(14 Jun 2026) The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities has, for the first time, publicly announced the exclusion of dozens of universities from its upcoming July 2026 edition for promoting fabricated data and inflated positions derived from using ‘predatory’ websites that are copycat ranking sites. On 9 June, Isidro Aguillo, editor of the Webometrics rankings,…
(12 Jun 2026) A university in this western Japan city has set up a permanent bookshelf called the “Apple Shelf” in its library to create a place for people facing various difficulties in life. The Apple Shelf originated in a Swedish library in 1993 for children who had difficulty reading and the project has been…
(12 Jun 2026) Following the World Health Organization’s declaration of an Ebola outbreak caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), Elsevier has launched an Ebola Information Center to provide healthcare professionals, researchers, policymakers, and the public with free access to clinical and research resources. The center consolidates…
(3 Jun 2026) CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society specializing in scientific knowledge management, has announced CAS Connections, a new integration framework designed to embed the CAS Content Collection™ and CAS Newton℠, its recently launched agentic AI, directly into widely used R&D workflow tools. Initial collaborations include Albert Invent, Sapio Sciences, Inductive Bio, Scilligence, and…