ICSTI, the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information, offers a unique forum for interaction between organizations that create, disseminate and use scientific and technical information. ICSTI's mission cuts across scientific and technical disciplines, as well as international borders, to give member organizations the benefit of a truly global community.

ICSTI will hold its Winter Meeting in Paris on 6-7 February 2010. This will include an update for members on the status of all ongoing multi-contributor technical projects and the issues being addressed by the Information Policy Committee. Members of the WorldWideScience Alliance will also meet to review latest developments and activities. ICSTI Members should go to the Members’ Area to see the Overall Schedule for the Business Meetings and the Agenda for the Executive Board Meeting to which all Members are invited.

As part of the Winter Meeting ICSTI will, on 8 February 2010, hold a Workshop titled Interactive Publications and the Record of Science. This event will be open to both members and non-members. It will be held at Universite Pierre et Marie Curie.

A novel heavy-atom ligand helpful in determining protein structures is visualised by the molecular graphics program Jmol. Interactive journal articles allow the reader to modify the style and observe the molecule from any perspective.

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ICSTI's 2010 Summer Conference will be held in Helsinki on 10-11 June. Hosted by VTT Technical Research Center of Finland in partnership with the Finnish Association of Information Specialists, the conference theme is From Information to Innovation. The Conference will be preceded on 8-9 June by ICSTI's General Assembly meetings. To view the conference main page click here.

ICSTI's 2011 Summer Conference will be held in Beijing, hosted by ISTIC, the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China.

On 14 December 2009 during the Eleventh International Conference on Grey Literature in Washington, ICSTI and GreyNet, the Grey Literature Network Service, signed a partnership agreement. For ICSTI this new relationship presents opportunities to broaden the scope of its activities both by information type and subject. For more information go to the Partnerships page.

In the last eighteen months ICSTI has welcomed 10 new members reflecting the diversity of our members by geography and organisation type. The latest and significant addition to our membership is OCLC who will be represented by their President and CEO, Jay Jordan.

ICSTI is very pleased to announce agreement with CENDI on a new partnership arrangement. The two organizations will make commitment to reciprocal membership benefits, and will explore joint initiatives and collaborative opportunities that serve the interests of our complementary constituencies.

ICSTI is now represented on ICSU's new Strategic Coordinating Committee on Information and Data (SCCID). ICSTI's President was confirmed by ICSU as a member of the Committee and endorsed by the General Assembly in Ottawa. The remit of the SCCID is available here.

The multi-contributor project on Numeric Data: Citation Techniques and Integration with Text is now complete and the final 36 page report is available here.

VTT Technical Research Center of Finland have just published the Reports: Acquisition, Utilisation, and the Impact of Patent and Market Information on Innovation Activities, and Data Mining Tools and Competitive Intelligence, and are making this available to members. To access go to ICSTI Reports.

ICSTI's 2009 Summer Conference was held in Ottawa on 9-10 June, followed by the General Assembly Meetings on 11-12 June. Hosted by CISTI, the Canadian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, this year's conference theme was 'Managing Data for Science'. For speaker presentations and videos of the conference click here. For a detailed report of the Ottawa Conference click on Reports.
Members should go to the Members Area for the General Assembly overall programme, agenda and minutes of meetings.

ICSTI's 2009 Winter meeting was held in Paris on 28 February - 2 March. The agenda, minutes and presentations made at the meeting will be found in the Members Area.

The first meeting between the Executive Boards of ICSTI and CODATA (the Committee on Data for Science and Technology) was held after the Winter Meeting in Paris on 2 March. Issues of common interest and concern were identified as well as opportunities for collaboration, from which emerged agreement for a jointly sponsored project and a collective resolve to act ever more closely with the scientific unions and World Data Centers. Minutes of this meeting will be found in the Members Area.

A Workshop on Primary Data in Libraries was held as part of the Winter Meeting on 2 March in Paris. At this event a partnership between leading libraries in Europe was announced to facilitate access to research data through the assignment of persistent identifiers and registration of datasets. Documents from the Workshop are accessible here: agenda - presentation - press release - photograph.