Webology Journal

Webology is an international peer-reviewed journal in English devoted to the field of the World Wide Web and serves as a forum for discussion and experimentation. It serves as a forum for new research in information dissemination and communication processes in general, and in the context of the World Wide Web in particular. Concerns include the production, gathering, recording, processing, storing, representing, sharing, transmitting, retrieving, distribution, and dissemination of information, as well as its social and cultural impacts.

Web 2.0 as a Social Movement

Web 2.0 as a Social Movement

Web 2.0 development are compared to demonstrate how Web 2.0 is a manifestation of an ongoing interaction between this human rights social movement and communication technology. The values associated with Web 2.0, especially the participative role of users, are congruent with those expressed in the movement to achieve a right to communicate.

Nature into OA Archiving?

Nature Precedings

Nature Precedings is a place for researchers to share documents, including presentations, posters, white papers, technical papers, supplementary findings, and manuscripts. It provides a rapid way to disseminate emerging results and new theories, solicit opinions, and record the provenance of ideas. It also makes such material easy to archive, share and cite. The whole service is free of charge.

Video: RSS in Plain English

Explains RSS in very a simple way.

ticTOCs project

ticTOCs project aims to develop a freely available service which will transform journal current awareness by making it easy for academics and researchers to find, display, store, combine and reuse tables of contents from multiple publishers in a personalisable web based environment.

With Gassy Jack

Sukhdev with Gassy Jack
Originally uploaded by esukhdev

Standing with GASSY JACK at GASTOWN, Vancouver (Canada).

Site for Patent searching

FreePatentsOnline at http://www.freepatentsonline.com/ is an online site for free patent searching.

VuFind

VuFind is a library resource portal. It enables library users to search and browse through library's resources.

The portal may include:

* Catalog Records

* Locally Cached Journals

* Digital Library Items

* Institutional Repository

* Institutional Bibliography

* Other Library Collections and Resources

Biomedical Information Retrieval Programme for Medical Information Professionals

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Originally uploaded by esukhdev

We are having concluding session for the "Biomedical Information Retrieval Programme for Medical Information Professionals, 23rd - 27th July 2007. NIC, New Delhi". I was a faculty for it. The RSS and Mashups were the most interesting topics to the participants.

Training Participants

IMC Training Participants
Originally uploaded by esukhdev

Participants of Biomedical Information Retrieval Programme for Medical Information Professionals, 23rd - 27th July 2007. NIC, New Delhi.

Self Publishing Tool Kit

Self Publishing Tool Kit: How to Write and Publish a Novel

"With 100% online services and very little cash outlay, you can go from idea to published book in no time. You may not be the next JK Rowling (actually, you probably won't be the next JK Rowling), but you could easily be holding a freshly printed paperback with your name on the cover. All you need to do is write"

PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2007

This is not publishing but a social event.

Now an Open Library

Open Library (Open Library)

Imagine a library that collected all the world's information about all the world's books and made it available for everyone to view and update.

Indian Biomedical Journals and Open Access

I am back to Delhi after presenting our paper at

PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference Blog: "Indian biomedical journals and Open Access: a case study at Indian Medlars Centre (IMC), New Delhi, India".

GoPubMed

GoPubMed searches PubMed and displays results sorted by Gene Ontology (GO) and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)