2003

From OAD

• This is a section within the larger list of OA-related Events.
• Chronological order.

Contents 1 January 2 February 3 March 4 April 5 May 6 June 7 July 8 August 9 September 10 October 11 November 12 December

[edit] January

• Scholarly Communication on the Internet: A Retrospective Look at H-Net on its Tenth Anniversary. Chicago, January 3, 2003
• Advances in Infrastructure for e-Business, e-Education, e-Science, and e-Medicine on the Internet. L'Aquila, Italy, January 6-12, 2003
• National Security and Scientific Openness. (sponsored by the National Academies). Washington, D.C., January 9, 2003
• Electronic Publishing: New Models for Scholarly Communication. Columbus, Ohio, January 15, 2003
• Meeting of the Academies of Sciences: Open Access as a Means to Promote Academic Publishing. Budapest, January 16-18, 2003
• Open Forum 2003 on Metadata Registries. Sante Fe, January 20-24, 2003
• Copyright and Digitisation. (sponsored by AHDS and JISC). London, January 21, 2003
• Open Access to Scientific and Technical Information: State of the Art and Future Trends. (sponsored by ICSTI, INIST, INSERM, and CODATA). Paris, January 23-24, 2003.
• And Then There Was One: Industry Consolidation in Journal Publishing and What It Means for Libraries. (sponsored by SPARC and ACRL; part of the ALA Midwinter meeting). Philadelphia, January 25, 2003
• E-Books and the Future: e-xploring a new found land. Bournemouth, January 26-31, 2003
• Annual Journal Publishers Forum: Paradigm Shift --Where Now?. (Sponsored by ALPSP). London, January 29, 2003
• Policies for Digital Preservation. (sponsored by ERPANET). Paris, January 29-30, 2003

[edit] February

• Intellectual Property in Academia 2002: Preventing Plagiarism in the Online and and F2F Classrooms. (a web-based workshop) February 10-28, 2003
• Copyright and the Web. (a three-week email-based conference). February 10 - March 3, 2003
• World Summit on the Information Society. (PrepCom-2). Geneva, February 17-28, 2003
• Publishing in the Fine Arts: Intellectual Property Issues in Academic Publishing for the 21st Century. New York, February 21-22, 2003
• Copyright Town Meeting. Rights in Digital Publishing: A Practical Guide to the Problem of Intellectual Property Rights in the Electronic Environment, for Artists, Museums, Authors, Publishers, Readers and Users. New York, February 22, 2003
• Copy the Rights!. (A seminar on open-access and copyright, part of the larger Dutch Electronic Arts Festival 03). Rotterdam, February 26, 2003
• Sustaining Digital Resources. Washington, D.C., February 26-28, 2003
• The Law and Technology of DRM. Berkeley, February 27 - March 1, 2003

[edit] March

• Residential Workshop: Strategic Planning for Not-for-Profit Publishers - making the most of your publishing business. (sponsored by ALPSP). Abingdon, March 3-4, 2003
• Preserving Digital Content. (and the Opportunities It Holds for the Long Haul). Philadelphia, March 4, 2003
• Owning, Preserving, Archiving E-Journals; Or, Can You Have A Library If You Can’t Build Local Collections?. (A course on LOCKSS). Pisa, March 4-5, 2003
• Death of the Book? Challenges and Opportunities for Scholarly Publishing. Sydney, March 7-8, 2003.
• International Workshop on Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science. (Sponsored by ICSU, UNESCO, CODATA, and ICSTI). also. Paris, March 10-12, 2003
• Information Policies in a Complex World: ownership, access, e-legality, security, technology, asset management.... Karlsruhe, March 17-18, 2003
• Challenges and Opportunities for Library and Information Professionals in Knowledge Management and the Digital Age. Chiang Mai, Thailand, March 20-22, 2003
• Museum as Archive, Archive as Museum. Gainesville, Florida, March 21, 2003
• The National Digital Preservation Program: Challenges and Solutions. (a public lecture by Laura Campbell). Washington, D.C., March 21, 2003
• Internet Librarian International. Birmingham, March 25-27, 2003
• Sharing the Knowledge: International CIDOC CRM Symposium on Interoperability for Cultural Heritage Information. Washington, D.C., March 26-27, 2003
• 3d Open Archives Forum Workshop: Networking Multimedia Resources. Berlin, March 27-29, 2003

