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First announcement: Berlin 5 Open Access, Italy, September 19-21, 2007
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Berlin 5 Open Access: From Practice to Impact: Consequences
on Knowledge Dissemination Padova, Italy, September 19-21, 2007
The University of Padova, the CRUI (Council of Rectors of Italian
Universities) and the Max Planck Gesellschaft are pleased to
announce that the fifth conference in the "Berlin
Declaration" tradition will take place in September 19-21,
2007 in Padova, Italy, with the title "Berlin 5 Open Access:
From Practice to Impact: Consequences on Knowledge Dissemination".
The aim of the conference will be to bring together the
various initiatives and key players within the Open Access
movement in order to:
- maintain the enthusiasm of all people involved in the Open
Access field,
- have an overview of the developing tools that sustain Open
Access in scientific data and cultural heritage dissemination,
- develop the effective strategies that can contribute to the
construction and implementation of this new paradigm of the
scholarly communication world.
The general subjects of the conference will focus on:
a) state-of-the-art of the sharing of the Berlin Declaration vision:
survey on the impact of the new paradigm in the institutions
that signed the declaration; supporting bodies policies and
activities in favour of innovative scholarly communication processes;
b) the Open Access scene in the developing countries and emerging
economies: strategies, achievements, impact;
c) Open Access and the e-science: how to support the free
circulation of scientific raw data to facilitate cooperation
and effective reuse;
d) e-publishing: the emerging of new strategies in scientific
data dissemination; estimate of the impact in OA journals:
new tools for scholarly evaluation in the growing layer of
Open Access publications; the perspective of a changing
landscape in the scientific journals policies; progress
reports on the transition from reader-pays to author-pays models;
e) ICT developments and collaborations that support
e-publishing and Open Access.
The event will take place in Padova, one of the main cultural
and economic hubs in the Northeast of Italy. In its superb
medieval centre, Padova hosts a well renowned collection of
Giotto's frescoes.
September is a very mild month in Italy, when summer slowly
yields to autumn in vivid colours.
The conference will be hosted by the University of Padova,
among the oldest academic institutions in the world and the
home of the famous scientist Galileo Galilei. The University
of Padova wishes that this circumstance will bring good
auspices for the future of scholarly communication and looks
forward to welcoming you in Italy in 2007.
Further details about the conference will appear soon on the website:
<http://oa.mpg.de/>http://oa.mpg.de/
On behalf of the organizing committee
Susanna Mornati
Project Leader AePIC, <http://www.aepic.it/>http://www.aepic.it
Coordinator PLEIADI,
<http://www.openarchives.it/pleiadi>http://www.openarchives.it/pleiadi
CILEA - Inter-Academic Consortium for ICT,
<http://www.cilea.it/>http://www.cilea.it
Via R. Sanzio 4, I-20090 SEGRATE (MILANO) - ITALY voice +39
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