Dear Members of LIS-Forum The 18th Annual Lecture on Informatics is scheduled for today evening. Here are the details. Please join us online. · Topic: Flattening the uneven access landscape (in scholarly communication) · Speaker: Prof. R. Ramawamy, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai; former Vice Chancellor, University of Hyderabad; former President, Indian Academy of Science, Bangalore. · Date: 29 Apr 2022 · Time: 6:00 - 7:30pm. · Link: https://bit.ly/LTC2022OPEN Abstract: Of the many constraints faced by academics in the developing world, none is as restricting as the very limited access that most scholars have to the published literature. There have been efforts from many distinct sources on how this issue can be addressed both physically and digitally, and these range from the creation of JSTOR or the eJournals Delivery Service (eJDS) of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste in the last decades of the previous century to more assertive movements at the present time that include efforts such as the Internet Archive, Sci Hub and Lib Gen. Then speaker proposes to discuss these various initiatives and the impact that they have had on the academic landscape, especially in the global south Please treat this my personal invitation and join us for the program. Regards N. V. Sathyanarayana Conclave Chair – LTC2022 | Chairman & Managing Director | Informatics India Ltd. | Bangalore 560004 |INDIA | | www.informaticsglobal.comhttp://www.informaticsglobal.com | https://LTC2022.org | LTC2022, the 6th Library Technology Conclave, took off yesterday, with two workshops in the morning on Research Data Management and the inaugural function in the evening. The conclave was inaugurated by Dr. Jagdish Arora. Prof. Ajit Kembhavi, Director of Pune Knowledge Cluster and the former Director of the Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) delivered his keynote address. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.