[IP-OA_Forum] [Fwd: International subject repositories conference in London - 28/29 January 2010]

[Anja Oberländer]

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 at lse.ac.uk