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Open Access Webliography

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Though this website is not so current, still the content and link given are very much relevant and useful for research scholars.Open Access Webliography

Global Open Access Portal

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The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP), funded by the Governments of Colombia, Denmark, Norway, and the United States Department of State, presents a current snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information around the world. For countries that have been more successful implementing Open Access, the portal highlights critical success factors and aspects of the enabling environment. For countries and regions that are still in the early stages of Open Access development, the portal identifies key players, potential barriers and opportunities.

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Annotated links to useful resources for open access projects

The Open Access Map

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Charting the Growth and Development of Open Access Globally

The Open Access Map is now live.

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OASIS

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OASIS

Open Access Information Resources

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A comprehensive list of Open Access Information Resources:
OAIS

US student bodies call for open access

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15 June 2009

A coalition of student associations in the USA have signed a statement calling on universities, research funders, and researchers to support open access to research.

Students rely on access to academic journal literature for their research and education, say the associations. However, even before the recent economic crisis many colleges have struggled with the high costs of journal subscriptions, restricting access for students and scientists alike, says the statement.

The American Medical Student Association, the Student PIRGs, Students for Free Culture, and Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, as well as the Trinity University Association of Student Representatives and the California Institute of Technology Graduate Student Council have signed a statement. Other student organisations are invited to add their support online.

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) helped to coordinate discussions that led to the launch of this statement. It also sponsors the statement website. 'The student voice is growing louder, more clear, and more compelling in the discussion on access to research,' said Heather Joseph, executive director of SPARC . 'Financial pressures are driving libraries, universities and colleges, as well as students to more closely examine the return on their investment in resources. Our young colleagues, whose education relies on access to quality scholarship, are absolutely right to make research access a focal cause.'

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Medical Students, Other Student Groups Endorse Open Access

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Medical Students, Other Student Groups Endorse Open Access

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An Open Access future? Report from the eurocancercoms project

2011-09-23T20:05:00.000-07:00

September 15 2011 - In March 2011, as part of the background research to the FP7 Eurocancercoms project, the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) conducted an online survey of its members working in Europe to discover their experiences of and attitudes to the issues surrounding academic publishing and Open Access.
88% of respondents believe that publicly funded research should be made available to be read and used without access barriers.
An Open Access future? Report from the eurocancercoms project presents the results from this survey and compares them to the results from a much larger survey on the same topic from the Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP). The responses from both surveys show very positive attitudes to the Open Access publishing route; perhaps the most challenging statistic from the EACR survey is that 88% of respondents believe that publicly funded research should be made available to be read and used without access barriers.
As a conclusion and invitation to further discussion, this paper also contributes to the debate around subscription and Open Access publishing, supporting the case for accelerating the progress towards Open Access publishing of cancer research articles as a particularly supportive way of assisting all researchers to make unhindered progress with their work. See the details...

A new Wave for Open Access Publishing

2011-09-23T19:45:00.000-07:00

Now the time has come when librarians from developed countries tried to move into open access publishing instead of heavy paid subscription for scholarly publishing.
Just because of funding sources of California Universities has cut down the funds and now they are unable to pay hefty ratio of their squeezed funds in journal and periodical subscriptions. In the result, Universities from Britain to California are refusing to renew their expensive subscriptions, turning instead to “open access” publishing, an arrangement whereby material is made available free on the Internet with few or no restrictions except for the obligation to cite it. For details, see

100 Extensive University Libraries from Around the World that Anyone Can Access

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Universities house an enormous amount of information and their libraries are often the center of it all. You don't have to be affiliated with any university to take advantage of some of what they have to offer. From digital archives, to religious studies, to national libraries, these university libraries from around the world have plenty of information for you.

