PRINTEGER European Conference on Research Integrity
2018-02-05 - 2018-02-07
The PRINTEGER European Conference on Research Integrity: Why Research Integrity Matters to You aims to promote a culture in which integrity is part and parcel of what it means to do excellent research. An improved governance of integrity and responsible research has to be informed by practice: the daily operation of researchers and their efforts to respond to the tensions and pressures of a complex research system.
The conference is aimed at early stage researchers, senior researchers, students, research managers, industrial researchers, academic teachers, journal editors and research policy makers, as well as the media and the broader public to exchange views about how to effectively address integrity challenges emerging in contemporary research.
The conference organisers invite participants to discuss research integrity from multiple perspectives, exchange views and discuss project results and educational as well as organizational tools. Topics will be addressed and discussed by keynote speakers and in parallel sessions.
Day 1
Day 1 of the conference focusses on four topics: integrity challenges in the science system, research integrity and the role of media, deviance in science, and peer-review processes.
Day 2
On day 2, institutional challenges are addressed, along with conceptual issues, retractions, and the legal perspective.
Day 3
The conference closes on day 3 with a consensus conference on research integrity parallel to the tryout of tools especially for students.
The detailed agenda can be found here.
Registration for the conference is now open here

PEERE International Conference on Peer Review 2018
2018-03-07 - 2018-03-09 | National Research Council, Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, Rome, Italy
PEERE International Conference on Peer Review, 7-9 March 2018, CNR (National Research Council) Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, Italy
The TD1306 COST Action PEERE organises an interdisciplinary conference on peer review. The conference aims to provide a forum for scholars, practitioners and science stakeholders to share evidence on peer review in different fields, e.g., medicine, computer science, social sciences and humanities. It aims to stimulate the use of evidence-based research in the design and implementation of peer review in a variety of fields and encourage more systematic research.
The conference welcomes any contribution (e.g., original research, position papers, literature reviews) that uses any method (e.g., quantitative, experimental or qualitative) to investigate peer review in a variety of scientific domains (e.g., scholarly journals, funding agencies, research assessment). Interdisciplinary research is especially welcome.
The submission process will be open on 10 July to close on 1 December 2017. To submit, please vising the submission page here

ISMTE Asian-Pacific Conference 2018
2018-03-27 - 2018-03-28 | Novotel Singapore, 177A River Valley Road, Singapore, 179031, Singapore
The 2nd ISMTE Asian-Pacific conference will be held at the Novotel Singapore, 27th-28th March 2018.
The conference theme is ‘Committed to Editorial Excellence’, which will be conveyed through presentations and workshops discussing professionalizing editorial offices, effective science communication, nurturing authors, preprint servers, launchign new journals and more.
The full agenda, registration form and further details are available on the ISMTE website here

UKSG Annual Conference 2018
2018-04-09 - 2018-04-11 | Scottish Event Campus, Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, G3 8YW, United Kingdom
The UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition is a major event in the scholarly communications calendar which each year attracts over 900 delegates from around the world – librarians, publishers, content providers, consultants and intermediaries. The conference combines high-quality plenary presentations, lightning talks and breakout sessions with a major trade exhibition and entertaining social events.
This year the event will be held at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow from 9th to 11th April, 2018.
Topics this year include open access transitioning, research impact within academia and the wider world, putting policies into practice, andf of course, the development of library community resources. The full programme is available here

Full registration details and other information are available on the UKSG website here

London Book Fair 2018
2018-04-10 - 2018-04-12 | Olympia London, Hammersmith Road, Kensington, London, W14 8UX, United Kingdom
The London Book Fair is the global marketplace for rights negotiation and the sale and distribution of content across print, audio, TV, film and digital channels. This year, the Fair will take place in on 10th to 12th April at Olympia, West London, covering all aspects of the publishing industry.
Full details and registration information are available on the website here

