2005

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.


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

January

 * American Library Association Midwinter Meeting. Boston, January 14-19, 2005
 * Establishing an Institutional Repository. A session sponsored by LITA. Friday, January 14, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm.


 * Institutional Repositories: Their Place in the Evolution of Scholarly Communication. A session sponsored by the ARL, Saturday, January 15, 2005, 2:00 - 4:00 pm.
 * In the Public Interest: Open Access and Public Policy. A session sponsored by SPARC and ARL. Saturday, January 15, 2005, 4:00 - 5:30 pm.
 * Open- Access Economics and the Public Interest: The Conversation Continues. A session sponsored by SPARC and ARL. Sunday, January 16, 2:00 - 4:00 pm.


 * Open Content Licensing (OCL): Cultivating the Creative Commons. (sponsored by the Queensland University of Technology). Brisbane, January 18-19, 2005
 * Open Access: a perspective from an engineering publisher. (sponsored by ASLIB). London, January 19, 2005
 * Promoting Creative Commons licenses in German-speaking countries. (not the official title). Berlin, January 20, 2005
 * Rising to the Challenge: publishers' response to recent Open Access initiatives. (sponsored by the PLA and ALPSP). London, January 25, 2005
 * Institutional Repositories: Leadership, Direction and Launch. Southampton, January 25- 26, 2005. (These are two separate one-day workshops, the first for archive administrators and tech support staff, and the second for Pro Vice Chancellors, senior librarians, archive managers and researchers.)
 * Everything you always wanted to know about e-journals but were afraid to ask.... (sponsored by UKSG). Coventry, January 27, 2005
 * Information management in science and technology. (OA is among the topics). Zurich, January 27- 28, 2005

February

 * National Interaction on The Promotion of Open Content for Development in Nepal. Kathmandu, February 1, 2005
 * E-only journals: is it time to drop print?. Oxford, February 2, 2005
 * Digital Rights and Digital Heritage: preserving creativity in the Internet era. London, February 2, 2005
 * Cultural Memory Institutions in a Digital World. (a public lecture by Clifford Lynch). Ottawa February 2, 2005
 * International CORDRA Workshop. (CORDRA = Content Object Repository Discovery and Registration/Resolution Architecture). Melbourne, February 4- 5, 2005
 * Freedom of Expression in Cyberspace. (sponsored by UNESCO). Paris, February 4- 5, 2005
 * Managing the Publishing Mix: All Media, All Markets. (sponsored by the AAP/PSP). (OA is among the topic). Washington, D.C., February 7- 9, 2005
 * Workshop on Strategic Online Publishing for Journal Editors. (by invitation only). Accra, Ghana, February 7- 9, 2005
 * Change in the Publishing Supply Chain: Challenges and Solutions. (OA is among the topics). London, February 10- 11, 2005.
 * Antitrust Issues in Scholarly and Legal Publishing. (sponsored by the Information Access Alliance and the American Antitrust Institute). Washington, D.C., February 11, 2005
 * Work Session on Statistical Dissemination and Communication. (sponsored by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe). London, February 14- 15, 2005
 * RSS Feeds: Identifying strategies for improving information access and sharing for ACP. (by invitation only). Wageningen, The Netherlands, February 16- 18, 2005
 * "Open Source Biology: The Role of Law". (a public lecture by Arti Rai). Duke Law School, February 17, 2005
 * Open Access Scholarly Communication Workshop. Kyiv, Ukraine, February 17- 19, 2005
 * AAAS Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., February 17- 21, 2005
 * Access to Scientific Literature: A Policy Perspective. A session. February 19, 2005 9:45 - 11:15 am.
 * Changing Scientific Publishing: Open Access and Implications for Working Scientists. A session. February 19, 2005 2:00 - 5:00 pm.
 * International Workshop on Digital Resources Management. Pondicherry, India, February 18- 19, 2005
 * Technology and Knowledge in an Open Society. (International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society). Berkeley, February 18- 20, 2005
 * Open Access Scholarly Communication Workshop. Vilnius, Lithuania, February 21- 22, 2005
 * International Conference on Information Management in a Knowledge Society. Mumbai, India, February 21- 25, 2005
 * Information, Knowledge and Communication. (sponsored by the Association of African Universities). (OA is among the topics). Cape Town, South Africa, February 21- 25, 2005

