2006

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

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

January

• 93rd Indian Science Congress. Hyderabad, January 3-7, 2006

• Session on Open Access, January 6, 10:00 am - 12:45 pm.

• From Research to Practice: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in LIS Education. (2006 ALISE Annual Conference). (OA is among the topics). San Antonio, January 16-19, 2006
• Joint Workshop on Future-proofing Institutional Websites. (sponsored by the Wellcome Trust Library). London, January 19-20, 2006
• International Workshop on e-Theses. (co-sponsored by JISC, SURF, and CURL). (by invitation only). Amsterdam, January 19-20, 2006
• ALA Midwinter Meeting. San Antonio, January 20-25, 2006
• Authors and Authority: Perspectives on Negotiating Licenses and Copyright. (A SPARC-ARL forum). January 21, 2006, 4-6 pm, Hilton Palacio del Rio, Salon Del Rey (Central & South).
• A session sponsored by the ALCTS Scholarly Communications discussion group. Monday, January 23, 2006, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center, Room 211.
• The Economics of Open Content. Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 23-24, 2006
• ALPSP briefing: Digitisation initiatives. (topics include Google and the OCA). London, January 25, 2006
• Seminar on access to scientific and technical information. (sponsored by the Senegal Academy of Science and Technology). Dakar, January 30-31, 2006
• The Future Digital Economy: Digital Content Creation, Distribution and Access. (sponsored by the OECD and the Italian Minister for Innovation and Technologies). Rome, January 30-31, 2006
• Open Repositories 2006. (Sponsored by Australia's APSR, the ARROW project, MAMS, Macquarie University, and the University of Technology Sydney). Sydney, January 31 - February 3, 2006

February

• Information and Data in e-Science: Making Seamless Access a Reality. (ICSTI annual technical meeting). Paris, February 3, 2006
• Academic Library and Information Services - New Paradigms for the Digital Age. (8th International Bielefeld Conference). (OA is among the topics). Bielefeld, February 7-9, 2006
• Open Access: Freier Zugang zu wissenschaftlichem Wissen. (a public lecture by Klaus Graf). Stuttgart, February 9, 2006
• Workshop on Scientific Journal Publishing in India. (OA is among the topics). Bangalore, February 10-11, 2006
• Establishing a Digital Repository Service. Perth, February 13, 2006
• Hochschulstrategien zu Open Access. Bonn, February 13, 2006
• Shapes of Things to Come: Die Zukunft der Informationsgesellschaft. Berlin, February 15-17, 2006
• Dopo Berlin 3: Politiche di Accesso Aperto alla Letteratura di Ricerca. Pisa, February 16,2006
• KnowRight 2006: Knowledge Rights - Legal, Societal and Related Technological Aspects. Vienna, February 16-17, 2006
• Scientific Research, Traditional Knowledge, and the Research Commons. (AAAS-SIPPI Annual Meeting Symposium). (OA is among the topics). St. Louis, February 19, 2006
• International Workshop on institutional repositories and enhanced and alternative metrics of publication impact. (by invitation only). Berlin, February 20-21, 2006
• Digitization of Arabic-Language Books Conference. (sponsored by Bibliotheca Alexandrina in cooperation with Stanford University, Yale University, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation). Alexandria, February 21-25, 2006
• Open Content Forum. (sponsored by the Open Knowledge Foundation). London, February 22, 2006
• Open Access, Open Source, Open CourseWare - Sharing as a Solution to the Digital Divide. Columbia, Missouri, February 22, 2006
• Thinking the Unthinkable: Open Access. (sponsored by Ireland's Health Sciences Librarians Group). Kilkenny, February 23-24, 2006
• The Google Copyright Controversy: Implications of Digitizing the World's Libraries. (sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute - Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies). Washington, D.C., February 24, 2006
• Launch of Open J-Gate. (sponsored by Informatics India). (including talks by Jean-Claude Guedon and V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai). Bangalore, February 27, 2006
• ECURE 2006: Preservation and Access for Digital College and University Resources. Tempe, Arizona, February 27 - March 1, 2006

