From blawlor at nfais.org Thu Feb 2 09:17:07 2012 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 09:17:07 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] NFAIS Releases Draft Discovery Code of Practice for Review Message-ID: <00fb01cce1b5$588c1f50$09a45df0$@org> NFAIS RELEASES DRAFT DISCOVERY SERVICE CODE OF PRACTICE FOR REVIEW AND COMMENT (February 2, 2012) The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS T) has posted a draft Discovery Service Code of Practice for review and comment by March 16, 2012. NFAIS believes that discovery services have the potential to provide ease of information discovery, access, and use, benefitting not only its member organizations, but also the global community of information seekers. However, the relative newness of these services has generated questions and concerns among information providers and librarians as to how these services meet expectations with regard to issues related to traditional search and retrieval services; e.g. usage reports, ranking algorithms, content coverage, updates, product identification, etc. Accordingly, this document has been developed to assist those who choose to use this new distribution channel through the provision of guidelines that will help avoid the disruption of the delicate balance of interests involved. NFAIS is inviting all members of the information community to review the draft and submit questions and comments for consideration by the Code Development Task Force. Background information and the draft Code can be accessed at: http://info.nfais.org/info/codedraftintroduction.pdf. We want to hear from you. Are there other issues to be considered? Who do they impact? What solutions should be considered? All comments are welcome and can be submitted online at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RV257LM. Alternatively a marked up document or written comments can be submitted to Bonnie Lawlor, NFAIS Executive Director, via the contact numbers listed below. About NFAIS Founded in 1958, NFAIS is a membership organization of more than 60 of the world's leading producers of databases and related information services, information technology, and library services in the sciences, engineering, social sciences, business, and the arts and humanities. For more information on NFAIS and its member organizations, contact Jill O'Neill, Director of Communication and Planning (jilloneill at nfais.org or (215)-893-1561) or visit the NFAIS web site (www.nfais.org). For more information on this Code of Practice, contact Bonnie Lawlor, NFAIS Executive Director, 1518 Walnut Street, Suite 1004, Philadelphia, PA 19102, 215-893-1561 Phone, 215-893-1564 Fax, blawlor at nfais.org. NFAIS: Serving the Global Information Community -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Thu Feb 2 12:41:06 2012 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 12:41:06 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] NFAIS conference hotel discount ending Message-ID: <041a01cce1d1$d7abd980$87038c80$@org> NFAIS ANNUAL CONFERENCE HOTEL DISCOUNT ENDS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6TH If you have registered for the NFAIS 2012 Annual Conference, but have not yet secured your hotel reservations, please be aware that the hotel discount at the Hyatt at the Bellevue ends on Tuesday, February 6, 2012. If you still need to make reservations, call 1-888-421-1442 and mention the NFAIS conference in order to receive the discount (single occupancy: $180, Double occupancy: $180; triple occupancye: $205; and quadruple ocupancy: $230 - note that the full rates start at $279). If you have not yet registered for the conference, Born of Disruption: An Emerging New Normal for the Information Landscape, you can access the final program and registration form at: http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/335-2012-nfais-annual-conference. Just a few of the organizations that will be discussing the new landscape are: Amazon (cloud computing), American Chemical Society (new normal in publishing), Annual Reviews (mobile delivery of content), British Library/JISC (the researcher of the future), California Digital Library (data sets), Columbia University (new normal for libraries), Elsevier (workflow solutions), Gale Cengage (ebooks), Gartner, Inc. (emerging new technologies), Hearst Corp. (semantic web), Mendeley (mashups and API's), Microsoft (digital libraries), Modern Language Association (new normal in the Humanities), Nature Publishing (Miles Conrad Lecture), NIST (Big Data), Pew' Intermet & American Life Project (tnew normal based upon recent survey resuts), Public Library of Science (new value metrics), Royal Society of Chemistry (crowd sourcing), Thomson Reuters IP & Science (global competition),Unlimited Priorities LLC (cloud computing case study), Wolfram Alpha (computational knowledge) >From an opening keynote by John Wilbanks on the emerging information landscape all the way through to the closing interactive keynote by Joe Esposito on identifying the future based upon what is currently around us, the conference will provide an interesting look at how our information world has and will continue to evolve. The special members-only event this year will feature Anthea Stratigos, Co-founder and CEo of Outsell, addressing success in the current economic environment (prior registration required). To register or obtain more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director of Communication and Planning (jilloneill at nfais.org or 215-893-1561) or visit the NFAIS Web site at http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/335-2012-nfais-annual-conference. The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), 1518 Walnut Street, Suite 1004, Philadelphia, PA 19102-3403. NFAIS: Serving the Global Information Community -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Mon Feb 6 12:54:24 2012 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:54:24 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] NFAIS webinar - Doing Busibess in Russia Message-ID: <02cf01cce4f8$5cc3a610$164af230$@org> NFAIS Webinar: Doing Business in Russia: An Information Industry Overview On Thursday, February 16, 2012, NFAIS will hold webinar from 11:00am - 12:30pm EST on doing business in Russia - the third in a series of professional development webinars on doing business on the BRIC countries. Why are these countries important? The world economy may