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Free scholarly tools for searching and browsing scholarly resources.

1. Google Scholar: One place to search peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Options for handling the site Searching Options * Search articles * Advanced… Continue

Added by Badan Barman on November 8, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

देश भर में खोली जाएंगी 7,000 नई लाइब्रेरियां.

नई दिल्ली ।। बच्चों में पढ़ने की आदत विकसित करने के उद्देश्य से केंद्र देश भर में 7,000 नई लाइब्रेरियां खोलने की योजना बना रहा है। इंटरन ेट सुविधा से युक्त ऐसी ज्यादातर लाइब्रेरियां देश के ग्रामीण हिस्सों में स्थापित की जाएंगी। नई लाइब्रेरी खोलने की यह योजना नैशनल मिशन ऑन लाइब्रेरीज (एनएमएल) कार्यक्रम के तहत बनाई जा रही है। सूत्रों ने बताया कि संस्कृति मंत्रालय ने इस संबंध में प्रधानमंत्री मनमोहन सिंह को अपनी सिफारिशें भेज दी हैं, जिनके पास मंत्रालय का प्रभार है। प्रस्ताव पारित होने पर पुस्तकाल… Continue

Added by Akhtar Hussain on November 3, 2009 at 12:50pm — 11 Comments

J-Gate, Open J-Gate and IBID of Informatics India Limited is available for subscription.

Informatics India Limited with its head quartered at Bangalore, the silicon valley of India comes with three main products i.e J-Gate, Open J-Gate, and India Business Insight Database (IBID).… Continue

Added by Badan Barman on October 28, 2009 at 2:30am — 9 Comments

International Classifications Scheme For Intellectual Property Rights

International Classifications Scheme For Intellectual Property Rights Classification is the essential part in Intellectual Property Right. So we can see uniformity in Intellectual Property Rights in Internation level. Anyone applying for a patent or registering a trademark or design, whether at the national or international level, is required to determine whether their creation is new or is owned or claimed by someone else. To determine this, huge amounts of information must be searched. WIPO )… Continue

Added by Shyam Bihari Gupta on October 27, 2009 at 5:25pm — No Comments

Web Designing for the Library Professional

Dear Library Professional, Here its a Good news ! Want to be a Good Web Designer ? By and large It has became the partially mandatary to know Web Diesgning course for the Library Professional. Ofcourse, Webdesigning is becoming a vital part of the Library and Information Science on one and other hand. If we are well aware of the westren library environment, the profesional are well aware of web designing courses like flash, dreamweaver, Frontpage, Photoshop, HTML, Javascript and many more soft… Continue

Added by keshav Ch on October 23, 2009 at 12:44pm — 4 Comments

Appeal to join hands

APPEAL: Join this site (http://lishelp.ning.com/) to strengthen the LIS profession/professionals and society. Dear Professionals/Friends, I would like to inform you about the new initiative taken to strengthen the LIS professionals and Society via a social network entitles (HELP DESK FOR LIBRARY AND SOCIETY (HDLS) created with the suggestions by different professionals. Kindly see the website (http://lishelp.ning.com/… Continue

Added by Vinod Kumar Mishra on October 22, 2009 at 7:49pm — 1 Comment

Right to Information Act 2005 and Library

Library vary in size, shape, clientele, nature of services stated mission and purpose, but all libraries have a common core as they aspire to be repositories of information with a mission to provide access to the storehouse of knowledge they own. The information required and housed by libraries packaged in fixed carrier or containers (e.g. clay tablet to CD-ROM’s) and purchased for fixed known price once purchased could be used repeatedly by different clients (users) with no additional cost. It… Continue

Added by RAJESH KUMAR GUPTA on October 17, 2009 at 5:41pm — No Comments

Google is coming with Google Wave.

Google Wave is a new real-time communication platform. It combines aspects of web chat, instant messaging, email, social networking, wikis, and project management to build one elegant, in-browser communication client. It has a lot of other innovative features. Just catch them then to read. Continue

Added by Badan Barman on October 16, 2009 at 12:56pm — No Comments

Online e- books store in Google

Google plans to launch an online store for electronic books in the first half of next year, offering about half a million books initially in partnership with publishers with whom it already cooperates. the web search giant said on Thursday it expected to have between 400,000 and 600,000 ebooks at launch. these ebooks will be accessible from any device with a web brouser, including PCs, laptops, netbooks, smartphones and some ereaders. the device need not be connected in order to read the book, a… Continue

Added by Shyam Bihari Gupta on October 16, 2009 at 10:30am — 2 Comments

The Indian Government has decided to set up an autonomous National Commission on Libraries.

