2012

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.


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

January

 * Integrating Fedora with DuraCloud. Online, January 11, 2012.


 * Open Access: The New Future of Academic Publishing? London, January 12, 2012.


 * Sloan Summit II: Open Access – Mission and Mandate. Boston, January 12-13, 2012. (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Scholarly Communication: From Understanding to Engagement. OA is among the topics.  Dallas, January 20, 2012.


 * Getting the rights right for the future of scholarly communication. The SPARC-ARL Forum at the ALA meeting.  Dallas, January 21, 2012.


 * Open content licensing for educators. Online, January 23, 2012.


 * How to make your Repository OpenAIRE compliant. Online, January 23 and 24, 2012.


 * Academic Publishing in Europe 7. OA is among the topics.  Berlin, January 24-25, 2012.


 * OA Advocacy: How students, student organizations and student governments can get involved. Online, January 31, 2012.

February

 * How embedded and integrated is your repository? Nottingham, February 10, 2012.


 * Gene Patents: Advancing Medicine or Capturing Humanity? New Haven, February 14, 2012.


 * Mendeley Case Study: How The World's Largest Crowdsourced Academic Database Is Changing Academic Publishing. A public talk by Jan Reichelt. New York, February 15, 2012.


 * Open Access: A New Era in Publishing. San Francisco, February 22, 2012.


 * How the Web is Changing the Way Science Is Communicated, Taught and Done. A public talk by Bora Zivkovic. Charlotte, North Carolina, February 23, 2012.


 * Using new tools to communicate research. Online, February 24, 2012.


 * Publishing & accessing archaeological knowledge. Sponsored by the Council for British Archaeology. London, February 27, 2012.


 * Protests, Petitions and Publishing: Widening Access to Research in 2012. New York, February 28, 2012.


 * The Scientific Evolution: Open Science and the Future of Publishing. Oxford, February 29, 2012.


 * Burgeoning Open Access MegaJournals. Tokyo, February 29, 2012.

March

 * Open Access in Kyrgyzstan: The Contribution of Libraries. Bishkek, March 2, 2012.


 * Launch workshop for DataFlow and VIDaaS. Oxford, March 2, 2012.


 * Building the Digital Public Library of America. Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 2, 2012.


 * Open Education Week. Worldwide, March 5-10, 2012.


 * Open Education is niet te stoppen. Delft, March 7, 2012.


 * Colloquium on Rethinking the Future of Scholarly Communication. Palo Alto, March 8-9, 2012.


 * Web 2.0, Creative Commons Licenses and orphan works. Online, March 9, 2012.


 * The SPARC 2012 Open Access Meeting. Kansas City, March 11-13, 2012.


 * Web Science and Open Data Workshop. Southampton, March 12, 2012. (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Digital Public Library of America Financial/Business Models Workshop. Ann Arbor, March 13, 2012.


 * Open Data Hackathon. Graz, March 16, 2012.


 * What can 21st century open government learn from open source, open data, open innovation and open journalism? Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 20, 2012.


 * Panel on Information Access & Freedom in the Digital Age. Berkeley, March 20, 2012.


 * Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information (LAPSI) 6th Thematic seminar & 3rd Internal Conference. Budapest, March 22-23, 2012.


 * Scientific Publishing Made Easy. OA is among the topics. A public talk by Jace Harker. New York, March 23, 2012.


 * Advocacy on implementing funders' mandates. Online, March 27, 2012.


 * Standards & Strategies for Fair Use Decisions inside Libraries & Universities. New York, March 27, 2012.


 * Open access, services, interdisciplinarité et expertise (OASIE). Paris, March 28, 2012.


 * Can Open Access publishing provide Healthcare Information For All by 2015? Sponsored by PLoS and HIFA2015. Online, March 28, 2012.


 * Reykjavík Digital Freedoms Conference. OA is among the topics. Reykjavík, March 29, 2012.


