Keynote speakers for this year are Heather Joseph (Executive Director, SPARC), MacKenzie Smith (University Librarian, University of California, Davis), Hilda Bastian (Chief Editor, PubMed Health/PubMed Commons), Meredith Morovati (Executive Director, Dryad), and Jerry Sheehan (Assistant Director for Scientific Data & Information, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy). The final program is available on the conference website:http://oaspa.org/conference/coasp-2016-program. A pre-conference reception for delegates will be held on the evening of Tuesday 20 September.

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