As per the recommendation of the National Knowledge Commission (NKC), the government of India has decided to set up an autonomous “National Commission on Libraries”. The commission would be set up as a statutory body to address information and learning needs of the citizens of India. The commission would also oversee the functioning of public and private libraries in India. By this way it hope to bring reform in the Libraries and Information Services (LIS) sector in India. Continue

Added by Badan Barman on October 12, 2009 at 3:26pm — 23 Comments

Google Scholar: a citation enhanced database

Google scholar (released in Nov 2004) in beta version is freely available service that link the wide variety of sources. Google scholar covers journals, books, conference proceeding, dissertation, technical reports, preprint and post prints and other scholarly document from all area of science Some prominent collection includes Association for computing Machinery, ArXiv, Bio-Med central, blackwell, High wire press, IEEE, Ingena Connect, NASA Astro Physics Data System, Pubmed, Nature Publishing… Continue

Added by A K Sharma on September 28, 2009 at 12:24pm — No Comments

Deen Dyal Upadhaya Research Centre In Uttrakhand

SMA Kazmi Dehradun, September 25 From next year, Jan Sangh ideologue Pandit Deen Dyal Upadhaya’s anniversary that falls on September 25 would be celebrated in all educational institutions of Uttarakhand. These instructions were passed by Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank at a function held here today by the Pandit Deen Dyal Upadhaya Sewa Partishthan to mark the anniversary. He also announced a grant of Rs 21 lakh for Deen Dyal Upadhaya Research Centre to be set up near the Dee… Continue

Added by Durga Prasad on September 26, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

UGC NET paper-I online practice Demo version

http://www.enablingdimensions.com/demo/CQ-Demo/subjectsmenu.htm This site is use for perparation of UGC Net, Paper-1. Continue

Added by Kalpana Jain on September 4, 2009 at 9:30pm — 13 Comments

biblos.net: Open source -- a free cataloging tool:

I am always interested in finding open sources for library science. ‡biblios.net is a free cataloging tool for everyone, both individuals and institutions: https://biblios.net/ Check out what it says on their home page-- Sign up for a FREE ‡biblios.net account today! * Web-based cataloging client * Supports copy & original cataloging * Search millions of freely licensed records * Share your records with other libraries Isn't that exciting to have some free stuff? Basavaraj DPL Continue

Added by Basavaraj on September 4, 2009 at 11:01am — No Comments

Special Classification Schems.

Special Classification Schems. S. No. Name of scheme Founder of Classification Year Place 1 London Education Classification- D.G. Fosket 2 Production Engineering Locomotives- A .Neelameghan Depth Classification- 3 Organizing The Arts- P.F. Bronxis 1968 4 British Catalogue of Music Classification - E.J. Coasts 1960 5 Classification of Social Sciences- B. F. Kyle 1961 6 Classification of Performing Arts- A. Gorgham 1974 7 Classification of Medical and Vetenary bibs- C. Bernard 8 A Classifica… Continue

Added by Anoop Kumar Bajpayi on August 28, 2009 at 4:32pm — 1 Comment

Old NET Question Papers are available over UGC Website.

UGC is making the old question papers of NET globally available and accessible via its website. This will definitely boost the old question paper seekers who have to otherwise move here and there to have a sample question paper in their subject areas. To have the old NET question papers in all subject areas please click HERE Continue

Added by Nidhi Kulshreshtha on August 20, 2009 at 4:36pm — 22 Comments

UGC Regulations on minimum qualifications required for the appointment and Career Advancement of Teachers in Universities and Institutions affiliated to it (3rd amendment), Regulations 2009.

http://www.ugc.ac.in/policy/notification3amendment.pdf.

http://www.ugc.ac.in/notices/UGCregulations2009.pdf University Grant Commission (minimum standards and procedure for award of Ph.D Degree), Regulation 2009. Continue

Added by Badan Barman on August 13, 2009 at 1:00pm — 19 Comments

No PhD, MPhil at Open Universities, says UGC

In a setback to the country’s 14 open universities, the University Grants Commission, or UGC, has barred them from conducting research programmes, namely PhD and MPhil. Pointing out the declining quality of research projects in a “distance learning” system, UGC has stopped registration for PhD and MPhil programmes at all the 14 open universities, including the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). This has sparked angry reactions from academics and students attached to open universitie… Continue

Added by Bharat Chaudhari on August 12, 2009 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments

SNDT College Librarians are organizing a felicitation function in Mrs. Abha Sharma's honour.

Dear Professionals, Mrs. Abha Sharma, Librarian of Maniben Nanavati Women’s College, Vile Parle is retiring on 30th August, 2009 on super-annuation after 33 years of dedicated services to the College. Mrs. Abha Sharma has been professionally active in the field for a long time and has been organizing various programs. The celebration of national library week in her College, is appreciated by professionals as well as scholars in the educational field. SNDT College Librarians and university libr… Continue

Added by khadija on August 7, 2009 at 2:16pm — No Comments

PGDLAN

Hi library Professionals, The Panjab university, chandigarh starting a new diploma course in library automation through Correspondence Studies. For more details log on following link : http://dcs.puchd.ac.in/ Continue

Added by Manpreet Singh on August 4, 2009 at 6:30pm — 5 Comments