March

 * Berlin 3 Open Access: Progress of Implementation of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. Southampton, February 28 - March 1, 2005
 * New Forms of Information Supply. London, February 28 - March 1, 2005
 * Preservation and Access for Digital College and University Records. (covering research data as well as business records). (sponsored by ECURE). Tempe, Arizona, February 28 - March 2, 2005
 * Publishing 2005: new ways of reaching the reader. (focusing on STM publishing; sponsored by the BCS Electronic Publishing Specialist Group). London, March 1, 2005
 * Trading in knowledge? The World Trade Organisation and Libraries. (sponsored by EBLIDA and SCONUL). Cambridge, England, March 2-3, 2005
 * Rights in Digital Environments. (sponsored by JISC). (focusing on digital scholarship). Leeds, March 3, 2005, and again in Bristol, March 22, 2005
 * International Workshop on DSpace. Bangalore, March 7-11, 2005
 * Open Access and the Scholarly Publishing Crisis. (not necessarily the official title). (a library workshop at Baylor University). Waco, Texas, March 9, 2005
 * London Book Fair. London, March 13-15, 2005
 * The Facts about Open Access: Results from the ALPSP/AAAS/HighWire Study. A session by Cara Kaufman. E Content Theatre, Academic/STM wing, West Hall, Olympia. March 14, 2005, 12:00-1:00.
 * American Medical Publishers Association Annual Meeting. (OA is among the topics). Philadelphia, March 13-15, 2005
 * Censorship and Access to Information: History and the Present. St. Petersburg, March 16-18, 2005
 * Digitising and delivering textual resources. (a one-day course at King's College). London, March 17, 2005
 * Open Access zu wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen. Berlin, March 22, 2005
 * Social Science Data Archives: creating, depositing and using data. (sponsored by ESDS). Swansea, March 23, 2005
 * The shift to e-Research and its implications for the system of scholarly communication. (a public lecture by Clifford Lynch). Oxford, March 23, 2005
 * Evolving Information Policy: Open Access and New Constraints. Washington, D.C., March 24, 2005
 * The Access Principle: The New Economics of Knowledge as a Public Good. (a public lecture by John Wilinsky). Toronto, March 31, 2005
 * Les Archives ouvertes : actualités, enjeux, perspectives : Journée d'étude. Pessac, France, March 31, 2005
 * Faculty Conference on Scholarly Publishing. (OA is among the topics). Berkeley, March 31, 2005

April

 * Open Access. (sponsored by ALPSP). London, April 1, 2005
 * The Global Flow of Information. (OA is among the topics, esp. in Panel 5 on science). New Haven, April 1-3, 2005
 * Social Science Data Archives: creating, depositing and using data. (sponsored by ESDS). Reading, April 4, 2005
 * Spring 2005 Task Force Meeting. (sponsored by CNI). (OA is among the topics). Washington, D.C. April 4-5, 2005
 * Workshop on Strategies to Strengthen Agricultural Information in Tanzania. (sponsored by RAIN, SUA, INASP, and DRD). (by invitation only). Morogoro, Tanzania, April 4-7, 2005
 * MIT's OpenCourseWare: A Progress Report and Outlook. (sponsored by the National Academies Forum on Information Technology and Research Universities). Washington, D.C., April 5, 2005
 * Ownership and Access in Scholarly Publishing. (a live forum that will also be webcast). Baltimore, April 6, 2005
 * Beyond Open Access: The Political Economy of Knowledge. (a public lecture by Jean-Claude Guédon). Toronto, April 7, 2005
 * Currents and Convergence: Navigating the Rivers of Change. (ACRL 12th National Conference). Minneapolis, April 7-10, 2005
 * Building a Successful Institutional Repository: An Introduction for Smaller Libraries. A session. Friday, April 8, 2005, 2:30- 6:30
 * Taxation With Dissemination: Does The Public Have A Right To Open Access To Federally-Funded Research?. A session. Saturday, April 9, 2005, 10:30 - 11:30
 * What If Open Access Scholarly Publishing Succeeds? Implications for the Role and Work of the Academic Library. A session. Saturday, April 9, 2005, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.


