(9 Feb 2021) From July to November 2020 the Library of Southeast Asian Studies at the University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg in Frankfurt was able to complete the cataloguing of its collection of Javanese, Sundanese and Madurese books in Javanese script. Several titles of this collection were previously included in the online catalogue during…
(5 Jan 2021) A small portion of scientific papers are retracted for research that is in error or fraudulent. But those papers can continue to be cited by other scientists in their work, potentially passing along the misinformation from the retracted articles. Jodi Schneider, a professor of information sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who studies…
(15 Dec 2020) The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that the Z39.4 Criteria for Indexes Working Group has released its draft standard for public comment. It replaces the original ANSI/NISO Z39.4 standard (Guidelines for Indexes and Related Information Retrieval Devices) and is an updated and expanded version of NISO’s Guidelines for Indexes and Related Information Retrieval Devices. …
(28 October 2020) CHORUS and DataCite have signed a two-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to coordinate efforts to adopt identifiers and standards to manage access to and reporting of research outputs. Authoritative connections between researchers and their works, funding sources, and affiliations, are essential for delivering public access to scholarly content. As not-for-profit organizations…
(8 Oct 2020) COAR is very pleased to announce the release of the COAR Community Framework for Best Practices in Repositories. The purpose of the framework is to assist repositories in evaluating and improving their current operations based on a set of applicable and achievable good practices. Currently, there are a number of…
(7 Sept 2020) The bi-monthly release of COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations has been published. In this latest release (dated 6 September 2020), COCI has been extended with more than 11 million additional citations. Now, COCI contains more than 733 million DOI-to-DOI citation links between more than 59.4 million bibliographic entities.…
(31 Jul 2020) As of January 2021, NDL bibliographic data will be available as described below. Bibliographic data in JAPAN/MARC MARC21 format via NDL Search The NDL will end its NDL-Bib service on December 28, 2020. In its place, individual bibliographic data in either MARC format or MARC tags format will be available for download from NDL Search results. Only…
(25 Aug 2020) Japan Search is a national platform for aggregating the metadata of digital resources from various fields and providing an integrated search service, as well as an API, to promote the use of content. As of August 25, Japan Search collects over 21 million metadata. Since 2017, the National Diet Library has been…
(23 Apr 2020) Clarivate Analytics (NYSE:CCC) today announced the addition of open access data to the Journal Citation Reports profile pages to increase transparency around open access models in scholarly publishing. The Journal Citation Reports is an annual journal report from the Web of Science, the world’s largest publisher-independent global citation database. The new data show each journal’s…
(9 Apr 2020) From Crossref: A lot of people have been using our public, open APIs to collect data that might be related to COVID-19. This is great and we encourage it. We also want to make it easier. To that end we have made a free data file of the public elements from Crossref’s…