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22 Jul '19

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JNU Data Mining Project highlighted
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 20 Jul '19

20 Jul '19

Warning: Long Article. ================ The plan to mine the world’s research papers A giant data store quietly being built in India could free vast swathes of science for computer analysis — but is it legal? Carl Malamud in front of the data store of 73 million articles that he plans to let scientists text mine. Credit: Smita Sharma for Nature (image deleted in plain text extraction) Carl Malamud is on a crusade to liberate information locked up behind paywalls — and his campaigns have scored many victories. He has spent decades publishing copyrighted legal documents, from building codes to court records, and then arguing that such texts represent public-domain law that ought to be available to any citizen online. Sometimes, he has won those arguments in court. Now, the 60-year-old American technologist is turning his sights on a new objective: freeing paywalled scientific literature. And he thinks he has a legal way to do it. Over the past year, Malamud has — without asking publishers — teamed up with Indian researchers to build a gigantic store of text and images extracted from 73 million journal articles dating from 1847 up to the present day. The cache, which is still being created, will be kept on a 576-terabyte storage facility at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi. “This is not every journal article ever written, but it’s a lot,” Malamud says. It’s comparable to the size of the core collection in the Web of Science database, for instance. Malamud and his JNU collaborator, bioinformatician Andrew Lynn, call their facility the JNU data depot. No one will be allowed to read or download work from the repository, because that would breach publishers’ copyright. Instead, Malamud envisages, researchers could crawl over its text and data with computer software, scanning through the world’s scientific literature to pull out insights without actually reading the text. The unprecedented project is generating much excitement because it could, for the first time, open up vast swathes of the paywalled literature for easy computerized analysis. Dozens of research groups already mine papers to build databases of genes and chemicals, map associations between proteins and diseases, and generate useful scientific hypotheses. But publishers control — and often limit — the speed and scope of such projects, which typically confine themselves to abstracts, not full text. Researchers in India, the United States and the United Kingdom are already making plans to use the JNU store instead. Malamud and Lynn have held workshops at Indian government laboratories and universities to explain the idea. “We bring in professors and explain what we are doing. They get all excited and they say, ‘Oh gosh, this is wonderful’,” says Malamud. But the depot’s legal status isn’t yet clear. Malamud, who contacted several intellectual-property (IP) lawyers before starting work on the depot, hopes to avoid a lawsuit. “Our position is that what we are doing is perfectly legal,” he says. For the moment, he is proceeding with caution: the JNU data depot is air-gapped, meaning that no one can access it from the Internet. Users have to physically visit the facility, and only researchers who want to mine for non-commercial purposes are currently allowed in. Malamud says his team does plan to allow remote access in the future. “The hope is to do this slowly and deliberately. We are not throwing this open right away,” he says. The power of data mining The JNU data store could sweep aside barriers that still deter scientists from using software to analyse research, says Max Häussler, a bioinformatics researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). “Text mining of academic papers is close to impossible right now,” he says — even for someone like him who already has institutional access to paywalled articles. Since 2009, Häussler and his colleagues have been building the online UCSC Genome Browser, which links DNA sequences in the human genome to parts of research papers that mention the same sequences. To do that, the researchers have contacted more than 40 publishers to ask permission to use software to rifle through research to find mentions of DNA. But 15 publishers have not responded or have denied permission. Häussler is unsure whether he can legally mine papers without permission, so he isn’t trying. In the past, he has found his access blockedby publishers who have spotted his software crawling over their sites. “I spend 90% of my time just contacting publishers or writing software to download papers,” says Häussler. Chris Hartgerink, a statistician who works part-time at Berlin’s QUEST Center for Transforming Biomedical Research, says he now restricts himself to text-mining work from open-access publishers only, because “the hassles of dealing with these closed publishers are too much”. A few years ago, when Hartgerink was pursuing his PhD in the Netherlands, three publishers blocked his access to their journals after he tried to download articles in bulk for mining. Some countries have changed their laws to affirm that researchers on non-commercial projects don’t need a copyright-holder’s permission to mine whatever they can legally access. The United Kingdom passed such a law in 2014, and the European Union voted through a similar provisionthis year. That doesn’t help academics in poor nations who don’t have legal access to papers. And even in the United Kingdom, publishers can legally place ‘reasonable’ restrictions on the process, such as channelling scientists through publisher-specific interfaces and limiting the speed of electronic searching or bulk downloading to protect servers from overload. Such limits are a big problem, says John McNaught, deputy director of the National Centre for Text Mining at the University of Manchester, UK. “A limit of, say, one article every five seconds, which sounds fast for a human, is painfully slow for a machine. It would take a year to download around six million articles, and five years to download all published articles concerning just biomedicine,” he says. Wealthy pharmaceutical firms often pay extra to negotiate special text-mining access because their work has a commercial purpose, says McNaught. In some cases, publishers allow these firms to download papers in bulk, thus avoiding rate limits, according to a researcher at a pharmaceutical firm who did not want to be identified because they were not authorized to talk to the media. University academics, however, frequently restrict themselves to mining article abstracts from databases such as PubMed. That provides some information, but full texts are much more useful. In 2018, a team led by computational biologist Søren Brunak at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby showed that full-text searches throw up many more gene–disease links than do searches of abstracts (D. Westergaard et al. PLoS Comput. Biol. 14, e1005962; 2018). Carl Malamud and Andrew Lynn oversee the project at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi to extract text and images from 73 million research papers.Credit: Smita Sharma for Nature Scientists must also overcome technical barriers when mining articles. It is hard to extract text from the various layouts that publishers use — something that the JNU team is struggling with right now. Tools to convert PDFs to plain text don’t always distinguish clearly between paragraphs, footnotes and images, for instance. Once the JNU team has done it, however, others will be saved the effort. The team is close to completing the first round of extraction from the corpus of 73 million papers, Malamud says — although they will need to check for errors, so he expects the database won’t be ready until the end of the year. A world of possibilities Early enthusiasts are already gearing up to use the JNU depot. One is Gitanjali Yadav, a computational biologist at Delhi’s National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR) and a lecturer at the University of Cambridge, UK. In 2006, Yadav led an effort at NIPGR to build a database of chemicals secreted by plants. Called EssOilDB, this database is today scoured by groups from drug developers to perfumeries looking for leads. Yadav thinks that “Carl’s compendium”, as she calls it, could give her database a leg-up. To make EssOilDB, Yadav’s team had to trawl PubMed and Google Scholar for relevant papers, extract data from full texts where they could, and manually visit libraries to copy out tables from rare journals for the rest. The depot could fast-forward this work, says Yadav, whose team is currently writing the queries they will use to extract the data. Srinivasan Ramachandran, a bioinformatics researcher at Delhi’s Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, is also excited by Malamud’s plan. His team runs a database of genes linked to type 2 diabetes; they’ve been crawling PubMed abstracts to find papers. Now he hopes the depot could widen his mining net. And at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, a team called the Knowledge Futures Group says it wants to mine the depot to map how academic publishing has evolved over time. The group hopes to forecast emerging areas of research and identify alternatives to conventional metrics for measuring research impact, says team member James Weis, a doctoral student at MIT Media Lab. A career