[Open-access] Open Repositories 2015: proposal submissions due January 30, 2015

[Imma Subirats]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 20, 2015

The deadline for main conference and interest group proposal
submissions and scholarship programme applications is January 30,
2015.

The Tenth International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2015
<http://www.or2015.net/>, will be held on June 8-11, 2015 in
Indianapolis (Indiana, USA). The organizers are pleased to invite you
to contribute to the program. This year's conference theme is:

LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD: OPEN REPOSITORIES AT THE CROSSROADS
OR2015 is the tenth OR conference, and this year¹s overarching theme
reflects that milestone: Looking Back/Moving Forward: Open
Repositories at the Crossroads. It is an opportunity to reflect on and
to celebrate the transformative changes in repositories, scholarly
communication and research data over the last decade. More critically
however, it will also help to ensure that open repositories continue
to play a key role in supporting, shaping and sharing those changes
and an open agenda for research and scholarship.
OR2015 will provide an opportunity to explore the demands and roles
now expected of both repositories and the staff who develop, support
and manage them - and to prepare them for the challenges of the next
decade. We welcome proposals on this theme, but also on the
theoretical, practical, organizational or administrative topics
related to digital repositories. We are particularly interested in:

1. SUPPORTING OPEN SCHOLARSHIP, OPEN SCIENCE, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE ONLINE
2. MANAGING RESEARCH (AND OPEN) DATA
3. INTEGRATING WITH EXTERNAL SYSTEMS
4. RE-USING REPOSITORY CONTENT
5. EXPLORING METRICS AND ASSESSMENT
6. MANAGING RIGHTS
7. DEVELOPING AND TRAINING STAFF
8. BUILDING THE PERFECT REPOSITORY

Submissions that demonstrate original and repository-related work
without these themes will be considered, but preference will be given
to submissions which address them.

KEY DATES
* 30 January 2015: Deadline for submissions
* 27 March 2015: Submitters notified of acceptance to general conference
* 10 April 2015: Submitters notified of acceptance to Interest Groups
* 8-11 June 2015: OR2015 conference

SUBMISSION PROCESS
* General Conference: <http://www.or2015.net/call-for-proposals/#submission>
* DSpace Interest Group: <http://www.or2015.net/dspace-ig/>
* EPrints Interest Group: <http://www.or2015.net/eprints-ig/>
* Fedora Interest Group: <http://www.or2015.net/fedora-ig/>

SUBMISSION SYSTEM: <https://www.conftool.com/or2015/> PDF format is
preferred for submissions.

CODE OF CONDUCT:  <http://www.or2015.net/code-of-conduct/>
SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME:  <http://www.or2015.net/scholarship-programme/>

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
* Holly Mercer, University of Tennessee
* William J Nixon, University of Glasgow
* Imma Subirats, FAO of the United Nations
contact: <or15-program-chairs at googlegroups.com>

LOCAL HOSTS
* Indiana University Bloomington Libraries
* University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
* Virginia Tech University Libraries
contact: <or2015 at indiana.edu>

CONFERENCE WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA
* website: <http://or2015.net/>
* twitter:@OR2015Indy and #or2015
* Facebook: <https://www.facebook.com/or2015>