(12 Feb 2024) Universities must declare all their retractions and launch investigations into misconduct cases; a Nature analysis reveals that since 2021 there have been more than 17,000 retractions with Chinese co-authors. Chinese universities are days away from the deadline to complete a nationwide audit of retracted research papers and probe of research misconduct. By 15…
(2 Feb 2024) Taiwan’s National Central Library (NCL) swore in its new director-general Wang Han-ching (王涵青) on Thursday. She will be leaving her post as University Librarian of the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) Library, per CNA. In her speech, Wang said she hoped the library can continue providing access to information to the general public. By…
(11 Feb 2024) Charles Darwin – arguably the most influential man of science in history, accumulated a vast personal library throughout his working life. Until now, 85% of its contents were unknown or unpublished. This year, coinciding with Darwin’s 215th birthday, The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, the scholarly project helmed by Dr. John van…
(8 Feb 2024) In the new anti-drug library at Boeung Trabek High School in Phnom Penh, computer programmes share a wealth of educational materials and videos about the harmful effects of illegal drugs. Numerous students engage in learning about narcotics through the facility’s exhaustive collection of research papers and textbooks, all of which are now…
(30 Jan 2024) Open access is built on the promise that more people are able to access and use research. Putting this to the test, Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang, Cameron Neylon and Lucy Montgomeryexplore where citations come from for 19 million research outputs and find that open access is indeed working as it is meant to – allowing more…
(30 Jan 2024) The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) has announced the launch of Reformscape – an online resource enabling the global academic community to explore and share examples of how to make hiring, promotion and tenure fairer, more robust and more diverse. For years, the traditional way in which academic careers are…
(14 Feb 2024) n collaboration with more than 30 industry organisations, Silverchair and Oxford University Press (OUP) have launched Sensus Impact – an initiative to enhance reporting and demonstrate the impact of research supported by funders. By connecting the academic community with a range of insightful metrics in one place, Sensus Impact aims to help address the industry-wide…
(10 Feb 2024) A six-year collaborative research program in global and diplomatic history that investigates the often overlooked role of international treaties in imperial expansion is currently being hosted by Linnaeus University in Kalmar and Växjö, Sweden. Historical Treaties of Southeast Asia is a project to systematically analyse all of the approximately one thousand bilateral treaties concluded between…
(7 Feb 2024) Future Libraries is a two-part initiative from CILIP to challenge and engage librarians and library leaders to reimagine libraries in a world of rapidly evolving living and working patterns. Part 1 is ‘Come Rain or Shine: Preparing public libraries for the future in an age of uncertainty’ that envisions the challenges and…
(14 Feb 2024) Plagiarism seems to be everywhere and no institution, no matter how venerated, appears to be safe. Though it’s easy (and at least partially correct) to blame much of this rise on the weaponization of plagiarism, that weaponization wouldn’t have much impact if the plagiarism didn’t exist, at least to some degree. So, what…