OpenCon 2017 - ECS

Gaylord National Convention Center National Harbor, MD

Program Overview

ECS’s OpenCon is a satellite event of the main OpenCon, an international event hosted by the Right to Research Coalition, a student sponsored organization of SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.

The main OpenCon is hosted once a year; the launch took place in 2016 in Washington DC and in 2017 it will be in Berlin. To date, over 40 satellite events have taken place in 25 countries with more than 2,000 attendees. OpenCon satellites are an excellent way to start the discussion about open access and open science in a group or community.

Knowledge seems to be a common missing link in the socialization of openness for many researchers, and the ECS community is no exception. Introducing ECS members to an array of open concepts in research will facilitate the understanding needed to Free the Science, ECS’s long-term vision to lead the physical sciences in a paradigm shift to more open sharing and publishing of research."