From jilloneill at nfais.org Mon Dec 2 11:05:32 2013 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (jilloneill at nfais.org) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 11:05:32 -0500 (EST) Subject: [nfais-l] Registration Closing Soon! Dec 5, NFAIS Webinar Message-ID: <1386000332.0917471@webmail.nfais.org> Registration Closing for the NFAIS Webinar: Faculty Survey: Discovery, Scholarly Communication, and the Print to Electronic Transition - a report from Ithaka S+R Registrations will close at 12:00pm EST on December 4, 2013 for the NFAIS webinar, Faculty Survey: Discovery, Scholarly Communication, and the Print to Electronic Transition - a report from Ithaka S+R. This 90 minute session (11:00am ? 12:30pm EST) scheduled for December 5th, will look at the results of a recent survey undertaken by Ithaka S+R to better understand how faculty attitudes and practices as they relate to information discovery, research, publishing, and teaching have altered over time. Our expert speaker will be Roger C. Schonfeld?, Program Director for Libraries, Users, and Scholarly Practices, Ithaka S+R?. Since 2000, the Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey has triennially surveyed U.S. faculty members in their roles as researchers, authors, and teachers. In addition to its ability to track change among faculty members for such a long period of time, the survey also allows for analysis at the disciplinary level in many arts and sciences fields, as well as selected professions. Drawing from this dataset, and focusing especially on the most recent findings from fall 2012, this webinar will focus on three key areas of interest to libraries and content providers alike: ? The discovery of scholarly information, ? The audiences that faculty members wish to reach and the mechanisms they value to help them to do, and ? The print to electronic transition for journals and scholarly monographs. In addition, some selected comparisons will be presented from a parallel survey of UK academics, which was fielded in partnership with JISC and Research Libraries UK (RLUK) in 2012. If you or your staff want to get to get up to speed on current faculty member research processes, teaching practices, publishing and scholarly dissemination, and their perceived role of the library register for the NFAIS webinar today. NFAIS members pay $125, Sister Society members (CENDI, ISCTI, AAUP, NISO, ASIS&T, SSP, AAP/PSP, and LYRASIS) pay $150, and non-members pay $195. Three or more staff from NFAIS member organizations can participate for a group fee of $295. The group fee for three or more staff members from any Sister Society is $350, and from a non-member organization is $450. The registration form can be accessed at: [http://nfais.org/event?eventID=536] http://nfais.org/event?eventID=536. 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/] http://www.nfais.org/. NFAIS: Serving the Global Information Community -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jilloneill at nfais.org Tue Dec 10 14:06:03 2013 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (jilloneill at nfais.org) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:06:03 -0500 (EST) Subject: [nfais-l] Early Bird Discounts - NFAIS 2014 Annual Conference Message-ID: <1386702363.871126522@webmail.nfais.org> EARLY BIRD DISCOUNTS NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE 2014 NFAIS ANNUAL CONFERENCE The 2014 NFAIS Annual Conference, Giving Voice to Content: Re-envisioning the Business of Information, will take place February 23 - 25, 2014 at the historic [http://philadelphia.bellevue.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp] Hyatt at the Bellevue in Philadelphia, PA. Early bird registrations are available until January 10, 2014. Until then savings of up to $200 off the full registration fee are available and NFAIS members registering three or more staff at the same time receive even greater savings (for details, see [http://nfais.org/event?eventID=530] http://nfais.org/event?eventID=530). Continuing this year: ? 50% discounts for staff of member organizations that are in the early stages of their career (5 years or less). Call for details. ? 38% discount on daily rates for all government employees ? 20% discount on full/daily rates for first time non-member attendees ? Use of audience-response devices throughout the conference to capture audience opinions ? all registrants will have access to the results This three-day meeting will take a look a new information mindset that is emerging. The ability to unearth or create new layers of knowledge using big data techniques such as data mining, linking, analytics, and metrics is challenging content providers and librarians to look at their information from a new perspective, considering its value in terms of all the possible ways it can be deployed in the future, not merely how it is used in the present. This new mindset provides an opportunity to ensure their relevance in a highly-competitive digital information world by re-envisioning their content and developing the policies, practices, and business models that will facilitate - not inhibit ? its use. Highlights Include: (program details can be accessed at: [http://nfais.org/event?eventID=537] http://nfais.org/event?eventID=537) ? A thought-provoking keynote by Hilary Mason, Data Scientist in Residence at Accel and Scientist Emeritus at bitly, on the application of big data techniques to extract new insights or create new forms of value that can potentially change information markets and the organizations that serve them. ? A look at ?datafication,? the generation of data and visualization from social and environmental processes, data that can then be quantified and measured to create new understanding or the world around us. ? John Blossom?s view of the Signal Economy, a global shift in how value is created in all markets across manufacturing, media, marketing and services. A look at how innovative publishers such as The New York Times, OCLC, and Elsevier are applying data mining, linking, analytics, and metrics to create smart content. New technologies for collecting, enhancing, and managing information, including crowd-sourcing and the use of mobile devices for data collection. ? A discussion of the issues that content providers and librarians must address as the new information mindset takes hold, issues such as the re-use and sharing of content, privacy, content ownership, attribution, and others which if they are to be resolved require moving beyond the comfort zone of current practices, policies, biases, and business mindsets. ? A closing keynote by Kerrie Holley, IBM Fellow and Chief Technology Officer, IBM SOA Center of Excellence, on the impact of ?SMAC? - social, mobile, analytics, and cloud - that will combine with cognitive systems to have a major impact on 21st-century business, government, and society in general. To register or obtain more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director of Communication and Planning ([mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org] jilloneill at nfais.org or 215-893-1561) or visit the NFAIS Web site at: [http://nfais.org/] http://nfais.org/. 