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UKSG November Conference 2023 – Enriching Scholarship: how libraries and publishers educate, enhance and inform scholarly works – 15-16 November 2023

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.

Internet Archive Annual International Conference – November 15-17 2023 AI for Libraries, Archives, and Museums

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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.

NLM Office Hours Webinar: PubMed, August 23, 2023 at 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT on Zoom

Following the past webinar How PubMed Works: Selection held on July 13, 2023, join the next National Library of Medicine (NLM) Office Hours on Wednesday, August 23, 2023 from 3-4 PM Eastern Time to find out what’s new with PubMed. Amanda Sawyer from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) PubMed team will give an encore presentation of the PubMed Update session offered at the MLA Annual Conference this past May, with a few new updates to reflect the latest developments.

Global Summit on Diamond Open Access, Toluca, Mexico, 23-27 October 2023

The event brings together the global OA Diamond community and is organised by Redalyc, the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, AmeliCA, UNESCO, CLACSO and the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access.

The Summit combines two events. The first conference of this double agenda, is the 4th Redalyc Journal Editors International Conference, which will also celebrate the Redalyc 20th anniversary and will include the 2nd Meeting of AmeliCA members. The second event will welcome the 2nd Diamond Open Access Conferencewhich brings together signatories of the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access.

The registration is open.

MDG Conference 2023 (6-7 September) and UKCoR RDA Day 2023 (8 September)

The CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group (MDG) biennial conference “ReDiscovery” will be followed by the UK Committee on RDA (UKCoR) at IET Birmingham: Austin Court in Birmingham, England.

The MDG Conference will explore all aspects of metadata and discovery from traditional library and special collections cataloguing to archival description, and from metadata management for research repositories to issues of cataloguing, Linked Data, and Persistent Identifiers (PIDs).

The RDA Day on Friday 8th September will support those wishing to understand the Resource Description and Access content standard and more.

The programme is online.