SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting scheduled for November - May 14, 2010
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), in partnership with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan/National Institute of Informatics, has announced the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2010, to be held November 8-9, 2010, at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. The SPARC digital repositories meetings… Read More
ACS Green Chemistry Institute to host 14th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering conference - May 12, 2010
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that its Green Chemistry Institute will host the 14th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference from June 21-23 in Washington, D.C. The annual conference attracts scientific leaders from around the world. ‘Innovation and Application’ has been chosen as the… Read More
ICSTI Annual Conference 2010 – From Information to Innovation - May 11, 2010
International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) has announced that the ICSTI Annual Conference will take place in Helsinki, Finland, on June 10 and 11, 2010. ‘From Information to Innovation’ has been chosen as the main theme of the conference. The conference will highlight the… Read More
OCLC Research to host MissingMaterials.org Webinar on May 11 - May 10, 2010
Library information provider OCLC Research, US, has announced that it will host the MissingMaterials.org Webinar on May 11, 2010. This free webinar will be held twice to accommodate attendees in different time zones - once at 10 am EDT (UTC 14:00) and again at 4 pm… Read More
ACS webinar to focus on scientific careers in publishing - May 7, 2010
The American Chemical Society (ACS) is inviting news media and others interested in the chemical sciences to join the next in a series of ACS Webinars, focusing on scientific careers in publishing. Scheduled for May 13, the free ACS Webinars will feature Dr. Darla Henderson, ACS… Read More
COPE signs up as partner in Second World Conference on Research Integrity - May 6, 2010
The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) has announced that it is supporting, and has had a substantial input into, the organisation of the Second World Research Integrity Conference, slated for July 21-24, 2010 in Singapore. COPE is one of the major partners in the conference and… Read More
ARL to host Lib-Valu workshop on ROI methods employed by academic libraries - May 5, 2010
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), US, is to hold a Lib-Value workshop on the latest return-on-investment (ROI) methods employed by academic libraries. The workshop will review the methodologies developed and applied to date. It will also seek to help the audience expand its understanding of… Read More
OCLC Research to host webinar on environmental impact of interlibrary loans - May 5, 2010
Library cooperative OCLC, US, has announced plans to host a free webinar on May 6, 2010 on reducing the environmental impact of interlibrary loan operations. In this webinar, OCLC Research programme officer Dennis Massie will discuss findings from a recent OCLC Research-sponsored study of the environmental… Read More
McGraw-Hill Construction to hold 2010 Green BIM Conference in Boston - May 4, 2010
McGraw-Hill Construction, a US-based provider of project and product information on the construction industry, is to host the 2010 Green BIM (Building Information Modeling) Conference on May 19 in Boston at the Westin Copley Place. At the Green BIM event, professionals can expect to get a… Read More
‘Nature Photonics’ to host photovoltaics conference in Tokyo in October - May 3, 2010
Publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), US, has announced that Nature Photonics, its optics and photonics journal, will hold its second technology conference in Tokyo on October 19-21, 2010. The event, ‘Future Perspectives on Photovoltaics’, will include keynotes from Nobel Laureate Alan Heeger of the University of… Read More