unlocking copyright Malamud only recently had the idea of extending his activism to academic publishing. The founder of a non-profit corporation called Public Resource, based in Sebastopol, California, Malamud has focused on buying up government-owned legal works and publishing them. These include, for instance, the state of Georgia’s annotated legal code, European toy-safety standards and more than 19,000 Indian standards for everything from buildings and pesticides to surgical equipment. Because these documents are often a source of revenue for government agencies, some of them have sued Malamud, who has argued back that documents which have the force of the law cannot be locked behind copyright. In the Georgia case, a US appeals court cleared him of infringement charges in 2018, but the state appealed, and the case is with the US Supreme Court. Meanwhile, a German court ruled in 2017 that the publication of toy standards by Public Resource, including a standard on baby dummies (pacifiers), was illegal. But Malamud has enjoyed victories, too. In 2013, he filed a lawsuit in a US federal court asking the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to publish the forms it collected from tax-exempt non-profit organizations — data that could help to hold these organizations to account. Here, the court ruled in Malamud’s favour, prompting the IRS to release the financial information of thousands of non-profit organizations in a machine-readable format. In early 2017, aided by the Arcadia Fund, a London-based charity that promotes open access, Malamud turned his attention to research articles. Under US law, works by US federal government employees cannot be copyrighted, and Public Resource says it has found hundreds of thousands of academic articles that are US government works and seem to defy this rule. Malamud has called for such articles to be freed from copyright assertions, but it’s not clear whether that would hold up in court. He has posted his preliminary results online, but has put further campaigning on hold, because the project prompted him to take on a wider mission: democratizing access to all scientific literature. Opportunity in India A trigger for this mission came from a landmark Delhi High Court judgment in 2016. The case revolved around Rameshwari Photocopy Services, a shop on the campus of the University of Delhi. For years, the business had been preparing course packs for students by photocopying pages from expensive textbooks. With prices ranging between 500 and 19,000 rupees (US$7–277), these textbooks were out of reach for many students. Rameshwari Photocopy Services in New Delhi was taken to court for copying parts of textbooks, and won.Credit: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty In 2012, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Taylor and Francis filed a lawsuit against the university, demanding that it buy a license to reproduce a portion of each text. But the Delhi High Court dismissed the suit. In its judgment, the court cited section 52 of India’s 1957 Copyright Act, which allows the reproduction of copyrighted works for education. Another provision in the same section allows reproduction for research purposes. Malamud has a long association with India: he first travelled there as a tourist in the 1980s, and he wrote one of his first books, on database design, on a houseboat in Srinagar. And around the same time that he heard about the Rameshwari judgment, he had come into possession (he won’t say how) of eight hard drives containing millions of journal articles from Sci-Hub, the pirate website that distributes paywalled papers for anyone to read. Sci-Hub itself has lost two lawsuits against publishers in US courts over its copyright infringements, but despite those judgments, some of its domains are still working today. Malamud began to wonder whether he could legally use the Sci-Hub drives to benefit Indian students. In a 2018 book about his work called Code Swaraj, co-authored with Indian tech entrepreneur Sam Pitroda, Malamud writes that he imagined showing up on Indian campuses in the equivalent of an American taco truck, ready to serve the articles up to those who wanted them. Ultimately, he zeroed in on the idea of the JNU text-mining depot instead. (Malamud has also helped to set up another mining facility with 250 terabytes of data at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, which isn’t in use yet.) But he is cagey about where the depot’s articles come from. Asked directly whether some of the text-mining depot’s articles come from Sci-Hub, he said he wouldn’t comment, and named only sources that provide free-to-download versions of papers (such as PubMed Central and the ‘Unpaywall’ tool). But he does say that he does not have contracts with publishers to access the journals in the depot. Is it legal? Malamud says that where he got the articles from shouldn’t matter anyway. The data mining, he says, is non-consumptive: a technical term meaning that researchers don’t read or display large portions of the works they are analysing. “You cannot punch in a DOI [article identifier] and pull out the article,” he says. Malamud argues that it is legally permissible to do such mining on copyrighted content in countries such as the United States. In 2015, for instance, a US court cleared Google Books of copyright infringement charges after it did something similar to the JNU depot: scanning thousands of copyrighted books without buying the rights to do so, and displaying snippets from these books as part of its search service, but not allowing them to be downloaded or read in their entirety by a human. The Google Books case was a test of non-consumptive data mining, says Joseph Gratz, an IP lawyer at the law firm Durie Tangri in San Francisco, California, who represented Google in the case and has previously represented Public Resource. Even though Google was displaying snippets, the court ruled that the text was too limited to amount to infringement. Google was scanning authorized copies of books (from libraries in many cases), even though it did not ask permission. Copyright holders might argue that if Sci-Hub or other unauthorized sources supplied the JNU depot, the situation would be different from the Google Books case, Gratz says. But a case involving unauthorized sources has never been argued in American courts, making it hard to predict the outcome. “There are good reasons why the source shouldn’t matter, but there may be arguments that it should,” says Gratz. The question of the facility’s legality in the United States might not even be relevant, because international researchers would be getting results from a depot that sits in India, even if they are accessing it remotely. So Indian law is likely to apply to the question of whether it is legal to create the corpus, says Michael W. Carroll, a professor at the American University’s Washington College of Law in Washington DC. Here, India’s copyright laws might help Malamud — another reason why the facility is in New Delhi. The research exemption in section 52 means that the JNU data depot’s actions would be considered fair under Indian law, argues Arul George Scaria, an assistant professor at Delhi’s National Law University. Not everyone agrees with this interpretation, however. Section 52 allows researchers to photocopy a journal article for personal use, but doesn’t necessarily allow the blanket reproduction of journals as the JNU depot has done, says T. Prashant Reddy, a legal researcher at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy in New Delhi. That entire articles aren’t shared with users does help, but the mass reproduction of text used to create the database puts the facility in “a legal grey zone”, Reddy says. Risky business When Nature contacted 15 publishers about the JNU data depot, the six who responded said that this was the first time they had heard of the project, and that they couldn’t comment on its legality without further information. But all six — Elsevier, BMJ, the American Chemical Society, Springer Nature, the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and the US National Academy of Sciences — stated that researchers looking to mine their papers needed their authorization. (Springer Nature publishes this journal; Nature’s news team is editorially independent of its publisher.) Malamud acknowledges that there is some risk in what he is doing. But he argues that it is “morally crucial” to do it, especially in India. Indian universities and government labs spend heavily on journal subscriptions, he says, and still don’t have all the publications they need. Data released by Sci-Hub indicate that Indians are among the world’s biggest users of their website, suggesting that university licences don’t go far enough. Although open-access movements in Europe and the United States are valuable, India needs to lead the way in liberating access to scientific knowledge, Malamud says. “I don’t think we can wait for Europe and the United States to solve that problem because the need is so pressing here.” Nature 571, 316-318 (2019) doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-02142-1 Updates & Corrections Correction 19 July 2019: An earlier version of this feature used the term ‘fair use’ inappropriately — the term isn’t relevant under Indian law. ======== Dr P Vyasamoorthy 040-27846631 / 09490804278 / +918179386472 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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How public libraries can help prepare us for the future
by Mohan Hr 19 Jul '19

