2006

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Chronological order.

January

93rd Indian Science Congress. Hyderabad, January 3-7, 2006

Session on Open Access, January 6, 10:00 am - 12:45 pm.

From Research to Practice: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in LIS Education. (2006 ALISE Annual Conference). (OA is among the topics). San Antonio, January 16-19, 2006
Joint Workshop on Future-proofing Institutional Websites. (sponsored by the Wellcome Trust Library). London, January 19-20, 2006
International Workshop on e-Theses. (co-sponsored by JISC, SURF, and CURL). (by invitation only). Amsterdam, January 19-20, 2006
ALA Midwinter Meeting. San Antonio, January 20-25, 2006
Authors and Authority: Perspectives on Negotiating Licenses and Copyright. (A SPARC-ARL forum). January 21, 2006, 4-6 pm, Hilton Palacio del Rio, Salon Del Rey (Central & South).
A session sponsored by the ALCTS Scholarly Communications discussion group. Monday, January 23, 2006, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center, Room 211.
The Economics of Open Content. Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 23-24, 2006
ALPSP briefing: Digitisation initiatives. (topics include Google and the OCA). London, January 25, 2006
Seminar on access to scientific and technical information. (sponsored by the Senegal Academy of Science and Technology). Dakar, January 30-31, 2006
The Future Digital Economy: Digital Content Creation, Distribution and Access. (sponsored by the OECD and the Italian Minister for Innovation and Technologies). Rome, January 30-31, 2006
Open Repositories 2006. (Sponsored by Australia's APSR, the ARROW project, MAMS, Macquarie University, and the University of Technology Sydney). Sydney, January 31 - February 3, 2006

February

Information and Data in e-Science: Making Seamless Access a Reality. (ICSTI annual technical meeting). Paris, February 3, 2006
Academic Library and Information Services - New Paradigms for the Digital Age. (8th International Bielefeld Conference). (OA is among the topics). Bielefeld, February 7-9, 2006
Open Access: Freier Zugang zu wissenschaftlichem Wissen. (a public lecture by Klaus Graf). Stuttgart, February 9, 2006
Workshop on Scientific Journal Publishing in India. (OA is among the topics). Bangalore, February 10-11, 2006
Establishing a Digital Repository Service. Perth, February 13, 2006
Hochschulstrategien zu Open Access. Bonn, February 13, 2006
Shapes of Things to Come: Die Zukunft der Informationsgesellschaft. Berlin, February 15-17, 2006
Dopo Berlin 3: Politiche di Accesso Aperto alla Letteratura di Ricerca. Pisa, February 16,2006
KnowRight 2006: Knowledge Rights - Legal, Societal and Related Technological Aspects. Vienna, February 16-17, 2006
Scientific Research, Traditional Knowledge, and the Research Commons. (AAAS-SIPPI Annual Meeting Symposium). (OA is among the topics). St. Louis, February 19, 2006
International Workshop on institutional repositories and enhanced and alternative metrics of publication impact. (by invitation only). Berlin, February 20-21, 2006
Digitization of Arabic-Language Books Conference. (sponsored by Bibliotheca Alexandrina in cooperation with Stanford University, Yale University, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation). Alexandria, February 21-25, 2006
Open Content Forum. (sponsored by the Open Knowledge Foundation). London, February 22, 2006
Open Access, Open Source, Open CourseWare - Sharing as a Solution to the Digital Divide. Columbia, Missouri, February 22, 2006
Thinking the Unthinkable: Open Access. (sponsored by Ireland's Health Sciences Librarians Group). Kilkenny, February 23-24, 2006
The Google Copyright Controversy: Implications of Digitizing the World's Libraries. (sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute - Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies). Washington, D.C., February 24, 2006
Launch of Open J-Gate. (sponsored by Informatics India). (including talks by Jean-Claude Guedon and V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai). Bangalore, February 27, 2006
ECURE 2006: Preservation and Access for Digital College and University Resources. Tempe, Arizona, February 27 - March 1, 2006

