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July 2020
41st IATUL Annual Conference: Bridging Universities and Society Libraries as Connectors
The International Association of University Libraries (IATUL) invites you to attend the 41st IATUL Annual Conference at Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal from 12 to 16 July 2020. This is an excellent opportunity to hear about the latest academic library initiatives and network with colleagues and friends from all over the world.
The emergence of movements such as Open Science, Open Innovation and Citizen Science highlights how society benefits when institutions of higher education expand access to research and teaching. Ongoing engagement and collaboration between universities and communities are important components of these open initiatives. Academic libraries worldwide are playing vital roles in facilitating these initiatives through the development of new and innovative services and infrastructure.
WPCampus 2020
WPCampus 2020 is a three-day conference event filled with sessions, networking, and social events. It will cover a variety of topics, all focused on the growth of Higher Education, Accessibility, WordPress, and its people. The fifth annual WPCampus conference will take place July 15-17, 2020 on the beautiful campus of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Explore previous conferences to learn more about our event. What to expect While the format of our event is similar to a WordCamp, our…
Find out more »August 2020
FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI) 2020
FSCI is intended for anybody who is interested in the developing new world of Scholarly Communication: researchers, librarians, publishers, university and research administration, funders, students, and postdocs.
Find out more »Data Science Summer School 2020
In 2020 the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen will host for the fourth time an (International) Summer School on Data Science. This program is aiming on students who have completed their bachelor degree already. Basic knowledge of one or more programming languages is expected.
Find out more »JupyterCon 2020
We are thrilled to announce a global Jupyter conference: JupyterCon 2020 will be held August 10–14 in the historic city of Berlin, Germany.
Find out more »4th FESN Scientific School: “A Toolbox for Neuropsychological Research and Practice”
FESN will organise its fourth Neuropsychology School being held at the FU Berlin from August 24th to 27th, 2020 (Local Organizers: Professor Michael Niedeggen and Ina Nordwald). The school is addressed to graduate students in their final years of PhD, or early post-docs, as well as clinicians at a comparable level of career. About 50 participants are invited from all partaking National Societies.
Find out more »Netherlands National Open Science Festival
The National Open Science Festival provides researchers the opportunity to learn about the benefits of different Open Science practices. It is a place to meet peers that are already working openly or that are interested to start doing so. Key to this day is sharing knowledge and best practices.
In organizing the National Open Science Festival, the program committee welcomes input from researchers in developing the programme for the day. The call for Sessions opens on Feb 1st.
Find out more »September 2020
OPERAS workshop “Knowledge Infrastructures and Digital Governance. History, Challenges, Practices”
This workshop aims at revisiting digital knowledge infrastructures from an organisational and governance perspective, through their history, their stakes and achievements, as well as their challenges and obstacles. It will to explore how these infrastructures frame themselves, evolve and adapt, how they stimulate participation and implement innovative models of governance (e.g. Wikipedia) as well as how they create a shared culture and common values, how they sustain knowledge commons and may contribute to a new epistemology and scientific environment.Â
Find out more »The 8th World Sustainability Forum
WSF2020 is an international scientific conference coordinated by the MDPI Sustainability Foundation, under the patronage of the University of Basel, the University of Geneva and  the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN).
Find out more »Open Access Tage 2020
Die Open-Access-Tage sind die zentrale jährliche Konferenz zum Thema Open Access und Open Science im deutschsprachigen Raum. Die Open-Access-Tage 2020 finden vom 15.09. bis 17.09. in Bielefeld statt. Nähere Informationen finden Sie auch auf Twitter (#oat20).
