Opening of the LusOpenEdition portal in Lisbon

LusOpenEdition was launched on October 27, 2011 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon during the OpenAccess Week.
The LusOpenEdition project is part of OpenEdition providing the scientific community with three international-scope publishing and information platforms in the humanities and social sciences:

• Revues.org – Books and Journals
• Calendar – Announcemtent of scientific events
• Hypotheses.org – Academic blogs

LusOpenEdition seeks to implement, over the next three years, an electronic publishing portal dedicated to the development and dissemination of  scientific research results in the humanities in Portuguese speaking countries.

Program of the event
14h30: Opening session. Presentation of the project LusOpenEdition – George Lucas (Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal)
14h40: Presentation of the project and opening of the website lusopenedition.org – Marin Dacos (Director of Cleo, France)
15h20: The role of the CRIA in the LusOpenEdition project – Antonia Lima (Director of CRIA, Portugal)
15.30:  Open Access for the humanities ans social sicences – Eloy Rodrigues (Director of Minho University Information Services, Portugal)
16.00: Open Science: practical or social movement? – Gustavo Cardoso (Researcher at CIES, ISCTE, Portugal)
16h30: Closing session

LusOpenEdition is developed and funded by the Centre for Open electronic Publishing (Cleo – UMS 3287), the Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.