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SciHub - Delhi High Court ruling is out
by Sathyanarayana NV 27 Dec '20

27 Dec '20

Delhi HC asks Libgen, Sci-Hub to stop uploading articles as they face copyright infringement charges https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/delhi-hc-asks-libgen-sci-hub-to-s… N. V. Sathyanarayana Informatics -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Academic publishers vs LibGen and Sci-Hub: Make research, academic papers accessible to all, 2K scientists, students appeal to court, govt
by madhan muthu 26 Dec '20

26 Dec '20

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/academic-publishers-vs-libgen-and-sci… More than 2000 scientists, professors, researchers, teachers and students have signed a statement supporting free access to knowledge and urging the court and the government to allow the Indian academic community to continue to have access to Sci-Hub and Libgen,” said Soumitro Banerjee, general secretary of BSS and professor in the physical sciences department of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research at Kolkata. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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LISA – Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Greetings
by Pandurang Konnur 26 Dec '20

26 Dec '20

Dear Professional friends, LIS Academy is crossing its 4th year Foundation Day by 31st December. We have traveled a sizable distance with all your support and encouragement. The main motto of LIS Academy is to give the best of the best content and technology assistance to the professionals and profession at large. On the eve of turnover of the new year and the Foundation Day of LIS Academy, we wish you a very bright New Year 2021. Please download the New Year Greetings of LIS Academy from the following Link: https://bit.ly/3nS0Xdk The prestigious LISA Distinguished Lecture is entering into its third Lecture in the series. The 3rd LISA - Distinguished Lecture is scheduled for 9th January 2021. Dr.Sandhaya Shekhar, A renowned Management consultant, Former Founding CEO, IIT Madras Research Park, Advisor and Strategy Consultant, Chennai, has kindly consented to deliver her talk on "Restoring pride of place to libraries and librarians – a demand-side perspective." Please find the Brochure of the 3rd LISA - Distinguished Lecture from the following Link: https://bit.ly/3rszmSk To register for the 3rd LISA - Distinguished Lecture, please open the following Link: http://bit.ly/3mtytp0 To make her Lecture more connected to the Librarian Community, the Speaker has requested us to conduct an opinion poll among the Lecture prospective participants. Hence we request you to fill out the opinion poll from the following Link kindly: http://bit.ly/3mDtAK2 This poll will be active till 28th December 2020. PLEASE JOIN LIS ACADEMY AND STRENGTHEN LIS PROFESSION Thanks & Regards, Dr. P. V. Konnur President - LIS Academy, Bangalore Former LIS Professor, Fulbright Scholar - (UIUC, USA) Adviser - VTU Consortium, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi - 590 018, Mobile : 09449679737 E-Mail : pvkonnur(a)gmail.com Website: www.lisacademy.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Webinar on "Supply Chain Management and the Smart Factory Strategies" on 2nd Jan 2021 & Forthcoming Events of ACM, IEEE CS & CSI
by Mohan Hr 25 Dec '20

25 Dec '20

Webinar on "Supply Chain Management and the Smart Factory Strategies ================================================== IEEE CS Madras, ACM Chennai & CSI Chennai cordially invite you to the webinar Topic: Supply Chain Management and the Smart Factory Strategies Speaker: Dr. Parasuram Balasubramanian, Founder & CEO, Theme Work Analytics Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore Date: Saturday, 2nd Jan 2021 Time: 6 pm to 7 pm IST For presentation details & speaker profile, pl see the PDF invite at https://bit.ly/37LjLEC Register at https://bit.ly/36OiwVI Forthcoming Events ================= 26th Dec -- A Job Before Graduation: Proven Placement Tips for Students. https://bit.ly/2IiZVb7 29th Dec -- Understanding the Spirit-Mind-Brain-Body link for a better life. https://bit.ly/2JULbQn 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 Pl refer for pdf invite, presentation & speaker details of events in Jan 2021 at: https://bit.ly/3h3MJnq Interesting Reads And Information -- IRAI -- 201221: pl see tte post at https://bit.ly/34vv0QA

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An anti-science lawsuit - The Hindu
by madhan muthu 25 Dec '20

25 Dec '20

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/an-anti-science-lawsuit/article33405… (toll access) By Prof. Rahul Siddharthan https://www.imsc.res.in/rahul_siddharthan "In 2011, Ms. Elbakyan stepped into this mess with Sci-Hub, enabling scientists to search for academic papers from any publisher and freely download them. It is an efficient and easy-to-use site and extensively archives published scientific literature. Sci-Hub violates many copyrights owned by journals. But it is also a vast repository of open access, out-of-copyright, and public domain material, which a blanket injunction would disable. For scientists stuck at home in 2020, Sci-Hub has made literature accessible without navigating institutional VPNs. For journalists and the public, given the obscene per article charges levied by journals, Sci-Hub is the easiest and often only option." .....Sci-Hub’s “piracy” benefits the very people who create that content. This is the opposite of the situation in the creative arts where “pirating” music or films deprives creators of royalties; scientific authors get no royalties, and they and their funders want their work to be shared freely. But the keys to this largely taxpayer-funded work are held by private corporations overseas which have chosen to pursue a defendant from Kazakhstan in an Indian court...... -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sci_hub
by chudamani kuppahalli 25 Dec '20

