As the leading trade fair for the international publishing and content industry, Frankfurter Buchmesse (20-24 October 2021) is further developing its in-person events and digital offerings. The 73rd edition of the industry’s largest gathering is set to take place on the fairgrounds in Frankfurt, subject to the pandemic’s further progression and the health and safety regulations in effect in October. The on-site fair will be supplemented by digital and hybrid offerings, along with a programme of events in the city.

The first day of the digital Frankfurt Conference will focus on academic publishing, while on Tuesday various CEOs and publishers from multiple industry segments will discuss current challenges and developments affecting the publishing sector. Both days of the conference will end with a networking session in the Hof series.

OASPA is organizing its annual conference on open access scholarly publishing.

Topic: Designing 21st Century Knowledge Sharing Systems

Registration is still open. View the full program.

If you are going to attend iPres 2021, come along to paper session 13 A collaborative approach to preserving at-risk open access journals: journals preserved forever, to hear the latest news on Project JASPER. The project partners (DOAJ, CLOCKSS, Internet Archive, PKP and the ISSN International Centre) are building ways to enable more open access journals to be preserved for posterity.

View iPRES 2021 programme.

Registration is still open.

The annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication is organized by the Arctic University of Norway. Among the keynote speakers, Johan Rooryck, Executive Director of cOAlition S, will speak about trends in institutional open access publishing in Europe.

The presentations and videos from the 15th Munin Conference

This annual event led by academic publishers, institutions, societies, and researchers, will be dedicated to the theme “Identity in Peer Review.” Participating organizations will organize virtual events and activities to highlight the role of personal and social identity in peer review and ways the scholarly community can foster more diverse, equitable, and inclusive peer review practices.

Over 35 organizations around the world are involved in this year’s Peer Review Week, and there is still time to participate.

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers organizes its annual conference for everyone in the scholarly publishing community.

The main themes of the conference are ‘Discoverability and Accessibility’ and ‘The Great Reset: Scenario planning for life after COVID.’

Registration is open. The programme is online.

The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) has been embraced by multiple professional communities over the past decade, and is now one of the most trusted sources of identification and disambiguation for public identities (including individuals and organisations) worldwide. To celebrate this milestone, ISNI International Agency will hold an ISNI Information Day. The online event will take place on Wednesday 1st September 2021, 2pm-4:30pm (BST) / 1pm-3:30pm (GMT) / 3pm-5:30pm (CEST) / 9am-11:30am (EDT) / 6-8:30am (PDT). 
The event will provide an overview of the ISNI standard to date, from its origins and history to its many achievements. Further information about this event, will be announced soon. Please follow the dedicated event hashtag #ISNI2021 on social media.

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3 days of discussion starters, 3 time zones full of thought provoking ideas, 160 sessions and hundreds of speakers. The 86th IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) programme is now on the conference website. Which sessions will help you address topics and issues in the workplace? Explore how global perspectives can address local challenges. Delegates get 12 months’ access to recorded sessions!

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The 17th International Conference on Digital Preservation, iPRES2021, will be held at the National Science Library in October 2021 in Beijing, China and will be organized in a hybrid mode: onsite and online.

Topic: Empowering Digital Preservation for the Enriched Digital Ecosystem

Registration is open.

Deadline for submission for lightning talks: 30 July 2021

OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association) is announcing the first in a series of webinars focused on the needs of the researcher. A cross-disciplinary panel of researchers will discuss what unites them around open research and open access. Panellists will also consider if their perceptions change depending on their role and discuss the choices they currently make when disseminating their work.

Please register for this free webinar and contribute to the discussion.