I designed this poster for this workshop, to be held this April at the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA. The workshop aims to provide an open forum to discuss the state and evolution of professional communicating and in particular publishing in Astronomy. More information about the workshop is at http://conf.adsabs.harvard.edu/FPCA2/

1. April 13 - April 14, 2010
Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics
Cambridge, Massachusetts Focus Audience
Topics
This meeting aims to provide • State of the Art and Trends Editors, Publishers, Librari-
http://conf.adsabs.harvard.edu/FPCA2 an open forum to discuss in Publishing ans, Archive Managers, Offi-
the state and evolution of • The Role of Learned Societies cers of Learned Societies,
Organized by: professional communicating • Bibliometric and Other Scientists involved in Profes-
and in particular publishing in Evaluation Criteria sional Communication and
Prof. André Heck (Strasbourg) Astronomy Publishing and in Evaluation
• Communicating Astronomy
Dr. Alberto Accomazzi (SAO) • Future of Librarianship Processes
2010 colloquium
future professional communication in astronomy II
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
American Astronomical Society • EDP Sciences • Wiley-Blackwell • IOP Publishing • Springer
this colloquium will be followed by the IVth Summit of Information Providers in Astronomy, Astrophysics and High Energy Physics