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Service Providers Institutions
Metadata Rules
INFED Access to E-Resources for Indian Higher Education System and the Role of INFED (INFLIBNET Access Management Federation) Yatrik Patel, Scientist D (CS) and Raja V, Scientist B (CS) IndCat http://indcat.inflibnet.ac.in/
N-LIST (E-resources for College) http://nilst.inflibnet.ac.in/
SOUL Helpline Tel. : +91-79-23268300
Open Journal Access System (OJAS) http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ojs/
VIDWAN http://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/
Shodhganga http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/
e-ShodhSindhu http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ess/
ICT Skill Development Programmes https://www.inflibnet.ac.in/hrd/
e-PG Pathshala http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/
Vidya-Mitra: Integrated e-content P ortal http://vidyamitra.inflibnet.ac.in/
INFLIBNET’s Institutional Repositary http://ir.inflibnet.ac.in/
InfiStats: Usage Statistics Portal for e-Resource https://www.inflibnet.ac.in/infistat/
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From Director's Desk
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Training Programme on SOUL 2.0, INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
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Specialized Training Programmes/National Workshops/ National Conferences Two-day National Workshop on Ethical Issues and Use of Anti-Plagiarism for Research Integrity, INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 6th -7th April, 2017 Three-day Workshop-cum-Training Programme on Bibliometrics Research and Output Analysis, Mizoram University, Aizwal, 11th -13th April, 2017 Five-day National Workshop on Creation and Management of Digital Collection using DSpace, th th INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 24 - 28 April, 2017 Five-day National Workshop on Research Data and Statistical Analysis using R Programming, INFLIBNET th th Centre, Gandhinagar, 15 - 19 May, 2017 Three-day National Workshop on Metadata Standards: Retrospective Conversion, Preservation and th th Migration, INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 7 -9 June, 2017 Three-day National Workshop on E-Resources Management, INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 14th -16th June, 2017
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Meeting of Evaluation Committee of NASSCOM for MHRD Funded Projects, INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 20th June, 2017
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Presentation on "EBSCO Database", INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 12th April, 2017
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Launching of "India Rankings 2017" under National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF)
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Welcome to the New Members of Governing Board, INFLIBNET Centre
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Article
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Staff News
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Visitors
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INFLIBNET in Regional News
From Director's Desk
It is a matter of pride and privilege that none other than the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) recognized the contributions made by the INFLIBNET Centre towards Digital India. Shri Pranab Mukherjee, the then President of India, presented Citations and Mementos Director & Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Scientist C (CS) for their commendable contributions to digital initiative for higher education during the National Convention on th
Digital Initiative organized by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India on 9 July, 2017 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. In addition, NDLTD Leadership Award for the year 2017 for Shodhganga Scheme of the INFLIBNET Centre was presented to Director and Mr. Manoj Kumar, Scientist D (CS) during the 20
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International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations held in Washington DC, USA from 7th August to th
9 August, 2017. Both Director and Mr. Manoj Kumar attended the conference and received the NDLTD Leadership Award from Dr. Edward Fox, the Founder of Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), a world-wide ETD initiative. In addition, Director also received the Librarian's Choice Award for Lifetime Achievement for the year 2017, instituted by Royal Society of Chemistry, in recognition of individual contribution towards Library and Information Science community of India. We are indeed very thankful to MHRD, Government of India and to NDLTD Award Committee for recognizing our contributions to the higher education community in the country. These are some of the major recognition that the Centre received from national and international authorities, which, do not belong to this quarter, however, I find it too tempting to wait for the next issue of newsletter which is due only in October, 2017. The central spread of the newsletter carry corresponding photographs from the three events. During the period under report, the National Accreditation and Assessment Centre (NAAC) sought assistance and help of the Centre in the process of developing their new accreditation and assessment framework. Director of the Centre, Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Mr. Hitesh Solanki and Mr. Dharmesh Shah attended a series of meetings organized by NAAC to assist the process of evolving the new framework and its automation. The assistance and help of the Centre was also sought by the MHRD and AICTE for projects entitled Smart India Hackathon 2017 Portal, Eak Bharat Shresth Bharat, AICTE Start-up, etc.The Centre continued to provide its help, assistance and services to the UGC for developing UGC Portal for Central Universities in India for automation of administrative and financial communications.
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During the period under report, 8 training programmes were organized on subjects of varied interest in library, information and computer sciences. The training programmes, varying from 2 to 5 days, were organized on Installation and operation of SOUL Software, Shodhganga and Anti-Plagiarism Software, Bibliographic and Scientometric Analysis, Setting-up of Digital Library using DSpace, R Programming for Statistical Analyses, Metadata Standards and e-Resource Management. The Centre has been contributing and launching India Rankings 2016 as well as India Rankings 2017. The Ministry of Human Resource Development duly recognized the important role played by the Centre. The Centre was invited to participate in the launching of India Rankings 2017 on 3rd April, 2017 at Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi. Moreover, Six scientists including Director of the Centre was invited to the India Rankings 2017 Award Ceremony th
held on 10 April, 2017 at Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre wherein awards were presented to the top ranking institutions in various category by Shri Pranab Mukherjee, Hon'ble the then President of India. The feature article in this issue of the Newsletter is entitled "Access to E-Resources for Indian Higher Education System and the Role of INFED”, the first and only Shibboleth-based Access Management Federation in India, by Mr. Raja V, Scientist B (CS) and Mr. Yatrik Patel, Scientist D (CS). I am sure, you would enjoy reading the article and would initiate the process of joining this initiative.
(Jagdish Arora)
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Training Programme on SOUL 2.0, INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar The INFLIBNET Centre regularly conducts SOUL 2.0 Training Programmes to impart training on installation and operation of SOUL software for its users. The following two training programmes were organized at the INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar during this quarter. Sl. No. 1 2
These programmes were coordinated by Mr. H G Hosamani, Scientist C (LS), INFLIBNET Centre. 34 participants attended these two training programmes as per the details given below:
Name of the Programme
Date of the Programme
132nd Training Programme on SOUL 2.0 133rd Training Programme on SOUL 2.0
17th – 22nd April, 2017 29th May– 03rd June, 2017
No. of Participants 18 16
Participants of 132nd Training Programme on SOUL 2.0 with Technical Staff of the INFLIBNET Centre
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Specialized Training Programmes / National Workshops / National Conferences Two-day National Workshop on Ethical Issues and Use of Anti-Plagiarism for Research Integrity, INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 6th -7th April, 2017
Participants of National Workshop on Ethical Issues and Use of Anti-Plagiarism for Research Integrity at INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
Two-day National Workshop on Ethical Issues and Use
Centre. In her Inaugural address, she spoke about
of Anti-Plagiarism for Research Integrity was organized
planning and methodologies of research with use of
at INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar from 6th to 7th
anti-plagiarism tools. Ms. Suboohi S., STO (LS)
April, 2017. Mr. Manoj Kumar K, Scientist D (CS)
extended a warm vote of thanks at the end of the
coordinated the Workshop. He welcomed the
inaugural session. 13 participants including LIS
participants and gave an overview of the programme.
