2008

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

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

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

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

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

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

• Brainstorming Meet On Open Access, FLOSS and Copyright Law for Scholarly Communication and Literary Work . Sponsored by the Indian National Science Academy. New Delhi, April 26, 2008. (Looking for a better URL.)

• 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

May

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

• Towards the Reform of Scholarly Information Distribution : Electronic journals will not be able to be read (Japanese PDF). OA is among the topics. Tokyo, May 1, 2008. (This is Part 1 of a two-part symposium. See December 10, 2008, for Part 2.)

• 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

• Opinn aðgangur. Reykjavik, 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.

June

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

• Open Grid Forum. OA is among the topics. 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.

• Open Source, Open Access, Open Stanford. A public lecture by John Willinsky. Palo Alto, June 4, 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.

• 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.

• La ciencia que no se ve, no se existe. Havana, 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

July

• Locating the Power of In-between Conference. OA is among the topics. Pretoria, July 1-2, 2008.

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

• 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.

• 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.

August

• The Gutenberg-e Project: Opportunities and Challenges in Publishing Born-Digital Monographs. Webinar, August 1, 2008.

• 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.

• 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

• The Strategic Impacts of New Technologies on Higher Education. Online, August 22, 2008.

• Seminario Políticas de Acceso y Difusión de Archivos Fotográficos. Valparaíso, August 22, 2008.

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

September

• Digital Humanities: Past, Present, Future. OA is among the topics. London, September 2, 2008.

• International Workshop for Open Access to Scientific Literature and other Digital Scientific Information Resources in Central America and the Caribbean: Focus on Education and Health for Sustainable Development. Havana, Cuba, September 2-5, 2008.

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

• Constant Content and Autonomous Authors - The New Role of Publishers in the Era of Empowered Authors. Sponsored by the Society for Scholarly Publishing. Philadelphia, September 3-5, 2008.

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

• Open Access, Repositories, and More. An online class from SOLINET. September 8, 2008.

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

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

• The Future of Science. A public lecture by Bill Hooker (on OA, among other topics). Forest Grove, Oregon, September 9, 2008.

• Understanding Organisational Cultures: Impact on Repository Growth and Development. Cranfield, September 9, 2008.

• British Association for the Advancement of Science, BioMedCentral (BMC) Forum on OA during this Festival of Science. Liverpool University, UK. September 10, 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. ECDL 2008. Aarhus, September 14-19, 2008.

• Open Trends in Higher Education: Imperatives and Challenges. Krems, Austria, September 16-18, 2008.

• Information Access to Cultural Heritage workshop. Aarhus, September 18, 2008.

• An Introduction to Open Access Publishing in Chemistry. A session within the 2nd EuCheMS Chemistry Congress. Sponsored by Chemistry Central. Torino, September 18, 2008.

• Research Evaluation, Metrics and Open Access in the Humanities. Dublin, September 18-20, 2008.

• Biology Week Open House. Sponsored by Citizendium. Online, September 19-22, 2008.

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

• Open Access Awareness Raising Workshop. Armenia (which city?), September 22-23, 2008.

• What is “Open Education” and what does it mean for the future of learning? 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.

• Universal Access Digital Library Summit. Sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Boston Library Consortium. Boston, September 25, 2008. (Invitation only.)

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

• Momentum 08. OA is among the topics (see Track 5). Hallstatt , September 25-28, 2008.

• IuK im Wandel - im Zentrum der Wissenschaft. Berlin, September 25-26, 2008.

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

• I diritti degli autori, i diritti dei lettori. Copyright, copyleft e open access. Rome, September 26, 2008.

• Тhe International Scientific Conference on the Electronic Library. OA is among the topics. Belgrade, September 28, 2008.

• Open textbook virtual meeting. Sponsored by the Open Knowledge Foundation. Online, September 29, 2008.

• Ars Electronica Festival. OA is among the topics. Linz, September 29, 2008.

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

October

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

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

• Session on Open Access. A session within the 5th International Conference, Informatio-2008. Alushta, Ukraine, October 3-4, 2008.

