(19 October 2015) A new Open Research at ANU website launched today, coinciding with International Open Access Week, delivering a comprehensive guide to the benefits and policy requirements of open access publishing for researchers and academics at The Australian National University. The new website has been designed to: Enable the world to access the great research…
19 October 2015) In A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access written for this week Peter Suber identifies open access literature as “digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions“. The definitions of open access provided by the founding meetings for open access to scholarly research were deep and broad.…
(13 October 2015, London, Heidelberg) Universitas Gadjah Madah Press and Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia are both set to announce co-publishing agreements with Springer Nature at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2015. Springer Nature will publish the English-language editions of a selection of titles from each publisher’s list. Covering traditional culture, ethnography, Islamic law, modern conflicts, the…
(14 October 2015) The School of Chinese Medicine (SCM) of Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) launched Hong Kong’s first-ever Phytochemical Images Database this year, increasing the number of databases under the Chinese Medicine Digital Project to four. The other three are: Chinese Medicine Specimen Database , Medicinal Plant Images Database and Chinese Medicinal Material Images…
(13 October 2015) Singapore’s Business Times reports that partnerships have been signed between China and Singapore to further develop the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City. Among them is the development of the eco-city’s main library with the assistance of Cybrarian Ventures Pte Ltd. a subsidiary of the National Library Board. The story is here.
(13 October 2015) The Oberlin College Library invites applications for the position of East Asian Studies Librarian. Under the supervision of the Collection Development Librarian, the incumbent is responsible for: 1) selection, acquisition, and bibliographic control of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language collections; 2) liaison and instruction activities with faculty and students in East Asian…
(11 October 2015) Softlink is inviting teacher librarians and library staff across Australia and New Zealand to participate in the 2015 Australian and New Zealand School Library Survey. The 2015 School Library Survey represents the sixth year of the survey for Australian schools and the first for New Zealand schools. Softlink’s Managing Director, Nathan Godfrey, said…
(October 2015) As humanities scholars are paying more and more attention to the utilization of technologies in their research, the field of digital humanities has started to build momentum as an emerging area of research. As a result, librarians must also evaluate the role of academic libraries in supporting digital humanities, addressing questions such…
(October 2015) OPAC is the main way for users to access information resources and services of the library, so it’s very important for libraries to improve their OPAC. The article by Wang Fengxuan and Zheng Lin of School of Government, Beijing Normal University, analyzed the development status of the 985 project-universities’ libraries’ OPACs from 7…
11 October 2015) TorrentFreak reporting on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has revealed that Wikileaks has published a leaked copy of the intellectual property chapter, which has yet to be officially revealed. The final version removes the uncertainties that were present in previous drafts and raises serious concerns among many copyright experts and activists. If the…
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