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    Chi è interessato puo' seguire in streaming la conferenza <br>
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.sparc.arl.org/events/joint-coar-sparc-conference">http://www.sparc.arl.org/events/joint-coar-sparc-conference</a><br>
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    Tema della conferenza: connecting research results, bridging
    communities, opening scholarship<br>
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    La giornata di oggi sta per cominciare adesso<br>
    <p><strong>Tuesday, April 14th - Preconference & Optional
        Programming</strong></p>
    <ul>
      <li>9:00am-10:30am: 'Breakfast Club'</li>
      <li>10:30am: Coffee Break</li>
      <li>11:00am-12:30pm: SPARC Member meeting</li>
      <li>12:30pm: Lunch</li>
      <li>1:30pm-3:00pm: SPARC & COAR Member Workshop  </li>
    </ul>
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    <div><strong>Wednesday, April 15th</strong></div>
    <ul>
      <li>9:00am-10:30am: <strong>Welcome and Opening Keynote</strong> </li>
      <ul>
        <ul>
          <ul>
            <ul>
              <li>Keynote Speaker - <a href="http://del-fi.org/jtw">John
                  Wilbanks</a></li>
            </ul>
          </ul>
        </ul>
      </ul>
      <li>10:30am: Coffee Break</li>
      <li>11:00am-12:30pm: <strong>Session #1: The International Open
          Science Policy Environment </strong> </li>
      <ul>
        <ul>
          <ul>
            <ul>
              <li><strong>Lars Bjørnshauge</strong>, Director of
                European Library Relations, SPARC Europe</li>
              <li><strong>Marisa de Giusti,</strong> Professor,
                Universidad de La Plata</li>
              <li><strong>Jennifer Hansen</strong>, Manager, Information
                & Research Services, The Bill & Melinda Gates
                Foundation</li>
              <li><strong>Jarkko Siren,</strong> Project Officer,
                European Commission</li>
            </ul>
          </ul>
        </ul>
      </ul>
      <li>12:30pm: Lunch </li>
      <li>1:30pm-3:00pm: <strong>Session #2: Organizational Models for
          Research Data Management Services</strong></li>
      <ul>
        <ul>
          <ul>
            <ul>
              <li><strong>Gerald Beasley, </strong>Vice-Provost and
                Chief Librarian,<strong> </strong>University of Alberta</li>
              <li><strong>Liisi Lembinen</strong>, Acting Director of
                the Library, University of Tartu </li>
              <li><strong>Elisha Rufaro T. Chiware, </strong>Director of
                Libraries, Cape Peninsula University of Technology</li>
            </ul>
          </ul>
        </ul>
      </ul>
      <li>3:00pm: Coffee Break</li>
      <li>3:30pm-5:00pm: <strong>Session #3: Global Alignment and
          Collaboration</strong></li>
      <ul>
        <ul>
          <ul>
            <ul>
              <li><strong>Johanna McEntyre, </strong>Director, Europe
                PubMed Central</li>
              <li><strong>Andrew Sallans</strong>, Partnerships,
                Collaborations, & Funding Manager, Center for Open
                Science</li>
              <li><strong>Kathleen Shearer, </strong>Executive Director,
                Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)</li>
            </ul>
          </ul>
        </ul>
      </ul>
      <li>7:30pm: <strong>Conference Dinner</strong></li>
    </ul>
    <p><strong>Thursday, April 16th</strong></p>
    <ul>
      <li>9:00am-10:30am: <strong>Session #4: Assessing Value </strong> </li>
      <ul>
        <ul>
          <ul>
            <ul>
              <li><strong>William Nixon</strong>, Digital Library
                Development Manager, University of Glasgow</li>
              <li><strong>Stefanie Haustein,</strong> Post-doctoral
                Researcher, Canada Research Chair on the Transformations
                of Scholarly Communication, Université de Montréal</li>
              <li><strong>Nisia Trindade</strong>, Vice-President,
                Foundation Oswaldo Cruz</li>
            </ul>
          </ul>
        </ul>
      </ul>
      <li>10:30am: Coffee Break</li>
      <li>11:00am-12:30pm: <strong>Closing Keynote & Conference
          Closing</strong></li>
      <ul>
        <ul>
          <ul>
            <ul>
              <li>Keynote Speaker - <a
                  href="http://clacso.academia.edu/DominiqueBabini">Dominique
                  Babini</a> </li>
            </ul>
          </ul>
        </ul>
      </ul>
    </ul>
    <p><a
        href="http://sparc.arl.org/coar-sparc-conference-speaker-bios-0">Speaker
        bios can be found here.</a></p>
    <p>More information on hotel options can be found <a
href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/community/events/annual-meeting-2015/accommodation/">here</a>.</p>
    <p>More information on Porto, Portgual and how to get there can be
      found <a
href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/community/events/annual-meeting-2015/general-information-and-travelling/">here</a>.</p>
    <p>COAR and SPARC are incredibly thankful to the sponsors of this
      Conference -- </p>
    <p><img src="cid:part6.09090903.03030004@cineca.it" alt=""
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    Paola<br>
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Paola Gargiulo
International Business Development Unit
IT Solutions for Institutional Research
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phone +39 02 26995-218
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