Plenaries at the American Chemical Society meeting to focus on energy, materials and partnerships - March 27, 2017
Scientists, in four plenary talks, will explore a variety of subjects related to the 'Advanced Materials, Technologies, Systems & Processes' theme of the 253rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. The meeting will take place April 2- 6,… Read More
Registrations now open for EMUG 2017 - March 24, 2017
Online submission system provider Aries Systems has announced the 2017 Editorial Manager User Group Meeting. The meeting will take place at the Taj Hotel, Boston, MA on June 22 - 23, 2017. Aries will discuss its strategic development plans including updates to the author submission… Read More
NFAIS Half-Day Virtual Workshop – Beyond the PDF: Emerging Trends in Next Generation Articles - March 21, 2017
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) will be conducting a Half-Day Virtual Workshop, Beyond the PDF: Emerging Trends in Next Generation Articles, on March 23, 2017 from 9:00 am - 12:30 pm (EDT). This workshop will benefit scholarly researchers, publishers, discovery service providers, research… Read More
Panelists discuss JATS for Reuse at OASPA webinar - March 21, 2017
Kelly McDougall (MIT Press), Mary Seligy (Canadian Science Publishing), and Stephen Laverick (Maverick) recently joined OASPA for a webinar to discuss Open Access Publishing in the Global South. Melissa Harrison (eLife) chaired the discussion. The Copyright Clearance Center hosted the webinar. … Read More
Registrations for 9th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing now open - March 16, 2017
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) has announced that registrations and accommodations for the 9th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) are now open. This year, the annual conference will take place in Lisbon, Portugal at the Altis Grand Hotel on September 20-21, 2017.… Read More
APA announces support for March for Science, calls on psychologists and allies to participate - March 10, 2017
The American Psychological Association has signed on as an official partner of the upcoming March for Science, calling it a demonstration of the importance of science for improving people's lives and benefiting society. The march is slated to take place April 22, in Washington, D.C. Satellite… Read More
Library Assessment Conference 2018 to convene in Houston, Texas - March 9, 2017
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the University of Washington (UW) Libraries have announced that the next Library Assessment Conference will be held in Houston, Texas, in the fall of 2018. The University of Houston (UH) Libraries and Texas A&M University Libraries will serve as… Read More
Digital Science, Overleaf and Altmetric at The London Book Fair - March 6, 2017
The London Book Fair (LBF) is an annual event that acts as a meeting point for publishers and distributors from a wide range of industries including print, audio, TV, film and digital. LBF sees more than 25,000 publishing professionals arrive in London for the event and… Read More
Marking the 15th Anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative - March 3, 2017
This year marks the 15th Anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), a landmark meeting convened in Budapest by the Open Society Foundations (OSF) that aimed to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available. The participants… Read More
New initiatives being launched for London Info International 2017 - March 1, 2017
Following on from the successful launch of London Info as a conference and exhibition in December 2016, a series of new initiatives have been launched for LII 2017. LII 2017 will be held at the Business Design Centre on December 5th and 6th, 2017. The… Read More
