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The Experience Area of National Digital Library of China is exhibited in 2016 Chinese Library Annual Conference

Asia Pacific, Digitization, Event, LibrariesNovember 12, 2016

(4 November 2016) Through virtual reality, human-machine interaction, video and so on, the Experience Area of the National Digital Library of China displayed the development achievements of the Digital Library Promotion Project, including network interconnection, unified user authentication, cooperative development and sharing of resources, and library big data application. It also provided interactive experiences for…

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Transparent peer review at Nature Communications is a clear success

PublishersNovember 12, 2016

(10 November 2016) Nature Communications is incorporating transparent peer review into the journal on a permanent basis, following a successful ten-month trial. In this scheme, authors are given the option to publish the peer review history of the paper alongside their published research. All papers submitted from January 2016 qualify for this scheme. Since the…

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Breakthrough in archival access: Googling through archives within reach

Digitization, Technology, ToolsNovember 12, 2016

(10 November 2016, Amsterdam) The ability to google through records is within reach, concludes the final report of the project Full Automatic Archival Access (FAAA). This project studied the opportunities to use new digital technologies to make paper based archives searchable at document-level. Four out of five words were correctly recognized by OCR- and NER-software.…

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eBooks can be lent in same way as traditional books, says CJEU

eBooks, LibrariesNovember 12, 2016

(10 November 2016) The lending of an electronic book (eBook) can be treated in the same way as that of a traditional book under certain conditions, Europe’s highest court said today. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) was ruling on Vereniging Openbare Bibliotheken v Stichting Leenrecht, referred by the District Court of…

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Chinese researchers behind ‘fake peer review’ scandals

Asia Pacific, PublishersNovember 11, 2016

(10 November 2016) Pressure to publish scientific papers at Chinese universities may explain why more researchers are creating fake peer reviewers to assess their work, a new study suggests. Analysing the growing number of retractions resulting from “faked peer reviews”, researchers found exactly three-quarters of articles pulled from academic journals over the past four years…

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Curtin Sarawak librarians conduct Information Literacy Skills workshops for secondary school students

Asia Pacific, Information literacy, LibrariesNovember 10, 2016

(10 November 2016, Miri) Training workshops on information literacy skills were conducted over two weeks for 34 secondary school students in Miri by staff of the references services section of The Library at Curtin University, Sarawak Malaysia (Curtin Sarawak) recently. The students were from SMK Riam Taman Tunku, SMK Lopeng and SM Sains Miri, and…

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ARL Library Directors advise on Digital Dunhuang Initiative

Asia Pacific, Databases, DigitizationNovember 10, 2016

(10 November 2016) Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member library directors Brian E. C. Schottlaender, UC San Diego, and Xuemao Wang, University of Cincinnati, were invited by the Dunhuang Research Academy of China to participate in a two-day International Dunhuang Consultative Committee meeting on October 24 and 25, 2016. The academy is engaging the newly…

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650 sound recordings of the Historical Recordings Collection (Rekion) are newly available online

Asia Pacific, Data, LibrariesNovember 10, 2016

On November 10 2016, the National Diet Library, Japan, made approximately 650 sound recordings of the Historical Recordings Collection (Rekion) available for streaming online. They include works composed by Kosaku Yamada, Kiyoshi Nobutoki and Gento Uehara. Their copyrights have expired this year. The full announcement is here.

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ITE College East, Singapore, hiring Librarian, Library & Information Services

Asia Pacific, Jobs, LibrariesNovember 10, 2016

(8 November 2016) The post is responsible for performing the various library functions to develop and manage the print, non-print and digital resources; catalogue and organise the library collection; provide reference and information services and develop and conduct user training programmes. You will also be required to identify, plan, manage and organise programmes and activities…

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New Australian Public Library Standards launched

Asia Pacific, LibrariesNovember 10, 2016

(9 November 2016) The Public Libraries Section of IFLA has just begun the process of reviewing the IFLA Public Library Service Guidelines. Published in 2010 this 2nd edition is a valuable tool for decision makers world wide but the dynamic environment in which public libraries operate requires constant evaluation. In developing the new Guidelines the…

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