2018 International Publishing Symposium: Scholarly Publishing in Europe and China
2018-04-12 - 2018-04-13 | St Catherine’s College, Oxford, Manor Rd, Oxford, OX1 3UJ, United Kingdom
This symposium is new two-day event focussed on building collaborative networks between academic publishing houses in China and the west. It brings together experts and delegates in a forum to discuss and understand more fully each other’s needs and explore solutions and opportunities for future collaboration.
The Symposium offers an unrivalled opportunity to hear speakers from the world of scholarly publishing, in order to understand each other’s needs and explore solutions and opportunities for future collaboration. Delegates will enjoy a full day of talks with discussion; plus a reception and banquet, with inclusive overnight accommodation, and a special guest lecture following the dinner.
The Symposium is organized by the Confucius Institute at Oxford Brookes University and Ingenta UK Ltd.
Confirmed speakers include:

Professor James Lee, Chair Professor and Dean of Humanities and Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Sven Fund, Managing Director of Verlagsgruppe Peter Lang and fullstopp.com
Michiel Kolman, President of the International Publishers Association, and Senior Vice President, Global Academic Relations at Elsevier
Phill Jones, Director of Publishing Innovation, Digital Science
Hongzhong Zhou, Principal Product Architect, Baidu
Charlie Rapple, Co-founder of Kudos
Lara Speicher, Publishing Manager, University College London Press
David Taylor, Senior Vice President, Content Acquisition International, Ingram Content Group

The full programme and registration information can be viewed on the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies website here

2nd HEIRRI Conference
2018-04-27 | Aula der Wissenschaften, Wollzeile 27a, Wien, 1010, Austria
The 2nd HEIRRI conference “‘Education towards a responsible society, transforming universities through RRI“, will be held in Vienna on the 27th April 2018.
Sessions at the conference will present the results of nearly three years of project activities designed to promote the integration of Responsible Research and Innovation within the education of scientists, engineers and other professionals involved in the R&D process.
Participants, including high-level education representatives, academics, industry, international associations and other stakeholders, will have the opportunity to discuss the HEIRRI training programmes and their piloting, to join debates on the future of RRI in Europe and beyond, to discover other initiatives on RRI training, and to engage in multidisciplinary sessions.
A combination of keynote talks, parallel thematic sessions, RRI initiatives speed dating and a poster session are bound to make for an engaging and enriching event. This conference will also allow for networking, all under one roof in the heart of Europe: Vienna.
The preliminary conference programme is available here
More information on the Conference: can be found at the HEIRRI website: www.heirri.eu/2nd-heirri-conference/
Join the event on Facebook and use the hashtag #HEIRRIConf on Twitter

2018 CSE Annual Meeting
2018-05-05 - 2018-05-08 | Hilton New Orleans Riverside, 2 Poydras St, New Orleans, LA, 70130, United States
The Council of Science Editors annual meeting will be held in May, in New Orlenas. The event features two days of presentations on current and emerging issues in the communication of scientific information. Additional courses on manuscript editing, journal management, and publishing skills are available.
The keynote speaker at the event will be Professor of Atmospheric Science, Dr. Michael E. Mann. The full programme of events is beign finalised.
Registration for the event is now open on the CSE website here

SSP 40th Annual Meeting
2018-05-30 - 2018-06-01 | Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, 301 East North Water Street, Chicago, IL, 60611, United States
The Society for Scholarly Publishing will be celebrating a big birthday event this year, at their 40th meeting.
The event will be held betwen May 30th to June 1st, 2018 at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Chicago, IL
Few detailks are available at present, but keep an eye on the event website here

14th EASE Conference, Bucharest 2018
2018-06-08 - 2018-06-10 | University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
The 14th EASE Conference will be held in Bucharest, Romania, 8th-10th June, 2018, in partnership with the University of Bucharest.
Register now!
The theme for the event will be ‘Balancing Innovation and Tradition in Science Editing‘.
The venue for the event is the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest. See the Location page for full details.
For the first official EASE event in Romania, we have chosen a theme that is particularly relevant to editors in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, but also to editors anywhere working independently or in small offices, whether on major international journals, niche local ones or anything in between. We want to appeal to editors from other countries and those working directly for publishers, as well as freelancers and authors’ editors, so there will be plenty for everyone.
Social Events
Opening ceremony and welcome reception
Conference dinner at Pescarus, Bucharest
Optional courses
Practical workshop courses, charged separately, will be offered before or after the main conference on subjects such as “How to be a successful journal editor”, “Statistics for
editors”, “Plagiarism” and “How to get published in high impact medical journals” (for local authors).
See details for all the courses on the Optional Workshops page.

