Topic: Open Scholarly Communication in Europe. Addressing the Coordination Challenge

The programme is online.

Topic: Journalpalooza: All You Need to Know About Serials But Were Afraid to Ask

The programme is online.

Topic: Transforming the Information Community

The programme is online.

Registration is open.

Results from the world’s first-ever global discussion across the library community will be revealed on 19 March 2018 when IFLA’s Global Vision Report is launched during the IFLA President’s Meeting in Barcelona, Spain.

An in-depth look at the opportunities and potential changes in the world of scholarly communication that may be stimulated by Blockchain.

3 speakers: Joris van Rossum, Director of Special Projects at Digital Science; Sönke Bartling, Founder of Blockchain for Science; 
Lambert Heller, Digital Library Specialist and Founder of the Open Science Lab at TIB.

Topic: Scholarly Publishing at the Crossroads: What’s working, what’s holding us back, where do we go from here?

Topics: Overview and update of the 3R project and technical infrastructure of RDA in a linked data environment.

Topic: World-class scientific publication – 2018: Editorial Policy, Open Access, Scientific Communications

Deadline for submission of applications 1 April, 2018

Conference preceded by the workshop Preparation of Scientific Journals for Promotion to the International Information Space: Scopus recommendations.

The programme is online.

Topic: Building the scholarly publishing model of the global South

Posters submission deadline: Feb. 28th, 2018