Call for Papers Library and Information Services in Astronomy - LISA VIII: Astronomy Librarianship in the Era of Big Data and Open Science 6 - 9th June, 2017 Hosted by the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) Held at the Collège Doctoral Européen on the campus of the University of Strasbourg, France The official LISA VIII website: http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/meetings/Lisa8/ http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/meetings/Lisa8/ The Library and Information Services in Astronomy (LISA) is a series of scientific meetings for librarians and scientists that aims to provide a platform to discuss the state of the art of information maintenance, retrieval, delivery, and preservation and to learn from invited experts the directions in which our profession is moving. LISA conferences cover such diverse topics as organization and management of books, journals, and specialized materials; electronic publishing (note that astronomy is a leader in the field); bibliographic and full text databases of astronomical literature; reports on collaborative projects. Come join us! The conference Keynote Speaker will be Françoise Genova, Senior Researcher at CDS, IVOA Executive Board Member and Co-Chair of the RDA Technical Advisory Board. The LISA VIII Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC) cordially invites you to submit contributed talks and poster presentations. Papers are solicited in particular, but not exclusively, on the following topics: Open source software publishing Best practices Citing software Understanding licenses Publishing code and data together DOI services Publishing software articles Copyright Publishing data Country specific copyright laws Research and technology skills training Version control Software carpentry Data sharing Programming for librarians Data management Data management planning DMP Tool Providing access Citations Repositories Subject specific and broad Creation and use Access Preservation and certification New tools and techniques What is being developed currently Future of librarianship Metrics Telescope bibliographies Traditional metrics vs altmetrics Astronomy evaluations Please submit your abstract with the abstract submission form at: http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/meetings/Lisa8/abstract.html http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/meetings/Lisa8/abstract.html Submission deadline will be November 30, 2016. Please note that the SOC cannot guarantee that all submitted papers will be accepted and that it reserves the right to request that a proposed oral presentation be presented as a poster paper or vice versa. Notifications regarding accepted papers will be made no later than January 17, 2017. Information about previous LISA conferences can be found at http://www.eso.org/libraries/lisa.html http://www.eso.org/libraries/lisa.html If you have any questions or suggestions, don't hesitate to contact: Eva and Barbara Co-chairs, LISA VIII SOC Kind Regards, Arna Karick ------------------------------------------------ Eva Isaksson Helsinki University Library, Finland eva.isaksson@helsinki.fi mailto:eva.isaksson@helsinki.fi Barbara Kern University of Chicago Library, USA bkern@uchicago.edu mailto:bkern@uchicago.edu *********************************************************************************************************************************************************** Dr Nishtha Anilkumar Phone : 079-26314167 Head, LIS Mobile: 90999 51743 Physical Research Laboratory Email : nishtha@prl.res.in Navrangpura Ahmedabad 380 009 ************************************************************************************************************************************************************ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.