2011

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

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

January

• Workshop zum DFG-Förderprogramm „Open-Access-Publizieren“. Bonn, January 4, 2011.

• Marketplace: Open Access and the changing state of scholarly publishing. Co-sponsored by ARL, SPARC, and ACRL. San Diego, January 8, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Hybrid Journals: Transition to Full Open Access or Here to Stay? A session within the ALA Midwinter Meeting, sponsored by ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group. San Diego, January 11, 2011.

• Academic Publishing in Europe: Smarter Publishing in the New Decade. APE 2011. OA is among the topics. Berlin, January 11-12, 2011.

• Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP). What publishers offer, what researchers want. Facts for publishers, funding agencies and libraries. Also here. Berlin, January 13, 2011.

• Visions of a Semantic (Molecular) Future. OA is among the topics. Cambridge, England, January 15-17, 2011.

• Access to Knowledge (A2K) Global Academy . Sponsored by the Yale Law School Information Society Project. Cape Town, January 18-19, 2011.

• Beyond the PDF. San Diego, January 19-21, 2011.

• A Global Perspective on Open Access. Sponsored by the Dutch National UNESCO Commission. Amsterdam, January 20, 2011. Conclusions.

• Creating a Data Management Plan. Minneapolis, January 20 (and again January 21), 2011.

• Open Institutions: institutional imagination and cultural public sphere. Zagreb, January 20-23, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• arXiv Activity, Analysis, and Avatars. A public lecture by Paul Ginsparg. Williamsburg, Virginia, January 21, 2011.

• Research databases in the humanities - where next? Oxford, January 21, 2011.

• Open Edge - Open Source in Libraries. Edinburgh, January 25-26, 2011.

• Open Textbook Forum. Irvine, California, January 26, 2011.

• ALCTS webinar: Copyright and Contracts: Moving Beyond Text in IRs. Online, January 26, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

February

• A Forum for Publishers and Librarians. The 7th Annual SSP Librarian Focus Group. OA is among the topics. Washington, D.C., February 1, 2011.

• Digital Library Research and Open Access. Interoperability Strategies. London, February 4, 2011.

• World Forum - Science and democracy. OA is among the topics. Dakar, February 7-11, 2011.

• Freebase. A public lecture by Tom Morris. Boston, February 9, 2011.

• Repositories Support Project Winter School 2011. Cumbria, February 9-11, 2011.

• Publishing Without Boundaries. Tools of Change for Publishing, TOC 2011. OA is among the topics. New York, February 14-16, 2011.

• Workshop on Mathematics Journals. Mostly about OA journals. Berkeley, February 14-16, 2011.

• International Conference on Digital Libraries and Knowledge Organization. OA is among the topics. Gurgaon, India, February 14-16, 2011.

• Deciding to Digitize: Legal, Ethical, and Copyright Considerations. An online course. February 14 - March 11, 2011.

• Open Access Initiatives in Scholarly Communications: Getting your University on Board. An ALCTS e-Forum hosted by Adrian Ho and Sarah Shreeves. Online, February 16-17, 2011.

• Scalable Online Archive and Repository, The Solution - Part 1. Part of the two-part series, Need to implement an online Repository and Archive? Online, February 17, 2011.

• Open data: apps for everyone? Opportunities and challenges in the re-use of public sector information. Berlin, February 18, 2011.

• Buenas Prácticas y Políticas Editoriales Open Access para Publicaciones Académicas Latinoamericanas. Another URL. Bogotá, Colombia, February 18, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Understanding Open Access. Urbana-Champaign, February 18, 2011.

• The Digitization of Science: Reproducibility and Interdisciplinary Knowledge Transfer. A session within the larger AAAS Annual Meeting. Washington DC, February 19, 2011.

• Students for Free Culture Conference. OA is among the topics. New York, February 19-20, 2011.

• Recession is the Mother of Invention. 2011 Annual Conference of the Association of Subscription Agents & Intermediaries. OA is among the topics. London, February 21-22, 2011.

• Scalable Online Archive and Repository, The Technology - Part 2. Part of the two-part series, Need to implement an online Repository and Archive? Online, February 24, 2011.

• Personal Digital Archiving 2011. San Francisco, February 24-25, 2011.

• OAPEN 2011. "The First OAPEN Conference." Berlin, February 24-25, 2011.

• Open Document Format Plugfest. OA is among the topics. London, February 24-25, 2011.

• NECOBELAC T1 - Scientific Publications & Open Access Repositories. Madrid, Spain, February 28- March 02, 2011.

