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Criticism over copyright issues prods NZ library to cease book donation to Internet Archive
(30 Nov 2021) The New Zealand National Library decided to cease its donation of 600,000 books from its overseas published collection to Internet Archive for digitization, following a wave of criticism…
Australia: Budget allocated to digitise and preserve at risk archive material
(6 Dec 2021) The Australian government said it will hand more than AU$47 million to digitise and preserve at risk archive material held by the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA), and seven…
Korea: City library to launch drone delivery of books
(30 Nov 2021) The Seongnam municipal government in Gyeonggi Province is on track to use drones for the delivery of library books. The city government said Monday that it…
Wiley acquires Knowledge Unlatched
(2 Dec 2021) Global research and education leader Wiley today announced the acquisition of Knowledge Unlatched, an innovator in online open access solutions. The open access movement promises to make…
Baidu Wenku and Thieme Group announce new partnership
(29 Nov 2021) Baidu Wenku and Thieme Group have reached a comprehensive agreement. With Thieme, the first international academic publishing group to cooperate, Baidu Wenku officially starts the new content ecological development in…
University of Sydney is hiring Manager, Innovation and Planning
(30 Nov 2021) About the opportunity Full time continuing role Develop new and effective ways of collecting, analysing and utilising data to identify opportunities to improve and develop the University…
Digital Science releases report on global attitudes towards open data
New report from Digital Science finds increasing concerns around the lack of credit for data sharing. (30 Nov 2021) Figshare, Digital Science, and Springer Nature’s annual State of Open Data report…
UN-iLibrary relaunched with SDG search tool
(30 Nov 2021) The UN iLibrary is the digital source for reliable information published by the United Nations, with content in all six official UN languages and several more. The platform…
UNESCO sets international open science standards
(26 Nov 2021) Some 193 countries attending UNESCO’s General Conference have agreed to abide by common standards for open science. The first international framework was adopted in the hope of…
India: 20,000 rare books and journals now just a click away
(27 Nov 2021) Some of the rarest collections including a review of the shipping system of the East-India Company of 1798, the Madras Monthly Journal of Medical Science of 1872,…
Going for gold, or gold diggers?
(17 Nov 2021) Springer Nature published a white paper entitled, “Going for Gold”. The paper presents an analysis of a subset of their articles comparing the usage across closed access,…
The British Library adopts a new persistent identifier policy
(11 Nov 2021) Since 29 September, to support and guide the management of its collection, the Library has adopted a new persistent identifier policy. A persistent identifier or PID is…
Best Practices of Libraries in ASEAN: A showcase of inspiring examples by John Hickok @ The 1ST ASEAN Virtual Regional Conference of Public Librarians, August 23 to 25, 2021
By Gina de Alwis Jayasuriya* (26 Nov 2021) John Hickok is a familiar name to many of us in the LIS profession in Asia. As Library Faculty, International Outreach Librarian at…
National Library of the Philippines observes 31st Library and Information Services Month
(9 Nov 2021) National Library of the Philippines (NLP) celebrates the 31st Library and Information Services Month through a virtual opening ceremony Wednesday, November 3. This year’s theme, “Libraries…
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