3 April OA Conferences: 2 at Lund and 1 at Yale

[Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

         ** Apologies for Cross -Posting **

Dear All, just before the April 24-25 Lund conference just announced:

     Third Nordic Conference  on Scholarly Communication:
     Beyond Declarations - The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication
     24-25 April 2006, Star Hotel, Lund, Sweden
     http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc2006/

there is an April 21-22 Lund conference, on research-specific aspects
of the same topic:

     1st European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and Medicine
     21 - 22 April 2006, Star Hotel, Lund, Sweden
     http://www.ecspbiomed.net/

     "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."

Meanwhile, across the pond at Yale, there is at the same time an April 
21-23 Access to Knowledge (A2K) Conference on the same topic at the 
Information Society Project:

     The Access to Knowledge Conference
     Information Society Project
     Yale Law School
     New Haven, April 21st-23rd 2006
     http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/a2k.html

     "The goal of this landmark conference is to bring together leading
     thinkers and activists on access to knowledge policy from North and
     South to generate concrete research agendas and policy solutions
     for the next decade. This conference will be among the first to
     synthesize the multifaceted and interdisciplinary aspects of access
     to knowledge, ranging from textbooks and telecommunications access
     to software and medicines."

[Full Disclosure: I am scheduled to talk at both the first Lund conference 
(21-22) and the Yale conference (23), if I can manage the flight 
connections!]

Stevan Harnad