(19 Jul 2022) NDL is holding an online forum, “Digital Archive Festival 2022 – Japan Search Day” on 25th August. The forum will be conducted in Japanese. More information can be found here (in Japanese).
(25 Jul 2022) With the impending retirement of the current Executive Director later this year, CAUL is recruiting a new Executive Director to lead the National Office into the future. The Executive Director is the chief executive officer of CAUL and is responsible for operations, engagement, advocacy and strategy implementation aligned with the objectives of…
(25 Jul 2022) Researchers from countries with lower-middle income economies, as categorized by the World Bank, can now choose open access (OA) publishing in any of IOP Publishing’s (IOPP) journals for a flat charge of £500. The policy builds on IOPP’s existing approach that enables researchers from countries with low-income economies to publish OA for free…
(20 Jul 2022) Code Ocean, the developer of a novel computational research laboratory in the cloud, has announced the Open Science Library (OSL), a free research site for publishing and replicating computational research from some of the world’s leading journals and by independent researchers. The OSL contains more than 3,000 published computational experiments that can be launched…
University of Wollongong epidemiologist Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz speaks with The Scientist about his team’s finding that flawed and fraudulent COVID-19 research continues to be cited. (14 Jul 2022) Retraction, a process in which a journal withdraws research after publication, is an essential tool for pruning flawed or fraudulent studies from the scientific literature. But a…
(25 Jul 2022) An Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) study across approximately 30 countries found that teens who said they most often read paper books scored considerably higher on a 2018 reading test taken by 15-year-olds compared to teens who said they rarely or never read books. Even among students of similar socioeconomic backgrounds,…
(26 Jul 2022) Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today announced that in the 2023 release of the Journal Citation Reports™, all Web of Science Core Collection™ journals will receive a Journal Impact Factor (JIF)™. This means expanding the JIF from Science Citation Index Expanded…
(20 Jul 2022) Thieme and ResearchGate have begun a collaboration to increase the visibility of scientific content. With over 20 million members, ResearchGate provides a platform for researchers to share and discover research, build their networks, and advance their careers. The collaboration will enable direct access on ResearchGate to all scientific articles in the 50 open…
(19 Jul 2022) In August 2020, with funding from the Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS), Ithaka S+R launched an 18-month research project to examine and assess the sustainability of these third-party digital preservation systems. In addition to a broad examination of the landscape, we more closely studied eight systems: APTrust, Archivematica, Arkivum, Islandora, LIBNOVA,…
(19 Jun 2022) A stone plaquette detailing the establishment of what could have been the first public library and museum in Madurai in the year 1942, has been rediscovered in Pudhumandapam near Meenakshi temple in Madurai. The plaquette went missing for more than two decades and was found recently when the shops were cleared and…