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ELPUB 2008 Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and
Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0
*Early bird fee is closed on April 30th, 2008.*
Registration for the 12th International Conference on
Electronic
Publishing, to be held in Toronto June 25-27 2008, is still
open:
early bird fees available until April 30.
To find out more about the meeting, to register, or to learn
about accommodations and travel options, please visit our
website
at:
http://www.elpub.net
A list of presentations with abstracts is already available
at:
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~elpub2008/abstracts.html
ELPUB has a reputation for providing a relaxed yet
stimulating
venue for discussion on diverse aspects of scholarly
communications and publishing. In order to keep with past
ELPUB
tradition, conference enrollment is limited to 200
individuals
(including speakers). We encourage you to register online as
soon
as possible to avoid disappointment.
We look forward to welcoming you to Toronto this June!
About ELPUB 2008:
Scholarly communications, and in particular scholarly
publications, are undergoing tremendous changes.
Researchers,
universities, funding bodies, research libraries and
publishers
are responding in different ways, from active
experimentation
with new models and adaptation of existing practices, to
strong
resistance or rejection of new communication methods. ELPUB
2008
will focus on a number of key issues surrounding the future
of
scholarly communications that arise as a result of the
intersection of semantic web technologies, the development
of
cyberinfrastructure for the humanities and the sciences, and
new
dissemination channels and business models.
The three-day event will begin with a full day of technical
workshops. The following two days will feature contributed
papers
examining a broad range of technical, conceptual, policy,
and
financial aspects of scholarly communication. Poster
presentations and demonstrations of new publishing and
research
tools will form part of the program. A plenary session on
funding
and access policies for publicly funded research, and a
special
session on open access developments in transitional and
developing countries will round out the program. The
conference
will begin and end with special keynotes by John Willinsky
and
Stevan Harnad.
The final agenda for the conference will be available online
in
late April, after the peer-review of submitted papers has
been
completed and acceptances have been confirmed.
For further inquiries, please email elpub2008 elpub.net
or
chanutsc.utoronto.ca
Leslie Chan Susanna Mornati
General Chair Program Chair
ELPUB 2008 http://www.elpub.net
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