2008

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• 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

• Research Publication and Dissemination - the Future?. (OA is among the topics). Galway, January 10, 2008

• American Library Association 2008 Midwinter Meeting. Philadelphia, January 11-16, 2008

• Working with the Facebook Generation: Engaging Student Views on Access to Scholarship. A SPARC/ARL Forum. January 12, 2008, 4:00-6:00pm at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, room 204 A/B.

• Improving access to public sector information in the UK. (not the official title). London, January 12, 2008

• Winter School "e-Learning in the Environmental and Geosciences" 2008. (OA is among the topics). Berlin, January 13-27, 2008

• Open Educational Revolution. (a public lecture by Richard Baraniuk). Vancouver, January 15, 2008

• DRIVER Summit: Towards a Confederation of Digital Repositories. Göttingen, January 16-17, 2008

• Communia workshop on Technology and the Public Domain. Torino, January 18, 2008

• Publishing Smart: A Hands-on Workshop on Journal Quality Measures and Publisher Copyright Policies. (an MIT workshop). (OA is among the topics). Cambridge, January 18, 2008

• Science Blogging Conference. (OA is among the topics). Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, January 19, 2008

• International Workshop on Asia and Commons in the Information Age. Taipei, January 19-20, 2008

• Academic Publishing in Europe (APE). (OA is among the topics). Berlin, January 21-23, 2008

• Providing Access to Information for Everyone. (OA is among the topics). Zadar, Croatia, January 28-30, 2008

• How an Open Access Institutional Repository, Deposit Mandate, and Research Metrics can help Manage, Measure and Maximize Concordia University’s Research Productivity and Impact. (a public lecture by Stevan Harnad). Montreal, January 28, 2008

• Integrating Access to Digital Course Materials: Blackboard/WebCT, Coursepacks, e-Reserves, Licensed Materials, e-Books, Open Access... What Will They Think of Next?. (sponsored by the University of Maryland University College Center for Intellectual Property). January 28 - February 8, 2008. (online workshop)

• Open Access and Institutional Repository in Asia-Pacific. (DRF international conference 2008). Osaka, January 30-31, 2008

• New Media and Science Communication. New York City, January 31, 2008

• One more step towards the European digital library. Frankfurt, January 31 - February 1, 2008

[edit] February

• UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) Workshop. London, February 4, 2008

• The Scholar's Toolbox Workshop Series, Part 4: What Can Open Access Do For You?. Rochester, NY, February 6, 2008

• What does Higher Education want from Publishers?. (sponosored by the Publishers Association). (OA is among the topics). London, February 12, 2008

• 1st African Digital Management and Curation Conference and Workshop. (OA is among the topics). Pretoria, February 12-13, 2008

• Open Access Collections: Workshop on the challenges and opportunities of open access publishing for Australian universities. Brisbane, February 14, 2008

• IPR and the web: challenges for taxonomy. (OA is among the topics). London, February 20, 2008

• Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Informationslandschaft in Deutschland: Chancen und Strategien beim Aufbau vernetzter Repositorien. (sponsored by the DFG and DINI). Berlin, February 26-27, 2008

• SCOAP3 US Focal meeting (sponsored by CERN). Berkeley, February 29, 2008

[edit] March

• OAI-ORE Specification Roll-Out. Baltimore, March 3, 2008

• Implementing Open Data: The Open Data Commons project. (a public lecture by Jordan Hatcher). Oxford, March 7, 2008

• Institutional Compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy: Ensuring Deposit Rights. (sponsored by ARL). March 7, 2008 (a webcast)

• Scholarly Communications Workshop. (sponsored by Wake Forest University). (OA is among the topics). Winston-Salem, North Carolina, March 13, 2008

• National Workshop of Building Digital Libraries Using GSDL and DSpace. Jaipur, India, March 14-15, 2008

• Million Books Workshop. (sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and Imperial College London). London, March 14, 2008

• Open Knowledge Conference 2008. (OKCon 2008). (sponsored by the Open Knowledge Foundation). London, March 15, 2008

• SciBarCamp 2008. (OA is among the topics). Toronto, March 15-16, 2008

• As Worlds Collide. (ASIDIC Spring 2008 Meeting). (OA is among the topics). Las Vegas, March 16-18, 2008

• Open Access Repositories and Greenstone Software. (Looking for a better URL). Kashmir, March 17-20, 2008

• 2008 E-Journal Summit. (OA is among the topics). Washington, DC, March 18, 2008

• Why are we still just publishing text?. (sponsored by ALPSP). London, March 19, 2008

• Open meeting on public access. (sponsored by the NIH). Bethesda, March 20, 2008

• Digital Scholarship in the University Tenure and Promotion Process. Washington, D.C., March 26, 2008

• Mandatory Open Access: Friend or Foe? Coming to Terms with National Institutes of Health and Federal Research Public Access Act legislation. (sponsored by the University of Connecticut). Storrs, Connecticut, March 26, 2008.