professionals from North-East region and research
Dr. Savita R. Gandhi, Head, Rollwala Computer Centre,
scholars attended the programme. Details of lectures
Gujarat University inaugurated the Workshop in
delivered by experts during the training programme are
presence of Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director, INFLIBNET
as follows:
Topics
Name of the Experts
Research Methodology and Planning of Research
Dr. Savita R. Gandhi, HOD, Rollwala Computer Centre, Gujarat University
Qualitative Academic Writing and Publications
Dr. Jagdish Joshi, UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, Gujarat University
Ethics in Research & Use of Anti-Plagiarism Tools for Quality of Research
Mr. Manoj Kumar K., Scientist D (CS), INFLIBNET Centre
Academic Identity an Overview: ORCID
Mr. Kannan P, Scientist C (LS), INFLIBNET Centre
Statistical Methods for Research Data Analysis using SPSS
Mr. Hitesh Solanki, Scientist B (CS), INFLIBNET Centre
Use of Reference Management Tools and Writing Research Report
Dr. Miteshkumar Pandya, Scientist B (LS), INFLIBNET Centre
Assessing and Evaluating Research Performance
Ms. Kruti Trivedi, Scientist B (LS), INFLIBNET Centre
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Three-day Workshop-cum-Training Programme on Bibliometrics Research and Output Analysis, Mizoram University, Aizwal, 11th -13th April, 2017 Three-day National Workshop-cum-Training Programme
ranking of universities based on research productivity as
on Bibliometrics and Research Output Analysis
well as role of research division's of universities in this
organized by Department of Library and Information
regard. She also suggested to utilize various software
Science, Mizoram University in collaboration with
tools and databases for research purposes and
INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, Gujarat at Conference
emphasized on bibliometric studies to highlight the
Hall, Mizoram University, Aizwal from 11th to 13th
research productivity of universities and institutions. Dr.
April, 2017. Prof. R. N. Mishra, Head, DLIS welcomed
Singh, in his address, discussed briefly, historical account
the dignitaries, resource persons, participants, Deans and
of bibliometrics and its importance in researches. He
Heads of various departments, faculty members and other
specially pointed out the efforts of Dr. Eugene Garfield for
invitees. Prof. N. V. R Jyoti Kumar, Dean, School of
making Science Citation Index to Web of Science. He
Economics, Management and Information Science,
focused upon scientometric researches conducted at the
Mizoram University inaugurated the Workshop with
world level and highlighted the fact that Indian
lighting of lamp in front of the portrait of Dr. S. R.
contributions in bibliometrics do not attract enough
Ranganathan along with Dr. Udai Narayan Singh, Former
citations. He also stressed upon the significance of
University Librarian, Guru Ghasidas University, Bilaspur;
bibliometric research in terms of science policy
Dr. Manorama Tripathi, Deputy Librarian, Jawaharlal
development.
Nehru University, New Delhi; Prof. R. N. Mishra, HOD
Prof. Pravakar Rath in his address, emphasized on the
and Prof. Pravakar Rath, DLIS, Mizoram University,
research conditions in present scenario and linked it with
Aizwal. Prof. Mishra, in his welcome address, pointed out
the current publication pattern and performance based
the importance of bibliometric and scientometric
appraisal system. He stressed upon the NIRF ranking for
research and introduced bibliometrics, scientometrics,
universities research output based on Web of Science,
bibliometrics laws, bibliometric tools and techniques.
Scopus and ICI databases. He also pointed the futuristic
Prof. Jyoti Kumar, in his inaugural address, pointed out
approach towards research productivity of universities
the importance of bibliometrics and expressed his
and institutions for getting more financial grants from the
personal interest in bibliometric research. He entrusted
government agencies. Dr. Manoj Kumar Verma, Assistant
the researchers having M. Phil. and Ph. D. degree to
Professor, DLIS, Mizoram University and Coordinator of
maintain the purpose of research and stressed upon the
the Workshop, extended a warm vote of thanks at the end
framing of research guidelines based on ground reality.
of the inaugural session. Details of lectures delivered by
Dr. Tripathi, in her address, stressed upon the national
experts during the training programme are as follows:
ranking frameworks adopted by the government for
Topics
Name of the Experts
INFLIBNET ‘s Activities and Services
Ms. Kruti Trivedi, Scientist B (LS), INFLIBNET Centre
Bibliometrics: An Overview
Dr. Udai Narayan Singh, Former University Librarian, Guru Ghasidas University
Bibliometric Laws and its Applications
Dr. Manorama Tripathi, Deputy Librarian, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Research Impact Metrics: Calculation and Context
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Name of the Experts
Relevance of Academic Research Output Analysis
Dr. Manorama Tripathi, Deputy Librarian, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Web of Science (Demonstration)
Ms. Kruti Trivedi, Scientist B (LS), INFLIBNET Centre
BibExcel: Tools and Techniques Part I & Part II and Hands-on Practice
Mr. Hitesh Solanki, Scientist B (CS), INFLIBNET Centre
Relationship and Difference between Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Informetrics, Webometrics and Altmetrics
Dr. Manorama Tripathi, Deputy Librarian, Jawaharlal Nehru University
BibExcel : Tools and Techniques Part III & Part IV and Hands-on Practice
Mr. Hitesh Solanki, Scientist B (CS), INFLIBNET Centre
VOSViewer : Tools and Techniques Part V and Hands-on Practice
Ms. Kruti Trivedi, Scientist B (LS), INFLIBNET Centre
A total number of 30 registered participants comprising
Professor, DLIS and Workshop Co-coordinator
of library science professionals from Assam, Manipur,
presented the report of the Workshop in detail. Prof.
Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh, Tripura and Mizoram,
Lianzela shared his views on NIRF for improving
faculty members and research scholars of the
research productivity of the universities, and
Department participated in the workshop.
organization of such kind of training programmes for stakeholders of the society; and lastly congratulated the
Valedictory Session
department and organizers for having such kind of
Dr. Manoj Kumar Verma, Workshop Coordinator,
training programmes. Prof. R. K. Ngurtinkhuma, DLIS
welcomed the Chief Guest Prof. Lianzela, Vice-
opined that more and more of such kinds of
Chancellor, Mizoram University and participants. Dr.
programmes should be organised for getting more
Verma acknowledged the support of INFLIBNET
technical knowledge. he stressed upon to use
Centre, Gandhinagar, Gujarat for sponsoring the
bibliometrics for research purposes in future. Prof. R. N.
national Workshop. Dr. Akhandanand Shukla, Assistant
Mishra, Head, DLIS extended a warm vote of thanks at the end of the valedictory session.
