[Ipoa_forum_archiv] [IP-OA_Forum] SPARC Repositories Meeting - Speakers & Early Bird Registration
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For immediate release
September 11, 2008
For more information, contact:
Jennifer McLennan
(202) 296-2296 ext 121
jennifer@arl.org
SPARC ANNOUNCES INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER ROSTER
FOR NOVEMBER REPOSITORIES MEETING
Early bird registration deadline is September 15, 2008
Washington, DC - September 11, 2008 - SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing
and Academic Resources Coalition) has announced a prominent slate of
speakers for the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 in Baltimore on
November 17 and 18. The gathering, organized by SPARC in cooperation
with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan (a Japan National Informatics
Institute initiative), will examine how open online archives may be
enhanced to further serve scholars, institutions, and the public.
Leaders, innovators, and practitioners from North America, Europe, and
Asia will explore new frontiers in building and supporting online open
archives. Four timely discussion tracks bring together speakers with
far-reaching experience:
New Horizons (Monday, November 17, morning)
Speakers: Norbert Lossau (Director, Goettingen State and University
Library and a leader of Europe's DRIVER Project, Germany), Jennifer
Campbell-Meier (Doctoral Student, Communication and Information
Sciences, University of Hawaii, USA), Shawn Martin (Scholarly
Communication Librarian, University of Pennsylvania, USA).
Developing Value-Added Services (Monday, November 17, afternoon)
Speakers: Sayeed Chodhury (Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs,
Johns Hopkins University, USA), Joan Giesecke (Dean of Libraries) and
Paul Royster (Coordinator of Scholarly Communications, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, USA), Hideki UCHIJIMA (Librarian, Kanazawa University
Library, Japan).
The Policy Environment (Tuesday, November 18, morning)
Speakers: Bernard Rentier (Rector, University of Liège, Belgium), Syun
Tutiya (Professor of Cognitive and Information Sciences, Chiba
University, Japan), Bonnie Klein (Information Collection and Copyright
Specialist, Defense Technical Information Center, USA).
Campus Publishing Strategies (Tuesday, November 18, morning)
Speakers: Rea Devakos (T-Space Service Coordinator, University of
Toronto, Canada), Catherine Mitchell (Director, eScholarship Publishing
Group, California Digital Library, USA), Teresa Fishel (Library
Director) and Janet Sietmann (DigitalCommons Project Manager, Macalester
College, USA).
Filling out the extensive program will be a marketing practicum for
repository advocates, an innovation fair, and keynote talks by John
Wilbanks, Vice President for Science at Creative Commons and director of
the Science Commons program; Bob Witeck, CEO and co-founder of
Witeck-Combs Communications, a renowned marketing communications and
public relations agency in Washington, DC; and David Shulenburger, Vice
President for Academic Affairs at the National Association of State
University and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC).
For program detail, see the conference Web site at
http://www.arl.org/sparc/ir08.
The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 is supported by major
contributions from Microsoft (Conference Sponsor); Berkeley Electronic
Press, BioMed Central, and EPrints, (Coffee Break Sponsors); and by
additional contributions from: Association of College and Research
Libraries (ACRL), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), CRKN
(Canadian Research Knowledge Network), DSpace Foundation, Fedora
Commons, Greater Western Library Alliance, HP, the Japanese Coordinating
Committee for University Libraries, JISC, and NISO.
This meeting is a follow up to SPARC's popular 2004 institutional
repositories conference, which drew hundreds of participants from around
the globe and set the stage for some of the key developments in open
access of the past four years.
To register for the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008, visit the
conference Web site at http://www.arl.org/sparc/ir08. Early Bird
Registration is available only until midnight on Monday, September 15.
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SPARC
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), with
SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan, is an international alliance of more than
800 academic and research libraries working to create a more open system
of scholarly communication. SPARC's advocacy, educational and publisher
partnership programs encourage expanded dissemination of research. SPARC
is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/sparc.
The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting program has been developed by the
members of the 2008 Program Committee: Jun Adachi (SPARC Japan), Raym
Crow (SPARC), Richard Fyffe (Grinnell College), Susan Gibbons
(University of Rochester), Melissa Hagemann (Open Society Institute),
Karla Hahn (Association of Research Libraries), Bill Hubbard (SHERPA),
Rick Johnson (SPARC), Michelle Kimpton (DSpace Foundation), Norbert
Lossau (Goettingen State and University Library and DRIVER), Joyce
Ogburn (University of Utah), Terry Owen (University of Maryland, College
Park), Kathleen Shearer (Canadian Association of Research Libraries),
Alma Swan (Key Perspectives Ltd.), Sean Thomas (Massachusetts Institute
of Technology), Susan Veldsman (eIFL), and Charles Watkinson (The
American School of Classical Studies at Athens).
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Tel.: (+ 49) 551 - 39 5228 / 91188
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Internet: www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/0_e-publishing.html.de
www.univerlag.uni-goettingen.de
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