ELPUB 2008 Open Scholarship June 25-27 Toronto

[Susanna Mornati <mornati@cilea.it>]

    *** Apologies for cross postings ***

ELPUB 2008 Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and 
Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0

*Early bird fee is closed on April 30th, 2008.*

Registration for the 12th International Conference on Electronic 
Publishing, to be held in Toronto June 25-27 2008, is still open: 
early bird fees available until April 30.

To find out more about the meeting, to register, or to learn 
about accommodations and travel options, please visit our website 
at:
     http://www.elpub.net

A list of presentations with abstracts is already available at:
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~elpub2008/abstracts.html

ELPUB has a reputation for providing a relaxed yet stimulating 
venue for discussion on diverse aspects of scholarly 
communications and publishing. In order to keep with past ELPUB 
tradition, conference enrollment is limited to 200 individuals 
(including speakers). We encourage you to register online as soon 
as possible to avoid disappointment.

We look forward to welcoming you to Toronto this June!

About ELPUB 2008:

Scholarly communications, and in particular scholarly 
publications, are undergoing tremendous changes. Researchers, 
universities, funding bodies, research libraries and publishers 
are responding in different ways, from active experimentation 
with new models and adaptation of existing practices, to strong 
resistance or rejection of new communication methods. ELPUB 2008 
will focus on a number of key issues surrounding the future of 
scholarly communications that arise as a result of the 
intersection of semantic web technologies, the development of 
cyberinfrastructure for the humanities and the sciences, and new 
dissemination channels and business models.

The three-day event will begin with a full day of technical 
workshops. The following two days will feature contributed papers 
examining a broad range of technical, conceptual, policy, and 
financial aspects of scholarly communication. Poster 
presentations and demonstrations of new publishing and research 
tools will form part of the program. A plenary session on funding 
and access policies for publicly funded research, and a special 
session on open access developments in transitional and 
developing countries will round out the program. The conference 
will begin and end with special keynotes by John Willinsky and 
Stevan Harnad.

The final agenda for the conference will be available online in 
late April, after the peer-review of submitted papers has been 
completed and acceptances have been confirmed.

For further inquiries, please email elpub2008@elpub.net or 
chan@utsc.utoronto.ca

Leslie Chan            Susanna Mornati
General Chair         Program Chair

ELPUB 2008   http://www.elpub.net