(7 Apr 2022) An analysis by the OECD shows governments have shrunk their budgets for research in 2021, one year after the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to boost public expenditure on science. After a significant 15% growth in real terms in 2020, which was largely focused on health, government R&D budgets for the entire OECD…
(1 Apr 2022) The Malaysian Public Library, Research and Development Centre (MPLRDC) has reopened at its new home at Wisma HELP, Jalan Dungun, Bukit Damansara in Kuala Lumpur. Previously known as the Malaysian Public Library Association, the MPLRDC is now ready to welcome the public to a literary destination with more than 65 years of…
(March 2022) InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) is a global network of over 140 science, engineering and medical academies that work together to support the role of science in seeking solutions to the world’s most challenging problems. In 2020, IAP launched a two-year study on Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences, generously funded by The Gordon and…
(29 Mar 2022) Leaders from 65 U.S. colleges and universities are joining forces to advance the principles and practices of open scholarship, in an effort to make scholarly outputs more transparent and beneficial to a broader community. The partnership aims to ensure that as many students, faculty, practitioners, policy makers, and community members as…
(4 Apr 2022) Smaller independent publishers, libraries, and consortia can now more easily enter into Open Access agreements because of a set of new tools published by cOAlition S and the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). In order to foster a diverse, open scholarly publishing landscape, libraries and consortia need to broaden the scope of…
(30 Mar 2022) This year, THE has included small but important changes in the methodologies which explicitly reference support for refugees. There are approximately 3 million refugees of university age around the world. Among them, only 5 percent, or roughly 150,000, are enrolled in some form of higher education, according to the United Nations High…
(6 Apr 2022) CLIS 2022 Call for Abstracts has been extended to 18 April 2022 to welcome more papers with higher research value. Proposals should consider the theme: Engaged Libraries: Carving Opportunities in Critical Times. The event is organized by the De La Salle University (DLSU) Libraries and the Philippine Normal University Library and…
(28 Mar 2022) The African Open Science Platform (AOSP), which has been hosted by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa since 2020, aims to position scientists and science systems in Africa at the cutting edge of data-intensive open science. The Platform was first initiated in 2017, and is now ramping up its activities following the appointments…
(23 Mar 2022) Seoul Book Repository, South Korea’s first public secondhand bookstore, will perform a variety of commemorative events to celebrate the third anniversary of its opening. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Library, Seoul Book Repository has attracted about 430,000 visitors who bought a total of 333,000 books over the past three years, despite several…
(25 Mar 2022) Project COUNTER has a new multimedia website designed to help users navigate their educational resources. Whether new to COUNTER and looking for introductory materials or an experienced user looking for help with a specific question, the user journeys are a guide through getting started, journals and ebooks, platform and databases, and strategy.…