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2018 Library Conference Schedule

It’s a new year and we are looking forward to the 2018 annual library conferences. The list below covers large library technology conferences as well as the major conferences where technology will be discussed.

February		#hashtag
9-13	ALA Midwinter Meeting, Denver, CO	#alamw18
13-16	Code4Lib 2018, Los Angeles, CA	#c4l18
March
4-7	13th Annual ER&L Conference, Austin, TX	#erl18
5-7	Designing for Digital, Austin, TX	#d4d18
14-15	Library Technology Conference 2018, St. Paul, MN	#libtechconf
20-24	PLA Conference 2018, Philadelphia, PA	#PLA2018
April
17-19	Computers in Libraries 2018, Arlington, VA	#CILDC
June
3-6	Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2018, Fort Worth, TX	#JCDL2018
3-6	UNT Open Access Symposium 2018, Fort Worth, TX	#UNTOA18
9-13	SLA Annual Conference 2018, Baltimore, MD	#SLA2018
21-26	ALA Annual Conference 2018, New Orleans, LA	#ALAAC18
August
24-30	IFLA World Library and Information Congress, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	#wlic2018
November
5-9	Charleston Conference, Charleston, SC	@chsconf
9-14	ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2018, Vancouver, Canada	@asist_org

For more comprehensive lists, see Douglas Hasty’s Library Conference Planner website.

Library Technology Launchpad Celebrates Six Years

Today Library Technology Launchpad celebrates the six-year anniversary since its launch on November 1, 2011. The site was originally located at libtechlaunchpad.wordpress.com but in 2015 it moved to its own domain (although it still runs on WordPress).

In the early days we posted more frequent library technology news items and in the coming year we hope to get back to that practice.

Since the relaunch in 2015, we have featured our Basics and Resources Series. We will continue this series with future articles on COUNTER, OpenURL, and electronic resource acquisition models.

We are also compiling the most comprehensive (yet concise) list of Library Technology Acronyms. Bookmark that page for a quick look-up of common library technology acronyms and their meanings.

Finally, we will continue to follow trends in library technology and promote Open Access whether it is library platforms (such as FOLIO), institutional repositories, open access journals, or open educational resources.

In that respect, Library Technology Launchpad is doing its small part by serving as an open access “journal” in providing open access articles on library technology topics. Before starting this website, I considered writing and submitting articles to the traditional library (read: subscription) journals. Instead, I decided to publish my own articles in an easily accessible blog format.

It’s been a fun and fulfilling six years. I’m looking forward to the next six.

Open Access Week 2017

Open Access Week

International Open Access Week runs from October 23–29, 2017. For all of the details, visit www.openaccessweek.org.

This year’s theme is “Open in order to:” with a blank line to highlight what open access enables your library or institution to do.

Open Access Week 2017

Open in order to:

Your library or institution is probably utilizing open access resources. For Open Access Week this year, promote them to show how they can benefit your users. Here are just a few of the ways.

Promote Institutional Repositories

Many institutions are publishing open access resources in institutional repositories, often administered by library staff. Whether using paid proprietary platforms such as bepress’s Digital Commons or open source products CONTENTdm, DSpace, and Omeka, institutions can publish open access scholarly articles, journals, books, and data.

Does your institution have an institutional repository? If so, promote it to your users—both creators and consumers. Show faculty and staff how they can extend the reach of their published research and increase citation counts. Teach users to find relevant open access resources written by their own professors and others in their field.

Also, help scholars extend their reach by helping them register for an ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), a unique 16-digit number which distinguishes them from other researchers in online resources.

Extend Electronic Resources Budgets

We all subscribe to must-have research databases. But as subscription prices rise and library budgets are stretched thin, supplementing your list of paid databases with free, open access databases and journals makes sense. Important scholarly works are now being published exclusively in major open access databases such as arXiv, HathiTrust Digital Library, and PLOS ONE.

Increasingly, traditional publishers and database vendors are joining the trend of open access and providing some free content. Even if you don’t subscribe to their paid content, you can link to open access from publishers and databases.

Offer Free Textbooks and Other Educational Resources

Along with higher journal and database costs, students and libraries are faced with increasing costs of textbooks. Librarians have led the push towards expanding the use of open educational resources (OER). Encourage your faculty and staff to use open access textbooks when possible.

Learn More

Visit the Official Site

Visit the official Open Access Week website to see 2017 events and read their blogs to learn about what others are doing. Download resources & media such as posters, handouts, stickers, and logos to promote the event.

Follow on Social Media

Follow and use the Twitter hashtags #OAWeek and #OpenInOrderTo.

Past Open Access Weeks

Get more ideas from our previous Open Access Week 2016 and Open Access Week 2015 articles.

Open Access from Publishers and Databases

The movement toward open access databases and journals hasn’t been lost on traditional publishers and database vendors.

One problem for startup open access journals is their lack of reputation and prestige due to their inherent newness. They have no established reputation or credibility except that of the sponsoring organization: an academic society, institution, or university. Established traditional publishers can somewhat overcome this problem by lending their name, reputation, and credibility to their journals.

More and more traditional publishers are experimenting with the open access journal publishing model. Very few journals are converted from the traditional subscription model to open access, most are new journals developed as open access from the start.

Generally, the publishers are separating their open access journals from their subscription journals and creating new databases to aggregate and provide access to them. Database vendors may integrate subscription and open access journals with a search filter for open access titles.

Here are some major publishers and databases and their current open access offerings.

Elsevier

Giant academic publishing company Elsevier offers over 550 peer-reviews open access journals published under the gold open access model. In addition, Elsevier provides free access to archived material in more than 100 paid Elsevier journals.

See Elsevier Open Access Journals.

JSTOR

JSTOR JSTOR, a database of journals and ebooks, offers over 500 open access ebooks with no restrictions on chapter downloading or printing. Librarians can access free MARC records for these titles.

See about.jstor.org/open-access.

ProQuest

ProQuest doesn’t generally support open access. It does offer one service, called PQDT Open, providing open access dissertations and theses. Graduate students pay a one-time fee of $95 through the Open Access Publishing PLUS service.

See and search PQDT Open.

SAGE Open

SAGE Open is a peer-reviewed open access journal from SAGE Publications. Coverage spans “the full extent of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities”. The publishing fee is $395.

See sgo.sagepub.com.

SpringerOpen

SpringerOpen contains “200+ peer-reviewed fully open access journals” and an interdisciplinary open access journal titled SpringerPlus. Most of the journals are indexed in Scopus and some SpringerOpen titles are searchable in Web of Science.

Authors pay “an article-processing charge (APC)” to get articles published in SpringerOpen.

See www.springeropen.com/journals.

Wiley Open Access

Wiley Open access offers 80+ open access journals. It is a subset of Wiley Online Library. Journal articles are accessible at PubMed Central.

Wiley also offers the partially-open access platform OnlineOpen with over 1,300 journals with a mix of pay and OA articles.

Wiley charges an Article Publication Charge (typically $800-$2,500) to authors or their institutions. Authors can choose the type of Creative Commons license to publish under.

See www.wileyopenaccess.com.

Library Technology at the ALA 2017 Annual Conference

The ALA 2017 Annual Conference is just one week away. The conference covers a myriad of library topics and sorting through the program sessions to find the ones focused on library technology takes effort. Let us do the work for you.

Here is our list of programs related to library technology. You’ll find interest groups and sessions on data and metadata, makerspaces, UX, Linked Data, ILS and LMS, websites, mobile apps, emerging technologies, and more. Committee meetings were not included.

For official descriptions, speakers, and final schedule, please check the conference Full Schedule page.
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