(Sep 2021) About the online event: Date: 18 Oct 2021 to 28 Oct 2021 Following the postponement of International Data Week to June 2022 (hybrid and onsite in Seoul, Republic of Korea), it was decided to hold Virtual SciDataCon 2021 with a series of sessions from Mon 18 October to Thu 28 October. The following themes will be covered:…
(31 Aug 2021) The ORCID DE Monitor is a publicly funded tool that analyzes the use of ORCID iDs in the scientific community. Developed by the ORCID DE research project, the ORCID DE Monitor both measures and contributes to ORCID adoption. The ORCID DE Monitor currently provides a cartographic representation of the occurrence of ORCID iDs…
(9 Sep 2021) Libraries bring unique strengths and collective strength to global sustainability challenges. To inspire more conversations, expanded engagement, and action that leads to impact, OCLC Global Council set its FY21 area of focus on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). OCLC Global Council, in conjunction with OCLC Research and Market Research teams,…
(6 Sep 2021) Karger Publishers has started offering its authors an automated proofreading service from the company Writefull. Writefull uses AI-based language models to suggest language edits, enabling authors to improve the language of their manuscript before submission. Authors submitting to Karger Publishers are invited to use Writefull to check the language of their manuscript…
(6 Sept 2021) Cabells’ Predatory Reports database recently surpassed 15,000 individual predatory journal entries. This represents a nearly fourfold increase in the number of predatory journals listed since the resource launched in 2017 with 4,000 titles, showing consistent growth to keep pace with the ever-expanding universe of predatory publishing operators. Cabells’ team of journal evaluation experts…
(8 Sep 2021) “A History of Film Exhibition and Reception in Colonial Hong Kong (1897 to 1925)” was officially launched in September 2021 and publicly accessible here. This first digital humanities research collection is a result of close collaborations from Lingnan University’s Department of Visual Studies, the Centre for Film and Creative Industries, and the…
By Ruth A. Pagell* THE’s new Arab University ranking adds new metrics to its regional methodology QS adds SDG metrics to its World rankings Clarivate issues a research report on Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey (MENAT) THE ARAB University Rankings (3 Sept 2021) In 2017 and 2018, THE published lists of top Arab…
International action needed to eliminate ‘cloned journals’ that prey on early career researchers, says Indian research integrity advisor. (30 Aug 2021) Fraudulent journals that hijack the identity of legitimate scholarly publications are becoming one of the biggest problems for India’s research system, with millions of dollars a year being “siphoned” into international publishing scams, a…
(30 Aug 2021) An open version (CC BY-NC 4.0) of Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge, edited by Merrilee Proffitt (OCLC Research) is now available for free download via the OCLC website. The book was first published by ALA Editions in 2018. The vision statement of the Wikimedia Foundation states, “Imagine a world in which every single…
Library staff work to remove the need for police officers within libraries and focus on de-escalating training. (23 Aug 2021) There is a growing national movement of abolitionist library workers who want law enforcement out of libraries, and it has seen some success in St. Louis County, Mo. For years, county librarians worked alongside armed, uniformed,…