(24 Oct 2020) Stage one of the open access (OA) movement promoted the democratization of scholarly knowledge, making work available so that anybody could read it. However, publication in highly ranked journals is becoming very costly, feeding the same vendor capitalists that OA was designed to sidestep. In this Q&A, Simon Batterbury argues that when prestige…
(22 Oct 2020) In support of Open Access Week, ChronosHub is pleased to announce the public availability of the Journal Finder Beta, a tool to guide authors through the increasingly complicated journal selection and submission process. The beta release of the Journal Finder makes use of data directly collected from publishers in combination with several…
(21 Oct 2020) Turnitin, a leading provider of academic integrity and assessment solutions, announced today it has acquired ExamSoft, a software-based assessment platform, from Spectrum Equity. ExamSoft empowers educational institutions and certification and licensure programs to protect exam integrity, streamline assessment processes, and improve learning outcomes. Turnitin has been building and broadening its assessment capabilities since…
The unlikely marriage of two major artificial intelligence approaches has given rise to a new hybrid called neurosymbolic AI. It’s taking baby steps toward reasoning like humans and might one day take the wheel in self-driving cars. (14 Oct 2020, feed from Knowable Magazine) A few years ago, scientists learned something remarkable about…
(21 Oct 2020) Imagine you are asked by a senior University administrator how much of your University’s output is currently made open access? Or if you wish to track if your researchers are complying with funder requirements. Wouldn’t it be nice to have auto-updating dashboards like this for the low price of free? See…
(7 Oct 2020) Indonesia is a world leader in the number of free-to-read published research journals. Journals published with open access (OA) licenses are available to read for free and can be legally redistributed. With the license, anyone can get the full article and all supporting documents for free because the author or research institute already bears the cost of…
The South Asian country is now fourth in the world for science productivity but experts say quality issues remain (22 Oct 2020) India’s research output has overtaken Germany’s for the first time and is fast catching up to the UK’s, but questions remain on how quickly the country can make progress on research quality. Figures…
(21 Oct 2020) The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the already steady transition towards Open Access publishing. However, precisely what this future looks like and how it will be paid for by smaller, independent publishers is less clear. In this post, Danielle Padula outlines key findings from a report into the current state of Open Access…
(21 Oct 2020) Following a period of voluntary work in the mountain region of Rasuwa in Nepal, a new library for children has now opened. This was of one of the worst hit areas of the 2015 earthquake in what remains one of the world’s poorest countries. Apart from natural disasters and remoteness, illiteracy…
(20 Oct 2020) The University of South Australia is hiring a Deputy Director Resources and Technical Services. Reporting to the Chief Information Officer, the position leads and manages client centric and innovative information services to support teaching, learning and research. As a key member of the University’s Library and IT Executive Team you will lead…