[GOAL] COAR Annual Meeting in Cusco and Lima, Peru

[Kathleen Shearer]

(Sorry for the cross posting)

We are pleased to announce that registration for the COAR Annual Meeting and Conference from April 20-24, 2020 in Cusco and Lima, Peru is now open.

The theme of this year’s meeting is Fostering Diversity in Scholarly Communication

Diversity is an important characteristic of any healthy ecosystem, including scholarly communications. As we continue on the path towards full and immediate open access (and open scholarship more broadly) we must consider how to ensure diversity can be nurtured and will flourish. This meeting will be an opportunity to learn about new trends and models in scholarly communications including Pubfair: A distributed framework for open publishing services <https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/pubfair-version-2-now-available/> (tambien disponible en espanol <https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/pubfair-disponible-en-espanol/>); and to discuss the role of repositories in supporting diversity, with a special focus on the Latin American perspective.

The meeting will be hosted by the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas <https://www.upc.edu.pe/en/> and is organized by COAR <https://www.coar-repositories.org/> in conjunction with CONCYTEC <https://portal.concytec.gob.pe/> and LA Referencia <http://www.lareferencia.info/en/>.

Several pre-conference workshops will be held in Cusco, Peru on April 20-21, focusing on topics of next generation repositories, peer-review and overlay services for repositories, national and regional network services, as well as a workshop for DSpace users. 

The main COAR Annual Meeting will be held in Lima, Peru on April 23-24, and include an international round table with participants from Africa, Asia, North and South America, and Europe; a panel on research assessment; and several keynote speakers.

The COAR community is very international and therefore most of the sessions will take place in English. The preconference will offer participants simultaneous translation (English-Spanish)

Registration costs for the meeting are €105 for COAR members, €125 for non-members.

Space is limited, so please register soon.

For more information about the conference, please visit the conference website <https://biblioteca.upc.edu.pe/coar2020/>.

CONFERENCE PAGE <https://biblioteca.upc.edu.pe/coar2020/>         REGISTRATION <https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?utm_source=upc.edu.pe&utm_medium=urlshortener&id=nqplKssl7kiFm3JpfMgFXD81E90GGGREv8-I8U_DjzlUOVNLU1pFUjE1RUhTUk8zT1NSTDhBVzc5Ry4u>       PAYMENT FOR REGISTRATION <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/coar-2020-annual-meeting-general-assembly-tickets-94849460289>




Kathleen Shearer
Executive Director
Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
www.coar-repositories.org



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