(14 Apr 2021) On the last day of 2020, the Chinese Academy of Sciences issued the first Early Warning List of International Journals. While it includes just 65 journals, the list disproportionately targets journals that are fully open access (OA) and attract a high volume of Chinese content in absolute or relative terms, notably IEEE Access, several…
(3 Apr 2021) Growing numbers of Chinese universities are dropping the requirement for PhD students to publish papers in journals in order to graduate. It has already been dropped from graduation requirements at the country’s pre-eminent institutions, Tsinghua and Peking universities, as well as the Chinese Academy of Sciences. And now there is pressure for…
A government-backed ethics board found duplicate images and other visual discrepancies in papers by three of the five researchers it investigated, but no evidence of plagiarism. (22 Jan 2021) Following a long investigation, five high-profile Chinese scientists have been cleared of allegations of plagiarism and academic fraud, a scientific integrity board under the central…
(20 Jan 2021) China is ramping up its crackdown on academic misconduct with plans for plagiarism spot checks on undergraduate dissertations, warning universities that they face losing funding or having their right to enrol students suspended if they consistently perform poorly. The Ministry of Education said that provincial education authorities will sample at least 2 per…
(2 Jan 2021) A new smart library has opened to the public in the city of Guiyang, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, bringing an upgraded reading experience to local residents. Covering an area of around 56,000 square meters, the seven-story library is part of the Guizhou Provincial Library project that started construction in November 2018. Various…
Taiwan’s government plans to amend legislation to make it clear that companies must apply for approval before publishing books associated with the Chinese Communist Party and People’s Liberation Army. (28 Dec 2020) Taiwan’s government plans to regulate China’s state-affiliated publications by requiring local publishers to seek approval if they wish to bring these publications…
(18 Dec 2020) Kuke Music Holding, which provides classical music licensing, subscription, and education services in China, filed on Friday with the SEC to raise up to $50 million in an initial public offering. Powered by a diverse library of content offerings, Kuke was the largest classical music licensing service provider and the second…
(20 Oct 2020) For a book lover, stepping into a bookstore is always exciting, but a new bookstore in China makes the experience absolutely spellbinding. Dujiangyan Zhongshuge, located in Chengdu, was designed by Shanghai-based architecture firm X+Living, which has created several locations for Zhongshuge. The two-story space appears cathedral-like, thanks to the mirrored ceilings and…
(5 Nov 2020) A rare 17th-century French book on Confucius, which was given as a national gift to President Xi Jinping by French President Emmanuel Macron last year, was officially handed over to the National Library of China in Beijing on Wednesday. Confucius ou la Science des Princes (Confucius, or the Science of the Princes),…
(6 Nov 2020) An online forum between Chinese and British libraries was held on Oct 27. Representatives from 11 libraries in China, including the National Library, Shanghai Library and Wuhan Library, attended the meeting. Their counterparts from the UK are the British Library, Living Knowledge Network and a dozen public libraries. The theme centered…