2016 – Page 8

Clarivate Analytics, National Board of Accreditation and INFLIBNET collaborate to provide Web of Science Data for the National Institutional Ranking Framework

Asia Pacific, Metadata, Research SupportNovember 17, 2016

Web of Science data will be used to analyze over 3,000 academic institutions and rank them (16 November 2016, New Delhi) Clarivate Analytics, formerly the IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters today was selected to provide research metrics from Web of ScienceTM for the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). Data from the Web of…

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Open access books poised to grow 30% a year through 2020

eBooks, Open AccessNovember 16, 2016

(11 November 2016, Rockville, Md.) While the movement to unlock the vaults of scientific, technical and medical (STM) research is revolutionizing academic journal publishing, scholarly and professional book publishers are experimenting with open models simply to keep the venerable monograph from extinction—this according to the most recent report from media and publishing intelligence firm Simba…

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Scholars call for museum dedicated to Tokyo Trials

Asia Pacific, UncategorizedNovember 15, 2016

(14 November 2016) A commemorative museum dedicated to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, known as the Tokyo Trials, was suggested by scholars at a two-day forum in Shanghai on Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of the opening of the trials. The trials were convened on April 29, 1946, to try the…

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Singapore incorporates video in health care education with Binumi

Asia Pacific, Data, ToolsNovember 15, 2016

(15 November 2016) Medical schools are setting the pace for wireless video technology applications in the classroom, hospital wards and operating theatres. And helping them to succeed is Binumi. Medical students at Nanyang Technological University’s Lee Kong Chian School Of Medicine are using Binumi in their workflow, capturing, editing, and archiving footage which once was…

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Wollongong City Council hiring Coordinator Library Services

Asia Pacific, Jobs, LibrariesNovember 15, 2016

(14 November 2016) Wollongong City Council are looking for a dynamic and accomplished Librarian to lead a passionate and professional team. You will combine your great communication and customer service skills to provide a quality library service, focussing on innovative strategies for the provision of programs and activities for the community, collection maintenance and the…

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Expert Witness.com.au launches as Australia’s largest and most trusted expert database

Asia Pacific, DatabasesNovember 12, 2016

(12 November 2016) The Expert Witness Database (EWD) revolutionises Australia’s Expert industry. http://www.expertwitness.com.au, is a collaborative database of experts with at least eight years of extraordinary tested industry experience satisfying the rules of an ‘Expert Witness’, combined with approved training and proven experience and training as an Expert Witness. The press release is here.

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Promoting practice innovation, improving service level—2016 Chinese Library Annual Conference is held in Tongling, Anhui Province

Asia Pacific, Event, LibrariesNovember 12, 2016

(9 November 2016) From 26 October to 27 October, 2016 Chinese Library Annual Conference was held in Tongling, Anhui Province. Many leaders attended the opening ceremony, including Yu Qun, a member of the Ministerial CPC Committee of the Ministry of Culture, minister assistant of the Ministry of Culture, and director of Department of General Affairs.…

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The Experience Area of National Digital Library of China is exhibited in 2016 Chinese Library Annual Conference

Asia Pacific, Digitization, Event, LibrariesNovember 12, 2016

(4 November 2016) Through virtual reality, human-machine interaction, video and so on, the Experience Area of the National Digital Library of China displayed the development achievements of the Digital Library Promotion Project, including network interconnection, unified user authentication, cooperative development and sharing of resources, and library big data application. It also provided interactive experiences for…

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Transparent peer review at Nature Communications is a clear success

PublishersNovember 12, 2016

(10 November 2016) Nature Communications is incorporating transparent peer review into the journal on a permanent basis, following a successful ten-month trial. In this scheme, authors are given the option to publish the peer review history of the paper alongside their published research. All papers submitted from January 2016 qualify for this scheme. Since the…

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Breakthrough in archival access: Googling through archives within reach

Digitization, Technology, ToolsNovember 12, 2016

(10 November 2016, Amsterdam) The ability to google through records is within reach, concludes the final report of the project Full Automatic Archival Access (FAAA). This project studied the opportunities to use new digital technologies to make paper based archives searchable at document-level. Four out of five words were correctly recognized by OCR- and NER-software.…

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