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Mark your diaries if you’re in the Boston area, and join us on April 22^nd for an evening of provocative talks, followed by drinks, in celebration of Open Science Publishing.

Coinciding with the Experimental Biology meeting in Boston, but open to delegates and non-delegates alike, F1000Research is hosting a discussion on the benefits of Open Science publishing for the research community. The discussion will cover the significant issues currently affecting the way research findings are published including:

• The importance of rapid publication and the negative impact of delays;
• The benefits of a completely open and transparent peer review;
• The importance of open publication of all data to enable reuse and the testing of reproducibility by others;
• The implications of the move towards open access (and full CC-BY access) by governments and funders;
• The benefits of publishing small science findings, null/negative/replication results, and other non-standard studies.

Our speakers are:

Vitek Tracz: Chairman and Founder, F1000, and a pioneering supporter of Open Access

Steven Hyman: Distinguished Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and Scholar in Residence, Broad Institute, Harvard University and MIT (and past-Provost, Harvard University)

Keith Flaherty: Director of Developmental Therapeutics, Massachusetts Cancer Center

Gary Borisy: Biophysics, Senior Scientist & President Emeritus, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA

Lawrence Kane: Associate Professor of Immunology, Director of Immunology Graduate Program, University of Pittsburgh

Sue Griffin: Dillard Professor and Vice Chairman, Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

 

We expect this event will fill up fast so if you and your colleagues would like to attend, please register no later than Friday, April 12th.

WHEN:
Monday, April 22, 2013
5:30pm – 8:30pm

WHERE:
Boston Convention Center, Room #052A
415 Summer St, Boston, MA 02210
(Please enter the convention center through either the south parking lot entrance on level zero or the main entrance on level one at the north end of the building.)