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*Apologies for cross-posting* Open Access Publishing Roadshow for the Humanities Tuesday 4th November, 12.00 - 2.00 pm. Founders' Lecture Theatre - Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham Register: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/sparc-europe-open-access-in-the-humanities-uk-roadshow-tickets-13552270205 Speakers: Gary Hall of the Open Humanities Press Rupert Gatti of Open Book Publishers Anne-Marie Ainsworth of Ubiquity Press Publishers: Books and other information from these OA publishers - and organisations facilitating the publishing of books in open access - will also be available to view: Manchester University Press Knowledge Unlatched Ubiquity Press Open Book Publishers Oapen The Open Library of Humanities Open Humanities Press Programme: Welcome and general introduction: Lily Neal, on behalf of SPARC Europe, the sponsor of this OA in the Humanities UK Roadshow 12.05: Dr. Rupert Gatti from Trinity College Cambridge speaking about Open Book Publishers 12.20: Prof. Gary Hall from Coventry University speaking about the Open Humanities Press. 12.35: Anne-Marie Ainsworth speaking about Ubiquity Press 12.50: Q&A and discussion 13.20: Publishers' exhibition: view the publishers' Open Access publications, meet the publishers and chat with them about publishing opportunities Presenter's Short Biographies [unnamed]Gary Hall Gary Hall is a media theorist, writer, editor and independent publisher working on politics, philosophy and technology. He is Professor of Media in the School of Art and Design, and Director of the Centre for Disruptive Media, at Coventry University, UK, as well as visiting professor at the Hybrid Publishing Lab - Leuphana Inkubator, Leuphana University, Germany. He is author of Culture in Bits (Continuum, 2002), Digitize This Book! (Minnesota UP, 2008) and Pirate Philosophy (currently under review), co-author of Open Education: A Study in Disruption (London: Rowman and Littlefield International, in press), and co-editor of New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory (Edinburgh UP, 2006) and Experimenting (Fordham UP, 2007). Gary has over thirty peer-reviewed publications in edited books and academic journals including American Literature, Angelaki, Cultural Studies, New Formations, The Oxford Literary Review and Radical Philosophy. In 1999 with Dave Boothroyd he co-founded the open access journal Culture Machine, a pioneer of OA in the humanities. In 2006 with Sigi Jottkandt and David Ottina he established Open Humanities Press, the first open access publisher dedicated to critical and cultural theory. More details are available on his website http://www.garyhall.info<http://www.garyhall.info/> [ruppert] Dr. Rupert Gatti Rupert Gatti is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he is a Director of Studies in Economics. His academic work includes microeconomic analysis of competition in online markets, game theory and search theory. He has held visiting positions at MIT and the University of Florence and has acted as an Economic Advisor on several EU competition studies. Rupert is a co-founder and Director of Open Book Publishers (OBP), a non-profit social enterprise publishing rigorously peer-reviewed Open Access monographs in the humanities and social sciences. In December OBP will be celebrating the publication of its 50th Open Access title, with works ranging from some of the world's best known scholars such as Amartya Sen and Noam Chomsky to first publications by scholars just starting their academic careers. [ann]Anne Marie Ainsworth - Ubiquity Press Anne Marie in an Editorial Manager at Ubiquity Press and until March of this year was Head of Production at BioMed Central. Ubiquity Press is a researcher-focused publishing company which specialises in open access academic journals and open data. Ubiquity Press works on different ways to break down barriers to publishing, and to this end the company publishes research journals ranging from the humanities and social sciences through to sciences, technology and medicine. It also publishes journals on research data, software and bioresources. At the same time, Ubiquity Press is currently investigating and developing additional projects with the potential to make a big difference in the field, and welcomes collaboration with information scientists and developers with an interest in research ontologies and classfications, social behaviour of academic networks and distribution and access models for research information.