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Publishing status of two LIS journals
by Mallikarjun 21 May '18

21 May '18

Dear All, Please let me know if you have any idea on these two journals, 1. Information studies: I have information up to 20152. Herald of library science: I have information up to 2006 are these journal still publishing or ceased, I will be thankful anyone has information Regards !~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!! Mallikarjun Dora Professional AssistantVikram Sarabhai LibraryIndian Institute of Management, AhemadabadGoogle Scholar Profile !~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!!

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Library Trainee vacancy at IRMA Anand Gujarat
by Saurabh Prajapati 21 May '18

21 May '18

Dear LIS forum Moderator, May I request you to post following message on LIS forum: Institute of Rural Management Anand invites applications for the post of Library Trainee at its Ravi J. Matthai Library. *Educational Qualification*: Should possess a first-class Masters Degree in Library and Information Science from a recognized university. Candidates appearing for final year exam of Master of Library and Information Science (MLISc) can also apply. However, their final selection will be subject to their final year result. *Desirable Criteria*: Good Communication Skills in English, Basic working knowledge of IT and IT related applications used in libraries. LIBSYS / KOHA will be an added advantage. *Selection*: Selection of the candidates will be done through written test and interview. *Stipend*: A consolidated monthly stipend of Rs.14,000/- shall be offered to the selected candidates. *Age*: Below 26 years *Number of Vacancies*: 2 Interested candidates only who meet the above mentioned requirements with respect to qualification may apply online by *15 June 2018*. The written test will be in English. Candidate should be ready to work in shift-duties/rotating weekly-off. *Last Date to apply Online*: 15 June 2018 Please visit: https://www.irma.ac.in/careers/careers.php https://www.irma.ac.in/pdf/career_pdf/138_86455.pdf Saurabh Prajapti Deputy Librarian | Ravi J Matthai Library Institute of Rural Management Anand +91 2692 221671 | +91 2692 221674 https://www.irma.ac.in https://www.irma.ac.in/article.php?menuid=55 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Global Survey of Scientists
by mailman＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 21 May '18

