(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…
(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.…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
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.
(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…
(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…
(10 November 2016) The Librarian, Information Services provides advanced, high level information and library services to support the University’s learning, teaching, and research strategies. This role will have responsibility for providing tailored support to the CSU research staff and students. To be successful in this role you will be able to adapt to changes in…
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