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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…

Reference to law-suit filed by academic publishers Oxford University Press & Cambridge University Press against Delhi University and Rameshwari Photocopying services at Delhi University alleging copyright infringement in the creation and distribution of “course packs”.   Students view: Under fair use it is legal to reproduce any copyrighted work for the course work of educational…

Dear Friends, The following news item which may be of interest to many of us. “Photocopiers face suit by publishers” published in Times of India, Bangalore, Thursday, April 25, 2013, pp. 9 Read More    With regards, IIA, LIBRARIAN

Dear Friends, The latest issue of Current Science (Vol.104, No.4, pp.412, 25th Feb.2013)contains the following news item which may be of interest to many of us. Astrosat: a telescope on a satellite Read More… With Regards, Christina Birdie

Congressional criticism is mounting against U.S. prosecutors for pursuing prison time for a popular hacker in a case that’s morphed into a posthumous cause celebre. Aaron Swartz, 26, a cofounder of Reddit and an open-Internet advocate, committed suicide in New York on Jan. 11 as a trial loomed involving charges that he had allegedly illegally…

We all need to make a distinction between freely accessing information that we require to add to our knowledge and using that information for personal gain. Beware of indiscriminate copying in the Open Access environment. Aaron Swartz`s brief life was all about making information free available, but at what cost?… Read more………….. Preserving the Commons…

JSTOR offers free Register & Read program to online access to individual scholars and researchers who register for a MyJSTOR account.   To register, follow the link https://www.jstor.org/action/registration   This program includes approximately 1,200 journals from more than 700 publishers, a subset of the content in JSTOR. Once you’ve you may add the item to…

A new Physics World special report examines the challenges for physicist in India   The latest special report by Physics World, focuses on physics in India. The report reveals that money is not in short supply for the country`s top researchers, but that India lacks a critical concentration of highly capable scientists who can make…