Programme for Berlin 9 Open Access meeting announced - August 2, 2011
The programme for the international Berlin 9 Open Access meeting has been announced by the organising coalition. Focusing on the impact of Open Access in research and scholarship, the event will explore how open, online access has the potential to transform the process of discovery and… Read More
Frankfurt Academy to hold conference on metadata strategies - August 1, 2011
The Frankfurt Book Fair will host its first conference devoted purely to metadata - MetaData Perspectives 2011 - on October 13 as part of its new 'mind network', the Frankfurt Academy. In a world where millions of new titles are published each year, it is difficult… Read More
SPARC to host first North American meeting on Open Access in 2012 - July 27, 2011
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) will host its first North American meeting on Open Access in 2012. The first of its kind, the event will expand on the successful biennial SPARC Digital Repositories meeting. Convened by the organisation since 2004 and hosted… Read More
Brazilian National Library announces new programme to support translations and re-publication - July 25, 2011
The Brazilian consul general in Frankfurt, Cézar Amaral, has announced that the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, an institution of the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, has launched a new programme to provide support for translations and re-publication of Brazilian authors. The programme includes 7.6 million US dollars in funding that will be… Read More
Frankfurt Book Fair partners with O’Reilly and EDItEUR for Tools of Change event - July 21, 2011
The Frankfurt Book Fair and publisher O'Reilly Media, Inc. are teaming up with international publishing standards organisation EDItEUR to offer a full-day Supply Chain track at the Tools of Change for Publishing Frankfurt Conference scheduled for October 11, 2011. The new track will be held in… Read More
IEEE calls for papers for first IEEE International Electric Vehicle Conference - July 19, 2011
Technical professional association IEEE, US, has called for papers for the first IEEE International Electric Vehicle Conference (IEVC). The event is scheduled for March 4-8, 2012 at Greenville, South Carolina. IEVC will provide an interactive forum for members of the rapidly growing electric mobility ecosystem… Read More
Frankfurt Book Fair’s Hot Spots and SPARKS Stages to focus on digital content - July 15, 2011
The Hot Spots and SPARKS Stages at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair are expected to see a lot of activity in the arena of digital content. Optimal preparation of content, digital distribution channels, development of new formats - several decisions have to be made before an… Read More
Registrations for Science Online London 2011 now open - July 14, 2011
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group, UK, has announced that registration is now open for the fourth annual Science Online London. Co-hosted by nature.com and Digital Science, the conference is scheduled for September 2-3 at the British Library. The event will explore the ways in which the… Read More
BioMed Central to launch three new journals at ISMB/ECCB event - July 4, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced its participation at the upcoming 19th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and 10th European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB 2011) in Vienna. The company will be exhibiting at booth #11. BioMed is sponsoring… Read More
Cloud computing interoperability is greater challenge than security, say IEEE experts - June 30, 2011
The greatest challenge facing longer-term adoption of cloud computing services is not security, but rather cloud interoperability and data portability, say cloud computing experts from technical professional association, IEEE. IEEE experts also say cloud providers could reassure customers by improving the tools they offer enterprise customers… Read More
