Open Access (OA) is an emerging model to disseminate scientific research. Four distinguished speakers will provide valuable insights on how the OA trend will affect and benefit the scholar community.

1. OA Publishing vs Traditional Publishing: differences & benefits, Worldwide OA Development, Licensing issues of OA
Mr. Leo CHEUNG

(Regional Open Access Publishing Manager, BioMed Central)

2. What is Creative Commons License
Mr. Pindar WONG

(Co-Public Lead of Creative Commons Hong Kong)

3. Sharing as an OA journal editor and OA author
Prof. Yung Hou WONG

(Chair Professor & Associate Dean of School of Science, HKUST)

4. HKUST Institutional Repository
Ms. Becky LEE

(Scholarly Communication Manager, HKUST Library)