Poster Presentations
Abstracts for posters may be submitted until 1st April. Interested parties should please submit a title and 200-word abstract by this deadline.
Posters may address any aspects of science editing and publishing, as well as topics on the theme of the conference. Please see the Conference Programme for the list of sessions.
All submissions should be sent by email to either the EASE Secretariat Tea Marasovic, or to the Conference Chair, Joan Marsh.
Exhibitor and Sponsor Information
EASE welcomes all organizations interested in exhibiting at the conference or in sponsoring any aspect of the events. Please see our Exhibitors page for more information on how to get involved.
Enquiries should be directed to our Sponsorship and Exhibitions Manager Horatio Beceriu
Keep an eye on our website, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn pages for more information.

EuroScience Open Forum 2018
2018-07-09 - 2018-07-14 | Place du Capitole, Toulouse, 31000, France
The next EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) will be held in Toulouse from 9 to 14 July 2018. ESOF is a biennial interdisciplinary general science meeting and the highlight of the European science calendar.
ESOF 2018 is constructed around the motto “Sharing science: towards new horizons”. Sharing science means bridging barriers between disciplines, communities and countries, making a link between generations, encouraging and welcoming citizen aspirations and initiatives, and being the anchor of a knowledge based society.
Sessions will focus on current and future path-breaking science and its ways of producing and sharing knowledge and innovation. ESOF includes all disciplines. At ESOF, the word “science” is understood as encompassing the arts, social sciences and humanities as well as physical and life sciences, engineering and medicine. Science and technology are now embedded in a myriad of contexts, greatly affecting the everyday life of people across virtually every corner of the globe. Many of the universal challenges of all societies are now pervaded by science and technology. We take into consideration transversal themes such as risk, inequalities, gender and ethics in the proposal for sessions, inviting in particular interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary approaches from the social sciences and the humanities.
Visit the ESOF website to find out more about the themes: https://www.esof.eu/en/scientific-programme.html

ISMTE Asian-Pacific Conference 2018
2018-08-02 - 2018-08-03 | Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, 202 East Platt Street, Baltimore, MD, 21202, United States
The 11th ISMTE North American conference will be held at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, 2nd-3rd August, 2018.
The conference theme for the 2018 events is ‘Committed to Editorial Excellence’. The agenda for the event is currently being assembled. News will be added to the ISMTE website as it becomes available.
In addition to the conference, ISMTE will be hosting an additional practical workshop focussed on plagiairism and similarity checking. The session will be held on Wednesday 2nd August, and is designed for editorial office staff to discuss the current published guidelines on plagiarism, how editorial offices can use those guidelines to define in-house standards, use of tools such as iThenticate software, and when text reuse might be acceptable.
In order to attend this additional workshop, registration to the ISMTE North American Conference is required.
The registration form for he conference and workshop, along with further details are available on the ISMTE website

ALPSP Conference and Awards 2018
2018-09-12 - 2018-09-14 | De Vere Beaumont Estate, Windsor, United Kingdom
Following their hugely successful 10th Anniversary event in the Netherlands last year, the ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards returns to the UK for 2018.
This conference is a key date in the scholarly publishing calendar attracting a high level, international audience from all areas of the scholarly communications industry. Spread over three days, the event provides a relaxed and friendly environment in which to share information and knowledge, learn about new initiatives, as well as engage in open discussion on the challenges and opportunities facing publishing today
The key themes of the conference this year are:

Openness and Policy
All aspects of “open” and transparency, including funder policies and mandates and how these are affecting publishers of all sizes, researchers in all disciplines, and various regional markets.
Business and Technology
Exploring new technologies driving innovation in content creation and content consumption, including practical applications for Artificial Intelligence and blockchain, new monetization strategies around data, sustainable publishing partnerships, and new markets such as online teaching materials.
Researchers and Ethics
Examining the publisher role in supporting researcher and author workflows around journals and books across all disciplines, including data and metrics, as well as researcher and author experiences during peer review, ensuring a diverse environment with freedom to publish.