 * The Web and after: the future of scholarly e-publishing. (sponsored by ALPSP). London, April 8, 2005
 * UK Serials Group 28th Annual Conference and Exhibition. (OA is among the topics). Edingurgh, April 11-13, 2005
 * JISC Conference 2005. (OA is among the topics). Birmingham, April 12, 2005
 * Allen Press Emerging Trends Seminar. (this year devoted to OA). Washington, D.C., April 13, 2005
 * Joint Workshop on Electronic Publishing. (sponsored by Delos, SVEP and ScieCom). (OA is among the topics). Lund, April 14-15, 2005
 * Grid Technologies for Digital Libraries. Athens, April 16, 2005
 * Communicating Scientific, Technical and Medical knowledge 2005-2010. (sponsored by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, ALPSP, EUSIDIC, and IOS Press Scientific Publishing). Brussels, April 17-19, 2005
 * EUSIDIC Spring Meeting 2005: Communicating Business Scientific, Technical and Medical Knowledge 2005/2010. Brussels, April 18- 19, 2005
 * Publishing for Impact: Conference for Mission-driven Non-profit Book Publishers. (sponsored by the World Bank). Washington, D.C., April 18- 20, 2005
 * Publication, The Public University, and the Public Interest. (sponsored by the University of Minnesota Libraries). (OA is among the topics). Minneapolis, April 19, 2005
 * Communicating Scientific, Technical and Medical knowledge 2005-2010. (sponsored by the Belgian Koninklijke Bibliotheek, ALPSP, EUSIDIC, and IOS Press Scientific Publishing). Brussels, April 19, 2005
 * Digital Divide or Digital Commons: Toward Global Knowledge Sharing. Santa Clara, California, April 21, 2005
 * Optimizing Access in the Digital Age: Funding, Technology, and Users. (sponsored by the Int'l Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers). Washington, D.C., April 12- 22, 2005
 * From Scrolls to E-Books - the Story Continues. (sponsored by British Columbia Library Association). (OA is among the topics). Burnaby, British Columbia, April 21- 23, 2005
 * Automated Indexing & Abstracting: Current Status and Future Trends. (sponsored by NFAIS). New York, April 22, 2005
 * Beyond Hope Library Conference 2005: Strengthening Libraries in Northern British Columbia. (OA is among the topics). Prince George, British Columbia, April 25- 26, 2005
 * IS&T Archiving Conference. (sponsored by the Society for Imaging Science and Technology). Washington, D.C., April 26-29, 2005
 * Does Open Access Increase Authors' Citation Rates?. (a public lecture by Kristin Antelman). Philadelphia (Drexel University), April 28, 2005
 * Publishing, Collecting & Collaborating Globally: Crossing Present and Future Boundaries. (7th Fiesole Collection Development Retreat Series). (OA is among the topics). Melbourne, April 28- 30, 2005
 * Alberta Library Conference 2005: Celebrating our Past, Embracing Our Future. (OA is among the topics). Jasper, Alberta, April 28 - May 1, 2005
 * DSpace@MIT: An Open Source Institutional Digital Repository. (sponsored by NERCOMP). Waltham, Massachusetts, April 30, 2005

