INFLIBNET's RSS READER 18 Jun 2008 11:47:40 GMT Latest Updates at INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad INFLIBNET http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/feed1/index1.htm Mr Rajeev Kumar en Rajeev Kumar IETD (Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations) and OJS (Open Journal System) at INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad were launched by Prof. Sukhdeo Thorat, Chairman, UGC and Prof. S K Khanna, Chairman, INFLIBNET Governing Council, respectively on 27th January 2010 at site of the INFLIBNET Institutional Building at Gandhinagar. 27 Jan 2010 10:10:31 IST http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L74J6GZLGok Prof. Shukhdeo Thorat, Chairman, UGC and Chairman, INFLIBNET Council laid the Foundation Stone of the INFLIBNET's Institutional Building at INFOCITY, Gandhinagar on 27th January 2010 in the presence of Prof. S K Khanna, Chairman, INFLIBNET Governing Board, Dr. Parimal Trivedi, Vice Chancellor, Gujarat University, Dr. Sudarshana Iyengar, Vice Chancellor, Gujarat Vidyapeeth, Prof. Kale, Vice Chancellor, Gujarat Central University, Gandhinagar, Dr. B D Doshi, Architect and Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director, INFLIBNET Centre alongwith the Staff of the INFLIBNET Centre. 27 Jan 2010 10:10:31 IST http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=824hHMSuaVw The list of accepted papers for PLANNER 2010 is announced. The list is available on the PLANNER 2010 website. (www.inflibnet.ac.in/planner2010/). The PLANNER- 2010 will be held in collaboration with Tezpur University during 18-20 February 2010 in Tezpur University, Assam. 27 Jan 2010 10:10:31 IST http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/planner2010/acceptedPaper.html INFLIBNET Regional Training Programme on Library Automation (IRTPLA) will be held at DLIS, University of Kashmir, Srinagar from 16th - 20th November, 2009. 17 Sep 2009 10:10:31 IST http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/latest/irtpla-guidelines.pdf 80th SOUL Training Programme will be held at INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad on 5-9 October 2009 on Installation and Operation of SOUL 2.0 Software. 14 Aug 2009 10:15:31 IST http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/forthcoming/80th%20TRG.pdf A 2-day user awareness programme on Use of E-resources under UGC-Infonet project will be held on Sept. 22-23, 2009 at Professor D.N. Marshall Auditorium Jawaharlal Nehru Library, University of Mumbai. 09 Aug 2009 10:10:31 IST http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ INFLIBNET Regional Training Programme on Library Automation (IRTPLA) will be held at R K Talreja college, Ulhas Nagar, Dist Thane, Maharashtra from 14th to 18th September 2009. 07 Sep 2009 10:10:31 IST http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/forthcoming/irtpla-ullasnagar.pdf INFLIBNET Regional Training Programme will be on Library Automation (IRTPLA) at IIAS, Shilma from 7th to 11th September 2009. 07 Sep 2009 10:10:31 IST http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/forthcoming/IRTPLA-IIAS.pdf The PLANNER- 2010 (Promotion of Library Automation and Networking in North Eastern Region) convention will be held in collaboration with Tezpur University during 18-20 February 2010 in Tezpur University, Assam. For details, visit the site: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/planner2010/ 18 Aug 2009 10:10:31 IST http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/planner2010/ The 2-day user awareness programme on Use of E-resources under UGC-Infonet project scheduled on August 20-21, 2009 at Professor D.N. Marshall Auditorium Jawaharlal Nehru Library, University of Mumbai is postponed till further notice. 17 Aug 2009 10:10:31 IST http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ Regional Training Programme on installation and Operations of SOUL 2.0 will be held on 10-14 August 2009 in New Delhi. 08 Aug 2009 10:10:31 IST http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/forthcoming/Tr-Schedule-Delhi.pdf A 2-day user awareness programme on Use of E-resources under UGC-Infonet project will be held on August 20-21, 2009 at Professor D.N. Marshall Auditorium Jawaharlal Nehru Library, University of Mumbai. 07 Aug 2009 10:10:31 IST http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ 79th SOUL Training Programme (NERO,UGC) will be organized in INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad on 24-28 August 2009 on Installation and Operation of SOUL 2.0 07 Aug 2009 10:15:31 IST http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/forthcoming/Schedule-79.pdf Central Information Commission dismissed an appeal filed by a person against the RTI reply of INFLIBNET about IndCat. In its decision on 15 July 2009, CIC says that the information sought is exempted under section - 8(d) of RTI. 30 Jun 2009 10:10:00 IST http://cic.gov.in/CIC-Orders/SG-15072009-12.pdf In its latest gazette notification [vide its UGC (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of M.Phil/Ph.D. Degree), Regulation, 2009, dated-1st June 2009], UGC made it necessary the submission of M.Phill./Ph.D. Thesis in e-format to INFLIBNET for hosting. 