March

• IUWIS-Workshop: Urheberrecht und Repositorien. Osnabruck, March 2, 2011.

• Towards Building a Knowledge Society: Library as Catalyst for Knowledge Discovery and Management. CALIBER (Convention on Automation of Libraries in Education and Research Institutions) 2011. OA is among the topics. Goa, India, March 2-4, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Vernetzungtage 2011. OA (esp. green OA) is among the topics. Osnabrück, March 2-4, 2011.

• Information und Wissen: global, sozial und frei? Internationale Symposium der Informationswissenschaft (ISI 2011). Hildesheim, March 9-11, 2011.

• The Future of Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Networked Environments: A National Symposium and Workshop. Washington DC, March 10-11, 2011.

• NECOBELAC T2 – Workshop on Writing Scientific Papers La Habana, Cuba, March 11, 2011.

• JISC conference 2011. OA is among the topics. Liverpool, March 14-15, 2011.

• The International Amateur Scanning League, Unlocking the Federal Archives One Work at a Time. College Park, Md., March 15, 2011.

• Buenas Prácticas y Políticas Editoriales Open Access para Publicaciones Académicas Latinoamericanas. Punta Arenas, Chile, March 15, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• I fought the learning repository and the learning repository won!. Sponsored by SHARE. "A workshop on developments in learning repositories." Nottingham, March 16, 2011.

• Matinée d’étude : Publications scientifiques et financement européen. OA is among the topics. Paris, March 16, 2011.

• Open Access to Scientific Information seminar. New Delhi, March 16, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• IR Day: Winning Strategies from the Institutional Repository All Stars. Indianapolis, March 17, 2011.

• Open content licensing for educators. Online, March 21-25, 2011.

• Open Access and Digital Libraries workshop. Sponsored by UNESCO. Vientiane, Laos, March 21-25, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• NECOBELAC T2 - Nozioni di strategia individuale per la stesura di un lavoro scientifico internazionale: come, dove, quando. Rome, Italia March 25-26, 2011.

• UCD Open Access Institutional Repository informational sessions. Dublin, March 22, 24, 29, 30, 2011.

• Mining the Digital Traces of Science. Paris, March 22-25, 2011.

• Does it make a difference? Researching and evaluating the impact of repositories and OERs on teaching and learning. Milton Keynes, March 23, 2011.

• Buenas Prácticas y Políticas Editoriales Open Access para Publicaciones Académicas Latinoamericanas. Valdivia, Chile, March 23, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Bridging the Gap between Personal Publication Lists and Institutional Services – PubLister Symposium and Workshop. Bielefeld, March 23-24, 2011.

• SHERPA/RoMEO for Repository Administrators. Birmingham, March 24, 2011.

• Using the Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) Model for Annotation Interoperability. Chicago, March 24-25, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Supporting and Influencing the deposit of E-Theses in Higher Education. London, March 28, 2011.

• COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) General Assembly. Debrecen, Hungary, March 29, 2011.

• Buenas Prácticas y Políticas Editoriales Open Access para Publicaciones Académicas Latinoamericanas. Santiago, Chile, March 29, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• IR Tailgate: Winning strategies from the institutional repository All-Stars. A session sponsored by SPARC and bepress at the ACRL 2011 meeting. Philadelphia, March 30, 2011.

• KE Virtual Research Environments Working Group meeting. Copenhagen, March 30, 2011.

• PA-ALPSP Journal Publishers' Forum: Open access: the next ten years. Sponsored by the Publishers Association and the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers. London, March 31, 2010.

• The 2nd Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit. An ASIS&T Summit, in cooperation with the Coalition for Networked Information. Denver, March 31 - April 1, 2011.

April

• Eurodoc 2011. OA is among the topics. Vilnius, Lithuania, April 1, 2001.

• RoMEO and CRIS in Practice. OA is among the topics. Sponsored by the Repositories Support Project. Birmingham, April 1, 2011.

• Coloquio Acceso Abierto a la Información en las Bibliotecas Académicas de América Latina y el Caribe. Mexico City, April 4-6, 2011.

• Open Textbooks: The College Student Speaks Out. Online, April 5, 2011.

• SCOAP3 Decision-Making meeting. Geneva, April 6, 2011.

• SHARE Conference. Belgrade, April 7-9, 2011.

• Law and the GeoWeb: Intellectual Property Issues and Geographic Data in the Internet Era. Seattle, April 11, 2011.

• Islandora: Foundation of a Rich Repository Ecosystem. Online, April 13, 2011.

• The Other Side of the Copyright Coin: Asserting Our Fair-Use Rights. OA is among the topics. Norwood, Massachusetts, April 14, 2011.

