2017

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

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

January

• Seminar on Open Access: Status Quo in India. Nagpur, India, January 5, 2017.

• Deciding Where to Publish: Maximize Your Impact, Minimize the Pain. University of Calgary. Alberta, Canada, January 5, 2017.

• White House Social Media and Gov Data Hackathon. San Francisco, California, January 7, 2017.

• Envisioning the Scientific Paper of the Future. California Institute of Technology. Pasadena, California, January 9, 2017.

• Open Access Publishing with American Chemical Society's Yung Murphy. University of Texas at Austin. January 10, 2017.

• Wikimedia Developer Summit. San Francisco, California, January 9 - 11, 2017.

• KU Select 2016 Webinar. Online, January 11, 2017.

• Introduction to Preprints. Online, January 11, 2017.

• Copyright and your next scholarly publication: What are your choices for Open Access publishing?. University of Lethbridge. January 12, 2017.

• Beyond Gutenberg: Access in the 21st Century. Boston, Massachusetts, January 12, 2017.

• KU Select 2016 Webinar. Online, January 12, 2017.

• Beginners' guide to version control with Git and GitHub. University of Cambridge. Cambridge, England, January 12, 2017.

• Open Access Publishing and REF. University of Portsmouth. Portsmouth, England, January 12, 2017.

• Publishing without perishing? La scienza aperta all'epoca della valutazione della ricerca. University of Pisa, January 15 - 19, 2017.

• Publishing Ethics: Doing the Right Thing - Doing Things Right Berlin, Germany, January 16 - 18, 2017.

• Harvard DataFest 2017: A Data Science Bootcamp for better research. Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 17 - 18, 2017.

• European Open Science Cloud for Research pilot (EOSCpilot) project kickoff meeting. Amsterdam, Netherlands, January 17 - 18, 2017.

• Course in Scientific Publishing. Örebro, Sweden, January 17 - February 28, 2017.

• オープンデータとデジタルヒューマニティーズ (Open Data and Digital Humanities). Kyushu University. Fukuoka, Japan, January 18, 2017.

• Open Linguistics: is linguistics open for it?. University of Luxembourg. Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, January 18, 2017.

• Opportunities in Open Science. Stockholm, Sweden, January 19, 2017.

• Conférence Données Publiques. La Rochelle, France, January 19, 2017.

• Open Access Oxford: Publishing, Papers and Peer-review. Oxford University. Oxford, England, January 20, 2017.

• Protecting Climate Data in Times of Political Turmoil. UCLA. Los Angeles, California, January 20, 2017.

• ALCTS Scholarly Communication Interest Group meeting: "Providing long-term resources and support for Open Access". ALA Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits. Atlanta, Georgia, January 21, 2017.

• Copy Cataloging Interest Group (ALCTS CaMMS) Meeting, “Best Practices for Digital Repositories". ALA Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits. Atlanta, Georgia, January 21, 2017.

• Think, check, submit: Making informed decisions in open access publishing. ETH Zurich, January 23, 2017.

• Publish and Flourish - the Art of Getting Cited. Montreal, Qebec, Canada, January 23, 2017.

• Altmetrics for books: tracking engagement and driving discovery. Online, January 23, 2017.

• Creating the Future of Academic Publishing: Strengthening the Research Ecosystem. London South Bark University, January 23, 2017.

• Digital Annotation for Learning and Scholarship. Middlebury College. Middlebury, Vermont, January 23 - February 3, 2017.

• Research funder open access requirements from NASA, DOE, and other federal agencies. MIT. Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 24, 2016.

• What do Open Access Databases allow Data Mining to contribute to Public Education Policies? Stanford University, January 24, 2017.

• Knowledge Production and Free Licenses: Challenges and Benefits for the Modern University. University of Virginia. Charlottesville, Virginia, January 24, 2017.

• Developing Research Data Management Services. Amsterdam, Netherlands, January 25, 2017.

