(17 Oct 2023) Elsevier today announced that it is piloting Geographical Pricing for Open Access (GPOA) across 142 of its Gold Open Access journals to make open access article publishing charges (APCs) more affordable for authors in low- and middle-income countries. The GPOA model, a publishing industry first, is set to take effect from January…
(17 Oct 2023) About the Role: The Library Officer (Patron Engagement) provides excellent frontline customer services to both students and staff to support the learning, teaching and research activities of the University. As the successful incumbent, you will be responsible for providing support to students and staff in connecting with and using quality information…
(12 Oct 2023) Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE) and Elsevier have established a transformative agreement in a major step forward in advancing global access to Japan’s scholarly publications through open access publishing. The three-year agreement will take effect from 2024 to 2026. The agreement, the largest of its kind to date…
(12 Oct 2023) A recent bibliometric study of article retractions in the technology field from developing countries reveals that the number of retractions has increased over the past 20 years, with an annual growth rate of 20.79%. Authored by Metwaly Eldakar at Minia University in Egypt and Ahmed Shehata at Sultan Qaboos University in…
This article underlines the necessity of advancing from digital literacy to digital fluency in Bangladesh. It explores the role of higher education and libraries in helping the country on its path to becoming a ‘Smart Bangladesh’ by 2041, emphasizing both improvements and challenges in the journey. (13 Oct 2023) Bangladesh has witnessed an explosion in…
(Sep 2023) Academic librarians serve their students and faculty to help them navigate the research process. Therefore, when a new technological tool blazes through higher education, as ChatGPT has over the last few months, it becomes increasingly important that librarians are aware of the tool and its uses so that they can serve their students and…
(11 Oct 2023) EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has published the 2024 Serials Price Projection Report. This year’s report projects that the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and academic medical libraries are expected to be (before any currency impact) in the range of three to four percent for individual e-journal titles, two to three percent…
(25 Sep 2023) Getty Images, a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace, today announced the launch of Generative AI by Getty Images, a new tool that pairs the company’s best‑in‑class creative content with the latest AI technology for a commercially safe generative AI tool. Generative AI by Getty Images is trained on the state‑of‑the‑art…
(5 Oct 2023) Preprints are now searchable on Scopus upon performing a document search, according to a announcement made by Elsevier. As of June 2023, there are 1.8M preprint records in Scopus from the following seven preprint servers in total: arXiv ChemRxiv bioRxiv medRxiv SSRN TechRxiv Research Square Find out more here.
(12 Oct 2023) De Gruyter and Brill jointly announce they have reached agreement to form De Gruyter Brill through a recommended all-cash public offer by De Gruyter for all Brill securities at an offer price of EUR 27.50 per security (cum dividend), representing a total consideration of approx. EUR 51.5 million. The transaction creates the…