(3 Oct 2023) Moves are spreading in Japan to set up private libraries where each bookshelf is owned by individuals who display books on their hobbies or those that they recommend. Such libraries are helping revitalize local communities by creating a place where people can mingle through events. Around 50 such facilities have been created…
(10 Oct 2023) INSEAD, The Business School for the World, today announced the launch of the INSEAD XR Portal. The innovative platform hosts the world’s most extensive collection of learning experiences using virtual reality (VR) technology, coupled with a comprehensive solution to bring these immersive learning experiences to classrooms worldwide. INSEAD XR marks a significant leap forward…
(10 Oct 2023) The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and Open Access Australasia wish to express our joint concerns over the recent introduction of the Article Development Charge (ADC) model by the American Chemical Society (ACS). CAUL Members and others across the Australian scholarly community have expressed many concerns about this development in…
(5 Oct 2023) About the role: Reporting to the Team Leader, Research and Information Services, the Research and Information Services Librarian will be responsible for providing expert advice and support to the university community. This role involves collaborating with faculty staff, senior research staff, higher degree research students, and undergraduate researchers to enhance their research…
(9 Oct 2023) In 2022, Guillaume Cabanac noticed something unusual: a study had attracted more than 100 citations in a short span of less than two months of being published. Cabanac, a computer scientist at the University of Toulouse in France, initially flagged the study on PubPeer after it was highlighted by the Problematic Paper…
(3 Oct 2023) IFLA has been informed of the decision to withdraw the invitation to hold the 2024 World Library and Information Congress in Dubai. The decision was communicated to us by the Emirates Library and Information Association who led the bid to support the development of the field and wider region. As Dubai…
(27 Sep 2023) The Ministry of Universities Malaysia has just issued a notice prohibiting the country’s public universities from using funding from the state budget to pay for publishing articles in all journals belonging to the three publishers MDPI, Hindawi and Frontiers. According to the Ministry of Universities Malaysia, this decision was made due…
(6 Oct 2023) Join us for a Research Review Seminar with Dr Nicole Johnston (Edith Cowan University). Dr Nicole Johnston was awarded an ALIA Research Grant to carry out research into the impact and management of mis and disinformation in Australian university libraries. In 2022, Nicole interviewed a number of university library managers who…
An algorithm that takes just seconds to scan a paper for duplicated images racks up more suspicious images than a person (3 Oct 2023) Scientific-image sleuth Sholto David blogs about image manipulation in research papers, a pastime that has exposed him to many accounts of scientific fraud. But other scientists “are still a little bit…
A Nature survey finds that scientists are concerned, as well as excited, by the increasing use of artificial-intelligence tools in research (27 Sep 2023) Artificial-intelligence (AI) tools are becoming increasingly common in science, and many scientists anticipate that they will soon be central to the practice of research, suggests a Nature survey of more…