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Google ends authorship experiment in search results
by Ishwar Goudar 30 Aug '14

30 Aug '14

Dear Professionals, Google has announced that it has decided to stop showing authors' names when their articles appear in search results. The authorship experiment started in 2011, aimed at providing more valuable and relevant results in Google searches. However, a Google+ post by John Meuller of Google Webmaster Tools says that the experiment did not have the desired effect. For Detailed news please visit http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Google-ends-authorship-ex… The 2 Reasons for Killing It: Google is a company that likes to test, tinker and take chances, remember Google Wave and Google Buzz? They also do it in ranking websites, like giving new sites a chance at the top of page 1 to see how they do. If searchers respond well to it and gives them value, they stay there. If not, they go to where Jimmy Hoffa is buried, on page 2, where no one ever finds anything. More Details at http://organicseopress.com/google-kills-authorship-means/ Other stories: http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnrampton/2014/08/29/end-of-google-authorship/ http://www.cnet.com/news/google-stops-displaying-content-authorship-in-sear… http://dailydigestnews.com/2014/08/google-authorship-experiment-is-dead/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. I.R.N. Goudar - Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser Bangalore University Library, Jnana Bharathi Campus BANGALORE - 560056, India - Ex. Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser, UoM, Mysore - Ex. Scientist 'G' and Head, ICAST, NAL, Bangalore - Ex. Dy Librarian, IITM, Chennai - Ex. Scientist (Information), IICT, Hyderabad - Fulbright Scholar, Univ. of Michigan and Columbia Univ, USA (1995-96) - British Council Scholar (1982-83) E-mail: goudarishwar(a)gmail.com Tel: 080-23215510 Mob: 91+9611165781 (If not reachable pl try land line) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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One Day Workshop on "Design and Development of Library Web portals" on 21 September 2014 at Birla Institute of Technology - Mesra, Ranchi
by Amitabh Manglam 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

Dear All, It's our pleasure to inform you that, we are conducting *Librarians day cum one day workshop on* "*Design and Development of Library Web portals*" on *21 September 2014* at our campus (Birla Institute of Technology - Mesra, Ranchi) The *fee will be Rs.200.00* (Two Hundred Rupees only) per person which includes conference kit, working lunch, tea, biscuits. Interested persons may send the registration for to the following address for more details you can contact me. Thanking you *Mr. Amitabh Kumar Manglam* 9470943275 -- Thanking you With Warm Regards, *Amitabh Kumar Manglam* LIA, Central Library Birla Institute of Technology (Deemed University), Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand - 835215 Contact Number: +91-9470943275 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy of Technical Assistant in VSSC Library, Thiruvananthapuram
by NASAR 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

For details pls visit http://www.vssc.gov.in:8080/RMT284/advtno_284.html Regards AN -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Availability of a book - seeking for
by Mohanlal E.K 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

Sir I would like to refer the book " Introducing Sociolingustics by Rajend Mesthrie" for my PhD studies.. If the book is available pl. let me know.. Very urgent please -- *Mohanalal E.K. MLIS, MPhil.*Deputy Librarian i/c College of Veterinary and Animal Science Kerala Veterinary & Animal Science Uty. Mannuthy Post, Thrissur Dist. -680 651 Kerala , INDIA *e-mail: lallu2007(a)gmail.com <lallu2007(a)gmail.com>, libvetmty(a)kvasu.ac.in <libvetmty(a)kvasu.ac.in>* *Ph: +919495464972, 0487 2372148* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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fwd: A free online course in open research
by Shamprasad Pujar 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

Dear All, This could be of interest to some of you. best Regards, S M Pujar IGIDR, Mumbai ======================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ravi Murugesan <ravi(a)uwalumni.com> Date: Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 3:07 PM Subject: A free online course in open research https://p2pu.org/en/courses/2377/open-research/ An excerpt from the introduction: What does it mean to research in the open? Why should I make my research open? How do I research openly? This course is aimed at any researcher who wants to conduct an element of their research openly. Interested in how to ethically and openly share your findings so that others can reuse or develop your work? Curious about which open research methods you could use? Or just wanting to find out more about what open research entails? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: Temporary / Permanent Date in an Incomplete Multipart Monograph (RDA Cataloging)
by Salman Haider 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

Temporary / Permanent Date in an Incomplete Multipart Monograph : Questions and Answers in the Google+ Community "RDA Cataloging" <http://resourcedescriptionandaccess.blogspot.com/2014/08/temporary-date-in-…> RDA Blog <http://resourcedescriptionandaccess.blogspot.com> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Management @ Calicut University 30-31 January 2015
by Dr. K M Haneefa 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

Dear Sir / Madam, We have immense pleasure to inform you that the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Calicut in collaboration with the C.H.M.K. Library, University of Calicut and Kerala Library Association (KLA) Kozhikode Region is organizing a Two-Day National Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Management during 30-31 January 2015. Effective Knowledge Management is becoming a core competence and a key to the success of contemporary organizations. However, it is being observed that, while knowledge has been acknowledged as source of competitive advantage, it has not been managed well in organizations. The explosive growth of the Internet and the widespread use of large databases have drastically increased the volume and complexity of data to be mined, leading researchers to explore new ways to glean non-trivial data automatically. The conference will essentially focus on all contemporary issues related to Knowledge Discovery and Management. We request you to publicise this event among the professional colleagues of your University / Department/ Library with a request to contribute papers and be a part of the conference. The details of the conference with Registration Form can be accessed from the Calicut University website <http://www.universityofcalicut.info>. We look forward to your participation in the Conference. Thanking you. Yours faithfully, Dr. Mohamed Haneefa K. Assistant Professor Dept. of Library & Information Science University of Calicut, Kerala, India Phone (Office) :+91-494-2407286 Mobile No. 09895622811 E-mail ID: dr.haneefa(a)gmail.com Dept. Blog:http://cudlisc.blogspot.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Discovery, the way Michael Nielsen sees it
by Subbiah Arunachalam 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