• Emergenzen 7 // Open Access: From a Peripheral Phenomenon to the Leading Paradigm in Science Policy, Archive Practices, and Scientific Self-presentation. Vienna, October 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.

• LiquidPub Consortium Meeting. Paris, October 6-7, 2008.

• Open Access Initiatives. A public lecture by Stuart Shieber. New York, October 8, 2008.

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

• Scientific Publishing Conference: Bethesda II. Bethesda, October 10, 2008.

• Open access -julkaisemisen tekijänoikeusseminaari. A meeting of FinnOA. Another URL. Helsinki, October 10, 2008.

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

• Free Culture 2008. Berkeley, October 11-12, 2008.

• SRA International 2008 Annual Meeting. Sponsored by the Society of Research Administrators International. OA is among the topics. National Harbor, Maryland, October 12, 2008.

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

• Scholarly Publishing in Transition: Issues, Challenges & Initiatives. Copenhagen, October 15, 2008.

• Open Access Awareness Raising Workshop in Armenia. Yerevan, Armenia, October 15-16, 2008.

• UNICA General Assembly 2008. OA is among the topics. Prague, October 16-18, 2008.

• Technology and Community: Building the Techno Community Library. LITA 2008 National Forum. OA is among the topics. Cincinnati, October 16-19, 2008.

• Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge. Washington, DC, October 17, 2008.

• Open Sustainability Network Camp 2008. San Francisco, October 18-19, 2008.

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

• 3rd COMMUNIA Workshop. Amsterdam, October 20-21, 2008.

• Researching and promoting access to education and training: the role of distance education and e-learning in technology-enhanced environments. Fifth EDEN Research Workshop. Paris, October 20-22, 2008.

• Open Access awareness raising workshop. Minsk City, Belarus, October 21-23, 2008.

• eIFL Central Asia 2008 Conference. OA is among the topics. Fergana, Uzbekistan, October 21-25, 2008.

• The Closing of Library Services... The Opening of Library Services. A public lecture by Brewster Kahle, followed by a panel discussion. Ann Arbor, October 22, 2008 (plus live webcast).

• Vetenskaplig publicering och Open Access - gör din forskning tillgänglig. Malmö, October 22, 2008.

• Hochschulen zwischen Konkurrenz und Kooperation – die Vernetzung der Informationsinfrastrukturen für die Wissensgesellschaft. Sponsored by DINI. Hamburg, October 22-23, 2008.

• Nordic Cultural Commons Conference 2008. Stockholm, October 22-23, 2008.

• Genome Canada. OA is among the topics: includes a session, "Commercialization, Data Release, and Open Access: Incompatible Objectives?" Vancouver, October 22-24, 2008.

• NSF workshop on eChemistry: New Models for Scholarly Communication in Chemistry. Washington, D.C., October 23-24, 2008. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Open Access Movement: Initiatives, Promotion and Impact. University of Kashmir, October 23-25, 2008.

• Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit 2008. Gothenburg, October 24-26, 2008.

• Second open textbook virtual meeting. Sponsored by the Open Knowledge Foundation. Online, October 27, 2008.

• Open Content Alliance annual meeting. San Francisco, October 27-28, 2008.

• Copyright for Repositories - Staff Training Workshop. Northampton, October 28, 2008.

• Mandating and the scholarly journal article: attracting interest on deposits?. Sponsored by UKSG. London, October 29, 2008.

• Protecting Your Scholarship: Copyrights, Publication Agreements, and Open Access. A public lecture by Kenneth Crews. New York, October 29, 2008.

• Proprietary Scholarship or Open Access? The New Intellectual Properties of the Library. A public lecture by John Willinsky. Baltimore, October 30, 2008.

• Law via the Internet: Free Access, Quality of Information, Effectiveness of Rights. OA is among the topics. Florence, October 30-31, 2008.

• Copyright and Your Right to Use and Share Your Scholarly Materials. A public lecture by Michael Carroll. Bowling Green, Ohio, October 31, 2008

• Digital Heritage in the new knowledge environment: shared spaces & open paths to cultural content. Sponsored by Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Athens, October 30 - November 2, 2008.

