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September 2018
10th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP)
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)'s annual conference, the Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP), will take place on September 17th-19th, 2018, at the University of Vienna, Austria. Further announcements will be made as soon as possible on this page when registrations for the event are open and the preliminary program is available: https://oaspa.org/conference/. Enquiries regarding the conference should be directed to coasp@oaspa.org.
Find out more »SciELO 20 Years Conference
In 2018, the SciELO Program will celebrate 20 years of operation, in full alignment with the advances of open science. Over the last two decades, the SciELO Program has consolidated itself as one of the most important programs for international cooperation in support of Open Access Scholarly Communication. The SciELO Network, a cooperative network under the SciELO Program and which spans 15 countries, indexes and publishes close to one thousand peer reviewed open access journals as national collections. The SciELO…
Find out more »October 2018
Making Science FAIR: Beilstein Open Science Symposium 2018
A new science eco-system is in the making: Open Science. It will impact the way research is carried out and reported, in particular focussing on improving the way research data is stored and shared. Open Science aims to make research and development more effective by improving the communication of scientific knowledge through free access to research results, by encouraging researchers to share their data, and ensuring that data are complete, comprehensive and transparent. The lack of a framework for structured…
Find out more »Force2018
FORCE2018 Conference will be held in Montreal, Canada on October 11 & 12, 2018 at the New Residence Conference Center at McGill University (with pre-conference workshops held on October 10 at Concordia University's Webster Library) The FORCE 2018 conference is a different kind of meeting, where stakeholders come to the table for an open discussion, on an even playing field, to talk about changing the ways scholarly and scientific information is communicated, shared and used. Our common goal is to maximize efficiency and…
Find out more »Open Access Week 2018
Open Access Week, a global event now entering its tenth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research. Open Access to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those…
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