21 May '18

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Fwd: Global Survey of Scientists From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah.arunachalam(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, May 20, 2018 9:36 pm To: "LIS-Forum" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friends: This is an important survey for scientists. Please encourage all scientists (including mathematicians and computer scientists) in your institutions totake part. Thanks and best wishes. Arun ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: sujatha ramdorai <srtifr(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, May 18, 2018 at 3:54 PM Subject: Fwd: Global Survey of Scientists To: Nandita Jayaraj <nandita.jayaraj(a)gmail.com>, Gayatri Jayaraman < gj.lesmots(a)gmail.com>, Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah.arunachalam(a)gmail.com> Dear All, Kindly share and encourage participation. Best, sujatha ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marie-Francoise Roy <marie-francoise.roy(a)univ-rennes1.fr> Date: Fri, May 18, 2018 at 11:36 AM Subject: Global Survey of Scientists To: Dear CWM ambassador We have had about 5 500 answers to our Global Survey of Scientists after two weeks and we are aiming at 45 000 after 6 months, so we are on track, but we also need continue to work hard to reach our goal. The current answers per continent are distributed as follows. Africa 5,8% America 26,79 % Asia 26,6% Europe 31 % Oceania 3,5% No country 6,3% More details on answers per country in the attached document. Please answer yourself and please distribute on email lists you are part of. If you know people in countries that answer little, or not, please contact them. Thanks a lot for your help Marie-Francoise Roy %%% Dear colleague Welcome to the Global Survey of Scientists. Bienvenue dans lâenquÃªte mondiale destinÃ©e aux scientifiques. æ¬¢è¿åå å¨çç§å¦å·¥ä½èè°æ¥ã ç§å¦èåãã°ãã¼ãã«ã¢ã³ã±ã¼ãã«ããããã ÐÑÐ¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÑÐ²ÑÐµÐ¼ ÐÐ°Ñ Ð² ÐÐ»Ð¾Ð±Ð°Ð»ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð¼ Ð¾Ð¿ÑÐ¾ÑÐµ ÑÑÐµÐ½ÑÑ. Bienvenido/a a la Encuesta mundial de cientÃficos y cientÃficas. ÙØ±ØØ¨ÙØ§ Ø¨Ù ÙÙ Ø§ÙØ§Ø³ØªØ¨ÙØ§Ù Ø§ÙØ¹Ø§ÙÙÙ ÙÙØ¹ÙÙØ§Ø¡. The 2018 Global Survey of Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Scientists has been launched on May 1st, 2018 and will be opened for answers until October 31st, 2018. Its aim is to collect data across the world to inform policy makers from all countries, especially developing countries, about reducing the gap between men and women in mathematical, computing, and natural sciences. Link to complete the 2018 Global Survey of Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Scientists http://statisticalresearchcenter.org/global18 We are looking for respondents, men and women, in all fields represented by the partnering Unions and all regions of the world. You are welcome to answer the survey yourself and forward this link to the survey http://statisticalresearchcenter.org/global18 to your lists of contacts and you colleagues, men and women. Invitation letters to participate in the survey are available for your use in all 7 languages at https://icsugendergapinscience .org/2018-global-survey-of-mathematical-computing-and-natural-scientists/ (scroll down). You can simply copy the cover letter in the language(s) of your choice and send to your contacts, or use it to adapt it to the people you are writing to. The letter encourages recipients to send the survey to their colleagues. In this way, the survey will be disseminated further. Thank you in advance for helping us disseminate the survey. All the best Marie-Francoise Roy -- Marie-Francoise Roy chair of the IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics mathunion.org/cwm/ coordinator of the Gender Gap in Science project icsugendergapinscience.org/ -- Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Time to protect the libraries not the librarian?
by mailman＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 21 May '18

21 May '18

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- From: "Koteswara Rao Mamidi" <mk-rao(a)hotmail.com > Date: Sat May 19 11:39:01 IST 2018 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Dr Mishra, What you have said is absolutely true and right. Recently even IIT Bombay had diluted the Librarian's post in terms of designation, scale / grade pay, etc. Previously, on this same forum I had put my observations on the issue of flouting rules for recruiting librarians. I would like to add two more points here:- 1). Many times we see LIS faculty sitting as experts in the selection of librarians which is not right; 2). There is no response or action from the National and other state-level Library associations whenever such irregularities are noticed. It is high time that every LIS professional irrespective of their roles should protest and write to the concerned departments like the UGC, AICTE, MHRD, CSIR, etc to put an end to such irregularities. Dr. M. Koteswara Rao Retd. Librarian, UoH --------------------------------------- From: lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in<http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum> <lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in<http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum>> on behalf of vinod mishra <mishravk79 at gmail.com<http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum>> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2018 10:07 AM To: lis-forum Subject: [LIS-Forum] Time to protect the libraries not the librarian? Dear all, Recent few advertisements is an alarm for Not library professionals but existence of Libraries itself in future. IIIT Allahabad and IIT Kanpur appointing Assistant Registrar <http://www.iitk.ac.in/new/data/recruitment/Advt_No_1_2018/Advt-No-1-2018-Fi…> and Dy. Registrar <https://www.iiita.ac.in/downloads/announcements/uploads/Rec295.pdf> in libraries and made library science related qualifications under essential or desirable. Seems the perception of libraries and librarians has been changed drastically in academic community/society the reasons may be as follows: 1. Some of the LIS professionals could not serve the community better. 2. Some of the LIS professionals attitude/behavior was totally against the ethics and irritable to users of library? 3. Some of the professionals enjoyed highly paid salary without doing nothing and exploited their subordinates/resources/facility given to them. 4. Many could not upgrade their libraries and themselves as per the current trend and information seeking behavior of users. 5. Top leaders/experts could not appoint suitable candidates for the post and many cases where they might have appointed their incapable near and dears. 6. Rise of electronic media/resources which crossed the four walls of the libraries and reached in the hands of users without any assistance from LIS professionals/Libraries. Apart from other their may be many wrong/correct perception about the libraries because of which i can see peoples are now discussing the relevance of libraries itself rather than librarians. This is not an alarm for non-teaching library professionals but for teaching LIS professionals (Professors) too because if their is no library than their is no department of libraries too? You may read the story at here too: http://mishravk.com/2018/05/existence-library/ Thanks and have a nice library ahead !

