London Book Fair announces dedicated scholarly publishing conference programme - February 17, 2017
The London Book Fair has announced its dedicated academic publishing conference, The Research and Scholarly Publishing Forum to be held at Kensington Olympia, March 15. Speakers from Wiley, Elsevier and Taylor & Francis are among the prestigious names participating in LBF's The Research and Scholarly Publishing… Read More
Loughborough University London receives research funding from UKIERI for development of healthcare Internet of Things platform - February 17, 2017
Loughborough University London has been awarded research funding from the UK-India Education Research Initiative (UKIERI) to build a secure Internet of Things (IoT) platform for use in healthcare. IoT platforms connect devices, allowing them to collect and use data. Examples include… Read More
Luiz Schwarcz to receive The London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award 2017 - February 13, 2017
The London Book Fair has announced that the recipient of the LBF Lifetime Achievement Award 2017 will be Luiz Schwarcz, Publisher, Companhia das Letras, Brazil. Luiz Schwarcz is one of the most commercially successful and culturally influential figures in Brazilian publishing. He co-founded Companhia das Letras,… Read More
Leading US copyright experts to debate ‘Fair Use’ at Charles Clark Memorial Lecture - February 8, 2017
Delegates at The London Book Fair will in 2017 hear two eminent copyright law specialists debate one of the most controversial areas of international copyright law – the doctrine of Fair Use. Judge Pierre Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second… Read More
Initial outcomes of the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group now open for public comments - February 8, 2017
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has announced the publication of the initial outcomes of the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group for public comment. In April 2016, COAR launched a working group to help identify new functionalities and technologies for repositories and develop… Read More
Kathrin Grün named Head of PR and Communications at the Frankfurter Buchmesse - February 3, 2017
Kathrin Grün has been appointed Head of PR and Communications at the Frankfurter Buchmesse, effective February 1, 2017. She will now be responsible for external corporate communications and product communication at national and international levels, and for positioning the company in the public eye. In her… Read More