19 Jul '19

For generations, libraries have helped people explore knowledge, information and culture <https://davidlankes.org/new-librarianship/the-atlas-of-new-librarianship-on…>. The invention of the public library meant more and more people got to use these collections and services. In the digital age, a public library can connect even the most remote community to networks of knowledge and information. Today’s public libraries work to engage marginalised communities as users; pioneering projects like Townsville’s Murri Book Club <https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/hgByphx6Bd8kD8VVr4ZD/full> explore ways to make the library meaningful to Indigenous people. Despite all this, there is one area in which public libraries are underused. Libraries can also help us plan for the future. Full story at http://theconversation.com/how-public-libraries-can-help-prepare-us-for-the… Interesting read With regards -- hrmohan

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Dr. R. Parameswaran has joined as Librarian at Central University Thiruvarur
by mouni＠nitt.edu 19 Jul '19

19 Jul '19

Dear All, It my pleasure to share you all that Dr. R. Parameswaran has joined as University Library at Central University Thiruvarur, Tamil Nadu on 19.7.2019. Let us all welcome and wish him all the best. With regards, P. Mounissamy

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Revised dates of 8th IoS National Conference - 'Scholarly Communication and Scientometrics' to 22-23 November 2019 at ACTREC
by Satish Munnolli 19 Jul '19

19 Jul '19

Dear Colleagues, It is because of administrative reasons at the centre, the 8th National Conference of Institute of Scientometrics on 'Scholarly Communication and Scientometrics' is rescheduled between 22-23 November 2019. Please check the conference website at https://ios2019.wixsite.com/conference for more details and regular updates. Thanks with regards, Satish Munnolli Organizing Secretary, IoS 2019 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Professionals and Colleagues, Greetings! The advancement of ICT has redefined the dynamics of information and its formats in science communication. The process of scholarly communication by researchers and academicians is effective more than ever before and its reach is much faster through online and social media. The transition of information formats and transmission through online channels, the reach of science for wider academicians and beyond have enhanced the research impact to the next level. Simultaneously, it has also opened the plethora of opportunities to the metrics community to compute the impact with much wider indicators. To deliberate the ongoing and future trends in scientific communications a national conference on ?Scholarly Communication and Scientometrics? is being organized between 22-23 November 2019 at Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Kharghar, Navi Mumbai in association with the Institute of Scientometrics (IoS). The conference aims to empower young researchers on Scholarly Communication Models, Academic integrity, New Trends in Publishing in Scholarly Journals, Publishing Ethics, eLearning, MOOCs, Digital Repositories, Research Evaluation Tools, Scholarly Impact, Big Data, Scientometrics, Role of Social Networks in Science, Altmetrics and many more. The two day national conference will have plenary talks, presentations, brainstorming sessions, deliberations, panel discussions by eminent speakers from across the disciplines of scholarly community and the domain of metrics. Full papers are invited for the conference on the main theme and not limited to the following sub-themes: - Scholarly Communication and Impact Analysis - Open Access and Scholarly Publishing Models - eLearning, MOOCs, and Digital Repositories - Scientometrics and Altmetrics - New Metrics & Scholarly Impact - Future of Communication and Metric Tools - Librarianship in Scholarly Communication - Research Evaluation Tools - Bibliometric Laws - Big Data & Social Networks - Digital Libraries and Open Access The paper submission guidelines, registration fees are available on the conference website. https://ios2019.wixsite.com/conference Communications/clarifications with regards to the conference may please be sent to: Conference Email ID: ios2019actrec(a)gmail.com With best regards, On behalf of Organizing Committee Satish S. Munnolli, PhD Organizing Secretary, IoS 2019 Librarian & OIC - SCoPE Cell, Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) Sector 22 Kharghar Navi Mumbai 410210 Tel: +91 22 3043 5026; 2740 5026; Fax: +91 22 2740 5085 Email: smunnolli(a)actrec.gov.in

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National Workshop on Koha, 20-21 July, 2019
by Gangadhar KC 18 Jul '19

18 Jul '19

Dear Professional Colleagues, NitteMeenakshi Institute of Technology, Yelahanka, Bengaluru is organizing a Two DayNational Workshop on Koha, an Open Source Integrated Library ManagementSoftware, during 20-21July, 2019. Topicscovered: Installation of KOHA 19.05 version Configuration of KOHA and customization of interface Data pre-processing,Marc Edit Importing data intoKOHA Bulk Patron Data/Imageimporting Introduction to allmodules of KOHA Administration Acquisition Authority Management CataloguingCirculationSerials Control Resourceperson: Mr. Gopalakrishna, BMSIT CourseFee: Rs 500/- includes study material, working lunch, tea and snacks. Numberof seats: 30 only. Paymentcan be made through PhonePay/GooglePay/Paytm to 9972318559 For online registration, click https://forms.gle/L8Yo5g1oKmsKygoD8 or contact the undersigned for moreinformation. Thanks and Regards, Dr. Gangadhar K.C. Senior Librarian Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology P.B.No.6429, Yelahanka, Bangalore-560 064. Ph.: 080-22167882; 8123381280; 9972318559

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M. Leeladharan awarded Ph.D.degree
by saravanan 18 Jul '19