• Everything you need to know about Open Research (for graduate students and researchers in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences). University of Cambridge. Cambridge, England, January 25, 2017.

• New York Botanical Garden Wikipedia-Edit-A-Thon: Plants and People. New York, New York, January 25, 2017.

• Planen för ett nationellt system för tillgängliggörande och långtidslagring av forskningsdata. Stockholm University. Stockholm, Sweden, January 26, 2016.

• Supporting Open Research in Horizon 2020. Amsterdam, Netherlands, January 26, 2017.

• Open Access – What You Need to Know (@ZSFG). University of California San Francisco. San Francisco, California, January 26, 2017.

• Challenges and opportunities in scholarly communications and Open Access. Purdue University. West Lafayette, Indiana, January 26, 2017.

• Sustainable access to digital cultural and scientific heritage: Ethical and legal issues. Zagreb, Croatia, January 26 - 27, 2017.

• FOSS4G-Asia 2017. Hyderabad, India, January 26 - 29, 2017.

• The Human Genomic Data Access Bottleneck. Online, January 27, 2017.

• Linked Open Data per l'analisi dei dati e lo sviluppo della ricerca sulla Shoah in Italia. 6th AIUCD Annual Conference. Rome, Italy, January 27, 2017.

• The Future of Academic Books – Open or Closed? University of Derby. Derby, England, January 27, 2017.

• What is open access? What trends are there in academic publishing?. ETH Hönggerberg. Hönggerberg, Switzerland, January 30, 2017.

• SSP Focus Group; Open Data, Science, and Digital Scholarship. Washington, D.C., January 31, 2017.

• EVENT 1 – SHARING PRACTICE. University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Scotland, January 31, 2017.

February

• Archive-a-thon. Harvard University, February 1, 2017.

• Freedom in Feb. Everywhere. February 1 - 28, 2017.

• OSF 101 - Get started with the OSF + manage your research workflow! Online, February 1, 2017.

• Wikidata, gli open data di Wikipedia. Florence, Italy, February 1 - 3, 2017.

• 九州大学オープンアクセス方針説明会を開催しました. Kyushu University. Fukuoka, Japan, February 1 - 3, 2017.

• Open Access publication policies and what these mean for you. University of Reading. Reading, England, February 2, 2017.

• Research Bazaar miniseminar: Digital tools for managing and sharing research data. University of Oslo. Oslo, Norway, February 2, 2017.

• Open Access Piracy: Sci-Hub and #icanhazpdf as Resource Sharing. Online. February 2, 2017.

• Open your minds to open science: le molteplici forme dell’accesso aperto. Bari, Puglia, February 3, 2017.

• Clinical Data Sharing for a 12M Population. Cambridge, England, February 3, 2017.

• Pimmaa Datathon. Kampala, Uganda, February 4, 2017.

• Data Rescue NYC. New York, New York, Februrary 5, 2017.

• Curso Open Data Ambiental. Barcelona, Spain, February 7, 2017.

• Meet An Open Access Hero: American Chemical Society. Danvers, Massachusetts, February 7, 2017.

• OpenCon San Francisco. San Francisco, California, February 7, 2017.

• Community Call: Africa Open Data. Online, February 7, 2017.

• Citizen Science and Open Data: a model for Invasive Alien Species in Europe. Brussels, Belgium, February 8, 2017.

• Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology. Online, February 8, 2017.

• What's Brewing? A Green OA Policy!. California State University, Fullerton. February 8, 2017.

• Providing Access: Ensuring What Libraries Have Licensed Is What Users Can Reach. Online, February 8, 2017.

• Open Textbook Workshop. Boston University. Boston, Massachusetts, February 9, 2017.

• Introduction tot he Open Science Framework (OSF). Brown University, February 9, 2017.

• How to Share Your Scholarship and Reach a Global Audience Using ScholarlyCommons. University of Pennsylvania, February 9, 2017.

• STAR Symposium. Online. February 10, 2017.

• OER 3rd Annual Seminar. New York City College of Technology. February 10, 2017.

