The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association is pleased to announce the 2nd Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, which will be held from 22 to 24 August 2010 in Prague, Czech Republic.

 

Schedule:

Saturday August 21st

  • 7:00pm- Drinks meet-up at the Piano Bar in the Hotel President

Sunday August 22nd

  • 11:00am- Conference registration begins
  • 12:00-12:30- Paul Peters: Opening Remarks from the Conference Chair
  • 12:30-1:30- Caroline Sutton: Keynote Address from the OASPA Chair
  • 1:30-2:45- Session on Mixed Model Publishers (Chaired by David Ross)
    • Trish Groves- Executive Editor of the British Medical Journal
    • Wim van der Stelt- Executive Vice President for Business Development, Springer
  • 2:45-3:30- Coffee Break
  • 3:30-5:00- Session on Funding and Payment Models (Chaired by Matt Cockerill)
    • Chuck Eckman- Director of Collections for the UC Berkeley Library
    • Matt Cockerill- Managing Director of BioMed Central
    • Paul Peters- Head of Business Development for Hindawi Publishing Corporation
    • Mark Patterson- Director of Publishing for the Public Library of Science

Monday August 23rd

  • 9:00-10:00- Morning Keynote Address: Salvatore Mele- CERN/SOAP
  • 10:00-11:00- Coffee Break
  • 11:00-12:30- Session on Editorial Innovation in OA Publishing (Chaired by Mark Patterson)
    • Ulrich Pöschl- Chief Executive Editor of Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics
    • Rob van Glabbeek- Editor-in-Chief of the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
    • Daniel Mietchen- Structural Brain Mapping Group at Friedrich Schiller University
  • 12:30-1:30- Lunch at the Hotel President
  • 1:30-3:30- Parallel Breakout Sessions
    • Breakout Session on Publishing Ethics
    • Breakout Session on OA Book Publishing
    • Breakout Session on Centralized Payment Mechanisms for OA Publishing Costs
  • 3:30-4:30- Coffee Break
  • 4:30-5:15- Reports from the Afternoon Breakout Sessions
  • 5:15-6:00 – Workshop discussing the results of the SOAP Survey (Optional)
  • 7:30- Conference Dinner at Obcanska Plovarna

Tuesday August 24th

  • 9:00-10:00- Session on OA in Different Communities: Part 1 (Chaired by Caroline Sutton)
    • Eelco Ferwerda- OAPEN Coordinator/ Amsterdam University Press
    • Susan Murray- Director of African Journals Online (AJOL)
    • Petr Sojka – Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
  • 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
  • 10:30-11:00 Session on OA in Different Communities: Part 2 (Chaired by Caroline Sutton)
    • Donna Livingstone – The University of Calgary Press
    • Victoria Tsoukala – the National Documentation Centre, EKT
  • 11:00-11:30 Paul Peters: Closing Remarks from the Conference Chair
  • 1:00-5:00 Workshop on Creating and Managing Open Access Journals (requires separate registration)

Conference Organizing Committee

  • Paul Peters, Conference Chair- Hindawi Publishing Corporation
  • Caroline Sutton- Co-Action Publishing
  • David Ross- SAGE Publications
  • Mark Patterson- Public Library of Science
  • Matt Cockeril- BioMed Central

For more information, contact paul.peters@hindawi.com