(7 Nov 2022) About the job: The Manager, Campus Libraries and Enquiry Services is an exciting role that responsible for ensuring that Deakin campus libraries and library enquiry services are vibrant and customer focused, and set the benchmark for excellence and innovation in library service delivery. This role reports to the Director of Library Services:…
(15 Nov 2022) Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics and the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) – the negotiating body representing universities in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), have today announced an agreement to provide immediate open access to ANZ research for the world and continued access to global research for…
(14 Nov 2022) South Asia Archive has received the prestigious 2022 Reader’s Choice Award for Most Improved Product from The Charleston Advisor. South Asia Archive is a major collection of over 4.5 million pages of books, journals, census reports, film pamphlets, and other formats originally published in the Indian subcontinent between 1700 and the middle…
(26 Oct 2022) AAAS collected 422 responses from U.S. researchers between March and September 2022 to better understand how open access publishing trends and costs are affecting the scientific enterprise and received survey responses from librarians and administrators representing 89 institutions. According to the survey findings, 63 percent of researchers had paid an APC at…
(8 Nov 2022) The publishing giant Elsevier is withdrawing around 500 fake conference papers from one of its materials science journals, Retraction Watch reports. Many of the manuscripts published in Materials Today: Proceedings are off-topic, incomprehensible to the point of nonsense or seem to have been written by software. They all seem to have come from conferences that never happened,…
(10 Nov 2022) Beset by bugs, shorn of around half of its staff and with an idiosyncratic new owner who is changing the rules on a whim, Twitter is turning from a must-use social-media platform into one that many people, including scientists, are becoming wary of. A raft of other social-networking platforms are cropping up in its…
(31 Oct 2022) The first global knowledge platform dedicated to climate and health – climahealth.info – was launched today by the Joint Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) and World Meteorological Organization (WMO), with support from the Wellcome Trust. It is in response to growing calls for actionable information to protect people from the…
(27 Oct 2022) Americans have long been much more likely to trust information from local and national news organizations than information on social media sites. This remains the case today, except among the youngest adults. Adults under 30 are now almost as likely to trust information from social media sites as they are to trust…
(4 Nov 2022) Librarians around Japan are raising concerns their independence may be in jeopardy after the education ministry asked them to stock more books about North Korea’s abductions of Japanese nationals. Following the Cabinet Secretariat’s instructions, the education ministry sent a document to public and school libraries, asking them to help maintain public attention…
(2 Nov 2022) Two international projects, OPERAS-PLUS project and the Book Analytics Dashboard project, commit to coordinate on delivering transparent, trusted, and community-controlled analytics tools and services to support the transition to open access for scholarly books. The diversity of players in scholarly book publishing needs to be protected and ensuring that there are high quality and…