Available from July 15 - October 10
Must provide proof of enrollment in MLIS program
Charleston Conference Asia is a new event that will be hosted for the first time in 2026 in Bangkok, Thailand. The Charleston Conference is an annual gathering of librarians, publishers, electronic resource managers, consultants, and vendors of library materials that has been held annually since 1980 in Charleston, SC, each November. Founded by visionary librarian and entrepreneur Katina Strauch, it is designed to be a collegial gathering of individuals from different areas who discuss the same issues in a friendly and informal environment.
Our unique conference philosophy places an emphasis on inviting diverse viewpoints, giving a platform to new voices, and equally valuing the input from all sides of the information and scholarly communications industry. We’re thrilled to bring this approach to the library and publishing communities across Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East/North Africa regions at our new event, and to share knowledge, spark innovation, and build community globally.
Scholarship awards will be available to include librarians from low-income and underrepresented countries, made possible by support from our sponsors.
Scholarship Application Form
Royal Orchid Sheraton Riverside Hotel
2 Charoen Krung Road Soi 30, Siphya, Bangrak, Bangkok, Thailand, 10500
Dr. Joyashree Roy is currently the Professor of Economics at Jadavpur University, Kolkata in India and a National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research. She initiated and also coordinates the Global Change Programme at Jadavpur University, which focuses on climate change research and beyond. She also directs the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund Project on “Tradition, Social Change, and Sustainable Development: A Holistic Approach” at the same university. She was a Ford Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Economics at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA. Read more
Prof Devika Madalli is the Director, INFLIBNET, UGC-IUC,Gandhinagar. Prior to joining INFLIBNET, Dr.Madalli has served as a Professor of the Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute and as an adjunct faculty, DISI, University of Trento, Italy. Dr.Madalli has extensive experience in teaching, research and capacity building. Her interest lies in the area of OERs and Educational resources repositories, Open Data Repositories and Data Management, Knowledge Organization and application of facetization in Information Systems, Information Infrastructures, Digital Libraries, Semantic Web technologies, Faceted Ontologies, Agrisemantics, multilingual information services. Dr. Madalli was also instrumental in the development of the One Nation One Subscription scheme in India.
We are pleased to announce that the FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI) will host a series of courses for attendees of the Charleston Conference Asia. Courses will begin in the week prior to the conference with two online sessions during the week of January 19, 2026, followed by a final session held in-person at the Charleston Conference, in Bangkok, Thailand, on 25 January 2026.
Please see the workshop descriptions and select the session(s) you'd like to attend below. Please contact Caroline Goldsmith ([email protected]) with any questions.
Course 1: The Future is Open Scholarship: Explore and Discuss Four Key Topics in the Evolving Open Landscape
Instructor: Janet Catterall, Senior Project Officer, Open Access AustralasiaCourse Contributors/Co-Instructor(s): Fiona Bradley, Director, Research and Infrastructure at the University of New South Wales Library.
Course 2: Assessing Institutional Research Data Using OpenAlex and R
Instructor Name: Teresa Schultz, University of Nevada, Reno
Course 3: AI-Powered Search in Libraries: A Crash Course on understanding the fundamentals for Library Professionals
Instructor Name: Bella Ratmelia, Senior Librarian, Research and Data Services, SMU LibrariesCourse Contributors/Co-Instructors: Aaron Tay – Head, Data Services, SMU Libraries
Course 4: Intro to Translation for non-Translators: Encounter the World of Translation
Course Contributors:• Course Chair and Facilitator, online: Jennifer Miller, Translate Science Core Contributor; FORCE11 Board Member; Independent Scholar• Lead Instructor, online and in person: Lynne Bowker, Full Professor, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Translation, Université Laval• Co-Instructor, online: Oliver Czulo, CEO, Institut für Translatologie gGmbH• Co-Instructor, online: Jo Havemann, CEO, Access2Perspectives• Co-Instructor, online and in person, Wichaya Pidchamook, Thammasat University
Course 5: Diamond Open Access: Publishing Without Paywalls or Profits
Instructor Name: Prof. Dr. Muhammad Imtiaz Subhani, Founder / Executive Director, XploreOpen
Course 6: Level Up Your SciComm: How to Identify Your Audiences, Communicate with Non-Specialists, and Restore Trust in (Open) Science
Instructor Name: Nicky Agate, Associate Dean for Academic Engagement, Carnegie Mellon University
Course 7: Implementing Open Science for Sustainable Development: Practices, Policies, and Impact
Instructor Name: Johanna Havemann, Director, Access 2 PerspectivesCourse Contributors: Nancy Nyambura, Access 2 Perspectives
Course 8: Library Publishing and Global Scholarly Communication
Instructor Name: Jonathan Grunert, Scholarly Publishing Librarian, University at Buffalo
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