• NIH Public Access Policy. Sponsored by ACRL. March 27, 2008 (an online chat).

• Hosted Repository Software: A seminar for repository managers. Guildford, March 27, 2008

• Digital Discovery2008: Issues in Scholarly Publishing. OA is among the topics. Houston, March 27, 2008

• BILETA 2008. (sponsored by the British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association). (OA is among the topics). Glasgow, March 27-28, 2008 .

• Shaping a Roadmap for the Future of Research Libraries. 2nd Global Research Library 2020 Workshop. Pisa, March 27-28, 2008.

• Building Alliances for Higher Education and the Public Good. (OA is among the topics). Washington, D.C., March 28-30, 2008

• Ethical Public Domain: Debate of Questionable Practices. (Second COMMUNIA Workshop). Vilnius, March 31, 2008

[edit] April

• Open Repositories 2008. Southampton, April 1-4, 2008

• On the Open Humanities Press. Two public lectures by Sigi Jottkandt and Gary Hall. Los Angeles, April 3, 2008

• Foundations of Open: Technology and Digital Knowledge, Local 2020 Summit. (OA is among the topics.) Canberra, April 3, 2008

• EurOpenScholar Meeting: The University's Mission, Management and Mandate in the Open Access Era. Southampton, April 4, 2008

• Advocacy for Access to Knowledge: copyright and libraries. eIFL-IP global conference. (OA is among the topics.) Istanbul, 4-5 April 2008

• Institutional Compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy: Ensuring Deposit Rights. April 7, 2008. (A webcast, 1:00 - 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time.)

• GenBank celebrates 25 years of service. (OA is among the topics). Bethesda, April 7-8, 2008

• Technical Briefing on the European Commission Recommendation and Code of Practice on the management of Intellectual Property. (OA is among the topics.) Brussels, April 9, 2008

• Economies of the Commons: Strategies for Sustainable Access and Creative Reuse of Images and Sounds Online. Amsterdam, April 10-12, 2008

• Culture of Sharing. (OA is among the topics). Madison, April 12, 2008

• Copyright Limitations and Exceptions: from access to research to transformative use. (OA is among the topics.) Durham, April 12, 2008

• Faculty discussion of scholarly communication. (not the official title). (OA is among the topics.) (Looking for a better URL.) Berkeley, April 14, 2008

• Open Access: New Trends in Scholarly Communication. Thessaloniki, April 14, 2008

• ODaF Europe 2008. (sponsored by the Open Data Foundation). Colchester, April 14-15, 2008
  • Panel on OA for students. (Not the official title.) (No web site yet.) Northfield, Minnesota (Carleton College), April 15, 2008
  • Panel on OA for students. (Not the official title.) (No web site yet.) Northfield, Minnesota (St. Olaf College), April 16, 2008

• Scholar 2 Scholar: How Web 2.0 is Changing Scholarly Communication as We Know It. Drexel University Libraries' Scholarly Communication Symposium. Philadelphia, April 16, 2008

• Scholarly Publication Speaker Series: Open Access: what it means for research, teaching, and one's career. Toronto, April 16, 2008

• FEST 2008. (Fiera Internazionale dell'Editoria Scientifica). English title: International Science Media Fair. (OA is among the topics.) Trieste, April 16-20, 2008

• Institutional Repositories: The Great Debate. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, April 17, 2008

• Off the Shelf and Out of the Box: Creativity in Libraries. 2008 BC Library Conference. (OA is among the topics.. Richmond, British Columbia, April 17-19, 2008

• Open Scholarly Communities on the Web: Legal, Economic and Social Framework. Oxford, April 21-22, 2008

• Fourth Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication (NCSC 2008). Lund, April 21-23, 2008

• Blogs, RSS and Wikis: tools for dissemination, collaboration and information gathering. Manchester, April 22, 2008

• Repository Services Day. Sponsored by the JISC Repositories Support Project. Nottingham, April 23, 2008

• What Do I Need To Know Right Now (about OA)?. A public lecture by Barbara Epstein. Morgantown, West Virginia, April 25, 2008