March

Metadata and Digital Repositories. (sponsored by CETIS). March 1, 2006
ICTs for Civil Society. (OA is among the topics). Johannesburg, March 7-9, 2006
Workshop on Open Access Journals. (sponsored by the U of Toronto's Project OS|OA). Toronto, March 9, 2006
Open Access Publishing And The Future Of Legal Scholarship. (a symposium at Lewis and Clark Law School). Portland, Oregon, March 10, 2006
Dead Poets Society: Publishers and Their Fight to Keep Knowledge Offline. (sponsored by the National Legal and Policy Center). Washington DC, March 10, 2006
Scholarship and Libraries in Transition: A Dialogue about the Impacts of Mass Digitization Projects. Ann Arbor, March 10-11, 2006
Cultural Environmentalism at 10. Palo Alto, March 11-12, 2006
Best practices in sharing data. (sponsored by the ESDS). London, March 17, 2006
E.Journal Summit 2006. (sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and PNAS). Washington, DC, March 20, 2006
The Politics and Ideology of Intellectual Property and the Knowledge Commons. (sponsored by the TACD). Brussels, March 20-21, 2006
Funding Our Digital Future: Budgeting for Libraries & Scholarly Communication. (sponsored by the Binghamton University Libraries). (OA is among the topics). Binghampton, March 20-21, 2006
Network Library. (OA is among the topics). Dresden, March 21-24, 2006
Open Access Publishing: Trend or Transformation?. (sponsored by the Delaware Valley Chapter of the ACRL). Bryn Mawr, March 24, 2006
Second Digital Repositories Programme meeting. Warwick, March 27-28, 2006
Berlin 4 Open Access - From Promise to Practice. Potsdam-Golm, Germany, March 29-31, 2006. (plus a day of pre-conference workshops on March 28)
Crystal Clear? Today’s Libraries, Tomorrow’s Library Users. (15th North Carolina Serials Conference). (OA is among the topics). Chapel Hill, March 30-31, 2006
Learned Journals Seminar: The new publishers. (OA is among the topics). London, March 31, 2006

April

Academic Publishing in Europe. (APE 2006). (OA is among the topics). Berlin, April 4-5, 2006
Open Access Movement. (sponsored by the World Bank’s Information Services Group). Washington, D.C., April 5, 2006
Duquesne University Open Access Symposium. Pittsburgh, April 5, 2006
E-Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences. (sponsored by the British Academy). London, April 6, 2006
E-Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences. (sponsored by the British Academy). London, April 7, 2006
Repositories and RAE Submission: an Information and Discussion Meeting. (sponsored by the JISC IRRA project). London, April 7, 2006
Enabling Open Access to Scientific Data and Information within the Modern Knowledge Economy; the Case for a Scientific Commons. Dublin, April 12, 2006
Challenging Intellectual Property: Access to Knowledge Issues in Open Source and Medicine. (sponsored by United Nations University). New York, April 13, 2006
Communication scientifique et valorisation de la recherche à l'heure d'Internet. Toulouse, April 13, 2006
Augmenting interoperability across scholarly repositories. (sponsored by Microsoft, the Mellon Foundation, CNI, DLF, and JISC). New York, April 20-21, 2006
DSpace User Group Meeting. Bergen, April 20-21, 2006
Sharing a Vision: The Power of Collaboration. (OA is among the topics). Burnaby, April 20-22, 2006
Forschung und Lehre im Informationszeitalter – zwischen Zugangsfreiheit und Privatisierungsanreiz. (OA is among the topics). Köln, April 21, 2006
1st European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and Medicine. (OA is among the topics). Lund, April 21-22, 2006
Scientific information. Old practices vs. new projects: self archiving and open access journals. (sponsored by HUMANE, Heads of University Management and Administration in Europe). Copenhagen, April 21-22, 2006
Conference on Access to Knowledge. (sponsored by the Yale Information Society Project). (OA is among the topics). New Haven, April 21-23, 2006.
Beyond Declarations - The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication: Third Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication. Lund, April 24-25, 2006
Open Access and Creating a Knowledge Society. Monomotapa, Zimbabwe, April 24-26, 2006
Access Fair 2006: The Access Horizon. Salt Lake City, April 25, 2006
1st Ibero-American Conference On Electronic Publishing In The Context Of Scholarly Communication. (OA is among the topics). Brasilia, April 25-28, 2006
Critical issues for the preservation of datasets. Uppsala, April 26-27, 2006
ALPSP/PA/STM Journal Publishers' Forum: Publishing foes, Public woes. What are journal publishers for?. (I'm guessing OA is among the topics). London, April 27, 2006
Scholarly perspectives on the impact and future trends of publishing in an electronic environment. (sponsored by Drexel University). (OA is among the topics). Philadelphia, April 28, 2006
Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship. Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 28, 2006
The Commons Conference: An Academic-Community Event on Privatization and the Public Domain. Victoria, British Columbia, April 28-30, 2006

