2007

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

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

January

• Mass digitization in the Google Book Search program and its possible effects on scholarship. (a public lecture by Michael Keller at OCLC). Dublin, Ohio, January 8, 2007
• Open Source, Open Access Online Publishing: The Public Library of Science. San Francisco, January 9, 2007
• Open and Free: New Enterprise in The Information Age. (OA is among the topics). Taipei, January 10, 2007
• Taking Action on Open Access. (sponsored by Free Culture). New York, January 13, 2007
• Effects of Intellectual Property Protections on Scientific Research. (sponsored by SIPPI, the AAAS' Project on Science & Intellectual Property in the Public Interest). (OA is among the topics). Washington, D.C., January 16, 2007
• Open Access & Author Control of Copyright: a Workshop for Faculty. Oberlin, Ohio, January 16, 2007
• Institutional Repositories Workshop. (sponsored by Knowledge Exchange). Utrecht, January 16-17, 2007
• Restricted Access to the Medical Literature: A Global Health Crisis. (a public lecture by Gavin Yamey of PLoS). New York, January 18, 2007
• Statistics User Forum Meeting: Improving Access to Government Datasets. London, January 18, 2007
• Unbound: Advancing Book Publishing in a Digital World. (sponsored by Google). New York, January 18, 2007
• HAL-SHS - Archives ouvertes : un nouveau mode de communication scientifique?. (a public lecture by Daniel Charnay, director of France's CCSD/CNRS). Paris, January 18, 2007
• Free Access to Information. (IFLA Presidential Meeting 2007-2009). (OA is among the topics). Berlin, January 18-19, 2007
• American Library Association Midwinter Meeting 2007. (OA is among the topics). Seattle, January 19-24, 2007
• Public Access: Federal Research Access Policies and How They'll Change Your Library: a SPARC-ACRL forum. Sheraton Seattle, Metropolitan B, no egistration required. January 20, 2007, 4:00 - 6:00PM
• DRM Technologies, in higher education. (sponsored by the University of Maryland University College Center for Intellectual Property). January 22 - February 2, 2007. (an online workshop)
• Voeux de l'Internet. (OA is among the topics). Paris, January 23, 2007
• Academic Publishing in Europe. (APE 2007). Berlin, January 23-24, 2007
• Open Repositories 2007. San Antonio, January 23-26, 2007
• Eprints User Group Program. January 23-24, 2007
• Open Geospatial Consortium UK and Ireland Forum Business Seminar. Nottingham, January 25, 2007
• FIBS: Frontiers in Information provision for the Bio- and environmental Sciences. London, January 25, 2007
• The Three-Legged Stool of Scholarly Communications: For-Profit, Not-for-Profit, and Open Access Publishing. (a public lecture by Joe Esposito). Berkeley, January 25, 2007
• University of Toronto OJS Open Access Working Group Meeting. Toronto, January 26, 2007
• Open Access: The revolution in academic publishing. (a public lecture by Henry Hagedorn). Urbana, Illinois, January 29, 2007
• Designing Cyberinfrastructure for Collaboration and Innovation: Emerging Frameworks and Strategies for Enabling and Controlling Knowledge. (sponsored by the National Science Foundation, University of Michigan, the Council on Competitiveness, and Science Commons). (OA is among the topics). Washington D.C., January 29-30, 2007

