General Information
The  University
of Padua, the CRUI
(Council of Rectors of Italian Universities) and the Max
Planck Gesellschaft are pleased to announce that the fifth
conference in the “Berlin Declaration” tradition
will take place in September 19-21, 2007 in Padua, Italy,
with the title “Berlin 5 Open Access: From Practice
to Impact: Consequences of Knowledge Dissemination”.
The aim of the conference will be to bring together the various
initiatives and key players within the Open Access movement
in order to:
— maintain the enthusiasm of all people involved in
the Open Access field,
— have an overview of the developing tools that sustain
Open Access in scientific data and cultural heritage dissemination,
— develop the effective strategies that can contribute
to the construction and implementation of this new paradigm
of the scholarly communication world.
Further details are available on the
conference website.
Program
The general subjects of the conference will focus on:
a) state-of-the-art of the sharing of the Berlin Declaration
vision: survey on the impact of the new paradigm in the institutions
that signed the declaration; supporting bodies policies and
activities in favour of innovative scholarly communication
processes;
b) the Open Access scene in the developing countries and emerging
economies: strategies, achievements, impact;
c) Open Access and the e-science: how to support the free
circulation of scientific raw data to facilitate cooperation
and effective reuse;
d) e-publishing: the emerging of new strategies in scientific
data dissemination; estimate of the impact in OA journals:
new tools for scholarly evaluation in the growing layer of
Open Access publications; the perspective of a changing landscape
in the scientific journals policies; progress reports on the
transition from reader-pays to author-pays models;
e) ICT developments and collaborations that support e-publishing
and Open Access.
Further details are available on the conference website.
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