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Upcoming Events
May 2026 OpenCon Librarian Community Call
Join us at the next OpenCon Librarian Community Call on Tuesday, May 12 at 12 p.m. ET / 9 a.m. PT for a presentation and conversation about AI Attribution and Disclosure with Natalie Meyers, MA, MLIS, the CNI/ARL AI Researcher in residence.
We'll look at tools, practices and issues related to how use of AI should be disclosed and attributed when communicating with a variety of different audiences including labelling of AI created content like still and moving images and synthetic voices, as well as at informed consent, and open source code contribution of partially or wholly AI generated code, discussing how each of these impacts librarianship.
OpenCon Librarian Community Calls are limited to those working in libraries, and are not recorded. No prior knowledge is required to join this conversation. Optional prereads are located in the OpenCon Community Library Call notes document. You can register for the May call here.
Agenda and Notes
You can find all the proposed agendas and notes from the Librarian community calls in one place, right here.
Recordings
Community Calls are not recorded to support a safer environment for open and honest discussion. However, notes are taken.
What to expect
Community calls are always friendly, and we love new faces. The more you participate, the more you'll get out of it!
June 2026 OpenCon Librarian Community Call
OpenAlex: open infrastructure for a changing scholarly landscape
Libraries are rethinking their relationships with commercial vendors — not just their big deals, but the discovery platforms, citation databases, and research analytics tools that shape how their institutions understand scholarship. OpenAlex offers a fully open alternative: a free, comprehensive index of almost 500 million scholarly works, authors, institutions, and citations, with no access fees, no usage restrictions, and a complete data dump available to anyone.
Join us at the next OpenCon Librarian Community Call on Tuesday, June 9 at 12 p.m. ET / 9 a.m. PT for a session with Kyle Demes, COO of OpenAlex, on how libraries and their research communities are putting OpenAlex to work. We'll discuss: displacing expensive proprietary systems like Web of Science and Scopus, powering data-driven collections decisions through tools like Unsub, and shifting the value proposition of commercial providers from access to data to value-add services on top of free data. Expect concrete examples from libraries already doing this work, a look at where OpenAlex is headed, and plenty of time for Q&A about how your institution might fit in.
OpenCon Librarian Community Calls are open to those working in libraries and are not recorded. You can register for the June call here.
You can register for the June call here.
Agenda and Notes
You can find all the proposed agendas and notes from the Librarian community calls in one place, right here.
Recordings
Community Calls are not recorded to support a safer environment for open and honest discussion. However, notes are taken.
What to expect
Community calls are always friendly, and we love new faces. The more you participate, the more you'll get out of it!
We’re working to make online research & educational materials free to read, share, and modify for all.
Research Papers
We believe in Open Access—the free, immediate, online availability of research articles—to ensure that anyone with an Internet connection can read, use, and build upon research findings.
Research Data
We advocate for Open Research Data so that anyone can freely download, copy, analyze and re-process data. We believe Open Data encourages transparency and collaboration among researchers, accelerates discovery, and allows the public to engage with publicly funded data.
Education
We believe in Open Education to maximize the power of the Internet to make educational materials more affordable, more accessible and more effective for learners. We advocate for Open Education so that teachers can share, adapt, and build off existing materials.
Blog and News
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Organized by the Right to Research Coalition & SPARC
OpenCon is organized by SPARC, the Right to Research Coalition, and a Organizing Committee of students and early career academic professionals from around the world.