Events

January 13th, 2011 – Berlin, Germany
The SOAP consortium will present and discuss its findings, including an in-depth study of the business models, market success, similarities and differences of several thousand Open Access journals, and a unique large-scale survey on the (surprising) attitudes, drivers and barriers for Open Access Publishing of tens of thousands of researchers across disciplines and around the world. For further information please refer to: http://project-soap.eu/soap-symposium

November 9th, 2010
Members of the SOAP consortium will participate and present results from the project at the 5th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar: “Find it, Get it, Use it, Store it”. The serminar takes place on 7-9 Nov, 2010, in Lisbon. The presentation will be given in English. For further information please refer to: http://www.unica-network.eu/group/scholarly-communication

November 5th, 2010
Members of the SOAP consortium will participate and present results from the project at 2010 Annual Charleston Conference. The conference takes place on 3–6 Nov, 2010, in Charleston, SC. The presentation will be given in English. For further information please refer to: http://www.katina.info/conference/

October 26th, 2010
Members of the SOAP consortium will participate and present results from the project at Berlin 8 Open Access Conference, “Implementation Progress, Best Practices, and Future Challenges”. The conference takes place on 25–27 Oct, 2010, in Beijing, China. The presentation will be given in English. For further information please refer to: http://www.berlin8.org/

November 30th, 2010
A presentation about the SOAP project will be given at the Online Information Conference 2010, “Discover new ways of working in the linked and social web”. The conference takes place on 30 Nov – 2 Dec, 2010, in London, UK. The presentation will be part of a session entitled “New insights into open access” and the talk will be given in English. For further information please refer to: http://www.online-information.co.uk/online2010/conference.html

June 24, 2010
A presentation of some early results of the SOAP project will be given at the International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries “ICADL 2010 – The Role of Digital Libraries in a Time of Global Change”. The conference takes place on June 21 – 25, 2010, in Gold Coast, Australia. The presentation will be given in English. For further information please refer to: http://www.icadl2010.org

Presenation slides: Open Access Publishing: An Initial Discussion of Income Sources, Scholarly Journals and Publishers

June 17, 2010
A presentation on the first results of the SOAP project will be given at the 14th International Conference on Electronic Publishing “ELPUB 2010 – Publishing in the networked world: transforming the nature of communication”. The conference takes place on June 16 – 18, 2010, in Helsinki, Finland. The presentation will be given in English. For further information please refer to: http://conferences.aepic.it/elpub2009/

Presenation slides: Income sources as underlying business models’ attributes for scholarly journals: preliminary findings from analysing open access journals’ data

December 4th, 2009
The next follow-up conference on the Berlin Declaration “Berlin 7 – Reaching Diverse Communities” will focus with a panel discussion on “From Subscription to Publication: Scenarios for a Transformation of Scholarly Communication”. A presentation on the SOAP project will be given as a short introduction. The presentation will be given in English.
For further information please refer to: http://www.berlin7.org

Presenation slides: Evidence for Orderly Transition: The EU Project SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing)

October 7th, 2009
A presentation on the SOAP project is given during the German Open Access Days, which take place October 7th and 8th, 2009 in Konstanz, Germany. It will be part of Session 5 on Business models for electronic publishing of the first day of the conference. The presentation will be given in German. For further information please refer to: http://open-access.net/de_en/activities/open_access_days/programme/sessions

Presentation slides: Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP) – An Introduction