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13th Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Memorial Lecture Invitation - Reminder
by Shivaram Gowda 21 May '18

21 May '18

Dear All, NCSI-Net Foundation and J.R.D. Tata Memorial Library, IISc., cordially invite you and your colleagues to the T.B. Rajashekar Memorial 13th Lecture, 2018 on: "Contemporary Tools & Techniques for Effective Library Management" By Mr BP Prakash, Global Head - Information Resource Centre at Tata Consultancy Services, Pune Date & Time: Friday, 25th May 2018 at 6.00 PM Venue: Chokshi Hall, IISC, Bangalore-560012 Abstract of the talk: This talk focuses on effective ways of managing libraries - its people, processes, users, resources - with the use of select techniques and tools. It aims to allow them to be considered by similar information service units or organisations for deployment as they have proved to be methods that have added value with ease of deployment. About the speaker: BP Prakash is currently the Senior General Manager & Global head of Information Resources Centre (IRC) at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) and operates out of Pune & Mumbai. At TCS, he directs one of the largest & vibrant library networks in the globe with 125 professionals & 62 libraries. He has made TCS IRC an industry leader through innovative processes, products & systems. He has successfully lead TCS library team to win the prestigious ‘Centre of Excellence Award’ from SLA (Special Libraries Association) USA, in 2009. He deployed Balance Score Card to library environment with proven results and set up new trends & benchmarks in Library management. Most recently he was instrumental in the TCS IRC team winning the first ever award for Best technology enabled Library–the LibTech Award-2018, instituted by The Informatics Group. He is very active in major Industry- academic interactions and encourages his large team to participate in L&IS events in India & abroad. He has successfully mobilized grants & resources to many International events like Info-Vision, ICADL, ICoASL, MILAN & many others. Prakash is frequently invited as Chair, Keynote Speaker or Panelist at events. He has been member of committees, associations and task forces like the Tata Group Librarian's Conclave, MYDLIS & ICoASL, ILA, IASLIC, BOSLA, UGC, Informatics and SLA (Special Libraries Association) in Washington & Tokyo. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Library Management. He has served has the President of SLA Asian chapter for the year 2011. He was bestowed with ‘MANLIBNET Librarian of the year 2012’, in recognition of his immense contribution to library and information science profession. A graduate in Science with PG degrees in 'Development Planning and Management' and ‘Library & Information Science', from University of Mysore, Karnataka, India, Prakash is a University Gold Medalist in Library & Information Science and a Fulbright Scholar from University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA. With about 35 years of professional experience across national institutes, manufacturing sectors, research environments and global IT/ consulting firms, his professional interests & competencies include Management Practices, Information Product design, User Studies, Electronic Resources management, Networking, Infrastructure Development, Digitization, application of Management Techniques, Curriculum Development, Training, etc. He is a Member of SLA USA (Special Library Association) since 1999 life member of ILA (Indian Library Association) IASLIC (Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres) and SIS (Society of Information Science) Kindly confirm your participation by sending a mail to Francis Jayakanth (francis(a)iisc.ac.in ) or Shivaram BS (shivaram(a)nal.res.in) With warm Regards -- Shivaram BS ICAST, CSIR-NAL Govt. of India (Autonomous) HAL Airport Road Kodihalli, Bangalore-560017 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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AI Researchers Are Boycotting Nature’s New Machine Intelligence Journal
by Mohan Hr 20 May '18

