ONE UPH Library together with the International Relations Study Program held an educational class for new students of the academic year 2025/2026. The session delivered by Meri Puspita Sembiring and Nicholas Sio Pradiva as the Reference & Instructional Staff of The Johannes Oentoro Library gave a brief introduction to plagiarism, one of the issues and elements of academic integrity violation along with tips and tricks to avoid it. 

New students were also introduced to Mendeley Reference Manager which is intended as a supporting tool in the academic process, especially to give credit to the authors of cited scientific works as well as to avoid the possibility of committing violations of academic integrity, plagiarism. 

This activity is a form of ONE UPH Library's commitment in disseminating accurate, valid, and reliable (AVR) knowledge information as well as showing the library's commitment in combating academic integrity violations that are rampant. 

On Monday, 29 September 2025, ONE UPH Library welcomed the accreditation assessment team, Prof. Dr. Seger Handoyo, Psychologist, and Dr. Lena N. Pandjaitan, M.Ed., Psychologist, as part of the accreditation visit for the Psychology Study Program at The Johannes Oentoro Library.  

The assessors reviewed the collections and learning support facilities, while The Johannes Oentoro Library reaffirmed its commitment to support academic activities through its collection resources and various services provided. 

On Friday, September 19, 2025, ONE UPH Library and HRD Learning and Development held Workshop entitled “Mapping Research Subjects Using VOSviewer: Finding the Research Gap and Novelty.”  

Led by Dr. Dhama Gustiar Baskoro, S.S., M.Pd, the session aimed to raise awareness on the importance of subject mapping in finding research novelty and to introduce VOSviewer as a supporting tool. See you at our next events! 

On Thursday, September 18, 2025, ONE UPH Library, in collaboration with Elsevier ScienceDirect, held a webinar entitled “Avoiding Predatory Journal” as a part of Elsevier’s Capacity Building Training Series.   

In this session, delivered by Dr. Johan Jang, introduced predatory journals as a form of misconduct within the academic community. These journals are not built on the spirit of advancing knowledge but rather on maximizing profit. They often attract students and inexperienced researchers due to the ease and speed of their publication process. However, submitting articles to predatory journals can lead to serious consequences, not only for the individual author but also for their institution, country, and the academic discipline with which they are affiliated. 

In response, Dr. Johan shared some useful tips to avoid predatory journals, such as: (1) Check the listed editor’s name and ensure they have a relevant background in the journal’s subject area; and (2) Verify the publisher and confirm that it is genuinely affiliated with the journal. 

Dr. Johan emphasized that Elsevier ScienceDirect is committed to maintaining a healthy academic ecosystem by addressing predatory journals. Users are encouraged to support this effort by reporting suspected predatory journals through the official contact available on the website. 

Welcoming the accreditation assessment team on Thursday, August 28, 2025, ONE UPH Library hosted the visit for the Communication Study Program at The Johannes Oentoro Library. 

The assessors reviewed the collections and learning support facilities, while The Johannes Oentoro Library reaffirmed its commitment to supporting academic activities through its diverse resources and services. 

On Wednesday, August 20, 2025, the ONE UPH Library, in collaboration with Elsevier ScienceDirect, held a webinar entitled “Writing High-Quality Research Articles for Scopus Journals” as a part of Elsevier’s Capacity Building Training Series.  

The session, led by Dr. Johan Jang, began with a brief introduction to Elsevier’s history and its ongoing commitment to supporting the academic community through access to high-quality scientific content and various capacity-building initiatives. 

 During the session, Dr. Johan highlighted several key requirements for authors seeking to publish their articles in Scopus-indexed journals: 

1. Originality – Strong emphasis is placed on ensuring that submitted articles provide original contributions or new insights to the academic community. 

2. Clear Research Gap – Authors must clearly identify and articulate the research gap addressed, whether related to theoretical, methodological, or empirical dimensions. 

3. Coherent Results and Discussion – The findings and discussion sections must address the research questions posed at the beginning of the article, provide meaningful comparisons with existing literature, and clearly demonstrate the uniqueness of the study or the position of the argument (e.g., supporting or challenging previous findings). Unique findings must also be explained in detail. 

4. Coherent Results and Discussion – The findings and discussion section should answer the research questions presented at the beginning of the article, provide meaningful comparisons with existing literature, and clearly demonstrate the uniqueness of the study or the position of the argument (e.g., supporting or challenging previous findings). Unique findings should also be explained in detail. 

