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News and Events #IP 837 29 Sep - 5 Oct 2008 Meet of Nodal Officers’ of CSIR E-Journal Consortium
The inaugural ceremony was held on 29th morning at 10 a.m. Mr. Shyam Chetty, Head FMCD and Chairman Library Advisory Committee, in his welcome speech appreciated the efforts done by the E-Journal Consortia’s team in providing access to more than 6000 titles for the benefit of CSIR community. The inaugural speech was delivered by Mr. S K Rastogi, the Director of NISCAIR. In his speech he highlighted the efforts made by NISCAIR in realizing the consortium and problems faced due to unreasonable increase in the subscription by one of the publishers and the need to find possible solution to face the challenge and meet the expectation of the CSIR scientists. A brief introduction about the e journals consortium from its inception to the current status was presented by Mr. Prakash Chand, the Coordinator of the consortium. He also spoke about the purpose of the meet and the efforts being put in this direction to provide access to the more resources to all the laboratories. Advisor (M&A), NAL , Dr. M R Nayak delivered the ‘Residential’ which he thought was more appropriate term instead of Presidential since NAL being the host, address. In his remarks, he mentioned the present problems being faced by the librarians to meet the persistent demands of the user community because of the cost factor and the rigid attitude of the publishers as he is on the editorial board of many important journals. He praised the initiative taken by the consortia and wished success in this endeavor. Dr. I R N Goudar, Head, ICAST proposed the vote of thanks. A detailed presentation by Mr. Prakash Chand on adopting different ‘approaches to build an unique and vibrant information resource base in CSIR system’ was the next item . In his presentation, he came up with the objectives and amicable solutions to the journal crisis being faced by the CSIR labs. ‘Quick document delivery system through ICAST gateway’ as one of the tools to make use of resource sharing for journal holdings of all CSIR libraries, especially for Elsevier titles was demonstrated by Ms. Poornima Narayana, Dy Head ICAST.
Dr. A R Upadhya, Director joined the discussions for a short while the next morning . He mentioned that there is a need to “match resources to demand” by the librarians who have an important role in balancing the user’s needs as the cost and also the number of journals are escalating because of emergence of new disciplines. He emphasized on the “ rationalization” of journal subscription as there is a need to debate on the right resource for right information. Further, he advised the Information providers to be ‘unemotional’ in deciding the continuity or subscription for new titles. Poornima Narayana Fellow of the Institution of Engineers ( India) Dr S T Aruna of Surface Engineering Division, National Aerospace Laboratories has co-authored the book titled CHEMISTRY OF NANOCRYSTALLINE OXIDE MATERIALS - Combustion Synthesis, Properties and Applications along with K C Patil, M S Hegde (Indian Institute of Science. Bangalore, India) and Tanu Rattan (Nunano Solutions, India)
#IP 836 22-28 Sep 2008 Lecture Course on Advanced Flow Diagnostic Techniques L Venkatakrishnan NAL Golden Jubilee Celebration(GJC) Website Hindi Fortnight and Hindi Day Celebrations Dr Upadhya, Director, NAL in his presidential address said that Hindi is the best medium for national integration, which is under threat due to unhealthy growth of regional chauvinism. Hindi is a simple and easy language to learn and use. He requested senior officers to take initiative and set an example before the juniors so that the targets set by the Govt. of India for the purpose under the Annual Programme can be achieved, in NAL.