20 May '18

AI Researchers Are Boycotting Nature’s New Machine Intelligence Journal Researchers from Google, Facebook, IBM, MIT and Harvard have pledged not to contribute to a new journal about machine learning, citing its lack of open access. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3yxwb/ai- researchers-are-boycotting-natures-new-machine-intelligence-journal

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Time to protect the libraries not the librarian?
by vinod mishra 19 May '18

19 May '18

Dear all, Recent few advertisements is an alarm for Not library professionals but existence of Libraries itself in future. IIIT Allahabad and IIT Kanpur appointing Assistant Registrar <http://www.iitk.ac.in/new/data/recruitment/Advt_No_1_2018/Advt-No-1-2018-Fi…> and Dy. Registrar <https://www.iiita.ac.in/downloads/announcements/uploads/Rec295.pdf> in libraries and made library science related qualifications under essential or desirable. Seems the perception of libraries and librarian’s has been changed drastically in academic community/society the reasons may be as follows: 1. Some of the LIS professionals could not serve the community better. 2. Some of the LIS professionals attitude/behavior was totally against the ethics and irritable to users of library? 3. Some of the professionals enjoyed highly paid salary without doing nothing and exploited their subordinates/resources/facility given to them. 4. Many could not upgrade their libraries and themselves as per the current trend and information seeking behavior of users. 5. Top leaders/experts could not appoint suitable candidates for the post and many cases where they might have appointed their incapable near and dears. 6. Rise of electronic media/resources which crossed the four walls of the libraries and reached in the hands of users without any assistance from LIS professionals/Libraries. Apart from other their may be many wrong/correct perception about the libraries because of which i can see peoples are now discussing the relevance of libraries itself rather than librarians. This is not an alarm for non-teaching library professionals but for teaching LIS professionals (Professor’s) too because if their is no library than their is no department of libraries too? You may read the story at here too: http://mishravk.com/2018/05/existence-library/ Thanks and have a nice library ahead ! -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy: Assistant Librarian
by HELP LIBRARY 18 May '18

18 May '18

Dear Moderator, Please circulate this. Thanks. Regards, Anjoo Chandiramani For HELP Applications are invited for the post of Assistant Librarian at Health Education Library for People, Tardeo, Mumbai. The candidate should possess excellent computer, communication and administrative skills and should be able to get along well with people. Freshers may apply.Candidates from Mumbai only please apply. Interested candidates may apply with full details of their Educational Qualification/Experience and post applied for to helplibrary(a)gmail.com Ms.Anjoo Chandiramani, Health Education Library for People, Ashish, 5th Floor, Tardeo end of Bombay Central Bridge, Tardeo, Mumbai - 400034. Email : helplibrary(a)gmail.com

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SALIS 2018: National Conference on Role of Libraries in Creating a Knowledge Society - First Announcement
by AutoLib Software Systems 17 May '18

