The US' National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) will hold a 90-minute webinar on January 18, 2013. The webinar will take a look at Labtiva's ReadCube, a free, cross-platform software application that is being used by Nature Publishing to provide ease of access to a subset of its journals by researchers and the general public, and PubGet, reportedly the first search site to combine search, subscription authentication, rights management and article level access in one application.
The speakers include Ryan Jones, President, PubGet, and Phill Jones, Vice President for Business Development, Labtiva, Inc.
Some of the key discussion points include emerging collaborative research platforms, their use and applications across research disciplines, requirements of both the Academic Research and Corporate/Enterprise Environments in support of collaboration and the workflow process and issues related to the sharing of published literature.
The other points include licensing and cost concerns, 'Satisficing', the technologies being 'wired together' to deliver these services and the benefits of these two specific services and their ties to either internal corporate knowledge bases or to open resources such as Google Scholar and PubMed.
NFAIS members pay $105, Sister Society members pay $115, and non-members pay $125. An unlimited number of staff from NFAIS member organisations can participate for a group fee of $255. The group fee for an unlimited number of staff from any Sister Society is $275, and from a non-member organisation is $295. The registration form can be accessed at: http://nfais.org/page/385-enabling-research-collaboration-jan-18