[edit] April

• Discovery Metadata. (sponsored by the Electronic Publishing Specialist Group of the British Computer Society). London, April 2, 2003
• Ownership and Control in the Academic World: Intellectual Property Issues Facing Colleges, Universities and Researchers. (hosted by the DePaul University Center for Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology). Chicago, April 3, 2003
• Copyright in the Digital Age: Challenges Facing the Academy. Greenbelt, Maryland, April 3-4, 2003
• Who Pays for the Free Lunch? Or, Information Wants to be Differently Funded: Alternative Funding Models for Research Communication. (Sponsored by the ALPSP). London, April 4, 2003
• The Crisis in Scholarly Communication. Lexington, Kentucky, April 7, 2003
• Scholarly Publishing and Archiving on the Web: New Opportunities. Albany, April 7, 2003
• The Eighth Search Engine Conference: The Synergy Between Search, Systems and Information. Boston, April 7-8, 2003
• The Price of Digitization: New Cost Models for Cultural and Educational Institutions. (sponsored by NINCH). New York, April 8, 2003
• Coping with Copyright: Identifying and Managing Copyright Issues in a Digital Environment. London, April 9, 2003
• International Conference on Building Education and Research. Salford, UK, April 9-11, 2003
• Long-Term Preservation of Databases. (sponsored by ERPANET). Bern, April 9-11, 2003
• International scientific archives conference: "Future proof: delivering scientific archives in the twenty-first century". Edinburgh, April 9-11, 2003
• ACRL Preconferences. Charlotte, North Carolina, April 10-13, 2003
• Scholarly Communication: Taking Stock, Charting Next Steps. (An ARL-SPARC session at the ACRL National Conference). April 12, 2003
• Forum on Open Access in Medical Research Publishing. (sponsored by The British Library and BioMed Central). London, April 14, 2003
• Microfilming and Digitisation for Preservation. The Hague, April 14-15, 2003
• 25th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research. Pisa, April 14-18, 2003
• Universal Access to STM Information: By Evolution or Revolution?. Amsterdam, April 15-16, 2003
• Archives Online: Moving archives into the digital era. The Hague, April 17, 2003
• New Developments in Digital Libraries. (NDDL-2003). Angers, France, April 22, 2003
• Building the Information Commonwealth: Information Technologies and Prospects for Development of Civil Society Institutions in the Countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Saint Petersburg, April 22-24, 2003
• From Creator to Consumer in A Digital Age: International Conference on The Future of the Book. Cairns, Australia, April 22-24, 2003
• Ownership and control: managing IPR in universities. London, April 28, 2003
• Seventh Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Seoul, April 30 - May 2, 2003

[edit] May

• Improving productivity and reducing costs: solutions for the smaller publisher. (hosted by ALPSP and Pira International). London, May 2, 2003
• The Council of Science Editors, Annual Meeting 2003. Pittsburgh, May 2-6, 2003
• Digitization for Cultural and Heritage Professionals 2003. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, May 11-16, 2003
• Introduction to Journals Finance. (sponsored by the ALPSP). London, May 12, 2003
• The Open Archives Initiative: Application and Exploitation. London, May 14, 2003
• Symposium on Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications. (sponsored by the U.S. National Academies). Washington, D.C., May 19-20, 2003
• Digital Books and STM: Technology, Publishing and Access. (sponsored by IBM, Kluwer, and the Dutch Royal Library). Amsterdam, May 21, 2003
• Next Steps —Electronic Theses and Dissertations Worldwide. Berlin, May 21-24, 2003
• Preserving the Web. Kerkira, Corfu, May 22-24, 2003
• Peer Review in the Age of Open Archives. Trieste, May 23-24, 2003
• Libraries in the Digital Age 2003. Dubrovnik, May 26-30, 2003
• Conference on Digital Libraries. Houston, May 27-31, 2003
• "Navitaging Change": 25th Anniversary Meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. Baltimore, May 28-29, 2003
• Third Open Source Content Management Conference. Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 30, 2003
• Web X: A Decade of the World Wide Web. (a joint international conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanties and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing). Athens, Georgia, May 29 - June 2, 2003
• OAI Metadata Harvesting Workshop. Houston, May 31, 2003

[edit] June

• The Future of Scholarly Publishing: Whither the Social Sciences and Humanities?. Halifax, June 1-2, 2003
• Open Cultures: Free Flows of Information and the Politics of Commons. Vienna, June 5-6, 2003
• Putting Knowledge to Work. (sponsored by the Special Libraries Association). New York, June 7-12, 2003
• 13th Intensive Course in STM Journal Publishing. Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, June 9-13, 2003
• Business Management of Journals. (sponsored by the ALPSP). London, June 10, 2003
• Opening Doors: web-portals and the historic environment. London, June 17, 2003
• Good Enough for Government Work: Digitization of Government Information.(sponsored by the ALA Government Documents Roundtable). Toronto, June 19-20, 2003
• Creating Change: Best Practices in Campus Advocacy. (A SPARC/ACRL Forum at the ALA Annual Conference). Toronto, June 21, 2003
• "The Information Commons Challenge: Take Ownership of Technology Before It Takes Ownership of You!". (sponsored by the ALA RUSA MARS). June 22, 2003
• Digital Rights, Digital Wrongs: The Impact of International Copyright Law On What Gets Published. (And What Librarians Can Buy). June 22, 2003
• Scholarly Communications Discussion Group Meeting. (ALA/ALCTS session at the ALA Annual Conference). Toronto, June 23, 2003
• Open Publish 2003. (on open standards, not open access). Philadelphia, June 23-25, 2003
• Seventh International Conference on Electronic Publishing: From Information to Knowledge. Guimarães, Portugal, June 25-28, 2003
• Serials in the Park: Blazing Diverse Trails in the Information Forest. (Sponsored by the North American Serials Interest Group). Portland, Oregon, June 26-29, 2003

