EQUATOR Network to hold seminar and annual lecture on October 3 - September 20, 2011
The EQUATOR (Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research) Network is holding a seminar and its third annual lecture prior to the 2011 Clinical Trials Methodology Conference in Bristol. Both events will be held in the Bristol Marriott City Centre hotel on October 3, 2011.… Read More
American Association of School Librarians opens registration for national conference virtual component - September 16, 2011
The American Association of School Librarians (AASL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has announced that registration is now open for the AASL’s virtual component to its national conference. The AASL11 Virtual Conference will offer national conference attendees and those following the activity from… Read More
Frankfurt Fair Hall 4.2 to host events for specialist publishers and professionals - September 13, 2011
The Frankfurt Book Fair is projecting Hall 4.2 as the marketplace for science, specialist publishers, librarians and information professionals. Here, attendees to the fair are expected to find answers to queries such as how one can transfer knowledge digitally in the future; which business models will… Read More
CNI calls for project briefing proposals for Fall 2011 Membership Meeting - September 12, 2011
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has announced that its Fall 2011 CNI Membership Meeting will be held from December 12-13 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, VA. Registration materials will be sent by the middle of this month to designated… Read More
Elsevier to organise 50th Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association conference - September 9, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will be organising the 50th Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association (ECSA) conference 'Today's Science for Tomorrow's Management'. The conference, scheduled for June 3-7, 2012, in Venice, seeks to find answers to potentially massive risks for the long-term changes… Read More
Chinese librarian-publisher forum examines digital publishing - September 9, 2011
The 2011 Dialogue between Librarians and International Publishers took place in Beijing on August 29, on the occasion of the Beijing International Book Fair. The forum, under the heading 'Digital Publishing and Long-Term Preservation', was organised by the China National Publications Import & Export Corporation and the Library Society of… Read More
Web 2.0 Summit adds new speakers to 2011 lineup - September 8, 2011
Federated Media, O'Reilly Media and UBM TechWeb, co-producers of the Web 2.0 Summit, have announced new additions to the list of speakers who will take the stage at this year's event. The event is scheduled for October 17-19, 2011, at the Palace… Read More
Really Strategies to host 150 publishing executives at the 5th Annual RSuite User Conference - September 7, 2011
Content management consulting and solutions provider Really Strategies, Inc., US, has announced that it will host 150 publishing executives at the 5th Annual RSuite User Conference, scheduled for October 25, 2011 at the Chemical Heritage Conference Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The RSuite User Conference is a… Read More
Registrations for Berlin 9 Open Access Conference now open - September 7, 2011
The ninth installment in the Berlin Open Access Conference Series, which convenes leaders in the science, humanities, research, funding, and policy communities around The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, will take place at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute on… Read More
MarkLogic webcast to focus on challenges and management of unstructured data - September 5, 2011
Information infrastructure software provider Mark Logic Corporation, US, will host a webcast examining the nature and scope of the unstructured data challenge. The webcast, 'Big Data 2.0: The Post-Relational Reality Sets In,' will feature Tom Wilson, president, Unisphere Research, and Edd Patterson, vice president of technical… Read More