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Exciting Infograph competition for LIS professionals at IOS National Conference- 21-23 Dec 2017
by Shivaram Gowda 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

Dear Professionals, LIS Academy, a professional charitable Trust established to work for the development of the LIS Profession is organizing 6th National conference of Institute of Scientometrics on INFORMATION FOR ALL with sub themes Scietometrics, Infographics and Public Libraries on 21st to 23rd December 2017 at Gandhi Bhavan Bangalore. As part of this conference, a National level Infograph design competition is organized for LIS professionals. It is a wonderful opportunity for library professionals to design Infograph of their library and its services. Showcase your library through Infograph and win cash prize. The best Infograph will be awarded Rs. 10000 cash prize with best infograph award. Expert committee will decide the top ten infographs and same will displayed during the conference. Conference delegates will be voting for the best infograph. Consolation prizes will be given to remaining 9 infographs selected by the expert committee along with certificate of appreciation. Note: Contestants has to register for the conference, where they get an opportunity to hear international speakers and interact with delegates from all parts of the country. Contestants should send soft copy of designed inforraphs before 20th of November 2017 and should bring poster size colour print to display at conference venue. Send your Infograph to sip.lisacademy(a)gmail.com For More Information visit: http://sip.lisacademy.org All rights reserved by IOS conference organisers What is Infograph & how to create? Infographics are graphic visual representations of data or Information that are intended to present complex information quickly and clearly. One can design Infographs by using Image editors like adobe photoshop, Sumopaint, or Microsoft PowerPoint. Various web infographic tools such as PIKTOCHART, CANVA, VIZUALIZE, etc which comes with thousands of pre designed templates where one need to select and add data to templates by subscribing template. 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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Scientists in the Lurch After Imprecise MHRD Notice About ‘Paid Journals’
by Siva Shankar Kimidi 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

A notification from the ministry of human resource development to the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) in July this year has stated that papers published in journals that levy an article-processing charge (APC) will not earn career advancement credits for their authors. complete article link - *https://tinyurl.com/y9ebvqvl <https://tinyurl.com/y9ebvqvl>* -- Regards Siva Shankar K -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Reminder, SoFerence 2017: A Place to Make a Difference! Paper submission by October 30th, 2017 (Extended)
by mailman＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 15 Oct '17

15 Oct '17

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- From: "Bk Panda" <Bk.Panda(a)tcs.com> Date: Fri, October 13, 2017 7:24 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Professional Friends, TCS Information Resource Center (IRC) Bhubaneswar in collaboration with Odisha Library Academy announces the 4th edition of "Soference" to be held on Saturday, 2nd December 2017. SoFerence is a bi-annual conference organized by TCS IRC for sharing experience on Library and Information Science (LIS) and related areas. First two editions of SoFerence were held at TCS Bangalore in 2011 and 2013 in collaboration with Karnataka State Library Association (KALA).Third edition of SoFerence was organized at TCS, Hyderabad in collaboration with Academy of Library Science and Documentation (ALSD) in 2015. This year's theme is "Digital by Default: Make Yourself Future Ready" SoFerence 2017 invites unpublished and original papers from LIS Professionals, Students, Research Scholars, Content Managers, Information Managers, Publishers, ECM/KM Professionals, Academicians and others on case studies, success stories, best practices and lessons learnt on the following topics but not restricted to: 1. Analytics/Big data Application in LIS 2. Data Science and Visualization 3. Disruptive Innovation and Technology 4. Internet of Things and Libraries 5. Cloud Computing and its Impact on Library Services 6. Social Media and Social Networking Services for Library 7. Plagiarism and Reference/Citation Management Tools 8. Evaluating Library Services and Quality (LibQUAL/SERVQUAL, Gap Analysis) 9. Web Learning and open source Learning Management System 10. Seeking Impact and Visibility of Scholarly Communications â¢Last date for completed paper submission: October 30, 2017 â¢Last date for registration: November 15th , 2017 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1toqbvCvK8XPT8VAeyDn95clbDhaCnQtRGneheypo33E Venue: Tata Consultancy Services, Bhubaneswar (Unit-II)- Barabati IT/ITeS Special Economic Zone (SEZ), Plot No.. 35 Chandaka Industrial Estate, Patia Bhubaneswar - 751 024,Odisha India 0674-6645275 & 9437079369 For More Details visit: https://sites.google.com/site/soference2017 and for any query mail to soference(a)gmail.com Register yourself for the SoFerence 2017 (Online Mandatory) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1toqbvCvK8XPT8VAeyDn95clbDhaCnQtRGneheypo33E Thanks & Regards, Bijoy Ketan Panda Information Resource Centre Tata Consultancy Services (UNIT-I)- KALINGA PARK IT/ITES SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE (SEZ),PLOT NO. 35, CHANDAKA INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, PATIA, Bhubaneswar - 751 024,Orissa India Ph:- 91-0674-6645275 Mobile:09437079369

