Penn State University Libraries will participate in the 16th annual global observance of Open Access Week with a virtual panel discussion at noon on October 24. Panelists will discuss this year’s theme, Community Over Commercialization, in the context of University Libraries’ initiatives that support research and teaching. The session is free and will be held virtually on Zoom; registration is required to attend.

The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI)’s next Annual Conference/General Assembly will be held virtually on November 28th, 2023. The event will comprise:

–  a workshop featuring speakers on topics in AI–doubled in the morning and afternoon (CET) to allow attendance from U.S. and Asia,

–  a slot for member-to-member presentations,

–  and the General Assembly taking place around noon (CET).

If you are interested in making a member-to-member presentation, please contact Jan Brase, ICSTI President, and Addie Cox, ICSTI Executive Manager (with copy to the ICSTI Secretariat).

Further details and official invitation with link to register will be shared soon.

The distribution platform African Journals Online has revamped its website and is launching a series of seminars on persistent identifiers. The first webinar will be dedicated to ISSN and the suite of services offered by the ISSN International Centre (CIEPS).

To register, visit https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajol.

This event will take place as an academic conference during the Publisher Perspectives Forum at the Frankfurt Book Fair. This conference is free and open to all registered Frankfurt Book Fair attendees.

Two panel discussions will take place.

Speakers of the first panel discussion will shed light on Research Integrity: Technology, Trust, and Transparency. The second panel discussion will focus on Sustainability and the Future of Scholarly Communication: Looking Forward at Business Models, SDGs, and Beyond.

Within the explosion of natural language processing applications gaining academic and popular attention over the past year, reflecting on its implications on other important key trends in scholarly discourse is critical. In this mini-conference organized by the Society for Scholarly Publishing and its Scholarly Kitchen Blog, panelists will explore these two important issues facing the scholarly publishing community through the lens of artificial intelligence tools.

Ese es el lema de la Semana SciELO 25 Años que se proyecta como un fórum histórico sobre el estado de avance y perspectivas del modus operandi de ciencia abierta.

Los 25 e 26 de septiembre serán dedicados a la reunión quinquenal de la Red SciELO que analizará el estado de avance de las colecciones nacionales y las perspectivas de desarrollo para los próximos cinco años. A continuación, en los días 27 a 29 de septiembre, tendrá lugar la Conferencia Internacional SciELO 25 Años que abordará la transición de la investigación y su comunicación para el modus operandi de ciencia abierta.

The OPERAS coordinated project, COESO, is organizing the Connect.Collaborate.Create conference in Paris on 19–21 October 2023,  where topics like participatory, responsible research and its funding schemes will be discussed.

Check the programme and register for the conference at https://ccc.sciencesconf.org/

Just as librarianship is a lot more than collection management, publishing is far broader than peer review. In this UKSG November Conference, you will be exploring all the ways in which librarians and publishers act to enrich scholarship, within the following themes: research integrity, open scholarlship, information literacy, digital and blended learning.

To check out the programme so far and to register click here.

The NISO Plus Forum is an on-site, workshop-style event in which attendees explore areas of common concern to the information community.

Topic:  AI & Machine Learning: Services, Data, and Ethics.

Registration: Click here

The International Conference on AI for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (ai4lam) will take place November 15-17, 2023 at Internet Archive Canada Headquarters, the Permanent Library, in Vancouver British Columbia, Canada. This will primarily be an in-person event, but proceedings will be videotaped and made available freely online after the event.

The registation form and the programme will be published soon. Please stay tuned.