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Fwd: Thank you for your interest: IAP “Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences” Launch
by Subbiah Arunachalam 18 Mar '22

18 Mar '22

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: InterAcademy Partnership Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022, 00:30 Subject: IAP “Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences” Dear colleagues and friends, Thank you for registering your interest and for participating in our webinar on 16 March, as we launched a new IAP report on* Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences. * Over 1,200 of you registered and 400 participated on the day, largely from the research community and from across the world. In our exit poll, it was heartening to see that over 75% of you now feel better equipped to deal with predatory academic practices as a result of the webinar, and 99% of you believe that these practices are a threat. More encouraging still, 99% of you have undertaken to read, disseminate and act on the report, including as advocates for its recommendations at institutional, national, regional and/or global level. Thank you. A reminder that the full and summary reports (in 7 languages) can be downloaded from our webpage at Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences (interacademies.org) <https://clicks.eventbrite.com/f/a/O7vpIBf6mfsA_DuolWG7YA~~/AAQxAQA~/RgRkFLi…> (noting that you'll need to click on the specific report links you are interested in to open/download them). You can follow IAP's programmes, opportunities and events by subscribing to our quarterly newsletter https://www.interacademies.org/news/e-bulletin <https://clicks.eventbrite.com/f/a/z62yOo4is3_Uvsn8jd7KSw~~/AAQxAQA~/RgRkFLi…>, and following us on Twitter https://twitter.com/IAPartnership <https://clicks.eventbrite.com/f/a/7DC6L52eX7Lae3mJ7sRMiA~~/AAQxAQA~/RgRkFLi…>, LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/interacademypartnership/ <https://clicks.eventbrite.com/f/a/R0rJEemHvDcb8HPF5Ty6-Q~~/AAQxAQA~/RgRkFLi…>, and Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZl-b7akbFF81bKBZsc8YbQ <https://clicks.eventbrite.com/f/a/NQ38EPKbZLNVc2dFj_XnMg~~/AAQxAQA~/RgRkFLi…> . Very best wishes, The IAP Secretariat

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Combating predatory academic journals and conferences
by Subbiah Arunachalam 18 Mar '22

18 Mar '22

Friends, The Inter Academy Partnership has just released a report on Combating Predatory academic journals and conferences. Please see https://www.interacademies.org/sites/default/files/2022-03/1.%20Full%20repo… This report should be of interest to researchers and librarians everywhere, and especially India, as India is often referred to as the home for a large number of such journals and the UGC had to bring out a white list of journals. Best wishes. Subbiah Arunachalam 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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ResearchGate dealt a blow in copyright lawsuit
by Raghavendra pawar 18 Mar '22

18 Mar '22

Very Interesting, pls go through it. ResearchGate dealt a blow in copyright lawsuit https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00513-9?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20220317… Thank you, Ragahvendra R -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Why are both UGC- CARE List of Journals and Good Academic Research Practices (GARP) Archaic?
by Vasanth 17 Mar '22

17 Mar '22

Dear Sir/Madam, This paper discusses the limitations of Good Academic Research Practices (GARP) and UGC-CARE List in engaging with the emerging scholarly open publishing platforms, specifically preprints. This paper throws some light on preprints and their role in accelerating science communication during the COVID-19 pandemic. The UGC’s opaqueness towards emerging open publishing platforms in its GARP document and propagating traditional scholarly publications through UGC-CARE List has also been deliberated. Full text can be accessed at: http://confluence.ias.ac.in/why-are-both-ugc-care-list-of-journals-and-good… ------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N.LibrarianMysore

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Article request
by shashi bhat 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

Dear Friends, One of our Faculty needs the following articles for research purposes. If anybody has access to the articles, please send them. 1. Title: 'Apolipoprotein E is an effective biomarker for orthodontic tooth movement in patients treated with transmission straight wire appliance' - AJODO Volume 161, Issue 2, February 2022https://www.ajodo.org/article/S0889-5406(21)00602-8/pdf 2. Title: 'Vitamin E enriched diet increases the rate of orthodontic tooth movement' - AJODO 7th January 2022 https://www.ajodo.org/article/S0889-5406(21)00786-1/pdf Thank you in advance. With Regards, Mrs. Shashikala K Librarian, A. B. Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences, NITTE (Deemed to be) UniversityDeralakatte, Mangalore - 575018. Ph: 0824-2204572, 2204963 (ext.-234)Mob: +919448869047.

