Altmetric to organise publisher workshop - June 11, 2018
Altmetric is organising an afternoon of talks and workshop sessions at Warwick Business School in London – on level 17 of The Shard. The event will feature a mixture of talks from publishers already making use of altmetrics, product updates, interactive workshops and a panel… Read More
OpenAthens announces new webinar to facilitate debate - June 1, 2018
Identity and federated access management provider OpenAthens has announced a new webinar on the topic of federated access. Chaired by Tasha Mellins-Cohen, director of publishing at the Microbiology Society, the eminent panel of four is being reunited for a follow up webinar to complete the… Read More
BMJ and Ministry of Health hold Clinical Decision Support Initiative conference - May 29, 2018
Medical knowledge provider BMJ and the Ministry of Health recently held a joint conference on Clinical Decision Support Initiative for healthcare professionals in Azerbaijan. The programme provides over 2,000 healthcare professionals with evidence-based online tools, including BMJ Best Practice and BMJ Learning, to improve the… Read More
ConTech 2018 – Conference chairs to meet to finalise 2018 conference programme - May 22, 2018
The ConTech conference chairs are meeting on May 23, 2018, to finalise the conference programme. ConTech 2018 is aimed at information providers and content owners who increasingly have to address the challenges of competing in a data world, driven by machine learning, artificial intelligence and other… Read More
AAAS and China Association for Science and Technology explore new collaboration - May 18, 2018
Leaders of the China Association for Science and Technology and counterparts at the American Association for the Advancement of Science explored ways to build on a longstanding collaboration between the two scientific organisations through science communication and education partnerships. During a meeting at AAAS headquarters… Read More
Springer Nature launches third Change the World, One Article at a Time campaign - May 15, 2018
Springer Nature has launched its third Change the World, One Article at a Time campaign, helping to uncover research-based solutions to real-world problems. The campaign will showcase more than 250 articles published in Springer Nature journals in 2017, which have been handpicked because the research within… Read More
ARL Membership convenes in Atlanta for Spring 2018 meeting - May 14, 2018
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member representatives, ARL Leadership Fellows, staff, and guests gathered in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 24–26, 2018, for the 172nd Association Meeting. The meeting was convened by ARL president Mary Ann Mavrinac, vice provost and Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly Dean… Read More
Deadline for Library Assessment Conference 2018 call for proposals extended to May 11 - May 7, 2018
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University of Washington Libraries, and the Conference Steering Committee have extended the deadline for submitting paper and poster proposals for the 2018 Library Assessment Conference to May 11, 2018. The seventh biennial Library Assessment Conference will be held… Read More
COASP 2018: Call for contributions - May 2, 2018
Now in its 10th anniversary year, the Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) is a major annual scholarly publishing conference that brings the open access community together to discuss new developments and innovations in scholarly publishing, and unite in the shared goal to enable research… Read More
ConTech 2018 – Conference chairs announced - April 25, 2018
Info International is working with a group of conference chairs to create the programme for the new event - ConTech 2018. The team includes: Vincent Cassidy, Director of Academic Markets, Institution of Engineering and Technology; Paul Blake, Senior Content Designer, Department for Digital, Media, Culture &… Read More
