(22 Jul 2021) Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Today, we are releasing the 2021 version of Scholar Metrics. This release covers articles published in 2016–2020 and includes citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of…
(28 Jul 2021) All seventeen U.S. national laboratories and many prominent publishers, journals, and other organizations in scientific publishing announced today the beginning of a partnership to support name change requests from researchers on past published papers. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is coordinating the effort. This agreement will allow researchers who wish to…
(Jul 2021) About the job: The Associate Director, Digital Experience and Innovation is responsible for ensuring that the Library delivers innovative, user-focused and high-quality digital infrastructure and experiences to the university community. The Associate Director, Digital Experience and Innovation deals extensively with UNSWIT, the Division of External Engagement (DEE) and a range of technology…
(15 Jul 2021) The term ‘impact’ has become so familiar that it is easy to forget how much effort was invested in embedding it in British academia. Marta Natalia Wróblewska takes a look at the emergence of the discourse of impact in the UK and its transformation from idea to defining feature of academic life. As other…
(12 Jul 2021) In 2015 Digital Science first released the Global Research Identifier Database (GRID), an open database of unique research-related organisation identifiers they had developed in-house over several years, for public use by the research community. In 2019 ROR, the Research Organization Registry, was founded as a community-driven initiative, mirroring the GRID database. With ROR…
(26 Jul 2021) About this job: The Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) Library seeks a self-motivated, innovative and service-oriented individual to develop, maintain and enhance web and library systems and applications to deliver a user-centred search, discovery and delivery experience. Reporting to the Discovery and Technology Librarian, the successful candidate will also manage…
(22 Jul 2021) The new BOOK1 Design Hostel in Aarhus, Danmark, has all the classic hostel elements like bunk beds, laundry facilities and ping pong tables, as well as luxury hotel elements such as private rooms and suites, a sauna and unique design details. BOOK1 is located in the city’s former main library from 1934,…
(20 Jul 2021) The latest Renew Consultants research was carried out with the support of leading publishers and other organisations involved in scholarly communications and attracted responses from over 15,000 people working and studying across all sectors, subject disciplines, and regions. Headline results include: – In terms of overall trend, A&Is are still the…
America’s oldest federal cultural institution is experimenting with neural networks to help users search through some of its millions of digitized documents (24 Jun 2021) The Library of Congress expects that artificial intelligence can help people search through its troves of digital information to glean new insights about the U.S.’s history. To that end,…
(20 Jul 2021) The Association of Research Libraries (ARL)/Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Joint Task Force on Research Data Services has released its final report. The task force formed in 2020 with a two-fold purpose: (1) to demonstrate and commit to the roles research libraries have in stewarding research data and as part of institution-wide research…