November

• Workshop on Finding and Re-using Public Information. London, November 1, 2008.

• Poropitia Outside the Box. LIANZA Conference 2008. OA is among the topics. Auckland, November 2-5, 2008.

• Academic Publishing in the Digital Age. Sponsored by HASTAC.org. An online forum starting November 3, 2008.

• Crowds, Communities and Open Access: Examining Trends in Peer Production. A public lecture by Caroline Haythornthwaite. Toronto, November 4, 2008.

• Biblioteche digitali e open access per la ricerca scientifica. Palermo, November 4, 2008. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Open Access Scholarship and Teaching: Why should it matter to you?. A public lecture by Leslie Chan. Toronto, November 5, 2008.

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

• XXVIII Annual Chareston Conference. OA is among the topics. Charleston, November 5-8, 2008.

• Open Everything, London. Sponsored by the Open Knowledge Foundation. London, November 6, 2008.

• Workshop on Finding and Re-using Open Scientific Resources. Sponsored by the Open Knowledge Foundation. London, November 8, 2008.

• Publishing and Communicating Science. Raleigh, November 8, 2008.

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

• EDUSOL 2008: Cuarto Encuentro en Línea de Educación y Software Libre. Online, November 10-21, 2008.

• Open Access: from Myth to Paradox. A public lecture by Paul Ginsparg. Bern, November 11, 2008.

• The Future of the Book: Can the Endangered Monograph Survive?. New York, November 11, 2008.

• Open Access Pre-Conference. Part of the Globalization and the Management of Information Resources conference. Sofia, Bulgaria, November 11, 2008.

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

• 6th International Open Access Conference. Lilongwe Malawi, November 12-14, 2008.

• Copyright: Enabling Access or Creating Roadblocks for Libraries?. Chisinau, Moldova, November 13-14, 2008.

• Copyright Regulation in Europe – An Enabling or Disabling Factor for Science Communication. Sponsored by ENCES. OA is among the topics. By invitation only. Berlin, November 13-15, 2008.

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

• Stanford Open Source Lab (Un) Conference. OA is among the topics. Palo Alto, November 14, 2008.

• Biomedicinsko Informisanje , Elektronska Biblioteka I Otvoreni Pristup. Belgrade, November 15, 2008.

• Linking Geodata with Biodiversity Information in the Himalayas. OA is among the topics. Kathmandu, November 15-16, 2008.

• Open Access Authors Fund. A public lecture by Andrew Waller. Vancouver, November 17, 2008.

• Open Access e comunicazione scientifica. Monserrato, Italy, November 17, 2008.

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

• 2nd Conferência Ibero-Americana De Publicacões Eletrônicas No Contexto Da Comunicação. Rio de Janeiro, November 17-21, 2008.

• Accesso aperto e comunicazione scientifica. Cagliari, Italy, November 18, 2008.

• Educación Abierta en América Latina. Santiago, November 20, 2008.

• Beyond Advocacy: A Bradford Master Class on Institutional Repositories. Bradford, November 20, 2008.

• Open Educational Resources (OER): Freier Zugang zu Bildungsmedien und Qualität. Sponsored by the Swiss Forum for Educational Media. Bern, November 20-21, 2008.

• Latam Commons 2008: Creative Commons, Open Education, and the Public Domain. Santiago, November 20-21, 2008.

• The Transformation of Academic Publishing in the Digital Era. A public lecture by Frances Pinter. Oxford, November 21, 2008.

• Open Education Workshop 2008. North Ryde, Australia, November 21, 2008.

• Faculty practices and priorities related to public scholarship and open access. A public lecture by Phil Edwards. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, November 21, 2008.

• Seminario Internacional de Dominio Público (International Seminar on the Public Domain). Santiago, November 21, 2008.

• SCOAP3: From Subscriptions to an Open Access Publishing Model. New Delhi, November 25, 2008.

• "Fri flyt av kunnskap" - institusjonelle arkiver i forskningsinstitusjoner. A seminar on OA and IRs. Oslo, November 27, 2008.

