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October 2019
Open Access Conference 2019: Open For Whom?: Research Equity for Campus and Community
The widening gap between research output in the Global North and South is arguably an extension of historical structural power when colonial capitals were centers of knowledge production and poorer colonized countries were providers of data. In recent times, the escalating costs of subscription-based scholarly communication and copyright barriers have deepened the crisis because scholars in the Global South often can’t afford access to expensive journals that publish the most cutting edge research by the best scholars in the Global…
Find out more »10 Conferencia Internacional de Revistas Científicas (CRECS)
10th edition of a conference that began in 2011 in Barcelona, and has been held in Valencia, Sevilla, Madrid, Murcia, Cuenca, Barranquilla (Colombia) and Logroño... Addressed to librarians and editors of scholarly journals. Topics covered: Financing models, journal managing, open access, open data, open science, peer review, quality indicators, evaluation, metrics...
Find out more »November 2019
Shifting Power Centres in Scholarly Communications: Implications and future roles for libraries and publishers (ALPSP UKSG Joint Event)
The pace of change in our sector has accelerated - and that change has also become more wide-reaching. Where does all of this change leave researchers - are they already realising new benefits, or are they suffering from having one foot in the old world and one in the new? What will happen next, and how should scholarly publishers and librarians prepare? This year’s One-Day Conference is a partnership between UKSG and ALPSP, two organizations well placed to understand and address…
Find out more »PKP 2019, the Seventh International Scholarly Publishing Conference
The PKP 2019 International Scholarly Publishing Conference is presented by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) in partnership with the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Since 2007, PKP's bi-annual conference has brought together participants from around the world to discuss local publishing activities and the latest in open access research. They also provide an opportunity to learn and share innovative work related to open source publishing technologies, including our flagship software, Open Journal Systems (OJS). In 2018, PKP turned 20. PKP 2019 will explore…
Find out more »Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and open science. This year’s conference (2019) will be the fourteenth Munin Conference and will take place on 27–28 November at the Tromsø campus of UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Find out more »I Never Metadata I Didn’t Like
In this program, as the title suggests, everyone is a metadata fan! We will hear from publishers who describe their journey to enrich metadata and their lessons learned along the way. We’ll also hear from consumers of metadata who will bang the drum for an emphasis on abstracts or acceptance dates (or you name it), and from infrastructure organisations who attempt to collaborate to make it easier for everyone to do better.
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