2018

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• For real-time updates, some not yet reflected here, follow the oa.event tag of the Open Access Tracking Project.

January

• Making the Most of Humanities Commons. January 2, 2018.

• Citizen Science and Open Science - Synergies and Instruments. Brussels, Belgium, January 3, 2018.

• Varieties of Digital Humanities, MLA 2018. New York, New York, January 5, 2018.

• Faculty Open Access Policy Drop In. Indiana University, January 9, 2018.

• Open Access Publishing/Creative Commons/eScholarship Workshop. University of California, Merced, January 10, 2018.

• OER Mini-Grant Program Webinar. Online, January 10 - 12, 2018.

• Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table. Triangle Arts Association, New York City, January 11, 2018.

• Open Access in Practice. University of Malta, January 12, 2018.

• TU Delft Open Science Symposium. Delft, Netherlands, January 12, 2018.

• Delhi Hindi Wiki Conference 2018. India, January 12-14, 2018.

• Wikipedia Day 2018 NYC. New York, New York, January 14, 2018.

• Talk by Dr. Ruben Aslan. Kobenhavns Universitet, January 15, 2018.

• Վիքիպեդիան դառնում է 17 տարեկան (English Translation: Wikipedia is 17 years old). Yerevan, Armenia, January 15, 2018.

• Open Knowledge Edinburgh Meet-up. Edinburgh, Scotland, January 15, 2018.

• Open Education for a better world. Online course. January 15 to July 7, 2018.

• OER-Tage 2018. Dresden, Germany, January 15 - 18, 2018.

• UCL Press- Open Access Megajournal platform launch. London, UK, January 16, 2018.

• Academic Publishing in Europe (APE 2018). Berlin, Germany, January 16 - 17, 2018.

• ScholComm 2018. University of Maine, USA, January 17, 2018. 

• DataFest, Harvard University, USA, January 17-18, 2018. 

• Open science meet-up by Pluto. Seoul, South Korea, January 17, 2018.

• OpenAIRE-Advance Kick Off. Athens, Greece, January 17-19, 2018.

• Research Data Management for All?. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow, UK, January 18, 2018.

• Building your own course with Open Educational Resources. Online, January 18, 2018.

• Open Textbook Workshop. Virginia Commonwealth University. Richmond, Virginia, January 19, 2018.

• عيد ميلاد ويكيبيديا (English Translation: Birthday Wikipedia). Cairo, Egypt, January 19, 2018.

• Leading Ladies: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Auckland, New Zealand, January 21, 2018.

• Open Access-Regelung des SNF (info session). ETH Hönggerberg, Switzerland, January 22, 2018.

• Cataloguing Open Access Classics Serials. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, January 22, 2018.

• Funding opportunities for final year PhD candidates, postdocs, and senior scientists. Zurich, Switzerland, January 22, 2018.

• 7es Journées Science Ouverte Couperin. Paris, France, January 22 - 24, 2018.

• Journées sur l’éducation ouverte et le numérique. Université Cadi Ayyad, Marrakesh, Morocco, January 22-24, 2018.

• Putting the European Open Science Cloud vision into practice. Porto, Portugal, January 22 - 25, 2018.

• PIDapalooza. Girona, Spain, January 23-24, 2018.

• Open Education that Opens a Door to the Library. University of North Carolina, January 25, 2018.

• Reproducibility Workshop: Best practices and easy steps to save time for yourself and other researchers. California Institute of Technology, January 25, 2018.

• HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) UnCamp 2018. University of California, January 25 - 26, 2018.

• Open access scholarship at the CRBLM: increasing and demonstrating impact. McGill University, January 26, 2018.

• Open Source Body. Paris, France, January 26 - 27, 2018.

• Open Food Data Hackdays. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, January 27 - 28, 2018.

• Wikidata Edit-a-thon. Buea, Cameroon, January 27 - February 17, 2018.

