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How does UGC identify predatory journals?
by Vasanth 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

Dear Sir/Madam, This is just to add something to the on going discussion on "India is among the leaders in predatory publishing". Happened to write a small write up on this topic in 2013 in Current Science, Vol 104, issue # 11. The title of the write up is "How does UGC identify predatory journals?" This piece may be of useful to forum members. Following link will lead you to the article: http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/104/11/1461.pdf ------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N. GFGC-Periyapatna Mysore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IIHS Internship Program: Call for Applications
by preedip balaji 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

Dear Sir/Madam, Kindly post this in the LIS-Forum Internship duration: 1-5 monthsInternship Period: Between November 2015 to March 2016Number of Vacancy : 1 The IIHS Internship Program provides young scholars an interdisciplinary environment of learning by participating in our on-going research and practice projects. IIHS Internships will enable you to learn more about your chosen field, as well as enable you to immersing yourself in other domains in a new vibrant environment of learning and doing. Current requirements are in these specific fields. Other applications will be considered but priority will be given to the following: HousingEnergy Planning for CitiesCourse management for short-term and executive teachingLibrary, Knowledge and Information SystemsCampus Development, Architecture and PlanningCommunications and OutreachWriting and EditorialLegal and RegulationThese are paid internships located in Bangalore. Some internships may be available in Delhi. EligibilityWe are looking for candidates who are committed, willing to learn, and able to work both independently and as part of a team. Previous professional work experience and academic coursework in the chosen field will be helpful but is not a requirement to participate in the IIHS internship Program. Ideal candidates will possess outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, and demonstrate willingness to learn while carrying out a variety of activities as needed. They will be ready to work to meeting deadlines and look to making your contribution meaningful in completing a successful internship with us. Candidates must be currently pursuing or be recent graduates with Masters or PhD degrees in any discipline relevant to the themes outlined above. Candidates applying for internships under the theme-Legal and Regulation must be pursuing or be recent graduates with an undergraduate or Master’s degree in law. Application ProcessThe application process consists of a written submission and interview. Interested candidates shall first submit the following: A one-page statement expressing your interest in up to two themes (from or related to the themes listed out above).A current CV with your educational background and skills with any relevant research and professional experienceA sample of your work e.g. paper, exhibit or assignment that demonstrates your ability to do original workApplications may be emailed to internships(a)iihs.ac.in or prints sent in to: Indian Institute for Human SettlementsNo. 197/36, 2nd Main RoadSadashivanagarBangalore 560 080India Application DeadlineThe Internship programme will accept applications on a rolling basis until all internships for this cycle are filled. The next deadline for applications is November 1st, 2015. All selected candidates will be informed of their selection within 2 weeks after the final scheduled interview. Selection CriteriaInterns will be selected considering: Application and supporting material submitted and interview (see above).The alignment of the candidate’s areas of interest, skills, experience, with the list of thematic areas listed out above for this round.Availability of suitable advisor, project, and teams within IIHS, for the candidate’s fit.Diversity PolicyIIHS encourages women, people with disabilities and those from economically and socially excluded communities with the requisite skills and qualifications to apply for internships. Applications may be emailed to internships(a)iihs.ac.in and please mention in the subject line : Internship for Library Warmly, Preedip Balaji 080-67606666 exn : 660 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request
by TIFR CAM Library 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

Namaskars, One of the academicians in our centre needs this article. Could you kindly send a copy of the same and help the researcher, if it is available with you. Title: How to do the Right Thing Author: PATTIE MAES Journal: Connection Science Volume 1, Issue 3, 1989 , pages 291-323 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09540098908915643 Thanks & regards, Veena -- -------------------------------------------------- Library TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics Phone: 91-80-66953757 Post Bag No. 6503, Sharada Nagar, Fax: 91-80-66953799 Chikkabommasandra, GKVK Post, URL: http://math.tifrbng.res.in Yalahanka New Town, Bangalore-560 065 Bharat -------------------------------------------------- "Every duty is holy and devotion to duty is the highest form of the worship of God." - Swami Vivekananda -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article Needed
by Ravi Hullur 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

