Digital Discovery 2008: Issues in Scholarly Communication Call for Posters

Digital Discovery 2008, a conference jointly organized by the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center (HAM-TMC) Library, and Fondren Library, Rice University, invites proposals for the conference poster session to be held on Thursday, March 27th, 2008 at the University of Texas School of Nursing at Houston. Sponsored by the Elsevier Library Connect program, the conference will engage attendees with a series of thought-provoking speakers and a panel session on the current issues in scholarly communication, publishing, and data discovery. The conference features leaders in scholarly communications such as Charles Bailey, publisher of Digital Scholarship and Richard Baraniuk, founder of Connexions, as well as speakers from Elsevier on bibliometrics and the effect of Web2.0 on publishing.

In keeping with the conference theme, poster session proposals should focus on a scholarly communication issue, such as open access, Web2.0 publishing innovations, integrating data archives into publishing, or institutional repositories. Poster sessions may document a current practice or forecast an innovation in scholarly communications.  The deadline for poster session submissions is Monday, March 10th.  We will notify applicants by Monday, March 17th.

Submit your poster proposal, including title and a 250 word abstract, via email to: dkolah@rice.edu

Please see the Digital Discovery website for more information on the conference.

If you have questions, please contact Debra Kolah (email:dkolah@rice.edu/ telephone: 712.348.2350).

HAM-TMC/Fondren Library Scholarly Communications Committee