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March 2008 |
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Nereus to exhibit at ESPE Conference
Nereus are to exhibit at the XXII Annual Conference of the
European Society for Population Economics (ESPE) 19-21 June 2008.
The European Society for Population Economics was founded in 1986 and was created in order to facilitate communication and exchange between researchers in different European countries, as well as with scientists from other parts of the world. Equal emphasis is given to theoretical and applied research focusing on the role played by human capital and demographic variables in economics.
For more information about ESPE please click here.
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February 2008 |
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Nereus partners ranked in world Top 200 academic repositories
Three Nereus partners have been ranked in the Top 200 academic repositories world rankings conducted by the Cybermetrics Lab which have recently been published.
Erasmus University Rotterdam’s repository was ranked 46th, University College London 75th and Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration 167th.
To view all the rankings, click here. To view the methodology that was used click here. The Cybermetrics Lab aim to update the rankings every 6 months.
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January 2008 |
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LSE Economists Online participants win excellence awards in global economic affairs
Dr Stephen Redding, programme director of the globalisation programme at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), and Silvana Tenreyro, lecturer in economics in the Department of Economics, LSE, have been selected as two of the winners of the 2008 Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
The aim of the award is to build a community of the brightest young researchers in the area of global economic affairs. The researchers are given intellectual, financial, and administrative support to pursue focused programmes of research in designated areas.
Dr Stephen Redding is currently director of the globalisation programme at the Centre for Economic Performance and a reader in the Economics Department, LSE, and a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Prior to joining LSE, he worked as a research economist at the Bank of England on the relationship between international openness and economic growth. He was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize Fellowship during 2001-04 for his research on international trade and economic growth.
Silvana Tenreyro has been at LSE since 2004, before which she worked as an economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. She is currently a research associate in the macro programme at the CEP and a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research. Her work on global affairs include 'Technological Diversification,' with Miklos Koren (CEP discussion paper 0824), ‘The Timing of Monetary Policy Shocks’ with G. Olivei (American Economic Review, 2007) and ‘Volatility and Development,’ with M. Koren (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007). She said: ‘I am very grateful for the award.’
Danny Quah, head of the Economics Department and professor of economics said: ‘Both these awards point to the tremendous contributions already made and yet to come still in these economists' exciting research on global economic affairs.’
The award will be presented at the Kiel Institute in June 2008.
For further information on the award, click here.
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December 2007 |
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NEEO Survey launched to gather views about Economists Online
NEEO (Network of European Economists Online) is an EU-funded project which will address the lack of integration of academic output amongst premier European economists institutions by creating a powerful new research tool call Economists Online. The survey is intended to identify the needs of the end users and will be used as a basis for the content acquisition and dissemination plan and design of the project’s information services.
Specifically the survey will help us to identify:
• authors’ requirements for storing and disseminating full text documents they have produced
• authors’ requirements for storing and disseminating statistical datasets they have produced
• researchers’ requirements for access to documents and datasets
• need for value-added services (e.g. tailor-made publications lists, statistics, selective dissemination of information, RSS feeds)
• any multilingual and cultural issues
If you would like to complete the survey, please follow one of these links:
English click here.
French click here.
German click here.
Spanish click here.
For more information on NEEO, click here.
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December 2007 |
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Photos from the 17th Nereus Steering Committee and 2nd NEEO Project Meeting
The second NEEO Project meeting and the 17th Nereus Steering Committee meeting were hosted by Charles University in Prague on 6 and 7 December 2007. Photos from the meetings will be available soon.
For more information on NEEO, click here.
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November 2007 |
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Nereus Consortium gains 20th member
The decision by UCL - Université catholique de Louvain to join Nereus means that the Consortium has now reached 20 members. UCL is Nereus’ third Belgium partner, further profiling excellent Belgium economics research.
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September 2007 |
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Kick-Off Meeting at Tilburg University launches the Network of European Economists Online
The NEEO Kick-Off meeting will be opened by Tilburg University's rector on 3 September 2007. This meeting will present goals and deliverables of the project, and will inform participants of responsibilities towards the project and the European Commission.
The Nereus Consortium's Steering Committee behind NEEO will meet to discuss shared services, publishing matters, as well as data and digital preservation issues at its standing quarterly meeting in the afternoon of 3 September.
Tuesday, 4 September 2007, will launch the First NEEO Project Meeting and First NEEO Project Management Board. These meetings will be the first in a series. They will serve as a communication and support platform for participants. Workpackage activities will be tabled which ask for decisions or committments to be made by the NEEO consortium and its partners. WP leaders will report on plans, results made and challenges ahead in meetings to come.
For more information on NEEO, click here.
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August 2007 |
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Nereus and Economists Online at the European Economics Association Annual Meeting
Nereus will once again share a stand with the German National Library for Economics at the EEA Annual meeting. This year, this will be at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. Please visit the stand from 27-31 August 2007 to find out more about Economists Online and its follow-up project NEEO.
For more information on the Congress, please go to http://www.eea-esem-budapest2007.hu/common/main.php
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July 2007 |
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Portalto bringtogether Europe's top economics research
Leading economics libraries have won a €2 million bid to create a subject-based repository. The project, called Network of European Economists Online (NEEO), will address the lack of integration of academic output because of the way storage of and access to information is currently dispersed.
Based on the content of the institutional repositories of the partners, the Network will provide:
1. integrated academic output, including, journal articles, working papers, chapters, conference proceedings and datasets
2. a central multilingual portal and full-text search service with links to the full-text research publications and primary data output
3. more comprehensive access to the life’s work of 500 leading researchers
4. access to the current research results of leading institutions in the area of economics
5. primary datasets with links to the publications based upon them.
For more information on NEEO, click here.
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June 2007 |
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DANS in the Netherlands interested in storing Nereus datasets in the long-term
Thomas Place at Tilburg University will share information on DANS - Data Archiving and Networked Services and its DANS EASY depositing system with Oxford University and the Nereus Data Working Group before taking things up more concretely regarding the storage and improved access to Nereus datasets in the future.
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May 2007 |
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The Royal Library in the Netherlands is interested in storing Nereus publications in the long-term
Nereus is in discussion with the Royal Library (KB) in the Hague to preserve its publications in perpetuity. More specifications need defining, as does a concrete plan of action. More news on this will be available in the autumn of 2007.
The KB currently carries out the long-term preservation of all Dutch university repositories.
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April 2007 |
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Economists Online to number 19 members shortly
The University of Geneva will also join Economists Online, bringing the number of participating partners in EO to nineteen.
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March 2007 |
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Economists Online with a poster at OAI5
EO will present a poster on 19 April at CERN's OAI5 Workshops on Innovations in Scholarly Communication in Geneva.
For more information on the Programme, see this link.
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February 2007 |
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University of Geneva to join Nereus in April 2007
Collaboration and ressource-sharing - both locally and globally - are some of the core values of the University of Geneva. In joining Nereus, Geneva is pleased to be able to implement these fundamentalvalues within a wider global perspective.
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January 2007 |
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Economists Online: Alma Swan to interview EO on its business model for repositories.
Alma Swan will interview the Nereus Programme Manager on the EO business model in mid January 2007 in the realms of the EU DRIVER report on European repository business models. EO looks forward to sharing its experience with the IR community.
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