25 Dec '20

If there is a problem, it should be investigated thoughroly and reported to the ministry of information technology to take further action. Otherwise simply blaming academic publishers is not right. I joined the open access movement suppliers by paying a certain amont. They started renewing it, without my consent, doubling the fees. So, nobody is against making profit. So , examine the pros and cons. Then take a fair decisionChudamani Sent from RediffmailNG on Android -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Informatics Innovation Award -- Nominations invited
by Sathyanarayana NV 25 Dec '20

25 Dec '20

Dear Members of Lis-Forum Season’s greeting and best wishes of Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Innovation is the backbone of growth and change. It is the change-driver for a better future. The future of library is constantly challenged by fast-changing media and technologies. Driving and shaping this future largely depends on the preparedness to innovate for developmental changes at all levels, from micro to macro. To encourage innovative practices and to promote innovative culture in libraries, Informatics, as part of its annual Library Technology Conclave (LTC2020), has instituted the Informatics Innovation Award, beginning LTC2021. There will be two awards, one each for the following two categories of libraries: Category-1: Universities/Educational Institutions offering Ph.D. & post-Doctoral programs; Research Institutes. Category-2: Schools, Colleges and Public Libraries – (Includes Professional Colleges like Medical, Engineering & Management etc. and under-graduate colleges offering bachelor’s degrees in science, Commerce Arts and Humanities This award shall be announced on 30th January 2021, the last day of the conclave, following a case study session on Innovation in Libraries presented by nominees short-listed by the Committee of Juries for this award. Nomination is open on the LTC2021 website https://LTC2021.org . Libraries are invited to submit their nominations online. January 15, 2021 is the last date for filing the nomination online. The Conclave, which had many pre-conclave webinars since November, is scheduled for 27-30 January 2021 in a webinar model. 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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The curious case of Sci-Hub.
by saleeq omar 25 Dec '20

25 Dec '20

The pathetic note by Vineet Kumar on the Sci-Hub is appalling. In countries where the scholarship is poorly funded or there are budgetary constraints every other day- to keep pace with the phenomenally expensive demands of the publishers, Sci-Hub free access, no matter the way it disseminates information, is perfectly reasonable. It is a step closer to the democratization of information; free access to publicly funded research. The advocates of open access who otherwise should have defended it are siding with the ones whose business is to trap knowledge behind paywalls. it deeply worries me about the future of research in countries like ours. The scholarship is being produced mainly by the universities and is given to third parties for free, and then pay that party to access our own research. There are these terrible problems that require an investigation, different perspectives to deal with them, but unfortunately, we have people who cluelessly are endorsing the monopoly. In our decadent library systems, that failed to give ubiquitous access to their ostensible subscribed resources during the pandemic, it was Sci-Hub, that provided free and uninterrupted access to everyone in their comfort zones. The only issue if there is any, is the issue of copyright, it is time for the policymakers to find alternative ways if they are unhappy with the Sci-Hub, rather than banning it for good. Saleeq Omar -PhD. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sci-Hub Case: The Court Should Protect Science From Greedy Academic Publishers
by madhan muthu 25 Dec '20

25 Dec '20

Sci-Hub Case: The Court Should Protect Science From Greedy Academic Publishers A court of law in India shouldn't allow itself to become a tool for perpetuating inequalities in access to scientific literature in the developing world. https://thewire.in/law/sci-hub-elsevier-delhi-high-court-access-medical-lit… -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Why Sci-hub Should be Here?
by Vasanth 24 Dec '20

24 Dec '20

Dear Sir/Madam, Sci-Hub is helping global researchers in an unprecedented way. Without this website we would have not been able to access global scholarly literature. Even today most of the scholarly publications are paywalled content. Alxandra Elkabayn the founder of this revolutionary website has time and again put forth her side of story how she struggled to access scholarly literature for her project work in her country. This story is similar to India and most of the Asian countries as well. How many of us individually or our institution have access to major scholarly literature. Even today many of the top notch universities in India have not been able to provide access to major databases leave aside access to full-text articles. Research communication was limited for learned societies for long after two world wars and emergence of industrial and information society it was exploited commercially. learned societies without any commercial interest have sustained the scholarly publications for so long. Now researchers involving in the production of knowledge have to pay to access their own content or knowledge. And we should also not allow scholarly communications to be in the hands of few commercial publishers. We must also remember Aran Swartz who gave away his life for making knowledge free for all. With same ethos Alexandra Elbakyan has also created Sci-Hub. The Sci-hub statistics has shown that India is one of the top countries in terms of number of downloads through Sci-Hub. Why we were using this site extensively, because of lack of access to scholarly literature. The efforts of Aran Swartz led to the invention of creative commons which is helping authors to make their research open and already Alxandra Elkabayn's Sci-Hub has also pushed the major publishers to adopt open access initiatives or making certain contents open for users. At least for this we must thankful for Alxandra Elkabayn and Sci-Hub. Sci-hub instead of stifling the scientific publishing has expanding its horizon more towards open science. The fruits of open science is very much visible during this pandemic crisis as well. The COVID-19 vaccine research and development is prime example for this. ------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N.LibrarianMysore

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