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Weekly News Digest
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June 19, 2025 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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People News for June 2025
Sage gave its sixth-annual 10-Year Impact Awards to the two-most-cited papers published in Sage Journals in 2014: “Bibliometric Methods in Management and Organization” by Ivan Zupic and Tomaž Cater in Organizational Research Methods and “Qualitative Content Analysis: A Focus on Trustworthiness” by Satu Elo, Maria Kääriäinen, Outi Kanste, Tarja Pölkki, Kati Utriainen, and Helvi Kyngäs in Sage Open. The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) handed out its Appreciation Award at its 47th Annual Meeting in Baltimore to Erin Foley, director of rightsholder relations at CCC; Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen, VP of marketing at Silverchair; and Sean Pidgeon, executive editor at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). SSP’s Emerging Leader Award went to Ginny Herbert, associate publisher of researcher engagement and experience at AIP Publishing, and Kasia Repeta, an analyst for global outreach and publishing systems at Duke University Press. SSP gave its Distinguished Service Award to Emilie Delquie, SSP secretary/treasurer 2020–2026. The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) introduced new board members for the term that begins July 1, 2025. The DOI Foundation’s Jonathan Clark will move up to chair of the board from vice chair, the Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration and Innovation’s Jill Morris becomes vice chair, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Robert Wheeler ends his term as chair to become past chair. There are five new directors who will serve a 3-year term: Laura Cox, senior director of publishing industry data at CCC; Cynthia Hudson Vitale, associate dean for technology strategy and digital services at Johns Hopkins University; Alison Larkin, associate director of peer review services at IEEE; Leslie Sharp, dean of libraries at Georgia Institute of Technology; and Monica Westin, associate director of content and discovery at Manchester Metropolitan University. Jennifer Schivas, CEO of 67 Bricks, was named one of EQL:Her’s 2025 InspiringFifty. “In partnership with Informa and Founders Forum Group, [InspiringFifty is] spotlighting fifty exceptional women who are leading the way—because now, more than ever, we need to back women founders and leaders,” 67 Bricks states.
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