IEEE announces IT healthcare standard and new projects in advance of the IEEE annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - June 30, 2017
IEEE, the technical professional organisation dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, and the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA), have announced the availability of IEEE 11073-20702™-Health informatics: Point-of-Care Medical Device Communication - Standard for Medical Devices Communication Profile for Web Services in advance of… Read More
London Info International 2017 is looking for Info Disruptors - June 28, 2017
The London Info International (LII) is inviting start-ups, publishers and vendors to pitch new ideas, concepts and innovations in Disruptor Zone 2017. The Disruptor Zone will take place in London on December 5 and 6 as part of LII 2017. This is a competitive event… Read More
Clarivate Analytics collaborates with Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings to support early career researchers - June 27, 2017
Clarivate Analytics, the global provider of trusted insights and analytics that accelerate the pace of innovation, has announced its collaboration with the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, supporting the annual series of highly esteemed scientific meetings of Nobel Prize-winning laureates and select early career researchers from across… Read More
PeerJ announces PeerJ Collection for SMBE 2017 attendees to make their abstracts publicly available - June 26, 2017
PeerJ will be publishing a PeerJ Collection for the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE 2017) in Austin, TX. The meeting will take place from July 2–6, 2017. All speakers and poster presenters are encouraged to submit their accepted abstracts… Read More
COAR member-only webinar – DSpace-CRIS: How to Bring Repositories and CRIS/RIMS Together - June 20, 2017
COAR Member-Only webinar: DSpace-CRIS: How to Bring Repositories and CRIS/RIMS Together will take place on July 10 at 9:30 am CEST. Interested parties may register by July 7, 2017. CRIS/RIMS (Current Research Information Systems / Research Information Management Systems) are becoming… Read More
London Info International 2017 publishes first draft conference programme - June 16, 2017
The London Info International draft conference programme is now available. The programme will get to the heart of the real issues facing today's information professionals and providers. A first class speaker line up and keynotes from around the world will be announced in the coming weeks.… Read More
Springer Nature sponsors first Singapore Three Minute Thesis competition - June 15, 2017
Springer Nature is providing sponsorship for the 2017 Singapore Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition, where twenty PhD candidates from Singapore will gather on August 4, 2017 at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU). The competition challenges participants to explain their research thesis in a clear and engaging… Read More
Scholarly Publishing Association convenes Annual Meeting in Austin - June 14, 2017
The 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) kicked off June 11-13, 2017, in Austin, Texas. Attended by more than 650 scholarly publishing professionals from all over the world, this year's program continued to encourage collaboration across university and scholarly presses, with… Read More
Digital preservation experts worldwide to discuss challenges of digital preservation and share their experiences using Rosetta - June 14, 2017
Users of the Ex Libris Rosetta digital asset management and preservation solution are gathering this week at the University of Sheffield in Sheffield, UK, for the eighth annual meeting of the Rosetta Advisory Group. This meeting marks 10 years since the development of the Rosetta digital… Read More
Institution of Engineering and Technology to host global STEM competition in the UK - June 6, 2017
The STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) skills of hundreds of budding young engineers will be challenged when they compete in a robotic competition for students organised by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), hosted at the University of Bath and sponsored by Bechtel. … Read More