From: Kim Beadle <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:00:01 +0100 The PEER Consortium Partners are pleased to announce the PEER End of Project Conference Date: 29 May 2012 Time: 11.00 - 17.00 CET Location: Federation of Enterprises in Belgium Rue Ravenstein 3, B -1000 Brussels (200m from Gare Centrale in Brussels) Registration is free and is now open at: http://www.peerproject.eu/peer-end-of-project-conference-29th-may-2012/ PEER, supported by the EC eContentplus programme (http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/index_en.htm), has been investigating the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of authors' final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open Access or stage-two research output) on reader access, author visibility, and journal viability, as well as on the broader ecology of European research, with the aim of informing the evolution of policies in this area. The project is a collaboration between publishers, repositories, and the research community including funding bodies, which has run since September 2008 and will conclude with this conference. Speakers will include representatives from PEER, as well as internationally recognised research experts. Representatives from the publishing, library/repository, funding and research stakeholder communities will participate in a round-table discussion, addressing the evidence gathered by PEER of what the effect of broad and systematic archiving of research outputs in open access repositories might be. The conference will present the final results of the PEER project (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) - http://www.peerproject.eu/ Preliminary Programme: *Welcome: Michael Mabe (STM), Chair of the PEER Executive *Opening Address: Vice President Neelie Kroes (Digital Agenda) Building the project PEER Achievements and Executive Partner reflections The PEER Observatory LUNCH *PEER Research - Chair: Professor Carol Tenopir, University of Tennessee *Introduction - Dr Chris Armbruster, Research Manager PEER * Session A - Usage Research: Dr Ian Rowlands CIBER Research Ltd, UK * Session B - Behavioural Research: Dr Jenny Fry, Department of Information Science and LISU, Loughborough University, UK * Session C - Economics Research: Professor Paola Dubini, ASK Research Center, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy COFFEE BREAK *PEER: Green Open Access Scenario Development - building on the findings from PEER *Multi-stakeholder Round Table Discussion of PEER results CLOSE OF CONFERENCE Practical location information: For a location map and directions: http://vbo-feb.be/en/location/ CONTACT: For any questions related to the conference programme, or PEER please contact Julia Wallace, PEER Project Manager ([log in to unmask]). For updates on the PEER End of Project Conference, visit the website: http://www.peerproject.eu/peer-end-of-project-conference-29th-may-2012/ PEER Partners: International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), the European Science Foundation, Göttingen University/ State and University Library, the Max Planck Society, Inria - Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique, SURF Foundation and University of Bielefeld STM publishers participating in PEER: BMJ Publishing Group; Cambridge University Press; EDP Sciences; Elsevier; IOP Publishing; Nature Publishing Group; Oxford University Press; Portland Press; Sage Publications; Springer; Taylor & Francis Group; Wiley-Blackwell PEER repositories: eSciDoc.PubMan.PEER, Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V. (MPG); HAL, CNRS & Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (Inria); Göttingen State and University Library (UGOE); SSOAR - Social Sciences Open Access repository (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences); TARA - Trinity College Dublin (TCD); University Library of Debrecen (ULD) Long term preservation archive: e-depot, Koninklijke Bibliotheek Kim Beadle Office Manager and PA to Michael Mabe STM Prama House Oxford 0X2 7HT UK E-mail: [log in to unmask] Web: www.stm-assoc.org STM members - sign up to the STM Permission Guidelines if you haven't already done so: http://www.stm-assoc.org/permissions-guidelines/