Open Scholarship 2006: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories

["David Prosser" <david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk>]

** Apologies for cross-posting **

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

closes on the 31 August and the registration fee rises 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@lib.gla.ac.uk

We look forward to seeing you in Glasgow in October,

The Organising Committee,
Open Scholarship 2006

David C Prosser PhD
Director
SPARC Europe
E-mail:  david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk