2004

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• Chronological order.

January

• Open Access Publishing Conference. (sponsored by National Network of Libraries of Medicine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Emory University). Atlanta, January 7, 2004
• ALA Midwinter Meeting. San Diego, January 9-14, 2004

Includes a session sponsored by SPARC and ACRL on Open Access: Getting from Here to There. Saturday, January 10, 2004, 4:30-6:00 pm

Includes an open forum on "Libraries and the Information Commons", Saturday, January 10, 2004, 2:00 - 4:00, San Diego Conference Center 30E

Includes a panel discussion, "Two Sides of One Coin: Scholarly Communication System-wide and at the Local Campus -—the UCSD Experience", sponsored by the ALCTS Scholarly Communication Discussion Group. Monday, January 12, 2004, 9:30-11:00 am, San Diego Convention Center 29D

• IDLELO: The First African Conference on the Digital Commons. Cape Town, January 12-16, 2004
• Strengthening Editors and Scientists Capabilities in Electronic Publishing. Valparaiso, Chile, January 14-15, 2004
• Online access to qualitative data: opportunities and challenges. (sponsored by the Economic and Social Data Service). London, January 15, 2004
• ICSTI Technical Meeting: Economic Models for Scientific Information, Production and Distribution. Paris, January 15-16, 2004
• Digital Libraries. Kozhikode, India, January 19-21, 2004
• A Day in the Life of a Journal Publisher. Abingdon, January 21, 2004
• Digital Information Exchange: Pathways to Build Global Information Society. (the organizers list open access as a recommended topic in the CFP). Chennai City, India, January 21-23, 2004
• A Future for UK Theses. (sponsored by JISC, the British Library, the University of London Library, and Robert Gordon University). January 22, 2004
• Getting research into practice in low-income countries. (sponsored by INASP). London, January 27, 2004
• 2nd Journal Publishers' Forum: What do authors really want?. (sponsored by ALPSP). London, January 28, 2004
• eScholarship: a workshop on ePublishing at the edge. Sydney, January 28, 2004
• Symposium of Santa Caterina on Challanges in the Internet and Interdisciplinary Research. Amalfi, January 29 - February 1, 2004

February

• Breaking Boundaries: Integration and Interoperability. (sponsored by the Victorian Association for Library Automation). Melbourne, February 3-5, 2004
• Thinking Beyond Digital Libraries: Designing the Information Strategy for the Next Decade. Bielefeld, February 3-5, 2004
• e-Diversity and libraries: how far down the Open Road?. Melbourne, February 6, 2004
• ePrints UK Bath Workshop. Bath, February 6, 2004
• Value in a Culture of Open Access. (sponsored by the PSP division of AAP). Washington, D.C., February 9-11, 2004
• Engineering and Scientific Publishing --Relationships and Issues for the Now and the Future. Washington, D.C., February 11-12, 2004
• Convention on Automation of Libraries in Education and Research Institutions. (CALIBER), hosted by INFLIBNET. February 11-13, 2004
• CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication: Implementing the benefits of OAI. (3rd Workshop on the OAI). Geneva, February 12-14, 2004
• National Policies on Open Access Provision for University Research Output. (by invitation only). Southampton, February 19, 2004
• The Battle for Mindshare: Information Access and Retrieval in the Year 2010. (NFAIS Annual Conference, 2004). Philadelphia, February 22-24, 2004
• Building Collaborative eResearch Environments. (a JISC Consultation Workshop). Edinburgh, February 23, 2004
• The Money Trail: Cost and Value in Journal Information Provision. (sponsored by the Association of Subscription Agents and Intermediaries). London, February 23-24, 2003
• PERI workshop Pakistan: Electronic journals and electronic library resources. (sponsored by INASP). Islamabad, February 23-27, 2004
• Defending Access with Confidence: A Practical Workshop on Intellectual Freedom. Seattle, February 24-25, 2004
• International Conference on Digital Libraries: Knowledge creation, preservation, access, and management. New Delhi, February 24-27, 2004

