Academic Publishing in EuropeThe Role of Information in Science and Society

In a unique setting, the Leibniz Room of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences at the Gendarmenplatz in Berlin,APE2006 attracted 160 participants from 15 countries. The event was initiated by AKEP (Electronic Publishing WorkingGroup) and ALPSP (Association of Scholarly and Professional Society Publishers) and organised by a variety ofEuropean Academic, including many SME, publishers, subscription agents and suppliers, under the auspices of the EC.It brought together a broad spectrum of publishers, scientists, research funding organisations and librarians, the goalbeing to seek a common language on structural changes taking part in publishing, science communication and inrelation to society at large....