2009

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.


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

January

 * Open Science: Developing tools and approaches to facilitate open exchange between scientists and data. Big Island, Hawaii, January 5-9, 2009.


 * Repository Services Day. Sponsored by the Repositories Support Project.  Bath, January 15, 2009.


 * First Workshop on Scientific Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Evaluation. Trento, January 15-16, 2009.


 * ScienceOnline’09. OA is among the topics.  Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, January 16-18, 2009.


 * The Impact of Publishing. APE 2009 conference.  OA is among the topics.  Berlin, January 19, 2009.


 * Free as in Freedom miniconference. OA is among the topics.  Hobart, January 19-20, 2009.


 * Open Arabic Content Workshop. Riyadh, January 17-18, 2009.


 * The Impact of Publishing. APE 2009.  OA is among the topics.  Berlin, January 20-21, 2009.


 * National Symposium on Open Access and Building Institutional Repositories. Bangalore, January 21-23, 2009.


 * Implementing an Institutional Repository: Benefits and Challenges. Sponsored by ALCTS.  Denver, January 22, 2009.


 * The transformative potential of Open Educational Resources. A forum within the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting.  Sponsored by SPARC and ACRL.  Denver, January 24, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * SCOAP3 Information Session. A forum within the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting. Sponsored by SPARC and ACRL. Denver, January 24, 2009. (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Immaterial society : what future for the commons?. OA is among the topics.  Belém, Brazil, January 26, 2009.


 * Information Day on the third Call for Proposals of the ICT Policy Support Programme. Part of the new CFP under discussion concerns OA.  Brussels, January 26, 2009.


 * Open Access in der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Hamburg, January 26, 2009.


 * OA-net-workshop. Hamburg, January 26-27, 2009.


 * Lincoln Academic Commons: Creating a Knowledge Gift Culture. A public lecture fo Joss Winn.  Lincoln, January 27, 2009.


 * Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Building Research Capacity to Bridge the Gap from Science to Service. Sponsored by the NIH.  Bethesda, January 28-29, 2009.


 * First Workshop on Scientific Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Evaluation. Sponsored by LiquidPub.  Carezza, Italy, January 28-31, 2009.


 * NIH Public Access Policy Presentation. St. Louis, January 29, 2009.


 * Public Symposium on Author Deposit Mandates for Federal Research Grantees. Washington DC, January 29, 2009.


 * National Seminar on Open Access to Textual and Multimedia Content: Bridging the Digital Divide. New Delhi, January 29-30, 2009.

February

 * The Open Movement and Libraries. An online workshop with Ellyssa Kroski.  February 1-28, 2009.


 * Open Access Policies – Was gestatten deutsche Verlage ihren Autoren. Berlin, February 2, 2009.


 * Librarians and Publishers: Partners in Troubled Times. OA is among the topics.  Washington, D.C., February 3, 2009.


 * Digitisation and access: Tools for cultural heritage institutions. Johannesburg, February 3, 2009.


 * Upgrading the eLibrary: Enhanced Information Services Driven by Technology and Economics. 9th Bielefeld Conference.  OA is among the topics. Bielefeld, Germany, February 3-5, 2009.


 * Acceso 2.0: Seminario sobre propiedad intelectual en Bogotá el 4 y 5 de febrero de 2009. Bogota, February 4-5, 2009.


 * Open Access in the Humanities. Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 5, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Connexions Conference 2009: OCWC Regional Meeting.  OA is among the topics.   Houston, February 5-6, 2009.


 * Tools of Change for Publishing. Sponsored by O'Reilly Media.  New York, February 9-11, 2009.


 * Electronic Resources and Libraries 2009. OA is among the topics.  Los Angeles, February 9-12, 2009.


 * Free Our Data? Government Agencies and Copyright. London, February 10, 2009.


 * Researcher 2.0. OA is among the topics.  (City?) February 10, 2009.


 * Embedding Repositories. Sponsored by SUETr.  Lincoln, England, February 10, 2009.


 * Open Access an der Universität Karlsruhe. A public lecture by Regine Tobias.  Karlsruhe, February 10, 2009.


 * The Open Access Movement. A public lecture by Stephanie Haas. Gainesville, Fla., February 10, 2009.


 * The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication In the Digital Age. OA is among the topics.  College Station, Texas, February 11-13, 2009.


 * Open Government Data & Citizen Participation: Wiser Decisions, Lower Costs. Ottawa, February 11, 2009.


 * Open Science: Good For Research, Good For Researchers? New York, February 12, 2009.


 * Who Owns Your Scholarship?: Copyright, Publication Agreements, and Good Policy. Minneapolis, February 16, 2009.


 * Copyright in the Real World. College Park, Md., February 17, 2008.


 * Access Group Meeting. Queensland, February 18, 2009.


 * Start Up & Enhancement Training (SUETr) Training Event - Repository Policy.  Aberystwyth, February 18, 2009.


 * Open Science: Good For Research, Good For Researchers?. New York, February 19, 2009.


 * Pervasive IA. (In Italian.)  OA is among the topics.  Forli, February 20-21, 2009.


 * Archimedes in Bits: Ten Years of Work on the Archimedes Palimpsest. College Park, Md., February 24, 2009.


 * Workshop on KrishiPrabha-Indian Agricultural Doctoral Dissertation Repository. Hisar, India, February 24-25, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * UK PubMed Central focus group. Oxford (England), February 25, 2009.


 * Google and the Future of Higher Education. Washington, D.C., February 27, 2009.  Looking for a better URL.

March

 * An Abundant Humanities Library. College Park, Md., March 3, 2009. CANCELLED


 * Open Access – idea z przyszłością? Krakow, March 6, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * The Public Domain: enclosing the commons of the mind. London, March 10, 2009.


 * Scholarly Communication Outreach: Crafting Messages that Grab Faculty Attention. Sponsored by the ARL.  Seattle, March 11-12, 2009.


