Rick Anderson to chair plenary session at the ALPSP Conference - July 9, 2014
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has announced that Rick Anderson, Associate Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections, Marriott Library, University of Utah, will chair a plenary session - Customers as Competitors – at the forthcoming ALPSP International Conference… Read More
SPARC and the World Bank to co-host International Open Access Week 2014 kick-off event - July 7, 2014
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the World Bank will co-host the official kickoff event for International Open Access Week 2014 on October 20, 2014, from 3-4pm EDT, with a reception to follow. The event will be held at the headquarters of the… Read More
Cambridge University Press announces support for UK Education Reform Summit - June 30, 2014
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has announced its support for the UK Education Reform Summit 2014. The summit, which will see senior members in education policy, business leaders and education specialists from around the world and the UK come together to discuss UK education reform, will… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. and Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News to present 2014 World Stem Cell Summit - June 26, 2014
Publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers and Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), have announced that they will again serve as joint platinum media sponsors of the Genetics Policy Institute 2014 World Stem Cell Summit that will take place at the Marriott River Center, December 4-6,… Read More
Submissions for 3rd International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications called for - June 20, 2014
Mendeley, a free reference manager and academic social network, is co-organizing the 3rd International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications along with CORE, the Open University, Athena Research and Innovation Center, and the European Library/ Europeana. The vast amount of content hosted by digital libraries nowadays poses… Read More
Discovery Center Continium partners with EndNote to expand Science Hack Day in Kerkrade - June 20, 2014
Thomson Reuters EndNote, the industry's leading software for publishing and managing bibliographies, citations and references, has announced a collaboration with Discovery Center Continium, a science museum headquartered in Kerkrade, Netherlands, to sponsor Science Hack Day Euregion on June 21-22. This event marks Kerkrade's second Science Hack… Read More
Early bird registration for 2014 ALPSP International Conference ends June 20 - June 19, 2014
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has announced that the early bird rate for the ALPSP International Conference, scheduled for September 10-12, 2014, ends June 20. Those who plan to attend the conference may book by June 20 to catch the early bird… Read More
ProQuest unveils 2014 edition of The Annual Register - June 12, 2014
ProQuest recently held a special event at the Royal Society of Medicine in London to launch the 2014 edition of The Annual Register. The event, held each year, celebrates a new volume of the publication, which provides expert analysis of developments in every country of the… Read More
Elsevier unveils Rutherford’s Vascular Surgery, 8th Edition, at 2014 Vascular Annual Meeting in Boston - June 6, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier will unveil Rutherford's Vascular Surgery, 8th Edition, a comprehensive two-volume reference, at the 2014 Vascular Annual Meeting in Boston, June 5 - 7. The thoroughly revised reference contains the most current evidence-based vascular and endovascular procedures and techniques available today, thanks to… Read More
ORCID Outreach Meeting highlights integrations, use cases and outreach at universities and professional societies - June 4, 2014
ORCID, a non-profit organisation that provides an open registry of unique identifiers for researchers, held its twelfth bi-annual Outreach Meeting, hosted by the University of Illinois in Chicago, on May 21-22, 2014. About 160 individuals from around the world participated. This outreach meeting showcased the integrations,… Read More