May

 * Open Waters - Open Sources: 11th Biennal Conference of the European Association of Aquatic Sciences Libraries and Information Centres. (OA is among the topics). Split, Croatia, May 4- 6, 2005
 * Symposium on Open Access Journal Publishing. (sponsored by the American Institute of Biological Sciences). Washington, D.C., May 8- 9, 2005
 * In die Zukunft publizieren: Herausforderungen an das Publizieren und die Informationsversorgung in den Wissenschaften. (OA is among the topics). Bonn, May 9- 11, 2005
 * Making the strategic case for institutional repositories. (sponsored by CNI, JISC, and SURF). (by invitation only). Amsterdam, May 10- 11, 2005
 * Set research free: The open access publishing movement. Seattle, May 11, 2005
 * Digital Repositories: Interoperability and Common Services. (sponsored by DELOS). (OA is among the topics). Heraklion, Crete, May 11- 13, 2005
 * Institutional repositories: Creating tomorrow's information infrastructure for today's scholarly community. (sponsored by SASLI and eIFL). Pretoria, May 11- 13, 2005
 * Everything you always wanted to know about e-journals but were afraid to ask.... (sponsored by the UK Serials Group). Sheffield, England, May 12, 2005
 * Open Access Conference. Braga, Portugal (University of Minho), May 12- 13, 2005
 * Open Access und rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen. Göttingen, May 13, 2005
 * Fedora Users' Conference. New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 13- 14, 2005
 * Globalization of Information. (XIth IAALD World Congress). Lexington, Kentucky, May 14- 20, 2005
 * There are several preconference programs. One will focus on OA, one on OAI, and one on OAIS. May 14- 15, 2005.
 * UNESCO Between Two Phases of the World Summit on the Information Society. (OA is among the topics). St. Petersburg, May 17-19, 2005
 * Authors' "Copy Rights" and Open Access Publishing. (a public lecture by Mary Jackson). Philadelphia (Drexel University), May 19, 2005
 * NASIG 20th Annual Conference. (OA is among the topics). Portland, Oregon, May 19- 20, 2005
 * Scholarly Publishing and Open Access: Payers and Players. (sponsored by the Library Association of the City University of New York). New York, May 20, 2005
 * Council of Science Editors Annual Meeting. Atlanta, May 20- 24, 2005
 * Task Force on Science Journals, Poverty, and Human Development, a session. (OA is among the topics.) Monday, May 23, 2005, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm and 5:00–7:00 p.m.


 * Wissenschaftliches Publizieren der Zukunft - Open Access. (sponsored by DINI and SPARC). Göttingen, May 23-24, 2005
 * E-Publishing: Research Strategy Seminar on E-Publishing in the Arts and Humanities. (sponsored by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council). (with a focus on OA). London, May 24, 2005
 * XML, the Web and Beyond. Amsterdam, May 24- 27, 2005
 * One track of the conference will be on "Open Data".
 * Commons-sense: Towards an African Digital Commons. Johanesburg, May 25- 27, 2005
 * AARHUS Convention: Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters. Almaty, Kazakhstan, May 25- 27, 2005
 * Seeking solutions: Developing new treatments and improving access. (sponsored by the WHO Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health). (invitation only). Geneva, May 27, 2005
 * Free Software, Free Society. (OA is among the topics). Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, May 28- 30, 2005
 * Information and Innovation. (2005 annual conference of the International Association of Technological University Libraries). (OA is among the topics). Quebec, May 29 - June 3, 2005

