APE 2007 - Academic Publishing in Europe - Innovation and Publishing : A short Conference Report

Dr. Einar Fredriksson (Director of IOS Press) opened the second conference AcademicPublishing in Europe 2007 on “Innovation & Publishing”. He thanked the organisers andsponsors. Publishing was to be discussed in a comprehensive academic sense, including notjust STM publishing but SSH likewise. It was to include professional and educationalpublishing. Moreover, published knowledge powers the information society. Beyond that, soFredriksson, the activity of publishing always raises the issues of sustainability andpreservation. Thus entrepreneurship, for-profit and not-for-profit publishing as well as digitallibraries were part of the APE 2007 agenda...