October 2020 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

Reading Inspiration Day - UGC Vice Chairman Dr. Bhushan Patwardhan
by Dr. Sandeep Bhavsar 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

Mumbai University & College Teachers Association (MUCTA) is pleased to invite you for a Webinar on "National Education Policy" Key Note Speaker : Dr.Bhushan Patwardhan Vice Chairman, University Grants Commission on Thursday, 15-October-2020 at 4.00 PM. 15 October on the occasion of Vachan Prerna Diwas. Other Event Highlights : 1) Mr. Gauthier Van Malderen founder & CEO of Perlego shall brief on the use of Online Library Platforms. Perlego is a digital online library focusing on the delivery of academic, professional and non-fiction eBooks. 2) The webinar is free but registration is compulsory & all attendees will be gifted a free Six Week subscription of Perlego. Register Here : https://redirect.is/1ysdcrh Warm Regards Subhash Athavale General Secretary MUCTA

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Informatics Studies – Journal - Temporary Changes
by Centre for Informatics Research and Development 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

Informatics Studies – Journal - Temporary Changes in URL and E-mail Addresses Dear Associates/Subscribers/Editors/Reviewers net4.com the leading domain registrant and critical service provider for Internet based activities in India. has without notice and provision for alternate arrangements stopped its operations hindering the functioning of lakhs of Indians - organizations and individuals who registered domain names with the company also availed other services from them. The loss to those who availed services from them is not the amount they paid to the net4comins but thousands of times more than that. This is the first such incident in India and some times in the world. Existing Indian Cyber laws have no provision to assess or claim this loss is what we understand. The closing of net4.com has affected Informatics Studies also for we used most of the services from them. In the circumstances we are forced to make the following temporary arrangements for Informatics Studies users and associates to continue services, and interaction without break. The URL of the journal Informatics Studies (For Issues /papers available for Open Access) will be the following till further Notice. http://52.205.22.215/index.php/informatics/ Subscribers of the Online version are requested to contact CIRD at: informaticscevt(a)gmail.com for getting details and permission for access. All Usernames and Passwords provided to you from the journal remain as earlier. In case of any problem please feel free to contact the journal at: informaticsstudies(a)gmail.com The e-mail address of the editors of the journal will be: informaticsstudies(a)gmail.com. All communications related to the journal in regard to submission of papers, editing, reviewing, and other enquiries need to be addressed to this e-mail. All official communications related to the Centre for Informatics Research and Development should be addressed to: informaticsdevt(a)gmail.com. NO COMMUNICATIONS WILL BE RECEIVED AT editor(a)informaticsstudies.in till further notice. Even if any communication is received from editor(a)informaticsstudies.in, or publisher(a)informaticsstudies.in replies should be sent to informaticsstudies(a)gmail.com Inconvenience caused to you all in this regard is regretted. SincerelyPublishers, IS -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: The Lens: A Free, Open and Secure platform of scholarly works and patents
by Chidananda B G 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

