(28 Jan 2020) National Institute of Informatics (NII, Director General: Masaru Kitsuregawa, Tokyo, JAPAN) signed an international exchange agreement (Memorandum of Understanding: MOU) with the Center for Open Science (COS, Executive Director: Professor Brian Nosek, Charlottesville, Virginia, US) in the United States on 29th October 2019. Through this agreement, the two organizations aim to contribute…
(31 Jan 2020) Wellcome is making a pledge of up to £10 million to accelerate research and support global efforts to tackle the ongoing novel coronavirus epidemic. Dr Jeremy Farrar, Director of Wellcome, said: “This virus is spreading at unprecedented scale with cases passing between people in multiple countries across the world. We know this…
(5 Feb 2020) The “Critical Roles for Libraries in Today’s Research Enterprise” symposium took place in Washington, DC on December 11, 2019, its report is now available online. This report represents a summary of the symposium, including speaker slides and biographies, invited expert commentaries, and notes from the facilitated group discussions. The report is available here.…
(7 Feb 2020) EIFL and partners will train teams from 19 universities in Yangon and Mandalay to upload open access publications to the Myanmar Education Research and Learning Portal (MERAL). The trainers are Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, and from the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Japan, EIFL’s partner in the MERAL Portal project, Masaharu Hayashi, Project Assistant…
(updated 20 Jul 2020) Due to the recent outbreak of coronavirus, several countries have made the decision to postpone school openings or hold activities. Librarylearningspace.com has collected the latest news here. Australia: Universities to resume teaching and research (8 May) Australian states and capital declare state of emergency, as govt mulls second stimulus (16 Mar)…
(5 Feb 2020) Predatory journals find most of their prey in developing countries, and in particular, among emerging economies where research output is rapidly growing. Bhushan Patwardhan is a biomedical researcher and Professor of Health Sciences at Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) of India, and the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine,…
(5 Feb 2020) IOP Publishing (IOPP) has launched a new website dedicated to helping researchers in China navigate the world of scientific publishing. IOPChina will offer Chinese researchers information on their publishing options, and how IOPP can work with them in getting their latest research published. It also has a section for librarians, along with the latest…
(4 Feb 2020) the No.95, February 2020 newsletter for Conference of Directors of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania (CDNLAO) is now published. Special topic: Research in library and information service [China] Research Activities at the National Library of China: An Introduction [Japan] NDL Research Report [Singapore] Research in Information Service and Client Research Services at the National…
(29 Jan 2020) Recently, Environmental, Health, and Business Opportunities in the New Meat Alternatives Market, edited by Dr. Diana Bogueva, Dr. Dora Marinova, and Dr. Talia Raphaely, from Curtin University, Australia, and Dr. Kurt Schmidinger from University of Vienna, Austria, was awarded as the Australian winner for the Vegetarian Writing category of the 2020 Gourmand Awards,…
(21 Jan 2020) COCI is the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations, all released as CC0 material, and is described in the article Heibi I, Peroni S, Shotton D (2019). Software review: COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations. Scientometrics 121(2): 1213-1228. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03217-6 COCI is our first OpenCitations Index of open citations, in…
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