Speeches and Presentations

• Ethics, Publishing, and Planning for the Future: Framing Choices with Eyes Open, presented at GWU's capstone "Ethics and Publishing" conference, for their Master's in Publishing program.
• Scholarly Publishing in the New Era of Scarcity, Plenary presentation at the Association of American University Presses, Philadelphia, 6/2009 (includes YouTube of presentation)
• Keynote Address for JSTOR's 2008 Participating Publisher Conference, New York, 5/2008
• Publishing 2012: Current and Future Publishing Issues one-hour presentation to Washington Book Publishers, Washington, 4/2007
• Publishing 2012, Preparing for the Future: Digital Strategies for Publishers 10 hours over three days, in partnership with World Bank Publishing and George Washington University, Mexico City, 2/2007
• Authority 2.0 and 3.0 (PDF) originally presented at 50th anniversary celebration of Hong Kong University Press, 11/2006
• Radio Interview on RTHK's "Naked Lunch" (Hong Kong), 24 minutes, RealAudio, 11/29/2006.
• Evolution, Intelligent Designers, Climate Change, and the Scholarly Publishing Ecosystem, Keynote speech for the Association of American University Presses' Electronic Publishing Workshop, New Orleans, June 15, 2006 (includes audio).
• Evolution, Intelligent Design, Climate Change, and the Scholarly Ecosystem, Keynote speech for the Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries (IACRL) Biannual Meeting, March 30, 2006 (includes audio).
• Beyond Google/Beyond Words, presentation at the 2/2003 Science Writers Association meeting, Denver.
• Free Access and Increased Sales: The Online Paradox of The National Academies Press, invited presentation to the Swedish Library Association's Ebok 2002 in Stockholm, Sweden, November 2002
• Remarks upon receiving the National Academies "President's Award", 20 days after Sept. 11. Oct 1, 2001
• Entrepreneurs of Social Value: Applying Technology to the Nonprofit Knowledge Enterprise, public lecture at Amsterdam University, Amsterdam, October 1999
• Mission Possible: Giving it away while making it pay, plenary presentation at the Association of American University Presses, Austin TX, June 1999
• Options and Strategies for the New Technologies, Polish Publisher's Seminar, Warsaw Poland, April, 1999
• Transforming the Enterprise: Nonprofits, Forprofits, and Scholarship, presentation at the OCLC Director's Meeting, Dublin OH, March, 1999
• Book Publishing; The Web, CD-ROM and other Digital Dreams, presentation to the Getty, February, 1997, reviewed and summarized by Ben Davis, a participant; this is the only recorded version, and was harvested from Google's cache, as the mit.edu site gives a 404.
• "Here There be Tygers: Profit, Nonprofit, and Loss in the Age of Disintermediation, given at Scholarly Communication in the Next Millennium: Canada's Policy Conference, March 1997.
• "Here There be Tygers: Uncharted Tesseracts in the Age of Disintermediation, given to "Professors & Publishing in the Electronic Academy" Electronic Publishing Conference, sponsored by The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries, Knoxville, TN, September 17-19, 1996
• "Ethical Imperatives of the Information Revolution," Unitarian Church presentation, Lincoln, NE, June 1995.
• "Opportunity, Responsibility, and the Edutainment War," Keynote speech given at the "Association of American University Presses Second Electronic Publishers Workshop, Washington, DC, June 1994.
• "Fighting Infotainment: The Nonprofit Sector's Responsibility in an Online World," given at the Third Symposium on Scholarly Publishing on the Electronic Networks, a joint Association of Research Libraries/Association of American University Presses symposium, 11/93. Published in the Proceedings, page 85-91.
• "A Nation of Dilettantes: The Future of Networked Digital Information Systems," given at IEEE Dissemination of Electronic Information Workshop, 9/93.
• "Electronic Publishing: Preparing for the Future." Keynote speech at the Association of American University Presses' Electronic Publishing Workshop, 6/93.
• "Intellectual Property and University Press Publishing," given at the Joint Harvard/MIT Workshop on Intellectual Property Protection in the Networked Multimedia Environment, Harvard University, 3/93; Published in Proceedings, 2/94, page 55-61.
• "University Presses, Computer Technology, and Human Rights Publishing," 45 minute presentation at Layman Conference on Human Rights in the New Europe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 9/92.
• "Technology and Knowledge: The University of Nebraska Press/Charles University Press Education Project," 20 minute presentation at PUBWATCH seminar on "The Crisis in Publishing in Eastern and Central Europe," New York, 3/91

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