[wos] Berlin Conference on Open Access to Data and Resu

[Volker Grassmuck]

Conference on

     Open Access to the Data and Results of the Sciences and Humanities
     20 - 22 Oct 2003, Berlin

http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/index.html

The 3-day conference aims to bring together key players from national and 
international research organizations, learned societies, museums, archives, 
libraries and research funding agencies and political institutions, 
commercial and non-for profit publishing services concerned about the 
future of scientific e-publishing and scholarly communication. The declared 
aim of the meeting is to provide guidance to all players involved on how to 
help build a future-proof, flexible, open, and high-quality scholarly and 
scientific publishing system.

     * Prepare the transformation of all areas of research from the print 
into the electronic world.
     * Establish an open-access policy on the Internet for scientific 
information, including cultural heritage.
     * Define future models for web-based scientific/scholarly 
communication and publishing and for making cultural heritage accessible on 
the Web.
     * Provide blueprints on how to make publishing alternatives work in a 
sustainable way.
     * Encourage funding agencies and research organizations to support the 
creation and implementation of open access models for scientific publishing.
     * Encourage funding agencies and research organizations to support the 
transfer of existing content both from science and culture to the new medium.
     * Define prerequisites for a future Web of Culture and Science.

Contact

Dr. Stefan Echinger
Head of the Division Strategic Planning
Max Planck Society
echinger at mpg-gv.mpg.de
Tel: +49 (0) 89 - 21 08 - 14 30 or - 14 31

Theresa Velden
Heinz Nixdorf Center for Information Management
in the Max Planck Society (ZIM)
velden at zim.mpg.de
Tel: +49 (0) 89 - 32 99 - 15 51


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