May

Research Data and the Distributed Institutional Repository. (a public talk by D. Scott Brandt and Michael C. Witt). Purdue University, May 2, 2006
VTLS International Users' Group Meeting. Chattanooga, May 3-5, 2006
American Institute of Physics' Convocation of Society Editors and Symposium on the History and Future of Society Journals (OA is among the topics). College Park, Maryland, May 4, 2006
Mile High Views: Surveying the Serials Vista. (21st Annual NASIG Conference). (OA is among the topics). Denver, May 4-7, 2006
Fedora Content Model Workshop. Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany, May 5, 2006
Open Access and Information Management: International Workshop. (sponsored by the Information Management Committee, NATO Research & Technology Organisation). Oslo, May 10, 2006
Enabling Interaction and Quality: 8th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems. Bergen, Norway. May 11-13, 2006
Archive Ouverte, Libre Access: Quelle Mise en Place?. Champs-sur-Marne, May 12, 2006
Canadian Health Libraries Association Annual Conference 2006. (OA is among the topics). Vancouver, May 12-16, 2006
L'information scientifique : les impacts du libre accès. (ACFAS 2006). Montreal, May 15, 2006
Open Archives Workshop. (sponsored by the Flemish Administration for Science and Innovation). Brussels, May 15, 2006
Openness: Code, science and content: Making collaborative creativity sustainable. (10th First Monday conference). (OA is among the topics). Chicago, May 15-17, 2006
Open Access an der Humboldt-Universität. Berlin, May 16, 2006
The International Dimensions of Digital Science and Scholarship. (148th ARL Membership Meeting). (OA is among the topics). Ottawa, May 17-19, 2006
Le biblioteche per la libertà d'accesso all'informazione. Bologna, May 18-19, 2006
Trends in Education and Research: Developing Skills and Communication across Europe. (a UNICA Seminar). (OA is among the topics). Helsinki, May 18-19, 2006
JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop. (a preconference workshop for WWW2006, below). Edinburgh, May 22, 2006
Fifteenth International World Wide Web Conference. (sponsored by the International World Wide Web Conference Committee). Edinburgh, May 22- 26, 2006
Open Access - Strategie e nuove tecnologie per rinnovare la comunicazione scientifica. Milan, May 23-26, 2006
Archiving 2006. Ottawa, May 23- 26, 2006
Seminar on Open Access Publishing with Open Journal Systems. Toronto, May 24, 2006
Libraries activating for Access to Knowledge: Advocacy for Access to Knowledge: copyright and libraries. (sponsored by eIFL.net and Informatio Consortium). Kiev, May 26- 27, 2006
Academic Practice – The Production of Knowledge as a Public Good. (Session U3 at the Annual Meeting at the Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences). (OA is among the topics). Toronto, May 30, 2006
Workshop on Access to Public Sector Information and Content. (sponsored by the OECD). Paris, May 31, 2006
Legal Aspects of e-Repositories and e-Collections Conference. Coventry, May 31 - June 1, 2006