Dear Professionals,One of our faculty need of the following articles, If any library holds below mentioned article. Please help me 1. Am J Physiol. 1996 Nov;271(5 Pt 2):R1319-26. Changes in insulin action, triglycerides, and lipid composition during sucrose feeding in rats. Pagliassotti MJ1, Prach PA, Koppenhafer TA, Pan DA. http://ajpregu.physiology.org/content/271/5/R1319 2. Am J Physiol. 1995 Sep;269(3 Pt 2):R641-6. Quantity of sucrose alters the tissue pattern and time course of insulin resistance in young rats. Pagliassotti MJ1, Prach PA. http://ajpregu.physiology.org/content/269/3/R641 3. Nutrition. 2005 Jun;21(6):775-7. Comparing rat's to human's age: how old is my rat in people years? Quinn R http://www.nutritionjrnl.com/article/S0899-9007(05)00171-1/pdf Regards Mr.Ravi Hullur Asst.Librarian & In-Charge to Digital Library KLE University, Belagavi Telephone: 0831-2444 444 extn- 4004 Mob.No.9740638831 http://digitallibrary.webnode.com/ Blog:http://ravihullurs.blogspot.in/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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MLA-CMI Fellowship application deadline - December 1
by Satish Munnolli 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

MLA Cunningham Memorial International Fellowship The purpose of the MLA Cunningham Memorial International Fellowship is to assist in the education and training of health science librarians from countries outside the United States and Canada. The Cunningham Fellowships were established in 1967 with a bequest from the estate of Eileen R. Cunningham. The first fellowship was awarded in 1972 at the annual meeting in San Diego, CA. This program continues to train and motivate international librarians with the latest advances in the health information profession. The fellowship supports attendance at the MLA annual meeting and observation and supervised work in one or more medical libraries in the United States and Canada. The fellowship also permits access to MLA-sponsored online Continuing Education courses for a one year period beginning January of the fellowship year. International Cooperation Section members assist in planning the fellows itinerary and schedule while in the United States, serving as hosts or host institutions for the fellow, and providing mentorship opportunities during the annual meeting. Eligibility * The applicant must have both an undergraduate degree and a master's level library degree. The latter requirement may be waived. (Transcripts or a copy of your diploma and grades for courses taken at both the undergraduate and graduate levels should be sent at the same time as the application.) * The applicant must be working or preparing to work in a health science library in his or her own country. * The applicant must be a citizen or permanent resident of a country other than the United States or Canada. * The applicant is not required to be a member of MLA. * Past recipients of the Cunningham fellowship are ineligible. The completed application with documentation must be received by December 1. Successful and unsuccessful applicants will be notified by March. For more about the MLA and CMI Fellowship visit http://www.mlanet.org/p/cm/ld/fid=312 Satish S. Munnolli, PhD Librarian, Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) Sector 22 Kharghar Navi Mumbai 410210 Tel: +91 22 2740 5026 ; Fax: +91 22 2740 5085 Email: smunnolli(a)actrec.gov.in Library home page: http://library.actrec.gov.in:8080 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy for the position of LIBRARIAN
by Ramakrishna Reddy 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

