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May 3, 2017 by Gary Price

1. France: Springer Signs National License with ABES For eBooks
33,000 titles included.
2. National Library of Medicine Announces Departure of NCBI Director Dr. David Lipman
3. Research Databases: OpenCorporates Adds Data For About 1 Million Companies Located in Belarus
4. The Arab Image Foundation: Digitizing the Middle East’s Photographic Heritage (via the Iris, From The Getty)

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About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

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