(13 Jan 2022) Three years, four months and one long pandemic later, the National University of Singapore (NUS) Libraries Central Library revamp is finally complete! The university’s flagship library began progressively closing its floors in June 2018 to facilitate construction works, and had just completed Phases 1 and 2 of its revamp in Q1 2020…
(7 Jan 2022) IFLA is now welcoming submissions for its IFLA Green Library Award 2022. Objectives of the IFLA Green Library Award To reward a Green library / Green Library Projects that best communicate their commitment to environmental sustainability To create awareness of libraries’ social responsibility and leadership in environmental education To support the worldwide…
(12 Jan 2022) Altmetric.com has now officially tracked over200 million mentions of nearly 20 million research outputs. These 200 million mentions have come from a huge variety of sources, including social media, blogs, Wikipedia, policy documents, patents, news outlets and more. In 2021 Altmetric.com has expanded coverage on multiple language versions of Wikipedia, policy documents…
(6 Jan 2022) IFLA’s Trend Report series – launched in 2013, and with updates in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 – is there to support this reflection as a key part of individual and organisational development. We are therefore very happy today to launch the the 2021 Update of IFLA’s Trend Report, with a…
(8 Jan 2022) Sinjhuang District (新莊) is to become a hub for Taiwanese cinema, New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-yi (侯友宜) told a ceremony yesterday to open the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute’s new base. With the new facility completed, the city government hopes that a plan to build a cinema museum nearby would start…
(Jan 2022) From the foreword of the report: “This report provides a window into how library leaders around the world have navigated our present crisis and asks some essential questions about how to begin to reimagine work, collections, and engagement with their respective communities. Some of the choices that library leaders must make were apparent…
(2 Jan 2022) World’s biggest digital library of Chinese journals under pressure over copyright infringement. A high-profile case against China’s largest academic database has triggered heated debate over the future of open access publishing in the country. Zhao Dexin, a retired professor at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, won a copyright lawsuit…
(4 Jan 2022) The research-sharing platform arXiv.org now hosts more than 2 million articles. arXiv, stewarded by Cornell Tech, is a free resource for scholars around the world in fields including physics, math and computer science, who use the service to share their own cutting-edge research and read work submitted by others. “These 2 million submissions…
(6 Jan 2022) Global research and education leader Wiley today announced a three-year open access agreement with the National Research Council of Science and Technology (NST), in the Republic of Korea. The agreement, which marks Wiley’s first in East Asia, will enable researchers at 25 institutions across the Republic of Korea to publish accepted…
(4 Jan 2022) Applications and nominations are invited for: University Librarian [Ref. B/523/09] As a large administrative unit with about 90 staff members supporting the University’s academic enterprise, the Library endeavours to support and augment teaching, learning and research by providing a dynamic environment conducive to studying and offering seamless access to the diverse, up-to-date…