From the monthly archives: May 2011

DUBLIN, Ohio, May 20, 2011—Embrapa, Brazil’s Agricultural Research Corporation, has added more than 470,000 bibliographic records to the OCLC WorldCat database, the world’s largest online resource for finding information in libraries.

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The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (www.alpsp.org) is seeking a new Chief Executive to succeed Ian Russell who will be leaving ALPSP at the end of June. 

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New York City – May 20, 2011 – IGI Global, an international publishing company specializing in applied research publications on all aspects of information technology management, is proud to announce that it will support the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011) as a Silver level sponsor.

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BioMed Central and Open Repository: A Comprehensive Approach to OA

As a delegate of the 2011 ALA conference in New Orleans June 23-28, BioMed Central and Open Repository are pleased to invite you to an institutional repository workshop that we are holding during the conference. The workshop will discuss the increasingly important topic of institutional [...]

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Munich / Heidelberg, 19 May 2011, This year’s Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics will be awarded to Professor Orazio Svelto for his pioneering, long-lasting and innovative work in the fields of lasers and optics.

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ATG Book of the Week of May 22:

Expanding the American Mind: Books and the Popularization of Knowledge

By Beth Luey. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. 9781558498167 (cloth). 218 pages.

This book compares fiction and nonfiction and their relative respectability in the eyes of experts and in the opinions of the readers [...]

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