(16 Dec 2025) A new cultural space combining an art museum and a public library has just opened in Taiwan‘s second largest city. Taichung Green Museumbrary, which has been designed as ‘a library in a park and an art museum in a forest’, is found within the city’s 67-hectare Central Park. Yi-Hsin Lai, director…
(26 Nov 2025) The Office of Academic Resources (OAR), Chulalongkorn University, welcomes international affiliates, including library and information professionals and researchers, tO apply for atwo-month fellowship in Bangkok, Thailand. FOCLIS Areas: Digital preservation and curation Research data management Multimedia, archive, or record Management Library Service, Scholarly communication Technical support for collection Of less-dominant cultures/subcultures…
(26 Nov 2025) In line with China’s emphasis on research integrity, the Ministry of Science and Technology and relevant departments have launched a special campaign to crack down on misconduct in academic papers, according to an announcement issued Wednesday on the ministry’s official WeChat account. The campaign primarily targets retracted papers published by Chinese scholars…
(10 Dec 2025) At most scientific publications, papers co-authored by artificial intelligence (AI) are not welcome. At a new open platform called aiXiv, they are embraced. The platform goes all in on AI: It accepts both AI- and human-authored work, uses built-in AI reviewers for baseline quality screening, and guides authors through revisions based on the chatbots’…
(9 Dec 2025) EBSCO and American Geosciences Institute (AGI), collaborated to release GeoRef with Full Text, a powerful resource for researchers and students in the geosciences. The resource combines AGI’s expert geological indexing with full-text access to leading journals and magazines, offering expansive geoscience coverage across time and geography. GeoRef with Full Text offers seamless access to full-text…
(1 Dec 2025) AI search tools like Elicit, Consensus, and Scite.ai have spent years racing to build centralised indexes of academic content— first by indexing the open content that is available and then trying to get publisher partnerships. But unlike their predecessors of the 2010s – the Web Scale Discovery systems (now called “Discovery layers” or “Discovery Services”) like Summon, Ebsco Discovery Service, Primo,…
(3 Dec 2025) Reflecting its ongoing dedication to supporting science at all levels, Karger Publishers has reshaped its long-standing, proven collection of science communications and outreach products. The portfolio caters to the growing need of academic research managers to enhance research visibility and drive their institution’s societal research impact. With the understanding that knowledge…
(27 Nov 2025) State Library of Victoria staff have accused management of undermining the 171-year-old institution’s core purposes in favour of flashy tourist-oriented “digital vanity projects” in a proposed restructure. Under the plan, 39 jobs would be lost and the public-facing workforce of reference librarians would be cut from 25 staff to 10, while many publicly accessible…
(5 Dec 2025) You might not expect Chanel to be in the business of setting up libraries, yet that’s exactly what happened late last month. Espace Gabrielle Chanel has opened on the third floor of the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, and it’s the first of Mainland China’s government-run libraries to focus on contemporary art.…
(18 Nov 2025) Traditional evaluation methods primarily rely on structured data and statistical indicators. While useful, they only provide a partial view of research outcomes and struggle with persistent challenges, including: Long timelines: outcomes may emerge years or decades after initial funding. Fragmented data: they operate in data silos, making it difficult to link funding decisions…