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
UK exhibition to examine growth of research with new tools - October 15, 2010
The UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced that researchers' interactions within a digital environment at the British Library are set to help it and similar organisations lead the future of research. The way that people interact with never-seen-before research tools, thought-provoking content and futuristic… Read More
Elsevier Business Intelligence announces agenda for Windhover’s 2nd PharmAsia Summit - October 14, 2010
Elsevier Business Intelligence, publisher of PharmAsia News, IN VIVO and 'The Pink Sheet', has announced the agenda for Windhover's 2nd PharmAsia Summit, scheduled for October 25-26, 2010. This year's Summit will bring top biopharma leaders from Asia and the US to San Francisco to share what… Read More
Knowledgespeak’s exclusive interviews at the Frankfurt Book Fair now online - October 13, 2010
Interviews with Judith Barnsby, Head of e-development, IOP, and Victor Henning, co-founder and CEO of Mendeley are now live at the Interviews section of Knowledgespeak. Search for more conferences To access our daily STM… Read More
RSuite User Conference: Content experts to discuss how right content architecture can ease CMS implementation - October 13, 2010
Content management consulting and solutions provider Really Strategies, Inc., US, has announced that the company's CTO and Co-founder, Lisa Bos, and client solutions architect, Eliot Kimber, will take the stage at the RSuite User Conference on October 20, 2010, to discuss how right content architecture eases… Read More
ARL to organise METS Workshop: The Basics and Beyond - October 13, 2010
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statistics and Assessment Program and the Digital Library Federation, a programme of the Council on Library and Information Resources, have announced the third, five-day 'METS Workshop: The Basics and Beyond', to be held with Nancy J. Hoebelheinrich of the METS… Read More
Knowledgespeak’s exclusive interviews at the Frankfurt Book Fair now online - October 12, 2010
Interviews with Marty Kahn, CEO, ProQuest LLC; Keith MacGregor, Executive VP, Scientific and Scholarly Research, Thomson Reuters; and William Park, CEO, DeepDyve are now live at the Interviews section of Knowledgespeak. To access our… Read More