Digital Libraries

Capturing images of manuscripts, art, and artifacts, digital libraries are an excellent way of both preserving the past and sharing it with everyone.
Harvard University Library. Browse through 24 different collections ranging from cultural images of eastern Asia to 19th century American trade cards.
Yale University Library: Digital Collections. Find ancient manuscripts or read a classic all preserved digitally courtesy of the Yale University Library.
Indiana University Digital Library Program. Download manuscripts from Isaac Newton or view photographs, film literature, and music from the collections at this library.
Michigan State University Digital and Multimedia Center. Find several texts from authors such as Joseph Conrad, Aesop's Fables, cookbooks, and texts on orchids or veterinary medicine in PDF format.
Columbia University Libraries Digital Collections. Browse through one of over 10 different digital collections that range from medieval and early Renaissance manuscripts to architectural drawings or visit the online exhibitions for even more.
Purdue University e-Archives. Find information on Amelia Earhart to Purdue history in the collections at Purdue's digital archives.
Rutgers University Digital Library Projects. Learn about the history of alcohol, New Jersey, Italy's people, and much more in this diverse digital library.
Ohio State University Libraries Collections. See photos of Bird's expedition to the South Pole, learn about the women of Burlesque, and more in these digital archives.
Syracuse University Digital Library. Find interesting information on the history of the New York area as well as recordings of popular WWII songs.
Ohio University Libraries Digital Exhibits. Learn about Ohio history, visits from important people, read WWII papers, and more in these archives.
Brown University Library, Center for Digital Initiatives. This collection includes such interesting topics ranging from Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, and African American and Yiddish sheet music.
JSU Houston Cole Library Digital Collections. In addition to profiles of several local historical figures, there is a collection of oral histories from people who lived through historic eras of the early to mid 20th century in America.

International Digital Libraries

These digital libraries either have a focus on a culture other than that of the United States or are housed in another country.
The Digital South Asia Library. Sponsored by University of Chicago, this library provides images, reference material, statistics, indexes, and more all focusing on South Asia.
Cambridge University Library Digital Image Collections. Study ancient texts, photographs from the late 19th century through the mid 20th century, Pascal's Treatise on the Arithmetic Triangle, and more.
Nagoya University Library. The manuscripts in these digital databases are in Japanese, as are most of the sites (with some English and French). Whether you know any Japanese or not, if you appreciate the beauty of ancient Japanese manuscripts, you can randomly click through these sites and find some beautiful images.
Ryukoku University Electronic Exhibition. The digital collection from this university in Kyoto, Japan offers glimpses of art and manuscripts with descriptions of each in English.

Texts

These libraries offer books or texts for you to read online and free of charge.
Universal Digital Library. Hosted by Carnegie Mellon University, this site offers one million online texts touching on literature, the arts, and science.
The Perseus Digital Library. Find Greek and Latin classics, English Renaissance, and more on this site. Currently, a newer, more modern version is in testing, so feel free to give that a try too.
The Oxford Text Archive. Scroll through these digitally preserved texts for access to hundreds of classic texts. If the text is available for download, it will be designated "free" to the right of the link.
Kelvin Smith Library eBooks. This listing ranges from links to full-text reference material to style guides to classic dramas. They also have an exclusive collection of early American and British books.
University of Chicago Library EOS. Find image-based electronic texts available to all from the University of Chicago's collection.
The University of Adelaide Library e-Books. This Australian library offers free texts to all. Browse by author, title, chronology, or theme.
Literary Resources on the Net. Hosted by Rutgers University, you can find any number of classic texts here categorized by category.
The Internet Classics Archive. Find major classics, including some Chinese and Persian texts, on this site hosted by MIT.
Renascence Editions. Find English language texts written between 1477 and 1799 at this site hosted by the University of Oregon. Scroll through the alphabetical listing to find texts by author.
The Beck Center for Electronic Collections. This collection of resources hosted by Emory University offers projects such as Women's Genre Fiction, The Belfast Group, and the W.B. Yeats Collection, all of which provide downloadable texts pertaining to each topic.
Carrie: An Electronic Library. Hosted by the University of Kansas, this online library offers several collections with focus mainly on history and social sciences.

