(6 Apr 2022) Online disinformation – especially about science – is one of the scourges of our age. To help researchers and communications professionals deal with it, an EU-funded consortium led by Erasmus University Rotterdam has launched a free online course on the topic. The seven-part programme, now available on educational platform Coursera, is the…
(6 Apr 2022) Abalkina, a sociologist at the Free University of Berlin, has documented what appears to be a flourishing business on the site, www.123mi.ru. Since it debuted in December 2018, she has analyzed more than 1000 advertisements posted there and found at least 419 that appeared to match manuscripts that later appeared in dozens of different journals, she reported…
Vietnam Book and Reading Culture Day 2022, the first of its kind, will take place with various activities this month, especially from April 15 to May 1. (11 Apr 2022) On this occasion, the HCM City People’s Committee will host a book fair on Nguyen Hue street from April 19 to 24. There will also…
(12 Apr 2022) International Data Week 2022, hosted by the Republic of Korea, is now accepting onsite registration. Those wishing to attend will need first to create an account on IDW2022.org. Once an account is made, you can continue to register to attend in person or virtually. If you have already registered to attend virtually, but now…
(12 Apr 2022) Springer Nature and Figshare have launched a free pilot to better support authors in making their data openly available. Authors submitting to a number of Nature research journals and Academic Journals will now be able to easily opt into data sharing, via Figshare, as part of one integrated submission process. The availability…
(31 Mar 2022) About the Job: Bring your outstanding team leadership experience to drive innovation and continuous improvement in the delivery of progressive, client centric library services at The University of South Australia. Reporting directly to the Deputy Director: Resources and Technical Services, the Manager: Library Services is responsible for mentoring and motivating an academic…
(29 Mar 2022) The Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) Library seeks a creative, curious and energetic individual to connect its information services and resources to the SUSS community and enhance user experiences through innovative library outreach. The incumbent will work closely with the Research, Instruction and Outreach Librarian to provide research support and instruction…
(6 Apr 2022) Non-profit publisher Annual Reviews has announced that over the next 18 months they will make their entire portfolio of 51 academic journals freely available to everyone under a new model called Subscribe to Open. These highly cited journals cover topics across the sciences, including astronomy, environmental science, genomics, marine science, public health, and sociology.…
By Ruth A. Pagell* What roles do publicly traded companies have in the scholarly supply chain and how can that affect university decisions? How are the companies supplying the data for the rankings, increasing their revenue and influencing and impacting the rankings? Where are the libraries? Should universities be rated as companies? ABSTRACT: The…
Using open source tools and Slack, these volunteers have backed up everything from the country’s historical records and census data to children’s poems and basket weaving techniques. (8 Apr 2022) Over the past month, a motley group of more than 1,300 librarians, historians, teachers and young children have banded together to save Ukraine’s Internet…