Dear professional colleagues
I am pleased to inform you all that in my department I teach a paper called Digital Information Management(DIM), which is offered as a course to non library and information science students.We have large number of students from Iran plus Indians who are looking at this paper as a useful one for doing research in future.This year also I was told there are large number of students opting for this paper.They are all from varied subjects backgrounds like physics Chemistry,social work , commerece,law etc.
I am therefore planning for a edited book , I am seeking valuable contributions from all of you ,I have already recieved papers on Wikis, blogs, web 2,0, Scopus. Excluding these topics and also looking at the syllabus given below please contribute a paper , which will be useful for these students.Let the papers be of not more than 5-6 pages.many publishers have approached me to publish it.The details about when I am publishing and with whome will be informed to you all as when you contribute the content.
Looking forwrd for your cooperation in this regard.The right to include or exclude the paper depends on the quality,content and details.
You can contact me ....
Dr. Khaiser Nikam
Professor
University of Mysore
Manasagangothri Mysore-6
Cell:98453 28672
Off: 0821- 2419399
Digital Information Resources
Digital Information life cycle.
Categories of Digital Information Resources: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary
Digital Information Resources - primary resources- E-journals, E-Books: Netlibrary, Project Gutenberg ; E-Theses, E-Newspapers, Blogs, Wikis.
Free online Reference tools- Free Dictionaries: Merriam-Webster Online, 'Thesaurus Dictionary.com,. Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, wordthrill.com.;Glossary, Special Online Dictionaries such as Medical Dictionary, Dictionary of Slang etc.
Non-free online dictionaries: Oxford English Dictionary, Hutchison's, And Free Thesauri: Wordweb.
Encyclopedia: Columbia Encyclopedia, Wikipedia Encyclopedia, Encarta, Britannica, Virtual Libraries - IPL, vlib.org,
Subject gateways and Portals: Ingenta, BUBL link information service, E-Print network, www Virtual-Library and their types . ADAM (http://adam.ac.uk), AGRIGATE (www.agrigate.edu.at.). BIOGATE (httpt/zbicgate.Iub.Iu.se/), Bizled• (www.bized.co.uk), Cherndex (www.chemdex.org), GEM (www.thegateway.org), Phvsics Web Resources (http://physicsweb.org) etc.
Free databases: open J gate, OAIster, RePEC, Suprem Court databases, 1BID, INDIASTAT; Population Index, .Supreme Court Online, DARE Database; poverty Research Institutes Database, Human Rights Institutes Database, Peace institutes Database, Census of India; NIC database, Patents
Fee based Digital Information Resources: Bibliographical and Full text databases: Sociofile, LISA, Economic Literature; Emerald, EBSCO, ProQuest, Psyco-Info, Econlit, Web of Science, Scopus, CAS, INSPEC, AGRIS, BIOSIS, INIS, MEDLARS, ASINFO, COMPENDEX, OCLC, ERIC, inside Science, Embase, Scifinder, Cambridge University Press, American Royal Society of Chemistry- titles, J -Store, UGC-Info net, Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier.
Institutional Repositories: arXiv, Cogprint, eprints@iisc, etc.
Digital Information Search made easy - Search Engines and Search Strategies-Search Engines and meta search engines - Google: Google Blog Search, Google Book Search, Google Directory, Google Scholar, Altavista, ViviSimo, Dog 'pile , Clusty, Met Crawler, Teoma web search, Lycos , Yahoo etc.
Scholarly Literature Search made easy- Google Scholar, Windows Live Academic, Scopus, Web of Science, Scif'inder.
Advanced Search Techniques -Keyword search, Boolean operators, Proximity search, Phrase search, Field searching, concept 'Searching, Wild Card search, Truncation, Field search.
Technical writing and presentation – tools, techniques and standards, Writing a technical paper, Making PPT, Foot notes and references, Software tools for reference management. Citation machine.net. Study of citation styles manuals- APA, MLA, Chicago
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Regards,
Prof.Khaiser Nikam
MBA;MLISc;PhD
Department of Library and Information Science
University of Mysore
Mysore-570 006
Karnataka
INDIA
Cell:98453 28672
Ph: 91-821-2415202(R) 2419399(O)
email : khaiser.nikam@gmail.com
Skype:khaiser.nikam
Twitter:khaiser10957
http://www.uni-mysore.ac.in/departments/lisc/dr-khaiser.nikam