EDIT - European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy -

Exchanging know-how, dissemination of and access to taxonomic journals

7-8 October, 2010, Natural History Museum of Denmark,  Copenhagen

Meeting venue: Universitetsparken

Start meeting: 7 of October 13:00h, meeting ends the 8 of October at 13:00h

This is a 3rd meeting of a series of meetings on scientific publishing in and by natural histrory institutions. The meeting will be held in Copenhagen and is organised by EDIT and co-sponsored by PESI. The meeting aims to provide a platform for (technical) publishing and library staff and decision-makers to exchange know-how in order to face strategic, editorial and technical questions related to the dissemination of taxonomic information.

Talks and subsequent discussion will touch upon subjects such as:

This is a calll for participation in a scientific publishing community consultation

The Scientific Publishing department of Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle and EDIT have launched two community consultations on Natural History Institutions as publishers of scientific journals. Individuals envisioned to take part in the consultation are librarians and/or publishing staff from in and outside EDIT. The consultation process has the format of a questionnaire survey that want to collect information on titles from all sub-disciplines in natural history science (e.i. Zoology, Botany, Geology, Paleontology, Anthropology). The two questionnaires cover questions on scope, organization and dissemination of scientific titles.

The questionnaire forms can be downloade here (may take a few secondes):

Following substantial progress in 2009, in 2010 EDIT plans to hold a 3rd meeting on Scientific Publishing in Natural History Institutions for and with publishing representa tives f rom EDIT and beyond (Work Package 3 “integrating infrastructures”). By way of this writing we call EDIT partners to send in proposals that will built on the outcomes and recommendations from the 2nd meeting while displaying: 1) an attractive theme; 2) logistical arrangements; 3) a budget estimate. We encourage the proposal to (but not limited to):

2nd meeting Scientific publishing in natural history institutions

Date: 22-23 June, 2009

Venue: SUZA conference centre, Bratislava

1st meeting Scientific publishing in natural history institutions

Date: December 8, 2008

Venue: Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

• Open Science at Web-Scale: Optimising Participation and Predictive Potential Consultative Report. by Liz Lyon (download)
• PLoS Progress Report 2009 (download)