(9 Jun 2022) The 7th World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI) was held in Cape Town, South Africa, from May 29 to June 1, 2022. The event brought together important stakeholders, including researchers, organization leaders, national and international policymakers, funders, and journals across all disciplines. This year’s theme was “Fostering Research Integrity in an Unequal World.” The…
(9 Jun 2022) The results of the first national survey to investigate research integrity in Australia, a collaboration between the Australian Academy of Science and publisher Springer Nature, indicate broad support for mandatory research integrity training. The survey found that while 68% of respondents stated that their institution offered research integrity-related training and 50% stated it was mandatory,…
(13 Jun 2022) From Ithaka S+R: “…libraries are beginning to develop strategies for increasing the efficacy of their data support service offerings. One particularly interesting new model is the Research Facilitation Service (RFS) currently being piloted at North Carolina State University (NC State). A collaboration between the Libraries, the Office of Information Technology, and…
(14 Jun 2022) This search is conceptualized by the National Library of the Philippines (NLP) and ASEAN Public Libraries Information Network (APLiN) with the following objectives: – To encourage public libraries in the ASEAN Region to continue their exemplary contributions to their community; – To recognize public librarians or individuals who have gone above and…
(8 Jun 2022) Springer Nature has made Nature Masterclasses on-demand online training content free to access for researchers in lower-income countries through Research4Life. Nature Masterclasses offers highly targeted courses designed to enhance the skills and boost the confidence of early career researchers, with over 60,000 researchers globally having benefited from the platform to date. The world-class training is delivered…
(8 Jun 2022) The cost of digital content has of course been much in the library news for a decade, and longer. Ten years ago bestselling titles might often not be available in digital form to libraries, with some larger publishers not opening their catalogs. Titles that were available could, however, often be licensed perpetually at…
(9 Jun 2022) Web cartoons and web novels, rising as mainstream forms of Korean content, will join the official collection list of the National Library of Korea. The National Library said Tuesday it has amended the related regulations for the first time in 11 years to expand the criteria of the “official types and…
(10 Jun 2022) For over 50 years, Emerald has been an independent publishing house, formed by a group of management academics at the University of Bradford, UK, and latterly run as a family-owned business, spearheaded by the late Dr. Keith Howard OBE. A publisher of academic journals, books, and case studies in the social sciences, Emerald…
(10 Jun 2022) EU science ministers today signed off an agreement backing research assessment reform in Europe, alongside conclusions on open science, international cooperation and Horizon Europe missions. In a meeting in Luxembourg, the 27 ministers acknowledged it’s time for the EU to revamp how it evaluates research, putting more weight into the quality of…
(10 Jun 2022) The annual meeting of the Southeast Asia Library Group is taking place on 1 July 2022 at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Campus Condorcet, Paris-Aubervilliers. It has been organised in cooperation with the 12th conference of the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) which will be held from…