2015

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

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

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

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

• 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.

• Open Education Week 2015. Worldwide, March 9-13, 2015.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

April

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

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

• 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.

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• How to go Open Access. Online, April 23, 2015.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Finding Open Access Science Resources. Online, May 14, 2015.

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

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

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

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

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

• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

June

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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.

• DC SHARE Research Data Hackathon. Washington, DC, June 20, 2015.

• IRUS-UK for EPrints. Online, June 24, 2015.

• 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.

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

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

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

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

• 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 AIMS:Disseminating African Food and Nutritional Information through Open Access Publishing. Online, July 10, 2015.

• NEW Mapping the World. From open data to crowdsourcing and bottom-up society: models, algorithms, and applications. University of Catania, July 12 -18, 2015.

• NEW DCAT Meeting. Online, July 14, 2015.

• FOSS4G-Europe 2015. Como, Italy, July 14-17, 2015.

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

• NEW SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION BEYOND PAYWALLS. Macquarie University, Australia, July 22-24, 2015.

• NEW Open Plant: Open Technology Week. Cambridge, UK, July 25-30, 2015.

• 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.

• NEW Open Access, which direction?. Online, July 28, 2015.

• NEW Expanding the Classroom with Open Educational Resources. Online, July 30, 2015.

August

• NEW Repository Fringe 2015. University of Edinburgh, August 3-4, 2015.

• NEW Open Textbook Network's (OTN) first Summer Institute. University of Minneapolis, August 5-7, 2015.

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

• NEW Transforming libraries with open digital technologies. Stellenbosch University, South Africa, August 13-14, 2015.

• NEW OpenSym 2015, the 11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration. San Francisco, USA, August 19-21, 2015.

• NEW DNAdigest symposium: Incentives for data sharing. London, UK, August 21, 2015.

September

• Digital Public Library of America Education Advisory Committee meetings (selected participants only): Boston, MA and possible other locations. September 2015, November 2015, and January 2016.

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

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

• NEW Africa Open Data Conference. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, September 2-5, 2015.

• NEW Back to School OSF Webinar. Online, September 3, 2015.

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

• NEW Sustainable Development Goals: The Impact of Access to Information on our Societies. Online, September 7-18, 2015.

• NEW A primer on Open Access: everything a librarian needs to know. University of Cambridge, UK, September 8, 2015.

• NEW Webinar: Sustainable Development and Open Access. Online, September 8, 2015.

• NEW Culture as Commons? Designing with Digital Heritage. Helsinki, Finland, September 11, 2015.

• NEW EMSA Access in Action. Berlin, Germany, September 14-15, 2015.

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

• NEW 2015 EAJRS conference. Leiden, Netherlands, September 16-19, 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.

• NEW Free UKSG webinar - Introduction to Text-Mining Research Papers. Online, September 22, 2015.

• NEW NISO Virtual Conference: Scholarly Communication Models: Evolution or Revolution?. Online, September 23, 2015.

• NEW Digital Science Webinar: The Evolution of Scholarly Access and Sharing. Online, September 23, 2015.

• NEW Is Open Access Coming for Scholarly Books?. Online, September 24, 2015.

October

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

• NEW Open Access policies by HORIZON 2020 and international issues regarding open science. Kobe, Japan, October 13-14, 2015.

• NEW Doktorandenweiterbildung: Open Access und Open Research Data in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Hamburg, October 15, 2015.

• NEW All Thing Open. Raleigh, North Carolina, October 19-20, 2015.

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

• NEW SPARC & Wikipedia Library: Wikipedia Open Access Week Edit-a-thon. Online, October 19-25, 2015.

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

• NEW Open Science Workshop. Helsinki, Finland, October 20, 2015.

• NEW Symposium: Designing Comprehensive Open Knowledge Policies to Face Climate Change. Vienna, Austria, October 22-23, 2015.

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

November

• NEW Open Data – moving science forward, or a waste of time and money?. University of Cambridge, UK, November 4, 2015.

• 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 Open Access and Scholarly Communication. Stevens Institute of Technology, November 11, 2015.

• 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 Future of the Commons: Data, Software and Beyond. Washington, DC, November 18, 2015.

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

• NEW The 10th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing, 2015 . Tromsø, Norway, November 30-December 1, 2015.

December

• NEW The 10th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing, 2015 . Tromsø, Norway, November 30-December 1, 2015.