From: Kathleen Shearer <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 14:22:01 +0000

<Sorry of the cross posting>

Please join us in the beautiful city of Porto, Portugal for an
exciting program featuring dynamic speakers from around the world,
Connecting Research Results, Bridging Communities Opening Scholarship
on April 15 & 16, 2015

Keynote speakers are John Wilbanks, Chief Commons Officer, Sage
Bionetworks and Dominique Babini, Coordinator of Open Access Projects,
CLACSO

Session will be a mixture of thought provoking presentations and
discussion about the future of scholarly communication and the role of
libraries in this future,

The evolving policy environment for data and publications — Measuring
the real value of research outputs — How we can align ourselves
globally? — New organizational models for managing research data.

The full program is available here:
http://www.sparc.arl.org/events/joint-coar-sparc-conference

Early bird rates are 50€ (Euros) for COAR/SPARC members and 100€
(Euros) for non-members.

Early bird rates end on Friday March 13, 2015.

For more information, please visit the SPARC or COAR websites.

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Kathleen Shearer
Executive Director, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
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Skype: kathleenshearer2 - twitter: @KathleeShearer