The London Book Fair launches My LBF diary tool - March 21, 2013
The London Book Fair has launched My LBF, an online diary for all attendees and exhibitors. My LBF includes an extensive scheduling tool, designed to help exhibitors and visitors make new contacts, organise meetings and set-up vital networking opportunities at the fair. My LBF allows exhibitors… Read More
Copyright Clearance Center hosts open access forum in London - March 20, 2013
Licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, hosted a forum in London, named 'A Copyright Clearance Center Roundtable: Open Access Publishing and the Role of Intermediaries.' The day consisted of facilitated discussions preceded by a keynote address from Ellen Collins, co-author of the Research… Read More
Cloud Connect announces expanded lineup of keynote speakers for Silicon Valley event - March 18, 2013
Cloud Connect, an event produced by UBM Tech, has announced the expanded lineup of keynote speakers, including Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Margaret Dawson of HP Cloud Services. In addition, DEPLOYCON, presented by Rishidot Research LLC, is a new one-day conference presented in… Read More
OCLC Research, Pennsylvania University to hold event, ‘MOOCS and Libraries’ - March 18, 2013
Library information provider OCLC Research and the University of Pennsylvania have announced an event named 'MOOCs and Libraries: Massive Opportunity or Overwhelming Challenge?' on March 18-19. The event will feature presentations about how libraries are already getting involved with MOOCs (massive open online course), and engage… Read More
Elsevier and Hacettepe University to host event on research performance and evaluation in Turkey - March 12, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the meeting: Turkey and Turkish University's Research Outputs in the Context of International Trends in Science and Collaboration Opportunities, which will take place on 12 March at the Congress Center of Hacettepe University, Sihhiye Campus in Ankara, Turkey. The meeting… Read More
Springer teams up with CIC host publishing symposium to bring publishers and librarians together - March 8, 2013
STM publisher Springer and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) held their first-ever publishing symposium at University of Chicago’s Gleacher Center on March 7, 2013. The gathering was established as an important opportunity to create dialogue between early-career publishers and librarians, in an effort to nurture… Read More
UK publishers, other stakeholders discuss challenges in implementing OA policies - March 8, 2013
Representatives from the UK government, funders, libraries, university administrators, learned societies, publishers and researchers came together at a conference on February 25, sponsored by five of the leading British learned societies. The agenda was to discuss the challenges of implementing the UK government policy on open access (OA) publication and… Read More
Reed Exhibitions announces new scheduling for the London Book Fair’s annual Digital Minds Conference in 2014 - February 26, 2013
Reed Exhibitions has announced that the London Book Fair 2014 will take place at Earls Court from April 8 –10 in 2014. The annual Digital Minds Conference - which will be in its sixth year - will take place on a week day, Monday, April 7,… Read More
Registrations now open for ARL workshop on library value - February 26, 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has announced that registration is now open for a workshop on library value, to be hosted by ARL on July 1, 2013, in conjunction with the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Chicago. Megan Oakleaf, associate professor in the… Read More
ORCID to host Outreach meeting in May - February 21, 2013
ORCID, an international, interdisciplinary, open and not-for-profit organisation, has announced that it will be hosting its biannual Outreach meeting on May 23, 2013, in Oxford UK. ORCID hosts two meetings in a year for the research community to learn about the progress of the ORCID initiative,… Read More
