(9 Mar 2021) Announcement from Taylor & Francis: As part of our commitment to supporting open research, we are pleased to introduce our Books Data Sharing Policy which, from April 2021, encourages authors of all new Routledge and CRC Press books and chapters to share and make data available according to FAIR principles. This includes ensuring…
(9 Mar 2021) The University of New England (UNE), Armidale is a regionally based, globally networked university that is renowned for the quality of its student experience and the excellence of its research specialisations. About the Role The Manager, Library Research Services provides leadership in the development, management and delivery of the Library’s services…
(Mar 2021) Open Data Watch launches the Annual Report of the 2020/21 Open Data Inventory (ODIN) that assesses the coverage and openness of official statistics in 187 countries. ODIN monitors the progress of open data that are relevant to economic, social, and environmental development. On the findings, the median ODIN country score for 2020…
(8 Mar 2021) The National Library of the Philippines will be celebrating the 62nd Public Library Day on March 9, 2021, with the theme “Philippine Public Libraries: Providers of Virtual Information and Contributors to Community Sustainability.” Proclamation No. 563, s. 1959, recognized the importance of Public Libraries in the dissemination of knowledge and culture…
(2 Mar 2021) From the abstract of the article published by Marta Natalia Wróblewska on Humanities and Social Sciences Communications “The introduction of ‘impact’ as an element of assessment constitutes a major change in the construction of research evaluation systems. While various protocols of impact evaluation exist, the most articulated one was implemented as…
(12 Feb 2021) The first outputs from Texas Tech University’s new STEPP (STEM Training in Ethics of Publication Practices) programme have been published, in the form of two articles: Profiting from the paradigm shift in scholarly journal publishing: The case of predatory publishers, and A qualitative content analysis of watchlists vs safelists: How do they…
(1 Mar 2021) From the announcement of by Soh Lin Li, Regional Manager, IFLA Regional Office for Asia and Oceania: In this issue, we are proud to congratulate Mr. Winston Roberts from our Asia and Oceania Region on being awarded the IFLA Scroll of Appreciation at the IFLA General Assembly on 5 November 2020.…
(3 Mar 2021) Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, and Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, today announced a new three-year agreement that will provide CSIRO researchers with access to global academic research and open access publishing options. This is the first agreement that includes publishing and reading services for Elsevier across the…
(2 Mar 2021) The MIT Press has announced the launch of Direct to Open (D2O). A first-of-its-kind sustainable framework for open access monographs, D2O moves professional and scholarly books from a solely market-based, purchase model where individuals and libraries buy single eBooks, to a collaborative, library-supported open access model. D2O gives institutions the opportunity to harness collective action to support…
(26 Feb 2021) Three new collections are added into the EAP (Endangered Archives Programme) website in February. Manuscripts of the Lanten community in northern Laos Led by Professor Dr Josephus Platenkamp and Joseba Estevez, the EAP791 project team digitised 768 manuscripts owned by private collectors within the Lanten community in northern Laos. Written in…