June

i-Expo. (OA is among the topics). Paris, May 31 - June 1, 2006
La mise en place des archives institutionnelles en IST, a session. June 1, 2006, 9:30 - 12:00
Nouvelles stratégies de production et de diffusion de l'IST, a session. June 1, 2004
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Assciation of Learned Journals. (OA is among the topics). Toronto, June 1-2, 2006
Oxford Open Access Workshop. London, June 5, 2006
Culture, Commerce, and Public Media. (OA is among the topics). New York, June 5-6, 2006
Asian Conference on the Digital Commons. Bangkok, June 6-8, 2006. (Rescheduled from April 18-21, 2006).
Affordances and implications of New Media for scholarly publishing. Berkeley, June 7, 2006
Partnering In Science Information: Necessities Of Change. (IRs are among the topics). Bethesda, June 7-8, 2006
Society for Scholarly Publishing 28th Annual Meeting. (OA is among the topics). Arlington, Virginia, June 7-9, 2006
Unlocking Scholarly Access: ETDs, Institutional Repositories and Creators. (The 9th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations), Quebec City, June 7-10, 2006
European Infrastructure for Repositories of Scientific Information. Brussels, June 8-9, 2006
The Second International Conference on Open Source Systems. (OA is among the topics). Como, Italy, June 8-10, 2006
Preserving Quality in an Open Environment: towards new contexts for sharing scholarly production and open content educational materials. (sponsored by the Open Culture Promoter Group). (OA is among the topics). Como, Italy, June 9, 2006
Opening Information Horizons. (JCDL 2006). Chapel Hill, June 11-15, 2006
Open Access Scholarly Communication and IR's. (sponsored by the Western Cape Higher Education Libraries Interest Group of the Library and Information Association of South Africa). Bellville, South Africa, June 12, 2006
Copyright at a Crossroads: The Impact of Mass Digitization on Copyright and Higher Education. (sponsored by the The Center for Intellectual Property at University of Maryland University College). Adelphi, Maryland, June 14-16, 2006
Institutional Web Management Workshop 2006: Quality Matters. (OA and IRs are among the topics). Bath, June 14-16, 2006
ELPUB 2006: Digital Spectrum: Integrating Technology and Culture: 10th International Conference on Electronic Publishing. (OA is among the topics). Bansko, Bulgaria, June 14-16, 2006
PDR Corporate Library/Scholarly Publisher Forum. (sponsored by the Society for Scholarly Publishing). Baltimore, June 15, 2006
Transformational Publishing: Lessons, Tools, and Strategies for Scholarly Publishing in the 21st Century. (sponsored by the AAUP). (OA is among the topics). New Orleans, June 15-18, 2006
Library and Information Services in Astronomy V. (OA is among the topics). Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 18-21, 2006
Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) SIG session of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference. (OA is among the topics). Chicago, June 18-21, 2006
Archives institutionnelles et archives ouvertes. (a session within the larger meeting, Journées de la formation des documentalistes de la Recherche). Nancy, June 19, 2006
Two roads to open access. (sponsored by EASE and OSI). Krakow, June 19, 2006
New relations between creative communities and consumers. (sponsored by the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue). Paris, June 19-20, 2006
Fedora Users Conference. Charlottesville, June 19-20, 2006
E-Resources Publishing Today: An Introductory Overview.(sponsored by UKSG). London, June 20, 2006
International Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage. Salzburg, June 21-22, 2006
Towards a global digital commons. (the iCommons iSummit for 2006). (OA is among the topics). Rio de Janeiro, June 23-25, 2006
American Library Association Annual Conference 2006. (OA is among the topics). New Orleans, June 24-27, 2006
Digital Rights Management and Institutional Repositories: Achieving Balance in a Complex Environment. A session sponsored by ALCTS, June 24, 2006, 1:30 - 5:30 pm.
Forum on Open Data. A session sponsored by SPARC and ARL, June 24, 2006, 4:00 - 5:30 pm in the Morial Convention Center, Room 356 – 357.
Data webs: new visions for research data on the Web. (OA is among the topics). London, June 28, 2006
Metadata and digital repositories. (sponsored by CETIS and UKOLN). Bath, June 28, 2006
Second International Conference on e-Social Science. Manchester, June 28-30, 2006
Learned Societies and Access to Research Outputs: An RCUK Workshop. London, June 29, 2006
The Successful Repository. (sponsored by APSR in collaboration with QULOC and RUBRIC). Brisbane, June 29, 2006