18 Jul '19

Dear Friends, I am happy to inform you that M. Leeladharan (see: http://www.pondiuni.edu.in/profile/mr-m-leeladharan) Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Pondicherry University, successfully defended, at a public Viva Voce held on July 16, 2019 at the Department of Library and Information Science, Pondicherry University, his PhD thesis entitled "*/Information Access through Wi-Fi in the Institutions of Higher Learning in South India” /*under the guidance of Dr. R. Sevukan, Head & Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry. Prof. B. Ramesha, Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science, Bangalore University, Bangalore was the External Examiner. My heartiest congratulations to Dr. M. Leeladharan for this great achievement! Thanking you, With regards, -- Dr. G. Saravanan Librarian Library and Publication Division French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP) UMIFRE 21 CNRS-MAEE / USR 3330 # 11, Saint Louis Street, P.B. No. 33 PONDICHERRY - 605 001 South India, INDIA Tel : 0091 - 413 – 22 31 661 (direct) Fax : 0091 – 413 - 22 31 605 Mail : saravanan.g(a)ifpindia.org Web Site : www.ifpindia.org Web : http://www.ifpindia.org/saravanan-g https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Saravanan_G https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=LGzVAH8AAAAJ&hl=en ***************************************************************** Please consider the environment before printing this email. Thank you. *****************************************************************

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The JNU data source
by Subbiah Arunachalam 17 Jul '19

17 Jul '19

Friends: Here is an epoch-making initiative from JNU. Prof Andrew Lynn and Carl Malamud have joined hands to create a data-minable repository of millions of research papers. One cannot access the full text of any paper but can do data mining on site. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02142-1 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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Interesting Reads – 2019-07-15
by Mohan Hr 16 Jul '19

16 Jul '19

*Interesting Reads – 2019-07-15 * Read the Current Interesting Reads Post at https://infoforuse.blogspot.com/2019/07/interesting-reads-2019-07-15.html Current IR Quiz at https://infoforuse.blogspot.com/2019/07/ir-quiz-2019-07-15.html Archives of Interesting Reads Posts at https://infoforuse.blogspot.com/2019/01/interesting-reads-archives-2019-201… *Articles* - Time is running out for sand - Ban the lecture - 50 years since the Apollo Moon landing - The Race For The Electric Car - Top 10 recruitment trends to implement in 2019 and beyond - Bill Gates says a devastating 'quirk of nature' could kill 30 million people in a year. Researchers are fighting that threat by studying bird butts. - Human-Robot Interaction - You can rewild your garden into a miniature rainforest - Dark Web: A cheat sheet for business professionals - The South Asian monsoon, past, present and future - Videos: LogicLounge : Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms - Amazon sells a $19,000 do-it-yourself tiny-home kit that only takes 2 days to build - here's what it looks like inside - Can Khan Academy Scale to Educate Anyone, Anywhere? - How this STARTUP plan can help Nirmala Sitharaman Budget for 100 unicorns by 2024 - 10 TED Talks on AI and machine learning *Events / Announcements* - Mini Tutorial on “Demystifying Internet of Things (IoT)” on 20th Jul 2019 - UX meetup with a presentation on Academic UX on 27th Jul 2019 at IIT Madras - Summer school on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at IIT Tirupati from 22nd to 26th July 2019 - EURAXESS Science Slam India 2019 - Invite your researchers in India to win a trip to Europe & more! - Transforming Healthcare With IT: THCIT-2019 at Hyderabad in Sep 2019 - HCL Tech Bee: Preparing students for entry level IT jobs - TIC 2019: Tamil Internet Conference. 20-22 Sep 2019 at Chennai - CSI’s 53rd Annual Convention – 27-29 Sep 2019 at Udaipur - IEEE INDICON-2019 at Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat during 13-15 Dec 2019 *IR-Quiz* Participate in the IR Quiz – 2019-07-15 and win Rs. 250/- worth Amazon Gift Voucher from Dynamic Group. Visit https://infoforuse.blogspot.com/2019/07/ir-quiz-2019-07-15.html *Access Links* Read the current Interesting Reads Post at https://infoforuse.blogspot.com/2019/07/interesting-reads-2019-07-15.html Current IR Quiz at https://infoforuse.blogspot.com/2019/07/ir-quiz-2019-07-15.html Archives of Interesting Reads Posts at https://infoforuse.blogspot.com/2019/01/interesting-reads-archives-2019-201… *Feedback* We will be pleased to have your feedback on the “Interesting Reads” posts being sent once in five days. Pl. share the links of any interesting things you come across so that we can include them in these email posts. Also, pl. share the email ids of your colleagues, friends, peers and contacts, if you want them to be included in the google group to get regular posts. Pl. send all your communications to hrmohan.ieee(a)gmail.com With regards HR Mohan

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Seminar on Commercialization of Knowledge
by Usha Munshi 16 Jul '19

16 Jul '19

Seminar on Commercialization of Knowledge 17 July 2019 Jointly organized by India International Centre & Information and Communication Society of India Venue: Conference Room II, India International Centre, New Delhi *Programme * 10:00 10:05 Welcome by President, ICSI 10:05 10:10 Address by Shri K N Shrivastava IAS (Retd.), Director, India International Centre 10:10 10:30 Address by Dr. Renu Swarup, Secretary, Department of Biotechnology 10:30 10:50 Address by Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, AICTE 10:50 11:10 Address by Shri Pawan Agarwal IAS, CEO, FSSAI 11:10 11:30 Address by Dr. Neeta Verma, Director-General, National Informatics Centre 11:30 11:45 Tea 11:45 12:45 Panel Discussion on "*Commercialization of Knowledge and Open Access: Striking a Balance*" Dr. Pankaj Mittal, Secretary-General, Association of Indian Universities Prof. Riyaz Punjabi, Formerly Vice-Chancellor, University of Kashmir & President, International Centre for Peace Studies Dr. H. Purushottam, Chairman, National Research Development Corporation Dr. Unnat Pandit, Director, Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog Dr. N. Parmeswaran, Advisor, Ministry of Human Resource Development 12:45 13:00 Summing up and Vote of Thanks 13:00 14:00 Lunch 14:00 15:00 AGM (Only for ICSI Members) -- Dr. Usha Mujoo Munshi India International Centre 40, Max Mueller Marg New Delhi 110 003 INDIA Clo.iic(a)nic.in; umunshi(a)gmail.com Telephone +91-11-24609306, 24620544 Mobile +91-9717967686 ORCID : 0000-0002- 2569-063X ****************************************

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Article Request
by Rajeev Sharma 16 Jul '19

16 Jul '19

Dear Sir/Madam, We are in the need of following articles for R&D work, kindly forward copy of the same if available with your library. *A New Method to Target Selection for Anti-ship Missile* Lu Yi,Jiang Yonghua 《Acta Aeronautica Et Astronautica Sinica》 2010-04 URL: http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-HKXB201004020.htm Warm Regards Rajeev Kumar Sharma Knowledge Centre DRDL, HYD -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Webinar- Discover The Future of Libraries
by Pabby, Mohit 16 Jul '19