[edit] July

• Create a Network of Excellence in Digital Repositories. Bristol, July 16, 2003
• SIGIR 2003: Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Toronto, July 28 - August 1, 2003

[edit] August

• Access Point Library: Media - Information - Culture. (69th IFLA General Conference and Council). Berlin, August 1-9, 2003
• Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-Term Strategies for Long-Term Problems. Ithaca, NY, August 4-8, 2003
• International Summer School on the Digital Library 2003: Course 1: Leaders' Visions on the Library of the Future. Tilburg, August 10-12, 2003
• AI Moves to IA: Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Information Access, and Mobile Computing. Acapulco, August 11, 2003
• International Summer School on the Digital Library 2003: Course 2: Change: Making It Happen In Your Library. Tilburg, August 12-15, 2003
• 7th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. (ECDL 2003). Trondheim, August 17-22, 2003
• Workshop on Web Archives. (part of ECDL 2003). Trondheim, August 21, 2003
• International Summer School on the Digital Library 2003: Course 3: Libraries, Electronic Resources, and Electronic Publishing. Tilburg, August 24-27, 2003
• 2003 Summer Institute: Creating Electronic Texts and Images. (sponsored by the University of New Brunswick Electronic Text Centre). August 24-29, 2003
• Digital Resources in the Humanities. Cheltenham, August 31 - September 3, 2003

[edit] September

• Metadata in Digital Preservation. Marburg, September 3-5, 2003
• 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop: "In Practice, Good Practice: The Future of Open Archives". Bath, September 4-5 2003
• Workshop on Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access. Udine, Italy, September 8, 2003
• Toward a User-Centered Approach to Digital Libraries. Espoo, Finland, September 8-9, 2003
• DSpace installation training workshop. Glasgow, September 9-11, 2003
• International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting 2003: Cultural Institutions and Digital Technology. (ichim03). Paris, September 10-12, 2003
• Open Archives and Public Access to Environmental info. Stockholm, September 11, 2003
• The Economics of Open Access. (2nd annual ALPSP/OSI round table). London, September 15, 2003
• OpenURL Meeting. (sponsored by JIBS and UKOLN). London, September 17, 2003
• New Services for Scientific Information; third international conference on Project SINN. (Suchmachinennetzwerk im internationalen naturwissenschaftlichen netz). Oldenburg, Germany, September 17-19, 2003
• Fair Play & Fair Pay. (hosted by the British Computer Society Electronic Publishing Specialist Group and the Copyright Licensing Agency). London, September 18, 2003
• Libraries Without Walls 5: The Distributed Delivery of Library and Information Services. Lesvos, Greece, September 19-23, 2003
• PERI Country Coordinators Meeting. Accra, Ghana, September 20-21, 2003
• Health Information Forum: Access to information for nurses and midwives in developing countries. (hosted by INASP). London, September 23, 2003
• Towards an Information Society for All III. (TISA3). Paris, September 26-27, 2003