 * Cultural Agoraphobia and The Future of The Library. Cambridge, England, March 12, 2009.


 * Seminar on quality in e-learning and open educational resources. Sponsored by UNESCO, March 12-13, 2009.


 * ACRL National Conference 2009. OA is among the topics.  Seattle, March 12-15, 2009.


 * Sharing Research Data: Pioneers, Policies and Protocols. Sponsored by the Economic and Social Data Service.  London, March 13, 2009.


 * The Google Books Settlement: What Will It Mean for the Long Term?. New York, March 13, 2009.


 * Law of the Commons. Seattle, March 13, 2009.


 * SCOAP3 Forum. Seattle, March 14, 2009.


 * International Repositories Workshop. Sponsored by JISC, DRIVER, and SURF. Amsterdam, March 16-17, 2009.


 * Institutional Repository Advocacy Seminar. Sponsored by the Database of African Theses and Dissertations (DATAD) Programme of the Association of African Universities (AAU).  Accra, Ghana, March 16-18, 2009.


 * Open Access and Libraries Conference 2009. New York City, March 17, 2009.


 * WebSci'09: Society On-Line. OA is among the topics.  Athens, March 18-20, 2009.


 * Digital Repositories workshop. Nairobi, March 18-20, 2009.


 * RSP Repository Software Day 2009. Sponsored by the UK Repositories Support Project.  Manchester, March 19, 2009.


 * No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment. Durham, North Carolina, March 21, 2009.


 * The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users. Edinburgh, March 23-27, 2009.


 * Open Access Week at the Library of the University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, March 23-27, 2009.


 * Conference on Open Access to Science Publications: Policy perspective, Opportunities and Challenges. Sponsored by India's Council of Scientific & Industrial Research.  New Delhi, March 24, 2009.


 * Scholarship in the Digital Age. A public lecture by Christine Borgman.  New York, March 24, 2009.


 * Jornadas interuniversitarias de la Comunitat Valenciana sobre acceso abierto al conocimiento. Valencia, March 24, 2009.


 * Common Use Licensing for Scientific Literature and Data in China. Beijing, March 25, 2009.


 * Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse. Edinburgh, March 25-26, 2009.


 * Scholarly Communication in India in the Age of the Commons (Open Access). Bangalore, March 26, 2009.  (Another URL.).


 * The Harvard Initiatives for Open Access to the Scholarly Literature. A public lecture by Stuart Shieber.  Pasadena, March 26, 2009.


 * Digital Repository Strategy. Sponsored by NITLE. Online, March 26, 2009.  With follow-up sessions on April 2 and April 9, 2009.


 * Accessing, Using and Reusing Public Sector Content and Data. 5th COMMUNIA Workshop.  London, March 26-27, 2009.


 * Free Software and Beyond: The World of Peer Production.  4th Oekonux Conference.  OA is among the topics.  Manchester, March 27-29, 2009.


 * Open Knowledge Conference 2009. OKCon 2009.  London, March 28, 2009.


 * Science and Technology in Society. OA is among the topics.  Washington DC, March 28-29, 2009.


 * Stuart Shieber on open access. A public lecture by Stuart Shieber.  Berkeley, March 30, 2009.


 * A Conversation with Dr. Oliver Smithies. "About the importance of information access to scientific research, especially his own."  Chapel Hill, March 30, 2009.


 * Computers in Libraries 2009. OA is among the topics.  Arlington, Virginia, March 30 - April 1, 2009.


 * 32nd UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition. OA is among the topics.  Torquay, March 30 - April 1, 2009.


 * The Shakespeare Quartos Archive: A MITH Research Update. College Park, Md., March 31, 2009.


 * Open Access Publishing: Revolution in Scholarly Communication. New York, March 31, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Open Access Day 2009. Also here.  Sponsored by DEFF. Copenhagen, March 31, 2009.


 * Scholarly Communication in the Networked Environment: Protecting Your Intellectual Property and Disseminating Your Research. OA is the main topic.  Washington, DC, March 31, 2009.

April

 * Institutional Repository Workshop. Pretoria, April 1-3, 2009.


 * Journées d’étude sur les Archives Ouvertes. Paris, April 2-3, 2009.


 * Open access and other opening. A public lecture by Robert Darnton.  Oxford, April 3, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Library 2.0 Symposium. New Haven, April 4, 2009.


 * Coalition for Networked Information Spring 2009 Task Force Meeting. OA is among the topics.  Minneapolis, April 6-7, 2009.


 * Online Journal Workshop: Digital Access and Publishing. Sponsored by Columbia University's Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) and Free Culture @ Columbia.  New York, April 7, 2009.


 * Institutional Repositories: The Promises of Yesterday and of Tomorrow. A public lecture by Greg Tananbaum.  Sponsored by ALCTS.  Online, April 8, 2009.


 * Know Your Rights: Who Really Owns Your Scholarly Works?. New York City, April 8, 2009.


 * Creating Open Access Journals and Repositories. Donetsk, Ukraine, April 8, 2009.


 * The Business of Scholarly Publishing and the Opportunity of Open Access. Forest Grove, Oregon, April 9, 2009.


 * The Art and Politics of Science. Book event with Harold Varmus. New York, April 13, 2009.


 * Increasing Use and Content Through Creative Service-Repository Bundling - A case study at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Online, April 15, 2009.


 * New Approaches to Scholarly Communications and Publishing. OA is among the topics.  Binghampton, April 15-16, 2009.


 * For What It’s Worth: The Hidden Costs of Scholarly Communication. OA is among the topics.  Philadelphia, April 16, 2009.


 * National and Global Dimensions of the Public Domain. Sydney, April 16-17, 2009.


 * Knowledge Globalization Conference 2009. OA is among the topics.  Boston, April 17-19, 2009.


 * Open Educational Resources in Poland Conference. Warsaw, April 18, 2009.


 * Surviving the future - how authors' rights are impacting scholarly publishing. Sponsored by the ALPSP.  A seminar within the London Book Fair.  London, April 20, 2009.