Five-day National Workshop on Creation and Management of Digital Collection using DSpace, INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 24th- 28th April, 2017 Five-day National Workshop on Creation and
awareness in new developments in the field of library
Management of Digital Collections using DSpace was
and information science, such as, managing
organised at INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar from
information sources in digital environment, building
24th to 28th April, 2017. Mr. Yatrik Patel, Scientist D
institutional repository, networking and social media,
(CS), Mr. Swapnil Patel, Scientist B (CS) and Mr. H G
management of e-resources, latest development and
Hosamani, Scientist C (LS), INFLIBNET Centre
trends in LIS with glimpse on library automation along
coordinated the Workshop. The Workshop aimed to
with hands-on-training. 04 participants participated in
equip participants with skills for developing and
the Workshop. Mr. Swapnil Patel & Mr. Hitesh Solanki,
managing their own digital repositories; and to create
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Nrutik Prajapati, Project Officer (CS) from INFLIBNET
Details of lectures delivered by Scientists of the
Centre served as resource persons for the Workshop.
INFLIBNET Centre during the training programme were as follows:
Topics
Name of the Experts
INFLIBNET Activities, Services & Future Plans
Mr. Manoj Kumar K., Scientist D (CS)
Introduction to Open Source Software and Linux
Mr. Raja V., Scientist B (CS)
Digitization & Digital Preservation Issues & Challenges
Mr. Kannan P., Scientist C (LS)
Institutional Repository using DSpace
Mr. Yatrik Patel, Scientist D (CS)
Metadata Standards for Digital Content
Mr. Hitesh Solanki, Scientist B (CS)
DSpace: Basic Configuration & Administration
Mr. Swapnil Patel, Scientist B (CS) and Mr. Vijay Shrimali, STA (CS)
IPR & Copyright Issues in Creating and Managing of Institutional Repository
Mr. Dinesh Pradhan, Scientist B (LS)
Dspace: Basic Customization
Mr. Swapnil Patel, Scientist B (CS) and Mr. Vijay Shrimali, STA (CS)
Project Presentation: Creation of IR Using DSpace
Mr. Swapnil Patel, Scientist B (CS) and Mr. Vijay Shrimali, STA (CS)
Dspace Import-Export & Backup-Restore
Mr. Raja V., Scientist B (CS)
Five-day National Workshop on Research Data and Statistical Analysis using R Programming, INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 15th- 19th May, 2017
Participants of National Workshop on Research Data and Statistical Analysis using R Programming at INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
Five-day National Workshop on Research Data and
Vaghela, Scientists B (CS) and Mr. H G Hosamani,
Statistical Analysis using R Programming was organized
Scientist C (LS) coordinated the programme. Dr. Jagdish
from 15th to 19th May, 2017 at INFLIBNET Centre,
Arora, Director, INFLIBNET Centre inaugurated the
Gandhinagar. Mr. Hitesh Solanki and Mr. Divyakant
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hands on training in understanding the concepts in data
used programming language among the data scientists
science and statistical analysis using R programming.
and researchers. Details of lectures delivered by experts
The R programming language is one of the most widely
during the training programme are as follows:
Topics
Name of the Experts
INFLIBNET Activities and Service
Mr. Yatrik Patel, Scientist D (CS), INFLIBNET Centre
Introduction to R programming(Installation, getting Started R, Tinn-R, Rcommander, R Studio)
Mr. Vijay Shrimali, STA (CS), INFLIBNET Centre
Data Types in R (Constants, vectors, matrix, data frames, lists)
Ms. Mitisha Vaidya, Project Officer (CS), INFLIBNET Centre
Introduction to R programming (Data Handling in R)
Mr. Divyakant Vaghela, Scientist B (CS), INFLIBNET Centre
Introduction to R programming(Working with functions, summary measures)
Mr. Hitesh Solanki, Scientist B (CS), INFLIBNET Centre
Data Visualization using R : Base, lattice and ggplot packages
Mr. Divyakant Vaghela, Scientist B (CS), INFLIBNET Centre
Statistical Analysis using R (Probability Distribution using R)
Dr. R. D. Chaudhari, Associate Professor M G Science Institute
Statistical Analysis using R (Hypothesis Testing -I (Parametric))
Mr. Hitesh Solanki, Scientist B (CS), INFLIBNET Centre
Statistical Analysis using R(Simple and Multiple Regression Analysis)
Dr. R. D. Chaudhari, Associate Professor, M G Science Institute
Statistical Analysis using R(Analysis of Variance (One way and two-way ANOVA))
Dr. R. D. Chaudhari, Associate Professor, M G Science Institute
Statistical Analysis using R (Hypothesis Testing -II (Non Parametric))
Dr. Dharmesh Raykundaliya, Assistant Professor, Sardar Patel University
Statistical Analysis Using R(Logistic Regression) Sardar Patel University
Dr. Dharmesh Raykundaliya, Assistant Professor,
Reproducible research using Rstudio(knitr and markdown packages)
Dr. R. D. Chaudhari, Associate Professor, M G Science Institute
Reproducible research using Rstudio (bookdown packages and blogs, website)
Dr. R. D. Chaudhari, Associate Professor, M G Science Institute
Statistical Analysis Using R (Time Series Analysis)
Dr. Dharmesh Raykundaliya, Assistant Professor, Sardar Patel University
Statistical Analysis Using R(Factor Analysis)
Dr. Dharmesh Raykundaliya, Assistant Professor, Sardar Patel University
Discussion Forum & Group Presentation
Dr. R. D. Chaudhari, Associate Professor, M G Science Institute
Mr. Vijay Shrimali, STA (CS), Ms.
Mitisha Vaidya,
training programme. The certificates of participation
Project Officer (CS), Ms. Tulsi Punjani, Project Assistant
were distributed at the end of programme. 37
(Statistics) and Mr. Divya Vyas, Project Assistant (LS)
participants including IT professionals, LIS professionals
were resource persons in practical sessions of the
and research scholars attended the programme.
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Three-day National Workshop on Metadata Standards: Retrospective Conversion, Preservation and Migration, INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 7th9th June, 2017 Three-day National Workshop on Metadata Standards:
welcomed the guests and participants. Mr. Manoj
Retrospective Conversion, Preservation and Migration
Kumar K, Scientist D (CS) inaugurated the workshop.
was organized at INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar from
Dr. Miteshkumar Pandya extended a warm vote of
Participants of National Workshop on Metadata Standards: Retrospective Conversion, Preservation and Migration at INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad
7th to 9th June 2017. Mrs. Vaishali Shah and Dr.
