[BOAI] DRFIC 2009 - Call for Posters

[Daisuke UEDA]

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CALL FOR POSTERS

DRF Internatinal Conference 2009 (DRFIC 2009)
3-4 December, 2009. Tokyo, JAPAN

http://www.tulips.tsukuba.ac.jp/DRFIC2009/index_en.php

In DRFIC 2009, as succession of the last conference, try to
provide a place in Asia Pacific Region to discuss academic
communication and Open Access Movement which as a broader
theme than a repository management, and also to share the
change of academic publishing and its future with broader
various interested party (stakeholder).


***Call for Posters***

The DRF Steering Committee is welcoming poster submissions
in all areas relevant to digital repository and open access.

*Main Topics*

The posters will provide information about activities relating
to the institutional repository or open access movement. The
topics may include but not limited to:

   * Activities to increase deposit into IR
   * Ideas for promoting IR
   * Institutional policy on OA and IR
   * IR and new library services
   * Long-term preservation of IR contents etc.

*Important dates*

Abstracts due:  30th September, 2009
Notification of acceptance:  9th October, 2008

*Submissions*

Those who are interested in presenting a poster should
submit an abstract in a PDF or a MS Word file, containing
a single A4 page with at least 3 cm white margins on all sides.
The abstract should be written in English within the top
half a page, so that we will be able to add its Japanese
translation at the bottom half of the page.
Submissions should be e-mailed to: drfic2009-apply at lib.hokudai.ac.jp.
We will notify applicants regarding acceptance by e-mail
no later than 9th October, 2009.
Abstracts of the accepted poster presentations will be included
in the conference proceedings.

For more detail about this, please see at :
http://www.tulips.tsukuba.ac.jp/DRFIC2009/posters_en.php

If you have any question, or would like to know more details, please
contact us at: drfic2009 at ml.hokudai.ac.jp


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Daisuke UEDA
Hiroshima University Library
Tel: +81-82-424-6228 Fax: +81-82-424-6211
E-Mail: dueda at hiroshima-u.ac.jp