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27 January 2012 Athens (Greece)
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MedOANet Kick-off meeting

MedOANet kick-off meeting, hosted by the National Documentation Centre in Athens.

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16 July 2012 Madrid (Spain)
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MedOANet partner workshop

MedOANet partners workshop, hosted in Madrid by FECYT.

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22 October 2012 Madrid (Spain)
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Spanish National Workshop

The Spanish National Workshop has been celebrated on October 22nd, 2012. It has been organized by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) as part of the International Open Access week agenda.

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22 October 2012 Braga (Portugal)
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Portuguese National Workshop

The Portuguese National Workshop will be held at the University of Minho, Braga, on 22nd October 2012.
The main goal of this meeting is to gather the Portuguese Task Force members for the first time to debate the course of action regarding the Open Access in Portugal in terms of infrastructures and policies.

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8-9 November 2012 Ankara
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Turkish National Open Access Workshop

National Open Access Workshop will be held in Ankara, Turkey, from November 8-9, 2012.

The Turkish National Open Access Workshop will take place at Hacettepe University Conference Center in Ankara from November 8-9, 2012.

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12 January 2012 London (UK)
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Open Access: The New Future of Academic Publishing?

Questions that will be asked: Can the scholarly world continue to support a system where monographs are published in 3-figure numbers at best, to be read only by the well-endowed in favoured centres of the world? Is it true that having text accessible on the web encourages rather than depresses sales? Is such a project financially feasible, and what are the costs and benefits? Is this the way forward for the democratisation of global knowledge?

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11-13 March 2012 Washington DC, USA
open access

SPARC Open Access Meeting Innovation Fair

The SPARC Open Access meeting expands on the popular SPARC Digital Repositories meetings, hosted biennially since 2004, and will provide a North American-based complement to the popular “Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI)” workshop held in Geneva in alternating years.

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12-13 April 2012 Berkeley CA, USA
open access

Orphan Works & Mass Digitization: Obstacles and Opportunities

Given the failure of the Google Book settlement and the newly proposed orphan works directive in the EU, the time is ripe for renewed consideration about how best to solve the orphan works problem.

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24-26 April 2012 Bielefeld (Germany)
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10th International Bielefeld Conference 2012

The Bielefeld Conference 2012 will provide ideas to renew structures of documents, data, services and organisations, i.e. the Conference will present a vision of future INFO-Structures.

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14-18 May 2012 Geneva, Switzerland
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WSIS Forum 2012

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is a unique two-phase United Nations (UN) summit that was initiated in order to create an evolving multi- stakeholder platform aimed at addressing the issues raised by information and communication technologies (ICTs) through a structured and inclusive approach at the national, regional and international levels.

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