2015

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.


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

January

 * Linking Data and Publications – The Past, Present, and Future. Online, January 8, 2015.


 * FORCE2015 Research Communication and e-Scholarship Conference. University of Oxford, January 12-13, 2015.


 * Roadmap to the Future of SHARE. Online, January 14, 2015.


 * DataCite, DOIs and Theses. London, UK, January 15, 2015.


 * The RECODE project and the National Documentation Centre 4th International Open Access Conference@EKT. Athens, Greece, January 14-15, 2015.


 * 2015 Public Domain Festival. Paris, France, January 16-31.


 * Creating Impact with Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition. Wageningen University and Research Centre, Netherlands, January 19-20, 2015.


 * The Repository Today: A Necessary Campus Investment. Online, January 22, 2015.


 * Reproducibility in Science and Policy – An Open Data Manchester January Special. Manchester, UK, January 27, 2015.


 * Sustaining Partnerships to Transform Scholarly Production. Whistler, BC, Canada, January 27-28, 2015.


 * Publishing Choices: Evaluating Traditional and Open Access Journals. George Mason University, January 29, 2015.


 * Tackling Textbook Costs through Open Educational Resources: A Primer. January 29 & 30, 2015, Chicago, USA.


 * Consultative Forum on Open Access (OA): Towards high level interventions for Research and Development in Africa. Nairobi, Kenya, January 29-30, 2015.


 * Scholarship@Western & Open Access: What’s in it for me?. Western University, Canada, January 30, 2015.

February

 * Open Science and Citizenship: Back on the SenseCamp 2015. Paris, France, February 7-8, 2015.


 * Science: Research Impact and Open Access for Engineers and Computer Scientists. University of Oxford, February 10, 2015.


 * How to Share Your Data and Ethically Re-Use Data Created by Others. University of Minnesota, February 12, 2015.


 * Paving the way for Open Educational Resources. Ohio State University, February 17, 2015.


 * OPEN ACCESS DISCUSSION MEETING. University of Twente, Netherlands, February 18, 2015.


 * Open Science Workshop. University of Maryland, February 19, 2015.


 * Open Knowledge - Open Arts. Università degli Studi di Catania, February 21, 2015.


 * Fair Use Week 2015. February 23-27, 2015.


 * Openness in GeoEducation: Introduction to Geospatial Technology Using QGIS. Online, February 23- 29 March, 2015.


 * Institutional & research repositories: Characteristics, relationships and roles. Online, February 26, 2015.


 * Digital Science Spotlight Event: Open Data For Researchers. London, UK, February 26, 2015.


 * The right repository for your research organization. Online, February 26, 2015.


 * Open Textbook Workshop. Virginia Tech, February 27, 2015.


 * India Open Data Summit. Jadavpur University, Kolkata, February 28, 2015.

March

 * NEW New forms of Business Intelligence in the service of scientific research. Paris, France, March 5, 2015.


 * NEW NCBI and the NIH Public Access Policy: PubMed Central submissions, My NCBI, My Bibliography and SciENcv. Online, March 5, 2015.


 * NEW Open Science : a Way to Make Research Better. Rome, Italy, March 5-7 2015.


 * NEW Hands-on anonymisation & risk control of publishing open data. Manchester, UK, March 9, 2015.


 * RDA Fifth Plenary Meeting. San Diego, California, March 9-11, 2015.


 * NEW Open Education Week 2015. Worldwide, March 9-13, 2015.


 * Symposium 'Open Science and Open Access'. TU/e, Netherlands, March 10, 2015.


 * NEW Open Science Show & Tell. Helsinki, Finland, March 10, 2015.


 * NEW Introduction to Authors' Rights. CUNY, New York, March 10, 2015.


 * NEW ALPSP Training Course: Developing Open Access and Hybrid Journals. London, UK, March 10, 2015.


 * NEW EIFL WEBINAR ON OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS AND BOOKS. Online, March 11, 2015.


 * NEW Center for Open Science Workshop. University of California, March 11-12, 2015.


 * NEW International Conference "Open Access and the South". Paris, France, March 12, 2015.


 * NEW Open access scientific revolution for the South?. Paris, France, March 12-13, 2015.


 * NEW Dendriting – Interviews with biohackers from around the world. Online, March 14, 2015.


 * Publishing in Libraries. SUNY College at Brockport, March 15, 2015.


 * NEW COAR-Webinar “Usage data for repositories”. Online, March 16, 2015.


