(31 Oct 2022) Taiwan’s National Central Library is working with European universities to open research centers for Taiwan and Chinese studies. Library administrator Hung Shu-fen (洪淑芬) said on Monday that the library will work with five European universities to exchange books and online resources, as well as host joint exhibitions. Find out more here.
(1 Nov 2022) The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has committed to making all of its journals open access within the next five years. It is the first chemistry publisher to commit to a 100% open access model and hopes to fund the move in a way that will avoid individual authors having to pay article processing…
(27 Oct 2022) Following a year of research and community engagement funded by a planning grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Public Knowledge Program, Project MUSE is preparing a Subscribe to Open (S2O) offer across multiple journal titles and participating publishers that will begin with the 2025 calendar year subscription term. With more than 700 current journals in…
(29 Oct 2022) Elementary, junior high and high school students who have used e-books tend to find paper books easier to read, according to a recent survey conducted by the Japan School Library Association. The annual survey is conducted to determine reading trends among students. A total of 14,091 students enrolled at 161 schools nationwide,…
(27 Oct 2022) Despite rules brought in two years ago to reduce publishing pressure on postgraduate students in China, severe pressure on research students continues to distort the research environment in the country, a new study has found. A recently published paper by Hugo Horta, associate professor in the faculty of education at the…
(26 Oct 2022) The Rajasthan government sanctioned Rs 36.56 crore to set up digital libraries in 344 residential schools across the state, an official statement said. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot approved the amount in compliance with the announcement made during the discussion of the Finance and Appropriation Bill 2022-23. Gehlot had announced the…
(26 Oct 2022) The old library paradigm needs to give way to a new paradigm based on the use of information technology and social inclusion, according to Head of the National Library of Indonesia (Perpusnas) Muhammad Syarfi Bando. He said here on Tuesday that the observation was based on discussions at the General Conference…
(26 Oct 2022) The COAR Notify Initiative is developing and accelerating community adoption of a standard, interoperable, and decentralized approach to linking research outputs hosted in the distributed network of repositories with resources from external services such as overlay-journals and open peer review services. The COAR Notify Protocol, which builds on the established Linked Data Notifications…
(21 Oct 2022) Preparing to publish a research output can be daunting, especially if it is for the first time. It is not always easy to identify a trusted publisher! Think.Check.Submit provides researchers with the tools they need to decide which publishing venue is the most appropriate for their work. Think.Check.Submit. encourages researchers to…
(10 Oct 2022) DOAJ and OpenAIRE are pleased to announce a new partnership which will promote collaboration and discovery between the two parties, by sharing metadata and enriching it. The collaboration aims to enhance the discoverability of the journals indexed in DOAJ in two ways: by enhancing DOAJ’s article metadata with metadata from the…