• Bio-IT World 2008. (OA is among the topics.) Boston, April 28-30, 2008

• Open Access Repositories: New Models for Scholarly Communication. Sponsored by eIFL.net and Ahmadu Bello University. Zaria, Nigeria, April 28-29, 2008

• Towards an Open Ontology Repository. 2008 Ontology Summit, NIST. Gaithersburg, April 28-29, 2008

• Inter Academy Panel Program on Promoting Access to and Use of Digital Knowledge Resources and Infrastructure: Focus on Countries with Developing and Transitional Economies. Shanghai, April 28-30, 2008

[edit] May

• What Do I Need To Know Right Now (about OA)? (A public lecture by Heather Joseph). Morgantown, West Virginia, May 1, 2008

• Meeting of the US National Science Board. (Not the official title.) Includes panel on OA. Arlington, Virginia, May 6-7, 2008.

• Open Access in European Union and Lithuania. Sponsored by the Lithuanian Ministry of Education and Science and the Lithuanian Research Libraries Consortium. Vilnius, May 7, 2008.

• Open Access, digital preservation e deposito legale: Policy, progetti e servizi per la ricerca. Rome, May 8, 2008

• E-books and E-content 2008. (OA is among the topics). London, May 13, 2008

• Die Universität im Internetzeitalter. (OA is among the topics). Basel, May 14, 2008.

• Open Access: New Models for Scholarly Communication. Sponsored by the Ilia Chavchavadze State University. Tbilisi, Georgia, May 14-15, 2008.

• Creating Value through Digital Commons. (EURAM 2008). Ljubljana & Bled, Slovenia, May 15-17, 2008

• Open Access og samfundsvidenskaberne: et nordisk perspektiv. Copenhagen, May 15, 2008

• Multistakeholder Consultation Meeting on Action Line C3 of the WSIS Plan of Action: Access to information and knowledge. (OA is among the topics). [looking for a better URL]. Geneva, May 19, 2008 (ITU, Montbrillant Building, Room C2)

• Consultation on facilitation of WSIS Action Line: E-Science (C7). (OA is among the topics). Geneva, May 21, 2008

• Directions in Research Systems & Repositories: A forum for Research Information Managers. Brisbane, May 21, 2008

• Libraries & Publishing 3.0: connecting authors to readers in the digital age. (CLA Annual Conference 2008). (OA is among the topics). Vancouver, May 21-24, 2008

• Open Access Publishing in the Chemical Sciences. Sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry. London, May 22, 2008.

• The Right to Research: Student Involvement in Open Access to Scholarly Communication. Simmons College, Boston, May 27, 2008.

• Monopoly: Playing the Innovation Game (Center for Intellectual Property 8th Annual Symposium). (OA is among the topics). Adelphi, Maryland, May 28-30, 2008.

• First Pan-African Forum on Open Educational Resources (OER) for Technology Enhanced Education and Training. Accra, Ghana, May 28-30, 2008

• Empires of the Mind: Inventing the Future of Scholarly Publishing. (sponsored by the Society for Scholarly Publishing). (OA is among the topics). Boston, May 28-30, 2008

• LIBR 559K: Open Access Class. University of British Columbia School of Library, Archival and Information Science. May 31 & June 7, 2008.

[edit] June

• Education and Media. Salzburg, June 2-3, 2008.

• Open Grid Forum. Barcelona, June 2-6, 2008.

• Deutscher Bibliothekartag. Includes a session on OA (Themenkreis 6: Wissensmarkt Open Access - Bewegung durch Vernetzung). Mannheim, June 3-6, 2008.

• Spreading the Light: 11th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations. ETD 2008. Aberdeen, June 4-7, 2008.

• Geschlossene Informationsgesellschaft? Digitale Kultur zwischen geistigem Eigentum und offenem Zugang. Zurich, June 5, 2008.

• Digital Repositories: Interoperability Using Grid Technologies. Barcelona, June 5, 2008.

• Open Content - Open Access. Stuttgart, June 9, 2008

• eSciDoc Days 2008. Berlin, June 9-10, 2008.

• Research Day. Sponsored by Talis Project Xiphos. OA is among the topics. Birmingham, June 10, 2008.

• New Frontiers for Scientific and Technical Communication. ICSTI 2008 Public Conference. OA is among the topics. Seoul, June 11-12, 2008.

• PSI Re-use – Who Takes Action Next?. OA for PSI (public sector information) was among the topics. Brussels, June 13, 2008.

