Upcoming Events

Wikimedia UK in partnership with Coventry University are holding an event on Wikimedia for educators. About this Event In the autumn of 2019, over 7,500 students on over 380 courses added more than 5.3 million words – citing reliable, authoritative sources – to Wikipedia in the context of their studies' coursework. In doing so they made a substantial contribution towards the goal of making knowledge freely available to everyone, but also had an opportunity to engage with innovative ways of…

The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) cordially invites you to participate in the Open Science Days 2020. The event will take place at the Harnack House in Berlin and is going to extend over one and a half days (March 02/03). For this event, we have decided to broaden our view on the world of research and to examine the relationship between Open Science and Good Scientific Practice. What does that mean? When looking at the different areas of Open…

Join fellow library leaders and members of the OCLC Europe, Middle East and Africa Regional Council (EMEARC) at the OCLC Library Futures Conference.

Save the date for 2020: Barcamp Open Science // 10 March 2020 // Wikimedia, Berlin // #oscibar Open Science Conference // 11-12 March 2020 // H4 Hotel, Berlin // #osc2020

Following the success of the 1st PEERE International Conference on Peer Review, the PEERE COST Action follow-up community organises the second edition of the PEERE International Conference on Peer Review in Valencia on 11-13 March 2020.

The conference aims to provide a forum for scholars, practitioners and science stakeholders to share research, models, tools and experience on peer review in different fields, e.g., medicine, computer science, social sciences and humanities. It aims to stimulate the use of evidence-based research in the design and implementation of peer review in a variety of fields and encourage more systematic research.

We will be hosting the event over the weekend of 14th and 15th March 2020 at ONE Codebase, Schoolhill, Aberdeen. The first two batches of tickets went really quickly. Our final batch was made 6th December. Once they are finished, that is it. Be quick to grab one of them. You can register your interest meantime. The tickets are free, although we have a suggested donation for them. If you do donate then all receipts go to our work on…

We cannot predict the future, but research libraries can create and transform it. The research paradigm is shifting, and the wider context in which we operate grows ever more complex. 

The 2020 RLUK Conference will seek to understand how the transformation of the library, and its transformational power, can change the culture of research, and correspondingly shift our thinking, values, services and offer.

The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is delighted to announce that its 15th Plenary Meeting will take place from 18 - 20 March 2020 in Melbourne, Australia, at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, MCEC.

Open Education Resources (OER) Conference 2020 (OER20) will be taking place in London on April 1-2, 2020.

Universities play a crucial role in creating knowledge and fostering democratic and sustainable societies. Their impact on wellbeing and the development of a thriving, competitive Europe stems from educating future leaders, professionals, researchers and citizens. It equally comes from curiosity-driven research aimed at identifying and meeting the broad challenges we all face and outreach to local and global industry and governments to foster much-needed innovation. Yet demonstrating and communicating universities’ impact at the societal level is a challenge in itself. Universities need strong leadership, a focused strategic approach, as well as coordinated efforts across Europe and beyond. The 2020 EUA Annual Conference will provide a platform to explore how universities are making a difference, how their impact can be maximised and how to give visibility to their key role in addressing broad challenges.

The annual STS conference provides space for international scholars and young scientist to discuss their topical research amongst peers. The contributors to this event address the complex ways in which science, technology and society co-evolve and mutually shape one another. In such a way, the participants of the conference aim to provide a better understanding of the world in which we live. This includes the assessment of emerging technologies, the scrutiny of ethical, legal and social aspects of contemporary scientific practices as well as the transition to environmentally friendly and socially desirable techno-scientific futures.

This year, we explore disruption and transformation in post-secondary education. We ask: How are we intentionally disrupting our work at an individual, institutional, or societal level? What prompts us to transform practices, policies, or processes?

csv,conf is a community conference that is about more than just comma-sepatated-values – it brings together a diverse group to discuss data topics including data sharing, data ethics, and data analysis from the worlds of science, journalism, government, and open source. Over two days, attendees will have the opportunity to hear about ongoing work, share skills, exchange ideas (and stickers!) and kickstart collaborations. 

The 2020 Creative Commons Global Summit is returning to Lisbon, Portugal on 14-16 May!

We’ve 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. The CC Global Summit is a can’t-miss event for anyone interested in the global movement for the commons.

The H5P Conference 2020, to be held from 18-20 May in Madison, Wisconsin USA is the first H5P Conference in North America and has the potential to become the largest and most vibrant gathering of H5P community members ever!
The H5P core team will be very much present in the program. In Melbourne, we made the largest release announcement ever for H5P, and we hope to eclipse it with what we will launch in Madison. We intend to introduce features that will change the world of interactive content forever making H5P Con 2020 a historic event in a major way.

There is a rapidly growing interest in working with open research data in Sweden, and international collaborations are becoming more and more important to make it happen. The Swedish National Data Service (SND) is therefore happy to welcome all participants to the annual IASSIST conference in Gothenburg in 2020.

As a national research data repository governed by a consortium consisting of seven Swedish universities and working in agreement with over 30 institutions, SND has the potential to reach a large number of researchers who could gain from the knowledge exchange and experiences of IASSIST.

The conference theme, “Data by Design: Building a Sustainable Data Culture”, emphasizes two core values embedded in the culture of Gothenburg and Sweden: design and sustainability. We invite you to explore these topics further, and discuss what they could mean to data communities.