The conference will explore the pivotal role the library plays in supporting the university’s research enterprise to adapt to new technologies and workflows and realising the potential any disruption it will offer. The last 12 months or so has reshaped the research landscape: forcing collaborations to take place virtually, limiting access to fieldwork and labs… Read full article >
Call for contributions for the 2021 OASPA Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing
The OASPA annual conference brings the open access community together to discuss new developments and innovations in scholarly publishing, and unite in our shared goal to enable research around the world to be openly accessible. The 2021 online conference will address many timely and fundamental topics relating to open scholarly communication. These include equity in… Read full article >
Galway Open Scholarship Week
On the 10 – 14 May, during Open Scholarship Week (OSW2021) staff, students, members of the public and a variety of other stakeholders will come together to talk about changing the ways scholarly information is openly communicated, shared and used. OSW2021 will offer a diverse range of talks and workshops representing many different perspectives and… Read full article >
Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference (CALC) 2021
This is the second year of the UK’s first conference focused on critical practice in libraries. While the 2021 e-conference will contain presentations covering multiple aspects of critical practice (decolonisation, critical pedagogy, marginalised perspectives etc.) a substantial strand of talks and our keynote explore open publishing including: Publishing Open Access: A Trade Union Perspective How… Read full article >
UKSG 44th Annual Conference and Exhibition: Online
The UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition 2021 will be for the first time be held online. The event is a major event in the scholarly communications calendar which attracts a large number of delegates each year from around the world – librarians, publishers, content providers, consultants and intermediaries. The conference combines high-quality plenary presentations, lightning… Read full article >