5. Credible References – The importance of using high-quality and credible references is emphasized. Dr. Johan emphasizes that the quality of references 

As we near the end of the webinar, Dr. Johan also advised participants to avoid submitting manuscripts to journals offering “fast-track” publication options—often a hallmark of predatory journals. He also emphasized Scopus and Elsevier’s commitment to maintaining strict ethical standards and rigorous selection criteria in the indexing of journals. 

Date: 7 August 2025

Venue: UPH Lippo Village, D-501

Hours: 08.00 - 09.30 am

Description: ONE UPH Library contributed to the “New Students Orientation 2025” session welcoming new students from the Faculty of Teachers College by providing training aimed at enriching their scientific writing skills. The session was led by Bapak Dhama Gustiar Baskoro, Manager of ONE UPH Library and UPH Press, and aimed to equip and introduce new students to the fundamental principles of scientific writing (including plagiarism), such as Accuracy, Validity, and Reliability (AVR). 

During the session -which was attended by around 341 new students of Teacher College Faculty-, Bapak Dhama also reminded future students that ONE UPH Library, has subscribed and provides access to various high-quality databases on a national and international scale to support students' academic activities and interests in the future that can be accessed through the website, library.uph.edu. In addition to promoting the databases provided by the library, Bapak Dhama also mentioned that high-quality articles can also be obtained from various external sources that are widely available, but it is important to ensure the quality of the articles, for example by using the Sinta and Garuda portals. 

The statements and teachings shared by Bapak Dhama in this event imply the library's support and role in facilitating the academic process through education and the provision of further information for the UPH academic community.

Date: 6 - 8 August 2025 until Further Information 

Venue: ONE UPH Library

Description: 

Due to the stock opname (inventory), we would like to share the following information regarding changes on services of ONE UPH Library as follows:  

1. ONE UPH Library will be closed from August 6-8, 2025 and during this period, circulation services (borrowing and returning services) will be unavailable. 

2. Starting from Monday, August 11, 2025, operational hours at ONE UPH Library will be temporarily adjusted as shown in the attached image. 

The library's digital collections remain accessible via: library.uph.edu.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Thank you for your understanding and continued support. 

Best regards,  

One UPH Library 

Date: 24-25 July 2025 

Venue : STT Sangkakala, Salatiga 

Description: 

The Indonesian Christian College Library Communication Forum (FKPPTKI) organized a lokakarya (seminar-workshop) with the theme "The Golden Compass: Finding Leadership Direction in the Vortex of Change" on July 24-25, 2025 held at STT Sangkakala, Salatiga. This activity aims to equip libraries and librarians to face today's reality, which is described by the term VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity), and is introduced to participants during a series of activities in the form of seminars and outbound games. 

Dr. Linda Ariany Mahastanti, SE., M.Sc., opened the workshop session with a brief introduction to the concept of VUCA as an introduction to each outdoor game session held and led by Dr. Dhama Gustiar Baskoro, S.S., M.Pd. This activity is also expected to develop new skills in participants as a response to the VUCA phenomenon, such as decision-making skills, emotional resilience, strategies related to prediction and planning, agility, adaptation, learning orientation, mindset change, clarity, collaboration, and networking. 

At the end of each day, a reflection session was held on the various activities participated in by the participants, along with an exploration of relevant biblical values to equip librarians with God's truth in both their personal and professional lives. 

Date: 18 July 2025

Venue: Zoom Online 

Speaker: Dr. Johan Jang
 

ScienceDirect and ONE UPH Library held an intitial training session as well as an introduction to the latest databases subscribed by the Library. The training session focused mainly on introducing the workarea and the various interesting tools and functions available in the database such as:

1. Filtering and advanced search features that help to improve the focus of article discovery according to the input data included.

2. Integration with Mendeley Reference Manager that helps in the process of inputting articles to this related reference application and simplifies the citation process

3. Anti-hacking feature that minimizes the potential for massive downloads using robots or systems.

4. Comparison of available journals to support the consideration process in selecting journals for article publication.

5. Informationabouttheprocessofpublishingarticlestojournalsavailableinthe ScienceDirect database which also contains information such as the length of waiting time until sending further information to the time span between the article submission process and the publication of articles in related journals.

At the end of the session, Pak Johan Jang expressed ScienceDirect's desire to be able to facilitate the academic needs of the UPH academic community, a similar vision is also shared by ONE UPH Library in educating and providing the latest information that can be used to support the ever-evolving academic needs.