<div dir="ltr">[Forwarded message from <b class="gmail_sendername">Kathleen Shearer</b><span dir="ltr">]</span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><Sorry of the cross posting><div><br></div><div>Please join us in the beautiful city of Porto, Portugal for an exciting program featuring dynamic speakers from around the world, <i><b>Connecting Research Results, Bridging Communities Opening Scholarship</b> </i>on April 15 & 16, 2015</div><div><br></div><div>Keynote speakers are <b>John Wilbanks</b>, Chief Commons Officer, Sage Bionetworks and <b>Dominique Babini</b>, Coordinator of Open Access Projects, CLACSO</div><div><br></div><div>Session will be a mixture of thought provoking presentations and discussion about the future of scholarly communication and the role of libraries in this future,</div><div><br></div><div><b>The evolving policy environment for data and publications — Measuring the real value of research outputs —</b><b> How we can align ourselves globally? —</b><b> New organizational models for managing research data. </b></div><div><br></div><div>The full program is available here: <a href="http://www.sparc.arl.org/events/joint-coar-sparc-conference" target="_blank">http://www.sparc.arl.org/events/joint-coar-sparc-conference</a></div><div><br></div><div>Early bird rates are 50€ (Euros) for COAR/SPARC members and 100€ (Euros) for non-members.</div><div><br></div><div>Early bird rates end on Friday March 13, 2015.</div><div><br></div><div>For more information, please visit the SPARC or COAR websites.</div><div><br></div><div>——————</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>
<div>Kathleen Shearer</div><div>Executive Director, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)</div><div><a href="mailto:m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com" target="_blank">m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com</a> - <a href="tel:%2B1%20514%20992%209068" value="+15149929068" target="_blank">+1 514 992 9068</a></div><div>Skype: kathleenshearer2 - twitter: @KathleeShearer</div><div><br></div><br>
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