OCLC Research to host webinar on delivery of digital copies of special collections - August 19, 2011
OCLC Research, US, is to host a webinar titled 'Scan and Deliver: Creative User-initiated Digitization in Special Collections and Archives' on September 22, 2011 at 2 pm EDT. The webinar will discuss streamlined methods for scanning and delivering digital copies of special collections materials at the… Read More
IEEE webinar to provide an inside view of Engineering for Change - August 15, 2011
Iana Aranda, Manager of Technical Programming and Development at ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), will present ‘Leveraging the Power of Engineers ... Engineering for Change’ as part of the IEEE Humanitarian Technology Webinar Series. This free webinar will take place on August 16, 2011, at… Read More
SIMPOI 2011 Symposium of Production Management, Logistics and International Operations - August 12, 2011
SIMPOI 2011 Symposium of Production Management,Logistics and International Operations aims to make space for the dissemination and discussion of contemporary issues and relevant area of Production and Operations Management in Brazil. Researchers interested in Operations Management are invited to submit papers to this conference. Papers which address the conference… Read More
New ALA TechSource Workshop on how Google Apps can make a library more efficient - August 10, 2011
ALA TechSource, a publishing imprint of the American Library Association (ALA), has announced that it will host a two-day workshop titled 'Using Google Apps for a More Efficient Library' with Google Apps expert Suzann Holland. The workshop will take place at 2:30 p.m. EDT on September… Read More
Elsevier Business Intelligence to host Windhover’s 21st Pharmaceutical Strategic Alliances in New York - August 9, 2011
Elsevier Business Intelligence, an Elsevier company, has announced that it will host Windhover's 21st Pharmaceutical Strategic Alliances (PSA), scheduled for September 21- 23, 2011, at the Millennium Broadway in New York, NY. Elsevier Business Intelligence is one of the leading providers of strategic business intelligence and… Read More
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