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Good practices for university open-access policies
by Subbiah Arunachalam 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

Friends, It is a bad policy to surrender copyright to one's research papers to journal publishers. Please inform researchers - faculty and students and other scientific and technical staff - and administrators (Vice Chancellors, Directors, Principals, Deans, Heads of Departments, etc.) in your institutions that they could retain copyright to the papers they publish. Prof. Peter Suber of Harvard University recommends the Berkman Klein Center's Guide to good practices for university OA policies, which focuses on the rights-retention approach. Please visit http://bit.ly/goodoa . This guide, written and edited byPeter Suber and Stuart Shieber in consultation with many OA experts, is based on the type of rights-retention OA policy first adopted at Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and the University of Kansas. Policies of this kind have since been adopted at a wide variety of institutions <https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/Additional_resources#Policies_of_the_kind_re…> in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia, for example, at public and private institutions, large and small institutions, affluent and indigent institutions, research universities and liberal arts colleges, and at whole universities, schools within universities, and departments within schools. Can a journal reject a paper if the author wants to retain copyright? Says Prof. Peter Suber, "As far as I know, no publisher has ever rejected a submission just because it was covered by a Harvard-style rights-retention OA policy. There are at least 85 universities in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia with these kinds of rights-retention policies." The Guide is endorsed by many international organizations involved in scholarly communication, but by NONE so far from India. Indeed, it would be great if funding agencies such as DST, DBT, CSIR, UGC, ICAR, and ICMR and Academies such as INSA, IASc, NASI, NAAS, INAE, etc. endorse this Guide and make it widely known to individual researchers and institutions they support. Best wishes. 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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Request for Fulltext Articles
by Prakasha Mahadevaiah 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

Dear Professional Colleagues the following articles are required to one my faculty for her research works kindly help ASAP. Comparative study of gut microbiota from decomposer fauna in household composter using metataxonomic approach - Ni’matuzahroh <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00203-022-02785-1#auth--Ni_matuz…> , - Moch. Affandi <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00203-022-02785-1#auth-Moch_-Aff…> , - Fatimah <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00203-022-02785-1#auth--Fatimah> , - Nastiti Trikurniadewi <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00203-022-02785-1#auth-Nastiti-T…> , - Ana Mariatul Khiftiyah <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00203-022-02785-1#auth-Ana_Maria…> , - Silvia Kurnia Sari <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00203-022-02785-1#auth-Silvia_Ku…> , - Achmad Zainal Abidin <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00203-022-02785-1#auth-Achmad_Za…> & - Syahriar Nur Maulana Malik Ibrahim <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00203-022-02785-1#auth-Syahriar_…> *Archives of Microbiology* <https://link.springer.com/journal/203> volume 204, Article number: 210 (2022) - Endophytic bacterial and fungal community compositions in diﬀerent organs of ginseng (Panax ginseng) Zhenjie Fan1,2 Shuiming Xiao2· Haoyu Hu2· Pengfei Zhang2 Jing Chao4· Shuai Guo2,3 Dianyun Hou1 Jiang Xu2 1 December 2021 / Revised: 9 February 2022 / Accepted: 23 February 2022 Archives of Microbiology With Regards Dr. Prakasha MLISc, M.Phil, Ph.D Senior Librarian University Library and Learning Resource Centre SDUAHER KOLAR.561101 M.No. +91 9980164215 ORCID ID:0000-0003-3687-4685 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Research Discussion: Innovation Driven Business Sustainability
by Mohan Hr 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

