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April 2019
UKSG Annual Conference 2019
The conference attracts over 900 delegates from around the world including librarians, publishers, content providers, consultants and intermediaries. It takes place in the UK each spring and is open to all. UKSG members benefit from a significant discount on fees. The conference covers a wide range of topics and combines high-quality plenary presentations, lightning talks and breakout sessions with entertaining social events and a major trade exhibition. It is a fantastic opportunity to keep up to date with trends, access…
Find out more »May 2019
Creative Commons Summit 2019
Join CC for three days of dynamic programming at Museu do Oriente, with a special keynote evening event held at the historic Cineteatro Capitolio. CC has grown the CC Global Summit every year as hundreds of leading activists, advocates, librarians, educators, lawyers, technologists, and more have joined us for discussion and debate, workshops and planning, talks and community building. Whether you’re new to the community or a long-time contributor, the CC Global Summit is a can’t-miss event for anyone interested…
Find out more »Fact or Fiction? OASPA Lifts the Lid on Open Access Publishing (SSP pre-meeting seminar)
OASPA is delighted to announce that it will host a seminar preceding the SSP annual conference in San Diego in May. The pre-meeting seminar will take place on the morning of Wednesday, May 29th at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina. The session can be booked independently of the full SSP conference. The interactive seminar, chaired by Pete Binfield (PeerJ) and co-facilitated by OASPA members Stephanie Orphan (Portico), Bekah Darksmith (PLOS) and Caroline Sutton (Taylor & Francis) aims to deepen understanding of how open access publishing is…
Find out more »June 2019
ELPUB 2019
In 2019, the Electronic Publishing conference will expand your horizons and perceptions! Taking as an inspirational starting point the term coined by Chilean publishers in the 1990s, the forum will revisit the concept and will explore what it means today. Being organised five years after the adoption of the International Declaration of Independent Publishers to Promote and Strengthen Bibliodiversity Together, supported in 2014 by 400 publishers from 45 countries, the conference aims to bring together the enquiring academic, professional and…
Find out more »September 2019
ALPSP Conference and Awards 2019
The ALPSP conference is a key date in the scholarly publishing calendar and attracts an audience of over 300 people from all sectors and levels 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 ensure that our annual conference remains…
Find out more »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
#FORCE2019
The FORCE2019 program includes a wide range of talks covering the future of research communication and e-Scholarship, with over fifty sessions and tracks on infrastructure for scholarly communication, promoting open research, developing new skills, and trail-blazing new initiatives.
Find out more »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…
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