College Librarians now may be Principals at UG Colleges at Maharashtra

Now a motivational news is that college librarians of Maharashtra could be Principal of the college. Govt. order can be downloaded from the website of the Department of the Higher Education, Govt. of Maharashtra.It was also noticed from some reliable sources that it is also implemented by the Govt. of Himanchal Pradesh. 

ICALIRDA 2012

'InternatIonal Conference on Access to Legal InformatIon & research in the Digital age' organized by National Law University, Delhi (http://www.nludelhi.ac.in/)  from 29Feb- 02 MARCH 2012.
SUB-THEMES Legal Education and Research: Current Development in Digital Age
 Role of ICT in Development of Comparative Jurisprudence
 International Law and Globalization in Digital Age
 Current Trends in Legal Publishing :IPR Issues & Challenges
 Licensing for Digital Resources
 Best Practices of Information & Knowledge Management in Libraries
 Open Access Initiatives and Scholarly Publishing
 Free Access to Law Movement: National & International Perspective
 Access, Authorization and Authentication of Digital Web Information
 Role, Relevancy and Research: Online Legal Databases

Forthcoming Refresher Course in Library & Information Science

Dear Professionals,
      The refresher course in library and information science is scheduled in June-July 2012 at ASC-BHU, Varansi. For more details, please contact Dr. A. P. Singh, Head, Department of Library & Information Science, BHU, Varansi, U. P. 
  www.bhu.ac.in

Confrences

SLA-2011: Future Ready, June 12-15, 2011 in Philadelphia, USA

IFLA-2011: Libraries beyond libraries - Integration, Innovation and Information for all, August 13- 

     18, 2011, San Juan, Puerto Rico

OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING

Demand that NSF follow NIH's lead on open access publishing

Three years ago this week, the National Institutes of Health announced that all medical research they fund would have to be published as "open access" -- available to anyone, for free, over the Internet. The policy has been a huge success, but now it's time for the rest of the government to follow suit.

For more details, please visit: http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/nsf/?source=bb

Open Access Journals

Open access journals are providing access of research articles tthrough variety of journals without limitation like- legal, financial and technical anywhere anytime. The seemless access of research articles is one of the best resources for the researches. DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) is one of the link in such a great movement. Thousands of journals and millians of articles are available in this directory right from the social sciences to pure sciences.

DOAJ is now having a great potential to be one of the best reseach tool. DOAJ can be accessed via www.doaj.org.