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31 August 2016

Taxonomy Boot Camp London to be held from October 18-19, 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 of taxonomies in driving data, content and information processes. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme FTC sues academic journal publisher OMICS Group for deceptive practices 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. According to the FTC's complaint, OMICS does not tell researchers that they must pay significant publishing fees until after it has accepted an article for publication, and often will not allow researchers to withdraw their articles from submission, thereby making the research ineligible for publication in another journal. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Japan and South Korea dominate the inaugural Reuters Top 75: Asia's Most Innovative Universities Japan and South Korea dominate the inaugural Reuters Top 75: Asia's Most Innovative Universities, a list that identifies the educational institutions that are doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies, and help drive the global economy. Out of the top 20 universities, 17 are based in Japan and South Korea. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Dr Dyno Keatinge appointed Chair of CABI Horticulture Editorial Board Scientific publisher CABI has announced the appointment of Dr Dyno Keatinge as Chair of its Editorial Advisory Board for Horticulture. Dr Keatinge brings 43 years of crop agronomy experience to the post, having previously held the position of Director General of AVRDC (the World Vegetable Center) and Chair of AIRCA (the Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture). More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Kudos partners with PaperHive to help authors track and manage conversations about their publications Kudos, a service for maximising the reach and impact of research publications, has announced a partnership with PaperHive to facilitate annotations and conversations around research articles. Through PaperHive, researchers can read collaboratively, annotate and share research articles, with access rights managed by publishers. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Australia's Charles Darwin University selects Ex Libris Alma and Primo Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that Australia's Charles Darwin University (CDU) has opted for a library services platform consisting of the Ex Libris Alma® library management service and the Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery platform. These two solutions will be replacing IntotaTM and SirsiDynix Symphony® systems. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ACCUCOMS to represent Éclat Engineering's RemoteXs ACCUCOMS, a provider of sales and representation services for publishers, recently announced representation of Éclat Engineering's product, RemoteXs. Under leadership of the company's Commercial Managers, ACCUCOMS will now bring RemoteXs to libraries within Latin America, MENA, Turkey, India and Asia Pacific. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme   Brought to you by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a world-leading provider of metadata services, abstraction, indexing, entity extraction and knowledge organisation models (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies).   Do you have relevant news articles to share with us? Click here to send a press release   You are receiving this email newsletter as part of your Knowledgespeak membership. You can unsubscribe instantly from any of our email newsletters by clicking here.

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