Registration is now open for the COAR-SPARC Conference 2015, "Connecting Research Results, Bridging Communities, Opening Scholarship," to be held in Porto, Portugal, April 15–16.
Co-hosted by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), the conference will feature speakers from around the globe discussing opportunities and challenges for libraries in a world of open science and open content. The COAR-SPARC Conference will provide an opportunity for participants to make connections and to learn best practices from colleagues.
The conference is structured to deliver an overview of the most important policy and philosophical developments in open scholarship as well as pragmatic sessions to help participants become more effective in their roles on a day-to-day basis.
The intended audience consists of library directors, librarians, repository managers, researchers, university administrators, funding agencies, and students.
Keynote speakers include: John Wilbanks, Chief Commons Officer, Sage Bionetworks and Dominique Babini, Coordinator of Open Access Projects, CLACSO (Latin American Council of Social Sciences).
To receive the early-bird discount, interested parties may register before March 13, 2015.