 * Reinventing university publishing international symposium and THAT camp. Canberra, Australia, 17-19 March 2015.


 * NEW Open Access: what use for the researcher?. Maastricht University, March 18, 2015. CANCELLED


 * NEW Researcher workshop: Open Access - REF, research funders and more. Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, March 18, 2015.


 * NEW Open Humanities and Digital Scholarship: Access, Innovation, and Support. Boston, MA, March 19, 2015.


 * NEW Open Innovation in the Proprietary World. Geneva, Switzerland, March 19, 2015.


 * SUNY Publishing in Libraries Conference. SUNY College at Brockport, March 20, 2015.


 * NEW Open, Crowdsource and Blockchain Science!. National Design Center, Singapore, March 23, 2015.


 * NEW ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication (ISC). Portland, Oregon, March 25, 2015.


 * NEW Brown-Bag Discussion: How GW’s Open-Access Policy Works for You. George Washington University, March 25, 2015.


 * NEW ACRL 2015. OA is among the topics. Portland, Oregon, March 25-28, 2015.


 * NEW Jisc Monitor: Review the Monitor Local and UK Aggregation Prototypes. Birmingham, UK, March 26, 2015.


 * NEW Open data concept, publication and use: Russian and foreign practices. Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation, March, 26, 2015.


 * NEW On Double Duty: How Open Standards Enable Open Access. Online March 26, 2015.


 * The future for Open Access and the move towards Open Data. London, UK, March 26, 2015.


 * NEW rOpenSci Unconference. San Francisco, California, March 26-27, 2015.


 * NEW 3ème Open Access Colloquium. Paris, France, March 27, 2015.


 * Library Publishing Forum 2015. Portland, Oregon, March 29-30, 2015.


 * Law Repositories: Shaping the Future. William and Mary Law School, March 30-31, 2015.


 * NEW Open Science at the Global Scale: Sharing e-Infrastructures, Sharing Knowledge, Sharing Progress. Brussels, Belgium, March 31, 2015.

April

 * NEW An Exploration of Text and Data Mining of Scholarly Content. Harvard Medical School, April 2, 2015.


 * NEW Sailing the High Seas of Open Access Publishing with the OJS XML Galley Plugin. Indiana University, Bloomington, April 8, 2015.


 * NEW Open Access and the Graduate Experience featuring Nick Shockey. University of Texas, Austin, April 8, 2015.


 * OER15: Mainstreaming Open Education. Cardiff, Wales, April 14-15, 2015.


 * NEW Open Access and Research Data Management: Horizon 2020. University College, Cork, Ireland, April 14-15, 2015.


 * NEW Mötesplats Open Access 2015. University of Malmö, Sweden, April 14-15, 2015.


 * NEW London Book Fair 2015 OA is among the topics. London, UK, April 14-16, 2015.


 * NEW The Open Access to Research: Understanding policy, preparing for the future. London, UK, April 15, 2015.


 * 2020 Vision: Making your research output compliant. Keble College, Oxford, April 15, 2015.


 * COAR - SPARC Conference: Connecting research results, bridging communities, opening scholarship. Porto, Portuga, April 15-16, 2015.


 * NEW Publishing in Open Access Journals: Learning the Ins and Outs. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, April 16, 2015.


 * The 19th Annual BCLT/BTLJ Symposium: Open Data: Addressing Privacy, Security, and Civil Rights Challenges. Berkeley, California, April 17, 2015.


 * NEW Acesso globalizado ao formato digital de teses e dissertações. University of Aveiro, April 17, 2015.


 * NEW The 'Golden Road' to Open Access in the Humanities: Workshop in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities (UvA). Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 17, 2015.


 * NEW Institutional Repository (IR) Day. University of Southern Mississippi, April 17, 2015.


 * DPLAfest 2015. Indianapolis, Indiana, April 17-18, 2015.


 * NEW 2020 Vision: Making Your Research Output Compliant. University of Oxford, April 21, 2015.


 * NEW Panel on Open Access and the Future of Publishing. University of California, San Diego, April 21, 2015.


 * NEW You Made the Move to Open Access. What's Next for Your Business?. Online, April 21 & April 24, 2015.


 * NEW Livestream: Five Good Ideas about how to use, share and contribute to Open Data. Online, April 22, 2015.


 * NEW Writing and Publishing in the Digital Age discussion at Wesleyan University. Wesleyan University, April 22, 2015.


 * NEW How to go Open Access. Online, April 23, 2015.


 * NEW Get It Right: Negotiating the Publishing Contract and Rights to Your Scholarship. Georgetown University, April 23, 2015.