17 May '18

Dear Professionals, Greetings from SALIS and DLIS, Alagappa University, Karaikudi. We are happy announce the SALIS 2018: National Conference on Role of Libraries in Creating a Knowledge Society jointly organized by the Dept of Library and Information Science , Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu and Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) on 7th & 8th September, 2018 at Alagappa University, Karaikudi. About the Conference The “Knowledge Society (KS)” and “knowledge economy” terms were first used by Drucker in 1969 and he mentioned that knowledge will be the main element for economies. A knowledge society is one that generates, processes, disseminates, shares and uses the information and knowledge for the benefit of the members of the society to improve their living conditions. In such a society, information and the knowledge are the key assets or intellectual capitals which are the powerful producer of wealth than capital, land etc. The important indicators of a KS are literacy rate and quality education, social and economic development, equal access to information resources and technology, GDP, investment on R&D and quality publications. Libraries also play an important role in acquiring the knowledge, organizing, disseminating, sharing it to the people in the society and preserving it for the future generation. Libraries, as gateways to knowledge and culture, play a vital role in transforming the society into a knowledge society by providing required resources and knowledge- based services to the citizens for their life-long learning, education, research, new ideas, innovation and opportunities. Libraries provides need-based and customized knowledge services to all in the society - children, school, college and university students, researchers, adults, elders, professionals, traders, business people, workers and others primarily to make them ‘better informed citizens’ in the society and thereby increase their social and economic conditions. Librarians play a key role in this process of transforming the society into a knowledge society to empower the citizens. This conference will give an opportunity to the participants to share their ideas and knowledge which will in turn help to contribute for making knowledge society. Conference Objectives The objectives of the conference are: What is Knowledge Society? What are the indicators of the KS? How Libraries can contribute for the socioeconomic development to make KS? How Librarians can contribute to the KS through various innovative/knowledge based Information Literacy programmes (IL) and services? What are the policies to build knowledge society? Themes and Sub-Themes Role of Libraries for Teaching, Learning and Research Redefining the role of libraries, physical libraries to digital libraries, virtual libraries, knowledge centres. Education to learning, self learning, information and research infrastructure. Access to information resources – primary and other sources - scholarly information. Digital / Open access resources – Institutional Repositories. Knowledge based and innovative service for Teaching, Learning and Research- Research support service- Carrier guidance – Scholarship. Role of Public Libraries in Building KS Smart infrastructure –resources –informational city specific, Community Knowledge centres. Physical space for meeting and learning and discussions; Learning/Digital Space for providing resources, learning & opportunities; Maker Space - Cultural and Social Centres - to learn and exhibit talents. IL Programmes – Digital Reference services-children – adult - students – elders – women - self-help group – small scale industries - Services through social media – Partnership and collaboration. Community Development Programme - society and citizen - extension activities – innovative service – Library on wheel – Mobile service – Information Kiosk. Community services using Social Media. Promoting Reading Habits using innovative methods - Human Library. Role of Libraries for Social Development Technology and Society - E-society - Human-technology interaction, interfaces and usability-Digital Humanities- Community infrastructure - E-governance - Digital benefits. Community education and literacy- Informed citizens- empowerment of people. Community information: Agriculture, weather forecasting, marketing. Digital literacy- health literacy- financial literacy- Community development – inclusive society- capacity building initiatives- improving quality of life – preservation of culture. Digital Communities - Digital Natives - Digital Citizenship. Role of Libraries for Economic Development Library and Information services to agriculture- tiny, small medium and large scale industries -Information Industries - Commerce, trade, business and banking, Micro-finance- self-help group – export/import, Sustainable development. Employment - knowledge workers - knowledge economy - Transforming knowledge into products and business development -Building knowledge sharing culture in a corporate and industry environment. Equitable Access to Information Resources and ICT Technologies for knowledge sharing - ICT infrastructure – Computer - Mobile - Email – Internet. Access to ICT and Information Resources - Information for all. Digital development: bridging the digital divide - virtual communities - Technologies for participatory citizenship - E-government, e-democracy and cyber-civics - Multilingualism and cultural diversity. Digital repositories, archives and libraries - Disability and access - Library and Web - Search Engine - Google – Google Analytics -Open Data – Big Data. Library Services through Social network – Facebook – Twitter – WhatsApp – Linkedin - Netflix, etc Role of LIS Professionals in Creating KS Redefining the role of LIS professionals - Facilitator of knowledge acquisition, organization, storage and dissemination - Professional Skills and Competencies - Capacity building initiatives and training - Digital skills and services, multi-model literacies - Digitization and Cultural Preservation -Understanding / translating users needs expectations: education, learning, research, health, work, employment, agriculture, business, sports. National and International Policy and Framework for Building KS National, International, Inter-governmental initiatives - UNESCO-IFLA-Case studies - Information availability and accessibility, Information ethics, IL - Information infrastructure – ICT – Connectivity – Bandwidth – Affordability. Digital Resources – Local, Regional, National, International and Open - New library initiatives – World Library. Resources and Technology sharing - Information preservation - Culture – Knowledge Repository - Co-operation and collaboration - Creative commons - IPR and Copyright issues Submission of Papers Original and unpublished papers on the conference themes are invited for presentation at the conference. Papers will be accepted only after strict review by editorial committee. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings with ISBN. Selected papers may be published in the SALIS journals. Author Guidelines The full paper in word file (with an abstract not exceeding 200 words and at least 3 keywords) should be submitted as an e-mail attachment to ausalis18(a)gmail.com Paper should not exceed 6 pages (line space: 1.5, font size: 12, font: TMN, reference: APA). For more details, please visit the conference website. Papers will not be accepted without registration fee. Target Participants Librarians, Information professionals, LIS Teachers, Students and Research scholars. Accommodation Accommodation will be arranged in the nearby hotels on extra payment. Participants can also make their own arrangement for accommodation at hotels available in Karaikudi. The room rent varies from Rs. 500 to 3000 per day. Transport Alagappa University is located in Karaikudi. Nearest Railway Station is Karaikudi and nearest Airport is Tiruchirappalli. Registration Fee LIS Professionals Rs.1000 Research Scholars (Regular) & LIS Students (Regular) Rs.500 (Kit in folder) Participants (without paper) Rs.500 (Kit without conference bag and proceedings) Registration fee should be paid through Demand Draft drawn in favour of “The Organising Secretary, SALIS 2018” payable at Karaikudi. The online payment details will be provided on request. Last Dates Submission of full-paper 30.07.2018 Communication of Acceptance 10.08.2018 Registration 20.08.2018 Conference Websites Please see the following websites peeriodically for updates www.salis2018.wordpress.com www.alagappauniversity.ac.in www.salis.in Awards and Mementos Cash Awards will be given to the best papers for Professionals, Students and Women separately. Mementos will be given to all the presenters. Address for Communication Dr. S. Thanuskodi Organizing Secretary - SALIS 2018 Professor & Head, Dept. of Library and Information Science, Alagappa University, Karaikudi – 630 003, Tamil Nadu, India. E-mail : aludlis2017(a)gmail.com, ausalis18(a)gmail.com Phone No: 9442224006 / 9842953420

