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Alibaba Group and China’s International Publishers Copyright Protection Coalition strengthen cooperation to combat online infringement

Asia Pacific, CopyrightJune 25, 2015

(24 June 2015) Alibaba Group and The International Publishers Copyright Protection Coalition in China (IPCC) today announced they have strengthened their collaboration through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The MoU broadens the scope of an earlier agreement signed in August 2011. Under the new MoU, the parties will cooperate to combat copyright…

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2015 Asia Pacific Meeting of ISMPP , 30 August 2015, Beijing, China; 2 September 2015, Tokyo, Japan

Asia Pacific, Event, PublishersJune 23, 2015

(18 June 2015) The ISMPP (International Society for Medical Publication Professionals) inaugural meetings in the Asia Pacific region are approaching. Registration is now open for both (1-day) meetings in Beijing, China, on Sunday, August 30, 2015, at the Sofitel Wanda Hotel, and in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, September 2, 2015, at the Hilton Tokyo. The…

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The library on a Chinese beach

Asia Pacific, LibrariesMay 20, 2015

(18 May 2015) A Chinese architect has created what must be one of the world’s quietest reading spaces, on a beach outside the city of Qinhuangdao. Designing Libraries has the story.

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Chinese comic books at the British Library

Asia PacificMay 11, 2015

(7 May 2015) Propaganda and ideology in everyday life: Chinese comic books The Chinese collection at the British Library includes an interesting series of around 100 comic books published during the 1960s in the People’s Republic of China. They are an excellent historical and linguistic resource and represent an extraordinary example of how official sources…

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India overtakes China in outbound student growth

Asia Pacific, UncategorizedMay 11, 2015

(7 May 2015) The growth rate in the number of students from India heading to universities abroad has outpaced China for the first time, according to a new report on Indian student mobility trends to the main English-speaking countries – the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. These five destination countries account for nearly…

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Chinese national licence for the Karger Journal Archive Collection

Asia Pacific, PublishersApril 30, 2015

(28 April 2015) The China National Science and Technology Library (NSTL) has approved the purchase and hosting of the Karger Journal Archive Collection. It comprises journal issues from 1893 to 1997. The licence covers nationwide access for academic and noncommercial organizations in mainland China. It is the first national agreement in this part of the…

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E-books overtake paper in China

eBooksApril 21, 2015

(20 April 2015, Beijing) Xinhua reports that digital media have overtaken books as the most read media in China, according to a national survey released on Monday. About 58.1 percent of Chinese adults read digitally in 2014, up 8 percent, while 58 percent read books, only 0.2 percent up, said an annual survey on reading…

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China must restructure its academic incentives to curb research fraud

Asia Pacific, PublishersApril 8, 2015

(7 April 2015) “The idealised view of science as the curiosity-driven pursuit of knowledge to understand and improve the world around us has been tarnished,” write Scott Edmunds and Rob Davidson. “Recent news tells of systematic fraud and mass retraction of research papers from the Chinese academic system, and allegations of attempts to game the…

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Propaganda and ideology in everyday life: Chinese collection posters at the BL

Asia Pacific, Digitization, LibrariesApril 7, 2015

(7 April 2015) The Chinese collection at the British Library includes an interesting series of around 40 posters produced in the 1970s and 1980s in the People’s Republic of China which represent an extraordinary example of popular visual material created by official sources to promote a sense of shared history and national identity. The Chinese…

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2015 Digital Library Promotion Project propagandists training course is held in Wuhan

Asia Pacific, LibrariesApril 3, 2015

The NLC holds 2015 Working Conference on Party Style and Clean and Honest Administration Construction (2 April 2015) From 25 March to 26 March, 2015 Digital Library Promotion Project propagandists training course, which was sponsored by the National Library of China (NLC), organized by Wuhan Cultural Affairs Bureau, and co-organized by Wuhan Library, was held…

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