(27 Apr 2022) China’s powerful State Council is calling on research institutions to expand and improve their ethics training. The directive, one of several detailed in a comprehensive ethics statement, is intended to address gaps in oversight exposed when Chinese researcher He Jiankui shocked the world by creating the first babies with edited genomes in 2018.…
(27 Apr 2022) State Opera South Australia has this week launched a new digital library, the first dedicated library of Australian operas, as part of its continuing effort to preserve and protect the future of Australian works. The national online archive is a not for profit initiative and will host a collection of Australian operas…
(7 April 2022) The rapid global response to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic shows how innovative activity can adapt quickly to shifting priorities and a similar effect is needed to urgently address climate change, according to WIPO’s World Intellectual Property Report, which probes the complex sets of decisions that direct the development of life-changing…
(26 Apr 2022) The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has committed its full portfolio of more than 60 hybrid journals, which offers both open access and subscription-only content, to become Plan S-aligned transformative journals. This development represents a major step in ACS’ long-standing commitment to open science, signaling a future in which all…
(22 Apr 2022) The UN Library & Archives Geneva is the official repository of all documents produced or held by UN Geneva that have enduring historical and administrative values. Its’ new UN Archives Geneva Platform is available online now, providing access to the extraordinary wealth of archival documents managed by the UN Library & Archives Geneva and…
(20 Apr 2022) collectionHQ has today announced that the new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Analysis module is available to public libraries in Australia and New Zealand. Now, libraries in these countries have access to a comprehensive dashboard of information about DEI material in their collections to: Discover DEI content at a system wide…
(21 Apr 2022) Open Science and its wider application to the social sciences and humanities, is predicated on the idea that research can be reproduced and shared across digital platforms, but to what extent do researchers actually use digital tools a part of their work? Commenting on a recent study into the workflows of social…
By Gina de Alwis Jayasuriya* (25 Apr 2022) Locating LIS schools worldwide is often challenging as there are no global databases currently in existence. The IFLA global database and map of LISE schools and programs is an international collaborative project launched by the IFLA Building Strong Library and Information Science Education (IFLA-BSLISE) Working Group to…
(7 Apr 2022) This report presents the result of a study that explores the interactions and the balance between Open Science and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). The report presents the state of the art and reflections to scope the statement ‘as open as possible, as closed as necessary’ in the context of an evolving and…
The Chinese Academy of Sciences suspends access to CNKI journal articles because of its continuing steep rise in annual subscription payments. Over the past decade, at least six Chinese universities have suspended the use of CNKI because of the rapid rise in fees (19 Apr 2022) China’s top research organisation, the Chinese Academy of…