ConTech 2018 – Key Highlights - October 25, 2018
ConTech 2018, scheduled to be held at Chelsea Harbour Hotel, London from November 29 - 30, will feature pioneering content owners who have embraced new intelligent technologies to change the way they create, manage and sell their content and those content users and information specialists who… Read More
IEEE Blockchain for Clinical Trials EU Forum brings focus on empowering patients - October 24, 2018
Technical professional organisation IEEE and the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) have announced details of the upcoming second edition of The IEEE Blockchain for Clinical Trials Forum to be held November 13-15, 2018 at the Clinical Innovation Zone, University… Read More
NII and CERN sign MOU to develop next generation repository system - October 23, 2018
The National Institute of Informatics (NII) and CERN have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate in the development of research support tool and software. As for the first project, they will start the joint development of a next generation repository system,… Read More
LIBER to highlight importance of research libraries to EOSC in Vienna - October 22, 2018
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) will be launched in Vienna on November 23 and research libraries will have a major role to play in this new infrastructure, which is aimed at Europe's 1.7 million researchers. Research libraries are the channels through which knowledge and data will reach the… Read More
Appeals Court reverses district court’s fair use decision in Cambridge University Press v. J.L. Albert - October 22, 2018
In an opinion released October 19, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit unanimously reversed the district court's fair use decision in Cambridge University Press v. J.L. Albert and agrees with publishers reversing the GSU litigation involving the unauthorized use of numerous copyrighted… Read More
Tom Alexander, Taxonomy Manager, Cancer Research, and SAGE Research Methods Thesaurus win inaugural awards at Taxonomy Boot Camp London - October 18, 2018
The winners of two awards designed to highlight the very best practitioners and organisations working with taxonomies were announced at the Taxonomy Boot Camp in London. Nominations took place over the summer in two categories - Taxonomy Practitioner of the Year and Taxonomy Success of the… Read More