• Public Access to Information? Challenges for Information Gatekeepers. London, April 14, 2011.

• IFLA Presidential Meeting 2011. OA is among the topics. The Hague, April 14-15, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• NECOBELAC T2 - Project NECOBELAC's strategy to promote best practice in scientific publication and open access to scientific publications in the field of public health.. Cadiz, Spain, April 13-15, 2011.

• Democratizing Development through Open Data. Washington DC, April 15, 2011.

• Sage Bionetworks Commons Conference. San Francisco, April 15-16, 2011.

• ARCH2POCM. OA is among the topics. San Francisco, April 16-17, 2011.

• Opening Data – Opening Doors. Manchester, April 18, 2011.

• Open Source and Open Access. An online course by Michael Carroll. Online, April 18-29, 2011.

• The Case for International Sharing of Scientific Data: A Focus on Developing Countries. Washington DC, April 18-19, 2011.

• The role of open access in maximising the impact of biomedical research. A public lecture by Sir Mark Walport, Director of the Wellcome Trust. Oxford, April 19, 2011.

• Creative Commons Salon: Open Services Innovation. San Francisco, April 25, 2011.

• Sustainable Models for Society Publications. OA is among the topics. Minneapolis, April 25, 2011.

May

• Promoting Innovation Development and Diffusion in Africa through Open Access Publishing. Addis Ababa, May 2, 2011.

• Co-ordination Workshop on Open Access to Scientific Information. Convened by the European Commission. Brussels, May 4, 2011.

• OpenCourseWare Consortium Global 2011 Conference. Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 4-6, 2011.

• Harvard Digital Scholarship Summit 2011. OA is among the topics. Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 5, 2011.

• Planning for research data management: meeting funder imperatives. Leicester, May 5-6, 2011.

• Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government. OA is among the topics. Krems, Austria, May 5-6, 2011.

• OpenBiblio Workshop. London, May 6, 2011.

• Information and Knowledge Dissemination : Present Status and Future Direction. Kolkata, India, May 6-7, 2011.

• Healthcare Information for All by 2015 (HIFA2015) Conference. London, May 9, 2011.

• SHERPA/RoMEO for Publishers. London, May 11, 2011.

• Fri tillgång. Visby, Sweden, May 11-13, 2011.

• Collections Across Frontiers : Technology and Globalization. The Fiesole Collection Development Retreat Series. OA is among the topics. St. Petersburg, May 11-13, 2011.

• Who owns the orphans? Traditional and Digital Property in Visual Art. London, May 12, 2011.

• Law and access to culture in the information society: questions and legal challenges. Barcelona (?), May 12, 2011.

• Open Data for Development Camp. Amsterdam, May 12-13, 2011.

• Medical Library Association Annual Meeting 2011. OA is among the topics. Minneapolis, May 13-18, 2011.

• Global Interoperability and Linked Data Workshop. Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 16-17, 2011.

• NECOBELAC T1 - Scientific Publications & Open Access Repositories. Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 16-19, 2011.

• WSIS Forum 2011. Geneva, May 16-20, 2011.

• NECOBELAC T2 - La competenza racchiusa nella pratica clinica dell'infermiere e dell'ostetrica.. Rome, Italia, May 19-20, 2011.

• WSIS Forum 2011. OA is among the topics. Geneva, May 16-20, 2011.

• Global Interoperability and Linked Data Workshop. Amsterdam, May 16-17, 2011.

• Lunch Talk on Open Access Resources. Tyndale University College & Seminary. Toronto, May 17, 2011.

• Open Onderzoeks Data Dag. Amsterdam, May 18, 2011.

• DReSNet policies workshop. London, May 18-19, 2011.

• Open Access: Progress since WSIS 2010. Sponsored by UNESCO, IFLA and EIFL. Geneva, May 19, 2011.

• 2nd Annual Open Access Symposium. Denton, Texas, May 20, 2011.

• Open Access and Scientific Writing. Hangzhou, May 20, 2011.

• The European Student Summit on Open Access. Berlin, May 20-21, 2011.

• Open Access Repositories with EPrints. Sponsored by EIFL. Online, May 23, 2011.

• Open Access and Scientific Writing. Shanghai, May 23, 2011.

• Lunch Talk on Open Access Resources. Tyndale University College & Seminary. Toronto, May 24, 2011.

• Knowledge Exchange Open Access Working Group meeting. Copenhagen, May 24, 2011.

• Interdisciplinary Computing and Open Science. Eugene, Oregon, May 24, 2011.

