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All, 

We are thrilled to announce that registration is now live for the Choosing Pathways to OA working forum.

We have updated the forum website, www.cp2oa18.com, with additional details on travel, accommodations, accessibility, and more—and will be building these out more robustly over the next few weeks.

While we develop the forum schedule more precisely, we have in the interim added additional information about forum structure, which we’d like to call your attention to here:

The forum structure and agenda will be based on design thinking to cultivate discourse and a solutions-based approach. The goal is to facilitate participants’ abilities to understand and assess which OA strategies might be appropriate for repurposing spends at their own institutions, to engage participants in exploring insights shared by others about the implications of implementing those strategies, and to support participants in outlining or developing their own action plans for their institution or author community.

As the forum will not include presentations in the traditional sense, but instead will be based around discourse, we are engaging facilitators rather than speakers to help guide discussions on given OA publishing strategies. Please check the Facilitators page of our website in the coming weeks for more information.

This overall information-sharing and discussion-centered format strives to achieve a balance between deeper engagement with the OA strategies and meaningful opportunities to frame or advance along next steps–including through alignment or partnership with similarly-interested institutions or communities.  As we also hope is clear from the Pathways toolkit and our About page, the forum will give voice to strategies within all OA approaches, with the understanding that each institution or author community might wish to support a range of strategies and approaches.

If you have any questions, please contact [log in to unmask].

Sincerely, 

The CP2OA Planning Committee

Rachael Samberg (UCB) Co-chair

Maria Gould (UCB) Co-chair

Allegra Swift (UCSD)

David Schmitt (UCSD)

Anneliese Taylor (UCSF)

Stephen Kiyoi (UCSF)

Donald Barclay (UCM)

Lisa Schiff (CDL)

Mat Willmott (CDL)

Sherri Barnes (UCSB)

Eunice Schroeder (UCSB)

John Renaud (UCI)

Mike Wolfe (UCD)