(6 Aug 2021) Research England grants £650,000 to help build Octopus into a new global service for scholarly communication. Funding has been agreed to help develop a ground-breaking global service which could positively disrupt research culture for the better. Announced today by the science minister, Amanda Solloway, Octopus Publishing Community Interest Company (CIC),…
(5 Aug 2021) One of Taiwan’s leading medical research institutions, the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), and open-access publisher Frontiers have announced a publishing deal effective as of August 2021. Established in 1995, NHRI is one of Asia’s leading medical research and healthcare institutions. It focuses on fields including aging, cancer, infectious diseases and vaccine research, genomic medicine, biomedical…
A worn pair of nurse’s shoes. That coronavirus model Anthony Fauci used in public briefings. Oral histories, iconic photos and social media posts. All of us are curators now, and what we preserve — as well as what we don’t — will write the pandemic story. By Karen Emslie (30 Jul 2021, feed from Knowable…
(Aug 2021) From the National Library of the Philippines: As part of the celebration of the 31st Library and Information Services Month, the National Library of the Philippines (NLP) will be publishing the “Impact Stories of Libraries in the Philippines Book III.” This publication will be made possible through the assistance of different libraries…
UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) new policy will increase opportunity for the findings of publicly funded research to be accessed, shared and reused. (6 Aug 2021) Following extensive consultation with the sector, UKRI has published a single Open Access Policy for research publications that acknowledge funding from its councils. UKRI’s updated policy requires immediate…
(28 Jul 2021) California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law an unprecedented $115 million investment in the expansion of Zero Textbook Cost degrees and open educational resources at the state’s community colleges. Building on a successful pilot that concluded in 2019, the funding will support the development of degree and certificate pathways that students can complete without…
(4 Aug 2021) From OpenCitations blog: “The competitive benefits of closing access to citation data diminish with each new citation released to the public domain, but the benefits of open data remain. Going forward, citation data is almost completely public domain”. With these words, from the article “A tipping point for open citations data” (July 15,…
(3 Aug 2021) A new narrative-based CV that reflects skills and experiences better than a grant and publication record is being piloted across six funding schemes overseen by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the UK’s central research funder. Résumé for Researchers looks set to be adopted widely, after seven UK science funders, including UKRI, committed on…
(3 Aug 2021) The Chevening Fellowship Programme is the UK government’s international awards scheme aimed at fostering knowledge exchange and collaboration, and developing global leaders. In 2015, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) has partnered with the British Library to offer professionals two new fellowships every year, and recently the two organisations have announced…
(2 Aug 2021) The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative project based at the British Library and with centres around the world. The Project aims to preserve and digitise collections from archaeological sites along the Eastern part of the ancient trade routes known as the Silk Roads, including the Mogao caves near Dunhuang…