• ICOERP 2018: 20th International Conference on Open Educational Resources and Practices. Sydney, Australia, January 29 - 30, 2018.

• RDA EU Data Innovation Forum. Brussels, Belgium, January 30, 2018.

• Open Science: A New Genealogy. Toronto, Canada, January 31, 2018.

• Copyright and Fair Use. Northeastern University, Boston, Wednesday, January 31, 2018.

• Webinar zu Open Access. Online, January 31, 2018.

• Open Science for Health: Shaping the New Framework Programme. Brussels, Belgium, January 31, 2018.

• Offline Internet Summit. Arizona State University, Tempe, January 31-February 1, 2018.

February

• Ethical aspects of Open Access: A Windy Road. Brussels, Belgium, February 1, 2018.

• Open Science Demo Call. Online, February 1, 2018.

• Using the Institutional Repository to Preserve, Share and Promote Your Scholarly and Creative Work. University of Alabama, February 1, 2018.

• Introduction to Open Research (for PhD students in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences). University of Cambridge, UK, February 1, 2018.

• Trends in Scholarship & Research. Texas State University, February 1, 2018.

• Austrian Citizen Science Conference. Salzburg, Austria, February 1 - 3, 2018.

• Practical OER: State University of New York Librarians Association Midwinter Virtual Conference. New York, February 2, 2018.

• Past, Present, and Future of the Digital Public Library of America. Harvard University, February 2, 2018.

• OpenCon New Delhi. Acharya Narendra Dev College, February 3, 2018.

• OER Super Meetup. Cologne, Germany, February 5, 2018.

• Showcasing your Graduate Research in UBC's Open Access Digital Repository: Help with Copyright and More. University of British Columbia, February 6, 2018.

• Copyright & Open Access in Scholarly Communication. Georgia Tech, February 7, 2018.

• OER Summit. Miramar Beach, Florida, February 7 - 8, 2018.

• Professional & Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Conference. Association of American Publishers, Washington DC, February 7-9, 2018.

• The turning tide: A new culture of responsible metrics for research. London, UK, February 8, 2018.

• LibOER Meetup at American Library Association Midwinter. USA, February 9, 2018.

• HackaLOD. Amsterdam, Netherlands, February 9-10, 2018.

• Open Educational Resources Regional Meeting. American River College, California, February 10, 2018.

• Our Own Worst Enemy: Toward a More Inclusive Scholarly Communications Movement. Denver, Colorado, February 10, 2018.

• ACRL/SPARC Forum, American Library Association Midwinter conference. Colorado, February 10, 2018.

• Mark Hahnel & Daniel Hook on startups in the Open Science space. Bucharest, Romania, February 12, 2018.

• FOSTER Book Sprint. Hannover, Germany, February 12 - 16, 2018.

• Workshop: The adoption accelerator for reuse of open educational material. Office SURF, Utrecht. February 13, 2018.

• Building and integrating open educational resources to support your teaching and learning. Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, February 13, 2018.

• Open Space: The Global Effort for Open Access to Environmental Satellite Data. Washington, D.C., February 13, 2018.

• Open Access Anniversary Event. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. February 13, 2018.

• Sharing Policies: IR's, Author's Manuscript vs PrePrint vs Version of Record. Society for Scholarly Publishing, online, February 13, 2018.

• OpenCon Librarian Community Call. Online, February 13, 2018.

• University Press Redux Conference 2018. London, UK, February 13 - 14, 2018.

• Open Education Initiative Information Sessions. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, February 13-14, 2018.

• Code4Lib conference. Washington DC, February 13-16, 2018.

• EMBL-EBI workshop: European Variation Archive. University of Cambridge, February 15, 2018.

• Reproducible Research, Open Science & Digital Scholarship: Learn to Write Scientific Paper of the Future. University of Southern California, February 15, 2018.

• Digital Scholarship Colloquium. Florida State University, Tallahassee, February 15, 2018.

