[InetBib] 31 August Deadline for Early Bird Registration for Open Scholarship 2006

[Frank Scholze <frank.scholze@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Colleagues,

The Early Bird registration for
OPEN SCHOLARSHIP 2006: NEW CHALLENGES FOR OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORIES

closes on the 31 August (£150) and the registration fee rises to £180 
after that date.

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.

Key themes will include:

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

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

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

The organising committee gratefully acknowledges our sponsors: JISC, 
LIBER, SHERPA, SHERPA-LEAP, Ex Libris, SURF, EPrints.org, SPARC Europe, 
OSI, Thomson Scientific, Proquest and Biomed Central.

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