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.
“The Milner Foundation announced on Tuesday that the British cosmologist Stephen Hawking and a team of seven scientists at CERN, the European research center for particle physics, had won a pair of $3-million prizes….” Source: Nytimes Read more at: www.nytimes.com
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…
Prof. Sujan Sengupta, IIA has written a book on “Worlds Beyond Our Own” and Springer has published the book recently. Read More:
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…
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…
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…
