Karta Center Foundation-Poland Web-site

I wanted to bring to the attention of my readers the following website from Poland that is entitled, "Karta". The KARTA Centre Foundation - an independent non-governmental organization dealing with the documentation and dissemination of recent Polish history, and Central and Eastern Europe (from the early twentieth century to 1989), the carrying of knowledge of modern man and the spread of tolerance and democracy. It has a portal of audio and video files that relate to Polish history. The site can be accessed here.

On-line Polish Newspapers Links

I wanted to present my readers with a list of selected resources of Polish newspapers that are currently online in open-access format.

Gazeta Wyborcza

Gość Niedzielny

Krytyka Polityczna

Nasz Dziennik

Newsweek Polska

Niedziela

Polityka

Polska

Przekrój

Przewodnik Katolicki

Puls Biznesu

Rzeczpospolita

Tygodnik Powszechny

Tygodnik Przegląd

Warsaw Voice

Więź

Wprost

Znak

A Letter from Ingegerd Rabow, Editor-in-chief of ScieCom (Nordic-Baltic Forum for Scientific Communication)

Welcome to the June 2011 issue of ScieCom info.

Nordic-Baltic Forum for Scientific Communication.

There has been a lot of international concern about Elsevier's recently changed Open Access Policy. We can now publish a formal statement made by the Swedish national OpenAccess.se programme, run by the Swedish National Library to promote OA to research results produced by Swedish researchers. The Steering Committee is deeply concerned about any changes that restrict availability and strongly objects to Elsevier's new policy. "OpenAccess.se Statement: Concern about Elsevier's Open Access Policy."

An Open Access Policy has now been adopted by the Karolinska Institute (KI), Stockholm. The Policy will be in effect from July 1, 2011. KI encourages its researchers to make their publications to the greatest possible extent freely available, taking into account publisher terms and relevant demands of grant-awarding bodies and government authorities.  es. Read KI's Open access Policy here

The DOAJ team in Lund is happy to announce that the DOAJ site is now available in French. Other languages will follow. http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5146/4602

Will the more mundane communication channels have any roles in scholarly publishing? Will they seriously challenge the old academic publishing traditions? We hope to inspire lively discussions with the article "Taking new routes: Blogs, Web sites, and Scientific Publishing "by Helena Bukvova, a researcher and lecturer at the Dresden University of Technology. Helena Bukova presents several new aspects of web usage for researchers.

We continue to follow the promising OA developments in Denmark. Lise Mikkelsen has earlier reported on the hearing process for the first draft of the "Recommendations for implementation of Open Access in Denmark". The final version has now been released. In "Central Open Access activities in Denmark" Lise Mikkelsen  takes us through the key events related to the final Recommendations, and presents some of the main areas in the Danish Open Access Committee's final recommendations for implementing a national OA-policy in Denmark.

"Promote a national open access policy and create the necessary conditions for an efficient implementation of it" is one of the most important goals for the new strategy recently adopted by the Steering Committee for the Swedish OpenAccess.se programme. The main purpose of the Programme is to help increasing the share of freely available research publications on the Internet. "Strategy for the OpenAccess.se programme 2011-2013" was adopted at the Committee's May 23rd meeting.  The new strategy also defines goals for specific areas as well as the means to reach them.

Jan Erik Frantsvåg has earlier presented, "The Open Access publication fund at the University of Tromsø". His colleague Leif Longva now reports on "Doctoral theses are now submitted electronically at the University of Tromsø". It all started in late 2007, when an electronic submission portal for master theses was introduced.  The great success of this portal led them to consider doing the same for doctoral these. They had been surprised to notice that doctoral candidates were reluctant to include their theses in the Munin open archive. Encouraged by the earlier success the library launched a similar service for doctoral theses.

We hope that you will have a god read. Your comments and ideas are very welcome

Ingegerd Rabow
Editor-in-chief
ScieCom info
http://www.sciecom.org/sciecominfo

 

Source: Ingegerd Rabow
Editor-in-chief
ScieCom info
http://www.sciecom.org/sciecominfo

World Uyghur Congress Newsletter-June 2011

World Uyghur Congress Newsletter for June 2011 has been published and it can be accessed here.


