(10 June 2015) Adelaide University is planning for the evolution of its library services over the next 20 years. A series of workshops for staff and students will be held in June and July 2015. The announcement is here.
(10 June 2015) The American Library Association is partnering with READ Global (Rural Education and Development) libraries, other NGOs and other government organizations in Nepal to collect monetary donations, which will be sent to continue leading the relief effort. The Nepal Library Relief Fund will help to rebuild libraries and archives in Nepal that were destroyed…
(10 June 2015) This year the Getty Foundation celebrated its 30th anniversary. The event was marked with the launch of its Online Grant Database, which allows access to information about grants awarded since the Foundation’s inception in 1984. The new database offers a number of ways to search for grant information, including a sliding timeline…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (11 June 2015) The existing rankings that we examined in articles 5 to 11 are not designed for the mass market of undergraduate students. Even THE and QS, which include a broader range of metrics, and Webometrics and Altmetrics, which focus on alternative measures, are still primarily tools for policy makers…
(10 June 2015) The National University of Singapore (NUS) has emerged once again as the top university in Asia, retaining its peak position in the latest results of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) University Rankings: Asia 2015. This marks the second consecutive time that NUS has topped the rankings since it was first published in 2009.…
(10 June 2015) Heather Coates guest writes in the Altmetric blog about successful altmetrics outreach. She is a tenure-track librarian, a practitioner-researcher, who needs to know how the scholarly ecosystem works. In practice this needs an understanding of how scholarly products are created, disseminated, used, curated, and evaluated. The article covers helping faculty make strategic…
(9 June 2015) Academic publishing company Elsevier has filed a complaint at a New York District Court, hoping to shut down the Library Genesis project and the SciHub.org search engine. The sites, which are particularly popular in developing nations where access to academic works is relatively expensive, are accused of pirating millions of scientific articles.…
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