(4 November 2014) The growing contribution to science of Chinese institutions such as Chinese Academy of Sciences is one striking pattern revealed in the Nature Index, launched today. High quality science outputs of 20,000 institutions worldwide can now be easily analysed with the new Nature Index. A freely accessible website is available at natureindex.com and…
(16 May 2014) The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) will promote open access to scientific articles generated from publicly funded research, the academy announced in Beijing. In a statement, CAS said it will require its researchers and graduate students to deposit final, peer-reviewed manuscripts of research articles into the open access repositories of their respective…
(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…
(28 August 2014, Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) Brill, an international scholarly publisher, signs a collaboration agreement with Fudan University Press in China to publish a unique set of data on contemporary Chinese social life. The detailed announcement is here.
(15 August 2015) Legal deposit schemes, which require publishers to submit copies of books and journals to a national library, is considered a vital part in preserving a country’s cultural heritage. While national approaches to legal deposit developed over centuries, the digital age has meant that countries suddenly need to adapt legal deposit schemes so that they work…
(3 August 2014, Columbus, Ohio) Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the world’s authority for chemical information, has proudly announced today the addition of dedicated ACS International, Ltd. (ACSI) representatives, located in the new Beijing office, to serve the needs of customers in China. The newly added staff…
(15 June 2014) Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macau signed a tripartite cultural cooperation plan for 2014-18 at the 15th Greater Pearl River Delta Cultural Co-operation Meeting in Guangzhou today. The three jurisdictions agreed to further strengthen co-operation on public libraries, intangible cultural heritage, and connections between public cultural service mechanisms. Read the story here.
(26 May 2014, Shanghai /PRNewswire/) Oxford University Press representative Paul Riley visited Chinese online school Hujiang on May 15th, 2014 to sign an MOU, the first step in a series of strategic collaborations between the two groups. The MOU allows Hujiang to teach a series of OUP’s digitalized products, and aims to explore the opportunities…
(7 May 2014) This presentation on Library 2.0 explores the challenges and opportunities of the new app WeChat to support students’ research and reference services in a global network university. WeChat is a mobile text and voice messaging communication service developed in China. It was released in 2011 and currently has over 355 million users.…
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