Dear Colleagues, The article on “Scam” Open Access journals is published in Science Magazine, check the url http://www.sciencemag.org/site/special/scicomm/index.xhtml All the materials in this issue is free to read With Regards, Christina Birdie
Dear Colleagues, A multidisciplinary repository service ZENODO which facilitates the visibility of research results (data and publications) that are not part of institutional repository has been created and maintained by the European Commission’s OpenAIREplus project. This subject specific repository is hosted online at CERN, Switzerland. Read more on ZENODO here. With Regards, Christina Birdie
Dear Colleagues, Mrs.Lalitha Chandrasekhar wife of Prof.S.Chandrasekhar, Nobel Laureate passed away this week. Read More: Librarian
Dear Colleagues, Wiley salute all the researchers in India and as a pay back to the researcher community, announces WILEY DOWNLOAD HUNGAMA 2013 Institution wide Free access to all Wiley-Blackwell journals in STMS from 2nd September 2013 to 16th September 2013 Highlights FREE ACCESS to all Wiley-Blackwell’s journals in STMS from 1997…
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
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…
