(6 May 2025) A law student at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) said students had been “left in the lurch” after an announcement on Monday that said next month’s exams for two law subjects would have to be handwritten. In an announcement from the Dean, Professor Geoff McLay, he said he had become “increasingly worried…
(25 Mar 2025) The National Film & Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) is a little over 40 years old (in its current form) and is located in Canberra, Australia’s capital. However, the need for such an institution was identified 90 years ago and today’s NFSA is the continuation of collecting, conservation, and preservation activities since…
(9 Apr 2025) Open educational resources (OERs)—that is, free-to-use monographs, textbooks, and other educational materials—are having something of a moment in Australia and New Zealand. Through a very high membership (42 participating institutions in 2024), the Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL)’s OER Collective has been a significant driver of interest and participation in institutional publishing of OERs through libraries.…
(22 Apr 2025) Open Science has evolved from a grassroots movement into a central policy agenda, guided by frameworks like the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science and national mandates across Europe and North America. While these frameworks aim for global inclusivity, their implementation often overlooks the complex, everyday realities of research communities across Asia and the Arab world…
(27 Apr 2025) Australian political history is littered with well-known and well-worn slogans. “It’s Time”, the catch-cry of Gough Whitlam’s campaign in 1972, is a notable moment in time. The phrase, like many election slogans, appeared on T-shirts among other merchandise. And paraphernalia like this from elections gone by might seem like rubbish, tossed…
(15 Apr 2025) The organization responsible for allocating basic research funding in China has issued misconduct findings against 26 researchers for violations ranging from breach of confidentiality to image manipulation, plagiarism, and buying and selling authorship. The National Natural Science Foundation of China, or NSFC, released the results of 15 misconduct investigations on April 11. Several of…
(6 Apr 2025) A Wellington Library is trialling a new way of cataloguing its mātauranga Māori books, organising them by atua (deity) rather than by the Dewey Decimal system. Bridget Jennings is the Senior Cataloguing Specialist at Wellington City Libraries, she said they wanted to create a structure for the library’s collections based on how…
(24 Mar 2025) Tanaka Ryonosuke of the Acquisitions and Bibliography Department, National Diet Library, introduces the transition of the Japanese National Bibliography from paper-based formats to digital data, now known as the Japanese National Bibliographic Data in this article. It began with “Nohon Geppo” in 1948 and evolved to digital formats with JAPAN/MARC in…
(2 Apr 2025) Several months ago, HSEO colleagues contacted the University Archives for help ensuring that important information about HKUST’s response to and handling of the recent pandemic doesn’t just vanish into the digital ether. We’re excited to share highlights from our recent project to archive HKUST’s COVID-19 resources. It has been a complex digital…
(25 Mar 2025) Open Source Software (OSS) “plays a critical role in the global technology ecosystem. It fosters collaboration, transparency, and innovation, providing a foundation for modern computing and research.” This paper presents the results of a birds-of-a-feather workshop held at the 2025 eResearch NZ / eRangahau Aotearoa conference in February. Find out more here.