The conference blog

The Second European Conference on Science Publishing in Biomedicine and Medicine begins today in Oslo, Norway. There is a full programme of talks and round-table sessions plus a series of workshops on Saturday. The primary themes of the main programme is Open Access - what it is, why it is necessary and how to achieve it - and the assessment of research (bibliometrics, scientometrics). The workshops cover many practical aspects including the use of biomedical databases, writing a scientific article and publishing Open Access journals.

We will be reporting here on the conference as it takes place, hoping to bring you a flavour of what people are talking about, what is exciting delegates and what they are saying about the future.