(20 March 2015) Are you a student, researcher, librarian or policy maker planning any trainings on open access, open research data or open science? Check out the new FOSTER (Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research) toolkit for training sessions. The toolkit, developed by EIFL, provides a number of tested and proven guides for organizing…
(23 March 2015) University of Technology, Sydney, is offering information services to its alumni. Two memberships, one for AUD 5.00 providing access to the UTS library and one for AUD 75.00 yearly including access to databases are offered. The databases include Annual Reviews Online, AustLit and JSTOR. The announcement is here.
(21 March 2015) The 2014 award recognises “a significant change to professional practice and institutional approaches for developing students’ research skills within curricula at Monash University and beyond, initiated by the exceptional leadership of the Research and Learning team of Lyn Torres (Information Research Skills Manager) and Leanne McCann (Learning Skills Manager), leaders of the…
(20 March 2015) The New York University Shanghai Library seeks a creative and service-oriented Access Services Librarian. Reporting to the NYU Shanghai Library Director, the Access Services Librarian will develop and lead access services and initiatives that support research, teaching and learning at NYU Shanghai. The Access Services Librarian will manage all access services operations…
(18 March 2015) Oxford University Press was named the Publisher of the Year Award 2015 by the UK Booksellers’ Association on Wednesday 11 March. It is the sixth consecutive year that the Press has claimed the title since 2010. Voted for by members of the Booksellers’ Association Academic, Professional and Specialist branch, including bookshop managers…
(20 March 2015) The Library Modernization Fundraising Campaign this week broke the 40 million baht barrier as major donations from the Na Lamphun family, Amata Corporation, alumna Ms. Loh Ai Lee, and SEAFCO Plc., pushed the campaign total to over 80% of its goal of 50 million baht. The Na Lamphun family, who are all…
(20 March 2015, Beijing) – The news websites of Reuters, including those in English and Chinese, were inaccessible in China on Friday, after users first experienced difficulties accessing them late on Thursday. The websites of Bloomberg News, the New York Times and News Corp’s Wall Street Journal have all been inaccessible in China for some…
(19 March 2015, Singapore) Ex Libris® Group announces that the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) is live with the Ex Libris Alma library management solution. The first library in Singapore to adopt Alma, SIM expects the migration to serve as a transformative platform to realize the Library’s ‘Vision 2020’ milestones. “The search for a unified,…
(19 March 2015, Tokyo) Rakuten, Inc. one of the world’s largest internet services companies, today announced it has agreed to fully acquire OverDrive Holdings, Inc., operator of OverDrive, Inc., a leading eBook and audiobook content marketplace and sharing economy pioneer, for a total consideration of $410 million in cash. “OverDrive is a widely-respected pioneer in…
(19 March 2015) Altmetric.com is offering free embeddable Altmetric Badges for institutional repositories. This helps researchers track attention to specific papers – so if a paper has been deposited in your repository, researchers can monitor attention to that output via the repository record. This might be displayed alongside other metrics, such as repository downloads or citation…
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