Friends: The book I was showing you at today's meeting: *Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science* Michael Nielsen Princeton University Price (paperback priced $19.95). I have read most of it and more than once. It is really insightful. Hope you will enjoy reading it too. Dr Nielson's talks are available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf2qO0plUKs and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnWocYKqvhw Of course there are many many more of his writings available on the Net. Regards. Arun -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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evaluation of science
by mailman＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

Here is an interesting blog post on the new journal of AAAs and the way we evaluate science now. http://blog.openaccessbutton.org/2014/08/19/every-time-you-hit-a-paywall-th… A must read for scientists and academic librarians. Please share this widely. Arun

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Stop the deluge of science research
by mailman＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

>From the Guardian Higher Education Blog The increasing pace of human discovery is a curse â we need to rethink what it means to publish the results of research Timo Hannay, 5 Aug 2014 The rapid growth of scientific literature is often seen as evidence, if evidence were needed, that the pace of human discovery is accelerating. On the contrary, however, it is becoming a curse â one that requires us to radically rethink what it means to publish the results of research <http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/research>. Relentlessly â day after day, year after year â scientists are uncovering new facts about the world. If anything, the startling rate at which this happens appears to be increasing, but how would we know if such an impression was true? One way is to look at the rate at which scientific papers are published and these have indeed been appearing at an ever-increasing rates for decades or even centuries. As reported in a recent paper <http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.4578>, the rate of growth of cited (ie somewhat influential) scientific publications has risen from less than 1% before the middle of the 18th century to 2-3% in the first half of the 20th century, and 8-9% today. That last figure is equivalent to a greater than doubling of scientific output every decade. What better testament to human intellectual progress and the power of the scientific method? Not so fast. For a start, not every publication is equal. When the author Theodore Sturgeon first invoked his famous law ("90% of everything is crap") he was talking about science <http://www.theguardian.com/education/science> fiction, but he could equally well have been talking about science. Estimates vary wildly, but probably between a quarter and a third of all research papers in the natural sciences go uncited <http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/04/23/academic-papers-ci…>. A much larger proportion is cited only by their own authors or by one or two others. This is not necessarily a sign of inadequate or wasteful research, but it should give us pause. It is at least partly a result of the imperative for researchers to publish in order to continue to secure funding and employment, and the accompanying incentive to salami-slice research results so as to secure the maximum number of publications from any given piece of work. This in turn leads to the bane of every scientist's existence: far too many papers to read in far too little time. This situation is only going to get worse, even in the absence of any genuine increase in scientific activity. One reason is the rise of author-pays open-access publishing. This has the benefit of allowing anyone to read the research in question without paying the publisher, but also has the disadvantage of giving publishers a strong commercial incentive to issue as much content as possible. In general I am a supporter of open access <http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/open-access>, but subscription business models at least help to concentrate the minds of publishers on the poor souls trying to keep up with their journals. As if this were not enough, proponents of open science (including me) are proposing that researchers should start publishing all of their work â complete with full data sets, comprehensive methods, negative results and "failed" experiments. In an age of bottomless digital information this is technically achievable and has the potential to greatly increase the transparency, impartiality and reproducibility of research â particularly welcome at a time when science is going through something of a crisis of confidence on these fronts <http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21588069-scientific-research-has-chan…>. But it hardly promises a more manageable literature for those who are desperately trying to absorb all this information. The only practical solution is to take a more differentiated approach to publishing the results of research. On one hand funders and employers should encourage scientists to issue smaller numbers of more significant research papers. This could be achieved by placing even greater emphasis on the impact of a researcher's very best work and less on their aggregate activity. On the other they should require scientists to share all of their results as far as practically possible. But most of these should not appear in the form of traditional scholarly papers, which are too laborious for both the author and the reader to fulfil such a role. Rather, less significant work should be a issued in a form that is simple, standardised and easy for computers to index, retrieve, merge and analyse. Humans would interact with them only when looking for aggregated information on very specific topics. What would such a publication look like? I don't know exactly, but we can see signs in born-digital data publishing platforms such as Figshare <http://figshare.com/> (a portfolio company of Digital Science, which I run), Zenodo <http://zenodo.org/> (an initiative from CERN, the European particle-physics laboratory) and Dryad <http://datadryad.org/> (a not-for-profit membership organisation that supports the dissemination of research data). It is easy to forget that 350 years ago the scientific journal was itself an innovation, enabled in large part by the emergence of the printing press some 200 years earlier. Today our challenge is to create a new kind of scientific publication, internet-enabled and fit for a data-rich digital age. *Timo Hannay is managing director at Digital Science â follow them on Twitter **@timohannay* <https://twitter.com/timohannay>* and **@digitalsci* <https://twitter.com/digitalsci> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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