March

• Preservation and Access for Electronic College and University Records. (PS: including research data and dissertations). Tempe, Arizona, March 1-3, 2004
• Electronic Publishing Strategy. (a training workshop from ALPSP). London, March 2, 2004
• International Symposium on Digital Libraries and Knowledge Communities in Networked Information Society. (DLKC'04). Tsukuba, Japan, March 2-5, 2004
• International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics. (sponsored by COLLNET). Roorkee, India, March 2-5, 2004
• Web-Wise 2004: Sharing Digital Resources. (sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services). Chicago, March 3-5, 2004
• The New Challenge for Research Libraries: Collection Management and Strategic Access to Digital Resources. (open access is among the topics). Oklahoma City, March 4-5, 2004.
• Building Collaborative eResearch Environments. (a JISC Consultation Workshop). Warwick, March 5, 2004
• Geschichtswissenschaft und Buchhandel in der Krisenspirale? Eine Inspektion des Feldes im deutsch-britischen Vergleich. Trier, March 5-6, 2004
• The Future of Scientific Publishing. (sponsored by EUSIDIC, Elsevier Science, IOS Press, Swets Information Services, and IBM Business Consulting Services). Rotterdam, March 7-9, 2004
• Email as a publishing medium. (sponsored by the Electronic Publishing Specialist Group of the British Computer Society). London, March 10, 2004
• DSpace User Group Meeting. Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 10-11, 2004
• Reality Publishing. (sponsored by the American Medical Publishers Association). (open access is among the topics). Philadelphia, March 14, 2004
• Hong Kong SAR Regional Symposium on Copyright in Educational Institutions and Libraries in the Digital Era. (hosted by WIPO and the IP Department of the Government of Hong Kong). Hong Kong, March 15-16, 2004
• Workshop on Resource Sharing in Digital Libraries. (sponsored by APEC). Taipei, March 16-19, 2004
• Preserving the Knowledge Base of Science. (sponsored by ALPSP, FST, and DPC). London, March 17, 2004
• The Future of STM publishing. (a public lecture by Paul Ayris, Director of Library Services at University College London). London, March 18, 2004
• 2004 CONSER Summit on Serials in the Digital Environment. Alexandria, Virginia, March 18-19, 2004
• 2004 International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies. (ICDAT2004). Taipei, March 18-19, 2004
• Australian Government Agencies Publications access seminar. Canberra, March 19, 2004
• Public Private Partnerships: Opportunities and Challenges. (hosted by the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers). (open access is among the topics). Alexandria, Virginia, March 21-23, 2004
• ePrints UK Oxford Workshop. Oxford, March 22, 2004
• Internet Commons Congress. Washington, D.C., March 24-25, 2004
• Implementing the WSIS Action Plan. (sponsored by AITEC). Nairobi, March 25-26, 2004
• Scholarship-Friendly Publishing. (sponsored by ALPSP). London, March 26, 2004
• UK Serials Group 27th Annual Conference and Exhibition. (topics include open access). Manchester, March 39-31, 2004

