| IPA Presidents Welcome the 34th International Publishers Congress IPA President Karine Pansa and former President Hugo Setzer share a message in anticipation for the 34th International Publishers Congress. Read more. | | | | | IPA work on Artificial Intelligence The IPA has a public position on copyright and generative artificial intelligence and has organised and co-organised a number of events and webinars on artificial intelligence. We have created a page to gather those resources. Read more. | | | | 2024 WEXFO A Success The 3rd edition of the World Expression Forum closed on Tuesday 28 May after a successful two days of discussion about freedom of expression with thousands of young people alongside the delegates. Read more. | | | | | IPA at Frankfurt Book Fair 2024 IPA will have a full programme of open and invite-only meetings at Frankfurt Book Fair this year. We are also delighted to see the Frankfurt Book Fair rights platform highlight SDG Publishers Compact signatories. Note this is a provisional schedule. All dates, times and venues are subject to change. More events will be confirmed soon. Read more. | | | IPA President at the Beijing International Book Fair 2024 IPA President Karine Pansa recently attended the Beijing International Book Fair 2024. Accompanied by Hugo Zhang, Catriona Stevenson, and Guoyi Zhao from Elsevier, Pansa attended the grand opening ceremony held at the China Guest House. Read more. | | | IPA Vice President at Black Sea Literary Festival and FARA in Bulgaria IPA Vice President Gvantsa Jobava attended two significant events held in Burgas, Bulgaria: the inaugural Black Sea Literary Festival and FARA - The Festival of Bulgarian Association of Communications Agencies. Read more. | | | IPA at FEP Assembly in Vilnius On 13-14 June, IPA Secretary General José Borghino participated in the General Assembly of the Federation of European Publishers in Vilnius, Lithuania. Read more. | | | IPA at African Publishers Conference in Harare IPA Secretary General José Borghino participated in the second edition of the African Publishers Conference which was held in Harare, Zimbabwe on 3-4 June, 2024. Read more. | | | IPA Members Invited to Join AIE's Upcoming Seminar on Artificial Intelligence in Publishing The Italian Publishers Association (AIE) is hosting an online seminar titled "Artificial Intelligence, One Year Later: Evolutions, Developments, Opportunities for the Publishing Industry" on July 3rd, from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM. Read more. | | | CLOCKSS Recognized as Digital Preservation Award Finalist and Promotes New Standards Initiative Founded by major publishing entities like the American Medical Association and Elsevier, CLOCKSS operates as a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization, maintaining a secure, global digital archive that complies with copyright laws and promotes open access principles. Read more. | | | Submissions Open for Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2025 The Sheikh Zayed Book Award, one of the world's leading prizes dedicated to Arabic literature and culture, is open to receive submissions for its ten categories until Sunday 1st September 2024. Read more. | | | Gender and Diversity in Reseach: Elsevier Report Michiel Kolman: In June 2024, for our IPA D&I blog series, I interviewed Nicolien van der Linden, Elsevier's VP for Research Analytics, about the new Gender Equality in Research & Innovation report published by Elsevier. Read more. | | | Measuring Equity: Driving Positive Change Michiel Kolman: In June 2023, I interviewed Simone Taylor on the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications as they set about their second Workplace Equity Survey, the first being in 2018. In this interview, I speak with Dr. Chhavi Chuahan, Camille Lemieux, and Anne Stone about the results. Read more. | | | Publisher's Ownership of Accessibility Ana María Bermúdez: At the end of May 2024, I was delighted to be invited to speak at the DPUB Summit organised by the EDR Lab in Paris. At the invitation of Laura Brady, the co-chair of the IPA's Accessibility Sub-Committee, I am happy to share my presentation with IPA blog readers below. I will be speaking at the 34th International Publishers Congress in Guadalajara from 3-6 December 2024. Read more. | | | Accessibility in Action – EDR Lab's Digital Publishing Summit Laura Brady: Held on May 31 in the lovely setting of the Philantro-Lab in Paris, this was a lovely day of engaging with new technologies, learning something of the history of digital publishing, and revisiting the needs of a marketplace that centers on accessibility. There were a wide variety of attendees from almost all corners of the world who are engaged in the work of digital publishing. Read more. | | | IPA President Karine Pansa's participation at the Beijing International Book Fair was covered by Publishing Perspectives. Her participation at WEXFO was also reported on by Publishing Perspectives. Her participation at 2024 Beijing International Publishing Forum was covered by China Daily IPA Vice President was recently interviewed on the current climate of publishing in Georgia by Punctum (In Latvian). Her participation in the panel, "Exploring the role of female innovators in the global publishing industry," at Readmagine 24 was covered by Renodo (in Spanish) and PublishNews (in Portuguese). Her participation at the Black Sea International Literary Festival was covered by the Bulgarian News Agency. IPA Secretary General José Borghino's participation at the Kitabistan Talks was covered by Kitabistan.org. IPA's advocacy for the freedom of expression, freedom to read, and freedom to publish was covered in an article on Switzerland, freedom of expression, and the EU elections by Publishing Perspectives. Former IPA President Richard Charkin was listed in the King's Birthday Honors, as reported on by Publishing Perspectives. | | | The latest edition of our Arabic, Spanish and French newsletters, covering July - December 2023, are out! Our next translated newsletters will be out soon. Check your subscription preferences to Make sure you're subscribed! | | | 2024 August 29 Aug - 1 Sept: Ghana International Book Fair 30 Aug - 1 Sept: IBBY World Congress September 25 - 29 September: Indonesia International Book Fair, Jakarta 26 - 29 September: International Book Festival Budapest, Hungary October 1 - 3 October: LIBER Feria Internacional del Libro, Barcelona 16 - 20 October: Frankfurt International Book Fair, Germany November 6 - 7 November: Fifth Annual Tokyo Rights Meeting, Japan 27 Nov - 1 December: Salon du Livre de Montréal, Montréal, Canada 29 Nov - 8 December: Kochi International Book Festival, India 30 Nov - 8 December: Guadalajara International Book Fair, Mexico December 3 - 6 December: 34th International Publishers Congress 2025 February 1 - 9 February: New Delhi World Book Fair, India March 11 - 13 March: The London Book Fair, London, U.K 11 - 13 March: Leipzig Book Fair, Germany 31 March - 3 April: Bologna Children's Book Fair, Italy See our full book fair listing on our site here. | | | | |