See the full event website and programme here: https://events.bizzabo.com/alpsp18/home and follow the #alpsp18 hastag on Twitter

COASP10 - Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing
2018-09-17 - 2018-09-19 | University of Vienna, Universitätsring 1, Wien, 1010, Austria
The 10th annual Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP), will take place on September 17th-19th, 2018, at the University of Vienna, Austria.
Further announcements will be made on the COASP website in the coming months, by email when registrations for the event are open and the preliminary program is available.
Enquiries regarding the conference should be directed to coasp@oaspa.org.

PUBMET 2018
2018-09-20 - 2018-09-21 | University of Zadar, Ul. Mihovila Pavlinovića, Zadar, 23000, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)
The 5th conference on scholarly publishing in the context of open science will be held on 20-21 September, 2018 at the University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
More details to be added as they are announced.
Pubmet.unizd.hr

Association of Earth Science Editors 52nd Annual Meeting, Niagara Falls, New York
2018-09-26 - 2018-09-29 | Conference and Event Center Niagara Falls, 101 Old Falls Street, Niagara Falls, NY, 14303, United States
The 52nd annual meeting of the Association of Earth Science Editors will take place in Niagara Falls, New York, September 26 to 29, 2018.
AESE meetings are a wonderful way to learn about earth science editing, publishing and communication. Our meetings, generally small in size, consist of two days of technical sessions and a one-day field trip, and provide an unparalleled opportunity to network with other editors, publishers, educators and others working in the earth sciences.
Niagara Falls has been a prime tourist destination since the mid-19th century. People come from around the world to see just the falls, themselves. But there is so much more to explore on both the American and Canadian sides of the falls, from world class wineries, Niagara Falls State Park, Niagara Gorge hiking trails, and art galleries to the Schoellkopf Power Plant museum, Niagara rapids jet boat tours, Old Fort Niagara, Niagara-on-the-Lake and more….so plan to come early or stay after the meeting to take in all that the area has to offer!
The meeting is open to anyone interested in earth science editing, publishing and outreach. Registration is now open. Please visit AESE’s web page www.aese.org for more information about the meeting. The Call for Abstracts will be issued mid Spring. For more information, please contact host chair, Marg Rutka (Ontario Geological Survey), marg.rutka@ontario.ca, and technical program chair, Phil Farquharson (San Diego Miramar College) philfarq@gmail.com .

PSP Consulting: Medical Editors’ Short Course
2018-11-07 - 2018-11-09 | Cotswold Lodge Hotel, 66a Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6JP, United Kingdom
PSP Consulting presents its annual international workshop (now in its 23rd year), to be held on 7th-9th November, 2018.
The course focuses on strategies for developing a medical journal, paying special attention to:

How to publish better content

​Working with authors, attracting higher quality submissions
Working with reviewers, improving quality control

How to increase impact

​Thinking of readers, what to publish, and how
Thinking of promotion, how editors can raise awareness

Run with only 25 participants, the course is highly interactive and allows editors to discover solutions for their own journals. It is ideal for newly-appointed Editors-in-Chief, Editorial Board members and senior managing editors.
For more information and registration details, see the PSP Consulting website here…and watch the video below for attendees feedback on previous courses.

ISMTE 2019 North American Conference
2019-07-31 - 2019-08-02 | Durham Convention Center, 301 W. Morgan St., Durham, NC, 27701, United States
The ISMTE North American Conference is the largest gathering of ISMTE members in the world. The event features a variety of educational formats including keynote and plenary sessions, concurrent breakout sessions, interactive workshops, vendor breakout sessions, a poster session, social events, tabletop exhibits and constant opportunities for networking.
Members can save $50 with special early bird rates – available from May 1 through June 28, 2019.
Full details can be found on the conference pages: https://www.ismte.org/page/2019NAAGENDA

