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SAGE Publishing to publish Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery

Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced that it will publish the open access (OA) journal Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery, the official journal of the Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association. Kenneth MC Cheung serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.
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ProQuest and CALIS expand long-standing collaboration to bring Chinese scholarship to a global audience

ProQuest and China Academic Library Information System (CALIS), a consortium of Chinese higher education libraries, have expanded their long-standing collaboration and are now enabling unprecedented, global access to more than 270,000 dissertation abstracts from China’s premier universities. The records, captured in English, are available in the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Database (PQDT Global™), allowing 3,000 universities around the world to discover graduate research from institutions in China.
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Oxford University Press and Zhejiang University Press launch new, peer reviewed open-access journal – Food Quality and Safety

Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP), together with Zhejiang University Press (ZUP) in Hangzhou, China, has launched a new, peer reviewed open-access journal – Food Quality and Safety (FQS). FQS is initially waiving article processing charges and offers prompt peer review and rapid international dissemination. The journal is available at https://academic.oup.com/fqs.
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Library and Archives Canada in deal to use OCLC WMS as its library services platform, to move catalogue to WorldCat

Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has entered into an agreement with OCLC to use OCLC WorldShare Management Services as its library services platform and move its National Union Catalogue to WorldCat. These moves are designed to make Canada’s documentary heritage more widely accessible and available to library users in Canada and around the world.
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ORCID announces road show series in the US and Europe

ORCID is starting its 2017 US road show series in Chicago in April, followed by a series of European workshops in May. These events bring together the cross-sector ORCID community and provide an opportunity to share stories, technology and outreach approaches, and meet directly with ORCID staff. Registration is always free. More details and registration information for the workshops are available in the events page.
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Lauren Pressley elected ACRL vice-president/president-elect

Lauren Pressley, director of the University of Washington (UW) Tacoma Library and associate dean of UW Libraries, has been elected ACRL vice-president/president-elect. She will become president-elect following the 2017 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago and assume the presidency in July 2018 for a one-year term.
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Reprints Desk introduces data-driven gadgets in latest version of SaaS research platform

Research Solutions, Inc., a pioneer in providing cloud-based solutions for scientific research, and its wholly-owned subsidiary Reprints Desk, have announced the launch of a new version of the company’s Article Galaxy research platform. New features include full mobile responsiveness, design enhancements, an improved order history page, and the introduction of an ecosystem of gadgets – powerful apps that allow for sophisticated data augmentation of content.
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Latest edition of Blogspeak now online

The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Rick Anderson (Four Ways of Rationalizing Infringement: or, How to Defend a Pirate); Mike Shatzkin (Authors need help with their digital presence that they still are not getting); Stacy Konkiel (Altmetrics, privacy and obscurity); Benedikt Fecher, Sascha Friesike, Isabella Peters and Gert G. Wagner (Rather than simply moving from “paying to read” to “paying to publish”, it’s time for a European Open Access Platform); and Robert Harington (Succession Planning). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here.
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