Sir/Madam, *Acharya School of Management (ASM)* is located at Acharya Institutes, Soldevanahalli, Bangalore. The College is conducting a course leading to Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM). The College is in the process of recruiting Librarian to manage the Library and Information Centre, on urgent basis. Details of requirement are given below: *Position* *Librarian* *Qualification* *MLIS (First Class – Regular)* *Experience* *1 to 2 years. Freshers will also be considered* *Skills* *Knowledge of IT skills.* *Language* *Communication skills in English * *Joining period* *Immediately after receiving offer letter* *Walk-in interview* will be conducted from 27th to 31st October 2015. Interested candidates may meet the Chief Librarian with copies of CV and Certificates. With Regards, *Dr. K Ramakrishna Reddy* *Chief LibrarianAcharya Institute of TechnologyAcharya InstitutesAcharya Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan RoadHesaraghatta Main RoadSoldevanahalli, Bangalore - 560 090Phone: 080-28396011 /28376431Mobile: 9739038652Residence: 080-23461829E-Mail: ramakrishnareddy(a)acharya.ac.in <ramakrishnareddy(a)acharya.ac.in> krred(a)yahoo.com <krred(a)yahoo.com> drkrreddy1655(a)gmail.com <drkrreddy1655(a)gmail.com>http://www.acharya.ac.in <http://www.acharya.ac.in>* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Google Scholar Button
by Vimal Kumar V. 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

Dear Friends, This extension adds a browser button for easy access to Google Scholar from any web page. Click the Scholar button to: - Find full text on the web or in your university library. Select the title of the paper on the page you're reading, and click the Scholar button to find it. - Transfer your query from web search to Scholar. Press the Scholar button to see top three results; click "full screen" in the lower left of the popup to see them all. - Format references in widely used citation styles. Press the quote button in the popup to see a formatted reference and copy it into the paper you're writing. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-scholar-button/ Information courtesy: Firefox Add Ons Regards, -- Vimal Kumar V. Technical Assistant Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.info Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in http://moovandan.blogspot.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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need help regarding online journal subscriptions
by Smita Chandra 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

Dear Colleagues, I am faced with a unique situation with my management with regards to online journal subscription. We have one main library and 13 branch libraries all over India. We subscribe to online copies of only some of the relevant journals to these branch libraries. My management in an effort to cut costs is now asking us to subscribe to just one one online copy at the headquarters (main library) and work out how access can be provided to the other branch libraries (they are giving the logic that if we can get access to our institute email account from any where in the world we should be able to subscribe to just one online copy for our main library and get access from any of the other branch libraries all over India). I have tried convincing them that we already have multi-site licensing to the online journals that we provide online access to at our other centers and that the servers on which the publishers host their journals are located with the publishers that we cannot control and hence the logic of providing multi-site online access to different centers all over India based on the model of emails is not possible. I am however trying to seek more concrete proof of convincing my management that the model of emails access cannot be applied to accessing online journals and that we need to subscribe to online journals for each of these branch libraries via multi-site license only. I seek your help in this regard. Could you please provide me more guidance in this regard and also any reference to literature on the topic !?! Thanking you and with kind regards, Dr.Smita ChandraLibrarianIndian Institute of Geomagnetism,Navi Mumbai -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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China recognises the importance of OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 25 Oct '15

25 Oct '15

Friends: Please see < http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2015/10/23/springer-nature-open-rese…>. Here is an excerpt. Dr. Xiaolin Zhang, the former director of National Science Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences gave an informative presentation on the development of Open Access in China. Dr. Zhang emphasized the strong support to public sharing of knowledge from Chinese government by quoting the speech from the *Premier of China*, Mr. Keqiang Li, at the GRC Annual Conference 2014, “Knowledge is a public good. A more open environment will enable everyone to share the fruits of knowledge and promote inclusive development…, *China will support open access for publicly funded research* .” He pointed out that the two open access mandates issued by National Natural Science Foundation of China and Chinese Academy of Sciences have facilitated the public access to research articles funded by the two major funding agencies. In addition, Dr. Zhang shared his expectation for the future of open access in China. He wished that other funding agencies, such as Ministry of Education and Ministry of Science and Technology of China, as well as Chinese universities could issue their open access mandates to support funded researchers sharing their findings with the public. Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fake journals: ‘Make in India’ gone wrong
by Subbiah Arunachalam 25 Oct '15

25 Oct '15

Friends today's The Hindu carries a short article on fake (or predatory) journals published in India < http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/fake-journals-make-in-india-gone-wrong/art… >. Fake journals: ‘Make in India’ gone wrong by R Prasad Officials in the UGC and other regulatory agencies may do well to read it. Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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