2018

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• This is a section within the larger list of OA-related Events.
• Chronological order.
• For real-time updates, some not yet reflected here, follow the oa.events 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.

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

• NYC/Wikipedia Day, Related activism panel. New York City, January 14, 2018.

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

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

• Talk by Dr. Ruben Aslan. Kobenhavns Universitet, January 15, 2017.

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

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

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

• Open Textbook Workshop. Virginia Commonwealth University. Richmond, Virginia, January 19, 2017.

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

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

• Putting the EOSC vision into practice. Porto, Portugal, January 23 - 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.

• 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.

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

February

• Ethical aspects of Open Access: A Windy Road. Brussels, Belgium, February 1, 2018.
• OpenCon New Delhi. Acharya Narendra Dev College, February 3, 2017.
• Workshop: The adoption accelerator for reuse of open educational material. Office SURF, Utrecht. February 13, 2018.
• University Press Redux Conference 2018. London, UK, February 13 - 14, 2018.
• EMBL-EBI workshop: European Variation Archive. University of Cambridge, February 15, 2018.
• Publish Digital Books and Open Educational Resources with Pressbooks. University of California, February 20, 2018.
• Making cultural heritage digitally accessible. Paris. February 25 to March 3rd, 2017.
• IPR, Data management and Open-Access plans for your EU-funded project. Madrid, Spain, February 27, 2018.

March

• Open Data Day. March 3, 2018.
• From Stumbling Blocks to Building Blocks: Scholarly Communication Essentials. Austin, Texas, March 4, 2018.
• NARMAs varkonferanse 2018 - Open Science. Lillestrom, Norway, March 6 - 7, 2018.
• DHN 2018. University of Helsinki, Finland, March 7 - 9, 2018.
• Open Data, ouverture des donnes publiques. Poitiers, France, March 16, 2018.
• International Symposium on Grids and Clouds. Taipei, Taiwan, March 16 - 23, 2017.
• Open Data & m-Government Masterclass. Dubai, UAE, 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.

April

• OER18. Location and dates to follow.

• 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.

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

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

• Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference. University of Southern Mississippi, April 26 - 27, 2017.

May

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

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

• Conference : Open Access in Caribbean Libraries, Archives and Museums: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Directions. Dominican Republic. June 3-7, 2018.
• Open Repositories 2018. Montana State University, June 4 - 7, 2018.
• Transforming the Information Community, NASIG Annual Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, June 8 - 11, 2018.
• ELPUB 2018. Toronto. June 22 to 24, 2017.

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, 2017.
• European Open Science Forum. Toulouse, France, July 9 - 14, 2018.

September

• Digital Research in the Humanities & Arts (DRHA). Valletta, Malta, September 9 - 12, 2018.
• Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP). University of Vienna, September 17 - 19, 2018.

October

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

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

November

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