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1 September 2017

Brill Asia opens branch office in Beijing Academic publisher Brill, through its regional office in Singapore, Brill Asia, has opened a branch office in Beijing, supporting its sales and marketing activities. The official opening took place during the 24th Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF). A festive reception for the opening of Brill China was held at the Residence of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the presence of Chargé d'Affaires, a.i. Mr. Paul Menkveld and distinguished guests. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Collaborative monograph storage feasibility study published For many university libraries, space shortage remains a major challenge, particularly balancing the need for increasing study space while some physical collections continue to grow. The HE sector has worked in partnership with the British Library (BL) since 2007 to manage print journals collaboratively through the UK Research Reserve (UKRR) programme funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to balance the need for increasing study space while some physical collections continue to grow. The community has worked together in creating and enhancing a national distributed collection so participating libraries can make informed decision about their print stock whilst ensuring continued access to print research material. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme AAAS' Rush Holt to present at 2017 Frontiers in Optics + Laser Sciences Meeting At a time when there are widespread concerns about the place of science in the society and government, what role should scientists have with policymakers? What can be done to help avoid policies that devalue science and discontinue the much needed investment in research and development? Rush Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) will address these issues and more during a presentation during the Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science (FIO + LS) conference and exhibition in Washington, DC. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Marin County Free Library selects OCLC's CONTENTdm to manage digital collections OCLC has announced that the Marin County Free Library's Anne T. Kent California Room, earlier this year, switched from locally hosting CONTENTdm to CONTENTdm hosted by OCLC. The library also switched to CONTENTdm's new responsive end-user interface, which has improved the display of its oral history collections as well as the display of hundreds of images in the collections. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme CARL appoints Jeff Moon as Director, Portage The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has announced the appointment of Jeff Moon as the next Director of Portage. He succeeds Chuck Humphrey, who has held this role since September 2015. Portage is a national research data management (RDM) initiative developed by CARL to assist researchers and other RDM stakeholders, through a library-based network of expertise and national platforms for planning, preserving, and discovering research data. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme OCUL's Scholars Portal Journals reaches 50M article milestone The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) has announced that the Scholars Portal Journals platform has loaded its 50 millionth journal article. Scholars Portal Journals provides students, faculty and researchers at Ontario's universities easy access to articles on a wide range of academic subjects through a bilingual search interface. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Holiday Notice This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on September 4, 2017 on account of Labor day. We will resume our newsletter service on Tuesday, September 5, 2017. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the September 1st issue.   Brought to you by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a world-leading provider of Abstracting & Indexing (A&I) Services, Knowledge Modeling Services (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies), Metadata Enrichment & Entity Extraction Services.   Do you have relevant news articles to share with us? Click here to send a press release   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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