The 23rd session of the World Intellectual Property Organisation's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rightsended on 2nd December 2011. WIPO Member States made significant progress towards achieving a global set of copyright limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives. This is welcomed by the: International Federation of Library Associations and ...
EIFL-FOSS has produced a Library FOSS Advocacy Resource. It is aimed at: Library directors, who need to be aware of all of the costs and benefits in order to make a decision on deploying a FOSS tool, or to advocate for that decision to be made by institutional managers; Librarians ...
Elpub 2012 will be focusing on the social shaping of digital publishing by exploring the interplay between culture and technology. Conference dates and location: June 14-15, 2012, University of Minho, Guimarães (European Capital of Culture 2012), Portugal. Scope of Elpub 2012 Since the advent of the Web the processes and forms of electronic ...
The SWORD v2 project has been asked by the JISC to look into the applicability of the SWORD protocol for depositing Research Data. The SWORD protocol has always been agnostic about the type of resource it is depositing, however its initial development stemmed from a requirement for the deposit of ...
The International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD), is a leading global community of practice for information specialists serving agriculture. IAALD’s mission IAALD was formed in 1955 in Ghent, Belgium and its mission is to enable its members to create, capture, access and disseminate information to achieve a more productive ...