Medical Libraries

These libraries offer medical information for both the professional and the lay person.
Welch Medical Library. This library, courtesy of Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, offers a search feature for articles published in medical journals and online. They also have Subject Guides under the "eResources" section that offers links to topics ranging from Alternative Medicine to Grants and Funding to Writing and Publishing.
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Care Center. Each page at this site provides a wealth of information explaining about specific types of cancer as well as topics related to cancer such as pain, fatigue, and genetics.
Duke University Medical Center Library Online. Get databases, journals, tutorials, tools, and more at this medical library.
Lamar Soutter Library. Courtesy of University of Massachusetts, this library offers plenty of information for the general public with access levels clearly labeled on most resources.
Michigan Ear Institute Medical Library. Find several articles about diagnosis and treatment of ear issues in this online library intended for both professionals and laypersons.
South Carolina Department of Mental Health. Geared toward both the professional and clients and their families, this site offers a wealth of information from the diagnostic stage to treatment.
Encyclopedia of Psychology. This site run by Jacksonville State University provides links to anything related to psychology. Read about organizations, learn about the major theories, or find out about a career in the field.
Children's Hospital Boston Interactive Features. Click on these features to make neurons fire, see cell growth as you travel through cancer stages, create red blood cells, and more.
Tufts Open Courseware. Tufts University medical school has put several medical courses online for anyone to access.
Bastyr University. Focusing on natural health medicine, this university library offers a nice database with resources for natural medicine.

Legal Libraries

Whether you are studying the law or are just interested in it, these libraries have information for you.
UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy. This archive provides a rich resource for all formative laws taking place between 1995 through 2002.
Berkman Center for Internet & Society. A part of Harvard Law, find publications and research that pertain to Internet law.
Emory Law Ready Reference. This site offers links to free primary and secondary research sources. Find an Internet Legal Research Guide among many other guides.
Santa Clara Law Library. Find lots of legal resources available on the Internet as well as legal research guides here.
Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute. Find procedures, codes, and more at this resource for public legal information.
New Jersey Digital Legal Library. Hosted by Rutgers University Library, you can find papers on New Jersey law and legal history here.
Tarlton Law Library. From the University of Texas School of Law, this library offers access to plenty of information for the general public.
USC Gould School of Law. This library provides users online access to journals, legal resources, and electronic resources.
Wise Law Library. In addition to the databases, this site also offers links to helpful legal websites, research tools, and library tools courtesy of University of Colorado Law.
O'Quinn Law Library. From University of Houston, this library has access to databases as well as a few special collections available online.

National Libraries of Europe

The following libraries are both national libraries that offer a glimpse into the culture and history of the country they represent as well as hold affiliations with universities.
National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This library is open to both those affiliated with the university and general readership, but note that there is not an English version available.
The National and University Library in Zagreb. This library in Croatia offers collections of ancient papers and manuscripts available online.
Copenhagen University Library. In conjunction with the National Library, this site offers a wide range of materials available in both English and Danish.
National and University Library of Iceland. Look at ancient maps of Iceland or explore the multiple databases available on this site. Some areas are restricted to those associated with the university.
National and University Library St. Kliment Ohridski - Skopje. Available in English, this library of the former Yugolslov Republic of Macedonia offers a limited amount of information online, but you can access some databases. Members of the library have access to more sections.
National and University Library of Slovenia. The digital library offers access to many national treasures of Slovenian history. Much of the website can be navigated in English.

Religious Studies

From various types of Christianity to Judaism to Buddhism, these libraries offer an opportunity for religious research.
Hartford Seminary Library. Find books, dissertations, and more on Christian theology here. Some access is restricted to students of the seminary.
Brigham Young University Digital Collections. Click on "Text Collections" for a wide range of available texts including children's literature, sermons of John Donne, and a huge collection of Mormon literature.
The Divinity Library, Vanderbilt University. Get the revised common lectionary, access their many free databases, and read guides on how to do religious research at this library.
University of California Library Religious Studies. Use research tools, use library guides, and browse through the religious studies collection at this library.
Flora Lamson Hewlett Library. Research with the online databases, take advantage of tutorials, and more at this site.
The Catholic University of America Library. Research religious studies, philosophy, and canon laws at this library.
Ostrow Library at American Jewish University. Search databases, take advantage of suggested links, and more at this library focusing on Jewish culture and civilization.
Digital Library and Museum of Buddhist Studies. Hosted by National Taiwan University Library, this site offers scriptures, tools, and more to help your study of Buddhism.