• Money talks – New institutional policies in scholarly publishing. OA is among the topics. Tromsø, Norway, November 28, 2008.

• De ontwikkelingen m.b.t. Open Access en de opstelling van en het belang ervan voor de Vrije Universiteit. The symposium will be in English. Amsterdam, November 28, 2008. (Looking for a better URL.)

December

• Trends in Scholarly Communication. CULIS conference on Scholarly Communication 2008. Copenhagen, December 1, 2008.

• Scientific knowledge in the digital age: Open Access and Open repositories (in Russian). Yekaterinburg, Russia, December 1-2, 2008.

• Radical Sharing: Transforming Science?. 4th International Digital Curation Conference. Edinburgh, December 1-3, 2008

• Knowledge in the digital age: Open Access and Open repositories. Yekaterinburg, Russia, December 2-3, 2008.

• Demonstrating and Exploiting Repository Value. Northampton, December 3, 2008.

• Learn more about the IU ScholarWorks project. OA is among the topics. Bloomington, Indiana, December 3, 2008. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Cambridge Open Knowledge Meetup. Cambridge, England, December 3, 2008.

• Common Knowledge, Open Science. A public lecture by John Wilbanks. Oxford, December 4, 2008.

• Data, Community and Discourse: a Framework for Science Web 3.0. A public lecture by Tim Clark. Oxford, December 4, 2008.

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

• International Symposium on Open Access. Linz, December 5, 2008.

• Open Everything Madison: A Conversation on Openness, Access and Transparency. Madison, December 6, 2008.

• Open Everything Berlin. Berlin, December 6, 2008.

• Open Everything Hong Kong. Hong Kong, December 6, 2008.

• Collaborative Innovation for Development: Enlarging the Global Commons. OA is among the topics. New Delhi, December 6, 2008. (Looking for a better URL.)

• The Open Forum. Palm Springs, December 7-9, 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. December 7-12, 2008.

• Making the Web Work for Science: The Impact of e-Science and the Cyberinfrastructure. Co-sponsored by CENDI and NFAIS. Washington, D.C., December 8, 2008.

• Coalition for Networked Information Fall 2008 Task Force Meeting. OA is among the topics. Washington, D.C., December 8-9, 2008.

• 2nd International Conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture. Thiruvananthapuram, December 9-11, 2008.

• Just Give Us the Data! Prospects for Putting Government Information to Revolutionary New Uses. Washington DC, December 10, 2008.

• Towards the Reform of Scholarly Information Distribution : Electronic journals will not be able to be read (Japanese PDF). OA is among the topics. Tokyo, December 10, 2008. (This is Part 2 of a two-part symposium. See May 1, 2008, for Part 1.)

• Workshop on Open Access Publishing and Digital Libraries. New York, December 10, 2008. (Looking for a better URL.)

• La Proyección de los Repositorios Institucionales 3ª Encuentro grupo OS-Repositorios. Madrid, December 10-12, 2008.

• What Does It Cost and Who Pays? Scholarly Communications Globally and in the UK. (Looking for a better URL.) London, December 11, 2008.

• Workshop on Scientific Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Evaluation. Trento, December 11-12, 2008.

• Creative Commons Technology Summit. Cambridge, Mass., December 12, 2008.

• Rethinking the university after Bologna: New concepts and practices beyond tradition and the market. OA is among the topics. Antwerp, December 12-13, 2008.

• 3ª Conferência sobre o Acesso Livre ao Conhecimento. Minho, December 15-16, 2008.

• Open Access Infrastructures: the Future of Scientific Communication. Athens, December 15-16, 2008.

• Creative Commons' 6th Birthday Party. Several locations worldwide, December 16, 2008.

• Information Event on the fifth Call for proposals under the e-Infrastructures Activity of the 'Capacities' Specific Programme, FP7. Sponsored by the European Union. Among the topics: Call for proposals on the Scientific Information Repository supporting the European FP7 Research Programme. Brussels, December 16, 2008.

• The Open Knowledge Commons. A public lecture by Maura Marx. Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 16, 2008.

• Awareness-raising workshop about Open Access. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, December 22-23, 2008.