April

• Social Science Data Archives: creating, depositing and using data. Edinburgh, April 2, 2004
• European Conference on Information Retrieval. Sunderland, England, April 5-7, 2004
• Searching the Social Sciences: Finding the Evidence - a practical workshop using the Internet and online databases. (sponsored by SOSIG and ESRC). London, April 6, 2004
• Long-Term Stewardship of Globally-Distributed Storage. (12th NASA Goddard / 21st IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies). College Park, Maryland, April 13-16, 2004
• CNI Spring 2004 Task Force Meeting. (open access is among the topics). Αlexandria, Virginia, April 15-16, 2004
• Battling for Ownership: Who Controls Music, Film, Publishing, and Visual Communications?. Boca Raton, Florida, April 16-18, 2004
• Digital Library Federation, Spring Forum 2004. (open access is among the topics). New Orleans, April 19-21, 2004
• Senegal-PERI workshop: Electronic journals and electronic library resources. Dakar, April 19-23, 2004
• Open Publishing: an Opportunity for Learned Societies to Regain Control of the Scientific Information Exchange. (sponsored by SciX). Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 20, 2004
• Computers, Freedom, and Privacy. (CFP 2004). Berkeley, April 20-23, 2004
• IS&T Archiving Conference. (sponsored by the Society for Imaging Science and Technology). San Antonio, April 20-23, 2004
• E-Journal Technical Update. (from UKSG). Manchester, April 21, 2004
• ePrints UK Manchester Workshop. Manchester, April 22, 2004
• Official launch of FreeCulture.Org. (sponsored by the Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons). Swarthmore, April 23, 2004
• Social Science Data Archives: creating, depositing and using data. Oxford, April 23, 2004
• Towards a New Publishing Environment. (Second Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication). Lund, April 26-28, 2004
• Publishing for Accessibility. London, April 28, 2004
• Blaise Cronin gives a public lecture on "the culture of scholarly communication and its likely impact on various modes of publication". (sponsored by OCLC). Dublin, Ohio, April 29, 2004
• Web-Based Manuscript Management: A How-To Guide to Planning, Implementing, and Encouraging Staff Acceptance. (sponsored by the AAP's SSP). April 29, 2004

May

• Workshop on Open Access. Chennai, India, May 2-4 and 6-8, 2004 (same workshop offered twice)
• Electronic Journals and Electronic Resources Library Management. (sponsored by INASP). Abidjan, Ivory Coast, May 3-7, 2004
• Scholarly Publishing at the Crossroads. Brandeis University, May 4, 2004
• Intergovernmental Council for UNESCO's Information for All Programme. Paris, May 5, 2004
• Introduction to Journals Finance. (sponsored by ALPSP). London, May 5, 2004
• E-Journal Technical Update. (from UKSG). Glasgow, May 6, 2004
• Open Source and Free Software: Concepts, Controversies, and Solutions. Toronto, May 9-11, 2004
• Education and Public Knowledge: Open Access, Open Content. May 11, 2004
• Navigating the Future of Technical Communication. (sponsored by the Society for Technical Communication). Baltimore, May 9-12, 2004
• Creative Licensing to Expand Australia's Public Domain. A Symposium. Sydney, May 11, 2004
• Impacts of changes in publisher provision of electronic journals - licensing and pricing issues. (sponsored by EAOLUG). Cambridge, May 11, 2004
• Open Access 2004. (more on open networks than free online access to research literature). Stockholm, May 11-12, 2004
• Berlin 2 Open Access: Steps Toward Implementation of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. Geneva, May 12-13, 2004
• Mechanisms for Documenting and Communicating Outputs of Agricultural Research in Sub-Saharan Africa. (by invitation only). Nairobi, May 12-14, 2004
• La propriété intellectuelle dans l'enseignement et la recherche universitaire: état de la situation et grands enjeux. Montreal, May 13, 2004
• Putting Sparkle in the Knowledge Society. (17th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems). Antwerp, May 13-15, 2004
• 2nd International Conference on Repository Libraries: Preserving and Maintaining Availability of Print Material. Kuopio, Finland, May 13-15, 2004
• ePrints UK Edinburgh Workshop. Edinburgh, May 14, 2004
• A Symposium on the Crisis in Scholarly Communication: "For the Greater Good: Open Access and Institutional Repositories" . (sponsored by the McGill University Libraries). Quebec, May 17, 2004
• Technical and Economic Challenges of Scientific Information: STM Content Access, Linking and Archiving. (public portion of otherwise private ICSTI 2004 General Assembly). (open access is among the topics). London, May 17, 2004
• The Economics of Digitization: Toward Sustainability and Institutional Collaboration. (sponsored by Innodata Isogen and the Newberry Library). Chicago, May 17-18, 2004
• Rethinking Copyright: A Roadmap to the Future of Copyright. (sponsored by the Canadian section of the Associαtion littéraire et artistique internationale). Ottawa, May 19-21, 2004
• Fine Print: Publishing in the Shadow of Big Media. Irvine, California, May 19-21, 2004
• Dissolving and Emerging Communities: The Culture of Periodicals from the Perspective of the Electronic Age. Budapest, May 21-22, 2004
• Symposium: Seize the E-Journal: Models for Archiving. (a symposium following the 2004 meeting of the Medical Library Association). Washington, D.C., May 21-26, 2004
• Electronic Information Resources in the Caribbean: Trends and Issues. Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, May 23-29, 2004
• Universal Access to all Knowledge. (an Oxford Internet Institute seminar with Brewster Kahle). Oxford, May 24, 2004
• ePrints UK Nottingham Workshop. Nottingham, May 24, 2004
• National Conference on Digital Government Research. Seattle, May 24-26, 2004
• 14th Intensive Course in STM Journals Management. (sponsored by the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers; the course is not likely to offer instruction on OA business models). Noodwijkerhout, The Netherlands, May 24-28, 2004
• Sharing Information --African Perspectives. (sponsored by SCOLMA). London, May 25, 2004
• Data Futures: Building on 30 Years of Advocacy. (annual conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology). Madison, Wisconsin, May 25-28, 2004
• Libraries in the Digital Age: Human Information Behaviour & Competences For Digital Libraries. Dubrovnik, May 25-29, 2004
• The British Library’s Document Supply Service. (a visit for ALPSP members). Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, May 26, 2004
• Rediscovering Free Culture. (an Oxford Internet Institute seminar with Lawrence Lessig). Oxford, May 28, 2004

