<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">We are pleased to announce the Poster Lightning Talks selected for showcasing at the OASPA 2021 Conference on Open Access Scholarship, which takes place next month online (21-23 September). </div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">If you want to hear about the very latest open access innovations, projects and initiatives, make sure you register for the conference and attend the poster lightning talks. This year we have more talks than ever with 30 lightning presentations covering a huge range of topics crossing disciplines, models and all aspects of scholarship communication. <br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>The 2021 online conference (Designing 21st Century Knowledge Sharing Systems) will address many timely and fundamental topics relating to open scholarly communication and also offer a forum for collective reflection on the ongoing impact of the pandemic and our endeavours to ensure scholarship is open and accessible to all to address all current and future challenges. <span lang="EN-US">The event will include keynotes, an extended opening discussion, </span>panels, discussions and feedback sessions as well as the lightning poster talks. Delegates and speakers will also have access to a dedicated conference Slack space to meet each other, ask questions and discuss the sessions.</div><div><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US">The </span><a href="https://oaspa.org/oaspa-2021-conference-program/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"><span>program</span> can be found here</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> and information on how to register is at the conference website </span><a href="http://oaspa.org/conference/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://<span><span>oaspa</span></span>.org/conference/</span></a><span lang="EN-US">. Please get in touch at </span><a href="mailto:info@oaspa.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-US">info@<span>oaspa</span>.org</span></b></a><span lang="EN-US"> if you have any questions or wish to attend but are unfunded. </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br>We welcome delegates from a wide range of backgrounds at all stages of their careers who are working in publishing, librarianship, government, higher education, funding agencies, nonprofits, and other affiliated industries. OASPA Scholar Publisher members and unfunded individuals are invited to request the attendance waiver code. With thanks to our generous sponsors for enabling us to make the conference as accessible as possible. <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We hope you can join us next month!<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">With best wishes,<br>Bernie</span></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_ksv1fjlt2" alt="image.png" width="562" height="328"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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