 * Linked Data on the Web. Madrid, April 20, 2009.


 * Copyright, Content and Class Action Lawsuits: A Debate on the Google Book Search Settlement. Washington, DC, April 21, 2009.


 * Open Educational Resources in Poland Conference. Warsaw, April 23, 2009.


 * Open Access: Maximising Research Impact workshop.  Sofia, Bulgaria, April 23-24, 2009.


 * Alberta Library Conference 2009. OA is among the topics.  Jasper, Alberta, April 23-26, 2009.


 * OpenForum Europe Summit 2009. Brussels, April 24, 2009.


 * RSP EPrints Training Event. Liverpool, April 24, 2009.


 * Reworking the University: Visions, Strategies, Demands. OA is among the topics.  Minneapolis / St. Paul, April 24-26, 2009.


 * Forskarmöten om Open Access. Kalmar, Sweden, April 28, 2009.


 * Publishing and the Dissemination of Scholarship: Is the Process Broken? Manoa, April 29, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Tensiones y dinámicas del derecho de autor en la era digital. Buenos Aires, April 29, 2009.


 * The C Word: Using Author Rights to Enhance Scholarship in the Digital Research Environment. Portland, Oregon, April 29, 2009.


 * UMich’s March Open Access Week: Lessons and Ideas. Online, April 30, 2009.


 * Research Data Management Forum: Value and Benefits of Data Sharing and Management. Sponsored by the Digital Curation Centre.  Manchester, April 30 - May 1, 2009.

May

 * Social Media and the Future of Scholarly Communication. Sponsored by NFAIS.  OA is among the topics.  Philadelphia, May 1, 2009.


 * Show Me the Data — The Science of Editing and Publishing. Sponsored by the Councl of Science Editors.  OA is among the topics.  Pittsburgh, May 1-5, 2009.


 * Knowledge to Reposition Africa in the World Economy. KMAfrica 2009.  OA is among the topics.  Dakar, May 4-7, 2009.


 * VI Foro Mundial de Conocimiento Libre. OA/OERs may be among the topics. Mérida, Venezuela, May 4-8, 2009.


 * Accesso aperto alla conoscenza scientifica e sistema trentino della ricerca. Trento, May 5, 2009.


 * Otwarta nauka w Polsce. Warsaw, May 5, 2009.


 * First European Open Data Summit. Brussels, May 5-7, 2009.


 * Beyond the Institutional Repository: Campus Research Distribution Strategies. A public lecture by Marilyn Moody.  Sponsored by ALCTS.  Online, May 6, 2009.


 * Opening Doors, Opening Minds: The Impact of Open Access & Open Source. Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians 2009 Conference.  Indianapolis, May 6-8, 2009.


 * Case study on access to knowledge in Zimbabwe. A session within IST-Africa 2009.  Kampala, May 6-8, 2009.


 * Libre Graphics Meeting. Montreal, May 6-9, 2009.


 * Blogfesores 2009: Open Access. Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, May 7-8, 2009.


 * The Future Of Copyright – What Is The Right Protection? OA is among the topics.  Berlin, May 7-8, 2009.


 * Protecting Your Scholarship: Copyrights, Publication Agreements, and Open Access. Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 11, 2009.


 * Open models in knowledge intensive sectors: Free/Open Source Software and beyond. A track within EURAM 2009.  OA is among the topics.  Liverpool, May 11-14, 2009.


 * How Shall the Commons Be Governed? New Challenges Facing the Digital Commons Sector. Cambridge, Mass. (with simultaneous Webcast), May 12, 2009.


 * African Digital Scholarship & Curation 2009. OA is among the topics. Pretoria, May 12-14, 2009.


 * All About Repositories. An online webinar in anticipation of OR09.  May 13, 2009.


 * Gaining the momentum: Open access & advancement of science and research. Sponsored by CSIR.  Pretoria, May 14, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Humanae Litterae & New Technologies: E-publishing, ricerca e letteratura scientifica. OA is among the topics.  Milan, May 14, 2009.


 * Changing research landscapes to make the most of human potential. OA is among the topics.  Prague, May 14-15, 2009.


 * Wem gehört Wissen? Wissen und Eigentum im digitalen Kapitalismus. Potsdam, May 15, 2009.


 * Open Government on the Internet: A New Era of Transparency. Austin, May 15, 2009.


 * Open Innovation and Intellectual Property. Sponsored by NESTA (UK National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), the Wellcome Trust, and Creative Commons.  OA is among the topics.  London, May 15, 2009.


 * Copyright and open access. (Not the official title.)  Montreal, May 15, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Open Science: The Risks, Challenges and Rewards. A session within the American Society for Microbiology General Meeting 2009.   Philadelphia, May 18, 2009.


 * Open Repositories 2009. Atlanta, Georgia, May 18-21, 2009.


 * WSIS Forum 2009. Geneva, May 18-22, 2009.
 * Facilitation Meeting: WSIS Action Line C3 (Access) and C7 (e-Science). A session within the WSIS Forum 2009. Geneva, May 18-22, 2009.
 * Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge. A session within the WSIS Forum 2009. Geneva, May 18-22, 2009.
 * Copyright and Access to Educational and Learning Materials in Africa: Evidence from an eight Country Study Project.  A session within the WSIS Forum 2009. Geneva, May 18-22, 2009.


 * Where Is the Open Education Movement Going?. An Educause web seminar with Brian Lamb and David Wiley.  Online, May 19, 2009.


 * The Future of Everything. Sponsored by the Academic Commons.  Norwood, Massachusetts, May 19, 2009.


 * Open Forum on the NIH Public Access Policy. A session at the Medical Library Association annual meeting, May 19, 2009.


 * The French policy on research infrastructure and eJournals for the Humanities: Adonis and Revues.org. Digital Humanities Seminar. Oxford, May 20, 2009.