thanks at the end of the Workshop. Details of lectures
Miteshkumar Pandya, Scientists B (LS) and Mr. H G
delivered by Scientists of the INFLIBNET Centre during
Hosamani, Scientist C+ (LS), INFLIBNET Centre
the training programme were as follows:
coordinated the Workshop. Mrs. Vaishali Shah Topics
Name of the Experts
INFLIBNET Activities and Services Importance of Metadata and overview of Metadata Standards Understanding MARC21, MARCXML and Dublin Core Hands On Demonstration: Copy Cataloguing and XL2MARCXML Utility Developed by the INFLIBNET Centre Retrospective Conversion: Introduction, Need, Scope, Planning, Method & Steps: Hands on Practice Insights for Converting Multilingual Bibliographic Data Retrospective Conversion of Metadata (Books and Journal Articles) using ISISMARC Data Migration using MARCEdit
Mr. Manoj Kumar K, Scientist D (CS) Mr. Dinesh Pradhan, Scientist B (LS) Mr. Yatrik Patel, Scientist D (CS) Mr. Divyakant Vaghela, Scientist B (CS)
Mrs. Vaishali Shah, Scientist B (LS) Mr. Yatrik Patel, Scientist D (CS) Dr. Miteshkumar Pandya, Scientist B (LS) Dr. Miteshkumar Pandya and Mrs. Vaishali Shah, Scientists B (LS) Dr. Miteshkumar Pandya, Scientist B (LS)
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Mrs. Vaishali A Shah & Dr. Miteshkumar Pandya,
Vyas, Project Assistant (LS) were resource persons in
Scientist-B (LS), Mr. Vijaykumar Shrimali, STA (CS),
practical sessions. 17 participants participated in the
Mr. Darshan Modi, Project Associate (CS), Ms. Divya S
Workshop.
Three-day National Workshop on E-Resources Management, INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 14th -16th June, 2017 Three-day Training Programme on E-resources
inaugurated the Workshop. Mr. Dinesh Ranjan Pradhan
Management was organized at INFLIBNET Centre,
extended a warm vote of thanks at the end of the
Gandhinagar from 14th to 16th June, 2017. Mr. Ashok
inaugural session. 13 participants from various part of
Kumar Rai, Scientist D (CS) and Mr. Dinesh Ranjan
India attended the programme. Mrs. Roma Asnani, STA
Pradhan, Scientist B (LS) coordinated the Workshop. Mr
(LS) and Mr. Nipul Shihora, Project Associate (LS) were
Ashok Kumar Rai, Scientist D (CS) welcomed the
resource persons during practical sessions. Details of
participants and gave an overview of the programme.
lectures delivered by experts during the training
Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director INFLIBNET Centre
programme were as follows:
Topics
Name of the Experts
Life-cycle of e-Resources, Licensing and Negotiation of e-resources Access Management of e-Resources Comparative study of E-resources Management Software CORAL: Open Source ERM Introduction, Installation, Configuration & Backup E-resource Search, Discovery Services & Metadata Management CORAL: Resources, Organizations & Licensing Module Understanding License Agreements for Subscription of e-Resources Economics of e-Resources & Evaluation CORAL: COUNTER & SUSHI Usage Standards & Usage Statistics Module
Dr. T S Kumbar, Librarian, IIT Gandhinagar Mr. Raja V., Scientist B (CS), INFLIBNET Centre Mr. Pallab Pradhan, Scientist B(LS), INFLIBNET Centre Mr. Kannan P, Scientist C(LS), INFLIBNET Centre Mr. Dinesh Pradhan, Scientist B(LS), INFLIBNET Centre Mr. Mitesh Pandya, Scientist B(LS), INFLIBNET Centre Mr. Ashok Kumar Rai, Scientist D(CS), INFLIBNET Centre Ms Kruti J Trivedi, Scientist B(LS), INFLIBNET Centre Mr. Dinesh Pradhan, Scientist-B(LS), INFLIBNET Centre
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Participants of National Workshop on E-Resources Management at INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad
Meeting of Evaluation Committee of NASSCOM for MHRD Funded Projects, INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 20th June, 2017 The Evaluation Committee of NASSCOM consisting of the following members visited the INFLIBNET Centre on 20 th June, 2017 to evaluate the different MHRD projects being executed by the INFLIBNET Centre:
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INFLIBNET Access Management Federation (INFED), Mr. Yatrik Patel, Scientist D (CS) and Mr. Raja V., Scientist B (CS)
iii)
Vidya-Mitra, Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Scientist C (CS)
i) Mr. G Chamu, DGM (Consulting), NISG, NASSCOM
iv)
InfiStats, Mr. Dinesh Ranjan Pradhan, Scientist B (LS)
ii) Mr. N Parmeshwaram, Sr. Consultant, NME-ICT, MHRD
v)
Vidwan, Mr. P. Kannan, Scientist B (LS)
vi)
SWYAM PRABHA, Mr. T. P. Singh, Director, BISAG, Gandhinagar
iii) Mr. Syed Afsar, Head, Centre for Skill Development and Training, AIMA
The Committee appreciated the work done by the INFLIBNET Centre.
The Director, INFLIBNET Centre welcomed to all the members of the Committee. The following presentations were made by the Director and Scientists of the Centre on different MHRD funded projects: i)
E-Shodh Sindhu, Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director
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Presentation on "EBSCO Database", INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 12th April, 2017 The INFLIBNET Centre organized a presentation on "
Scientists and Staff of INFLIBNET Centre attended the
EBSCO Database” Mr. G Upadhyaya, Senior Trainer,
lecture. Mrs. Hema Cholin, STO (LS) coordinated the
EBSCO at Training Lab-II, INFLIBNET Centre on 12th
programme.
April, 2017.
More than 30 participants including
Launching of "India Rankings 2017" under National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) "India Rankings 2017" using National Institutional
Bhawan, New Delhi. The task of developing web portal
Ranking Framework (NIRF), released by the Ministry of
for India Ranking 2017 was assigned to the INFLIBNET
Human Resource Development, Government of India
Centre. In addition, the Centre also provided data on
was launched by Shri Prakash Javadekar, Hon'ble
publications and citations of the institutions who
Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Government of India on 3th April, 2017 at Shastri
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Welcome to the New Members of Governing Board, INFLIBNET Centre Prof. R. C. Kuhad, Member, Governing Board, INFLIBNET Centre chapters and 4 books in the field of Microbiology. He is the Member of Finance Committee, National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC), New Delhi; General Council, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi; and Planning Board, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan. He is the Chairman of Expert Committee, Rai Technological University, Bangalore. He is the recipient of many awards for his academic achievement and national awards for Fellow of Biotech Research Society of India (FBRS) and Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (FNAAS). He has visited many countries including UK, Chile, USA, and Italy. The Director and INFLIBNET staff welcomes him as a new member to the Governing Board of the INFLIBNET Centre. We take this opportunity to thank out going members of the Governing Board who have completed their terms of five years.
Prof. R. C. Kuhad is the Vice-Chancellor, Central University of Haryana since 16th April, 2015. He completed M.Sc., M.Phil, and Ph.D (Microbiology). Prof. Kuhad served as Joint Director, Institute of Life Long Learning (ILLL) from 18th April 2012 to 16th April, 2015, Dean and Head, Faculty of Interdisciplinary and Applied Sciences and Department of Microbiology from 17th September 2005 to 16th September 2008 and Professor, Department of Microbiology since 17th September 2008 at University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi. He has more than 29 years of teaching experience and more than 32 years of research experience. He published 133 research articles in National and International Journals and published 12
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Director and Scientist brought Laurels to the Centre...
