The Experience Report, Sponsored by SAP, Will Share News & Analysis On How Experiences—The Interactions with Products, Brands and Companies—Drive Success (24 Feb 2020) The Wall Street Journal today launched The Experience Report, a new digital offering that delivers news and analysis on the ways that companies optimize data, technology and design to drive successful interactions…
(24 Feb 2020) SAGE Publishing announces the launch of a new portal that enables authors, consortia, libraries, and funders to manage the open access publishing workflow. Named the SAGE Open Access Portal, the platform currently supports SAGE Choice, the publisher’s hybrid Open Access (OA) publishing option, for 900+ journals. Later in 2020, it will be extended…
By Ruth A. Pagell* What is the most international university? How do Malaysian universities compare to other Asian universities? What university is the most popular? What is the best city for students? “The direct measurement of teaching mission is virtually unfeasible and those evaluations based on surveys (subjective), ratios of students/scholar (data unreliable and results…
Mark Ritchie, a Senior Technology Executive, Provides Leadership as Vice President of Business Development (25 Feb 2020) As part of Eclat Engineering’s strategic growth plan to widen its product offering and expand its global reach, the Company is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Ritchie. As the former Director of Libraries at PressReader, Mark…
(14 Feb 2020) National Library of Sweden recently published its report on “Evaluation of the cancellation of the Bibsam Consortium’s journal agreement with Elsevier: Consequences of the cancellation 2018-2019”. The report gives a detailed description on the background of the cancellation, and how the cancellation effect on researchers, publishers, and research organizations within the consortium.…
(18 Feb 2020) Earlier this month the Center for Open Science (COS) formally launched TOP Factor, an alternative to the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) based primarily on the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines. Alison Mudditt, Vice Chair of the COS Board explained more in detail and the background behind. Read the full story from…
(15 Jan 2020) On January 15th, 2019 Wiley was the first publisher to sign a transformational agreement with Projekt DEAL. We talked to Lorna Stimson, Publishing Director Germany, Wiley, about the implementation of the Projekt DEAL agreement at Wiley and wanted to hear about her experiences with hosting Projekt DEAL related events at eligible institutions across…
(24 Feb 2020) A mini roadside library in Mizoram’s capital Aizawl has gone viral on social media. This roadside library encourages reading habits and helps in building community by providing access to exchange free books. Read more from the New Indian Express here.
(20 Feb 2020) Librarians are increasingly the target of violence and anti-social behaviour in Auckland, according to a new report. There were 533 incidents where council staff called its security team, including 60 where police were involved, in the three months to December 2019. Read the full report here.
(20 Feb 2020) Libraries and bookstores have joined hands to build 18 mini-libraries in temporary hospitals in China’s Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, to lend “spiritual support” to patients there. The full story is here.
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