Find out more »PUBMET2020 – The 7th Conference on Scholarly Publishing in the Context of Open Science
PUBMET2020, Zadar, Croatia PUBMET2020 IS GOING ONLINE! Dear colleagues, editors, librarians, publishers, researchers and students, you are kindly invited to participate at PUBMET2020 – The 7th Conference on Scholarly Communication and Publishing in the Context of Open Science. Due to the COVID-19 situation, the format of the conference has been changed to a virtual conference. Organizers: University of Zadar, Department of Information Sciences Croatian Association for Scholarly Communication (CROASC), Zagreb University of Zagreb, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology RuÄ‘er…
Find out more »COASP 2020: 12th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing
OASPA is pleased to announce that the OASPA 2020 annual conference will take place from Tuesday 22 - Thursday 24 September 2020 at the Sofitel Warsaw Victoria, Poland. Please save the date in your diary.
More details regarding registration and program development will be available in the coming months from oaspa.org/conference.
Find out more »October 2020
2020 Scholarly Communication Institute
The 2020 Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute will be held from October 4 to 8, 2020, in downtown Durham, North Carolina. This year’s theme will be Community, collaboration, and the commons. If you’re interested in participating, please review the Request for Proposals, and submit your proposal before May 1.
Find out more »FORCE2020
#Force2020 will be in San Sebastián. October 19-21, 2020. — Let’s get creative with how we bring our communities together. Save the date and see you there! #Force2019
Find out more »International FAIR Convergence Symposium 2020
Please save the date for the International FAIR Convergence Symposium convened by CODATA and GO FAIR on October 22-23 2020; followed by the CODATA General Assembly, 24 October 2020. The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will provide a forum for advancing international and cross-domain convergence around FAIR. The event will bring together a global data community with an interest in combining data across domains for a host of research issues - including major global challenges, such as those relating to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Find out more »2nd Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum – The Global Transition to Open Access: Challenges and Solutions
The 2nd Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum (BSPF) will be held in Basel, 26–27 October 2020. The aim of the forum is to offer a platform for open and constructive conversation between researchers, learned societies, university librarians, funding agencies, scholarly publishers, publishing platforms, and other concerned stakeholders (professional associations, etc.) to identify implementable solutions for a sustainable global transition to open access. A main topic of discussion of BSPF2 will be the challenges facing learned societies in this transition to Open Access, but the conference will also cover a broad array of topics relevant to these challenges, like the development of alternative metrics, the evaluation and promotion of researchers, the OA price transparency, the current situation and limitations of transformative agreements, copyright, etc.
Find out more »November 2020
OPERAS Annual Conference 2020
The Annual OPERAS Conference “Opening up Social Sciences in Europe: from Promises to Reality”, scheduled for 2–4 June 2020 at the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) in Brussels, has been postponed due to the current outbreak of COVID-19. The conference will take place 2–4 November 2020 at the same location. The conference will address the following key issues: What are the challenges for SSH (social sciences and humanities) researchers in adopting “openness” as a common scholarly communication practice? How can…
Find out more »DARIAH Annual Event 2020: Scholarly Primitives
It has been twenty years since John Unsworth famously formulated scholarly primitives -- discovering, annotating, comparing, referring, sampling, illustrating and representing -- as a set of basic scholarly activities across disciplines, theoretical frameworks or eras. We will use the DARIAH Annual Event 2020 as an opportunity to re-evaluate and probe the notion and scope of scholarly primitives in the context of the ongoing developments in the field of Digital Humanities and DARIAH’s continuous efforts in shaping an effective and sustainable research infrastructure that meets the needs of humanities scholars.
Find out more »September 2021
Ninth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication
The Ninth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication will be held in Chicago, September 12-14, 2021. Our aim is to encourage research into the quality and credibility of peer review and scientific publication, to establish the evidence base on which scientists can improve the conduct, reporting, and dissemination of scientific research. Call for Research See Editorial, Ninth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication: Call for Research, published in JAMA and The BMJ. For the Ninth Congress,…
Find out more »July 2022
ESOF2022 – EuroScience Open Forum
In 2022 Leiden will host the EuroScience Open Forum, the biggest multidisciplinary scientific convention of Europe. The Leiden candidacy is supported by two local champions of Leiden University, Prof. Dr Corinne Hofman and Prof. Dr Ferry Breedveld. Both are very proud of the result.
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