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Limit of consecutive words during plagiarism check
by vinod mishra 18 Nov '19

18 Nov '19

Dear all Which is the software to detect consecutive words during plagiarism/similarity check? UGC has mentioned less than 14 consecutive words may be excluded. Thanking you -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Limit of consecutive words during plagiarism check
by vinod mishra 18 Nov '19

18 Nov '19

Thanks, Mr. Tapan I guess you are talking about below option "Exclude sources that are less than" ......... (words) .......... (%) Don't exclude by size Can you please clarify where Turnitin has written consecutive words? I guess its not consecutive words but the total count of words matched in any similar documents. Say if you put 14 words as per UGC rule of consecutive words then actually it will exclude all the matching documents bearing less than 14 similar words. With Regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL), NIT Rourkela, Sundergadh-769008, Odisha, India. Mob:91+9439420860 ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4666-7874 *"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul" -- Mahatma Gandhi* On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 10:44 AM Tapan Kumar Mandal <tkmisi07(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Ithenticate. > Tapan Kumar Mandal > Lib., Doc, & Information Science Division > Indian Statistical Institute > 203 B T Road, > Kolkata-700108 > Dial: 03325752106 (O), 9433379997(R) > > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 9:26 PM vinod mishra <mishravk79(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear all >> >> Which is the software to detect consecutive words during >> plagiarism/similarity check? UGC has mentioned less than 14 consecutive >> words may be excluded. >> >> Thanking you >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >> believed to be clean. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LIS-Forum mailing list >> LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >> http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >> >

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Why Kerala MLA VK Prasanth is asking people to give him books instead of flowers
by Raghavendra pawar 18 Nov '19

18 Nov '19

Admirable work done by Kerala politician. If this kind of oath taken by all the politicians across nation would certainly helps their respective constituency government schools to get good libraries with sound collection. Which will also helps in contributing book buying and reading culture indirectly. Rarely our politicians doing note worthy work,we must appreciate for that. Why Kerala MLA VK Prasanth is asking people to give him books instead of flowers <https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/why-kerala-mla-vk-prasanth-asking-peo…> Thank you, Raghavendra R

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Dr. M.S. Sridhar's latest research article
by Francis Jayakanth 16 Nov '19

16 Nov '19

Dear Members, Just wanted to bring to your attention one of Dr. Sridhar's (Head (Retd.), Library & Documentation Centre, ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore) latest research articles, Future Libraries: Romance of LIS with Futurology, published in SRELS Journal of Information Management, Vol 56(5), October 2019, p.240-245. Here is the abstract of the article: The paper examines the past ‘romance’ of LIS with futurology, traces the flaws of disintermediation threat and the resultant repositioning options of LIS, stressing the need for imagination coupled with reason to turn experience into foresight; identifies the importance of physical space, content, and ambience of libraries to move from ‘Transactional library’ to ‘Relational library’ and from a ‘Center of information’ to a ‘Center of culture’, enumerates a number of non-ICT innovations that have already taken place in libraries, mentions technologies that can be considered for their appropriateness and adoption to enhance value of services. In conclusion, highlights how libraries are marginalized in the digital era by putting ‘access’ before ‘selection’ (avoiding filtering at the input stage) and giving away control over organization of information to users, how ‘access to excess’ and speed over-ride the validity and the quality of content leading to distracted and dissatisfied users; finally cautions about equating ‘provision for access’ to utility and need for greater understanding of user-behaviour in the digital domain. You may read/download the full article from the ResearchGate site, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337049758_Future_Libraries_Romance… Best regards, Francis Francis Jayakanth JRD Tata Memorial Library IISc, Bengaluru

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Interesting Reads – 2019-11-15
by Mohan Hr 16 Nov '19