June

• Changing Research Practices in the Digital Information and Communication Environment. (sponsored by Australia's National Scholarly Communications Forum). Canberra, June 1, 2004
• Toward New Economies of Information Access: Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting 2004. (sponsored by the AAP's SSP). San Francisco, June 2-4, 2004

Includes pre-meeting seminars on

(1) Managing Change in Publishing Environments: Tips, Tools, and Resources for Successful Transitions,

(2) Pricing Electronic Journals: Nonprofit and Commercial Lessons Shared,

(3) After the Data: Using the Latest Publishing Technology Applications

• Plenary Session: Open Access Debate: Toward a New Economy of Information Access. June 4,2004, 1:30 - 3:00
• Panel Session on (Concurrent session 3C) University Libraries: The New Players in Scholarly Publishing (on institutional repositories). June 4, 2004, 8:45 - 10:15.
• Free Bitflows: Cultures of Access and Politics of Dissemination. Vienna, June 3-4, 2004
• Canadian Association of Learned Journals / Association canadienne des revues savantes, 2004 Congress. Winnipeg, June 3-4, 2004
• Special Libraries Association. 2004 Annual Conference. Nashville, June 5-10, 2004
• Open Access Publishing. A panel. June 8, 2004, 12:15 - 1:30 pm, Washington B
• Distributing knowledge worldwide through better scholarly communication. (7th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, sponsored by the NDLTD). Lexington, Kentucky, June 3-5, 2004
• Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2004. Tucson, June 7-11, 2004
• Maximising Use of E Sources in Academic Libraries. (sponsored by the London School of Economics and the Learning Resource Company). London, June 9, 2004
• Strategies for publishing: Successful online and offline dissemination. London, June 9, 2004
• Institutional Repositories: Revealing Our Strengths. (co-sponsored by OLMS, SPARC, and CARL). (a webcast costing $150 per connection license). June 10, 2004
• Colleges, Code, and Copyright: The impact of digital networks and technological controls on copyright and the dissemination of information in higher education. Adelphi, Maryland, June 10-11, 2004
• Wizards of OS 3: The Future of the Digital Commons. Berlin, June 10-12, 2004
• Free Science I: Publishing. A panel. June, 11, 2005, 13:00
• Free Science II: Funding and Activism. June 12, 2004, 17:00.
• The Digital Library and e-Publishing for Science, Technology, and Medicine. (sponsored by TICER). Geneva, June 13-18, 2004
• Electronic publication of archaeological journals. (sponsored by the Council for British Archaeology and the Society of Antiquaries of London). London, June 14, 2004
• A Day in the Life of an E-Resources Publisher. (open access is among the topics). Oxford, June 15, 2004
• Digitale Publikationen an österreichischen Universitäten und Fachhochschulen: Zugänglichkeit und langfristige Archivierung - eine gemeinsame Herausforderung. Vienna, June 15, 2004
• E-Journal Technical Update. (from UKSG). Oxford, June 16, 2004
• Lawrence Lessig, "Free Society, Free Markets, Free Culture: What is at Stake in the Open Access Debate?". A public lecture at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (June 16), followed by a seminar with Lessig and Jürgen Renn, "Rechtsfragen des Open Access in Deutschland" (June 17). Berlin, June 16-17, 2004
• Fine-Line Publishing: Creating the Finest Publications Using the Thinnest Resources. (sponsored by SNAP). Washington, D.C., June 17, 2004
• NASIG 2004 Annual Conference. (open access is among the topics). Milwaukee, June 17-20, 2004
• Knowledge Held Hostage: Scholarly versus Corporate Rights In The Digital Age. Philadelphia, June 18, 2004
• International Workshop on Strategies for Preservation of and Open Access to Scientific Data. Beijing, June 22-24, 2004
• Putting Eprints Software into the User Community. (invitation only). London, June 23, 2004
• Introduction to Journals Publishing. (sponsored by ALPSP). London, June 23, 2004
• Building Digital Bridges: Linking Cultures, Commerce, and Science. (ICCC 8th International Conference on Electronic Publishing). Brasilia, June 23-26, 2004
• Institutional Repositories and Their Impact on Scholarly Publishing. (PALS Conference 04). London, June 24, 2004
• American Library Association 2004 Annual Conference. Orlando, Florida, June 24-30, 2004