16 Jul '19

Dear Librarians, Technology has given a new definition on what it means to be a librarian today. Evolving demands of librarians, no matter in collections management or library services, have been a huge motivator for libraries to relook at the competencies required to be successful and future ready. Explore the role of librarians in the future at our upcoming webinar, where Dr. H. Anil Kumar, Librarian and Head of National Information Centre on Management (NICMAN) at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad talks about how library professionals can better engage themselves with users in a relevant manner. He will also cover topics on emerging trends in librarianship and technology, users' expectations and challenges for libraries, developing strategies for the future and creating teams for the future. There will be opportunities to ask questions at the end of the presentation. Key Highlights: 1. Exploring the role of libraries in the future. 2. Summary of emerging trends in the library ecosystem. 3. Planning for the future of libraries. Webinar Topic: The Future of Libraries Date: 31 July 2019, Wednesday Time: 1.00PM IST Click here<https://webinars.wileyresearch.com/webinar/the-future-of-libraries/?utm_med…> to register now. Featured Speaker Dr. H. Anil Kumar Librarian and Head National Information Centre on Management (NICMAN) Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad Best Regards, Mohit Pabby Assistant General Manager, Marketing- Wiley India [Wiley]

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Consultative meeting of LIS Experts, peers and leading educationists on NEP 2019
by Pandurang Konnur 16 Jul '19

16 Jul '19

LIS Academy & Raman Research Institute Invites LIS Experts, peers and educationists for in-depth discussion on Libraries and Librarians in context of New Education Policy – 2019 (NEP – 2019) Venue: Auditorium, Raman Research Institution Date: 20-07-2019, 11 AM to 5 PM Dear Professional Friends, As posted earlier on this forum, LIS Academy in collaboration with RRI Library is organizing a Consultative meeting of LIS Experts, peers and leading educationists to suggest the inclusion of roles and responsibilities of Library and information centres in the Draft NEP – 2019 at Raman Research Institute, Bangalore. The expectation of various professionals including academicians and researchers is very high on this National Education Policy – 2019, under MHRD. The volume runs to about 477 pages but the librarians input to this report requires more and serious attention. If librarians neglect at this stage, sufferers are our young and future professionals. Many professionals requested LIS Academy to take up this task seriously as majority of the senior LIS professionals are raising various issues in an informal discussion. LIS Academy also invites other professional’s association and scholarly bodies in LIS to join hands for the serious attempt in this progressive step. LIS Academy also trying to bring-in all the LIS pioneers / experts and eminent educationists on a common platform and submit to MHRD for inclusion in new Draft NEP-2019 Hence it is appealed to all the LIS Professionals to join their hands with LIS Academy in preparing the memorandum to be submitted to MHRD. It is requested to all those LIS Professionals who are desirous of attending this meeting may please fill up the small google form in the following link to enable the organisers to make necessary arrangements of lunch: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdhWg_dvyOfe8gn1kZE8WJpTM43x_lF9hr… All those who have posted their postings on this forum on NEP and all the outstation LIS Professionals are unable to attend this meeting and desirous of contributing to this cause are requested to download all the documents from the LIS Academy website at <lisacademy.org> and send their inputs to the following email address before 19th July 2019: lisacademyorg(a)gmail.com Venue: Auditorium, Raman Research Institute, Mekri Circle, Bangalore Date: 20-07-2019, Timings: 11 AM to 5 PM Hope all those LIS professionals who are keen to help the future generation of young LIS Professionals ALL ARE WELCOME * Dr. P. V. Konnur* *Former LIS Professor*, *Fulbright Scholar* - (UIUC, USA) *Adviser - VTU Consortium, * *Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi - 590 018, * *Chairman* - State Level Book Selection Committee, Karnataka *President* - LIS Academy, Bangalore *Member of Syndicate*, KUVEMPU University, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India *Mobile* : 09449679737 *E-Mail* : pvkonnur(a)gmail.com Website: *www.lisacademy.org <http://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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Biographical article on the life and achievements of Dr. R.K. Sharma, Librarian
by Salman Haider 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Biographical article on R. K. Sharma, librarian in the United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan (UNIC), New Delhi. URL: https://www.librarianshipstudies.com/2019/04/r-k-sharma.html *Abstract: *R. K. Sharma (full name, Ravinder Kumar Sharma; born January 1, 1956) is a librarian from India. He is currently working as Librarian in the United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan (UNIC), New Delhi. He is a knowledge management expert in exploring information on the UN system using various online UN information resources. He is a focal point for providing necessary information support to the public at large on the United Nations and global contemporary issues. Dr. R. K. Sharma is also a nodal expert on the digital library for the UN System in India. Keeping the spotlight on the library profession has been Dr. Sharma's key motto. His passion has driven him to intensely network among libraries and library professionals and made me thirsty to understand how in these highly challenging and charged times, new and emerging technologies can assist libraries to claim their rightful space in the sun. Besides having an extraordinary record of serving top academic and research libraries, he has been associated with key national and international professional organizations working for the growth and development of the libraries in the country. Currently, he is serving as the President of the Delhi Library Association. His strong organizational skills and ability to integrate receptive changes have enabled him to achieve his persistent goal of ensuring financial stability for libraries and promoting their overall growth and development. As an active senior professional, Dr. R. K. Sharma has served on many selection committees as a library expert. He has delivered lectures at various platforms, organized several seminars, conferences and workshops and chaired several technical sessions at the national and international seminars, conferences and workshops. Dr. Sharma has contributed many research papers in refereed journals and edited many books. His interests are library & information management, computerization of library information services, web-based library services. He is always keen to explore further means of co-operation by which he could contribute to the information society at large. Salman Haider Librarian -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Extension of time for calendar of events of KALA Elections
by Pandurang Konnur 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Dear KALA Member friends, As you all know that the KALA Elections have been declared and General Body Meeting has been scheduled on 28th of July 2019 Election Notification may be downloaded from the following link: http://kalaonline.com/sites/default/files/election-notification.pdf As per the Election Notification, the last date for submitting the nominations for the membership of the Governing Council of KALA was today @ 5pm the 15th July 2019. However there were totally six nominations were received by the end of the last date. Hence inconsultation with the President and office bearers of KALA, I declare and reschedule the calender of events as under: Last Date for submission of Nominations: 5pm on 22-07-2019 Last date for withdrawal of applications: 5pm on 23-07-2019 Scrutiny and final declaration of valid nominations: 5pm on 24-07-2019 However, the date of General Body Meeting and the Election will be as per the earlier schedule ie,. : 28-07-2019 I request all the KALA Members to take this election process seriously and encourage competent candidates to file their nominations to take the KALA to the greater heights. Thanks & Regards, * Dr. P. V. Konnur* *ELECTION OFFICER, KALA ELECTIONS* *Former LIS Professor*, *Fulbright Scholar* - (UIUC, USA) *Adviser - VTU Consortium, * *Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi - 590 018, * *Chairman* - State Level Book Selection Committee, Karnataka *President* - LIS Academy, Bangalore *Member of Syndicate*, KUVEMPU University, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India *Mobile* : 09449679737 *E-Mail* : pvkonnur(a)gmail.com Website: *www.lisacademy.org <http://www.lisacademy.org/>*

