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10,000 additional photographs and cartoons from Condé Nast at ArtStor Read More... Online Chinese Christianity Collection Read More... Two open access repositories launched in Myanmar Read More... International Accord strengthens ties between repository networks worldwide Read More... More than 35,000 additional photojournalism images from Magnum Photos via ArtStor Read More...

Conferences

2017 APLAP Conference papers published online

(16 May 2017) The 11th Conference of the Association of Parliamentary Librarians of Asia and the Pacific was held at the National Assembly Library in Seoul, South Korea, from 26-28 April 2017. Its theme was Moving towards a big data era: The roles of parliamentary libraries and research [Read more...]

2nd International Conference of Asian Libraries

(4 May 2017) The Dr. Zakir Husain Library, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi and the Asian Library Association, New Delhi are hosting ICAL-2017, the 2nd International Conference of Asian Libraries, 26-28 October 2017. The theme is Expanding Digital Footprints: Role of Libraries & [Read more...]

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Asia Pacific

Canberra Institute of Technology hiring Library Manager

Scholars win Public Policy Research Fund for critical news literacy research

Choose the right journal for your research

Melodrama in Meiji Japan at The National Library of Australia

World’s largest manga library planned at former Tokushima grade school

Data Collections

Kudos and Editage partner to help researchers summarize work in plain language to enhance its discoverability

NTU hiring Assistant Director – Scholarly Communication Group

Research evaluation and data science for libraries

Submissions invited for proposals to receive funding for projects to advance understanding of alternative research metrics

Using GRID to discover and analyse global research trends

eBooks

China Reading launches Qidian International, the leading international digital reading platform for China’s independent writers

UK readers abandon eBooks at an alarming rate

eBooks usage 2016 at Cambridge: a glance at the figures

Launch of “Rights, Action and Social Responsibility” initiative

Altmetric Badges for Books adopted by The MIT Press providing new attention insights for authors, editors and readers

ProQuest helps libraries meet demand for Chinese-language resources

Information Literacy

Scholars win Public Policy Research Fund for critical news literacy research

Trends in Singapore’s academic libraries

Introducing La Trobe’s Digital Literacies Framework

Deakin University hiring Manager Digital Literacy Programs

ACRL Global Perspectives on Information Literacy

The challenge facing libraries in an era of fake news

Online Learning

Skillsoft’s 2017 APAC Perspectives Conference

New product: Med Insight LT PALMs

Time To Know introduces its insight-driven education solution at APAC Regional Sales Conference

BoardVitals, a powerful board review tool for physicians

Slides and recording of COAR webinar on Publishing Controlled Vocabularies for Access and Reuse

Databases

10,000 additional photographs and cartoons from Condé Nast at ArtStor

Online Chinese Christianity Collection

Two open access repositories launched in Myanmar

International Accord strengthens ties between repository networks worldwide

More than 35,000 additional photojournalism images from Magnum Photos via ArtStor

Conferences

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