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EUSIDIC, is an independent professional organization, established in 1970 to provide a communication forum for professionals in the information industry. EUSIDIC is managed by an elected Council and Executive Committee. The Secretariat is based in Germany. The web site covers conferences, events, industry news, and industry reports and papers. Over 100 organizations have memberships in EUSIDIC.
Working on an interdisciplinary basis, CODATA seeks to improve the quality, reliability, processing, management and accessibility of data of importance to science and technology. The site includes information on CODATA working groups and conferences.
An international association of national library associations and other related information centers. Provides organization information, calendar and links to sites of interest to the constituency including a site that provides links and a bibliography on metadata.
The SLA Home Page links to association information, Competencies for Special Librarians of the 21st Century, and provides a virtual library of information resource centers. The SLA addresses policy development, continuing education, information value, and technology issues across federal and non-federal libraries.
ACRL, a subdivision of the American Library Association, represents academic librarians serving the higher education community. The ACRL Home Page provides association information for the national and local chapters and ACRL Sections, and links to ACRL publications and an extensive list of standards for academic libraries, collections, and services.
ALA is the largest library association worldwide, and a leader in defending intellectual freedom and promoting quality in library information services. The American Library Association represents public, academic and special libraries across a broad spectrum of areas that include intellectual freedom, copyright, and privacy issues. The ALA Home Page links to association information, ALA magazines, Library and Research Center (LARC) Fact Sheets covering a range of topics from statistics to standards, and a virtual library collection of library topical resources on the Web.
Web site of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Links to publications of the Association such as "Science", a Professional Network with job information, products, public relations and media material, career Forum, international program descriptions, K-12 Forum, Congressional appropriations for R&D, and Science & Policy links. Some resources are for members only such as "Science". The site provides links that highlight STI issues within the science and technology disciplines that overlap STI issues of the Federal Government such as policy, law and legislation, Congressional committees appropriations, information sharing and protection
A resource to the International Council for Science. An alphabetical subject list is given which bridges to home pages of Scientific members and associates at the international, national and regional level. There is an index of ICSU Press publications. Other information includes ICSU structure, membership partners and financial information.
This is the homepage for OCLC, a library computer services and research organization that serves over 36,000 libraries around the world. Information on OCLC projects and news as well as their products and services can be found on this site. The information is available in Spanish as well as many other languages. The site is updated on a regular basis.
This is the homepage for RLG a non-profit membership corporation of over 160 institutions, primarily academic libraries. RLG develops and operates databases and software to serve its members. This site describes their activities and services.
This article recaps the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition's (SPARC) achievements and describes ways in which SPARC expects to develop in the future. SPARC has been instrumental in starting new journals, lowering the cost of journals, and stimulating increased publishing in the not-for-profit sector. SPARC's focus in the future includes the incubation of alternatives to current high-priced journals and digital aggregations; public advocacy of changes in the system; and education campaigns. SPARC and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) are partnering on the new scholarly communications initiative 1. SPARC and SPARC Europe were participants in the creation of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI).
Information Access Alliance is a coalition of six leading library organizations in the US and represents the interests of these institutions as mergers among scholarly and legal publishers occur. The Web site contains information on the impact of publisher mergers on the market for STM journals and provides a link to a recently released white paper "Publisher Mergers: A Consumer-Based Approach to Antitrust Analysis."
At the August 11-12, 2004, CENDI meeting, Ms. Carroll presented on the status of CENDI. Along with discussing increasing membership, Ms.Carroll outlined future goals of CENDI for FY 2005.
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