(2 June 2016) NSLA regrets that negotiations with SAI Global for continued community access to Australian Standards have been unsuccessful. Commercial publishing, marketing and distribution of Australian Standards is exclusively licensed to SAI Global. Encouraged by the testimony of SAI Global CEO, Mr Peter Mullins, during a public hearing of the Western Australian Inquiry into…
Is Academic Social Networking the New Wave of Student-Teacher Communication? (June 2016) Social networking tools have become an integral part of our daily lives. Recently, Academic Social Networking Sites (ASNS) have attracted global users, proving a useful tool for academic research activities. But there still seems to be some resistance among users as some researchers…
(3 June 2016) IGI Global, a leading publishers of books, journals, and databases, is offering beginning in June, 13 new exclusive collections of frontlist, peer-reviewed eBooks on emerging information science and technology subjects. This SPECIAL offer for Asia is for one-time purchase eBook collections all at a discounted price. With no DRM, unlimited simultaneous users,…
(2 June 2016) IFLA’s Building Strong Library Associations (BSLA) programme has been expanded through a series of workshops and projects at the regional level in Africa, Asia and Oceania, and Latin America and the Caribbean since 2014, now reaching more than 60 countries since the Programme began in 2010. From 30 May to 2 June 2016 IFLA…
(1 June 2016) Ten librarians from EIFL’s partner universities in the EIFL eLibrary Myanmar project will travel to Hong Kong on a five-day study tour organized by EIFL in partnership with the University of Hong Kong Library. From 13 to 17 June 2016, the librarians will visit University of Hong Kong Library and Lingnan University Library. The…
(1 June 2016) This white paper reflects the outcome of several years of the IoT international cooperation between the EU and China and documents the state-of-the-art on IoT development in both regions and future cooperation fields. In both regions the Internet of Things (IoT) is high on the political agenda, in particular addressing Industrial IoT…
(1 June 2016) On 27 March 2016, the State Council officially printed and distributed the Circular on Announcing the 5th National Rare Ancient Book Directory and the 5th group of National Key Ancient Books Preservation and Conservation Institutions, approved and issued the 5th National Rare Ancient Book Directory, with 899 ancient books selected, including 754…
(31 May 2016) It’s been one year since Trove started working with ORCID. The ORCID site enables researchers to create a more complete overview of their work. You may remember from our previous blog, Spot the Blue Square that ORCID helps researchers claim the work they’ve written, the data sets they’ve created, the funding grants they’ve…
(31 May 2016) Applications are invited for the appointment of Research Librarian, Social Sciences, in SMU Libraries, Singapore Management University. This position is primarily a liaison role for faculty and students from the School of Social Sciences and related programmes. The position holder works in a team environment to create and develop innovative library products…
(27 May 2016) Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has been awarded first prize in an international competition to design the 25,000m² Student Centre & Library for the Wenzhou-Kean University in Wenzhou, China. Set on 500 acres in a rural mountainous region, the university will provide learning and living space for 8.500 students. The new building is…
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