March

• Metadata and Digital Repositories. (sponsored by CETIS). March 1, 2006
• ICTs for Civil Society. (OA is among the topics). Johannesburg, March 7-9, 2006
• Workshop on Open Access Journals. (sponsored by the U of Toronto's Project OS|OA). Toronto, March 9, 2006
• Open Access Publishing And The Future Of Legal Scholarship. (a symposium at Lewis and Clark Law School). Portland, Oregon, March 10, 2006
• Dead Poets Society: Publishers and Their Fight to Keep Knowledge Offline. (sponsored by the National Legal and Policy Center). Washington DC, March 10, 2006
• Scholarship and Libraries in Transition: A Dialogue about the Impacts of Mass Digitization Projects. Ann Arbor, March 10-11, 2006
• Cultural Environmentalism at 10. Palo Alto, March 11-12, 2006
• Best practices in sharing data. (sponsored by the ESDS). London, March 17, 2006
• E.Journal Summit 2006. (sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and PNAS). Washington, DC, March 20, 2006
• The Politics and Ideology of Intellectual Property and the Knowledge Commons. (sponsored by the TACD). Brussels, March 20-21, 2006
• Funding Our Digital Future: Budgeting for Libraries & Scholarly Communication. (sponsored by the Binghamton University Libraries). (OA is among the topics). Binghampton, March 20-21, 2006
• Network Library. (OA is among the topics). Dresden, March 21-24, 2006
• Open Access Publishing: Trend or Transformation?. (sponsored by the Delaware Valley Chapter of the ACRL). Bryn Mawr, March 24, 2006
• Second Digital Repositories Programme meeting. Warwick, March 27-28, 2006
• Berlin 4 Open Access - From Promise to Practice. Potsdam-Golm, Germany, March 29-31, 2006. (plus a day of pre-conference workshops on March 28)
• Crystal Clear? Today’s Libraries, Tomorrow’s Library Users. (15th North Carolina Serials Conference). (OA is among the topics). Chapel Hill, March 30-31, 2006
• Learned Journals Seminar: The new publishers. (OA is among the topics). London, March 31, 2006

April

• Academic Publishing in Europe. (APE 2006). (OA is among the topics). Berlin, April 4-5, 2006
• Open Access Movement. (sponsored by the World Bank’s Information Services Group). Washington, D.C., April 5, 2006
• Duquesne University Open Access Symposium. Pittsburgh, April 5, 2006
• E-Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences. (sponsored by the British Academy). London, April 6, 2006
• E-Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences. (sponsored by the British Academy). London, April 7, 2006
• Repositories and RAE Submission: an Information and Discussion Meeting. (sponsored by the JISC IRRA project). London, April 7, 2006
• Enabling Open Access to Scientific Data and Information within the Modern Knowledge Economy; the Case for a Scientific Commons. Dublin, April 12, 2006
• Challenging Intellectual Property: Access to Knowledge Issues in Open Source and Medicine. (sponsored by United Nations University). New York, April 13, 2006
• Communication scientifique et valorisation de la recherche à l'heure d'Internet. Toulouse, April 13, 2006
• Augmenting interoperability across scholarly repositories. (sponsored by Microsoft, the Mellon Foundation, CNI, DLF, and JISC). New York, April 20-21, 2006
• DSpace User Group Meeting. Bergen, April 20-21, 2006
• Sharing a Vision: The Power of Collaboration. (OA is among the topics). Burnaby, April 20-22, 2006
• Forschung und Lehre im Informationszeitalter – zwischen Zugangsfreiheit und Privatisierungsanreiz. (OA is among the topics). Köln, April 21, 2006
• 1st European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and Medicine. (OA is among the topics). Lund, April 21-22, 2006
• Scientific information. Old practices vs. new projects: self archiving and open access journals. (sponsored by HUMANE, Heads of University Management and Administration in Europe). Copenhagen, April 21-22, 2006
• Conference on Access to Knowledge. (sponsored by the Yale Information Society Project). (OA is among the topics). New Haven, April 21-23, 2006.
• Beyond Declarations - The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication: Third Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication. Lund, April 24-25, 2006
• Open Access and Creating a Knowledge Society. Monomotapa, Zimbabwe, April 24-26, 2006
• Access Fair 2006: The Access Horizon. Salt Lake City, April 25, 2006
• 1st Ibero-American Conference On Electronic Publishing In The Context Of Scholarly Communication. (OA is among the topics). Brasilia, April 25-28, 2006
• Critical issues for the preservation of datasets. Uppsala, April 26-27, 2006
• ALPSP/PA/STM Journal Publishers' Forum: Publishing foes, Public woes. What are journal publishers for?. (I'm guessing OA is among the topics). London, April 27, 2006
• Scholarly perspectives on the impact and future trends of publishing in an electronic environment. (sponsored by Drexel University). (OA is among the topics). Philadelphia, April 28, 2006
• Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship. Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 28, 2006
• The Commons Conference: An Academic-Community Event on Privatization and the Public Domain. Victoria, British Columbia, April 28-30, 2006

