Scientific Communication Today

Opening ceremony
Science in Brazil at the turn of the Century: challenge and opportunities

José Fernando Perez, Scientific Director of the State of São Paulo Research Fundation (FAPESP)

Opening Conference
How is science being communicated?

Ellis Rubinstein Editor Science

Panel 1
The present and future of scientific communication: the perspective of developed countries

The use and value of scientific journals: past, present, and future

Carol Tenopir University of Tennessee

The importance of science as a basis for medical education

Frank Gannon EMBO/E-Biosci

The power of interlinked information

Peter Boyce AAS

Open archiving for an open society: Freeing the scholarly and scientific research literature online through public self-archiving

Stevan Harnad University of Southampton

Conference
Invisible science: Where science communication is breaking down

W. Wayt Gibbs Scientific American

Missing links: the Internet can close the knowledge gap

Barbara Kirsop EPT

INASP, African scientific journals and online access

Neil Pakenham-Walsh INASP

Brazilian scientific journals: main problems and perspectives

Charles Pessanha Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais

The development and perspectives of S&T journals in China

Zhiying Qi Chinese Academy of Sciences

Conference
Communicating science: the dialogue between science, media and society

Miriam Balaban President IFSE

Sociological Abstracts and the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts family of databases: Differences between the hard and soft sciences

Lynette Hunter Sociological Abstracts

The ISI Database: selecting scholarly journals

James Testa ISI

PsycINFO: linking to the world of psychology

Gary VandenBos and Linda Beebe PsycINFO

LILACS database: eighteen years indexing Latin American and Caribbean health science journals

Regina C. Figueiredo Castro BIREME

Conference
Why and for whom do developing countries publish scientific journals?

Lewis Joel Greene Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Local science journals, evaluation of scientific performance and communication of research results. One or three divergent issues?

Anna María Prat CONICYT

Scientific productivity in developing nations, 1990-1999

Nancy K. Bayers ISI

The impact factor of medical journals: its use and misuse

Luis Benítez-Bribiesta Archives of Medical Research

Evaluation of a Latin American Scientific multi-disciplinary journal: the case of Interciencia

Miguel Laufer, Editor, INTERCIENCIA
Journal of Science and Technology of the Americas

Conference
Peer review in the online era

Stevan Harnad University of Southampton

The challenges for peer review in the 21st century

Steve Fuller University of Warwick

Free access and open peer review: hand in hand towards a better future

Fiona Godlee BioMed Central

Are foreign peer reviewers more rigorous than Brazilians? A case study

Hooman Momen Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

HighWire Press - innovation in scientific communication by and for scholars

Michael A. Keller HighWire

Bioline International and alternative publishing systems: Will small publishers survive the electronic revolution?

Leslie Chan Bioline International

The SciELO Model

Abel L. Packer Director BIREME

Implications of the Open Archives Initiative on science and scholarship in the developing world

Subbiah Arunachalam M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation

Closing Session

Abel L. Packer
Lewis Joel Greene