Events

The Open Institutional Publishing Association (OIPA) Symposium will explore the current open publishing landscape and some of the ground-breaking projects shaping the future of open institutional publishing.

Date: October 21, 2025

Time: 14:30 CET

Location: online

Registration: here

The theme of this year's Netherlands Research Integrity Network Annual Symposium is Research Integrity in a Disruptive Academic Context: from AI to Academic Freedom. It will feature thematic presentations and workshop sessions designed to encourage interactive discussions, networking, and mutual learning among participants. 

Date: October 17, 2025

Time: 10:00

Location: Wereldmuseum, Leiden

Registration: here

This two-part workshop will cover key considerations and best practices when creating a theme for OJS. The first part will show you how to get started creating a child theme to modify another theme's HTML and CSS code. In the second part, I will share my tried and tested techniques to build maintainable, performant themes. We'll cover good ways to load custom data, create new pages, organise your code, and use modern build tools like Vite.

Date: October 17, 2025

Time: 10:00 CEST

Location: Online

Registration: here

The CRAFT-OA project will host its final event on 6-8 October 2025 in Göttingen, Germany!

The conference, “Crafting the Future of Diamond Open Access: Technical, Social, and Political Perspectives of Scholarly Publishing,” will mark the project’s final phase. It will bring together project partners and the broader Diamond OA community to exchange ideas, reflect on achievements, and explore how to shape the future of federated Diamond OA publishing practices.

We invite contributions for 20-minute Talks and 5 to 7-minute “Poster Lightning Talks” related to challenges, best practices, and projects on one or more of the following three themes: Technical Frameworks, Community Empowerment, and Policy Concepts. For details on each of these themes and submission instructions, please visit our Call for Proposals page. The deadline is on June 1, 2025.

Date: 6-8^th October 2025

Location: Göttingen, Germany

Registration: not available yet.

In this session, we’ll explore how to make the most of Open Journal Systems (OJS) by using its built-in configuration options and plugins. You’ll learn practical tips and tricks to enhance the appearance and usability of your journal, choose and customize themes to match your preferred style, and make the system truly your own. 

Date: September 26, 2025

Time: 10:00 CEST

Location: Online

Registration: here

This symposium will examine the complex dynamics between large commercial publishing and research information platforms, open science initiatives, and emerging AI technologies in shaping the future of academic knowledge production, with particular attention to questions of surveillance and data autonomy.

Date: September 25, 2025

Time: 12:00-17:00

Location: Jantina Tammes Room, University of Groningen Library

Registration: here

This talk by Arend Küster explores how Open Access challenges small publishers to scale, optimize workflows, and adopt AI to stay competitive.

Date: September 24, 2025

Time: 17:00

Location: online

Registration: here

This retreat critically explores the promises and limitations of Diamond OA, its role in advancing Open Science, and the role of the scientific community in the success of the model. A view on financing models and a spotlight on successful Diamond OA initiatives will provide practical insights into key success factors and persistent challenges.

Date: September 23-24, 2025

Location: Online

Registration: here

The conference will focus on the complexities we know we face in asking how we achieve a future with 100% open access. Collectively we will consider the key questions that arise from pursuing this goal, for example, can pursuit of the goal itself distract us from quality, sustainability and inclusivity in scholarly communications? Should 100% even be the goal and what do we mean by it?

How do we address the crucial underlying issues to tackle in our research culture and with research integrity? Does a focus on transitioning from paywalled to open access content detract from the efforts of those already delivering 100% open access? And how is the wider geopolitical landscape impacting our ambitions?

Date: 22-24 September, 2025

Location: Irish College Leuven, Belgium

Registration: here

This webinar will provide a clear understanding of three key infrastructures that play a vital role in supporting the discovery and accessibility of open access research: the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN), and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

Date: September 16, 2025

Time: 13:00 GST

Location: online

Registration: here