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	LEARNED SOCIETIES - LoveToKnow Article on LEARNED SOCIETIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The American Philosophical Society is still in vigorous life, and is an exclusively scientific body and the oldest organized society in the United States for the pursuit of philosophical investigation in its broadest sense.
		The Chemical Society of London for the promotion ~of chemistry and the sciences immediately connected with it was instituted on, the 23rd of February 1841; a charter of incorporation was obtained in 1848.
		The Royal AgriCultural Society of England began as the English Agricultural Society in 1838 and was incorporated in 1840.
	15.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SO/SOCIETIES_LEARNED.htm (7461 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of learned societies
		The Society of Antiquaries of London is a learned society, based in the United Kingdom, concerned with the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries.
		The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is an archaeological learned society formed for the purpose of studying the history of Scotland.
		The Geological Society of London is a learned society based in the United Kingdom with the aim of investigating the mineral structure of the Earth.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-learned-societies (1482 words)

	§33. Learned Societies. VIII. The Literature of Science. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Royal Society had taken all science as its province, and nothing in natural history was alien to the activities of the Linnaean society; but, with the beginning of the nineteenth century, societies began to spring up in the metropolis which devoted their energies to the advancement of one science alone.
		The Zoological society of London for the advancement of zoology and animal physiology, and for the introduction of new and curious subjects of the animal kingdom was founded in 1826 by Sir Stamford Raffles, the well-known traveller and governor in the east and the godfather of Rafflesia, J. Sabine, N.A. Vigors and other eminent naturalists.
		Another society which has played a most useful part in the promotion of science is the Cambridge Philosophical society, founded in the year 1819, the only society outside the capital towns which possesses a royal charter.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/224/0833.html (606 words)

	AllRefer.com - societies, learned and literary (Literature, General) - Encyclopedia
		B.C. in Alexandria by Ptolemy I. The earliest important medieval society was established by Charlemagne under the guidance of Alcuin.
		Learned societies of the modern type originated in Italy as literary academies during the revival of classical learning.
		Outstanding among European societies are the French Academy (1635), now a section of the Institut de France; the Royal Society (1662); the Prussian Academy of Sciences, founded by Frederick I in 1700 as the Societas Regia Scientarum; and the Russian Academy of Sciences, founded at St. Petersburg in 1725.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/societie.html (469 words)

	Learned Societies
		Learned Societies, a term applied in Canada to the large group of scholarly organizations that hold conferences annually from late May to mid-June at a different university location each year.
		Society members come not only to hear and discuss scholarly papers on the latest work in their fields, but also to renew contacts and share common concerns.
		The older ROYAL SOCIETY opened the way by moving from its Ottawa base to annual conferences at Montréal, Kingston or Toronto.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004595 (228 words)

	Nature web focus: Access to the literature: the debate continues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Royal Society of Chemistry's aim is "to foster and encourage the growth and application of science by the dissemination of chemical knowledge", while the Society for Endocrinology aims to enable "the advancement of public education in endocrinology".
		The main benefit for learned societies in open access publishing is that enabling free-of-charge access to journal content supports the key mission statement of all societies: to disseminate knowledge and education about the society's subject area as widely as possible.
		By contrast, learned societies exist to foster and disseminate knowledge and undertaking an open access experiment which could threaten the economic survival of the society would be unlikely to be seen as an acceptable risk.
	www.nature.com /nature/focus/accessdebate/8.html (3666 words)

	Learned societies
		A learned society is a society that exists to promote an academic discipline or group of disciplines.
		Membership may be open to all, may require possession of some qualification, or may be an honour conferred by election (as is the case with the oldest learned society still in existence, the Royal Society of London in the U.K. Most learned societies are non-profit organizations.
		Learned societies are of key importance in the sociology of science.
	www.ukpedia.com /l/learned-societies.html (159 words)

	Learned Societies at the American Antiquarian Society
		The Learned Societies collection is also an archive for all of the Society's own publications; copies of the Transactions, the Proceedings, and all books and pamphlets published by AAS are shelved here.
		The United States learned societies (for which there is a checklist by name of the 195 organizations represented in the collection) are arranged alphabetically by name of institution.
		Foreign learned societies, to which there is at present no bibliographical access, are grouped by country and arranged alphabetically by name within each group.
	www.americanantiquarian.org /learnedsocs.htm (267 words)

	Learned societies Definition / Learned societies Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A learned society is a society that exists to promote an academic disciplineThis is a list of academic disciplines (and academic fields).
		Learned Societies is a private non-profit federation of sixty-eight national scholarly organizations.
		Learned Societies is a private non-profit federation of sixty national scholarly organizations.
	www.elresearch.com /Learned_societies (135 words)

	Electronic Journal and Learned Societies Project Details
		Many learned societies are considering using the electronic journal and the facilities offered by electronic networking for the publication of research findings and to promote academic interchange.
		Initially, the publications of the British Psychological Society and the Society for Endocrinology will be used, with other learned societies being encouraged to participate as soon as the necessary management, hardware, and software systems are in place and known to be working well.
		The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers is the national representative of learned society and academic publishers, with a membership representing most of the major producers of serials in science and technology and extending into the humanities.
	www.ukoln.ac.uk /services/elib/projects/learned (644 words)

	Electronic Journal and Learned Societies
		Many learned societies are considering using the electronic journal and the facilities offered by electronic networking to promote academic interchange and the dissemination of new information at a seemingly low cost, but remain fearful of the impact of these developments on the status and viability of their primary publications.
		The project is intended to define the parameters required for the use of electronic networks in the publication of learned society and academic material and for the appropriate means of access to the publications by librarians and end users.
		ALPSP is the national representative of learned society publishers with a membership representing most of the major publishers in science and technology and extending into the humanities.
	journals.eecs.qub.ac.uk /OrigProp.html (2788 words)

	House of Commons - Science and Technology - Written Evidence
		Much of this excellent work is undertaken by members of learned societies on a voluntary basis and IAM believes that so much more could be achieved if some of the available (or any additional) funding was directed to those bodies who currently do not benefit from government support.
		It discriminates against those learned societies with an excellent track record of achievement in favour of an elite few who are effectively "subsidised" by the taxpayer and who do not necessarily represent the views or activities of other bodies.
		It is in government's interest that learned societies come together and speak authoritatively with one voice and reduce the incidences of repetition and duplication of effort.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmsctech/774/774ap18.htm (1739 words)

	Global-Info: The German Digital Libraries Project
		This Commission was founded by four of the learned societies in 1995, and it has sponsored a series of workshops to increase awareness of leading edge technology and innovations in accessing electronic information sources.
		Now, nine of the leading research-level learned societies -- often those with umbrella responsibilities for other learned societies in their field -- are members of the Information and Communication Commission and represent the mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, chemists, educational researchers, sociologists, psychologists, biologists and information technologists in the German Association of Engineers.
		Furthermore, the learned societies support the involvement of libraries and information centers as they, of course, are key players in the process of establishing collections of electronic resources, negotiating optimal access conditions for the academic and scientific community, providing indexing, content analysis, and alerting services, and developing other use conditions.
	www.dlib.org /dlib/april99/04rusch-feja.html (1772 words)

	A Computer is Not a Typewriter, or<BR>Getting Right with Information Technology in the Humanities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Since ACLS is, among other things, a consortium of the major professional societies in the humanities and social sciences, an important part of the President’s job is to inform himself about the concerns of the societies, and to explore courses of action and programs that address those concerns.
		Scholars join societies in their fields primarily for two reasons (though of course grad students join to have access to the job market function) – to receive discounts for registration at society annual meetings, and to receive the society’s journal.
		The Alliance was the first attempt to bring all of the elements of the national humanities community (state councils, learned societies, libraries, museums) together to build coalitions for the pursuit of public policy objectives, and it has been quite successful under the leadership of John Hammer.
	www.wws.princeton.edu /~snkatz/papers/uvatlk.html (5932 words)

	The Royal Society of Edinburgh
		The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) is pleased to respond to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee inquiry into government funding of the scientific learned societies.
		The Society embraces all disciplines in the Sciences and Letters, and its Fellows are elected from the full spectrum of the sciences, medicine, engineering and technology, education, law, the arts, humanities, social sciences, business, industry, the professions and public service.
		Another intensive activity of the Society is communicating knowledge in order to foster lifelong learning, providing a forum for informed debate, engaging both the general public and specialists and improving the perception of research and careers in the sciences and letters.
	www.ma.hw.ac.uk /RSE/govt_responses/2002/learnsoc.htm (1434 words)

	Academies and Learned Societies
		The establishment of learned societies was a major force in the cultivation of the new learning and the dissemination of scientific methods.
		The Asiatic Society of Bengal, founded by the renowned English jurist and Orientalist Sir William Jones (1746 1794) in 1784 under the auspices of Governor-general Warren Hastings (1732 1818), served to kindle an "Oriental renaissance" in Europe during the nineteenth century.
		By bringing Asian languages, literature, arts, and sciences to the attention of Europeans, the members of the Asiatic Society of Bengal helped to generate a host of comparative disciplines in the areas of philology, religion, mythology, folklore, law, and anthropology.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/spcl/excat/berlin/academie.html (643 words)

	Education -- CLSE
		Over ten years ago, in 1986, the Council of Learned Societies endosred and reissued the Standards for Academic and Professional Instruction in Foundations of Education, Educational Studies, and Educational Policy Studies, originally developed in 1978 by a Task Force of the American Educational Studies Association.
		The Council of Learned Societies in Education is affiliated with the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).
		The Council of Learned Societies in Education holds business meetings twice each year, in the spring in conjunction with the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, and in the fall in conjunction with the annual conference of the American Educational Studies Association.
	members.aol.com /caddogap/clsehome.htm (612 words)