• Open Food Hackdays. Simultaneous events in Lausanne and Zurich, Switzerland, February 10 - 11, 2017.

• Impact and Measurement of Open Access. Oslo, Norway, February 14, 2017.

• Free Webinar : Open Data and Open Science : current trends and global initiatives. Online. February 14, 2017.

• Post-Publication Sharing: Publishing your Research Effectively (for STEM PhD Students). University of Cambridge, February 14, 2017.

• Go Open, Go Free Using OER. Leeward Community College, February 14, 2017.

• February 2017 Librarian Community Call. Online. February 14, 2017.

• Everything you need to know about open research (for STEM disciplines). University of Cambridge, February 14, 2017.

• Everything you need to know about Open Research (for STEM graduate students and researchers). University of Cambridge. Cambridge, England, February 14, 2017.

• NISO Virtual Conference — Institutional Repositories: Ensuring Your IR is Populated, Useful and Thriving. Online. February 15, 2017.

• OPENING YOUR RESEARCH USING GITHUB & THE OPEN SCIENCE FRAMEWORK. New York University. Brooklyn, New York, February 15, 2017.

• Segona edició de Drinks & Data. Barcelona, Spain, February 15, 2017.

• RCR Lunch & Learn: Open Access Publishing and Predatory Journals. University of Tennessee. Knoxville, Tennessee, February 15, 2017.

• Faculty Publishing & CORE Scholar (Friends of the Library Series). Wright State University, February 16, 2017.

• What is "Open Science" Supposed to Fix?: A Philip Mirowski Talk. Concordia University. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, February 16, 2017.

• Open Access for Cultural Organizations. Paris, France, February 16 - 17 , 2017.

• Introduction to Text Mining with the HTRC Portal. University of Illinois and online. February 17, 2017.

• OpenCon 2017 Phagwara. Lovely Professional University, February 18, 2017.

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Open Access to Scientific Research. Boston, Massachusetts, February 19, 2017.

• Open Access Briefing. University of Swansea. Swansea, Wales, February 20, 2017.

• Researcher to Reader Conference. London, February 20 - 21, 2017.

• 12th International Digital Curation Conference. Edinburgh, Scotland, February 20-23, 2017.

• Fair Use Week 2017. Harvard University, February 20 - 24, 2017.

• Developing Inquiry with DPLA Primary Source Sets. Online, February 21, 2017.

• Pre-Publication Considerations: Publishing your Research Effectively (for STEM PhD Students). University of Cambridge. Cambridge, England, February 21, 2017.

• Open Science: Beyond Open Access. Online. February 21, 2017.

• February OpenCon Community Call. Online or by phone. February 22, 2017.

• How to Build a Successful Open Access Books Programme. London, England, February 22, 2017.

• Town Hall Meeting: Managing Journal Subscriptions at Cambridge. University of Cambridge. Cambridge, England, February 22, 2017.

• OASPA Twitter Chat on Open Access Publishing in the Global South. Online. February 22, 2017.

• COPYRIGHT CONSIDERATIONS FOR OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES. University of Central Florida. Orlando, Florida, February 23, 2017.

• Dominic Tate: Iso-Britannian tutkimuksen laadunarvioinnin vaikutukset open access -julkaisemiseen. University of Jyväskylä. Jyväskylä, Finland, February 25, 2017.

• International Conference on Knowledge Resource and Library Technologies. Bharathidasan University, February 24 - 25, 2017.

• OpenCon 2017 Kumasi. Kumasi, Ghana, February 25, 2017.

• Open Data Camp. Cardiff, Wales, February 25 - 26, 2017.

• NFAIS 2017 Annual Conference. Alexandria, Virginia, February 26 - 28, 2017.

• Introducing DSpace 7. Online. February 28, 2017.

March

• 5 Steps to Open Access Compliance for the next REF. University of Northampton. Northampton, England, March 1, 2017.

