Date: 1st July 2013
Location: British Library, London, UK
ISC Collections, in partnership with OAPEN Foundation, is holding a two-day international conference intended for all stakeholders in scholarly communications including European research funders, senior institutional managers, publishers, learned societies, librarians and researchers. The conference aims to raise awareness of open access, to increase understanding of key challenges and to identify where international common policies and frameworks could support the adoption of open access monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences (HSS).
Key topics of the conference will include new open access business models, maintaining quality, the future of peer-review, creative commons licensing and international policy development. Current confirmed speakers include:
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick – Director of Scholarly Communication at the Modern Language Association
- Frances Pinter – Executive Director of Knowledge Unlatched
- Martin Eve and Caroline Edwards – founding members of the Open Library of Humanities
- Cameron Neylon – Plos’s Director of Advocacy
- Carrie Calder – Marketing Director of Palgrave Macmillan
To support HSS researchers, the second day of the conference will include practical sessions on topics including ORCID, funding open access monographs, knowing your rights, finding a reputable OA publisher, promoting your book and altmetrics. There will also be sessions for research funders, publishers, learned societies and institutional staff to discuss cross industry and international issues such as funding policies, quality assurance, common standards, metadata, dissemination and discovery and infrastructure to support archiving and preservation.
Delegates that attend this conference will leave feeling informed of the relevant issues and equipped with useful information to assist in future discussions and decision making within their organisation.
http://jiscebooks.org/2013/01/24/oabooksconf/
