LONDON: A hand written journal of Vasco da Gama’s first voyage to India, dating back to 1497-1499 that describes how he led the first fleet around Africa to India, arriving in Calicut and starting a maritime route from Portugal to India, changing the course of history of humankind has been included in the most prestigious…
To address the pressing need to improve the ways in which the scientific research output is evaluated by academic institutions, funding agencies etc.., Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) developed a set of recommendations. Read More
In continuation to our blog news titled “Why students need the right to copy” posted on April 29, 2013. In November 2012, The Association of Students for Equitable Access to Knowledge” (ASEAK) was formed to represent students side and they filed an application for removing the injunction order against the Rameshwari Photocopying services to…
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd will close The Telegram services in India from 15 July…. Read more
Indian Institute of Astrophysics Library Koramangala Bangalore – 560 034 India List of Books Displayed on 13th June 2013 1 Azzalini, Adelchi, and Scarpa, Bruno Data analysis and data mining: an introduction.– Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 19622 2 Benson, Donald C. The ballet of the planets: on the mathematical elegance of planetary motion .–…
Full text of the research papers published in May 2013 can be accessed from Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository. Belu, A. R., Selsis, F., Raymond, S. N., Palle, E., Street, R., Sahu, D. K., Braun, K. V., Bolmont, E., Figueira, P., Anupama, G. C., and Ribas, Ignasi, 2013, Habitable Planets Eclipsing Brown Dwarfs: Strategies…
IIA Library hosting the NKRC (National Knowledge Resource Consortium) Nodal Officers Meet 2013 at “Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Kodaikanal from 5th – 7th June, 2013. We welcome you all to participate in this meeting. Librarian
Two destructive earthquakes within a week of each other, the first with a 7.5 magnitude on the Iran-Pakistan border, on April 16, and the second measuring 5.6 in eastern Afghanistan last Wednesday, were unsettlingly felt over much of north India, but were geologically unconnected to India’s seismic anatomy. However, the massive tectonic processes intrinsic to…
Full text of the research papers published in April 2013 can be accessed from Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository. Anusha, L. S. Nagendra, K. N., 2013, Multi-dimensional Radiative Transfer to Analyze Hanle Effect in Ca II K Line at 3933 Å, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 767, No. 2, 108 Anathpindika, S., Di Francesco, J., 2013,…
