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Webinar: Navigating Europe’s Institutional Publishing Landscape, Wednesday 7th February at 10:00 (CET)

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DIAMAS is a consortium of 23 organisations from 12 European countries, well-versed in OA academic publishing and scholarly communication. DIAMAS will present findings from the Institutional Publishing Landscape survey in an online event. Full details and registration

Webinar Highlights:

  • Presentation of key survey findings,
  • Insights into the implications for Diamond Publishing,
  • Engagement with the team behind the survey in a live Q&A session.

UKSG 47th Annual Conference and Exhibition, Glasgow, UK, 8-10 April 2024

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The UKSG Annual Conference is a major event in the scholarly communications calendar which attracts delegates each year from around the world – librarians, publishers, content providers, consultants and intermediaries.

Registration is now open, the registration form can be found here.

Please take a look at the programme for the latest announcements on speakers – more are being added, so please do check back.

Now Available! Program for NISO Plus 2024 in Baltimore​, USA, February 13–14 2024

The NISO Plus 2024 conference will take place in Baltimore, Maryland (February 13–14). Celebrating its fifth anniversary, the conference will continue to bring librarians, publishers, tech and service providers, government agencies, and more to address some of the biggest trends and issues in the information community. Sessions will be organized into three tracks—metadata, open scholarship, and artificial intelligence.

The preliminary agenda is now available, the early bird deadline is January 8.

NASIG 2024 Call for Proposals

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NASIG 39th Annual Conference will take place in Spokane, Washington, USA, from June 3 – 7, 2024.

They are calling for workshop ideas and facilitators, as well as for in-person presentations (concurrent sessions).

The submission deadline for in-person presentations (concurrent sessions) is December 1, 2023.

NASIG Digital Preservation Webinar – 28 November at 12pm (EST)

NASIG (formerly the North American Serials Interest Group, Inc.) will be hosting a webinar, whose theme will be Publishers presesrving publishing. The goal is to showcase steps that scholarly journal publishers take to preserve publications and objects and records related to publishing.

Please register.

Call for Contributions iPRES 2024, 16, Ghent, Belgium-20 September 2024

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iPRES comes to Ghent and Flanders. Participants are invited to unlock the past, present and future of digital preservation together.

Submissions will open early January, with the following deadlines:

  • 17 March 2024 for papers, panels, tutorials and workshops
  • 15 May 2024 for posters, lightning talks, bake-off demos, games and birds of a feather sessions.

Journée d’étude annuelle sur l’IA dans les métiers de l’information et de la documentation, 24 novembre 2023, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France

Le 24 novembre 2023, AFNOR et la BNF, avec le soutien du Ministère de la Culture, organisent leur journée d’étude annuelle. Venez découvrir comment les normes volontaires et l’intelligence artificielle peuvent intervenir dans le quotidien des professionnels de l’information et de la documentation.

La journée co-organisée par l’AFNOR et la BnF, présente un état des lieux de la réflexion dans le domaine de l’information et la documentation, et a vocation à constituer la première étape dans l’appropriation du sujet par nos organisations.

La participation est gratuite mais l’inscription obligatoire jusqu’au 22 novembre 2023.

Penn State University Libraries to observe open access week with a virtual panel discussion on October 24, 2023

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.

ICSTI 2023 annual conference & General assembly, November 28th

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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.