[OAI-eprints] 3 forthcoming talks on open access through self-archiving (April-May)

[Stevan Harnad]

Here are three forthcoming talks on open access through self-archiving
(plus a related workshop):

Symposium on Scholarly Publishing and Archiving on the Web
University of Albany 7 April 2003.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 
"Maximizing Research Impact Through Institutional Self-Archiving"
http://library.albany.edu/symposium/program.html 

Council of Science Editors (CSE) Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh PA 4 May 2003.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 
"Author/Institution Self-Archiving and the Future of Peer-Reviewed Journals" 
http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/events_03Program_Schedule.shtml 

International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical
(STM) Publishers "Universal Access: By Evolution or Revolution?" 
Amsterdam, 15-16 May 2003.
INVITED ADDRESS:
"Open Access by Peaceful Evolution"
http://www.stm-assoc.org/infosharing/springconference-prog.html  

International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) (with partial
support of the European Union) 
Workshop on "Peer Review in the Age of Open Archives" 
Trieste (Italy) 24-25 May 2003.

Stevan Harnad

NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open
access to the peer-reviewed research literature online is available at
the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01 & 02):

    http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html
                            or
    http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html

Discussion can be posted to: september98-forum@amsci-forum.amsci.org 

See also the Budapest Open Access Initiative:
    http://www.soros.org/openaccess

the BOAI Forum:
    http://www.eprints.org/boaiforum.php/

the Free Online Scholarship Movement:
    http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm

the SPARC position paper on institutional repositories:
    http://www.unites.uqam.ca/src/sante.htm

the OAI site:
    http://www.openarchives.org

and the free OAI institutional archiving software site:
    http://www.eprints.org/