(20 Jan 2021) China is ramping up its crackdown on academic misconduct with plans for plagiarism spot checks on undergraduate dissertations, warning universities that they face losing funding or having their right to enrol students suspended if they consistently perform poorly. The Ministry of Education said that provincial education authorities will sample at least 2 per…
(19 Jan 2021) IOP Publishing (IOPP), the publishing arm of the Institute of Physics, has partnered with Morressier, provider of virtual conference and content solutions for professional and academic organisations, to enhance the publishing workflow for conference research. The new offering will provide an enhanced user-experience via a streamlined and user-friendly review and submission process,…
(Jan 2021) Crossref is looking for a Technical Support Contractor working remotely from Asian friendly time zones. About the role The Technical Support Contractor will work closely with our Member Experience team, part of Crossref’s Outreach team, a fifteen-strong distributed team with members across the US and Europe. We’re at the forefront of Crossref’s…
(11 Jan 2021) From the foreword of the publication: “The present publication “Research and Development Statistics, 2019-20” is based on the survey conducted during 2018-19. DST has strived together data from a large number of scientific agencies, research laboratories, socio-economic ministries/departments, public and private sector industries including multi-national companies. The report presents analysis on…
(20 Jan 2021) Deep in basements beneath Mulgrave St, archivist Shaun McGuire winches a cog that opens towering rows of what are known as stacks – giant shelving units weighing as much as buses and holding any type of archive you can imagine. The basements are filled with these units after a 1952 blaze at a…