The Royal Society will launch new open access science journal

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

A clever data project shows the promise of open and freely accessible academic literature. by Alasdair Allan There is a huge debate right now about making academic literature freely accessible and moving toward open access. But what would be possible if people stopped talking about it and just dug in and got on with it?…

Wiley announced that starting from January 2013, they will publish the following journals on behalf of the American Geophysical Union (AGU):   ·  Eos ·  Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems ·  Geophysical Research Letters ·  Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·  Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·  Journal of Geophysical Research ·  Paleoceanography ·  Radio Science · …

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…

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, Mrs.Lalitha Chandrasekhar wife of Prof.S.Chandrasekhar, Nobel Laureate passed away this week. Read More: Librarian