(12 Feb 2021) India’s rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and involvement in ‘vaccine diplomacy’ around the world has led to a significant boost in health spending and scientific research, announced in this year’s budget in the midst of the pandemic. It also includes first-time funding for a proposed overarching research funding organisation which will change…
(10 Feb 2021) The Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (of Thailand) is working with the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) to upgrade the capacity of the ministry’s UniNet high-speed communication fibre network for the benefit of innovative R&D learning. The cooperation is under a five-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) agreement signed…
(15 Feb 2021) Social media network is something that everyone cannot live without, and users tend to have more than one account in more than one social media networks. Let’s talk a look at which one is the most popular social media network in 2020. More information can be found from the source:…
(2 Feb 2021) Registration opened yesterday for authors and publishers to receive payments as part of a trial public lending rights program launched last year at two public libraries. The three-year pilot program, organized by the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Culture, allows Taiwanese authors, creators, publishers and registered non-governmental organizations to be compensated…
(22 Jan 2021) From CNN Philippines: “With the country’s notoriously fickle internet connectivity and the continuing danger of physical contact, I find books a safe remedy to the growing loneliness of lockdown. Many local cultural workers and institutions, despite the punishing circumstances of this current crisis, are putting out work, which deserve a much…
(5 Feb 2021) Infamous as India’s ‘phishing capital’, Jharkhand’s tiny Jamtara district now has 45 public libraries diverting youth away from cybercrime. A library movement developed in a short span of time in Jharkhand’s Jamtara district is receiving a steady flow of students and helping them turn a new page. The district love for books…
(3 Feb 2021) A new study of the behaviour of scholarly researchers has been launched, aiming to map the changing nature of how readers from all over the world find academic content. The latest survey follows on from work undertaken every three years since 2005, and an upcoming report will provide an update on trends…
(5 Feb 2021) COAR is pleased to announce the launch of a new project, Notify: The Repositories and Services Interoperability Project This project builds on previous work of COAR to advance the vision first outlined in the COAR Next Generation Repositories Initiative – to position repositories as the foundation for a distributed, globally networked…
(2 Feb 2021) Citing retracted papers can be legitimate, if it’s clearly acknowledged in the text that the cited paper has been retracted. But this is usually not the case. Nature Index highlights the issue and presents some tools that may help researchers and publishers checking retraction articles from citations. Read more from…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (8 Feb 2021) I presented existing journal quality metrics in Ruth’s Rankings 46 Part 1. JCR is adding “Early Access” documents to its 2021 calculations (Quaderi, McVeigh). Before writing about this and other updates from Clarivate Analytics and Scopus, I realized I needed to know more about the make-up of the…