(4 April 2014) Nature Partner Journals is a new series of online open access journals, published in collaboration with world-renowned international partners. Partners currently include the Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Science Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, and the International Primary Care Respiratory Group. The announcement is here.
(1 April 2014) The BBC reports that universities in Myanmar have been given eLibraries with hundreds of thousands of digital books and academic journals to help them catch up after decades of isolation under military rule. The University of Yangon and University of Mandalay libraries are offering these collections, which represent another sign of how…
(2 April 2014) ALIA reports that a study released today suggests law firms, government departments, associations and other organisations involved with special libraries gain over AUD5 in return for every AUD1 they invest in special libraries. The Australian Law Library Association, Health Libraries Inc (HLInc), Health Libraries Australia (ALIA HLA, a national group of the…
(2 April 2014) INELI-Oceania is a new and innovative leadership development program for emerging library leaders from Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. The program is primarily funded through a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Participants of INELI-Oceania will be brought together in a program designed to develop their effectiveness as…
(1 April 2014) Advertisements and advertising materials are the focus of the latest exhibition from the Monash University’s Rare Books Collection, which opened at the Matheson Library, Clayton last week. It provides a snapshot of years gone by through advertisements and endorsements. Walk in to see the exhibition before 5 June 2014. If you prefer…
(29 March 2014) Jisc today welcomed the announcement by Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Scottish Funding Council, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and the Department for Employment and Learning that from 2016 they will expect all articles submitted to the Research Excellence Framework (REF), a system for assessing the quality of research, to be…
(1 April 2014) The Data Citation Principles establish guiding principles for data within scholarly literature, another dataset, or any other research object. These principles recognize the need for citation practices that are both human understandable and machine-actionable. DataCite and its members understand that the eight principles are perfectly in line with the scope and the…
(31 March 2014) British prison rules state that “A library shall be provided in every prison and, subject to any directions of the Secretary of State, every prisoner shall be allowed to have library books and to exchange them”. Jacqueline May, Policy Officer at CILIP, has written a very interesting feature on libraries in British…
(31 March 2014) The Leisure & Cultural Services Department launched the revamped Public Libraries website today, featuring a modern layout and more user-friendly interface. It features the latest information on library activities and a wide range of online library services, including catalogue searches, media-on-demand, and the reserving or renewing of library materials. The new eResources…
(31 March 2014) The purpose of this new journal is to provide distinctive reviews across the range of topics in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Human Resources Management, and Organizational Behavior, summarizing significant developments in the field. This new journal results from growing coverage of these topics within the Annual Review of Psychology—one of the highest…
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