What university founded in 1257 is among the world’s top young universities? (Table 1 in the Appendix has the answer.) What Thai company appears in green and patent rankings? What higher education center offers relevant free webinars? By Ruth A. Pagell* I spent the beginning of 2022 away from rankings, doing research with a…
(25 Feb 2022) Download figures for Sci-Hub, the popular but controversial website that hosts pirated copies of scientific papers, reveal where people are using the site most. The statistics show that users accessing Sci-Hub from China are by far the most active — and that with more than 25 million downloads, usage in China outstrips the…
(28 Feb 2022) The Delhi government is all set to develop a “Science Innovation Hub” to promote scientific culture among students. The club consists of an auditorium, a library, a planetarium, a museum with science and technological objects etc. More details can be found from the original news here.
(24 Feb 2022) The CDNLAO Newsletter is published to share information from national libraries in the Asia and Oceania region. This newsletter is edited and distributed by the National Diet Library of Japan on behalf of the members of the Conference of Directors of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania (CDNLAO). This issue focuses…
(24 Feb 2022) According to the latest data from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism [of Korea], 62 smart libraries built with the ministry budget were used more than 1.24 million times in 2020, up 62.6 percent from 776,850 in 2019. “The demand for smart libraries is increasing every year,” said Kwon Tae-wook, a…
(24 Feb 2022) Announcement from Wiley: We’re excited to announce a new partnership with the Wikipedia Library, a project of the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which will connect Wikipedia editors with full-text access to Wiley Online Library content to drive better citations and more accurate content on Wikipedia, one of the Internet’s most-visited websites. With millions of…
(18 Feb 2022) AI in publishing is no longer just a novelty; it is being applied at various points in the publication pipeline. Further, the growing volume of open access scholarly content, including datasets and code, provides a rich resource for training datasets. See how AI assists in the works of authors, editors, reviewers…
(7 Feb 2022) COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) is seeking community input. Here’s the announcement. The Framework brings together relevant criteria developed by other communities (and refined by the COAR Repository Assessment Working Group) into a global, multidimensional framework for assessing best practices that can be adopted and used by different types of repositories (publication, institutional, data,…
(21 Feb 2022) China’s national higher education policy has entered its second phase, with the government releasing the updated list of Double First Class (DFC) programme universities. The scheme was launched in 2015 and pushed the country’s higher education sector on an upwards trajectory by increasing funding allocations for those universities and specific academic disciplines…
(22 Feb 2022) The new Library and Student Experience Building at the University of Tasmania’s (UTAS) Inveresk Campus was officially opened today, signifying an exciting step for students and the communities of Launceston and Northern Tasmania. The new building is part of a $130 million investment by the Morrison Government under the Jobs and Growth…