 * NEW HIMALDOC: A one-stop portal for Himalayan information resources. Online, April 23, 2015.


 * NEW FOSTER-UNESCO Open Science for Doctoral Schools. Paris, France, April 23-24, 2015.


 * NEW Coding Da Vinci. Online, April 25 - July 5, 2015.


 * Advancing Research Communication and Scholarship. Philadelphia, PA, April 26-28, 2015.


 * NEW Shaking It Up: Challenges and Solutions In Scholarly Information Management. San Francisco, California, April 27, 2015.


 * NEW Encuentro de datos abiertos. University of Alicante, Spain, April 28, 2015.


 * NEW Special Session on Free Open Source Software for Geospatial: Enabling Open Data and Open Science - FOSS4ODOS 2015. Barcelona, Spain, April 28-30, 2015.


 * 2015 Digital Initiatives Symposium. University of San Diego, April 29, 2015.

May

 * NEW The Changing Ecosystem of Scholarly Communication. University of Chicago, May 1, 2015.


 * NEW Matinée d'échanges Open Access : enjeux et opportunités pour l'Université de Lyon. University of Lyon, France, May 5, 2015.


 * NEW Open Data for Academics – Keynotes and Panel Discussion. Stockholm, Sweden, May 5, 2015.


 * NEW Knowledge Made Public: Open Access. Humanities. Social Sciences. City University of New York, May 5, 2015.


 * NEW Demystifying Altmetrics & the Search for Quality. CUNY, May 7. 2015.


 * NEW Open Access and open policy in National Science Centre in Poland. Krakow, Poland, May 7-8, 2015.


 * NEW OSCAL 2015 | Open Source Conference Albania. Tiranë, Albania, May 9, 2015.


 * NEW YEAR Annual Conference 2015: Open Science. Helsinki, Finland, May 11-12, 2015.


 * NEW CRIS 2015: SUPPORT AND MANAGE OPEN DATA, OPEN ACCESS, AND OPEN SCIENCE. Paris, France, May 11-12, 2015.


 * NEW Learning Innovations and Quality (LINQ 2015). OA is among the topics. Brussels, Belgium, May 11-13, 2015.


 * NEW PASTEUR4OA PROJECT MID-TERM MEETING. Brussels, Belgium, May 13, 2015.


 * NEW Finding Open Access Science Resources. Online, May 14, 2015.


 * NEW Open Data and Digital Services: Foundations for a New Information Economy. Canberra, Australia, May 25, 2015.


 * NEW University of North Texas (UNT) Annual Open Access Symposia: 2015 Symposium “Open Access and the Law”. Denton, Texas, May 18-19, 2015.


 * NEW Free UKSG webinar - Getting the Rights Right - or When policies collide!. Online, May 19, 2015.


 * NEW Booking open: Uncovering researcher behaviours and engagement with Open Access. Oxford Brookes University, May 20, 2015.


 * NEW A self-sustaining business model for open data. Danube University KREMS, Austria, May 20-21, 2015.


 * NEW Inbjudan till föreläsning om Open Access med Marie Farge. Royal Library, Sweden, May 25, 2015.


 * CFP PRE-ECIS 2015 Workshop on Open Research and Practice in IS. Muenster, Germany, May 26-29, 2015.


 * NEW Evolving Information Policies & Their Implications: A Conversation for Librarians & Publishers'''. Arlington, Virginia, May 27, 2015.


 * NEW Orphan Works Basics and Best Practices. Online, May 27, 2015.


 * 3rd International Open Data Conference (IODC). Ottawa, Canada, May 28-29, 2015.


 * NEW Open Textbook Summit. Simon Fraser University, May 28-29. 2015.


 * NEW Open Research Data: Implications for Science and Society. Warsaw, Poland, May 28-29, 2015.


 * NEW Open Access and its Impact on Research and Scholarship. Bugibba, Malta, May 29, 2015.


 * NEW Open Data Science Conference. Boston, MA, May 30-31, 2015.


 * NEW Open Clinica 2015. Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 31 - June 1, 2015.

June

 * NEW Open Science and e-Infrastructures. Riga, Latvia, June 3, 2015.


 * NEW Open Access Publishing Seminar at University of Canterbury. University of Canterbury, New Zealand, June 4, 2015.


 * NEW Open Research Data Hack Days 2015. Zurich, Switzerland, June 5-6, 2015.


 * NEW 2015 Open Repositories Conference (OR2015). Indianapolis, Indiana, June 8 -11, 2014.