• Making fair use of copyrighted work with the Authors Alliance. University of California, Davis, February 15, 2018.

• Exploring Perspectives on Open Science and Impacts on Scientific Discovery. Austin, Texas, February 16, 2018.

• Open Food Hackdays. Markthalle, Basel, Switzerland, February 16-17, 2018.

• LOVE OER Month. Southeast Missouri State University, USA, February 16-28, 2018.

• Dall'open Access All'open Science. Università di Salerno, Italy, February 19, 2018.

• OA briefing. Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, February 20, 2018.

• Next steps for delivering open access. Westminster Higher Education Forum, London, February 20, 2018.

• Open Access and Research into History: Issues of Copyright. Boston University, USA, February 20, 2018.

• Publish Digital Books and Open Educational Resources with Pressbooks. University of California, February 20, 2018.

• A Peek Inside Open Source Communities: An Open Panel Discussion. Online, February 21, 2018.

• Barriers to Open Textbook Adoption: Common Questions and Concerns Explained. Online, February 21, 2018.

• Wikipedia/Women in Medicine editathon. University of Edinburgh, UK, February 22 2018.

• Community call: Open-source technology development for publishing. Online, February 22, 2018.

• Open Access Publishing. University of London, February 22, 2018.

• Open Science Demo Call. Online, February 22, 2018.

• Introducing NC Open Pass: Community Impact, Open Data & Cash Prizes. North Carolina State University, February 22, 2018.

• Microsoft Power BI. Online, February 22, 2018.

• Opportunities for Open Educational Resources (OERs) to Support Instruction, State University of New York. Online, February 22, 2018.

• World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit. London, February 23-25, 2018.

• 2nd Open Science Meet-up. Pohang, South Korea, February 24, 2018.

• Making cultural heritage digitally accessible. Paris. February 25 to March 3rd, 2018.

• Researcher to Reader Conference. London, UK, February 26 - 27, 2018.

• IPR, Data management and Open-Access plans for your EU-funded project. Madrid, Spain, February 27, 2018.

• Making the Case for Textbook Affordability: Using Open Educational Resource Textbooks. Abilene Christian University, USA, February 27, 2018.

• What Can Be Done to Protect Endangered Government Data? Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Washington, DC, February 27, 2018.

• Open access workshop. Nairobi, Kenya, February 28, 2018.

• Opne-data-treff. Oslo, Norway, February 28, 2018.

• Library as Publisher – New Models of Scholarly Communication for a New Era. Charleston Library Conference, Online, February 28, 2018.

March

• Transforming a Backward Business Model in a Fast Forward World. National Federation of Advanced Information Services conference, Alexandria, Virginia, March 1, 2018.

• Two Librarians Tackle Copyright and Fair Use: PANE, TEACH, IP, CC, OER Hike!. Abilene Christian University, USA, March 1, 2018.

• FNR Open Access Info Session. Maison du Savoir, Luxembourg, March 1, 2018.

• Open Data Day 2018. Helsinki, March 1-3, 2018.

• Open Data Day. IT-Universitetet, Copenhagen, March 2, 2018.

• OpenStreetMap Training. Institute of Rural Development Planning, Mwanza, Tanzania, March 2, 2018.

• Open Data Day Maceió. Estácio de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil, March 2-3, 2018.

• Open Data Day. March 3, 2018.

• Open Data Day Bonn 2018. Bonn, Germany, March 3, 2018.

• Open Data Day 2018. Cologne, Germany, March 3, 2018.

• Open Data Day 2018. Heilbronn, Germany, March 3, 2018.

• Open Data Day 2018. Dusseldorf, Germany, March 3, 2018.

• Open Data Day 2018. Jena, Germany, March 3, 2018.

• Open Data Day 2018. Karlsruhe, Germany, March 3, 2018.

• Open Data Day Hackathon 2018. Munich, Germany, March 3, 2018.