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 jilloneill at nfais.org Mon Dec 16 10:47:23 2013 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (jilloneill at nfais.org) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 10:47:23 -0500 (EST) Subject: [nfais-l] NISO Altmetrics Project, January 23, 2014 Message-ID: <1387208843.103527107@webmail.nfais.org> NISO Altmetrics Project - In-person Meeting: January 23, 2014 in Philadelphia, PA In June 2013, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded NISO a grant to undertake a two-phase initiative to explore, identify, and advance standards and/or best practices related to a new suite of potential metrics in the community. This initiative was a direct outgrowth of a breakout discussion group during the [http://altmetrics.org/altmetrics12/] altmetrics 12 meeting in Chicago, IL. This project is an important step in the development and adoption of new assessment metrics, which include usage-based metrics, social media references, and network behavioral analysis. In addition, this project will explore potential assessment criteria for non-traditional research outputs, such as data sets, visualizations, software, and other applications. After the first phase, which will expose areas for potential standardization, the community will collectively prioritize those potential projects. The second phase will be to advance and develop those standards/best practices prioritized by the community and approved by the membership. [http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/altmetrics_initiative/] 3rd In-person Meeting: Thursday, January 23 The first two meetings - San Francisco on October 9 and Washington DC on December 11 - were extremely constructive and engaging, and we hope to continue the positive momentum for the third meeting on this initiative. The third in-person meeting in support of this work will take place on Thursday, January 23, 2014 from 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (ET) at [http://www.thehub.com/] The Hub Conference Center in Philadelphia, PA, conveniently scheduled before the [http://alamw14.ala.org/] 2014 ALA Mid-Winter Conference. This meeting is made possible by the generous support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the objectives of this one-day meeting will include a short opening keynote on the topic of assessment, lightning talks on related projects, brainstorming for identification of topics for discussion, and prioritizing proposed work items. **The meeting is FREE for all attendees. Please [http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HJNX95Z] RSVP here, which will assist in planning and logistics.** For those wishing to attend, limited funding is available for employees of academic and non-profit organizations for travel and hotel accommodations on a first come, first-serve basis. Please contact Juliana Wood, Educational Programs Manager via email or call the NISO office at 301.654.2512 to determine funding eligibility and to get details about NISO reimbursement policies. For planning purposes, registration for this event will close on Friday, January 17, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. (ET). FREE LIVESTREAM AVAILABLE: For those interested in this work, but unable to attend in-person, NISO will be live streaming this event. Credentials for login will be provided closer to the event date; please make sure to designate your attendance as "virtual" in the [http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HJNX95Z] RSVP form so that we may be sure to communicate that information to you. We look forward to this initiative and helping to advance the application and use of alternative assessment metrics. If you have any specific questions about the program, please feel free to contact the NISO office. # # # -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This was followed by ORCID (originally the ?Open Researcher Contributor Identification Initiative?) which on October 16th of that same year began issuing persistent, unique user identifiers that marked the launch of a registry for author identification in science and related academic publishing. On January 14, 2014, NFAIS will hold a 90-minute webinar (11:00am - 12:30pm EST) that will provide an overview of ISNI (an overview of ORCID was given in October 2013). Our featured speaker will be Laura Dawson, Product Manager, Identifiers at Bowker, an affiliated business of ProQuest, who will discuss the following: ? The mission and objectives of ISNI ? The differences between ISNI and ORCID and their interoperability ? The ISNI business model ? What ISNI does and who should use it ? Its benefits to the research and publishing communities ? Current acceptance - who is actually getting and using ISNIs ? The current size of the ISNI database ? ISNI Links and linked data applications ? Issues related to identity presentation and cross-domain linking ? Process of assigning ISNIs and the quality control efforts ? The relationship with the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) ? Future directions If you or your staff want to learn more about this initiative and how it can benefit your organization, register for the NFAIS webinar today. NFAIS members pay $125, Sister Society members pay $150 and non-members pay $195. Three or more staff from NFAIS member organizations can participate for a group fee of $295. The group fee for three or more staff from any Sister Society is $350, and from a non-member organization is $450. The registration form can be accessed at: [http://nfais.org/event?eventID=540] http://nfais.org/event?eventID=540 You can still register to view the archived recording of the overview of ORCID given by Laurel L. Haak, ORCID Executive Director, on October 23, 2013. That separate registration form may be accessed at: [http://nfais.org/event?eventID=529] http://nfais.org/event?eventID=529 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] mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to [http://www.nfais.org/] http://www.nfais.org/. NFAIS: Serving the Global Information Community -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: