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National Information systems and Networks in India NISCAIR (National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources) : NISCAIR came into existence on October 1, 2002, following the merger of two CSIR institutions viz. Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre (INSDOC) and National Institute of Science Communication (NISCOM). In 2021, the institute was merged with the National

International Information systems and Networks INIS (International Nuclear Information System) INIS sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna started functioning in 1970. It is a cooperative, decentralized computerized abstracting and indexing system providing worldwide coverage of the literature on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. The salient features of INIS are international IR

Library Cataloguing: Recent Trends       Cataloguing is the core of every library, a basic tool of retrieval in any document collection. The word‘ Catalogue’ has been derived from the Greek expression ‘Kata-Logos’. It means a list, register or complete enumeration of something. The list can be books, maps or other items arranged in a

Librarianship is a Profession or Not?: A Comparison Librarianship is a distinct and distinguished profession in modern society. It is engaged in public service and plays an important role in national development. Librarianship today is termed as “Library and Information Profession” since the concept of librarianship has changed in view of the changing information needs of

SOURCES OF INFORMATION There are various sources of information which are broadly classified into two categories, viz., Documentary sources, that include primary, secondary, and tertiary sources (the primary sources are the first to appear, secondary sources came out next and tertiary sources are the last to appear); and Non-documentary sources (formal and informal). Documentary Sources

Right to Information Act, 2005 Right to Information (RTI) is an act of the Parliament of India to provide for setting out the practical regime of the right to information for citizens and replaces the erstwhile Freedom of information Act, 2002. Under the provisions of the Act, any citizen of India may request information from

IPR and International Conventions (i) Berne Convention. It is an international agreement governing copyright, which was first accepted in Berne, Switzerland, in 1886 and revised five times till 1971 and amended in 1979. The Berne Convention formally mandated several aspects of modern copyright law; it introduced the concept that a copyright exists the moment a

Intellectual Property Intellectual property comprises all entities arising from human intellectual activity such as ideas, inventions, words (fact and fiction), music, theatre, or art. It includes documents of all kinds, archives, databases (whether online, CD-ROM, or delivered by other mechanisms), the material on the Internet, individual items in a database, computer software, and inventive pieces