2020

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January

• Publiek domein dag. Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum, Netherlands, January 10, 2020. (perma.cc).

• Open Access and Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South, Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Seattle, USA, January 10, 2020. (perma.cc).

• Academic Publishing in Europe. Berlin, Germany, January 13-15, 2020. (perma.cc).

• Public Domain Day. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, January 15, 2020. (perma.cc).

• Open Publishing Communities: an info session. Online, January 23, 2020. (perma.cc).

• OA Monograph Implications on Tech Services, ALA Midwinter. Philadelphia, US, January 25, 2020. (perma.cc).

• ACRL/SPARC Scholarly Communication Forum, ALA Midwinter. Philadelphia, US, January 25, 2020. (perma.cc).

• Open Art Histories. Vancouver, BC, Canada, January 31, 2020. (perma.cc).

February

• LODLAM Summit. Los Angeles, US, February 3-4, 2020.

• OERcamp-Werkstatt Südwest. Akademie Bad Wildbad, Germany, February 7-9, 2020.

• Plan S & Publishing Mandates, NISO Plus. Baltimore, US, February 24, 2020. (perma.cc).

• OpenCon Cleveland. Ohio, USA, February 27-28, 2020. (perma.cc).

March

• Open Science Days. Harnack House, Berlin, March 2-3, 2020. (perma.cc).

• Shift to Open, Library Futures, Vienna, Austria, March 4, 2020. (perma.cc).

• IFLA Special Interest Group on Library Publishing Midterm Meeting. Oslo, Norway, March 5-6, 2020. (perma.cc).

• Oxford Open Access Week. UK, March 9-13, 2020. (perma.cc).

April

• Elpub conference. Doha, Qatar, April 18-21, 2020. (perma.cc).

• Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference. Online, April 23-24, 2020. (perma.cc).

• Cancelled: Digital Initiatives Symposium. San Diego, California, US, April 27-28, 2020. (perma.cc).

May

• Library Publishing Forum. Online, May 4-8, 2020. (perma.cc).

• Postponed: Wikidata:WikiCite Satellite. Cologne, Germany, May 6-8, 2020. (perma.cc).

• Cancelled: University of North Texas Open Access Symposium 2020. Denton, Texas, US, May 22, 2020. (perma.cc).

• Cancelled: Society for Scholarly Publishing annual meeting. Boston, Massachusetts, US, May 27-29, 2020. (perma.cc).

June

• Postponed: Open Repositories. Stellenbosch, South Africa, June 1-4, 2020. (perma.cc).

• Open Access and Open Social Scholarship, Digital Humanities Summer Institute. Online, June 2-11, 2020. (perma.cc).

• CARL Webinar: Communicating about Big Deal Cancellations. Online, June 3, 2020. (perma.cc).

• Webinar on CARL OA Policy Template and Toolkit. Online, June 17, 2020. (perma.cc).

• CARL-CFLA-CAUL Webinar on CDL. Online, June 24, 2020. (perma.cc).

• LIBER conference. Online, June 22-26, 2020. (perma.cc).

July

• Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum. Plan S and Price Transparency: Towards a Breakdown of Publication Services and Prices. Online, July 2, 2020. (perma.cc).

• LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries. Online, July 6-31, 2020. (perma.cc).

• How much does Open GLAM cost? Budget and impact of Open Access. Online, July 23, 2020. (perma.cc).

• Just another brick in the paywall: why open access is a human right, RightsCon session. Online, July [27-30], 2020.

• Canadian Repository Community Call: Repository work during the pandemic: New roles for staff in unusual times. Online, July 28, 2020.

August

• Cancelled: Worldwide Open Access Mandates and Policies session, IFLA conference. Dublin, August 2020.

• FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute (FSCI). Online, August 3-13, 2020.

• Postponed: Wikimania. Bangkok, Thailand, August 5-9, 2020.

• OpenCon Librarian Community Call. Shareyourpaper.org demo. Online, August 11, 2020.

• Open Scholarship Knowledge Base administration training. Online, August 11+18, 2020.

• By Faculty and For Students: Supporting Open Educational Resources, Part One webinar. Online, August 12, 2020.

• Open Access Monographs: What You Need To Know, Part Two webinar. Online, August 19, 2020.

September

• Open-Access-Tage. Online, September 15-17, 2020.

• Accesso alla conoscenza: quali strategie? Milan, Italy, September 16, 2020.

• Postponed: Southeastern Resource Sharing and Scholarly Communication Conference. Nashville, US, September 17-18, 2020.

• OASPA Annual Conference. Online, September 21-25, 2020.

October

• Digital Tools & Uses Congress. Hamamet, Tunisia, October 15-17, 2020.

• Creative Commons Global Summit. Online, 19-24 October 2020.

• International Open Access Week. Various locations and online, October 19-25, 2020.

• ASIS&T conference. Online, October 22 - November 1, 2020.

November

• OPERAS Annual Conference. Brussels, November 2-4, 2020.

• DLF Forum. Online, November 8-12, 2020.

• Threat to Perpetual Access: Licensed Electronic Resources & Open Access. Online, November 17, 2020.

• 15th Munin Conference. Online, November 18-19, 2020.

December

• Northeast Institutional Repository Day. Online, December 3, 2020.

See also

• Timeline of the open access movement
• EIFL events calendar
• OASPA. OA events
• open-access.net Kalender.
• OpenAire calendar
• Open Science MOOC community calendar.
• ZBW events calendar