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CIO November 19, 2010 Stephanie Overby |
Online Collaboration: How Merck Uses Virtual Worlds for Global Meetings Merck Research Laboratories' scientists share their research online using virtual meeting software. |
Information Today April 2004 |
Letter to the Editor The core of major meetings should remain physical conferences, but I still believe that virtual conferencing will--and should--take an increasing role. |
Information Today December 2001 Donald T. Hawkins |
Frankfurt Book Fair and IBLC Symposium The FBF is concerned with all aspects of book publishing, and it is the largest trade show in the world... |
Inc. May 2009 April Joyner |
Sales & Marketing: Nice Meeting Your Avatar Industry trade shows go virtual. |
Chemistry World September 29, 2014 Derek Lowe |
Garbage in, garbage out Evaluating scientists is not easy. That's always been the case, and the shortcuts to doing it have been around a long time too. Counting papers and conferences is easy, but stupid. |
Searcher January 2001 Stephen Abram |
Intelligent Conferences: Reality or Oxymoron? Technology is having an impact on all areas of our lives, but until recently, it only seemed evident at conferences in lavish graphic presentations. Now it has begun to shake the pillars of conference organization and attendance. Will these events survive in their current form? |
Pharmaceutical Executive April 1, 2011 |
Special Section: Pharma Meetings Merck mounts pharma's first virtual symposium and interactive poster session. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2004 Annamaria DiGiorgio |
New Virtual H.S. Offers Self-Paced Curriculum Students wishing to pursue a high school level education online have one more option for earning their diplomas with the launch of Houston-based Virtual Horizons Online High School in January. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2005 Moss & Solomon |
Teaching the Fourth `R' of Science Education: Research A partnership program between the Bronx High School of Science and Elsevier introduces students to the world of scientific research through ScienceDirect. |
Searcher January 2002 Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Reactive Reports Issue 67 David Bradley |
Reactive Profile--Bryan Vickery, Chemistry Central Having ruined too many pairs of jeans, this chemist opted for a desk job instead of a bench job. He is currently Publisher at BioMed Central with special interest in Chemistry Central. |
Information Today April 2004 Richard Poynder |
The Inevitable and the Optimal What measures are being taken in the U.K. government, the publishing industry, and academic institutions to ensure that researchers, teachers, and students have access to the publications they need? |
Chemistry World June 11, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Chemical sciences literature dominated by five publishing houses The percentage of chemistry papers published by the big five publishers is a significant outlier in the sciences. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2002 |
Clips and Pointers Recruitment, Retention & Restructuring: Human Resources in Academic Libraries... National Academies to Release First Phase of Counterterrorism Study This Summer... Proceedings from the 5th International Conference on Virtual Communities... etc. |
Information Today Richard Poynder |
U.K. Academics and Librarians Disagree Over Open Access Publishing At an April U.K. Parliament Science and Technology Select Committee session, librarians and academics disagreed with one another over excessive journal pricing, inflexibility over the "bundling" of electronic journals, inequitable copyright agreements, and restrictions on long-term access to digital material. |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2011 Vera Munch |
Open Access: Shaking the Basics of Academic Publishing Although open access is not a new concept, the all-embracing structural upheaval caused by digital technology is still turning academic publishing upside down. |
D-Lib November 2000 |
Clips and Pointers White Paper on Electronic Journal Usage Statistics... Preservation Management of Digital Materials Workbook... White Paper: The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value... Moving Theory into Practice Digital Imaging... Electronic Journals Tutorial... etc. |
D-Lib June 2003 Bonthron et al. |
Trends in Use of Electronic Journals in Higher Education in the UK - Views of Academic Staff and Students This article examines disciplinary differences in the use of electronic journals by academic staff and students and considers whether library services need to differentiate between staff and students when planning support services for electronic journals. |
D-Lib October 2002 |
Clips and Pointers Archaeology Data Service Guides to Good Practice... Free Range Librarian... E-Serials Cataloging... etc. |
Information Today September 2001 Ana Arias Terry |
SSP Annual Meeting 2001 E-books took a back seat to discussions about collaboration and experimentation... |
D-Lib November 2002 |
Clips & Pointers The Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning from September 11... The Digital Library: A Biography, published by CLIR and DLF... Semantic Web... etc. |
Information Today July 14, 2008 Lori Bell |
As the (Virtual) Worlds Turn Google released Lively, a public beta version of its much-anticipated three-dimensional virtual world. |
D-Lib April 2001 |
To the Editor In response to the opinion piece, The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the "Big Deal"... |
Information Today September 2, 2003 |
NewsBreaks Elsevier and ACS Agree to Link... ebrary Launches Library Center... ALA and Others Request Public Input on Homeland Security Procedures... |
Chemistry World July 2009 Bibiana Campos-Seijo |
Editorial: Out and about Reports from recent scientific conferences: Energy materials to combat climate change meeting... 11th Erbi Biopartnering event... ChemSpec Europe 2009... |
Information Today March 2003 Dick Kaser |
The Future of Journals Elsevier executive Pieter Bolman talks about the future of scholarly publishing and the competition emerging from alternative publication models like the Public Library of Science |
D-Lib November 2001 |