• Open Data Day Berlin 2018. Berlin, Germany, March 3, 2018.

• Open Data Day 2018. Stuttgart, Germany, March 3, 2018.

• Open Data Day 2018 - Donne & Dati. Bologna, Italy, March 3, 2018.

• Open Data Day. Honolulu, Hawaii, March 3, 2018.

• Mesa Redonda: Open Data. Barcelona, Spain, March 3, 2018.

• Tag der Offenen Daten. Münster, Germany, March 3, 2018.

• Day of Open Data in Chelyabinsk. Chelyabinsk, Russia, March 3, 2018.

• Open Data Day. Brasilia and Salvador, Brazil, March 3, 2018.

• День открытых данных (Open Data Day). центр «Благосфера» (Center Blagosfera), Moscow, Russia, March 3-4, 2018.

• From Stumbling Blocks to Building Blocks: Scholarly Communication Essentials. Austin, Texas, March 4, 2018.

• ICA Deep Dives: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Boston, MA, March 4, 2018.

• Entities Extraction for Open Access Monographs (INRIA's NERD tool). Online, March 5, 2018.

• Voices of OER. Ontario Council of University Libraries, online, March 5, 2018.

• OpenCon Cleveland. USA, March 5, 2018.

• Achieving Equity with Open Educational Resources, SXSW Edu. Austin, Texas, March 5, 2018.

• Open Education Week. Open Education Consortium, online, March 5-9, 2018.

• Open Education Week. University of Calgary, Canada, March 5-9, 2018.

• Open Education Week. McMaster University, Canada, March 5-9, 2018.

• Open Education Week. Illinois State University, March 5-9, 2018.

• OER Week. Xavier University of Louisiana, March 5-9, 2018.

• Open Access and "Predatory Publishing": Where Are We Now? Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, March 6, 2018.

• Open Your Textbook: Adopting, Adapting or Creating Your Own Open Textbook. Ryerson University, March 6, 2018.

• Open Textbook Adoption: Student, Faculty and Librarian Perspectives. DePaul University, Chicago, March 6, 2018.

• NARMAs varkonferanse 2018 - Open Science. Lillestrom, Norway, March 6 - 7, 2018.

• National Conference on Open Data and Data Repositories. Cochin University of Science and Technology, India, March 6-8, 2018.

• Open Access 2020 Transformation Workshop, Max Planck Digital Library, Munich, Germany, March 6-8, 2018.

• Open Education for Teaching and Learning. Simon Fraser University, Canada, March 7, 2018.

• SPARC Webcast: Collaborating Across Institutions to Advance Open Education. Ryerson University, March 7, 2018.

• Let Your Work Be Seen: How You Can Advance Your Career with Open Access. University of Vermont, March 7, 2018.

• Open Education Panel and Workshop. University of San Francisco, March 7, 2018.

• Open Educational Resources. Western Illinois University, March 7, 2018.

• DHN 2018. University of Helsinki, Finland, March 7 - 9, 2018.

• Driving Student Success through Affordable Course Material Symposium. Indiana University Bloomington, USA, March 8, 2018.

• Open Education Week. University of Hawaiʻi , March 8, 2018.

• Colloquium on Scholarly Communication- Open Education. American University, Washington, D.C., March 8, 2018.

• Open Education Symposium. Florida State University, March 8, 2018.

• Open Education Week Textbook Table. Ryerson University, March 8, 2018.

• How Did They Do That?: Use of Alternative Textbooks for Teaching and Learning. University of Kentucky, USA, March 8, 2018.

• Finding and Sharing Open Educational Resources. Wageningen University, March 8, 2018.

• Open Science: what’s in it for me? Circolo dei Lettori, Torino, Italy, March 8-9, 2018.

• Quality and Affordability in Education conference. Gordon State College, Barnesville, Georgia, USA, March 8-9, 2018.