Its contents are as follows:
TOP STORY
Where is Ershidin Israel? The World Must Demand Accountability for Deported Uyghur Refugee



FEATURED ARTICLES
Human Rights Violations against Uyghur People Discussed at UNHRC
2nd Anniversary of the 5 July 2009 Events – Call for Action by the WUC



MEDIA WORK
WUC Press Release on Xinjiang Work Conference
UAA Press Release on Tiananmen Anniversary
Radio Free Asia Interviews WUC Project Coordinator
BBC Interviews WUC Secretary General



PAST EVENTS
WUC Secretary General at International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy
Uyghur Women´s Committee in Austria and Switzerland
Netherlands East Turkestan Uyghur Union at “Turkic People Cultural Forum”
Meeting Between Turkish Politicians and Uyghur Organizations
Uyghur Meeting in Australia
WUC Secretary General at Bavarian Parliament
Mongolians and Uyghurs Stage Demonstration in Amsterdam
Tiananmen Commemoration in Brussels
WUC Demonstrations in Berlin against Extradition of Ershidin Israel
EU-China Human Rights Dialogue




UPCOMING EVENTS
Review of Kazakhstan at the UN Human Rights Committee

HIGHLIGHTED MEDIA ARTICLES AND REPORTS ON UYGHUR RELATED ISSUES
New Video on 5 July 2009 Events Published by Italian Media
Article on Uyghurs in German Media

2011 University of California Libraries Academic e-Book Usage Survey Report Now Available

A new report, UC Libraries Academic e-Book Usage Survey: <http://www.cdlib.org/services/uxdesign/docs/2011/academic_ebook_usage_survey.pdf>
presents the results of a 2010 survey of 2,569 University of California faculty, staff, and students. The study was a
collaborative effort between California Digital Library <http://www.cdlib.org/> staff and University of California campus librarians undertaken as part of a Springer Science+Business Media e-Book Pilot Project.  Topics covered include University of California reader preference for e-books as compared to print books, valued e-book features, and an assessment of reader experiences with Springer e-books during 2009and 2010.  We hope
members of this list may find the report useful.

Questions and comments can be directed to Felicia Poe, Ivy Anderson, or Jacqueline Wilson at the California Digital Library.
Felicia Poe, Manager
User Experience Design Service
felicia.poe@ucop.edu

Ivy Anderson, Director
Collection Development & Management
ivy.anderson@ucop.edu

Jacqueline Wilson, Senior Associate for Shared Content
Collection Development & Management
jacqueline.wilson@ucop.edu

In Memoriam: Elena Bonner: 1923-2011

BBC Informed on June 18, 2011 that В Соединенных Штатах на 89-м году жизни после тяжелой болезни скончалась вдова академика Андрея Сахарова, известная правозащитница и общественный деятель Елена Боннэр.

Call Papers for AATSEEL

The 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) will be held in Seattle, Washington, Jan. 5-8, 2012. The second and final deadline for submission of proposals is July 1, 2011. For information about this meeting and details about submission procedures, please see the Call for Papers: http://www.aatseel.org/program/
The AATSEEL is continuing the option we introduced last year to submit fully-formed panel proposals with a single-paragraph description. Descriptions of individual papers for such panels may be submitted after the panel is accepted up to September 30, 2011. Individual proposals must be submitted by this date to be included in the program.
To submit roundtables or workshop proposals, please send a brief description, a list of participants and email addresses (for roundtables), and the name of the organizer, chair, or leader to the appropriate division head. These may be submitted any time up to the July 1 deadline.
To submit a proposal or be included in it, you must be an AATSEEL member in good standing for 2011-12, or request a waiver of membership from the Chair of the Program Committee (burry.7@osu.edu). For information on AATSEEL membership, details on conference participation, and guidelines for preparing proposals, please follow the links from AATSEEL's homepage (http://www.aatseel.org).
Source:
Alexander Burry
Chair, AATSEEL Program Committee
Associate Professor, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
The Ohio State University
400 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
Columbus OH 43210
Email: burry.7@osu.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS: The journal KNJIŽNICA (LIBRARY, ISSN 0023-2424)

CALL FOR PAPERS: The journal KNJIŽNICA (LIBRARY, ISSN 0023-2424) is now accepting proposals for publication in its international issue.

 KNJIŽNICA (LIBRARY, ISSN 0023-2424) is the first scientific journal in Slovenia to publish refereed articles and short communications presenting recent scientific and professional achievements in library and information science, book studies and related fields. KNJIŽNICA aspires to support the development of theory and practice and to raise the knowledge and skills of professional staff. The KNJIŽNICA is indexed in: LISA (CSA), LISTA (EBSCO), Proquest Science/Technology Databases (HT&AJ, Technology Journals, Illustrata Technology), Proquest Research Library, ProQuest Library Science, IBZ, and DOAJ. Full-text articles can be accessed on the journal's web site (http://revija-knjiznica.zbds-zveza.si/ ), and on the web sites of LISA, Google Scholar, dLib and COBISS/OPAC.

 The aim of the international issue is to stimulate scientific communication on recent development in library and information science (LIS) and profession in South Eastern and Eastern European regions. The international issue welcomes (1) research articles covering various aspects of LIS and related fields as well as (2) research articles covering various aspects on LIS and related fields by authors (researchers, students, librarians, etc.) affiliated in South Eastern and Eastern European regions.

