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India’s plan to pay journal subscription fees for all its citizen may end up making science harder to access
by Mohan Hr 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

India’s plan to pay journal subscription fees for all its citizen may end up making science harder to access India, the world’s second-most populous country, is planning to make scholarly literature available for everyone under its latest science, technology and innovation policy. The policy will push for the whole country to have a nationwide subscription to replace existing subscriptions paid by different research and education institutions to access research journals. The Indian government is in talks with the world’s top scientific publications, including one of the biggest scholarly publishers, Elsevier, to create the system. If it works, India will become the largest country to give access to paywalled journal articles to more than 1.3 billion of its citizens. https://theconversation.com/indias-plan-to-pay-journal-subscription-fees-fo… With regards -- hrmohan -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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2020 locked in shift to open access publishing, but Australia is lagging
by Mohan Hr 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

2020 locked in shift to open access publishing, but Australia is lagging https://theconversation.com/2020-locked-in-shift-to-open-access-publishing-… Interesting to know the status of OA in Australia. With regards -- hrmohan -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Two Workshops in eScience and Digital Libraries domain > 7th & 8th January 2021
by Sathyanarayana NV 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

Dear LIS Professionals Greetings of Happy New Year for a safe & secure times ahead! LTC 2021 which started with pre-Conclave series of lectures beginning November last year is having two know-how rich pre-Conclave workshops this week on the following themes by two experts in the respective domains. This is an opportunity for LIS profession to get a leg up by learning and upgrading their knowledge as well as skill sets in the emerging technologies. Workshop 1 > 7th January 2021 > 10 AM – 1 PM * AI For eScience > Presented by: Dr. Mandar Mutalikdesai, AI Solutions & Practice Leader, IBM, Bangalore * 10 – 11:15 AM What is AI? - A Primer. · 11:45 AM – 1 PM Efficiency & Ethics: A balancing act with AI AI and Machine learning technologies are already being used to analyse digital collections and identify topics and entities, assign metadata and enable non-textual search and discovery in digital Libraries. This workshop presents an introductory view of Artificial Intelligence with potential applications in eScience. It will briefly introduce concepts of machine learning and neural networks and then look at a few applications of AI in various industries. Workshop 2 > 8th January 2021 > 3 – 6 PM * Semantic Search: The current Frontier of Search Technology > Presented by: Prof. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Roux Institute for Experiential AI, North Eastern University at Silicon Valley, California, USA * 3 – 4:15 PM Semantic Search * 4:45 – 6 PM Query Analytics Semantic Search lies at the cross roads of information retrieval and natural language processing. This workshop will provide an overview of not only the steps and processing of building a semantically annotated index with the help of a knowledge base, but offers an understanding of the data science needed to use as relevance feedback, the usage log stream of the semantic search engine. These workshops are presented online and are free as part of LTC2021. Please visit LTC2021 site www.LTC2021.org<http://www.LTC2021.org> to register. Once again, our best wishes for a safe and happy New Year! N. V. Sathyanarayana | Chairman & Managing Director | Informatics India Ltd. | Bangalore 560004 |INDIA | | www.informaticsglobal.com<http://www.informaticsglobal.com> | -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Call for Abstracts by 10th January 2021: NILIS Research Symposium (Online)
by Sourav Debnath 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