Specialized Selections

From maps to architectural images to information on deafness, these libraries offer a very specialized collection.
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Study topographical maps from around the world at this library.
Texas Tech University Libraries 3D Animation Lab. Learn the basics and find some handy tools to get you started with creating your own 3D animation.
United Nations University Library. Browse through this online library with the mission of solving global concerns and bringing peace worldwide.
News and Newspapers Online. A service of the University Libraries of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, this library will help you find current news anywhere in the world.
SPIRO. Courtesy of University of California, Berkeley, you can find over 270,000 architectural images in both slide and photograph format.
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library. Find two online collections that offer images of ancient Chinese maps.
Documenting the American South. Hosted by the University of North Carolina, you can find full texts by various authors that document the Southern Americana heritage.
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library. Read more than 85,000 human rights documents at this online library.
Gallaudet University Library. This library has an extensive section on deaf research including statistics, deaf people and animals, ways librarians can communicate, and more.
Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection. View more than 800 maps ranging over a 500 year time span in this online collection from University of Georgia Libraries.

Academic Research

Whether you are researching Mark Twain or war in the 20th century, these libraries offer resources to help you.
HighWire Press. Hosted by Stanford University, this free repository holds journals and other academic articles available to the general public.
Mark Twain Project. Co-sponsored by the University of California, you can find texts, documents, and research available online about the life and works of Mark Twain.
Project Euclid. Sponsored by Cornell University, this site offers online resources for math and statistics.
NARCIS. Hosted by Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, this database provides access to scientific papers based out of the Netherlands.
The World of Dante. Study Dante's Inferno online courtesy of the University of Virginia. It has been tagged using SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) to enhance the interface and study of this poem.
Southwestern Writers Collection. Texas State University houses a huge collection of manuscripts and information on southwestern writers. Much of the information is available online in the archives.
Peace and War in the 20th Century. From McMaster University Library in Ontario, this library provides records, case studies, a time line, and more focusing on war and peace around the world in the 20th century.
Internet Public Library. Founded by University of Michigan School of Information and hosted by Drexel University's College of Information Science & Technology, this incredibly comprehensive library has plenty to offer.
American Universities
These American university libraries have plenty to offer to anyone who takes the time to explore what is available.
University of Texas Libraries. Browse through the multiple libraries and museums available on this site. Some access is restricted to those affiliated with the university, but there is plenty of information for the general public.
Georgetown University Library. Search you databases, journals, and special collections at this combination of both the Lauinger Library and the Blommer Science Library.
Princeton University Library . This library offers lots of information for the general public. Be sure to check out their incredible reference database too.
LSU Libraries: Special Collections. While only parts of these special collections are available online, you can learn about the oral history of Louisiana, rare books, and the Civil War.
University of Nevada, Reno Libraries. Find Basque books and films, information on Earth sciences and mining, and maps and history of the Nevada area at this library.
Washington University Libraries. Ask a librarian, find journal articles, and browse through reference sources here.
Howard University Library System. Students and non-students alike can take advantage of the databases, catalog, and faculty papers.
University of Delaware Library. In addition to access to five libraries, you can also view a digital collection, instructional media collection, and other special collections.
University of Virginia Library. This library offers a good selection of labs, such as the digital media lab, which the general public can access portions of online.
J. Willard Marriott Library. From University of Utah, this library offers a good selection of special collections, digital collections, and more.

