Saturday, March 29, 2025

29 Mar

Preservation Techniques

Preservation techniques vary based on the type of material and the risks involved (e.g., data corruption, paper deterioration, or film degradation). Digital methods like migration, emulation, and cloud storage are essential for modern archives, while traditional techniques like microfilming, deacidification, and encapsulation...

Saturday, March 08, 2025

08 Mar

Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) and thier role in supporting scholarly communication

 Terms like Digital Object Identifier (DOI), OCID, International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) are common in academic community. These all are Persistent Identifiers (PIDs).  What is Persistent identifier (PID)?A PID (Persistent Identifier) helps to identify and locate an entity regardless...

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

18 Feb

Open source publishing platforms for scholarly research

Now, we have come up with a list of free, open-source software to disseminate research and manage the entire scholarly publishing workflow, from submission to indexing, in case of books, journals, and preprints. These are the publishing software by Public Knowledge Project (PKP) ...

Saturday, January 25, 2025

25 Jan

Puzzle 4

👉  Answers 3. a the company that developed and released Chatgpt.5. a cloud-based interlibrary loan (ILL) management system by OCLC.6. an input that a user feeds to an AI system in order to get a desired result or output.9. The company...

Saturday, January 04, 2025

04 Jan

AGORA: The Ultimate Hub for AI Governance Documents

 Artificial intelligence (AI) is fascinating everyone and influencing almost every aspect of life, directly and indirectly. AI tools are widely used across various domains. From professional workflows to everyday personal tasks, AI is becoming an indispensable tool in enhancing productivity and creativity. Tools like...

Friday, December 27, 2024

27 Dec

The Ultimate Guide to Publishing, Sharing, and Distributing Your E-Book

Writing and publishing your book as an ebook has become incredibly accessible in today's digital age. From crafting the content to distributing the final product, there are numerous steps involved in the publishing journey. Thankfully, various platforms streamline this entire process, making it easier for authors to navigate...

Thursday, November 28, 2024

28 Nov

One Nation One Subscription: countrywide equitable access to scholarly journals in India

An announcement of a landmark decision of Indian Government to introduce ‘One Nation One subscription’ scheme for youths and students by Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw have brought a new zeal in young scholars deprived of scholarly journals behind paywalls. In response to the Prime minister Shri Narendra Modi's...

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

30 Oct

Launch of BharatGen: an Indian ChatGPT

BharatGen—launched in India on September 30, 2024—a groundbreaking initiative in generative AI—designed to transform public service delivery and enhance citizen participation through foundational models in language, speech, and computer vision. The event took place in New Delhi, attended by Dr. Jitendra Singh, Union Minister...

Friday, October 04, 2024

04 Oct

Authors' concern over publishers selling their research to AI developers

Gradually, publishers are moving towards a deal with tech companies including Microsoft, Google, Open AI, Apple and Meta. The deal is that the publishers will get compensation for their content being used to feed and train large language models (LLMs) or other generative AI models. Academic papers having high information...

Thursday, August 15, 2024

15 Aug

How about the ability to visualize journal article with 3D, AR and VR technologies?

The fundamental structure of any research article remains a simple document comprised of text and printable figures. Printable media have some limitations to represent scientific communication. It constrains complex scientific data into 2D static figures, hindering our ability to effectively exchange the complex and...

Saturday, June 22, 2024

22 Jun

Principles for Library Ownership of Digital Books by Library Futures

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