(7 Nov 2022) The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and Taylor & Francis have signed a new transformative agreement which combines read access to journals with open access (OA) publication of research from participating institutions. Under the three-year partnership, beginning January 2023, researchers from participating institutions in Australia and New Zealand can choose…
(3 Nov 2022) The Buddhist Institute produces and disseminates scholarly works on the religion for which it is named and for the past century it has been a repository of knowledge for the fields of culture, religion, literature, language, traditions and customs in Cambodia.Sor Sokny has worked at the Buddhist Institute for 19 years and…
(25 Oct 2022) Several positions are required incuding: Manager, Metadata and Discovery – The primary purpose of the Manager, Metadata and Discovery is to ensure the Library’s collections and information resources are appropriately described, highly discoverable and accessible by the University community across a range a of discovery platforms and access channels. The role…
(31 Oct 2022) Taiwan’s National Central Library is working with European universities to open research centers for Taiwan and Chinese studies. Library administrator Hung Shu-fen (洪淑芬) said on Monday that the library will work with five European universities to exchange books and online resources, as well as host joint exhibitions. Find out more here.
(1 Nov 2022) The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has committed to making all of its journals open access within the next five years. It is the first chemistry publisher to commit to a 100% open access model and hopes to fund the move in a way that will avoid individual authors having to pay article processing…
(27 Oct 2022) Following a year of research and community engagement funded by a planning grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Public Knowledge Program, Project MUSE is preparing a Subscribe to Open (S2O) offer across multiple journal titles and participating publishers that will begin with the 2025 calendar year subscription term. With more than 700 current journals in…
(29 Oct 2022) Elementary, junior high and high school students who have used e-books tend to find paper books easier to read, according to a recent survey conducted by the Japan School Library Association. The annual survey is conducted to determine reading trends among students. A total of 14,091 students enrolled at 161 schools nationwide,…
(27 Oct 2022) Despite rules brought in two years ago to reduce publishing pressure on postgraduate students in China, severe pressure on research students continues to distort the research environment in the country, a new study has found. A recently published paper by Hugo Horta, associate professor in the faculty of education at the…
(26 Oct 2022) The Rajasthan government sanctioned Rs 36.56 crore to set up digital libraries in 344 residential schools across the state, an official statement said. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot approved the amount in compliance with the announcement made during the discussion of the Finance and Appropriation Bill 2022-23. Gehlot had announced the…
(26 Oct 2022) The old library paradigm needs to give way to a new paradigm based on the use of information technology and social inclusion, according to Head of the National Library of Indonesia (Perpusnas) Muhammad Syarfi Bando. He said here on Tuesday that the observation was based on discussions at the General Conference…