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Networking Opportunities
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) are offering some educational and networking opportunities next month.
Round Table Focuses on Future
Another educational opportunity is available through the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS). Fast Times for Information: Understanding the On-going Revolution will sharpen your knowledge of the issues and trends ahead, help you understand the details and nuances of major issues, and network with the emerging innovators in the content and publishing field.
Learning Opportunities in Publishing
There are two learning opportunities to share with you today. The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Books Committee will be hearing from guest speaker, Peter Kaufman, Associate Director of CCNMTL at Columbia University at its meeting on Friday, April 10th from 12:30-1:30 p.m. at the Association of American Publishers (AAP) New York office.
Scholarly Communication is Changing
The Future of Scholarly Communications in Economics can be discussed in Hamburg at the end of the month. The event is chaired by Mark McCabe, from Boston University and University of Michigan, and organized by Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal.
Meet-Up in the UK
Facet Publishing is bringing a very interesting learning and networking opportunity to knowledge professionals in the United Kingdom. "Findability and information management in the corporate workplace" This particular meetup will celebrate the launch of Facet Publishing's new "A Handbook for Corporate Information Professionals". This is an overview of the issues and opportunities for information professionals in rapidly-changing environments, and contains contributions from a wide range of sectors and specialisms.
Learning Opportunity in Publishing
With a title like, "Life in the Fast Lane: Driving Change or Changing Drivers?", who wouldn't be intrigued? This Washington D.C. seminar is brought to us as part of the 2015 Allen Press Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing™.
Publishing Alters Stance on Free Access
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) recently announced plans to allow free access to private sector articles reporting on federally funded research fall short of advancing sustainable public access. These plans require unnecessary government spending that wastes taxpayer money and will ultimately harm publishers’ ability to advance science and scholarship.
Semantics, Linked Data, and the Future of Academic Publishing
The rules for academic publishing really haven’t changed in centuries. Once, there was a large percentage of the populace who were skeptical of academic research when Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society started began its publication life in 1665. To make the system work against that pushback, the method had to be codified. As a result, access to research material was difficult to attain, to the extent that scientists as late as the 19th Century actively condoned criminal behavior just to have access to corpses for study and presentation.
Maintaining Standards
The Joint Steering Committee for Development of the Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard will be meeting next week in Washington, DC, where they will consider an extensive agenda of proposals for revising RDA. You can follow along with the proceedings and decisions here.