 The journal welcomes manuscript submissions meeting the general criteria of scientific excellence and significance, especially if the research is based on international cooperative projects or multidisciplinary approach. Relevant research fields include, but are not limited to:

- Digital libraries, Digitisation, Digital Preservation, Evaluation of Digital Library Collections,

- Library and Information Science Education,

- User Studies in Library and Information Science,

- Libraries, Museums, and Archives in the Global Information and Cultural, Political and Social Environment,

- The Book and Book Publishing Studies,

- The Book, Libraries, Information Services, Publishing in Historical and Social Context.

 Manuscripts should be submitted to Primož Južnič (Editor-in-Chief): primoz.juznic@ff.uni-lj.si  by October 1st 2011.

Additional information on submission requirements can be accessed at: http://revijaknjiznica.wordpress.com/library-english/  (Guidelines for Authors, Paper Template, and Permission for Publishing).

All articles published in KNJIŽNICA will be blind peer-reviewed.

The international issue will be published in December 2011 (Vol. 55, Iss. 4).

 Important dates

Submission date for articles: 1.10.2011

Review comments and notification of acceptance: 30.10.2011

Submission date for the final paper: 1.12.2011

Issue publishing: December 2011

Source:

Branka Badovinac

Managing Editor

Sri Lanka's Killing Fields

I know that this post has perhaps nothing to do with our field of Eastern European Studies Librarianship. Yesterday, a friend of mine pointed out to this new documentary entitled, "Sri Lanka's Killing Fields". I watched it last night and was struck by the silence of the UN as portrayed in this doucmentary on various issues that were depicted here. So Where is Buddha and his principals of non-violence? Please make up your own mind? So what about "Manno Singh"-the great savior of India? Is he sleeping peacefully? Of course, the civilians always pay the price...And who financed this? And to whom was Trincomalee leased? And how do we define geo-political interests of India?

Songs and its versions: Laura Vass-Romanian Celebrity

So I ask the following question as my mind runs back to this addictive Romanian melody-Buzele Tale, and today I found that there are two versions of this song. As a reader, which version is better? Any ideas?

Spring Issue of SlavFile Released Online

The Spring edition of SlavFile, the quarterly newsletter of the ATA Slavic
Languages Division, is now out and available to all, without charge or
registration, at:
http://www.ata-divisions.org/SLD/slavfile.htm

It is primarily in English, and many articles are intended to be accessible
to those who do not read Russian or another Slavic language.

Included:
--2010 ATA Conference reviews:
*Contemporary Russian: Enhanced Vocabulary, Endangered Syntax
*Rocket and Space Terminology
*Practical Challenges of Legal and Medical Interpreting
--More than Words: on Shostakovich, , and more
--SlavFilms: Podstrochnik: Translating between the Lines, review of the film
and book on translator Lilianna Lungina (part 2)
--Google Translate and back again -- the case of Harry Potter
--New tourism vocabulary
--Not by Word Count Alone
--Idiom Savants - Money Talks (part 2) - bilingual idioms about money

Source:
Susan Welsh
http://www.ssw-translation.com
Translator and editor, German-English and Russian-English
Leesburg, Virginia USA
Phone: 1-703-777-8927
E-mail: welsh_business@verizon.net

EuropeanaTech Conference

October 4-5, 2011 | Vienna, Austria - Austrian National Library 

 
 

EuropeanaConnect Final Conference in collaboration with Europeana Foundation 

 
 

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Entry to the conference is free and open to all! 
Places are limited and registration is requested at 

http://www.europeanaconnect.eu/europeanatech/

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EuropeanaTech is the final conference of the EU project EuropeanaConnect and is organised in collaboration with the Europeana Foundation. It will explore technical challenges of making digital cultural and scientific information attractive and easily accessible for the public. An important goal of this conference is to build the community of technical and scientific experts in the field. At the core of the conference are interaction, demonstration and the exchange of experiences. 

 
 

The main strands of the conference will be:

- Open Source

- Open Data

- Aggregation and (Meta-) Data Quality

- Explore and Discover
- Distributed Community Empowerment

 - Hackathon

A hackathon will complete this conference generating prototypes and code contributions to Europeana services. The results will be demonstrated and awarded at the conference. Developers are invited to participate in the hackathon, please check the respective box in the registration form. More infos on current Europeana Hackathons:
http://www.europeana-libraries.eu/web/api/hackathons

 The EuropeanaTech conference is open to all information professionals, application developers, technology researchers and decision makers in the cultural domain. It will showcase services and activities that are best examples of an open Digital Culture and will bring together the software development community with cultural domain professionals, to strengthen networks and establish future collaboration.

