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.

On Monday, February 12 (1:00–5:00 pm ET), the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) will host a pre-conference, “Introduction to AI and Machine Learning in Scholarly Communications.” The in-person event will take place at the Hyatt Regency Inner Harbor in Baltimore, just one day prior to the fifth anniversary NISO Plus Baltimore conference.

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 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 (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.

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.

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.

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.