Program
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**Updated October 31, 2011. Subject to Change**
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REGISTRATION FOR ALL EVENTS IS REQUIRED
It is recommended that participants take advantage of the DC metro RED LINE to travel to and between pre-conference sites and the Bethesda Hyatt.
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
12:30 - 2:30PM JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, 1717 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW [Map]
Pre-conference on open-access publishing
SPEAKERS:
- Peter Binfield, Publisher, PLoS ONE and the Community Journals [slides]
- Pierre Mounier, Associate Director - Centre for Open Electronic Publishing, openedition
- Caroline Sutton, President, Open-access Scholarly Publishers' Association and Publisher, Co-Action Publishing [slides]
- Neil Thakur, Special Assistant to the Director for Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health [slides]
- Christoph Bruch, Open Access Policy, Max Planck Digital Library (Moderator)
3:00 - 5:00PM JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, 1717 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW [Map]
Pre-conference on open-access policy development
SPEAKERS:
- William Nixon, Digital Library Development Manager, University of Glasgow [slides]
- Bernard Rentier, Rector, Université de Liege [slides]
- Stuart Shieber, Director, Office for Scholarly Communication, Harvard University
- Jeffrey Vitter, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, University of Kansas
- Alma Swan, Convenor, Enabling Open Scholarship and Director, Key Perspectives Ltd (Moderator) [slides]
3:00 - 5:00PM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES, 500 FIFTH ST NW [Map]
Pre-conference on open-access infrastructure
Open Access in the scholarly environment - Making things work!
SPEAKERS:
- Malte Dreyer, Head of Department for Research and Development, Max Planck Digital Library [slides]
- Norbert Lossau, Director, Goettingen State and University Library [slides]
- Oya Y. Rieger, Associate University Librarian, Cornell University
- Urs Schöpflin, Head of the Library, MPI for the History of Science, Max Planck Society [slides]
- Edward Seidel, Assistant Director, Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate, National Science Foundation
- Frank Sander, Head, Max Planck Digital Library [slides]
- Rick Luce, Vice Provost and Director of University Libraries, Emory University (moderator)
6:00 - 8:00PM PING PONG DIM SUM, 1 DUPONT CIRCLE NW, #115
NOTE: The restaurant is on the south side of the building, at the corner of New Hampshire and O Street NW, beside James Hoban's.
Welcoming reception
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
**Shuttles will transport participants from the Bethesda Hyatt to HHMI beginning at 8:00am. The last shuttle will depart the hotel at 9:00am.
BETHESDA HYATT [Map]
6:30 - 8:30AM Breakfast for hotel guests (Concours)
HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE (HHMI) [Map]
9:30AM - 10:45AM
Welcome with remarks by the organizers
11:15AM - 1:00PM
The worldwide policy environment
SPEAKERS:
- Jean-François Dechamp, Policy Officer, European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
- Harold Varmus, Director, U.S. National Cancer Institute
- Cyril Muller, Vice President, External Affairs Department, The World Bank
- Avice Meehan, Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Moderator)
2:00 - 3:30PM
Transforming Research through Open Online Access to Discovery Inputs and Outputs
SPEAKERS:
- Philip Bourne, Professor, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego [slides]
- Neil Buckholtz, Chief of the Dementias of Aging Branch of the Division of Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging [slides]
- Mark Liberman, Director, Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania [slides]
- Dieter Stein, Professor, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf (moderator)
4:00 - 5:30PM
Creation of Innovative New Opportunities for Scholarship and Business
SPEAKERS
- Michael Carroll, Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University
- Robert Kiley, Head of Systems Strategy, the Wellcome Trust
- Elliot Maxwell, Digital Connections Council Project Director, Committee for Economic Development [slides]
- Cameron Neylon, Science and Technology Facilities Council
- Carl Rhodes, Senior Scientific Officer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Moderator)
**Shuttles will transport participants from HHMI to the Bethesda Hyatt from 5:00 - 6:30pm. The last shuttle will depart HHMI at 6:30pm.
7:00 - 10:00PM
Conference-wide dinner at the Bethesda Hyatt Hotel
Remarks by the hosts of Berlin 10, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Toast to new signatories of the Berlin Declaration
Moderated by Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition)
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
BETHESDA HYATT [Map]
6:30 - 8:30AM Breakfast for hotel guests (Concours)
HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE [Map]
**Shuttles will transport participants from the Bethesda Hyatt to HHMI beginning at 8:00am. The last shuttle will depart the hotel at 9:00am.
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
9:30 - 11:00AM
The Impact of Open Access and Open Repositories on Research in the Humanities
SPEAKERS
- Chad Gaffield, President, Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council [slides]
- Trevor Muñoz, Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)
- Dean Rehberger, Director, Matrix, Michigan State University [slides]
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Modern Language Association (moderator)
PANELISTS
- Manfred Laubichler, Arizona State University, Max Planck Institute, Marine Biological Laboratory
- Cathy Norton, Library Scholar, Marine Biological Laboratory, Chair Institutional Council, Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Urs Schoepflin, Director, Research Library, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Open Education: Linking Learning and Research through Open Access
SPEAKERS
- Michael M. Crow, President, Arizona State University
- Laura Czerniewicz, Director, OpenUCT, University of Cape Town [slides]
- Hal Plotkin, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the Under Secretary, Department of Education
- Leslie Chan, Program Supervisor, International Development Studies; Director, Bioline International; University of Toronto Scarborough (Moderator) [slides]
2:00 - 3:30PM
Public Interaction: the Range and Power of Open Access for Business, Citizen Science and Patients
SPEAKERS
- François Grey, Coordinator, Citizen Cyberscience Centre, CERN, Switzerland [slides]
- Stephen Friend, President, Sage Bionetworks
- Sophia Colamarino, Consulting Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University Medical School
- John Wilbanks, Consent to Research (Moderator)
3:30 - 4:30PM
Conference Summary and Next Steps
SPEAKERS
- Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition)
- Bernard Schutz, Director, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
- Ellen Tise, Senior Director, Library Services, Stellenbosch University
**Shuttles will transport participants from HHMI to the Bethesda Hyatt from 4:30 - 5:30pm. The last shuttle will depart HHMI at 5:30pm.
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Contacts
Jennifer McLennan
SPARC
(202) 296-2296 ext. 121
jennifer [at] arl [dot] org
Washington, DC
Christoph Bruch
The Max Planck Society
+ 49 (30) 84 13 37 27
bruch [at] mpdl [dot] mpg [dot] de
Berlin
Andrea Early
Marine Biological Laboratory
(508) 289-7652
aearly [at] mbl [dot] edu
Woods Hole, ME