Shri Pranab Mukherjee, the then President of India, presented Citations and Mementos to Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director & Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Scientist C (CS) for their commendable contributions to digital initiative for higher education during the National Convention on th Digital Initiative organized by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India on 9th July, 2017 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi.
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* Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director received the Librarian's Choice Award for Lifetime Achievement for the year 2017, instituted by Royal Society of Chemistry, in recognition of individual contribution towards Library and Information Science community of India.
Article Access to E-Resources for Indian Higher Education System and the Role of INFED (INFLIBNET Access Management Federation) Yatrik Patel, Scientist – D (CS) & Raja V, Scientist – B (CS) Indian Universities and institutions of higher education have witnessed a boost in e-resources accessible to their users through various consortium initiatives. However, at present, mostly the access is restricted to only university/institute campuses within specific IP ranges. There is a need to widen the access of e-resources. Ideally the access to e-resources should be available to users from anywhere i.e. on-campus, off-campus, from home, while travelling and at any given point of time. The purpose of this article to give an overview of the role of INFED (INFLIBNET Access Management Federation) to expand the reach of e-resources and make some suggestions about how effective it is from perspective of practice with a view to justifying its role. This paper attempts to describe the scope of INFED and benefits of inter federation services, beyond the features off-campus access. Keywords: University Libraries, Access Management Federations, INFED, Identity Provider (IdP), Service Provider (SP), Higher Education, Off-campus access, Inter-Federations Now SAML2.0 (Security AssertionMark-up Language)
1. Introduction
isan XML standard for exchanging authentication and
Tim Berners-Lee, the computer scientist whoinvented
authorization data between security domains.
the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, realised that
“Authentication” is a kind of confirmation from the
true information can be accessed by anyone, anywhere
identity that he/she is the legitimated or registered user
can use it without paying a fee or seeking permission .
with our organization. Where as “authorization” is a
But the real scenario is different. The most of publisher
rights or privileges to the certain resource groups. This
who owns the copyright of the material refuse to
SAML 2.0 has been agreed by most of the publishers
provide access to their material free of cost to anyone.
(Service Providers) to exchange user attributes and
Institutes are already spending huge amount of money
allow them access to the restricted content anytime and
on subscribing to e-resources for their users. But most of
any where. In this context, INFED is a formal federation
the institutions are not paying much attention to ensure
that act as a trust entity between Institutes and
consistent and reliable access of those resources an
Publishers.
anywhere and anytime basis to their users. There are
2. About INFED
number of mechanism that exists to provide off-campus access to e-resources such as Proxy Server, Virtual
INFLIBNET Access Management Federation (INFED),
Private Network (VPN), etc. however implementing this
the first and only Federation in India, that has adopted
mechanism will be the extra burden to the institution,
Shibboleth (a SAML based) open source software, for
on the other hand the e-resource service provider is
authenticating authorized users from colleges and
demanding the user to access their paid resources only
universities and provide them seamless access to e-
when they are in campus, due to lack of trusted secure
resources from anywhere, anytime. The INFLIBNET
attribute exchange from the institution about users and
Centre, as one of its core mandates, provides access to
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2.1
under e-Shodh Sindhu initiative of the Ministry of
Identity Provider
Identity Provider software is run by the institutions
Human Resource Development (MHRD). The INFED
having database of users entitled to access subscription
has been set-up as a centralized entity to coordinate
based e-resources or services. Shibboleth leverages the
with member institutions in the process of
organization's identity and access management system,
implementation of user authentication and access
so that the individual's relationship with the institution
control mechanism distributed across participating
can be used to determine access rights to subscription
institutions using standardized rules and metadata for
based e-resources or services. In other words, different
exchange of attributes.
categories of users in an institution may have access to
Shibboleth access management model is essentially
different sets of resources based on attributes assigned
designed to run in a federated mode wherein individual
to them. In case of Shibboleth implementation at
participating institutions are required to run their own
INFED, participating universities and colleges would
Identity Provider Services for users in their respective
register themselves for creation of an identity
institutions. Alternatively, members can use identity
management system using college administrative
provider services offered by the INFLIBNET Centre
interface. A trusted officer (Administrative or Technical
through INFED. A formal federation is required as
Contact) nominated by the college/university
trusted interface between the institutions as Identity
authorities, is made responsible for maintaining identity
provider (IdP) and publishers as Service Providers (SP) to
management system for a given college on the INFED
ensure use of uniform standards and protocols while
Server.
transmitting attributes of authorized users to publishers.
2.2
INFLIBNET Centre is operating the Federation for Indian
Service Provider software is run by the publisher of a
Higher Education Institutions. The INFED website give
subscription-based e-resource or service. The Service
a broad outline of goals and purpose. At the outset, In
Provider receives a set of pre-defined attributes from the
the broader context, INFED offers the off-campus access
Identity Provider and provides access to subscribed e-
facility to librarians. The scope of INFED is depicted in
resources or services to the user depending upon the
figure given below.
attributes received. 2.3
Service Provider
Federation Metadata
It provides the basis for trust between Institute and Publishers. Normally, owners of the federation keep track of the metadata of the Institutes and Publishers. When an Institution or Publisher receives a request from another provider, it needs to be able to verify that the remote provider is who it claims to be . When institute claims to access the content from the publisher, the service provider could identify the details of their institute by using their supplied metadata. If it has been positively identified, Institute and Publisher can Scope of INFED 15
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communicate. If there is no match, or the credentials
Section of the UGC Act, 1956 and all Inter-
presented are wrong, no attributes will be sent.
University Centre (IUCs) of the UGC that are eligible to get access to e-resources through the e-
It should be signed by the federation operator and
Shodh Sindhu Consortium are eligible to
hosted using https://, and should be accessible to
participate of the INFED.
anyone by all providers in the federation. 2.4
ii. Colleges: All Govt. / Govt.-aided colleges covered
Discovery Services (WAYF-Where Are You
under 12(B) and 2(f) Section of the UGC Act, 1956
From)
that are eligible to get access to e-resources through
As a user who is willing to use the federated services
the National Library and Information Infrastructure
he/she has to locate his home organisation. It's quite
for Scholarly Content (N-LIST) are eligible to
difficult to locate from the large number of list. In order
participate in INFED.
to overcome this issue Discovery Services (DS) can be
iii. Private Universities / Colleges and Other
setup based upon the federation metadata. The essential
Institutions: The Federation may allow private
goal is to redirect the user to their SSO endpoint by
universities, private colleges and other
selecting their home organization. This Discovery
organizations to participate after obtaining
Services can setup by the publishers orby the country
approval from competent authority.
federation itself . 2.5
iv. Publishers: All publishers providing access to e-
Rules
resources under the e-Shodh Sindhu Consortium or
The framework is created by each Member agreeing to
NLIST Programme are can be member of the
be bound by these Rules which set out an agreed set of
INFED.
rules for exchanging information about End Users and
2.7
resources so as to enable access and use of resources
How INFED Works?
and services. Responsibility for the provision of the
INFED creates a trust relationship, facilitating federated,
Federation is shared amongstthe INFLIBNET Centre,
single sign-on access and offers improved data security
member universities and colleges. The Access
and convenience for end-users. As such, Shibboleth
Management Committee is ultimately responsible for
implementation at INFED @INFLIBNET Centre would
maintaining effective governance of the Federation. It
work as follows:
discharges this responsibility by defining the policies governing membership of the federation and for the responsibilities that federation membership entails. 2.6
Eligibility to become a member of INFED
The INFED currently has the following four classes of participants who are eligible to join the federation. All institutions have to apply for the membership of INFED on prescribed application form: I.
