(20 Apr 2024) Kumba Digdowiseiso, the dean of the economics and business faculty at Universitas Nasional in Jakarta, Indonesia, resigned on Thursday after a firestorm of criticism over the past week. The move, reported widely in the Indonesian media, came eight days after Retraction Watch reported that researchers at Universiti Malaysia Terengganu alleged that Digdowiseiso had added dozens…
(14 Apr 2024) The Free Libraries Network (FLN), a collective of more than 250 libraries around South Asia, released a policy memo ‘The People’s National Library Policy 2024’, drawn from years of coordination and activism at the grassroots level, to bolster a movement they believe to be the foundation of the Indian Constitution’s ideals of…
(9 Apr 2024) It has been 10 years since researcher Haruko Obokata defended her research in front of hundreds of reporters and TV crew at an Osaka hotel, claiming that STAP cells did exist. In the months that followed, however, nobody could reproduce the cells according to her protocol. She was booted from her job…
(5 Apr 2024) Thailand’s Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (MHESI) and ACS Publications have signed a new read and publish agreement, effective through December 2026. The agreement provides researchers and students from 78 institutions across Thailand with full reading access to ACS’ portfolio of more than 60 hybrid journals. Affiliated submitting corresponding authors from…
(2 Apr 2024) The fifth report in a series of national surveys of school libraries in Aotearoa New Zealand that started in 2018 is recently released. The surveys are a collaboration between: National Library of New Zealand Services to Schools School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (SLANZA) Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA).…
(1 Apr 2024) As of March 31, 2024, Mr. YOSHINAGA Motonobu, the Director General of the National Diet Library retired and as of April 1, 2024, Ms. KURATA Keiko was newly appointed the Director General of the National Diet Library. Ms. Kurata served as Professor of Keio University from 2001 to 2024 as well as…
(2 Apr 2024) OpenAIRE and NII have come together to collaborate on enhancing the interoperability and promoting of good practices for research infrastructures. The agreement aims to provide FAIRable research infrastructures to academic organisations by sharing know-how on metadata standards, aggregations, and curation of scholarly information including research data. One of the goals of this collaboration is to…
(27 Mar 2024) Over 100 million visits to public libraries across Taiwan were recorded in 2023, a 22.06 million increase from 2022, according to the 2023 Annual Report on Reading Atmosphere and Reading Engagement in Taiwan. The report’s findings were presented at a press conference hosted by National Central Library Director General Wang Han-ching (王涵青)…
(25 Mar 2024) Jakarta- State Apparatus and Bureaucratic Reform (PAN RB) Minister Abdullah Azwar Anas provided suggestions to the National Library (Perpusnas) to support its efforts in strengthening its internal bureaucratic reform. During a meeting with Perpusnas Acting Head Aminudin Aziz in Jakarta on Monday, Anas underscored the need for the library to take…
(18 Mar 2024) Thailand’s national soft power sub-committee on books will propose to the government the establishment of ‘the Book Institute’ and ‘One Province, One Landmark Library’. The news in full is here.