(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…
(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…
(10 Mar 2021) As of June 30, 2021, the National Union Catalog of Newspapers in Japan database will no longer be available via the National Diet Library Search. The data of the National Union Catalog of Newspapers in Japan as of March 31, 2021 will be made available as described below. What will be available…
(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.…