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).


 * Electronic Resources & Libraries Annual Conference. Austin, Texas, USA, March 8-11, 2020.


 * 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).


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


 * CARL-CFLA-CAUL Webinar on CDL. Online, June 24, 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.


 * Digging Into Digital: The Medical Heritage Library. Online, July 31, 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.


 * Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. Requirements Analysis for an Open Research Knowledge Graph. Lyon, France, August 26, 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.


 * #PreprintReviewChallenge. Online, September 22, 2020.

October

 * University of Colorado Boulder. Opentober. Online, October 5-23, 2020.


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


 * Open and Engaged Conference 2020: Inequities in Scholarly Communications. Online, October 19, 2020.


 * Access 2020 (Canada). Online, October 19-23, 2020.


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


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


 * Kennesaw State University. Open Access Week. Online, October 19-25, 2020.


 * Duke University. Wide Open: A Roundtable about Open Access Models for Journals. Online, October 22, 2020.


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


 * WikiCite: Open citations & linked bibliographic data. Online, October 26-28, 2020.

November

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


 * Digital Library Federation 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.


 * Open Science & the Decolonization of Knowledge: Europe & North America. Online, November 20, 2020.

December

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


 * JROST Conference. Online, December 14-16, 2020.