The activities of the Science and Educational Publishing Technologies Cluster are to develop and implement innovative IT solutions and innovative science and educational publishing technologies based on the long-standing practice of the cluster partners, available knowledge, methodological and scientific experience and their latest achievements abroad and Lithuania. Cluster members: VšĮ Visoriai Information Technology Park (cluster coordinator), [...]

Seminar “Academic Libraries & Open Science: How to Meet the Challenges?” organised by UNICA will be held at Vilnius University on the 14-15th of October. The organisers will look into the process of Open Science strategy building in universities and how libraries are involved as partners and drivers. A publisher will present his vision on the [...]

In June 2016, at the request of the Association of Lithuanian Serials, the national ISSN Agency supplied the list of academic periodicals registered in Lithuania stating their ISSN identifiers and additional information from the LIBIS system of the National Bibliographic Database. Continuing publications recorded in the list of academic periodicals presented by the national agency were grouped [...]

Prof. Rūta Petrauskaitė, vice chair of the Research Council of Lithuania Speech at  the conference Lithuanian Journals Meeting the Needs of Digital Scholarly Communication   on 25 October 2016 in  Vilnius, Lithuania   Overview of the Periodicals of the Social Sciences and Humanities in Lithuania   PDF     and    VIDEO  The presentation deals with status quo of the SSH periodicals, published [...]

Dr Irene Hames Speech at  the conference Lithuanian Journals Meeting the Needs of Digital Scholarly Communication   on October 25th  in  Vilnius, Lithuania   Peer Review in a Changing and Challenging Scholarly Publication World   PDF        and       VIDEO Scholarly publishing is changing rapidly and bringing many challenges to journals and journal editors. Peer review, [...]

Prof. Lyubomir Penev, Managing Director and Founder of Pensoft Publishers. Speech at  the conference Lithuanian Journals Meeting the Needs of Digital Scholarly Communication   on October 25th  in  Vilnius, Lithuania   ARPHA Next-generation Journal Publishing    PDF     and      VIDEO The present-day journal publishing landscape is characterized by all features of a disruptive transition from both subscription- [...]