Tom Moritz forwarded this - which will take place in London next month.. Thanks Tom!
J. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Research in the open: how mandates work in practice > Friday 29 May, 09:20 to 16:30, Wren Room, Royal Institute of British > Architects, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD > > The Repositories Support Project (RSP) and the Research Information > Network (RIN) are holding a free event to look at how researchers are > responding to mandates to include the results of their research work > in repositories, the event will cover the issues around both research > funders’ and institutional mandates at institutional, subject-based > and national levels and ask how these mandates are working in > practice. > > It will be an opportunity to investigate the way that mandates are > working, what policies and processes can improve this, how mandates > can become embedded within the research cycle, and reflect on their > current and future impact. The event is aimed at institutional > managers, senior librarians, research funders, repository managers, > publishers, learned societies and academic researchers. Places are > free but limited, so please book early. Book your place at this event > at www.rsp.ac.uk/events/index.php?page=MandatesDay2009/index.php > > Provisional Programme: 29 May > > 09:20 > Registration and refreshments > > 09:50 > Introduction & Day Overview - Stéphane Goldstein, Head of Programmes, > Research Information Network > 10:00 -- Funder Mandates - Robert Kiley, Head of e-Strategy, Wellcome Trust > 10:30 -- TBC > 11:00 -- Refreshments >11:15 -- UKPubMed Central - Paul Davey, Engagement Manager, UKPubMed Central > 11:45 -- PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) - Julia > Wallace, PEER > 12:15 -- Economic Implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models - > Charles Oppenheim, Head of Department and Professor of Information > Science, Loughborough University > 12:45 -- Lunch > 13:45 > TBC - Paul Ayris, Director of Library Services, University College London > 14:15 -- HEFCE - Paul Hubbard, Head of Research Policy, Higher Education > Funding Council for England (HEFCE) > 14:45 -- Refreshments > 15:00 Institutional Policies and Processes for Mandate Compliance - Bill > Hubbard, Manager, SHERPA, University of Nottingham > 15:30 -- Panel/Plenary Discussion > 16:00 -- Close > Sarah Gentleman > Communications Officer > Research Information Network > 96 Euston Road > London NW1 2DB > telephone: 020 7412 7241 > > Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/research_inform > RIN Facebook group > http://en-gb.facebook.com/pages/City-of-London-United-Kingdom/Research-Information-Network/29441497954 > email: [email protected] > website: www.rin.ac.uk -- Dr D.McL. Roberts, Tel: +44 (0)20 7942 5086 European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy Project, Ccordinator WorkPackage 6 (Unifying Revisionary Taxonomy), Dept. Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD Great Britain Email: [email protected] Web page: http://www.editwebrevisions.info/ Web page: http://www.e-taxonomy.eu/ -- "If you really don't believe in evolution, use last year's 'flu vaccine" Kate Smurthwaite, 'Apes like me' Edinburgh Festival 2008 -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