• #HEdigID Twitter chat. Online, March 9, 2018.

• Smart Cities Challenge: HealthHack competition. Edmonton, Canada, March 9 and April 16, 2018

• Open Textbook Library Review Workshop. University of Missouri, USA, March 9, 2018.

• OEW-a-palooza. Ryerson University, March 9, 2018.

• Introduction to Open Access and Research Data Management. University of Liverpool, March 12, 2018.

• Open Belgium conference. Louvain-la-Neuve, March 12, 2018.

• Barcamp Open Science. Berlin, Germany, March 12, 2018.

• OpenCon March 2018 Librarian Community Call. Online, March 13, 2018.

• Open Science Conference 2018. Berlin, Germany, March 13 - 14, 2018.

• VIVO and the Role of Librarians. Online, March 14, 2018.

• Internet research workshop. Australian National University, Canberra, March 14, 2018.

• OpenAIRE workshop. IET Birmingham, UK, March 15, 2018.

• Open Data, ouverture des donnes publiques. Poitiers, France, March 16, 2018.

• Boston Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Boston, MA, March 16, 2018.

• WikiIndaba Conference. Tunis, Tunisia, March 16 - 18, 2018.

• International Symposium on Grids and Clouds. Taipei, Taiwan, March 16 - 23, 2018.

• Dundee Public Data Hack. University of Albertay, March 17 - March 18, 2018.

• Grand Challenges in Information Science and Scholarly Communication. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 19 - 23, 2018.

• Open Research Knowledge Graph workshop. TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hanover, Germany, March 20, 2018.

• Open Data & m-Government Masterclass. Dubai, UAE, March 21, 2018.

• Open day on open science. DANS, Den Haag, Netherlands, March 21, 2018.

• RDAP Summit 2018. Chicago, Illinois, March 21 - 23, 2018.

• iConference 2018. Sheffield, England, March 25 - 28, 2018.

• Open Research: Rethinking Scientific Collaboration. Waterloo, Canada, March 26, 2018.

• Open Educational Resources 101. Duke University, North Carolina, March 26, 2018.

• Open Educational Resources Grant Panel Discussion. Duke University, North Carolina, March 28, 2018.

• Open Access Publishing and Embargoes. University of Texas, Austin, March 29, 2018.

• OER FAQ: Repurposing Library DIY. Portland State University, Oregon, USA, March 30, 2018.

• 2018 Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 30, 2018.

April

• Advancing Open Science in the EU and the US. Wilson Center, Washington DC, April 5, 2018.

• Open data science tools and the Ocean Health Index. Moss Landing Marine Labs, California State Universities, USA, April 5, 2018.

• OpenStax Creator Fest. Houston, Texas, April 5-6, 2018.

• #OAHack: MIT Open Access Hackathon. Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 6 - 8, 2018.

• Open Access Monitoring. University of Vienna, Austria, April 9, 2018.

• iMooX Online-Kurs zu Open Educational Resources. Austria, begins April 9, 2018.

• UK Serials Group conference (includes OA-related sessions). Glasgow, UK, April 9-11, 2018.

• Creative Commons Global Summit. Toronto, Canada, April 13 - 15, 2018.

• Africa Open Science Hardware Summit. Kumasi, Ghana, April 13 - 15, 2018.

• Open Science Trainer Bootcamp. Barcelona, Spain, April 18 - 20, 2018.

• REF Open Access Compliance Meeting. Manchester, UK, April 19, 2018.

• 20th International Conference on Open Access and Repositories. New York, April 19-20, 2018.

• Digital Initiatives Symposium. University of San Diego, USA, April 23 - 24, 2018.

• Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Dissemination (SAVE-SD 2018). Lyon, France, April 24, 2018.

• Open Research Data to Support Sustainable Health Initiatives. Brussels, Belgium, April 24, 2018.

• OE Global Conference 2018. Delft, Netherlands, April 24 - 26, 2018.