• Scholarly Communication 101, ACRL pre-conference. (open access is among the topics). June 25, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
• Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS): A Solution for Archiving and Accessing Web Materials, a forum. Saturday, June 26, 1:30-3:30 p.m., Renaissance Orlando Resort, Crystal Ballroom E.
• Liberation or Confusion?: Collection Development Librarians Confront the Open Access Movement, third topic in session on Collection Development. June 26, 2004, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., Peabody Hotel, Plaza International Room, Ballroom D.
• Scholarly Communication in the Humanities: Does Open Access Apply? SPARC/ACRL Forum. June 26, 2004, 4:00-5:30 pm, Orange County Convention Center 308 A/B.
• Oxford University Press Update on Open Access. A briefing. June 26, 2004, 2:00 - 4:00 pm, The Peabody Hotel, The Coconut Room.
• Open Access, Open Minds: Emerging Trends in Scholarly Information. A panel. June 27, 2004, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm.
• The Future of Academic Libraries: The impact of the print to digital transformation on academic library structure, services and functions over the next 10 years, a forum sponsored by the LITA Electronic Publishing/Electronic Journals Interest Group. June 28, 8:30 am - 12:00 pm, OCC-414-A/B.

• Libre Accès et publication scientifique: La nécessaire implication des chercheurs. La Rochelle, June 25, 2004
• 2004 Annual Meeting of the Association of American University Presses. Vancouver, June 26-29, 2004

• Session on Open Access Initiatives, Monday, 28 June 2004, at 10:45.

July

• How to Evaluate Journals as Potential Open Access Candidates. (sponsored by ALPSP). London, July 1-2, 2004
• The future of scholarship in the digital age; JISC/CNI meeting 2004. (topics include instutional repositories). Brighton, July 8-9, 2004
• Health Information Forum: Launch of Global Review on Access to Health Information. London, July 12, 2004
• Museums, Libraries, and Archives: Summer Institute for Knowledge Sharing. Boston, July 12-15, 2004
• Pan-European Portals Conference 2004. Nottingham, July 18-20, 2004
• 2004 E.Journal Summit (sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and PNAS) (by invitation only) (open access is among the topics). Washington, D.C., July 20, 2004
• Twenty-Seventh Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Sheffield, July 25-29, 2004
• The Virtual Chase: In Hot Pursuit of Electronic Solutions. (WiLSWorld Conference 2004). (OA is among the topics). Madison, July 27-28, 2004
• INDEST-NCSI Training Workshop on Institutional Repositories. Bangalore, July 27-29, 2004
• Open Publish 2004. (on open standards, not open access). Sydney, July 28-30, 2004
• Open Access Scholarly Communication Conference. (organized by the South African Site Licensing Initiative and funded by the Open Society Institute). Pretoria, July 29-30, 2004

