Copyright Clearance Center hosts sixth annual RightsLink Roundtable - June 3, 2016
Global licensing and content solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) recently brought publishers together for a forum at the Harvard Club in New York City for its sixth annual RightsLink® Roundtable to discuss and discover shared success, challenges, and new ideas for future development of… Read More
2016 SSP Early Career Professional Survey results to be detailed at Annual Meeting - May 31, 2016
The SSP Early Career Task Force will release the results of their February survey aimed at early career professionals in the scholarly communication industry at the 2016 Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting, being held June 1-3 in Vancouver, BC. The session, 'Sharing the Future… Read More
CAS and BioOhio team up to organise Big Data: Data-Driven Insights in Health Care - May 27, 2016
CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, and BioOhio, Ohio's bioscience membership organisation, are organising the Harnessing Big Data: Data-Driven Insights in Health Care. This highly anticipated event will share real world examples and case studies of how Big Data is being leveraged to address… Read More
Society for Scholarly Publishing to host six pre-meeting seminars ahead of 2016 Annual Meeting - May 25, 2016
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) will host six pre-meeting seminars on June 1 in Vancouver, ahead of the 2016 Annual Meeting. The seminars will be split between a morning session, 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., and an afternoon session, 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., allowing… Read More
Elsevier announces seven new plastics and polymers books at SPE ANTEC 2016 - May 23, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of new, fully updated editions of Fatigue and Tribological Properties of Plastics and Elastomers and Multilayer Flexible Packaging. Reflecting the rapid advances made in the field, these two highly anticipated books, along with five additional new plastics and polymers… Read More
OASPA webinar panelists discuss attribution - May 23, 2016
Cameron Neylon from Curtin University, Michael Carroll from American University, and Ernesto Priego from the City University London recently joined OASPA for a webinar to discuss attribution in open access publishing - an important, timely issue for publishers that goes hand-in-hand with licensing. Catriona MacCallum (PLOS)… Read More
Association of Research Libraries seeks proposals for SPEC Survey Topics 2017 - May 18, 2016
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is seeking proposals for 2017 SPEC survey topics. For more than 40 years ARL has gathered and disseminated data through the SPEC survey program to assist libraries in the continuous improvement of their management systems. Each year, ARL works with… Read More
Digital Science to host 2016 ORCID UK members meeting - May 13, 2016
The first ORCID UK members' meeting will be held at Digital Science's London office, The Macmillan Building, 4 Crinan St, London N1 9XW, from 9.00am - 1.00pm on May 26. The meeting will start with an ORCID Town Hall session for… Read More
Norway to be Guest of Honour at Frankfurt Book Fair 2019 - May 13, 2016
The Frankfurt Book Fair has announced Norway's participation as the Guest of Honour of Frankfurt Book Fair 2019. Margit Walsø, Director of NORLA (The Centre for Norwegian Literature Abroad), and Juergen Boos, Director of the Frankfurt Book Fair, signed the contracts in the foyer of the… Read More
Theme for 2016 International Open Access Week to be ‘Open in Action’ - May 13, 2016
In conjunction with this year's Open Access Week Advisory Committee, SPARC has announced the theme for this year's 9th International Open Access Week, to be held October 24-30. The theme for 2016 will be 'Open in Action.' International Open Access Week has always been about… Read More
