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Showing posts with label computer science. Show all posts

Tuesday, 19 May 2015

iFutures 2015 conference

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The iFutures 2015 conference is now open for registration. The conference, now in its third year, is run by and for postgraduate researchers in the information science community. This year's event has the theme: "Open Information Science: Exploring New Landscapes".

"We want to know how is open information influencing your research? Openness is a key part of Information Science research, from using open source tools and big open data sets to open standards advocacy, creating open accessible environments in institutions, and opening information science to radical perspectives and exploring diverse communities. We want to hear about your research and how these themes relate to it." iFutures

The keynote speakers at the event are Fabio Ciravegna (Professor of Computer Science at Sheffield University) and Helen Kennedy (Professor of Sociology at Sheffield University). The event will also include student presentations of research papers, workshops on impact, as well as poster and Pecha Kucha sessions.

The event will take place on Tuesday 7th July.

Sign up for the event here.

Location: Jessop West Exhibition Space.

Venue Details:
The University of Sheffield
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield S3 7RA

Thursday, 5 February 2015

PeerJ to launch PeerJ Computer Science

We have previously blogged about the innovative PeerJ Open Access publisher specialising in biomedical science. Responding to community requests, the folks at PeerJ are launching PeerJ Computer Science to bring greater Open Access and a speedier publishing cycle to this research area while maintaining robust peer review:


  • Submissions open February 12th 2015; Free PeerJ PrePrints submission is open now
  • All authors on the paper must purchase a publishing plan by the time of acceptance. The cheaper $99 rate is available to authors purchasing at the time of submission. An additional $40 is charged if payment is on acceptance. 
  • For St Andrews researchers the Library Fund for Open Access will pay these charges. Please contact us if you would like to publish or need more information open-access-support@st-andrews.ac.uk

Further details
Register your interest to obtain a free $99 credit for one author.