Upcoming conference on Open Access publishing

[Caroline Sutton <caroline.sutton@co-action.net>]

I would like to share information with Liblicense members on an 
upcoming conference that might be of interst. =0A=0AThe early 
bird registration deadline for the 1st Conference on Open Access 
Scholarly Publishing (14-16 Sept 2009) is quickly approaching, so 
if you have not yet registered for the conference you should do 
so before JUNE 1st in order to take advantage of the reduced 
registration fees. For more detailed registration information, or 
to sign up for the conference, please visit 
http://www.oaspa.org/coasp/registration.php

The list of speakers for the conference has now been finalized, 
and we are very pleased to announce that Peter Suber (Open Access 
News/SPARC) will be delivering the keynote address on the opening 
day of the conference. The following is a list of confirmed 
speakers for the conference:

  Geoff Bilder - CrossRef
  Bo-Christer Bjork - HANKEN School of Economics
  Lars Bjornshauge - Directory of Open Access Journals/Lund 
University
  Leslie Chan - Bioline International
  Saskia Franken - University Library Utrecht/Igitur
  Branwen Hide - Research Information Network
  Iain Hrynaszkiewicz - BioMed Central
  Marianne Josserand-Haska - BioMed Central
  Robert Kiley - Wellcome Trust
  Mark Patterson - Public Library of Science (PLoS)
  Stephen Pinfield - University of Nottingham
  Olaf Siegert - German National Library of Economics
  David Solomon - Michigan State University
  Caroline Sutton - Co-Action Publishing
  Kaitlin Thaney - Creative Commons
  Jan Velterop - Knewco
  Jens Vigen - CERN/SCOAP3
  Korinna Werner-Schwarz - Kiel Institute for the World Economy
  John Willinsky - Public Knowledge Project/Stanford University

The full conference program will be published shortly on the 
conference website. On the second day of the conference we will 
be holding a number of parallel breakout sessions for different 
stakeholder groups including a session for librarians and 
university administrators, a session for scholar publishers, and 
a session for professional publishers.

Full details about the conference can be found at 
http://www.oaspa.org/coasp/, and if you have any questions you 
can contact us at coasp@oaspa.org mailto:coasp@oaspa.org.

Best regards,
Paul Peters,
    Chair 1st Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing
Caroline Sutton, PhD
    Publisher Co-Action Publishing