Lease? Two Models for Scholarly Information at the End (or the
Beginning) of an Era", Daedalus; Journal of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, Fall, 1996. Vol. 125, No. 4, pp. 55-76.
Special issue on libraries called "Books, Bricks, and Bytes"
"What
Academic Libraries Need in Electronic Content Licenses,"
Presentation to the STM Library Relations Committee, STM Annual General
Meeting, October 1, 1996
"Crazy about
Consortia," Presentation to the National Federation of Abstracting and
Indexing Services, Philadelphia, September 1996
"Some Economic
Challenges in Building Electronic Libraries: A Librarian's
View," Presentation at the IFLA Congress, Beijing, August 1996 Program
of the Acquistions and Collections Development Section
"Colleges Urged to Protect Rights in Licensing Negotiations," article
by Robert Jacobson, Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 July 1996, pp.
A15ff, featuring interview with A.S. Okerson.
"Who Owns
Digital Works?" Scientific American, July 1996, pp. 80-83.
"A
Librarian's View of Some Economic Issues in Electronic Scientific
Publishing," UNESCO Invitational Meeting on the Future of Scientific
Information (Paris, February 1996): DRAFT
"Whose article is it anyway? Copyright and intellectual property for
researchers in the 90s," Notices of the AMS, January 1996.
"Oh Lord, Won't
You Buy Me A Mercedes Benz; Or, There is a There
There," Surfaces 4(1994) 103.
Introductory Synopsis contained in University
Libraries and Scholarly Communication (Washington 1992), xv-xxix
(a Mellon Foundation study published by the Association of Research
Libraries)
"Remembrance of Things Past, Present...and Future?", with Kendon
Stubbs, Publishers Weekly, July 27, 1992: 22-23
"Back to
Academia? The Case for American Universities to Publish Their Own
Research," Logos 2/2 (1991) 106-12.
"With
Feathers: Effects of Ownership on Scholarly Publishing," College
and Research Libraries (1991) 425-38.
"The
Refereed Electronic Journal: What, Whence, and When," Public
Access Computer Systems Review 2, no. 1 (1991): 5-24
"The Library
Doomsday Machine," with Kendon Stubbs, Publishers Weekly,
February 8, 1991: 36-37
"Periodical Prices: A History and Discussion," Advances in Serials
Management, Volume 1, November, 1986
Books
Of the
Making
of Books There Is No End: Report on Serial Prices (1989).
Written as
a contract study for the Association of Research Libraries and published
by the Association, this work was controversial in its time and is now a
piece of the history of the library profession's confrontation with the
challenges of maintaining ambitious collecting policies in the face of
harsh economic realities.
The Visions and Opportunities
series is specifically aimed for the not-for-profit scholarly and research
publishing community, and its objective is to promote information-sharing
and discussion among people interested in developing the potentials of
electronic publishing and particularly of networked distribution. Edited
by Ann Okerson. March 1993.
Aimed at not-for-profit publishers, scholars, and library managers, a
broad array of presentations at the 1993 Symposium explored electronic
publishing issues such as economics and copyright. Proceedings report new
developments and consider the significance and prospects of the growing
cooperation between libraries and university press publishers. Edited by
Ann Okerson. February 1994.
The 1994 Symposium reported on numerous practical applications under way and concentrated its plenary papers on the real world economics and administration of economic publishing. Edited by Ann Okerson. February 1995. (This publication is currently available from ARL in book form only.)
Three task forces established by the AAU Research Libraries Project, comprising librarians, faculty, and university administrators, present their reports on intellectual property, foreign acquisitions, and scientific and technical information. The reports examine the changing nature of scholarly communication, including the cost of managing research library collections and the robust deployment of new technologies in support of scholarship. May 1994.
This volume, edited by Ann Shumelda Okerson and James J. O'Donnell (1995), offers print publication of a widely-discussed series of e-mail exchanges in the summer and fall of 1994 debating Stevan Harnad's radical proposal for the reform of scientific publishing.
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