(11 Aug 2023) The digital interlibrary loan service, EurekaMag.com is now expanding its services to Thailand to complement the more traditional interlibrary loan (ILL) processes of the unified Thai Higher Education Institutions. It improves upon the latter services by emailing all articles and chapters in PDF format within 24 hours during workdays. Find out…
(17 Aug 2023) We are pleased to introduce the Hybrid Open Access Dashboard (HOAD), an openly available data analytics tool designed for academic libraries and their consortia. Developed at the State and University Library Göttingen and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), HOAD combines open data from Crossref, OpenAlex, and the cOAlition S Journal…
(24 Aug 2023) The open access movement in Kyrgyzstan started in the early 2000s. One of the first projects promoting open access was the EIFL-supported training on creating open access repositories, which was followed by the launch of the first institutional repository, at the American University of Central Asia. Currently, KyrLibNet is the largest open…
(17 Aug 2023) About the role: As the Senior Client Services Librarian you will provide advanced, high level information and library services to support the University’s learning, teaching, and research strategies. The focus of this role is to work with academic staff and higher degree researchers. You will have opportunity to take a…
(22 Aug 2023) About the Role: The role is responsible for the planning, implementation, management, evaluation and development of integrated infrastructure, applications, and services to support the library’s digital strategy in response to the Teaching, Learning and Research activities of the University. The successful incumbent will actively motivate and coach the Digital Strategy team and…
Encouraging medical research writers to create plain-language interpretation of articles, Taylor & Francis promotes lay summaries. (15 Aug 2023) Maybe more accurately called “lay summaries,” articles that interpret medical-research reportage can be a boon, obviously, to anyone not working in scientific fields and trying to follow technically challenged professional scholarly and academic publishing. …
(9 Aug 2023) The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is now accepting initial applications for Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices. Made possible through the generous support of the Mellon Foundation, this competitive program is dedicated to financing the digitization of rare and unique materials held by various collecting organizations. …
(24 Aug 2023) Australia’s academics are grappling with how to handle investigations into scientific misconduct. Unlike many other countries, the nation does not have an independent body to oversee such probes; instead, universities and research institutes carry them out themselves. Several high-profile misconduct cases are bolstering criticisms of the current system, and momentum is building…
(16 Aug 2023) Recently, the Internet Archive (IA) was found guilty of copyright infringement related to its Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) service. The CDL service provides free access to a digital library of books. In the case, US District Judge John Koeltl stated that the IA infringed the copyright of four publishers. Now, the IA…
(9 Aug 2023) The Microbiology Society and National Taiwan University (NTU) are pleased to announce a five year transformative agreement, starting in 2024. The Publish and Read agreement, the first for the Microbiology Society in Taiwan, will allow affiliated researchers to publish an unlimited number of Open Access articles and enjoy full read access in…