(27 Oct 2021) Guest blog post by Alberto Martín-Martín, Facultad de Comunicación y Documentación, Universidad de Granada, Spain. In this post, as a contribution to Open Access Week, Alberto Martín-Martín shares his comparative analysis of COCI and other sources of open citation data with those from subscription services, and comments on their relative coverage. …
(1 Nov 2021) The Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) has announced the official launch of its New Online Catalog, which has been upgraded to provide library patrons greater functionality and easier accessibility. The online catalog serves as a gateway to an expansive collection of books and materials relating to Cambodian and Southeast Asian history and…
(26 Oct 2021) National Library Board, Singapore and the IFLA Regional Office for Asia and Oceania, in support of the IFLA Global Vision are jointly holding an online event: Leaders’ Conversations 2021 – Visualising Our Future: Masterplans of Libraries and Archives. Below is the announcement: What is the FUTURE of libraries and archives? Find out more…
(27 Oct 2021) The Dutch consortium of university libraries and the National library of the Netherlands (UKB) together with the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) and the Dutch Research Council (NWO), has published a practical guide on preprints. Preprints are [academic] manuscripts that have not been peer-reviewed or published in a traditional publishing…
(25 Oct 2021) As libraries and research offices evolve with the complex and competitive demands of the research enterprise, tensions over their respective roles have become apparent in at least two areas: open access (OA) and data management. The issue came into the spotlight in August as it emerged that the Australian Research Council (ARC)…
(Oct 2021) OECD iLibrary’s content offering has just been enhanced with the addition of OECD Podcasts. As the one-stop research repository for all OECD publications in a range of formats, the platform now contains interviews with experts and personalities from both within and outside the Organisation, as they discuss the key policy issues of the…
(23 Oct 2021) Indonesia: The National Library (Perpusnas) said it is providing support to the National Archives of Indonesia (ANRI), which has built a Disaster Archive Study Center in Aceh. “This study center aims to provide educational facilities to the community related to disaster literacy. Its presence will encourage many parties to prepare references…
(22 Oct 2021) The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) today announced the launch of the ASME Conference Video Collection, powered by virtual conference and publishing platform Morressier. The user-friendly platform collects and provides long-term access to valuable conference presentation videos from all technology areas within ASME’s technical conference and events program. More than…
(25 Oct 2021) The Commission on Higher Education in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CHED-CAR) has joined the campaign to purge universities and colleges in the region of what it considered “subversive” materials. CHED-CAR Director Demetrio Anduyan Jr. urged private and public higher education institutions (HEIs) in the region to remove “subversive” materials from their…
(27 Oct 2021) The revamped Choa Chu Kang Public Library, which reopens to the public tomorrow (Oct 28), is one example of how libraries in the future will look like. The library, with the theme (Re)connect With Nature, is the first in Singapore to be built around the concept of sustainability. Visitors will be…