Ninth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication issues call for abstracts - September 23, 2021
The ninth Peer Review Congress, scheduled for September 8-10, 2022, has announced the official call for abstracts. Details are available in this Editorial, co-published by JAMA and the BMJ, and on the Congress website. Interested parties may watch the virtual symposium if you want… Read More
Show US the Data Conference scheduled for October 20 - September 23, 2021
The “Show US the Data Conference,” jointly coordinated by the Coleridge Initiative and CHORUS, is scheduled to be held October 20th 10:00 – 12:00pm (EDT). This virtual conference is intended to bring together a wide diversity of public data users and producers – researchers, academic institutions, publishers… Read More
Registrations now open for the 2021 OASPA Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - September 16, 2021
Registration is now open for the 2021 OASPA Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing. The conference takes place online from September 21 – 23, 2021. The full program is now available. The 2021 online conference ‘Designing 21st Century Knowledge Sharing… Read More
American Library Association announces LibLearnX will be a virtual event - September 15, 2021
The American Library Association’s Executive Board has announced that LibLearnX: The Library Learning Experience, scheduled for January 21-24, 2022, in San Antonio, Texas, will take place virtually. LibLearnX, ALA’s all-new January event, is a member-focused conference designed to motivate, inspire, and engage discussions that will shape… Read More
Library Assessment Conference 2020 proceedings now online - September 13, 2021
The Proceedings of the 2020–2021 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment are now available on the conference website. The eighth biennial Library Assessment Conference, held virtually between October 29, 2020, and March 17, 2021, brought together 931 participants primarily from North American academic libraries. The… Read More
73rd Frankfurter Buchmesse scheduled to be held from October 20-24 as a digital, hybrid and in-person event - September 1, 2021
Frankfurter Buchmesse will bring the international publishing community together again this year. Publishers, service providers and literary agents from over 60 countries have registered for the 73rd Frankfurter Buchmesse, which is scheduled to take place from October 20-24, 2021 as an in-person event with digital and hybrid… Read More
NISO Plus 2021 content now openly available - August 27, 2021
Six months on from NISO Plus 2021, the content is now open for everyone to watch, use, share — and even cite! The 90 videos cover a wide range of important topics for the information community, from accessibility to standards in open research infrastructure, as well… Read More
SSP’s 43rd Annual Meeting now available on OnDemand - August 20, 2021
At the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s (SSP) 43rd Annual Meeting in May, a vibrant community of librarians, academics, publishers, service providers, technologists, and scholarly publishing professionals from across the globe gathered to chart a new course and embrace the chaos to ignite innovation. Without dwelling on the… Read More
‘It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity’ to be the theme for the 2021 Open Access Week - August 16, 2021
The 2021 Open Access Week Advisory Committee has announced the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week, to be held October 25-31. The theme will be “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.” This year’s theme intentionally aligns with the recently released UNESCO… Read More
SSP announces its fifth annual New Directions Seminar in Scholarly Publishing - July 19, 2021
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has announced its fifth annual New Directions Seminar in Scholarly Publishing, happening online October 6-7, 2021. This year’s theme, “How to Move Fast and Not Break Things: Balancing High-Speed Outputs at the Risk of Slamming on the Brakes,” takes a deep… Read More
