(22 May 2020) The Taiwan Ministry of Education announced Friday (May 22) that the 2020 Taiwan Reading Festival (台灣閱讀節) won the American Library Association (ALA) award. The annual cultural event, “Taiwan Reading Festival,” takes place in December and has been hosted by the National Central Library and public libraries since 2013. It features a variety of…
(22 May 2020) Nature Index reviewed recent development on scholarly communication affected by the epidemic of COVID-19, including: Funding worries weigh down early-career researchers COVID-19 widens the gender gap in medical research Wikipedia favours peer-reviewed research Australian researchers face job cuts due to coronavirus shut-down How could coronavirus change academic careers? Preprint servers enhance screening…
An infected and impatient world needs protection from Covid-19, but rushing it won’t be easy. How can we speed up a complicated process? (22 May 2020, feed from Knowable Magazine) The Covid-19 coronavirus has knocked our world off its axis. We won’t return to anything approaching normal — that is, life without social distancing, quarantines,…
(15 May 2020) From “Justin the Librarian” blog: Our library had been planning what this eventual reopening would look like for the entire time that New Zealand was in Pandemic Alert Levels 3 & 4. There were many meetings and discussions around what reopening could look like and all angles and ideas were heard, considered,…
(18 May 2020) From Cornell University Library: A four-part webinar series devoted to academic libraries’ role in a sustainable future concluded with a discussion of how three libraries in China have responded to the coronavirus pandemic. The April 27 installment, “Three Chinese Academic Libraries’ Experiences During the COVID-19 Outbreak,” was the last in a series…
(25 Apr 2020) From CGTN: The National Library of China has launched a “collective memory bank,” to collect and preserve items and stories from China’s fight against the coronavirus outbreak. The project aims at documenting the impact the pandemic has had on peoples’ lives, emotions and social relationships. Articles, pictures, audio, video, multimedia resources, manuscripts,…
(19 May 2020) EIFL will hold a webinar on “Subscription cancellations and alternative access options” Event Date: 04 Jun 2020 This EIFL webinar will cover subscription cancellations and alternative access options. Our guest speaker Colleen Campbell from the OA2020 Initiative will discuss why the libraries and consortia decided to cancel some of their journal subscriptions,…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (20 May 2020) Journal quality has been measured by output, from counting pages and articles to calculating normalized citation impact factors. The Center for Open Science (COS) created TOP Factor as a way to measure journal quality through journal publishing guidelines. There are four aspects of TOP Factor to consider: The…
(20 May 2020) The 15th AUNILO meeting (http://lib.ugm.ac.id/aunilo/) and the strategic planning workshop were held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on 5-8 August 2019 and hosted by the Universitas Gadjah Mada. The meeting and planning workshop was coordinated by the AUNILO Secretariat, managed by the member libraries of the Philippines (University of the Philippines, Ateneo de Manila University and…
(18 May 2020) The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s oldest and largest scientific computing society, has partnered with The Charlesworth Group to expand the benefits of the ACM OPEN “read and publish” Open Access (OA) licensing model in China. ACM OPEN and the Chinese OA landscape China has notably supported OA initiatives in the…
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