Sixth International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists

The 6th International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists (ICAHIS), which will be part of the 10th International Congress on Medical Librarianship (ICML), will be held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, August 31- September 4, 2009.

The organisers welcome proposals to present papers or posters (see the call for abstracts and submission form). Be sure to indicate one of the ICAHIS themes:

• Advancing Communication in Animal Health Practice: For example: coping with web content; preserving content by digitization; sharing copyrighted materials legally; using specialized databases; creating and/or maintaining repositories; accessing veterinary archives; assessing the impact of e-journals
  
• Improving Information transfer from Research to Clinical Veterinary Practice: For example: evidence based veterinary medicine; translational medicine; one medicine/one health; public health & zoonotics
  
• Partnerships and Collaborations that Make a Difference in Animal Health: For example: consortial agreements; collective collection development; web portal projects

ABSTRACT DEADLINE Friday, 19 September 2008

Questions? Contact one of the 6ICAHIS Planning Committee members:

Trenton Boyd boydt AT missouri.edu
Greg Youngen Youngen AT uiuc.edu
Vicki Croft croft AT wsu.edu