(8 Aug 2024) René Aquarius, a researcher at Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands, shared her experience on being an reviewer for MDPI journals. “Mid November 2023 I received a request to peer-review a manuscript for a special issue on subarachnoid hemorrhage for the Journal of Clinical Medicine, published by MDPI. This blog post summarizes that…
(20 Aug 2024) About the role: As the successful candidate, you will develop and deliver comprehensive training programs to enhance skills and knowledge in targeted library and records management systems and services. This role involves creating a diverse range of training materials with a user-centred approach, including the design and editing of interactive multimedia. …
(21 Aug 2024) Japanese universities are at a critical juncture as the rapid fall in the number of children nationwide has sparked discussions on the need for consolidation, downsizing, or potential closures. A task force of the Central Council for Education, which advises the education minister, is currently deliberating the future of universities in response…
(9 Jul 2024) Dr Julia Colleen Miller, senior data manager for the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA), shares her personal experience of the managing digitalizing projects including the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC). Find out more here.
(14 Aug 2024) Turnitin announced they were ending private plans for PlagScan, a plagiarism detection service they acquired in 2021. With that imminent closure, individuals can only access Turnitin’s services through iThenticate, which costs $125 per search, or a third-party partner like Scribbr. However, Christian Moriarty, an ethics and law professor at St. Petersburg College, asked…
(5 Aug 2024) OpenAI has already built and tested a tool to detect whether any written content has been created using ChatGPT. But the Wall Street Journal reports that the company is holding back the tool from public release because of several concerns. The tool adds a pattern to how the large language model (LLM) writes its…
(6 Aug 2024) Stanford University is one example of a university that chose to integrate ORCID into its centralized identity management system, which it did to comply with US research security directives issued by the National Security Presidential Memorandum-33, better known as NSPM-33. Stanford University offers an ideal case study for similar research institutions that already…
(31 Jul 2024) cOAlition S has announced the release of a new pricing framework designed to foster global equity in scholarly publishing. Developed by Information Power following consultation with the funder, library/consortium, and publisher communities, the framework is introduced to enable discussion, promote greater transparency and inspire publishers and other service providers to implement more equitable pricing across different…
(13 Aug 2024) The state observed the Librarian Day of August 12 to mark the birth anniversary of Dr S R Ranganathan, considered the father of Library Science in India. A special program was organized in the Bir Chandra State Central Library. Dilip Kumar Das, Head Librarian of Bir Chandra State Central Library presided over…
(14 Aug 2024) Student success is one of the most critical drivers of the value of academic libraries, no matter the discipline or specialization. With an ever-changing technological and pedagogical landscape, librarians are constantly challenged to innovate and redefine their roles. In this post, academic librarians from the National University of Singapore Libraries unlock major…