(5 Feb 2020) Seventy-six publishing houses in Beijing have opened up their digital libraries, putting free online courses, digital music, e-books, and audiobooks on the internet for the public. With abundant digital teaching materials, the Beijing Publishing Group has offered free e-books and online courses to teachers and students on its Jing Ban Cloud (http://www.jingbanyun.com/),…
(27 Jan 2020) The Open Artstor: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Collection is now available, featuring a selection of more than 45,000 images under Creative Commons licenses. This is part of a new, free initiative to aggregate open museum, library, and archive collections across disciplines on the Artstor platform — already a destination for…
(10 Feb 2020) Leading UK technology firm Amplyfi has purchased Deep Web Technologies. The move will combine Deep Web Technologies’ search capabilities with Amplyfi’s machine learning and data analytics expeience. Alongside tripling its revenue over the past 12 months, the acquisition means Amplyfi is set to continue the rapid growth that has defined the company since…
(10 Feb 2020) From Scholarly Kitchen: As many Scholarly Kitchen readers will know, in late January it was announced that the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) had signed new open access (OA) publishing agreements with four major US universities. There has been lots of public conversation about these agreements, but I decided to go to the source for some…
(15 Jan 2020) Library Technology Guide has released graphics showing the history of mergers and acquisitions in the library technology industry since 1980. Click here to view the graphics.
(28 Jan 2020) National Institute of Informatics (NII, Director General: Masaru Kitsuregawa, Tokyo, JAPAN) signed an international exchange agreement (Memorandum of Understanding: MOU) with the Center for Open Science (COS, Executive Director: Professor Brian Nosek, Charlottesville, Virginia, US) in the United States on 29th October 2019. Through this agreement, the two organizations aim to contribute…
(31 Jan 2020) Wellcome is making a pledge of up to £10 million to accelerate research and support global efforts to tackle the ongoing novel coronavirus epidemic. Dr Jeremy Farrar, Director of Wellcome, said: “This virus is spreading at unprecedented scale with cases passing between people in multiple countries across the world. We know this…
(5 Feb 2020) The “Critical Roles for Libraries in Today’s Research Enterprise” symposium took place in Washington, DC on December 11, 2019, its report is now available online. This report represents a summary of the symposium, including speaker slides and biographies, invited expert commentaries, and notes from the facilitated group discussions. The report is available here.…
(7 Feb 2020) EIFL and partners will train teams from 19 universities in Yangon and Mandalay to upload open access publications to the Myanmar Education Research and Learning Portal (MERAL). The trainers are Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, and from the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Japan, EIFL’s partner in the MERAL Portal project, Masaharu Hayashi, Project Assistant…
(updated 20 Jul 2020) Due to the recent outbreak of coronavirus, several countries have made the decision to postpone school openings or hold activities. Librarylearningspace.com has collected the latest news here. Australia: Universities to resume teaching and research (8 May) Australian states and capital declare state of emergency, as govt mulls second stimulus (16 Mar)…
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