[Ipoa_forum_archiv] [IP-OA_Forum] [Fwd: International subject repositories conference in London - 28/29 January 2010]
Dear colleagues, with apologies for cross-posting, I would like to draw
your attention to the following conference to take place on 28 and 29
January 2010 at the British Library Conference Centre.
The conference is organised by Nereus, the European economics library
consortium of which I am chair ( http://www.nereus4economics.info) and
the aims of the event are twofold:
1. To disseminate the outcomes and lessons learned of Nereus's 2.5 year
EC-funded project, NEEO, which is building a single multi-lingual portal
called Economists Online to the economics content contained in the
institutional repositories of Nereus member libraries.
(http://www.neeoproject.eu)
The project funding finishes in March 2010 and at this time has well
over 20,000 full-text economics research articles and counting.
2. To discuss progress with subject repositories in Europe, the USA and
Australia. For this we have a clutch of international speakers.
Detailed information about the conference is as follows:
"A major international conference will be taking place at the British
Library Conference Centre in London on 28-29 January 2010:
Subject repositories: European collaboration in the international context
The conference, the first of its kind, will explore the development of
subject repositories worldwide and will see the launch of Economists
Online, the key output of an EC-funded subject repository project
managed by the Nereus consortium of top European economics libraries.
Nereus members will showcase this subject repository in both plenary and
parallel sessions, sharing lessons learned and engaging delegates in
discussions of the main issues such as content recruitment, search and
retrieval services, usage statistics and data sets. The two-day
programme will also put Economists Online into the wider context and
will allow delegates to hear about repository trends across three
continents.
Among the speakers are Chuck Henry, President of the Council on Library
and Information Resources, Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for
Networked Information, Cathrine Harboe-Ree, University Librarian at
Monash University, who led the ARROW project and is involved in leading
the ANDS project, and Christian Zimmerman, Economics professor at the
University of Connecticut. Professor Nick Barr of the London School of
Economics will launch the Economists Online portal.
The delegate fee is £155 and includes attendance at plenary and parallel
sessions, refreshments during breaks, two lunches and VAT. For further
information on how to book, speakers, travel information and hotels,
please visit http://www.neeoconference.eu
Please book soon to avoid disappointment!"
The conference will be of interest to library directors, repository
managers, publishers and economists. I would be very grateful if you
could take a look at the conference website and disseminate it within
your library and your institution as appropriate. I hope that some of
you may decide to attend yourselves.>
Many thanks in advance for helping Nereus to disseminate information
about the conference.
Best wishes
Jean
Jean Sykes
Chief Information Officer
London School of Economics and Political Science
10 Portugal Street
London WC2A 2HD
Tel 020 7955 7218
Fax 020 7955 7454
Email j.sykes@lse.ac.uk
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