August

• Electronic Resources and Electronic Publishing. Tilberg, The Netherlands, August 10-13, 2004
• Essentials of Electronic Publishing Workshop. (course limited to 20). University of New Brunswick, August 16-20, 2004
• Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. (sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining). Seattle, August 22-25, 2004
• American Chemical Society National Meeting. Philadelphia, August 22-26, 2004
• Scholarly Publishing: Initiatives and Electronic Publishing. A session
• Scholarly Publishing: Challenges for Peer Review in the Digital World. A session
• Scholarly Publishing: Perspectives on Open Access. A session. August 22, 2004
• World Library and Information Congress: 70th IFLA General Conference and Council. (open access is among the topics). Buenos Aires, August 22-27, 2004
• International Congress on Archives 2004: Archives, Memory, and Knowledge. Vienna, August 23-29, 2004
• Euroscience Open Forum 2004. Stockholm, August 25-28, 2004
• Science Without Borders: The Open Access Revolution in Science Communication. A session. August 25, 2005, 16:15 - 17:45, in Norra Latin Room 357.
• Spreading the word: who profits from scientific publishing?. A session. August 26, 2005, 14:45 - 17:45, in Norra Latin.
• Building Digital Libraries with XML Web Services. Lyngby, Denmark, August 27, 2004
• Second International Conference on the Future of the Book: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Era. Beijing, August 29-31, 2004
• Future mechanisms for funding open-access publishing. (hosted by BioMed Central; by invitation only). London, August 31, 2004

September

• CODESRIA Conference on electronic publishing and dissemination. Dakar, Senegal, September 1-2, 2004
• Content: Creation, Management and Access in Network Environment. (PLANNER 2004, sponsored by INFLIBNET). Manipur, India, September 4-5, 2004
• Digital Resources for the Humanities. Newcastle, September 5-8, 2004
• Digital Library --Advance the Efficiency of Knowledge Utilization. (sponsored by the National Library of China and the China Digital Library Corp.) Beijing, September 6-8, 2004
• European Conference on Digital Libraries. (open access is among the topics). Bath, September 12-17, 2004
• Choices and Responsibilities: Higher Education in the Knowledge Society. (sponsored by IMHE). ("access and equity" is among the topics). September 13-15, 2004
• Digital Futures Academy: from digitization to delivery. London, September 13-17, 2004
• Towards a Continuum of Digital Heritage: Strategies for a European Area of Digital Cultural Resources. The Hague, September 15-16, 2004
• From open access to open learning. Bangkok, September 15-18, 2004
• Open Innovation! Auf der Suche nach neuen Leitbildern. (in German). (open access is among the topics). Berlin, September 16-17, 2004
• Open Access: Removing the Barriers. (ASIDIC Fall 2004 meeting). Phoenix, September 19-21, 2004
• CRIS + Open Access = The Route to Research Knowledge. (sponsored by euroCRIS). (by invitation only). Brussels, September 20-21, 2004
• JPGM GOLD CON: 50 years of medical writing: International conference on journal writing and publishing. (sponsored by the Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, INASP, and WAME), includes a one-day session on Electronic Publishing and Open Access. Parel, Mumbai, India, September 23-26, 2004
• Online Data and Scientific Progress: Content in Cyberinfrastructure. A public lecture by Michael Lesk. Edinburgh, September 24, 2004
• The Serials Ecosystem: Perspectives on the Transition from Print to Electronic Journals. University of New Brunswick, September 25-26, 2004
• Towards an Open Access Citation Index?. (sponsored by the Open Society Institute and the SURF Foundation). Leiden, September 25-26, 2004
• PSP Books Boot Camp: An Introduction to Professional, Scholarly and Academic Publishing. (sponsored by the AAP). New York, September 28, 2004
• Sixth National Russian Research Conference on Digital Libraries. Pushchino, Russia, September 29 - October 1, 2004
• Where now? - the real cost of Open Access and its strategic implications for STM publishers. Oxford, September 30, 2004
• Access to health information in developing countries: the role of information and communication technology. London, September 30 - October 1, 2004

