(30 May 2026) On May 30th, Ho Chi Minh City University of Culture, in collaboration with Vietnam Digital Library Joint Stock Company (ViLIB), organized a scientific conference on the theme: “Digital Transformation of Libraries: Challenges and Opportunities”. According to the Organizing Committee, the workshop was organized to create a scientific forum for researchers, managers, experts, lecturers,…
(27 May 2026) China’s academic world has been thrown into turmoil after a former doctoral student launched a series of high-profile allegations accusing some of the country’s most prominent scholars of suspected research misconduct and data manipulation. The whistleblower, known online as “Geng Tongxue” (“Student Geng”), has rapidly become one of the most closely-watched figures on Chinese…
(28 May 2026) Researchers in Vietnam who fabricate data or plagiarize papers may be permanently barred from future scientific work, according to new guidance from the country’s Ministry of Science and Technology. The new framework, announced May 25, requires science and technology organizations to implement rules against research misconduct, and it outlines a process for investigating…
(15 May 2026) The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the Society of China University Journals (CUJS) have announced a new partnership aimed at improving the visibility and discoverability of Chinese open access journals both within China and internationally. As part of the collaboration, DOAJ and CUJS will continue to co‑organize the DOAJ China Day event and participate…
Bookstores in Spain and other countries sell out-of-print copies to the mysterious Canadian company, which scans and shreds the texts to feed artificial intelligence models, generating alarm in the sector and concern over the loss of bibliographic heritage. (24 May 2026) Tens of second-hand bookstores in Spain and around the world have begun to warn…
(21 May 2026) Much of the public conversation about AI in education centers on the risk that students will use it to avoid reading, outsource thinking or produce work detached from sources. Those concerns point to a related question: what changes when AI is designed to operate within scholarly content rather than around it? A…
(28 May 2026) Diamond open access (OA)—understood to mean publishing without fees for either authors or readers—is often framed as an aspirational model for a more equitable scholarly communication system. In global discussions, it is frequently associated with Latin America or European community-led initiatives. China, by contrast, is rarely part of this conversation. But this…