About the conference

Among the topics are:
  • Dissemination and impact of research in the Open Access environment.
  • Authors attitudes and Open Access.
  • Self-archiving and impact.
  • Bibliometric issues
  • Research funding and Open Access
  • The peer-review process.
  • Evaluation of research.
  • Copyright and intellectual property.
  • Permanency and digital material.
  • History of scientific publishing.
  • Publisher's new roles and alternative publishing models.
  • New technologies in publishing
Participating in the conference and the educational program will increase your knowledge in the various areas of scientific publishing from, gaining a historic and over-all understanding of the scientific publishing process, to improving your skills in information retrieval for your research.

Improved knowledge and skills will enable you as a researcher to:
  • Be up-to-date in the publishing area.
  • Be up-to-date in the new publishing technologies.
  • Make wise decisions in your publishing activities.
  • Understand the key rights to copyright.
  • Understand the peer-review process, the evaluation and quality of research.
  • Understand the principles of access to your published research and its impact on the worldwide research community now and in the future.
  • Understand the principles of self-archiving of published research for impact and future permanency
  • Understand the basic principles of bibliometric issues.