(9 Jun 2022) The registration is open for AUNILO meeting 2022. The theme is “User-centric libraries in South East Asia: Designing, creating, and improving services, spaces, and processes for users. Date: 5 July 2022. The meeting program and registration details can be found here.
(9 Jun 2022) CiteScore 2021 values are now available in Scopus! There are over 15,000 titles which have a CiteScore 2021 but no Impact Factor. Of these 15,000+ titles, 708 of the titles are very highly ranked (in the top 10%) of their subject area. Find out more from the announcement here. See CiteScore 2021…
(8 Jun 2022) Archivists and librarians at the ABC are in shock after management unveiled plans to abolish 58 positions and make journalists research and archive their own stories. Reporters and producers working on breaking news, news programs and daily programs like 7.30 will have to search for archival material themselves and will be expected…
(31 May 2022) IFLA RDC AO Southeast Asia Working Group is organizing a webinar on 23 June, the event is titled “Southeast Asian Libraries on the UN Sustainable Development Goals webinar”. This webinar focuses on the best practices by Southeast Asian libraries and librarians to support the UN SDGs. Through this program, the IFLA…
(1 Jun 2022) OpenPlato is an online training platform for the research and research support communities to learn about Open Science, FAIR principles and research data management and so much more associated with these. Creators and owners of training resources are invited to participate and come on board. OpenPlato has the ambition to become…
(31 May 2022) The University of Sydney Library offers a wide range of high-quality information services to University students, staff and the community to support their learning, teaching, research and scholarship endeavors. The Library supports the University to achieve its internationally recognised research and scholarship profile by providing access to electronic information resources, print collections…
(2nd Jun 2022) The African Research Integrity Network (ARIN), a partnership to promote ethical research practices across the continent, was officially launched on Tuesday after years of operating as an informal body of practitioners. This work is much needed in Africa which, along with some other regions, faces huge challenges with research integrity. The…
(2nd Jun 2022) Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, is establishing a pilot with Oable, the innovative open access (OA) workflow management solution developed by Knowledge Unlatched, to simplify the librarian approval workflow for open access publishing. Oable supports libraries in managing their OA activities across publishers, including different types…
(24 May 2022) cOAlition S is excited to release today the Journal Comparison Service (JCS), a secure, free and long-anticipated digital service, that aims to shed light on publishing fees and services. Starting from today, publishers can register with the JCS publisher portal. After signing a service agreement, publishers can share information, at journal level, highlighting the…
(29 May 2022) Hijacked journals mimic legitimate journals by adopting their titles, ISSNs, and other metadata. Usually, hijacked journals mirror legitimate journals without permission from the original journal. In rare instances, publishers will buy rights to a legitimate journal but continue the publication under considerably less stringent publishing protocols and without clearly noting to the reader the…