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IFLA WLIC 2019 ATHENS, GREECE
by Krishna Kittur 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Hi friends If any LIS professional from India is attending IFLA WORLD LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CONGRESS (WLIC) to be held at Athens, Greece on August 23-30, 2019 kindly contact me at the following address- Krishna N Kittur, kn.kittur(a)gmail.com, kitturlis(a)gmail.com 9449010207, 8660332805. Thanks Yours sincerely Kittur ============================== Krishna N Kittur 863 25th Main, 11th Cross, Sector 1 HSR Layout BENGALURU 560102 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Customs Duty on Newsprints Also
by Vasanth 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Dear Sir/Madam, The recent budget presented by the Finance Minister Nirmala Seetharaman has imposed the customs duty on books published by foreign Publishers. The custom duty is not only imposed on books but also on newsprints. This is very retrograde in nature. The 10% percent customs duty on newsprints is also going to have negative impact on print journalism. The daily newspaper unlike news media or TV journalism have been critical of governments and by doing so have strengthen the democracy. Government should withdraw its order to impose customs duty on books and newsprints. The increasing customs duty also impact the readers strongly as the price of newspapers and books goes up people think twice to purchase or subcribe books and news papers. Senior Journalist Akar Patel has written an excellent piece on this. Please read. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/aakarvani/statutory-warning-newsp… With Regards------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N.Mysore

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Workshop at University of Mysore
by N.S. Harinarayana 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Dear Colleagues The Department of Studies in Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Manasagangothri, Mysuru is organizing a Two Day National Workshop on “Quality Research Methodology & Writing, Publishing Skills for Researchers” on 26th & 27th July 2019. The main speaker is Prof. Yateendra Joshi, a freelance copy editor of scientific texts and the author of ‘Communicating in Style’, a member of the editorial board of ‘Information Design Journal’, and an ‘Associate Fellow of Communication Research Institute, Australia’. Other resource persons, including the faculty from the Department, will address the participants on various issues of importance. The workshop will cover various topics including but not limited to review of literature, compilation of bibliography, searching databases, publishing in high-impact-factor journals, reporting for journals/thesis, presentation of data, plagiarism and other issues. *Who can participate?* The workshop is very useful to all the: - Faculty Members - Research Scholars - PhD Course work Students, and - Project Assistants *Registration:* Registration and participation are on first cum first serve basis. The course fee is 1100/- per participant. *Get in Touch: * Prof. Khaiser Jahan Begum Chairperson 9845328672 (Cell) khaiser.nikam6(a)gmail.com With regards ------------------------------------- N.S. Harinarayana Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006 Off. Ph: (0821) 2419395 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Mr. R. Narenthiran Awarded Ph.D.degree
by saravanan 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Dear Friends, It’s my pleasure to inform you that, Dr. R. Narenthiran (see: http://www.ifpindia.org/narenthiran-r) Librarian, French Institute of Pondicherry, Puducherry has been awarded with PhD degree at the Department of Library and Information Science, Annamalai University, Chidamabaram. The title of his thesis is "*/Problems and perspectives in cataloguing and digitization of multilingual script manuscripts libraries in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry: a study/*” under the guidance of Prof. P. Ravichandran, Professor & Head, Dept. of Library and Information Science, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, Chidambaram. Congratulation for Big Achievement! Thanking you, With regards, -- Dr. G. Saravanan Librarian Library and Publication Division French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP) UMIFRE 21 CNRS-MAEE / USR 3330 # 11, Saint Louis Street, P.B. No. 33 PONDICHERRY - 605 001 South India, INDIA Tel : 0091 - 413 – 22 31 661 (direct) Fax : 0091 – 413 - 22 31 605 Mail : saravanan.g(a)ifpindia.org Web Site : www.ifpindia.org Web : http://www.ifpindia.org/saravanan-g https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Saravanan_G https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=LGzVAH8AAAAJ&hl=en ***************************************************************** Please consider the environment before printing this email. Thank you. *****************************************************************

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Fwd: Frontiers and Robert-Jan Smits emails reveal how Plan S was conceived – For Better Science
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 Jul '19

12 Jul '19

How was Plan-S conceived? https://forbetterscience.com/2019/07/11/frontiers-and-robert-jan-smits-emai… Best wishes. Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009

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RIMS - National Conference 2019
by Dr.vedamurthyyn＠gmail.com 12 Jul '19

12 Jul '19

Dear Sir / Madam, Greetings from *Ramaiah Institute of Management Studies/Sciences (RIMS)* !! RIMS in association with the Public Relations Council of India (PRCI) is proud to host the National Conference on *Innovations and Emerging Trends for a Sustainable Global Economy* on *September 6, 2019 *at *Bangalore**.* We invite prospective authors to present their papers, research findings, innovations, creative problem-solving approaches and technology application from the following broad field of Management. *Tracks:* General Management, Marketing, Operations, Banking & Finance, *Library Science* and Human Resource. *The themes of library Sciences are as follows :* •Library Automation •Digital Library •Library Innovation •Usage of Internet in Management College Libraries •Electronic Resource & Service to Academic Library •RFID Technology & ICT in Library The guidelines for the conference are a.The Abstract should not exceed 300 words. It should include the following: ▪ Title of the paper ▪ Name of the author (s) ▪ Designation ▪ Name of the Institution ▪ Contact details ▪ Keywords b.The length of full paper including tables, diagrams, illustrations, references, etc., shall not be less than 3000 words and shall not exceed 8000 words. c.The paper should be typed in Times New Roman 12 point font with 1.5 line spacing. The foot notes shall be typed in Times New Roman 10-point font with 1 line spacing. For citations, APA style to be followed. d.The abstracts to be submitted within July 15, 2019 and the full paper shall be submitted on or before August 15, 2019, to conference2019(a)rimsbangalore.in. The confirmation on the selection of the abstract (s) will be communicated by July 20th, 2019. The registration fee details are Participant Amount(Rs) Corporate delegates 1500/- Faculties (participation only) 1,000/- Faculties (Presentation & Publication) (Only two authors per paper) 1,500/- Research Scholars/Research Students (Only two authors per paper) 1,000/- In absentia (individual) 2,000/- Alumni (MSRF)* 500/- * The payment details are :* Registration fee may be paid by either cash/cheque/demand draft/NEFT favoring: Ramaiah Institute of Management Studies Account No.: 093701002296 Bank: ICICI Bank, Branch: New BEL Road, IFSC: ICIC0000937 *Key Highlights of the conference include, but are not limited to:* § Presented papers will be published in *UGC Approved Journals* and *RIMS Journal of Management* § Outstanding contribution in a research track will receive *Best Paper Award* § Plenary sessions and interface with *Academic & Industry experts* The conference aims to provide an opportunity to the thought leaders to exchange new ideas with industry experts and analysts for a sustainable global and gig economy. We request you to kindly peruse the appended brochure and revert for any further information / clarification, as we look forward for your valued participation. Warm Regards, Regards,, Dr.Vedamurthy.Y.N MLISc,MSW,DHISc,Ph.D,K-SLET Librarian Ramaiah Institute of Management Studies/Sciences New Bel Road ,MSRIT Post M.S.R.Nagar Bangalore-54 9880400501

