Publishing News
From Nature:Fake research papers flagged by analysing authorship trendsA new approach to detecting fraudulent paper-mill studies focuses on patterns of co-authors rather than manuscript text.
New Database
We were able to use some endowment funds to subscribe to the Leuven Database of Ancient Books, which collects information on all literary texts in all ancient languages. Cuneiform is not yet covered, nor are the Egyptian Books of the Dead. Please consider adding this database to your libguide where appropriate.
Changes to how we acquire university press content
As you may be aware, one of the primary methods by which CSU acquires ebooks from university presses is with a demand-driven acquisition (DDA) program with JSTOR. This DDA program functions by allowing us to load into our our catalogue the records for the full frontlists of selected publishers, as […]
Publishing News
From The Guardian:‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point“Tens of thousands of bogus research papers are being published in journals in an international scandal that is worsening every year, scientists have warned. Medical research is being compromised, drug development hindered and promising academic […]
Database Name Changes
From Adam Matthew: “AM has updated the titles of two published resources. American Indian Histories and Cultures is now Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America and American Indian Newspapers is now Indigenous Newspapers in North America. The change is a result of an ongoing review examining diversity and representation in relation to our resources. AM is […]