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Open Scholarship 2006: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories

*Apologies for cross-posting*

The University of Glasgow, SPARC Europe and LIBER are proud to announce:

OPEN SCHOLARSHIP 2006: NEW CHALLENGES FOR OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORIES

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.

Open access and the development of OA repositories are 
transforming scholarship and bringing new opportunities and 
challenges for researchers, librarians and publishers. Open 
Scholarship 2006 is a pan-European conference which will focus on 
these new challenges and opportunities. In addition to tutorial 
sessions on advocacy and policy issues as well as functionality 
and software issues, OS 2006 will address key themes presented by 
many leading European practitioners in the field of Open Access.

Key themes will include:

     * Repository Developments
     * Added Value Services
     * Quality Assessment
     * Policies and Implementation
     * Sustainability

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>

To register and for further information about the conference, 
including the preliminary programme go to: 
<http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship>

The organising committee gratefully acknowledges our sponsors: 
JISC, LIBER, SHERPA, SHERPA-Leap, Ex Libris, SURF, EPrints.org, 
SPARC Europe and Proquest.

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