Oxford Journals Open Access Workshop - Registration now open

["MUKHERJEE, Mithu" <mithu.mukherjee@oxfordjournals.org>]

***Apologies for cross posting***

I am pleased to announce the confirmed details for the Oxford=20
Journals Open Access Workshop below. Registration for the event=20
is now open.

Places are limited so please book early to guarantee your place

Register online at:
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/news/oa_workshop_payment.html

For further information, please contact                                    =
             Mithu Mukherjee                                               =
                           Communications Executive, Oxford Journals
mithu.mukherjee@oxfordjournals.org
+44(0)1865 354471

Conference details

Monday 5 June
10.30-16.30
76 Portland Place, London, W1B 1NT
Programme details

10.30: Registration and coffee

11.00: Welcome and introduction to conference
   Chair: Martin Richardson, Managing Director, Oxford Journals,
   Oxford University Press

11.20: Oxford Journals and Open Access
   Claire Saxby, Editor, Oxford Journals, Oxford University Press

Reviewing the results from Oxford's open access experiments
   (Oxford Open), including:

* Uptake of the open access option available for 48 of the
   journals published by Oxford
* Nucleic Acids Research (fully open access since 2005),
   including results from the latest NAR author and reader survey
   conducted March/April 2006.

12.00: Counting on Open Access - Preliminary Outcomes of an
   Experiment in Evaluating Scholarly Journal Open Access Models
   Eric Davies, Director, LISU, Loughborough University, and
   Claire Creaser, Deputy Director & Senior Statistician, LISU,
   Loughborough University

   Reporting the results of the first stage of a research study to
   compare usage and citation patterns for three well-established
   journals published in 2005 under different open access (OA)
   models.

The journals included in this study were Nucleic Acids Research=20
(NAR), Journal of Experimental Botany (JXB), and Bioinformatics.

13.00: Lunch

14.00: Determining the impact of open access publishing on use
   and users David Nicholas, Managing Director, CIBER, University
   College London, and Paul Huntington, Senior Research Fellow,
   CIBER, University College London

   Reporting on research to determine whether the open access
   ('author pays') model of publishing leads to more 'hits' and
   reaches the kinds of people the model aspires to reach. A
   secondary purpose was to develop a powerful methodology, deep
   log analysis, by which would accurately establish this.

The subject of the study was Nucleic Acids Research (NAR), which=20
moved to a full open access model in 2005. Initial research=20
showed that, indeed, there had been a very spectacular increase=20
in use in NAR over the last few years but that this can be=20
attributed to a whole range of factors of which OA is just one.=20
Recent work has concentrated on establishing the relative impacts=20
of these factors in driving-up NAR usage in preparation for=20
rolling out the analysis to other journals and other subjects.

15:00: Panel discussion: the implications of the Oxford Open=20
research findings

16:00: Closing summary and coffee

16.30: END

Registration for this event is now open

The conference fee is =A395, with concessions for developing=20
countries available.

Conference fee includes admission, support material, lunch,=20
refreshments, and a copy of the Oxford Open Access Report,=20
detailing all research findings presented at the conference (will=20
be delivered to registrants following the event).

Conference places are limited, so be sure to register early to=20
guarantee your place.

Once we have received your booking, confirmation will be sent by=20
post or email. Two weeks before the conference you will receive a=20
final programme and joining instructions.

Full payment is due on receipt of invoice. A receipt for payment=20
will not be issued unless requested. In the event of cancellation=20
not less than 14 days before the conference you have booked for,=20
full payment will be refunded less a 20% administration charge.=20
No refunds will be possible in the 14 days prior to the=20
conference you are booked onto, but you will be entitled to send=20
a substitute.

Mithu Mukherjee
Communications Executive
Oxford Journals
Oxford University Press
Great Clarendon Street
Oxford
OX2 6DP
#01865 354471
mithu.mukherjee@oxfordjournals.org
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