NISO-BISG 9th Annual Forum at ALA

The Changing Standards Landscape | Access or Ownership: Evolving Business Models and Your Institution

Friday, June 26, 2015 |  12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
ALA Annual Conference | The Moscone Convention Center | MCC=3102 (West Building) | San Francisco, CA

• Event Description
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• Agenda 

Event Description

Standards are critical for making any business process more efficient. The traditional print subscription services model, the process of handling standing book orders by libraries, and the process of buying, selling, and consuming ebooks that use a variety of platforms all require standardized processes to efficiently get content from publishers to vendors to libraries and ultimately to patrons. 

Both the library and publishing communities need to consider the implications of the changes to service and ownership models resulting from digital publishing. What are the business practices, roles and responsibilities, on both sides of the new digital exchange that all parties need to be aware of and incorporate to ensure efficient information exchange? 

NISO and BISG will explore these issues during the 9th Annual NISO/BISG Changing Standards Landscape.  During this free half-day symposium, speakers will how some community membersare responding, discuss what is working and what isn't, and identify problems that remain to be solved. 

Some of the topics will include: 

• Top level reporting from the recent BISG subscription research project
• Changing subscription models and the related standards work
• Patron Driven Acquisition
• Collective rights purchasing models and their associated revenue issues
• The Open Access movement and its influence on subscriptions

Registration

This event is free of charge; however, we would like to get a sense of attendance. Please RSVP via this quick survey.

Agenda

Note: The agenda listed below is a work in progress. Please visit this page often for the most up-to-date information.

12:00 - 12:30 p.m. Networking and Light Refreshments

12:30 - 1:00 p.m. Welcome and Introductions
Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
Julie Morris, Project Manager, Standards & Best Practices, Book Industry Study Group (BISG)

1:00 - 1:20 p.m. Digital Books and the New Subscription Economy: Results of BISG Research
Nadine Vassallo, Project Manager, Research & Information, BISG

In 2014, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) commissioned the first major research report on subscription models of selling ebook content. Digital Books and the New Subscription Economy tracked publishers' engagement with new ebook subscription services, the various business models on the market, and how this trend might be expected to play out across the trade, professional, and scholarly publishing sectors. This presentation will share results of that research, including how readers' preferences for access or ownership of various types of content will drive the future of ebook subscription.

1:20 - 1:50 p.m. Patron Driven Acquisition
David Hetherington, Chief Operating Officer & Executive Vice President, Sales, Klopotek North America

1:50 - 2:30 p.m. Panel presented by BISG: Publishers, Subscription Agents, Libraries: Bridging the Gap
The rise of ebook subscription services has enabled new models for bringing publisher-produced book content to library patrons: from publishers selling large amounts of their content direct, to independent subscription agents, to new crowdfunded and open access models. This panel brings together representatives from the publisher and subscription agent side of the business to discuss the opportunities they've seized, the challenges they face, and how standards impact their businesses.

Moderated by: Nadine Vassallo, Project Manager, Research & Information, BISG
Confirmed Speakers:
Judy Luther, Informed Strategies
Lisa Nachtigall, Director of Sales Development Digital Books, Wiley
Peyton Stafford, VP Library Services, Total BooX

2:30 - 2:45 p.m. Break

2:45 - 3:15 p.m. The challenges of providing course content to non-traditional students
Franny Lee, Vice President, Business Development & Co-Founder, SIPX

3:15 - 3:45 p.m. Panel presented by NISO: Managing the challenges of open access
For decades, the publishing and library community has built a support structure to manage subscription payments, from ordering, payment processing, claims and delivery of publications. As the pace of adoption of open access has increased, and the number and scope of OA mandates has increased, the publishing industry is faced with a significant challenge of adapting its business to support this new model of distribution. Important questions remain about how the community should transform its business processes to support an author-payment system as opposed to subscription payments. This panel will explore the ways in which the community needs to adapt to this new business model and what are some of the standards questions related to that process.

Moderated by: Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
Peter Binfield, Founder and Publisher, PeerJ
Judith Russell, Dean of University Libraries, University of FloridaUniversity of Florida
Kristen Ratan, Publisher, PLoS
Alicia Wise, PhD, Director of Access & Policy, Elsevier

3:45 - 3:55 p.m. Ask anything/Q&A

4:00 p.m. Meeting Adjourns - Thank you for attending!

About

The Changing Standards Landscape is jointly organized by the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO). Both organizations support, promote and maintain standards and best practices in the information community. NISO focuses on publishers, libraries, and the systems suppliers in information distribution. BISG focuses on increasing efficiencies throughout the publishing industry supply chain of publishers, technology suppliers, manufacturers, and wholesale and retail companies