(15 Jan 2021) While the Indian government is considering paying scholarly content on behalf of all researchers in the country, the western hemisphere is mandating open access as standard. In this issue of Fun Facts on Numbers, let’s take a look at how Indian researchers are adopting the idea to make their research articles openly accessible.…
(15 Jan 2021) Job opening: Assistant Librarian (Special Collections & Archives Section) (PR0079/19-20) The Hong Kong Baptist University Library is currently seeking a highly motivated and service-oriented professional for the position of Assistant Librarian in the Special Collections & Archives Section. Reporting to the Head of Metadata and Cataloguing, the appointee will be responsible for…
(14 Jan 2021) The year 2020 was marked by the global COVID-19 pandemic and the Europe PMC team, like many others around the world, started to work from home. Scientific literature is at the heart of scientific research and during these extraordinary times, Europe PMC worked on improving existing services, building new features, increasing the…
(4 Jan 2021) The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Cambodia started an initiative to provide financial support to writers and researchers in higher education through a “research, creativity and innovation” programme that will author textbooks for use in higher education. Education ministry spokesman Ros Soveacha said…
(15 Jan 2021) IGI Global and iGroup, longstanding partners in providing research content across Asia, are continuing to collaborate in providing access to the timeliest research through digital resources including peer-reviewed e-books, e-journals, and the InfoSci-Databases. Through this collaboration, we are focused on providing resources to librarians affordably, especially as the importance of electronic resources…
(2 Jan 2021) A new smart library has opened to the public in the city of Guiyang, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, bringing an upgraded reading experience to local residents. Covering an area of around 56,000 square meters, the seven-story library is part of the Guizhou Provincial Library project that started construction in November 2018. Various…
(12 Jan 2021) CRRC Corporation Limited, one of the world’s largest rail transportation equipment companies, has delivered more than 575 non-fiction books that introduce China from various aspects to Melbourne in Australia last December. The delivery marks the kickoff of CRRC’s China Bookshelf project (China Bookshelf), which aims to promote cultural exchanges between China and Australia and to create an inclusive community with…
(12 Jan 2021) The first Christian public library has opened in Vietnam, after a six-month approval process last year by several agencies of Vietnam’s Communist Government. “We hope it will be a symbol of Christian unity and Christian learning in Vietnam,” says Vu Le, executive director of Bible Society Vietnam, which established the library with local…
(13 Jan 2021) Students and staff at the University of Hong Kong are mourning the death of Jasper – the city’s first in-house therapy dog at an institution of higher learning – who passed away at the age of 12 on Sunday. The old English sheepdog was credited with helping hundreds of students in…
(6 Jan 2021) The article, “Waiving Article Processing Charges for Least Developed Countries: A Keystone of a Large-scale Open Access Transformation”, authored by Taubert, Niels, Andre Bruns, Christopher Lenke, and Graham Stone: “This article investigates whether it is economically feasible for a large publishing house to waive article processing charges for the group of…