 * Open Textbook Virtual Meeting. Los Altos Hills, California, or Online, May 20, 2009.


 * Fesabid´09: Jornadas Españolas de Documentación. Includes sessions on OA (see here). Zaragoza, Spain, May 20-22, 2009.


 * Sharing Data and Resources for Functional Genomics. Sponsored by CASIMIR.  Rome, May 20-22, 2009.  (Apparently the same as this meeting with a slightly different title.)


 * Fostering an Identity and Access Management Commons for e-Research. London, May 21, 2009.


 * Open Access (OA) Initiatives in Scholarly Communication. A public lecture by Andrew Waller.  Ottawa, May 25, 2009.


 * Open Access: Maximising Research Impact workshop in Palestine. Birzeit, Palestine, May 25-28, 2009.


 * IASSIST/IFDO 2009 Conference. OA is among the topics.  Tampere, Finland, May 26-29, 2009.


 * 26th Open Grid Forum. Includes a session frm the Digital Repositories Research Group.  Chapel Hill, North Carolina, May 26-29, 2009.


 * 2nd Pan-African Forum on Open Education Resources (OER) and Open Acess (OA) to Scholarly Publication. Dakar, May 27, 2009.


 * Sharing Data, Sharing Ideas. Sponored by the National Archives of Australia.  Canberra, May 27, 2009.


 * 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. OA is among the topics.  Baltimore, May 27-29, 2009.


 * Research in the open: How mandates work in practice. London, May 29, 2009.

June

 * First Meeting for Working Group on Open Data in Science. Online, June 2, 2009.


 * EThOSnet Web Services Day. London, June 2, 2009.


 * Deutscher Bibliothekartag. OA is among the topics.  Erfurt, June 2-5, 2009.


 * The Data Imperative: Libraries and Research Data. Oxford June 3, 2009.


 * Using Dspace for Digital Repositories: An Information Services Camp Workshop.  Sponsored by NITLE.  Northampton, Massachusetts, June 4, 2009.


 * Integración de contenidos digitales a través de redes académicas avanzadas. Bogotá, June 4-5, 2009.


 * Copyright: Even the Loons are Licensed. St. Paul, Minn., June 5, 2009.


 * Institutional on-line repositories and Open Access. Or in Czech, Institucionální repositáře a Open Access.  CASLIN 2009.  Klášter Teplá, June 7-11, 2009.


 * L’Open Access in pillole: principi teorici e applicazioni pratiche. Genova, June 8, 2009.


 * Managing Data for Science. ICSTI 2009 Conference.  OA is among the topics.  Ottawa, June 9-10, 2009.


 * Generating Campus Buy-In for Your IR. A public lecture by Marisa Ramirez and Michael Miller.  Sponsored by ALCTS.  Online, June 10, 2009.


 * SCOAP3 – An opportunity to create change. A webcast lecture by Salvatore Mele.  Online, June 10, 2009.


 * SPARC and ACRL SCOAP3 Webcast. Online, June 10, 2009.


 * ELPUB 2009 : Rethinking Electronic Publishing: Innovation in Communication Paradigms and Technologies. OA is among the topics.  Milan, June 10-12, 2009.
 * Symposium on the Institutionalisation of Openness in Universities. A session within ELPUB 2009.


 * Open Access, New Trends, Platforms, Collaborations, and Global Outreach. 12th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Pittsburgh, June 10-13, 2009.


 * Propiedad Intelectual: la privatización de la cultura, el conocimiento y el derecho a aprender e investigar. Buenos Aires, June 11, 2009.


 * Seminar about Open Access at the Sixteenth International Conference Crimea 2009. Sudak, Crimea, Ukraine.  June 11, 2009. See also the larger Sixteenth International Conference Crimea 2009.


 * Open Access Learning. 4th Canadian Learning Commons Conference.  Saskatoon, June 11-13, 2009.


 * Ninety-fifth Annual Meeting of the American Association of University Professors. OA is among the topics.  Washington DC, June 11-14, 2009.


 * Academic Access in a Globalized world: Scholars without Borders. A public lecture by Ram Ramaswamy.  Bangalore, June 12, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Derecho de Autor en el Mundo Digital. Buenos Aires, June 12-13, 2009.


 * Special Libraries Association 2009. OA is among the topics.  Washington DC, June 14-17, 2009.
 * SCOAP3 Forum. A session within SLA 2009, June 14, 2009.


 * Measuring Up - the Evolution of Impact Metrics. Sponsored by ALPSP.  London, June 15, 2009.


 * eSciDoc Days 2009. Berlin, June 15-16, 2009.


 * Training Programme for Library Professionals/ Research Scholars in Universities/Colleges. OA is among the topics.  Kerala, June 15-20.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Buch Digitale. OA is among the topics.  Berlin, June 16, 2009.


 * Synthetic Biology: Feasibility of the Open Source Movement. Washington, DC and online, June 17, 2009.


 * Two Repository Platforms: Key Features of Fedora and DSpace. Online, June 17, 2009.


 * CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication. OAI6.  Geneva, June 17-19, 2009.


 * The EU Database Protection Directive: Intellectual Property Rights and Public Access to Information. A public lecture by Thomas Hoeren.  Oxford, June 18, 2009.


 * Association of American University Presses Annual Meeting. OA is among the topics.  Philadelphia, June 18-21, 2009.


 * Open Access Services workshop. Doha, Qatar, June 18-22, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Crowdsourcing And Open Access V2.0: Harnessing The Power Of Peer Production To Disseminate Historical Records And Legal Scholarship. A public lecture by Tim Armstrong.  Boulder, June 19, 2009.


 * Open Video Conference. New York, June 19-20, 2009.


 * Europeana. A digital library for the Humanities?. Digital Humanities Seminar. Oxford, June 19, 2009.


 * First Open Source GIS UK Conference.  Nottingham, June 22, 2009.


 * OGC Geospatial Rights Management Summit. Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 22, 2009.