June

 * Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting 2005. (OA is among the topics). Boston, June 1- 3, 2005
 * Here Today; Here Tomorrow?: Journal Archiving in the Electronic Environment. (sponsored by the ACRL/NEC Serials Librarians Interest Group). Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 2, 2005
 * Putting Knowledge to Work; SLA 2005 Annual Conference. (OA is among the topics). Toronto, June 4- 9, 2005
 * Open Access and its Impact on Research in the Developing World. Ottawa, June 7, 2005
 * Digital Libraries: Cyberinfrastructure for Research and Education. (Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2005). Denver, June 7-11, 2005
 * From author to reader: Challenges for the digital content chain. (9th ELPUB conference). (OAI and institutional repositories are among the topics). Leuven-Heverlee, Belgium, June 8- 10, 2005
 * DSpace: An Open Source Institutional Digital Repository. (sponsored by NERCOMP). Waltham, Massachusetts, June 9, 2005
 * Open Source- Open Law- Open Education. (The 2005 Conference for Law School Computing). Chicago, June 9- 11, 2005
 * National Perspectives on Sustainable Repositories: Sustaining Digital Objects in the Research Information Infrastructure. Canberra, June 10, 2005
 * Digital Archiving of Research at the University of Oxford. Oxford, June 10, 2005
 * International Conference on Humanities Computing and Digital Scholarship. (sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing). Victoria, British Columbia, June 15, 2005
 * Chaos Control 2005. (OA is among the topics). Vienna, June 15-16, 2005
 * Canadian Library Association Conference 2005: Rediscover the Library Movement. (OA is among the topics). Calgary, Alberta, June 15-18, 2005
 * Access to and preservation of cultural and scientific resources. Kirchberg, Luxembourg, June 16, 2005
 * 2005 International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies. (ICDAT2005). Taipei, June 16- 17, 2005
 * Everything you always wanted to know about e-journals but were afraid to ask.... (UKSG E-Journal Technical Update). London, June 20, 2005
 * Open Access Debate. (Paul Ayris of University College London v. Michael Mabe of Elsevier). Oxford, June 21, 2005
 * First International Conference on e-Social Science. Manchester, June 22- 24, 2005
 * International Conference on Policies and Strategies for Open Access to Scientific Information. (sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Inter-Academy Panel on International Issues). Beijing, June 22- 24, 2005
 * American Library Association 2005 Annual Conference. Chicago, June 23- 29, 2005
 * Three Big Ideas Transforming Scholarly Communication: The Commons, Taxpayer Access, and Googlization. A session sponsored by SPARC and ACRL. Saturday, June 25, 2005, 4:30 - 6:00 pm, Hilton Chicago Hotel, Constitution Room C
 * Policies and Practices of Institutional Repositories. A session sponsored by the Emerging Technologies Interest Group of LITA. Monday, June 27, 2005, 8:30 - 11:00.
 * Repositories: New Beginnings for Libraries. A session sponsored by OCLC. Monday June 27, 1:00 - 3:00 pm, Sheraton Chicago, Mayfair Room
 * Google and Libraries: What's in Store for Google Print and Google Scholar. A session co-sponsored by the LITA Emerging Technologies Interest Group and the ACRL Electronic Text Centers Discussion Group. Monday, June 27, 1:30 - 3:30 pm, Hotel Intercontinental, Grand Ballroom.


 * Open Culture: Accessing and Sharing Knowledge. Milan, June 27- 29, 2005
 * International Symposium on Intellectual Property (IP) Education and Research. (sponsored by WIPO). Geneva, June 30 - July 1, 2005

July

 * Third Conference on the Foundations of Information Science. (OA is among the topics). Paris, July 4- 7, 2005
 * DSpace Federation, 2d User Group Meeting. Cambridge, England, July 6- 8, 2005
 * Arts and Science in the Information Society. (OA is among the topics). Paris, July 7- 10, 2005
 * Workshop in electronic scholarship. (apparently focusing on digitization). Charlottesville, Virginia, July 18- 22, 2005
 * E-journals, Are We There Yet? Drawing a road map to collection, usage and integration. (OA is among the topics). Houston, July 22, 2005
 * Open Tech 2005. London, July 23, 2005
 * RCUK self-archiving policy - ALPSP publishers' consultation meeting. (limited to ALPSP members). London, July 26, 2005

