2022

SOCRS Open Session for 2022 IFLA Congress in Dublin, Ireland, 27 July 2022, on the theme, The Use of Transformative Agreements: Do They Increase Access to Research?

2021

SOCRS Open Session for 2021 IFLA online Congress, 19 August 2021, on the theme, How Open Access Affects Serials Assessment

2020

SOCRS Virtual event, 21 September 2020, on the theme, Worldwide Open Access Mandates and Policies

2019

SOCRS Open Session for 2019 IFLA Congress in Athens, Greece, 28 August 2019, on the theme, Standards Relating to Serials, Continuing Resources and Scholarly Communications

SOCRS Satellite Meeting on Grey Literature in the National Library of Greece, 23 August 2019, on the theme, Grey Literature: Scholarly Communication in a Digital World

2018

SOCR Section Open Session for 2018 IFLA Congress in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 27 August 2018, on the theme, Empowering Scholarly Communication Transforms Societies.

2017

SOCR Section Open Session for 2017 IFLA Congress in Wroclaw, Poland, 20 August 2017, on the theme, Altmetrics : it’s Time to Take Action.

Satellite conference for 2017 IFLA Congress, cosponsored by Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section, the Acquisition and Collection Development Section and the European Solidarity Center and hosted by the Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski Voivodeship and City Public Library, held at the European Solidarity Center in Gdansk, Poland, 16-17 August, 2017, on the theme, Open Access: Action Required

2016

SOCR Section Open Session for 2016 IFLA Congress in Columbus, Ohio, USA, 15 August 2016, on the theme, The Role of Stakeholders in the New Serials World.

2015

SOCR Section Open Session for 2015 IFLA Congress in Cape Town, South Africa,18 August 2015, on the theme,  Dynamic Transformations and Developments in the World of Serials and Other Continuing Resources

2014

SOCR Section Open Session for 2014 IFLA Congress in Lyon, France, 19 August 2014, jointly arranged by the Academic and Research Libraries Section, the Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section and the Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM), on the theme, Research in the big data era: legal, social, and technical approaches to large text and data sets.

2013

World Library and Information Congress: 79th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
17-23 August, Singapore
Theme: Gold mining! Text and data mining of journals: librarians, publishers and researchers excavating the treasure trove

2012

World Library and Information Congress: 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
11-17 August, Helsinki, Finland
Theme:  Evolving Serials – Managing, discovering and supplying highly innovative and dynamic content

IFLA Preconference,  August 9-10 2012, Kuopio, Finland
Theme: Global Policies, Imperatives and Solutions for the Efficient Library Collection Management and Access to Less Used Documents
Sponsored by the Acquisition and Collection Development and the Serials and Other Continuing Resources Sections

2011

World Library and Information Congress: 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
13-18 August, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Theme: Access and innovation: delivering information to all

2010

World Library and Information Congress: 76th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
10-15 August, Gothenburg, Sweden
Theme: Maintaining access to serials: from conservation to digitisation and everything in between

2009

World Library and Information Congress, 75th IFLA General Conference and Council, August 2009, Milan, Italy
Theme: Serials in the 21st century: new concepts, new challenges

2008

World Library and Information Congress: 10-14 August 2008, Québec, Canada
Theme: Navigating the world of serials: new initiatives in management and cataloguing

2007

IFLA Preconference, University of the Western Cape. August 2007, Bellville, South Africa
Theme: Electronic Resource Management Systems: A Solution with its Own Challenges