[nfais-l] Collaborating to Improve Discovery - March 12

[jilloneill at nfais.org]

Registration Closing Tomorrow for the NFAIS Webinar: 
Collaborating to Improve Discoverability:  Accomplishments, Challenges and Opportunities.
 
Registration closes at 3pm on Tuesday, March 11, for this week's NFAIS webinar that will highlight the results of a recent study by SAGE on how to improve the discoverability of scholarly information.  The 90-minute webinar will be held on Wednesday, March 12th and the featured speakers will be:


Mary M. Somerville, University Librarian and Library Director, University of Colorado Denver and
Lettie Y. Conrad, Executive Manager, Online Products, SAGE


They will discuss the collaborative efforts that are needed to better support discoverability of content in service to researchers, students, and faculty and will elaborate on the four areas that industry experts believe demand cross-sector participation and focus, such as:


•    Standards
•    Transparency
•    Metadata
•    Partnerships


In each instance, Somerville and Conrad will offer actionable recommendations for next steps.
 
Why attend?? In an era of information overload how can publishers and authors be confident that the content they create and distribute is easily discoverable?  How can researchers be assured that they have discovered the most important information on a specific topic?  For if it is not found, it is not used nor is it cited. This dilemma impacts all members of the information community!


If you or your staff want to learn more about how your organization can improve the discoverability of its content, 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 may be accessed at: [http://nfais.org/event?eventID=541] http://nfais.org/event?eventID=541 


*LYRASIS, CENDI, ICSTI, Society for Scholarly Publishing, Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division (AAP), Association of American University Presses, NISO, and ASIS&T


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/.


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