May

• Research Data and the Distributed Institutional Repository. (a public talk by D. Scott Brandt and Michael C. Witt). Purdue University, May 2, 2006
• VTLS International Users' Group Meeting. Chattanooga, May 3-5, 2006
• American Institute of Physics' Convocation of Society Editors and Symposium on the History and Future of Society Journals (OA is among the topics). College Park, Maryland, May 4, 2006
• Mile High Views: Surveying the Serials Vista. (21st Annual NASIG Conference). (OA is among the topics). Denver, May 4-7, 2006
• Fedora Content Model Workshop. Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany, May 5, 2006
• Open Access and Information Management: International Workshop. (sponsored by the Information Management Committee, NATO Research & Technology Organisation). Oslo, May 10, 2006
• Enabling Interaction and Quality: 8th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems. Bergen, Norway. May 11-13, 2006
• Archive Ouverte, Libre Access: Quelle Mise en Place?. Champs-sur-Marne, May 12, 2006
• Canadian Health Libraries Association Annual Conference 2006. (OA is among the topics). Vancouver, May 12-16, 2006
• L'information scientifique : les impacts du libre accès. (ACFAS 2006). Montreal, May 15, 2006
• Open Archives Workshop. (sponsored by the Flemish Administration for Science and Innovation). Brussels, May 15, 2006
• Openness: Code, science and content: Making collaborative creativity sustainable. (10th First Monday conference). (OA is among the topics). Chicago, May 15-17, 2006
• Open Access an der Humboldt-Universität. Berlin, May 16, 2006
• The International Dimensions of Digital Science and Scholarship. (148th ARL Membership Meeting). (OA is among the topics). Ottawa, May 17-19, 2006
• Le biblioteche per la libertà d'accesso all'informazione. Bologna, May 18-19, 2006
• Trends in Education and Research: Developing Skills and Communication across Europe. (a UNICA Seminar). (OA is among the topics). Helsinki, May 18-19, 2006
• JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop. (a preconference workshop for WWW2006, below). Edinburgh, May 22, 2006
• Fifteenth International World Wide Web Conference. (sponsored by the International World Wide Web Conference Committee). Edinburgh, May 22- 26, 2006
• Open Access - Strategie e nuove tecnologie per rinnovare la comunicazione scientifica. Milan, May 23-26, 2006
• Archiving 2006. Ottawa, May 23- 26, 2006
• Seminar on Open Access Publishing with Open Journal Systems. Toronto, May 24, 2006
• Libraries activating for Access to Knowledge: Advocacy for Access to Knowledge: copyright and libraries. (sponsored by eIFL.net and Informatio Consortium). Kiev, May 26- 27, 2006
• Academic Practice – The Production of Knowledge as a Public Good. (Session U3 at the Annual Meeting at the Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences). (OA is among the topics). Toronto, May 30, 2006
• Workshop on Access to Public Sector Information and Content. (sponsored by the OECD). Paris, May 31, 2006
• Legal Aspects of e-Repositories and e-Collections Conference. Coventry, May 31 - June 1, 2006