February

• Ohio Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association, 1st Annual Conference. Columbus, Ohio, February 1-2, 2007
• Apocalypse Now? The consequences of system collapse. (Fifth Annual UK Journal Publishers' Forum). (sponsored by ALPSP, PA, and STM, for publishers only). London, February 2, 2007
• Open Access Symposium: Not one size fits all. (sponsored by the University of Winnipeg). Winnipeg, February 5, 2007
• Global Publishing: Emerging Markets, New Models. (the AAP/PSP annual conference). (OA is among the topics). Washington, D.C., February 5-7, 2006
• Workshop: Open Access und das DINI Zertifikat 2007. Frankfurt, February 7-8, 2007
• Open Access: How Can We Achieve Quality and Quantity?. (sponsored by BioMed Central). London, February 8, 2007
• How to increase your impact with Open Access. Brussels, February 13, 2007
• The RQF Explained: Information Management and Repository Needs for the RQF. (sponsored by Australia's APSR, ARROW and Department of Education, Science and Training). Sydney and Melbourne, February 13 and 15, 2007. (two meetings, two cities, two days)
• DELOS Conference on Digital Libraries. Pisa, February 13-14, 2007
• Taking Action on Open Access. (a presentation by Heather Joseph at the PLoS offices). San Francisco, February 15, 2007
• Launching an Open Access Research Journal: The JULS experience. Toronto, February 15, 2007
• Panel on open access research. Gainesville, Florida, February 15, 2007
• Scientific Publishing in the European Research Area - Access, Dissemination, and Preservation in the Digital Age. (hosted by the European Commission). Brussels, February 15-16, 2007
• Seminar on Open Access. (led by Henry Hagedorn). Madison, Wisconsin, February 21, 2007
• Creating Change: Opportunities For Growth In The Wake Of Disruption. (2007 NFAIS Annual Conference). Philadelphia, February 25-27, 2007

March

• Open Access: Vom Prinzip zur Umsetzung. (sponsored by the Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften). Bern, March 1, 2007
• Ohio Digital Commons for Education. (ODCE 2007 Conference). (OA is among the topics). Columbus, Ohio, March 4-6, 2007
• Emerging Libraries: How Knowledge Will Be Accessed, Discovered, and Disseminated in the Age of Digital Information. (Rice University's 2007 De Lange Conference). (OA is among the topics). Houston, March 5-7, 2007.
• SXSW 2007. (OA is among the topics). Austin, March 9-18, 2007
• JISC Conference 2007. (OA is among the topics). Birmingham, March 13, 2007
• Open Data. (sponsored by the Attention Trust). New York, March 13, 2007
• Issues and Opportunities for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics. (sponsored by CERN). Geneva, March 14, 2007
• Building Institutional Repositories with DSpace. (OA is among the topics). Kassel, March 14-15, 2007
• Free Our Data?. Manchester, March 15, 2007
• Open Knowledge 1.0. (sponsored by the Open Knowledge Foundation). (OA is among the topics). London, March 17, 2007
• Open Access: the Sea Change in Scholarly Publishing. (a forum with John Willinsky). Edmonton, March 20, 2007
• Seminar: Open Data and Open Access Publishing in the Chemical Sciences. (a public lecture by Peter Murray-Rust). Urbana, March 23, 2007
• American Chemical Society Spring 2007 Meeting. (OA is among the topics). Chicago, March 25-29, 2007
• Symposium on Communicating Chemistry. March 27-28, 2007
• Workshop on Open Access: legal and economic questions raised by the establishment and sustainability of a European e-Infrastructure for e-Science digital repositories. (by invitation only). Brussels, March 26, 2007. [Looking for a URL.]
• SHERPA-LEAP Repository Workshop. London, March 28, 2007
• Copyright and Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. (sponsored by the British Academy and the AHRC Centre at the University of Edinburgh). Edinburgh, March 30, 2007

