(24 Aug 2022) About the job: Working directly with the University’s academic staff and higher degree researchers you will provide advanced, high level services across research support, curriculum support and student learning. The role also offers an opportunity to further develop individual leadership capability by taking an active role in mentoring, overseeing and…
(22 Aug 2022) Taylor & Francis has announced the beginning of a 6-month pilot of Proofig image integrity software, as part of an ongoing program to prevent image duplication and manipulation in academic journal articles. Image duplication or manipulation is a serious form of misconduct which involves inappropriately duplicating, manipulating, or fabricating images. Even where image duplication…
(22 Aug 2022) In Aaron Tay‘s blog post, he shares: “My blog usually takes the view that most of our users do not start at the library homepage as a truism and since the beginning of the blog in 2009, I have covered tools that help users “get back” to library resources or at…
(23 Aug 2022) Academic libraries in Singapore support Open Access and Open Science trends in the world. Some of the trends can be seen in the ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit. Yeo Pin Pin, Head of Research Services of Singapore Management University Libraries shares how universities in Singapore are supporting OA. Read the full article here.
(23 Aug 2022) The author of a popular organic chemistry textbook is making it freely available to students after learning about a loophole in his copyright agreement with the publisher. John McMurry’s Organic Chemistry has been one of the best selling chemistry textbooks since it was first printed in 1984. Under his agreement with Cengage Learning, the book’s…
(24 Aug 2022) The latest National Diet Library Newsletter has been released, with table of contents as below: Selections from NDL collections Browsing Joruri books with YOSHINAGA Motonobu, NDL Director General (Part Two) Map Collections in the National Diet Library (3) Jutei bankoku zenzu Budget NDL Budget for Fiscal Year 2022 News from…
(15 Aug 2022) Elsevier has today launched a Monkeypox Information Center. The hub will be continually updated and provide free access to relevant research and clinical information on the Monkeypox virus from across Elsevier’s scientific and medical journals and clinical resources for healthcare professionals. This research and health information will be freely available from Elsevier platforms and…
(17 Aug 2022) For the first time, China has slightly edged out the United States in the number of most cited papers, a key measure of research impact, according to a Japanese science policy institute. The milestone provides fresh evidence that China’s scholarship, known for its burgeoning quantity, is catching up in quality as well. “People…
(17 Aug 2022) The Cabinet [of India] chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has approved the “Widening access of the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) database to users, besides patent offices”. The opening up of the TKDL database to users is an ambitious and forward-looking action by the Government of India. This will…
Without a fuller embrace of repositories, the transition with be slow, partial and siloed, says Kathleen Shearer, executive director of COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) (9 Aug 2022) The Plan S requirement for immediate open access has further fuelled the debate. In a recent article published in Times Higher Education, Springer Nature’s chief publishing…