3 April OA Conferences: 2 at Lund and 1 at Yale

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad[_at_]ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:20:45 -0500

• Apologies for Cross -Posting **

Dear All, just before the April 24-25 Lund conference just announced:

    Third Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication:     Beyond Declarations - The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication     24-25 April 2006, Star Hotel, Lund, Sweden     http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc2006/

there is an April 21-22 Lund conference, on research-specific aspects of the same topic:

    1st European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and Medicine     21 - 22 April 2006, Star Hotel, Lund, Sweden     http://www.ecspbiomed.net/

"The principal aim of the conference is to broaden researchers'
    understanding and knowledge of the rapid changes in the scientific     communication and publishing area and its possible implications on     the research community."

Meanwhile, across the pond at Yale, there is at the same time an April 21-23 Access to Knowledge (A2K) Conference on the same topic at the Information Society Project:

    The Access to Knowledge Conference
    Information Society Project
    Yale Law School
    New Haven, April 21st-23rd 2006
    http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/a2k.html

"The goal of this landmark conference is to bring together leading
    thinkers and activists on access to knowledge policy from North and     South to generate concrete research agendas and policy solutions     for the next decade. This conference will be among the first to     synthesize the multifaceted and interdisciplinary aspects of access     to knowledge, ranging from textbooks and telecommunications access     to software and medicines."

[Full Disclosure: I am scheduled to talk at both the first Lund conference (21-22) and the Yale conference (23), if I can manage the flight connections!]

Stevan Harnad

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