ANNOUNCING: 2nd Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, 22=

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

ANNOUNCING: 2nd Conference on Open Access
Scholarly Publishing, 22-24 August, 2010

Following the success of our inaugural conference last September,
the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA
(www.oaspa.org), is pleased to announce that registration is now
open for the 2nd Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing,
which will be held in Prague from 22-24 August 2010. The
conference is directed towards the interests of professional
publishing organizations, independent publishers and university
presses, as well as librarians, university administrators, and
other stakeholders.

Participants will have the opportunity to hear from many leading
figures within the open access publishing environment, and to
participate in break-out sessions that will highlight a number of
important issues related to open access publishing. A growing
list of speakers already includes: Trish Groves, Deputy Editor of
the British Medical Journal; Susan Murray, Director of African
Journals Online; Eelco Ferwerda, OAPEN Coordinator and Publisher
of Digital Products at the Amsterdam University Press; Donna
Livingstone, Director of the University of Calgary Press; Ulrich
Poeschl, Executive Editor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics;
Gunther Eysenbach, Founding Editor and Publisher of the Journal
of Medical Internet Research; and Caroline Sutton, President of
OASPA and Co-Founder of Co-Action Publishing.

Additional information about the conference program,
registration, and accommodation can found on the conference
website at: www.oaspa.org/coasp/. Early bird registration fees
and reduced rates for OASPA members are available.

Members of OASPA are also invited to participate in the second
General Meeting of OASPA which will be held on the afternoon of
August 24 following the end of the conference.

Caroline Sutton, PhD
Publisher
Co-Action Publishing
tel/skype: +46 (0)18 495 1126
mob: +47 90 69 05 06
www.co-action.net