• Lunch Talk on Open Access Resources. Tyndale University College & Seminary. Toronto, May 25, 2011.

• Open Access@DTU Aqua. Online, May 25, 2011.

• e-Cornucopia.2011: The Open Digital University. OA is among the topics. Oakland, May 26, 2011.

• e-Cornucopoia OPEN Digital University Conference. OA is among the topics. Rochester, Michigan, May 26, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Copyright Fit for the Internet: National and International Strategies to Support Education and Research. ENCES Workshop. OA is among the topics. London, May 27, 2011.

• Lunch Talk on Open Access Resources. Tyndale University College & Seminary. Toronto, May 27, 2011.

• Public Hearing on Scientific Information in Europe. Sponsored by the European Commission. OA is among the topics. Luxembourg, May 30, 2011.

• Open access advocacy - EIFL-OA online workshop. Online, May 30, 2011.

• IASSIST 2011: Data Science Professionals: a Global Community of Sharing. Vancouver, May 30 - June 3, 2011.

• Webcast invitation: What is the Digital Public Library of America? Online, May 31, 2011.

June

• Reengineering the Institutional Repository to Engage Users. Online, June 1, 2011.

• It's What Counts: How Data Transforms Our World. Society for Scholarly Publishing, Annual Meeting 2011. OA is among the topics. Boston, June 1-3, 2011.

• Gathering Open Data. Berlin, June 2, 2011.

• Open Source: What is it; Why does DuraSpace develop under the OS Umbrella? Online, June 2, 2011.

• Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums Summit. San Francisco, June 2-3, 2011.

• Open4Learning. Nelson, British Columbia, June 2-3, 2011.

• Processing Open Data. Berlin, June 3, 2011.

• Open Data Workshop. (On government data, not research data.) Sofia, Bulgaria, June 4, 2011.

• Visualising Open Data. Berlin, June 4, 2011.

• Open Repositories 2011. Austin, June 6-11, 2011.

• OpenAIRE - what libraries need to know. Sponsored by SPARC Europe. Online, June 7, 2011.

• Bibliotheken für die Zukunft – Zukunft für die Bibliotheken. OA is among the topics. Berlin, June 7-10, 2011.

• Town Hall meeting on Open Science at Southbank Centre. London, June 8, 2011.

• Store-Share-and-Cite: Increase your citations by (re)use of research data. Delft, June 9, 2011.

• Live chat: intellectual property rights. OA is among the topics. Online, June 9, 2011.

• Performing Arts Digital Collection for the New Millennium. ECLAP, E-Library for Performing Arts First Workshop 2011. Brussels, June 9-10, 2011.

• NECOBELAC T2 - Scrivere per comunicare la scienza: tecniche, strategie e risorse nel web 2.0.. Legnaro (PD), Italia, June 9-10, 2011.

• Changing Publication Cultures in the Humanities. OA is among the topics. Maynooth, Ireland, June 9-11, 2011.

• Open Access: Success Strategies for Institutional Repositories- workshop. SLA Conference, Philadelphia, June 11, 2011. [No website yet]

• Special Libraries Association 2011. OA is among the topics. Philadelphia, June 12-15, 2011.

• Digital libraries: Bringing Together Scholars, Scholarship and Research Data. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2011. Ottawa, June 13-17, 2011.

• The Google Books Settlement: What’s Up and What’s Next? Online, June 14, 2011.

• DINI E-Pub und OA auf dem 100. Deutschen Bibliothekartag in Berlin. Berlin, June 14, 2011.

• Communication Skills for Effective Advocacy. On skills "which repository managers can use to influence key people in their institutions." Manchester, June 15, 2011.

• Otwarte zasoby wiedzy - nowe zadania uczelni i bibliotek w rozwoju komunikacji naukowej. Krakow, June 15-17, 2011.

• NECOBELAC T1 - Scientific Publications & Open Access Repositories. Braga, Portugal, June 15-17, 2011.

• Open Government Data. Vienna, June 16, 2011.

• Communia Association Launch. Brussels, June 16, 2011.

• The Future of Law Libraries: The Future Is Now?. OA is among the topics. Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 16, 2011.

• Workshop on Disciplinary Repositories and Field-Specific Digital Libraries. A session within JCDL 2011. Ottawa, June 16-17, 2011.

• LERU (League of European Research Universities) Roadmap Towards Open Access. Brussels, June 17, 2011.

• Bridging the Gap between Information Access and Understanding in Health Research. London, June 17, 2011.

• Consultation on the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing. Beijing June 20-23, 2011.

