[BOAI] 1st Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing: Early Bird Registration Deadline

[David Solomon]

The early bird registration deadline for the 1st Conference on Open
Access
Scholarly Publishing is quickly approaching, so if you have not yet
registered for the conference you should do so before JUNE 1st in order
to
take advantage of the reduced registration fees. For more detailed
registration information, or to sign up for the conference, please visit

http://www.oaspa.org/coasp/registration.php.

The list of speakers for the conference has now been finalized, and we
are
very pleased to announce that Peter Suber (Open Access News/SPARC) will
be
delivering the keynote address on the opening day of the conference. The
following is a list of confirmed speakers for the conference:

- Geoff Bilder- CrossRef
- Bo-Christer Bjork- HANKEN School of Economics
- Lars Bjornshauge- Directory of Open Access Journals/Lund University
- Leslie Chan - Bioline International
- Saskia Franken- University Library Utrecht/Igitur
- Branwen Hide - Research Information Network
- Iain Hrynaszkiewicz- BioMed Central
- Marianne Josserand-Haska- BioMed Central
- Robert Kiley - Wellcome Trust
- Mark Patterson - Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Stephen Pinfield - University of Nottingham
- Olaf Siegert- German National Library of Economics
- David Solomon- Michigan State University
- Caroline Sutton- Co-Action Publishing
- Kaitlin Thaney- Creative Commons
- Jan Velterop - Knewco
- Jens Vigen- CERN/SCOAP3
- Korinna Werner-Schwarz- Kiel Institute for the World Economy
- John Willinsky- Public Knowledge Project/Stanford University

The full conference program will be published shortly on the conference
website. On the second day of the conference we will be holding a number
of
parallel breakout sessions for different stakeholder groups including a
session for librarians and university administrators, a session for
scholar
publishers, and a session for professional publishers.

Full details about the conference can be found at

http://www.oaspa.org/coasp/

and if you have any questions you can contact us at coasp at oaspa.org.

Best regards,
Paul Peters, Chair
1st Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing