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2 September 2014

International Convention of University Presses, a new netwoking initiative at the Frankfurt Book Fair The Frankfurt Book Fair, scheduled for October 8-12, 2014, has announced a cooperation with Latin American University Presses. Born as an initiative of Latin American networks including university presses and the Frankfurt Book Fair, the International Convention is a worldwide opportunity to present and create interaction among national and regional networks of University Presses, and to provide a platform for discussions on common issues in academic publishing at international level. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Springer-Verlag France sells French-language STM assets to Lavoisier STM publisher Springer has signed an agreement for the sale of Springer-Verlag France's French-language STM publications to Lavoisier. The transaction is effective as of September 1, 2014. Archives and the articles to be published up to and including December 2016 will continue to be accessible online via SpringerLink. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ORCID partners with Health Research Alliance to host free webinar on how funders are using ORCID identifiers in their workflows and systems ORCID, a non-profit organisation that provides an open registry of unique identifiers for researchers, is partnering with the Health Research Alliance, a consortium of biomedical research foundations, to host a free webinar on how funders are using ORCID identifiers in their workflows and systems. The webinar is scheduled for September 25, 2014, 10 am EDT (UTC-4). More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme BioData appoints Louis Culot as new CEO BioData, producer of Labguru, the web-based research and lab management service, has announced the appointment of Louis Culot as the company's new CEO. Culot most recently served as VP Marketing and Business Development at BioDiscovery Inc., developer of genomics software for life science research and clinical applications. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SPIE Fellow Glenn Boreman elected to serve as 2015 Vice President of SPIE SPIE Fellow Glenn Boreman, Professor and Chairman at the Department of Physics and Optical Science and Director of the Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Plasmonics, Inc., has been elected to serve as the 2015 Vice President of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. With his election to Vice President, Boreman joins the SPIE presidential chain and will serve as President-Elect in 2016 and as the society's President in 2017. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Nominations now open for HIMSS Awards and Scholarships HIMSS, a cause-based, global enterprise producing health IT thought leadership, education, events, market research and media services around the world, is now accepting nominations for awards and scholarships that recognise significant professional contributions to the field of health IT. Online nominations for both awards and scholarships will be accepted through Friday, October 10. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Library Investment Index summarizes relative size of ARL University Libraries for 2012–13 The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released the Library Investment Index for 2012–2013, the latest in this annual summary measure of the relative size of the university library members of the Association. Although similar to the ARL Membership Criteria Index in reflecting the investments made in research libraries, the ARL Library Investment Index is less affected by the electronic availability of content and, consequently, the rapidly changing context of library collections. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme You are receiving this email newsletter as part of your Knowledgespeak membership. You can unsubscribe instantly from any of our email newsletters by clicking here.

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