(4 Apr 2023) The hijacking of the Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences started in 2019, when the web domain of the clone journal was created. This fraudulent journal could continue to publish dozens of papers, charging 300 euros each, while the genuine journal, according to the information on one Chinese website, ceased publishing…
(1 May 2023) About the position: Part time 0.8FTE Continuing Bendigo Campus Career progression and support Duties will include but are not limited to: Create and maintain accurate online records to ensure reading list, high-use and resource sharing materials are accessible and discoverable to meet learning and teaching needs including processing financial transactions relating to…
(1 May 2023) As the Senior Librarian (Collection Strategy) you will lead and provide oversight for the eReadings process that supports teaching and learning at Flinders University. You will be a key member of the Collection Strategy team that delivers high quality integrated services in scholarly resource acquisitions, and you will have functional supervision responsibilities…
(21 Mar 2023) The Associate Director, Scholarly Communications and Repositories leads staff in the development of high quality research services, scholarly communications and open access, repository infrastructure, and research reporting. This is a high-level strategic and proactive role that leads the planning and allocation of resources for the unit and identifies opportunities to build networks with…
(22 Apr 2023) Six out of 19 Japanese universities surveyed by the Mainichi Shimbun have expressed views or set guidelines for their students on using interactive artificial intelligence (AI) including the ChatGPT chatbot, now being adopted for a rapidly expanding list of applications. The Mainichi has the news in full.
(22 Mar 2023) In her dual role as Instruction and Outreach Librarian / Professor and Liaison Librarian at Oregon State University (OSU) in the US, Laurie Bridges co-teaches a two-credit course about Wikipedia that she launched back in 2019. In part one of this article series, she ran through how she came to use…
(24 Apr 2023) Recent activity by a journal watchlist has caused concern in the scholarly publishing community. The Think. Check. Submit. Committee advises the community to proceed cautiously and use the checklists provided on its website as an effective and objective way to judge whether or not a journal or book publisher is a suitable place to…
(29 Apr 2023) Universities and colleges tend to have strict anti-piracy policies for students. In the United States, this is very much a necessity since its required by law. While most students play by the rules, a worrying trend is developing where outsiders exploit university websites to promote piracy scams. Torrent Freak has the…
(26 Apr 2023) The military takeover in Myanmar in 2021 has dramatically disrupted education systems, leaving many university students and prospective students with little choice but to put a hold on their studies, raising concerns from educators about the future of the country’s learners. According to a survey, about 1 million students were enrolled in…
(16 Apr 2023) Australian universities are split on whether to adopt a new tool which claims to detect AI-generated plagiarism with a near-perfect success rate, citing concerns over out-of-date models and the minimal notice the sector was given to assess the issue. Turnitin’s detection tool, launched this month, cites a 98% efficacy rate at picking…