NISO to host in-person forum on the Future of Library Resource Discovery - August 17, 2015
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) will host a two–day meeting to take place in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 5 and 6, 2015 on The Future of Library Discovery. In February 2015, NISO published a white paper commissioned from library consultant Marshall Breeding by NISO's Discovery… Read More
European consortium develops new approaches for dealing with Big Data - August 17, 2015
The new BigStorage project, funded by the European Union, will develop new approaches to deal with Big Data concepts over the next three years, from theoretical basic research to the development of complex infrastructures and software packages. As an Innovative Training Network (ITN) of the European… Read More
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science journal joins the Independent Scholarly Publishers Group collection - August 13, 2015
The National Academy of the Sciences (NAS) recently joined The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG) by adding its journal, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, to the ISPG collection. Established by an Act of Congress and signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863,… Read More
Frankfurt Book Fair to host The Markets: Global Publishing Summit 2015 - August 7, 2015
Seven relevant book and media markets are the focus of The Markets - Global Publishing Summit, the new event to kick off the Frankfurt Book Fair (October 14-18, 2015). During this one-day event, to be held on the day before the fair officially opens, industry experts… Read More
NISO launches new project to develop XML standard for producing standards documents - August 7, 2015
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) voting members have approved a new project to standardize the ISO Standard Tag Set (ISOSTS) in line with JATS (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2012 JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite) for application by standards development organisations (SDOs) and use in the standards ecosystem. In… Read More
SPARC joins broad coalition in urging Administration to open up access to federally funded educational resources - August 5, 2015
The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), along with a broad coalition of more than 85 education, library, technology, public interest, and legal organisations, called on the White House to take administrative action to ensure federally funded educational materials are made available as Open Educational… Read More
