NFAIS announces ‘Call for Presentations’ for 2016-2017 Lunch & Learn education series - June 9, 2016
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS™), a global non-profit membership organisation serving the information services community, has announced a 'Call for Presentations' for its 2016-2017 Lunch & Learn with NFAIS virtual education series. The submissions deadline for the 2016-2017 series cycle is August 1,… Read More
Digital preservation experts to discuss emerging trends and challenges in digital preservation at the seventh Rosetta Advisory Group Meeting - June 8, 2016
Users of the Ex Libris Rosetta digital asset management and preservation solution are gathering this week at New York University in New York, NY, for the seventh annual meeting of the Rosetta Advisory Group. This year, the meeting examines the ways in which Rosetta users… Read More
Registrations now open for 2016 Charleston Library Conference - June 7, 2016
The Charleston Library Conference has announced that registration is now open for the 2016 event. This annual conference on issues in book and serial acquisition will again be held in the historic downtown Charleston, SC, with headquarters at the Gaillard Center and the Francis Marion Hotel.… Read More
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