Dear Members - Please explore LENS <https://www.lens.org/> Scholarly and patent Information platform and prvide your feedback , *The Lens* exists to promote inclusivity by making knowledge accessible as a public good that is shareable and reusable. The Lens is available as an open platform at https://www.lens.org/ The Lens was developed and continues to be maintained through philanthropic support. The Lens provides discovery, analytics and research management tools on top of a comprehensive collection of scholarly literature metadata and patent literature linked through a citation index. Uniquely, The Lens provides this corpus of scholarly literature metadata and patent information on an open, verifiable, and privacy assured platform. The following is a brief overview about the platform. Four core Lens “Apps” focus on specific content sets: - *Scholarly Works* <https://www.lens.org/lens/search/scholar/structured>: Discovery and analytics tools access a corpus of scholarly literature metadata with citation indexing. *(220M records)* - *Patents* <https://www.lens.org/lens/search/patent/structured>: Discovery and analytics tools on a comprehensive collection of patent literature with citation indexing. *(125M records)* - *PatCite* <https://www.lens.org/lens/patcite>: Analytics tool to mine citations in global patent literature to explore relationships between patents and scholarly literature to support decisions regarding research, funding, tech transfer and relationships with commercial entities. *(3.7M In patent and 1.3B Scholarly Citations)* - *PatSeq* <https://www.lens.org/lens/bio>: Search and analyze biological sequences disclosed in patent literature. *(300M Records)* In addition to the four Lens Apps, The Lens provides metrics and data management tools: - *In4M* <https://www.lens.org/lens/in4m/rankings/global/locations>: Analysis capabilities and open metrics are also provided to enable influence mapping of institutions on industry and innovation. - *Collections* <https://www.lens.org/lens/user/collections>: Registered users can curate their own collections of records and data visualizations and share those privately or publicly. - *Lens Reports* <https://www.lens.org/lens/reports>: Still in Alpha, Lens Reports is a new facility for creating evidence-based, open, sharable and reusable reports *linked to real Lens data and analytics. * The Lens is highly aligned to your values about inclusivity and openness with scholarly communication. We at *DaiKnow <http://www.daiknow.com/> *are partners with The Lens and assisting them increase visibility and usage of the platform. We believe that The Lens would a great tool for institutions, administrators and researchers. Kindly do let us know if you would like us to set up a demo. Feel free to reach out to* lens(a)daiknow.com <lens(a)daiknow.com> *to know more about the product or schedule a demo. Thanks, Chidananda

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Opentexts (Beta)
by Shamprasad Pujar 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

Dear All, Opentexts, in its beta version provides access to more than 8 million digitized texts from 8 digital archives around the world. In a way, it plays as a search engine to retrieve texts from such collections. Many of the texts are downloadable. It also has an invite to contribute data to its collection. Explore more @ https://opentexts.world Regards, Shamprasad M. Pujar, PhD Chief Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen Vaidya Marg, Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065, India Phone: ++91-22-2841 6528 E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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First of its kind Auto Book Sanitizing Composite Machine unveiled at NEHU
by Temin Thomas 12 Oct '20

12 Oct '20

The Auto Book Sanitising Composite Machine, a first-of-its-kind device was recently unveiled at the central library of the North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU) in Shillong, Meghalaya. It works in an auto-controlled mode to sanitise all kinds of books without causing damage to their material. Up to 150 books can be sanitised in a single cycle of about 45 minutes and at a minimal cost of Paise 20-30 per book. https://nehu.ac.in/article/90/First-of-its-kind-Auto-Book-Sanitizing-Compos… Regards, Temin Thomas MLISc Thrissur, Kerala. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Research Archive Designer
by Dr. Pradip Das 12 Oct '20

12 Oct '20

Dear professionals Could you please send details about the Service Provider to design a Research Archive. Your earliest response is highly expected -- *Regards **……* _______________________________________________ * Dr. Pradip Das* *Ph. D., MBA (HR), M. Phil, M. L. I. Sc., B. L. I. Sc., B. Sc. (Chem)Librarian,* *MIT Art, Design and Technology University,* *MIT IOD, Raj Baug, Next to Hadapsar,* *Loni-Kalbhor, Maharashtra – 412201. * *Phone : +91-20-30693604, Cell : 9420836138* *E-mail :pradipbhadreswardas@gmail.com <pradipbhadreswardas(a)gmail.com> Or Pradip_das_55(a)rediffmail.com <Pradip_das_55(a)rediffmail.com>* ****Blogger : http://pradip-dipra.blogspot.com <http://pradip-dipra.blogspot.com>* *Research Gate : http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pradip_Das4 <http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pradip_Das4>* *Skype ID : pradipbhadreswardas* *Twitter : @pradipbdas* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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CSI, ACM, IEEE CS events on 14th & 17th Oct 2020
by Mohan Hr 11 Oct '20

