The IFLA Governing Board seeks nominations for new members of the IFLA Committee on Standards by Wednesday 1st March 2017. See more details about eligibility and how to send nominations.

UKSG celebrates its 40th anniversary with a programme highlighting publication ethics and practices, scholarly communication funding and future.

Enhancing the quality and credibility of peer review and scientific publication.

Call for research abstracts open until 15 February 2017

The IFLA Strategic Programme on Preservation and Conservation invites interested professionals to submit proposals for the open session.

Topic: Documentary heritage: digitisation, and born digital heritage – facing the challenges to preserve our heritage for the future.

Deadline: 6 March 2017

The 9th Plenary meeting of RDA (Research Data Alliance) to be held on 5-7 April 2017 will be preceded by ICSTI 2017 Annual Members’ Meeting. Keynote speakers at the members’ session will include Kathleen Shearer / COAR.

2 workshops will follow about Multimedia Publishing and Data Visualization ; Scientific Data Repositories : Use Cases, Innovation, and Best Practices.

Submissions about how OA publishing works or could work, are due before 15 March, 2017.

After the latest edition in Washington, COASP gets back to Europe. Programme and registration to be announced soon.

The 13th Berlin Open Access conference will provide a networking and reviewing opportunity in the context of the OA2020 initiative for the large-scale transition to open access. The conference aims at strengthening the international network and sharing the experience of the various stakeholder groups in the process so far.

Registration for 22 March public session is open until 7 March.

Academic and Research Libraries Section

Topic: Digital Humanities – Opportunities and Risks: Connecting Libraries and Research

Abstracts due by 15 January, 2017