(28 October 2020) CHORUS and DataCite have signed a two-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to coordinate efforts to adopt identifiers and standards to manage access to and reporting of research outputs. Authoritative connections between researchers and their works, funding sources, and affiliations, are essential for delivering public access to scholarly content. As not-for-profit organizations…
(27 October 2020) The Fairfield local government area is hoping to introduce the Libraries After Dark program, first trialled in Victoria, to its communities. Marie Saliba from Core Community Services, which operates in south-west Sydney and represents the local communities in the area said: “There aren’t as many options for families that are away…
(26 October 2020) This blog post is written by guest contributor Prof. Dr. Volker Grabowsky, who has been Professor for the Language and Culture of Thailand at the University of Hamburg since 2009, and advisor to the Buddhist Archive of Photography in Luang Prabang Since 2006. Grabowsky’s blog looks at the photographs taken by Hans…
(25 Oct 2020) As the COVID-19 crisis continues to disrupt higher education, ITHAKA is extending the JSTOR and Artstor expanded access program through June 30, 2021 to help institutions in their shift to remote teaching. Institutions that have opted in don’t need to take any action — they will continue receiving access to unlicensed JSTOR…
(23 Oct 2020) Remember when you used to sneak a flashlight under the covers so you could read a book after bedtime? A bookshop in Taiwan promises you a similar experience. Wuguan Books is located in Kaohsiung’s Pier-2 Art Center, a warehouse-turned-creative hub in Taiwan’s second-largest city. And it is just as much an art exhibit as…
(15 Oct 2020) Those visiting libraries to read, study and work can look forward to more services resuming from Tuesday (Oct 20) at the National Library Building, 25 public libraries and the Oldham Theatre in the National Archives of Singapore Building. The National Library Board (NLB) said in a statement on Thursday (Oct 15) that…
(24 Oct 2020) Stage one of the open access (OA) movement promoted the democratization of scholarly knowledge, making work available so that anybody could read it. However, publication in highly ranked journals is becoming very costly, feeding the same vendor capitalists that OA was designed to sidestep. In this Q&A, Simon Batterbury argues that when prestige…
(22 Oct 2020) In support of Open Access Week, ChronosHub is pleased to announce the public availability of the Journal Finder Beta, a tool to guide authors through the increasingly complicated journal selection and submission process. The beta release of the Journal Finder makes use of data directly collected from publishers in combination with several…
(21 Oct 2020) Turnitin, a leading provider of academic integrity and assessment solutions, announced today it has acquired ExamSoft, a software-based assessment platform, from Spectrum Equity. ExamSoft empowers educational institutions and certification and licensure programs to protect exam integrity, streamline assessment processes, and improve learning outcomes. Turnitin has been building and broadening its assessment capabilities since…
The unlikely marriage of two major artificial intelligence approaches has given rise to a new hybrid called neurosymbolic AI. It’s taking baby steps toward reasoning like humans and might one day take the wheel in self-driving cars. (14 Oct 2020, feed from Knowable Magazine) A few years ago, scientists learned something remarkable about…