• OER and Technology: Enhancing Student Learning and Engagement. Academic Resource Conference session, Burlingame, California, April 26, 2018.

• Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference. University of Southern Mississippi, April 26 - 27, 2018.

May

• British Psychological Society Annual Conference 2018 - Moving Psychology Forward. University of Nottingham, May 2 - 4, 2018.

• Power of Open: Designing for Affordable Learning. Cleveland State University, USA, May 3, 2018.

• Open Knowledge Summit. Thessaloniki, Greece, May 3 - 6, 2018.

• eLife Innovation Sprint. Cambridge, UK, May 10-11, 2018.

• Owned by the Academy: A Preconference on Open Source Publishing Software. University of Minnesota, May 21, 2018.

• rOpenSci unconference. Seattle, USA, May 21-22, 2018.

• LPForum 2018. Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 21 - 23, 2018.

• 4th IAALD Africa Conference. Pretoria, South Africa, May 30 - June 1, 2018.

• Open Scholarly Communication in Europe. Addressing the Coordination Problem. Athens, Greece, May 31 - June 1, 2018.

June

• Licenser & Open Access. Stockholm, Sweden, June 1, 2018.

• Conference : Open Access in Caribbean Libraries, Archives and Museums: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Directions. Dominican Republic. June 3-7, 2018.

• European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) Conference. Geneva, Switzerland, June 3 - 5, 2018.

• Open Repositories 2018. Montana State University, June 4 - 7, 2018.

• Global Water Futures annual general meeting. McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, June 4-6, 2018.

• Transforming the Information Community, NASIG Annual Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, June 8 - 11, 2018.

• Throw Open Our Doors: Academic Librarians Open to New Experiences, Opinions, and Viewpoints. Finger Lakes Community College, June 13 - 15, 2018.

• Building Research Integrity Through Reproducibility. S. J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, USA, June 15, 2018.

• ELPUB 2018. Toronto. June 22 to 24, 2018.

• American Library Association 2018 Annual Conference, Implementing Linked Open Data in the Real World session. New Orleans, USA, June 23, 2018.

• Moving Towards Full Open Access in Higher Education. London, June 26, 2018.

July

• Lille 2018–47th LIBER Annual Conference (Research Libraries as an Open Science Hub: from Strategy to Action). University of Lille, France. July 4-6, 2018.

• European Open Science Forum. Toulouse, France, July 9 - 14, 2018.

• ESOCITE 2018. Santiago, Chile, July 18 - 20, 2018.

August

• 14th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym 2018). Paris, France, August 22 - 24, 2018.

• IFLA session Empowering Scholarly Communication Transforms Societies. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 24-30, 2018.

September

• Digital Research in the Humanities & Arts (DRHA). Valletta, Malta, September 9 - 12, 2018.

• FORCE2018. Montreal, Canada, October 11 - 12, 2018.

• OER18. Manchester, UK, September 11 - 13, 2018.

• Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP). University of Vienna, September 17 - 19, 2018.

• 5th International Open Data Conference. Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 20 - 21, 2018.

• Conference on Scholarly Publishing in the Context of Open Science (PUBMET 2018). Zadar, Croatia, September 20 - 21, 2018.

• 12. Open-Access-Tage. Graz, Austria, September 24 - 26, 2018

• Scholarly Communication, Open-access Publishing and Ethics. SPA Vijayawada, India, October 25-26, 2018.

• SciELO 20 Years. São Paulo, Brazil, September 26 - 28, 2018.

• Conference on Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage. Burgas, Bulgaria, September 27–29, 2018.

October

• Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October 7 - 11, 2018.

• Second UN World Data Forum. Dubai. October 22-24, 2018.

November

• Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing. Tromsø, Norway, November 2018.

December

• 14th Berlin Open Access Conference. Harnack House, Berlin, Germany, December 3–4, 2018.

See also

• Timeline of the open access movement