(24 August 2016) Tsinghua University, Peking University and National University of Singapore join Japanese universities Tokyo, Kyoto, Nagoya and Osaka in the top 100 of Shanghai Ranking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities 2016 (ARWU), released on 19 August 2016. Note a change in branding as well. ARWU examines more than 1,000 universities who meet the…
(21 August 2016, Columbus, OH) CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), announced today that SciFindern will be available Spring 2017. This powerful solution will provide new and unique authoritative content, superior functionality and enhanced workflow features to help researchers be exponentially more productive. SciFindern is made possible by the global network of…
(22 August 2016) A new library at Dawning Views Shopping Plaza on 23 Yat Ming Road, Fanling will open tomorrow to serve the public and district residents. Occupying 550 sq m, Fanling South Public Library has a collection of 50,000 items, including Chinese and English books, reference materials and compact discs. About 100 local and…
(12 August 2016) The Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC) is pleased to announce the release of a comprehensive literature review on strategies for digitizing orphan works for open access. An orphan work is any original work of authorship for which a good faith, prospective user cannot readily identify and/or locate the copyright owner—especially…
(10 August 2016, Washington) The American Chemical Society (ACS) today announced its intention to form ChemRxiv, a chemistry preprint server for the global chemistry community, proposed as a collaborative undertaking that will facilitate the open dissemination of important scientific findings. The Society is presently in the process of inviting interested stakeholders to participate in helping…
(18 August 2016) Roger C. Schonfeld writes in the Ithaka blog that in a new research project, which is published today, he interviewed nearly 20 library leaders to understand the approaches being taken to organizational structure and related issues. They describe how they have re-defined leadership roles in their institutions and the ways in which…
(19 August 2016) The international scholarly publisher Brill has adopted two libraries in Indonesia as part of its Adopt a Library Program. Last year Indonesia was Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair, celebrating the theme ‘Imagining 17,000 islands’ which lead to choosing West Kalimantan and South Sulawesi in Indonesia as two islands to…
(18 August 2016) The IEEE Xplore digital library, one of the world’s largest collections of technical literature in engineering, computer science, and related technologies, recently reached a milestone with a total of over 4 million documents now available in its vast repository. Since its launch in 2000 with an initial collection of 500,000 documents, IEEE…
(18 August 2016) You will be part of the Information Resource Centre team supporting the information and research needs of the authority. Your primary responsibility is to manage electronic resources and provide current awareness alert services. Duties include overseeing procurement, payment processing and renewals for online and related resources, as well as interacting with vendors…
(18 August 2016) John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Atypon, a Silicon Valley-based publishing-software company, for $120 million in cash. Atypon (http://www.atypon.com/) is a trusted technology partner that enables scholarly societies and publishers to deliver, host, enhance, market and manage their content on the web. The transaction is expected…
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