<div class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">[Forwarding from Salvatore Mele. --Peter Suber.]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br>Title: SOAP Symposium Facts in Open Access Publishing -<span> </span>Berlin<span> </span>January 13th 2011 - Programme update and registration reminder</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The SOAP project (Study of Open Access Publishing <a href="http://soap-fp7.eu/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://soap-fp7.eu</a>) will present its final results in<span> </span>Berlin<span> </span>on January 13th. These include a 50'000 answers survey of drivers and barriers for publishing in open access journals [preliminary results at <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/ProjectSoap/soapfall2010" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://www.slideshare.net/ProjectSoap/soapfall2010</a> ]and an in-depth study of the current landscape of open access journals [preliminary results at <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0506" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0506</a> ]. The data of the survey will be released at a hands-on workshop targeted to publishers, researchers, librarians who want to understand more about the demand for open access journals across disciplines and around the world.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The symposium will take place on January 13th, 2011 in<span> </span>Berlin, at the Harnack House Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195<span> </span>Berlin. (The APE2011 conference also takes place in<span> </span>Berlin<span> </span>on January 11th and 12th:<a href="http://ape2011.eu/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://ape2011.eu</a>)</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Attendance is free but registration is mandatory at <a href="http://indico.cern.ch/event/soap-symposium" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://indico.cern.ch/event/soap-symposium</a>. Registration closes on December 13th.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Some of the confirmed speakers who will be describing and commenting the SOAP project findings, are:<br>
</font><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Salvatore Mele, CERN</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Ralf Schimmer, Max Plank Digital Library</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Deborah Kahn, BioMed Central</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">David Ross, SAGE</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Bettina Goerner, Springer</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Celina Ramjoué, European Commission</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Robert Kiley, Welcome Trust</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Jorgen Eriksson,<span> </span>Lund<span> </span>University</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Heinz Pampel, Helmholtz Association</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Caroline Sutton, OASPA</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Mark Patterson, PLoS</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Peter Strickland, International Union<span> </span>of Crystallography</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Stuart Shieber,<span> </span>Harvard<span> </span>University</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The symposium will also see a lively discussion on opportunities and facts in open access publishing today. Additional details are provided in the full announcement here below.</font></div>
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</font><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The SOAP Symposium.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Study of Open Access Publishing. What publishers offer, what researchers want.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Facts for publishers, funding agencies and libraries.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The SOAP project (Study of Open Access Publishing <a href="http://soap-fp7.eu/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://soap-fp7.eu</a>), describes and analyses the open access publishing landscape as well as exploring the risks and opportunities of the transition to open access publishing for libraries, publishers and funding agencies. The project partners would like to invite you to the SOAP Symposium </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">on January 13th, 2010 in<span> </span>Berlin, at the Harnack House (the day after the APE2011 conference)</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Attendance is free but registration is mandatory at <a href="http://indico.cern.ch/event/soap-symposium" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://indico.cern.ch/event/soap-symposium</a></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><a href="http://indico.cern.ch/event/soap-symposium" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"></a></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">This event will present the final results of SOAP. Definitive facts about open access publishing with in-depth analysis will foster a lively debate between key stakeholders who will elaborate on these groundbreaking findings.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The audience for this event are publishers (open access and not) (re-)considering their business models, libraries considering financial steps for the support of open access, funding agencies and policy makers evaluating options for open access publishing. And of course anyone with a keen interest in this transformative disruption in scholarly communication.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Over its two-years duration, the project has performed the most detailed study so far of the current supply and success of gold open access journals, publishers and models, spotlighting the amazing difference between large and small publishing houses and learned societies, licensing practices and business models. (A summary of results is available at <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0506" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0506</a>).</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The project performed a comprehensive survey of opinions and attitudes on open access of 50000 researchers across all disciplines and around the world. This largest survey to date shows that "one size does not fit all", and there is a myriad factors that libraries, publishers and funding agencies have to consider to trace a path through these shifting sands (Preliminary results were presented at COASP 2010: <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/ProjectSoap/soapfall2010" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://www.slideshare.net/ProjectSoap/soapfall2010</a>).</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">By the time of the workshop, the "demand" for open access publishing and the "supply" will have been further analysed with further input from leaders in the field, presenting a picture of open access, and well established facts, on which to base decisions shaping the scholarly communication of the future.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The event will also celebrate the release in the public domain of the data collected by the SOAP survey, with a hands-on workshop for those interested in mining this valuable resource for further re-use.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Note: The project is funded by the European Commission and comprises publishers (BioMed Central, SAGE Publication Ltd., Springer Science and Business Media), research institutions (CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research, Max Planck Society) and funding agencies (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council UK).</font><br>
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