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Janeway: A journal management system designed for publishing scholarly articles
by Vimal Kumar V. 17 May '18

17 May '18

Janeway is a journal management system developed by the Centre for Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London. Janeway is a full platform allowing submission, review, editing and production of scholarly articles before then processing them for display. Janeway has all of the standard features you would expect of a Scholarly Communications platform including: Registration and login, including login with ORCiD and reCaptcha An easy to use submission and article tracking system (document management system) Author profiles that can be made public Full peer review, copy editing, typesetting and proofreading stages Configurable email reminders for article review and revisions with multiple backends (including Mailgun) Crossref DOIs and Similarity Check integration A developer friendly plugin system RSS/Atom, OAI-PMH, and Rest API feeds COUNTER-compliant metrics capturing A full suite of management interfaces including Django's admin interface for super users. Janeway also has some non-standard features: A simple to use Preprint Repository system An overlay journal system for curating remote articles into local issues Because Janeway uses Django, it benefits from the some of its great features: Excellent security Highly scalable (Instagram runs on Django) A well documented codebase and a vibrant community An easy to use template language, and if Django's doesn't suit, you can always use another (like Jinja) https://janeway.systems/index.php -- Vimal Kumar V. Technical Assistant Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam, Kerala, India-686 560 My Home Page: http://www.vimalkumar.info My Blogs: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in http://dspacegeek.blogspot.in http://moovandan.blogspot.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White

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