7 research outputs found
Architecture and building of Medical Digital Library at NIC [of India]: What exists and what is required for MeDLib@NIC?
No full textICMR-NIC Centre for Biomedical Information has developed various products that are available over Internet. These includes: i. UNcat (http://uncat.nic.in) - union catalogue of journal holdings of medical libraries of India; ii. IndMED (http://indmed.nic.in) - A bibliographic database of Indian biomedical journals and iii. medIND (http://medind.nic.in) - full texts of Indian biomedical journals being indexed in IndMED. Now, having these services, tools, databases and content in operation, the focus of future activities would be to integrate these ingredients both internally and externally to provide single window digital access persistently. Here we propose an architecture under which each service, tool, database and content collection is an independent layer. These layers are the building blocks of Digital Library (DL) and can interoperate with each other due to either build-in or plug-in(ed) interoperability. They are accessible by their own interfaces as well as through Digital Library interface. In context of the proposed architecture, this article also takes stoke of what is available and what is required to build the digital library
Gamma ray induced modifications in cellulose triacetate polymer used as a solid-state nuclear track detector
No full textContent analysis of biomedical e-Journal "Journal of Postgraduate Medicine", during 1980-2006.
No full textThis paper presents the bibliometric analysis of 1872 articles of the online biomedical electronic journal, JPGM. The case reports papers and surgery papers were found the maximume output of research activities. Open access has had a direct impact in increasing the journal impact factor of print journal
Opportunities and Challenges of establishing Open Access Repositories: A case study of OpenMED@NIC
No full textNational Informatics Centre had established a subject repository in May 2005. It is meant for Medical and Allied Sciences and named as OpenMED@NIC http://openmed.nic.in. It has MeSH® based subject categorization and this makes it one of its own kind. Taking OpenMED@NIC as a case – this paper discusses key issues in establishing and maintaining an open access repository. Librarians and information science professionals can play active role in providing access and exposure to quality research and academic content generated in their institutions. Mature and standard open sources softwares are now available for setting up repositories. Libraries can install one of these on existing institutional or library servers to setup repositories. However to ensure better access and faster response time dedicated hardware and reliable connectivity would be required. Librarians and information science professional can play important role in exposing intellectual content produced by their organizations. They can take of various roles like – generating awareness among staff, researchers and students about benefits of self arching in institutional or subject repositories; training them in uploading their articles and other documents in such repositories; acting as meta-data editors and repositories managers. Establishing a repository, administrating and inviting authors to deposit their articles and other works in it is golden opportunity available to librarians and information science professionals. This opportunity should be grabbed with open hands
Dynamic Reference Desk at Medical Division Library of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
No full textPresent paper describes multidimensional necessities about the dynamic reference desk to cater quality information needed for academic as well as practice and research needs of consultant doctors, resident medical officers (RMO) and housemen, nursing staff, paramedical staff, panel doctors approved for alternative medicine, Tata Institute of Social
Sciences (TISS) students for internship in hospital administration, patients, relatives of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) employees, etc
Development of energy scanning software to facilitate MAD experiment at PX-BL21, Indus-2 synchrotron
No full textRepression, Human Rights, and US Training of Military Forces from the South
No full textIn order to understand whether US training of military forces from the South has resulted in the use of repression or improvements in human rights, we need to situate the training within the broader context of US foreign policy objectives and strategies. The main aims of US foreign policy are to maintain its dominant global position and to ensure control of resources and markets in the South. These objectives are being pursued through an emerging, US-led transnational state, using the instruments of legitimation at least as much as repression. This contrasts with the Cold War, during which US foreign policy strategy towards the South emphasised repression. US training of military forces from the South during the Cold War played a key role in a US-led network, through which many states in the South were connected to the US and each other by cooperation between their militaries, police and intelligence services. The training was dominated by a particular form of counterinsurgency instruction which advocated repression of groups that might potentially threaten US control of Southern economies and assets. This contributed to widespread human rights violations, particularly in Latin America. Following the end of the Cold War, reliance on coercion diminished, and it was subsumed within the emergent transnational state. In line with this shift in US foreign policy strategy in the South, some aspects of the training began to be characterised by the promotion of legitimation. In the wake of 9/11, the US has intensified both its legitimation efforts and its use of repression, and the training continues to play a significant role in the service of US foreign policy objectives