11 Oct '20

14th Oct 2020 at 6 pm IST ===================== CSI Chennai, ACM Chennai & IEEE CS Madras cordially invite you to the webinar Topic: Design Patterns-- A Quick Introduction Speaker: Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, Award-winning author, Founder of Agile Developer, Inc., Adjunct Faculty at the University of Houston, USA Date & Time: Wednesday, 14th Oct 2020 6 pm to 7 pm IST For presentation details & speaker profile, pl see the PDF invite at https://bit.ly/3lxCGIN Pl register by 8 pm on 13th Oct at https://bit.ly/31FfDnE 17th Oct 2020 at 6 pm IST ===================== ACM Chennai, IEEE CS Madras & CSI Chennai cordially invite you to the webinar Topic: AI and ML for Hyperautomation Speaker: Dr. Lakshmana Kumar Ramasamy, ACM Distinguished Speaker, Technical Lead – Department of Corporate Relations & Asst. Prof. Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore Date: Saturday, 17th Oct 2020 :: Time: 6 pm to 7 pm IST For presentation details & speaker profile, pl see the PDF invite at https://bit.ly/2F2i7n1 Pl register by 8 pm on 16th Oct at https://bit.ly/2YXocbE With regards PV Subramanian, Chair, CSI Chennai HR Mohan, Chair, ACM Chennai P Sakthivel, Chair, IEEE CS Madras PS: For the other events in Oct 2020, pl visit: https://lnkd.in/g_tiSFu

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How to prepare for NAAC on-campus visit
by Manjunatha S 11 Oct '20

11 Oct '20

Dear Professional Friends, I am Manjunath working as a librarian in Jyoti Nivas College, Bangalore. I am facing the NAAC inspection for the first time in the coming month. I need your inputs for the following- 0. How do I overcome from NAAC fear? 1. How to prepare the library for the on-campus visit? 2. What will be the expected questions? 3. How do I satisfy them? 4. Do I need to prepare a PPT? 5. What are the reports I should prepare/present? 6. Do I need to train my colleagues including attenders? 7. How do I prepare myself? Pls, help me by sharing your knowledge/experience with me. Appreciate if your share the ppt. Thanks in advance. Regards, Manjunatha.S Email: library(a)jyotinivas.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article required for Researcher
by Dr. Pradip Das 10 Oct '20

10 Oct '20

Dear professionals, I will highly appreciate it if any one can provide the pdf of the following article. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8448366 -- *Regards **……* _______________________________________________ * Dr. Pradip Das* *Ph. D., MBA (HR), M. Phil, M. L. I. Sc., B. L. I. Sc., B. Sc. (Chem)Librarian,* *MIT Art, Design and Technology University,* *MIT IOD, Raj Baug, Next to Hadapsar,* *Loni-Kalbhor, Maharashtra – 412201. * *Phone : +91-20-30693604, Cell : 9420836138* *E-mail :pradipbhadreswardas@gmail.com <pradipbhadreswardas(a)gmail.com> Or Pradip_das_55(a)rediffmail.com <Pradip_das_55(a)rediffmail.com>* ****Blogger : http://pradip-dipra.blogspot.com <http://pradip-dipra.blogspot.com>* *Research Gate : http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pradip_Das4 <http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pradip_Das4>* *Skype ID : pradipbhadreswardas* *Twitter : @pradipbdas* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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One Day National Virtual Conference on Transforming Libraries
by Gopalakrishna-BMSIT 09 Oct '20

09 Oct '20

Dear All, Greetings from BMSIT&M. We are happy to inform you all that we are conducting a virtual *National Conference* on *"Transforming Libraries: Smart Users, Smart Resources and Smart Services"* on Saturday, the *10th Oct. 2020* between 10 am and 4pm. Certificate will be issued to the attendees. Those who are interested can remit a sum of *Rs.100/*- (for Certificates only) *Rs.500/- *(For Conference Proceedings & Certificate) to Shri Sharath Sagar on 9060933363 via Bhim / PhonePe / Google Pay and provide details of remittance along with your Name, Institution, contact number and Transaction ID. in the following google form. https://forms.gle/xD3T2YebSwhufiJd9 Then Conference link and password will be shared with you. *With Regards,* *Gopalakrishna* *Librarian, B.M.S Institute of Technology,Avalahalli, Doddaballapur Main Road,Yelahanka, Bangalore-64Mob.: 861 853 1385* * 974 189 8674* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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