3rd December 2021: International Day of Persons with Disabilities

International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2021: This year, the theme for IDPD is “Leadership and participation of persons with disabilities toward an inclusive, accessible and sustainable post-COVID-19 world.”


International Day of Persons with Disabilities is a global observance celebrated every year on December 3 with a motive to promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities in all spheres of society. Nearly one billion people out of the total population i.e, 7 billion or approximately 15 per cent of the world’s population, live with some form of disability. 80 per cent of the total disabled population live in developing countries.

More than 100 million disabled persons are kids. People with Disabilities (PwDs) have been affected “disproportionately” by the health, social and economic consequences of the global issues. Hence, the day is observed to raise the participation of disabled people in the sustainable development of the world. Know about the date theme history and significance of this day.

The event is observed every year on December 3.

THEME

This year, the theme for IDPD is “Leadership and participation of persons with disabilities toward an inclusive, accessible and sustainable post-COVID-19 world.”

HISTORY

The annual observance of this day was proclaimed in 1992 by United Nations General Assembly resolution 47/3 with an aim to increase awareness of the issues faced by persons with disabilities in every aspect of political, social, economic and cultural life.

After working in the field of disability or decades, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), adopted in 2006. The CRDP advanced the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and other international development frameworks. The main purpose was to increase the participation of disabled people in society, end discrimination towards them, and create equal opportunities for them.

SIGNIFICANCE

Disabled people suffer from poor health, lack of equal opportunities in education and sometimes in work too. This also in turn affects their lifestyle as well as physical well-being. Hence, the day is observed to aware the world about their issues and to make it a better place for them.

Worth Reading

World Disability Day 2021: Brooking No Challenge, The Extraordinary Tale Of Avani Lekhara

Sportspersons like Avani Lekhara are a rare breed. The 20-year-old shooter created history at Tokyo 2020 when she won two Paralympic medals. A car accident made her a paraplegic at the age of 11.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Meet the 19 Indian medal winners

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Source: https://www.news18.com/news/lifestyle/international-day-of-persons-with-disabilities-2021-date-theme-history-and-significance-4508246.html 

Personality of the Day - Dr. Rajendra Prasad

Gita Gopinath to take on new role at IMF as First Deputy Managing Director

Gita Gopinath, who was scheduled to return to her academic position at Harvard University in January 2022, has served as the IMF's chief economist for three years.

Indian-American Gita Gopinath, the chief economist of International Monetary Fund, is being promoted as IMF’s First Deputy Managing Director, the fund announced Thursday. She will become the second-ranking official, replacing First Deputy Managing Director Geoffrey Okamoto who plans to leave the Fund early next year.

Gopinath, who was scheduled to return to her academic position at Harvard University in January 2022, has served as the IMF’s chief economist for three years.

To read the full story, please visit: https://indianexpress.com/article/world/gita-gopinath-to-take-on-new-role-at-imf-as-first-deputy-managing-director-7653547/

Library Support for Researchers: Series 5: Publishing in Open Access

 Open Access models

There are three main Open Access models, some of which attract fees:

• Green OA: Authors can self-archive accepted manuscripts at the time of submission of the publication, via an institutional or subject repository. This is the model supported by UOW's Open Access Policy.

• Gold OA: Authors publish in an Open Access journal where free online access is available to all readers. Some OA journals require the author to pay a publication fee (Article Processing Charge – APC). Gold OA may be supported and funded at the Faculty level where strategically or otherwise appropriate (UOW's Open Access Policy).

• Hybrid OA: Authors pay a fee for their article to be made Open Access even though it is in a subscription journal.

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ANU Press 

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Alternative Name(s) & Keywords: ANU Press Textbooks, ANU eView

ANU Press is a globally recognised leader in open access academic publishing, produce fully peer-reviewed monographs and journals across a wide range of subject areas, with a special focus on Australian and international policy, Indigenous studies and the Asia-Pacific region.

arXiv.org 

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Open access to 1,318,865 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, and Economics.

Australian Building Codes Board 

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Free access to the National Construction Code (NCC) which is comprised of the Building Code of Australia (BCA), Volume One and Two; and the Plumbing Code of Australia (PCA), Volume Three.

