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Clarivate Analytics announces landmark partnership with Impactstory to make open access content easier for researchers to use

Open AccessJune 27, 2017

(23 June 2017, PHILADELPHIA, June 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/) Clarivate Analytics today announced a novel public/private strategic partnership with Impactstory that will remove a critical barrier for researchers: limited open access (OA) to high-quality, trusted peer-reviewed content. Under the terms of the partnership, Clarivate Analytics is providing a grant to Impactstory to build on its oaDOI…

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Fair Open Access Principles for journals

Asia Pacific, eJournals, Open AccessJune 25, 2017

(23 June 2017) That scholarly communication should be “Fair” is an increasingly common concept for both data and research outputs more widely, including the F.A.I.R. framework which articulates a set of specific principles to enhance the discoverability, use and impact of Australia’s research outputs. Mark Wilson and Alex Holcombe describe another specific use of Fair: the Fair…

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19th-century book of life-sized bird paintings reprinted

Asia Pacific, DigitizationJune 24, 2017

(20 June 2017) It is a book that would set many a collector’s heart aflutter. In 2010, a first edition of Birds Of America was sold at a Sotheby’s auction in London for more than £7.3 million, a world record for a book. The book, a four-volume set of 435 life-sized paintings of birds, published…

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Ruth’s Rankings 27: Reputation, Rankings and Reality – Times Higher Education Rolls out 2017 Reputation Rankings

Research Support, Ruth's RankingsJune 24, 2017

By Ruth A. Pagell* (24 June 2017) I usually do not cover reputation rankings. They are opinion rather than empirical performance. Our last News Flash on the 2018 QS rankings alerted readers to the way QS handles its reputation indicators, which comprise 50% of the composite score. When THE announced its 2017 Reputation Rankings, I…

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The Association of American Publishers welcomes major judgment against Sci-Hub pirate site

(23 June 2017, Washington, DC) The Association of American Publishers (AAP) welcomes the June 21, 2017 ruling of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York regarding the willful infringement of scores of scholarly articles protected by copyright law. Ruling in favor of Elsevier, the publisher that brought the action, the…

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Connecting Myanmar libraries to global academia

Asia Pacific, Digitization, LibrariesJune 23, 2017

(23 June 2017) Roxanne Missingham writes that connections to the world through university libraries are an important feature of the rebirth of higher education. Libraries in Myanmar institutions have, together with the National Library, collected the memory of the nation, curated through many collections of palm leaf manuscripts and rare historic texts. The University libraries…

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The LEARN project. Report on the end of project conference and launch of the LEARN Toolkit

Data, ToolsJune 20, 2017

(19 June 2017) On the 5th of May, Senate House Library hosted the LEARN end of project conference, Managing the Data Deluge: Roles and Responsibilities for your institution. The LEARN project (LEaders Activating Research Networks), set out to further develop the LERU roadmap on research data management in order to build a developed e-infrastructure across…

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What students think about La Trobe University Library

Asia Pacific, LibrariesJune 20, 2017

(19 June 2017) In September 2016 La Trobe University library invited all coursework students to participate in the biennial, library client experience and satisfaction survey. 3,949 responded. They told the library about the good and not so good. And the library responded how it will do better. The details are here.

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Microsoft Academic is on the verge of becoming a bibliometric superpower

Metadata, ToolsJune 20, 2017

(19 June 2017) Last year, the new Microsoft Academic service was launched. Sven E. Hug and Martin P. Brändle look at how it compares with more established competitors such as Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science. While there are reservations about the availability of instructions for novice users, Microsoft Academic has impressive semantic search…

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US Ambassador launches UMS American Corner

Asia Pacific, LibrariesJune 20, 2017

(24 May 2017) The United States (US) Ambassador to Malaysia, Kamala Shirin Lakhdhir officiated at the launch of the American Corner Sabah at Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) library on May 24. According to Kamala, with the new opening, the people of Sabah would have additional opportunities to join programmes and participate in dialogues, focused on…

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