This year marks the return of the in-person format for the Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting, which will be held June 1-3 2022 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The theme, fittingly, is “Building a More Connected Scholarly Community” and will offer educational sessions centering on the ways our content, data, and collaboration enable connections, while also serving as a venue to connect face-to-face with friends and colleagues. The Early Bird registration deadline is approaching on April 22, 2022.

Planning for the 37^th annual NASIG conference continues at full steam! Onsite and virtual options are available and registration is open! The onsite conference will be held at the beautiful Baltimore Waterfront Marriott. Stay tuned for frequent schedule updates and don’t forget to register and book before May 6, 2022 to receive the discounted registration.

After two years of virtual events, the London Book Fair 2022 is returning to its in-person format at Olympia and hopes to welcome more than 25,000 publishing professionals to London for three days – to network, to learn, and to do business with publishers from around the globe. The Research and Scholarly Publishing Forum tackles Open Access by looking at the issues shaping the future of academic publishing. Participants gain an overview of the new infrastructure and service developments that underpin research information.

#MUSEmeets2022 – a Virtual Event on April 5-6, 2022, connecting the scholarly publisher, librarian, & researcher communities together. Registration is free & all sessions will be open to any individuals with an interest in digital scholarship. The 1.5-day event will feature general Project MUSE updates, including on key initiatives in journals, books, tech, and sales/marketing happening at MUSE, and panels featuring MUSE staff in conversation with librarians and other industry leaders about innovative digital initiatives, Open Access, and the sustainability of humanities and social sciences publishing in the aftermath of covid-19, among other topics.

The ICSTI Connections series offers members an informal discussion forum for sharing their experience and expertise.

Please Register to join the webinar at 14:00 UTC (10am US EDT, 4pm Europe CEST, 10pm China CST) on March 30 to discuss challenges and issues around research portfolio analytics. This ICSTI Connections event will be hosted by Mary Beth West, Information Technology Specialist at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). Mary Beth will introduce the discussion topic and share OSTI’s researcher profile assessment prototype tool, which aggregates both open source and commercial data to create researcher profiles showing impact metrics, co-author networks, etc.

This is a free, members-only event open to 1) all staff at ICSTI member organizations, and 2) members of any of ICSTI’s partner and associate organizations. Registration is required and will be reviewed and approved by ICSTI staff.

After 2 years of great virtual meetings, the NASIG 2022 conference is announced to be held in Baltimore, 5-9 June 2022. A virtual pre-recorded option is offered in addition to live-only on-site sessions. Registration is open. The conference schedule will be coming soon.

The American Library Association (ALA) Digital Reference is announcing a webinar  on Thursday, March 3, 2022 from 6 PM to 7 PM Chicago time.  Register now.

Presenter Melissa Parent from the State Library of Victoria will provide an overview of the basics of Resource Description and Access (RDA) Application Profile development and share insights from approaches taken by Australian organizations. What’s worked, what has not worked, and what is still being worked through?

The NISO Plus conference (National Information Standards Organization, USA) brings people together from across the global information community to share updates and participate in conversations about shared challenges and opportunities. The focus is on identifying concrete next steps to improve information flow and interoperability, and help solve existing and potential future problems.

Register now and see the schedule.

France is organising a major international event in the context of the French Presidency of the European Union. This international conference is being organised by the French Academy of Sciences, the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm), the High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (Hcéres), the National Research Agency (ANR), the University of Lorraine, the University of Nantes and the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation.

The main topics addressed during this conference come within the framework of the transformation of the research and innovation ecosystem in Europe. Particular attention will be given to transparency in health research, the future of scientific publishing, the necessary transformation of research assessment, the opening of codes and software produced in a scientific context.

Register and look at the program.

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will be holding a webinar on the ISNI standard in February 2022 as part of its ongoing Copyright Infrastructure series. This webinar will focus on the role that ISNI plays within the creative industries, including the library, music, research and publishing sectors, as well as copyright management.

The webinar will take place on 16 February 2022 at 7am ET / 12pm GMT / 1pm CET. Attendance is free of charge and all are welcome.

Look at the agenda and register.