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Weekly News Digest
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March 20, 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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Emily Chapuis became the acting general counsel and associate register of copyrights at the U.S. Copyright Office on March 13. She was previously deputy general counsel; she joined the office in 2023. Before that, Chapuis was a commercial litigator and partner at a national law firm.Cadmore Media assembled its first advisory board: Stephen Rhind-Tutt (former head of Alexander Street), Jennifer Schivas (CEO of 67 Bricks), Michael Cassata (an advisor at Rockland Trust), Marty Kahn (former CEO of ProQuest), and Earl B. Beutler (co-founder of LabArchives). The members will provide strategic insights and guidance to the company as it expands and creates new digital offerings for its customers. Eric Miller, most recently chief strategist for EBSCO Information Services, was appointed OverDrive’s first director of data and information science. In this role, he will lead the team introducing supplemental search and visual knowledge maps to the company’s platforms, apps, and catalogs. Miller will also be in charge of OverDrive’s data repositories and help develop new discovery tools for exploring library collections across Libby, Sora, Kanopy, and TeachingBooks. eLife added five new people to its board of directors: Dinesh Natesan (a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California–Santa Barbara), Kamran Naim (the head of open science at CERN in Switzerland), Fiona Watt (director of EMBO in Germany), Huda Zoghbi (a distinguished service professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas), and Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan (DAE- Homi Bhabha Chair Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in India). They will work with existing board members to determine the organization’s strategic priorities and develop policies while maintaining organizational integrity.
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