London Info International 2017 publishes first draft conference programme - June 16, 2017
The London Info International draft conference programme is now available. The programme will get to the heart of the real issues facing today's information professionals and providers. A first class speaker line up and keynotes from around the world will be announced in the coming weeks.… Read More
Springer Nature sponsors first Singapore Three Minute Thesis competition - June 15, 2017
Springer Nature is providing sponsorship for the 2017 Singapore Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition, where twenty PhD candidates from Singapore will gather on August 4, 2017 at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU). The competition challenges participants to explain their research thesis in a clear and engaging… Read More
Scholarly Publishing Association convenes Annual Meeting in Austin - June 14, 2017
The 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) kicked off June 11-13, 2017, in Austin, Texas. Attended by more than 650 scholarly publishing professionals from all over the world, this year's program continued to encourage collaboration across university and scholarly presses, with… Read More
Digital preservation experts worldwide to discuss challenges of digital preservation and share their experiences using Rosetta - June 14, 2017
Users of the Ex Libris Rosetta digital asset management and preservation solution are gathering this week at the University of Sheffield in Sheffield, UK, for the eighth annual meeting of the Rosetta Advisory Group. This meeting marks 10 years since the development of the Rosetta digital… Read More
OCLC Research and LIBER to launch collaborative information management study - June 14, 2017
OCLC Research and LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries, will launch a collaborative project to explore the adoption and integration of persistent identifiers (PIDs) in European research information management (RIM) infrastructures. The project will complement and extend previous research institution-scale… Read More
COAR publishes new report – Asia Open Access Regional Survey - June 12, 2017
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has published a new report, Asia Open Access Regional Survey. The report presents the results of a survey of open access activities in Asia undertaken in early 2017. The continent of Asia is rapidly increasing in prominence on the… Read More
