14th EAHIL Conference

Divided We fall, United We Inform

The Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italian National Institute of Health) in collaboration with EAHIL has the pleasure to invite all the European and International biomedical librarians to the 14th edition of the association conference that will be held in Rome in the prestigious venue of the National Central Library of Rome.

We are confident that the conference will have a large and skilled participation of colleagues, both for the interest of the topics that will be discussed and the cultural richness of the place.

The Conference topics have been grouped into the following subject areas:

• Technological developments and challenges for librarians (e.g. Cloud computing, Applets, Web 2.0 tools, Social media)
• Supporting research (e.g. Research data, EBM, Health Technology Assessment, OpenAccess, History of Medicine)
• Coping with economic restraint (e.g. Fund raising, Negotiation, Consortia)
• Patient Information (e.g. Patient Care, Patient Empowerment, Health Literacy, Websites, Training and education)
• Statistics, bibliometrics and altmetrics (e.g. Performance indicators, Counter reports, H-index, Scholarly impact)
• Development in semantic biomedical languages (e.g. MeSH, Multilingualism, KnowledgeOrganisation Systems, Ontologies

 

Important Dates:

• Opening of call for papers: September 1, 2013
• Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 15, 2013
• Notification of acceptance/rejection: January 15, 2014
• Deadline for confirmation of author participation: January 31, 2014
• Deadline for text for Conference Proceedings: April 15, 2014
• Registration opening: March 1, 2014
• Deadline for early registration: March 31, 2014
• Last day of registration: April 30, 2014