 * NEW Free UKSG webinar - Creative Commons and Education – are we there yet?. Online. June 9, 2015.


 * NEW HORIZON 2020 OPEN RESEARCH DATA PILOT AND THE ZENODO DATA REPOSITORY. Online, June 9, 2015.


 * NEW Digital Technologies and Development: Mobilization, Censorship, Entrepreneurship and Copyright. Cairo, Egypt, June 9, 2015.


 * NEW First Annual Dataverse Community Meeting. Harvard University, June 9-11, 2015.


 * NEW Digital Odyssey: Open Data, Open Heritage Ontario Library and Information Technology Association, George Brown College, Waterfront Campus, Toronto, June 11, 2015.


 * NEW Pelagios and Recogito: an annotation platform for joining a linked data world. Online, June 12, 2015.


 * NEW KALRO (KAINET) Open Data and Open Science in Agriculture Workshop, Nairobi, Kenya, June 15-18, 2015.


 * NEW Marine Biological Association: After Coffee talk on Open Access. Plymouth, UK, June 16, 2015.


 * The CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI9). University of Geneva, June 17-19, 2015.


 * NEW DC SHARE Research Data Hackathon. Washington, DC, June 20, 2015.


 * NEW IRUS-UK for EPrints. Online, June 24, 2015.


 * NEW 4TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MINING SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, June 21-25, 2015.


 * LIBER Anuual Conference 2015: Towards open science. London, UK, June 24-26, 2015.


 * NEW Developing research through open access – a one-day HHuLOA project event. York, UK, June 25, 2015.


 * NEW AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium. Washington, DC, June 25-26, 2015.


 * NEW The Helix Nebula Initiative: Towards a European Open Science Cloud. Geneva, Switzerland, June 26, 2015.


 * NEW Information session on the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications. University of Guleph, June 26, 2015.


 * NEW Open Access and managing research data in 2020. Paris, France, June 29-30, 2015.

July

 * NEW 36th Annual IATUL Conference. Hanover, Germany, July 5-9, 2015.


 * NEW How am I Doing? A Framework for Repository Benchmarking. Online, July 9, 2015.


 * NEW FOSS4G-Europe 2015. Como, Italy, July 14-17, 2015.


 * CfP: Openness and Intellectual Property. University of Pennsylvania, July 22-24, 2015.


 * NEW CESSDA Research Data Management for Open Data doctoral training series: RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT AND OPEN DATA. University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 27 - August 7, 2015.

August

 * 5th International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference: scholarship, technology, and community. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 11-14, 2015 ]'''.

September

 * ELPUB 2015: Scale, Openness and Trust: New Avenues for Electronic Publishing in the Age of Infinite Collections and Citizen Science. Malta, September 1-2, 2015.


 * NEW Wikipedia Science Conference. London, UK, September 2-3, 2015.


 * NEW DC 2015: Metadata and Ubiquitous Access to Culture, Science and Digital Humanities. Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 1-5, 2015.


 * NEW SOLAS Open Science Conference. Kiel, Germany, September 7-11, 2015.


 * NEW The 7th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP). Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 15-17, 2015.


 * NEW hird International Workshop on Digital Scientific Communication (WDSC): Reuse, Sharing, and Assessment of All Research Products. Poznań University of Technology, Poland, September 18, 2015.

October

 * 6ª Conferência Luso-Brasileira de Acesso Aberto (Confoa). At Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil, 4-7 October 2015.


 * NEW 2015 International Open Access Week: “Open for Collaboration". Worldwide, October 19 - 25, 2015.


 * NEW Open Science - the 21st century benefits for researchers. National Library of Latvia, October 20, 2015.


 * NEW 2015 DLF Forum. Vancouver, British Columbia, October 26-28, 2015.

November

 * NEW ETD 2015. New Delhi, India, November 4-6, 2015.


 * International Colloquium on Open Access and Knowledge Democratization (in Spanish). At CLACSO´s Latin America and the Caribbean Social Science Conference, Medellín, Colombia, 9-13 November


 * NEW Transforming Scholarship: Open Access, Data Sharing, and Emerging Forms of Publication. Denver, Colorado, November 11-14, 2015.


 * NEW OpenCon 2015: 2nd Conference for Students & Early Career Academic Professionals on Open Access, Open Education and Open Data. Brussels, Belgium, November 14-16, 2015.


 * NEW The Open Education Conference, 2015. Vancouver, BC, November 18-20, 2015.