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PKP International Scholarly Publishing Conference
The conference will address issues of community voice, ownership, and control as it relates to open access publishing, global knowledge creation and sharing, open educational resources, citizen rights, scholars as publishers, and open source technologies. It will explore the power of community-based approaches and invites critiques of the pervasiveness of commercial publishing models (including APCs to fund open access), closed third-party systems and software, corporate concentration of scholarly publishing services, and the general ephemerality of the Web in the academic…
Find out more »ETD2017 Symposium
ETD2017, the 20th international symposium on electronic theses and dissertations will be held August 7 – 9, 2017 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Washington, D.C. The conference will be hosted by George Mason University with additional support from Washington Research Library Consortium members and co-organized by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) and the United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (USETDA). ETD2017 will provide excellent educational opportunities for professionals from graduate schools, libraries, academic computing…
Find out more »ALPSP Annual Conference
Now in its tenth year, the ALPSP Annual Conference is a key event in the scholarly publishing calendar and attracts a high level audience from all sectors of the scholarly communications industry. Spread over three days, the event provides a relaxed and friendly environment in which to share information and knowledge, learn about new initiatives, as well as engage in open discussion on the challenges and opportunities facing publishing today. Our expert speakers and the wide ranging programme ensures that…
Find out more »Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing
Registrations are now open for the 9th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP), hosted by The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA. The conference will be held at the Altis Grand Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal, on the 20th and 21st September, 2017. Details can be found on our Registration and Accommodation page, including how to book rooms at the hotel at our discounted delegate rate. Now in its 9th year, COASP is a vital conference for the open access…
Find out more »Open Access and Beyond
Open Access (OA) continues to gain momentum as open science and open peer review advance the movement and trends. From research development to scholarly output, creating a more transparent end-to-end process allows unfettered sharing, inclusion and collaboration as a continuum in scientific research and discovery. And while all of this aligns well with a more socially engaged information community, it continues to disrupt and change the direction of how scholarly communications are evolving. NFAIS will explore this multidimensional disruption at…
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