Clips and Pointers Strategies for Building Digitized Collections... Digital Curation: Digital Archives, Libraries, and e-Science... Proceedings of the 2000 Sino-United States Symposium and Workshop on Library and Information Science Education in the Digital Age... etc. |
Information Today September 3, 2002 Miriam A. Drake |
Elsevier Teams with Dutch National Library for Digitization Project Elsevier Science and Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, have announced an agreement that designates KB as the first official digital archive for Elsevier journals. |
D-Lib February 2003 |
Clips and Pointers Intellectual Property on the Internet: A Survey of Issues... The Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning from September 11... Creating and Using Virtual Reality: a Guide for the Arts and Humanities... Digital Libraries... CD Forum Guidance Papers... etc. |
Information Today March 22, 2004 Paula J. Hane |
U.K. Parliamentary Committee Holds Hearings on Scientific Publishing On March 1 and 8, the U.K. House of Commons Science and Technology Committee held the first two days of hearings as part of its inquiry into the pricing and availability of scientific publications and possible government support for open access publishing. |
Information Today February 13, 2012 Robin Peek |
The Cost of Knowledge Versus Elsevier: 5,600 Signatures and Growing Timothy Gowers, a Cambridge mathematician and winner of the coveted Fields medal in mathematics, began The Cost of Knowledge website petition to publicize his own personal boycott of Elsevier, thus encouraging others to do the same. |
D-Lib May 2000 |
In Brief CNRI Announces New Version of the Handle System... Virtual Heritage is playing an important role in the interpretation and preservation of Cultural Heritage... Journal Abbreviation Sources... Asking the Experts: Digital Reference and the Virtual Reference Desk... etc. |
Chemistry World August 22, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Open Access for Chemistry The team that developed BioMed Central, an open access publishing website, has launched a chemistry version called Chemistry Central. |
Chemistry World December 2010 |
Column: In the pipeline Who's that asleep at the back? Don't be too quick to blame yourself when tedious talks and soporific seminars fail to inspire, says Derek Lowe |
D-Lib April 2002 |
Clips and Pointers Collection Description Focus/CIMI: Summary Report... LITA Top Tech Trends... Digital Reference Services Bibliography... Calls for Participation... Usability for Digital Libraries... etc. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2005 Kirsti Aho |
Teaching Digital Communication to All Students From the primary level through college, students can be prepared to communicate more effectively by teaching them the whole communication process from planning the message all the way to testing for usability. |
Information Today June 7, 2004 Robin Peek |
Elsevier Allows Open Access Self-Archiving In a move that has stunned both the publishing community and the academic world, major journal publisher Elsevier is going to permit Open Access self-archiving for almost all of its journal titles. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 1006 |
Clips and Pointers Growing by Degrees: Online Education in the United States... What's New in Digital Preservation... International Conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries...etc. |
Information Today April 2003 Stephanie C. Ardito |
NFAIS 45th Annual Conference Attended primarily by aggregators, the event is a major opportunity for providers to voice and share their concerns about the day-to-day operations of their businesses and to speculate about the future ofthe industry. |
Energize January 2014 Susan J. Ellis |
Virtual Volunteering Revisited Some people will volunteer solely online, others will combine a virtual component with an onsite placement, and others may do their service totally hands on. |
ONLINE May/Jun 2004 Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage: Being Virtual In our age of digital libraries, 24/7 reference, Web conferencing, and e-mail, the author questions the value of never having to meet anyone face to face, especially in the conference world contex. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2010 Albert Cervera |
Document Management in the Open University of Catalunya Classrooms Through its document management services in Universitat Oberta de Catalunya classrooms, the UOC Library acts as a true learning and teaching facilitator and plays a central role in the university's learning model. |
Information Today April 2002 Richard Poynder |
Not Pleading Poverty Elsevier Science chairman Derk Haank addresses industry and end-user issues... |
The Motley Fool November 15, 2005 Tom Taulli |
Net Giants' Book Battle Google mulls another innovation -- renting books online. Digital books could become an important additional source of online ad revenue for competitive companies. Investors, take note. |
PC World October 2001 Ramon G. McLeod |
Play CD-ROMs Without Using a Drive Farstone Technology's Virtual Drive 6.1 CD emulator speeds game play... |
Chemistry World March 2, 2012 Rebecca Trager |
Anti-open access bill suffers sudden death Legislation in the US Congress that would have stopped funding agencies stipulating that research they fund with taxpayer dollars be made publicly available has collapsed. The dramatic development could signal a pivotal shift in scientific publishing. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2008 Karen Kellison |
Virtual Teamwork For a group of remote, rural school districts, web-based collaborative projects are opening up new vistas of learning opportunities. |
D-Lib December 2006 |
Clips & Pointers Self-archiving and journal subscriptions: co-existence of competition?... Gowers review of intellectual property... European digital library initiative: High Level Expert Group (HLG)... Web archiving... etc. |
Information Today October 2002 Jim Ashling |
The 68th IFLA General Conference and Council The library federation celebrated its 75th anniversary in Scotland, the country of its origin. |
D-Lib March 2002 Loriene Roy |
Oksale An indigenous approach to creating a virtual library of education resources... |