(1 Dec 2022) Mao Kolap, vice-president of Cambodian Librarian Associations, said yesterday that Cambodia requires more qualified librarians to match the standards of advanced libraries in other Asean countries. According to a report by the Cambodian Library Association, there are only three graduated librarians, while there are 400 librarians in public schools, and about…
(6 Dec 2022) Delegates from across the Pacific are on Saipan for the four-day 31st Annual Pacific Islands Association of Libraries, Archives, and Museum or PIALA Conference. PIALA president and Joeten-Kiyu Public Library Director Erlinda C. Naputi on Monday said the association is committed to fostering awareness and encouraging cooperation and resource sharing among Pacific…
(28 Nov 2022) IEEE announced today that it has committed its full portfolio of more than 160 hybrid journals, which publish both open access and subscription-based content, to become Transformative Journals under Plan S. This commitment means that any authors receiving research grants from Coalition S, a group of research funders, are compliant with Plan…
(25 Nov 2022) Western Sydney University is hiring Research Literacy Coordinator and Academic Literacy Coordinator, details as below. About the Research Literacy Coordinator: The Library is looking for a Research Literacy Coordinator to provide specialist expertise to support research literacy across the University’s Higher Degree Research programs and for academic and research staff,…
(31 Oct 2022) Open Science, as a movement, evolved, grew, and now shapes the future through a variety of projects, initiates, organizations, and services. Consequently, on one hand, Open Science offerings to users grow in number, like the exponential growth of scholarly works. On the other hand, new and even more experienced users of Open Science…
(21 Nov 2022) Clarivate, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, has launched its annual report which examines the research performance of each of the members of the G20 with a visual comparative snapshot for each. The report, The Annual G20 Scorecard –Research Performance 2022, has been…
(18 Nov 2022) Two Russian nationals have been charged for running the immensely popular pirated e-book site Z-Library. The two Russian individuals, Anton Napolsky, 33, and Valeriia Ermakova, 27, have been arrested from Cordoba, Argentina on November 3rd, 2022. The Justice Department said the duo was arrested under specific requests from the US government. All Z-Library domains…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (28 Nov 2022) “The research that universities conduct plays a significant role in solving the greatest challenges facing the climate and our societies. As institutions, they also play a significant role in educating future generations and as well as being resource consuming organisations themselves. It is important to consider all…
(26 Nov 2022) The country is celebrating National Book Week from November 24 to 30 amid the struggle to arrest Filipino learners’ dwindling reading proficiency. Even before the pandemic struck, international large-scale assessments showed that learners were already struggling to meet the minimum required proficiency in reading, according to Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, chair of the…
(25 Nov 2022) The IFLA Academic and Research Libraries Section (ARL) Standing Committee held its “The call to action: academic libraries responses to the SDGs” webinar on 2 November 2022. You’ll be able to access the related video recording here, and the slides presented by the speakers here: presentation N°1 (Denmark), presentation N°2 (Australia) About the webinar: The United…