(11 Aug 2021) There is an urgent need for innovative new open-source visualization tools that will clearly and dynamically display portions of the global citation graph, for example the direct and indirect citation connections between any two publications or any two individuals, along the temporal axis of publication date. Developers within the open science community…
(14 Aug 2021) In June 2020, major publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive, claiming that its Open Library is effectively a pirate site. The Internet Archive disputes this characterization and is now demanding that the publishers hand over sales data to show that its lending had little or…
(9 Aug 2021) About the job: Joining the Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis (CEBRA), you will co-design and develop a pilot digital library covering a few chosen topics relevant to biosecurity on behalf of Australia’s federal Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment and New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries. The…
(6 Aug 2021) In this webinar, Loida Garcia-Febo, recent Chair of the recent American Library Association (ALA) 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Task Force (2020-2021) will share how to enable your library and align your library’s priorities to contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG’s). The webinar is hosted by Singapore Management…
(11 Aug 2021) The Papers Past website is a goldmine of information, with millions of pages of digitised historical content from all over New Zealand. Papers Past first saw the light of day in August 2001. Over its 20 year life-span there are have been a number of iterations. Tracy Powell, Digitisation Advisor, gives a brief history…
By Ruth A. Pagell* Q: What is the highest ranked Asian university for Mulltidisciplinary and how old is it? Q: What is the top university in Oceania for multidisciplinary research? (Appendix A) Q: What Asian university has the most alumni working in a Forbes 2000 company? (Appendix B) Q: In 2020, what university had…
(11 Aug 2021) In early August, a Philippine-published book made it to the top of Amazon’s list of “Hot New Releases.” With its intimidating title, “Boxer Codex: A Modern Spanish Transcription and English Translation of 16th-Century Exploration Accounts of East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific”—whew!—even its publisher was surprised the tome entered the number…
(5 Aug 2021) Facebook has cut off some academic researchers for “scraping” data from the platform, sparking a fresh controversy about the leading social network’s transparency to outside experts studying misinformation and abusive content. The California tech giant acted late Tuesday to block the research from New York University’s Ad Observatory Project, citing privacy concerns.…
(8 Aug 2021) Seoul-based private equity house MBK Partners founder and chairman Michael Byung-ju Kim has pledged to donate 30 billion won ($26.5 million) to the Seoul Metropolitan Government to build a public library in Seoul, MBK Partners said Sunday. The gift represents the first case where an individual‘s donation covers the entire cost…
(4 Aug 2021) Mark your calendar for Peer Review Week (PRW) 2021, September 20-24. This year’s event is dedicated to the theme “Identity in Peer Review”. During the week, participating organisations will host virtual events and activities exploring the multifaceted nature of identity, how personal and social identity affects peer review practices and experiences, and…