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Subbiah Arunachalam Co-Director of CogPrints for Journals
No full text<p>Announcement that India's and the Developing World's great advocate for open access, Subbiah Arunachalam<br>has become Co-Director of the CogPrints Archive.</p>
Open Access Interviews - Professor Arunachalam
No full text<p>An interview during Open Access Week 2011 with Subbiah Arunachalam, was conducted by Tom Dane.</p>
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Arunachalam replies (Correspondence on "Science in India)
No full textThis is a correspondence on "Science in India" which was written by R. P. Gupta in the same issue of Current Science. In responding to Gupta's idea to "use citations per paper in addition to the number of papers published by a country," Arunachalam argues that the citations to all papers from these countries are more important. Compares the rates of total papers, total citations, as well as "citations per paper", trying to showing which index is more meaningful for conveying research significance
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How the Internet is Failing the Developing World
No full textOne of the promises of the information revolution was that it would increase the opportunities for all people to share knowledge. But what if you don't happen to live in a developed country? Subbiah Arunachalam argues that the current lack of access to the internet for scientists in the developing world is creating a new form of poverty - information poverty - which is making it harder for them to stay abreast, let alone catch up with their colleagues in the developed world
Reaching the Unreached: Community Based Village Knowledge Centres and Village Resources Centres
No full textThe book explores the history, initiatives and achievements of the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF). These include the bio-village initiative, designed to encourage the development of market driven on-farm and non-farm enterprises, and unskilled to skilled work through the sustainable use of natural resources; as well as the Village Through the VKCs (Village Knowledge Centres). The aim is to bridge the digital divide and thus address social exclusion and poverty associated with it. Through Village Resource Centres and VKC information and technology communication for development (ICT4D) strategies many communities in India have been positively impacted
Institutional Repository Enhances Visibility and Prestige of the Institute- the case of National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
No full textExperiences of the Institutional Repository project of National Institute of Technology, Rourkela is presented. Strategies employed to populate the repository are discussed. How the repository contributes to increase the visibility and prestige of the institute is explained
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Correspondence on "Diabetes Research in India"
No full textThis is a correspondence generated by the article "Diabetes research in India" between the author, A. Subiah Arunachalam and Rosalind Marita
Open Access in Developing Countries
No full textDigital technology can make the works of humans permanently accessible to people all over the world. Historically, public libraries have been recognized for their great potential to improve the quality of life and provide free and equal access to information. Now, open access to support research and publishing is equally and widely available. The internet has created new ways to promote this same service on a much larger scale and with the possibility to connect a global society more easily. This paper presents an overview of open access and the benefits to developing countries for research and educational goals. The challenge will be in how readily available these digital collections will be, how freely they can be accessed, and how the needed technology and learning opportunities will be made available to developing nations
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Use of SCI-based Publication Counts - Correspondence
No full textThis is a correspondence on an article by Karandikar and Sunder and an article by Pichappan (both published in Current Science 2003, issue 85) that present some misgivings about the use of Science Citation Index-based publication counts. Arunachalam discusses why the stance taken, the total number of papers published from a country should not be used as a science indicator, is extreme
Slowly but surely: Adverbs support verb learning in 2-year-olds
No full textTo acquire the meanings of verbs, toddlers make use of the surrounding linguistic information. For example, 2-year-olds successfully acquire novel transitive verbs that appear in semantically rich frames containing content nouns (“The boy is gonna pilk a balloon”), but they have difficulty with pronominal frames (“He is gonna pilk it”) (Arunachalam & Waxman, 2010). We hypothesized that adverbs might facilitate toddlers’ verb learning in these sparse pronominal frames if their semantic content directed toddlers’ attention to aspects of the event that are relevant to the verb’s meaning (e.g., the manner of motion). As predicted, the semantic information from a specific manner-of-motion adverb (slowly) supported verb learning, but other adverbs lacking this semantic content (nicely, right now) did not. These results provide the first evidence that adverbs can facilitate verb learning in toddlers and highlight the interaction of syntactic and semantic information in word learning.Peer reviewe
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