(10 Jun 2022) When Nathan Sentance first visited Australia’s oldest library, a grand sandstone structure next to Parliament House in Sydney, he loved it. But he felt out of place. “You have to go past the security guard,” the indigenous librarian said. “The first thing you see when you enter some of these spaces…
(10 Jun 2022) The one Talk titled “Libraries of the future” was hosted by Malaysian Book Industry Chamber chairman Keith Thong and moderated by Dr Nor Edzan Che Nazir from Librarians Association of Malaysia (PPM) at World Trade Centre Kuala Lumpur in line with Kl International Book Fair. The talk was also joined by…
Octopus aims to change the way research is published and improve its quality. (24 Jun 2022) Ground-breaking publishing platform Octopus is being launched next week (29 June), and researchers are invited to attend the online event to find out more. Octopus aims to enable fast, free and fair publishing of research that is open to all, and which focusses on the intrinsic…
(24 Jun 2022) Sri Lanka has temporarily shut down at least three state universities and closed schools in the capital Colombo and other main cities due to a prevailing fuel crisis and a collapsing economy that has affected all sectors and led to the interruption of academic activities at most universities as lecturers and students…
(21 Jun 2022) This year’s data summarizes Web of Science™ citations from 2021, including 35,000 publications (journals, books and conference proceedings), 2.7 million citable items and 145 million cited references indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection™. Two novel events drove the 2020 data: the inclusion of Early Access content in the JCR for…
(21 Jun 2022) SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, today announced another year with discounted institutional subscription pricing. The 5% price reduction will apply to all SPIE Digital Library and SPIE journal institutional subscriptions. The SPIE Digital Library, the world’s largest collection of optics and photonics applied research, comprises more than 560,000 publications and…
(21 Jun 2022) Most biomedical and health researchers who declare their willingness to share the data behind journal articles do not respond to access requests or hand over the data when asked, a study reports. Livia Puljak, who studies evidence-based medicine at the Catholic University of Croatia in Zagreb, and her colleagues analyzed 3,556 biomedical…
(16 Jun 2022) Starting June 14th, all Annual Reviews content published between 2013-2022 will be openly available across Australia and New Zealand. This includes all articles authored by Australian and New Zealand researchers during this period. The journals provide overviews of scientific progress across the life, biological, physical and social sciences. This agreement is…
(15 Jun 2022) The lawsuit was filed by OCLC earlier this week in U.S. Federal Court, Southern District of Ohio. The complaint (32 pages; PDF) is available here. The complete court docket with additional items is also available and is updated as new documents become available. From the compliant: “OCLC, Inc., (“OCLC”), by and through counsel, files…
(15 Jun 2022) The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the oldest engineering society in the US, and Morressier, the leading platform for early-stage research, today announced a new partnership to create a Conference Proceedings Video Collection, which expands ASCE’s event offerings beyond traditional print proceedings papers and will give users a multimedia conference experience.…