(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…
(15 Feb 2023) The 27th Southeast Asia-Pacific AudioVisual Archive Association (EAPAVAA) Conference will take place in Pattaya, Thailand, from 8 – 13 May 2023 under the umbrella theme “Sustainable AV Archives For The Community”. It is SEAPAVAA’s first in-person event since 2020 following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. We are anticipating a highly participative…
(15 Feb 2023) The National Library of Singapore is excited to announce the release of 10 open datasets comprising metadata of our digital collection. Explore metadata of over 42,000 digitized books, magazines, newspapers, web archives, images, sound and video recordings and more via the National Library Online webpage. Visualize and analyze these datasets and uncover…
(13 Feb 2023) Turnitin has successfully developed an AI writing detector that, in its lab, identifies 97 percent of ChatGPT and GPT3 authored writing, with a very low less than 1/100 false positive rate. The company plans to add this functionality to its core writing integrity products as early as April 2023. The new functionality will…