(18 Dec 2021) Vietnamese National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue and Chairman of the Lok Sabha (House of Representatives) of India Om Birla witnessed a signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding between the NA of Vietnam and the Lok Sabha on cooperation in the field of library and television held in New Delhi on December…
(26 Nov 2021) The LIBER Citizen Science Working Group is pleased to announce the publication of the first section of their Citizen Science for Research Libraries Guide, a four-part book series. The guide is designed to be a practical toolbox to help run a citizen science project. It has been put together from contributions by members of the…
(14 Dec 2021) From the Library of Congress: Digital collections, and the work related to their acquisition, preservation and access, have become increasingly central to Library of Congress processes and our mission to serve Congress and the nation. For the last five years, in accordance with the Library of Congress Digital Collecting Plan we have…
(13 Dec 2021) Sci-Hub, the popular website that offers access to millions of pirated research papers and books, is no stranger to legal action. But, for the first time, the site is defending its operations in court, in a copyright case filed in India by a group of major publishers. In a lawsuit presented in…
(Dec 2021) News from National Diet Library, Japan: Acquisition under the current E-Legal Deposit System Since 2013, the National Diet Library (NDL) has been collecting digital information made available to the public by private publishers, which we considered to be equivalent to books or serials (online publications). Digital information stored with specific codes (ISBN,…
(22 Dec 2021) Skillsoft, a global leader in corporate digital learning, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Codecademy, a leading online learning platform for technical skills, for approximately $525 million in cash and stock. Codecademy is an innovative and popular learning platform providing high-demand technical skills to approximately 40 million…
(8 Dec 2021) Two years into the pandemic, what impacts have COVID-19 really had on Australian university finances and staffing in 2020 and in 2021? Our recently published research shows the impacts varied greatly across the sector. However, staff cuts appear to have been disproportionate to overall financial losses. About 10% of the university…
(21 Dec 2021) Just before a study appears in any of ten journals published by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), it undergoes an unusual extra check. Since January 2021, the AACR has been using artificial intelligence (AI) software on all manuscripts it has provisionally accepted after peer review. The aim is to automatically…
(8 Dec 2021) STM Solutions, the operational arm of STM (The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers) today announced that it has started the development of a powerful new platform to detect integrity issues in manuscripts submitted for publication to scholarly journals. “This collaboration hub will provide a cloud-based environment for publishers…
(17 Dec 2021) Nearly half of South Korea’s universities could close in the next quarter-century as the country’s population continues to shrink, with regional institutions especially hard-hit, a professor has warned. Dong-Kyu Lee, professor in disaster management at Dong-A University, said he expected that only 190 out of 385 existing universities would exist in 25 years’…