New features from Cambridge Journals Online
A number
of new features allow CJO users to access our content in more advanced ways:
CJO visitors can now search a large number of pages and extensive content across both Journals and eBooks content from the Quick Search on CJO.
A link to a PDF version of the Table of Contents is included in all My Content Alerts for issues and FirstView articles.
CJO now
offers a possibility for journals to publish accepted manuscripts prior to copy-editing and proof-reading.
CJO users
now benefit from full article functionality in both PDF and HTML versions via a set of links on a PDF page.
There are further improved the multiple content feed options available on CJO. The latest changes to the Social Bookmarking feature make it simpler and quicker for CJO visitors to share the information with friends and colleagues on Twitter, Facebook, Del.icio.us, Reddit and other social bookmarking sites.
The improved
CJO Journals Widgets downloadable for each journal now display the latest articles published online, as well as allowing CJO users to search their favourite journals from blogs, start pages' or social networking sites.
New books from the Embassy of India
Khazar University LIC has received a donation of excellent books from the Embassy of India, including Encyclopaedia of India in 5 volumes, comprehensive Reference Annual "India2009 containing information on varied subjects related to India like economy, rural and urban development, industry and infrastructure, art and culture, health, mass communication; book "Faces of Indian Art that takes the reader on a journey that is quite unique; Buddhism book is an effort to distil centuries of Buddhism, its insights into ultimate reality, its colourful imagery; India's Wild Wonders captures the essence of the life and work of India's two most celebrated wildlife photographers and beautiful book about Delhi then and now.
eGranary
Digital Library has implemented at the Khazar University Library
LIC has access to the eGranary
Digital Library based at the University of Iowa (USA) the WiderNet innovation project. The goal of this project is to improve educational communication systems in developing countries.
The eGranary Digital Library is an off-line educational information store. Also called the Internet in a Box, it is a high-capacity hard drive that contains more than ten million digital educational resources that can be accessed at extremely high speeds over wired and wireless local area networks without using any Internet bandwidth.
Each
eGranary contains more than 30,000 books, 250 journals, and 1,200 Web sites and CD-ROMs
that can be browsed and searched just like the Internet. The eGranary also includes multi-media resources such as sound files, instructional videos, and educational software.
The eGranary Digital Library is not just a supplement to existing library infrastructure for most institutions it enhances library infrastructure dramatically, often multiplying a university's collection by powers of ten. The eGranary Digital Library expands real access to vital information on science, medicine, and technology to the students, researchers, and clinicians that need it, by operating completely independently of endemic bandwidth constraints.
Khazar University Library Information Center has mooved to the new building
Academic year of 2009 is the most significant year in the history of the Khazar University Library since it is the year when the Library moved into its new building Reading Halls.
Students
and staff can now enjoy more facilities and books with the opening of new extension to the Khazar University Library and Information Center (LIC) on October 27 th , 2009.
Now LIC is established
on the five and six floors of the Khazar University new building.
And here we have a library designed to be welcoming to all who enter, a user-friendly building which provides for students not only the most modern equipment for the access of knowledge, but the comfort and convenience of well-designed reading rooms.
This library is a place where we can move apart from the noise of our over-busy lives and study in quietude, peace and comfort.
The new library houses 15 computer terminals and more reading areas have been added to provide a better studying environment for students.
With this new Library
, the future could not look brighter for excellence in learning in Khazar.
LIC has got
a free month trial to CountryWatch
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CountryWatch has also aunched the Forecast TM , which includes a five-year macroeconomic forecast for each country, and a 20-year forecast of energy demand, supply, and pricing for every country. CountryWatch will also be launching metals and agricultural components to the comprehensive Forecast TM .
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International Conference on Academic Libraries
Delhi University Library System (DULS) has announced the International Conference on Academic Libraries (DULS) has announced the International Conference on Academic Libraries (ICAL-2009) from October 5-8, 2009 and launched its websites at a special function, organised at University of Delhi, on 21-01-09.
The scope of the conference will be : knowledge sharing, ICT management, digital repository management, e-teaching, e-tutorials, stronger library-faculty relationships, stronger library-corporate relationships and user centric services.
The Conference is being organized with Objectives to:
Identify strategies for improving library performance in the context of local factors, constraints and circumstances;
Evolve new frameworks, new programmes for national and international collaboration and cooperation for pooling and sharing resources to improve information access to support education, research, and learning;
Evolve policies, programmes, and strategies for governmental approval and eventually their implementation for holistic development of academic libraries in terms of tools, techniques, procedures, practices and systems for the management of library operations, services, and facilities with efficiency and effectiveness;
and Identifying University library vision for 2020 and the roles they should perform in realizing this vision.
The Major Sub-Themes of the Conference are:
1. Vision & Roles of the Future Academic Libraries
2. Technology, Policy and Innovation
3. Change Management
4. Library Vendor/Publisher Interface
5. Management Models and Framework, Library Services 6. Advocacy
Utmost pain has been taken in preparing an online website ( http://library.du.ac.in))))and
http://crl.du.ac.in/ical09 first of its kind in propagating the conference, we have also worked out guidelines for peer review of the papers which will be received online and manually and hope to generate a draft report for consideration by various authorities.
