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6 March 2015

NFAIS selects OCLC's Mary Sauer-Games as new Board of Directors President The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAISTM), a membership association for the information services industry, has announced the selection of Mary Sauer-Games, OCLC Vice President of Product Management, as its new Board of Directors President. Sauer-Games begins a one-year term as Board President, succeeding Chris McCue, Vice President, Marketing, CAS. Sauer-Games was introduced in her new role at the NFAIS 2015 Annual Conference, held February 22-24, 2015 in Arlington, VA. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Springer starts pilot project on Linked Open Data STM publisher Springer has now opened selected metadata from conference publications, heeding the European Commission's call for promoting open data. The term Linked Open Data (LOD) refers to structured, machine-readable data, which more and more researchers and librarians are now using in their work. Springer belongs to the vanguard of LOD providers and has assumed a leading role among those publishers offering semantically searchable data. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Directory of Open Access Journals introduces new standards to help community address quality concerns The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a comprehensive international database of more than 10,000 Open Access journals, recently implemented a rigorous new vetting process that aims to raise the bar of quality for the journals it lists and filters out publications that are tarnishing the image of Open Access. Lars Bjørnshauge, Managing Director of the DOAJ in Copenhagen and director of SPARC Europe, helped to spearhead the expanded review process, which began in March of 2014. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Wolters Kluwer selects GigaSpaces XAP with SanDisk ZetaScale software to support data growth and faster processing of mission-critical data GigaSpaces Technologies, a provider of in-memory computing and cloud orchestration technologies, has announced that Wolters Kluwer will use XAP MemoryXtend to enable scaling of the growing volume of data processed by its Sentri7®clinical decision support application and to reduce its hardware footprint. GigaSpaces joined forces with SanDisk Corporation to deliver XAP MemoryXtend with SanDisk ZetaScaleTM software, to provide customers like Wolters Kluwer Health faster data processing at lower cost. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Future Science Group to continue to require double-blind peer review for research articles Publisher Future Science Group has announced that it will continue to require double-blind peer review for research articles submitted to all 34 professional journals published by both of its imprints, Future Science and Future Medicine. FSG has employed the use of double-blind peer review since the launch of the company's first journal, Pharmacogenomics, in 2000. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme LIBROS academic library consortium now live with OCLC WorldShare Management Services OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, has announced that LIBROS, the consortium of 17 academic libraries in New Mexico, is now using OCLC WorldShare Management Services as its library management solution. More than 325 libraries on four continents—Africa, Australia, Europe and North America—are currently using OCLC WorldShare Management Services to gain efficiencies and improve usability in library services and end-user discovery. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Radiological Society of North America to preserve e-journals with Portico Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) will preserve its e-journals, Radiology and RadioGraphics with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into the future. RSNA is based in Oak Brook, Illinois. The Radiological Society of North America is an international society of radiologists, medical physicists and other medical professionals with more than 51,000 members across the globe. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Emerald announced as new publisher for ILA book series Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has been unanimously selected by the International Leadership Association (ILA) as the new home for its book series, Building Leadership Bridges. The first Emerald book in the series: Leadership 2050: Contextualising Global Leadership Processes for the Future, will be published in August 2015. 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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