June

• i-Expo. (OA is among the topics). Paris, May 31 - June 1, 2006
• La mise en place des archives institutionnelles en IST, a session. June 1, 2006, 9:30 - 12:00
• Nouvelles stratégies de production et de diffusion de l'IST, a session. June 1, 2004
• Annual Meeting of the Canadian Assciation of Learned Journals. (OA is among the topics). Toronto, June 1-2, 2006
• Oxford Open Access Workshop. London, June 5, 2006
• Culture, Commerce, and Public Media. (OA is among the topics). New York, June 5-6, 2006
• Asian Conference on the Digital Commons. Bangkok, June 6-8, 2006. (Rescheduled from April 18-21, 2006).
• Affordances and implications of New Media for scholarly publishing. Berkeley, June 7, 2006
• Partnering In Science Information: Necessities Of Change. (IRs are among the topics). Bethesda, June 7-8, 2006
• Society for Scholarly Publishing 28th Annual Meeting. (OA is among the topics). Arlington, Virginia, June 7-9, 2006
• Unlocking Scholarly Access: ETDs, Institutional Repositories and Creators. (The 9th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations), Quebec City, June 7-10, 2006
• European Infrastructure for Repositories of Scientific Information. Brussels, June 8-9, 2006
• The Second International Conference on Open Source Systems. (OA is among the topics). Como, Italy, June 8-10, 2006
• Preserving Quality in an Open Environment: towards new contexts for sharing scholarly production and open content educational materials. (sponsored by the Open Culture Promoter Group). (OA is among the topics). Como, Italy, June 9, 2006
• Opening Information Horizons. (JCDL 2006). Chapel Hill, June 11-15, 2006
• Open Access Scholarly Communication and IR's. (sponsored by the Western Cape Higher Education Libraries Interest Group of the Library and Information Association of South Africa). Bellville, South Africa, June 12, 2006
• Copyright at a Crossroads: The Impact of Mass Digitization on Copyright and Higher Education. (sponsored by the The Center for Intellectual Property at University of Maryland University College). Adelphi, Maryland, June 14-16, 2006
• Institutional Web Management Workshop 2006: Quality Matters. (OA and IRs are among the topics). Bath, June 14-16, 2006
• ELPUB 2006: Digital Spectrum: Integrating Technology and Culture: 10th International Conference on Electronic Publishing. (OA is among the topics). Bansko, Bulgaria, June 14-16, 2006
• PDR Corporate Library/Scholarly Publisher Forum. (sponsored by the Society for Scholarly Publishing). Baltimore, June 15, 2006
• Transformational Publishing: Lessons, Tools, and Strategies for Scholarly Publishing in the 21st Century. (sponsored by the AAUP). (OA is among the topics). New Orleans, June 15-18, 2006
• Library and Information Services in Astronomy V. (OA is among the topics). Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 18-21, 2006
• Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) SIG session of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference. (OA is among the topics). Chicago, June 18-21, 2006
• Archives institutionnelles et archives ouvertes. (a session within the larger meeting, Journées de la formation des documentalistes de la Recherche). Nancy, June 19, 2006
• Two roads to open access. (sponsored by EASE and OSI). Krakow, June 19, 2006
• New relations between creative communities and consumers. (sponsored by the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue). Paris, June 19-20, 2006
• Fedora Users Conference. Charlottesville, June 19-20, 2006
• E-Resources Publishing Today: An Introductory Overview.(sponsored by UKSG). London, June 20, 2006
• International Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage. Salzburg, June 21-22, 2006
• Towards a global digital commons. (the iCommons iSummit for 2006). (OA is among the topics). Rio de Janeiro, June 23-25, 2006
• American Library Association Annual Conference 2006. (OA is among the topics). New Orleans, June 24-27, 2006
• Digital Rights Management and Institutional Repositories: Achieving Balance in a Complex Environment. A session sponsored by ALCTS, June 24, 2006, 1:30 - 5:30 pm.
• Forum on Open Data. A session sponsored by SPARC and ARL, June 24, 2006, 4:00 - 5:30 pm in the Morial Convention Center, Room 356 – 357.
• Data webs: new visions for research data on the Web. (OA is among the topics). London, June 28, 2006
• Metadata and digital repositories. (sponsored by CETIS and UKOLN). Bath, June 28, 2006
• Second International Conference on e-Social Science. Manchester, June 28-30, 2006
• Learned Societies and Access to Research Outputs: An RCUK Workshop. London, June 29, 2006
• The Successful Repository. (sponsored by APSR in collaboration with QULOC and RUBRIC). Brisbane, June 29, 2006

