11th international APE Conference

Selected themes for APE 2016 are: The Principles (Ethics) of Academic Publishing, Reputation, Reliable Quality, Reproducibility and the Role of Peer Review (Retractions, Fraud), the Peere Project, Open Science, COUNTER, ORCID, Big Data, Linked Open Data, new dot.coms to watch, further projects to discover. The APE 2016 Lecture will be about the Origins of Academic Publishing in Europe. There will be a special Session on China.

The APE Conferences aim at a better understanding of scholarly communication and the role of information in science, education and society. They encourage the debate about the future of value-added scientific publishing, information dissemination and access to scientific results and offer an independent forum for ‘open minds’. Participants have enjoyed this very open atmosphere in the Academy of Sciences at the famous Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin Mitte. Participants are: academic, educational, scientific, technological, medical, legal and professional publishers, university presses, researchers, authors, editors, librarians, teachers, learned and professional societies and associations, funding agencies, politicians and policy makers, subscription agencies and booksellers, recruiting agencies and technology providers. APE Conferences provide an inventory and show the way ahead in a collaborative effort involving all stakeholders. At the same time they are open for a review of new enabling technologies that may cope with new requirements and also look at sustainability given the changes of behaviour. As always there will be a lot of time for discussions and meetings with friends and colleagues.

The number of participants is limited to 200!