August

 * Wikimania - the first international Wikimedia conference. (OA and OAI are among the topics.) Frankfurt, August 5- 7, 2005
 * Establishing a Digital Repository Service. (sponsored by the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories). Four simultaneous workshops, August 9, 2005, in Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne
 * Workshop for users of publicly-funded research. (not the official name). Edinburgh, August 12, 2005
 * Open Access and Scholarly Communication Futures. (a CAVAL training workshop conducted by Colin Steele). Victoria, Australia, August 12, 2005. The course is also offered in Brisbane on August 15, in Sydney on August 16, in Perth on August 18, in Adelaide on August 22, in Aukland on August 30, and in Wellington on September 1.
 * Open access: the option for the future!?. (sponsored by IFLA). Oslo, August 13, 2005
 * Libraries - A voyage of discovery. (World Library and Information Congress: 71st IFLA General Conference and Council). (OA is among the topics) Oslo, August 14- 18, 2005
 * Promoting the Implementation of Open Access. (a session hosted by the IFLA Asia & Oceania Section at the 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council). Seoul, August 20- 24, 2005
 * Access and Institutional Repositories'''. (a course from the Ticer School at Tilburg University, part of the 2005 series, Digital Libraries à la Carte: Choices for the Future). Tilburg, August 25, 2005

September

 * Creating the Information Commons for e-Science: Toward Institutional Policies and Guidelines for Action. (sponsored by CODATA, ICSTI, INASP, ICSU, UNESCO, IAP, and TWAS). Paris, September 1-2, 2005
 * Digital Resources for the Humanities 2005. (OA is among the topics). Lancaster, September 4- 7, 2005
 * Strategies for Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Southern Africa: Focus on Health and Environmental Information for Sustainable Development. Pretoria, September 5- 7, 2005
 * Society of Cartographers 41st Annual Summer School. (OA is among the topics). Cambridge, England, September 5- 8, 2005
 * Sixteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia. Salzburg, September 6- 9, 2005
 * De-materialising the early modern text - Early English Books Online, Teaching & Research. Bath, September 8-9, 2005
 * Joint Workshop on Electronic Publishing. (sponsored by Delos, SVEP and ScieCom). (OA is among the topics). Lund, September 14-15, 2005
 * Are institutional repositories taking over the world?. Nottingham, September 15, 2005
 * Maximising Data Value Data Use and Re-Use. Newland Park, September 15-16, 2005
 * Fifth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication. (OA is among the topics). Chicago, September 15-17, 2005
 * CERN Action on Open Access: Open meeting on the changing publishing model. Geneva, September 16, 2005
 * Basic Considerations for Digitization: Providing Access to Special Collections. Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 2005
 * Libraries Without Walls 6: Evaluating the Distributed Delivery of Library Services. (sponsored by MMU and CERLIM). Lesvos, September 16-20, 2005
 * 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. Vienna, September 18-23, 2005.
 * E-Research Forum With Professor Sir John Taylor OBE FRS. Canberra, September 20, 2005
 * Humanities beyond Digitisation. London, September 20-21, 2005
 * Commitment to Equity. (9th World Congress on Health Information and Libraries). (OA is among the topics). Salvador - Bahia, Brazil, September 20-23, 2005
 * International Seminar on Open Access for Developing Countries. (sponsored by REME, PAHO, and WHO). Salvador - Bahia, Brazil, September 21-22, 2005
 * Knowledge for all, education for all. (Second International FLOSS and Free Knowledge Workshop). Pretoria, September 21-23, 2005
 * Symposium on The Future of the Digital Commons. Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 22, 2005
 * International Workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Deployment for Digital Libraries and Repositories. (KED2005) Vienna, September 22-23, 2005 (Held in conjunction with the following.)
 * 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. (ECDL 2005). Vienna, September 22-23, 2005. (Held in conjunction with the preceding.)
 * 5th International Web Archiving Workshop. (IWAW05). Vienna, September 22-23, 2005. (Held in conjunction with the preceding.)
 * Building the Info Grid: Digital Library Technologies and Services - Trends and Perspectives. Copenhagen, September 26-27, 2005
 * EPrints Training Course. Southampton, September 26-30, 2005
 * Open Access, Open Archives and Open Source. (sponsored by Australia's National Scholarly Communications Forum and the Australian Academy of the Humanities). Sydney, September 27, 2005
 * European Fedora User Meeting. Copenhagen, September 28, 2005
 * Australia ETD 2005 8th International Symposium on Electronic Theses & Dissertations. . Sydney, September 28-30, 2005
 * University E-Repositories: Solutions for the Scholarly Community. Amherst, September 29, 2005
 * Global Access Project (GAP) Inaugural International Forum. Macquarie University, September 29-30, 2005

