ALCTS to host webinar on digital preservation models at cultural heritage bodies - April 15, 2011
The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) is hosting a webinar titled 'Protecting Future Access Now: Models for Preserving Digitized Books and Other Content at Cultural Heritage Organizations.' The webinar will be held on April 27, 2011, at 11am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 pm… Read More
ACM’s Computer-Human Interaction conference to explore evolution and future of social media - April 14, 2011
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that leading researchers and practitioners of human-computer interaction will assess the role of social media on a broad spectrum of society at ACM’s Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI 2011), scheduled for May 7-12, 2011,… Read More
Frankfurt Book Fair’s SPARKS initiative to offer new opportunities for crossmedia licensing - April 12, 2011
Frankfurt SPARKS, the digital initiative of the Frankfurt Book Fair launched last year, is expected to be successful in 2011 as well. As part of the initiative, the new StoryDrive Business Centre will focus on all things related to media rights and innovative ways to turn… Read More
Jouve Group exhibiting at London Book Fair - April 12, 2011
XML and e-book conversion services provider Jouve Group, France, has announced that it is exhibiting at the ongoing London Book Fair, April 11-13, 2011, at stand W600- Digital Zone. The company is demonstrating to publishers how to convert, enrich and distribute their content in all digital… Read More
London Book Fair conference stresses on importance of discoverability for e-books - April 11, 2011
Enhanced e-books are dead, discoverability is the most important issue facing e-book vendors, while pricing strategies should be measured against other digital content, not physical books. These were the key themes that emerged from the recently concluded London Book Fair's Digital Conference, The Digital Now: Creating… Read More
Pharmacy OneSource to host free webinar on environmental sampling - April 11, 2011
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Pharmacy OneSource, software-as-a-service provider of Simplifi 797, a quality assurance application, is hosting a complimentary webinar on environmental sampling. The webinar, 'What's Bugging You About USP 797 Environmental Sampling?,' is scheduled for April… Read More
Wiley hosts Developmental Psychology Roundtable at SRCD biennial meeting - April 7, 2011
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. recently hosted the Wiley Psychology Roundtable entitled Putting Research into Practice. The invitation-only forum, held at the 2011 Society for Research and Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting in Montreal, focused on developmental psychology, and discussed about the needs and methods… Read More
CAS to demonstrate SciFinder Mobile and SciPlanner at ACS Spring National Meeting - March 28, 2011
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, has announced that it will be on-site at the 241st ACS National Meeting and Exposition to provide previews of two enhancements to its SciFinder research platform - SciFinder Mobile and SciPlanner. SciFinder Mobile, scheduled for… Read More
NFAIS members invited to free webinar on Google Books Settlement ruling - March 25, 2011
Chris Kenneally, Director of Business development at the US' Copyright Clearance Center, has extended a free registration to all NFAIS (National Federation of Advanced Information Services) members to join him and copyright expert Lois Wasoff for a webinar. The webinar - on… Read More
Berlin 9 Open Access Conference to be held in Washington, DC - March 25, 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 November 9 and 10,… Read More
