David Stern
david.e.stern@yale.edu

The Physics Roundtable will meet on June 7th, 2-3:15 pm at the Nashville annual conference. I am asking for your assistance in determining the important topics.

We will be returning to the Roundtable format, in which we meet and talk as a group, with either the coordinator or an attendee leading the short conversations. These conversations can be far-ranging, and will hopefully be an interesting blend of practical and theoretical.

The following is a preliminary list of topics. Please feel free to suggest any additional topics for consideration.

• ArXiv since it moved to Cornell—update (Jean Poland)
• Journal exchange rate profiteering (Dana Roth)
• Electronic journals
• Member-only material
• Library absorption of "lost" personal subscriptions
• Differential pricing options
• Open Access price models
• Package plans - cancellation savings and limitations
• Perpetual access (functionality after cancellation of titles)
• SFX links—enhanced links to full text plus other options
• Conference materials: as essential items, and as dup books
• Migration from paper to online only?
• Paper sent to off-site shelving (and even consortial archives)?
• Ebooks/reference materials
• Price models for various approaches
• Duplication/overlap of A&I services
• Compendex migration to Ei platform (what is next?)
• Federated search engines(fee and free databases)
• CRC handbooks, other online ref books: is the value of pdf format enough?
• Instruction—trends, and sharing tips and tricks