OpenAIRE-COAR Conference 2014: Open Science, The Future of Scholarly Publishing
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Presentation at the OpenAIRE-COAR Conference: "Open Access Movement to Reality: Putting the Pieces Together", Athens - May 21-22, 2014. Session 5: The now and the future of open scholarly communication Open Science: The Future of Scholarly Publishing by Kamila Markram - Neuroscientist, Co-founder and CEO of Frontiers
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frontiersFounded in 2007 by EPFL neuroscientists Henry Markram & Kamila Markram
Headquartered at EPFL’s Innovation Square in Lausanne, Switzerland
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