International Universities

Travel around the world from your computer and learn what these international university libraries have to offer.
The University of Edinburgh. The resources here are available to the general public; however, most licensed electronic resources are not available to non-university people.
The Library at UCD Dublin. While much of the information is restricted to either those associated with the university or visiting scholars, the general public can access electronic resources including eBooks, online reference sources, and more.
University of Oxford Bodleian Library e-Resources. This library offers a good selection of resources available to all ranging from digital archives to research articles written by Oxford authors.
Bibliotheque de la Sorbonne. Check out the electronic resources for the biggest selection available to the general public at this library. The site is completely in French.
Free University of Berlin Universitatsbibliothek. Research 700 databases and 20,000 journals in this university's digital library. The site is available in English, but some of the pages may only be available in German.
Roskilde University Library. Of the open-access services available at this library, there is a good mix of information in both English and Danish.
Stockholm University Library. Search the databases, e-books, and e-journals available at this library. Not all information is accessible by the general public, but what is available is clearly marked.
University Library Ghent. This library in Belgium offers digital databases with historic photographs and more, a section with a five-year focus on architecture, and much more. Some of the site is available in English.
Open University of Catalonia. Search for information in English, Spanish, or Catalan in this library that offers an online collection ranging across many topics including the arts, philosophy, labor sciences, law, marketing, tourism, and more.
University of Zurich. This university has made several libraries and online databases available for use. There is a mix of resources in both English and German.
National University of Singapore Libraries. Get links to information about Singapore from government to statistics as well as the ability to search the university databases.

University of Singapore Libraries. Get links to information about Singapore from government to statistics as well as the ability to search the university databases.

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Open Access Directory

BASE-The Search Engine

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BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic open access web resources. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.

As the open access movement grows and prospers, more and more repository servers come into being which use the "Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting" (OAI-PMH) for providing their contents. BASE collects, normalises, and indexes these data. Our OAI-PHM-Blog communicates information related to harvesting and aggregating activities performed for BASE.

BASE is a registered OAI service provider and contributed to the European project "Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research" (DRIVER) which was successfully completed at the end of 2009.

In comparison to commercial search engines, BASE is charcterised by the following features:

Intellectually selected resources
Only document servers that comply with the specific requirements of academic quality and relevance are included
A data resources inventory provides transparency in the searches
Discloses web resources of the "Deep Web", which are ignored by commercial search engines or get lost in the vast quantity of hits.
The display of search results includes precise bibliographic data
Several options for sorting the result list
"Refine your search result" options (authors, subject headings, year, resources and language)

BASE-

Earlier OAIster was the only search engine which made for OAI repository search now acquired by OCLC and amalgamated with worldcat

OAIster...

OAIster.worldcat.org is a freely-accessible OCLC site for searching the millions of OAIster records alone. The records will continue to be indexed in OCLC's WorldCat, and will be integrated in WorldCat.org search results along with records from thousands of libraries worldwide. They also will continue to be included in WorldCat Local and WorldCat Local "quick start" search results, and will continue to be available on the OCLC FirstSearch service to Base Package subscribers, providing a complement to other FirstSearch databases.

WRS | National Library goes high-tech—for a fee

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WRS | National Library goes high-tech—for a fee

Open Access 101, from SPARC

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A great video on Imp of Open Access----------

Open Access 101, from SPARC from Karen Rustad on Vimeo.

Addressing the Challenge: Cataloguing Electronic Books in Academic Libraries

2010-05-01T07:27:00.000-07:00

This paper explores the various issues and challenges arising from e-book cataloguing experienced at the University of Windsor's Leddy Library and the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL). This discussion uses an evidence -based approach to identify and resolve issues relevant to academic libraries as well as to consortia. With the ever rising popularity of e-books within academic libraries, cataloguing librarians are actively seeking more effective methods of managing this new electronic medium, including the development of new cataloguing policies and procedures. This paper will explore the various issues and challenges surrounding e-book cataloguing and processing within academic libraries, and will identify new policies and procedures that may be used to effectively assist in e-book management.

