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CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI9)

OAI9 Workshop in Geneva 17-19 June 2015

The OAI9 Workshop on Current Developments in Scholarly Communication is taking place in the University of Geneva and in CERN, Geneva, on 17-19 June 2013. The meeting's web site is

http://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/

There are six plenary sessions:

• Technical developments
• Barriers and impact
• CHORUS and SHARE
• Quality assurance
• The institution as publisher
• Digital curation and preservation of large and complex scientific objects

The tutorials, which start the Workshop, are devoted to:

• The institution as publisher: getting started
• Author identification systems
• Open Monograph Press
• Hiberlink project
• Managing a digitization project
• Open Access Café 2015

Five breakout groups have been arranged so far for group discussions:

• OA policy
• Legal framework for innovative science - text and data mining
• Research data management
• Open annotations
• Managing APC payments

There will also be 20+ posters in the timetabled poster session. We will soon issue a call for posters.

The OAI Workshops provide a space for all those interested in developments in scholarly communication to come together to learn from each other, to exchange ideas, and to hear papers from leading experts in the field. They are rather prominent European events in the year in which they are held. Registration is open at:
http://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/registration/register#/register

The OAI Organisers see http://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/page/7