• Open Access Repository and Publication. University of British Columbia, March 2, 2017.

• 2017 EUROGEO Annual Meeting and Conference. Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 2 - 3, 2017.

• OA-UBL2017 : L'accès libre, remède ou poison ?. Nantes, France, March 3, 2017.

• Increasing the Openness and Reproducibility of Your Research. Yale University, March 3, 2017.

• Open Data Hrvatska 2017. Zagreb, Croatia, March 3 - 5, 2017.

• Open Data Day! San Francisco, California, March 4, 2017.

• Florence Open Data Day 2017. Florence, Italy, March 4, 2017.

• Open Data Day 2017 im Ruhrgebiet. Essen, Germany, March 4, 2017.

• Data Rescue Houston. Rice University, March 4, 2017.

• Open Data Day. Germany, multiple locations. March 4, 2017.

• Open Research Data do-a-thon in London & Virtual. London, UK and Online, March 4, 2017.

• International Open Data Day 2017. Naples, Italy, March 4, 2017.

• Open Data Day Torino 2017. Torino, Italy, March 4, 2017.

• International Open Data Day 2017. Pokhara, Nepal, March 4, 2017.

• Open Data Day Tucson 2017. University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona, March 5, 2017.

• Data Rescue New Haven @ Yale. Yale University. New Haven, Connecticut, March 4, 2017.

• Open Data Day. Global, March 4, 2017.

• International Open Data Day. Moscow, Russia, March 4-5, 2017.

• Open Belgium 2017. Brussels, Belgium, March 6, 2017.

• Let’s #GoOpen! The Potential Power of OER. SXSWedu. Austin, Texas, March 6, 2017.

• Managing Research Information. Online. March 6 - April 23, 2017.

• DSpace for Data: issues, solutions and challenges. Online. March 7, 2017.

• Bloggers and their role in the dissemination of scholarly information. Online, March 7, 2017.

• Open Textbook Reviewing Workshop. Washington State University, March 6, 2017.

• Open Educational Resources (OER) Workshop. San Francisco State University, March 8, 2017.

• Come organizzarsi per gli open data. Online, March 8, 2017.

• Open Education Global Conference 2017. Cape Town, South Africa, March 8 - 10, 2017.

• RLUK Conference 2017. London, England, March 8 - 10, 2017.

• 2017 Scholarly Communication Symposium. University of Toronto. Toronto, ON, Canada, March 9, 2017.

• OER 17 preview - The Politics of Open. Online. March 9, 2017.

• Open Access, Open Research Data et DMP : la nouvelle donne des données de la recherche. Nantes, France, March 9, 2017.

• IPR, Technology Transfer & Open Science: Challenges and opportunities. Brussels, Belgium, March 9, 2017.

• Developing Open Access and Hybrid Journals. London, England, March 9, 2017.

• IPR, Technology Transfer & Open Science - Challenges and opportunities. Brussels, Belgium, March 9, 2017.

• Open Lecture: The State of Open Data Report. Stockholm University, March 9, 2017.

• The Charlotte Initiative Open Conference. Charlotte, North Carolina, March 9 - 10, 2017.

• Open Access Briefing. University of Swansea. Swansea, Wales, March 13, 2017.

• 15th International Symposium of Information Science (ISI). Berlin, Germany, March 13 - 15, 2017.

• Open Research #1. Paris, France, March 14, 2017.

• USDA Open Data STEAM Summer Camp open house. Washington, D.C., March 14, 2017.

• Making Open Access Work for Scholarly Monographs. The London Book Fair. London, UK, March 14, 2017.

• The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Publishing: What It Means for Authors. Oregon State University. Corvallis, Oregon, March 14, 2017.

• How to contribute to DSpace–be a part of the team!. Online. March 14, 2017.

• OpenCon March 2017 Librarian Community Call. Online, March 14, 2017.

• INNOVATION AFRICA DIGITAL SUMMIT 2017. Abuja, Nigeria, March 14 - 16, 2017.