Source:

http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/article/view/6261/6416

Link to E-Journals

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Here is a good link of world renowed e-journals. This link covers following subjects .........
African Studies
Arbitration
Asian & Pacific Studies
Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Botany
Buddhism
Chemistry
Chinese Studies
Eastern European Studies
Economic and Business History
Economics
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Forestry
History
History of the Health Sciences
Indonesia
Labor History
Medicine
Microbiology
Middle East & Jewish Studies
Oceanography
Public Health
Publishers
Safety Critical Systems
Scientific Journals: Top 500
Social Sciences
Sociology
South Asia
Tibetan Studies
Women's History
Zen
Zoology
Apart of above 14 links are covered under "Special Featred Journals and sites " and for retro links are accomadated in "Past Featured Journals". Provision of Free Text of journals is also given in "Journals with Free Online Full-text Articles".

http://www.e-journals.org/

Power Point in Open Access

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E-Resources on open arena

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Open source e-journals and e-books

Internet Journal of Science
http://www.netsci-journal.com

The Scientist, Scholarship Repository
http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship

Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Database
http://www.chemspy.com

Issues in Science and & Technology
http://www.iier.org.au/iier.html

Technology Interface
http://web.bsu.edu/tti /index.html

Networked Computer Science Technical Referenced Library
http://www.ncstrl.org

Information Technology and Disabilities
http://www.rit.edu%7eeasi/itd.htm

Journal of Design Communication
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JCAEDE/

Computer in Higher Education Economics Review
http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/cheer.htm/

African Journal of Biotechnology, Open J-Gate
http://www.openj-gate.com

Materials Research
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&
pid=1516-1439&lng=endnrm=iso/

American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientist Journal
http://www.aapspharmsci.org

IBM Systems Journal
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/

Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis
www.etna.mcs.kent.edu

Electronic Journal of IT In Construction
http://www.itcon.org

Bioline International
http://www.bioline.org.br

Biomed Central
http://www.Biomedcentral.com

Journal of Digital Information
http://journals.tdl.org/jodi

Public Library of Science
PLOS) (http://www.Plos.org

Indian Academy of Sciences
http://www.ias.ac.in

Pubmed Central
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/

Indian Journals
http://indianjournals.com/

High Wire Press
http://www.ias.ac.in

New Journal of Physics
http://www.iop.org/ej/journal/1367-2630/1

Some useful websites in the field of Education

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Name of the Organisation Address Link of theOrganisation
Healthy Lifestyle www.healthy-india.org
Sakshat - An online Education Portal of MHRD www.cbse.nic.in/prosak1.doc
National Council of Educational Research & Training (NCERT) www.ncert.nic.in
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) www.cbse.nic.in
Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) www.navodaya.nic.in
Central Tibetan Schools Administration (CSTA) www.ctsa.nic.in
National Institute of Open Schooling www.nos.org
Think.Com www.think.com
Oracle Academy www.academy.oracle.com
ThinkQuest www.ThinkQuest.org
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education www.hbcse.tifr.res.in
Edusat www.edusatindia.org
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur www.iitk.ac.in
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi www.iitd.ac.in
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay www.iitb.ac.in
Indian Institue of Technology Kharagpur www.iitkgp.ernet.in
Indian Institue of Technology Madras www.iitm.ac.in
Indian Institue of Technology Roorkee www.iitr.ac.in
Indian Institue of Technology Guwahati www.iitg.ac.in
Biology in Motion www.biologyinmotion.com
Physics.org www.Physics.org
Science Museum www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
UNESCO www.unesco.org
HowStuffWorks www.howstuffworks.com