 * Federally Funded Research: Examining Public Access and Scholarly Publication Interests. A hearing before the House Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight. Washington DC, March 29, 2012.


 * From Here to Open Access: Ways to Get It Done. Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 30, 2012.

April

 * Open Data for Open Science 2012: Developers' Training for Environmental Research. Redmond, April 4-6, 2012.


 * Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Copyright and Other Issues. Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 9, 2012.


 * Building New Measures for Impact: Article Level Metrics. Sponsored by SPARC, hosted by Peter Binfield. Online, April 10, 2012.


 * Hewlett OER Grantees Meeting 2012. Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 10-12, 2012.


 * Open infrastructures for Open Science. Rome, April 11-12, 2012.


 * Free Culture Conservancy exploratory meeting. New York, April 12, 2012. (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Orphan Works & Mass Digitization: Obstacles and Opportunities. Berkeley, April 12-13, 2012.


 * III Miedzynarodowa Konferencja Open Access w Polsce. Torun, Poland, April 13-14, 2012.


 * Copyright and Fair Use in the Digital Age. April 16 (Chicago) and 17 (Champaigne), 2012.


 * Academic Publishing: Changes and Challenges. OA is among the topics. Hattiesburg, Mississippi, April 20, 2012. (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Open-data Cities Conference. Brighton and Hove, April 20, 2012.


 * Afdelingsdag Natuurkunde: Vrijheid van onderzoek en publiceren. Amsterdam, April 23, 2012.


 * 10th International Bielefeld Conference. OA is among the topics. Bielefeld, April 24-26, 2012.


 * DPLA West. Sponsored by the Digital Public Library of America. San Francisco, April 27, 2012.

May

 * WSIS Forum 2012. Geneva, May 14-18, 2012.


 * L'atelier sur les archives ouvertes (Open Access Repositories workshop) Monastir, Tunisia, May 14-15, 2012


 * Knowledge and Innovation: Understanding Public Access to Research. Sponsored by the Brookings Institution. Washington DC, May 16, 2012.


 * Open Data Drinks #1 Manchester, UK, May 17


 * Fifth Belgrade International Open Access Conference 2012. Belgrade, May 18-19, 2012.


 * 2012 University of North Texas Symposium on Open Access. Denton, Texas, May 21, 2012.


 * What the World Bank's Open Access Policy Means for Development-- Liveblog and Webcast Online, May 21, 2012


 * Open Access: Is it open season on traditional scientific publishing Imperial College, London, May 25, 2012


 * PEER End of Project Conference. Brussels, May 29, 2012.


 * Omics Evolution Summit. OA is among the topics. Boston, May 29-31, 2012.

June

 * Scholarly Communications: new developments in open access. London, June 1, 2012.


 * Digital Book 2012. Sponsored by the International Digital Publishing Forum. New York, June 4-5, 2012.


 * 11th EASE General Assembly and Conference: Editing in the Digital World. Tallinn, Estonia, June 8-10, 2012.


 * #preserving #linking #using #sharing. 12th ACM/IEEE-Computer Society Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2012). Washington DC, June 10-14, 2012.


 * Structural Frameworks for Open, Digital Research - Strategy, Policy & Infrastructure. Copenhagen, June 11-13, 2012.


 * DPLA Steering Committee Meeting. Berkman Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June12, 2012.


 * BiblioHack. London, June 13-14, 2012.


 * A revolution in scholarship – A commonwealth of knowledge. USETDA 2012. Sponsored by the United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (USETDA). OA is among the topics. Boston, June 13-15, 2012.


 * 1ST International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications. Washington, D.C., June 14, 2012.


 * Social Shaping of Digital Publishing: Exploring the interplay between Culture and Technology. OA is among the topics.  16th International Conference on Electronic Publishing.  Guimarães, Portugal, June 14-15, 2012.


 * Using Open Data. Brussels, June 19-20, 2012.


 * altmetrics12. Evanston, Illinois, June 21, 2012.