• Open Government: Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards. Nottingham, June 21, 2011.

• OpenAIRE Workshop. Geneva, June 21, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• OpenAIRE Liaison Workshop. Geneva, June 21, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Knowledge Exchange (KE) Interoperability of Digital Repositories working group meeting. Utrecht, June 21, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Making Scientific Research Data Accessible: Current Trends and Perspectives in Germany. Washington DC, June 21, 2011.

• OpenAIRE at the OA Café. Genenva, June 22, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI7). OA is among the topics. Geneva, June 22-24, 2011.

• Digital Publishing and Mobile Technologies. 15th International Conference on Electronic Publishing. Istanbul, June 22-24, 2011.

• SPARC-ACRL forum at ALA: Focusing on the Berlin Open Access Declaration. New Orleans, June 25, 2011.

• Library-Press Collaboration: How do they work together to advance scholarly communication? OA is among the topics. A session within the ALA annual meeting. New Orleans, June 25, 2011.

• Global trends and local actions for liaison and teaching librarians to support changes in scholarly communication. OA is among the topics. A session within the ALA annual meeting. New Orleans, June 26, 2011.

• 21st Century Scholarly Communication: Conversations for Change. OA is among the topics. A session within the ALA annual meeting. New Orleans, June 27, 2011.

• Webinar on Knowledge Translation Methods & Tools. OA is among the topics. Online, June 28, 2011.

• T2 Produzione scientifica. Accessibilità = utilizzo. Rome, Italia, June 28, 2011.

• SPARC Europe Annual Meeting. Part of the 40th LIBER annual conference. Barcelona, June 29, 2011.

• Open Knowledge Conference. OKCon 2011. Berlin, June 30 - July 1, 2011.

• Social Media and the Academy: Enhancing and enabling scholarly communication. Fifth Bloomsbury Conference on E-Publishing and E-Publications. London, June 30 - July 1, 2011.

July

• The Power of Open. London, July 1, 2011.

• Open Knowledge and Data Environment for Innovative Research. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, July 4-6, 2011.

• Wikipedia in Higher Education Summit. Boston, July 7-9, 2011.

• EFITA/VOA3R Workshop on Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repositories. Prague, July 13, 2011.

• Open access publishing in the arts and humanities. London, July 15, 2011.

• Kultivate Project Conference. (On green OA in the arts.) London, July 15, 2011.

• Open Access Institutional Repository Advocacy. July 18-19, 2011. (In Accra?) (Looking for a better URL.)

• Repositories and CRIS: working smartly together. Conference and Software Exhibition. Nottingham, July 19, 2011.

• SHERPA/RoMEO for Publishers. London, July 20, 2011.

• Evaluación de la actividad investigadora universitaria. OA is among the topics. Alicante, Spain, July 20-22, 2011.

• Towards a Digital Mathematics Library. OA is among the topics. Bertinoro, Italy, July 20-21, 2011.

• Islandora Camp 2011. Prince Edward Island, July 20-22, 2011.

• The Future of the Book. Tallahassee, Florida, July 21-22, 2011.

• Capacity building for open access repository administrators and managers: EIFL-OA – KIT – COAR online workshop. Online, July 27, 2011.

• Training course on Open Access and DSpace@ScienceUofK for researchers. Khartoum, July 27, 2011.

• Open Science and Social Science Workshop. Berlin, July 29, 2011.

August

• Repository Fringe 2011. August 3-5, 2011. (Where?) (Looking for a better URL.)

• Workshop on OA platforms/software & repositories. Gaborone, Botswana, August 11, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Perspectives Workshop: The Future of Research Communication. OA is among the topics. Dagstuhl, August 15-18, 2011.

• Beyond barriers to accessing health information. Sponsored by the IFLA Health and Biosciences Libraries Section and Library Services to People with Special Needs Section. San Juan, Puerto Rico, August 13-18, 2011.

• Open Access Journal Publishing. Sponsored by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) in collaboration with UNESCO. Pretoria, August 18, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards: An International Symposium and Workshop. Berkeley, August 22-23, 2011.

• NECOBELAC T1 - Scientific Publications & Open Access Repositories. Guadalajara, Mexico, August 22-24, 2011.

• Data and the Scholarly Record: the Changing Landscape. DataCite 2011. Berkeley, August 24, 2011.

• DevCSI / GECO Open Mapping Workshop. Glasgow, August 25, 2011.

• 5th Meeting on U.S. Government Chemical Databases and Open Chemistry. Frederick, Maryland, August 25-26, 2011.

