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Melba Libia Cárdenas – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
This article presents the life story of "Profile." The story is based on an ethnographic case study that aimed to understand the viewpoints of Profile's new writers and reviewers regarding the role of scientific journals in fostering communities in the knowledge society. To gather information, I relied on personal reflections from my…
Descriptors: Writing for Publication, Journal Articles, Publications, Scientific Research
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Ganapathi, Janani – Open Praxis, 2019
Sustainability is a fundamental requirement to ensure long-term viability of open educational resource (OER) initiatives. To afford technology upgrades and author costs, most of the existing initiatives are heavily reliant on continued funding; limiting OER models to invest in commissioned works. User-generated resources come as a solution to this…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Users (Information), Quality Assurance, Foreign Countries
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Rowley, Erin M.; Wagner, A. Ben – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2019
Industry standards are used in many disciplines, including science and technology areas. To date, little research has been conducted regarding the citing of standards in scholarly publications. The aim of this study was to answer two questions: Are standards being cited in scholarly publications? And, if so, what are the characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Scholarship, Publishing Industry, Standards
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Sinha, Ritu – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2017
A large amount of literature in this regard was produced by new institutional spaces like religious printing presses, caste associations and religious organizations that mushroomed significantly by early decades of twentieth century. The proliferation of Hindu religious printing and publishing in Hindi by presses like Gita Press of north India…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religion, Publishing Industry, Cultural Influences
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Stark, Ulrike – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2019
The question of script was paramount in the nineteenth-century debate over Hindi and Urdu, two closely related languages that are characterised by "extreme digraphia". Rather than rehearsing the well-known story of the culturally and politically charged process of differentiation in which the two sister languages became prime markers of…
Descriptors: Urdu, Indo European Languages, Written Language, Religious Factors
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Palit, Sukanchan – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2016
Scientific vision and scientific understanding in today's world are in the path of new glory. Chemical Engineering science is witnessing drastic and rapid changes. The metamorphosis of human civilization in this century is faced with vicious challenges. Progress of Chemical Engineering science, the vision of technology and the broad chemical…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Periodicals, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Israel, Samuel – Library Trends, 1978
British colonial rule created an internal market for books in the English Language. How this market has affected the publishing industry is discussed. (MBR)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Books, Developing Nations, English
Altbach, Philip G. – New Frontiers in Education, 1974
Discusses the publishing industry in developing countries and its role in the creation and diffusion of knowledge in its pure and applied forms. Data from India is cited. (Author/PG)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Information Dissemination
Krippendorff, Sultana – 1971
Mass communications are considered by many western scholars to be among the most potent tools for modernization of an underdeveloped country. This belief is based on two assumptions: that the mass media are large-scale operations which enjoy massive circulations or audiences and that they are primarily controlled by forward-looking, progressive…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Beliefs, Communications, Developing Nations
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Sridhar, M. S. – International Library Review, 1985
Probes publishing and citing patterns of Indian space scientists and engineers, highlighting productivity; sources in which published and from where cited; frequency distributions of publishing in and citing from journals and conference proceedings; frequency distribution of number of references cited and self-citations; comparison of citing and…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Developing Nations, Engineers, Productivity
Johnson, Lynda D. – 1981
Before launching any publications, a newly formed publishing company in New Delhi, India, surveyed its potential readership to develop a demographic overview of the community, to determine patterns and preferences of magazine use, and to develop a profile of perceived and real readership needs. A questionnaire eliciting such information was given…
Descriptors: Adults, Developing Nations, Media Research, Middle Class
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Rao, S. Subba – Online & CD-ROM Review, 1996
Presents an overview of the world scenario of CD-ROM technology and highlights its future. Discusses the CD-ROM industry in India, lists the various CD-ROM products of recent origin, and concludes that India could adopt this technology for publishing Indian databases. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Appropriate Technology, Copyrights, Databases
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Parhar, Madhu – Indian Journal of Open Learning, 1999
Textbooks and learning material for various Grade 10 subjects that were produced by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), the National Open University (NOS) and books from a private publisher were analyzed using the following criteria: objectives, presentation, evaluation, layout, and production. Results revealed that…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Foreign Countries, High Schools, Instructional Design
Doyle, Robert P. – 1989
The Library/Book Fellows Program began in 1986 with a grant to the American Library Association from the U.S. Information Agency, an independent agency within the Executive Branch. The purposes of the program are to: (1) increase international understanding through the establishment of professional and personal relationships and the accomplishment…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, International Educational Exchange, Librarians
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1996
The Qualitative Studies section of the proceedings contains the following 13 papers: "Writing as Theater: The Marketing of the Digital Word" (Sally McMillan); "Rethinking Ideology: Polysemy, Pleasure and Hegemony in Television Culture" (Luis Rivera-Perez); "Low Power FM: A Small History" (Gregory J. Adamo); "The…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Advertising, Journalism, Journalism Research
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