(16 Dec 2025) The Inclusive Forum on Carbon Mitigation Approaches (IFCMA) has released the first edition of its Climate Policy Database, providing unprecedented detail on how governments are tackling climate change through policy action. With validated data covering 38 out of 60 countries so far, and around 1 600 carbon mitigation policy instruments, the Database offers…
(22 Dec 2025) Springer Nature has integrated new generative AI-powered features into its protocols.io platform to support more efficient researcher workflows and open sharing of research methods. It has added generative AI capabilities to protocols.io to reduce manual effort for researchers and support more efficient workflows. The enhancements are intended to support global collaboration and reproducible…
Thousands of mistakenly awarded citations left uncorrected highlight the perils of leaving profile curation to academics, say critics (17 Dec 2025) Further concerns have been raised over the reliability of Google Scholar after academics were mistakenly awarded thousands of citations that saw them top leaderboards for their discipline. While research sleuths have repeatedly highlighted how academics…
(11 Dec 2025) AppliedHE today announced the results of the inaugural AppliedHE Public & Private University Rankings: ALL ASIA, the first Asia-wide university ranking that separately recognizes both public and private universities while placing student feedback and employability outcomes at the heart of its methodology. This new ranking responds to the growing demand for…
(16 Dec 2025) Applications are now open to join the International Library Leaders Programme at the British Library, 01-08 July 2026. With over 170 million items in our collection, from Magna Carta to Shakespeare’s First Folio, the British Library is one of the world’s largest national libraries. If you are a mid-career library or archive professional, we invite you…
(18 Dec 2025) The British Library Philatelic Collections has digitized and published one of the earliest specialist philatelic studies devoted to a single country online. The Row Collection of Siam (Thailand), 1881–1918 focuses on postage stamps, postal stationery, and postal marks from a pivotal era in Thai history. Formed by British zoologist and philatelist Richard…
(21 Dec 2025) The National Library of India (NLI) is set to sign a series of Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with universities across the country, making a significant step towards strengthening academic collaboration, research capacity and human resource development in the field of library and information sciences. The proposed agreements aim to create a structured…
(15 Dec 2025) The Library by BookXcess at Sunway Square Mall, Bandar Sunway in Petaling Jaya, is now the largest 24-hour bookstore in South-east Asia. Around 2,000 book lovers of all ages turned up for the midnight launch on Dec 10. The 3,530 sq m space includes two maze-like floors of towering shelves, nearly 1km…
(16 Dec 2025) A new cultural space combining an art museum and a public library has just opened in Taiwan‘s second largest city. Taichung Green Museumbrary, which has been designed as ‘a library in a park and an art museum in a forest’, is found within the city’s 67-hectare Central Park. Yi-Hsin Lai, director…
(26 Nov 2025) The Office of Academic Resources (OAR), Chulalongkorn University, welcomes international affiliates, including library and information professionals and researchers, tO apply for atwo-month fellowship in Bangkok, Thailand. FOCLIS Areas: Digital preservation and curation Research data management Multimedia, archive, or record Management Library Service, Scholarly communication Technical support for collection Of less-dominant cultures/subcultures…