<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dear all,</span><div><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif">This is a reminder that registrations are now open for the 9th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP), which will be held at the Altis Grand Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal, on the 20th and 21st September, 2017. </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif">Details on the conference, </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif">including how to book rooms at the hotel at our discounted delegate rate, are here: </span><font face="arial, helvetica neue, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://oaspa.org/conference">http://oaspa.org/conference</a></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif">Now in its 9th year, COASP is a vital conference for the open access publishing community to gather to develop and advance discussions, relationships, policy and research around open access publishing. As in previous years, delegates from a wide range of backgrounds will be brought together for an exciting range of panels, events, and networking opportunities. We are proud to consistently offer global, diverse perspectives on publishing each year, and welcome attendees at all stages of their careers who work in publishing, librarianship, government, higher education, funding agencies, nonprofits, and other affiliated industries. Community and collaboration is at the heart of open access publishing, and we are excited to offer both again at COASP this year for all those working in open access around the world.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif">Speakers so far confirmed include Jean-Claude Burgelman (European Commission), Jessica Polka (ASAPbio), Louise Page (PLOS), Robert Kiley (Wellcome Trust), Vanessa Proudman (SPARC Europe), Danny Kingsley (University of Cambridge), Mikael Laakso (Hanken School of Economics), Jean-Sébastien Caux (University of Amsterdam), and Paul Peters (Hindawi).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif">Panel topics this year are: The market for APCs; Open infrastructure in scholarly communications; Research evaluation and assessment; Open peer review in both journal publishing and in open access books and monographs publishing.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif">A pre-conference reception for delegates will be held on the evening of Tuesday 19th September. The full program for the conference will be announced as soon as possible.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif">We hope to see as many of you in September as possible! Please feel free to discuss the conference on social media using the hashtag #COASP9.</span><br><br><span style="font-family:arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif">Best wishes,<br>Leyla</span></p></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#666666"><span style="font-size:small;line-height:18.2px">—</span><span style="font-size:small;line-height:18.2px">—</span><span style="font-size:small;line-height:18.2px">—</span><span style="font-size:small;line-height:18.2px">—</span><span style="font-size:small;line-height:18.2px">—</span><br></font></div><div><font color="#666666">Leyla Williams</font></div><div><font color="#666666">Events and Communications Coordinator</font></div><div><font color="#666666">Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA </font></div><div><a href="http://oaspa.org" target="_blank">oaspa.org</a><font color="#666666"> | Twitter: </font><a href="https://twitter.com/OASPA" target="_blank">@OASPA</a> | <a href="http://eepurl.com/bYkP8r" style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Sign up</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:12.8px">for our mailing list</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</div>