July

• E-Publishing & Global Promotion of Indian Publications. (OA is among the topics). Mumbai, July 1, 2006
• Science, Intellectual Property and Openness. (OA is among the topics). Lancaster (UK), July 4, 2006
• e-Resources in Higher and Further Education changes, challenges and choices. (OA is among the topics). Manchester, July 5, 2006
• Standards for the Electronic Expression of Licensing Terms. London, July 5, 2006
• Envisioning future challenges in networked information. (JISC/CNI annual meeting). (institutional repositories are among the topics). York, July 6-7, 2006
• Science and Technology Infrastructure in the Developing World and Algeria: Tools for Improvements: Publication, Collaboration and Research. (Ibn Badis Scientific first Annual Conference 2006). (sponsored by IBScientific). (OA is among the topics). London, July 8, 2006
• Towards a Cyberinfrastructure for the Study of Science. (a public lecture by Katy Borner). Oxford, July 10, 2006
• Creating Commons: The Tasks Ahead in Unlocking IP. (OA is among the topics). Sydney, July 10-11, 2006
• Health Libraries Group Conference. (OA is among the topics). Eastbourne, July 10-12, 2006
• ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication. (OA is among the topics). Los Angeles, July 12-14, 2006
• Brownbag lunch on FRPAA. Washington, D.C., July 13, 2006
• Euroscience Open Forum 2006. Munich, July 15-19, 2006
• Open Access - threat or blessing?: session. July 16, 2006, 18:30, in the Solaris room of the Deutschen Museum.
• Is Open Access the Future for Scientific Publishing?. (sponsored by the UK House of Commons Parliamentary and Scientific Committee). (by invitation only). London, July 17, 2006
• Free our data: should public sector information be available for all at the cost of reproduction?. London, July 17, 2006
• Eprints training course. Southampton, July 17-18, 2006
• EThOS Workshop. (sponsored by the JISC/CURL Electronic Theses Online Service project). (OA is among the topics). Glasgow, July 20, 2006
• Metadata Enhancement and OAI Workshop. Atlanta, July 24-25, 2006
• CESSE 2006. (sponsored by the Council of Engineering & Scientific Societies). (OA is among the topics). Salt Lake City, July 25-28, 2006
• Open Publish 2006. Sydney, July 26-28, 2006

August

• National Conference on Information Management in Digital Libraries. Kharagpur, India, August 2-4, 2006
• Fiesole Collection Development Retreat. (OA is among the topics). Lund, August 3-5, 2006
• Wikimania: The 2nd International Wikimania Conference. Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 4-6, 2006
• Communicating Mathematics in the Digital Era. (OA is among the topics). Aveiro, Portugal, August 15-18, 2006
• Libraries: Dynamic Engines for the Knowledge and Information Society. (sponsored by IFLA). Seoul, August 20-24, 2006

• LIS journals: electronic journals, open access – and print as well? A session sponsored by the IFLA Standing Committee on Library and Information Science Journals
• Promoting the Implementation of Open Access: A session. Thursday, August 24, 2006, 10:45 - 12:45.

• OSISA/eIFL Open Access Workshop for Southern Africa. Pretoria, August 21-22, 2006
• Wiki-based Knowledge Engineering. Odense, Denmark, August 21-23, 2006
• Libraries Supporting Research and Open Access. (Module 4 within Digital Libraries a la Carte: New Choices for the Future, TICER Summer School, Tilburg University). Tilburg, August 24, 2006
• A New Method for Scientific and Medical Communication via the Internet. (a public lecture by Don L. Jewett). Oxford, August 29, 2006