Association of Earth Science Editors 53rd Annual Meeting, Regina, Saskatchewan 4-7 Sept 2019
2019-09-04 - 2019-09-07 | Double Tree by Hilton Regina, 1975 Broad Street, Regina, Saskatchewan, S4P 1Y2, Canada
The 53rd annual meeting of the Association of Earth Science Editors will take place in Regina, Saskatchewan, September 4 to 7, 2019. AESE meetings are a wonderful way to learn about earth science editing, publishing and communication. Our meetings, generally small in size, consist of two days of technical sessions and a one-day field trip, and provide an unparalleled opportunity to network with other editors, publishers, educators and others working in the earth sciences.
Nicknamed ‘The Queen City’, Regina is the capital of the province of Saskatchewan, one of the three ‘Prairie Provinces’ in Canada. Settled in 1882, Regina was originally called ‘Wascana’, a Cree term meaning ‘Pile of Bones’. Located roughly in the centre of the North American continent, Regina is like an oasis of trees, people and buildings in the heart of the Canadian prairies. With a population of over 230,000, it is the second-largest city in Saskatchewan, and a cultural and entertainment destination for many in this part of the province. Wascana Centre, the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, the RCMP Heritage Centre, and the iconic Legislative Building are just a few of the city’s attractions.
The meeting is open to anyone interested in earth science editing, publishing and outreach. The program is in the initial planning stage, but meeting information is now available on AESE’s web page www.aese.org. A Call for Abstracts will be issued mid Spring. We hope you’ll join us for what promises to be a great meeting.
For more information, please contact meeting host Heather Brown (Saskatchewan Geological Survey), heather.brown4@gov.sk.ca, or acting Chair of the Technical Program Committee Karen MacFarlane (Yukon Geological Survey), Karen.MacFarlane@gov.yk.ca.

Reward Equator Conference
2020-02-20 - 2020-02-22 | Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
The 2020 REWARD | EQUATOR Conference will be hosted by the BIH QUEST Center. The meeting will take place in the Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, in the heart of historic Berlin, from 20th to 22nd February 2020.
The conference theme – “Sharing strategies for Research Improvement” – for us represents an ambition to move beyond the articulation and description of problems, to instead provide greater focus on possible solutions; their development, testing, evaluation and dissemination. We will consider challenges and opportunities for improvement from the perspective of Ethics Committees and Regulators, Publishers, Institutions and Researchers, and Funders; and will have themes running through the conference on new methods for measuring and testing interventions. By involving communities beyond biomedical research we hope to broaden the discussion, that we can learn from each others‘ experience.
The choice of the meeting venue enables us to come together under one roof with ample circulation areas to promote discussion. The agenda includes opportunities and facilities for ad hoc groups to form and to discuss specific issues arising during the conference, with a view to establishing new collaborative networks. We are particularly keen to provide a platform for the next generation of research improvement researchers and practitioners, and the agenda reflects this.

2nd PEERE International Conference on Peer Review - postponed
2020-03-11 - 2020-03-13
Please note that this conference has been postponed due to the COVID-19 situation. It is hoped that the conference can be rescheduled, and we will provide more news as soon as it is available.
Important dates
15 November 2019: Abstract & paper submission deadline
10 January 2020: Notification to authors
11-13 March 2020: Conference in Valencia
Scope
Following the success of the 1st PEERE International Conference on Peer Review, the PEERE COST Action follow-up community organises the second edition of the PEERE International Conference on Peer Review in Valencia on 11-13 March 2020.
The conference aims to provide a forum for scholars, practitioners and science stakeholders to share research, models, tools and experience on peer review in different fields, e.g., medicine, computer science, social sciences and humanities. It aims to stimulate the use of evidence-based research in the design and implementation of peer review in a variety of fields and encourage more systematic research.
The conference welcomes any contribution (e.g., original research, position papers, literature reviews) that uses any method (e.g., quantitative, experimental or qualitative) to investigate peer review in a variety of scientific domains (e.g., scholarly journals, funding agencies, research assessment). Interdisciplinary research is especially welcome.
Main topics of interest
The topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:
• Quantitative and qualitative analysis of peer review in scholarly journals, funding agencies and research assessment
• Estimating editorial and reviewer bias
• The impact of different peer review models (single vs. double blind, confidential vs. open etc.) on reviewer attitudes and editorial decisions
• Incentives, motivation and recognition in peer review
• Social network analysis of peer review and editorial policy
• Models and theories of peer review: principles, functions and management
• Computer simulation studies of peer review dynamics and outcomes
• Applications of bibliometrics, altmetrics and scientometrics to peer review
• Perspectives from policy makers, grant funding agencies, libraries and publishers
• Peer review outside academia (e.g., private companies, public sector, online communities)
Submission
We encourage two types of submissions: full papers, 10 to 12 pages, single column, max 8000 words or extended abstracts,3 to 4 pages, single column. Submissions should include title, author(s), including affiliations and corresponding author address, abstracts (in case of full papers), keywords, text (including tables and figures) and references.
Submissions will be judged on their originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness. Each submission will be peer -reviewed by at least two programme committee members.
External reviewers will be used in case of lack of expertise of the programme committee members.
The peer review process will follow a single-blind procedure.
To manage submissions, we use Easychair. To submit, please click on this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=peerewic2020.
The submission deadline is 15 November 2019 and the deadline for acceptance notification is 10 January 2020.
For any information, please, contact us here.
Program committee chairs
Francisco Grimaldo (University of Valencia, Spain)
Flaminio Squazzoni (University of Milan, Italy)
Ana Marusic (University of Split School of Medicine, Croatia)