30 Jun 2009 10:10:00 IST http://www.ugc.ac.in/policy/notificationmphilphd.pdf 76(A)th SOUL Training Programme will be organized in INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad on 6-10 July 2009 on Installation and Operation of SOUL 2.0 16 Jun 2009 10:10:31 IST http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/forthcoming/76thtrg.pdf 76th SOUL Training Programme will be organized in INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad on 22-26 June 2009 on Installation and Operation of SOUL 2.0 16 Jun 2009 10:10:31 IST http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/forthcoming/76thtrg.pdf 78th SOUL Training Programme (NERO,UGC) will be organized in INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad on 27-31 July 2009 on Installation and Operation of SOUL 2.0 10 Jun 2009 10:15:31 IST http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/forthcoming/webhost-78.pdf 77th SOUL Training Programme (NERO,UGC) will be organized in INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad on 13-17 July 2009 on Installation and Operation of SOUL 2.0 10 Jun 2009 10:10:31 IST http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/forthcoming/webhost-77.pdf 75th SOUL Training Programme will be organized in INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad on 8-12 June 2009 on Installation and Operation of SOUL 2.0 08 Jun 2009 16:10:31 IST http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/forthcoming/75thtrgschedule.pdf Now user can get feeds of updates about IndCat (Online Union Catalogue of Indian Unversities). This is available through the RSS Link:-<a href="http://indcat.inflibnet.ac.in/indcat/rss.xml" target="'_blank'">http://indcat.inflibnet.ac.in/indcat/rss.xml </a> 29 May 2009 16:10:31 IST http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/feed/ Now user can get latest news feeds of INFLIBNET Centre in Hindi also. This is available through the RSS Link:-<a href="http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/feed/hindinewsfeeds.xml" target="'_blank'">http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/feed/hindinewsfeeds.xml </a> 22 May 2009 16:10:31 IST http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/hindi/feed/ Now user can get latest news of INFLIBNET Centre via SMS. For this one time subscription is required. For details, visit:-<a href="http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/feed/sms.htm" target="'_blank'">http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/feed/sms.htm </a> 21 May 2009 16:10:31 IST http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/feed/sms.htm A 2-day user awareness programme on Use of E-resources under UGC-Infonet project will be held on June 22-23, 2009 at Osmania University, Hyderabad. 20 May 2009 18:10:31 IST http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ The National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT) project will bridge the gap between urban and rural institutions as more than 6,000 colleges will be networked across the country through the UGC-INFONET, said Jagdish Arora, Director of Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre, UGC Ahmedabad.The mission with two major components- content generation and connectivity-will provide access to electronic journals and information that is required for collegiate education.It will also provide high quality personalised and interactive knowledge modules through the internet for all the learners in higher education institutions, he said. Already an amount of Rs 25 crore has been allocated for the first phase.In an interview to `Express’, Jagdish Arora said that e-books will not be a faraway dream though the publishing industry was not interested in digitising textbooks.``In the later stage, the UGC might finance the writing of the syllabus for e-learning which could help create high quality e-content for the students as well as the teachers.The scheme, submitted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), will leverage the potential of information and communication technology and is expected to be a major intervention in enhancing the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher education during the Eleventh Five Year Plan period as also recommended by the Oversight Committee and the National Knowledge Commission (NKC).He said that the Department of Information Technology has initiated a Rs 100-crore project to network all the research institutions and universities by providing connectivity and increasing the capability of the existing networks.Stressing on the need to digitise libraries, Arora said that the figures indicated that the increasing information flow has generated an increase in the number of articles and research papers.