EDIT - European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy -

Following substantial progress in 2009, in 2010 EDIT plans to hold a 3rd meeting on Scientific Publishing in Natural History Institutions for and with publishing representa tives f rom EDIT and beyond (Work Package 3 “integrating infrastructures”). By way of this writing we call EDIT partners to send in proposals that will built on the outcomes and recommendations from the 2nd meeting while displaying: 1) an attractive theme; 2) logistical arrangements; 3) a budget estimate. We encourage the proposal to (but not limited to):

• Build the meeting programme around questions and challenges related to E-publishing, with support from and in consultation with the organizers of the previous meetings.
• Discuss and decide on future collaboration between scientific publishing representatives.
• Invite (external) speakers from scholarly publishing companies, organizations and or from journals to demonstrate good practices, dilemmas and recent developments.
• Create a setting for interactive discussion and networking.
• Target audiences like technical publishing staff, scientific editors, library staff and everyone who works on or is interested in the publishing subject from the EDIT community.

Organizing this meeting will give a partner the opportunity: to contribute to setting the agenda of scholarly publishing in natural history institutions; to gather an international audience on its behalf; to visibly contribute to the success of EDIT.

The Work Package 3 leader and the organizers of the 1st and 2nd meeting (see below) will evaluate proposals and if selected, a budget will be allocated to the partner institution. Deadline is the 15th of March 2010, to be submitted by email to Leo Kriegsman (Kriegsman(at)naturalis.nnm.nl).

We look forward to your proposals.