Alcohol-drenched medieval battlefields. Opium-laced imperialism. Modern-day narco-terrorism. There’s a lot of history between armed conflict and psychoactive substances. (6 Aug 2019, feed from Knowable Magazine) “War on drugs”: It’s a term that may elicit memories of the US government’s 20th-century campaign against the sale and use of illegal psychoactive substances. But that ongoing “war” is…
(9 Aug 2019) Details of the “big deals” struck by university libraries and academic publishers have now been published as part of the Big Deal Knowledge Base. The database, launched yesterday by open-access advocacy group SPARC, includes thousands of pricing details on journal subscriptions as well as unredacted license agreements. Source: Inside Higher Ed
(9 Aug 2019) For the last 5 years, Trøndelag county library in Norway have been working together with the Saami community to create more children’s books in the south Saami language. With an approach adapted from library reading programmes, their aim was to publish a variety of translated books intended to meet the children’s own choice…
(8 Aug 2019) The China Biographical Database is a freely accessible relational database with biographical information of approximately 427,000 individuals as of April 2019, primarily from the 7th through early 20th centuries. Users can query the system in terms of place, time, office, social associations and kinship, and export the results for further analysis with GIS,…
(8 Aug 2019) Faculty members at a number University of California schools have stopped serving on the editorial boards of journals published by Cell Press in protest of its parent company, Elsevier, not having reached a deal with UC for access to its publications. The 31 signatories of a letter to Elsevier, posted yesterday (August 7) online, write…
(6 Aug 2019) John Wiley and Sons Inc. (NYSE: JW-A) (NYSE: JW-B) is delighted to announce that, starting in 2020, Wiley will publish The FASEB Journal on behalf of The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). The addition of TheFASEB Journal to Wiley’s portfolio extends the partnership between FASEB and Wiley, which also publishes the open access journal FASEB BioAdvances.…
(7 Aug 2019) Israel’s national library said on Wednesday it received the last part of a collection of Franz Kafka’s writings that it planned to put online, after winning an ownership battle for part of the Prague-born Jewish novelist’s literary estate. The full story and video are here.
(25 Jul 2019) The UK is establishing a research integrity committee to better monitor how robustly the nation’s universities carry out research misconduct investigations. The committee is due to begin its work in early next summer, the government has announced. More details can be found here.
(26 Jul 2019) The Public Library Association (PLA) will present a webinar next month designed to help public library professionals apply data-visualization techniques to their work. The webinar is presented as part of PLA’s Performance Measurement Initiative and features Project Outcome, our free toolkit designed to help public libraries understand and share the impact of essential library services and programs.…
(6 Aug 2019) The University of Sydney is seeking an Associate Director, Site Services to provide strategic direction and development of high quality and evolving client-centred library and information services and spaces to support collaboration and skills development for the University’s higher degree research and postgraduate communities. In this role you will have the opportunity…
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