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India: National Library city hub to reopen
(7 Jun 2022) Ajay Pratap Singh, the new director-general of the National Library, plans to restore and rejuvenate the National Library’s historic city hub at Esplanade which used to house…
Philippines: DOST e-library to be available in rural areas via datacasting
(24 Jun 2022) The digital library Science and Technology Academic and Research-Based Openly Operated Kiosk Station (STARBOOKS) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) will soon be available via datacasting.…
University of Sydney Library adopts new protocols for acknowledgement, representation and access to indigenous material
(10 Jun 2022) When Nathan Sentance first visited Australia’s oldest library, a grand sandstone structure next to Parliament House in Sydney, he loved it. But he felt out of place.…
Future of libraries discussed at the KL International Book Fair
(10 Jun 2022) The one Talk titled “Libraries of the future” was hosted by Malaysian Book Industry Chamber chairman Keith Thong and moderated by Dr Nor Edzan Che Nazir from…
The open research platform Octopus is to launch
Octopus aims to change the way research is published and improve its quality. (24 Jun 2022) Ground-breaking publishing platform Octopus is being launched next week (29 June), and researchers are…
Sri Lanka: Several universities shut down amid collapsing economy
(24 Jun 2022) Sri Lanka has temporarily shut down at least three state universities and closed schools in the capital Colombo and other main cities due to a prevailing fuel…
Journal Citation Reports 2022: A preview
(21 Jun 2022) This year’s data summarizes Web of Science™ citations from 2021, including 35,000 publications (journals, books and conference proceedings), 2.7 million citable items and 145 million cited references indexed…
SPIE Digital Library offers institutional subscription price reduction through June 2023
(21 Jun 2022) SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, today announced another year with discounted institutional subscription pricing. The 5% price reduction will apply to all SPIE Digital Library…
Many researchers say they’ll share data — but don’t
(21 Jun 2022) Most biomedical and health researchers who declare their willingness to share the data behind journal articles do not respond to access requests or hand over the data when…
CAUL partners with Annual Reviews to pilot Subscribe to Open in 2022
(16 Jun 2022) Starting June 14th, all Annual Reviews content published between 2013-2022 will be openly available across Australia and New Zealand. This includes all articles authored by Australian and…
OCLC files lawsuit against Clarivate
(15 Jun 2022) The lawsuit was filed by OCLC earlier this week in U.S. Federal Court, Southern District of Ohio. The complaint (32 pages; PDF) is available here. The complete court docket…
ASCE Conference Proceedings Video Collection set to launch in early 2023, powered by Morressier
(15 Jun 2022) The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the oldest engineering society in the US, and Morressier, the leading platform for early-stage research, today announced a new partnership…
Digital News Report 2022: Insights about digital news consumption worldwide
(15 Jun 2022) This report, commissioned by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, is the 11th annual report to understand how news is being consumed in a range…
Highlights of World Conference on Research Integrity 2022
(9 Jun 2022) The 7th World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI) was held in Cape Town, South Africa, from May 29 to June 1, 2022. The event brought together important stakeholders, including researchers,…
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