 * Open Access - What are the economic benefits. A seminar with John Houghton and members of the European Commission.  Brussels, June 22, 2009.


 * Berlin Open '09. OA is among the topics.  June 22-23, 2009.


 * Scientific Publishing in Natural History Institutions. OA is among the topics.  Bratislava, June 22-23, 2009.


 * Open Translation Tools 2009. Amsterdam, June 22-24, 2009.


 * Vernetzungstage 2009. Sponsored by DINI.  OA is among the topics.  Stuttgart, June 23-24, 2009.


 * Why pay for content? - An open debate. Sponsored by the Publishers Association.  London, June 24, 2009.


 * 5th International Conference on e-Social Science. Sponsored by the National Centre for e-Social Science.  OA is among the topics.  Cologne, June 24-26, 2009.


 * International Conference on Digital Libraries. OA is among the topics.  Paris, June 24-26, 2009.


 * Open Access Day @ Duke. Webcast, June 25, 2009.


 * PSI Alliance Conference. Brussels, June 25, 2009.


 * Presentation on Creative Commons licenses. Brussels, June 25, 2009.


 * Third Bloomsbury Conference On E-Publishing And E-Publications. London, June 25-26, 2009.


 * Google, the Web and the Future Roles of Publishers and Librarians. Philadelphia, June 26, 2009.


 * Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology. OA is among the topics. Stockholm, June 27-July 2, 2009.


 * COMMUNIA Conference 2009: Global Science & Economics of Knowledge-Sharing Institutions. Torino, June 28-30, 2009.


 * 59th Meeting of Nobel Laureates. OA is among the topics.  Lindau, June 28 - July 3, 2009.


 * JISC Digital Content Conference 2009. OA is among the topics.  South Cerney, Gloucestershire, June 30 - July 1, 2009.

July

 * Connecting Africans to their own Resources: Developing policies and strategies for Africa's digital future. First International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives.  OA is among the topics.  Addis Ababa, July 1-3, 2009.


 * Diversité des pratiques documentaires numériques dans les champs scientifiques. Villeurbanne, France, July 2, 2009.


 * Towards a Digital Mathematics Library. Toronto, July 8-9, 2009.


 * International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference. OA is among the topics.  Vancouver, July 8 – 10, 2009.


 * Wem gehört das Wissen?. OA is among the topics.  Gießen, July 9, 2009.


 * American Library Association Annual Conference OA is among the topics. Chicago, July 9-15, 2009.
 * SCOAP3 Forum.  A session within the ALA Annual Conference.  Chicago, July 11, 2009.
 * Collecting for Digital Repositories: New Ways to Disseminate and Share Information. A session within the ALA Annual Conference.  Chicago, July 12, 2009.


 * OER Discovery 2009. Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 10, 2009.


 * State of the Map: International OpenStreetMap Conference. Amsterdam, July 10-12, 2009.


 * Second International Symposium on Academic Globalization. Orlando, July 10-13, 2009.


 * The Open Knowledge Commons and Library Collections: The Other Scan Plan. Sponsored by ALCTS Collection Management and Development Section (CMDS).  July 11, 2009.  (Where?)


 * Workshop on Repositories and Biological/Medical Applications. Manchester, July 13-14, 2009.


 * Open Access: What We Know Now: The Conversation Continues.  Sponsored by the Society for Scholarly Publishing.  Online, July 14, 2009.


 * Open Access and Repositories in the Arts. London, July 14, 2009.


 * Brownbag on Google Book Search. Sponsored by Knowledge Ecology International. Washington, DC, July 14, 2009.


 * Mapping the Global Commons: A Quantitative Perspective on Free Cultural Practice. A public lecture by Giorgos Cheliotis.   Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 14, 2009.


 * Scientific findings in a digital world: What is the genuine article?. London, July 22, 2009.


 * Inaugural meeting for the OKF Working Group on Open Knowledge in Development. Sponsored by the Open Knowledge Foundation.  Online, July 22, 2009.


 * Open Access: Maximising Research Quality and Impact workshop in Nepal. Kathmandu, July 22-23, 2009.


 * International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics. OA is among the topics.  Rio de Janeiro, July 28-31, 2009.


 * Digital Libraries à la Carte 2009. OA is among the topics.  Tilburg, July 28 - August 5, 2009.


 * What Every Scientist Needs to Know About How the Web is Changing the Way They Work. OA is among the topics.  Toronto, July 29, 2009.


 * Beyond the Repository Fringe 2009. Edinburgh, July 30-31, 2009.


 * Alternative Approaches to Open Digital Libraries in the Shadow of the Google Book Search Settlement: An Open Workshop at Harvard Law Schoo.  Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 31, 2009.

August

 * Why Open Access Matters to Public Health in Africa. A public talk by Gavin Yamey.  Nairobi, August 4, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Reaching out to Leaders of Scholarly Societies at Your Institution. Sponsored by the ARL.  Online, August 6, 2009.


 * Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums & Wikimedia: Finding the common ground. Canberra, August 6-7, 2009.


 * Open Education Conference. Vancouver, August 12-14, 2009.


 * UK Council of Research Repositories. Third annual membership meeting.  Kingston, August 14, 2009.


 * Access to Knowledge (A2K) Global Academy. New Haven, August 19-20, 2009.


 * Science Online 2009. OA is among the topics.  London, August 22, 2009.


 * Libraries create futures: Building on cultural heritage. 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly.  OA is among the topics.  Milan, August 23-27, 2009.
 * Research into open access. A session sponsored by IFLA's Library Theory and Research (LTR) Section.  (Date?)
 * Worldwide trends in open access to agricultural information, Africultural libraries session, August 24, 2009
 * Open access to science and technology research worldwide: strategies and best practices, Science and Technology Libraries session, August 25, 2009.


 * JSTOR's Data for Research (DfR): Tips and Tools. A seminar on text-mining JSTOR.  Online, August 27, 2009.


