During the past two months I invested quite some of my spare free time to contribute to the organization of the open access event Rigor and Openness in 21st century science which will take place in the University of Oxford on April 11th and 12th.
The Idea of the conference came up during Heinrich’s time in Oxford where he and me have been working a lot on related work and he was working closely together with people from the Akorn project (c.f. Heinrichs blog article why openess benefits research)
Thanks to a great effort of the organizing team (mostly students from Oxford + Heinrich and me) we can finally publicly announce the conference.
As you can see from the web page
http://www.rigourandopenness.org/
we have been able to attract quite some famous speakers to Oxford for the various sessions, keynotes and the debate. I am particularly proud that we could even get hold of Amelia Andersdotter MEP and member of the Swedish pirate party for the public debate together with people from publishers…

Please help us to spread the word of the conference. Even if you cannot come to Oxford or live abroad some of your friends might be close and might want to attend.
The topic of open access is important since we have to preserve or knowledge (c.f. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cost_of_Knowledge)