Announcing 1st Conference for Open Access Publishers

The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA (www.oaspa.org), and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (www.doaj.org) are pleased to announce that they will jointly host the 1st Conference for Open Access Scholarly Publishers in Lund, Sweden from the 14th-16th September 2009 at the Scandic Star Hotel. The conference is directed towards the interests of independent open access journals and professional publishing organizations, as well as librarians, suppliers and other stakeholders. Also those who are interested in learning more about open access publishing and exploring opportunities are welcome. Participants will have the opportunity to hear from many leading figures within the open access publishing movement, and to participate in workshops that will highlight a number of important issues related to open access publishing. A growing speakers list already includes: Lars Bjornshauge, Director Lund University Library Head Office/DOAJ, John Willinsky, Public Knowledge Project/OJS, Geoff Bilder, CrossRef, Kaitlin Thaney, Creative Commons and Jens Vigens, CERN/SCOAP3. Additional information on the conference, registration and proposal submissions can found on the conference website at: www.oaspa.org/coasp . Early bird fees will be available.

FYI: Peter Suber keynote speaker at the OASPA/DOAJ conference

Hi - just wanted to let you all know that Peter Suber will be a keynote speaker at the Conferene for Open Access Scholarly Publishing. Peter does not attend many conferences or events so this is very exciting. I hope many of you will register for the conference and join in the discussions! See: www.oaspa.org/coasp for more info.

- Caroline
Caroline Sutton, PhD Publisher Co-Action Publishing tel/skype: +46 (0)18 495 1126 mob: +47 90 69 05 06 www.co-action.net