The British Library is delighted to host its annual Open and Engaged Conference on Monday 21 October, in-person and online, as part of International Open Access Week. The Conference is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Research Libraries UK (RLUK).

Open and Engaged 2024: Empowering Communities to Thrive in Open Scholarship will centre leveraging the power of communities in the axis of open scholarship, open infrastructure, emerging technologies, collections as data, equity and integrity, skills development and sustainable models to elevate research of all kinds for the public good. We take a cross sectoral approach to the conference programme – unifying around shared-values for openness – by reflecting on practices within research libraries both in higher education and GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) sectors as well as the national and public libraries.

This will be a hybrid event taking place at the British Library’s Knowledge Centre in London, St. Pancras and streamed online for those unable to attend in-person. The event will be recorded and made available afterwards via the British Library research repository.