(7 Feb 2022) This update promises a slower, closer look at one of the NUS Libraries’ collections; and in the spirit of Chinese New Year, features the Wan Boo Sow Chinese Library, housed on the fifth and sixth floors. Find out more from the original article with photos here.
(18 Jan 2022) Elsevier announced a pilot project in which the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley will syndicate selected content to the ScienceDirect platform. The articles will appear in search and browse listings. In the pilot, more than 70,000 articles in 35 journals in organic chemistry and transportation…
(1 Feb 2022) The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced a new Patent Public Search tool that provides more convenient, remote, and robust full-text searching of all U.S. patents and published patent applications. Based on the advanced Patents End-to-End (PE2E) search tool USPTO examiners use to identify prior art, this free, cloud-based platform combines the…
(1 Feb 2022) Clarivate Analytics, the UK-based firm that owns the scholarly database Web of Science (WoS), has begun automatically generating author profiles, including information about peer-review activity for researchers whose papers are indexed on the database. The peer-review information will be integrated from early 2022. It will come primarily from Publons, a free-to-use website…
(17 Jan 2022) The United Nations 2030 Agenda is not just a document for governments, rather it sets out responsibilities for everyone, including libraries! However, it is not always easy to make the connection between high-level policy documents and day-to-day library operations. Nathalice Cardoso, a Brazilian Librarian and researcher with experience in Brazil and…
(18 Jan 2022) States that want to give libraries a better deal on e-books are watching a publishers’ suit against Maryland, the first state to set terms for how digital books are distributed for public borrowing. Library associations, including the American Library Association and several state groups, have been pushing for state laws to…
(26 Jan 2022) The latest issue of the SEALG Newsletter has now been published and can be viewed and downloaded freely from our homepage. It contains the following articles: Nicholas Martland, 1957-2021 (obituary by Pauline Khng) The EFEO in Indochina: A History of Maps and Archives (by Magali Morel and Sovannara Mey) Collecting Information and Artifacts…
(24 Jan 2022) An ambitious free index of more than 200 million scientific documents that catalogues publication sources, author information and research topics, has been launched. The index, called OpenAlex after the ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt, also aims to chart connections between these data points to create a comprehensive, interlinked database of the global research…
(22 Jan 2022) A new cultural park repurposed and renovated from the compound of late President Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國) opened on Saturday, featuring the nation’s first presidential library. According to the management of the park, the library has also partnered up with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University to display Chiang’s diaries from the…
(23 Jan 2022) The National Central Library of Taiwan (NCL) has completed the digitization of over 30,000 pages of rare Chinese books in collaboration with the libraries of Oxford University and Stanford University, the NCL said in a statement issued Sunday. The cooperation with the Stanford University Libraries focuses on the digitization of a…