• Global Congress on Public Interest Intellectual Property Law. OA is among the topics. Washington DC, August 25-27, 2011.

September

• Science Online London. OA is among the topics. London, September 2-3, 2011.

• Readiness for REF (R4R) Workshop. London, September 5, 2011.

• Doing Science in the Open. London, September 5, 2011.

• 1st International Technology, Education and Environment Conference . OA is among the topics. Omoku, Nigeria, September 5-8, 2011.

• PubMan Days 2011. Berlin, September 7-8, 2011.

• Ten Strategies for Grey Literature. GreyWorks 2011. OA is among the topics. Amsterdam, September 9, 2011].

• Open Access Repositories with DSpace and Fedora. Online, September 9, 2011.

• Knowledge Exchange (KE) Seminar on Legal Status on Research Data. Brussels, September 9, 2011.

• OpenAIRE workshop for repository managers and Open Access advisors. Lyngby, Denmark, September 9, 2011.

• Wikimedia und Open Access. Nürnberg, September 10, 2011.

• Open Video Conference. New York, September 10-11, 2011.

• 14th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations. ETD2011. Cape Town, South Africa, September 13-17, 2011.

• Mapping the Data Landscape: The 2011 Canadian Research Data Summit . OA is among the topics. Ottawa, September 14-15, 2011.

• Open Hardware Summit. New York, September 15, 2011.

• DSpace Workshop: Lets Get Started! Creating Institutional Repositories Using Open Source Software. A session within the 14th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD2011). Cape Town, September 16, 2011.

• Pan African Conference on Access to Information. OA is among the topics. Cape Town, September 17-19, 2011.

• Is there a future for the scholarly monograph? A public lecture by Colin Steele. Melbourne, September 20, 2011.

• OpenAIRE webcast for Repository Managers and Open Access Advisors. Mostly in Portuguese. Online, September 20, 2011.

• Scholarly Society Journals in Transition to Open Access. A workshop within the 3rd Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP), below. Tallinn, Estonia, September 21, 2011.

• Scholarly Society Journals in Transistion to Open Access. A workshop held in conjunction with the Conference of the Open Access Publishers Association. Tallinn, September 21, 2011.

• Proposal for a WTO Agreement on the Supply of Knowledge as a Public Good. Geneva, September 21, 2011.

• 3rd Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing. Sponsored by OASPA. Tallinn, Estonia, September 21-23, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Open World Forum. Paris, September 22-24, 2011.

• Open Government Data Conference & Data Camp. Brisbane, September 23, 2011.

• Journal Article Tag Suite Conference. Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine. Bethesda, September 26-27, 2011.

• PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2011. Berlin, September 26-28, 2011.

• International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2011. OA is among the topics. Berlin, September 26-28, 2011.

• New Trends for Science Dissemination. OA is among the topics. Trieste, September 26-28, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Disseminating research resources and publications in the humanities and social sciences. Questions of rights and ethics. Tours, France, September 28, 2011. (Day 1 of a two-part meeting; also see November 29, 2011.)

• Open Aid Data Konferenz. Berlin, September 28, 2011.

• Open Access Workshop: Open Access Management and Policy. Brussels, September 28, 2011.

• An Introduction to DuraCloud. Online, September 28, 2011.

• Open Aid Data Conference and Hackday. Berlin, September 28-29, 2011.

• Open Access / Open Content. Utrecht, September 29, 2011.

October

• Netzpolitischen Katerfrühstück. OA is among the topics. Berlin, October 1, 2011.

• Open Access Week Idea Swap. Online, October 3, 2011.

• Open Data Consultations & Policy Workshop. London, October 3, 2011.

• Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA) Conference 2011. OA is among the topics. Eastern Cape Province, October 3-7, 2011.

• OPAL webinar- Policy for open educational resource (OER). Online, October 4 (Africa/Arab States/Europe) and 6 (Asia-Pacific/Latin America and the Caribbean/North America), 2011.

• Open-Access-Tage 2011. Regensburg, October 4-5, 2011.

• 2nd Workshop on Web Science “Open Data and Open Communities”. Berlin, October 4-10, 2011.

• Workshop Open-Access-Statistik. Regensburg, October 6, 2011.

• Congresso Internacional SIBi Usp 30 anos: o futuro do conhecimento universal. OA is among the topics. São Paulo, October 7-8, 2011.

• HathiTrust Constitutional Convention 2011. Washington, D.C., October 8-10, 2011.

• E-Book Annotation Sharing and Social Reading. Sponsored by NISO. Frankfurt, October 10, 2011.

• Openness: Decoupling the Future to Radically Improve Access to Education. A talk by David Wiley. Online, October 10, 2011.