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User has to opt the institutional/shibboleth based login from the publisher.
Redirecting to Login page of Institute (Identity Provider) Login via Institution Account
2.7.1
User Consent
If the institute has setup and configured their Identity
After verifying user's credentials, Identity Provider of
Provider and mutually exchanged their metadata with
the user home organization will pass “user attributes”
publisher, then user can find the home organization in
which may also contain his / her institute, department,
publisher list.
role (member/faculty/ student/researcher), and if agreed, whether he / she is having access to certain e-
The service providers (publishers) will recognize INFED
resource or not and / or any other attributes which are
@ INFLIBNET Centre as a trusted organization for
mutually agreed with the service provider and;
authenticating user and would give an option on their website to select WAYF as INFED federation in turn, will have list of all members IDPs for user to choose from.
User Consent for releasing attributes to Publisher Federation and Home organization selection
Based on attributes passed by the IdP for a user, he / she will be allowed access to e-resource, if entitled.
When a user select his/her home organization, he / she may be re-directed to respective identity provides login page.
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For example, Google Apps, Facebook Login, Linked In and Microsoft Live ID provide centralized authentication for third-party web applications where users can log in using their existing identities . 4. Inter-Federation INFED is part of an inter-federation. Inter-federation is a means for getting access of the other federations resources (If they allowed any restricted content to only, simplifying access to content, services and resources for the global research and education community. Success Authentication to publisher site
eduGAIN, a non-profitentity, is playing a major role to connect all the federation around the world. It helps the researchers and faculty to access online services and manages all the service providers metadata in common place. It is also giving service providers access to a larger pool of users globally, and allows users to access resources of collaborative research institutions . 4.1
Benefits of Inter-Federation
Today, online services are crucial to research and higher education. Majority of the academic activities such as mail, teaching and conferencing, Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs), Data analysis, e-Journals are made accessible over Internet, directly to users including
Successful Logged in via shibboleth
students, teachers and researchers. Normally, for each 3.
Single Sign-On (SSO)
services / application they have separate user account.
“One Login, Many Services”- users can access number
But with just a single trusted identity, provided by their
of services by authenticating themselves only once.
institution which is
Features of SSO are as follows, (I) Mitigate risk for access
federation can serve the purpose of using same trusted
to 3rd-party sites (user passwords not stored or managed
identity via single sign-on (SSO) across the
externally) , (ii) Minimal Disclosure of Identity, (iii) Time
applications/services, this feature can be extended by
saving for entering passwords different service
participating to inter-federations such as eduGAIN (a
providers, (iv) Cost saving for managing IT helpdesk for
service developed within the GÉANT Project - a major
password issues
collaboration between European national research and
part of country-wide identity
education network (NREN) organisations and the It shares centralized authentication servers such as
European Union), so that users can access services from
LDAP, Kerberos, Active Directory, etc. It will ensure that
other participating federations using same single sign-
users do not have to actively enter their credentials more
on (SSO).
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Around the world there are currently more than 48
community. Publishers (SP) offer their services to users
federations participating in or in the process of joining
in different federations, though they can crease their
eduGAIN, with approximately 1,500 identity providers
target market and users also get seamless benefit from
and 500 service providers. Inter-federation facility
the wide range of service providers. Federation and
enabled institutions to access the services and resources
members can get the following benefits:
for the global research and research and education Federations
•
Maximum services for your institutions – enables them to access services from different federations.
Service providers
Identity providers
•
Lower administration costs
•
Saves time - no need to make bilateral agreements with other federations.
•
Trustworthy - secure collaboration and exchange of information.
•
More users and more business
•
Minimal cost and support is needed to maintain user identities
•
Ashome federation is interconnected with other federations, hence wide range of services to your users
User Community (students, researchers, network and proxy administrators)
•
Less administrative work.
•
Wider range of services than are available nationally or locally.
4.2 An overview of Other Country federation and IdP Details Inter-federation Status of Federations IdP's(*) Federation
URL
United Kingdom - UK federation
http://ukfederation.org.uk/
734
U.S. - InCommon
https://incommon.org
450
France - Fédération Éducation-Recherche
https://services.renater.fr/federation/en/index
291
Brazil -café
https://www.rnp.br/en/services/cafe.html
194
The Netherlands - SURFconext
http://www.surfconext.nl/
108
Czech Republic - eduID.cz
http://www.eduid.cz/wiki/en/
80
Italy - IDEM
https://www.idem.garr.it/index.php/en
77
Germany - DFN AAI
https://www.aai.dfn.de/
75
Denmark - WAYF
http://wayf.dk/en
62
Sweden - SWAMID
https://www.sunet.se/swamid/
48
Switzerland - SWITCHaai
https://www.switch.ch/aai
48
Canadian Access Federation
https://www.canarie.ca
46
No. of IdP
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Federation
URL
Greece - GRNET
http://aai.grnet.gr/
42
Spain - SIR
http://www.rediris.es/sir/
36
Austrian Academic Computer Network
https://www.aco.net/?L=1
24
Belgium - Belnet Federation
http://federation.belnet.be/
20
Finland - HAKA
http://www.csc.fi/english/institutions/haka
20
Latvia - LAIFE
https://laife.lanet.lv/
18
Slovenia - ArnesAAI Slovenska izobraževalno raziskovalna federacija
http://www.arnes.si/en/services/arnesaai.html
Hungary - eduId.hu
http://eduid.hu/
12
Lithuania - LITNET FEDI
http://fedi.litnet.lt/
11
Poland - PIONIER.Id
https://aai.pionier.net.pl
11
South Africa - SAFIRE
http://www.safire.ac.za/
9
Japan - GakuNin
https://www.gakunin.jp/en-fed/
4
Luxembourg - eduID Luxembourg
https://www.eduid.lu/
4
Estonia - TAAT
http://taat.edu.ee/
4
Korea - KAFE
https://coreen.kreonet.net/
3
Australian Access Federation (AAF)
https://aaf.edu.au/
2
Georgia - Grena Identity Federation
http://gif.grena.ge/
2
Macedonia - AAIEduMk
http://aaiedu.mk/
2
Moldova - LEAF
http://federations.renam.md/
2
Portugal - RCTSaai
http://rctsfederation.fccn.pt
2
Ukraine - PEANO
http://www.peano.uran.ua/
2
Chile - COFRe
http://cofre.reuna.cl/
2
Ecuador - MINGA
http://www.cedia.org.ec/minga
2
Israel - IUCC Identity Federation
https://iif.iucc.ac.il/home/
1
Norway - FEIDE
https://www.feide.no/introducing-feide
1
Armenia - AFIRE
http://afire.asnet.am
1
Belarus - FEBAS
http://febas.basnet.by/
1
Croatia - AAI@EduHr
http://www.aaiedu.hr/
1
Colombia - COLFIRE
http://colfire.co
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of federated access with world-wide deployment is in
Concrete Examples from Practice
progress.
