The Global Summit on Diamond Open Access (Cumbre Global sobre Acceso Abierto Diamante) is a series of hybrid and multilingual events. From 23 to 27 October 2023, the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access will take place in Toluca, México. As part of this summit, the second Conference on Diamond Open Access will take place, which will bring together the community of endorsers of the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access, consisting of researchers, editors, universities, research funding and performing organisations, academic libraries, learned societies, and policy makers from around the world who are working to strengthen the Diamond Open Access ecosystem. A free community webinar will take place on 18 September 2023.

In this 1-hour webinar, Professor Kamel Belhamel (Managing editor of DOAJ), will explore the open access landscape in Northern Africa. The first half of the webinar will look at the barriers faced by scholarly publications when looking to develop and implement open access publishing practices. In the second half of this webinar, Professor Kamel will discuss the benefits for open access journals of being indexed in DOAJ, give some tips on DOAJ evaluation metrics, and explain what editorial boards can do to maximise their chances of acceptance into the index.

Jisc is organizing a webinar about PIDs and the Knowledge Exchange report on Tuesday 23 May, 2 – 3pm GMT/ 3 – 4pm CET/ 4 – 5pm EET. The introductory presentation will focus on the report, the socio-technical approach and the case studies. The second presentation will address the key recommendations of the report. The programme and the registration form will be posted next week on Jisc website.

The European FAIR-IMPACT project will tackle the relationship between PIDs  and data citation, semantic artefacts and related services. The program and the registration form for this webinar to be held on Thursday 25 May 2023 12:00 – 14:00 CEST are online.

The ISSN International Centre will exhibit at UKSG 2023. Join us at booth 52 for a presentation of our services and a friendly chat!

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) in partnership with the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors (ABEC Brazil) and the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) invite the academic community of scientific journals to participate in the PKP Event, with the objective of enhancing knowledge, practices and technological improvements for the use of the OJS (Open Journal System). Brazil, one of the largest users of the OJS system in the world, will host the PKP Event, on June 26 and 27, 2023, at the Instituto Biológico, in the city of São Paulo.

GPT-3 produces surprisingly human-like texts that can be very difficult to distinguish from human-produced information. This powerful technology forces academia and publishers to consider some fundamental questions. What opportunities does this next generation of AI give to researchers and publishers, as well as bad actors (e.g. papermills)? And what does it mean for academic work in general? A free STM webinar with perspectives from three sides: technology, publishing, and academia.

NISO will host an open webinar on Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 2 pm Eastern to talk about the Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP), its new grant from IMLS to support this work, and upcoming Working Groups that will be formed. The NISO Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP) Recommended Practice will document exchange protocols that describe gathering, normalizing, and exchanging holdings information, contractual information, retention obligations, and usage data.

Please register for free.

The IFLA Information Technology Section and IFLA Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group are pleased to invite registration and attendance at their mid-term conference hosted by National Library of Singapore. This is a hybrid conference with in-person and online attendance available. 

This webinar will be the first of a series of online events in early 2023 which will present four workflows, each of which is intended to showcase a possible future, in which persistent identifiers (PIDs) are used throughout the research lifecycle to enable automation, efficiency, new discovery tools, and analysis. Each webinar will be run in collaboration with a relevant organisation (OASPA, ARMA, UKRI, and ARDC).

This first online event on January 25 will be run in partnership with OASPA (Open access scholarly publishing association) and will raise awareness of the workflows, in particular the publishing workflow, and demonstrate the value of PID implementations to publishers as well as the costs of not implementing them.

Please register for this free event.