Attend a panel discussion featuring experienced journal editors who use OJS, and library publishers, as well as organizations that support them, to learn more about inclusion in the DOAJ.
The SciELO 25 Years Week will bring together a series of events that will be designed as a global forum for face-to-face and online discussion on the state of the art and perspectives on the execution and communication of open science research and its contributions to the development of collections of research communication objects operated by SciELO with a focus on journals of increasing quality that the SciELO Network indexes, publishes, and interoperates.
Universal Bibliographic Control at the crossroads: the challenges of unifying IFLA bibliographic standards
Date: 18 – 19 August 2023
Location: KBR, Brussels, Belgium
The World Library and Information Congress WLIC2023 Programme is now live on the Congress website. A wealth of innovative and thought-provoking sessions awaits you! Explore the Congress Programme, pick sessions of your choice and set up your own agenda. Use the iPLANNER to view the entire week’s worth of sessions.
111. BiblioCon2023, Germany’s central library and information science congress, will take place in Hanover from 23 to 26 May and feature the motto “Vorwärts nach weit” (Forward to Far). The congress, established in 1900, will gather 3,500 participants from 18 countries. The German National Library will again be present with a stand and numerous presentations and contributions to the discussion.
Look at the programme.
The topic for the June open teleconference will be a recap of the ISO Technical Committee 46 Plenary meeting week, which held in Paris, France from May 22-26, with international participants.
Five TC 46 Subcommittees will hold plenary meetings, among others SC 9 (Identification and description), along with meetings of other subcommittee working and discussion groups and of course the final TC 46 plenary.
At its launch in 2018, cOAlition S announced that its members would, for a “transition period,” fund open access fees for journals covered by “transformative” agreements.
Beginning in 2025, funders adhering to Plan S will no longer support the agreements. This webinar features perspectives on the emerging landscape of collective and conditional open models from publishers and will be followed this year by a second webinar focusing on the perspective of funders.
Please join this free webinar and contribute to the discussion.
SSP’s Annual Meeting will be an in-person learning and networking event, with a virtual component available for those who wish to attend remotely.
It brings together academics, funders, librarians, publishers, service providers, technologists, and countless others with a communal interest and stake in disseminating scholarly information.
The topic will be: Transformation, Trust, and Transparency.
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.
