(19 Nov 2022) After Z-Library was targeted by U.S. law enforcement, a group of anonymous archivists worked around the clock to get a shadow library search engine online. This week, the ‘team’ behind the Pirate Library Mirror launched “Anna’s Archive” which offers a gateway to various book resources. Anna’s Archive is basically a meta-search…
(21 Nov 2022) Springer Nature is announcing what it says is the largest transformative agreement in Japan, comprising the engagement of 10 institutions that will generate the open-access of close to 900 articles in the coming year. The University of Tokyo is among the institutions participating in the accord, and the program will allow…
(19 Nov 2022) Open science has been a feature of academia in Vietnam for more than a decade, along with open education which has been in place since the late 2000s. Since then, with the assistance of numerous bottom-up initiatives, open science has flourished and permeated a variety of academic fields in Vietnam. However, it…
(20 Nov 2022) The Special Libraries Association (SLA) – Asia Chapter, in collaboration with the Association of Special Libraries in the Philippines (ASLP) and Cebu Librarians Association, Inc. (CLAI), is inviting everyone across Asia to join the 8th International Conference of Asian Special Libraries (ICoASL) on February 22-24, 2023 in Cebu, Philippines with a theme, “Advancing…
(17 Nov 2022) Oxford University Press (OUP), has today announced a transformative three-year Read and Publish agreement with major journals consortium, the Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE). Under the agreement, members of the JUSTICE consortium that opt-in will be able to rapidly increase the proportion of articles that they publish open…
(15 Nov 2022) Crimson Interactive announced the acquisition of The Charlesworth Group, a company with headquarters in the UK and known for its China-focused language polishing, agency sales, marketing services and technology offerings. Enago is a trusted name in author services for the global research community. For close to two decades, the company has been a preferred…
(11 Nov 2022) Open access (OA) and the broad sharing of research outputs has been empirically shown to accelerate scientific progress and benefit society and individuals at scale through improved health outcomes, socioeconomic mobility, and environmental well-being, to name a few. Academic research libraries, for their part, have made significant investments in opening up research…
(7 Nov 2022) The lawsuit against Clarivate filed by OCLC in June this year has been settled between both parties. Statement from OCLC: OCLC is pleased to announce today that it successfully defended WorldCat to protect the collaborative service developed and maintained with and for libraries worldwide. An agreement has been reached in…
(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…