CeRA User-awareness workshop organized at SUGARCANE BREEDING INSTITUTE
Dr Rameshwar Singh, Project
Director, ICAR- Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture (DKMA), New
Delhi inaugurated the one-day J-Gate@CeRA User awareness workshop at
ICAR - Sugarcane Breeding Institute (SBI), Coimbatore on 12 June 2015. Delivering
the inaugural address, he said that CeRA has been successfully serving as an
R&D information resource base for the Agricultural researchers of our
country over the years.
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| Dr Rameshwar Singh, Project Director, ICAR-DKMA delivering the Inaugural address |
Urging the researchers of
ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, ICAR-Central Institute for Cotton Research-Regional
Station, ICAR- Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering-IEP and Tamil Nadu
Agricultural University to make use of CeRA, Dr Singh mentioned that CeRA is
the largest e-resource consortium in the country, after UGC-Infonet. The
Document Delivery Request (DDR) is a unique feature of CeRA, he added.
Highlighting some of the new
initiatives of CeRA such as trial access to Encyclopedia Britannica, JoVE and a
few e-books, Dr Singh felt that research institutes should improve their Net
connectivity to effectively utilize CeRA facility.
Dr.Bakshi Ram, Director of
ICAR-SBI, Coimbatore in his Presidential address, complimented the efforts of
CeRA in providing quick access to quality journals in the field of Agriculture.
Appreciating the initiatives of ICAR-DKMA in showcasing the important
technologies of ICAR, Dr Ram suggested that researchers should use the advanced
search facility of CeRA for accessing information, rather than conducting
searches through common search engines such as Google.
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| Dr Bakshi Ram, Director, ICAR-SBI delivering the Presidential address at the Workshop |
Earlier, in his introductory
remarks, Dr D Puthira Prathap, Principal Scientist & Officer In-charge, ICAR-SBI
Library said that the discipline of Agricultural sciences has been immensely
benefitted with the launch of CeRA in 2007. The high number of un-cited papers,
which would come down with access to CeRA, has long plagued the discipline, he said.
This is the fifth in the series of CeRA workshops conducted at SBI, since 2008,
he informed.
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| Dr D Puthira Prathap, Officer In-charge, SBI Library addressing the participants of the Workshop |
Dr.K.Sivaraman, Principal
Scientist & Chairman, Library committee, ICAR-SBI proposed a formal vote of
thanks and Dr R.S.Rana, In-charge, CeRA, New Delhi co-ordinated the Interactive
session of the workshop.
The workshop, conducted by Informatics India Ltd.,
Bangalore was attended by 100 participants.
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| Dr K Sivaraman, Chairman, Library Committee, SBI addressing the gathering |