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
Digging into Data Challenge launches third round - February 7, 2013
Digging into Data Challenge has launched its third round in Canada, the Netherlands, the UK and the US. The event aims to help arts, humanities and social science researchers and developers build new insights into data on both sides of the Atlantic. The international grant competition sees the UK's… Read More
Semantico, ALPSP to hold seminar on strategies for building author-focused functionality - January 29, 2013
UK-based online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd. has announced that it is working with the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) on a seminar titled 'Ignore your authors at your peril: strategies and tactics for building a strong author-focused proposition.'… Read More
Thomson Reuters launches Ideation Challenge to expand scientific discovery experience on Web of Knowledge - January 28, 2013
The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters announced the launch of its Ideation Challenge at the American Library Association (ALA) Mid Winter Meeting. Ideation Challenge is a contest for the scientific and scholarly research community, designed to expand the discovery experience offered by Thomson Reuters… Read More
O’Reilly’s Tools of Change announces speakers for TOC 2013 conference - January 21, 2013
O'Reilly's Tools of Change for Publishing has announced that leaders in digital publishing will gather at the TOC 2013 conference in New York City on February 12-14, for the seventh edition of the event. Chairs Kat Meyer and Joe Wikert have added more speakers to… Read More
ARL and LibValue Project launch Library Value webcast series - January 18, 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is offering a series of free webcasts highlighting results from the LibValue project, a three-year study funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services to define and measure ways in which libraries create value through teaching and learning, research,… Read More