16 Nov '19

*Interesting Reads – 2019-11-15 * Read the Current Interesting Reads Post at https://infoforuse.blogspot.com/2019/11/interesting-reads-2019-11-15.html Current IR Quiz at https://infoforuse.blogspot.com/2019/11/ir-quiz-2019-11-15.html Archives of Interesting Reads Posts at https://infoforuse.blogspot.com/2019/01/interesting-reads-archives-2019-201… *Articles* - Global Justice 4.0 - The impacts of digitalisation on the Global South - PhDs: the tortuous truth - Future Libraries: Romance of LIS with Futurology - Space-grade CPUs: How do you send more computing power into space? - The Human Factor 2019 Report - Modern Cyber Attacks - The lines of code that changed everything - How to write a great developer résumé and showcase your software engineering skills - The Shady Cryptocurrency Boom on the Post-Soviet Frontier - What really happens to your body when you’re sleeping? - What I wish I’d known when I started my career: 11 innovators tell us - A Waze for wildfires: How tech is enabling earlier wildfire detection - Space hotels could launch as early as 2021: photos - Help People Create Passwords That They Can Actually Remember - Microsoft is ending support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008: Here's what you need to know - 7th HLF 2019 - Heidelberg Laureate Forum Lectures & Interviews *Events / Announcements* - Webinar: Networking with Wire on 10th Dec 2019 - 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, September 20-25, 2020 at Heidelberg, Germany - Workshop on Gamification on 24th Nov 2019 at IITM Research Park,Chennai - INDICON-2019. 13-15 Dec 2019 at at Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat - CSI-2020: 53rd Annual Convention. 16-18 Jan 2020 at Bhubaneshwar - UDS 2020: 1st International Conference on Urban Data Science. 20-21 Jan 2020 at IIT Madras *IR-Quiz* Participate in the IR Quiz – 2019-11-15 and win Rs. 250/- worth Amazon Gift Voucher from Dynamic Group. Visit https://infoforuse.blogspot.com/2019/11/ir-quiz-2019-11-15.html *Access Links* Read the current Interesting Reads Post at https://infoforuse.blogspot.com/2019/11/interesting-reads-2019-11-15.html Current IR Quiz at https://infoforuse.blogspot.com/2019/11/ir-quiz-2019-11-15.html Archives of Interesting Reads Posts at https://infoforuse.blogspot.com/2019/01/interesting-reads-archives-2019-201… *Feedback* We will be pleased to have your feedback on the “Interesting Reads” posts being sent once in five days. Pl. share the links of any interesting things you come across so that we can include them in these email posts. Also, pl. share the email ids of your colleagues, friends, peers and contacts, if you want them to be included in the google group to get regular posts. Pl. send all your communications to hrmohan.ieee(a)gmail.com With regards HR Mohan

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IATLIS Awards: call for nominations
by Harinder Pal Singh Kalra 16 Nov '19

