(4 Dec 2023) LJ editors and columnists select 149 titles across 15 categories as our best books of the year. Categories include: Pop Fiction Romance Crime Fiction Horror SF/Fantasy Literary Fiction World Literature Short Stories Graphic Novels Poetry Arts & Humanities Cookbooks Memoir & Biography Social Sciences Science & Technology Check out the list…
(4 Dec 2023) BioOne, the leading nonprofit aggregator in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences, today announces a bold plan to offer up to 80 society titles as part of a Subscribe to Open (S2O) pilot beginning in January 2026. This decision, unanimously endorsed by the BioOne Board of Directors, follows 18 months of careful…
(10 Nov 2023) Times are tight, for local councils as much as anyone, so it’s not surprising they’re running a ruler over all their services. That includes libraries. From Auckland’s Wayne Brown suggesting they could be staffed by volunteers; to Christchurch’s Phil Mauger saying last month that community libraries were just “buildings with some books in them”…
(29 Nov 2023) The British Library has told customers that their personal data may have been stolen during a recent ransomware attack that knocked the library’s systems and website offline for the past month. In a notice sent to customers this week, which TechCrunch has seen, the British Library said that its customer relation…
(15 Nov 2023) The National Central Library on Monday launched its first Taiwan Academic Digital Resource Center in Paris to help improve the accessibility of Taiwanese research documents to academics in France. The center was established in collaboration with the Paris-based University Library of Languages and Civilizations (BULAC) and inaugurated at an event attended by…
(22 Nov 2023) Digital Science has announced it has fully acquired the AI-based academic language service Writefull, which assists users worldwide with all aspects of their scholarly writing. Writefull’s AI language models are trained on billions of sentences taken from millions of journal articles. Winner of a Digital Science Catalyst Grant in 2016, Writefull has been part-owned by Digital…
(20 Nov 2023) ENSULIB, IFLA’s Environment, Sustainability & Libraries Section announces the 9th IFLA Green Library Award 2024 is open for submissions. The prize is awarded in two categories: Category 1: Best Green Library/Grand-Scale Project Category 2: Best Green Library Project The deadline for applications is 28 February 2024. Find out more here.…
(20 Nov 2023) Manuscripts and artworks from Southeast Asia are varied and to some extent differ significantly from those found in other parts of Asia. For example, palm leaves, bamboo slats, tree bark, ivory and metal sheets, fabrics, and paper made from mulberry tree bark or from bamboo shoots have been popular materials used for…
(15 Nov 2023) From 1 January 2024, UKRI’s open access policy will apply to monographs, book chapters and edited collections that need to acknowledge UKRI funding. The policy aims to ensure that findings from the breadth of research UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funds with public money can be freely accessed. This will…
(Oct 2023) In 2021, the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions (Sveriges universitets- ochhögskoleförbund, SUHF) decided to convene a beyond transformative agreements working group(the BTA group) to lay the foundation for further advancing the transition to open access. The group includes researchers, representatives of higher education institutions, funders and negotiators from the Bibsam Consortium. It…