• Open Education Nighmares: Will open education bear its promised fruits or release dreaded snakes?. Online, June 16-19, 2008.

• Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2008. Pittsburgh, June 16-20, 2008.

• Managing and sharing research data. Sponsored by the UK Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) program. Edinburgh, June 17, 2008.

• NEW Creative Commons Technology Summit. Mountain View, June 18, 2008.

• Open-Access-Multiplikatoren-Netzwerk. Göttingen, June 18, 2008.

• Colloquium on open access. A seminar at the NIH led by Harold Varmus. June 18-19, 2008.

• Repositories Support Project Summer School 2008. The Wirral, Cheshire, June 18-20, 2008.

• 2008 Conference for Law School Computing. OA is among the topics. Baltimore, June 19-21, 2008.

• Pubblicazioni scientifiche, diritti d’autore ed Open Access: Il punto di vista di ricercatori, editori e biblioteche. Trento, June 20, 2008.

• Open Access: New Models for Scholarly Communication in Moldova. Chisinau, Moldova, June 23-24, 2008.

• European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries. OA is among the topics. Helsinki, June 23-28, 2008.

• Building an Australasian Commons. Brisbane, June 24, 2008.

• Managing and sharing research data for RELU researchers. Sponsored by the UK Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) program. London, June 24, 2008.

• OpeniWorld: Europe 2008: Federating Resources Through Open Interoperability: A Symposium and Workshop. Lyon, June 24-27, 2008.

• Information and Knowledge Management. 12th General EADI Conference. OA is among the topics. See esp. the mini-symposium Hard Talk: Interrogating Open Access. Geneva, June 24-28.

• Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0. 12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing. ElPub 2008. OA is among the topics. Toronto, June 25-27, 2008.

• Data Sharing in the Biosciences : a sociological perspective. Edinburgh, June 26, 2008.

• Second Bloomsbury Conference on E-Publishing and E-Publications. London, June 26-27, 2008.

• New Communication Channels for Biology. San Diego, June 26-27, 2008.

• Association of American University Presses Annual Meeting 2008. OA is among the topics. Montreal, June 26-29, 2008.

• SPARC-ACRL Forum on the Harvard open access policy. Anaheim, June 28-29, 2008
• Knowledge Wants to Be Known: Open Access for the Behavioral & Social Sciences. A session from the ACRL's Education and Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS). Annaheim, June 28, 2008.

• COMMUNIA conference on Public Domain in the Digital Age. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, June 30 - July 1, 2008

[edit] July

• Take Up Research! Extending the communication and uptake of development research in Southern Africa. OA is among the topics. Pretoria, July 3-4, 2008.

• NEW World eBook Fair. July 4 - August 4, 2008.

• Open Tech 2008. OA is among the topics. London, July 5, 2008.

• Who Owns Science?. Manchester, July 5, 2008.

• Emerging publishing models: exploring new ventures for delivering science publishing. Sponsored by the Repository Interface for Overlaid Journal Archives project. Cambridge, July 7, 2008.

• Rate Journal impact OR How to publish, win friends & influence people: a session for all QUT Faculty of Information Technology & ISI Researchers. Brisbane, July 7, 2008.

• Workshop on Using Open Access Models for Science Dissemination. Hosted by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics. Miramare, Trieste, July 7-16, 2008.

• Building and Managing a Successful Digital Repository in DSpace. A session within the Mid-Atlantic Digital Library Conference. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, July 9, 2008.

• The JISC/CNI Meeting: Transforming the User Experience. OA is among the topics. Belfast, July 10-11, 2008.

• The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration. IEEE IRI-2008. Las Vegas, July 13-15, 2008.

• NEW Making the eHealth Connection. OA is among the topics. Bellagio, July 13 - August 13, 2008.

• WIPO International Workshop on Digital Preservation and Copyright. Geneva, July 15, 2008.

• Free Knowledge, Free Technology 2008. Sponsored by the Open University of Catalonia and the SELF Consortium. Barcelona, July 15-17, 2008.

• Wikimania 2008. OA is among the topics. Alexandria, Egypt, July 17-19, 2008.

• EuroScience Open Forum 2008. (OA is among the topics.) Barcelona, July 18-22, 2008
  • Policy and Technology for e-Science, an an ESOF Satellite Event, Barcelona, July 16-17, 2008.

• CRIG RepoCamp LOC. Washington, D.C., July 25, 2008.

• Open Access and Institutional Repository. Mozambique, July 28-30, 2008.

• iCommons iSummit 2008. Sapporo, July 29 - August 1, 2008.