 * Rio+20: UN Conference on Sustainable Development.  OA is among the topics.  Rio de Janeiro, June 20-22, 2012.


 * Open Data Camp. Hyderabad, June 23, 2012.


 *  Third Mumbl Event: Open Data. Gembloux, Belgium, June 23, 2012.


 * Access to Digital Content: Diverse Approaches. A session within the larger ALA meeting. Annaheim, June 24, 2012. (Looking for a better URL.)


 * TEDGlobal 2012: Radical Openness. Edinburgh, Scotland, June 25-29.


 * Open Here Festival. Dublin, June 25 - July 1, 2012.


 * Scholarly outreach, impact and outcomes. Sixth Bloomsbury Conference on e-publishing and e-publications. OA is among the topics. London, June 28-29, 2012.


 * Wikipedia Academy: Research and Free Knowledge. Berlin, June 29 - July 1, 2012.

July

 * Open Science Resources Summer School. Heraklion, Greece, July 1-6, 2012.


 * Open Legislative Data in Paris: A Conference of the Third Kind with Hacktivists and Academics. Paris, July 6-7, 2012.


 * Beyond Open Access: Open Education, Open Data and Open Knowledge. Barcelona, July 8-13, 2012.


 * Open Services for Open Content: Local In for Global Out. OR2012: 7th International Conference on Open Repositories.  Edinburgh, July 9-13, 2012.


 * 2nd International Open Government Data Conference. Washington, D.C., July 10-12, 2012.


 * International Conference on Trends in Knowledge and Information Dynamics. OA is among the topics. Bangalore, July 10-13, 2012.


 * New-Model Scholarly Communication: Road Map for Change. Charlottesville, Virginia, July 13-15, 2011.


 * Workshop on Free & Open Software and oad itemsKnowledge Initiatives in Agricultural Research for Development. Hyderabad, July 20-21, 2012. (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Open Data for Open Science in Beijing. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, July 23, 2012.


 * DPLA Audience and Participation Workshop. Baltimore, Maryland, July 27, 2012.

August

 * Symposium - Inter-institutional Approaches to Supporting Scholarly Communication. Atlanta, August 8, 2012.


 * Workshop - Georgia's Approach to Statewide Repository Services. Atlanta, August 9, 2012.


 * Open Help Conference. Cincinnati, Ohio, August 10-15, 2012.


 * World Library and Information Congress : 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly. OA is among the topics. Helsinki, August 11-17, 2012.


 * Fisheries Networks: Building Ecological, Social, and Professional Relationships. OA is among the topics.  Minneapolis, August 19-23, 2012.


 * DPLA Governance Workshop. Washington, DC, August 31, 2012.

September

 * Text-Mining, Analysis, and Visualization: 2nd Global TechMining Conference. Montreal, September 5, 2012.


 * UNESCO Regional Consultation on OA Concept and Policies. Minsk, Belarus, September 5-7, 2012.


 * STI 2012: 17th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators. OA is among the topics. Montreal, September 5-8, 2012.


 * Digital Research 2012. Oxford, UK, September 10-12, 2012.


 * Open Access Book Launch. An event launching Peter Suber's book, Open Access (MIT Press 2012). Co-sponsored by the Berkman Center, Harvard office for Scholarly Communication, and Harvard Law School Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 11, 2012.


 * The 1st Global Thematic IASC Conference on the Knowledge Commons. Sponsored by the International Association for the Study of the Commons.  Louvain-la-Neuve, September 12-14, 2012.


 * IAOS Conference on Official Statistics: Getting Our Message Across -- Strategies and Best Practices to Ensure the Use of Statistics in Decision Making. Open data is amongst the topics. Kiev, September 12-14, 2012.


 * 15th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations. ETD 2012. OA is among the topics. Lima, Peru, September 12-14, 2012.


 * JKUAT Institutional Repository (IR) Sensitisation Workshop. Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Juja, Kenya, September 14-19, 2012.


 * Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) 19th Governing Board Meeting: GBIF at work - biodiversity data at the service of science and society. Lillehammer, Norway, September 16-21, 2012.


 * Open Knowledge Festival. Helsinki, September 17-22, 2012.


 * Digital Commons: Spotlight on Publishing Webinar Series. Online, September 18, 2012 - December 14, 2012.


 * Workshop and Training on Open Content Licensing in Europe. Barcelona, Spain, September 19-20, 2012.


 * 4th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing. Budapest, September 19-21, 2012.


 * Twitter, peer review and altmetrics: the future of research impact assessment. Online, September 21, 2012.


 * Conference for the Fellows of OpenForum Academy. Bibliothèque Solvay, Brussels, September 24, 2012.


 * SABRE 2012: Multilingual Linked Open Data for Enterprise Leipzig, Germany, September 24-25, 2012.


 * Infrastruktur: Bausteine für Open Science. Karlsruhe, Germany, September 24-25, 2012.


 * Open Forum Europe Summit 2012: Harnessing the Power of IT through Collaborative Open Innovation. Bibliothèque Solvay, Brussels, September 25, 2012.


 * Open Data for Open Science 2012, Australia: Workshop for Environmental Research. Melbourne, Australia, September 25, 2012.


 * Open-Access-Tage Wien 2012. Vienna, September 26-27, 2012.


 * Open Access: Going for Gold. London, UK, September 27, 2012.


 * Open Data for Open Science 2012, Australia: Workshop for Environmental Research. Sydney, Australia, September 27, 2012.


 * Webcast Invitation: Connecting the Dots between Open Access and Open Educational Resources. Online, September 27, 2012.


 * Right to Research Coalition (R2RC) Open Access Week 2012 Planning Webcast. Online, September 27, 2012.


 * SOBA: Innovations in Academic Publishing and Peer Review. SanFrancisco, California and Online, September 27, 2012.


 * Stanford School of Medicine: MedicineX: The Intersection of Medicine and Emerging Technologies. LKSC Conference Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California, September 28-30, 2012.


 * PA Libraries: Leading the Charge. OA is among the topics. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, September 30 - October 3, 2012.

October

 * 3ª Conferência Luso-Brasileira sobre Acesso Aberto. 3rd Portuguese-Brazilian Open Access Conference. Lisbon, October 1-2, 2012.


 * Sharing Clinical Research Data: A workshop -- Live Webcast. Online, October 4-5, 2012.


 * Open Data: where to begin?. Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, October 5, 2012.


 * Open Access Events in Celebration of Open Access Week at George Mason University: Open Access = Open Data. Fairfax, Virginia, October 10, 2012.


 * 43rd International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Conference 2012 -- In Transition: Access for All. New Delhi, October 7-11, 2012.


 * Open Access event in the European Parliament. Brussels, Belgium, October 10, 2012.


 * Workshop on next stage in open government data: Using data for transparency accountability, and collaboration. Cape Town, South Africa, October 10-12, 2012.


 * Open Access Week in Poland. Poland, October 15-28, 2012.


 * Open Data Day. Asheville, North Carolina, October 16, 2012.


 * Strata Rx. San Francisco, California, October 26-17, 2012.


 * Open Education 2012. Vancouver, October 16-18, 2012.


 * What’s holding up open access?. Rockefeller University, New York, New York, October 17, 2012.


 * University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Open Access Week 2012 Campus Events. UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October 17-24, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at the University of Colorado --Boulder. Boulder, Colorado, October 17-25, 2012.


 * Open Access & Agricultural Repositories: A workshop on VOA3R & agINFRA. Limassol, Cyprus, October 18, 2012.


 * NISO Forum: The E-book Renaissance Part II: Challenges and Opportunities. Boston, Massachusetts, October 18-19, 2012.


 * Workshop: Transferring research data to RCUK and other organisations. London, October 19, 2012.


 * EIFL: Providing access across OA repositories and journals with Open Harvester Systems.. Online, October 19, 2012.


