Panel Session # 5

About This Session

Open Access Publishing: Benefits, Challenges and Experiences

The presentation will look at Open Access publishing today, and why universities should fund Gold OA in addition to Green OA and the benefits which publishing in fully open access journals bring to authors and their institutions.  It will go on to look into the ways in which fully open access publishing is funded through grants and institutional memberships, and the options available to institutions considering a gold open access mandate including some case studies of BioMed Central member institutions.

Presenters

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Deborah Kahn

  • Publishing Director, BioMed Central

Deborah Kahn has been closely involved with the changing scholarly communications landscape since, whilst Journals Publisher for Chapman & Hall in the early 1990s, she was responsible for publishing one of the first electronic journals -  launched as a beta test of Adobe Acrobat.

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Logistics

When:

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 4:00pm to 4:20pm

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