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Use of You Tube Channel - Librarian Guide in solving the technical problems in libraries and self-learning - A study
by Dp Tripathi 11 Jul '19

11 Jul '19

Dear Sir/Madam/Friends, I am delighted to share this questionnaire to collect your feedback to complete my study. The purpose of this study is to understand the impact of Librarian Guide - You Tube channel in solving the technical problems in libraries and also in self learning of different professionals. The study targets each professionals working in different libraries and also the students of library and information science in India and abroad too. I hereby humbly request you to please spare 10 minutes from your busy schedule and fill up the questionnaire to complete the study. The link is mentioned below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScIRuiROahcSsMa7CYNx7Udqhray51mJk8… It will be really great assistance if you submit your feedback on or before July 20, 2019. I hereby assure that your name and all details will remain confidential and will be used only in aggregate. If you have any query / question, please do write to me at dptripathi79(a)gmail.com Thanking you in advance for your valuable time. D. P. Tripathi -- ************************************ *Dhanwantari Prakash Tripathi* MA (ECO), MLISc, HDISM, ECDL Ph.D. (Pursue) Commonwealth Fellow, University of East London ************************************ Assistant Librarian & In-charge Periodicals & E-Resources Section Biju Patnaik Central Library National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha –769008 INDIA ************************************ *YouTube - Librarian Guide <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqq2XkD5KKp5W7VrMJOsGhw>* *UGC-NET Preparation Site <http://ugcnet.dptripathi.in>* ************************************ *M - +91-8895296796* *U - www.dptripathi.in <http://www.dptripathi.in> * ************************************ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Invite for UX meetup with a presentation on Academic UX on 27th Jul 2019 at IIT Madras
by Mohan Hr 11 Jul '19

11 Jul '19

Dear all Pl. find an invite for UX meetup with a presentation on Academic UX on 27th Jul 2019 at IIT Madras The formal PDF invite is at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1g4drFHzwAV5wHC66RrNSNhHXpw_sA4KZ To facilitate logistics, please pre-register at http://bit.ly/30jfLFK With regards HR Mohan Chairman, ACM Chennai INVITE =================================== Interaction Design Foundation, Chennai Chapter Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai ACM Chennai Professional Chapter Cordially invite you for an UX meetup with the following presentation Ms. Ramya Vasan on Academic UX on Saturday, 27th Jul 2019 from 9.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. at Lecture Hall CS25, Dept. of CSE, IIT Madras, Chennai – 600036 (Located in the 1st floor of the Computer Science & Engineering Dept, adjacent to the CSE Dept. Office) Location map: https://goo.gl/maps/xnVpcox3tz88BCjg9 Programme 9.00 a.m. : Registration 9.30 a.m. : Session 1 11.00 a.m. : Tea Break 11.15 a.m. : Session 2 What you will gain from this event: Session-1: Briefing about difficulties of designers in Design industry and the ways to overcome by Globalised standard design. The Key Notes include: Perspective of UX; Design, Client Satisfaction or User Requirement?; Impacts of Design; Lack of knowledge; Effects of design in an individual; Design for all; Compulsory basic design education in academics; Globalised theory for design; Standard of design in India; and Condition of a designer in Chennai Session-2: A conventional designer concentrates in acquiring technological advancements but ignorant of social issues. Being an environmental designer is more important than being an experienced designer. Social design is completely based on the environmental issues and the importance of giving solutions to such problems through design. The Key Notes include: Social design; Social Issues; Importance of EVS; Role of designers in social issues; Design thinking; Consistency in designing; Support of designers in the growth of a society; Change the term , "Don't design for free"; Society driven designer; and Being social minded About the speaker: Ms. Ramya is a Computer Science Engineering graduate, a staunch UX designer who never hesitates to take that extra step ahead for satisfactory completion. A perpetual explorer of multifarious dimension in designing, she constantly stands by the point that UX designing is more than a profession and it should be evolved eternally. She is a UX mentor believing in absolute empirical knowledge. As an initiative to indulge designing to every layman, she started a community for designers with a vision to inculcate designing right from schooling. She is an avid social worker who realizes that preserving Nature and Environment are the fundamental duties of every human being. She leads a technical team of 10 members in an Environmental NGO named Visai which is working to eradicate ignorance. To facilitate logistics, please pre-register at http://bit.ly/30jfLFK

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Science & Technology Metrics 2019
by Francis Jayakanth 11 Jul '19

