(25 Nov 2022) About the job: The Manager Site Services coordinates and develop services and facilities available at the assigned Library sites to ensure that they support students, staff and the community with access to quality services and resources that enhance the learning, teaching and research experience. The job holder will collaborate with the Associate…
(27 Nov 2022) In the past decade, various online tools and Open Source software that can be useful in Southeast Asian librarianship have been developed. This article looks at a selection of online tools that are available to help in areas like cataloging and creation of Romanised versions of Southeast Asian scripts, text recognition, text…
(23 Nov 2022) scite, an award-winning tool that helps students and researchers discover and understand research findings more efficiently through Smart Citations, has partnered with SPIE, the international society for photonics and optics, to enhance the citation experience on the SPIE Digital Library. Pioneered by scite, Smart Citations go beyond traditional citations by showing…
(22 Nov 2022) The Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) Library seeks a resourceful, self-motivated and service-oriented individual to manage and oversee its user services to provide excellent services to the SUSS community. The successful candidate will also provide curricular, research support and instructional support. He or she will be part of a lean team,…
(17 Nov 2022) Wolters Kluwer Health and NEJM Group have entered into an exclusive partnership to ensure that more researchers and clinicians around the world can access the growing family of NEJM Group journals. Building on years of collaboration, this expanded partnership positions NEJM Group journals for sustained global growth through Wolters Kluwer’s Ovid® medical…
(15 Nov 2022) Ever try to read a physical book passed down in your family from 100 years ago? Probably worked well. Ever try reading an ebook you paid for 10 years ago? Probably a different experience. From the leasing business model of mega publishers to physical device evolution to format obsolescence, digital books are…
(19 Nov 2022) After Z-Library was targeted by U.S. law enforcement, a group of anonymous archivists worked around the clock to get a shadow library search engine online. This week, the ‘team’ behind the Pirate Library Mirror launched “Anna’s Archive” which offers a gateway to various book resources. Anna’s Archive is basically a meta-search…
(21 Nov 2022) Springer Nature is announcing what it says is the largest transformative agreement in Japan, comprising the engagement of 10 institutions that will generate the open-access of close to 900 articles in the coming year. The University of Tokyo is among the institutions participating in the accord, and the program will allow…
(19 Nov 2022) Open science has been a feature of academia in Vietnam for more than a decade, along with open education which has been in place since the late 2000s. Since then, with the assistance of numerous bottom-up initiatives, open science has flourished and permeated a variety of academic fields in Vietnam. However, it…
(20 Nov 2022) The Special Libraries Association (SLA) – Asia Chapter, in collaboration with the Association of Special Libraries in the Philippines (ASLP) and Cebu Librarians Association, Inc. (CLAI), is inviting everyone across Asia to join the 8th International Conference of Asian Special Libraries (ICoASL) on February 22-24, 2023 in Cebu, Philippines with a theme, “Advancing…