(12 Jul 2021) New Zealand: The National Library will donate 600,000 books that it was planning to cull from its overseas collection to a United States-based internet archive that will make digital copies of the works freely available online. (official press release) National Librarian Rachel Esson announced the “historic” agreement on Monday, saying books…
(2 Jul 2021) About the opportunity The Manager Site Services coordinates and develop services and facilities available at the assigned Library sites to ensure that they support students, staff and the community with access to quality services and resources that enhance the learning, teaching and research experience. The job holder will collaborate with the Associate Director Site Services…
(7 July 2021) Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today unveiled significant enhancements to the Web of Science™ offering researchers a highly dynamic, personal and indispensable research assistant through a host of new features and a redesigned user interface. The Web of Science is the world’s most trusted publisher-independent global citation database, home to an unrivalled breadth of world-class…
(6 Jul 2021) Researchers from low-income countries can now publish open access (OA) for free in any IOP Publishing (IOPP) fully OA or hybrid OA journal. Article publication charges (APCs) will be automatically waived for researchers from countries defined as low-income by the World Bank, with no need for the author to request a waiver. …
(8 July 2021) Last year a number of early career academics discovered that their PhD theses, which had been deposited in institutional open access repositories, were being sold for profit via Amazon Seller pages. In this post Guy Lavender, with contributions from Jane Secker and Chris Morrison, discuss the implications of this episode in relation…
(6 July 2021) Around 130 participants came together to join the CHORUS Forum at the Japan Open Science Summit (JOSS) on 18th June, timed in the morning for the panelists from Japan and the evening for those from the USA. Most of the delegates came from Japan, but they were supplemented by a few from…
(9 July 2021) Libraries Tasmania is looking for an experienced and dynamic leader of its statewide Library Network, which includes 45 public libraries, the State Library and Archive Service, Bruny Online and the Risdon Prison Library. As a Senior Executive, the successful applicant will be required to provide leadership, strategic direction, and authoritative advice…
(9 July 2021) The role involves working within a rapidly changing digital environment, requiring the ability to learn complex computer applications quickly and comprehensively. The role entails stakeholder management on cross-functional projects, operating within an agile environment, whist utilising a variety of project methodologies and tools to achieve project deliverables and outcomes. The Specialist,…
(25 Jul 2021) Although researchers often have valid reasons to take text they have already published and reuse it in new papers, peers often frown on such recycling as “self-plagiarism.” But when Cary Moskovitz of Duke University, who studies the teaching of writing, went looking for guidance on self-plagiarism for his students, he came up empty-handed.…
(7 Jul 2021) More than half of Dutch scientists regularly engage in questionable research practices, such as hiding flaws in their research design or selectively citing literature, according to a new study. And one in 12 admitted to committing a more serious form of research misconduct within the past 3 years: the fabrication or falsification of…