The e-ciencia open access project -in which public regional administration, public universities in Madrid and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) cooperate for promotion of open access and development of IRs- is organising a set of activities for OAW2010, http://bit.ly/d3Hqz1 (English version).

Main event will be a round table on open access to be held on Wed Oct 20th with scholars from different institutions that belong to the e-ciencia project. There is an interesting list of topics for debating with researchers, such as:

• growing Open Access contents: great, but what about their quality?
• policies for Open Access promotion: do we really need mandates?
• copyright and Open Access: not as controversial as often thought
• research information infrastructure arising from Open Access professional networks: usage statistics, author identifiers, linked open data
• Open Access to research data: a great challenge, a great opportunity

The round table -to be held in Spanish- will be webcasted, and followers will be able to submit questions or suggest topics via twitter.

All info on this and other activities organised by e-ciencia or subsidiary institutions may be found at:

http://www.madrimasd.org/English/RDinformation/escience/Open-Access...