(3 Dec 2020) During the pandemic, the Chinese publishing industry has seen a huge increase in E-book export sales. School lockdowns have forced librarians to mainly purchase E-books instead of printed versions. The increasing demand of digital content has also driven the publishers to explore new sales and service models to better serve customers during this pandemic. According to China National Publications Import and Export (Group)…
(1 Dec 2020) The National Library of Australia has the world’s biggest oral history collection conducted at the height of the HIV and Aids epidemic in Australia. ABS has a full interview with Dr Shirleene Robinson (Senior curator of oral history at the National Library of Australia) about the collection and its historical background…
(12 Nov 2020) News from New Zealand: The National Library and the Alexander Turnbull Library are preserving millions of online digital communications to create a snapshot of Aotearoa’s response to COVID-19. The collection includes online posts that are already within the public realm and donated material. Here is the full news with…
(6 Dec 2020) UN Sustainability Goals or UN SDGs was first adopted in 2015 and consists of 17 goals adopted by all United Nations Member States to achieve by 2030. In particular, in academia, there seems to be increasing interest in mapping literature directed at each of the 17 UN SDGs and filters showing…
(4 Dec 2020) In what came as a surprise to many librarians and industry observers, a report in The Hill this week revealed that the nonprofit Digital Public Library of America has been in discussions with Amazon Publishing on a potential a deal to make Amazon’s e-book content available in public libraries. And in a call with Publishers…
(27 Nov 2020) The German government has announced a massive €4 billion (US$4.8 billion) budget to support research projects addressing global warming and sustainability under its FONA strategy over the coming five years. Run by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research or BMBF, the FONA (Forschung für Nachhaltigkeit) strategy for research on sustainability…
(3 Dec 2020) In just four months since the launch of the MERAL Portal in July 2020, content has doubled. The portal now includes almost 6,000 journal articles, conference papers, theses and dissertations, research papers, books and books chapters from 19 universities. The MERAL Portal is a partnership between the Myanmar Rectors’ Committee, National…
(Dec 2020) Posting from National Library of Australia: The Data Governance and Management Section is seeking to fill the role of Assistant Director, Business Intelligence and Reporting (Executive Level 1) as part of its leadership team. The Assistant Director, Business Intelligence and Reporting role provides in-depth knowledge and expert advice on complex issues, working across a…
Joint study by Springer Nature, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) and the Dutch University Libraries and the National Library consortium (UKB), tracks wider impact of SDG related content when published Gold OA (30 Nov 2020) What impact does open research have on society and progressing global societal challenges? The latest results of…
(24 Nov 2020) Recently Clarivate announced the introduction of Early Access content into the Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR). In this article, JCR Content Team Leader explains further details on how JCR defines Early Access content and how it will be introduced into the 2021 JCR release. Here’s the full article.