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
GenomeQuest to host IP seminar with Thomson Reuters - May 3, 2010
GenomeQuest, a US-based provider of sequence data management (SDM) products, has announced plans to host a free IP seminar with information provider Thomson Reuters, US, on June 10 in South San Francisco. The seminar, Web-based Searching for Patent Information Across Global Sequence Databases, will be held… Read More
DataCite Summer Meeting scheduled for June 2010 - April 30, 2010
DataCite, the international consortium to facilitate access to research data, and the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) have announced that the first summer meeting will be held from June 7-8, 2010 in Hannover, Germany. The scope of the Summer Meeting 2010 is to… Read More
Wiley-Wrox named sponsor of Hello World pre-conference session at APPCON 2010 - April 30, 2010
Publisher John Wiley & Sons has signed on as a sponsor, co-chair and organiser of the Hello World pre-conference session for the APPCON 2010 mobile app development event in Las Vegas. John Wiley is the publisher of the Wrox line of books, CDs and other educational… Read More
Open Access Week 2010 to be held from October 18-24 - April 29, 2010
Open Access Week, the global event to promote free, immediate, online access to research, has been declared for October 18-24, 2010. Now entering its fourth year, Open Access Week is organised by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), with expert… Read More
Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010 previews exhibitor announcements - April 27, 2010
Business information provider UBM TechWeb, US, and O'Reilly Media, Inc. will preview exhibitor announcements that will be made at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, scheduled for May 3-6, 2010, at Moscone West. Web 2.0 Expos bring people, ideas, products, and companies together to build stronger Web… Read More
Gov 2.0 Expo to showcase latest innovations in cloud computing, cybersecurity, collaboration, Web 2.0 - April 26, 2010
Business information provider UBM TechWeb, US, and O'Reilly Media, Inc. will co-produce the Gov 2.0 Expo. The event, scheduled for May 25-27, 2010, in the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, will gather technology leaders and visionaries from government and industry to share the… Read More