University Press Redux Conference 2020 - Postponed
2020-03-17 - 2020-03-18
We are delighted that this now biennial event will return in 2020 and anticipate that around 300 delegates and speakers will join us in the beautiful city of Cambridge from 17-18 March at Churchill College.
If you would like to be kept up-to-date with news on Redux 2020 please contact:

Susie Brown
E: info@alpsp.org
T: +44 (0)1494 784446
Lesley Ogg
E: events@alpsp.org
T: +44 (0)7855 171091

9TH INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL CONFERENCE
2020-04-21 - 2020-04-24
9th International Scientific and practical conference
The annual International Scientific and Practical Conference “World-Class Scientific Publication” which is usually held in Moscow is the largest and most prestigious event in Russia dedicated to the development of the publishing industry in the fields of science and high education. The aim of the Conference is to raise the level of regional academic/ scholarly journals and publications of Russia (predominantly), CIS and Eastern Europe countries for promotion better vision and recognition of these countries’ research results in the world, among scientific community and with the access through global citation databases and other information resources. The diversity of topics covered at the Conference expands and deepen every year.
To be held at:
The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and public adminstration (RANEPA) , 84 Bld 2, Prospect Vernadskogo, Moscow, 119571, Russian Federation

2020 Council of Science Editors Annual Meeting
2020-05-02 - 2020-05-05 | Portland, Oregon, Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront 1401 SW Naito Parkway Portland, Oregon 97201, OR, United States
Advancing Science by Exchanging Knowledge

Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront
1401 SW Naito Parkway
Portland, Oregon 97201
Hotel Rate: $199 per night
Program Co-Chairs:
Emilie Gunn, Managing Editor, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of Global Oncology, American Society of Clinical Oncology
Peter J. Olson, Senior Copyediting Coordinator, Sheridan Journal Services

FSCI2020
2020-08-03 - 2020-08-07 | UCLA, Los Angeles, California, UCLA, Los Angeles, United States of Amercia
FSCI IS A WEEK-LONG PROGRAM OF INTENSIVE COURSEWORK, GROUP ACTIVITIES, AND HANDS-ON TRAINING AROUND THE LATEST TRENDS IN SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION.
Courses cover new and emerging topics in scholarly communication from a multidisciplinary and global perspective: from research ethics, rigor and responsibility, and measuring impact to new publishing technologies and forms of scholarly publication. Whether you’re a researcher, a librarian, or an administrator, you’ll encounter new ideas, challenge your preconceptions, and return home with ideas, tools, and tactics for instigating change at your institution. See what past attendees have to say about their FSCI experience.
EASE members receive a discount on registration fee.

ALPSP Conference
2020-09-16 - 2020-09-18 | Manchester, UK
The ALPSP Conference provides a friendly forum in which to share information and knowledge, learn about new initiatives, and engage in open discussion on the challenges and opportunities facing publishing today. With expert speakers and a wide ranging programme, our annual event is for everyone in the scholarly publishing community. We also offer a range of sponsorship opportunities for this key event in the calendar, which attracts a high level audience from all sectors of the scholarly communications industry.