Please visit the conference website for updates on the programme:

http://www.europeanaconnect.eu/europeanatech/

 

Conference Date: October 4-5, 2011

Venue: Austrian National Library, Vienna

Organisers: Austrian National Library and Europeana Foundation

 
 

Contact: europeanatech@onb.ac.at

 
 

Website: http://www.europeanaconnect.eu/europeanatech/ 

 
 

Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/europeanatech 
Join us on LinkedIn to discuss the conference themes: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3799285 

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2011 Online

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2011 has just taken place in Geneva.

Now you can find presentations and outcomes here.

Journal of Minorities of Russian Federation

I was looking for a representative journal about the National and Ethnic Minorities of Russian Federation, and I accidentally stumbled upon
following online open-access journal. It is entitled, "Журнал "Мир коренных народов - Живая Арктика". It is published by the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East.


There are full-text PDF issues available at no charge to the visitor to the association's site. The journal can be accessed here.

MEMORY AND THEORY IN EASTERN EUROPE PROGRAMME

4-5 July 2011
Wine Room
King's College
Cambridge
MONDAY 4 JULY

9:00am: Welcome and Panel 1: Europe's Divided Memory
•       Emma Widdis (Cambridge), Opening remarks
•       Chair: John Barber (Cambridge)
•       Aleida Assmann (Konstanz) , 'Europe's Divided Memory'
•       Jay Winter (Yale), 'Human Rights and European Remembrance'
•       Natan Sznaider (Tel-Aviv) , 'Between Cosmopolitan and Ethnic: Europe's Jewish Memory'
10:45am: Coffee
11:00am: Panel 2: Memory, Identity and Violence
•       Chair: Caroline Humphrey (Cambridge)
•       Jan Assmann (Konstanz), 'Memory, Identity and Violence'
•       Harald Wydra (Cambridge), 'Generations of Memory'
•       Nancy Condee (Pittsburg) , 'City-Cemetery, or the New Enchantments of Russian Landscape'
12:30pm: Lunch
2:00pm: Panel 3: Technologies of Memory
•       Chair: Sander Brouwer (Groningen)
•       Simon Franklin (Cambridge), 'Technologies of Memory: the Early Centuries'
•       Uilleam Blacker (Cambridge), 'Haunted Cities: The Urban Memory of
Vanished Others'
•       Ellen Rutten (Bergen), 'How New Media Influence the East European Memory War'
3:30pm: Coffee
4:00pm: Panel 4: The Postcolonial Perspective

•       Chair: Simon Franklin (Cambridge)
•       Simon Lewis (Cambridge), 'Memory in a Post-Soviet Dictatorship: Belarus'
•       Dirk Uffelmann (Passau), 'Is There a Theory of Memory in Postcolonial Studies?'
7:30pm Conference Dinner

TUESDAY 5 JULY
9:00am: Panel 5: Burying the Undead

•       Chair: Matilda Mroz (Cambridge)
•       Andrzej Nowak (Krakow), 'Murder in the Graveyard: Memorial Clashes over the Victims of the Soviet-Polish Wars'
•       Julie Fedor (Cambridge), 'Katyn as Theatre of Memory'
•       Harriett Murav (Urbana-Champaign), 'Making Disaster (In)Visible: World War II as Catastrophe and Triumph'
10:30am: Coffee
11:00am: Panel 6: Russifying the Soviet Legacy
•       Chair: Harald Wydra (Cambridge)
•       Ilya Kalinin (St Petersburg), 'Nostalgic Modernisation: Politics of
History in Contemporary Russia'
•       Andriy Portnov (Kiev), 'Nationalising Memory in Post-Soviet Space'
•       Mischa Gabowitsch (Berlin), 'Whither Russian Memory Studies? A Simple Philippic on a Desultory Field'
12:30pm: Lunch
2:00pm: Panel 7: The Unsettled Past
•       Chair: Joanna Wawrzyniak (Warsaw)
•       Alexander Etkind (Cambridge), 'Writing History after Prison: Three Soviet Cases'
•       Polly Jones (SSEES-UCL), 'Truth, Trauma, Teleology: Working through the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union of the 1950s and 1960s'
•       Caroline Humphrey (Cambridge), 'Heroes and Traitors: Accounting for a Cold War Emergency on the High Seas'
3:30pm: Coffee
4:00pm: Round Table: The Future of the Past
•       Chair: Alexander Etkind (Cambridge)
Source
Alexander Etkind
Reader in Russian Literature and Cultural History
Cambridge University
Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, CB21ST
Principal Investigator, "Memory at War"
www.memoryatwar.org