Save the date: 4th Biennial Kathleen A. Zar Symposium, May 1, 2015

Scholarly communication in the sciences is in a state of rapid evolution.  In addition to conventional journal and book publishing, scientists have many modes of consumption and dissemination of research: videos, interactive charts, linked data, blogs, social media, visualizations, and more.  The metrics system has also had to adapt, as impacts are now measured far more extensively than by citations alone, including downloads, bookmarks, blog posts, Tweets, and mainstream news coverage.  Technology is a big driver of change, but so too is a dynamic funding landscape, with mandates for wider public sharing of research. Researchers, librarians, and publishers all benefit from field guides to this novel ecosystem.  The 2015 Zar Symposium will explore this new information ecosystem and its impacts on those who inhabit it.

Information about previous symposia is available at http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/crerar/zar/.