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
JISC, British Library invite participants to open data summit in London - February 14, 2013
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the British Library (BL) are calling for registrations for the last 15 places to take part in an international discovery summit, slated for February 21-22 in London. Target participants include university librarians and archivists, library staff, museum curators… Read More
Neil Gaiman to be keynote speaker at LBF Digital Minds Conference 2013 - February 13, 2013
The London Book Fair, in association with the Publishers Association, has announced that author Neil Gaiman will give a keynote speech at the fifth Digital Minds Conference on April 14, 2013. Neil Gaiman has become an internationally recognised author brand. For the last decade, his embrace… Read More
Elsevier announces First International Conference on Global Food Security - February 7, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the First International Conference on Global Food Security, scheduled for September 29 – October 2, 2013 in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands. Organized by Elsevier and an International Scientific Committee, the conference will address food security at local and global levels… Read More
LWW to sponsor Nursing2013 Symposium for direct care nurses - February 7, 2013
Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, is sponsoring the conference Nursing2013 Symposium: The Conference for Clinical Excellence, which will be held March 19-22, 2013, at the Paris Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV. The goal of the conference… Read More
