IISER TVM participation in the 11th Annual Meet & Workshop of the INDEST-AICTE Consortium

IISER Thiruvananthapuram  participated in the 11th Annual Meet & Workshop of the INDEST-AICTE Consortium held at IISER Mohali held during 29-30 April 2015. 

Dr. Sainul abideen , Asst. Librarian delivered an invite talk on “Applications of ‘Wink’ Software in developing self-instructional tutorials for e-resources”, during the meet.

Dr. Sainul Abideen, delivering the invited talk

Introduced Grammarly@edu Service

Library has introduced Grammarly@edu, a grammar and plagiarism checking service. Grammarly has facility for grammar checking specific to different types of documents such as academic essays, reports, book reviews, research papers (default), dissertation, presentations, business document, creative writing etc. 

This can also be used to verify authenticity of the documents i.e whether contents are copied from other sources like websites (Plagiarism Checking).

Grammarly can be used online with a login/password. Institute community can register themselves at www.grammarly.com/edu/students with their IISER email ID. (details about the registration process is appended below).

Once the login/password is created you may use it online from the above web address or may install Grammarly as a plugin for your Microsoft word, so that advanced features of Grammarly can be used while using MS Word.

Grammarly Registration Process
To Set up access for the users, please follow below steps:

Step 1: Go to www.grammarly.com/edu/students  (mandatory to sign up from this URL)

Step 2: Click on Create Account button, fill up the self-service form. Ensure that users are registering from their @iisertvm.ac.in domain mail ID.

Step 3: Please put the Access Code box - [ contact Asst. librarian for Access Code]

An activation email will be sent to the user's institutional email ID once he/she registers. Users may at times get this in Spam Folder due to mail setting - users are advised to check spam folder in case the link is not received in their inbox.

नए आगमन बुलेटिन New Arrival Bulletin वॉल्यूम सं / Vol. 5 Issue 5

निम्नलिखित पुस्तकों को पुस्तकालय के संग्रह में हाल में जोडा गया हैं | इन किताबों को नए आगमन अनुभाग में रखा गया है | आप इन पुस्तकों को उधार ले  सकते हैं | Following books are recently added to the Library Collection. These books are kept in the New Arrivals Section. You may borrow these books.

क्र सं SI No	शीर्षक / Title	लेखक / Author
1	Polynomial Invariants of Finite Groups	Larry Smith.
2	Fundamentals of the Theory of Groups	M. I. Kargapolov, Ju. I. Merzljakov
3	Fundamentals of Group Theory : An Advanced Approach	Steven Roman
4	Explicit Brauer Induction : With Applications to Algebra and Number Theory	Victor P. Snaith
5	Algebras of Linear Transformations	Douglas R. Farenick
6	An Introduction to Complex Function Theory	Bruce P. Palka
7	Theory and Experiment in Gravitational Physics	Clifford M. Will
8	Gravity : Newtonian, Post-Newtonian, Relativistic	Eric Poisson
9	Fundamentals of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors	Peter R. Saulson
10	Clear Body Clear Mind: The Effective Purification Program	L. Ron Hubbard

Announcing OSA's New Digital Library: OSA Publishing

The Optical Society (OSA), a prominent society publisher in optics and photonics research has changed their online platform “OpticInfobase” to “OSA Publishing”. Accordingly website address of the platform also changed to www.osapublishing.org

OSA Publishing is coming with several new features including a robust full-text search engine, new tools to refine content searches by date, publication, author etc.

नए आगमन बुलेटिन New Arrival Bulletin वॉल्यूम सं / Vol. 5 Issue 4

निम्नलिखित पुस्तकों को पुस्तकालय के संग्रह में हाल में जोडा गया हैं | इन किताबों को नए आगमन अनुभाग  में रखा गया है | आप इन पुस्तकों को उधार ले  सकते हैं | Following books are recently added to the Library Collection. These books are kept in the New Arrivals Section. You may borrow these books.

क्र सं SI No	शीर्षक / Title	लेखक / Author
1	Representation Theory : A Homological Algebra Point of View	Zimmermann, Alexander.
2	Basic Topology	Armstrong, M. A.
3	Basic Algebraic Topology	Shastri, Anant R.
4	Introduction to the Calculus of Variations	Dacorogna, Bernard.
5	The Analysis of Biological Data	Whitlock, Michael C.
6	Molecular Cloning : A Laboratory Manual 4th Edition	Green, Michael R. Joseph Sambrook
7	Asiatic Honeybee Apis Cerana : Biodiversity Conservation and Agricultural Production	Abrol, Dharam P.
8	Honeybee Neurobiology and Behavior : A Tribute to Randolf Menzel	Galizia, C. Giovanni.
9	Spectral Analysis : Parametric and Non-Parametric Digital Methods	Castanie, Francis.
10	Joy in the Morning	Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville).
11	The Cultural Heritage of India  Vol 1 to Vol 8	Ramakrishna Mission

Extended Library Timing during Examination Week

Library remains open upto 10 PM till 18th March 2015, due to semester examinations. All are requested to kindly make use of this facility

नए आगमन बुलेटिन /New Arrivals Bulletin Vol 5 Issue 3

निम्नलिखित पुस्तकों को पुस्तकालय के संग्रह में हाल में जोडा गया हैं | इन किताबों को नए आगमन अनुभाग  में रखा गया है | आप इन पुस्तकों को उधार ले  सकते हैं | Following books are recently added to the Library Collection. These books are kept in the New Arrivals Section. You may borrow these books.

क्र सं SI No	शीर्षक / Title	लेखक / Author
1	Freedom and Neurobiology : Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power	Searle, John R.
2	Fowler's Modern English Usage	Burchfield, R.W.
3	The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark	Sagan, Carl.
4	The Theory of Finite Groups : An Introduction	Kurzweil, Hans.
5	Representation Theory of Finite Groups : An Introductory Approach	Steinberg, Benjamin.
6	Algebraic K-theory and its Applications	Rosenberg, Jonathan M.
7	Algebraic K-Theory	Srinivas, V.
8	Cohomology of Number Fields	Neukirch, Jürgen
9	Matrix Analysis	Horn, Roger A.
10	A First Course in Harmonic Analysis	Deitmar, Anton.
11	Real Analysis and Applications : Theory in Practice	Davidson, Kenneth R.
12	Complex Analysis	Bak, Joseph.
13	The Wavewatcher's Companion	Pretor-Pinney, Gavin.
14	Dielectrics in Electric Fields	Raju, Gorur G.
15	The Sixth Extinction : An Unnatural History	Kolbert, Elizabeth.
16	Bird Sense : What It's Like to be a Bird	Birkhead, Tim.