Showing posts with label feautured. Show all posts
Showing posts with label feautured. Show all posts

Thursday, October 15, 2020

India’s first Preprints Repository to improve research quality in the country

India’s first Preprints Repository to improve research quality in the country




Researchers in any field, accessing research publications face two main problems. One, it takes around one year in the whole process of submitting, reviewing, accepting, and publishing research work in an online journal to be accessible. Another one is most of the papers remain behind the paywall as they are published in journals that are accessible only after having a subscription. So, many researchers in different countries, and of different universities and colleges who don't have subscriptions to these journals are unaware of the research findings in their fields. The need to make the current research results, immediately and freely accessible to the research community for building the ground for further research, has given rise to Preprints servers. A growing number of disciplines are building online repositories of preprints that are openly accessible to all readers. India also launched its preprints service in 2017 in agricultural sciences and now launched the country's first community Preprints service IndiaRxiv.

Thursday, May 21, 2020

During Covid-19 libraries shifting online: crisis driven opportunity to innovate


Covid-19 has changed the habits of the whole world in terms of living, working, reading.
During COVID-19 libraries shifting online: crisis-driven opportunity to innovate (pdf)
COVID-19 has changed the habits of the whole world in terms of living, working, reading. Not a single aspect of life has remained unaffected. Everything has changed the pattern to fight with Covid-19 and develop in a revolutionized way to prepare for the future.
The libraries are not exceptions. It has given the libraries a compulsive opportunity to scale up their online capabilities. If we talk about the role of libraries during a pandemic, then its role is indispensable. 

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Meghraj: national cloud of India providing cloud ready solutions to Government libraries




The government of India has recognized the benefits of cloud computing and initiated a new project based on cloud technology, called MeghRaj (GI Cloud), to ensure the optimum utilization of infrastructure and speed up the development and deployment of eGov applications. It is developed and run by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. Several data centers of the cloud computing environment are spread across multiple locations in the country, governed by a common set of protocols, guidelines, and standards issued by the Government of India. Three National data centers are running at NIC headquarters: Delhi, Pune, and Hyderabad.

Thursday, August 15, 2019

Publica bringing a new era of Self Publishing (i.e. 3.0) using Blockchain Technology


   I have discussed the use of Blockchain Technology in libraries and the Archangel project using Blockchain technology, in my earlier articles, recently, I came to know another use of this technology in the Self-publishing world.  Before moving to the topic, we should know about Self-Publishing and What is Self-Publishing 2.0 and 3.0?

Monday, July 29, 2019

39 Copyright Free Rare Books - Library and Information Science



S.N.
Year
Title
1
1827
2
1813
3
1886
4
1908
5
1923
6
1900
7
1827
8
1945
9
1865
10
1850
11
1888
12
1852
13
1859
14
1827
15
1955
16
1960
17
1878
18
1799
19
1851
20
1961
21
1908
22
1930
23
1896
24
1859
25
1851
26
1956
27
1960
28
1957
29
1919
30
1960
31
1927
32
1957
33
1957
34
1909
35
1877
36
1914
37
1939
38
1937
39
1925