(27 Feb 2020) ASEAN has launched the first phase of their ASEAN Cultural Heritage Digital Archive (ACHDA) website in the ASEAN Secretariat Building, South Jakarta, on Thursday, February 27, 2020. With support from the Indonesian, Malaysian and Thai governments, the ACHDA have managed to digitize 160 cultural heritage artefacts through their collaboration with many museums…
(3 Mar 2020) The library can be a breeding ground for cold and flu viruses. It is especially true when you have classes rotating in and out of your library throughout the school day. Keeping the library clean may seem like a challenging task, but we have a few tips and tricks you can use…
(28 Feb 2020) Medicom Medical Publishers announced it will provide free access to the entire Medicom Conference Reports library to medical specialists in China and other Asian countries affected by the COVID-19 virus. Thereby living up to its mission to bring the Congress to the Physician. Many medical specialists from China and other Asian countries…
(19 Feb 2020) From the abstract: “The University of Manchester Library has established a key role in facilitating scholarly discourse through its mediated open access (OA) services, but has little track record in intentionally taking OA research outputs to non-academic audiences. This article outlines recent exploratory steps the Library has taken to convince researchers to…
(25 Feb 2020) After years of pushing Chinese researchers to publish in prestigious international journals, China’s Ministry of Education and Ministry of Science and Technology have jointly released a document aimed at reducing “excessive reliance” on Science Citation Index (SCI) papers for academic promotions, job offers and allocation of research funding. More related news…
(2 Mar 2020) In August 2019, National Library’s Services to Schools conducted a nationwide survey of New Zealand school libraries. This was our second joint survey with SLANZA (School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa) and LIANZA (Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa). The 2019 survey builds on baseline information we gathered in 2018…
(21 Feb 2020) One of the most significant impacts of Plan S (the drive to initiate an open access transition in scholarly publishing) has been to accelerate interest in national level read-and-publish deals. Whilst these deals have streamlined open access provision in the Global North, Jefferson Pooley argues that they lock in and exacerbate existing inequalities in scholarly…
(19 Feb 2020) On 30 January 2020, archivists, digital preservationists, records managers, librarians, academics, and IT specialists from across Aotearoa and Australia came together in Wellington to discuss the particular challenges and opportunities in preserving email. See the full programme here Read the full notes of the symposium here
(25 Feb 2020) The Smithsonian announced today the launch of Smithsonian Open Access, an initiative that removes Smithsonian copyright restrictions from about 2.8 million of its digital collection images and nearly two centuries of data. This means that people everywhere can now download, transform and share this open access content for any purpose, for free, without further…
(26 Feb 2020) QUT is a major Australian university with a global outlook and a ‘real world’ focus. As one of Australia’s fastest-growing research universities, QUT invests heavily in collaborative learning and interdisciplinary research environments, and its courses are in high demand. QUT Library is seen as a market leader providing dynamic and innovative access…
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