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Two new tools to support responsible research assessment: Debiasing committee composition and building blocks for impact

Research SupportMarch 14, 2023

(2 Mar 2023) Since 2013, DORA has advocated a number of principles for responsible research evaluation, including avoiding the use of journal-based metrics as surrogate measures of research quality, recognizing a broader range of scholarly outputs in promotion, tenure, and review practices, and the importance of responsible research assessment as a mechanism to help address the…

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Digitizing Indonesia’s newspapers before they fall to pieces

Asia Pacific, DigitizationMarch 14, 2023

(10 Mar 2023) Perpusnas (the National Library of Indonesia) houses one of the largest collections of Indonesian newspapers in the world. Only single copies remain for most of the issues in the collection. The vast majority of these are yet to be scanned and uploaded to the library’s online platform, Khastara, which was launched in 2019. To…

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Wiley paused Hindawi special issues amid quality problems, lost $9 million in revenue

PublishersMarch 14, 2023

(9 Mar 2023) Hindawi, the open access publisher that Wiley acquired in 2021, temporarily suspended publishing special issues because of “compromised articles,” according to a press release announcing the company’s third quarter financial results. The announcement follows scrutiny from sleuths, and the publisher retracting hundreds of papers for manipulated peer review last September, after…

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Mapping the path to future changes in the Journal Citation Reports

PublishersMarch 14, 2023

(7 Mar 2023) This year, journals from the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI)™ and the multidisciplinary Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)™ in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR)™ will receive a JIF for the first time. As a result of this development, a further 9,000 journals in the JCR will receive a JIF and benefit…

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Webinar: Open science in Australia: how can we support key international initiatives

EventMarch 14, 2023

(27 Feb 2023) The past couple of years have seen substantial international momentum towards open science. Key initiatives include UNESCO’s Open Science Recommendation, the OECD Recommendation on Access to Research Data from Public Funding, the APEC Open Science statement, and the G20 Science ministers support for open science. The Australian Open Science Network came…

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Jisc creates framework to guide higher education to digital transformation

Information literacy, InternetMarch 14, 2023

(8 Mar 2023) In a sector first, Jisc has released a framework to help universities make strategic moves towards digital transformation. Underlining the importance of digital technology in delivering education, Jisc has released a framework to help universities improve strategic planning around necessary digital transformation. The first framework for digital transformation in higher education contains…

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ARL releases final report of Research Library Impact Framework pilot initiative

LibrariesMarch 14, 2023

(10 Mar 2023) The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Research Library Impact Framework (RLIF) pilot initiative, established in 2019, has released its final report, Building a Community of Assessment. The report details the research projects, findings, and lessons learned conducted under the pilot phase of this framework. It also includes information about the framework itself as…

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Charles Sturt University is hiring Client Services Librarian

JobsMarch 14, 2023

(7 Mar 2023) About the role: Work within a team to develop and deliver quality information literacy instruction to library clients, liaise with academics to embed library and information literacy resources into courses and subjects, and provide individual support to clients. To be successful you will have: A degree in Library and Information…

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Recently completed ‘Endangered Archives Programme’ projects in Southeast Asia

Asia Pacific, DigitizationMarch 13, 2023

(10 Mar 2023) Since 2004, the Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) has helped to preserve cultural heritage and to make it available globally to as wide an audience as possible. To achieve this, grants are provided to digitise and document archives that are at risk of loss or decay, and which are located in countries where…

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