October

 * Electronic publication of archaeological journals. London, October 4, 2005
 * Thought leadership debate on open access. (sponsored by the British Computer Society). Swindon, October 5, 2005
 * 2005 EUSIDIC Annual Conference: Integration versus granularity of information resources: interoperability and interconnectivity of services, systems, and media manifestations. Innsbruck, October 9-11, 2005. [Looking for a URL.]
 * Open Access: A Panel Discussion. Socorro Springs, New Mexico, October 13, 2005
 * Knowledge Management in the e-world: New models for scholarly communication. (OA is among the topics). Istanbul, October 13-14, 2005
 * Workshop on the Long-Term Curation and Preservation of Medical Databases. (sponsored by DCC and ERPANET). Lisbon, October 13-14, 2005
 * Free Culture and The Digital Library. Atlanta, October 14, 2005
 * Database Producers in the Humanities. (NFAIS Humanities Roundtable IV). New York, October 14, 2005
 * 2005 International Symposium on Wikis. San Diego, October 17-18, 2005
 * Access 2005. Edmonton, October 17-19, 2005
 * CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication. OAI4. Geneva, October 20-22, 2005
 * Google and beyond: Who will digitise our books?. (a session within the Frankfurt Book Fair sponsored by IFLA and IPA). Frankfurt, October 21, 2005
 * Open Access to Digital Archives and the Open Knowledge Society. Vienna, October 21-22, 2005
 * First workshop on eprints in Library and Information Science. Geneva, October 22, 2005
 * Is there any progress in alternative publishing? Problems of scholarly information economy. (5th Frankfurt Scientific Symposium). Frankfurt, October 22-23, 2005
 * Digital Asset Management with Fedora. Aberystwyth, October 24, 2005
 * Who Owns Knowledge?. (OA is among the topics). Vancouver, October 24-29, 2005
 * Managing E-Resources ¬ Issues and Challenges. (sponsored by UKSG). (OA is among the topics). London, October 27, 2005
 * Managing Digital Assets: Strategic Issues for Research Libraries. (IR's are among the topics). Washington, D.C., October 28, 2005
 * eIFL.net General Assembly 2005. (OA is among the topics). Vilnius, October 28-30, 2005
 * Sparking Synergies: Bringing Research and Practice Together. (ASIST 2005). Charlotte, North Carolina, October 28 - November 2, 2005

