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iGroup and IGI Global collaborate to provide flexible options for Asian institutions

PublishersJanuary 15, 2021

(15 Jan 2021) IGI Global and iGroup, longstanding partners in providing research content across Asia, are continuing to collaborate in providing access to the timeliest research through digital resources including peer-reviewed e-books, e-journals, and the InfoSci-Databases. Through this collaboration, we are focused on providing resources to librarians affordably, especially as the importance of electronic resources…

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China: Smart library offers upgraded reading experience in Guizhou

Asia Pacific, LibrariesJanuary 14, 2021

(2 Jan 2021) A new smart library has opened to the public in the city of Guiyang, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, bringing an upgraded reading experience to local residents. Covering an area of around 56,000 square meters, the seven-story library is part of the Guizhou Provincial Library project that started construction in November 2018. Various…

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“China Bookshelf” establishes Chinese culture libraries in Australia

Asia PacificJanuary 14, 2021

(12 Jan 2021) CRRC Corporation Limited, one of the world’s largest rail transportation equipment companies, has delivered more than 575 non-fiction books that introduce China from various aspects to Melbourne in Australia last December. The delivery marks the kickoff of CRRC’s China Bookshelf project (China Bookshelf), which aims to promote cultural exchanges between China and Australia and to create an inclusive community with…

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Vietnam’s first Christian public library has opened

Asia Pacific, LibrariesJanuary 14, 2021

(12 Jan 2021) The first Christian public library has opened in Vietnam, after a six-month approval process last year by several agencies of Vietnam’s Communist Government. “We hope it will be a symbol of Christian unity and Christian learning in Vietnam,” says Vu Le, executive director of Bible Society Vietnam, which established the library with local…

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University of Hong Kong mourns the death of its in-house therapy dog

Asia PacificJanuary 14, 2021

(13 Jan 2021) Students and staff at the University of Hong Kong are mourning the death of Jasper – the city’s first in-house therapy dog at an institution of higher learning – who passed away at the age of 12 on Sunday. The old English sheepdog was credited with helping hundreds of students in…

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Article: Waiving article processing charges for least developed countries: a keystone of a large-scale open access transformation

Open AccessJanuary 12, 2021

(6 Jan 2021) The article, “Waiving Article Processing Charges for Least Developed Countries: A Keystone of a Large-scale Open Access Transformation”, authored by Taubert, Niels, Andre Bruns, Christopher Lenke, and Graham Stone: “This article investigates whether it is economically feasible for a large publishing house to waive article processing charges for the group of…

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National Library of Korea and the National Diet Library launches the East Asia Digital Library

Asia Pacific, DigitizationJanuary 12, 2021

(17 Dec 2020) The East Asia Digital Library (EADL), a portal site for cultural and scientific resources in East Asian languages, was launched on December 17, 2020. Configuration and operation of the EADL is being performed by the National Library of Korea (NLK) with the cooperation of the National Diet Library (NDL). The EADL…

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CAUL is hiring Director, Strategy & Analytics

JobsJanuary 11, 2021

(10 Jan 2021) CAUL is seeking to appoint a highly motivated individual to the newly established position of Director, Strategy & Analytics in the CAUL National Office. As CAUL operates a connected virtual office, this presents a great opportunity to work from home within Australia and engage with a variety of stakeholders across Australia and New Zealand. …

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Retracted scientific paper persists in new citations, study finds

Metadata, Research SupportJanuary 11, 2021

(5 Jan 2021) A small portion of scientific papers are retracted for research that is in error or fraudulent. But those papers can continue to be cited by other scientists in their work, potentially passing along the misinformation from the retracted articles. Jodi Schneider, a professor of information sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who studies…

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Wikipedia’s biggest challenge awaits in 2021

InternetJanuary 11, 2021

Changes proposed by the Wikimedia Foundation to diversify its community of editors raise existential questions for the online encyclopedia. (4 Jan 2021) In 2021 the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the more than 300 different versions of Wikipedia, plans to finalize a uniform code of conduct that details unacceptable behavior among the project’s editors—including insults,…

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