#IP 835 15-21 Sep 2008
The Estates and Buildings Unit has been renamed as Estates and Buildings Section (EBS). Mr C Chandrashekar, Head, Engineering Services will function as Head, EBS and Mr Konda Reddy is designated as Jt Head, EBS. Road shows planned at Belgaum NAL team comprising of Mr C V Giri Raj and Dr M N Sathyanarayana visited Gogte Institute of Technology and KLE Society’s college of Engineering and Technology at Belgaum on 16 Sep 2008 to discuss about the proposed Road shows planned as part of NAL’s Golden Jubilee Celebrations. The Road Shows would showcase NAL’s capabilities and technologies and would be followed by a one day knowledge exchange workshop. The main theme of the Road Show is to acquaint the engineering college students and general public in and around Belgaum with up-to-date and latest technology initiatives of NAL. NAL team had detailed discussions with the faculty members and the Principals of both institutions have evinced keen interest and assured full support for the event. The event is tentatively planned for the last week of Feb 2009. Conference on Asian Network of Major Cities 21 (ANMC 21) The Asian Network of Major Cities 21 (ANMC 21) is an inter-city network of Asian Capitals and Major Cities which, by strengthening bonds and cooperation among major Asian Cities, enhances the international profile of Asia and undertakes joint projects on common tasks such as crisis management, environment management and industrial development, applying the outcomes achieved towards the prosperity and development of the Asian region. Air traffic demand in the Asian region is projected to greatly increase. But the aviation industry in Asia currently relies primarily on development with Western manufactures. In order to contribute to the growth of the Asian aviation industry and further fortify Asia’s identity, this conference aims to promote the development, manufacture, and operation of Asia’s own small to medium-sized passenger jet by fully utilizing the technologies and capabilities of Asia. The ANMC 21 is scheduled to meet at Bangalore on 20 October 2008 at Eagleton Golf Resorts and is being hosted by National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore. This will be a three day event, first day for the conference (20 October 2008) second day for site visits to Infosys, HAL and NAL (21 October 2008) and the third day (22 October 2008) for a meeting with Delhi Metropolitan Government officials. In this connection, two officials from Tokyo Metropolitan Government namely M S Natsuna Araki and Mr Yuichiro Kizki were in Bangalore to discuss in detail the related issues about organizing the conference.
#IP 834 8 - 14 Sep 2008
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The present investigation planned in this facility aims at obtaining flow structures in the near field of low aspect ratio elliptic jet in the presence of the external co-flow; 2D and stereo PIV techniques will be used to obtain the instantaneous velocity and vorticity fields in the longitudinal and transverse planes. The phenomenon of axis switching in these non axi-symmetric jets will be studied from the point of view of evolving flow structures in the near field. Ramesh G Training Programme on “Crafting Effective S & T Communication”
Dr. I R N Goudar spoke on the Impact of Open Access on S & T. While highlighting the importance of this, he also explained how open access functions at National Aerospace Laboratories. Dr. B C Sharma gave three interesting lectures on language and style, data presentation and review process in research communication. He also emphasized the importance of effective presentation, apt summarization and frequent grammatical errors observed. Dr. Manu Saxena delivered the lecture on Crafting Effective Technical Presentation. This talk also highlighted the effective use of visual aids in the presentation and delt with proper planning and organizing information. Dr. Y K Gupta spoke on the relevance of ethical issues in S & T Publications and the importance of the impact factor of journals. The programme was well attended. The group tasks and discussions were lively and benefited a large group of Scientists at NAL. We look forward to many more programmes of HRD, Ghaziabad to be conducted here at NAL. Gomathy Sankaran #IP 833 1 - 7 Sep 2008 Proposed AEROFEST 2008As part of NAL’s golden jubilee celebration National Aerospace Laboratories along with National Institute of Technology (NIT) and Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) are planning to jointly organise AEROFEST 2008. The event is tentatively planned for 19 - 24 Dec 2008. Route Map Recent issues of NAL Information Pasteboard Prev To
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A two day meet of Nodal Officers’ of CSIR E-Journals
consortium was held at NAL during 29th-30th of September 2008. In total, 41 participants from 33 CSIR represented their respective laboratories including the Director and COFA of NISCAIR, the consortium administrator. The main objective of this meet was to explore the various ways and means to ‘rationalise’ the journal subscription to meet the growing needs of the user community and the escalation of the journal subscription. .gif)
The subsonic co-flow jet facility developed in the premises of the low speed laboratory of Experimental Aerodynamics Division was formally inaugurated by Dr. A R Upadhya, Director on 8 September 2008. This facility is developed under the support of AR &DB.
A programme on “Crafting Effective S&T Communication” was organised by Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC), Ghaziabad at NAL during 29-31 August 2008. Thirty four Scientists of the level of B and C from various Divisions of NAL & C-MMACS attended the programme. Dr. Manu Saxena, Scientist, HRDC Ghaziabad coordinated the programme. The faculty comprised of Dr. K Satyanarayana, Senior Deputy Director-General, Division of Publication and Information and Editor of Indian Journal of Medical Research, New Delhi, Dr. B C Sharma, Former Scientist, NISCAIR, Dr. Y K Gupta, Head of the Department, Department of Pharmacology, Indian Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and Dr. I R N Gourdar, Head, ICAST, NAL..jpg)
Dr. K Satyanarayana presented a lecture (in 2 parts) on various aspects of Scientific writing including ways to write and publish papers. The lecture concluded with a brainstorming session with participants on choosing title, abstracts, authorship-issues and sharing of experiences by those who had already published papers. His second lecture dealt with the importance of IPR in S & T communication.
