By Ruth A. Pagell* Who is number one in the world in 2021? What Asian university has the highest overall ranking? What country has the highest ranked institution in Gender Equality? What institution in SDG 7, Affordable and Clean Energy, has the nicest name? (29 April 2021) I am currently on a hunt to…
(15 Apr 2021) The Association of American Universities (AAU) and the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) have released a Guide to Accelerate Public Access to Research Data. The APARD Guide is envisioned as a resource for administrators to accelerate progress and articulate how research outputs are aligned with the research institution’s mission. It will outline the…
(28 Apr 2021) “Making the Future of Open Research Work” is one of the sessions held at the 3rd CHORUS Forum last week, which brought publishers, researchers, librarians, and research funders together to exchange ideas over scientific communication issues. The session focuses on the operationalization of the move to open access and the details of…
(27 Apr 2021) A virtual conference will be jointly held by the Library Association of Singapore (LAS) and Persatuan Pustakawan Malaysia (PPM) on Wednesday 6 October 2021, 10 am to 5 pm. The Conference theme is Collab | Camaraderie | Commune. Collab – collaborations between libraries; Camaraderie – we are in it together; and Commune – we are a community and…
(27 Apr 2021) HKUST Library is hiring below position: Information Instruction Librarian (Job ID: 6089) Reporting to the Head (Information Instruction & Collection Services), the appointee will give library instruction classes; create web-based research guides and e-learning objects; assist in planning and implementing information literacy teaching, learning, and assessment; conduct orientation activities and serve…
(21 Apr 2021) F1000 is collaborating with two Chinese customers to develop open research publishing platforms dedicated to the research and application of collaborative robots and ‘digital twin’ technologies. Both will be the world’s first open publishing platforms in their fields and will launch for submission in July 2021. The platforms will utilise F1000’s open…
(22 Apr 2021) About the job: The Role Fixed Term (up to 5 years) Executive remuneration package in the range of $217,108 to $271,385 p.a. Bathurst or Wagga Wagga As Executive Director you will lead the Division of Library Services, ensuring that resources, services and programs of the Division support and enhance the learning,…
(17 Apr 2021) The latest Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2021 carried few surprises when it was released in September. The usual contestants led the rankings. Yet among these are some institutions, operating under totalitarian regimes, that do not match our expectation of what universities are about. If one adjusts the top…
German study finds academics favouring Springer Nature and Wiley, with authors warning smaller publishers could be squeezed out. (17 Apr 2021) Professor Haucap, a competition economist at the University of Düsseldorf and co-author of “The impact of the German ‘DEAL’ on competition in the academic publishing market”, and his colleagues chose to look at chemistry because the field…
(Apr 2021) From National Diet Library Newsletter: With the COVID-19 pandemic, remote library services are becoming more and more important. In this article, we would like to introduce the NDL’s online services and examples of their use: Digital Exhibitions of the National Diet Library The digital exhibitions introduce unique collections of the NDL with…