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
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
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
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…
Plan for open access to science research: by Renuka Phadnis Ever felt frustrated while reading a science research journal online, only to see the message “to continue reading, subscribe now”? That may soon change The Department of Science and Technology and the Department of Biotechnology (DBt) under the Ministry of Science and Technology have…
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…
