On Monday, June 3, 2019, a seminar on Open Access was held at the National Library. The keynote speakers were Colleen Campbell, who works on the "Open Access 2020 Initiative" project at the Max Planck Digital Library, Munich, and Michael Svendsen from the Royal Library in Copenhagen.

Around 40 invited guests attended the event, mainly university library and research staff. The seminar was organised and hosted by the Icelandic University Libraries Information Literacy Collaborative Group.