<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">A final reminder of the <b>June 17 deadline </b>for the OASPA 2022 call for <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap">proposals for the Poster Lightning Talk presentations. </span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All proposals should be submitted by June 17, 2022 </span><a href="https://forms.gle/soouAENaRHVbWtkW6" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">via this form</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> which asks for a brief description (up to a maximum of 300 words) of your proposal. Registration costs for the authors of successful proposals will be waived. This information can also be found on this <a href="https://oaspa.org/call-for-contributions-for-the-2022-oaspa-conference/" target="_blank">blog post</a>.</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Please do reach out with any questions to me at <a href="mailto:bernie.folan@oaspa.org" target="_blank">bernie.folan@oaspa.org</a></span></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Best wishes,</span></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Bernie</span></font></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="text-align:center"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">___________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap">The OASPA annual conference brings the open access community together to discuss new developments and innovations in scholarly publishing, and unite in our shared goal to enable research around the world to be openly accessible.
</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_9161674025125709972m_3050998162571846313m_3657521507765319126m_2977247268347950253gmail-m_-173580707836648415m_8060826582950734801gmail-docs-internal-guid-5f7d9f1c-7fff-8ed5-e26e-effd2f188a48"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The 2022 online conference will encourage participants to think </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Beyond Open Access</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to equitable open scholarship and science practices and will address many timely and fundamental topics relating to open scholarly communication. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OASPA 2022 will be held online to ensure wide participation and the opportunity to welcome everyone for collective reflection on our endeavours to ensure scholarship is open and accessible to all. We are pleased to have been able to freeze registration rates for the third year in a row.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Recordings, slides and posters from previous conferences, as well as information on how to register, can be found on our website</span><a href="https://oaspa.org/conference/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">here</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We look forward to receiving your suggestions!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best wishes,
</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap">Bernie</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 2pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2022 Conference Program Committee</span></h4><br>Arianna Becerril García (Autonomous University of the State of Mexico)<br>Leslie Chan (Knowledge Equity Lab, University of Toronto Scarborough)<br>Jennifer Gibson (Dryad and OASPA Chair)<br>Iain Hrynaszkiewicz (PLOS)<br>Carlos Alfredo Joly, (Universidade de Campinas and Editor-in-Chief of Biota Neotropica)<br>Sushil Kumar (Chitkara University Publications)<br>Catherine Mitchell (California Digital Library)<br>Lucy Oates (Oxford University Press)<br>Omo Oaiya (West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN))<br>Jadranka Stojanovski (University of Zadar and Ruđer Bošković Institute)<br>Francois van Schalkwyk (African Minds)<br></span><br><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b><font color="#666666">Bernie Folan</font></b><div><font color="#666666">Communications, Engagement and Outreach Manager, OASPA<br></font></div><div><font color="#666666">OASPA, Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association</font></div><div><font color="#666666"><a href="mailto:bernie.folan@oaspa.org" target="_blank">bernie.folan@oaspa.org</a><br>___________________________________________________________________<br></font><font color="#999999">Stay up to date: <a href="http://eepurl.com/bYkP8r" target="_blank">Sign up</a> for OASPA news by email | Follow us on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/OASPA" target="_blank">@OASPA</a><br>OASPA Conference <a href="https://oaspa.org/conference" target="_blank">Information and past programs and recordings</a> l OASPA Webinars <a href="https://oaspa.org/information-resources/oaspa-webinars/" target="_blank">Webinars with links to recordings</a></font><font color="#666666"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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