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June 2020
LIBER Annual Conference 2020 – ONLINE
LIBER Annual Conferences have been running for nearly 50 years. This year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, LIBER 2020 will be held online from 22-26 June. The event brings library directors and their staff together and this year offers online keynote talks, parallel sessions and workshops. The goal of the conference is to identify the most pressing needs for research libraries, and to share information and ideas for addressing those needs. In the week of 22 June, we will offer a…
Find out more »July 2020
PKP 2020 Annual General Meeting
What does it mean to be open? Open infrastructure? Open source? Join the PKP team on Friday, July 24, 2020 from 12:00-1:00 PM PDT for our Annual General Meeting (AGM) as we unpack what it means to us to be truly open. We’ll reflect back on the year gone by and share some exciting new plans for 2020-2021. View our invitation and agenda online to learn more and stay tuned to Twitter (@pkp) and Facebook (@publicknowledgeproject) for updates. Unable to…
Find out more »CHORUS Forum on Open Access Policies and Compliance in a Global Context
When: July 30, 2020 Time: 9:00-11:30 AM EDT Place: Zoom – details to be sent to registrants Cost: Free registration! Join funders, societies, publishers, and academic institutions help senior leadership examine the challenges of public access and open access to publications and data reporting on funded research.
Find out more »August 2020
FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute (FSCI)
WHY ATTEND? Stay a step ahead in scholarly communications Are you passionate about the future of scholarly communications? Do you want to stay current in the changing landscape? Do you want a deep-dive into FAIR research data management and stewardship? Then don’t miss FSCI 2020 – a premium combination of learning and networking online! What is FSCI all about? Fundamentally, FSCI is about equipping you for the changes taking place across scholarly communication. Whether you are a researcher, a librarian, a…
Find out more »September 2020
ALPSP Virtual Conference and Awards 2020
To stay updated on #alpsp2020 follow us on Twitter, Facebook & join our new LinkedIn Conference Group. The theme for the conference is the legacy of COVID-19 on scholarly communication. It will run over three sessions from 16‑18 September, with the ALPSP AGM and Awards Finalists session on 8 September. Programme details will be announced soon. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Susie Brown or Lesley Ogg.
Find out more »October 2020
Open and Engaged Conference 2020 ‘Inequities in Scholarly Communications’
Join us on Monday 19th October 2020 for this year’s Open and Engaged conference ‘Inequities in Scholarly Communications’, addressing this year’s international Open Access Week theme of ‘Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion’. This one-day, online conference will bring together speakers working in libraries, museums, archives and publishers to further highlight and explore a number of these avenues, to critically assess whether the purported benefits of more open scholarly communications have been realized, and where…
Find out more »2nd Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum (BSPF2)
Plan S is an initiative for Open Access publishing launched in September 2018. It was put forward by an international consortium of research funders called cOAlition S. Plan S requires that from 2021 scientific publications from research supported by participating funders must be published in compliant Open Access journals or platforms. The principles and implementation guidelines have been clearly stated and many funding agencies and organizations have endorsed the principles. While a global transition to Open Access is within reach,…
Find out more »November 2020
UKSG November Conference
Join us for the 2020 UKSG November Conference - From Transition to Transformation: providing scholarly content and services in tumultuous times. This years event will take place online over two consecutive half days. Wednesday 11th November will place over a morning (9am GMT to approx. 1pm), while Thursday 12th November will be over an afternoon (1.30pm GMT to 5pm). All members of the UKSG community have had to adapt rapidly to a seismic change which has implications for what services…
Find out more »EAHIL 2020 Online (European Association for Health Information and Libraries)
Due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and with the safety of our community as a top priority the Local Organising Committee for the 17th EAHIL Conference in Lodz, Poland, have decided to deliver the Conference as an online event. The virtual EAHIL 2020 Conference will take place on 16-18 November 2020 and will replace the Conference that was going to be held by the Information and Library Center of the Medical University of Lodz in Vienna House Andel’s Lodz…
Find out more »15th 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 (2020) will be the fifteenth Munin Conference and will take place online 18–19 November.
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