be growing, but it is the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) -- not the U.S. and Europe -- that are leading the way. Indeed, by 2020, all of the BRIC should be in the top 10 largest economies of the world! And although China and India traditionally lead the group, Russia's economy has been buoyed by higher commodity prices in recent months. Publishers and database producers cannot afford to ignore the market opportunities that it offers. The presentation will provide insights on the following with regard to the information industry in Russia: . Market size . Fastest growing segments . Government policies . Leadership . Publishing companies . Number of Universities . Number of degrees granted . University spending . Challenges and opportunities in doing business in Russia . Opportunities for publishers . Current trends The webinar will be hosted by Philip de Leon, President of Trade Connections International, LLC. Philip has had a distinguished career in international business development, promoting international trade, investment, and partnerships. His unique leadership and inter-personal skills helped open new markets across the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union. Philip is a Law School graduate from the Sorbonne University in Paris, France and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He also holds a graduate degree in Russian language & studies from the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris, and has published numerous articles on doing business in Eurasia. If you or your staff want to learn more about publishing developments and doing business in Russia, register for the NFAIS webinar today. NFAIS members pay $95, Sister Society members pay $105, and non-members pay $115. An unlimited number of staff from an NFAIS member organization can participate for a group fee of $245. The group fee for an unlimited number of staff from any Sister Society is $265, and for staff of non-member organizations is $285. The registration form is available at: http://info.nfais.org/info/RussiaFeb2012.pdf. All registrants of this webinar will be given a 20% discount on registrations to review the recently-held webinars on doing business in China http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/324-china-april-7-2011-webinar and doing business in Brazil http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/332-doing-business-in-brazil-june-1-2011. For more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org. NFAIS: Serving the Global Information Community -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Mon Feb 13 08:30:10 2012 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:30:10 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] NFAIS Webinar - doing business in Brazil Message-ID: <00de01ccea53$9c3bc650$d4b352f0$@org> NFAIS Webinar: Doing Business in Russia: An Information Industry Overview On Thursday, February 16, 2012, NFAIS will hold webinar from 11:00am - 12:30pm EST on doing business in Russia - the third in a series of professional development webinars on doing business on the BRIC countries. Why are these countries important? The world economy may be growing, but it is the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) -- not the U.S. and Europe -- that are leading the way. Indeed, by 2020, all of the BRIC should be in the top 10 largest economies of the world! And although China and India traditionally lead the group, Russia's economy has been buoyed by higher commodity prices in recent months. Publishers and database producers cannot afford to ignore the market opportunities that it offers. The presentation will provide insights on the following with regard to the information industry in Russia: . Market size . Fastest growing segments . Government policies . Leadership . Publishing companies . Number of Universities . Number of degrees granted . University spending . Challenges and opportunities in doing business in Russia . Opportunities for publishers . Current trends The webinar will be hosted by Philip de Leon, President of Trade Connections International, LLC. Philip has had a distinguished career in international business development, promoting international trade, investment, and partnerships. His unique leadership and inter-personal skills helped open new markets across the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union. Philip is a Law School graduate from the Sorbonne University in Paris, France and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He also holds a graduate degree in Russian language & studies from the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris, and has published numerous articles on doing business in Eurasia. If you or your staff want to learn more about publishing developments and doing business in Russia, register for the NFAIS webinar today. NFAIS members pay $95, Sister Society members pay $105, and non-members pay $115. An unlimited number of staff from an NFAIS member organization can participate for a group fee of $245. The group fee for an unlimited number of staff from any Sister Society is $265, and for staff of non-member organizations is $285. The registration form is available at: http://info.nfais.org/info/RussiaFeb2012.pdf. All registrants of this webinar will be given a 20% discount on registrations to review the recently-held webinars on doing business in China http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/324-china-april-7-2011-webinar and doing business in Brazil http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/332-doing-business-in-brazil-june-1-2011. For more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org. NFAIS: Serving the Global Information Community -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Tue Feb 14 10:49:11 2012 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:49:11 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] Registrations closing for NFAIS Webinar Message-ID: <01c101cceb30$324b1240$96e136c0$@org> Registrations Close at 3:00pm EST Tomorrow for the NFAIS Webinar: Doing Business in Russia: An Information Industry Overview Registrations will close at 3:00pm EST on Wednesday, February 15th for the NFAIS webinar on doing business in Russia - the third in a series of professional development webinars on doing business on the BRIC countries. This session, scheduled for Thursday, February 16, 2012, from 11:00am - 12:30pm EST