(14 Apr 2020) In less than a week, PAHO and Atmire established a COVID19 subject repository. An increasing number of Atmire clients are publicly exposing COVID19 research in their repositories. As the latest client to go live on Atmire’s DSpace Express platform, https://covid19-evidence.paho.org/ contains PAHO COVID19 guidance and the latest research in the Americas. The…
(14 Apr 2020) In March of 2017, senior Library of Congress managers formed a cross-departmental Digital Scholarship Working Group to respond to a set of foundational questions: What are the current demand and the current levels of response for digital scholarship? What are potential approaches to enhancing digital scholarship support across the Library? and, What would…
(13 Apr 2020) From Scholarly Kitchen: In recent years, many universities have concluded that the price they pay for their Big Deal journal license agreements and the resulting value they perceive have become misaligned. As a consequence, academia has stiffened its negotiating posture with leading journal publishers. The outcome of these negotiations can be grouped…
New transformative read and publish deal agreed with Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India (3 Apr 2020) Springer Nature has today agreed its first transformative read and publish deal within Asia, with the Manipal Academy of Higher Education in India. Under the terms of the arrangement researchers affiliated with the Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Manipal Academy…
Tobias R. Keller, Queensland University of Technology and Rosalie Gillett, Queensland University of Technology Even before the coronavirus arrived to turn life upside down and trigger a global infodemic, social media platforms were under growing pressure to curb the spread of misinformation. Last year, Facebook cofounder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg called for new rules…
(11 Apr 2020) A drone will soon be flying through the shelves of a city library here, but it won’t be disturbing the concentration of patrons or interfering with the daily operation. Instead, the drone and artificial intelligence (AI) will be adapted to eliminate the troublesome, time-consuming task of regularly examining books at libraries imposed on human…
Springer Nature says it commits to offering researchers a route to publishing open access in Nature and most Nature-branded journals from 2021 (9 Apr 2020) After a change in the rules of the bold open-access (OA) initiative known as Plan S, publisher Springer Nature said on 8 April that many of its non-OA journals — including Nature — were…
Karnataka government’s library mobile application has been growing as more people download it during the lockdown period (11 Apr 2020) Karnataka Library Department’s mobile application, which is said to be the first of its kind initiative in the country has seen an exponential growth in downloads during the COVID-19 lockdown, a senior Minister said on…
(9 Apr 2020) Taiwan’s most popular piracy movie website, 8maple.ru (楓林網), was busted on Wednesday (April 8) in Taoyuan, while its two Taiwanese founders were nabbed, followed by the closure of several other piracy websites the same day. Media reported the illegal websites gimy.tv, pttplay, momovod, and 149mov.com had halted their services. It was believed…
(9 Apr 2020) From Crossref: A lot of people have been using our public, open APIs to collect data that might be related to COVID-19. This is great and we encourage it. We also want to make it easier. To that end we have made a free data file of the public elements from Crossref’s…
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