(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…
(11 July 2024) Moderna’s combination vaccine against flu and COVID-19 showed a stronger immune response in a late-stage study compared to existing vaccines. The mRNA-1083 vaccine was tested on around 8,000 adults and showed mostly minor side effects. Moderna plans to present the data and seek FDA approval. Pfizer-BioNTech and Novavax are also studying similar…
(11 July 2024) The CDC recommends everyone aged 6 months and older get the updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine. It’s safe to receive the COVID-19 and flu vaccines simultaneously. The best time for flu vaccination is September and October. Current COVID-19 variants include KP.3 (33.1%), KP.2 (20.8%), and LB.1 (17.5%). Find out more here.
(25 Apr 2023) Chinese innovators have filed the most patents on COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, according to the latest patent landscape report by the World Intellectual Property Organization. Following China was the US. After the top two, there was a big drop to South Korea, Germany and Japan. In total 7,758 patent applications relating to…
(11 Oct 2022) As the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in early 2020, librarians, archivists, and others with interest in preserving cultural heritage began documenting the personal, cultural, and societal impact of the global pandemic on their communities. These efforts included creating archival collections preserving physical, digital, and web-based records and information for use by students, scholars,…
(4 May 2022) A group of scholarly publishers is launching a major new website to explain research about pandemics and infectious diseases to the public, policymakers, media, and other audiences within and beyond academia. COVID and Beyond: Living with Pandemics has been sponsored by Kudos, Impact Science, the American Chemical Society, AIP Publishing, De Gruyter, Hindawi,…
Researchers need to observe ethical standards during a pandemic, say Ben Kasstan Rishita Nandagiri and Siyane Aniley, and journals should hold them to these standards. (8 Mar 2022) The pandemic has changed academic research. It has led to gender gaps in authorship, questions about the quality of scientific publishing, and shifts in peer review processes. As the effects — short and long…
(2 Mar 2022) The National Diet Library has released the report of a research project on the response to COVID-19 by public libraries in Japan, which was conducted during fiscal 2021 in cooperation with the Japan Library Association. In the project, an online questionnaire survey was conducted for all public libraries in Japan, and…
(Jan 2022) From the foreword of the report: “This report provides a window into how library leaders around the world have navigated our present crisis and asks some essential questions about how to begin to reimagine work, collections, and engagement with their respective communities. Some of the choices that library leaders must make were apparent…
(8 Dec 2021) Two years into the pandemic, what impacts have COVID-19 really had on Australian university finances and staffing in 2020 and in 2021? Our recently published research shows the impacts varied greatly across the sector. However, staff cuts appear to have been disproportionate to overall financial losses. About 10% of the university…