• First Interdisciplinary Research Workshop on Free Culture, a workshop at the iSummit. July 29 - August 1, 2008.

• The Repository Fringe. Edinburgh, July 31 - August 1, 2008.

[edit] August

• Open Access workshop for librarians. Kyrgyz, August 2-3, 2008.

• Rethinking Access to Information: Evolving perspectives on information content and delivery. IFLA Satellite Meeting. Boston, August 5-7, 2008.

• NEW The Right to Research: Engaging students on the topic of access to research. Webcast, August 6, 2008.

• Red Island Repository Institute: 1st Fedora Summer Institute on Prince Edward Island. Prince Edward Island, August 11-15, 2008

• Digital Libraries à la Carte 2008. (OA is among the topics). Tilburg University, 25- 29 August, 2008

[edit] September

• Knowledge Acquisition from the Social Web. Graz, September 3-5, 2008

• 2nd European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine & Medicine - Researchers and Open Access. Oslo, September, 4-6, 2008

• A2K3 Conference. Sponsored by the Yale Law School Information Society Project. OA is among the topics. Geneva, September 8-10, 2008.

• NEW Science in the 21st Century: Science, Society, and Information Technology. OA is among the topics. Waterloo, September 8-12, 2008.

• Rethinking the digital divide. (ALT-C 2008). (OA is among the topics). Leeds, September 11, 2008

• Oxford e-Research Conference 2008. Oxford, September 11-13, 2008

• 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. (ECDL2008). Aarhus, Denmark, September 14-19, 2008

• Future Directions in Information Access 2008. A symposium of the British Computer Society (BCS) Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG). London, September 22, 2008.

• NEW What is “Open Education” and what does it mean for the future of learning? (No website yet.) Brisbane, September 23, 2008.

• Open Access and Research Conference 2008. Brisbane, September 24-25, 2008 (plus post-conference workshops on September 26).

• Open Education 2008: Celebrating Ten Years of Open Content. Logan, Utah, September 24-26, 2008.

• Open Access and Quality Assurance in Higher Education Libraries. Sponsored by the Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium. Harare, Zimbabwe, September 25 – 26, 2008.

• NEW Open Access to Public Sector and Geospatial Information: An Update on European and Australian Initiatives. Brisbane, September 26, 2008.

• eResearch Australasia 2008. Melbourne, September 29 - October 1, 2008

[edit] October

• Institutional Repository Workshop. Pretoria, October 1-3, 2008.

• Access 2008. (OA is among the topics). Hamilton, Ontario, October 1-4, 2008

• Scientific Information for Society - from Today to the Future. Sponsored by CODATA. Kyiv, October 5-8, 2008

• Putting African Scholarly Journals Online: Opportunities, Implications and Challenges. Dakar, Senegal, October 6-7, 2008.

• Open-Access-Tage Berlin mit Open-Access-Messe. Berlin, October 9-10, 2008

• Students for Free Culture conference. Berkeley, October 10-13, 2008

• NEW ARROW Repository Day - Repositories into the future. Brisbane, October 14, 2008.

• Open Access Movement: Initiatives, Promotion and Impact. University of Kashmir, October 15-17, 2008. [Looking for a better URL.]

• NEW Data Data Everywhere: Access and Accountability. Sponsored by the CIHR. Toronto, October 20-21, 2008.

• Digital Heritage in the new knowledge environment: shared spaces & open paths to cultural content. Sponsored by Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Athens, three days in late October, 2008 (exact dates TBA).

[edit] November

• The 14th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning. (OERs are among the topics). Orlando, November 5-7, 2008.

• NEW 4th German Conference on Chemoinformatics. OA is among the topics (a session on OA Publishing). Goslar, November 9-11, 2008.

• Changing the Publication Landscape. (Berlin 6 Open Access Conference). Düsseldorf, November 11-13, 2008.

• Changing Scholarly Communication in the Knowledge Society. Berlin 6 Open Access Conference. (Tentative title.) Düsseldorf, November 11-13, 2008.

• Launch a New Journal - how to decide? London, November 14, 2008.

• The 2008 SPARC Institutional Repositories Meeting. Baltimore, November 17-18, 2008.

[edit] December

• Radical Sharing: Transforming Science?. Edinburgh, December 1-3, 2008

• NEW Open Access Publishing. A workshop for the PKP User Group. Sydney, December 4-5, 2008.

• 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science. Indianapolis, December 7-12, 2008.

• Adding value to data – Digital Repositories in the e-Science world. A session sponsored by DReSNet.