PEER End of Project Results Conference Date: 29 May 2012 Time: 11.00 – 17.00 CET Location: Federation of Enterprises in Belgium Rue Ravenstein 3, B -1000 Brussels (200m from Gare Centrale in Brussels) Registration is free and is now open at: http://www.peerproject.eu/peer-end-of-project-conference-29th-may-2012/ -------------- Registration closes on 14 May 2012 -------------- PEER, supported by the EC eContentplus programme, has been investigating the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of authors’ final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open Access or stage-two research output). The project is a collaboration between publishers, repositories, and the research community including funding bodies, which has run since September 2008 and will conclude with this conference at which the final results will be presented and discussed. Programme: 11.00 Welcome: Mr Michael Mabe (STM), Chair of the PEER Executive Opening Address: Vice President Neelie Kroes (Digital Agenda) 11.20 Building the project: Dr Julia Wallace, Project Manager, PEER PEER Achievements and Executive Partner reflections: PEER Executive The PEER Observatory: Dr Laurent Romary, Inria 12.30 - 13.30 Lunch 13.30 PEER Research Chair: Professor Carol Tenopir, University of Tennessee Introduction: Dr Chris Armbruster, Research Manager PEER Usage Research: Dr Ian Rowlands CIBER Research Ltd, UK Behavioural Research: Dr Jenny Fry, Department of Information Science and LISU Loughborough University, UK Economics Research: Professor Paola Dubini, ASK Research Center, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy 15.15 - 15.45 Coffee Break 15.45 PEER: Green Open Access Scenario Development Building on the findings from PEER: Dr Chris Armbruster, Research Manager PEER 16.00 Multi-stakeholder Round Table Discussion of PEER results Moderator: Mr Arnoud de Kemp, Digiprimo / APE Panel Members: Dr Johannes Fournier - Programme Director Scientific Library Services and Information Systems, DFG Professor Norbert Kroo - Research Professor and Advisor to President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Mr Bob Campbell - Senior Publisher, Wiley-Blackwell Dr Nick Fowler - Director of Strategy, Elsevier Dr Paul Ayris -Director of Library Services, University College London & President , LIBER 16.50 Closing remarks 17.00 Close of conference For a location map and directions: http://vbo-feb.be/en/location/ Contact: For any questions related to the conference programme, or PEER please contact Julia Wallace, PEER Project Manager ([log in to unmask]). For updates on the PEER End of Project Conference, visit the conference page on the PEER website: http://www.peerproject.eu/peer-end-of-project-conference-29th-may-2012/ PEER Partners: International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), the European Science Foundation, Göttingen University/ State and University Library, the Max Planck Society, Inria - Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique, SURF Foundation and University of Bielefeld STM publishers participating in PEER: BMJ Publishing Group; Cambridge University Press; EDP Sciences; Elsevier; IOP Publishing; Nature Publishing Group; Oxford University Press; Portland Press; Sage Publications; Springer; Taylor & Francis Group; Wiley-Blackwell PEER repositories: eSciDoc.PubMan.PEER, Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V. (MPG); HAL, CNRS & Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (Inria); Göttingen State and University Library (UGOE); SSOAR – Social Sciences Open Access repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences); TARA – Trinity College Dublin (TCD); University Library of Debrecen (ULD) Long term preservation archive: e-depot, Koninklijke Bibliotheek lis-e-resources is a UKSG list - http://www.uksg.org/serials UKSG groups also available on Facebook and LinkedIn