Dear Sir, Please post the following massage in Forum. Dear Sir/Madam, I am very pleased to inform all of you that with the work of national and International editorial board member and review committee we have launched an ‘International Journal of Information Research (ISSN 2249-8192)’ on the completion of 100 years of Library and Information Science education in India. The first issue of September, 2011 appeared with the following articles. TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial What’s missing from Google Books? Michele Seikel and Thomas Steele pp. 1-6 Beyond Web 2.0: semantic web and it’s influence on library services John Paul Anbu K. and Sridevi Jetty pp. 7-14 Virtual reference services at the main library of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: a case study Md. Safiqur Rahaman and Khadeeja Ansari pp.15-28 Self-archiving in open access institutional repositories: whose court is the ball in? Rupak Chakravarty pp. 29-36 Current trend and development of institutional repositories in India Rashmi Rekha Gohain pp.37-56 Information literacy competency among the post-graduate students: a case study Madhusoodanan C. and A.K. Baradol pp.57-69 Reading and library usage habits of the college students Fayaz Ahmad Loan pp.70-82 Preservation and access to manuscript heritage in India Ramesh C. Gaur pp.83-98 A bibliometric analysis of the ‘IFLA Journal’ during 2006-2010 Akhtar Hussain and Nishat Fatima pp.99-110 Development of Indian agricultural libraries from NATP to NAIP with special reference to information and communication technology applications Sunil Goria pp.111-124 Book Review Distribute learning and Virtual librarianship Akhilesh K.S. Yadav p.125 The philosophy of software: Code and mediation in the digital age V.K. Mishra p.126 Creating the customer-driven library: Building on the bookstore model Ajay Kumar p.127 I am glad to invite you to submit your article for the March, 2012 issue of ‘International Journal of Information Research (ISSN: 2249-8192)’. The International Journal of Information Research is a fully peer-reviewed print as well as online open access scholarly journal that is being published quarterly by the ‘Society for Scholarly Publishing and Open Access Resources (SPOARS)’. This is a print as well as an online open access journal for library, information and management (LIM) professionals. In this journal articles, reviews, proceeding papers, and news items, etc are published. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES a) Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts in .doc or .rtff format by email attachment to editorijir@gmail.com. Submissions should not be longer than 5,000 words including abstract, figures, tables, references and appendices. All manuscripts submitted to the journal will be double-blind refereed by expert and members of the editorial board. The journal’s committee will remove personal details for the purpose of blind review process. b) The Journal’s committee may also decide for open review process. Therefore, for fast processing of peer-review, author can also send two reviewers name in their concerned specialised areas. But, it will be decided by the journal’s committee that nominee by authors would review the article or not. c) Manuscript should start with the title of paper, names of the authors and affiliations, the full address and E-mail ID with contact numbers. When the paper is published online there will be a link to the authors email address so that readers can contact you for further information. It is also required but not compulsory that author will submit his brief introduction for publication with article. d) Authors are requested to submit his manuscripts with abstracts of 250-300 words outlining the objectives, scope, methodology, key findings of the paper, and its implications with selected keywords. It is important that the abstracts should be clear, easily understandable, specific and in concise form. e) Manuscript reference style should be properly into APA (American Psychological Association) format. Fonts of the articles should be into twelve (12) points and in ‘Times New Roman’ style. f) Contributors should also provide at least three broad terms or keywords for search facility that highlight the topics covered by the paper. Within the journal website there will be a search facility to look for papers that have been published and the keywords will be used in conjunction with this. Scope and Coverage Authors are requested to submit manuscript related to the trends and developments in the field of library and information studies. Research outcomes will be accepted for publication only on the basis of its originality, methodology and implications. The journal accepts academically robust papers, topical articles and case studies that contribute to the area of research and practice of Information Science. The journal publishes works in the categories: research papers, case studies, conference reports, view points and book reviews. Here are some sub-themes of the journal’s scope and coverage: Knowledge Management; Information Seeking Behaviour; Research Methodology; Training, Research and Development; Information Literacy; Information Literacy Skills; Models of Information Literacy; Digital and Hybrid Libraries; Digital Collection and Preservation; Collection Development and Management; Electronic Publishing and Open Access; Library Automation: Classification, Cataloguing and Organizations; Virtual Reference Services; Databases and Information Retrieval Techniques; Human, Culture and Technology Drivers; Institutional Repositories; Knowledge Discovery Tools and Techniques; Web Ontology; Data Mining and Web Analysis; Search Techniques and Page Ranking; Semantic Web; Metadata Harvesting and Web Resources; Federated Search; Standards and Protocols; Knowledge, Architecture and Mapping; Interoperability Issues; Open Source Software; Social Networking; Knowledge Networks; User Assessment Tools and Techniques; Intellectual Property Right (IPR), Copyright and Plagiarism; Information Seeking Pattern in Digital Environment; Usage Statistics; Research and Performance Evaluation; Citation Analysis; Knowledge Dissemination Mechanism and Practices; Open Access and Knowledge Dissemination; Scholarly Communications, Grey Literature; Institutional Repositories; Knowledge Processing and Content Organization; Role of Web in Information Dissemination; Social Networking; Library and Information Science Education; LIS Curriculum Development; Information Studies; LIS Education: Problems and Issues; Curriculum Framework; Competency based Curriculum; Research and Development; Teaching Practice and Techniques; Current Tends and Development; Competencies, etc and all areas of library and information science and management. =================================== Best Regards Prof. H. N. Prasad, Editor-in-Chief Department of Library and Information Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (U. P.) PIN -221 005 (India) Contact No. +91- 9415336709 (Mob.) Email ID: editorijir@gmail.com http://www.bhu.ac.in/dlis/ ==================================== -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.