The  OpenAIRE Conference "Enlightenment in the Knowledge Society" will be take place at the Göttingen State and University Library in Göttingen/Germany from 21-22 November 2012. Registration is free, and open at the Conference Webpage.

The conference will present the results of the OpenAIRE project which supports the European Commission’s FP7 Open Access Pilot. It will feature a picture of the open access & supporting infrastructure landscape in Europe and offer views ranging from researcher’s views on scientific information, to the role of data infrastructures, research institutions and funders. This will offer a fitting context to Horizon 2020, where open access will be a general principle for all European research programmes. The programme will also give insight into the OpenAIREplus project, which will link publications to research data, enabling ...

The Call for Papers of the 17th International Conference on Electronic Publishing has been published. The title of the conference is “Mining the Digital Information Networks” and the main theme will be extracting and processing data from the vast wealth of digital publishing and the ways to use and reuse this information in innovative social contexts in a sustainable way. The conference will bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss data mining, digital publishing and social networks along with their implications for scholarly communication, information services, e-learning, e-businesses, the cultural heritage sector and other areas where electronic publishing is imperative.

The Conference will take place at June 13-14, 2013 in Karlskrona/Sweden, a UNESCO world heritage site. For more information on the call, forms of participation and dates see

The Repositories Support Project (RSP) is hosting a series of free webinars featuring various interesting topics for librarians and repository managers. The webinars titles are “Advocacy using campaign materials” (June 26^th), “A way of demonstrating the importance of institutional research” (July 3^th) and “Advocacy for the arts” (July 16^th). All webinars are held at 11am GMT, a booking is mandatory on the RSP event page.

The webinar “Advocacy using campaign materials” on the July 26^th will feature a discussion about advocacy issues for repositories including presentations about how marketing campaigns can be used to present advantages of repositories and about the use of social media for repositories managers. The webinar is hosted by Yvonne Budden, University of Warwick and Misha ...

The call for papers for the Sixth International Conference on Metadata and Semantic has been published. The MTSR'12 targets researchers and practitioners from the fields of metadata and semantics research as well as applications of the semantic web and related technologies. The conference topic is metadata and their relationships with Ontologies, Semantic Web, Knowledge Management and Software Engineering. Several different tracks are organized to be held in the conference program like for example a Track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Access Repositories, Research Information Systems and Infrastructures or a Track on Linked data. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer’s Communication in Computer and Information Science series. All interested in presenting ...

The End of Project Confernece of the Project PEER – Publishing and the Ecology of European Research http://www.peerproject.eu/ is going to take place on 29 May in Brussels.

PEER, supported by the EC eContentplus programme, has been investigating the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of authors’ final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open Access or stage-two research output). The project is a collaboration between publishers, repositories, and the research community including funding bodies, which has run since September 2008 and will conclude with this conference at which the final results will be presented and discussed.

As part of ...