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CALL: Papers and Apps for the 2013 VIVO Conference

Ithaca, NY  The Call for Papers and Call for Applications for the 2013 VIVO Conference are now available and we look forward to hearing about the good work you're doing in the interest areas listed below—and beyond!

The Fourth Annual VIVO Conference will be held in St. Louis from Aug. 14-16, 2013: https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/vivo2013/

Call for Papers

Submitted by carol on Mon, 04/08/2013 - 7:57pm

OAI8 Workshop Program Available: Plenary Sessions, Tutorials and Breakout Groups

From Thomas Krichel on behalf of The The OAI Organizing Committee

Geneva, Switzerland  The OAI8 Workshop on Current Developments in Scholarly Communication is taking place in the University of Geneva and in CERN, Geneva, on June 19-21, 2013. The Programme can be found at http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=211600.

There are six plenary sessions on:

• Technical developments
• Metrics

Submitted by carol on Mon, 04/08/2013 - 7:47pm

NO WAITING: Try DuraCloud Right Away!

Winchester, MA  There are plenty of questions that come up as you make the decision to preserve digital content in the cloud—any cloud. What's the process like? Can I control my content in the cloud? What can I do with my content once it's in the cloud? How do I retrieve it? What are the advantages of replicating content with multiple providers? What does it mean to synchronize content?

Submitted by carol on Thu, 04/04/2013 - 10:49am

‘Dealing with Data–What’s the Role for the Library?’: Joint OpenAIRE/LIBER Workshop, Ghent, 5/28

Ghent, Belgium  Registration is open for a joint OpenAIRE/LIBER workshop that will explore where the library sits in relation to supporting research data management, and what future expectations for libraries might be. The workshop is an ELAG (European Library Automation Group) 2013 free pre-conference event to be held in Ghent, Belgium May 28-31, 2013.

Web site:

Submitted by carol on Mon, 03/25/2013 - 9:34am

WATCH: ​Wikipedia and Libraries: What's the Connection?

From Diane Goldenberg-Hart, Communications Coordinator, CNI 

Washington, DC  Wikipedia and Libraries: What's the Connection?, a project briefing presented at CNI's fall 2012 membership meeting by Merrilee Proffitt of OCLC and Sara Snyder of the Smithsonian Institution, is now available on CNI's two video channels:

YouTube: http://youtu.be/a6Qs-_51Qko
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/61522767

Submitted by carol on Mon, 03/18/2013 - 12:54pm

Big Step Toward Free and Open Access to Publicly Funded Research

Winchester, MA  The growth of the Internet along with many channels users have created to disseminate every kind of networked digital information has been a catalyst for the simple idea that access to the results of publicly funded research should be free and open.

Submitted by carol on Tue, 02/26/2013 - 5:17pm

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Open Repositories 2013 Proposals Now Due on March 4th!

Charlottetown, PEI, Canada This year’s Open Repositories conference takes place in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada between Monday, July 8 and Friday, July 12. Registration is now open at http://or2013.net - register early and reserve your accommodation as soon as you can! 

We invite you to contribute to the conference program. The deadline has been extended until Monday, March 4th!

Submitted by carol on Mon, 02/18/2013 - 11:27am

U.S Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Conference, Claremont, California, Jul 24-26

From the USETDA Board

Claremont, CA  Proposals for presentations, panel sessions and posters are invited for the upcoming U.S Electronic Thesis and Dissertation conference to be held in Claremont, California (near Disneyland resort, beaches & Hollywood) July 24-26, 2013. 

Conference registration is now open - for complete information visit http://www.usetda.org/?page_id=1730

Submitted by carol on Mon, 02/18/2013 - 11:06am
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