[edit] October

• Access 2003: Extending Our Abilities. Vancouver, October 1-4, 2003
• Arts and Humanities in the Digital Space: Towards Web based Culture and Science. Salzburg, October 6-7, 2003
• La biblioteca digital y la nueva comunicación científica. Barcelona, October 8-10, 2003
• 9th General Conference of the Third World Academy of Sciences. Beijing, October 16-19, 2003
• 1st Global Conference Higher Education, Copyright & Intellectual Property. Vienna, October 16-18, 2003
• Scholarly Tribes and Tribulations: How Tradition and Technology Are Driving Disciplinary Change. Washington, D.C., October 17, 2003
• Humanizing Information Technology: From Ideas to Bits and Back. (ASIST Annual Meeting 2003). Long Beach, October 19-22, 2003
• Epublishing of Archaeological Journals. (sponsored by the Council for British Archaeology and the Society of Antiquaries of London). London, October 20, 2003
• Database Producers in the Humanities: Roundtable II. (sponsored by NFAIS). Chicago, October 20, 2003
• The Shifting Landscape of Public Data. (sponsored by the Association of Public Data Users). Alexandria, Virginia, October 20-22, 2003
• Open Access to the Data and Results of the Sciences and Humanities. Berlin, October 20-22, 2003
• Seminar: "De Internet a Gutenberg".Madrid, October 20-23, 2003
• Library Online Conference: Innovations by Information Professionals. October 20-24, 2003
• Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-Term Strategies for Long-Term Problems. Ithaca, NY, October 20-24, 2003
• Developing Countries Access to Scientific Knowledge. Trieste, October 23-24, 2003
• International Coalition of Library Consortia in Europe. Elsinore, Denmark, October 23-25, 2003
• 8th International Conference on Interlending and Document Supply: Breaking Barriers: Reaching Users in a Digital World. Canberra, October 28-31, 2003
• The Next Generation of Access: OpenURL and Metasearch. (two separate one-day conferences sponsored by NISO). Washington, D.C., October 29-30, 2003
• Fifth National Russian Research Conference on Digital Libraries. in Russian. in English. St. Petersburg, October 29-31, 2003
• Two Faces Have I: One for Books, One for Bytes. (The Charleston Conference 2003). Charleston, October 30 - November 2, 2003

[edit] November

• EduCause 2003: Balancing Opportunities, Expectations, and Resources. (esp. the session on institutional repositories). Annaheim, November 4-7, 2003
• Balancing Museum Technology and Transformation. Las Vegas, November 5-8, 2003
• IADIS Annual Conference 2003. (sponsored by IADIS, the International Association for Development of the Information Society). Algarve, Portugal, November 5-8, 2003
• Journal Production. Oxford, November 6, 2003
• Colloque. Association pour l'avancement des sciences et des techniques de la documentation. Ottawa, November 7, 2003
• Parallel Lives: digital and analog options for access and preservation. London, November 10, 2003
• Balancing Acts: Fair Use and Digital Content. (an online seminar from the University of Maryland University College). November 10-21, 2003
• Seminar on Open Online Access to Research. (sponsored by the Norwegian Council for Higher Education). Oslo, November 11-12, 2003
• The radical library: taking up the challenge. (sponsored by the UKSG). London, November 13, 2003
• Managing and Enhancing Information: Cultures and Conflicts. (ASIS&T 2004 Annual Meeting) Providence, Rhode Island, November 13-18, 2003
• Workshop on Trusted Digital Repository for Cultural Digital Heritage. (sponsored by ERPANET and Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei). Rome, November 17-19, 2003
• Digital Library Federation Fall Forum 2003. Albuquerque, November 17-19, 2003
• Global Access to UK Research: Removing the barriers. London, November 20, 2003
• Helping Users Find Your Content. (sponsored by ALPSP and BSG). London, November 20, 2003
• ASIS&T Summit on Digital Archives for Science and Engineering Resources. Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 21-23, 2003
• Open Access: A Time of Transition. (sponsored by EPS). London, November 25, 2003

[edit] December

• Digitising your journal backfiles: a practical approach. (sponsored by ALPSP). London, December 1, 2003
• Information for all: Culture and Information Society Technologies. Moscow, December 1-5, 2003
• Online Information 2003. London, December 2-4, 2003
• Information and Access: improving communication between publishers and academic users. (sponsored by BIC, NISO, and the PA). London, December 4, 2003
• Strategies of STM Journal Production in the E-Environment: The Real Impact of Change. (sponsored by the International Association of :Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers). London, December 4, 2003
• 5th International Conference on Grey Literature. (sponsored by INIST). Vandoeuvre Cedex, France, December 4-5, 2003
• New Markets, New Tools, New Initiatives Leveraging Assets and Refining Online Publishing. (sponsored by the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers). London, December 5, 2003
• The role of science in the information society. (sponsored by CERN, UNESCO, the International Council for Science, and the Third World Academy of Sciences). Geneva, December 8-9, 2003
• Digital Libraries: Technology and Management of Indigenous Knowledge for Global Access. (6th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries). Kuala Lumpur, December 8-11, 2003
• Open source contents. Milan, December 9, 2003
• The Internet for Psychology. (Social Science Online seminar series organized by SOSIG, hosted by LTSN, funded by JISC). London, December 10, 2003
• Focus on Access. A Workshop on Building Digital Collections and Services. Cape Town, December 10-12, 2003
• Open Access : Towards a Free Science. (a session within the larger WSIS meeting). Geneva, December 11, 2003
• CODATA / ERPANET Workshop on the Selection, Appraisal, and Retention of Scientific Data. Lisbon, December 15-17, 2003
• The Internet for Sociology. (Social Science Online seminar series organized by SOSIG, hosted by LTSN, funded by JISC). Birmingham, December 16, 2003