September

• International Workshop on Semantic e-Science. Beijing, September 3, 2006
• Open Tuesday in September. (open content is among the topics). Helsinki, September 5, 2006
• Digital Repositories, e-Research and Portals. Lancaster, September 6-7, 2007
• Bridging the North-South Divide in Scholarly Communication on Africa. Threats and Opportunities in the Digital era. (OA is among the topics). Leiden, September 6-8, 2006
• InetBib 2006. (OA is among the topics). Münster, September 6-8, 2006
• The Open Content Alliance: Progress and Promise. (a conversation between Edward Valauskas and Chet Grycz). River Forest, Illinois, September 7, 2006
• Access to Knowledge. (OA is among the topics). Alexandria, September 7-8, 2006
• Seminar on Open Access and the natural sciences. Copenhagen, September 8, 2006
• eIFL General Assembly. (OA is among the topics). Amman, Jordan, September 10-12, 2006
• The EThOS Project Seminar: The Creation of a Prototype. London, September 11, 2006
• Europe as an Open Book. (10th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries). (OA is among the topics). Cluj, Romania, September 11-16, 2006
• Digital Age of Culture 2006. (OA is among the topics).Kamchatka, September 11-16, 2006
• JSTOR and the Future of Online Information. London, September 12, 2006
• Bringing Text Alive: The Future of Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Electronic Publication. Ann Arbor, September 14-17, 2006
• Quality Management in Free Content. (a session within Wizards of OS 4). (OA is among the topics). Berlin, September 15, 2006
• Open Access: Making Scholarly Information Truly Free. (a public lecture by Marsha Schnirring). Los Angeles, September 16, 2006
• Towards the European Digital Library. (10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries). Alicante, Spain, September 17-22, 2006
• 1st European Workshop on the use of Digital Object Repository Systems in Digital Libraries. (DORSDL). (in conjunction with the 10th ECRATDL).
• Creating a more full-featured institutional repository: Combining DSpace ETD-db, and DigiTool, a tutorial by Eric Lease Morgan. September 17, 2006, afternoon
• Digital Library Goes e-Science (DLSci06), a session. September 21, 2006
• UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2006. Nottingham, September 18-21, 2006
• Euro OSCON. (Open Source Convention). Brussels, September 18-21, 2006
• Public Geodata: Open Access to State-Collected Geographic Information is a Right, Not a Privilege. A session. September 19, 2006
• Open Content and Public Broadcasting. Boston, September 19-21, 2006
• Wa(h)re Information. (OA is among the topics). Bregenz, September 19-23, 2006
• A Standard XML Document Format: The case for the adoption of NLM DTD. (sponsored by the ALPSP). London, September 21, 2006
• International Seminar on Open Access for Developing Countries. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, September 21-22, 2006
• Workshop on Open Access. Poznan, September 21-22, 2006
• NSF Workshop on New Collaborative Relationships: The Role of Academic Libraries in the Digital Data Universe. (OA is among the topics). Arlington, Virginia, September 26-27, 2006
• Exzellenz durch Information. (7th annual DINI conference). Göttingen, September 27, 2006
• Moving towards open access: A JISC conference for research funders, authors, publishers and librarians. Oxford, September 27-28, 2006
• Open Education 2006: Community, Culture, and Content. Logan, Utah, September 27-29, 2006
• Lokal - Global: Vernetzung wissenschaftlicher Infrastrukturen. (sponsored by IuK). Göttingen, September 28, 2006
• L'Open Access tra gli attrezzi di lavoro dei nuovi bibliotecari del digitale. Venice, September 28, 2006
• Closing in on open science: Trends in intellectual property and scientific research. Portland, Maine, September 29, 2006

October

• Opportunities in Network Publishing: the deliberate and the unintended consequences of the advance of e-scholarly communication. (STM Annual Conference). Frankfurt, October 3, 2006
• Commons of Science Conference: Creating a vision for making scientific data accessible across disciplines. (sponsored by Science Commons and hosted by the National Academies of Science). Washington, D.C., October 3-4, 2006
• International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Application: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning. (OA is among the topics). Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico, October 3-6, 2006