• Internet Research 12.0 - Performance and Participation. OA is among the topics. Seattle, October 10-13, 2011.

• Biting into the Core: Challenges to peer review, business models and their ilk. STM Frankfurt Conference 2011. OA is among the topics. Frankfurt, October 11, 2011.

• A Digital Public Library of America: Perspectives and Directions. New York, October 11, 2011.

• Open Access: Otevřený přístup k vědeckým informacím v EU a ČR. Prague, October 12, 2011.

• Metadata & Semantics for Open Access Repositories & Infrastructures. A session within the 5th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'11). Izmir, Turkey, October 12-14, 2011.

• Frankfurt Book Fair. OA is among the topics. Frankfurt, October 12-16, 2011.

• Enabling Creativity in the Digital Environment: Copyright Documentation and Infrastructure. OA and A2K are among the topics. Geneva, October 13-14, 2011.

• International Open Access Webinar. Sponsored by International Academy of Business and New Technologies, Yaroslavl, Russia. Online, October 14, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• WIDE-EMU '11. On OER. Ypsilanti, Michigan, October 15 2011.

• Opening Education. Vancouver, October 17, 2011.

• Access 2011: The Library is Open. OA is among the topics. Vancouver, October 19-22, 2011.

• Open Government Data Camp 2011. Warsaw, October 20-21, 2011.

• Open Science Summit 2011. Mountain View, California, October 22-23, 2011.

• 1st International Workshop on Linked Science 2011. Bonn, October 23-24, 2011.

• 2011 eScience Workshop: Transforming Scholarly Communication. Sponsored by Microsoft Research. OA is among the topics. By invitation only. Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 23-25, 2011.

• Online Seminar – New Directions in Scholarly Communication. OA is among the topics. Online, October 24, 2011.

• Online Seminar – New Directions in Scholarly Communication. OA is among the topics. Online, October 24, 2011.

• OpenAIRE: helping you to comply with FP7 and ERC Open Access grant conditions. Online, October 24, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• State of Open Access and the Student Role in Creating Change. Online, October 24, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Open Access Week 2011 at the University of Utah. Salt Lake City, October 24-27, 2011.

• Open Access Week at UMass Amherst. Amherst, October 24-28, 2011.

• Celebrate Open Access Week Oct. 24-28 at the Texas A&M Libraries. College Station, Texas, October 24-28, 2011.

• Open Access Week. Worldwide, October 24-30, 2011.

• UCSF Library Celebrates Open Access. San Francisco, October 24-30, 2011.

• Veel activiteiten bij universiteiten en hogescholen tijdens Open 2011. Various locations around the Netherlands, October 24-30, 2011.

• Open UBC. Vancouver, October 24-30, 2011.

• UKCoRR Open Access Week Activities 2011. Eight cities in the UK, October 24-30, 2011.

• Ενημερωτικές Δράσεις του Εθνικού Κέντρου Τεκμηρίωσης για τη Διεθνή εβδομάδα Ανοικτής Πρόσβασης 2011: Workshop in a Box! Online, October 24-30, 2011. (English title: Information Activities of Greece's National Documentation Centre for International week Open Access 2011: Workshop in a Box!)

• Workshop Zichtbare Kwaliteit: het opzetten van een online Open Access tijdschrift voor hogescholen. Utrecht, October 25, 2011.

• Open Access Opens Doors: A Panel Discussion on Open Access Publishing. Palo Alto, October 25, 2011.

• Do you understand what Open Access publishing can do for you? Palo Alto, October 25, 2011.

• Open Access café à l'UPMC : droits d'auteur et archives ouvertes. Paris, France, October 25, 2011.

• Doing Science in the Open. Cambridge, October 25, 2011.

• Open Access Africa 2011. Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, October 25-26, 2011.

• Open Access Africa 2011. Kumasi, Ghana, October 25-26, 2011.

• Open Education 2011. OA (beyond OER) is among the topics. Park City, Utah, October 25-27, 2011.

• Open Access Week at the University of Latvia. Riga, October 25-28, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Open Access: Scholarship Unbound. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, October 26, 2011.

• Open Access and the Impact of Open on Research. Online, October 26, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• What Does Open Access Mean to You and Your Research? Boston, October 26, 2011.

• Stellenbosch University Open Access Seminar. Stellenbosch, October 26, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Bournemouth University Open Access Publication Fund launch event. Bournemouth, October 26, 2011.

• Open Access Week at UF: Open Access – Scholarship Unbound. Gainesville, Florida, October 26, 2011.

