[Dspace-general] FW: Open Scholarship 2006 - Early Bird registration deadline

[Peter Morgan]

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Dear Colleagues,

** Apologies for any cross-posting **

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 at lib.gla.ac.uk

We look forward to seeing you in Glasgow in October,

The Organising Committee,
Open Scholarship 2006



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