SSP seeks Mentors and Mentees for 2020 Mentorship Program - August 14, 2020
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is now accepting applications for the next cohort of its ongoing Mentorship Program. This program is ideal for professionals at all career levels to develop new relationships, share experiences, and learn from others outside their organisations by connecting with a… Read More
ConTech Week 2020: conference programme announced - August 12, 2020
Where digital evolution is concerned, lots of traditional publishers have been stuck for the last 5-10 years, nervous about doing more than dipping their toes in the new digital waters and continuing to survive on traditional revenue streams, but seeing them slowly flatline or decrease. But you can’t hide forever.… Read More
ACM’s annual Learning @ Scale conference to be held virtually from August 12 –14; 2020 conference includes special COVID-19 track - August 12, 2020
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest association of computing professionals, has announced that it’s annual Learning @ Scale (L@S) conference will be held virtually from August 12 –14. L@S investigates large-scale, technology-mediated learning environments that typically have many active learners and few experts… Read More
Registration for Quantum 2020 officially opens - August 3, 2020
Registration has officially opened for Quantum 2020, a virtual conference hosted by IOP Publishing and the Institute of Physics (IOP). The conference is being organised in partnership with the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and the Chinese Physical Society… Read More
Portico at JCDL 2020 - July 29, 2020
On August 5, Karen Hanson, Portico Senior Research Developer, will be participating in ‘Making, Using, and Exploring Web Archives: Tales from Scholars & Practitioners,’ a panel discussion in the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries virtual workshop. The presentation is part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on… Read More
ConTech.Live webinar, ‘The experience of getting a “No Code” Open repository’ scheduled for July 22 - July 21, 2020
The last ConTech.Live webinar, ‘The experience of getting a “No Code” Open repository’ is scheduled for July 22, 2020. Yann Mahé – MD MyScienceWork will discuss how to build and maintain a powerful open source repository with little to no IT skills. Budgetary pressure and… Read More
IFLA takes part in 2nd WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence - July 21, 2020
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) recently took part in the second session of the conversation on Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence organised by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on July 7-9, 2020. After the first session… Read More
Frankfurter Buchmesse presents its digital concept - July 13, 2020
In October, books, literature and authors are traditionally the focus of life in Frankfurt. To ensure that remains the case in the year of COVID-19, Frankfurter Buchmesse (14–18 October 2020) has developed a wide-ranging digital programme to complement the face-to-face meetings that will take place on… Read More
Upcoming ConTech webinars - July 7, 2020
ConTech’s insightful series of webinars at 4.30pm BST each Wednesday continues. Open science is important, but it is also hard. Unfortunately, “hard” has often meant that scientific quality checks are both slow and inadequate, falling in an unsatisfactory middle ground between two opposing goals. Currently, it can take months… Read More
CRKN calls for participation in 2020 Virtual Conference - June 29, 2020
Following the success of the inaugural CRKN Conference in 2019, CRKN is inviting members, stakeholders, partners, and the GLAM community to participate in 2020’s event 2020 CRKN Virtual Conference, which will be held over the course of October as a series of… Read More
