(13 Dec 2023) In December 2020, the Chinese Academy of Sciences released the first version of its journal Early Warning List. Three years on, Prof. Dr. Liying Yang, Director of the Scientometrics and Research Assessment Unit at the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, who manages the Early Warning List, will host a research…
(3 Dec 2023) A newly established database represents China’s latest step towards open access publishing, but major obstacles remain if the country is to revolutionise its model of scholarly communication, experts said. The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) recently launched PubScholar, an academic database that offers free access to about 170 million science resources, including over 87 million articles, more than 1 million…
(15 Nov 2023) Interactions and collaborations between the Chinese research community and international scholarly publishers are as numerous and wide-ranging as at any point in past 20 years, during which China has become the world’s top producer of research papers. Yet in some ways the perception gap between these two groups is widening. Some of our…
(1 Sep 2023) Students and academics who use artificial intelligence tools to ‘ghostwrite’ essays or dissertations risk having their degrees revoked according to a new draft Degree Law to tackle misconduct, including plagiarism that is currently before China’s National People’s Congress (NPC). The draft law, submitted to the Standing Committee of the NPC this week,…
(26 Jul 2023) Step inside the National Library of China and peruse over fifty restored ancient books, carefully selected from a collection of 16,000 Dunhuang manuscripts. Discovered in the Mogao Caves over a century ago, these documents dating back from the 4th to 11th centuries offer an insight into the history and culture of the dynasties…
(26 May 2023) ALPSP, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, has announced a new training course: ‘The Very Latest in Open Access in China and Around the Globe’, aimed at scholarly publishers in China. The session will be held on 6 July from 19:00-21:00 (Beijing time) and focus on the latest in open science, open…
(11 May 2023) The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSLCAS), in collaboration with the Swiss Embassy in China, SwissNex, and leading science publisher Frontiers, recently organized a joint workshop on Research Integrity. The event, held in Beijing, aimed to foster discussions on upholding the quality and integrity of scientific research. Switzerland…
(29 Mar 2023) Chinese researchers are increasingly leading scientific research, yet their contributions are not fully recognized, notably by US researchers. Shumin Qiu, Claudia Steinwender and Pierre Azoulay discuss the reasons why articles written by Chinese academics receive significantly fewer citations from US researchers than those written by non-Chinese researchers. LSE blog has the full story here.
(30 Mar 2023) On 16 March librarians and academics at universities and research institutions in several countries received notices that some access to China’s largest database of academic papers would be ‘temporarily’ curtailed from 1 April. The notifications arrived without clarifying how long this would be. These notifications, in particular, affected four databases of the…
(21 Mar 2023) In this issue of IFLA Asia and Oceania Regional Quarterly News: NLB’s Historical Asian Children’s Literature Collection Recognised By UNESCO As Documentary Heritage Of Influence Director of Capital Library of China: an introduction IFLA Asia-Oceania Regional Division Committee in-person business meeting in Bangkok Pacific Virtual Museum Project: digitalpasifik.org IFLA-ILA South Asian…