Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Taylor & Francis Roadshow on 15 November 2013

Unravelling the New Age Library, Looking into the Future at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi was a very well organised event from T&F. Invited speakers were Dr Ramesh Gaud and Dr Yogendra Singh

Photo link.

Taylor & Francis also released IGNITE newsletter for librarians in South Asia. This quarterly bulletin aims to bring you news on Journals and Online Resources from Taylor & Francis and around the world.


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Friday, November 1, 2013

E-journals

Providing links to the world's electronic journals: 

  LIBLICENSE Web site provides resources (including model license language and detailed discussion of licensing terms) through an extensive series of links and menus

Electronic journal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Academic journal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Scientific journal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Directory of Open Access Journalshttp://www.doaj.org/doajImages/doaj.jpg

  http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx

Anna University EJornals http://www.annauniv.edu/Library/digi_ejournal.html

Model standard licenses for use by publishers, librarians and subscription agents for electronic resources http://www.licensingmodels.com/

E-journal Consortium: Is it a Success Story Always? http://www.publications.drdo.gov.in/ojs/index.php/djlit/article/view/10/545


LIBRARY CAPACITY BUILDING THROUGH E - JOURNAL
CONSORTIA: THE INDIAN SCENARIO http://dspace.iimk.ac.in/bitstream/2259/249/1/

Library Consortia: benefits and models of E-journals Consortia

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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Bookmarks


  1. Altmetrics are new metrics proposed as an alternative to the widely used Journal Impact Factor and personal citation indices like the H-index. The term altmetrics was proposed in 2010, as a generalization of article level metrics, and has its roots in the twitter #altmetrics hashtag. Although altmetrics are often thought of as metrics about articles, they can be applied to people, journals, books, data sets, presentations, videos, source code repositories, web pages, etc. Altmetrics cover not just citation counts, but also other aspects of the impact of a work, such as how many data and knowledge bases refer to it, article views, downloads, or mentions in social media and news media.
  2. Bibliographic Mangement Tools. :  thers JabRef, Refbase,RefBB, , RefWorks, reference manger, EndNote (paid)CitaviMendeleyZotero
  3. Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web using Delicious, the world's leading social bookmarking service.
  4. Feedly is a news aggregator application for various Web browsers and mobile devices running iOS andAndroid, also available as a cloud-based service. It compiles news feeds from a variety of online sources for the user to customize and share with others. Feedly was first released by DevHD in 2008. Others Yahoo..
  5. Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your queries.
  6. Google Docs: Online collaboration Tool
  7. LibraryThing A place to catalogue your books [desidoc]
  8. RSSOwl is a free and powerful news feed reader. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize and search news in a convenient, easy to use interface with endless flexibility.
  9. Surveys at Survey monkey
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Insider tips on ‘telling and selling’ your story by the editor of Cell Reports
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Science Librarianship

  1. Association of Research Libraries http://www.arl.org/ 
  2. E-Science librarianship 
  3. Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship
  4.  Becoming a Science Librarian: Accident, Serendipity or Purposeful Plan?” Donna M. Beck Rachel Callison
  5. Reinventing Science Librarianship: Themes from the ARL-CNI Forum
  6. The Journal of eScience Librarianship is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that advances the theory and practice of librarianship with a special focus on services related to data-driven research in the physical, biological, and medical sciences. 
  7. Ujcience librarian Portal
  8. science librarian job description keyword for Goggle Search

BIG DATA
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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Libraries of the Future

JISC: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/librariesofthefuture
Libraries of the Future attempts to explore the issues around the enormous impact of ICT on the academic library and to look forward to ensure that libraries – however they may continue to evolve - remain at the heart of academic life.e attempts to explore the issues around the enormous impact of ICT on the academic library and to look forward to ensure that libraries – however they may continue to evolve - remain at the heart of academic life.



Presentation by Mal Booth, Sophie McDonald and Belinda Tiffen, UTS Library
 
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    Sunday, January 10, 2010

    Panjab Digital Library Created

    Revealing the Invisible Heritage of Panjab

    For the first time ever a searchable collection of millions of rare pages on the Sikhs and the region of Panjab has been made available. Panjab Digital Library (PDL) will include texts of manuscripts, books, magazines, newspapers and photographs and will be available to anyone with Internet access atwww.PanjabDigiLib.org. This launch was made possible in part by The Nanakshahi Trust and the Sikh Research Institute (SikhRI).

    PDL has been in development since 2003, charged with a mission to select, collect, preserve, digitize and make accessible the accumulated wisdom of Panjab. Texts were included without distinction as to script, language, religion, nationality, or other human condition.

    “Since long, preservation of heritage, research and education have been a victim of apathy in Panjab; more so, in the last century. With the launch of the online digital library, we have tried to fill some of that gap. PDL is a humble offering to the community what it lost 25 years ago,” said Harinder Singh, co-founder and executive director of SikhRI who also serves on PDL board. “Scholars will be able to access a wide variety of information concealed in the manuscripts and other literature of the region with the click of a mouse sitting in the comfort of their homes. This is essential to the growth of Sikh and Panjab studies and its meaningful representation in the fast-changing modern world.”

    Digitization technology brings with it untold benefits for heritage preservation and access. Once a document has been properly digitized it becomes immortal and can remain accessible long after the original has ceased to exist. The option of digital access further aids in preservation of originals through reduced need for physical handling. The central digital archive which the PDL has developed over the last six years allows for wide electronic access to the public and will help the researcher to search, browse and sift through vast amounts of data in seconds.

    According to Davinder Pal Singh, PDL’s co-founder and executive director, “PDL will break many barriers which currently restrict a conventional library. Information is decentralized, through its shared storage and access model, thus enabling utilization of a single resource concurrently by multiple users all over the world. On a local note, assuming that every household will possibly have a computer within the next ten years, PDL holds great promises for the people of Panjab especially.”

    “To date, PDL has been instrumental in digitally preserving over 2.5 million folios from 3,400 manuscripts, 2,200 books, 1,990 issues of periodicals, 5,578 issues of newspapers, 3,152 photographs, 248,000 legal documents and some 168 hours of video recordings,” commented Gurvinder Singh, PDL’s US Coordinator. The current collection of data amounts to about 15,000 GB of available information.

    Among others, major institutional collections digitized to date include SGPC, DSGMC, Government Museum and Art Gallery Chandigarh, Chief Khalsa Diwan, Panjab Languages Department, and Kurukshetra University . Critical works of significant importance from the personal collections of Prof. Pritam Singh, Dr. Man Singh Nirankari, Dr. Kirpal Singh, Dr. Madanjit Kaur and Prof. Gurtej Singh are also available at PDL.

    "PDL is the only non-profit, non-governmental organization to have initiated a digitization project for the preservation and upkeep of Panjab archives, and perhaps the only one in India ” said Gurnihal Singh Pirzada Director, PDL’s board member. “PDL has undertaken rigorous research and laid solid ground work in order to be in the best possible position for this launch. Projects around the globe were

    closely studied as models for establishing a successful digitization project. Internationally recognized benchmarks were referred to and complied with,” he further said.

    PDL is an ongoing project in its early stages and the collection will grow substantially in coming years. New titles are being digitized everyday and the Web site will be updated with new features and titles on monthly basis. PDL staff will be adding at least 50,000 pages per week to the Web site’s collection.

    Contact Person: Davinder Pal Singh
    davinder.singh@panjabdigilib.org | +91-98141 13047
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