** Apologies for Cross-Posting **

Six forthcoming Open Access events in the coming 6 months:

1.  Researchers and Open Access
    Including Workshop on:
    "Self-archiving, Institutional Repositories, and its impact on research"
    1st European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and
    Medicine (ECSP)
    Lund, Sweden
    http://www.ecspbiomed.net/
    21-22 April 2006

2.  The Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K)
    Yale Law School, New Haven
    http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/a2kspeakers.html
    21-23 April 2006

3.  Open Access and Information Management: International Workshop
    Information Management Committee,
    NATO Research & Technology Organisation,
    Oslo, Norway,
    10 May 2006,

4.  Open Access Institutional Repositories
    Current Research Information Systems (CRIS2006)
    Bergen, Norway
    http://ct.eurocris.org/CRIS2006/
    11-13 May 2006

5.  Congrès de l'ACFAS 2006:
    L'information scientifique : les impacts du libre accès (515)
    McGill, Montréal, Canada
    http://www.acfas.ca/congres/
    15 mai 2006

6.  "Open Access - threat or blessing?"
    2nd Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) Munich, Germany,
    http://www.esof2006.org/programme2.php4
    15 - 19 July 2006