Dear all,

There are still a few spaces remaining for the 8th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, COASP, which will be held at the Westin Arlington Gateway, Virginia, on the 21st and 22nd September, 2016. Registrations will close on September 14th. Details of registration and accommodation can be found here: http://oaspa.org/registrations-and- accommodation

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.

Please feel free to join in the discussion about the conference on social media using #COASP8. Best wishes, Leyla ————— Leyla Williams Events and Communications Coordinator Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA oaspa.org | Twitter: @OASPA https://twitter.com/OASPA