(28 Jan 2023) News from Cambodia: Justice ministry secretary of state Chin Malin signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Building Bridges USA (BBUSA) Law Office on “Enriching legal knowledge and the use of an electronic law library”, in a ceremony held at the Royal Academy for Judicial Professions on January 27. The…
(11 Feb 2023) Thailand’s Higher Education Ministry has instructed universities to check the sources of all research papers produced by academics to ensure strict compliance with academic ethics. It is expected to make it necessary for those applying for academic positions and promotions to include ‘community-based studies’ among their citations in a bid to move…
(13 Feb 2023) The world of open access (OA) academic publishing is not a fair or inclusive space as recent conversations and older conversations show. OASPA recognises that OA at any cost is not acceptable, and is mindful of inequities introduced by the current (fully-OA and transitioning) publishing landscape; in removing the paywall to read…
(6 Feb 2023) Despite being the focus of sustained critique university rankings have proven a resilient feature of academic life. Considering the recent moves by U.S. institutions to remove themselves from rankings, Julian Hamann and Leopold Ringel explore this relationship and suggest rankers and their critics in fact play a role in sustaining each other.…
(22 Feb 2023) About the role: An opportunity to join the Library Metadata & Repositories Team focusing on library metadata and online resource delivery, working closely with acquisitions and document delivery. Individuals who have experience in the above areas, with well-developed communication skills, good problem solving and judgement and attention to detail are encouraged…
(21 Feb 2023) The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Annual Salary Survey 2021, which analyzes salary data for professional staff working in the 125 ARL member libraries during 2021. Data are reported for 10,751 professional staff from the 117 university ARL libraries in Canada and the United States and for 3,504 professional…
(21 Feb 2023) How comprehensive are bibliographic databases when it comes to preprints? Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck provide six recommendations for improvement. “In this blog post, we discuss how preprints are indexed by different bibliographic databases and we present recommendations for optimizing the indexing of preprints. Our focus is on five…
Discussing their analysis of a new dataset of journals published via the Open Journals Systems publishing platform, Saurabh Khanna, Jon Ball, Juan Pablo Alperin and John Willinsky argue that rather than being an aspiration an open, regional and bibliodiverse publishing ecosystem is already in existence. (7 Feb 2023) While no one really knows how many academic journals exist in…
(10 Feb 2023) All employees of parliamentary libraries or research services that hold active membership of the Association of Parliamentary Librarians of Asia and the Pacific are eligible to stand for election. Nominations can be made in two ways: individuals may nominate themselves a member may nominate another individual for election, provided the nominee…
(1 Jan 2023) This is the 3rd year that Chinese Academy of Science released its early warning journal list. This list covers journals from Sage, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Springer, Wiley, and OA publishers such as Frontiers and MDPI. “…Targeting the scientific misconduct problem in China and responding to the call for early warning…