Book Description

‘Informatics Studies’ is a cross-disciplinary and refereed journal, focusing on areas that constitute the discipline of Information Science. The journal stresses areas on –International/National Information Infrastructures, Information Superhighway, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Politics, Cyber Law, Institutional Repositories, Digital Library/Archive, Cloud Computing Solutions for Libraries, Unicode, Multi-linguality and Interoperability Issues, Thesauri and Ontologies, Semantics, Metadata and Retrieval, Resources Discovery Solutions, Online Resources Usability Issues, Open Access Initiatives, Library Consortia, IPR, Information Literacy, Training and education of Professionals, Performance Measurement and Metrics, Setting Service Quality Standards, Digital Divide, Open Educational Resources etc. Volume 1 Issue 1 (January – March 2014) of the journal contains: Editorial Tool that Shapes Basic Structure of Emerging Society Research Papers: E-LIS: Unique Model for Subject Specific Open Access Repository – by Antonella De Robbio and Imma Subirats Coll Social Science Research: A Comparative Study in Terms of Output From India, China and Brazil - B.M. Gupta and B.D. Kumbar; Paper from the Archive: Focus on Agricultural Information Transfer – by Ernest J Mann Detailed Biographical Note on Ernest J Mann Book Review: An Introduction to Informatics for Sanskrit Students – by Gangadharan Nair, G Short biographical notes entitled Inspiration and Strength: Editors and Contributors.