November

 * Making Knowledge Visible: priorities & directions in information publishing. (a public talk by Liz Orna). London, November 1, 2005
 * Knowledge eXtended: Die Kooperation von Wissenschaftlern, Bibliothekaren und IT-Spezialisten. (OA is among the topics). Jülich, November 2-4, 2005
 * XXV Annual Charleston Conference. (OA and IRs are among the topics). Charlotte, November 2-5, 2005
 * Institutional Repositories: Opportunity or Threat. (a seminar sponsored by the SSPP). Washington, D.C., November 7, 2005
 * Web Enabling Technologies & Strategies for Scientific e-Learning. (OA is among the topics). Trieste, November 7-12, 2005
 * INASP Symposium 2005: Discovery and Effective Use of Scientific and Scholarly Information. Oxford, November 9, 2005
 * E-book: the new serial?. (sponsored by the UKSG). London, November 9, 2005
 * Libraries: The Information Society in Action. (A WSIS Pre-Summit Conference). (OA is among the topics). Alexandria, November 10-11, 2005
 * Workshop: Open Access Citation Index. Belgrade, Serbia, November 10-11, 2005
 * Scientific Publishing: What Does the Future Hold?. (OA is among the topics). Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, November 12, 2005
 * Past, Present, and Future of Research in the Information Society. ("A satellite event preceding Phase II of the WSIS" --see next entry below). Tunis, November 13-15, 2005
 * Communicating European Research 2005. Brussels, November 14-15, 2005
 * Parallel Event on Widening Access to Knowledge through Open Sharing: The Growing OpenCourseWare Movement. (part of WSIS, below). Tunis, November 16, 2005
 * World Summit on the Information Society. Second Phase. Tunis, November 16-18, 2005
 * Shaping the Future through Knowledge. ("enhanced access to knowledge" is among the topics). Tunis, November 17, 2005
 * The Battle Over Books: Authors & Publishers Take On The Google Print Library Project. (sponsored by the New York Public Library and Wired Magazine). New York, November 17, 2005
 * Ensuring Long-term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical data. Edinburgh, November 21-23, 2005
 * Extending Access: Priorities and Solutions. London, November 22, 2005 (by invitation only). [Looking for a URL.]
 * Institutional Repository Workshop. (sponsored by the National Library of New Zealand). (OA is among the topics). Wellington, November 23, 2005
 * Library politics in Italy. (52nd National Conference of the Associazione Italiana Biblioteche). (OA is among the topics). Rome, November 23-25, 2005
 * Open Access in Japan. (not the official title). Tokyo, November 25, 2005
 * E-Science? Die Bedeutung des Computers für die Produktion, Vermittlung, Verbreitung und Bewertung wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse. Berlin, November 25-26, 2005
 * Advocacy for Access to Information: copyright & related issues. (sponsored by eIFL). Kampala, November 26, 2005
 * Australian Research Online: A CAUL Forum on Research Repositories. Melbourne, November 28, 2005
 * Preprint and postprint repositories and their impact on publishing. (sponsored by ALPSP and SSP). London, November 28, 2005
 * Massive Digitization Programs and Their Long-Term Implications: Google Print, the Open Content Alliance, and Related Developments. Washington, D.C., November 28, 2005
 * Africa Copyright Conference Forum: Copyright and Access to Information. Kampala, November 28-30, 2005
 * Online Information 2005. London, November 29 - December 1, 2005
 * Online Educa Berlin 2005. (OA is among the topics). Berlin, November 30 - December 2, 2005

December

 * Connecting with the Net Generation: Access and Environment. New York, December 2, 2005
 * Blackwell Publishing: Executive Seminar On Open Access. Washington, D.C., December 2, 2005
 * Digital Libraries, Institutional Repositories, Open Access (DASER-2 Summit). College Park, Maryland, December 2-4, 2005
 * Workshop on Institutional Repositories. (sponsored by the Madras Library Association and Computer Society of India). Madras, December 2-4, 2005
 * Regulating Search: A Symposium on Search Engines, Law, and Public Policy. New Haven, December 3,2005
 * Open Access to Grey Resources. (Seventh International Conference on Grey Literature). Nancy, December 5-6, 2005
 * Colloquium on Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics. (hosted by CERN). Geneva, December 7-8, 2005
 * Second International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society. (OA is among the topics). Hyderabad, India, December 12-15, 2005
 * 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries. Bangkok, December 12-15, 2005
 * Las Bibliotecas Médicas en la Era Digital. (III Seminario de Bibliotecas Médicas de las FFAA y de Orden). (OA is among the topics). Santiago, December 16, 2005
 * Biomedical Information Retrieval. New Delhi, December 20-23, 2005