July

E-Publishing & Global Promotion of Indian Publications. (OA is among the topics). Mumbai, July 1, 2006
Science, Intellectual Property and Openness. (OA is among the topics). Lancaster (UK), July 4, 2006
e-Resources in Higher and Further Education changes, challenges and choices. (OA is among the topics). Manchester, July 5, 2006
Standards for the Electronic Expression of Licensing Terms. London, July 5, 2006
Envisioning future challenges in networked information. (JISC/CNI annual meeting). (institutional repositories are among the topics). York, July 6-7, 2006
Science and Technology Infrastructure in the Developing World and Algeria: Tools for Improvements: Publication, Collaboration and Research. (Ibn Badis Scientific first Annual Conference 2006). (sponsored by IBScientific). (OA is among the topics). London, July 8, 2006
Towards a Cyberinfrastructure for the Study of Science. (a public lecture by Katy Borner). Oxford, July 10, 2006
Creating Commons: The Tasks Ahead in Unlocking IP. (OA is among the topics). Sydney, July 10-11, 2006
Health Libraries Group Conference. (OA is among the topics). Eastbourne, July 10-12, 2006
ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication. (OA is among the topics). Los Angeles, July 12-14, 2006
Brownbag lunch on FRPAA. Washington, D.C., July 13, 2006
Euroscience Open Forum 2006. Munich, July 15-19, 2006
Open Access - threat or blessing?: session. July 16, 2006, 18:30, in the Solaris room of the Deutschen Museum.
Is Open Access the Future for Scientific Publishing?. (sponsored by the UK House of Commons Parliamentary and Scientific Committee). (by invitation only). London, July 17, 2006
Free our data: should public sector information be available for all at the cost of reproduction?. London, July 17, 2006
Eprints training course. Southampton, July 17-18, 2006
EThOS Workshop. (sponsored by the JISC/CURL Electronic Theses Online Service project). (OA is among the topics). Glasgow, July 20, 2006
Metadata Enhancement and OAI Workshop. Atlanta, July 24-25, 2006
CESSE 2006. (sponsored by the Council of Engineering & Scientific Societies). (OA is among the topics). Salt Lake City, July 25-28, 2006
Open Publish 2006. Sydney, July 26-28, 2006

August

National Conference on Information Management in Digital Libraries. Kharagpur, India, August 2-4, 2006
Fiesole Collection Development Retreat. (OA is among the topics). Lund, August 3-5, 2006
Wikimania: The 2nd International Wikimania Conference. Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 4-6, 2006
Communicating Mathematics in the Digital Era. (OA is among the topics). Aveiro, Portugal, August 15-18, 2006
Libraries: Dynamic Engines for the Knowledge and Information Society. (sponsored by IFLA). Seoul, August 20-24, 2006

LIS journals: electronic journals, open access – and print as well? A session sponsored by the IFLA Standing Committee on Library and Information Science Journals
Promoting the Implementation of Open Access: A session. Thursday, August 24, 2006, 10:45 - 12:45.

OSISA/eIFL Open Access Workshop for Southern Africa. Pretoria, August 21-22, 2006
Wiki-based Knowledge Engineering. Odense, Denmark, August 21-23, 2006
Libraries Supporting Research and Open Access. (Module 4 within Digital Libraries a la Carte: New Choices for the Future, TICER Summer School, Tilburg University). Tilburg, August 24, 2006
A New Method for Scientific and Medical Communication via the Internet. (a public lecture by Don L. Jewett). Oxford, August 29, 2006

