(28 Apr 2023) This year, the infographic output is focused on the theme “Level Up” based on the concept of the game Chutes and Ladders in the US, or Snakes and Ladders around the world. The STM Trends 2027 output builds upon this idea of a game focused on six key areas where publishers face…
(10 May 2023) The Dutch consortium of University Libraries and the National Library of the Netherlands (UKB), together with the Universities of The Netherlands (UNL), the Dutch national center of expertise and repository for research data (DANS) and the Dutch Research Council (NWO), has published a practical guide on open science. Beginning researchers are…
(4 May 2023) Sage has launched a free-to-read collection of research and other resources that explore the Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) region. Categories in the collection include: gender role and oppression governments, laws, and policies information and media mental health, healthcare, and medicine protests, conflicts, and war refugees, displaced, and stateless people …
(2 May 2023) The only public library dedicated to the performing arts, library@esplanade, is set to close its doors on 30 June. The National Library Board (NLB) announced in a statement on Tuesday (2nd May) that the library’s collections and programs will be moved to the National Library Building in Bras Basah. NLB said…
(10 May 2023) Jain (Deemed-to-be University)’s leading School of Humanities and Social Sciences is now offering yet another fresh course: Master of Library and Information Science. For more information: https://www.jainuniversity.ac.in/program/humanities-and-social-sciences/library-and-information-science The news in full is here.
(11 May 2023) The Library of Congress (LC) finished digitizing the Yongle Encyclopedia, “the largest reference work created in pre-modern China, and possibly the world. Digital publication of the 41 volumes held in the Library’s collections provides open access to one of the most extensive attempts in world history to capture the entirety of human…
(10 May 2023) IGI Global, a leading independent academic publisher, has launched its InfoScipedia search tool, providing a valuable resource for academic researchers, students, educators, and professionals working in the fields of business, STM (science, technology, and medicine), and education. The InfoScipedia search tool is a comprehensive collection of over 110,000 terms and 250,000 definitions…
(4 May 2023) The Association of Parliamentary Librarians’ of Asia and the Pacific Executive Committee congratulates Florida Tamu (National Parliament of Solomon Islands) on her nomination and election to the role of APLAP Secretary in April. The announcement is here.
(4 Apr 2023) On March 30, CCC hosted a town hall via LinkedIn, ChatGPT & Information Integrity. Chris Kenneally, CCC’s senior director of content marketing, moderated the live event, inviting the speakers to share their experiences with ChatGPT and other AI tools and to express their concerns and questions about this rapidly changing technology. AI…
(7 May 2023) More than 40 leading scientists have resigned en masse from the editorial board of a top science journal in protest at what they describe as the “greed” of publishing giant Elsevier. The entire academic board of the journal Neuroimage, including professors from Oxford University, King’s College London and Cardiff University resigned after…