Future Professional Communication in Astronomy II

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. FPCA-II Opening Comments

   • André Heck

   Pages 1-10

3. Astronomical Publishing: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

   • John Huchra

   Pages 11-22

4. The Emerging Scholarly Brain

   • Michael J. Kurtz

   Pages 23-35

5. Communicating Astronomy Beyond IYA2009

   • Richard Tresch Fienberg

   Pages 37-46

6. Trends in Scientific Publishing at Springer

   • Guenther Eichhorn

   Pages 47-55

7. Publishing Astronomy and Astrophysics: Article Numbering, Electronic First

   • Marie-Louise Chaix

   Pages 57-64

8. The Future of the ASP Conference Series

   • Joseph B. Jensen, Jonathan Barnes, J. Ward Moody, Paula Szkody

   Pages 65-76

9. Astronomical Publication Rates in the US, UK, and Europe

   • Helmut A. Abt

   Pages 77-81

10. Fully Digital: Policy and Process Implications for the AAS

    • Chris Biemesderfer

    Pages 83-89

11. Open Access: Current Status, AAS Perspectives

    • Kevin B. Marvel, Chris Biemesderfer

    Pages 91-99

12. Astronomy Librarian – Quo Vadis?

    • Jill Lagerstrom, Uta Grothkopf

    Pages 101-108

13. Telescope Bibliometrics 101

    • Uta Grothkopf, Jill Lagerstrom

    Pages 109-118

14. Progress on the ‘Declaration Concerning the Evolving Rôle of Libraries in Research Centres’

    • Terence J. Mahoney

    Pages 119-124

15. Finding Your Literature Match – A Recommender System

    • Edwin A. Henneken, Michael J. Kurtz, Alberto Accomazzi, Carolyn Grant, Donna Thompson, Elizabeth Bohlen et al.

    Pages 125-134

16. Linking Literature and Data: Status Report and Future Efforts

    • Alberto Accomazzi

    Pages 135-142

17. FPCA-II Concluding Remarks

    • Michael J. Kurtz

    Pages 143-146

18. Back Matter

    Pages 147-147

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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.

• Astronomical publishing
• Astronomy librarians
• Communication of astronomy in publishing
• Future of astronomy
• Future of commercial publishers
• Information retrieval
• Professional communication processes
• Publishing of astronomy
• Telescope bibliometrics
• Trends in astronomy

• Astrophysics, Harvard Smithsonian Center, Cambridge, USA

  Alberto Accomazzi

Dr. Alberto Accomazzi Work: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Private: 13 Hillside Ter., Newton, MA 02465, USA aaccomazzi@cfa.harvard.edu http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~alberto/

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