Dear all Please find an invitation for a research discussion on "Innovation Driven Business Sustainability" organised hosted by Pune University as a part of PhD viva voce of Major General T. M. Mhaisale, an author as well as a speaker at the book launch and webinar hosted in Jul 2021 by CSI, IEEE CS & ACM on Personality Development. Topic: Innovation Driven Business Sustainability Date: Thursday, 17th Mar 2022 Time: 2 pm to 3 pm IST Meeting link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86796596965?pwd=ZVFQNnRMWjJMVnlZd2NnNXhMLytRdz09 Meeting ID: 867 9659 6965 Passcode: 545683 Synopsis of the presentation Business sustainability is the buzzword nowadays, in the government as well as the corporate parlance. This is the pillar on which the businesses are poised to grow, remain future-ready and thrive. There are three main pillars of business sustainability in turn. These are : Planet, People, Profit in that order. Firms are required to innovate continuously in order to reinvent themselves. It is extremely important that the culture of internal innovation and entrepreneurship is assiduously nurtured. Appropriate strategies are required for the same. The world is caught into a cobweb of VUCA : Vulnerability, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. Under these circumstances, a strong and resilient Risk Management Framework, with a judicious combination of COSO framework (bottom-up) and ISO -31000 : 2018 (Top down) is a must. There is a feeling justified through research that the Risk Management Strategies when embedded with Innovation Processes will be a great boon for the Business Sustainability. In view of the ubiquitous decarbonization along with net zero targets, these assume a tremendous significance. The research scholar has made an attempt to study the these three elements in details: Business Sustainability, Innovation Processes and Risk Management Strategies and study their harmonious correlationship which will ensure Business Sustainability. These have been studied through Case Studies as well as formulation and testing of Hypotheses. About the presenter Major General T. M. Mhaisale, is pursuing his research at Savitribai Phule Pune University in the topic related to this concept: Innovation Driven Business Sustainability. He is Master of Technology in Computer Technology from IIT Delhi, MBA from Indira Gandhi Nehru Open University, Master of Management Studies from Osmania University. He has been doing a lot of work in Innovation Management and Business Sustainability. He is on the Faculty of Institute of Directors, New Delhi for these subjects. He has been a writer and has authored quite a few books on this subject. He has also authored a book on “The Ten Quotients: A complete guide to Personality Development". For other events in Mar 2022: https://bit.ly/33WipbY

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Rights retention policy
by Subbiah Arunachalam 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Friends, I received this from Prof. Peter Suber. Let us work towards promoting rights retention policy in higher education institutions and all research performing institutions in India. - Arun ***** I agree with Arun that few publishers, if any, would reject a submission just because it comes with an author addendum. An author addendum is a proposed revision to the contract, which publishers can take or leave. Publishers can reject the addendum without rejecting the submission, and many do. I don't know of a single case in which the publisher rejected the submission itself because of the proposed addendum. However, I believe that some publishers are already on the record as desk-rejecting submissions that come with Plan-S-style rights-retention notices. Plan S will track these publishers in its Journal Checker Tool. As far as I know, no publisher has ever rejected a submission just because it was covered by a Harvard-style rights-retention OA policy. There are at least 85 universities in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia with these kinds of rights-retention policies. However, as a matter of law (not current practice or prediction), publishers may reject any submission for any reason. Best, Peter -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: Preprints - future of scientific publication
by Subbiah Arunachalam 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Friends, About 40 years a group of doctors and surgeons in Chennai (where I live) did something remarkable. Higher education institutions and research centres were struggling to find funds for subscribing to important journals. The foreign exchange position was very tight. Journal sections of libraries even in leading institutions were famished. But researchers and students needed the latest literature. This small group thought they could do something at least for practising doctors. We talk about jugad and doing the best one could do at any given situation, and finding affordable solutions to the crises we face. This group of medical professionals did exactly that, and they have now told how they did it. They deserve to be congratulated not only for what they did but also for making their story freely accessible to the world through this six-page OA article DISSEMINATING MEDICAL LITERATURE AND KNOWLEDGE IN INDIA IN THE 1980S: THE SMLRT STORY https://jmla.mlanet.org/ojs/jmla/article/view/1424 With best wishes, Arun

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