NASIG promotes communication, information, and continuing education about serials, electronic resources, and scholarly communication

Topic : Racing to the Crossroads

The program is online.

Topic: Reconstructing RDA in the LRM: aggregations, authorities, and appellations

The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) celebrates its 20th anniversary.

Topic : The changing face and future of publication ethics.

Programme to be anounced soon. Registration will close on 10 May 2017.

Theme:  Open Access: Action Required

3 sessions: Long-term preservation of OA Resources, Marketing of Open Access Resources, and Discovery and Access of OA Resources.

Deadline for proposal submission: 1st May, 2017.

Sponsored by: IFLA Section on Serials and Other Continuing Resources
Co-sponsored by: IFLA Section on Acquisition and Collection Development

A workshop on Identifiers and Linked Data and the new role for LIS stakeholders was organised by the National Library of France (BnF), Huma-Num and Persée. All the videos are online.

New technologies and business models will be examined, as well as the re-emerging role of collection development and librarianship in the continuing digital evolution of the scholarly ecosystem.

Theme: The Evolving Scholarly Environment

Major topic: Next generation repositories.

The programme is available.

The latest scientific results and technology innovations around semantic technologies.

Two special tracks:  Multilinguality and Semantics & Transparency

Registrations are still open.

Clément Oury, Head of Data, Network and Standards department at ISSN IC, will attend the next ICIDIS meeting and UKSG annual conference.

Panelists: Xin Bi (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University/DOAJ), Ina Smith (Academy of Science of South Africa), Abel Packer (SciELO), Lars Bjørnshauge (DOAJ).

On the same topic, access the December 2016 webinar and the blogpost reflecting on the discussion.