OA policies, author rights discussed at SPARC’s first-ever OA meet - March 19, 2012
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) recently wrapped up a first-ever Open Access (OA) Meeting in Kansas City, Montana. The meeting built on the foundation established by the SPARC Digital Repositories meeting, and its expanded focus included information on institutional OA policies, author rights… Read More
TOC event to be held in Buenos Aires, marking Latin American premiere - March 16, 2012
The Tools of Change for Publishing (TOC) event is celebrating its premiere in Latin America. Together with O’Reilly Media and the Feria del Libro de Buenos Aires (April 19 – May 7, 2012), the Frankfurt Book Fair will bring the conference on publishing innovation to Buenos… Read More
London Book Fair to host China Market Focus programme in April event - March 8, 2012
The London Book Fair Market Focus Professional and Cultural Programme, China: New Perspectives, New Concepts, will showcase Chinese publishers and writers at the London Book Fair (LBF) in April. It is claimed to be the largest Market Focus programme of events since LBF launched the Market… Read More
NFAIS to hold workshop on delivery of information via mobile devices - March 7, 2012
The US' National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) will hold a one-day workshop, Mobile Devices and the Delivery of Information: An Update, on March 16, 2012 in Philadelphia, PA from 9:00am – 4:00pm EST. Virtual attendance is optional for those unable to travel to Philadelphia… Read More
UBM Electronics Editors to keynote IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference on March 9 - March 7, 2012
Technical information provider UBM Electronics, a UBM company, has announced that two members of its editorial team will speak on STEM (science/technology/engineering/math) education and development at the IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) on March 9, at the College of New Jersey in Ewing, NJ. … Read More
‘GigaScience’ calls for papers for special series on genomic standards - March 6, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that to tie in with this week's Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) meeting in Shenzhen, its journal GigaScience is launching a call for submissions to a thematic series of discussion and research from the conference and wider community highlighting… Read More
MarkLogic executive to address Carahsoft Government Big Data Forum in Washington D.C. - March 6, 2012
Data analytics products firm MarkLogic Corporation, US, has announced that its Public Sector Chief Technology Officer, Chris Biow, will be a panelist at the 2nd annual Carahsoft Government Big Data Forum on March 6 in Washington D.C. Biow will describe MarkLogic capabilities to leverage the value… Read More
PEER Consortium to hold conference on effects of manuscript depositing by authors - February 29, 2012
The PEER Consortium Partners have announced the PEER End of Project Conference, scheduled for May 29, 2012, at Federation of Enterprises in Belgium Rue Ravenstein 3, B -1000 Brussels. Registration is free and is now open at: http://www.peerproject.eu/peer-end-of-project-conference-29th-may-2012. Publishing and the… Read More
Cloud Connect Santa Clara witnesses significant increase in participation - February 28, 2012
Cloud Connect, a technology event for cloud computing produced by UBM TechWeb, US, has announced that over 3,700 IT professionals, developers and service providers attended the recent event in Santa Clara. Building on the momentum of this event, the Call for Papers for the upcoming Cloud… Read More
Emerald named Research Publishing Partner of first World Marketing Summit - February 28, 2012
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK, is the Research Publishing Partner of the first World Marketing Summit, to be held in Dhaka from March 1-3, 2012. Professor Philip Kotler, the founder of this global initiative, will co-host the Summit with Dr Dipu Moni, Bangladeshi Foreign… Read More