September

International Workshop on Semantic e-Science. Beijing, September 3, 2006
Open Tuesday in September. (open content is among the topics). Helsinki, September 5, 2006
Digital Repositories, e-Research and Portals. Lancaster, September 6-7, 2007
Bridging the North-South Divide in Scholarly Communication on Africa. Threats and Opportunities in the Digital era. (OA is among the topics). Leiden, September 6-8, 2006
InetBib 2006. (OA is among the topics). Münster, September 6-8, 2006
The Open Content Alliance: Progress and Promise. (a conversation between Edward Valauskas and Chet Grycz). River Forest, Illinois, September 7, 2006
Access to Knowledge. (OA is among the topics). Alexandria, September 7-8, 2006
Seminar on Open Access and the natural sciences. Copenhagen, September 8, 2006
eIFL General Assembly. (OA is among the topics). Amman, Jordan, September 10-12, 2006
The EThOS Project Seminar: The Creation of a Prototype. London, September 11, 2006
Europe as an Open Book. (10th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries). (OA is among the topics). Cluj, Romania, September 11-16, 2006
Digital Age of Culture 2006. (OA is among the topics).Kamchatka, September 11-16, 2006
JSTOR and the Future of Online Information. London, September 12, 2006
Bringing Text Alive: The Future of Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Electronic Publication. Ann Arbor, September 14-17, 2006
Quality Management in Free Content. (a session within Wizards of OS 4). (OA is among the topics). Berlin, September 15, 2006
Open Access: Making Scholarly Information Truly Free. (a public lecture by Marsha Schnirring). Los Angeles, September 16, 2006
Towards the European Digital Library. (10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries). Alicante, Spain, September 17-22, 2006
1st European Workshop on the use of Digital Object Repository Systems in Digital Libraries. (DORSDL). (in conjunction with the 10th ECRATDL).
Creating a more full-featured institutional repository: Combining DSpace ETD-db, and DigiTool, a tutorial by Eric Lease Morgan. September 17, 2006, afternoon
Digital Library Goes e-Science (DLSci06), a session. September 21, 2006
UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2006. Nottingham, September 18-21, 2006
Euro OSCON. (Open Source Convention). Brussels, September 18-21, 2006
Public Geodata: Open Access to State-Collected Geographic Information is a Right, Not a Privilege. A session. September 19, 2006
Open Content and Public Broadcasting. Boston, September 19-21, 2006
Wa(h)re Information. (OA is among the topics). Bregenz, September 19-23, 2006
A Standard XML Document Format: The case for the adoption of NLM DTD. (sponsored by the ALPSP). London, September 21, 2006
International Seminar on Open Access for Developing Countries. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, September 21-22, 2006
Workshop on Open Access. Poznan, September 21-22, 2006
NSF Workshop on New Collaborative Relationships: The Role of Academic Libraries in the Digital Data Universe. (OA is among the topics). Arlington, Virginia, September 26-27, 2006
Exzellenz durch Information. (7th annual DINI conference). Göttingen, September 27, 2006
Moving towards open access: A JISC conference for research funders, authors, publishers and librarians. Oxford, September 27-28, 2006
Open Education 2006: Community, Culture, and Content. Logan, Utah, September 27-29, 2006
Lokal - Global: Vernetzung wissenschaftlicher Infrastrukturen. (sponsored by IuK). Göttingen, September 28, 2006
L'Open Access tra gli attrezzi di lavoro dei nuovi bibliotecari del digitale. Venice, September 28, 2006
Closing in on open science: Trends in intellectual property and scientific research. Portland, Maine, September 29, 2006

October

Opportunities in Network Publishing: the deliberate and the unintended consequences of the advance of e-scholarly communication. (STM Annual Conference). Frankfurt, October 3, 2006
Commons of Science Conference: Creating a vision for making scientific data accessible across disciplines. (sponsored by Science Commons and hosted by the National Academies of Science). Washington, D.C., October 3-4, 2006
International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Application: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning. (OA is among the topics). Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico, October 3-6, 2006
