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
Research Information partners with London Info International to host its first one-day conference - June 5, 2017
Research Information will host its first one-day conference, in partnership with London Info International. 'Challenges in the Scholarly Publishing Cycle,' an interactive one-day conference for publishers, information professionals and academics, will be held on December 4 at the Business Design Centre, London. Organised by Research… Read More
LBF announces final line-up for Virtual Conference - May 30, 2017
The full programme for the third edition of The London Book Fair's Virtual Conference: Publishing Around the Globe, has been released, with major trends in nine key global publishing markets due to be explored through a series of social media events taking place on June 1,… Read More
Highlights from Controlled Vocabularies Workshop in #COAR2017 Annual Meeting - May 30, 2017
The COAR Controlled Vocabularies Workshop was held on May 8, 2017 at the COAR 2017 Annual Meeting. More than 40 participants joined in the half day open session. The session was organised to introduce COAR vocabularies to the members including what has been done so far,… Read More
Preliminary program announced for COASP 2017 - May 26, 2017
The preliminary program for the 9th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, COASP, along with details of how to register for the conference, is now available on the conference page: https://oaspa.org/conference. The conference will be held at the Altis Grand Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal, on September… Read More
ARL announces SPEC Survey webcast on Data Curation - May 18, 2017
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is offering a series of free webcasts that present the findings from the latest SPEC surveys and allow webcast participants to discuss trends with the survey authors. A 45-minute webcast will follow the publication of each SPEC Kit in 2017.… Read More
Paula Stephan and Jeffrey Mervis to be featured keynote presenters at the Society for Scholarly Publishing 39th Annual Meeting - May 17, 2017
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has announced that its keynote speakers for the SSP 39th Annual Meeting to be held May 31-June 2 in Boston, MA, will be Paula Stephan and Jeffrey Mervis. Stephan will speak on May 31. Stephan's research interests focus on the… Read More
Scope e-Knowledge to exhibit and present at the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Meeting - May 15, 2017
Scope e-Knowledge Center, an award winning services partner to publishers and information providers worldwide, will be attending and presenting at the Society for Scholarly Publishing meeting, May 31 - June 2 in Boston, Massachusetts USA. A primary focus for Scope at the meeting will be… Read More