• FOLIO Roadmap Update. Online. March 15, 2017.

• IIIF Showcase: improving access to image collections. Edinburgh, Scotland, March 17, 2017.

• Barcamp Open Science. Berlin, Germany, March 20, 2017.

• MOOCs at the UA and ASU: What’s New in the World of Massive Open Online Courses. University of Arizona, March 20, 2017.

• AFFORDABLE LEARNING: GETTING STARTED WITH OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES. Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio, March 20, 2017.

• 13th Berlin Open Access Conference. Berlin, Germany, March 21 - 22, 2017.

• Open Science Conference 2017. Berlin, Germany, March 21 - 22, 2017.

• 5th LEARN Research Data Workshop. Berlin, Germany, March 21 - 22, 2017.

• B13 Conference. Berlin, Germany, March 21 - 22, 2017.

• Premier Hackathon pour La Rochelle. La Rochelle, France, March 21 - 23, 2017.

• Invenio User Group Workshop 2017. Garching, Germany, March 21 - 24, 2017.

• Open Scholarship Early and Often: A Community Conversation on Increasing Openness. ACRL 2017 Conference. Baltimore, Maryland, March 22, 2017.

• Assembly Series “Improving Openness and Reproducibility in Scholarly Communication”. Washington University. St. Louis, Missouri, March 22, 2017.

• Can Open Science Win Your Grant Proposals? Online, March 22, 2017.

• Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH) 2017. Santiago, Chile, March 22 - 25, 2017.

• Open Access et archéologie. University of Paris. Paris, France, March 23, 2017.

• L'OPEN DATA EN PRATIQUE. Paris, France, March 23, 2017.

• Open Data in a Day. Canberra, Australia, March 24, 2017.

• An “Open” Conversation: Why Free Educational Resources Matter Now More than Ever. University of Arizona, March 24, 3017.

• Open Education Ontario. OCAD University, March 27, 2017.

• Open Textbook Workshop. NC State University. Raleigh, NC, March 27, 2017.

• Open Education: The Moral, Business & Policy Case for OER. University of Zagreb, March 27, 2017.

• Open Access policy workshop: From author’s rights to UWSpace. University of Waterloo, March 21, 2017.

• Open Education Week 2017. March 27 - 31, 2017.

• The ABC’s of Open Textbooks: What It’s Like to Adopt, Build, or Create a Free Resource. University of Arizona, March 28, 2017.

• March OpenCon Community Call. Online, March 29, 2017.

• UA Open Access Policy One Year In. University of Arizona, March 29, 2017.

• Open Education: Outcomes, Equity and Faculty Empowerment. Washington State University Vancouver, March 29, 2017.

• Open in Practice: Inspirations, Strategies and Methods for Open Research. University of Reading. Reading, England, March 30, 2017.

• Open data : qui veut des données brutes ?. Paris, France, March 31, 2017.

April

• ER&L 2017: W02 - Transforming the Commons: The Making of Open Scholarship. Austin, Texas, April 2, 2017.

• Research Excellence & Publishing - Open Access, Data, Copyright Impact. King's College London. London, England, April 3, 2017.

• ILIDE International Conference. Jasná, Slovakia, April 3 - 5, 2017.

• SAVE-SD 2017. Perth, Australia, April 3 or 4, 2017.

• Open science, transparence et évaluation. Perspectives et enjeux pour les chercheurs. Bordeaux, France, April 4, 2017.

• Legal issues in Open Research Data. Barcelona, Spain, April 4, 2017.

• OER17: The Politics of Open. London, England, April 5 - 6, 2017.

• 9th RDA Plenary Meeting. Barcelona, Spain, April 5 - 7, 2017.

• A Transition to Fair Open Access. Leiden, Netherlands, April 7, 2017.

• SIS Conference on Open Access: The Road to Freedom. Kolkata, India, April 7 - 8, 2017.

• Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference (SMIRC). University of Southern Mississippi, April 12 - 13, 2017.

