(9 Mar 2021) The University of New England (UNE), Armidale is a regionally based, globally networked university that is renowned for the quality of its student experience and the excellence of its research specialisations. About the Role The Manager, Library Research Services provides leadership in the development, management and delivery of the Library’s services…
(Mar 2021) Open Data Watch launches the Annual Report of the 2020/21 Open Data Inventory (ODIN) that assesses the coverage and openness of official statistics in 187 countries. ODIN monitors the progress of open data that are relevant to economic, social, and environmental development. On the findings, the median ODIN country score for 2020…
(8 Mar 2021) The National Library of the Philippines will be celebrating the 62nd Public Library Day on March 9, 2021, with the theme “Philippine Public Libraries: Providers of Virtual Information and Contributors to Community Sustainability.” Proclamation No. 563, s. 1959, recognized the importance of Public Libraries in the dissemination of knowledge and culture…
(2 Mar 2021) From the abstract of the article published by Marta Natalia Wróblewska on Humanities and Social Sciences Communications “The introduction of ‘impact’ as an element of assessment constitutes a major change in the construction of research evaluation systems. While various protocols of impact evaluation exist, the most articulated one was implemented as…
(12 Feb 2021) The first outputs from Texas Tech University’s new STEPP (STEM Training in Ethics of Publication Practices) programme have been published, in the form of two articles: Profiting from the paradigm shift in scholarly journal publishing: The case of predatory publishers, and A qualitative content analysis of watchlists vs safelists: How do they…