[InetBib] OPEN SCHOLARSHIP 2006: NEW CHALLENGES FOR OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORIES

[Frank Scholze <frank.scholze@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The University of Glasgow, SPARC Europe and LIBER are proud to announce:

OPEN SCHOLARSHIP 2006: NEW CHALLENGES FOR OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORIES

This inaugural conference will be held at the University of Glasgow,
Scotland, UK on 18-20 October 2006.

Open Scholarship 2006: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories is a
companion European Conference to the OAI meetings at Cern in Geneva, and
to the Nordic Scholarly Communication Conferences, and is aimed at
Librarians, University Administrators, funders, academics and technical
specialists.

Open access and the development of OA repositories are transforming
scholarship and bringing new opportunities and challenges for
researchers, librarians and publishers. Open Scholarship 2006 is a
pan-European conference which will focus on these new challenges and
opportunities. In addition to tutorial sessions on advocacy and policy
issues as well as functionality and software issues, OS 2006 will
address key themes presented by many leading European practitioners in
the field of Open Access.

Key themes will include:

  * Repository Developments
  * Added Value Services
  * Quality Assessment
  * Policies and Implementation
  * Sustainability   

The conference will also provide an opportunity for posters to be
submitted and displayed in a dedicated slot in the programme. Posters
should address one of the themes of the conference and be no larger than
1m x 1m.

Further details about the poster session, including the list of themes
is available at http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship/posters.shtml

To register and for further information about the conference, including
the preliminary programme go to:
http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship

The organising committee gratefully acknowledges our sponsors: JISC,
LIBER, SHERPA, SHERPA-Leap, Ex Libris, SURF, EPrints.org, SPARC Europe
and Proquest.

For further information please contact us at
openscholarship@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

We look forward to seeing you in Glasgow in October,

The Organising Committee,
Open Scholarship 2006