International Open Access Week

Monday, 19.10., 10:00 - 12:00, Forum, Room X0.13

Lecture Robert Shields, Senior Editor PLoS Biology

- What is PLoS and what is the business model?

- What should a scientific paper look like when it has been submitted to PLoS?

- What is the impact of PLoS to the scientific community?

- What about OA publication of scientific data and are there any plans to publish them together with the original papers in PLoS?

- Discussion

Robert Shields studied biochemistry in Cambridge, did research at Univ. of Sussex, at UCSF in San Franciso and in the biotech industry. He wrote numerous news & views artciles for Nature, was European editor of Cell for 5 years, than editor of Trends in genetics before he switched to PLoS Biology in 2006. For more bibliographical info go to this webpage:

www.plos.org/about/people/biology.html

Thursday, 22.10., 13:00 - 15:00, Forum, Room X0.13a

Lectures about Open Access activities at the HZI

- Axel Plähn: Was ist die Idee hinter Open Access und was tun wir am HZI dafür?

- Dr. Roland Weller: Das HZI-Open Repository

- Prof. Dr. Rainer Jonas: Open Access als Beitrag zur internationalen Ausstrahlung der Wissenschaft

Find more infos on other activities in Germany here:

www.open-access.net