(14 Jun 2023) Following months of collaboration with some of the United States’ leading university nursing programs, Wolters Kluwer Health and Laerdal Medical have officially launched vrClinicals for Nursing. The virtual reality (VR) based learning solution helps address today’s gaps in nursing education and the nursing workforce, allowing students to go from the classroom to a busy…
(Jun 2023) The ARDC is Australia’s peak body for research data. Accelerating Australian research and innovation by driving excellence in the creation, analysis and retention of high-quality data assets. The ARDC partner with the research community and industry to build leading-edge digital research infrastructure to provide Australian researchers with competitive advantage through data. Role Overview…
(15 Jun 2023) Although artificial intelligence (AI) has been present in our lives for years, 2022 served as a major proving ground for the technology. Between ChatGPT, AI art generation and Hollywood embracing AI, it is fast becoming an area of innovation, excitement and fear. With all that 2022 did to raise the profile of the…
(8 Jun 2023) What’s new in CiteScore 2022? More coverage with 28,100 active titles and 1,576 titles with first CiteScore More open access titles: 5,922 titles of which 46 rank #1 in their categories 333 subject categories: History is the largest subject area with 1,599 titles 15,700 titles with CiteScore 2022 and no Impact Factor 2021. 720…
(6 Jun 2023) In this issue of IFLA Asia and Oceania Regional Quarterly News: IFLA Elections 2023 Results Role of Asia-Oceania Government Libraries in VNR Preparation Retrospective of AI Satellite Conference in Singapore Five-Storey Punggol Regional Library Official Opens Today Mapping Collection of Southeast Asian Maritime World Children Read in Seasons (CRIS) 11th International Library…
(7 Jun 2023) The commercial control of academic publishing and research infrastructure by a few oligopolistic companies has crippled the development of open access movement and interfered with the ethical principles of information access and privacy. In recent years, vertical integration of publishers and other service providers throughout the research cycle has led to platformisation,…
(5 Jun 2023) More than 1 billion people around the world have some type of disability (including visual, hearing, cognitive, learning, mobility, and other disabilities) that affects how they access digital content. No wonder we spend so much time talking about accessibility tools! Digital transformation can revolutionize the world, turning it into an inclusive place…
(23 May 2023) The core mission of libraries is to ensure perpetual access to the record of knowledge. As a review of the NASIG webinar (formerly North American Serials Interest Group), ‘Integrating Preservation into Librarian Workflows’, by Jill Emery and Sunshine Carter, this article examines working models constructed to sustain perpetual access for their institutional…
(8 Jun 2023) For scientists submitting their papers to journals, there’s an all-too-familiar drill: spend hours formatting the paper to meet the journal’s guidelines; if the paper is rejected, sink more time into reformatting it for another journal; repeat. Now an analysis has put a price tag on all that busy work: US$230 million worth…
(23 May 2023) In this blog post, Alejandro Marquez, a Collection Development Librarian, discusses the challenges librarians face, including a lack of advancement opportunities, low pay compared to education levels, and a culture that overvalues busyness. Despite these issues, Marquez remains hopeful, offering solutions such as making career paths explicit, avoiding non-promotable tasks, and implementing…