16 Nov '19

The Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science (IATLIS) invites nominations from LIS teachers /professionals /researchers for the following awards: A. IATLIS – Motiwale Best LIS Teacher Award 2019 B. IATLIS - Prof. S.P. Narang Research Promotion Award 2017 (For Researcher) C. IATLIS - Prof. Jagindar Singh Ramdev Lifetime Achievement Award 2017 A. Eligibility for IATLIS – Motiwale Best LIS Teacher Award The nominee should have at least 10 years of teaching experience at the post-graduate level or 10 years professional experience at a senior level, and should be in service. A person can receive the award only once and one person can nominate only one LIS teacher / professional for each award at a time. B. Eligibility criteria for IATLIS - Prof. S.P. Narang Research Promotion Award to be given every alternate year to an LIS Researcher Nominations only of students registered for Ph.D. in a recognized university would be considered. The nominee should not be a full-time employee. Nominations should be sent on a plain paper along with bio-data, progress report of research work, and research papers (published/accepted for publication), if any. C. Eligibility criteria for IATLIS – Prof. Jagindar Singh Ramdev Lifetime Achievement Award: A very senior/retired LIS teacher/professional/researcher who has made profound contribution to library education, research, training, literature, and practice. Claims must be supported with documentary proof. Award can be given to a deserving person even if not applied. Award won't be given if no one is found suitable. The recipient LIS teacher/researcher will be given a citation and a memento/shawl at the XXXV IATLIS NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2019, hosted by Pondicherry University, Puducherry on 19-20 December 2019. The nominations will be considered by an Awards Committee constituted by the IATLIS Executive Committee. An award will not be given in case majority of the Committee Members feel that no one has been found suitable for that award. Executive Council Members of IATLIS are not eligible to be nominated for these awards. Self-nominations will not be considered. The nominee should be a member of the IATLIS. Nominations in duplicate with all the supporting documents should reach The General Secretary, IATLIS, C/o Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala 147002 (Punjab) on or before 30 November 2019. In addition to two copies of nominations in hard copy form, a soft copy of nominations should also be sent to the General Secretary, IATLIS by email at iatlis.patiala(a)gmail.com. No communication questioning the decision of the Awards Committee / IATLIS Executive Committee will be entertained. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Today] Invitation - National Library Week, 2019 - For 2 talks on Friday, 15 November at JRD Tata Memorial Library, IISc
by Francis Jayakanth 15 Nov '19

15 Nov '19

Dear Members, As part of the National Library Week, 14-20 November, J.R.D. Tata Memorial Library, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru and Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) take immense pleasure in inviting you to join us for 2 interesting talks on 2 different contemporary topics by 2 eminent speakers. The program schedule for today, Friday, 15 November 2019 is as below: High-tea: 4.30 - 4.50 PM Talk No. 1 Speaker: Prof. R S Deshpande, Honorary Visiting Professor, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru. Title: Institutional Data in Social science. Date & Time: Friday, 15 November 2019 @ 5.00 PM Venue: Seminar Hall, JRD Tata Memorial Library, IISc Talk No. 2 Speaker: Dr. M.S. Sridhar, Head (Retd.), Library & Documentation Centre, ISRO Satellite Centre, Bengaluru Title: Future Libraries: Romance of LIS with Futurology Date & Time: Friday, 15 November 2019 @ 6.00 PM Venue: Seminar Hall, JRD Tata Memorial Library, IISc Synopsis of Dr. Sridhar's talk: Talk is focusing on the topical area of ‘Future of Libraries’ including the long history of excessive indulgence of LIS on its future including the implicit doubt about the existence of libraries and librarians in future. Many past predictions were only technology-based and either hyped (fictitious) or strongly negative (or both) like the flaw of ‘disintermediation’ threat, the resultant ‘repositioning options’ of LIS till the latest indulgence in whether robots will replace librarians. Talk stresses the need for imagination coupled with reason to turn experience into foresight, identifies the continued importance of physical space, content, ambience of libraries to move from ‘Transactional library’ to ‘Relational library’ and from a ‘Center of information’ to a ‘Center of culture’. LIS predictions have not only ignored non-ICT innovations, but also focused exclusively on future technologies as if ‘future libraries’ equals ‘future technologies’. Technologies need to be considered as general, short-term and long-term for their relevance, appropriateness and adoption to enhance value of library services. It is strongly believed that libraries are marginalized in digital era. Unfortunately, new era has put the ‘access’ before ‘selection’ (avoiding filtering at the input stage and ignoring the traditional value addition of libraries, namely ‘selection’. ‘Access to excess’ and ‘speed’ of digital era are over-riding the validity and the quality of content, which is leading to distraction and dissatisfaction of users. The era is wrongly equating the ‘provision for access’ to ‘utility’ and lacks better understanding of user-behaviour in digital domain. You may read/download the full article from the ResearchGate site, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337049758_Future_Libraries_Romance… Best regards, Francis Francis Jayakanth JRD Tata Memorial Library IISc, Bengaluru