 * Social Collections, New Metrics, Maps and Other Australian Oddities. A seminar by Sebastian Chan.  OA is among the topics.  San Francisco, August 28, 2009.


 * The Google Books Settlement and The Future Of Information Access. Berkeley, August 28, 2009.

September

 * EPrints repository training course. Southampton, September 1-3, 2009.


 * The Google Book Scanning Project: Issues and Updates. Hosted by EduCause.  Online, September 2, 2009.


 * Wissensklau, Unvermögen oder Paradigmenwechsel?. OA is among the topics.  Chur, Switzerland, September 6-8, 2009.


 * International Group of Ex Libris Users 2009 Meeting. OA is among the topics.  Helsinki, September 6-9, 2009.


 * Université d’été de l’édition électronique ouverte. Marseille, September 7-11, 2009.


 * International Conference for Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web (ICSD 2009). Topics. OA is among the topics.  Trento, September 8-11, 2009.


 * One-Day Preliminary National Consultation on Access to Patented Knowledge. Hosted by the Centre for Trade and Development (CENTAD).  New Delhi, September 9, 2009.


 * Easy-to-Use DuraSpace Repositories Enabling Open Access: Islandora, DSpace and NSDL EduPak. Sponsored by Sun Microsystems.  Online, September 9, 2009.


 * ALPSP International Conference 2009. OA is among the topics.  Oxford, September 9-11, 2009.


 * TMI: Social Justice in the Age of Facebook. OA is among the topics.  Waltham, Massachusetts, September 10-11, 2009.


 * Congreso de Software y Conocimiento Libre. Santo Domingo, September 14-17, 2009.


 * Web et droit d’auteur. Montréal, September 14, 2009.


 * Creation, Collaboration, and Copyright. Europeana Plenary 2009.  OA is among the topics.  The Hague, September 14-15, 2009.


 * Repositories Support Project 'Goes back to' School. Newcastle upon Tyne, September 14-16, 2009.


 * 1st Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing. Lund, September 14-16, 2009.
 * OAPEN workshop: new models in Open Access book publishing. Part of the 1st Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing.  Lund, September 16, 2009.


 * Caribbean Scholarship in the Digital Age. Miami, September 15, 2009.


 * L’édition électronique ouverte : changement de paradigme ?. Marseille, September 15, 2009.


 * 2nd World Summit on the Knowledge Society. Crete, September 16-18, 2009.


 * Google, Libraries, and the Digital Future. A public lecture by Robert Darnton.  New York, September 17, 2009.


 * Transforming Scholarly Communication. A public lecture by Lee Dirks.  Cambridge, September 18, 2009.


 * Open Access: Key Trends. A public lecture by Heather Morrison.  A session within the ALCTS Webinar Series on Institutional Repositories.  Online, September 23, 2009.


 * Communication and Human Development: The Freedom Connection?. Access to knowledge is among the topics. Cambridge, Mass. and online, September 23, 2009.


 * Open access for books. (Not the official title.)  A public lecture by Sanford Thatcher.  Rochester, September 23, 2009.


 * Main drivers for successful re-use of research data. Sponsored by Knowledge Exchange.  Berlin, September 23-24, 2009.


 * Second Meeting of the Board on Research Data and Information. Washington, DC, September 24-25, 2009.


 * Scientific Data for Evidence Based Policy and Decision Making. A session within the meeting above.  OA is among the topics.  Washington, DC, September 24, 2009.


 * Open Access and Funder Mandates workshop. Where?  September 24, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Conference on Ethics in Science and Culture. OA is among the topics.  Belgrade, September 25-26, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries. Corfu, September 27, 2009.


 * Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship.  Logan, Utah, September 30, 2009.


 * New DuraSpace "Stack" Releases: Fedora Commons, DSpace, and Mulgara. Sponsored by Sun Microsystems.  Online, September 30, 2009.


 * The next level of student engagement: Open Access Week and beyond. "A SPARC pre-Open Access Week event."  Online, September 30, 2009.


 * Access 2009. OA is among the topics.  Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, September 30, 2009.

October

 * 6th Communia Workshop: Memory Institutions and Public Domain. Barcelona, October 1-2, 2009.


 * Access 2009. Charlottetown, P.E.I., October 1-3, 2009.


 * Enteignung oder Infotopia? Google Books und die Zukunft des Wissens.  Berlin, October 2, 2009.


 * Socially Responsible Licensing Workshop. Washington, D.C., October 6, 2009.


 * Clicking "Refresh": A New Look at Fair Use in the Digital Age. New York, October 7, 2009.


 * Open-Access-Tage 2009 Veranstalter: information platform open-access.net. Konstanz, October 7-8, 2009.


 * The Public Revolution in Scholarly Communication. Burnaby, BC, October 8, 2009.


 * D is for Digitize. Entirely devoted to the Google book settlement.  New York, October 8-10, 2009.


 * Open Edge 2009. Darlinghurst, Australia, October 9, 2009.


 * Wikis Take Manhattan. New York, October 10, 2009.


 * Deposit Tool Show & Tell. London, October 12, 2009.


 * Southeast CONTENTdm Users Group 2nd Annual Meeting. Charleston, October 12-13, 2009.


 * Scientific Information in the Digital Age: Access and Dissemination. OA is among the topics.  Trieste, October 12-16, 2009.


 * Administrators and Open Access to research: The view from today. A SPARC pre-OA Week event.  Online, October 13, 2009.


 * An Abundant Humanities Library. College Park, Md., October 13, 2009.


 * WIPO Open-Ended Forum on Proposed Development Agenda Projects. Geneva, October 13-14, 2009.


 * SPARC OA Week Kick-off Presentation and Presentation of DuraSpace OA Week Winners. Sponsored by Sun Microsystems.  Online, October 14, 2009.


 * Data curation workshop: from lab to reuse. Oxford, October 14, 2009.


 * 155th ARL Membership Meeting. OA is among the topics.  Washington DC, October 14-15, 2009.


