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September 2021
ALPSP Virtual Conference and Awards 2021
The ALPSP Conference provides a friendly forum in which to share information and knowledge, learn about new initiatives and engage in open discussion on the challenges and opportunities facing our industry. With expert speakers and a wide ranging programme, the ALPSP Conference is for everyone in the scholarly publishing community. All delegates will have the chance to network with the conference community during regular breakout sessions throughout. £50 (ALPSP members - Early Bird rate) | £100 (non-members - Early Bird…
Find out more »15th Berlin Open Access Conference: Adapt and Advance
The 15th Berlin Open Access Conference (B15): Adapt and Advance, will be co-hosted by the University of California (UC) and Open Access 2020 Initiative (OA2020), and held virtually from September 28 to October 01, 2021. To facilitate global participation, the event will be offered twice: track 1 for the Americas, Australia and Oceania; and track 2 for Europe, Africa and Asia. To ensure B15 offers attendees ample opportunity to discuss, share and collaborate, participation will be limited to 200 people…
Find out more »October 2021
Beilstein Open Science Symposium – Transparent Data for Effective Research
This symposium will address the many ways that data transparency contributes to the research progress. Attendees will learn from leaders in the FAIR and open data movements who are advocating for better practices in their fields and demonstrating their commitment in their own work. Talks will present tools that can help researchers better handle and share data, and methods to combat common statistical abuses that undermine reliability and reproducibility. Key topics on the reproducible sharing of methods and code will…
Find out more »COAR Asia OA Meeting
The virtual 6th meeting of COAR Asia OA will be held 25-27 October 2021. The meeting will discuss the latest trends in open access and open scholarship, with community updates from Asia. Topics include open access infrastructure, open educational resources, open peer review, research data repositories, and tools built on open data. The meeting will be a venue for information exchange between Asian communities. The meeting is hosted by Singapore Alliance of University Libraries' (SAUL) Research Services Task Force…
Find out more »Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum | Opening Access
In 2021, all research supported by participating Coalition S funders must be published in open access journals and platforms compliant with Plan S principles. Although great progress has been made to date by all stakeholders in implementing these principles, many challenges still remain. The 3rd Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum is intended to bring together stakeholders from across the scholarly communications landscape to discuss the progress of the transition to open. The conference will present the different perspectives of policy makers,…
Find out more »Open and Engaged 2021: Understanding the Impact of Open in the Arts and Humanities Beyond the University
In Higher Education contexts, discussions around openness are often focused on the pathways to make publications, data or cultural objects openly available online. It is often not known what impact open resources can have for various communities beyond the research community. The speakers at Open and Engaged 2021 will explore the different impacts that open resources can have on people. They will seek to question how openness enhances the ability to engage with communities, how projects can be sustainable and…
Find out more »Open Research Conversation: The Future of Publishing
From Open Access to pre-registration, publishing is changing. This session asks what could scholarly publishing look like in the future? This Open Access Week event will explore how scholarly publishing might evolve in the future given the growth of open access, preprints, preregistration and the sharing of a wider variety of research outputs. The discussion will begin with Lotty Brand, Psychology, who will first lay out problems with the current publishing model and suggest what an alternative model could look…
Find out more »November 2021
Annual Publishing Conference 2021
Annual publishing conference with 15+ technology leaders from the world’s biggest publishers including The IET, IOP Publishing and many more will be sharing their knowledgeable insights, Over 100+ delegates to interact virtually with through our live Q&A sessions. Unfolding demonstrative presentations and insights and staying updated with the latest trends in publishing.
Find out more »How you can shape social science research (ESRC Festival of Social Science / York Open Research)
The University of York has a strong and long-standing commitment to public engagement in research, helping to encourage knowledge dissemination and exchange, inform and educate the public about the work of universities and the University of York in particular, and inspire the next generation of researchers. As part of this engagement, members of our research community have worked successfully in partnership with the public as 'co-producers' on a wide range of projects across different disciplines. This event will provide a…
Find out more »The 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. The next conference (2021) will be the sixteenth Munin Conference and it will be held online November 15-18. Announcements July 9 – The call for submissions is now open! Visit the call for submissions page. The presentations and videos from the 15th Munin Conference See also the Archive for the presentations and posters of the previous Munin conferences.
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