-- Apologies for cross-posting -- Dear Friends, We are running out of hotel rooms at the conference site for the fourth Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication, so please place your requests as soon as possible. The conference takes place in Lund, Sweden on April 21-23, 2008, and aims to make an important contribution to the discussion and development within the area of scholarly communication. The theme for this year's conference is Openeness - Tools, Trade and Transparency, and the conference will focus on research evaluation, business models and text mining. Among the invited speakers is Melissa Hagemann, Program Manager at the Open Society Institute, John Wilbanks, Executive Director of Science Commons, Paul Peters, Head of Business Development for Hindawi Publishing Corporation, and Laurent Romary from the Max Planck Institute. For more information and registration, please refer to the conference website http://www.lub.lu.se/en/ncsc.html <http://www.lub.lu.se/en/ncsc.html> . Last day to book hotel rooms is March 20, 2008, and last day to register is March 25, 2008. Welcome to Lund! Best regards, Håkan Carlsson --------- Håkan Carlsson Biblioteksdirektionen / Head Office Lunds universitet / Lund University Libraries Box 134 221 00 LUND Tel. +46 46-222 15 30 Fax + 46 46-222 36 82