Research Support – Page 37

Hindawi Limited partners with The Charlesworth Group to collaborate with academic researchers in China

Asia Pacific, Publishers, Research SupportMay 29, 2019

(28 May 2019) Hindawi is working with The Charlesworth Group to provide the academic community in China with researcher resources and information. Hindawi Limited is pleased to announce a new collaboration with The Charlesworth Group, the leading China industry specialist in rights representation, consultancy and marketing services to the global academic publishing community. Hindawi is committed to…

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Ruth’s Rankings News Flash! 2019-03: CWTS Leiden 2019 Adds New Metrics for Open Access and Gender

Research SupportMay 25, 2019

What Asia/Pac university has the highest proportion of publications in the top ten percent? How many Chinese universities are in the top 25 in publications? In what category does Hong Kong Poly rank second in the world? What Southeast Asian university ranks first in the number of female authors in the field of Biomedical and…

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First international blockchain for science: bloxberg

Research Support, TechnologyMay 21, 2019

(9 May 2019) Securing scientific information online and worldwide with no risk of manipulation: what almost sounds like magic is now possible – thanks to the latest technologies and logical organization with the help of the decentralized blockchain infrastructure “bloxberg”. The bloxberg consortium was initiated at the beginning of 2019 under the leadership of the…

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Ruth’s Rankings News Flash! 2019-2: Updates of THE Asia, U21 National University Systems and the new THE Asia Awards

Asia Pacific, Research SupportMay 9, 2019

What is the best university in Asia? Tsinghua or National University of Singapore? For what did Kirkuk University (Iraq) win an award? How many Asian national university systems are in the top 10 world systems? TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION THE Asia University Rankings (5 May 2019) Readers of News Flash 2019-1 will not be surprised by…

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Building a globalised research system – the case of Bangladesh

Research SupportMay 3, 2019

(1 May 2019) The internet has had a double impact on scholarly communication in the global south, making it easier for these countries to access research and also making research published in these countries more accessible. In this post Dr Haseeb Irfanullah discusses how Bangladesh has adapted to this new scholarly communication system and highlights…

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Measuring University Impact – A Rankings Innovation

Research SupportApril 30, 2019

(16 Apr 2019) The University Impact Rankings 2019 published by Times Higher Education is a novel initiative that has captured global attention because it aims to measure the extent to which universities are working towards fulfilling the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs. This ranking is the first launch product Times Higher Education, or THE, has under the…

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COAR Repository Toolkit

Research SupportApril 29, 2019

(26 Apr 2019) The COAR Repository Toolkit is now updated with new resources. Visit the Toolkit to access the best practices and educational resources including websites, guides, videos, infographics and others. The Repository Toolkit was launched in the fall of 2018. The aim is to provide repository managers with best practices and educational resources to support…

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The “impact” of the Journal Impact Factor in the review, tenure, and promotion process

Research SupportApril 29, 2019

(26 Apr 2019) The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) – a measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published in a journal – has been widely critiqued as a measure of individual academic performance. However, it is unclear whether these criticisms and high profile declarations, such as DORA, have led to significant cultural…

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ARL White Paper on Wikidata highlights use of open knowledge in scholarly communication, special collections

Research SupportApril 23, 2019

(18 Apr 2019) In a new Association of Research Libraries (ARL) white paper, a task force of expert Wikidata users recommend a variety of ways for librarians to use the open knowledge base in advancing global discovery of their collections, faculty, and institutions. Librarians are using Wikidata’s structured data about people, topics, concepts, and objects to populate…

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