 * Open Science Summit. Mountain View, California, October 19-20, 2012.


 * Open Access Week 2012: Kick-off Webcast and Liveblog Sponsored by SPARC and the World Bank. Washington, DC, October 22, 2012.


 * Open Access Week 2012 at the University of London. Birkbeck, University of London, October 22, 2012.


 * Uppsala University: Open Access to Research Data. Uppsala, Sweden, October 22, 2012.


 * Simmons Student Chapter of ASIS&T -- Peter Suber and Robin Peek: A Conversation With Students. Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, October 22, 2012.


 * UNESCO-IHE: Lunch Seminar on Open Access. Delft, Netherlands, October 22, 2012.


 * Open Access to Excellence in Research. Brussels, Belgium, October 22, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at the University of Basque. Bilbao, Basque, October 22, 2012.


 * OA Week in Belgium: Open Access progress in Belgium and Europe. Brussels, Belgium, October 22, 2012.


 * 2nd Zimbabwe International Conference on Open Access. Harare, Zimbabwe, October 22-23, 2012.


 * OA Week at Penn State University. University Park, Pennsylvania, October 22-23, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at Indiana University -- Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Indianapolis, Indiana, October 22-23, 2012.


 * Colloquium on Quality indicators for young (OA) journals. Rotterdam, Netherlands, October 22-23, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at UC Davis. Davis, California, October 22-24, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at Washington University in Saint Louis. St Louis, Missouri, October 22-24, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at Columbia University. New York, New York, October 22-24, 2012.


 * China Open Access Week. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, October 22-25, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at SUNY Buffalo. Buffalo, New York, October 22-25, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at the University of Illinois--Chicago. Chicago, Illinois, October 22-25, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at the University of Sussex. Brighton, UK, October 22-25, 2012.


 * Open Access Week 2012 at the University of Oxford. Oxford, UK, October 22-26, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at Indiana University-Bloomington. Bloomington, Indiana, October 22-26, 2012.


 * The Lamar Soutter Library at UMASS Medical School invites you to Celebrate Open Access Week!. Worcester, Massachusetts, October 22-26, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at Dartmouth College. Hanover, New Hampshire, October 22-26, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at Texas A & M University. College Station, Texas, October 22-26, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at St. Andrews University. Laurinburg, North Carolina, October 22-26, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at the University of Exeter. University of Exeter, UK, October 22-26, 2012.


 * Open Access Week events sponsored by BioMed Central. Worldwide, October 22-26,2012.


 * OA Week in Ethiopia. Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, October 22-26, 2012.


 * OA Week at Lupane State University. Zimbabwe, October 22-26, 2012.


 * OA Week at Bindura University of Science Education. Zimbabwe, October 22-28, 2012.


 * Open Access Activities @ Khazar University. Baku, Azerbaijan, October 22-28, 2012.


 * Open Access Week on university campuses throughout the Netherlands. Netherlands, October 22-28, 2012.


 * Open Access Week. Worldwide, October 22-28, 2012.


 * Open Access Week 2012: Networked Researcher Blogging Unconference. Online, October 22-28, 2012.


 * Open Access at UC: Maximizing the Reach, Visibility and Impact of Your Research. UC Berkeley, October 23, 2012.


 * Open Access Week in Croatia. Rijeka, Croatia, October 23, 2012.


 * Open Access Week Event at UCLA Medical School. Los Angeles, California, October 23, 2012.


 * Getting Open Access Off the Ground: A Mini-Conference. University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, October 23, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at the University of Arizona -- The Open Data Revolution: Challenges and Innovations (lecture). Tucson, Arizona, October 23, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at Western Illinois University. Macomb, Illinois, October 23, 2012.


 * Panel Discussion: Open Science - opportunities and challenges of digital science. Berlin, Germany, October 23, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). London, UK, October 23, 2012.


 * Open Access. A Revolution in Science. Radboud University Nijmegan, Netherlands, October 23, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at the University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 23, 2012.


