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Dear colleagues, Online publishing is revolutionizing the scholarly communication process. Researchers, publishers, and libraries - all actors in the scholarly communications system are being affected. The open access movement is playing an important role in shaping the future system of scholarly publishing. This is especially true for periodicals. The Directory of Open Access Journals lists 1.300 journals until now. The Cologne Summit will act as a cutting-edge forum describing the state of the art. It also stands for fair but controversial discussions and debate surrounding the issues of open access publishing to all actors in the field. We succeeded in engaging a number of distinguished and renowned speakers as specialists in this field like Steven Harnad, David Prosser, Mark McCabe, Barbara Cohen, Sally Morris, Tim Brody and Donald King as well as representatives from publishers (Elsevier, Springer, BioMedCentral). On the second day a round table discussion is on the agenda moderated by Arnoud de Kemp (formerly Springer-Verlag). Cologne Summit on Open Access Publishing Maritim Hotel, Cologne, 7th and 8th December, 2004. Please find the programme here: http://www.zbmed.de/summit/ Registration is open now. As the number of participants is limited to 80 we recommend to book as soon as possible! Best regards Ulrich Korwitz ZB MED Cologne P.S.: During the Congress days the seven famous Cologne Christmas markets are open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Don't miss them!