• Transforming Scholarly Communication Symposium. (OA is among the topics). Houston, October 4, 2006
• Chemical Education and Information. (2006 Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society). (OA is among the topics). Binghamton, October 5-7, 2006
• Mass and Matter: Public access to scientific discovery. (sponsored by the University of Kansas Medical Center). Kansas City, October 6, 2006
• Sustaining Digital Libraries. Atlanta, October 6, 2006
• USAIN Conference 2006. (OA is among the topics). Ithaca, New York, October 8-11, 2006
• Capitalizing on Access. (Access 2006). (OA is among the topics). Ottawa, October 11-14, 2006
• Pre-Conference: CARL Institutional Repositories: The Next Generation. October 10, 9:00-4:00, The Westin Ottawa
• Impact Assessment of Digital Cultural Heritage Content and Services. Helsinki, October 12, 2006
• Governing the Knowledge Society. Hamburg, October 12-13, 2006
• Microsoft eScience Workshop. (OA is among the topics). Baltimore, October 13-15, 2006
• World Congress on Internet in Medicine. (MEDNET 2006). (OA is among the topics). Toronto, October 13-20, 2006
• The Future of Open Access Publishing, a panel. October 17, 2006 4:30 PM in RYH Concert Hall
• Consultation meeting on WSIS Action Line C3 "Access to information and knowledge". (sponsored by UNESCO and WSIS). Paris, October 16, 2006
• Humanities Content: Usable and Useful. (NFAIS Humanities Roundtable V). (OA is among the topics). New York, October 16, 2006
• (R)evolution in Scientific Publishing: How Will it Affect You?. (sponsored by the Society for Neurscience Publishing Open Access Group). (OA is among the topics). Atlanta, October 16, 2006
• Internet Librarian International 2006. (OA is among the topics). London, October 16-17, 2006
• Digital Libraries: Advanced Methods and Technologies Digital Collections. (Eighth National Russian Research Conference). Vladimir, Russia, October 17-19, 2006
• Disciplines, Documents, and Data: Convergence and Divergence in the Scholarly Information Infrastructure. (a public lecture by Christine Borgman). (OA is among the topics). Knoxville, October 18, 2006
• Open Scholarship: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories. Glasgow, October 18-20, 2006
• TEL-ME-MOR Policy Conference: The Digital Future of Cultural and Scientific Heritage. Tallinn, Estonia, October 18-20, 2006
• Bridging Technology and Content in Digital Archives: 2006 International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies. (ICDAT2006) Taipei, October 19-20, 2006
• Open Access 2.0. (a public lecture by Chris Surridge). Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 20, 2006
• Improving Access to Publicly Funded Research: Policy Issues and Practical Strategies. (sponsored by ARL, CNI, and SPARC). Washington, D.C., October 20, 2006
• HAL Hyper Articles en Ligne, Une bibliothèque numérique au service des chercheurs de toutes les disciplines. (OA is among the topics). Dijon, October 20, 2006
• 2006 Open Content Alliance Workshop. San Francisco, October 20, 2006
• Digital repositories supporting eResearch: exploring the eCrystals Federation Model. London, October 20, 2006
• Consultation meeting on WSIS Action Line C7 "E-science". (sponsored by UNESCO and WSIS). Beijing, October 22, 2006
• WISE Workshop on Web Information Access and Digital Library. (OA is among the topics). Wuhan, China, October 22, 2006
• Scientific Data and Knowledge within the Information Society. (sponsored by CODATA). Beijing, October 23-25, 2006
• International Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and Technologies. (InSciT2006). (OA is among the topics). Mréida, October 25-28, 2006
• Wissenschaft im Netz mit Open Access. Wildau, October 26, 2006
• Workshop on Institutional Repositories, E-Books and Long Term Preservation. (OA is among the topics). Istanbul, October 26-27, 2006
• V International Conference on University Libraries: Open access: an alternative of access to scientific information. Mexico City, October 26-27, 2006
• Maintaining Long-term Access to Geospatial Data. Edinburgh, October 27, 2006
• U.S. Regional Conference on Electronic Theses and Dissertations. (part of ETD 2006). St. Louis, October 27-28, 2006
• Controlling Intellectual Property: The Academic Community and the Future of Knowledge. Ottawa, October 27-29, 2006
• Fourth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning. Ocho Rios, Jamaica, October 30 - November 3, 2006

