<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_attr"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*** with apologies for cross-posting***</span></div><div class="gmail_attr"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please note that the deadline for contributions for our the Poster session at this year's conference is this Friday, July 10th. The call can be found on our</span><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Foaspa.org%2Fcall-for-contributions-for-the-2020-oaspa-online-conference-on-open-access-scholarly-publishing%2F&data=01%7C01%7Cboai-forum%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7Cbcf3860c4dc343b9249008d821a4d14c%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=5QeIlFgQnlBWooQt2G6rQx4KAXcTTg2pAPOTSuZ56PY%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://oaspa.org/call-for-contributions-for-the-2020-oaspa-online-conference-on-open-access-scholarly-publishing/" shash="vDLNccamK7N46+kwwjVI3aLY/rCTpy6BGCd9ixUqLH+4zMwLFL8byiTKKZ2qISzV/J4Mxhet8aNzlUX7zqIQFi3zJ+kBlm2uTsD+TrDIJmIowtJIM7xdDTWcYsbZOaynDBJmDcwxUwU7iA2f3ot+hscdg/uPCr9QIhfYWuUzvcU=" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">blog here</span></a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. We are looking for short proposals of up to 300 words.</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-m_4296035900278488393gmail-docs-internal-guid-3a631fae-7fff-62de-f8d6-e9b422477ea5"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 22pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">
The 2020 conference will address open access at a time of global challenge and will also be a forum for collective reflection on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and our ongoing endeavour to ensure scholarship is open and accessible to all.</span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This year, we will be kicking off the conference with a moderated discussion </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open access at a time of global challenge: How has the world changed? </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Our speakers will share global perspectives within the discussion taking on the demands and opportunities for open scholarship in relation to past and future crises in different regions of the globe. Other panels and keynotes will cover:
</span><br></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Future of Community-owned Open Infrastructure in a World Transformed</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">What Funding and Business Mechanisms will Support Equitable Open Access</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Researchers, Open Science and Open Access behaviours – what changed in 2020</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Pricing and cost transparency: Is it time to unbundle the “end to end” publication process? </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Small and scholar-led publishers: What lessons can they teach us? </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The future of open research communication: Where are we headed and how could we prepare? </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The full program for the conference will be announced soon. 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The conference will be discussed on social media with the hashtag #OASPA2020. Enquiries regarding the conference should be directed to </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:info@oaspa.org" target="_blank">info@oaspa.org</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2020 OASPA Conference Committee</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jennifer Gibson (eLife) – Chair</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Xenia van Edig (Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB))
Catriona MacCallum (Hindawi)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Emma Wilson (Royal Society of Chemistry)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Juan Pablo Alperin (ScholCommLab/Public Knowledge Project)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abel Packer (SciELO)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Shuai Yan (Independent Consultant, China)
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-right:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:22pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Charles Watkinson (University of Michigan) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-right:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:22pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Best wishes,
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Bernie</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p></span></div></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b><font color="#666666">Bernie Folan</font></b><div><font color="#666666">Events and Communications </font></div><div><font color="#666666">OASPA, Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association</font></div><div><font color="#666666"><a href="mailto:bernie.folan@oaspa.org" target="_blank">bernie.folan@oaspa.org</a><br>___________________________________________________________________<br></font><font color="#999999">Stay up to date: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Feepurl.com%2FbYkP8r&data=01%7C01%7Cboai-forum%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7Cbcf3860c4dc343b9249008d821a4d14c%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=XeaZn8vWrFgikBfIrdTTmM0yq8r9XZxIbKvFcSK5n3k%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="http://eepurl.com/bYkP8r" shash="Bmz468ma0/fXpKBB+nUpi4/yUucqX9RnaZbf8gqzDgcF9fcxXMFeaCZyPYj9vmGM9Nyw9zuL4NFpDWQufyU292o2NWOcQimMZuEWZO1OioXlQP7aW3agZa2cyH3Ed+792Qwul4eQubyPHa2Rn2yLuVEaAH4kdtzoa3tnDcf602Q=" target="_blank">Sign up</a> for OASPA news by email | Follow us on Twitter: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FOASPA&data=01%7C01%7Cboai-forum%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7Cbcf3860c4dc343b9249008d821a4d14c%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=2TdOdLd6JO3m6X8xyVGzTQ3063jyk0dcVqreccaay3g%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://twitter.com/OASPA" shash="NWVyXOZxTR87hH42kkOslbhtD0sKcbgHFkslz6LbrIqn/dM6zM5OETVYjiVd01/UPdHPkm6mRYKnOgbJf0vok8pb+R6uFkwqrbavKGXOGhTs9CtHAmwyoMw/NiL4GANbJGpHVhhv6MPQSzB921FEoOckin3jVfJCaF0D7HWxgZ4=" target="_blank">@OASPA</a><br>OASPA 2020 <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Foaspa.org%2Fconference%2F&data=01%7C01%7Cboai-forum%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7Cbcf3860c4dc343b9249008d821a4d14c%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=HKrhqGofphZECMSwdpg3RQgGOAXIPfjzm%2B7gtiNUyvY%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://oaspa.org/conference/" shash="aSJEMxirK826L+pXyak/LFv3t9wuQFhYMr9HqVRV9WzBpjV6WP4OslB2Gpe1+Kd3IHS6Sqr5HLO4V1olI29sFmeCLs1NZhVbz6vsSeL1i5rbfBGmR7XKJ+ABdhS8nlTSKS4DmbCMTyz6Ij9RFOBN78vbdtbg9yCy1n+DBC0EC0k=" target="_blank">Online Conference</a>, September 21-25 2020 </font><font color="#666666"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>