<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><Sorry of the cross posting><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please join us in the beautiful city of Porto, Portugal for an exciting program featuring dynamic speakers from around the world, <i class=""><b class="">Connecting Research Results, Bridging Communities Opening Scholarship</b> </i>on April 15 & 16, 2015</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Keynote speakers are <b class="">John Wilbanks</b>, Chief Commons Officer, Sage Bionetworks and <b class="">Dominique Babini</b>, Coordinator of Open Access Projects, CLACSO</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">The evolving policy environment for data and publications — Measuring the real value of research outputs —</b><b class=""> How we can align ourselves globally? —</b><b class=""> New organizational models for managing research data. </b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The full program is available here: <a href="http://www.sparc.arl.org/events/joint-coar-sparc-conference" class="">http://www.sparc.arl.org/events/joint-coar-sparc-conference</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Early bird rates are 50€ (Euros) for COAR/SPARC members and 100€ (Euros) for non-members.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Early bird rates end on Friday March 13, 2015.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For more information, please visit the SPARC or COAR websites.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">——————</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div class="">Kathleen Shearer</div><div class="">Executive Director, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com" class="">m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com</a> - +1 514 992 9068</div><div class="">Skype: kathleenshearer2 - twitter: @KathleeShearer</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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