[BOAI] Berlin 8 Open Access Conference Call for Posters

[Iryna Kuchma]

[Forwarded message from Berlin 8]

Call for Posters

Dear Colleagues,

As an essential part of Berlin 8 Open Access Conference, we sincerely
invite those who have been involved in the projects or activities of
Open Access to show the advancement about the projects and in the form
of posters. The theme of the poster session is “Showcasing open access
projects”.

The accepted posters will:

l        be shown during the conference;

l        be shown on the Berlin8 Open Access Conference
website(www.berlin8.org) which will be a long-term presentation as a
part of Berlin Open Access Conference series;

l        be edited as a poster index in the conference guidebook;

l        with your agreement, be distributed to Chinese research and
education communities and open access communities to promote open
access in China;

l        All the showing is for free.

The sub-themes of the poster session are:

l        Open access publishing;

l        Open access archiving systems and tools;

l        Institutions, initiatives, projects, and systems specifically
devoted to open access advocacy, research, education, etc.

l        Other related projects.

Poster requirements:

1.Poster should focus on open access activities and issues, Generally
introduction to institutions should be limited.No commercial
promotion.

2.The poster should be written in English.

3.The poster size should be enriched by appropriate and closely
related graphs, tables, and photos.

4.The size of a poster will be 85cm*120cm. We prefer longitudinal,
single page in PDF or PPT. The local organization will make the
digital posters into print. Multi-color posters are greatly
encouraged. Some templates are provide on the conference website.

To submit:

l        digital poster design is preferable

l        by B8 conference website: http://www.berlin8.org

l        by email: yuezenglei at mail.las.ac.cn

l        Submission Deadline: September 20, 2010.

l        Acceptance Due: September 30, 2010