(20 Apr 2023) Drawing on data showing a decline in academic freedom over the past decade, David Audretsch, Christian Fisch, Chiara Franzoni, Paul P. Momtaz and Silvio Vismara, analyse the relation of academic freedom to technological innovation, as represented by patents, finding a quantifiable causal link between reduced academic freedom to lower levels of innovation. …
(25 Apr 2023) Chinese innovators have filed the most patents on COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, according to the latest patent landscape report by the World Intellectual Property Organization. Following China was the US. After the top two, there was a big drop to South Korea, Germany and Japan. In total 7,758 patent applications relating to…
(24 Apr 2023) The rapid adoption of ebooks in recent years has led to greater scrutiny of pricing models. For a long time the adoption of ebooks by libraries lagged behind the adoption of ejournals, but a seismic change came with the Covid-19 pandemic. As Jack Macdonald, Director of Library Sales at Cambridge University Press…
(27 Apr 2023) One of the world’s oldest newspapers still in print, Austria’s Wiener Zeitung, will primarily move online, after a decision Thursday (Apr 27) by the country’s parliament. The development marks the final step in a years-long dispute between the Austrian government and the newspaper about the future of the state-owned daily. Founded…
(20 Apr 2023) Today, WHO is launching the Health Inequality Data Repository, the most comprehensive global collection of publicly available disaggregated data and evidence on population health and its determinants. The repository allows for tracking health inequalities across population groups and over time, by breaking down data according to group characteristics, ranging from education level to…
(27 Apr 2023) About the Role: The Manager: Access and Discovery is responsible for the development and delivery of effective and innovative Library services which provide access to resources across the University in support of teaching, learning and research. This includes the provision of Discovery Services platforms, the University’s research repository, Open Access, Special Collections,…
(11 Apr 2023) CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, today announced it has signed a bilateral agreement with the Malaysia Reprographic Rights Centre (MARC) to support its operations and the development of copyright-compliant content consumption in Malaysia benefitting both rightsholders and content users. The agreement enables MARC to include CCC’s comprehensive…
(21 Apr 2023) More than 40 editors have resigned from two leading neuroscience journals in protest against what the editors say are excessively high article-processing charges (APCs) set by the publisher. They say that the fees, which publishers use to cover publishing services and in some cases make money, are unethical. The publisher, Dutch company…
(30 Mar 2023) To be an open researcher is more than simply openly sharing research papers. Marcel Bogers and Ian McCarthy draw on their research on open practices in business research to outline four ways of leveraging social media to be more ‘open’ as a researcher, the potential trade-offs this can entail, and how it can help…
(20 Apr 2023) In March 2023, Italy became the first western country to block the advanced chatbot known as ChatGPT. The Italian data protection authority, Garante, cited concerns over the protection of personal data when making this decision. It has given OpenAI, the California-based company that created ChatGPT, until the end of April to comply…