Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing

"The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing, primarily revolving around open access. This years conference will be held 26-27 November 2014 at the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway ... Themes for the conferences have always been some aspect of scholarly/scientific publishing and communication, overwhelmingly with Open Access (OA) as an important aspect, but Open Access in itself has not been the only theme. Some of the themes for the conferences have been Entering the Next Stage (2013), New Trends in Scholarly Publishing (2012), Enhancing publications (2011), Open Access: The Competative Advantage (2010), Time to review the peer review? (2009) and Money Talks: New institutional policies in scholarly publishing (2008). The conference have had keynotes like John Willinsky professor at the Stanford University; founder of The Public Knowledge Project (PKP), Jean-François Dechamp from the European Commission, Eelco Ferwerda, director of the OAPEN Foundation, David Prosser, director of Research Libraries UK, Martin Rasmussen, director of Copernicus Publications, Camron Neylon, advocacy director at PLOS, Damian Pattinson, executive editor of PLOS ONE and many more.  The Munin audience has partly been librarians working on OA and publishing issues from higher education libraries from the whole of Norway, partly research administrators from the same institutions, partly researchers and students from the University of Tromsø and – increasingly – librarians and research administrators working on OA and publishing issues from the Nordic countries and even the rest of Europe. We would like to engage researchers to a larger extent than we have succeeded in doing so far – after all publishing is there to serve their needs – and to strengthen their participation in the conference ..."