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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…

Dear Colleagues, The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer-generated nonsense. The following link of “Nature news” may be interest to many of us, http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-papers-1.14763 With Regards, Librarian

There is an interesting news article by R Prasad in Today`s “The Hindu” (Thursday, September 27, 2012) On the Net, a scam of a most scholarly kind

The SPIE Digital Library moved to a new platform. The URL to the SPIE Digital Library homepage, http://SPIEDigitalLibrary.org, will not change. Other landing and article pages will have new URLs; however, permanent redirects will be in place to ensure that previous links and bookmarks will be permanently redirected to the new pages. What`s New: More Content:…

Dear Colleagues, The world’s oldest scientific publisher, The Royal Society of London, announced today that they will introduce a new open access peer-reviewed journal that will publish research from across the entire spectrum of science and mathematics. The journal, which is set to launch sometime in autumn 2014, will be known as Royal Society Open…

Dear Colleagues,     Emerald Publishing has announced complete access to all Emerald eJournals for a month (between November 1 and 30, 2013). This complete access will enable you, to download / read articles that are not part of our current subscription to Emerald eJournals.   The following are the link to access the content, http://www.emeraldinsight.com/  …