(27 Sept 2025) The attached article discusses the recent significant reduction in the availability of abstracts for scholarly articles from major publishers like Elsevier and Springer Nature on open academic metadata aggregators such as OpenAlex. Over recent years, AI-powered academic search tools have heavily relied on open abstracts for effective research discovery. However, since…
270,000 dissertations from premier Chinese universities now in PQDT Global™ Database (13 April 2017, Ann Arbor, MI) ProQuest and China Academic Library Information System (CALIS), a consortium of Chinese higher education libraries, have expanded their long-standing collaboration and are now enabling unprecedented, global access to more than 270,000 dissertation abstracts from China’s premier universities. The…
(22 March 2013) The Conference Programme Committee is calling for abstracts for LIANZA 2013 Conference: Wai-Ora, Wai-Māori, Waikato from 20-23 October in Hamilton. The conference theme reflects the association that the Waikato has with its most significant landmark, the river. The conference offer a range of topics for conference presentations including: Managing Library Services Knowledge…