Smt. Naina Pandita, Senior Technical Director and Sh. Sukhdev Singh, Technical Director from NIC Headquarters participated in the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Scholarly Publishing Conference 2007 at Vancouver, BC, Canada from 11th July to 13th July 2007. The conference provided opportunities to those involved in the organisation, promotion, and study of scholarly communication to share and discuss innovative work in scholarly publishing, with a focus on the contribution that open source publishing technologies can make to improve access to research and scholarship on a global and public scale. NIC officers were invited at the Conference in recognition of the work done by the Bibliographic Informatics Division in the area of Open Access and Open Journal System (OJS). A presentation on "Indian biomedical journals and Open Access: case study of the Indian Medlars Centre” was made at the conference.