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) | Mobile access 

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Australian Bureau of Statistics provides statistical information including reports and census data.
Register at the TableBuilder website, entering University of Wollongong in the ‘Organisation’ field.

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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) 

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Open access scholarly journals in most subject areas. Full-text. Dates vary

DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books 

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An ebook discovery service provided by OAPEN. Find an ebook and link through to full-text on the publisher site. All books in DOAB have a full Open Access License which makes them 'free to share'.

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HathiTrust Digital Library 

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Provides access to digitised public domain and in copyright content, including books, journals and special subject collections from U.S based partner institutions - 60 research institutions, including MIT, Havard and Yale. A first-of-its-kind shared digital repository. Hathi (pronounced 'hah-tee') is Hindi for elephant, highly regarded for its memory, wisdom, and strength - a name chosen to convey key benefits of this resource. Partial full-text. Dates vary

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JSTOR Open Content 

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JSTOR Open Content provides open access to thousands of academic ebooks and journal articles.
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La Trobe eBureau 

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Access to engaging, high quality and open access etextbooks that are written by La Trobe University academics, and published by the La Trobe eBureau.

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OAPEN - Open Access Publishing in European Networks 

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A collection of searchable Open Access ebooks. The OAPEN Library contains books that are 'free to read' and books that are 'free to share'. Includes titles from the Knowledge Unlatched collection.

Open Dissertations 

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A collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs, Open Dissertations connects you to open-access Doctoral EDTs (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) accepted by American Universities, 1955+, selected full-text

Open Textbook Library 

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Open Textbook Library provides hundreds of textbooks that have been funded, peer reviewed, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed.
All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organisation.

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SpringerOpen 

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Peer-reviewed, open access journals and ebooks, covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences.

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IntechOpen Books 

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IntechOpen is the world's leading publisher of Open Access books built by scientists, for scientists. Read, share and download more than 4,100 peer-reviewed Open Access books in Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Life Sciences, Health Sciences and Social Sciences and Humanities.

Source: https://uow.libguides.com/support-researchers/discoverability-open-access  (Accessed on 24/11/2021)

https://uow.libguides.com/az.php?s=1403&t=28665  (Accessed on 24/11/2021)

ONLINE DEMO ON KNIMBUS DIGITAL LIBRARY ON 4th. DECEMBER 2021

 

Library Support for Researchers: Series 4: Alternative Metrics

Alternative metrics show how many times a research output has been shared, mentioned or downloaded from online sources such as social media sites, blogs, mainstream media and reference managers. This data accumulates at a faster rate compared to traditional measures.

• Altmetric
• Altmetric bookmarklet for researchers

  Access to data for any publication with a DOI.
• Impactstory

  Free site where researchers join with their Twitter account and explore and see the online reach of their research.
• Plum analytics

  Plum metrics are available in Research Online and for articles indexed in Scopus.
• Social Searcher

  Monitors and provides analytics of public mentions of work in social networks and on the web.

• Trove 

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  Find Australian library holdings of your books.
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Library Support for Researchers: Series 3: UGC CARE List of Journals

The Scope of the UGC-CARE List

• UGC-CARE has taken the responsibility of preparing the “UGC-CARE Reference List of Quality Journals” (UGC-CARE List).
• A list of Indian journals, especially from disciplines of Arts, Humanities, Languages, Culture and Indian Knowledge Systems is being prepared and updated quarterly (UGC-CARE Group I).
• The UGC-CARE List includes journals from all disciplines indexed in globally accepted databases, such as indexed in Scopus (Source list) or Web of Science (Arts and Humanities Citation Index Source Publication, Science Citation Index Expanded Source Publication, Social Science Citation Index Source Publication). These journals are to be considered for all academic purposes. Journals indexed in Scopus and / or Web of Science are part of UGC-CARE List Group II.

To access the UGC CARE list of journals:

Go to https://ugccare.unipune.ac.in/Apps1/User/lr/Registration (Registration is Mandatory)

For important FAQs on UGC CARE List of Journals, please visit:

https://ugccare.unipune.ac.in/Apps1/User/Web/FAQ