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15 April 2019

Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting to focus on global perspectives in scholarly publishing The Society for Scholarly Publishing's (SSP) 41st Annual Meeting will be held at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina San Diego, CA USA, May 29–31, 2019. The theme for this year's meeting is 'Shaping the New Status Quo: Global Perspectives in Scholarly Publishing.' The SSP Annual Meeting includes timely and thoughtful keynote addresses and concurrent sessions featuring an international group of presenters from all areas of scholarly communications: publishers, service providers, librarians, funders, researchers, and more. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Wolters Kluwer joins CHORUS initiative Healthcare information solutions and services provider Wolters Kluwer has joined CHORUS as a member. Wolters Kluwer will gain access to a continually updated CHORUS Publisher Dashboard to track compliance of the articles in their Lippincott portfolio of medical, nursing and allied health journals. CHORUS membership includes a diverse, cooperative group of publishers, publishing platforms, and industry organisations with which CHORUS currently monitors over 611,000 articles for public access and long-term availability. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme OpenAthens 2019 conference focuses on how industry must evolve to meet user demand while protecting valuable content Improved user-centred design in digital media and publishing is the key to the industry's future success and to combating piracy, experts speaking at the OpenAthens 2019 conference agreed. Leading figures in publishing and content management shared insights on how to improve user experience, mitigate piracy and manage consent and privacy at the one-day event entitled 'user-centred by design'. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme University of North Carolina at Pembroke opts for Ex Libris Alma, Primo, and Leganto solutions Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP) has selected the Ex Libris Alma® library services platform, Primo® discovery and delivery solution, and LegantoTM course resource list tool. The UNCP vision is to create the university library of the future, one that blends a unified, integrated library system with powerful search technologies and a superior, affordable student experience. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme RLUK elects Vice-Chair and six new members to its Board Research Libraries UK (RLUK) has elected a new Vice-Chair and six new members to its Board of Directors, effective from the date of the recent AGM, March 21, 2019. Jessica Gardner, University of Cambridge and a current member of the Board, stood unopposed for the role of Vice-Chair and will serve in this role for two years before succeeding to the role of Chair in 2021. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Association of College and Research Libraries and Gale launch ACRL Libraries Transform Toolkit The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and Gale, a Cengage company, have collaborated to create the ACRL Libraries Transform Toolkit. This free new toolkit provides academic and research libraries with easy-to-use tools and resources to develop effective marketing and outreach strategies to promote their services and impact to students, faculty and administrators. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Latest edition of Blogspeak now online The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Rob Schlesinger (Guest Post - The Dissertation Publication Requirement: It's Time for Reexamination); Andy Tattersall (Don't be a giraffe - How to avoid trolls on academic social media); Brenda Wingfield (How the open access model hurts academics in poorer countries); Stacy Konkiel (How to use altmetrics to craft a better microbiology research engagement strategy); and David Crotty (Scholarly Kitchen Webinar: The Future of Independent and Society Publishing). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here.   Brought to you by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a trusted global partner for digital content transformation solutions - Abstracting & Indexing (A&I), Knowledge Modeling (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies), and Metadata Enrichment & Entity Extraction.   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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