The Research Information Network (RIN) and the Repositories Support Project (RSP) are holding a free event to look at how researchers are responding to mandates to include the results of their research work in repositories. The event, scheduled for May 29 at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London, will cover issues around both research funders' and institutional mandates (at institutional, subject-based and national levels), and ask how well these mandates are working in practice.
The meeting will be an opportunity to debate about how to make research outputs accessible and open, where appropriate, and how to engage researchers better in this process. The event is aimed at repository managers, senior librarians, research funders, publishers, learned societies and academic researchers.
Key speakers include Paul Ayris, Director, Library Services, University College London; Paul Davey, Engagement Manager, UKPubMed Central; Bill Hubbard, Manager, SHERPA, University of Nottingham; Paul Hubbard, Head of Research Policy, HEFCE; Robert Kiley - Head of e-Strategy, Wellcome Trust; Charles Oppenheim, Head of Department and Professor of Information Science at Loughborough University; and Julia Wallace - PEER Project. To book your seats visit http://www.rsp.ac.uk/events/index.php?page=MandatesDay2009/index.php
