Today I would like to draw your attention to the upcoming PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2011 which will take place in just about one month from now.

The Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference will be held from September 26 - 28, 2011 at Freie…

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The Public Knowledge Project is pleased to announce that, in partnership with the Freie Universität Berlin, the Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference will be held from September 26 - 28, 2011 in Berlin, Germany:

http://www.pkp2011.de



The theme for the conference is "Building and Sustaining Alternative Scholarly Publishing Projects Around the World".



The program for the conference is now available,… Continue

To promote understanding of Open Access, the information platform open-access.net initiated a series of short films. In a charming and humorous manner, the value chain of academic publishing and the principles of Open Access are explained. The films (sponsored by the German Research Foundation, DFG) are in German and in English and will be gradually published on open-access.net's YouTube channel. Have fun and help spread the word! (The films are licensed under CC BY 3.0 Unported.)…

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