Smart storing on the cloud

Smart storing on the cloud 

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List of Predatory, Open-Access Publishers

BEWARE OF OPEN ACCESS publishers and vendors

this is a very useful information ... on open access publishing ...

be on the watch and do not get carried away with open access stuff.

List of Predatory, Open-Access Publishers

BEWARE OF OPEN ACCESS publishers and vendors 

this is a very useful information ... on open access publishing ...

be on the watch and do not get carried away with open access stuff.

PAGINATIVE

A unique publishing platform for writers and publishers

Today we launched a unique online publishing portal, www.paginative.com for writers and publishers. The portal allows writers and publishers to independently create their books in the form as Apps for iPhone, iPad and Android mobile platforms. These book apps have the advantage of reaching readers across the world.

There’s a whole new segment of book lovers who want to read books on their mobile phones and tablet devices. And Paginative helps writers to publish their own books for this segment. Additionally, the service is integrated with the social media, which simplifies promotion and proliferation of books.

Simple to use and navigate, the portal offers a host of services to simplify book publishing for mobile readers. Paginative is powered by an innovative blend of mobile and web technologies. To know more about Paginative, visit www.paginative.com. 

InfoPort: A Subject Gateway for Indian Electronic-Resources

The INFLIBNET Centre promotes open access to Indian scholarly content through the InfoPort: A Subject Gateway for Indian Electronic-Resources. While Centre uses and promotes Intute, a well-known subject gateway developed by MIMAS, UK, the InfoPort is designed and developed to serve as a comprehensive gateway to all Indian scholarly content. The gateway open-ups the Indian scholarly content scattered over the Internet through an integrated interface that support search, browse and multiple listing. The InfoPort selectively catalogues online resources of Indian origin on diversified subjects available in open access through an elaborate process of testing and evaluation. The Centre proposes to collaborate with librarians and scholars in college and universities in the process of identification and selection of resources.

Medknow Publications: Publisher of peer reviewed scholarly journals (Open access / subscription based) - Access and archiving policies

Medknow Publications: Publisher of peer reviewed scholarly journals (Open access / subscription based) - Access and archiving policies

Majority of these journals provide immediate free access to the full text of articles in HTML format. The journals also permit authors' self-archiving. Most of the journals do not charge article submission, processing or publication fee from the authors or authors' institution. The open access policy of the journals aims at increasing the visibility and accessibility of the published content and thus providing the desirable research impact.

Google starts ranking journals

Google starts ranking journals

"... Google creates a list of all the articles a journal has published in a specified period of time. The citations to each article are counted in order to determine the publication's h-index, which is the largest number "h" such that each of the set of "h" articles were cited "h" or more times... "