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2 February 2016

Springer Nature appoints Rachel Burley as Publishing Director, BioMed Central and SpringerOpen Springer Nature, a global research, educational and professional publisher, has announced the appointment of Rachel Burley to the role of Publishing Director, BioMed Central and SpringerOpen, effective February 1, 2016. Her responsibilities will include all of BioMed Central and SpringerOpen's editorial and commercial activity. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier Foundation launches series of new programs addressing sustainability development goals The Elsevier Foundation has launched a series of new programs to improve health information delivery, research ecosystems in developing countries, and diversity in science, technology and medicine (STM); a total annual contribution of $1 million. Through 2018, the Elsevier Foundation will build on its experience with a new program aligned with key aspects of the newly ratified Sustainable Development Goals of the UN (SDGs). More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Dr. Timo Hannay joins SAGE Publishing's Board as Non-Executive Director Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced that that Timo Hannay is joining SAGE's Board of Directors as a non-executive Director. Dr. Hannay recently launched SchoolDash, a company devoted to the analysis and visualization of data about primary and secondary schools in the UK. Until June 2015, he was the founding Managing Director of Digital Science, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group that invests in and develops scientific software innovations in order to simplify and accelerate the research process. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Follett and EBSCO Information Services announce eBook partnership Educational materials and technology solutions provider Follett has announced a partnership with EBSCO Information Services to make approximately 600,000 EBSCO-hosted eBooks available for ordering through Titlewave, Follett's premier collection development and order platform for K-12 schools. EBSCO offers high-quality eBooks from more than 1,500 major publishers, including eBooks from more than 115 worldwide university presses. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme First Editor's Draft of EPUB 3.1 now available for community review The EPUB 3 Working Group has announced that the first Editor's Draft of EPUB 3.1 is now available for community review. A condensed summary of the changes being put forward for review is available in the EPUB 3.1 Changes from 3.0.1 document. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Taylor & Francis Group and the Association for Science Teacher Education announce new publishing partnership Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group and the Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE) have announced a new publishing partnership. Beginning with the 2017 Volume, Taylor & Francis will publish and distribute ASTE's highly regarded Journal of Science Teacher Education under the Routledge imprint. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Erasmus University Rotterdam selects OCLC WorldShare Management Services Erasmus University Rotterdam, a university in the Netherlands with over 24,000 students and a research community of approximately 1,400 scientists, has selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services as its library management system. WorldShare Management Services (WMS) is a complete, cloud-based library management system that offers all the applications needed to manage a library, including Acquisitions, Circulation, Metadata, Resource Sharing, License Management and a single-search Discovery interface to connect library users to the information they need. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Brought to you by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a world-leading provider of abstraction, indexing, entity extraction and knowledge organisation models (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies).   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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