 * Unveiling the Mercedes Agulló y Cobo Digital Library, an Open Access Week event at UMass Boston. Boston, Massachusetts, October 23, 2012.


 * Open Science – Chancen und Herausforderungen der digitalen Wissenschaft. Berlin, October 23, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at Australian National University. Canberra, Australia, October 23-24, 2012.


 * Open Access Week 2012 at the University of Florida. Gainesville, Florida, October 23-24, 2012.


 * OA Week at Harvard. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 23-24, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, Maryland, October 23-24, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at Bowling Green State University and the University of Toledo. Bowling Green, Ohio, October 23-24, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Gainesville, Florida, October 23-24, 2012.


 * International Open Access Week 2012: Two Events in Paris! -- Organized by MyScienceWork University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France, October 23, 2012 and UNESCO, Paris, France, October 25, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at the University of North Texas. Denton, Texas, October 23-25, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at the University of Waikato. Hamilton, New Zealand, October 23-25, 2012.


 * Webinar Programme: "Open Access Week @ AIMS". Online, October 23-26, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. Brooklyn, New York, October 23-26, 2012.


 * Open Access - otvoreni pristup znanstvenim informacijama. Zagreb, October 24, 2012.


 * Open Access: A Conversation with Peter Suber and Richard Holton. MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 24, 2012.


 * Comunicazione scientifica e Open Access: opportunità per una scienza che cambia, Turin, October 24, 2012.


 * OA Week at Temple University -- The Connection between Open Access and Open Educational Resources: Exploring New Publishing Models. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 24, 2012.


 * OA Week at the European University Institute: Open Access and Publishing Round-table. Florence, Italy, October 24, 2012.


 * R2RC European Open Access Week Webcast. Online, October 24, 2012.


 * Institute of Development Studies -- Open Access: are Southern voices being stifled?. Brighton, UK and Online, October 24, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at the University of Kentucky -- Scholarship Unlocked: The Future of Open Access. Lexington, Kentucky, October 24, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at the University of Patras. Patras, Greece, October 24, 2012.


 * Open access webinar for Helmholtz Ph.D. students. Online, October 24 & October 26, 2012.


 * 1st National Open Access Conference, Botswana. Gaborone, Botswana, October 24-25, 2012.


 * Free Presentations for Open Access Week in Philadelphia sponsored by the Philadelphia Scholarly Communications Group. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 24-25, 2012.


 * Open Access Week Peru. Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), October 24-25, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at Washington State University including an Open Access Journal Launch Party for LandEscapes. Pullman, Washington, October 24-26, 2012.


 * Open Access Week -- Participation in Research: Open Access crucial for scientists in the global south. The National Library at The Hague, Netherlands, October 25, 2012.


 * Repositories Support Network (RSP) free webinar: Open Access and the UK funders' policies. Online, October 25, 2012.


 * UHM Rolls Out its Open Access Policy for Graduate Students. University of Hawaii, Manoa Campus, October 25, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at Deakin University. Melbourne, Australia, October 25, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: Increase Your Research Visibility. Hong Kong, China, October 25, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at the University of Auckland --Strategies for success: Open access publishing. Auckland, New Zealand, October 25, 2012.


 * Open Access at Wayne State University: Open Access Textbook—Access, Quality, Use. Detroit, Michigan, October 25, 2012.


 * Open Data Institute: Open Data Hack Days. London, UK, October 25-26, 2012.


 * Open Access Week Double Feature, Starring Faculty from Across CUNY!. CUNY, October 26, 2012.


 * Anatomy of open access publishing: A BMC Medicine twitter chat with Mikael Laakso and Bo-Christer Björk. Online, October 26, 2012.


 * Open Data and Information for a Changing Planet. 23rd International CODATA Conference. Taipei, October 28-31, 2012.


