[wos] March 29-31: Berlin 4 Open Access

[Volker Grassmuck]

Conference Announcement

We would like to call attention to the International Conference on Open 
Access, Berlin 4 Open Access - From Promise to Practice. The conference 
will take place at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics 
(Albert Einstein Institute) in Golm - Potsdam, Germany, from 29th to 31st 
of March 2006. The conference is the third follow-up meeting within the 
tradition of the Berlin Declaration.

The aim of this international conference is to bring together the various 
initiatives and key players within the open access movement. Key-notes, 
lectures and reports will cover a wide range of subjects. Authors' 
attitudes towards Open Access are addressed as well as issues with regard 
of Open Access to scientific (raw) data. One session will be devoted to 
"Open Access to cultural heritage".Visions of new forms of scholarly 
communications will be presented as well as first concrete experiences. 
Specific attention will be given to the issues of Open Access in developing 
countries.

Information concerning the conference can be found on the conference website:

http://berlin4.aei.mpg.de

Best regards,

Georg Botz


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