Muthu Madhan is a long-time crusader for open access (OA) to scholarly literature in India. He has been promoting OA through interoperable institutional repositories – the green route for OA. He has spoken about the importance of OA in different…
Partha Pratim Mitra: Break popular myths and disseminate documented information on ‘frugal’ innovations
Partha Pratim Mitra is an Ex-Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Rural Development and Principal Labour and Employment Adviser, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India. With rich experience in the socio-economic issues and policies concerning the rural development, labour…
Sanjaya Mishra: Educational institutions need to become a producer of content and not just consumer of content
Sanjaya Mishra is one of the leading scholars in open, distance and online Learning. He is Education Specialist at Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in Canada. He has served Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), UNESCO, Paris and IGNOU’s Regional…
Ramesh C. Gaur: Provide access to plagiarism detection software to researchers to use it as a research assisting tool than a fault finding tool
Professor Ramesh C. Gaur is one of the globally renowned library and information professionals with nearly three decades of experience. Having served in prestigious organisations such as Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, CRRI-CSIR, RISDC, Management Development…
Jake Orlowitz: Wikipedia is actually driving people to scholarly literature and therefore it is a top 10 referrer to all scholarly articles online
Jake Orlowitz is a Wikipedian, blogger, entrepreneur, writer, speaker and an institution builder. He is the founder of The Wikipedia Library of Wikimedia Foundation which provides library and reference services to the editors and readers of Wikipedia. He recently left…
Shalini Urs: The emergent field of information science continues to search for identity and a suitable paradigm
Professor Shalini Urs is a celebrated academician, information scientist, institution builder and a sought after speaker. She has served as a faculty of the University of Mysore for 42 years. A Fulbright scholar and a visiting professor at Virginia Tech,…
Nagappa Bakkannanavar: Contribution to society improves our work efficiency and we can contribute to the organisation better
Nagappa Bakkannanavar is the Assistant General Manager and head of Information Resource Centre (IRC) of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Bengaluru. He is managing TCS libraries at Bengaluru branch and in addition, he is passionately contributing to the TCS’s CSR initiatives…
Hari Krishna Maram: There is an urgent need to nurture the contemporary technological skills among the students to meet the highly-competitive industry requirements
Hari Krishna Maram, PhD is the Digital Brand Ambassador and Chairman of Vision Digital India. Maram has served many statutory, corporate, social and educational organisations on various capacities. His work in management education for over two decades has been recognized by…
Vasumathi Sriganesh: Medical professionals seem to still take literature searching and its accuracies to be a “nice to know” skill and not critical
Vasumathi Sriganesh is a librarian by training with excellent exposure to medical librarianship in her stint as Librarian at Hinduja Hospital and HELP. She is now CEO of QMed Knowledge Foundation, a successful entrepreneurial venture established by Vasumathi in 2007.…
Aardra Surendran: Today we stand tall on the work of feminist scholars who brought to light the active presence of women industrial workers
Aardra Surendran, PhD is an assistant professor at the School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Her primary areas of interest are the sociology and social history of labour. She is currently interested in contractualisation and labour…