Karger出版社首次与中国高校图书馆达成开放出版转换协议 (Karger completes transformative agreement with DRAA, China)
鉴于高校图书馆预算的减少，以及响应支持中国高校图书馆数字资源采购联盟（DRAA）成员继续获取Karger 医学电子资源以保障对教学科研的支持，我们修订了现行的2021-2022年DRAA多年协议。
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Amazon reveals why it doesn’t sell the e-books and audiobooks it publishes to libraries
Amazon is the only US publisher that does not sell e-books or audiobooks to libraries. Amazon has published thousands of e-books since 2009. Public libraries are a way for Americans to access books and media, some of which are paywalled by Amazon. (11 Mar 2021) Amazon does not sell its thousands of e-books or tens…
The race to preserve remnants from 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami, and to curate them to offer lessons from the disaster
Japan’s National Diet Library has 4.45 million items in its digital quake database, including over a million photos; physical artefacts are in regional museums Curators are working to make the items easily available to the general public and to preserve remnants of the disaster before they are lost (10 Mar 2021) In Japan, efforts…
Libraries and Open Data in 2021: access, skills, engagement
(6 Mar 2021) 6 March 2021 marks the annual Open Data Day. This international celebration brings together a wide range of stakeholders – from librarians and public servants to developers and statisticians – to showcase creative uses and benefits of open data to drive development and help address today’s societal challenges. In light of libraries’…
India: St Agnes College RFID tags’ 62k library books
(3 Mar 2021) St Agnes College has become the first college under Mangalore University, to tag library books with RFIDs. Over 62,000 books have been tagged. Pegged at a cost of Rs 20 lakh, the new RFID tag will replace the old bar code system at the college library. Read more from the original…
Report on the RSCAO Asia-Pacific webinar on ‘Libraries and the SDGs’
(6 Mar 2021) The 2-hour webinar was hosted by LIANZA, at the National Library of New Zealand, for the IFLA Regional Standing Committee for Asia and Oceania (RSCAO) – it was the latest in the series of annual seminars accompanying the mid-term business meetings of RSCAO. Guest speakers from the USA, Singapore, India, Fiji and…
ACS announces first open access ‘read and publish’ agreement in Japan, partnering with Tokyo University of Science
(9 Mar 2021) In a landmark agreement, the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and Tokyo University of Science (TUS) proudly announce their collaboration to usher in a new era of open access publishing in Japan. Over the next five years, this agreement will bring the possibility for all publications by TUS researchers in…
Exciting new features from Clarivate and Elsevier and updates to University Rankings: Ruth’s Rankings News Update Winter 2021
By Ruth A. Pagell* What’s in a name? (Appendix A) Who is the most cited researcher in Citation Topic Bibliometrics? (Appendix B) What is the search strategy used in Scopus for SDG 5, Gender Quality? (Appendix C) (10 Mar 2021) I am fortunate to have access to many of the bibliometric products from Clarivate…
Emerald Publishing partners with ChronosHub to forge simpler routes to publishing
(2 Mar 2021) Emerald Publishing collaborates with ChronosHub to drive open access research through a simplified and improved experience for authors, institutions, consortia, and funders. The partnership with ChronosHub plays a key part in Emerald’s commitment to support their authors’ and customers’ transition to an open world more easily with a simplified user experience. At…
CAUL and CSIRO Publishing collaborate to enable Open Access in Australia and New Zealand
(4 Mar 2021) Many Australian and New Zealand researchers can now publish research articles as open access in CSIRO-owned journals through new transformative agreements between CSIRO Publishing and CAUL member institutions. Globally, transformative agreements are being used as a way for the research community, academic libraries, and scholarly publishers to work together to find a…