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's 2011 Winter Meeting will be held on 6-7 February 2011 and will be followed on 8 February by a Workshop, the theme for which will be 'Multimedia and Visualisation Innovations for Science'. The Workshop will be open to both members and non-members, and both events will be hosted by Microsoft, an ICSTI member, on their Redmond campus, Washington.

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

19 March 2010
The second meeting of the Strategic Coordinating Committee on Information and Data, a new committee formed by ICSU, the International Council for Science, will be held on 23/24 March 2010. As a member of this committee, ICSTI will report on the workplans that it is leading and supporting, which include: How can ICSTI and INASP interact with the data centres; Managing published data; Routes to data, information and publications; Standards and interoperability as part of data policy.

19 March 2010
At its Winter Meeting in Paris in February ICSTI’s Information Policy Committee (IPC) determined that its forward program would focus on the following priorities: New Science, New Scientist and Science Workflows; Information Worth and Sources of Funding as Drivers for National and International Science Priorities; Super Search and Discovery Layers in the Deep Web; Visualisation of Research Outcomes; and Law Ethics and Science. IPC will be working with members, and will invite participation of non-members, to carry forward these initiatives.

19 March 2010
ICSTI’s representative to CODATA, Jan Brase of the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) will Co-Chair a proposed new Task Group on Data Citation Standards and Practices. Jan is the lead figure for DataCite, which is an international 12 member consortium facilitating easier access to research data, which developed from an ICSTI Workshop in February 2009.

19 March 2010
ICSTI’s Technical Activitiies Coordinating Committee (TACC) has announced the next two additions to its ongoing Projects Program. They are: ‘STI Adaptations to Mobile Web Devices’, and ‘STI Metrics Tools and Techniques’. As soon as the scope of these projects is finalized invitations will be extended to potential contributors.

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.

ICSTI's 2010 Summer Conference was held in Helsinki on 10-11 June preceded by the General Assembly on 8-9 June. Hosted by VTT, the Technical Research Center of Finland in partnership with the Finnish Association of Information Specialists, this year's conference theme was 'From Information to Innovation'. VTT have made the speaker presentation powerpoints available as a printed publication but you can also access them by clicking here.

Members should go to the Members’ Area for the General Assembly overall programme, agenda and minutes of meetings.

ICSTI's 2010 Winter Meeting was held in Paris on 6-7 February. The agenda, minutes and presentations made at this meeting may be found in the Members Area.

A Public workshop on Interactive Publications and the Record of Science was held at the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris on 8 February as an extension of ICSTI's 2010 Winter Meeting. It was open to members and non-members. Click here for the full programme, presentations and video of this event.

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.

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.