(25 November 2014, Seoul, South Korea) The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), today announced an initiative to expand the global imprint of the region’s scientific research by integrating content within the Korean Citation Index (KCI) into the Web of ScienceTM. Launched by NRF in…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (26 November 2014) Which university is #1 in the world in 2014/2015? Massachusetts Institute of Technology? California Institute of Technology? Harvard University? Cambridge University? Princeton? In Asia? University of Tokyo? National University of Singapore? University of Hong Kong? 1 Read on and find out who the top universities are and why…
(25 November 2014) The ES Library is a recently remodeled, dynamic space. The resources, both online and in print, help students become information literate and strong users of credible resources are vast. The ALA joblist has further details.
(21 November 2014) Palgrave Macmillan is focusing on publishing more humanities and social science scholarship from Asia, especially China. New Perspectives on Chinese Politics and Society is the first Palgrave Macmillan series that has been commissioned from China and will be launched in 2015. The series will be edited by Yang Zhong, Changjiang Distinguished Professor…
(23 November 2014) The Institute is co-organized by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and, the Division of Information and Technology Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong. Its focus is on data curation and related theories, techniques and best practices. HKUST hosts the Institute, 25-27 February…
(6 November 2014) For the third year in a row, Stanford Libraries opens nominations for the Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries (SPIRL), a prize to recognize and celebrate innovation through programs, projects, and new or improved services that benefits users. The deadline for entries is 16 January 2015. Eligibility for SPIRL includes research,…
(19 November 2014) The China Library is now open in the City Campus Library. The new China Library was gifted to UTS from the Chinese Government and is a rich information centre filled with books, audio visual materials, mulitmedia displays as well as reading and study areas. The illutsrated announcement is here.
(19 November 2014) The LIANZA Council has been considering making a bid to host the annual IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) Congress. A poll of the membership found that of the 454 responses 85% favour bringing the event to New Zealand. Because of this level of support the LIANZA Council has decided to bid for the…
(9 October 2014) READ Nepal reports that nearly two thousand Nepalis came together in the historic village of Panauti this past August, walking through rain-flooded streets lined with flower-filled copper vessels, passing oil lamps laid ready with their wicks, and children in traditional Newari dress. They were there to celebrate their pride and passion for…
(17 November 2014, Farmington Hills) Recognizing the benefit of data analysis for the digital humanities field, Gale, part of Cengage Learning, will make available content from its Gale Digital Collections to academic researchers for data mining and textual analysis purposes. Data mining and textual analysis – the process by which text or datasets are crawled…
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