The NFAIS 2016 Annual Conference scheduled for February 21-23, 2016, experts on data and data management to deliver keynote addresses - November 19, 2015
Three leading, global thinkers in the fields of data, data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) will deliver the slate of keynote addresses at the National Federation of Advanced Information Service's (NFAISTM) 58th Annual Conference, February 21-23, 2016 at Philadelphia's Hyatt Regency at the Bellevue. The NFAIS… Read More
Society for Scholarly Publishing to co-sponsor new Academic and Professional Publishing track at the IDPF Digital Conference at BookExpo America 2016 - November 17, 2015
The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) and the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) have announced that SSP is co-sponsoring a new Academic and Professional Publishing track at the IDPF Digital Conference at BookExpo America 2016 (May 11-12, McCormick Place, Chicago). IDPF Digital… Read More
CHORUS in deal with the U.S. Geological Survey to advance public access to research - November 17, 2015
CHORUS, a non-profit organisation, has signed an agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a science agency for the US Department of the Interior, a federal agency, to work together to implement the plan to increase public access to publications resulting from research funded by USGS.… Read More
SPARC, Higher Education groups support Lingua Editors, Open Access - November 16, 2015
Following in the footsteps of other editors and authors, the six editors and thirty-one editorial board members of the Elsevier journal Lingua resigned on October 27, 2015, in protest of Elsevier’s practices. The Lingua editors argued that the journal’s price has steadily increased year after year, far outpacing the cost… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - November 16, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Roger C. Schonfeld (Dismantling the Stumbling Blocks that Impede Researcher Access to E-Resources); Danielle Padula and Catherine Williams (Applied Altmetrics: How university presses, academic publishing services and institutional repositories benefit.); Donald Barclay (Academic print books are dying. What’s the future?);… Read More
ARL announces SPEC Survey webcast on Evolution of Library Liaisons - November 5, 2015
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is offering a series of webcasts that present the findings from the latest SPEC surveys and allow webcast participants to discuss trends with the survey authors. A 45-minute webcast will follow the publication of each SPEC Kit in 2015. … Read More
