« Digital object identifiers (DOIs) are widely used across the world but not very much within China. This paper investigates the current usage of DOIs in China. Using an isometric method, we sampled 238 core Chinese academic journals from the Chinese Science and Technical Journal Citation Reports (2015 version, Core Edition),…
« (…) Based on the situation of Chinese Open Science initiatives, this paper also explores current services of Chinese government, organizations and libraries of moving forward to openness by sharing some cases. Moreover, Chinese Academy of Sciences is presented in this paper as an example of one of Chinese academic library…
« Access to information plays a critical role in supporting development. Open access to scientific information is one solution. Up to now, the open access movement has been most successful in the Western hemisphere. The demand for open access is great in the developing world as it can contribute to solving…
« The 4th annual Chinese Institutional Repository Conference took place in Chongqing, China on September 21-22, 2016, with the theme of “Rich functions and extended roles for institutional repositories”. (…)
On the morning September 22, there was a ceremony to celebrate the establishment of the “China Academic…
« Open Access is not a research issue. It’s not a European issue. It’s not a publisher or policy issue. Open Access is a global issue.
Knowledge is a public good, and forms the basis of an environment in which everyone can develop and build inclusively. It…
« Baidu promet pour le 30 septembre une version de sa plateforme de deep learning PaddlePaddle sous licence Apache qui serait plus facile à aborder que d’autres outils d’apprentissage machine. En se tournant vers l’open source, à l’instar de Google, Microsoft ou Facebook, le spécialiste chinois des technologies de…
« La BnF et la Bibliothèque nationale de Chine souhaitent « donner accès à un patrimoine commun issu de leurs collections » à travers la création d’un portail bilingue numérique. Véritables « trésors d’un patrimoine partagé », les contenus numérisés « retraceront une histoire des relations établies entre la France et la Chine et…
« China’s blazing economic growth has cooled in recent years, but the nation’s scientific ambitions show no signs of fading. In 2000, China spent about as much on research and development (R&D) as France; now it invests more in this area than the European Union does, when adjusted for…
« China’s first ‘Fair Use Week’ took place in Beijing City on 19-20 May 2016 with the theme ‘Copyright issues in information services’. The event was co-organized by the Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (LCAS), EIFL’s partner, and is one of four library-organized events in China in…