 * Open Access Week at the University of Iowa. Iowa City, Iowa, October 29, 2012


 * Euromed 2012: 4th International Conference on Cultural Heritage. Cyprus, Oct.29 - Nov. 3, 2012.
 * Open Access Week in Poland. 21-30.X.12 in different palces of the country.

November

 * Anybody in? An Open Data Project. Berlin, Germany, November, 2012.


 * Two problems in scholarly communication, and how to solve them. University of California -- San Diego, November 1, 2012.


 * Public Library of Science (PLoS) ALM 2012Workshop. San Francisco, California, November 1-3, 2012.


 * 2012 Digital Library Federation Forum. Denver, Colorado, November 2-6, 2012.


 * Open Access Africa 2012. Cape Town, South Africa, November 4-5, 2012.


 * WissKom2012: Vernetztes Wissen – Daten, Menschen, Systeme. OA is among the topics.  Jülich, November 5-7, 2012.


 * Networked scholarship in a networked world: participation in Open Access. Berlin 10 Open Access Conference. Stellenbosch, South Africa, November 6-8, 2012.


 * Dansk Open Access Netværk (DOAN) temadage på DTU om Open Access og Licenser. Copenhagen, November 7-8, 2012.


 * Roundtable on Open Access. Laval, November 8, 2012.


 * Digital Public Library of America Appfest. Chattanooga, Tennessee, November 8-9, 2012.


 * SpotOn London 2012. OA is among the topics. London, UK, November, 11-12, 2012.


 * 8th International Conference e-Society.Mk: Open Education for an open society – let’s share the knowledge!. Skopje, Macedonia, November 14-15, 2012.


 * ALPSP Seminar: Beyond the rhetoric: new opportunities in open access. London, November 20, 2012.


 * Creative Commons, Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Policy: A webinar with Cable Green. Online, November 21, 2012.


 * Digital Repository Ecosystems with Islandora - free webinar from EIFL FOSS. Online, November 21, 2012.


 * OpenAIRE Conference 2012. Gottingen, Germany, November 21, 2012.


 * Open Humanities Hack. London, UK, November 21-22, 2012.


 * The 7th Munin Conference on Scientific Publishing 2012 – New Trends. OA is among the topics. Tromsø, Norway, November 22-23, 2012.


 * WSIS Knowledge Communities: The production, publication and consumption of scholarly knowledge and OA. Online, November 27, 2012.


 * Colloquia on the future of academic publishing. Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, November 27, 2012.


 * Metadata and Semantics Research Conference. Special track on open access repositories. Cadiz, Spain, November 28-30, 2012.


 * Implementing Finch. London, November 29-30, 2012.


 * CUNY IT Conference 2012. OA is among the topics. New York, New York, November 29-30, 2012.


 * Open Horizons: A Revolution in Open Science -- A special conference at the occasion of LERU’s 10th Anniversary. Brussels, Belgium, November 30, 2012.

December

 * Research Conversations: Open Data Challenges. University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, December 3, 2012.


 * American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. Open access is among the topics. San Francisco, California, December 3-7, 2012.


 * Repositories Support Project: The role of institutional repositories after the Finch report. Online, December 4, 2012.


 * The Future of Academic Impact. OA is among the topics.  London, UK, December 4, 2012.


 * 1st International Open Data Dialog. Berlin, Germany, December 5-6, 2012.


 * MedOANet: National Workshop on Open Access Policies. Athens, Greece, December 6, 2012.


 * Wellcome Trust: Open Science Hackathon. London, UK, December 8-9, 2012.


 * Opening up education through technologies: Towards a more systemic use for a smart, social and sustainable growth in Europe. Oslo, Norway, December 9-11, 2012.


 * Repositories Support Project: Impact metrics for repositories. Online, December 12, 2012.


 * SCOAP3 Webinars. Online, December 13-18, 2012.


 * First Open Economics International Workshop. Cambridge, UK, December 17-18, 2012.


 * Open Science and pizza in São Paulo. São Paulo, December 28, 2011.