(25 May 2021) The Department of Parliamentary Services (DPS) is recruiting for Assistant Director, Library Databases vacancy within the Library Collections & Discovery section, Library Collections & Databases branch. The department is responsible for a wide range of services and facilities, working closely with the Department of the Senate, the Department of the House…
(25 May 2021) Joy Owango, Executive Director of the Training Centre in Communication based in the University of Nairobi, Kenya, gives an overview of how African countries are working together toward the goal of open science. The centre she currently oversees provides capacity support in improving researchers output and visibility through training in scholarly and…
(20 May 2021) The recent announcement made by Clarivate says, “By normalizing for different fields of research and their widely varying rates of publication and citation, the Journal Citation Indicator provides a single journal-level metric that can be easily interpreted and compared across disciplines. The Journal Citation Indicator will be calculated for all journals in…
(19 May 2021) Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University recently released an infographic and a blog post on why h-index should not be used in research evaluation. “Using the h-index in research evaluation? Rather not. But why not, actually? Why is using this indicator so problematic? And what are the alternatives anyway?…
Digital conference 16 – 17 September 2021 (19 May 2021) National libraries are responsible for collecting and preserving the published output of their countries and international publications of research interest, with library professionals tasked to build and promote these cultural heritage repositories of knowledge and creativity. However, curatorial roles within these institutions face unprecedented…
(3 May 2021) In 2013, through the generous support of William and Judith Bollinger, the British Library embarked upon a five-year project, in collaboration with the National Library Board of Singapore, to digitize materials in the British Library of interest to Singapore. The project initially focused on Malay manuscripts, early maps of Singapore, and archival…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (16 May 2021) Last year, RR 44 Part 2 did an in-depth analysis of rankings of U.S. universities. It is too soon to revisit all the USA rankings to evaluate the impact of the pandemic on US higher education since the number of four year degree granting institutions has been gradually…
(17 May 2021) Clarivate plc (NYSE: CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire ProQuest, a leading global software, data and analytics provider to academic, research and national institutions, from Cambridge Information Group, a family-owned investment firm, and other partners including…
(11 May 2021) In a survey conducted by the United Kingdom’s Emerald Publishing, researchers say they’re not satisfied with how academic publishing presents their work to a world that needs to understand it. It’s hard to think of a time in recent memory when so many have questioned so much scientific research. Almost any…
(11 May 2021) At a meeting wrapping up Tuesday, diplomats and legal and technical experts from UNESCO’S member states are trying to draw up new global guidelines under a project called Open Science. “The crisis put a spotlight on how scientific information is produced, shared, communicated,” said Ana Persic, chief of the science policy section…