Events

The Radical Open Access III conference on April 10-11, 2025, will explore how open access can move beyond transparency toward activism and social justice. 

Traditional publishing models often reinforce inequality and exclusivity, limiting access to knowledge. This event will challenge these structures by discussing equitable publishing, open infrastructures, and community-driven alternatives that promote a more just and accessible research landscape. 

More information here. 

Date: Thursday & Friday, April 10-11, 2025 
Location: Cambridge University Library (UK) & Online 
Registration: here 

Would you like to learn why good metadata is important and how to assess the quality of your metadata on CrossRef? Join this hands-on session for an introduction to metadata best practices and the Participation Reports tool. 

Crossref, as the world’s largest registry of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and metadata for the scholarly research community plays a crucial role in making your scholarly output visible, accessible, and citable. This workshop will explain why metadata matters for research visibility and show you practical ways to improve metadata completeness and quality. 

More information here. 

Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 
Time: 1 PM CEST 
Location: Online (Webex) 
Registration: here. 

This OScoffee will focus on alternative publishing formats and the platforms that support them. Traditional journal-based publishing has been criticized for paywalls, slow dissemination, and the limited recognition of non-traditional research outputs. This session will explore preprints, modular publishing, open peer review, and scholarly blogs, highlighting their role in a more open and accessible research landscape.

More information here.

Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Time: 11:00 - 12:00 CET

Location: Online (Microsoft Teams)

Registration: No registration required

Link: Leiden affiliates - Everyone else

In this symposium, we will explore how Open Science can help to fight injustice, by centering decolonial and anticolonial Open Science initiatives. Together, we aim to raise awareness about the neglect justice in mainstream Open Science practices and explore actionable pathways to embed justice and equity as fundamental values of Open Science.

Date: Thu, 13 March 2025

Time: 09.30-16:30 CEST

Location: Hybrid

Registration: here

If you are new to Open Journals Systems (OJS) or struggling with the basics of using it for your open access journal, join this short lecture by Oliver Krüger from SUB Hamburg. The “Technical Standards of Journal Hosting. An Overview for Beginners” session will focus on Public Knowledge Project’s (PKP) Open Journals System (OJS) and there will be an opportunity for questions after the presentation. More information here.

Date: 05 March 2025

Time: 11:00 -12:00 (CET).

Location: online

Registration: here 

NWO / Open Science NL is organising an online Q&A session for the NWO call for proposals ‘Diamond Open Access’. This event will offer participants an opportunity to get information about the Call for proposals ‘Diamond Open Access’ and to learn from good practices.

During the first part of the event, detailed information will be provided about the call, followed by a brief presentation from Johan Rooryck, who will share his experiences gained when flipping the journal Lingua to the diamond open access journal Glossa. In the last part participants will have an opportunity to ask clarifying questions.

Date: 21 January 2025 
Time: 15:00 - 16:00 CET 
Location: Online  
Registration: here