ALPSP/COPE workshop on ethical publishing - October 3, 2008
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), the international trade association for scholarly and professional publishers, has announced that it is conducting a one day workshop on Ethical Publishing - a guide for biomedical journal publishers & editors. The event, scheduled for October 22… Read More
Chemistry Central hosts session at EuCheMS Congress on OA publishing in Chemistry - September 30, 2008
Chemistry Central recently hosted an open session - An Introduction to Open Access Publishing in Chemistry - at the recent EuCheMS Chemistry Congress in Torino, Italy. Chemistry Central, a service of open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central, publishes peer-reviewed OA research in chemistry.
The Second EuCheMS… Read More
NFAIS conferences for publishers and librarians - September 11, 2008
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) Committee on Usage Statistics is organising a one-day conference - Usage Statistics: New Developments and Practical Applications - to be held October 21, 2008, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New… Read More
BioMed Central to hold forum at Festival of Science - August 29, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced its participation in the Festival of Science, one of Europe's biggest science festivals to be held at the University of Liverpool (UK) in September. It proposes to organise a free forum at the event… Read More
Reed Business Information’s Design News announces Mechatronics 2.0 Expo - August 28, 2008
B2B information provider Reed Business Information (RBI), US, has announced that its publication Design News, along with sister publications, Control Engineering, EDN and Test & Measurement World, have announced Mechatronics 2.0: Driving Innovation in the Auto Industry, an expo and conference. Scheduled… Read More
Elsevier announces semi-finalists for the Elsevier Grand Challenge - August 21, 2008
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced ten semi-finalists in The Elsevier Grand Challenge, a competition inviting the scientific community to prototype tools innovating how Life Sciences information is used in online text databases. The semifinalists were chosen by a distinguished panel of… Read More
London Book Fair chooses India as market focus for Spring 2009 fair - August 19, 2008
The London Book Fair, claimed to be one of the world's largest trade events for publishers and the book sellers, has selected India as its market focus for Spring 2009, for the first time. A key target segment of this fair will be service providers for… Read More
Mark Logic Corporation to sponsor 3rd annual Global Information Industry Summit - August 19, 2008
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the trade association for the software and digital information industries, has announced Mark Logic Corporation as host sponsor of the third annual Global Information Industry Summit. Mark Logic is known as an innovative provider of the industry's leading XML… Read More
ARL/CNI forum on Reinventing Science Librarianship - August 14, 2008
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) are cosponsoring a forum on 'Reinventing Science Librarianship: Models for the Future,' to be held October 16-17, 2008. The event follows the 153rd ARL Membership Meeting, at the Ritz-Carlton,… Read More
First international workshop on Ontology-supported Business Intelligence - August 14, 2008
The EU-funded ACTIVE (Enabling the knowledge powered enterprise) and MUSING (Multi-industry, semantic-based next generation business intelligence) projects are organising the first international workshop on Ontology-supported Business Intelligence (OBI2008). The workshop, scheduled for October 26 - 27 in Karlsruhe, Germany, is co-located with the 7th International Semantic… Read More
