Hi, Colleagues involved in publishing may be interested in the following announcement from the UDC Consortium (The Hague) To mark its twentieth anniversary, the UDC Consortium (the owner of the Universal Decimal Classification) is offering a free publishing licence for an abridged edition of 10,000 classes and free online and offline translation support for producing the editions in a language in which UDC has never been published before such as Arabic, Greek, Kazakh, any of the official languages of India etc. National libraries, library associations and other academic or commercial publishers in countries in which UDC is used and taught in library schools may find such an opportunity of interest. The free license will be given on a 'first come first served' basis. Up to two free licenses may be offered and it will necessary for the applicant to have purchased or purchase a pre-publication license and find a dedicated editor of this language edition. Upon signing the contract the UDC Consortium will set-up the translation database for a given language and prepare necessary support for up to 10 translators. Expressions of interest should be sent by 1 October. To learn more contact mail@udcc.org. Regards --- Dr Aida Slavic Editor-in-Chief, UDC UDC Consortium The Hague, The Netherlands Email:aida.slavic@udcc.org Web:http://www.udcc.org Blog:http://universaldecimalclassification.blogspot.com/ Twitter:http://twitter.com/#!/UDCC Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/pages/UDC-Consortium/317530649451 Linked In:http://www.linkedin.com/company/383049 ______________________ --> Multilingual UDC Summary:http://www.udcc.org/udcsummary/php/index.php --> Proceedings: Classification& Ontology:http://seminar.udcc.org/2011/index.htm The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is the world's foremost multilingual classification scheme for all fields of knowledge, a sophisticated indexing and retrieval tool ______________________ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.