April

• Federal Research Public Access Act. (a teleconference with Heather Joseph). (sponsored by Chemists Without Borders). April 5, 2007 (a teleconference)
• Workshop on Digital Libraries. (OA is among the topics). New Delhi, April 10-13, 2007
• All Together Now: Scholarly Communication and the Power of Online Communities. (2007 Allen Press Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing Seminar). (OA is among the topics). Washington, D.C., April 12, 2007
• The OpenAccess.se project. (not the official title). Stockholm, April 12-13, 2007
• The transformation of research communication. (sponsored by ALPSP). London, April 13, 2007
• Scientific Research and the Creative Commons Methodology. (a public lecture by John Wilbanks). (OA is among the topics). Second Life, April 16, 2007
• Open Educational Resources for lifelong learning. (EduMedia Conference 2007). (OA is among the topics). Salzburg, April 16-17, 2007
• 30th UKSG Annual Conference. (OA is among the topics). Warwick, April 16-18, 2007
• International Scholarly Communications Conference: The transformation of research communication. (sponsored by ALPSP). (OA is among the topics). London, April 17, 2007
• NSF/JISC Repositories Workshop. (OA is among the topics). Phoenix, April 17-19, 2007
• Why Don’t Scholars Provide Open Access to Their Articles?. (A public lecture by Stuart Shieber). Cambridge, April 18, 2007
• CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI5). Geneva, April 18-20, 2007
• Beyond Limits: Building Open Access Collections. (sponsored by the British Columbia Library Association). Vancouver, April 19, 2007
• Open Access: Spagaat of pas-de-deux?. English. Delft, April 19, 2007
• Sharing of information and resources: cooperation of museums, archives and libraries in field of standardization. Riga, Latvia, April 20, 2007
• Drexel University Libraries 2007 Scholarly Communication Symposium: Intellectual Property Rights. Philadelphia, April 20, 2007
• Open Access and Scientific Research: Are Digital Repositories A Solution?. (A public lecture by Peter Murray-Rust). Fort Collins, Colorado, April 23, 2007
• Konferanse om Open Access og e-publisering. (sponsored by Nordbib). Elsinore, April 23-24, 2007
• eInformation for eScience. (hosted by UKeiG). Birmingham, April 24, 2007
• Sharing the Challenge of Managing Institutional Repositories. Southampton, April 24, 2007
• Institutional repositories and Open Access for scholarly communication: a sensitization workshop. Maseru, Lesotho, April 24-26, 2007
• Publishing 2.0. (sponsored by XML UK). (OA is among the topics). Milton Keynes, April 25, 2007
• Maximizing Concordia University’s Research Impact Through Open Access Self-Archiving. (a public lecture by Stevan Harnad). Montreal, April 25, 2007
• Open Archaeology. (a session within the larger meeting of the Society for American Anthropology). Austin, April 27, 2007
• Second Conference on Access to Knowledge. (A2K2). (sponsored by the Yale Law School's Information Society Project). New Haven, April 27-29, 2007
• Panel on Open Access. (three Carnegie Mellon faculty discuss self-archiving). Pittsburgh, April 30, 2007

May

• Panel on open access . Pittsburgh, May 1, 2007
• German e-Science Conference 2007. (OA is among the topics). Baden-Baden, May 2-4, 2007
• Best Practices Exchange 2007: Libraries and Archives in the Digital Era. Chandler, Arizona, May 2-4, 2007
• Open Access to Research. (a panel discussion). Vancouver, May 3, 2007
• The Adaptable Repository. (sponsored by Australia's ARROW). Sydney, May 3, 2007
• MIDESS Digital Repository dissemination day. (OA is among the topics). Leeds, May 4, 2007
• Intellectual Property in the Digital Environment: An Update. (sponsored by NFAIS). Philadelphia, May 4, 2007
• Fedora Disseminator Workshop. Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, May 7-8, 2007
• E-books and E-content 2007. London, May 8, 2007
• Strategies for Open and Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Latin America: Focus on Health and Environmental Information for Sustainable Development. Atibaia, Brazil, May 8-10, 2007
• Research and Training Perspectives on the Canadian Digital Information Strategy. Montreal, May 9, 2007
• Building a Semantic Web in Which Our Data Can Participate. (a session within WWW2007). (OA is among the topics). Banff, May 10, 2007
• To Share or Not to Share: Synthetic Data Accelerate Knowledge Generation in Management and Social Science Research. (a public lecture by Nigel Melville). Oxford, May 10, 2007
• Penger for publikasjoner. (OA is among the topics). Oslo, May 11, 2007
• Demystifying Open Access. (a colloquium by CERN's Salvatore Mele at Stanford's SLAC). Palo Alto, May 14, 2007
• Evolution des publications scientifiques. (sponsored by the French Académie des sciences). (OA is among the topics). Paris, May 14-15, 2007
• XTech 2007: The Ubiquitous Web. (Open data is among the topics). Paris, May 15-18, 2007
• Building Global Knowledge Communities with Open Data. (IASSIST 2007). Montreal, May 15-18, 2007
• Promoting Access to and Use of Digital Knowledge Resources in Countries with Developing and Transitional Economies. (OA is among the topics). Pretoria, May 16, 2007
• Webcast on author rights. (sponsored by ACRL and ARL). (OA is among the topics). May 17, 2007
• Reaping the Rewards: access to E-thesis and Research papers. (sponsored by the CILIP UC&RG East Midlands Section). Derby, May 17, 2007
• Promoting 21st Century Scholarly Communication: The Role of Institutional Repositories in the Open Access Movement. Hong Kong, May 17-18, 2007
• Back to the Future of Legal Research. (OA is among the topics). Chicago, May 18, 2007
• The Next 50 Years: CSE in the Digital World. (Council of Science Editors 2007 Annual Meeting). (OA is among the topics). Austin, May 18-22, 2007
• Medical Library Association Annual Meeting 2007. (OA is among the topics). Philadelphia, May 18-23, 2007
• Scholarly Publishing Issues: The Challenges and Opportunities Facing Libraries in an Open Access Environment: symposium. May 23, 2007, 1:30 - 5:30 pm.
• UKCoRR Inaugural Meeting. (sponsored by SHERPA and the UK Council of Research Repositories). Nottingham, May 21, 2007
• Journée d'étude sur les Archives Ouvertes. Paris, May 21, 2007
• Copyright Utopia: Alternative Visions, Methods and Policies. (OA is among the topics). Adelphi, Maryland, May 21-23, 2007
• Million Books Workshop. (OA is among the topics). Chicago, May 22-24, 2007
• Providing Open Access to University Research Output: An Overview of Current Developments Worldwide. (a public lecture by Arthur Sale at McGill University). Montreal, May 24, 2007
• Evolving Business Models in Academic Publishing. (an ALPSP seminar). (OA is among the topics). London, May 24, 2007
• Data Sans Frontières: web portals and the historic environment. (sponsored by the UK Historic Environment Information Resources Network). (OA to data is among the topics). London, May 25, 2007
• National Free Culture Conference. Cambridge, May 26, 2007
• Bridging Communities: making public knowledge, making knowledge public. (sponsored by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences). (OA is among the topics). Saskatoon, May 26 - June 2, 2007
• Open Innovation – New Perspectives in the Context of Information and Knowledge?. (10th International Symposium for Information Science). (OA is among the topics). Cologne, May 30 - June 1, 2007
• Building Scholarly Infrastructure for the Future. (2007 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries). (OA is among the topics). Austin, May 30 - June 1, 2007
• Internet & Society 2007 Conference. (sponsored by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society). (OA is among the topics). Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 31 - June 1, 2007