PubMet2020: 7th Conference on Scholarly Communication and Publishing in the Context of Open Science
2020-09-16 - 2020-09-18
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, the conference will now be held as a virtual event.
We welcome you to take part in PUBMET2020 conference, which strives to present and discuss the plurality of approaches to the scholarly communication, scholarly publishing and assessment (metrics). It will present innovative approaches, best practice discussions and take on future challenges.
The organizers aim to maintain lively discussion among experts in various fields involved in scholarly publishing and dissemination of knowledge. The field of scholarly communication, scholarly publishing and metrics includes all disciplines and variety of skills: researchers from different research areas, information specialists and librarians, editors, publishers, educators, students, policy makers, communication specialists and managers.
This year the newly founded Croatian Association for Scholarly Communication (CROASC) has joined the organizers of previous PUBMET conferences: University of Zadar, Department of Information Sciences, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, and Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb.

Peer Review Week - Trust in Peer Review
2020-09-21 08:00 - 2020-09-25 17:00 (Europe/London)
This year’s Peer Review Week (PRW), a yearly event led by academic publishers and societies, as well as other scholarly organizations, is dedicated to “Trust in Peer Review.” During the week of September 21 – 25, participating organizations will highlight the critical role of peer review in research with a week of virtual events and activities.
The importance of reliable scholarly publications has rarely been as public or pressing as now, with the world in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic. Maintaining trust in the peer review decision-making process is paramount if we are to solve the world’s most pressing problems. This global, week-long event will shine a light on how the peer review process works and why it helps build trust in research.
“Research contributions — on climate change, poverty, disease, or any of the other challenges we face — have an important impact on people’s lives. It’s vital for researchers, the public, and policymakers to know whether and, if so, how the research they’re relying on has been evaluated and tested,” says Phil Hurst of The Royal Society, co-chair of the Peer Review Week steering group.
“Every year, Peer Review Week puts a spotlight on the essential work that often goes on behind the scenes, yet plays a critical role in ensuring accuracy in the scientific and research process. By drawing attention to the issue of ‘trust’ we hope that this year’s PRW will stimulate discussions and further initiatives that will ultimately lead to strengthening the scientific record,” says Lou Peck of The International Bunch, Phil’s co-chair.
In this time of uncertainty, ensuring that peer review is trustworthy has never been more urgent. We invite all scholarly and scientific societies, researchers, editors, publishers, libraries, universities, funders, and anyone interested in the advancement of high-quality research to join us during Peer Review Week for this celebration and learning experience.

Association of Earth Science Editors 54th Annual Meeting
2020-09-30 - 2020-10-03
Association of Earth Science Editors 54th Annual Meeting
Columbus, Ohio, USA

September 30–October 3, 2020

Venue: Hilton Garden Inn Columbus – University Area, Columbus, Ohio

The 54th annual meeting of the Association of Earth Science Editors will take place in Columbus, Ohio, September 30–October 3, 2020. This year’s theme is “Effectively Communicating Geoscience in the Public Sphere.” The full schedule of programs, including keynote speaker, is being compiled, but the meeting hotel is set and a field trip has been arranged.
This year’s meeting will be hosted by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey. Traditionally referred to as the Ohio Geological Survey, it is Ohio’s oldest natural resources agency, dating back to 1837, and a charter division of the ODNR in 1949. The AESE meeting field trip will be led by Erika Danielsen and Sam Hulett, both with the Ohio Geological Survey. The trip will highlight Central Ohio geology, which features Devonian and Mississippian rocks, and the influence of the Acadian Orogeny at the western edge of the Appalachian Basin.
We invite AESE members and other interested persons to submit an abstract for a talk based on this or other earth science-related themes. Abstract deadline is August 1, 2020.

The annual meeting is open to anyone interested in earth science or science editing and communication. For more information, contact host chair Chuck Salmons, Ohio Geological Survey, charles.salmons@dnr.state.oh.us, or visit www.aese.org

Plain Language is a Civil Right virtual conference
2020-10-13 - 2020-10-15
Tuesday-Thursday October 13th-15, 2020
Access for All is a virtual conference dedicated to using #plainlanguage to break down barriers in society. We will explore five areas where plain language can increase #access, #justice, and #transparency for all. #AFA2020 #AccessForAllConference
Register at: accessforallconference.com