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Wiley Library Awards: Just a Private Initiative
by Vasanth 15 Oct '17

15 Oct '17

Dear Sir/Madam, This post is in continuation with the ongoing discussion on The Wiley Library Awards. Wiley India is a major publishing house having decades of experience of doing business in publishing industry. It is a private player and we have to see this initiative as another means of expanding their business in India. India and other Asian countries have become major business destinations for US and other European big business houses including for private players involved in publishing books and scholarly publications. So they look for expanding their business interest in third world countries through various means, for instance organizing group meeting in well-known tourist destinations, offering freebies and providing financial assistance for organizing various events and also bringing newsletter and magazines to attract clients. This Wiley Award is also such an event to expand their business. To expand their business they have to have huge corpse of data about financial conditions of the libraries to plan and make their future strategies. So it is up to the participating libraries to decide whether they should participate in this kind of events which is organized by a private publishing house which has business interest. To your post the Wiley Marketing Team has replied on 11 Oct 2017 through the LIS forum. The question is: how these independent jury members are selected and whom they represent? Again we have our own rights to participate or not participate, same also to the Wiley, as an independent private publishing house they have their rights to organize this kind of event or not, to expand their business interest. Views are personal------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N.Mysore

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Re: [LIS-Forum] India's Education Ministry says 'no marks' for papers published in APC journals
by vinod mishra 14 Oct '17

14 Oct '17

Congrats for such type of research which we need because some are busy in wasting money for their own money and some bother about public money. Once again congrats ! On 13 Oct 2017 23:04, "Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah.arunachalam(a)gmail.com> wrote: Friends: Last year we wrote a paper on an issue of considerable importance to India and it was published in *Current Science* early this year. < http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/112/04/0703.pdf> Our main point was if Indian researchers stop the practice of paying to get their papers published in journals that charge article processing charges (APC) the nation can save roughly $2.5 million annually, money that can be used to support real research. *Now the Ministry of Human Resource Department has come up with a commendable move: From now on papers published by paying article processing charges will not be considered for faculty promotion in the **National Institutes of Technology (Gazette of India, 24 July 2017). *< http://www.mnit.ac.in/cms/uploads/2017/08/Gazette_Notification_MHRD0001.pdf> If this policy is adopted by all funding and regulatory agencies in India, we will not only save money but also curb the proliferation of predatory journals. Here is the abstract of the paper in *Current Science*. *Should Indian researchers pay to get their work published?* Muthu Madhan, Siva Shankar Kimidi, Subbiah Gunasekaran and Subbiah Arunachalam *Current Science*, Vol. 112, No. 4, 25 February 2017, 703-713. Paying to publish is an ethical issue. During 2010–14, Indian researchers have used 488 open access (OA) journals levying article processing charge (APC), ranging from US$ 7.5 to 5,000, to publish about 15,400 papers. Use of OA journals levying APC has increased from 242 journals and 2,557 papers in 2010 to 328 journals and 3,634 papers in 2014. We estimate that India is potentially spending about US$ 2.4 million annually on APCs paid to OA journals and the amount would be much more if we add APCs paid to make papers published in hybrid journals open access. It would be prudent for Indian authors to make their work freely available through interoperable repositories, a trend that is growing in Latin America and China, especially when funding is scarce. Scientists are ready to pay APC as long as institutions pay for it and funding agencies are not ready to insist that grants provided for research should not be used for paying APC. -- Regards. Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http:// <http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009> 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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Reminder, SoFerence 2017: A Place to Make a Difference! Paper submission by October 30th, 2017 (Extended)
by mailman＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- From: "Bk Panda" <Bk.Panda(a)tcs.com> Date: Fri, October 13, 2017 7:24 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Professional Friends, TCS Information Resource Center (IRC) Bhubaneswar in collaboration with Odisha Library Academy announces the 4th edition of "Soference" to be held on Saturday, 2nd December 2017. SoFerence is a bi-annual conference organized by TCS IRC for sharing experience on Library and Information Science (LIS) and related areas. First two editions of SoFerence were held at TCS Bangalore in 2011 and 2013 in collaboration with Karnataka State Library Association (KALA).Third edition of SoFerence was organized at TCS, Hyderabad in collaboration with Academy of Library Science and Documentation (ALSD) in 2015. This year's theme is "Digital by Default: Make Yourself Future Ready" SoFerence 2017 invites unpublished and original papers from LIS Professionals, Students, Research Scholars, Content Managers, Information Managers, Publishers, ECM/KM Professionals, Academicians and others on case studies, success stories, best practices and lessons learnt on the following topics but not restricted to: 1. Analytics/Big data Application in LIS 2. Data Science and Visualization 3. Disruptive Innovation and Technology 4. Internet of Things and Libraries 5. Cloud Computing and its Impact on Library Services 6. Social Media and Social Networking Services for Library 7. Plagiarism and Reference/Citation Management Tools 8. Evaluating Library Services and Quality (LibQUAL/SERVQUAL, Gap Analysis) 9. Web Learning and open source Learning Management System 10. Seeking Impact and Visibility of Scholarly Communications Last date for completed paper submission: October 30, 2017 Last date for registration: November 15th , 2017 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1toqbvCvK8XPT8VAeyDn95clbDhaCnQtRGneheypo33E Venue: Tata Consultancy Services, Bhubaneswar (Unit-II)- Barabati IT/ITeS Special Economic Zone (SEZ), Plot No.. 35 Chandaka Industrial Estate, Patia Bhubaneswar - 751 024,Odisha India 0674-6645275 & 9437079369 For More Details visit: https://sites.google.com/site/soference2017 and for any query mail to soference(a)gmail.com Register yourself for the SoFerence 2017 (Online Mandatory) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1toqbvCvK8XPT8VAeyDn95clbDhaCnQtRGneheypo33E Thanks & Regards, Bijoy Ketan Panda Information Resource Centre Tata Consultancy Services (UNIT-I)- KALINGA PARK IT/ITES SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE (SEZ),PLOT NO. 35, CHANDAKA INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, PATIA, Bhubaneswar - 751 024,Orissa India Ph:- 91-0674-6645275 Mobile:09437079369

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Wiley Library Awards - Nominations Open through October 31, 2017
by Mailing List Admin 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:51:07 +0000 From: "Pabby, Mohit - New Delhi" <mpabby(a)wiley.com> Dear Sir, Thank you for acknowledging our efforts in organizing Wiley Library Awards and sharing your opinion about the criteria. These library indicators have been laid down by independent jury members who are eminent people within the librarian fraternity & Wiley has no role in the same. We hope this satisfies your concern, look forward to receive your nomination. With warm regards Wiley Marketing Team From: Anand Dodamani [mailto:anand.karuni@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 3:23 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; Pabby, Mohit - New Delhi Subject: Re: Wiley Library Awards - Nominations Open through October 31, 2017 Dear All, The Wiley India has called nominations from Academic and Research Libraries in the country for various Library Awards. I appreciate the efforts of the award winning publisher to honour the libraries and librarians for their noble work. However, after going through their nomination forms available online, I understand (if not wrong) that the Wiley is more interested to know the financial health of the Academic and Research Libraries in the country than to know about various measures taken by the libraries towards digital transformation. I failed to understand how the information sought such as (1) Total Annual Budget In Crores (2) Percentage Increase in Budget during Last 5 Years (3) Individual Subscription to Journals etc. correlate with the objectives of the said "Awards" ? The right thing, with the wrong motive, is the wrong thing. The views expressed here are my personal views. Regards, Anand Dodamani Mumbai

