OASPA conference 2012: Hungary for OA - News list | Open Access Key

"The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) met in Budapest, Hungary, in September for their fourth annual conference. Attendees, speakers and participants included representatives from a wide variety of stakeholders in the academic publishing community and from an impressive geographical line-up.   Key-note addresses were delivered by Salvatore Mele from SCOAP3/CERN, Mark Thorley (NERC) and Jean-François Dechamp (European Commission). Mr. Mele discussed centralisation and access in high-energy physics - points expounded in a Nature news article Open Access deal for particle physics. Mr. Deschamp's slide presentation OA in the ERA and Horizon 2020 is now available.   As OA issues are gaining wider traction, discussions this year included the subject of Open Access books, alt metrics and European-wide funding policy.   OAK's Simon Thomson chaired a discussion panel on the institutional funding of Open Access with Lars Bjørnshauge of SPARC Europe. Participating were Donna Okubo of the Public Libray of Science, Regine Tobias from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Caren Millen of JISC Collections.   The excellent panel of speakers and the enthusiastic delegation again built on the reputation this annual conference has for nurturing and inspiring developments in academic publishing around the world."