Please join us in the beautiful city of Porto, Portugal for an exciting program featuring dynamic speakers from around the world, Connecting Research Results, Bridging Communities Opening Scholarship on April 15 & 16, 2015.

Keynote speakers are John Wilbanks, Chief Commons Officer, Sage Bionetworks and Dominique Babini, Coordinator of Open Access Projects, CLACSO

Sessions will be a mixture of thought provoking presentations and discussion about the future of scholarly communication and the role of libraries in this future.

The evolving policy environment for data and publications — Measuring the real value of research outputs — How we can align ourselves globally? — New organizational models for managing research data. 

The full program is available here: http://www.sparc.arl.org/events/joint-coar-sparc-conference and https://www.coar-repositories.org/community/events/annual-meeting-2015/

Early bird rates are 55,50€ (Euros) for COAR/SPARC members and 105,50€ (Euros) for non-members.

Early bird rates end on Friday March 13, 2015.

For more information, please visit the SPARC or COAR websites.

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Katharina Mueller

Head of Office

Confederation of Open Access Repositories - COAR e.V.

at Goettingen State and University Library

Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1

D-37073 Goettingen

Germany

phone: +49 (0)551- 39 5242

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web: www.coar-repositories.org