• eSciDoc Days 2011. Berlin, October 26-27, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Share/OpenAccess/Worldwide (SHOW). Rijeka, Croatia, October 26-27, 2011.

• OA Week Authors’ Rights Event: You Know What You Write, But Do You Know Your Rights? Understanding and Protecting Your Rights as an Author. Brooklyn, October 27 2011.

• Open Access Symposium. Boston College, October 27, 2011.

• Stellenbosch University Open Access Seminar. Stellenbosch, October 27, 2011.

• Open Access Week 2011 in Lithuania. Vilnius, October 27, 2011.

• Simpósio na UNICAMP: Open Access Week. São Paulo, Brazil, October 27-28, 2011.

• Open Access Week 2011 in Estonia. Tartu, October 27-28, 2011.

• BioMed Central Author workshops. Shanghai, October 27-28, 2011.

• Open Access Scholarly Publishing as Thought and Action. New York, October 28, 2011.

• What's at Stake in the HathiTrust Lawsuit? Online, October 28, 2011.

• Exploring open access in higher education. Sponsored by The Guardian. Online, October 28, 2011.

• Building Digital Commons: Global Forum on Building Digital Commons and Collaborative Communities. Barcelona, October 29-30, 2011.

• A Publishing Model for the 21st Century. Conference Oct 28, 2011, 3PM. Univ of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Louis Calder Memorial Library, History of Medicine Room

November

• Liberate your research through open access publishing. Memorial University of Newfoundland, November 1, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Using DuraCloud for Archiving and Preservation. Online, November 2, 2011.

• Incentivising Data Management & Sharing. Coventry, November 2-3, 2011.

• What Hath Google Wrought? The Escalating Legal Conflicts Over Old Books (?). Washington DC, November 4, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Bringing the Emphasis back to Open Access, and Demonstrating Value to Your Institution. RSP Autumn School. Miskin Manor near Cardiff, November 7-9, 2011.

• Opening Up Government Data. Galway, November 8, 2011.

• Berlin 9 Open Access Conference. Washington DC, November 9-10, 2011.

• The Eroding of the Subscription Model and Emerging Alternatives. Philadelphia, November 10, 2011.

• Knowledge Exchange (KE) Primary Research Data Workshop. Bonn, November 14-15, 2011.

• Life and Literature Conference. Sponsored by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. OA is among the topics. Chicago, November 14-15, 2011.

• Digital Preservation and Access to Cultural Resources: ICT Call 9 Information Day. Luxembourg, November 15, 2011.

• Open Access & Scholarly Societies: A Panel Discussion about the Opportunities and Challenges. Sponsored by the New England Chapter of ACRL. Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, November 18, 2011.

• Open Access Forum 2011. Sponsored by UNESCO. Paris, November 22-23, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• The 6th Munin conference 2011 - Enhancing publications. OA is among the topics. Tromsø, Norway, November 22–23, 2011.

• Exposing compound objects in the eco4r project - a hands-on workshop at SWIB 11. Hamburg, November 28, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Disseminating research resources and publications in the humanities and social sciences. Questions of rights and ethics. Aix-en-Provence, France, November 29, 2011. (Day 2 of a two-part meeting; also see September 28, 2011.)

• Repositories in Science & Technology: Preserving Access to the Record of Science. Washington, DC, November 30, 2011.

December

• Practical Planning for Open Access Journals: A 2-Part Webinar Series. Sponsored by the ALPSP. Online, December 1 & 8, 2011.

• Digital Scholarly Communication. HASTAC 2011. Ann Arbor, Michigan, December 1-3, 2011.

• International Open Data Hack Day. Dublin, December 3, 2011. (Looking for a better URL.)

• Public Science und Neue Medien. OA is among the topics. Karlsruhe, December 3-4, 2011.

• The Grey Circuit: From Social Networking to Wealth Creation. Thirteenth International Conference on Grey Literature. OA is among the topics. Washington D.C., December 5-6, 2011.

• Public? Private? Personal? navigating the open data landscape. 7th International Digital Curation Conference. Bristol, December 5-7, 2011.

• The Fourth International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access. Tokyo, December 6, 2011.

• Computational Culture: Double Book Launch and Launch of Computational Culture, A Journal Of Software Studies. London, December 8, 2011.

• Project Briefings Presented at the CNI Fall 2011 Membership Meeting. OA is among the topics. Arlington, Virginia, December 12-13, 2011.

• Prague Open Data Meetup #1. Prague, December 14, 2011.

• DataHub Data Party for Economics Data. Online, December 21, 2011.