Friday, October 19, 2012

JournalTOCs

 
JournalTOCs is a free service for anyone who's looking for the latest or most current papers published in the scholarly literature with international coverage. Academics, librarians, students, researchers, and anyone else should find it useful. 

It  is the biggest searchable collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs). It contains articles' metadata of TOCs for over 20,245 journals directly collected from over 1274 publishers. 

It include all the highest rated journals in their fields, guaranteeing quality results. See Selection Criteria. JournalTOCs pulls together a database of Table of Contents (TOCs) from scholarly journals and provides a convenient single "one stop shop" interface to these TOCs.

JournalTOCs is an initiative of the ICBL at Heriot-Watt University. It was created in 2009 with funding from the JISC Rapid Innovation Grants.

Customised versions for institutions are available at very economic licence rates. Further information can be provided by contacting journaltocs@icbl.hw.ac.uk.






National Conference on E-resources and E-learning: Challenges and Opportunities for Libraries, at University of Calicut onFebruary 1-2, 2013

Department of Library and Information Science (University of Calicut) in collaboration with the C.H.M.K. Library, University of Calicut is organizing a Two-Day National Conference on February 1-2, 2013.  The theme of the conference is E-resources and E-learning: Challenges and Opportunities for Libraries.  The conference will essentially focus on all contemporary issues related to the development and management of e-resources and e-learning and their impact on modern library system with special reference to academic, special, and public libraries.

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Postponement of Refresher Course in Library and Information Science

The Refresher Course in Library and Information Science proposed to be conducted from 8th October 2012 by the  Kannur University Academic Staff College in collaboration with the Department of Library and Information Science, Thalassery Campus  has been postponed to 28th November to 18th
December 2012 due to some administrative difficulties.

  The College Librarians/ Asst. Librarians and teachers of Library and Information Science who are interested may apply immediately. 

The application form can be down loaded from the site of the Kannur University, Academic Staff College. http://www.kannuruniversity.ac.in

The Course Director is Prof. M. Bavakutty.