November

• Workshop: Free flow of information in cyberspace. (sponsored by UNESCO). Geneva (?), November 1, 2006
• Academic Libraries and Citizens' Societies: Establishing bounds of knowledge, democracy and culture in the digital environment. (15th Hellenic Academic Libraries Conference). (OA is among the topics). Patras, Greece, November 1-3, 2006
• Copyright and Marking Government Works: Why Keep the Public Guessing?. (OA is among the topics). Washington, D.C., November 2, 2006
• Harnessing the Power of the Internet to Provide Access to Knowledge & Free Flow of Information. (OA is among the issues). Athens, November 2, 2006
• Discovery to Delivery: Solutions to Put Your Content Where the Users Are. (OA is among the topics). Beltsville, Maryland, November 2-3, 2006
• Workshop on electronic publishing and open access. (focusing on India, China, Brazil and South Africa). (sponsored by the Indian Institute of Science). Bangalore, November 2-3, 2006
• Establishing a sponsoring consortium for Open Access publishing in particle physics. (sponsored by CERN). Geneva, November 3, 2006
• Seminari Open Access: Cultura Lliure I Biblioteca. Barcelona, November 3, 2006
• Information Realities: Shaping the Digital Future for All. (ASIS&T Annual Meeting). (OA is among the topics). Austin, November 3-9, 2006
• International Conference for Global Spatial Data Infrastructure. (OA is among the topics). Santiago, November 3-11, 2006
• What to do with a Million Books: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science. Chicago, November 5-6, 2006
• Scholarly Communications Colloquium. (OA is among the topics). Palo Alto, November 6, 2006
• First Workshop on Open Access in Agricultural Science and Technology: Indian Initiatives. (sponsored by AGRIS, FAO, and ICRISAT) Hyderabad, November 6-7, 2006
• Globalization, Digitization, Access, and Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Sofia, November 8-10, 2006
• 2006 NMC Regional Conference. (OA is among the topics). San Antonio, November 8-10, 2006
• Distance Learning and the Internet 2006. (OA is among the topics). Tokyo, November 8-10, 2006.
• 26th Annual Charleston Conference. (OA is among the topics). Charleston, South Carolina, November 8-11, 2006
• Navigating the Currents of Scholarly Communication: Government Mandates for Public Access to Research. University of New Mexico, November 9, 2006
• Seminar on Increasing your Research Impact with Open Access. Toronto, November 14, 2006
• A Workshop on the RIN/DTI/RCUK Evidence-based Analysis of Data on Scholarly Journal Publishing. (OA is among the topics). London, November 14, 2006
• Open Access - Strategie e nuove tecnologie per rinnovare la comunicazione scientifica. Milan, November 14-17, 2006
• Searching PubMed, LinkOut and Evidence Based Medicine. (OA is among the topics). Dubai, November 15-16, 2006
• Réunion sur les archives ouvertes. (sponsored by CNRS). Paris, November 16, 2006
• Open Access: nur eine Ph(r)ase oder neue Kernaufgabe für wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken?. Kiel, November 16, 2006
• 2nd International Digital Curation Conference Digital Data Curation in Practice. (OA is among the topics). Glasgow, November 21-22, 2006
• IST 2006 - Strategies for Leadership. Helsinki, November 21-23, 2006
• On the way to i2010: Tools and Services for the European Digital Library. A proposed session; your comments can affect whether it makes the cut.
• Digital data curation in practice. Glasgow, November 22, 2006
• Open Educational Resources: Institutional Challenges. (sponsored by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and UNESCO) Barcelona, November 22-24, 2006
• Wissenschaft sichtbar machen: Open Access und Hybrides Publizieren als Dienstleistungen von Hochschulbibliotheken. Leigzig, November 23, 2006
• Open access: 2d annual Conferência sobre o acesso livre ao conhecimento. Braga Portugal, November 27-28, 2006
• First EDLproject Workshop on developing the European Digital Library. Vienna, November 27-28, 2006
• 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries. Kyoto, November 27-30, 2006
• Open Knowledge Foundation Forum on Civic Information No. 2. (OA is among the topics). London, November 28, 2006
• Online Information 2006. (OA is among the topics). London, November 28-30, 2006
• Univers Lliure (free and open projects at Catalonian universities). Barcelona, November 29, 2006
• Institutional archives for research: experiences and projects in Open Access. Rome, November 30 - December 1, 2006.
• Online Educa Berlin. (OA is among the topics). Berlin, November 30 - December 1, 2006

December

• DCC and the University of Liverpool Library Information Day: Institutional Repositories. Liverpool, December 4, 2006
• Two talks on Open Access by Stevan Harnad. Bloomington, Indiana, December 4, 2006
• Moving an Established Subscription-based Journal Online and Open Access. Toronto, December 5, 2006
• Getting the most out of data, Making the most of research. (OA is among the topics). London, December 5, 2006
• Toward a Canadian Digital Information Strategy: National Summit. Montebello, Quebec, December 5-6, 2006
• International Conference on Digital Libraries. (OA is among the topics). New Delhi, December 5-8, 2006
• Discovery and Access: Standards and the Information Chain. (sponsored by JISC, ALPSP, PA, and CrossRef). London, December 7, 2006
• Eprints v3 Briefing. London, December 8, 2006
• One-Day Tutorial on Building a Digital Library. (IRs are among the topics). Kolkata, India, December 11, 2006
• Open Access 2006: 4th International Workshop on Open Access. Stockholm, December 12-14, 2006
• International Workshop On Research Issues in Digital Libraries. (IWRIDL 2006). Kolkata, India, December 12-15, 2006
• Joint Webcast on Author Rights. (sponsored by ARL, ACRL, and SPARC). (on self-archiving). December 14, 2006
• Second National Workshop on Scientific Journal Publishing in India. (OA is among the topics). Bangalore, December 14-15, 2006
• Repositorios Institucionales...: Una vía hacia el acceso, la visibilidad y la preservación de la producción cientifíca. Zaragoza, Spain, December 14-15, 2006
• Cultural Heritage Online: The Challenge of Accessibility & Preservation. (OA is among the topics). Florence, December 14-16, 2006
• 2° Incontro Nazionale di Creative Commons Italia. (CCIT 2006). (OA is among the topics). Torino, December 16, 2006
• Standing on the Shoulders of Digital Giants: International Symposium on Institutional Repositories, e-Science and the Future of Scholarly Communication. (OA is among the topics). Tokyo, December 18, 2006