Dear LIS Professionals, Apologies for cross-posting. The Annual Research Symposium of the National Institute of Library and Information Sciences (NILIS), University of Colombo will be held on 23rd January 2021. This year's event will be organized in partnership with the South Asia Chapter of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), as an online event. It will be 100% free for presenters and participants. The keynote address will be delivered by Professor Bhuva Narayan of the School of Communication, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Abstracts of completed or near-completed original research and unique experiences are called to reach us on or before the 10th of January 2021. The main theme of the symposium is “Challenges and Opportunities for Libraries in the New Normal”. Subthemes include, but not limited to… Changing faces of the information society The emergence of a new library culture New roles and skills of Librarians Information systems and new business models Big data, Semantic technologies Role of catalogs directories and indexes Information resources and services Information Technology tools and devices LIS education and training Library services amidst the pandemic conditions (cases) Registration and submission details are available at https://nilis.cmb.ac.lk/home/news/2020/nrs20/1490/ *Important dates:* - *Last date for receiving abstracts*: Extended to 10.01.2021 - *Author notification*: 15.01.2021 - *The final version of the abstract and presentation due*: 18.01.2021 - *Symposium date*: 23.01.2021 -- With regards, Sourav Debnath Assistant Librarian National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli India - 620015 https://www.nitt.edu/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: OA2020 Progress Report - December 2020
by Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar 03 Jan '21

03 Jan '21

A progress report of OA2020 (open access 2020) community is published at https://oa2020.org/progress-report ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: "Campbell, Colleen" <campbell(a)mpdl.mpg.de>Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 18:12:17 +0000 Dear Colleagues, The OA2020 community came together in December to reflect on the progress made together in transitioning scholarly journals to open access. Slides from that meeting are now available on the OA2020 Progress Report page (https://oa2020.org/progress-report/) along with a video featuring regional perspectives from OA2020 champions around the world on OA2020’s collective impact and insights into their local efforts. Our partners have demonstrated that it is possible to achieve open access on a large scale for the benefit of our research communities in a matter of a few short years. A clear path has been cut with cost-neutral transformative and transitional agreements, and our next objective will be their expansion and proliferation—scaling up around the world to ensure an equitable and irreversible transition of scholarly communication to open access. With best wishes, Colleen Colleen Campbell Open Access 2020 Initiative ESAC Initiative Max Planck Digital Library campbell(a)mpdl.mpg.de +49 160 9725 1536

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Sci-Hub and Libgen
by vinod mishra 01 Jan '21

01 Jan '21

Someone looting a lot of money from the rich and give it to the poor? Sci-Hub and Libgen Is it like that? With Regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL), NIT Rourkela, Sundergadh-769008, Odisha, India. Mob:91+9439420860 URL: http://vinod.itshelp.co.in/ 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* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Who Owns that Song?: The Battle for Subramania Bharati’s Copyright
by Vasanth 01 Jan '21

01 Jan '21

Dear Sir/Madam, Just to add to the ongoing discussion on Sci-hub and copyright infringement, there is an another interesting work that we should look for "Who Owns that Song?: The Battle for Subramania Bharati’s Copyright" authored by A.R. Venkatachalapathy. This books narrates the story of how people of Tamil Nadu fought for the nationalization of Subramania Bharati's works and eventually government acquired the copyrights and put it in public domain for all to access freely. This is an interesting work on copyright and free access to knowledge------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N.Librarian Mysore

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Interesting Reads And Information -- IRAI -- 210101
by Mohan Hr 01 Jan '21

