NFAIS to host 2016 Humanities Roundtable - September 8, 2016
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS™), a global nonprofit membership organisation serving the information services community, will host the NFAIS 2016 Humanities Roundtable on September 23 in Atlanta with virtual participation available from any location. 2016's event, hosted in conjunction with Atlanta's Pitts Theology… Read More
bioRxiv receives additional financial support - September 7, 2016
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has announced that its free, not-for-profit preprint service bioRxiv has received generous additional financial support. In the three years since bioRxiv began, biomedical scientists have warmly embraced the sharing of results as preprints prior to formal publication. Submissions to bioRxiv… Read More
ARL appoints Catherine Davidson as visiting program officer for scholarly communication initiatives - September 6, 2016
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has named Catherine Davidson as a visiting program officer (VPO) for scholarly communication initiatives from September 2016 through June 2017. Davidson, a 2009–2010 graduate of the ARL Leadership Fellows program, is the associate university librarian (AUL) for collections and research… Read More
Knowledge E implements plagiarism screening via Crossref Similarity Check - September 6, 2016
Information resources and software solutions provider Knowledge E has joined the Crossref Similarity Check initiative by which all submitted journal articles and conference papers are subjected to comparison with previously published articles in thousands of publications from all over the world. … Read More
Taxonomy Boot Camp London to be held from October 18-19, 2016 - August 31, 2016
The first ever Taxonomy Boot Camp London will be held from October 18-19, 2016, at the Olympia Conference Centre, London. Whatever your interests or your level of experience, this brand new conference will help you understand why more and more organisations are recognising the value… Read More
FTC sues academic journal publisher OMICS Group for deceptive practices - August 31, 2016
The Federal Trade Commission has charged academic journal publisher OMICS Group of hundreds of purported online academic journals with deceiving academics and researchers about the nature of its publications and hiding publication fees ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars. The… Read More
