Wiley-Blackwell and Pittcon launch new webinar series - November 3, 2008
Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced an agreement with Pittcon, the world's premier Conference and Exposition dedicated to laboratory science. Under the deal, both parties will combine their information resources to produce four webinars… Read More
Emerald to be the main publishing partner of the first virtual global conference on climate change - November 3, 2008
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has announced that it will be the main publishing partner of the world's first global, purely virtual climate conference, 'Klima 2008 / Climate 2008'. The event takes place online at www.klima2008.net from November 3 - 7,… Read More
NEHU to host 96th Indian Science Congress in January - October 28, 2008
The North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) in Shillong, India, will host the 96th Indian Science Congress (ISC), the biggest annual scientific event in the country, in January 2009. The ISC will be attended by around 5,000 delegates including well-known Indian and foreign scientists. This includes some… Read More
SIIA announces 8th annual Information Industry summit - October 17, 2008
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the trade association for the software and digital information industries, has announced its 8th annual Information Industry Summit. The event, scheduled for January 26-28, 2009, will have senior executives gathering at Cipriani in New York City, to network, strategise… Read More
International adoption of EPUB eBook Standard to be presented at Frankfurt Book Fair - October 8, 2008
An open conference session on recent milestones for the eBook market and adoption of the EPUB format standard in the US and EU book markets will be held at the forthcoming Frankfurt Book Fair. Representatives from the International Digital Publishing Forum, Random House UK, OverDrive, Inc., and Sony Reader will… Read More
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
