ASEV Annual Report:

Pursuant to California Corporations Code section 8321, ASEV’s Annual Report for the 2005-2006 fiscal year is available upon written request to the ASEV. Please send all written request to ASEV at P.O. Box 1855, Davis, California 95617-1855, USA.

Statement of Names and Addresses of Current Members:

The records of current members’ names and addresses are located at the ASEV office, 1784 Picasso Avenue, Suite D, Davis, California, 95616, USA.

Notice Required by California Corporations Code section 8322:

ASEV did not have any transactions during the 2005-06 fiscal year in which an interested person had a direct or indirect material financial interest that individually or cumulatively involved more than $50,000. Section 8322 defines interested person as a director, officer or holder of more than 10 percent of the voting power of a corporation, or its parent or subsidiary.

ASEV did not make any loans, guarantees, indemnifications or advances a more than $10,000 paid to any officer or director of the corporation.

What is open access? Open access refers to publications that are made freely available in the public domain. Recent debate about open access has centered on publicly funded research, such as the publication of medical research funded by the National Institutes of Health. Free access to such publications is consistent with the expectation that taxpayer-funded research should be accessible to the public, whether through the Internet, libraries, and various forms of printed or online material.

The topic is important to ASEV, as some of the articles published in AJEV are largely taxpayer funded through organizations such as the USDA and the Viticulture Consortium. There are several key issues surrounding open access. The drive for open access was initially motivated by concerns over the rising costs of research and academic journal subscriptions, particularly those published by commercial publishers. Such costs were becoming prohibitive to libraries, which otherwise would provide free access to all readers. In many cases library budgets cannot keep pace with the dramatically rising costs of subscriptions. Another issue is the growing demand by granting agencies that publicly sponsored research be freely distributed in a timely manner. Authors of research articles also have a vested interest in open access, as it would mean that their research would be more easily available to their colleagues throughout the world. Additionally, consumer groups are applying pressure under the freedom of information act for public access to publicly funded research. As a consequence, legislation is being considered to compel researchers to ensure that their articles are freely available, either through the publisher or through various centralized national databases. In anticipation of such legislation, institutions such as the University of California are crafting their own requirements for research published by their faculty.

How does open access affect publishers? Nonprofit publications, such as AJEV, which rely on subscriptions and member dues to cover their costs of publication, would likely lose these sources of support if articles were freely available. For example, response from the recent ASEV member survey indicates that the Journal is highly valued and for many members is the reason they join the society. If the journal were freely available, then some of these members would likely be lost. Publishers provide services that include an impartial, rigorous review process; manuscript editing of text, tables, and figures; design and layout; and both print and online distribution (most publishers calculate the costs of publishing one article as over $3,000.00). Without a source of income, such services could not continue, whether they be provided by a publisher or an educational or research institution. To compensate for the loss of income, researchers and granting agencies would need to bear the full cost of publication. That would reduce funds available to meet critical research needs in an era of ever-shrinking funds.

The AJEV editors are well aware of these issues and are actively considering the options available for AJEV. Such options include the development of other member-benefit publications that are not primarily research based and new ways to structure publication fees for authors. As always, we welcome your comments and insights (editor@asev.org).
-Linda Bisson, AJEV Science Editor; Judith McKibben, AJEV Managing Editor

The Pacific Northwest wine and grape region will be center stage on June 17-20, as the American Society for Enology and Viticulture hosts its 59th Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. Key highlights for this year’s conference are the themed Supplier Showcase seminars, regional winery tours, and a taste of the Pacific Northwest, in addition to attending research-based seminars including world-renowned experts in enology and viticulture.

Taking place at the Oregon Convention Center, the Annual Meeting is being built with the support and input of Oregon’s respected wine industry to develop collaborative discussions and research reports, and offers great opportunity to enjoy the local food and wine.

An added attraction for the opening day of the Annual Meeting on June 17 is the 5th Joint Burgundy-California-Oregon Winemaking Symposium. Organizer Christian Butzke of Purdue University has invited speakers from France, Oregon and California for a multi-regional discussion between winemakers and enologists/viticulturists on issues affecting the industry today. The symposium will be preceded by winery tours the prior day.

The Annual Meeting week will also include the Sensory Science Symposium: From Vineyard to Consumer Preference on June 20. How we taste wine is based on the interaction between wine constituents and human receptors through brain processing. This symposium will look into sensory science as the most relevant tool to bridge the gap between wine constituents and human perception.

These are just a few highlights of the 2008 meeting, which will also offer added opportunities to connect professionally with your colleagues from around the world in one of America’s most environmentally conscious cities and award-winning wine regions. Plan to meet with your colleagues in one of the “greenest big cities” in the nation.

Registration and housing information will open in March 2008. Click here for additional information.

AJEV Best Papers Examine the Role of Metals in Wine and Recovery from Winter Injury of Vines

“Interaction of Sulfur Dioxide, Polyphenols, and Oxygen in a Wine-Model System: Central Role of Iron and Copper” (58:53-60), authored by John C. Danilewicz, has been awarded the best enology paper published in American Journal of Enology and Viticulture in 2007. The best viticulture paper, “Effect of Pruning on Recovery and Productivity of Cold-Injured Merlot Grapevines” (58:351-357), was authored by Markus Keller and Lynn J. Mills and represented work done at Washington State University, Prosser. (more…)

Wednesday, June 18
8:45 am – 9:45 am 

Dr. Peter Winterhalter
Technical University of  Braunschweig, Germany

We are pleased to confirm our 2008 Honorary Research Lecturer as Professor Dr. Peter Winterhalter, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Institute of Food Chemistry at the Technical University of  Braunschweig, Germany. His research team focuses on the areas of natural product chemistry and aroma research.

Dr. Winterhalter’s lecture will be presented during the 59th Annual Meeting and is entitled Application of Countercurrent Chromatography in Wine Research and Wine Analysis.