October

• Symposium on Open Access and Digital Preservation. Atlanta, October 2, 2004
• Access to health information: The role of systematic reviews. Cochrane Colloquium. Ottawa, October 2-6, 2004
• Strategic online publishers workshop. (sponsored by INASP, AJOL, and PERI). (by invitation only). Nairobi, October 3, 2004
• Strategic online publishers workshop. (sponsored by INASP). Nairobi, October 3-6, 2004
• STM Publishing - at the Crossroads? Challenges and Responses. (open access is among the topics). Frankfurt, October 4-5, 2004
• Health Information Forum: Sharing reproductive health knowledge. (sponsored by HIF and HIPNET). London, October 5, 2004
• Ensuring the Long-Term Preservation and Adding Value to the Scientific and Technical Data. (sponsored by the European Space Agency). Frascati, Italy, October 5-7, 2004
• Internationales Symposium für Informationswissenschaft. (open access is among the topics). Chur, Switzerland, October 6-8, 2004
• Institutional Repositories: Is There Anything Left to Say?. (a public lecture at OCLC by Paul Conway). Dublin, Ohio, October 7, 2004
• 10 Years of Connectivity: Libraries, the World Wide Web, and the Next Decade. (sponsored by LITA/ALA). St. Louis, October 7-10, 2004
• Building the Digital Library: The Role of Digital Libraries. Brisbane, October 8, 2004
• Internet Librarian International 2004: Access, Architecture & Action: Strategies for the New Digital World. London, October 10-12, 2004
• Open Access Forum for Internet Librarians (Session B104). A session. Monday, October 11, 2004, 15:00 - 17:00.
• Future Trends in Science Editing and Publishing: Bringing Science to Society. (Twelfth International Conference of Science Editors). Merida, Mexico, October 10-14, 2004
• Session for scientific editors of the Ibero-America and Caribbean, II Reunión Regional de la Red SciELO. October 10, 2004, 2:00 - 6:00 pm, at the Hotel Fiesta Americana (in Spanish)
• Meeting to sign and launch the Scottish Declaration of Open Access. (not the official meeting title). (by invitation only). Edinburgh, October 11, 2004
• Access 2004, Beyond Buzzwords. Halifax, October 13-16, 2004
• Institutional Repositories: The Future is Now! A pre-conference. October 13, 2004, 9am to 5pm
• Symposium on Open Access to Knowledge and Scholarly Communication. Zurich, October 15, 2004
• E-Research and Supporting Cyberinfrastructure: A Forum to Consider the Implications for Research Libraries and Research Institutions. (sponsored by ARL and CNI). Washington, D.C., October 15, 2004
• RCUK Workshop On Publication Of Research Outputs. (by invitation only). London, October 18, 2004. [Looking for a URL.]
• Digital Preservation in Institutional Repositories. (sponsored by the Digital Preservation Coalition). London, October 19, 2004
• Social Science Data Archives: creating, depositing and using data. Plymouth, October 22, 2004
• Are Chemical Journals Too Expensive and Inaccessible?. (sponsored by the Chemical Sciences Roundtable) Washington, D.C., October 25-26, 2004
• Health Information and Rural Based Communities. (sponsored by the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa). Blantyre, Malawi, October 25-29, 2004

