29 Jul 2014 - The TACC and ITOC Chairs have released the provisional programme for both workshops to be held as part of the ICSTI 2014 General Assembly on Sunday October 19th. Workshop description
13 Jun 2014 - Immediately preceding the Annual Conference, the 2014 General Assembly will take place on October 18-19 and will be a new opportunity for the ICSTI Technical Activities Coordinating Committee (TACC) and Information Trends and Opportunities Committee (ITOC) to organise two workshops for Members. The TACC workshop will be titled "Enhancing Discoverability and Accessibility of Scientific and Technical Research Information and Data" and the ITOC session will focus on “Usability of Digital Data in Science : From Curated Digital Images to Managing Big Data”. More details to come as both programmes are completed.
8 Jun 2014 - We are pleased to announce that the delegate registration to ICSTI 2014 General Assembly and Annual Conference is now open. Click on the banner for conference theme, draft speaker list, and other practical information and join us for an exciting event in Tokyo, October 18-21 !
20 Apr 2014 - ICSTI welcomes ICSU-WDS as an Associate Member. We are very pleased that our respective organizations have formally forged stronger links as the basis for active and productive collaboration in the future.
- 2014-07-30 :
IFLA launches the 2014 eLending Background Paper - (IFLA) - 2014-07-30 :
Call for papers: Video Round Table at ALA Annual conference in San Francisco, June 25-30, 2015 - (IFLA)
- 2014-07-29 :
From Quantum Computing to Show Dogs, Faculty Summit Informed and Inspired - (Microsoft Research) - 2014-07-29 :
Latest news from the satelitte conference LTR in Turin - (IFLA) - 2014-07-29 :
Lettre d'information LTR - Juin 2014 - en français - (IFLA) - 2014-07-29 :
How Might Climate Change Affect Our Food Supply? - (Microsoft Research) - 2014-07-29 :
Moving Food-Resilience Data to the Cloud - (Microsoft Research)
- 2014-07-29 :
President Warren Harding’s Love Letters Open to the Public - (Library of Congress)
- 2014-07-29 :
Consumer Prices, OECD - Updated: 29 July 2014 - (OECD) - 2014-07-29 :
IFLA Law Libraries Section Reception / Réception de la Section des bibliothèques juridiques de l'IFLA - (IFLA)
September 2013 - Report of CODATA-ICSTI Task Group is out. A new report, ‘Out of Cite, Out of Mind : The Current State of Practice, Policy, and Technology for the Citation of Data’, authored by the CODATA/ICSTI Task Group on Data Citation Standards and practices, has just been published and is openly and freely available online in CODATA Data Science Journal
Read ICSTI’s submission to the 25 September 2013 ICSU Meeting in Paris, the aim of which is to define ICSU’s policies on open access to information and data, and the use of metrics as incentives and performance measures.
Submission prepared by the IUCr Representatives to ICSTI. More >>>
Interviewed by Emma Thompson of Research Media Ltd, Brian Hitson, Chair of ICSTI’s Technical Activities Coordinating Committee shares an insight into ICSTI’s work. The interview >>>