``A library learning is reflected in terms of the impact on research,’’ he added.The INFLIBNET has already networked 157 universities including 12 private ones in different gradations.The first 50 universities have access to 5,000 electronic journals, the second 50 to about 4,000 and the last 57 as per their requirement, he said.The private universities are part of a consortium and they pay for their subscription.Arora is in Kochi to participate in a five-day national workshop on DSpace organised by the Cochin University of Science and Technology, the INFLIBNET and HP India. 21 Apr 2009 04:28:31 GMT http://www.dspaceworkshop.com/ SOUL 2.0 (new version of SOUL software developed by INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad) was released on 29 Jan. 2009 at National Seminar in New Delhi. The new price of SOUL 2.0 is also announced. It will be supplied free of cost to all existing users. 01 Feb 2009 04:28:31 GMT http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/soul/price.htm At the end of three-day deliberations on challenges and strategies of e-content management, library and information professionals from across the country have put forward the need for a National Digital Preservation Policy in India. The committees set up by the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology should prepare a white paper on the subject and draw implementation strategies for various stakeholders, Librarian, University of Hyderabad M. Koteswara Rao, who was the rapporteur general of the seventh International Convention on Automation of Libraries in Education and Research (CALIBER-2009), said on Friday. Among other recommendations resolved during the convention, he said that the Ministry of Culture should review the existing Delivery of Books Act to incorporate delivery of digital publications. Noting that library and information professionals should be aware of Intellectual Property Rights laws and policies, he drew focus on training programmes on IPR issues and need for amending copy right laws to incorporate provision of digitising rate and important publications. Speaking at the valedictory session of the convention, Scientist from Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics and Chairman of National Steering Committee of UGC Infonet Digital Library Consortium Ajit Khembhavi said specific steps were being taken for arranging exchange of resources between various consortiums in a year or two. This would make subscription less expensive and bring more materials to more people, he noted. Director of Culture and Cultural Relations of Pondicherry University A. Balasubramanian said Information Science Research Laboratories and Indian Council for Information Science Research should be established. Director of UGC INFLIBNET Jagdish Arora, Director of CALIBER A. Amudhavalli, Organising Secretary R. Samyuktha and Convenor Prem Chand spoke on the occasion. 01 Mar 2009 04:28:31 GMT http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2009/ Cautioning universities against cyber security threats, the Director-General of Computer Emergency Response Team-India (CERT-In), Union Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Gulshan Rai, said that universities had become launching pads for initiating cyber attacks as nearly 40 per cent of such activities were originating from university structures. "Universities have open servers. They have become sources for hacking activities. Our neighbour, China, scans every network in the country," he said, speaking at the inauguration of the 7th International Convention on Automation of Libraries in Education and Research (CALIBER-2009) on Tuesday. The convention was organised by Pondicherry University and UGC Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET). "Sufficient steps should be taken to keep hackers at bay. CERT-In is engaged in monitoring cyber space. We are willing to cooperate and collaborate with INFLIBNET and universities under the UGC to put in place a proper security system." Observing that revolution in technology was a cause of concern, he said, "Almost all cheap pen drives available in the market come with a spy. When technology is progressing, it is also creating problems. We need to be careful." Mr. Rai said that over a period of eight years, India was radiating a bandwidth capacity of 90 giga bytes outside from four giga bytes earlier, while the inside traffic was 300 giga bytes. "By 2010 or 2011, the 4G technology will be in the picture," he said. The director of INFLIBNET, Jagdish Arora, said, "Research output of faculty and researchers in universities has increased by more than 42 per cent during 2004-2007 in terms of number of articles published when compared to research articles published during the previous four years. In fact, INFLIBNET can be soon accessed through Google." Vice-Chancellor of Pondicherry University J.A.K. Tareen said that a children's section would be set up at the varsity library. 28 Feb 2009 04:28:31 GMT http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2009/