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The London Book Fair announces winners of the Trailblazer Awards
The winners of the Trailblazer Awards were revealed at an event hosted by The London Book Fair and in partnership with the Society of Young Publishers and BookBrunch. The Trailblazer Awards invited members of the publishing industry to nominate themselves and others to find young publishers ‘trailblazing through their twenties’. The 2016 winners will be honoured at the LBF International Excellence Awards on April 12, 2016.
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SAGE Publishing to publish Applied Biosafety: Journal of ABSA International
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has partnered with ABSA International to publish Applied Biosafety: Journal of ABSA International. ABSA International is committed to promoting global biosafety awareness, preventing exposures of biohazards in the laboratory and releases to the environment, and developing and sharing best safety practices among biosafety professionals, architects, engineers, and researchers that handle these substances through the publication of Applied Biosafety.
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Emerald partners with ORCID to support author community
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing is partnering with ORCID, which provides a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities, as part of continued efforts to support the author community and the scholarly discovery process. ORCID is a community driven, non-profit organisation with the aim of resolving ambiguity problems for the research community.
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NISO launches new project to develop Recommended Practice for Tracking Link Origins
Members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved a new project: the development of a Recommended Practice for Tracking Link Origins in a Networked Information Environment. As libraries strive to improve the ways in which users access their collections, gaining a definitive understanding of where a user began his or her library search before ultimately arriving at library-licensed content is an important factor for library staff in determining the value of a platform and how to allocate resources.
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Southern Adventist University selects Ex Libris Alma and Primo
Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announced that Southern Adventist University (SAU) in Tennessee has selected the Ex Libris® Alma® resource management solution and the Primo® discovery and delivery solution, replacing their previous EBSCO Discovery Service system. Having run the Ex Libris Aleph integrated library system for over ten years, SAU was keen to remain with the high quality technical and customer service standards of Ex Libris, while moving to a cloud-based platform.
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Registration now open for Planning a Digital Scholarship Center: A CNI-ARL Workshop
General registration is now open for ‘Planning a Digital Scholarship Center: A CNI-ARL Workshop,’ to be held May 17–18, 2016, in Arlington, Virginia. This workshop will assist institutions in the process of planning digital scholarship centers, not by offering one solution but by presenting a variety of models that will help institutions make informed choices that address institutional needs and priorities.
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