Theme for Open Access Week 2022: Open for Climate Justice - June 10, 2022
“Open for Climate Justice” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week (October 24-30). Climate Justice is an explicit acknowledgment that the climate crisis has far-reaching effects, and the impacts are “not being borne equally or fairly, between rich and poor, women and men,… Read More
CCC’s invitation-only RightFind Roundtable encourages dialogue and collaboration - June 8, 2022
CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, recently hosted an invitation-only RightFind Roundtable with a select group of customers from R&D-intensive organizations. The event offered an opportunity for in-depth discussion about evolving workflows and use cases requiring unique applications of text and data… Read More
EBSCO Information Services and ALA award ten librarians with scholarships to attend ALA Annual Conference - June 6, 2022
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) in partnership with the American Library Association (ALA) has awarded ten scholarships to librarians to attend the 2022 ALA Annual Conference, the first in-person event hosted by ALA since 2019. These scholarships are intended to help librarians… Read More
OpenAIRE announces participation at the Open Repositories Conference 2022 - June 2, 2022
OpenAIRE will be present at the 17th International Conference on Open Repositories from June 6-9, 2022 to be held in Denver, Colorado, USA. The 17th International Conference on Open Repositories to be held face-to-face in Denver, Colorado, USA, will have the participation of OpenAIRE… Read More
The 2022 OASPA Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing issues call for contributions - May 31, 2022
The OASPA annual conference brings the open access community together to discuss new developments and innovations in scholarly publishing, and unite in their shared goal to enable research around the world to be openly accessible. The 2022 online conference will encourage participants to think Beyond Open… Read More
Library Assessment Conference 2022 call for proposals—deadline extended to April 29 - April 20, 2022
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University of Washington Libraries, and the Library Assessment Conference Steering Committee are inviting invite paper; poster; short, practical learning session; and challenge talk proposals for the 2022 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment. This… Read More
Scientific journal Nature to expand presence at Hay Festival - April 11, 2022
Leading international journal of science, Nature - part of publisher Springer Nature - will this year expand its partnership with Hay Festival. Events at Hay Festival 2022, running May 26 - June 5 in Hay-on-Wye, will support a wider range of exceptional communicators of science to attend… Read More
ACRL 2023: Call for proposals now available - March 31, 2022
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) invites proposals for the ACRL 2023 Conference to be held March 15-18, 2023, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Higher education has changed dramatically over the last few years. Academic libraries are addressing an increased emphasis on remote learning,… Read More
London Book Fair announces Research & Scholarly Publishing Forum line-up - February 25, 2022
The London Book Fair has announced the line-up for The Research and Scholarly Publishing Forum (April 7, 2022), which will explore technology and new concepts driving change, the nuances and realities of Open Access, as well as views from institutions, research funders, and consortia. The conference will… Read More
Library Assessment Conference scheduled for November 1-4, 2022 - February 17, 2022
The Library Assessment Conference Steering Committee has announced that the ninth biennial Library Assessment Conference will be offered in a virtual format November 1–4, 2022. A call for proposals will be released the week of March 7. In addition to papers and posters, the conference will also invite proposals… Read More