The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012: Serge Haroche, David J. Wineland

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…

Philatelic Tribute to Indian Scientists by Seemin Rubab 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…

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, Latest News from ORCID! Organizational affiliations now part of ORCID record http://orcid.org/blog/2013/12/09/organizational-affiliations-now-part-orcid-record Some publishers will start asking for an ORCID iD (a unique perpetual author identifier) in early 2014. What is ORCID? ORCID(Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers…

Dear Colleagues, All research papers from Nature will be made free to read in a proprietary screen-view format that can be annotated but not copied, printed or downloaded, the journal’s publisher Macmillan announced on 2 December. Nature makes all articles free to view Investigations launched into artificial tracheas Bullet-proof armour and hydrogen sieve add to graphene’s promise   The…