Future Professional Communication in Astronomy II (Hardcover, Edition.)

The present volume gathers together the talks presented at the second colloquim on the Future Professional Communication in Astronomy (FPCA II), held at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) on 13-14 April 2010. This meeting provided a forum for editors, publishers, scientists, librarians and officers of learned societies to discuss the future of the field. The program included talks from leading researchers and practitioners and drew a crowd of approximately 50 attendees from 10 countries. These proceedings contain contributions from invited and contributed talks from leaders in the field, touching on a number of topics. Among them: - The role of disciplinary repositories such as ADS and arXiv in astronomy and the physical sciences; - Current status and future of Open Access Publishing models and their impact on astronomy and astrophysics publishing; - Emerging trends in scientific article publishing: semantic annotations, multimedia content, links to data products hosted by astrophysics archives; - Novel approaches to the evaluation of facilities and projects based on bibliometric indicators; - Impact of Government mandates, Privacy laws, and Intellectual Property Rights on the evolving digital publishing environment in astronomy; - Communicating astronomy to the public: the experience of the International Year of Astronomy 2009.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings
Release date:	June 2011
First published:	2011
Editors:	Alberto Accomazzi
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	148
Edition:	Edition.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4419-8368-8
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > General Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Databases > General
LSN:	1-4419-8368-6
Barcode:	9781441983688

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