Merhaba,

In the last quarter of 2012, ANKOS Steering Committee agreed on working toward an ANKOS Annual Meeting organized in a completely new format which would undertake to turn today’s global developments into opportunities. This decision meant running after a dream, working hard and taking a lot of risk. During this course of action, requests from our members and stakeholders, the support from publishers and agencies had been our driving force.

From hundreds of hours spent and thousands of emails sent, ANKOSLINK 2013 flourished with a new format and a new name. The feedback we received during and after the Conference proved that although there is still room for improvement, these first steps reached the goal at large extend.

From the beginning, we were all aware that the sustainability of the new format is as hard as making critical changes. ANKOSLink 2013 Conference established a strong base and we build a long-term and sustainable format on top of it. ANKOSLINK 2014 Conference which will take place at Maritim Congress Center between 18 – 20 April 2014 has been in progress since July 2014. In the light of the experience we gained from last year, we improve the website, conference program, presentation facilities and many more.

As we set as a goal from last year, to internationalize the ANKOSLink Conferences, we put a special focus on public relations. We hope to see more colleagues participating from the region in 2014.

The conference program will cover many important topics. Open Access, shared collections, big data, digitization, Google Scholar are only few of these. These topics will be discussed by well-known invited speakers from Turkey and from abroad.

I hope a fruitful ANKOSLink 2014 Conference for all participants. With this opportunity, I would like to convey my sincere thanks to ANKOS Steering Committee and all ANKOS volunteers who work hard to realize this dream.
Sincerely,

Ertuğrul ÇİMEN
ANKOS President