	American Oriental Society
		The American Oriental Society is the oldest learned society in the United States devoted to a particular field of scholarship.
		The Society was founded in 1842, preceded only by such distinguished organizations of general scope as the American Philosophical Society (1743), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1780), and the American Antiquarian Society (1812).
		The scope of the Society's purpose is not limited by temporal boundaries: All sincere students of man and his works in Asia, at whatever period of history are welcomed to membership.
	www.umich.edu /~aos (265 words)

	Fellowships in International Studies
		The Library of Congress, the Association of American Universities, and the American Council of Learned Societies are pleased to announce the Library of Congress Fellowships in International Studies.
		Scholars interested in applying for a fellowship should consult the American Council of Learned Societies' website at www.acls.org or contact the Office of Fellowships and Grants, American Council of Learned Societies, 228 East 45th St., New York, NY 10017-3398 by mail, by e-mail to grants@acls.org or by fax to (212) 949-8058.
		Its mission is to advance humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and related social sciences, and to maintain and strengthen relations among national societies devoted to such studies.
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/2000/00-110.html (586 words)

	IGCS - General (China WWW VL - Internet Guide for Chinese Studies)
		The pages of the society serve as an important clearinghouse for resources (printed and on-line) on East Asian archaeology, including state-of-the-art reports, news, and a huge bibliography section (3,293 references as of Dec. 2000).
		Founded in 1995, the purpose of the Society for Ming Studies is to promote the study of Ming China and to promote publications and scholarly communication relating to Ming history.
		Established in 1975, the goals of the Society are to further the progress of studies within the field by providing for the cooperative exchange and communication of knowledge and ideas and by encouraging projects critical to the growth of the field.
	sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de /igcs/iggen.htm (3199 words)

	ACLS History E-Book Project, American Council of Learned Societies, ACLS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Membership in the American Council of Learned Societies is restricted to organizations.
		The mission of the ACLS, as set forth in its constitution, is to "advance humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the Humanities and the related social sciences and to maintain and strengthen relations among the national societies devoted to such studies."
		As the preeminent representative of humanities scholarship in the United States, the ACLS has developed and administered numerous specific programs that have served the interests of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences in general, of individual scholars, and of the nation.
	www.historyebook.org /acls.html (655 words)

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		Organization -STATUTE- American Council of Learned Societies (in this chapter, the "corporation"), a nonprofit corporation incorporated in the District of Columbia, is a federally chartered corporation.
		Purposes -STATUTE- The purposes of the corporation are as provided in the articles of incorporation and include - (1) the advancement of the humanistic studies in all fields of learning; and (2) the maintenance and strengthening of relations among the national societies devoted to those studies.
		In subsection (c), the words "inure to the benefit of" are substituted for "inure to" for consistency in the revised title.
	uscode.house.gov /download/pls/36C207.txt (1492 words)

	ACLS Constituent Learned Societies
		The Constituent Societies of the American Council of Learned Societies are national or international organizations in the humanities and social sciences concerned with a broad field of humanistic study.
		Learned societies seeking application to ACLS should consult membership information.
		The principal staff members of the constituent societies comprise the Conference of Administrative Officers (CAO).
	www.acls.org /ls-cao.htm (192 words)

	American Council of Learned Societies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The mission of the ACLS, founded in 1919, is to advance humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and related social sciences and to maintain and strengthen relations among national societies devoted to such studies.
		As a pre-eminent representative of humanities scholarship in the United States, the ACLS is nationally known and respected as a funder of humanities research through fellowships and grants awarded to individuals and, on occasion, to groups and institutions.
		The positions will provide Fellows with an introduction to the intellectual, administrative, and organizational issues important to the Humanities, the related Social Studies, and their Learned Societies on a national level, and with an opportunity to contribute to the leadership that ACLS provides.
	www.woodrow.org /phd/Career/american_council_of_learned_so.html (414 words)

	Council of Learned Societies in Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The ultimate purpose of these Standards is to promote quality instruction and learning in foundational studies as a means to guarantee to the extent possible that teachers have preservice and professional development opportunities to acquire interpretive, normative, and critical perspectives on education through rigorous study and supervised field experiences.
		As scholars responsible for articulating the Standards of professional preparation and development in the social foundations of education, the Council of Learned Societies in Education offers the following matrix to assist colleges and universities and professional development agencies in designing and evaluating professional preparation and development programs with strong foundations components.
		The educator can examine and explain the practice, leadership, and governance of education in different societies in light of its origins, major influences, and consequences, utilizing critical understanding of educational thought and practice and of the decisions and events which have shaped them.
	www.siue.edu /EDUCATION/core/clsestds.html (971 words)

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