[GOAL] COAR-SPARC Conference Announcement

[Kathleen Shearer]

Connecting Research Results, Bridging Communities, Opening Scholarship

SPARC and COAR are delighted to announce their upcoming joint conference, Connecting Research Results, Bridging Communities, Opening Scholarship on April 15th and 16th in Porto, Portugal. Registration is now open!

Click here <https://indico.cern.ch/event/369875/registration/> to register for the 2015 COAR-SPARC Conference

Co-hosted by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), the meeting will offer a thought-provoking program with dynamic speakers from around the world to discuss the opportunities and challenges for libraries in a world of open science and open content, provide a valuable opportunity for participants to make connections, and learn best practices from colleagues around the world.

The conference is deliberately structured to deliver both an overview of the most important policy and philosophical developments as well as pragmatic sessions to help participants become more effective in their roles on a day-to-day basis. Featured keynote speakers include:

John Wilbanks, Chief Commons Officer, Sage Bionetworks                                                                                 
Dominique Babini, Coordinator of Open Access Projects, CLACSO

The intended audience for the conference are library directors, librarians and repository managers, researchers, university administrators, funding agencies, and students.

Space is limited, so please register early! 100 places are reserved for COAR and SPARC members.

The early bird conference rates if you register before March 13, 2015:

€55.50 EUR for COAR and SPARC members (approximately $65 US)
€105.50 EUR for non-members (approximately $120 US)

After March 13, 2015

€80.50 EUR for COAR and SPARC members (approximately $92 US)
€155.50 EUR (approximately $180 US)


Please visit the SPARC <http://www.sparc.arl.org/events/joint-coar-sparc-conference> and COAR <https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-media/coar-sparc-conference-2015-connecting-research-results-bridging-communities-opening-scholarship/> websites for more details and to register for the conference.

The conference will offer a poster session. Posters can be submitted while registering for the conference or emailed to Maxie Putlitz at putlitz at sub.uni-goettingen.de by March 13, 2015.

We hope you are able to join us in Porto, Portugal!


Kathleen Shearer
Executive Director, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
m.kathleen.shearer at gmail.com <mailto:m.kathleen.shearer at gmail.com> - +1 514 992 9068
Skype: kathleenshearer2 - twitter: @KathleeShearer


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In a rapidly evolving world, academic and research institutions must think about becoming agents of change, with greater flexibility and responsiveness than ever before. Part of this change is a shift away from the notion that researchers simply conduct research and produce publications, but rather the research community itself must begin to take on responsibility for ensuring research outputs are widely and openly disseminated, properly curated, and preserved. In this sense, the institution becomes one node in a larger, interconnected network of content producers and stewards.

There are both challenges and opportunities inherent in this new environment. For instance, how do we create a seamless global research network in which all countries and researchers can participate? How can we evaluate research outputs based on their quality, and not on whether they are attached to a prestige publication? How can we manage increasingly large and complex data to support new modes of science and innovation? And how can we ensure that content is appropriately licensed, annotated and preserved to allow it to be re-used and integrated with other related content? Clearly, libraries and institutions must forge new partnerships, nurture new skills and competencies, and develop new organizational structures.

This conference, co-hosted by SPARC and COAR, will address some of the important challenges facing our libraries as we attempt to re-define our roles in an age of constant flux.





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