OpenThesis is a free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents, coupled with powerful search, organization, and collaboration tools.
Now you may search, upload or download many of the full text of theses/dissertations/other academic documents submitted to various universities in all parts of the world in different subject areas using Open Thesis free database. You may find more information and search this database at: http://www.openthesis.org
The IETD portal is available for access at http://ietd.inflibnet.ac.in.
Setting-up IETD at INFLIBNET
IETD Repository at INFLIBNET replicates structure of each university in terms of Departments / Centres and School each university has. This structure facilitates research scholars from universities to deposit their theses in the respective Department / Centre. While online submission of electronic theses by researchers / supervisor or university’s representative as mandated by the universities would be preferred, the INFLIBNET encourages individual researchers to submit their theses and dissertations either online or off-line (through E-mail or CD / DVD) on voluntary basis till universities adopt and implement UGC Notification, 2009.
Retrospective Metadata of Ph.D Theses
The INFLIBNET Centre maintains a Union Database of Theses containing bibliographic records of doctoral theses submitted to universities/institutes in India. The theses database of the INFLIBNET, accessible through an interface called IndCat, has over 2,19,074 unique records in different subject areas. These bibliographic records are contributed by participating universities offline. Besides, bibliographic records are also collected from other reliable sources like circulars issued by universities, University News, etc. Universities may ensure that all bibliographic records of theses submitted to their universities are available in the INFLIBNET’s Theses Database.
3-5 March 2010
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Training Division
National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR), New Delhi, India
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COURSE FEE for participants from:
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Application form is available at http://www.niscair.res.in or can be obtained by sending an email to training@niscair.res.in. Filled in application form along with the appropriate course fee is to be paid by Demand Draft drawn in favour of “Director, NISCAIR” and sent to In-Charge (Training), Education and Training Division, NISCAIR, 14-Satsang Vihar Marg, New Delhi – 110067
CONTACT
Dr. Narendra Kumar,
In-Charge, Training Division,
National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR)
14, Satsang Vihar Marg
New Delhi-110 067
India
Tel: +91-11-26965094/+91-11-26863617
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E-mail: training[at]niscair.res.in; narendrakumar[at]niscair.res.in
Indian Citation Index Database (ICI) is a multidisciplinary research platform primarily intend to perform literature search and multiple angle evaluation using citations similar to international databases like WoS and SCOPUS. Citation databases are specialized Abstracting & Indexing information products used to evaluate, map and measure information contents using citations as the association of R&D ideas. The references that researchers cite in their papers make explicit links between their current research and prior work in the literature archive. Indian Citation Index (ICI) organizes these intellectual links by listing both cited and citing works. Like other indexes, ICI enables users to move back in time to previously published papers, but uniquely one can also look forward in time to determine who has subsequently cited an earlier piece of research.
Indian Citation Index (ICI) is a home grown database, planed to have multidisciplinary information/knowledge contents from about 1000 top Indian scholarly journals. It provides powerful search engine basically to perform search and evaluation for researchers, policy makers, decision makers etc.
At present, it is planned to start with five years back files (depth) which would go over 10 years and beyond in next few month’s time. ICI right now is in zero version stage and its alpha version is being issued for users feedback and comments by 15th January 2010 and thereafter shortly its beta version would be launched. It is also planned and working accordingly that in next few months ICI with full search and analytic features would be served to users for using long awaited essentially needed information product. The ICI is owned by M/s Divan Enterprise for all practical purposes.
Currently you may access it by URL: Indian Citation Index
AuthorMapper, an online tool for visualizing scientific research, enables document discovery based on author locations and geographic maps. Integrating content and mapping technology, AuthorMapper provides an easy-to-use, dynamic interface that allows
AuthorMapper searches the springer journals collection and offers access to nearly one hundred fifty years’ of articles from more than 1,900 journals available on Springer Link. Comprehensive coverage includes both current and archival content in all major subject areas including life science, medicine, engineering, mathematics, computer science, business, and law, contributed by the world’s best academics and researchers. AuthorMapper is a powerful knowledge discovery tool that provides unique insights into scientific literature.
For more details http://www.authormapper.com
Springer is offering all journal articles and book chapters written by this year’s Nobel Prize laureates free of charge on its online information platform www.springerlink.com. The articles and chapters will be available to print out or download from now until 31 December 2009.
For more details http://www.springer.com/authors/author+zone?SGWID=0-168002-12-645899-0
| Rank | Name | Papers 1999-2008 |
Percent 1999-2008 |
Percent 1989-1993 |
| 1 | United States of America | 2,999,344 | 31.8 | 38.2 |
| 2 | Japan | 806,008 | 8.5 | 8.0 |
| 3 | Germany | 775,787 | 8.2 | 7.7 |
| 4 | England | 687,778 | 7.3 | 7.2 |
| 5 | China | 586,664 | 6.2 | 1.5 |
| 6 | France | 555,113 | 5.9 | 5.7 |
| 7 | Canada | 420,636 | 4.5 | 5.0 |
| 8 | Italy | 400,229 | 4.2 | 3.2 |
| 9 | Spain | 296,892 | 3.1 | 1.8 |
| 10 | Russia | 279,904 | 3.0 | 4.5 |
| 11 | Australia | 271,311 | 2.9 | 2.3 |
| 12 | India | 242,222 | 2.6 | 2.5 |
| 13 | The Netherlands | 234,947 | 2.5 | 2.3 |
| 14 | South Korea | 222,348 | 2.4 | 0.4 |
| 15 | Sweden | 176,642 | 1.9 | 1.8 |
| 16 | Switzerland | 170,842 | 1.8 | 1.5 |
| 17 | Brazil | 161,716 | 1.7 | 0.7 |
| 18 | Taiwan | 147,430 | 1.6 | 0.6 |
| 19 | Poland | 134,068 | 1.4 | 1.0 |
| 20 | Belgium | 127,307 | 1.3 | 1.0 |
SOURCE: Thomson Reuters’s Essential Science IndicatorsSM database, January 1, 1999 through October 31, 2008.
The data above were extracted from the Essential Science Indicators database of Thomson Reuters. This database, currently covering the period January 1999 through October 2008, surveys only journal articles (original research reports and review articles) indexed by Thomson Reuters. Here our ranking in all fields of the sciences and social sciences is by papers produced. For articles with multiple authors from different nations, each nation receives full, not fractional, publication credit. Essential Science Indicators tabulated a total of 9,445,252 articles and reviews for the period indicated. The world percent figure is calculated for each nation based on that total. The percent shares of these top 20 nations sums to 102.8%, which reveals multinational coauthorship.
Essential Science Indicators surveys publication and citation data over a decade, with bimonthly updates. To contrast the world share figures for these nations for 1999-2008, Thomson Reuters’s consulted its National Science Indicators database, which covers the period 1981-2007, and checked the world share figures for these top 20 nations for 1989-1993. As the table above shows, the United States, Canada, and Russia have lost world share, comparing 1989-1993 with 1999-2008, whereas China, South Korea, Brazil, and Taiwan have increased their world shares of science and social science papers dramatically.
Visit Essential Science Indicators from Thomson Reuters for more information.
