NISO seeks trial users and comments on draft technical report, SUSHI-Lite - July 17, 2015
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is seeking trial users and comments on the draft technical report, SUSHI-Lite: Deploying SUSHI as a lightweight protocol for exchanging usage via web services, NISO TR-06-201X. This technical report proposes and describes a method of exchanging COUNTER statistics ranging from… Read More
The Frankfurt Book Fair and Publishing Perspectives to host The Markets: Global Publishing Summit - July 15, 2015
A new conference to kick off the Frankfurt Book Fair, to be held the day before the fair officially opens (14-18 October 2015), will set the theme for the world's largest industry meeting: 'The Markets – Global Publishing Summit' is the name of the one-day event,… Read More
Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and World Bank Group Publications join NFAIS - July 15, 2015
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS™), a global, nonprofit membership organisation serving the information community, has announced that Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and World Bank Group Publications have joined NFAIS as new members. The CMU Libraries are comprised of the Roy A. Hunt… Read More
ORCID and CHORUS sign MoU to support researcher workflow - July 14, 2015
CHORUS has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ORCID to support discoverability in scholarly communications. Close collaboration among organisations like CHORUS and ORCID, which provide services that support the flow of research communications, is vital to evolving its interoperable, scalable, and… Read More
ARL’s series of webcasts present findings from latest SPEC surveys - July 9, 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
LA Referencia adopts OpenAIRE guidelines - July 8, 2015
COAR member LA Referencia, the Latin America Open Access Repositories network, has adopted major elements of OpenAIRE Guidelines to improve global interoperability. LA Referencia is an initiative of public science and technology organisations of nine countries that offers a regional Open Access repository harvesting service. … Read More
