(18 Feb 2022) A team in Penang, Malaysia, gave the local abandoned phone booths a new look by transforming them into mini libraries for the community. Penggerak Komuniti Muda (PEKA), an organization that aims to empower youth, was looking for a way to encourage the younger generation to pick up the reading habit. The…
(14 Feb 2022) About the job: Duties at this level will include: Working with and supporting colleagues in Library Learning Services to enable integration of the team and implementation of new structure and practice in line with the School Support Model and the Student Learning Framework Engagement with key partners within the DVC-E portfolio and…
(16 Feb 2022) Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, has opened applications for The Eugene Garfield Award™, which recognizes early-career scientists working on innovative approaches in citation analysis. The award was launched in 2017 and has an unrestricted prize of $25,000. As a part of…
(10 Feb 2022) Today sees the publication of the NISO Recommended Practice, E-Book Bibliographic Metadata Requirements in the Sale, Publication, Discovery, Delivery, and Preservation Supply Chain (NISO RP-29-2022). This document, prepared by the E-Book Metadata Working Group and approved by the NISO Information Creation & Curation Topic Committee, incorporates feedback received from publishers, retailers, libraries, service providers, preservation agencies, and…
(8 Feb 2022) The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) today announces its publication of the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) as an ANSI/NISO standard, Z39.104-2022. The taxonomy, which was originally developed in 2014, describes 14 roles that represent the typical range of contributors to scientific scholarly outputs, and that can be used to enable recognition and facilitate transparency to…
(16 Feb 2022) The data-sharing policy could set a global standard for biomedical research, scientists say, but they have questions about logistics and equity. In January 2023, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will begin requiring most of the 300,000 researchers and 2,500 institutions it funds annually to include a data-management plan in…
(2 Feb 2022) ResearchGate has made its statement over its case with Elsevier and ACS in Germany: “In a judgment Monday, the Regional Court of Munich I dismissed the damages claims filed by the scientific publishers Elsevier and the American Chemical Society (ACS) against ResearchGate in 2017. Remarkably, the court found, based on numerous…
(26 Jan 2022) Clarivate has released a report from the company’s Institute for Scientific Information, proposing a new method for analysing the credit authors of academic papers receive via citations. In an increasingly global and collaborative world, where the number of articles naming dozens or even hundreds of researchers as authors is rapidly increasing, the…
(Jan 2022) From the report introduction: “This report presents an overview of the activities we have undertaken in 2021, the levels of OA compliance amongst cOAlition S funders, and the latest news on the tools and services we are developing, such as the Journal Checker Tool and the Journal Comparison Service. Next, we outline…
(31 Jan 2022) For the first time in Australia, an assessment of the value of persistent identifiers to research is underway. Persistent Identifiers are vital to research because they create a persistent link to a location on the internet for journal papers, data, software, physical samples and grey literature. This facilitates citation, attribution, discovery and…