Since the senior leader had joined the BJP, according to the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution, ‘any member of a House who voluntarily gives up their membership of a political party is liable to be disqualified,’ the Congress said

The election for the 288-member State Assembly is scheduled for later this year

The activist reiterates that he won’t be changing his stance on Maratha reservation, warns that leaders opposing him will not get any votes from the community in upcoming Assembly election

Three persons reported missing as rising waters affect 16.25 lakh people across 29 districts

Rahul Gandhi will meet party workers and leaders who were ‘assaulted by BJP goons’, says Gujarat Congress chief 

At least seven districts of Arunachal Pradesh cut off due to landslides; eight persons, including two children, killed in rain-induced landslides and floods in Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura

The last inventory of Ratna Bhandar was taken 46 years ago in 1978

Rahul Gandhi will meet family members of Cong. workers arrested after clash with BJP members

Vasant More had unsuccessfully contested the Pune seat in the recently concluded Lok Sabha election on a VBA ticket after quitting the MNS

NCP president reinforces his party’s commitment towards preserving values of the Constitution, ending poverty, and bringing about development through schemes launched by Mahayuti govt.

A commonly used blood thinner can be repurposed as an inexpensive antivenom treatment, a study published in Science Translational Medicine has said

While filming, the boy slipped from the wall and suffered a jerk in his neck. His friends did not realise this and assumed that he was still acting, official says

Government functions should be simple and solemn, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said at a two-day conference of District Commissioners

Police have arrested one person and seized the motorcycle used to commit the crime while claiming that two other absconding persons would be caught ‘very soon’

Policy offers employment and entrepreneurship opportunities post-service, with several exceptions in norms

Police said that an investigation had been launched but claimed that no evidence to support the victim’s claims has been found so far

Do cities along the Indian Himalayan Range have adequate funds and resources to manage civic issues?

A memorandum of understanding was signed for two gas-based power plants in Jaipur, says Minister Nagar

The jumbo was being tracked by forest officials when it entered the village

The aim is to ensure that the benefits of science and research directly reach the farmers, says the Agriculture Minister

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee vowed to seek death penalty for the perpetrator in the Kolkata doctor rape and murder case

Since 95% of polished diamonds are exported, global factors always affect the sale of the precious stones, said experts from Surat

Senior doctors and faculty members joined the protests at the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, where a female post-graduate trainee doctor was sexually assaulted and murdered on August 9

Signs of sexual assault evident in inquest and post-mortem report

The treatment is for heart-related ailments

Colleges have also been asked to set up ‘Bharatiya gyaan parampara’ cells

CM Mann said the State Government has handed over appointment letters to 44,667 youth in various departments since it came to power

The Hindu man has been staying in Silchar town since 1988

Visva-Bharati is concluding a two-week workshop called Heritage Awareness Camp

Complaint filed by contractor in charge of installation and maintenance said around 3,800 bamboo lights and 36 ‘gobo projector’ lights went missing in May

In November, the State will launch the Yuva Shakti Mission for youth, the Nari Sashaktikaran Mission for women, the Kisan Kalyan Mission for farmers, and the Gareeb Kalyan Mission for the poor, the Chief Minister said in his Independence Day speech

The CM spoke of Uttar Pradesh’s vast potential as he listed development works that had been completed

A sub-inspector of the traffic police in Haflong said an assistant sub-inspector chose the wrong option in the electronic device while issuing the challan

Shishupal Patle’s entry ahead of the Assembly election is being seen as a way to strengthen Congress’s influence in the constituency, which falls under the Vidharbha region of Maharashtra

Tension prevails after crowd gathered outside hospital and other areas; police resort to lathi charge; more force sent to maintain law and order; prohibitory orders remain

Without naming anyone, Mr. Soren said the Opposition is engaged in divisive politics and that there is no agenda or vision shown by them

As a precautionary measure, the local administration had shifted nearly 3,500 persons to safer locations and had asked people living in huts and mud houses to take shelter in other buildings

Special Judge Vishal Gogne fixed the matter for the next week after noting that no further clarification was required from the ED on the matter

It is likely to move nearly northwards and intensify into a depression over the northwest Bay of Bengal off north Odisha-Gangetic West Bengal coasts on September 8

Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said that problems exist with respect to the number of districts and their boundaries

A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Sanjay Kumar and R. Mahadevan partially set aside the Patna High Court verdict acquitting all the accused and asked convicts Mantu Tiwari and ex-MLA Shukla to surrender within 15 days

IPS officer Partha Sarathi Mahanta has directed the 19-minute documentary film on the Hargila Army comprising women of Dadara Pasaria village

The Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation wants the creation of Frontier Nagaland Territory comprising six districts of the northeastern State bordering Myanmar

Accusing the Centre of betraying the Framework Agreement of 2015, the Naga extremist group led by Thuingaleng Muivah threatened to return to violent ways

Got this in an email from one of my lists:

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This presumably will be drawing some attention shortly. It is a very disturbing report by editors from the Journal of Cell Biology and the Journal of Experimental Medicine who have joined with the Executive Director of the Rockefeller University Press in reporting their inability to verify published impact factors using data provided provided by ISI itself. Their fruitless efforts to replicate published impact factors for their own and other journals revealed numerous and serious errors in several data sets provided by ISI and call into question the validity of both ISI's dataset and their published impact factors. If the problems they encountered are widespread, then the host of evaluative decisions that rely at least in part on published impact factors are suspect. Published impact factors affect authors' decisions about manuscript submission, funding awards, and promotion and tenure. While critiques of the use of impact factors are quite common, this is the first serious question raised about the underlying validity of the data used to calculate impact factors and therefore the accurracy of the metrics that are published.


The editorial by Mike Rossner, Heather Van Epps, and Emma Hill was published in the Journal of Cell Biology and is available at
http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/179/6/1091

I've put a link to the new Library Reorganization Blog to our list of links (look on the right hand side). It appears that it is open for comments, whether named or anonymous.

We need to start brainstorming for ideas and features that we want on the new science portal so we'll be prepared for when we locate a web designer.

Here are a list of some other science library websites. Not all are great but I'd like for us to discuss what elements we like and which features we don't like (just as important). Please feel free to post links to other libraries you think are worthy of critique. Also, if there are general guidelines and features that you'd like to include please post about those too.

My first impression looking at these sites is how busy they all are. Lots of links and it seems overwhelming at first glance. Its a decision that we'll have to make about how much information should be quickly accessible on the main page but yet still easily usable. Caltech's library page is the most easily navigated, IMO. I like the quick drop down boxes and the selection of links. I especially like the menu for authors - as the issue of open access and author rights becomes more important on campus, we'll need to take an active role in helping the faculty understand their rights and options for publishing.


Berkeley: Chemistry: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/CHEM/
Engineering: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENGI/
Physics/Ay: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PHYS/

Caltech: http://library.caltech.edu/

Chicago : http://www1.lib.uchicago.edu/e/crerar/index.php3

Irvine: http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/science.html

Michigan: http://www.lib.umich.edu/science/

MIT Science Library: http://libraries.mit.edu/science/

Oregon Science Library: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/scilib/

Santa Cruz: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/scilib/