(10 February 2016) The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and the University of Vienna have announced the upcoming COAR Annual Meeting and Conference, which will take place at the University of Vienna on 12-13 April 2016. The major themes for this year’s meeting are new roles for repositories and international collaboration. The conference will…
(22 February 2016) A leaked email from the National Library’s director-general projects 22 jobs will be axed next financial year, with more in the future, as a result of funding cuts. Earlier this month it was revealed a number of national cultural institutions were looking at reducing staff numbers as they face $20 million in…
(22 February 2016) TrendMD, the leading scholarly content discoverability recommendation platform, shows it increased weekly article pageviews by 49% in a controlled study across 500 articles, offering an effective post-publication dissemination strategy for research and professional news articles in a study now published in Learned Publishing. Unlike publicity, social media, and paid advertising, such as…
(20 February 2016) On 18th February 2016, NISCAIR organized a Seminar on Philosophy and Teachings of Dr. S R Ranganathan, where the organizer formally released ALIS special issue “Philosophy and Teachings of S R Ranganathan”. ALIS is an open access scholarly journal established by S R Ranganathan in 1954. One of the speakers at this…
(19 February 2016) The Chinese government has issued new rules that ban any foreign-invested company from publishing anything online in China, effective next month. The directive by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, which will come into effect on 10 March, states: “Sino-foreign joint ventures, Sino-foreign cooperative ventures and foreign business units shall not…
(21 February 2016) Legal deposit legislation has ensured that the National Library of Australia has collected Australia’s print publications for more than 100 years. Digital history was made on 17 February 2016 as amendments to the legal deposit provisions in the Copyright Act 1968 came into effect, extending the legislation to capture the online publishing…
(20 February 2016) The librarian will work with teachers and make the library an inviting and information-rich learning environment for both the German and English stream. The successful candidate will have a degree/diploma in Library and Information Science (or similar degree); at least 3 years of relevant experience; previous experience working in an educational environment;…
(18 February 2016) The odi.org reports that the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has a transformative open data programme. Defra has committed to publish 8,000 datasets as open data in 12 months and transform how it collects, collaborates with and uses data in everything it does. This week, Defra has published…
(16 February 2016) February 15 saw the official launch of the Australian ORCID consortium, at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. The establishment of the consortium was collaboratively facilitated by Universities Australia (UA), the Australian Research Council (ARC), the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), the Australasian Research Management Society (ARMS), the Council…
(17 February 2016) A meeting between the Government, lawmakers, internet users and copyright owners was held today to discuss the Copyright (Amendment) Bill. Secretary for Commerce & Economic Development Gregory So told reporters the meeting was conducted in an orderly manner, but all parties have well-entrenched positions and failed to reach a consensus. He said:…
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