November

• Towards What Knowledge Society?. Cyberspace, November 2-4, 2004
• INASP/PERI Review and Stakeholders Meeting. (by invitation only). Oxford, November 3-6, 2004
• Symposium on Investing in Scientific Knowledge. (Seems to be open to the public, unlike the stakeholders meeting; widening access is among the topics). November 5, 2004
• 24th Annual Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serials Acquisition. (open access is among the topics). Charleston, November 3-6, 2004
• Gli atenei italiani per l'Open Access: verso l'accesso aperto alla letteratura di ricerca. (Italian Universities for Open Access: Towards Open Access to Scholarly Literature). Messina, November 4-5, 2004
• INASP Symposium Investing in Scientific Knowledge: Strategies and Models for the Developing World. ("extending access to to electronic information" is among the topics). Oxford, November 5, 2004
• The Information Society: New Horizons for Science. (19th International CODATA Conference). Berlin, November 7-10, 2004
• Open Access Publishing: does it really work in practice?. (sponsored by ALPSP and SSP). also. Washington, D.C., November 8, 2004
• Regulating Knowledge: Costs, Risks, and Models of Innovation. (on software patents). Brussels, November 9-10, 2004
• Archiving Web Resources: Issues for cultural heritage institutions. Canberra, November 9-11, 2004
• Access to health information in developing countries: Eastern Mediterranean Region. Cairo, November 9-11, 2004
• Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference. (open access is among the topics). Montreal, November 11-14, 2004
• Internet Librarian 2004. Monterey, November 15-17, 2004
• Sessions C301 and C302, Internet Librarians' Open Access Forum. November 17, 2004, 10:15 am - 12:15 pm
• IST 2004. The Hague, November 15-17, 2004
• Open Access to Information in Sciences and Humanities, a networking session convened by Francis Muguet.
• Institutional Repositories: The Next Stage. Washington, D.C., November 18-19, 2004
• Everything you always wanted to know about e-journals but were afraid to ask.... (sponsored by UKSG). Edinburgh, November 19, 2004
• Copyright, Scholarship, and the Case for Open Access: Conference on the Intellectual Commons. (sponsored by the University of Maine). Orono, Maine, November 20, 2004
• Libraries --Gateways to Information and Knowledge in the Digital Age. Bangkok, November 21-24, 2004
• UKSG Seminar on the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Report, "Scientific Publications: Free For All?". London, November 23, 2004
• Seminar on The Future of Scholarly Communication: F@ir Publishing & F@ir Reading. (sponsored by UNICA). Vienna, November 25-26, 2004

December

• Open Access: Implications and Cost Models. (sponsored by the SLA). Online, December 1, 2004
• Fine-Line Publishing: Creating the Finest Publications Using the Thinnest Resources. (sponsored by SNAP). Chicago, December 2, 2004
• Biomedical Text Mining...Who Needs It?. (a public lecture by Ken Fang and David Mayer, sponsored by NIH Biomedical Computing Interest Group). Washington, D.C., December 2, 2004
• Electronic Communication of Licence Terms and Rights Information. (sponsored by Book Industry Communication, The Publishers Association, and NISO). London, December 2, 2004
• Scholarly Communication: Evolution or Revolution?. (sponsored by ACRL/NY). New York, December 3, 2004
• Open Access Scholarly Communication Workshop. Kiev, December 3-5, 2004
• Automated Journal Editorial and Production Workflow: management and processes. London, December 6, 2004
• Sixth International Conference on Grey Literature. (OA and institutional repositories were among the topics). New York, December 6-7, 2004
• Cologne Summit on Open Access Publishing. Cologne, December 7-8, 2004
• Outlook for Educational Publishing: 2005 and beyond. (sponsored by EPS). London, December 9, 2004
• Conference on Developing Digital Institutional Repositories: Experiences and Challenges. (sponsored by California Institute of Technology Libraries and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library). Hong Kong, December 9-10, 2004
• The 4th Round Table Talks on Free Access to Information. Zagreb, December 10, 2004
• Digital Library: International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization. (7th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries). Shanghai, December 13-17, 2004
• Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy. Washington, D.C., January 10-11, 2004

See also

• Timeline of the open access movement