Archive for April, 2015

Call for Grant proposals – due MAY 15th

Grant Proposals are due MAY 15th, 2015.

Proposals will be accepted from:

  1. members not affiliated with a regional group for projects or travel support (expected amount $400 US)
  2. members seeking travel support from the Guin Fund to attend the annual IAMSLIC conference (expected total amount for all grant recipients $4000 US)

Before submitting your proposal, please review the guidelines, fill in and send the NEW Application Forms at: http://www.iamslic.org/activities/grants

Since we would like to support several participants, we encourage you to apply for partial rather than full support. Regarding other travel grant opportunities, please check regional and international organizations related to our subject areas, and of course, we encourage you to check with your IAMSLIC Regional Groups regarding the availability of travel funds.

Best regards !

Guillermina Cosulich, IAMSLIC President 2014-2015, gcosulich@inidep.edu.ar

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April 27, 2015 · Filed under Announcements, President's updates

IAMSLIC – PICES: new contact

IAMSLIC remains a partner with PICES (The North Pacific Marine Science Organization) on an as-needed consultory basis. Mr. Robin Brown took over as PICES Executive Secretary effective February of this year and Dr. Alexander Bychkov, became Special Projects Coordinator.

Thank you BRIAN VOSS, from the U.S. NOAA Seattle Library from United States and Cyamus Regional Group, for volunteering as contact replacing Janet Webster, now retired, who did it for many years !

Guillermina Cosulich (IAMSLIC President 2014/2015)

 

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April 24, 2015 · Filed under President's updates

NSF joining NIH in requiring open access for research they fund

NSF is going to require papers published based on research they funded by made open access within a year of publication.  Read more details on this at the link below.

Joe Wible, Hopkins Marine Station

http://news.sciencemag.org/policy/2015/03/nsf-unveils-plan-make-scientific-papers-free

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April 8, 2015 · Filed under Announcements

ProQuest to load metadata into Google Scholar

I have heard rumors that Google Scholar might go away.  The fact that ProQuest will be porting over its metadata into Google Scholar which will then link to full-text for subscribers to ProQuest would imply that Google Scholar will be around for a while longer.  Check out the full story with the link below.

Joe Wible, Hopkins Marine Station

http://bit.ly/19GPkil

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April 7, 2015 · Filed under Announcements

The Veliger journal title hijacked

Check out the link below.  It alerts users that the print journal “The Veliger” has been hijacked.

Joe Wible, Hopkins Marine Station

http://scholarlyoa.com/2015/03/31/berkeley-california-based-journal-is-hijacked/

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April 1, 2015 · Filed under Announcements