11 Jul '19

From: Diana Christy, fgct(a)socio.org.uk Thu Jul 11 15:16:43 2019 First International Conference on Science & Technology Metrics (STMet 2019) Bangkok, Thailand December 02-04, 2019 (www.socio.org.uk/stm) Building metrics is the key to science and technology measurement and translating the measures to work better. Metric is not confined to draw numbers and analyze. Selecting a metric depends on synthesizing multiple directions and evidence-based data. Producing benchmarks and standards in science and technology evaluation and implementing them with real data, mark the full-fledged system. Quite recently, we are witnessing the emergence of new metrics-based models aiming to reflect science and technology growth. The proposed Science and Technology Metrics (STMet 2019) conference is concerned with how the use of many metrics may involve the assessment of different aspects of science and technology which are best expressed using different approaches. Besides the standard conference track and the Doctoral Symposium, the STMetrics will host a number of workshops and tutorials related to the theme of the conference. The purpose of the workshops is to provide participants with a friendly, interactive atmosphere for presenting novel ideas and discussing their application of metrics in Science and Technology System. The goal of the tutorials is to enable the participants to familiarise themselves with theoretical as well as practical aspects and application of metrics. The proposed conference consists of invited talks, presentations, tutorials, workshops and discussions. The STMet has tracks on specialized topics. The STMet address the below themes, not limited. Citation-based metrics Ranking Systems Ranking of Journals, Institutions, and Countries Discipline and Domain Analysis Economic factors Databases and datasets for evaluation Evaluation Tools and Indicators Web-based metrics Visibility and impact Internationalization Text-based Metrics Innovation indicators Wearable Devices Open data Scientific Collaboration and cooperation analysis National Evaluation Systems Open access and open publishing New indices for evaluation Altmetrics Web-based metrics Data Science and Digital Repositories Scientific Visualization e-Science in the Cloud Scientific Journalism Scientific Publications Track 1: Open Science Science relies on the sharing of ideas, research results, data, and methods. Quite often many scientific discoveries and innovations fail to reach the society because of the closed scientific publications. If Science is built based on existing knowledge it needs to reach every one and hence Open Science leads the knowledge transaction. This track addresses the challenges and issues and pave the way to develop and nurture open science. Track 2: Peer Review Peer review is the process by which experts critically examine the research contributions using standard metrics. Peer review helps maintain and enhance quality both directly by detecting weaknesses and errors in specific works. These reviews enable to decide publication, research grants, employment, promotion, and tenure. Peer review promotes accountability and improves the quality of work. Track 3: Content and Text mining based metrics This track enables to present works that use numeric indices to process unstructured (textual) information and to build various data mining (statistical and machine learning) algorithms. Information can be extracted to derive summaries for the words contained in the documents or to compute summaries for the documents based on the words contained in them. One can analyze words, clusters of words used in documents, and we could analyze documents and determine similarities between them or how they are related to other variables. The studies of text mining will “turn text into numbers” (meaningful indices), which can then be incorporated in other analyses. All submitted papers will be reviewed by a double-blind (at least three reviewers), and participative peer review. The review process will enable the selection process of those that will be accepted for their presentation at the international conference. Authors of accepted papers who registered in the conference can have access to the evaluations and possible feedback provided by the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their papers, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers. Mentoring support is available to young researchers and authors of developing countries. Track 4: Technology Transfer Metrics The technology transfer enables the outreach of the research outcomes to a wider level. The technology transfer measures are of interest to practitioners, program managers, and policymakers in the evaluation of technology transfer programs. Building metrics can lead to a better measurement of effectiveness, efficiency, and return on investment. The introduction of newer metrics will be helpful to identify the benchmarking tools. The proposed track will discuss the currently existing metrics and the research on the development of new metrics as well as their applications. Chair: Mohammad Hassanzadeh, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran Track 5: Open Science Metrics The primary goal of this track is to enable to construct, identify, and specify relevant metrics and indicators for open science. Measuring the extent of openness in science and creating or using metrics is important. Measuring Open science help to realize the innovation. We can thus find how collaboration and knowledge sharing occurs and how institutions work on it. Openness also yields enormous data and knoweldge. This track gauge using available data about openness in science. The post-conference modified versions of the papers will be published in the following journals. 1. Journal of Digital Information Management 2. International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research 3. Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia 4. Special Section in Research Evaluation 5. Journal of Scientometric Research Committee General Chairs Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Labs., UK & India Han Woo PARK, YeungNam University, South Korea Program Chairs Ramesh Kundra, NISTADS, India Daisy Jacobs, University of Zululand, South Africa Program Co-Chairs Kazuyuki, Motohashi, University of Tokyo, Japan Amir Reza Asnafi, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran Important Dates Full Paper Submission September 15, 2019 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection October 15, 2019 Registration Due November 20, 2019 Camera Ready Due November 20, 2019 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos December 03, 2019 Main conference December 02-04, 2019 Paper submission: http://socio.org.uk/stm/paper-submission/ Contact: stm(a)socio.org.uk ----------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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International Conference on Reshaping Librarianship: Innovations and Transformation (ICRLIT-2019)
by Arunachalam Hariharan 11 Jul '19

11 Jul '19

International Conference on Reshaping Librarianship: Innovations and Transformation (ICRLIT-2019) Organized by Arignar Anna Central Library, Bharathiar University, CoimbatoreandSociety for the Advancement of Library and Information Science(SALIS Sponsored byIndian Council of Social Science Research [ICSSR]Conference Date: 16-17, August 2019 OBJECTIVES OF THE CONFERENCE To discuss, debate and seek an alternative to manage current librariesTo provide a platform for professional discussion among LIS professionals in academics, services, and research disciplinesTo create an environment for expanding the professional network and reshaping librarianship To Address the innovative problem area and to lead away for managing such problemsTo Recommend suitable Transformation policy measuresTo provide an interdisciplinary platform for the academicians, researchers, managers, industrial participants and LIS graduates around the world to share their research findings WHO CAN ATTEND?The conference is an excellent opportunity for LIS professionals to connect, discuss and debate in order to shape the 21sr century academic library ICRLIT-2019 is open to all. CONFERENCE THEME ICRLIT - 2019 will explore two essential areas that drive the modern academic library: The role of libraries in advocating and facilitating librarianship; and the library is an adaption to serve the technically changing needs of collections and their users. Major Conference THEMES The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to the following topics:Reshaping of the LibrarianshipManaging Modern Libraries: Innovation and TransformationBest Practices in Library Resources and ServicesCase Studies of Resources and ServicesDifferent Aspects Research InnovationManaging e-ContentsDigital Content Creation, Preservation and DeliveryResources SharingMetric StudyUser Study IMPORTANT DATES Last date for Abstract Submission 5th July 2019Abstract Acceptance Communication 10th July 2019Last Date for Full Paper Submission 20th July 2019Last Date for Registration 25th July 2019Conference Date 16th and 17th August 2019 REGISTRATION FEE: PARTICIPANTS Indian Delegates (Individual Rs. 2000.00Indian Research Scholars and Students (Regular) Rs. 1500.00Foreign Delegates (Individual) $.100.00 Foreign Scholars and Students (Regular) $. 50.00 BANK DETAILS: Beneficiary’s Name : The Organizing SecretaryICRLIT-2019Bank Account Number : 822610110014437IFS Code : BKID0008226SWIFT Code : BKIDINBBCOMMICR No. : 641013011Name of the Bank & Address : Bank of India, BU Campus, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore – 641 046, Tamil Nadu, India Note: Registration fee is non-refundable. Registration will be confirmed, only if the form is duly completed and payment received in full. Please note that the conference fee does not include accommodation. Address for Communication Dr. R. SarangapaniConvenor / Organizing Secretary University Librarian / Head i/cArignar Anna Central LibraryBharathiar UniversityCoimbatore – 641 046Tamil Nadu, IndiaWebsite: icrlit2019.com e-Mail: icrlit.2019(a)gmail.com Phone: +91-9443098662, +91-422-2428231,36 for more details please visit:www.icrlit2019.comwww.salis.in Dr. A.Hariharan Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) 32G, Sabari Nagar Extension, Mugalivakkam Chennai - 600 125 India hariharan_ah(a)yahoo.com www.salis.in 044-22522327, 09841601903 Vasippoam Nesippoam ( Let us Read and Love books) - a mass movement by SALIS

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