As the publishing environment encounters new challenges in the Open Access model, researchers are faced with gaining an understanding of the opportunities as well as threats offered by this novel paradigm.

The conference will gather the most authoritative opinions on these issues and offers you the opportunity to participate in lectures and educational workshops in various areas related to authors publishing.

The principal aim of the conference is to broaden researchers understanding and knowledge of the rapid changes in the scientific communication and publishing area and its possible implications on the research community.


Faculty of Medicine | Lund University | | | Sweden
Highlights from the programme

Dr. Eugene Garfield, Founder & Chairman Emeritus, Institute for Scientific Information / Thomson Scientific, will give a lecture on the topic "Identifying Nobel Class Scientists and the Vagaries of Research Assessment".

Robert Terry, from Wellcome Trust, UK will give a speech on "Research funding and Open Access".

Dr. Jean-Claude Guédon from Montreal University will give a lecture on the topic "Open access in the bio-medical fields: why it is important for researchers, practising physicians and patients".

Jan Velterop from Springer Verlag will talk about "Open Access: the Choice Is Yours".

Dr. Sara Schroter & Trish Groves, BMJ Training UK, will give a workshop on peer-review.

Practical use of the Impact Factor and Citation Analysis using ISI Web of Knowledge, will be presented by
Simon M Pratt, Thomson Scientific.

Stevan Harnad, American Scientist Open Access Forum, will give on institutional and national open-access self-archiving policy as well as a workshop on webmetric performance indicators and the open-access impact advantage

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