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Friday, 21 April - Lectures

08:00-9:00 Registration

Lectures in the conference hall Uarda:

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09:00-09:15
Opening address
Professor Bo Ahrén, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University
Chair:

09:15-09:45
Identifying Nobel Class Scientists and the Vagaries of Research Assessment
Dr. Eugene Garfield, Founder & Chairman Emeritus, Institute for Scientific Information / Thomson.

09:45-10:15
Open access in the bio-medical fields: why it is important for researchers, practising physicians and patients.
Professor Jean-Claude Guédon, Montreal University, Canada

10:15-10:45 Coffee break
Chair: Professor Fredrik Leeb-Lundberg, Faculty of Medicine

10:45-11:15
Improving access to biomedical and clinical research literature: the work of UK organizations.
Fredrick J. Friend, Consultant Joint Information Systems Committee, UK

11:15-11:45
Journal Publishing: The Future of Science Publishing Graham V Lees, Founding Editor & Publishing Director, TheScientificWorldJOURNAL

11:45-12:15
Open Access: the Choice Is Yours
Jan Velterop, Director of Open Access, Springer-Verlag, Germany

12:15-13:30 Lunch
Chair: Dr. Heiko Herwald, Faculty of Medicine

13:30-14:00
Open Access Publishing and the Public Library of Science
Mark Patterson, Public Library of Science

14:00-14:30
Open Access: Moving into the mainstream.
Natasha Robshaw, BioMed Central U.K.

14:30-15.00
Authors and Open Access
Dr. Alma Swan, Key Perspectives Ltd, UK

15:00-15:30 Coffe break
Chair: Cecilia Lundberg, Associate Professor

15:30-16:00
Extending Institutional "Publish or Perish" Policies and Incentives to "Provide Open Access to Publications"
Dr. Stevan Harnad, Université du Québec à Montréal Québec, Canada and University of Southampton, UK

16:00-16:30
Research funding and Open Access,
Robert Terry, Wellcome Trust UK

16:30-17:00 Coffe break

17:00-18:30
Panel discussion

19:30
***Dinner buffet and mingle***