Faculty and staff members at Utrecht University will be evaluated by their commitment to open science. (25 Jun 2021) A Dutch university says it is formally abandoning the impact factor — a standard measure of scientific success — in all hiring and promotion decisions. By early 2022, every department at Utrecht University in the…
(16 Jun 2021) The latest ISI report identifies a new way to calculate and compare how well nations and institutions could respond to unforeseen challenges, based on the diverse spread of research areas in their portfolios. ‘Diversity’ has long been a watchword in fields such as economics and ecology, and in recent years has…
(14 Jun 2021) A survey conducted in March of 2020 by the American Library Association found that 99 percent of the public libraries that responded were closed because of the pandemic. But the association, whose membership includes 20,000 public library employees, found many libraries nonetheless added virtual programming, distributed free craft supplies, put together book bundles for families…
(22 Jun 2021) From the executive summary of the report from ITHAKA S+R: The dominant mode by which research libraries have provided maximum journal access as cheaply as possible—subscription bundles or “Big Deals”—is giving way to new approaches. This transition is taking place through a combination of negotiations, activism, business modeling, user needs research,…
(21 Jun 2021) John Mueller explained why Google may rank plagiarized content over the original content in a Google SEO Office-hours hangout. He explained that this can happen when the publisher of the original content is low quality overall. “…even if we know which one is the original and which one is the copy,…
(Jun 2021) With the COVID-19 pandemic, remote library services are becoming more and more important. In “Digital contents of the National Diet Library (Part 1)”, we introduced the Digital Exhibition of the National Diet Library and the Web Archiving Project (WARP). In Part 2, we would like to introduce databases on the minutes of the…
(23 Jun 2021) Hong Kong’s embattled Apple Daily will close after 26 years in circulation, printing its final edition on Thursday and immediately stopping online publication following a national security law crackdown on the tabloid-style newspaper. “Apple Daily is not perfect, but what will Hong Kong be like without us?” the paper said in an…
By Ruth A. Pagell* What does it mean for China to have a declining share in Nature Index? How do rankings for publications and proportion of publications differ in CWTS Leiden? Is there anything new in THE Asia? Are there changes in international student scores in QS World 2022? What is new with Preprints?…
(22 Jun 2021) scite, an award-winning platform for discovering and understanding research articles via Smart Citations, and iGroup, a leading provider of information services and academic services across the Asia Pacific region, have partnered to expand scite’s reach in the region. With thousands of customers and more than 20 years of expertise, iGroup will help…
(22 Jun 2021) Job title: Assistant Librarian (Library Systems) (PR0366/20-21) Hong Kong Baptist University Library now invites applications for a forward-thinking, innovative, and collaborative professional to lead the Library Systems team. Reporting to the University Librarian, the appointee will oversee the planning, management, and coordination of the Library’s information technology infrastructure and initiatives. Supervising…