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ICFL-2017 Paper Submission Closed
by krish＠isibang.ac.in 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

Dear Professional Friends, Thank you for the overwhelming response to ICFL 2017. Submission of paper closed. With every effort, our endeavor is bring to you more interaction within LIS community along with trends and research from the world. ICFL 2017 Conference intends to bring together a leading experts and luminaries from multiple disciplines to discuss and deliberate on future of libraries from Nov 15-17, 2017 Registrations are open now: https://sites.google.com/site/icflfpp2017/hom Dr.M.Krishnamurthy, M.A.,M.L.I.Sc.,Ph.D., Fulbright Scholar,(U.S.A) Digitization Course,(USA) Associate Professor Documentation Research and Training Center Indian Statistical Institute Mysore Road Bangalore 560059 India Phone No: 91-80-26985493 Mob:91-9980035933 URL:http://www.isibang.ac.in/~krish/ Secretary Finance- Association of British Scholars (ABS -2009-till date) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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India's Education Ministry says 'no marks' for papers published in APC journals
by Subbiah Arunachalam 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

Friends: Last year we wrote a paper on an issue of considerable importance to India and it was published in *Current Science* early this year. < http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/112/04/0703.pdf> Our main point was if Indian researchers stop the practice of paying to get their papers published in journals that charge article processing charges (APC) the nation can save roughly $2.5 million annually, money that can be used to support real research. *Now the Ministry of Human Resource Department has come up with a commendable move: From now on papers published by paying article processing charges will not be considered for faculty promotion in the **National Institutes of Technology (Gazette of India, 24 July 2017). *< http://www.mnit.ac.in/cms/uploads/2017/08/Gazette_Notification_MHRD0001.pdf> If this policy is adopted by all funding and regulatory agencies in India, we will not only save money but also curb the proliferation of predatory journals. Here is the abstract of the paper in *Current Science*. *Should Indian researchers pay to get their work published?* Muthu Madhan, Siva Shankar Kimidi, Subbiah Gunasekaran and Subbiah Arunachalam *Current Science*, Vol. 112, No. 4, 25 February 2017, 703-713. Paying to publish is an ethical issue. During 2010–14, Indian researchers have used 488 open access (OA) journals levying article processing charge (APC), ranging from US$ 7.5 to 5,000, to publish about 15,400 papers. Use of OA journals levying APC has increased from 242 journals and 2,557 papers in 2010 to 328 journals and 3,634 papers in 2014. We estimate that India is potentially spending about US$ 2.4 million annually on APCs paid to OA journals and the amount would be much more if we add APCs paid to make papers published in hybrid journals open access. It would be prudent for Indian authors to make their work freely available through interoperable repositories, a trend that is growing in Latin America and China, especially when funding is scarce. Scientists are ready to pay APC as long as institutions pay for it and funding agencies are not ready to insist that grants provided for research should not be used for paying APC. -- Regards. Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http:// <http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009> 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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Re: [LIS-Forum] Wiley Library Awards - Nominations Open through October 31, 2017
by Anand Dodamani 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Dear All, The Wiley India has called nominations from Academic and Research Libraries in the country for various Library Awards. I appreciate the efforts of the award winning publisher to honour the libraries and librarians for their noble work. However, after going through their nomination forms available online, I understand (if not wrong) that the Wiley is more interested to know the financial health of the Academic and Research Libraries in the country than to know about various measures taken by the libraries towards digital transformation. I failed to understand how the information sought such as (1) Total Annual Budget In Crores (2) Percentage Increase in Budget during Last 5 Years (3) Individual Subscription to Journals etc. correlate with the objectives of the said "Awards" ? The right thing, with the wrong motive, is the wrong thing. The views expressed here are my personal views. Regards, Anand Dodamani Mumbai -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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