01 Jan '21

*Interesting Reads And Information -- IRAI -- 210101* Current Post: https://bit.ly/3aXym2X Archives: https://lnkd.in/ewR3UdD *IRAI wishes it's readers a happy, healthy, prosperous and safe New Year 2021.* *Articles* Employment Want to get — and stay — employed through 2030? 10 jobs to consider How to ace your next online job interview 9 things you can do to make working from home more joyful 14 most in-demand data science skills you need to succeed Artificial Intelligence An executive’s guide to AI The state of AI in 2020 The Missing Pieces of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine DevOps DevOps news and trends to watch in 2021 10 DevOps engineer skills to add to a resume Top 15 DevOps blogs to read and follow 16 DevOps books to level up your skills Information Security Top cybersecurity articles of 2020 Top 10 cyber crime stories of 2020 FAQ's on Cyber Attacks Information Security Awareness for Women Digital Footprints, Wealth & Assets Digging your own digital grave: how should you manage the data you leave behind? What happens to your digital wealth on death and incapacity? Facebook’s accidental ‘death’ of users reminds us to plan for digital death Death and the Internet: Consumer Issues for Planning and Managing Digital Legacies Videos to Watch The most popular TED Talks of 2020 TED Talk Editor's Picks of 2020 New tech, new ethics Innovation & Food Security Vertical Farms Run by AI and Robots To Solve the Land Crisis Denmark’s Wind-Powered Vertical Farm Will Produce 1K Tons of Greens a Year Business & Management 13 Tips for Finding Success In the Business World Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Jurassic Park 3 Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom The 10 biggest business trends for 2021 everyone must be ready for Self Development 10 Great Ways to Show You’re Grateful Today How to listen — really listen — to someone you don’t agree with Education Paperless Schools of the Future: Decoding the potential of digital adoption for schools 10 Critical issues in Educational Technology Health & Wellness Your gut microbiome may be linked to dementia, Parkinson’s disease and MS Coronavirus: how to keep your gut microbiome healthy to fight COVID-19 Gut health: does exercise change your microbiome? Beer Might Actually Be Good for You, According to Science Books & Periodicals 21 inspiring, must-read books for 2021 14 minimalist e-books to maximize your happiness Book: Cryptography and Information Security General 33 Interesting Facts About the Most Famous Engineers & Inventors *IRAI Quiz -- 210101* *Forthcoming Events* CSI, ACM & IEEE CS Events 2nd Jan -- Supply Chain Management and the Smart Factory Strategies. https://bit.ly/36OiwVI 8th Jan -- MLOps: Evolution of New Era Beyond DevOps. https://bit.ly/3orwgM4 23rd Jan -- Open Data for Sustainable Community. https://bit.ly/39M6Nc8 30th Jan -- Experimental AI for Social Good. https://bit.ly/36U5rKF For the pdf invite, presentation & speaker details of events in Jan 2021 at: https://bit.ly/3h3MJnq For additional events in Jan 2021 https://bit.ly/3p7GS2Z India Science Festival 2021 Program Schedule *Announcements* CII Startupreneur Awards Free ACM membership for students Microsoft launches free Web Development program for beginners Archives : https://lnkd.in/ewR3UdD *Answers to IRAI Quiz -- 210101* Current Post: https://bit.ly/3aXym2X

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Draft 5th National Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy for public consultation | Department Of Science & Technology
by madhan muthu 01 Jan '21

01 Jan '21

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CFP: ISKO UK Conference 2021 - online - 12-16 July 2021
by Aida Slavic 31 Dec '20

31 Dec '20

=== Call for Papers === Knowledge Organization in Exceptional Times: How KO Helps People, Organizations and Societies to Adapt to Change" Online, 12-16 July 2021 Conference website: https://www.iskouk.org/Conference-2021 Abstract submission: https://easychair.org/cfp/ISKOUK2021 Deadline: 1 February 2021 Contact: conference(a)iskouk.org "Knowledge Organization in Exceptional Times ", the 7th biennial ISKO UK Conference, will be an online conference 12-16 July 2021 This ISKO UK conference addresses challenges and opportunities during periods of dramatic change. These can be brought about by pandemics, political change, conflicts, social unrest or technological innovation. This conference will explore the role of knowledge organization in helping people, organization and societies to adapt to change. The conference aims to bridge the divide between theory and practice and we welcome submissions from both practitioners and researchers in knowledge organization. We are looking for papers and/or presentations and posters that will attract a global audience of researchers, practitioners, teachers, and developers. Your proposed paper or presentation should help to deepen the understanding of knowledge organization, describe challenges, innovations and advances in the field, or speculate about the potential of KO to bring progress and benefits. For details about invited topics and to submit your 300-500 word abstract go to https://easychair.org/cfp/ISKOUK2021. ==== ISKO UK - The UK Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization www.iskouk.org ----------------------------------------------- Do not miss our free webinars: ISKO UK Meetups - https://www.iskouk.org/Landing-page Knowledge Organization Education - https://www.iskouk.org/KOED

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