will provide insights on the following with regard to the information industry in Russia: . Market size . Fastest growing segments . Government policies . Leadership . Publishing companies . Number of Universities . Number of degrees granted . University spending . Challenges and opportunities in doing business in Russia . Opportunities for publishers . Current trends The webinar will be hosted by Philip de Leon, President of Trade Connections International, LLC. Philip has had a distinguished career in international business development, promoting international trade, investment, and partnerships. His unique leadership and inter-personal skills helped open new markets across the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union. Philip is a Law School graduate from the Sorbonne University in Paris, France and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He also holds a graduate degree in Russian language & studies from the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris, and has published numerous articles on doing business in Eurasia. If you or your staff want to learn more about publishing developments and doing business in Russia, register for the NFAIS webinar today. NFAIS members pay $95, Sister Society members pay $105, and non-members pay $115. An unlimited number of staff from an NFAIS member organization can participate for a group fee of $245. The group fee for an unlimited number of staff from any Sister Society is $265, and for staff of non-member organizations is $285. The registration form is available at: http://info.nfais.org/info/RussiaFeb2012.pdf. All registrants of this webinar will be given a 20% discount on registrations to review the recently-held webinars on doing business in China http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/324-china-april-7-2011-webinar and doing business in Brazil http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/332-doing-business-in-brazil-june-1-2011. For more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org. NFAIS: Serving the Global Information Community -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Tue Feb 21 09:05:11 2012 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:05:11 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] NFAIS conference registrations still available Message-ID: <015501ccf0a1$d3b97790$7b2c66b0$@org> NFAIS 2012 ANNUAL CONFERENCE: REGISTRATIONS STILL AVAILABLE There is still time to register for the 2012 NFAIS Annual Conference, Born of Disruption: An Emerging New Normal for the Information Landscape. The meeting is schedulded to take place from February 26-28, 2012 at the historic Hyatt at the Bellevue in Philadelphia, PA. The final program and registration form can be accesses at: http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/335-2012-nfais-annual-conference. Just a few of the organizations that will be discussing the new landscape are: Amazon (cloud computing), American Chemical Society (new normal in publishing), Annual Reviews (mobile delivery of content), British Library/JISC (the researcher of the future), California Digital Library (data sets), Columbia University (new normal for libraries), Elsevier (workflow solutions), Gale Cengage (ebooks), Gartner, Inc. (emerging new technologies), Hearst Corp. (semantic web), Mendeley (maships and API's), Microsoft (digital libraries), Modern Language Association (new normal in the Humanities), Nature Publishing (Miles Conrad Lecture), NIST (Big Data), Pew' Intermet & American Life Project (tnew normal based upon recent survey resuts), Public Library of Science (new value metrics), Royal Society of Chemistry (crowd sourcing), Thomson Reuters IP & Science (global competition),Unlimited Priorities LLC (cloud computin case study), Wolfram Alpha (computational knowledge) >From an opening keynote by John Wilbanks on the emerging information landscape all the way through to the closing interactive keynote by Joe Esposito on identifying the future based upon what is currently around us, the conference will provide an interesting look at how our information world has and will continue to evolve. The special members-only event this year will feature Anthea Stratigos, Co-founder and CEo of Outsell, addressing success in the currebnt economic environment (prior registration required). To register or obtain more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director of Communication and Planning ( jilloneill at nfais.org or 215-893-1561) or visit the NFAIS Web site at http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/335-2012-nfais-annual-conference. The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), 1518 Walnut Street, Suite 1004, Philadelphia, PA 19102-3403. NFAIS: Serving the Global Information Community -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Fri Feb 24 15:39:56 2012 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:39:56 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] NFAIS workshop on Mobile devices: Discounted registrations now available Message-ID: <052101ccf334$78056450$68102cf0$@org> NFAIS Workshop on Mobile Devices and the Delivery of Information: An Update. Discounts Extended to March 9th The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) will hold a one-day workshop, Mobile Devices and the Delivery of Information: An Update, on March 16, 2012 in Philadelphia, PA from 9:00am - 4:00pm EST. Virtual attendance is optional for those unable to travel to Philadelphia and discounted registrations are available through March 9th. We all know that the use of wireless mobile devices for communication and accessing information is now the norm. Cell phones, smart phones, netbooks and e-book readers have become essential conduits to information that content providers and librarians must offer through those channels. But what devices are most popular? What types of content are being offered through these channels? How are academic libraries supporting these devices? Are scholarly and scientific publishers "rethinking" their content for these devices in order to maximize information usage and value? Are e-books simply moved "as is" to digital format or are there new and innovative ways in which book content can be searched and displayed? The workshop will answer these questions and more. Highlights include: . An overview of the current landscape of hand-held devices and content delivery by Brian O'Leary, Founder and