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Dr R Guruprasad, CSIR-NAL Awarded with Prestigious GESA Fellowship 2019
by Ramachandran Guruprasad 15 Nov '19

15 Nov '19

> > > *Dr. R. Guruprasad, MLIS, M.Sc(IT) and Ph.D. (LIS), Centre for Civil > Aircraft Design and Development, (C-CADD), CSIR-National Aerospace > Laboratories, has been awarded with the prestigious Fellowship of Glocal > Environment and Social Association (GESA), New Delhi. * > > *This national recognition has been bestowed on him for his outstanding > contributions to Aerospace Engineering. Dr. Guruprasad is an Alumni of the > University of Mysore, Department of Studies in Library and Information > Science. * > > *He will be receiving the award on 22/12/2019 at the International > Conference on "Environment and Society (ICES 2019)" **at Harcourt Butler > Technical* > *University (HBTU) Kanpur (India). * > > >

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Data Officer Positions at IISc, Bangalore on contract with Rs.80, 000 to Rs.1 Lakh/month. Apply by Dec 15.
by Ananda Byrappa 15 Nov '19

15 Nov '19

Dear All, The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) invites applications for the position of Data Officer (2 positions). Data Officer will play a key role in the Office of Data in collecting, curating and preserving and analyzing data related to all activities of IISc. DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: * Coordinate with various offices, centers, units, departments, and SAP ERP of IISc to collect multiple datasets pertaining to HR, Academics, Projects, Finance, Funding, Ranking, IoE, and Institutional Research Data Management • Evaluate the datasets for consistency and completeness & Conduct Data Audit • Perform data management and benchmarking activity as per the needs of the IISc leadership • Perform data analysis using statistical tools, Perform publication data analysis for rankings • Develop a classification system for efficient organization and retrieval of data • Be responsible for data licensing and long-term preservation of data • Coordinate timely data submission for ranking agencies such as NIRF, THE, and QS • Coordinate and support Office of Data and IISc Rankings and Performance Committee EXPECTED SKILL-SET: 1. Data visualization tools – both commercial and open source – Tableau, Power BI, Google Data Studio, Google Charts, Candela and use of infographic tools like Piktochart, Canva 2. Research data management using open source tools like CKAN, Dataverse, Figshare 3. Statistical computing and Graphics support using R, Data Catalogue Vocabulary (DCAT) 4. Scripting languages - Python, Java, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript,RDBMS (MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL) 5. Exposure to academic research publication tools – Scopus, Web of Science, SciVal and Incites. 6. Website development using content management systems like Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, etc. ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATION: BE/B.Tech (preferably Computer Science or Information Science) or Master’s degree in Science/Statistics/Mathematics/Economics. MBAs and PGP Diploma holders should have BE/BTech/BSc as their undergraduate degree. DESIRBALE QUALIFICATIONS: 5 years of Experience in Data Management & Analytics. REMUNERATION: The salary will be fixed between Rs. 80,000 to Rs. 1,00,000/- per month depending on the qualifications, experience, and suitability of the candidate. The position is full-time, temporary and contractual. Since this is a contractual appointment, benefits available to permanent employees of the Institute will not be applicable. Interested candidates may send a detailed resume by December 15, 2019 to the Office of the Divisional Chairs, Indian Institute of Science by email (office.divchairs(a)iisc.ac.in), with the subject line “Data Officer”. Short-listed candidates will be called for an interview at IISc Bangalore. Travel expenses will not be reimbursed. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, Anand. Anand Byrappa Ph.D. Head, Office of Data and Librarian Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore 560012. INDIA. Phone: 91-80-2293 2407

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More South Korean academics caught naming kids as co-authors
by Raghavendra pawar 14 Nov '19

14 Nov '19

More South Korean academics caught naming kids as co-authors <More%20South%20Korean%20academics%20caught%20naming%20kids%20as%20co-authors> Thank you, Raghavendra R -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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