 * DSpace User Group Meeting 2009. Gothenburg, Sweden, October 14-16, 2009.


 * Open Access in Moldova. Chisinau, Moldova, October 14, 2009.


 * Science Commons Salon. Mountain View, Calif., October 15, 2009.


 * Contemporary history in the digital age. Luxembourg, October 15-16, 2009.


 * eScience Workshop 2009. Sponsored by Microsoft.  Pittsburgh, October 15-17, 2009.


 * El movimiento por la liberación de la cultura en todas sus formas. Bernal, Argentina, October 16, 2009.


 * Open Access to information for the safeguarding of public health: Which opportunities from the NECOBELAC network? Rome, October 19, 2009.


 * Open Access - eine Option für alle Wissenschaftsbereiche?. Munich, October 19, 2009.


 * Humanities Content in the Digital Age: A Look at Publication Processes, Web Marketing, and the Importance of Global Outreach. New York, October 19, 2009.


 * Making Books Apparent. Sponsored by the Internet Archive.  San Francisco, October 19-20, 2009.


 * Open Ed Tech 2009. Barcelona, October 19-20, 2009.


 * 2nd LIBER-EBLIDA Workshop on Digitisation of Library Material in Europe. October 19-21, 2009.


 * International Open Access Week worldwide, October 19-23, 2009. For details on the many events celebrating OA week, see the list in OAD.


 * DRIVER Confederation Summit. Ghent, October 20, 2009.


 * An open access business model and researchers' attitudes. Sponsored by SPARC Japan.  Tokyo, October 20, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Sustainable Scholarship: Open Access and Digital Repositories. Forest Grove, Oregon, October 20, 2009


 * OASPA Open Access Week Webinar: Live Q&A Session With Five Oa Publishers. Online, October 20, 2009.


 * Open Access Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Internet. A public lecture by Molly Kleinman.  Iowa City, October 20, 2009.


 * Open Access Initiatives for Math Researchers. Toronto, October 20, 2009.


 * The Research University Imperative to Distribute Scholarly Materials. A public lecture by David Shulenburger.  Tucson, October 20, 2009.


 * An open access business model and researchers' attitudes. Tokyo, October 20, 2009.


 * Sustainable Scholarship: Open Access and Digital Repositories. Forest Grove, Oregon, October, 20, 2009.


 * The Future of Open Access. A public lecture by Mike Eisen.  October 20, 2009.


 * What Can Open Access Do for Academic Authors and Society? London, Ontario, October 20, 2009.


 * OER Programme Meeting. London, October 20, 2009.


 * Interlending and Document Supply Conference 2009. OA is among the topics.  Hannover, October 20-22, 2009.


 * Open Access Cambridge. Cambridge (UK), October 21, 2009.


 * Working together to strengthen research in Europe: European Research Area Conference 2009.  Sponsored by the European Commission.  OA is among the topics.  Brussels, October 21-23, 2009.


 * Panel Discussion On Open Access Issues. Mānoa, October 22, 2009.


 * The Future of Learned  Societies.  OA is among the topics.  New York, October 22, 2009.


 * Ensuring Open Access to Your Research. London, Ontario, October 22, 2009.


 * Open Access: Maximising Research Quality and Impact workshop in Latvia. Riga, Latvia, October 22-23, 2009.


 * Workshop on ‘Open Access Publishing' at NISCAIR. New Delhi, India, October 22-23, 2009.


 * Second International Conference on Open Access. Torun, Poland, October 22-24, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Free Culture Research Workshop 2009. Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 23, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * The Significance of Open Access to Research. Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 23, 2009.


 * Open Access, Author Rights, and OA Mandates. St. Paul, Minnesota, October 23, 2009.


 * Accesso aperto alla conoscenza e valutazione della ricerca. Salento, October 23, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Giornata di studio sull’Open Access. Rome, October 23, 2009.


 * Open Access Workshop an der Saarländischen Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek. Saarbrücken, October 23, 2009.


 * The future of Open Access: e-Research, Open Courseware, Social Network Services. Tokyo, October 23, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Open education. (Not the official title.)  A public lecture by David Wiley.  Tucson, October 23, 2009.


 * Throwing Open the Doors: Strategies and Implications for Open Access. Online, October 23, 2009.


 * Paris Accord, Round II. Scholarly publishing is among the topics. Paris, October 23-24, 2009.


 * Workshop Onderzoeksdata Knowledge Exchange-3. Where?  Apparently October 23-24, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)

For other conferences and workshops during Open Access Week (October 19-23, 2009), see the separate OAD list, Events celebrating Open Access Week.


 * Help us free London’s Data. London, October 24, 2009.


 * The Fifth International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration. Orlando, October 25-27, 2009.


 * European Commission Public Hearing on Orphan Works. Brussels, October 26, 2009. Registrations deadline October 12, 2009.


 * The Open Source Professor: Teaching, Research, and Transparency. College Park, Md., October 27, 2009.


 * Next Generation Digital Publishing, Preservation, and Scholarship. Sponsored by ITHAKA.  Houston, October 27, 2009.


 * Innovación Tecnológica en El Acceso Abierto a la Información Agrícola. Sponsored by the Asociación Interamericana de Bibliotecarios y Documentalistas Agrícolas (AIBDA).  A session within the XV Reunión Interamericana de Bibliotecarios y Documentalistas y Especialistas en Información Agrícola.  RIBDA 2009.  Lima, October 27-29, 2009.


 * Repositories in the Cloud: How to Participate in the DuraCloud Pilot Program. Sponsored by Sun Microsystems.  Online, October 28, 2009.


 * Institutional Repositories Series: Copyright. Online, October 28, 2009.


 * Publish or Perish' in an open access world: tools and best practices. Ghent, October 28, 2009.


 * Open Access Information Event. Leicester, October 28, 2009.


 * Yours, Mine, Ours? Copyright Ownership and IRs. Online, October 28, 2009.


