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Singapore Update On Open Access, Pin Pin Yeo

Research Collection Library

An overview of the landscape in Singapore for open access is provided for the last 12 years. It covers the developments in institutional repositories, open access policies and mandates in the universities and also developments in the research funding side in Singapore. A start has been made to collect research data in Singapore and there is a research data policy from NTU in 2016. Some future developments are also outlined.

Coll-App-Orating With Students: Ibeacons And Ar And Gamification, Oh My!, Jiaxin Low

Research Collection Library

Freshmen at Singapore Management University are required to attend library orientation in person before their first term. Traditional workshops were replaced in 2012 by LibQuest, a problem-based activity which received positive feedback from students.

However, due to increasing sizes of each freshmen cohort, we started considering alternatives which were more scalable and sustainable.

In 2015, we collaborated with a student team from the School of Information Systems on a Proof of Concept: a mobile app that allows on-demand library orientation.

In the app, users are tasked to capture “monsters” scattered throughout the library. The app alerts users if there are …