Copyright Law and Libraries

2009-07-25T19:05:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends,
Many times it happnes that our learned friends hesitate to provide any type of reference service to their user, where they supposed to provide any type of photocopy or xerox is to be provieded. Due to violation of copyright law, they pull their foot back which in turn becomes the violation of third rule that every user has/his information and so on. In this regard I want to make some clarification.
that Section 51 of Indain copyright law 1957 is adamant to enact the general rule that reproduction of the whole or substantial part of a work will constitute infringement, section 52 provides that reproduction is not precluded and specifies the instances where it is permitted. Section 52 of same act, has been much vocal about certain act which not to be infringement of copyright. Subject to certain conditions, a fair deal for research, study, criticism, review and news reporting, as well as use of works in library and schools and in the legislatures, is permitted without specific permission of the copyright owners. In order to protect the interests of users, some exemptions have been prescribed in respect of specific uses of works enjoying copyright. Some of the exemptions are the uses of the work --------- i. purpose of research or private study,
ii. for criticism or review,
iii. for reporting current events
iv. in connection with judicial proceeding, v. performance by an amateur club or society if the performance is given to a non-paying audience, and
vi. the making of sound recordings of literary, dramatic or musical works under certain conditions. Accordingly any fair dealing with a literary(other than a computer programme), dramatic, musical or artistic work for the purpose of private use, research, criticism or review, reporting current events, judicial proceedings and so on are exempted from the scope of infringement. There are specific exemptions for educational activities and certain cultural activities like performance during the course of a religious ceremony, marriage and so on.
2. Secondly. that once a work falls into the public domain, and has been exposed to such use as well as direct exploitation, it is not considered appropriate to bring it back within the sphere of copyright protection: Thus Article 18 of the Berne Convention provides that when a country accedes to the Berne Convention the Convention shall apply only to those works which have not yet fallen into the public domain. In other words, the material is available on public domain does not covered under copyright act in any condition. Secondly , a casual user may fall under infringement of copyright if he willingly download the material from internet, but Libraries already covered under fair use doctrine so are exempted from the violation of copyright law.

Open Access Resources

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Here is the web link of comprehensice list of Open Access Resources. This links provides a concerete information about the Open Access Initiative, Open Access Directories, E-Journals, IRs Member Institutions..............
http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/oaeresources.html

Universities Alert

2009-05-26T23:21:00.000-07:00

To get the list of UGC recognized and fake Universities, please open the follow link--------- http://www.skuniversity.org/Other/List%20of%20UGC%20Recognised%20Universities.asp http://www.ugc.ac.in/inside/fakealerts.html

Author How To Guides-------Online Guide by Emerald

2009-05-10T18:14:00.000-07:00

A series of guides for academic and practitioner authors from the experts
Practical tips and guidance on how to get your work published and maximize dissemination from Emerald, the world's leading publisher of management research.

How to... write a book review
Book reviews are a special form of academic writing. They have well-known structures with familiar components. Here, James Hartley of the School of Psychology, Keele University, UK, consults with academics on writing the perfect book review and presents a potential checklist for book reviewers.

How to... promote your work
A good promotions strategy will increase the impact of your work by getting more people to read your article, improving your citation ratings, and ensuring that your work becomes more widely known both within your academic and practitioner community and outside it. It will also help disseminate the practical and policy-related implications of your work to those who can implement it. This guide concentrates on strategies that will help you and your colleagues make your articles, as well as the wider research on which they are based, better known. If you are working as part of a research centre or larger research programme with major funding, then you will need to talk to your partners and your funding body about developing a proper communications strategy.

How to... collaborate on writing an article
Many Emerald articles result from collaboration. Reasons for this include the: increasing importance of publication for tenure, promotion and satisfying the UK Research Assessment Exercise; tendency towards large, multidisiplinary projects; nature of research funding; pressure for PhD students to get out publications even before their PhD is approved; and greater ease afforded by electronic means of communication. This guide focuses on authorship and dissemination issues arising from collaborative research (issues concerning setting up a large research project team are covered in our Research Zone). This guide is based on the experiences of several authors from three continents.

How to... prepare papers if English is not your first language
Preparing and writing an academic article for publication in an English language journal is a daunting experience for anyone, but particularly so if your first language is not English. This guide gives you some support with preparing articles in a non-native tongue. It is not possible to give specific advice about English, because teaching English as a foreign langauge is a highly specialized area requiring a great deal of skill. However, we will provide general advice on writing articles and list some useful resources including editing services.

