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September 2019
The Future Is Open Access, but How Do We Get There?: A Symposium
Each year, more and more scholarly works are made openly available. Indeed, with European research agencies now coordinating to require immediate open access to publications based on research they fund, predictions about the inevitability of open access may soon come true. As open access becomes the norm, what decisions will scholars, libraries, and institutions make? Will we reproduce existing power structures, guaranteeing the continued dominance of high-profit publishers and flawed impact metrics? Or will we build something different — community-led publishing on community-owned infrastructure, with legal terms…
Find out more »OASPA 2019 Conference
OASPA’s 11th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) will take place from Tuesday 24 – Thursday 26 September 2019, at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark. Details regarding registration at oaspa.org/conference. Enquiries regarding the conference should be directed to info@oaspa.org
Find out more »USETDA 2019 Conference
USETDA 2019 will provide excellent educational opportunities for professionals from graduate schools, libraries, academic computing and others who work with electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), institutional repositories, graduate students and scholarly communications. Our goal is to offer relevant, practice-oriented content to support ETD productivity improvement, ETD professionals, advance ETD operations and encourage the formation of regional ETD associations and networking communities as well as to provide useful and innovative resources, standards, and technology for the development and support of ETD…
Find out more »October 2019
Beilstein Open Science Symposium 2019
The What, How and Why of Open Science A new science eco-system is growing: Open Science. This is based on the conviction that free access to research publications is not only a moral right of citizens but a necessity to allow the maximum use and impact of research. The current publishing system is no longer fit for purpose; too much emphasis is being placed on using publications for evaluation and not enough on the dissemination of new research results. Redressing…
Find out more »November 2019
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.
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