(5 Jul 2023) Students and scholars at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa (and worldwide) can now easily access and view the fine details of rare, hand-painted Japanese scrolls, made possible by UH Mānoa Library’s new state-of-the-art digitization lab. The scrolls titled 鯨魚鑬笑録 (Geigyo ranshōroku), or “A simple overview of whaling” were created in 1819 and…
(11 Jul 2023) Bloomsbury has announced the launch of a pilot program for a collective-action funding model for open-access books. Bloomsbury Open Collections seeks to spread the cost of open-access publications across multiple organizations while providing private benefits to participating libraries. Bloomsbury is the first commercial publisher to pilot such a model, and aims to…
(12 Jul 2023) Core is now accepting applications for the Online Course Scholarship for Library Professionals from Developing Countries to participate in our online Fundamentals courses held between September 11, 2023 and December 22, 2023. One free seat per session is available to librarians and information professionals from developing countries. For full information about the…
(5 Jul 2023) The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the publication of the Peer Review Terminology Standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.106-2023), which will support open research by simplifying the communication of peer review roles and practices and fostering greater transparency in the peer review process. Peer review is universally acknowledged as critical to the research…
(11 Jul 2023) Karger Publishers is thrilled to announce its latest partnership with ChronosHub, a platform offering a 360-degree approach to Open Access (OA) Management. This new collaboration benefits Karger’s institutional customers by fostering effective compliance and license management, improved handling of article processing charges and other related costs, billing, and collection, as well as…
(9 Jul 2023) The European Union and New Zealand have today signed an agreement for the participation of New Zealand in EU Programmes. The agreement creates a long-lasting legal framework that regulates the terms and conditions for New Zealand’s participation in European programs, including its involvement in the governance structures and its financial contribution. The…
(4 Jul 2023) In an unprecedented move, all of South Korea’s top research universities have come together in a call to boycott global university rankings issued by QS, saying the United Kingdom-based ranking organization has not heeded their claim that changes made to the rankings this year are not transparent and contain “mathematical flaws”. …
By designing an autonomous system that fed prompts to the chatbot, researchers produced a paper that was fluent and insightful. Yet they still have concerns. (7 Jul 2023) A pair of scientists has produced a research paper in less than an hour with the help of ChatGPT — a tool driven by artificial intelligence (AI)…
(4 Jul 2023) Britain’s Russell Group of research universities has published a set of principles that promote artificial intelligence (AI) literacy and use by staff and students. Universities are urged to adapt teaching and assessment to support the equitable and ethical deployment of AI, to uphold academic rigour and integrity, and to collaborate around evolving…
(5 Jul 2023) VUS, the leading education center in Vietnam, and leading global education company McGraw Hill today announced they will partner to introduce a groundbreaking Critical Math program, based on McGraw Hill’s Reveal Math, to pre-primary and primary children in Vietnam. This partnership brings together the expertise and resources of two esteemed educational establishments…