INFLIBNET Centre is always keen to implement any new technology and makes it available to all universities and member institutions in India. INFED is one of such examples of Identity federated Access Management.
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providing access to scholarly e-resources to potential researchers at anytime, anywhere. Majority of the research institutions are not offering off-campus access to their subscribed resources because of multiple hindrances like lack of funding and as well as limited technical expertise. By joining INFED, Institutions may get most of the e-resources beyond the boundary of institutions anywhere, anytime. The concept and design
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Staff News Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director
Dr. Arora was invited to attend launching of India Rankings 2017 held on 3rd April, 2017 at MHRD, New
Dr. Jagdish Arora was presented a Citation and
Delhi as well as to the “India Rankings 2017 Award
Memento for his Commendable Contribution to Digital
Ceremony”held on 10th April, 2017 at Rashtrapati
Initiatives for Higher Education, by the Honourable Shri
Bhawan Cultural Centre wherein awards were
Pranab Mukherjee, the then President of India, during
presented to the top-ranked institutions in various
the National Convention on Digital Initiatives,
categories by Honourable Shri Pranabh Mukherjee, the
organized by the Ministry of Human Resource and
then President of India. As a Member of the Standing
Development, Govt. of India on 9thJuly 2017 at Vigyan
Committee on Notification on Journals, University
Bhawan, New Delhi. He was awarded NDLTD
Grants Commission, New Delhi, he attended its 3rd
Leadership Award for the year 2017 for Shodhganga
Meeting held on 28thApril, 2017. As member of the
Scheme of the INFLIBNET Centre during
Sub-Committee on e-Content Development, Dr. Arora
20thInternational Symposium on Electronic Theses and
attended its 30th and 31stMeetings held on 19thApril,
Dissertations held in Washington, D.C., USA from
2017 and 6thJune, 2017 respectively. As a member of
August 7 to 9, 2017.He was recipient of Librarian's
the Implementation Core Committee of NIRF appointed
Choice Award for Life Time Achievement for the year
by the MHRD, he attended its first Meeting held on
2017 (instituted by the Royal Society of Chemistry) in
12thJune, 2017 at Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi. As a
recognition of Individual Contribution towards Library
member of the Programme Review and Steering Group
and Library Science Community of India.
(PRSG) of the National Digital Library, a project funded
Dr. Arora was the Chief Guest for 33rd Annual
by the NME-ICT (MHRD) and executed by the IIT
Convention of the Society for Information Science (SIS)
Kharagpur, he attended its 3rd Meeting held on
and Conference on Open Access held on April 7-8,
28thJune, 2017.
2017 at IICB, Kolkata. He delivered keynote address on
Mr. Manoj Kumar K., Scientist D (CS)
“Open Access Initiatives at the INFLIBNET Centre”, during the ”National Workshop on Strengthening Open
Mr. Manoj Kumar was invited to deliver a lecture on
Access (OA) Initiative in India” held on 23rd June 2017
Shodhganga & URKUND: a Plagiarism Detection
at NBRC, Manesar, Gurgaon. Dr. Arora was invited to
Software during U.G.C sponsored Refresher Courses &
make a presentation on INFLIBNET Centre's Activities
Orientation Programmes for the Professional
and Services to the Secretary (HE), MHRD on 22ndMay,
Development of University and College Teachers at
2017. He was invited to attend the meeting of NPTEL-
Human Resource Development, Gujarat University on
DTH Channel Coordinators Workshop held on 1stJune,
2nd June 2017. He was invited to deliver lecture on
2017 at IIT Gandhinagar. He attended the Meetings
Shodhganga & Shodhgangotri and signing a
convened by NAAC for revision of its accreditation
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for Shodhganga
framework on 18th April at UGC Main Office, New
at Parul University, Ahmedabad on 24th May 2017.
Delhi and on 23rdMay, 2017 at NAAC, Bangalore.
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Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Scientist C (CS)
Ph.D Student in Social Sciences at OKD Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati
Mr. Abhishek Kumar attended a meeting of SWAYAM
through Google Hangout from INFLIBNET Centre
PRABHA for collaboration between hosting of
from 12th to 21st May, 2017.
SWAYAM PRABHA content in YouTube at Google iii)
India, Gurgaon on 4th April, 2017. He was invited to
Two-Week Capacity Building Programme for
attend the 'India Rankings 2017' Award Ceremony
Faculties in Social Sciences at Giri Institute of
wherein awards were presented to the Top Ranked
Development Studies (GIDS), Lucknow from
Institutions in various categories by Sh. Pranab
22nd May to 4thJune, 2017;
Mukherjee, Hon'ble President of India at Rashtrapati
iv)
Bhavan Cultural Centre, New Delhi on 10th April,
Capacity Building Programme for Social Science Faculty at Central University of Punjab, Bathinda
2017. He also attended video conferencing meeting of
from 1st to 14thJune, 2017; and
Sub Committee, e PG Pathshala at UGC, New Delhi on 19th to 20th April, 2017. He was special invitee to the
v)
Research Methodology Workshop at Veer
Meeting of Core Working Group (CWG) for NAAC's
Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat on 14th
revision of accreditation framework at National
June, 2017.
Assessment and Accreditation Council, Bangalore on Dr. Miteshkumar Pandya, Scientist B (LS)
23rd April 2017 and 9th to 10th June, 2017. He also attended meeting on SWAYAM PRABHA along with
Dr. Miteshkumar was invited to deliver lectures on
NPTEL DTH Team at Indian Institute of Technology,
Open Research Data Management and ICSSR Data
Gandhinagar on 1st June, 2017. He also attended
Service during the following ICSSR sponsored training
meeting of the Standing Committee, E PG Pathshala at
programmes and Workshop:
UGC, New Delhi on 6th June, 2017. He also attended I)
first meeting of Implementation Core Committee for
Two-Week Capacity Building Programme for
NIRF 2018 and meeting of finalisation is format for NIRF
Social Science Faculty Members at Department
2018 among NIC at National Board of Accreditation,
of Geography, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar
New Delhi on 12th June, 2017 and 19th June, 2017.
from 01st to 10th May, 2017;
He was invited to deliver a lecture on MOOC at HRD
ii)
Research Methodology Course for Ph.D Scholars
College, Hyderabad on 30th June, 2017.