 * Text Mining for Scholarly Communications and Repositories Joint Workshop. Manchester, October 28-29, 2009.


 * Canadian Science Policy Conference. OA is among the topics.  Toronto, October 28-30, 2009.


 * II Conferencia Internacional Brecha Digital e Inclusión Social. OA is among the topics.  Leganés, Spain, October 28-30, 2009.


 * International Conference on Intellectual Property and Cultural Heritage in the Digital World. Madrid, October 29-30, 2009.


 * Open Access: Maximising Research Quality and Impact workshop in Malawi. Zomba, Malawi, October 29-30, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * The Universal Repository Library and the Guarantees for the Sustainability of the Digital Copy. Kuopio, Finland, October 29-30, 2009.


 * Open Education and Open Educational Resources: Challenges and Perspectives. São Paulo, October 29-30, 2009.


 * Free Culture Forum: Organization and Action.  Barcelona, October 29 - November 1, 2009.


 * The Right to Information Access. OA is among the topics.  State College, Pennsylvania, October 30, 2009.


 * Open Everything. Ann Arbor, Mich., October 30, 2009.

November

 * Open Access 2009. 7th International Conference on Open Access.  This conference is on OA in the telecom sense, but it will touch on OA in our sense (at least for newspapers and radio).  Accra, Ghana, November 1-3, 2009.


 * Open Access: Maximising Research Quality and Impact. 2nd Open Access Initiative Workshop.  Zaria Kaduna, Nigeria, November 2-4, 2009.


 * Open 2009. OA is among the topics.  Helsinki, November 5-6, 2009.


 * Institutional Repositories Series: Datasets. Online, November 10, 2009.


 * Workshop on Copyright: Tackling Orphan Works and Improving Access to Works for Visually Impaired Persons. Brussels, November 10, 2009.


 * Bringing Research Data into the Library: Expanding the Horizons of Institutional Repositories. Online, November 10, 2009.


 * Public Domain Calculators Meeting. Cambridge, England, November 10-11, 2009.


 * Public Domain Calculators Meeting. Cambridge (UK), November 10-11, 2009.


 * aCCCeso. OA is among the topics.  San Jose, Costa Rica, November 11-13, 2009.


 * Investir le monde numérique. Montréal, November 11-14, 2009.


 * Scholarship in the digital era. Two public lectures (both on OA) by John Willinsky.  Kalamazoo, November 12, 2009.


 * Open Data and the Future of Funded Research. New York, November 12, 2009.


 * Open Access: Maximising Research Quality and Impact workshop. St. Petersburg, Russia, November 12-13, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Open Data and the Semantic Web. London, November 13, 2009.


 * Open Access im Forschungsbereich Gesundheit. Heidelberg, November 13, 2009.


 * Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship. OA is among the topics.  Charlottesville, Virginia, November 15-18, 2009.


 * Symposium on the Data Sharing Plans and on the Scientific Benefits of Data Sharing in GEOSS. Washington DC, November 16, 2009.


 * Association des administratrices et administrateurs de recherche universitaire du Québec. OA is among the topics.  November 18-20, 2009.


 * Data is the network: link or die. Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 19, 2009.


 * Data and Code Sharing Roundtable. New Haven, November 21, 2009.


 * Take a New Look at DuraSpace Solution Communities. Part of Sun's "All About Repositories" series.  Online, November 23, 2009.


 * Open Storage SAM Architectures. Part of Sun's "All About Repositories" series.  Online, November 24, 2009.


 * Aiding Scientific Journals Towards Open Access Publishing. Uppsala, Sweden, November 25, 2009


 * Mötesplats Open Access 2009. OpenAccess.se Meeting.  Uppsala, November 26-27, 2009.


 * Academic Online Resources: Assessment and Usage. Lille, November 26-27, 2009.


 * Les métamorphoses numériques du livre. Aix-en-Provence, France, November 30-December 1, 2009.

December

 * Proposal for a WTO Agreement on the Supply of Knowledge as a Global Public Good. Geneva, December 1, 2009.


 * Managing and sharing research data: focus on consent, confidentiality and disclosure. London, December 2, 2009.


 * The IA Web Archive and Sun's Modular Data Repository: A Grand Experiment in Production. Part of Sun's "All About Repositories" series.  Online, December 2, 2009.


 * Open Access: Reaching diverse communities.  Berlin 7 Open Access Conference.  Paris, December 2-4, 2009.


 * Towards a Semantic Web of Philosophy. Paris, December 3, 2009.


 * The present and future of Open Access repositories in worldwide and Asia-Pacific perspective. Digital Repository Federation International Conference 2009.  Toyko, December 3-4, 2009.


 * Interoperability of Digital Repositories. London, December 4, 2009.


 * 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science. Oxford, December 7-9, 2009.


 * Depósito e Acesso à Informação Científica em Open Access. Bragança, Portugal, December 9, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * Web-based Workflow Tools and Publishing. Sponsored by PubGet.  Online, December 11, 2009.


 * The Grey  Mosaic:  Piecing It All Together.  Eleventh International Conference on Grey Literature.  OA is among the topics.  Washington, DC, December 14-15, 2009.


 * Annual Technical Conference 2009. Hosted by Thailand's National Science and Technology Development.  OA is among the topics.  Bangkok, December 15, 2009.


 * Institutional Repositories Series: Partnerships. Online, December 16, 2009.


 * The Potential of Partnerships: Dissolving Silos for a Successful IR Implementation. Online, December 16, 2009.


 * Repositories in the Cloud: How to Participate in the DuraCloud Pilot Program. Part of Sun's "All About Repositories" series.  Online, December 16, 2009.


 * DuraCloud Pilot Program Web Seminar. Online, December 16, 2009.


 * National Workshop on Open Access in Senegal. Dakar, December 21-23, 2009.  (Looking for a better URL.)


 * 4a Conferência Sobre o Acesso Livre ao Conhecimento. Minho, Portugal, December 26-27, 2009.