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The article reports on the growth of the Online Paper Repository of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Since receiving the Annual Meeting Papers for 2011 the repository now holds circa 7,300 papers covering various topics including achievement, assessment, and curricula which may be accessed online. The system also contains abstracts, keywords, and author contact information. Access is a benefit of membership for all AERA members.

This article offers announcements for April 2007 concerning the American Finance Association, publishers of the periodical "The Journal of Finance." Topics of discussion include the results of the organization's 2006 elections, in which Jeremy Stein was voted president-elect and Darrell Duffie was voted vice president, and information regarding the 2008 annual meeting, to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana in January. The article also offers computer network resource information for further announcements, and offers information on the organization's worldwide directory of finance faculty.

Zoological medicine furthers the health and well- being of captive and free-ranging wild animals. Effective information retrieval of the zoological medicine literature demands searching multiple databases, conference proceedings, and organization websites using a wide variety of keywords and controlled vocabulary. Veterinarians, residents, students, and the librarians who serve them must have patience for multiple search iterations to capture the majority of the available knowledge. The complexities of thorough literature searches are more difficult for nondomestic animal clinical cases and research reviews as demonstrated by three search requests involving poisonous snakes, a gorilla, and spiders. Expanding and better disseminating the knowledgebase of zoological medicine will make veterinary searching easier. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Academic Web site design continues to evolve as colleges and universities are under increasing pressure to create a Web site that is both hip and professional looking. Many colleges and universities are using templates to unify the look and feel of their Web sites. Where does the library Web site fit into a comprehensive campus design scheme? The library Web site is unique due to the wide range of services and content available. Based on a poster session presented at the Twelfth Annual Association of College and Research Libraries conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2005, this paper explores the prevalence of university-wide academic templates on library Web sites and discusses factors libraries should consider in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on Distinguished Fellow Award 2017 given to the people in various categories, the preview of the 47th Australian Conference of Economists to be held on July 19-21 in 2018, and a website review on the Australian Macro Database.

The article mentions several announcements including the 20.000 Euro GRAMMER European Spine Journal Award for basic science, the establishment of a website for Oswestry Disability Index, and the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies 2nd Biennial Spine Meeting.

This section offers information on the American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) including an invitation for research papers to be submitted for oral and poster presentation at the 91st Annual Meeting, an encouragement for the nominations for the C. Hart Merriam Award and the online access for "Journal of Mammalogy and Mammalian Species."

Internet changed the perspective on meetings and also on decision making processes. Virtual-ization of meetings has become a common way for collaboration among employees, custom-ers, partners, trainees and trainers, etc. Web conferencing allows the collaboration between teams' members to achieve common goals. Without the need of travelling and meeting organization, the web conferencing applications permit the participation of people from different location. Web conferencing applications are multimedia systems that allow various remote collaborations with multiple types of resources. The paper presents an exploratory study on multimedia web conferencing systems, its advantages and disadvantages and also a use case, meant to highlight several of this technology benefits and problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A calendar of worldwide events from 2014 to 2015 is presented which includes EUROSPINE Spring Speciality Meeting 2015 in Spain, EUROSPINE 2015 meeting in Denmark and German Spine Conference in Germany and reviews the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) website http://www.orthosurg.org.uk/odi/.

The article offers information on the 20.000 Euro GRAMMER European Spine Journal Award for basic science, mentions the establishment of an Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) website, and offers information on the EUROSPINE Spring Specialty Meeting to be held in Prague, Czech Republic on May 8-9, 2014.

The article offers information on ".hist2011 - Geschichte im digitalen Wandel," a conference that focused on the use of digital media in historical studies that took place in Berlin, Germany from September 14-15, 2011. Papers presented at the conference discussed topics such as digital libraries with historical sources on World War I, how German libraries are using bibliographic data for shared cataloging, and why certain standards need to be created for historical research data.

Information about several papers discussed at the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources meeting held from September 17-18, 2010 at the University of Chicago Libraries Regenstein Library is presented. Topics include the plans of the Digital Resources Committee (DRC) to develop a toolkit for the development of digital resources written by librarians. The meeting featured several library society members including Margaret Mihori, Yoshiro Kato, and Setsuko Noguchi.

The article discusses the use of the online social media network Twitter at the 2011 and 2013 meetings of the International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB). The presenters, delegates and organizers at the ICCB events used Twitter in sharing conservation science research, sharing thoughts about the proceedings and propagating conservation ideas. The online network assumes the role of a facilitator for debates among stakeholders in nature conservation.

The article provides information on sessions held at the 2013 International Association of Music Libraries (IAML) Conference in Vienna, Austria by the IAML Bibliography Commission. Topics discussed include a presentation by John Rink on the digitising the catalogue of composer Frédéric Chopin's first editions, a presentation by David Bretherton on the online availability of music theorist Heinrich Schenker's papers and work, and a presentation by Pietro Zappalà on online thematic catalogues.

The article offers information on "Methoden, Inhalte und Techniken im Umgang mit Streitgeschichte," a conference that focused on various methods of teaching and studying the history of conflicts and wars. It took place in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany from August 4-7, 2011. Papers presented at the conference discussed topics such as audio-visual methods for teaching history, information on the internet that is a useful historical source, and how to make learning history more interesting.

The article presents information on the American Institute of Biological Sciences' annual meeting at the University of Illinois on August 20, 1965.

The article reflects on various developments associated with the periodical as of January 2014. Topics discussed include free availability of the periodical's review articles on its website for unsubscribed members, showcase of a short movie on the Company of Biologists YouTube channel that depicts contents of 2013 JEB Symposium held in Switzerland in 2013, and reflection on the charitable activities and workshops of Company of Biologists Ltd. on the YouTube channel.

The article offers notes and updates on North American Simulation and Gaming Association Inc. (NASAGA). The International Simulation and Gaming Association (ISAGA) will conduct its 40th Annual International and 1st South East Asia conference to be held on June 29 to July 3, 2009 in Singapore. The conference has issued an Associate Organization Invitation to members of NASAGA to attend. The spring 2008 issue of the NASAGA newsletter was posted on the website at http://www.nasaga.org. The electronic discussion format of NASAGA is free to NASAGA members.

The article offers information on the annual International Conference on Computational Cultural Dynamics (ICCCD) as well as discusses various reports published within the issue. The 2008 ICCCD conference will be held at the University of Maryland in Baltimore from September 15 to 16. The scope of the ICCCS includes developing computational models for cultural dynamics and its application for use in the enhancement of cultural sensitivity. Reports discussed include one by Lucy Resnyansky on how computational cultural modeling can be useful for social research on political violence, social conflicts and cultural changes, and another by Susan Numbrich on the importance of game theory on computational cultural dynamics.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue. The recent issue marks the beginning of the journals 18th year of publication. It presents the journal's editorial philosophy and mission. Information is given for the journal's web site, activities, section editors, and conferences. The journal also provides special issue section which provides an in-depth treatment of important marketing and public policy issues.

An introduction is presented in which the editor describes various papers presented at RECOMB 2012, the 16th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, held in Barcelona during April 21–24, 2012.

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A calendar of events related to the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) from September 1, 2010 to November 4, 2010 is presented which include the open technical seminar on nanotechnology on September 8, 2010 in London, England, Walking tour of Cambridge on September 9, 2010 in Cambridge, England, and the 1st RSC/SCI symposium on continuous processing and flow chemistry on November 3-4, 2010 in Herts, England.

The article focuses on the Midwest Undergraduate Computational Chemistry Consortium (MU3C), a community of undergraduate research collaborators and 14 computational chemistry professor. It says that the annual regional undergraduate research (UR) conference was the most important activity of the consortium which focused on students' poster and oral research presentations. It adds that the online conferences aims to provide student researchers with updates on research they have been conducting.

Information about several papers discussed at the 10th International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning, ICL2007 in Villach, Austria is presented. The conference was focused on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences gained while developing and testing elements of interactive computer aided learning. The author notes the success of the conference.

The article discusses the ways in which scientific workflows have aided in managing difficult distributed computations and quickened the pace of scientific progress. At a National Science Foundation workshop domain, computer, and social scientists came together to discuss the needs of future scientific applications and the problems facing current workflow technologies. The scientists studied application requirements, workflow representations, dynamic workflows, and system-related challenges. The workshop participants listed various recommendations including continued research in computer science, the integration of workflow representations with other forms of scientific record, and the implementation of long-term, stable partnerships and programs.

The article offers news briefs related to the International Society of Neuropathology (ISN) as of September 2013. The XVIII International Congress of Neuropathology will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in September 2014. The ISN launched a new website where details of recent and upcoming events if ISN can be found. The International Summer School for Neuropathology and Epilepsy Surgery (INES) will be held in Erlangen, Germany in September 2013.

Information about the trade show of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society held in Chicago, Illinois in April 2009 is presented. The event was a gathering of health professionals and featured an exhibition of various products such as hospital beds, mobile computing communications, surgical and storage devices. The show also presented software products such as Electronic Medical Record and Electronic Health Record Systems.

The article discusses an Internet website that provides digitized voice recordings of historical lectures presented at the annual Nobel Laureate Meetings in Lindau, Germany. It notes the history of the meetings and that Count Lennart Bernadotte initiated them after World War II to encourage German doctors and scientists. A limited number of international students have been invited to attend the meetings since 2005.

The article reviews several web sites regarding scientific conferences and events which include the American Physical Society conference (http:tinyurl.com/37jjuy), and the lunar and planetary science conference held in Houston (http://tinyurl.com/3axrrc)