How to... survive peer review and revise your paper
What gives being published in a journal especial credibility is that other experts have read the work and deemed it acceptable. The peer review process is therefore what gives the journal in which you have chosen to place your article, and your paper if you have done the necessary revisions, a quality control stamp. This guide offers advice on minimizing the chances of having to revise your work by getting it right in the first place, to a practical example of carrying out your own peer review.

How to... proofread your work
As far as writing an article for publication is concerned, we are talking about authors proofreading before it goes to production. In many ways, it is more like copy-editing, which is about close attention to the detail of the script, reading at sentence level to make sure there is nothing that can detract from accuracy and clarity, be it errors of grammar, inconsistency, spelling, or punctuation. "If a paper is not carefully checked, then it looks not just sloppy, but as though the author does not care. So why should anyone else?" (John Peters, Emerald CEO and editor of Management Decision).

How to... write more simply
Reviewers of academic papers often point out that the language is unnecessarily obscure and obtuse. The reviewer or editor feels there is a good point in there somewhere, but it is not easy for the reader to find. In contrast, good English is economical and spares redundant words. In Lost for Words: The Use and Abuse of the English Language, John Humphrys describes the qualities of good English: "... clear, simple, plain and unambiguous ... free of jargon, although there will be exceptions. It should be easy to read and listen to rather than a chore. At the very least it should not make our tongues fur up". This guide provides suggestions on how you can make sure your style is as clear as possible.

How to... structure your article
According to one survey on why articles fail to get published in economics journals, there are two main reasons. Either the paper does not make, or does not demonstrate that it makes, a contribution to knowledge or the paper is badly organized, with the parts not fitting together to form a coherent whole. These two factors, which rated more highly in this survey than targetting the wrong journal, both relate to the paper's structure. Papers that are well structured will have a logical organization with a beginning, a middle and an end, and above all a sense of purpose which communicates itself to the reader, will motivate him or her to continue reading in the belief that the author is making a contribution to knowledge.

How to... use the Harvard reference system
The Harvard reference system, also known as the author-date system, is Emerald's approved system of citing other works. Articles submitted to Emerald are required to use this system. This guide explains how and where to use references within the text of your article and how to compile the reference list at the end. We also look at some of the software tools that are available to simplify these tasks.

How to... write an abstract
An abstract is a succinct summary of a longer piece of work, usually academic in nature, which is published in isolation from the main text and should therefore stand on its own and be understandable without reference to the longer piece. It should report the latter's essential facts, and should not exaggerate or contain material that is not there. Its purpose is to act as a reference tool (for example in a library abstracting service) and, more importantly, to enable the reader to decide whether or not to read the full text. It is your opportunity to gain readership and citation.

How to... write for a practitioner audience
If you are an academic, then you have good job-related reasons to want to publish: your job and your promotion depends upon your keeping up your publishing profile in quality scholarly journals. If you are a practising manager, however, writing for publication is not part of your job and can seem much less important than keeping up with your targets and the inevitable fire-fighting. This guide aims to explain the benefits of publishing to practising managers and to give advice on how to publish successfully.

How to... find the right journal
Finding the right journal is as important to the publishing process as is having something original to say and saying it well. Many journal editors claim that a good proportion of their rejections happen not because manuscripts are of insufficient quality, but because they are inappropriate for the journal's objectives. As ever, it is easier (and usually leads to a more successful oputcome) if you address these issues as early as possible.

How to... write a literature review
A literature review is a description of the literature relevant to a particular field or topic. It gives an overview of what has been said, who the key writers are, what are the prevailing theories and hypotheses, what questions are being asked, and what methods and methodologies are appropriate and useful. As such, it is not in itself primary research, but rather it reports on other findings.

How to... write a case study
A case study involves focusing on a set of issues in some contemporary setting, usually but not exclusively an organization, or perhaps a department or sector of an organization. It may use just one case or a number of cases linked together by a theme. Because of its real-world setting, it is a powerful tool of analysis, and one that obviously chimes in with Emerald's concern to disseminate implications for practice. It is particularly good at addressing "how" and "why" questions