Transforming Scholarly Communication Symposium. (OA is among the topics). Houston, October 4, 2006
Chemical Education and Information. (2006 Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society). (OA is among the topics). Binghamton, October 5-7, 2006
Mass and Matter: Public access to scientific discovery. (sponsored by the University of Kansas Medical Center). Kansas City, October 6, 2006
Sustaining Digital Libraries. Atlanta, October 6, 2006
USAIN Conference 2006. (OA is among the topics). Ithaca, New York, October 8-11, 2006
Capitalizing on Access. (Access 2006). (OA is among the topics). Ottawa, October 11-14, 2006
Pre-Conference: CARL Institutional Repositories: The Next Generation. October 10, 9:00-4:00, The Westin Ottawa
Impact Assessment of Digital Cultural Heritage Content and Services. Helsinki, October 12, 2006
Governing the Knowledge Society. Hamburg, October 12-13, 2006
Microsoft eScience Workshop. (OA is among the topics). Baltimore, October 13-15, 2006
World Congress on Internet in Medicine. (MEDNET 2006). (OA is among the topics). Toronto, October 13-20, 2006
The Future of Open Access Publishing, a panel. October 17, 2006 4:30 PM in RYH Concert Hall
Consultation meeting on WSIS Action Line C3 "Access to information and knowledge". (sponsored by UNESCO and WSIS). Paris, October 16, 2006
Humanities Content: Usable and Useful. (NFAIS Humanities Roundtable V). (OA is among the topics). New York, October 16, 2006
(R)evolution in Scientific Publishing: How Will it Affect You?. (sponsored by the Society for Neurscience Publishing Open Access Group). (OA is among the topics). Atlanta, October 16, 2006
Internet Librarian International 2006. (OA is among the topics). London, October 16-17, 2006
Digital Libraries: Advanced Methods and Technologies Digital Collections. (Eighth National Russian Research Conference). Vladimir, Russia, October 17-19, 2006
Disciplines, Documents, and Data: Convergence and Divergence in the Scholarly Information Infrastructure. (a public lecture by Christine Borgman). (OA is among the topics). Knoxville, October 18, 2006
Open Scholarship: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories. Glasgow, October 18-20, 2006
TEL-ME-MOR Policy Conference: The Digital Future of Cultural and Scientific Heritage. Tallinn, Estonia, October 18-20, 2006
Bridging Technology and Content in Digital Archives: 2006 International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies. (ICDAT2006) Taipei, October 19-20, 2006
Open Access 2.0. (a public lecture by Chris Surridge). Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 20, 2006
Improving Access to Publicly Funded Research: Policy Issues and Practical Strategies. (sponsored by ARL, CNI, and SPARC). Washington, D.C., October 20, 2006
HAL Hyper Articles en Ligne, Une bibliothèque numérique au service des chercheurs de toutes les disciplines. (OA is among the topics). Dijon, October 20, 2006
2006 Open Content Alliance Workshop. San Francisco, October 20, 2006
Digital repositories supporting eResearch: exploring the eCrystals Federation Model. London, October 20, 2006
Consultation meeting on WSIS Action Line C7 "E-science". (sponsored by UNESCO and WSIS). Beijing, October 22, 2006
WISE Workshop on Web Information Access and Digital Library. (OA is among the topics). Wuhan, China, October 22, 2006
Scientific Data and Knowledge within the Information Society. (sponsored by CODATA). Beijing, October 23-25, 2006
International Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and Technologies. (InSciT2006). (OA is among the topics). Mréida, October 25-28, 2006
Wissenschaft im Netz mit Open Access. Wildau, October 26, 2006
Workshop on Institutional Repositories, E-Books and Long Term Preservation. (OA is among the topics). Istanbul, October 26-27, 2006
V International Conference on University Libraries: Open access: an alternative of access to scientific information. Mexico City, October 26-27, 2006
Maintaining Long-term Access to Geospatial Data. Edinburgh, October 27, 2006
U.S. Regional Conference on Electronic Theses and Dissertations. (part of ETD 2006). St. Louis, October 27-28, 2006
Controlling Intellectual Property: The Academic Community and the Future of Knowledge. Ottawa, October 27-29, 2006
Fourth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning. Ocho Rios, Jamaica, October 30 - November 3, 2006

November

Workshop: Free flow of information in cyberspace. (sponsored by UNESCO). Geneva (?), November 1, 2006
Academic Libraries and Citizens' Societies: Establishing bounds of knowledge, democracy and culture in the digital environment. (15th Hellenic Academic Libraries Conference). (OA is among the topics). Patras, Greece, November 1-3, 2006
Copyright and Marking Government Works: Why Keep the Public Guessing?. (OA is among the topics). Washington, D.C., November 2, 2006
Harnessing the Power of the Internet to Provide Access to Knowledge & Free Flow of Information. (OA is among the issues). Athens, November 2, 2006
Discovery to Delivery: Solutions to Put Your Content Where the Users Are. (OA is among the topics). Beltsville, Maryland, November 2-3, 2006
Workshop on electronic publishing and open access. (focusing on India, China, Brazil and South Africa). (sponsored by the Indian Institute of Science). Bangalore, November 2-3, 2006
Establishing a sponsoring consortium for Open Access publishing in particle physics. (sponsored by CERN). Geneva, November 3, 2006
Seminari Open Access: Cultura Lliure I Biblioteca. Barcelona, November 3, 2006
Information Realities: Shaping the Digital Future for All. (ASIS&T Annual Meeting). (OA is among the topics). Austin, November 3-9, 2006
International Conference for Global Spatial Data Infrastructure. (OA is among the topics). Santiago, November 3-11, 2006
What to do with a Million Books: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science. Chicago, November 5-6, 2006
Scholarly Communications Colloquium. (OA is among the topics). Palo Alto, November 6, 2006
First Workshop on Open Access in Agricultural Science and Technology: Indian Initiatives. (sponsored by AGRIS, FAO, and ICRISAT) Hyderabad, November 6-7, 2006
Globalization, Digitization, Access, and Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Sofia, November 8-10, 2006
2006 NMC Regional Conference. (OA is among the topics). San Antonio, November 8-10, 2006
Distance Learning and the Internet 2006. (OA is among the topics). Tokyo, November 8-10, 2006.
26th Annual Charleston Conference. (OA is among the topics). Charleston, South Carolina, November 8-11, 2006
Navigating the Currents of Scholarly Communication: Government Mandates for Public Access to Research. University of New Mexico, November 9, 2006
Seminar on Increasing your Research Impact with Open Access. Toronto, November 14, 2006
A Workshop on the RIN/DTI/RCUK Evidence-based Analysis of Data on Scholarly Journal Publishing. (OA is among the topics). London, November 14, 2006
Open Access - Strategie e nuove tecnologie per rinnovare la comunicazione scientifica. Milan, November 14-17, 2006
Searching PubMed, LinkOut and Evidence Based Medicine. (OA is among the topics). Dubai, November 15-16, 2006
Réunion sur les archives ouvertes. (sponsored by CNRS). Paris, November 16, 2006
Open Access: nur eine Ph(r)ase oder neue Kernaufgabe für wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken?. Kiel, November 16, 2006
2nd International Digital Curation Conference Digital Data Curation in Practice. (OA is among the topics). Glasgow, November 21-22, 2006
IST 2006 - Strategies for Leadership. Helsinki, November 21-23, 2006
On the way to i2010: Tools and Services for the European Digital Library. A proposed session; your comments can affect whether it makes the cut.
Digital data curation in practice. Glasgow, November 22, 2006
Open Educational Resources: Institutional Challenges. (sponsored by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and UNESCO) Barcelona, November 22-24, 2006
Wissenschaft sichtbar machen: Open Access und Hybrides Publizieren als Dienstleistungen von Hochschulbibliotheken. Leigzig, November 23, 2006
Open access: 2d annual Conferência sobre o acesso livre ao conhecimento. Braga Portugal, November 27-28, 2006
First EDLproject Workshop on developing the European Digital Library. Vienna, November 27-28, 2006
9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries. Kyoto, November 27-30, 2006
Open Knowledge Foundation Forum on Civic Information No. 2. (OA is among the topics). London, November 28, 2006
Online Information 2006. (OA is among the topics). London, November 28-30, 2006
Univers Lliure (free and open projects at Catalonian universities). Barcelona, November 29, 2006
Institutional archives for research: experiences and projects in Open Access. Rome, November 30 - December 1, 2006.
Online Educa Berlin. (OA is among the topics). Berlin, November 30 - December 1, 2006

December

DCC and the University of Liverpool Library Information Day: Institutional Repositories. Liverpool, December 4, 2006
Two talks on Open Access by Stevan Harnad. Bloomington, Indiana, December 4, 2006
Moving an Established Subscription-based Journal Online and Open Access. Toronto, December 5, 2006
Getting the most out of data, Making the most of research. (OA is among the topics). London, December 5, 2006
Toward a Canadian Digital Information Strategy: National Summit. Montebello, Quebec, December 5-6, 2006
International Conference on Digital Libraries. (OA is among the topics). New Delhi, December 5-8, 2006
Discovery and Access: Standards and the Information Chain. (sponsored by JISC, ALPSP, PA, and CrossRef). London, December 7, 2006
Eprints v3 Briefing. London, December 8, 2006
One-Day Tutorial on Building a Digital Library. (IRs are among the topics). Kolkata, India, December 11, 2006
Open Access 2006: 4th International Workshop on Open Access. Stockholm, December 12-14, 2006
International Workshop On Research Issues in Digital Libraries. (IWRIDL 2006). Kolkata, India, December 12-15, 2006
Joint Webcast on Author Rights. (sponsored by ARL, ACRL, and SPARC). (on self-archiving). December 14, 2006
Second National Workshop on Scientific Journal Publishing in India. (OA is among the topics). Bangalore, December 14-15, 2006
Repositorios Institucionales...: Una vía hacia el acceso, la visibilidad y la preservación de la producción cientifíca. Zaragoza, Spain, December 14-15, 2006
Cultural Heritage Online: The Challenge of Accessibility & Preservation. (OA is among the topics). Florence, December 14-16, 2006
2° Incontro Nazionale di Creative Commons Italia. (CCIT 2006). (OA is among the topics). Torino, December 16, 2006
Standing on the Shoulders of Digital Giants: International Symposium on Institutional Repositories, e-Science and the Future of Scholarly Communication. (OA is among the topics). Tokyo, December 18, 2006