in Social Science at Department of Public Policy,
Mr. Divyakant Vaghela, Scientist B (CS)
Law and Governance, Central University of Rajasthan from 8th to 17th May, 2017;
Mr. Divyakant was invited to deliver lectures on ICSSR iii)
Data Service in the following ICSSR sponsored training
Research Methodology Course for Ph.D Scholars in Social Science
programmes and Workshops:
at Nagaland University,
Kohima from 16th to 25th May, 2017; I)
Two-Week Capacity Building Programme (CBP) iv)
for Faculty of Social Sciences at Council for Social
Research Methodology Course and Research
Development, Hyderabad from 10th to 23rd
Techniques using SPSS in Social Sciences at
May, 2017;
Department of Economics, Nagaland University, Lumami from 23rd May to 1st June, 2017; and
ii)
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Social Science Faculty Member at Department of
Sciences at HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar
Management, Mizoram University from 22nd
from 18th to 27th May, 2017;
May to 3rd June, 2017.
iv)
Ten-Day Workshop on Research Methodology in
He also invited as resource person during Research
Quantitative Research for Ph.D. Scholars in Social
Orientation Programme organized by Academic
Sciences at Department of Social Work,
Development & Research Cell, Nirma University from
University of Delhi, Delhi from 29th May to 7th
5th to 10th June, 2017 at Institute of Management,
June, 2017; and
Nirma University, Ahmedabad on 6th June, 2017.
v)
PhD Student in Social Sciences at OKD Institute of
Mr. Hitesh Solanki, Scientist B (CS)
Social Change and Development, Guwahati from
Mr. Hitesh Solanki was invited to attend the 'India
12th to 21st May, 2017
Rankings 2017' Award Ceremony wherein awards were
Mr. Pallab Pradhan, Scientist B (LS)
presented to the Top Ranked Institutions in various categories by Sh. Pranab Mukherjee, Hon'ble President
Mr. Pallab attended Workshop on Text Analytics held at
of India at Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre, New
C-DAC, Navi Mumbai during 10th to 18th May, 2017.
Delhi on 10th April, 2017. He also invited to attend the
He also attended meeting for UGC Approved List of
meeting of Core Working Group (CWG) for NAAC's
Journals and related work at University Grants
revision of accreditation framework at National
Commission (UGC), New Delhi on 2nd May, 2017. He
Assessment and Accreditation Council, Bangalore on
was invited to deliver lectures on ICSSR Data Service
28th April 2017 and 8th to 9th June, 2017. He attended
during the following ICSSR sponsored training
Meeting of National Institutional Ranking Framework at
programmes and Workshop:
INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar and Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi on 19th
i)
June, 2017 and 29th June, 2017 respectively.
Research Areas: An Attempt for Transformation in Research Attitudes and Aptitudes at North Eastern
Service during the following ICSSR sponsored training
Hill University, Tura from 5th to 18th May, 2017;
programmes and Workshop: ii)
Capacity Building Programme on Academic
at Central University of Jammu, Jammu from 8th
Sciences at Centre for Asian Studies, Savitribai
to 28th May, 2017 ;
Phule Pune University, Pune from 3rd to 13th May, 2017;
iii)
Ten-Day Workshop on Research Methodology for Ph.D. Students in Social Sciences at Sikkim
Capacity Building Programme Developing
University, Gangtok from 23rd May to 2nd June,
Countries Research Centre (DCRC) at University
2017;
of Delhi, Delhi from 16th to 29th May, 2017; iii)
Capacity Building Programme on Research Methodology for Social Science Faculty Members
Writing Workshop for Faculty Members in Social
ii)
Capacity Building Programme on Enhancement of Capacities of Researchers in Social Science
He was also invited to deliver lectures on ICSSR Data
I)
Ten-Day Research Methodology Programme for
iv)
Ten-Day workshop on Research Methodology
Research Methodology Course for Ph. D. Students in Social Sciences at Nabakrushna
and SPSS usage in Data Analysis in Social
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v)
(NCDS), Bhubaneswar from 1st May to 10thJune,
SWAYAM PRABHA Project at Google India Ltd,
2017;
Bangalore on 27th June, 2017.
Training Course on Research Methodology in
Ms. Kruti Trivedi, Scientist B (LS)
Social Sciences at M.P. Institute of Social Science
Ms. Kruti Trivedi was invited to attend the 'India
Research (MPISSR), Ujjain from 13th to 22nd
Rankings 2017' Award Ceremony wherein awards were
June, 2017;
presented to the Top Ranked Institutions in various categories by Sh. Pranab Mukherjee, Hon'ble President
Mr. Raja V., Scientist B (CS)
of India at Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre, New
Mr. Raja V attended a Workshop on Amazon Web
Delhi on 10th April, 2017.
Services Tech Essential Day at Hyatt Regency,
Mr. Dharmesh Shah, STA (CS)
Ahmedabad on 4th April, 2017. He was invited to attend the 'India Rankings 2017' Award Ceremony
Mr. Dharmesh Shah was invited to attend the 'India
wherein awards were presented to the Top Ranked
Rankings 2017' Award Ceremony wherein awards were
Institutions in various categories by Sh. Pranab
presented to the Top Ranked Institutions in various
Mukherjee, Hon'ble President of India at Rashtrapati
categories by Sh. Pranab Mukherjee, Hon'ble President
Bhavan Cultural Centre, New Delhi on 10th April,
of India at Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre, New
2017. He made a presentation on INFLIBNET Access
Delhi on 10th April, 2017. He also invited to attend the
Management Federation (INFED) at Indian Instituted of
meeting of Core Working Group (CWG) for NAAC’s
Technology, Gandhinagar and Indian Institute of
revision of accreditation framework at National
Management, Ahmedabad on 10th June, 2017 and 29th
Assessment and Accreditation Council, Bangalore from
June, 2017, respectively. He attended meeting for
8th to 9th June, 2017.
Visitors Mr. G Chamu, DGM (Consulting), NISG, NASSCOM, New Delhi Mr. N Parmeshwaram, Sr. Consultant, NME-ICT, MHRD, New Delhi Mr. Syed Afsar, Head, Centre for Skill Development and Training, AIMA, New Delhi Mr. T. P. Singh, Director, Bisag, Gandhinagar
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a reservoir of Indian theses http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/
Advanced Training Programme on
Shodhganga 13-15 December, 2017 Topics for Discussions v An overview of national and international ETDs including Shodhganga, for basic
introduction, features and use; v Technical issues related to ETD implementation and digitisation; v Introduction to DSpace and building IR; v Theses submission in Shodhganga and hands on; v Browse, Search and Download: Use and Usage; v Back up/Archive/Restoring of IR; v Metadata for ETDs; v Roles and responsibilities of University Coordinators (UC); v Anti-Plagiarism: Policy and products; and v Hands on for using Anti Plagiarism Software URKUND and uploading of theses. E-mail:
[email protected] E-mail:
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Information and Library Network Centre (An Autonomous Inter-University Centre of UGC)
Infocity, Gandhinagar - 382007, Gujarat, INDIA
Phone: 079-23268232/8226/8220
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