(6 Dec 2023) Wiley will cease using the beleaguered Hindawi brand name, the publisher announced on an earnings call Wednesday morning. Wiley plans to integrate Hindawi’s approximately 200 journals into the rest of its portfolio by the middle of next year. Problems with Hindawi, the open access publisher that Wiley acquired in 2021, have cost…
(3 Dec 2023) A newly established database represents China’s latest step towards open access publishing, but major obstacles remain if the country is to revolutionise its model of scholarly communication, experts said. The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) recently launched PubScholar, an academic database that offers free access to about 170 million science resources, including over 87 million articles, more than 1 million…
(5 Dec 2023) STM released a new white paper — Generative AI in Scholarly Communications: Ethical and Practical Guidelines for the Use of Generative AI in the Publication Process. A followup to AI Ethics in Scholarly Communication which STM released in April 2021, this new publication is a resource for stakeholders in scholarly publishing and addresses…
(Dec 2023) The National Science Foundation has launched a new initiative designed to integrate artificial intelligence across the education sector. The EducateAI initiative will equip educators with the skills needed to integrate AI into their teaching practices and establish infrastructure to support AI education across the U.S. education sector. Margaret Martonosi, assistant director of…
(7 Dec 2023) Universities are gearing up for next year’s Glocal University 30 project, eyeing multibillion-won government funding. Namseoul University launched a task force on Monday, which will be in charge of mapping out action plans for the project and finding areas where the university can work with local businesses and entities. After…
(7 Dec 2023) The UK’s next Research Excellence Framework has been delayed until 2029 amid concerns over plans to fully break the link between individual staff and university submissions. The exercise, whose results were due to be published in December 2028, will now conclude in the final month of 2029, it was announced on 7 December. …
(4 Dec 2023) The Australian Coalition for School Libraries (ACSL) was officially established as a sector committee of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). The six school library associations that exist in Australia and ALIA signed a Memorandum of Collaboration agreeing to work together as a united and professional voice advocating for school libraries and…
Loss of access to EThOS archive of 600,000 doctoral dissertations causes major disruption for PhD students (4 Dec 2023) PhD students have described “stumbling through” their research after losing access to the UK’s national database of doctoral theses, as disruption to the British Library’s digital archive following a devastating cyberattack enters its third month. The UK’s national library has…
(4 Dec 2023) ALIA will be holding an online training course for cataloging practitioners. The course content is designed to provide you with as much practical experience of cataloging principles and practices as possible within the timeframe of 6 weeks. Course Content Identify and apply the current national and international standards used in constructing…
(4 Dec 2023) The ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition, which takes place June 27 – July 2, 2024, in San Diego, is calling for poster proposals. Key Dates Poster Session Submission Site Now Open Poster Session Submission Site closes January 8, 2024 Poster Session Notifications in early March 2024 Details can be found…