The IFLA 2021 General Assembly will be held on Wednesday 25 August 2021 in The Hague, Netherlands.
IFLA Members may propose items for inclusion in the agenda. Proposals must reach the IFLA Secretariat by 25 May 2021. Please complete this form and send proposals by email to generalassembly@ifla.org.
The draft Agenda is provided here. The Convening Notice for the Assembly will be forwarded to Members in June 2021.
UNESCO is organizing an expert meeting to discuss the relationships between intelectual property rights and Open Science
Topic: Towards a Global Consensus on Open Science
The meeting will be held in English and French on the Zoom online platform.
Registration is necessary.
The first of these update meetings will be held on April 23, 2021 at 1:00pm. The primary topics of the first meetings will be an overview of NISO’s ISO work, the upcoming ISO Technical Committee on Information and Documentation (ISO TC 46) plenary meeting in May, and key topics on the agenda.
The event will bring together multiple global perspectives to explore critical topics in Diamond Open Access publishing. Notably, there will be a workshop about the benefits of indexing your Diamond OA journal in DOAJ and how this increases the visibility of OA journals globally; and Abel Packer will speak about the evolution of the SciELO Publishing Model.
Registration is now open. Event attendance is free, but advance registration is required.
The agenda for the upcoming RSC asynchronous meeting, to be held 12-15 April 2021, has been posted. The agenda includes links to two updated standing working group charges (in draft form) which will be discussed at the meeting. The meeting opens at 8 am, Melbourne time (UTC+11) on Monday 12 April 2021 and closes at 6 pm, Pacific time (UTC-8) on Thursday 15 April 2021.
Together with OPERAS, OASPA will be hosting three European-focused workshops on business models for open access books, targeted specifically at small and medium-sized academic book publishers.
For Workshop 1, six publishers will present how they make use of a different business model to publish their books open access, with insights into how these have been implemented in practice.
This webinar organized by OASPA will explore the question of open metadata with regard to books. What are the relations, challenges, and opportunities of developing open book metadata in terms of labor, quality, persistence, standardization, accessibility, and discoverability?
Please connect live for this free webinar and contribute to the discussion by registering here.
The UCL Office for Open Science & Scholarship/Copyright for Knowledge E-books is organizing a webinar. The speakers will examine the acute difficulties for higher education and public libraries caused by publishers’ pricing and licensing practices and discuss possible solutions.
The webinar is free to attend but if you would like to join us please register via Eventbrite.
This congress is organized by the State Public Scientific and Technical Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPSTL SB RAS), Novosibirsk, together with the National Library of Russia.
Topic: Bibliographic Information in Digital Culture
Register and submit your abstract before 15 March in Russian / English.
