ProQuest CIO to share strategies for creating more intense focus on end-users at 2010 Charleston Conference - October 29, 2010
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that the company's CIO Bipin Patel will share strategies for creating a more intense focus on end-users with attendees at the 2010 Charleston Conference. Patel, a principal leader behind the company's new landmark search platform, is representing… Read More
WIPO to host meeting on copyright licensing - October 28, 2010
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has announced that WIPO Director General Francis Gurry and Harvard University professor Lawrence Lessig will open a meeting hosted by WIPO in Geneva on copyright licensing. The event, scheduled for November 4 and 5, 2010, will feature a range of… Read More
Key initiatives, good response seen at Open Access Week 2010 - October 27, 2010
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has announced that this year's Open Access Week came to a close on October 24. With just under 900 participants in 94 countries, this year's event was three times larger than it was just a year ago. Hundreds… Read More
Accelrys announces annual European User Group Conference - October 25, 2010
Scientific informatics software and services company Accelrys, Inc., US, has announced that its annual European User Group Conference will be held at the Dolce Sitges Hotel, Barcelona, Spain, October 26-28, 2010. The merger of Accelrys and Symyx created the scientific informatics software company. At the conference,… Read More
American Chemical Society to host public interest forum on science in public policy - October 22, 2010
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has organised a forum on 'The Appropriate Use of Science in Public Policy', on October 27 in the auditorium of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1200 New York Avenue, NW, in Washington, D.C. The presentation and discussion will… Read More
Free seminars to be held at Online Information 2010 conference - October 20, 2010
Incisive Media, the UK-based organiser of the Online Information 2010 conference, has announced that a comprehensive programme of free seminars will take place over the three days of the event. Scheduled for November 30 to December 2 at Grand Hall, Olympia, London,… Read More
Open Access Week 2010 launches, leaders recount positive impact of OA - October 19, 2010
The Open Access Week 2010 started on October 18, as thousands of scholars, faculty and students from nearly 90 countries worldwide participate in events to raise awareness and advance understanding of the benefits of open access (OA). The week is projected to feature the voices of… Read More
eSciDoc Days event in Copenhagen to examine e-research infrastructure - October 19, 2010
Germany's FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, and the Max Planck Society - Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) have announced that the third eSciDoc Days will be held at the Royal Library in Copenhagen on November 16-17, 2010. In a strategic partnership, the two… Read More
University of Southampton/EPrints to launch OA Mandate Adoption Challenge for OA Week - October 18, 2010
University of Southampton/EPrints is launching a week-long Open Access (OA) Mandate Adoption Challenge for the OA Week. On October 18, the first day of OA Week, the results of a study will be published in PLoS ONE demonstrating that the well-known higher… Read More
Diverse crew to tackle key challenges at the SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting Innovation Fair - October 15, 2010
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has announced that marketing, partnerships, small-scale subject repositories, customer service, multidimensional image data, curation micro-services, and liberating folklore journals are some of the topics that will be tackled in the SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting Innovation Fair. SPARC,… Read More