• Challenges and Practices of Copyright and Licensing of Digital Cultural Heritage. University of Graz. Graz, Austria, April 12 - 13, 2017.

• On the road towards a sustainable open access publishing market. The Hague, Netherlands, April 20, 2017.

• DPLAfest 2017. Chicago, Illinois, April 20 - 21, 2017.

• Problematiche e pratiche delle biblioteche per ragazzi. Bari, Puglia, April 21, 2017.

• April OpenCon Community Call. Online, April 26, 2017.

• CFP Mötesplats Open Access 2017. Karlstad University. Karlstad, Sweden, April 26 - 27, 2017.

• 2017 CC Global Summit: Sharing and the Commons – What’s Next?. Toronto, ON, Canada, April 28 - 30, 2017.

May

• 2017 University of San Diego Digital Initiatives Symposium. San Diego, California, May 1 - 2, 2017.

• ODSC East Data Science Conference & AI Expo Boston, Massachusetts, May 3 - 5, 2017.

• PAGES Young Scientists Meeting (YSM). Morillo de Tou, Spain, May 7-9, 2017.

• Open Access Erasmus Staff Week 2017. University of Liege. Liege, Belgium, May 8 - 12, 2017.

• PAGES Open Science Meeting (OSM). Zaragoza, Spain, May 9-13, 2017.

• Biltstein Symposium 2017: Open Science and the Chemistry Lab of the Future. Rüdesheim, Germany, May 22 - 24.

• 9th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries. Limerick, Ireland, May 23 - 26, 2017.

• UKeiG Training: Open Access, Open Data, Open Science: Anatomy of a disruptive technology. London, England, May 24, 2017.

• Open Textbook Summit 2017. Vancouver, Canada, May 25 - 26, 2017.

• Society for Scholarly Publishing 39th Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts, May 31 - June 2, 2017.

June

• Open Access: Publisering og arkivering av forskning. University of Bergen. Bergen, Norway, June 1, 2017.

• Texas Conference on Institutional Repositories (TCIR). Southern Methodist University, June 2, 2017.

• 21st International Conference on Electronic Publishing. Limassol, Cyprus, June 6 - 8, 2017.

• Great Lakes Resource Sharing Conference 2017. Oakbrook, Illinois, June 8 - 9, 2016.

• Knowledge Exchange Week 2017. University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Scotland, June 12 - 16, 2017.

• OAI 10 - The CERN - UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication. University of Geneva, June 21 - 22, 2017.

• Opendata.ch/2017. Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Lucerne, Switzerland, June 26 - 27, 2017.

• Open Repositories 2017 Conference. Brisbane, Australia, June 26 - 30, 2017.

• Research Data Network. York, UK, June 27 - 28, 2017.

• LODLAM 2017. Venice Italy, June 28 - 29, 2017.

July

• 46th LIBER Annual Conference. University of Patras, July 5 - 7, 2016.

• Open Science for Synthesis: Gulf Research Program. Santa Barbara, California, July 10 - 28, 2017.

• FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute (FSCI). University of California, San Diego. July 30 - August 4, 2017.

August

• AEL 2017 : The 4th International Workshop on Advanced E-Learning. Pattaya, Thailand, August 1 - 4, 2017.

• PKP 2017 International Scholarly Publishing Conference. Montreal, Canada, August 2 - 4, 2017.

• ETD2017 Symposium. Washington, D.C., August 7 - 9, 2017.

September

• 2nd World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress. Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 17 - 20, 2017.
• OER Supporting Environment: Open Access, Open Data and Open Government Policies. Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 18 - 19, 2017.

October

• Nineteenth International Conference on Grey Literature. Rome, Italy, October 23-24, 2017.

• Force2017: Research Comm & e-Scholarship Conference. Berlin, Germany, October 25 - 27, 2017.

• 43rd Annual Conference of the Academic Library Association of Ohio. Columbus, Ohio, October 27, 2017.