STM Week returns for 2019 – Save the Dates and register:

• 3^rd December: Innovations
• 4^th December: Digital Publishing
• 5^th December: Ideas Factory

The Charleston Conference gathers hundreds of librarians, vendors, and publishers, and covers issues in serials and book acquisitions.

The full programme is online.

The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) will hold its annual conference in Shanghai.

Topic: Open Science and Open Innovation

There are 2 workshops and one keynote report addressing the topic of Open Science.

The programme is online.

In 2018, the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) turned 20. The 2019 PKP International Scholarly Publishing Conference will explore this milestone, reflecting on the maturation of open access and the open, community controlled infrastructure that brings us all together.

The preliminary program is now available.

Opening data, linking data and creating tools and software for LOD (linked open data) production scenarios are the major themes that will be addressed.

The programme is online.

Topic: Open Science Encompasses New Forms of Grey Literature

How the principles of science and advancements in information technology have impacted the field of grey literature and in turn how grey literature by implementing these has contributed to the open science movement.

The programme is online.

The new RDA (Resource, Description & Access) Toolkit expands on the LRM modeling of serials to encompass all resources issued over time (diachronic works). This webinar covers the modeling of aggregates (manifestations embodying multiple expressions) and serials in the IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM) and the implementation of this modeling in the new RDA Toolkit.

Some of the themes that will be explored:  Open Research and Transparency, Business Models and Innovation, Internationalization and Diversity.

Keynote speaker: Steven Curry

The programme is online. Registration closes Friday 23 August 2019.

The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association webinar features four panelists: Aileen Fyfe, University of St Andrews; Stuart Taylor, Publishing Director of The Royal Society; Rachael Samberg, UC Berkeley Library; Alicia Wise, Information Power.

Register now for free.

iPRES is the longest-running conference series on digital preservation, bringing together 300-400 researchers, information professionals, providers, and other experts to share recent developments, innovative projects and to collaboratively solve problems.

The programme is online.