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ALPSP Virtual Conference and Awards 2020

Theme: the legacy of COVID-19 on scholarly communication.

It will run over three sessions from 16‑18 September, with the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers AGM and Awards Finalists session on 8 September.  Programme details will be announced soon.

Virtual OpenRepositories OR2020 meetings

The Open Repositories annual conference will be held under the form of four 90 minute virtual workshops. The first one will focus on the work FAIRsFAIR (Fostering Fair Data Practices in Europe) carries out in collaboration with repositories  to enable them to play their role in helping to make and keep data FAIR over time.

Register and check dates and hours: https://or2020.sun.ac.za/conference-programme/

FREE UKSG webinar – Preprints are Changing the Landscape

This webinar consists of three presentations:

Preprints: where are we now?Jessica Polka, PhD, Executive Director, ASAPbio

Preprints – Finding their place in scholarly research – Judy Luther, President, Informed Strategies LLC

An academic’s experience of preprints – Prof. Stephen J. Royle, Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology, Warwick Medical School, UK.

Free webinar with advanced registration required.

LIBER Webinar: The Anatomy of a Transformative Agreement

An increasing number of LIBER institutions—and also institutions and consortia worldwide—are looking to integrate their Open Access strategies with Transformative Agreements. Such agreements enable institutions to repurpose their subscription expenditures to support open access publishing rather than paywalls.

UKRI Open Access consultation update

UK Research and Innovation is seeking views on its proposed open access policy and related considerations via a consultation, which opens on 13 February 2020 and closes at noon on 17 April 2020. Responses must be submitted by noon on 17 April 2020, using the online response form.

On this occasion, UKRI is holding an information event for the consultation.