Are you participating in OAWeek 2021? (You can update this later)

Yes--definitely!

First name

Lorelei

Last name

Silverman

Organization/institution name

University of Toronto

Type of institution

Academic Institution

What's your position?

Researcher

What's the level of OA awareness where you are?

None

What are your goals for OA Week?

We organized 2 Annual International Conference on Models of Human Diseases in 2010 and 2011,
www.wix.com/conferencenet/mhd
both on site in Toronto with more than 200 participants and on line more than 1200 members on linked in and 10000 on email. More than 12 contries participaeted. The conference was the first scientific conference on line in canada giving the opportunity to people frorm all over the world to contribute. We have a platform that is ongoing where one can post the entire poster not only the abstract and to update it. The entire conference was free toa ttend and participate and we finaced through fundraising. We participate last year in the Open week organized by Alison kevin and woold like to organize and event about our open acess conference and some publications. Any financial help or guidance will be appreciated