Friday 19 December 2008

Season's Greetings from the librarian


Wishing you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year with this beautiful card. Thank you for your support throughout 2008 and I am looking forward seeing you on the 5th of January 2009 when the Library reopens. Best wishes,
Lajos.

Monday 15 December 2008

Seminar on Publishing Excellence: Beyond Impact Factor.

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Thomson Reuters will hold a joint seminar on Publishing Excellence and how to correctly interpret journal citation data on the 23rd January in Sydney. This seminar will go into detail about the use and misuse of impact factors along with a detailed presentation by Leslie Sage, senior editor, physical sciences, Nature, on how to get published in Nature.

In total four speakers will present on the following:

1. Antoine Bocquet
Associate Director, Asia-Pacific, Nature Publishing Group (NPG)
Executive Vice-President, NPG Nature Asia-Pacific
"Growth of Nature Publishing Group"

2. Dr Leslie Sage
Senior editor, physical sciences, Nature
"How to publish a paper in Nature"

3. Dr Berenika M Webster
Strategic Business Manager, Thomson Reuters Scientific, Asia Pacific
"About use and misuse of impact factor and other citation metrics"

4. Dr. Dugald McGlashan
Associate Publisher, Asian AJ Journals
"Developments in author and reader services in a changing publishing
landscape"

This seminar is free to attend and open to all who have interest in publishing in Nature titles and journal citation data.Click here to reserve your seat now!