Innumerable postage stamps have been issued over the years depicting scientist and their contributions and also institutions of excellence they helped set up or that were named after them. All of which the country could be truly proud of. Exciting stories can be woven around many scientific themes using these postal stamps.
Source: Science Reporter, Vol. 49, No. 9. Sep 2012
Dear Colleagues, The latest issue of Current Science (Vol.108, No.9, pp.1731, 10th May.2015) contains the following article in “Living Legends in Indian Science” titled “B. V. Sreekantan: A versatile and humane scientist by P.C. Agrawal” which may be of interest to many of us. Read More: http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/108/09/1731.pdf With Regards, Librarian
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…
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:…
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…
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…