June

• Publishing for Impact: A conference for mission-driven non-profit book publishers. (OA is among the topics). Washington, D.C., June 4-6, 2007
• Federal Access to Government-Sponsored Research. (sponsored by Thomson Scientific). (part of the SLA Annual Meeting 2007). Denver, June 5, 2007
• About Digital repositories: Dealing with the digital deluge. (sponsored by JISC). (OA is among the topics). Manchester, June 5-6, 2007
• Technische und rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen für die Betreiber von Open-Access Repositories. (DINI-Zertifikat 2007). Berlin, June 5-6, 2007
• Open Access Publishing: Funding Mechanisms and Institutional Collaboration. (sponsored by ARMA). Cardiff, June 6, 2007
• Imagining the Future: Scholarly Communication 2.0. (SSP 2007). (OA is among the topics). San Francisco, June 6-8, 2007
• Open Access Questions & Answers. (teleconference Q&A session with Peter Suber). (sponsored by Chemists Without Borders). June 7, 2007. (a teleconference)
• EIFL's Fourteenth International Conference Crimea 2007. (OA is among the topics). Simferopol, Crimea, June 9-17, 2007
• Open Research: Third London Conference on Opening Access to Research Publications. (sponsored by SHERPA-LEAP). London, June 11, 2007
• Global Access to Science: Scientific Publishing for the Future. (IATUL 2007). (OA is among the topics). Stockholm, June 11-14, 2007
• Open Access and Institutional repository sensitization workshop in Ghana. Accra, Ghana, June 12-13, 2007
• i-expo 2007. (OA is among the topics). Paris, June 13-14, 2007
• Les projets d’archives ouvertes : état des lieux des initiatives au plan international, européen et français: session. June 14, 2007, 9:30- 12:00.
• Openness in Digital Publishing: Awareness, Discovery and Access. (ElPub 2007). Vienna, June 13-15, 2007
• ETD 2007: 10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Uppsala, June 13-16, 2007
• HyperJournal. (a seminar with Michele Barbera). Bergen, June 14, 2007
• iCommons Summit 2007. (OA is among the topics). Dubrovnik, June 15-17, 2007
• Webcast on author rights. (sponsored by ACRL and ARL). (OA is among the topics). June 18, 2007
• Assessing the quality and impact of research: practices and initiatives in STM information. (public part of the INIST 2007 General Conference). Nancy, France, June 21, 2007
• Workshop zu Open Access. (part of Göttinger Alumni-Tag 2007). Göttingen, June 23, 2007
• American Library Association Annual Conference. (OA is among the topics). Washington, D.C., June 21-27, 2007
• Access to Association and Society Publications, a session. Friday June 22, 2007. 1:30 - 3:00, Capitol Hilton (1001 16th Street NW)
• Forum to Explore Progress of Open Access Journal Publishing Models, a session. Saturday June 23, 2007, 4:00 - 5:30PM, Georgetown Room, Hilton Washington (1919 Connecticut Avenue NW)
• Collecting for Institutional Repositories: All the news that's fit to keep, a session. Sunday June 24, 2007, 10:30 - 12:00.
• Issues and Trends in Digital Repositories of Non-Textual Information: Support for Research and Teaching, a session. Monday, June 25, 2007, 8:30 - 11:00.
• Experience of Open Access - looking at the data. (sponsored by the ALPSP). London, June 22, 2007
• eResearch Australasia 2007. (OA is among the topics). Brisbane, June 26-28, 2007
• Repositories Support Project, Summer School 2007. (sponsored by JISC). (OA is among the topics). Totnes, Devon, June 27-29, 2007
• Changing the Paradigm of Publication: Open Access and PLoS ONE. San Francisco, June 28, 2007
• Models in Flux: Books and Journals. (First Bloomsbury conference on E-Publishing and E-Publications). (OA is among the topics). London, June 28-29, 2007
• Knowledge Ecosystems, Information Pollution, and Open-Source Intelligence from the Bottom-Up. (a public lecture by David Bray). Oxford, June 29, 2007
• Open Access und Elektronisches Publizieren. (2007 Berliner Methodentreffen Qualitative Forschung). Berlin, June 29–30, 2007

July

• 59ª Reunião Anual da SBPC e veja a programação científica. (59th Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society for Scientific Progress). (OA is among the topics). Belém, Brazil, July 8-13, 2007

• Publicar ou Perecer: Acesso Livre e Sobreviver. (Publish or Perish: Open Access to Survive), a session on July 9, 10:00 - 13:45; sponsored by the the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology and the National Association of Information Science Research and Post-graduation programme (ANCIB)

