(11 September 2014) An IT security company in the United States has found that Chinese online retailers are selling email addresses from top universities around the world, providing buyers with access to university libraries, journal subscriptions, student discounts and a host of other benefits including access to software developer programmes. “Recently we found email accounts…
(11 September 2014, Shanghai) Elsevier and the Shanghai Education Evaluation Institute (SEEI) announced today the launch of the Elsevier-SEEI Center of Academic Research Evaluation (CARE) during an opening ceremony held in Xuhui, Shanghai, within the Centre for Higher Education Development and Assessment. The primary goal of Elsevier-SEEI CARE is to routinely analyze academic performance and…
(3 September 2014) In 2013 the Ian McLean Wards Memorial Trust established an annual scholarship to assist researchers and practitioners in the librarianship, archives and records management fields to undertake research for a specific project advancing knowledge or improving practice relating to the recording, care, or conservation, of historical research materials. The primary purpose of…
(28 August 2014) In response to the outbreak of the ebola virus in West Africa, Oxford University Press has made 50 articles from leading journals and online resources freely accessible to assist researchers working on the containment, treatment, and prevention of ebola hemorrhagic fever. Articles are free to access worldwide until 25 November 2014. More…
(25 August 2014) The National Library of Medicine, NLM, through the Disaster Information Management Research Center, has published a list of resources related to the 2014 ebola outbreak. They include maps, social media, journal literature and organizations with an interest in the topic. The list is here.
(18 August 2014, Philadephia, PA) – The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world leader in intelligent information for businesses and professionals, released a comprehensive disease profile on ebola virus disease that includes a detailed analysis of two new treatments in the pipeline and two experimental candidates approaching development. The Thomson Reuters…
(18 August 2014) Nature has released the results of a survey of over 3,500 researchers on their use of social networks for collaboration. The results are broken down by research area, and explore the frequency and depth of use by researchers. The full, open access article is available online. The announcement is here.
(12 August 2014) Given the current widespread and lethal outbreak of the Ebola virus, AAAS’ journals Science and Science Translational Medicine offer a freely available collection of research and news articles on the viral disease to researchers and the general public. The special collection is here.
(4 August 2014, Singapore) The National Library Board (NLB) will keep separate the team that selects books for acquisition, and the team that reviews the books, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim said in Parliament recently as reported by The Straits Times. Dr. Yaacob was speaking in the aftermath of the National Library Board’s banning of three children’s…
(29 July 2014) A year ago today, the bipartisan IT Pricing Inquiry concluded that Australians do pay more for their music, movies and IT products. This ‘Australia tax’ they concluded, was not explained by additional staffing costs or warranty obligations, but primarily by deliberate market segmentation, enforced with geoblocks on digital content. And Australians are…
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