(9 Oct 2026) The delay in the 2026 National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings has brought out a worrying issue: the quality and integrity of research being done in India’s higher education institutions. The National Board of Accreditation (NBA), which is responsible for evaluating, has seen a large number of withdrawn research papers in…
(7 Oct 2026) Elsevier, a global leader in advanced information and analytics, today announced a strategic content agreement with the JAMA Network that brings full-text content and visuals from the JAMA Network Family of Journals to ClinicalKey AI, the company’s clinical grade AI workspace. The addition of the JAMA Network’s specialty journals further deepens a content collection…
(5 Oct 2026) Ask National Library of Malaysia (PNM) director-general Edy Irwan Zulkafli whether libraries still matter in an age when almost any question can be answered with a tap on a screen, and he does not hesitate. Perhaps now more than ever was his reply. The problem today, he argued, is not a shortage…
(11 Oct 2026) Vietnam Digital Library Joint Stock Company (ViLiB) launched its “Digital Knowledge Space – Shared Digital Library” platform in Ho Chi Minh City on October 8. As the first of its kind in Vietnam, the platform enables libraries, schools and organisations to connect and share digital resources, thereby broadening access to books…
(13 Oct 2026) The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has launched a national scientific journal publishing group as part of efforts to develop world-class scientific journals and increase the international visibility of Chinese research. The new organization, Beijing Zhongke Journal Publishing & Media Group Co, will seek to address longstanding challenges in China’s scientific publishing…