[nfais-l] NFAIS webinar on Enabling Collaborative Research

[Bonnie Lawlor]

REMINDER:  NFAIS Webinar this coming Friday on  Enabling Collaborative
Research:  Emerging New Platforms and Business Models for Information
Discovery, Acquisition and Use

Global collaborative research is now the norm - within single organizations
having multiple sites around the world and across diverse organizations
working together on international projects. Key to the success of
collaborative initiatives is the ability of researchers to cost-effectively
(and legally) access, use, and potentially share published works. And at
least two new platforms supported by innovative business models have
recently been developed to meet this specific need.

 

On January 18, 2013 NFAIS will hold a 90-minute webinar that will take a
look at Labtiva's ReadCube, a free, cross-platform software application that
is being used by Nature Publishing to provide ease of access to a subset of
their journals by researchers and the general public, and PubGet, the first
search site to combine search, subscription authentication, rights
management and article level access in one application. 

 

Our featured speakers will be:

 

Ryan Jones, President, PubGet, and 

Phill Jones, Vice President for Business Development, Labtiva, Inc.

 

Some of the key discussion points will be:

 

.         Emerging collaborative research platforms - what they are and why
they are needed

.         Their use and applications across research disciplines

.         Their purpose - a transitional technology to facilitate navigation
from an analog world to a digital one or a technology with long-term
potential

.         Requirements of both the Academic Research and
Corporate/Enterprise Environments in support of collaboration and the
workflow process

.         Issues related to the sharing of published literature

.         Licensing and cost concerns

.         "Satisficing
<http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/satisficing.asp#axzz2Gr44lGRp> " -why
this should not be a viable option at the professional research level

.         The technologies being  "wired together" to deliver these services

.         The benefits of these two specific services and their ties to
either internal corporate knowledge bases or to open resources such as
Google Scholar and PubMed.



 

If you or your staff want to learn more about the new software platforms and
business models that are emerging to meet the evolving information needs of
today's researchers, register for the NFAIS webinar today.  NFAIS members
pay $105, Sister Society members pay $115, and non-members pay $125.  An
unlimited number of staff from NFAIS member organizations can participate
for a group fee of $255. The group fee for an unlimited number of staff from
any Sister Society is $275, and from a non-member organization is $295. The
registration form can be accessed at:
http://nfais.org/page/385-enabling-research-collaboration-jan-18

 

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

 

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