• Caribbean Digital Libraries Workshop. (sponsored by UNESCO and NALIS). (OA is among the topics). Port of Spain, Trinidad, July 10-13, 2007
• Transitioning to Open Access: Action and Advocacy. (sponsored by CARL, SPARC, and the CLA's Task Force on Open Access; this is a pre-conference to the PKP meeting, below). Vancouver, July 11, 2007
• Legal Framework for eResearch Conference 2007. (OA is among the topics). Queensland, July 11-12, 2007
• First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference. (OA is among the topics). Vancouver, July 11-13, 2007
• Transitioning to Open Access: Action and Advocacy, a pre-conference. (sponsored by SPARC, CARL, and the Canadian Library Association's Task Force on Open Access). July 11, 2007 9:00 - 12:00
• The Fifth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning. London, July 13-17, 2007
• Improving Access to Australian Publicly Funded Research - Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy. (sponsored by Australia's National Scholarly Communications Forum). Canberra, July 16, 2007
• Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2007. (OA is among the topics). Redmond, July 16-17, 2007
• Institutional repositories: a workshop on creating an information infrastructure for the scholarly community. (sponsored by eIFL). Johannesburg, July 16-19, 2007
• JISC Digitisation Conference 2007. (OA is among the topics). Cardiff, July 19-20, 2007

August

• Open Publishing 2007. Sydney, August 1-3, 2007
• Wikimania 2007. (OA is among the topics). Taipei, August 3-5, 2007
• Promoting Research and Scholarship through Open Access and e-Publishing. (a public lecture by Fides Datu-Lawton). Diliman, the Philippines, August 15, 2007
• World Library and Information Congress. (73rd IFLA General Conference and Council). Durban, South Africa, August 19-23, 2007
• Organizing for Democratic Access to Information in Africa. A panel organized by IFLA's Access to Information Network - Africa (ATINA) Discussion Group.
• Digital Libraries à la Carte 2007. (OA is among the topics). Tilburg, August 27-31, 2007

September

• Towards a European e-Infrastructure for e-Science digital repositories workshop. (sponsored by e-SciDR). Lisbon, September 4, 2007

• Open Source Chemistry. (a teleconference with Jean-Claude Bradley). (sponsored by Chemists Without Borders). September 6, 2007 (a teleconference)

• Disclosure and Preservation: Fostering European Culture in the Digital Landscape. (OA is among the topics). Lisbon, September 7-8, 2007

• Doing Digital: Using digital resources in the arts and humanities. (DRHA 2007). Dartington, Totnes, South Devon, September 9-12, 2007

• Long-lived Collections: the future of Australia's research data. Canberra, September 11, 2007

• Discovering eprints: finding needles in the haystack?. (JIBS and JISC Collections Workshop). Birmingham, September 12, 2007

• Value for Money: ROI on Scholarly Journal Acquisitions. (OA is among the topics). (sponsored by Library Journal). September 13, 2007 (a webcast)

• European Digital Libraries Initiative: the Stakeholders’ Perspectives. Brussels, September 14, 2007

• European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. (ECDL 2007). Budapest, September 16-21, 2007

• Open Access and the Changing Nature of Scholarly Communication. (sponsored by the U of Queensland). Sydney, September 17, 2007

• Teaching for a World of Increasing Access to Knowledge. (OA is among the topics). Vancouver, September 18, 2007

• e-Science and Scholarly Communications. (a public lecture by Tony Hey). Houston, September 19, 2007

• Berlin 5 Open Access: From Practice to Impact: Consequences of Knowledge Dissemination. Padua, September 19-21, 2007
  • Sharing Research Data. A workshop sponsored by the ESF. September 21, 2007.

• Towards an European repository ecology. (ECDL2007 Workshop). (OA is among the topics). Budapest, September 21, 2007

• Open Access Policies deutscher Verlage -- Rundgespräch und Informationsveranstaltung. (sponsored by DINI, DFG, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). Stuttgart, September 26, 2007

• Open Education 2007: Localizing and Learning. Logan, Utah, September 26-28, 2007

• Workshop of the Information Management Working Group (IMWG) of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes. (EADI). (OA is among the topics). The Hague, September 26-28, 2007

• Symposium on research, internet and knowledge networks. Bordeaux, September 27, 2007

October

• Taking Action on the NIH Public Access Policy ¬ in Congress and on Campus: A SPARC/ATA Webcast. October 4, 2007 (a webcast)
• Repositories - for better or worse?. (sponsored by the ALPSP). London, October 5, 2007
• E-Social Science 2007. (OA is among the topics). Ann Arbor, October 7-9, 2007
• Changes on the Horizon. (sponsored by the International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers). (OA is among the topics). Sarasota, Florida, October 7-11, 2007
• eIFL federated repository project. (sponsored by eIFL and SURF). Utrecht, October 8-9, 2007
• Computers and Advanced Technology in Education. (CATE 2007). (Open education is among the topics). Beijing, October 8-10, 2007
• STM Annual Conference. (OA is among the topics). Frankfurt, October 9, 2007
• Open Journal Systems. (OJS) in a Day (a workshop). Barnaby, British Columbia, October 9, 2007
• Universal Access to All Human Knowledge. (a public lecture by Brewster Kahle). Seattle, October 9, 2007
• Open Access the New World of Research Communication. (sponsored by the University of Ottawa Library). Ottawa, October 10, 2007
• Access 2007. (OA is among the topics). Victoria, British Columbia, October 10-13, 2007
• Increasing Nottingham’s Research Impact Through Open Access. Nottingham, October 11, 2007
• Open Access: the New World of Research Communication. Ottawa, October 12, 2007
• The Internet, Publishing, and the Future of Literature. (sponsored by the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics). Chicago, October 12-14, 2007
• La estrategia digital: ¿hacia dónde?. (OA is among the topics). Madrid, October 18-19, 2007
• Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing and Information Science. (ASIS&T 2007 Annual Meeting). (OA is among the topics). Milwaukee, October 19-24, 2007
• Opening Science to All: Implications of Blogs and Wikis for Social and Scholarly Scientific Communication: session. October 23, 2007, 8:30 am.
• The Live Usability Lab: Open Access Archives and Digital Repositories: session. October 22, 2007, 8:30 am.
• 2007 Microsoft eScience Workshop. (sponsored by Microsoft and RENCI). (OA is among the topics). Chapel Hill, October 21-23, 2007
• Cinquième colloque VSST. (Veille Stratégique Scientifique & Technologique). Marrakech, October 21-25, 2007
• Evolving Business Models (sponsored by the North American chapter of ALPSP). (OA is among the topics). Washington, D.C., October 22, 2007
• Accessible e-content: the 7th e-books Conference. Edinburgh, October 26, 2007
• Researching open content in education. (OpenLearn 2007). Milton Keynes, UK, October 30-31, 2007

November

• Digital Scholarship, Digital Libraries. Atlanta, November 2, 2007
• The Current Shakeup in Scholarly Communication, Chapter 23: A Critical Incident in Academic Freedom, Bioethics, and Open Access. (a public lecture by John Willinsky). Berkeley, November 2, 2007
• Workshop on Open Source and Open Data. (a workshop within MICCAI 2007). Brisbane, November 2, 2007
• 3rd annual International Conference on the Universal Digital Library. Pittsburgh, November 2-4, 2007
• Open Access and Free Scholarly Resources: What Are They and How Can You Find Them?. South Hadley, Massachusetts, November 4, 2007
• Digital Library Federation Fall Forum 2007. (OA is among the topics). Philadelphia, November 5-7, 2007
• Konstanzer Open-Access-Tage. (sponsored by the University of Konstanz and DINI). Konstanz, November 6-7, 2007
• Charleston Conference 2007. (OA is among the topics). Charleston, November 7-10, 2007
• A Forum on Open Access, Alternative Publishing Models, and Author Rights. Urbana-Champaign, November 9, 2007
• Publishing in the New Millennium: A Forum on Publishing in the Biosciences. (sponsored by Harvard Medical School). (OA is among the topics). Cambridge, November 9, 2007
• Opportunities for Publishers in a World of Institutional Repositories. (sponsored by the Society for Scholarly Publishing). Washington, D.C., November 12, 2007
• Seminário Acesso Livre ao Conhecimento Científico nos Países Lusófonos. Rio de Janeiro, November 13, 2007
• Open Science & Scientific Publishing: Presentations & Discussion. (sponsored by MIT). (OA is among the topics). Cambridge, November 13, 2007
• E-LIS Meeting, E-Prints in Library and Information Science. (sponsored by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia). (OA is among the topics). Valencia, Spain, November 13-14th, 2007
• Open Access Forum. Denver, November 14, 2007
• How Societies Benefit From Open Access to ICT. (5th International Conference on Open Access). Bagamoyo, Tanzania, November 14-16, 2007
• Open Access and Institutional Repositories. (a public lecture by Stephanie Haas and Matt Mariner). Gainesville, Florida, November 15, 2007
• Open Access - Gratiskultur im Wissens- und Bildungsbereich?. (sponsored by the Swiss Forum for Educational Media). Bern, November 15-16, 2007
• Publishing Smart: A Hands-on Workshop for Graduate Students. (sponsored by the MIT Libraries). (OA is among the topics). Cambridge, November 16, 2007
• Current & Future Challenges of Library Profession: The Role of Open Access to Scientific & Technical Information. (sponsored by the Arab Federation for Libraries and Information). Jeddah, Saudia Arabia, November 17-20, 2007
• Scholarly Publishing and Open Access: Straight Talk. (sponsored by the Medical Library Association). November 20, 2007 (a webcast)
• SARUA Open Access Leadership Summit. (sponsored by the Southern African Regional Universities Association, SARUA). Gaborone, Botswana, November 20-21, 2007
• UKCoRR Autum '07 Meeting. Nottingham, November 23, 2007
• Legal Environment of Digital Curation. (sponsored by DCC and SCRIPTed). (IRs are among the topics). Glasgow, November 23, 2007
• Forms of Democracy in Education: Open Access and Distance Education. (4th International Conference on Open and Distance Learning). Athens, November 23-25, 2007
• Practices and Challenges in Preservation and Access for Scientific and Scholarly Digital Repositories. (DCC/DPE/DRIVER/Nestor Joint Workshop). Berlin, November 27-28, 2007
• Seminar on Open Access 2007. Copenhagen, November 29, 2007

December

• Getting the Most Out of Your Institutional Repository: Gathering Content and Building Use. (cosponsored by NISO and Palinet). Beltsville, Maryland, December 3, 2007

• Forum on Philanthropy and Research Funding Launch Conference. (OA is among the topics). Brussels, December 4, 2007

• SYReLIB Institutional Repository Workshop in Syria. Aleppo, Syria, December 4-5, 2007

• Online Information 2007. London, December 4-6, 2007

• Research Information and Management Workshop. (sponsored by Universities UK). (OA is among the topics). London (?), December 5, 2007

• Open Access all’Università di Torino. Torino, December 6, 2007

• Konstanzer Open-Access-Tage. Konstanz, December 6-7, 2007

• Open Access Conference. (sponsored by Elektroniczny Biuletyn Informacyjny Bibliotekarzy, EBIB). Torun, Poland, December 7-9, 2007

• Ninth International Conference on Grey Literature. (OA is among the topics). Antwerp, December 10-11, 2007

• 3rd Global Knowledge Conference. OA is among the topics; see Panels ET5 and ET9. Kuala Lumpur, December 11-13, 2007

• La ecologia de los repositorios institucionales. (OA is among the topics). Gijón, Spain, December 12-14, 2007