Principal, Magellan Media . Recent survey results on the acceptance of hand-held devices from Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet Live Project . Hints from Bob Stein, Founder and Co-Director, The Future of the Book, on how to maximize the value and use of content that is delivered to hand-held devices . Case studies from academic librarians and scholarly publishers on their experiences in responding to user demand for mobile access to content . A new approach to the discovery of content within the "covers" of digital books The program, registration forms, directions to the meeting location, list of nearby hotels, and general information on Philadelphia are available at:http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/365-mobile-devices-and-delivery-of-inform ation-mar-2012 On site Attendance: on or before March 9, 2012, NFAIS members pay $385, members of Sister-societies pay $405, and non-members pay $435 (registration fee includes continental breakfast, lunch, and all-day beverages). After March 9th, NFAIS members pay $435, members of Sister-societies pay $455, and non-members pay $485. Virtual Attendance: on or before March 9, 2012, NFAIS members pay $335, members of Sister- societies pay $355, and non-members pay $385. After March 9th, NFAIS members pay $385, members of Sister-societies pay $405, and non-members pay $435. Unlimited Virtual Attendance: Groups of 3 or more can attend at the following reduced rates: NFAIS members, $995, Sister-society members $1,195, and non-members $1,395. For more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org/. NFAIS: Supporting the Global Information Community -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Wed Feb 29 14:04:43 2012 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:04:43 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] NFAIS Member Organization selected by Natur Publishing Group for Tagging Message-ID: <025501ccf714$ff1d7930$fd586b90$@org> Sent on behalf of NFAIS member organization, Molecular Connections **************************************************************************** ******************** Nature Publishing Group Contracts Molecular Connections with Semantic Tagging of Archives Nature Publishing Group (NPG) - publisher of high impact scientific and medical information in print and online has chosen Molecular Connections(P)Ltd, (http://www.molecularconnections.com/publishing) a Bangalore based company, to carry out ontology enhancements for its key subject terms and semantic tagging for its back files(Archives). Semantic tagging is increasingly being used by several publishers to accurately annotate their content and also to enable more intuitive searches over their literature databases. Molecular Connections has capability to carry out semantic tagging using automatic, manual and semi-automatic (hybrid) approaches. Ontologies provide the framework in semantic tagging to enable better classification of data, discovery based searches and semantic searches. Molecular connections has an experienced team, which carries out customization of ontology based on needs of the publishers and enhances existing ontology frameworks. The team is uniquely qualified to maintain & develop ontologies in various biomedical, chemistry and business analytics areas. About Nature Publishing Group (NPG) Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is a publisher of high impact scientific and medical information in print and online. NPG publishes journals, online databases and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine. Focusing on the needs of scientists, Nature (founded in 1869) is the leading weekly, international scientific journal. In addition, for this audience, NPG publishes a range of Nature research journals and Nature Reviews journals, plus a range of prestigious academic journals including society-owned publications. Online, nature.com provides over 6 million visitors per month with access to NPG publications and online databases and services, including news and comment from Nature, Naturejobs plus access to Nature Network and Nature Education's Scitable.com. Scientific American is at the heart of NPG's consumer media division, meeting the needs of the general public. Founded in 1845, Scientific American is the oldest continuously published magazine in the US and the leading authoritative publication for science in the general media. Together with scientificamerican.com and 14 local language editions around the world it reaches over 5 million consumers and scientists. Other titles include Scientific American Mind and Spektrum der Wissenschaft in Germany. Throughout all its businesses NPG is dedicated to serving the scientific and medical communities and the wider scientifically interested general public. Part of Macmillan Publishers Limited, NPG is a global company with principal offices in London, New York and Tokyo, and offices in cities worldwide including Boston, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Delhi, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Madrid, Barcelona, Munich, Heidelberg, Basingstoke, Melbourne, Paris, San Francisco, Seoul and Washington DC. For more information, please go to www.nature.com. About Molecular Connections: Molecular Connections Private Limited is a pioneering In silico discovery services company with proven expertise in Informatics, Ontologies development, semantic enrichment, deep indexing and content analytics. It's scientific team comprises experts from life sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics and software development. Molecular Connections now offers end-to-end services to publishers and content providers. These solutions aim at enhancing the value of existing content of the Publisher or Content Provider and enable them to act as a knowledge discovery platform. For more information, please go to http://www.molecularconnections.com/publishing/ Excellence Award| Deloitte Technology Fast 50 India Winners |Deloitte Technology Fast 500 APEC Winners |CNBC - ICICI Emerging India Awards, 'Small Enterprise of the Year' -------------------------- Molecular Connections Pvt. Ltd. [Largest STM Indexing & Abstraction Company, India] Bangalore - 560 004, INDIA Tel : 91 80 417 222 17 Email : krishna at molecularconnections.com Skype: Krishna.mc Linkedin: http://in.linkedin.com/in/krishna13 URL: www.molecularconnections.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: