(30 Sep 2021) The 2022 Serials Price Projection Report from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is now available. The report projects that the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and academic medical libraries are expected to be (before any currency impact) in the range of three to five percent for individual titles and one to three percent for e-journal packages. …
The new digitization brought 10,000 out-of-print titles back into availability. (28 Sep 2021) The Berlin-based four-year De Gruyter Book Archive project has been completed now housing digitized editions of more than 53,000 titles, some of which date to 1749. All the titles involved have been scanned and catalogued and are now available digitally…
(11 Sep 2021) In the heart of Northwest Delhi’s Karala village is an airy room where young women have been spending their days for the last week, studying in a space of their own in the first women’s only library in the district. “This is a community driven project. They have given us the…
(29 Sep 2021) A case between three academic publishers and the creator of pirate website Sci-Hub is currently being fought in the Delhi High Court. In 2015, Elsevier had first filed a lawsuit against her in a US court, which found her liable for wilful copyright infringement and entered a permanent injunction against her and…
(29 Sep 2021) An educator lamented the removal of books and documents published by the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) in at least three state university libraries. The Kalinga State University (KSU), Isabela State University (ISU), and Aklan State University (ASU) pulled out books authored by or related to the NDFP to…
(24 Sep 2021) The Nature Index 2021 Science Cities, released on September 24, takes a new focus on its science cities, as it examines their research output related to the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), from the period of 2015-20. The top 10 science cities in SDG-related research are Beijing, San Francisco Bay Area,…
(6 Sep 2021) App users in the UK and US are spending more time on TikTok than on YouTube, a new report suggests. Data from app monitoring firm App Annie indicates that average time per user spent on the apps is higher for TikTok, indicating high levels of engagement. App Annie characterised TikTok…
(22 Sep 2021) Dave Davis looked at the role of peer review in scholarly and scientific publishing, and the critically important “quality assurance”-style value it brings to the process. In this following article, he is focusing on the “before”, “in process” and “final” versions of articles, which is to say, preprints, postprints, and the “versions…
(Sep 2021) The ‘Hong Kong Library Festival 2021’, organised by the Hong Kong Public Libraries (HKPL), will take place between 9 October and 28 November under the theme ‘Joyful Reading•Libraries for You’. The Library Festival will focus on the role of public libraries in promoting the joy of reading through generations, connecting with readers, as…
(21 Sep 2021) Retraction Watch readers are likely familiar with the varied — and often unsatisfying — responses of journals to scientific sleuthing that uncovers potential problems with published images. Some editors take the issues seriously, even hiring staff to respond to allegations and vet manuscripts before publication. Some, however, take years to handle the allegations, or ignore them altogether.…