Image of Barbara Rivera Lopez with a background map of the world with pins in it.

Over the next few weeks in the lead up to the ELPUB Conference, we will be featuring the #ELPUB2018 Travel Scholarship recipients on our blog. We would like to thank our Conference Partners – PLOS, OpenEdition, SPARC, FACETS Journal, UTSC’s Arts Culture and Media Department and Centre for Critical Development Studies, U of T Libraries, ACRL, Arcadia Fund, CARL, Creative Read more…


Front exterior of Hart House, building in the Collegiate Gothic style.

We are pleased to announce that workshop descriptions and paper abstracts that have been accepted for presentation are now available for viewing on the ELPUB website! Read on for more, and stay tuned as more information will be coming shortly about session themes and times. There are less than two weeks left for Early-Bird registration, so take advantage of our discounted Read more…


Exhibition room at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto.

April 2018 E-Newsletter Welcome to the fifth edition of the ELPUB 2018 Newsletter! We will use this forum to share the latest conference news, important date reminders, and interesting materials related to the theme of this year’s conference – Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. In this issue, we are pleased to share some travel and accommodation Read more…


Map of the world with location pins for the ELPUB presentations. TItle reads 5+1 reasons to attend #ELPUB2018.

1. Learn about the latest innovations, research, policies and practices in scholarly publishing The ELPUB Conference will be a great opportunity to learn about the latest innovations, research, policies and practices in scholarly publishing. The conference programme includes a variety of different sessions, including keynotes, session panels, poster presentations, demonstrations, and interactive workshops. Presentations will cover a diversity of topics Read more…


Inforum Library at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

March 2018 E-Newsletter Welcome to the fourth edition of the ELPUB 2018 Newsletter! We will use this forum to share the latest conference news, important date reminders, and interesting materials related to the theme of this year’s conference – Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. This issue, we are shining a special spotlight on our lead Conference Read more…


Letters Q and A in speech bubbles along with Open Edition logo. Background is a black and white photograph of a stack of books.

In the lead up to the ELPUB conference, we are shining a spotlight on some of our key Conference Partners. In this post, we share a Question and Answer interview with OpenEdition. Please tell us a bit about your organization. Who are you, and what do you do? OpenEdition is the french national infrastructure for open scholarly communication in social Read more…


Brain model in the background; Letters Q and A in speech bubbles with the PLOS logo

In the lead up to the ELPUB conference, we are shining a spotlight on some of our key Conference Partners. In this post, we share a Question and Answer interview with PLOS, the Public Library of Science. Please tell us a bit about your organization. Who are you, and what do you do? PLOS (Public Library of Science) is a Read more…


View of Lake Ontario from the Scarborough Bluffs in East Toronto, in winter.

February 2018 E-Newsletter Welcome to the third edition of the ELPUB 2018 Newsletter! We will use this forum to share the latest conference news, important date reminders, and interesting materials related to the theme of this year’s conference – Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure.  Thank you to everyone who submitted an abstract for a paper, poster Read more…


Map of South America with push pins

Registration information is now available on our website. Early-bird registration will open February 1, 2018. Travel Scholarship information is also now available. Diversity and inclusion are central to the success of ELPUB 2018 in Toronto, and we recognize that cost can be a significant barrier to participation. The Travel Scholarships fund is intended to provide support to participants who are studying Read more…


Hands coming together in symbol of teamwork

We are pleased to introduce you to our ELPUB Conference Partners. We are grateful to have the support and leadership of the organizations included below who are making #ELPUB2018 possible. Thank you for your contributions to the conference and importantly, towards our Scholarship Fund for participants from the Global South. Each of these organizations in their own right is doing great work Read more…