Third Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative

[Thomas Krichel <krichel _at__ openlib.org>]

Announcement [crossposted]

CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication:
"Implementing the benefits of OAI"
3rd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI3)

LIBER, SPARC and SPARC-Europe, and the CERN Library are organising the 
third OAI workshop at CERN, Geneva (Switzerland) on 12-14 February 2004.

Please see further details and book online at
http://info.web.cern.ch/info/OAIP/

The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) was founded in 2000 to bring the 
benefits of open archives-compliant software to the research community and 
launch an international network of institutional repositories.

Since OAI's founding, there have been many successful applications of the 
technology, and a simultaneous, widespread understanding that open archives 
technology is the foundation for the future of research. In the field of 
scholarly communication there has also been a remarkable evolution: open 
access journals have achieved respectability through the activities of 
BioMed Central and PLoS and the number of such journals is rising; 
scholarly societies are becoming interested in the open access model, and 
we have seen some society publishers adopt the open access model. The 
foremost granting agencies in the U.S. and the U.K. have both issued 
statements supporting open access.

However, libraries have not yet reaped large benefits from the OAI's success.

Through publishers' "big deals," more commercial journal titles than ever 
before are accessible, and library budgets are tightly bound to them in 
long-term contracts. Library customers are growing accustomed to the 
enormous comfort offered by the databases of those publishers and, as a 
consequence, switching to alternative models for scientific communication 
has become less and less acceptable. We want to change this.

The third CERN workshop will bring together librarians and information 
specialists, publishers, scientists and university managers who want to 
bring the benefits of open archives technology and open access publishing 
to libraries. The conference's action-focused agenda will prioritize 
initiatives to be undertaken, in order to increase the impact of OAI on the 
process of scientific publishing.

[sent on behalf of the OAI3 Organising Committee]
http://info.web.cern.ch/info/OAIP/Committee.htm