A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF Bill Gates | |
| Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There, he discovered his interest in software and began programming computers at age 13. In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft's chief executive officer. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair. In his junior year, Gates left Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers. In 1999, Gates wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought, a book that shows how computer technology can solve business problems in fundamentally new ways. The book was published in 25 languages and is available in more than 60 countries. Business @ the Speed of Thought has received wide critical acclaim, and was listed on the best-seller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and Amazon.com. Gates' previous book, The Road Ahead, published in 1995, held the No. 1 spot on the New York Times' bestseller list for seven weeks. Gates has donated the proceeds of both books to non-profit organizations that support the use of technology in education and skills development In addition to his love of computers and software, Gates is interested in biotechnology. He sits on the board of ICOS, a company that specializes in protein-based and small-molecule therapeutics, and he is an investor in a number of other biotechnology companies. Philanthropy is also important to Gates. He and his wife, Melinda, have endowed a foundation with more than $21 billion to support philanthropic initiatives in the areas of global health and learning, with the hope that as we move into the 21st century, advances in these critical areas will be available for all people. Gates was married on Jan. 1, 1994, to Melinda French Gates. The couple has two children: a daughter, Jennifer Katharine Gates, born in 1996; and a son, Rory John Gates, born in 1999. |
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Bill Gates:A success man and his Biography
Born on October 28, 1955, Gates and his two sisters grew up in Seattle. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way International. 
Nine golden Opening Moves
First impressions are the ‘love-at-first-sight’ of the business world.
Here are the Nine golden Opening Moves:
1.Your Entry:
When you are invited to enter a room, walk in without hesitation. Do not stand in the doorway like a naughty schoolchild waiting to see the headmaster. People who lack confidence change gears and perform a small shuffle as they enter a room. Walk through the door with purpose and maintain the same speed.
2.Your Approach:
Walk briskly, influential people and those who command attention walk briskly at a medium pace with medium length strides. People who walk slowly or take long strides convey that they have plenty of time on their hands, are not interested in what they are doing or have nothing else to do.
3.Your Handshake:
Keep your palm straight (vertical) and return the grip pressure you receive. Let the other person decide when to end the handshake. Never shake hands directly across a desk as it can leave the other person having the ‘Upper Hand’ over you.
4.Your Smile:
Make sure your teeth are visible when you smile, and smile with your whole face, not just your mouth.
5.The Eyebrow Flash:
This is an ancient acknowledgement signal that hardwired into the brain to be sent and received by others. Simply raise your eyebrows for a split second as you acknowledge the person.
6.when You Talk: Use a person’s name twice in the first 15 seconds and never talk for more than 30 seconds at a time. Speak at a slightly slower pace than they speak.
7.When you sit:
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f you are compelled to sit in a low chair directly facing the other person, turn away to an angle of 45 degree to the person to avoid being caught in the ‘reprimand’ position. If you can’t angle your chair, angle your body away.
8.Your Gestures:
Peoples who are cool, clam and in control of their emotions use clear, uncomplicated, deliberate movements. High status individuals use fewer gestures than low status individuals. Don’t raise your hands higher than your chain. To create rapport mirror the other persons gesture’s and expressions when appropriate.
9.Your Exit:
When you’re finished, pack your things calmly and deliberately- not in a frenzy- shake hands if possible, turn and walk out. If the door was closed when you entered, close it behind you as you leave. People watch you from behind as you leave so if you are a man, make sure the back of your shoes are shined. Hidden cameras show that, if you are a woman, others study your rear as you depart- whether you like or not. When you get to the door, turn around slowly and smile. Its better that recall your smiling face than your rear end.
Time
What Is Time?
Do you Know What you are getting Everyday in Your Account
Everyone has such a bank. Its name is TIME.
Every morning it credits you with 86, 400 seconds. Every night it writes off as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good
Purpose.
It carries over no balance.
It allows no overdraft.
Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day.
If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back. There
is no drawing against the “tomorrow”. You must live in the present on today’s
deposit. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success.
The clock is running.
Make the most of today.
- To realise the value of ONE YEAR, ask the student who failed a grade.
- To realise the value of ONE MONTH, ask the mother of a pre-mature baby.
- To realise the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
- To realise the value of ONE DAY, ask the daily wage labourer with kids to feed.
- To realise the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
- To realise the value of ONE MINUTE, ask the person who missed the train.
- To realise the value of ONE SECOND, ask the person who just avoided an accident.
- To realise the value of ONE MILLI-SECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal
- in the Olympics.
Treasure every moment that you have, and remember that time waits for no one.
Yesterday is history; tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift; that’s why it’s called the PRESENT!!![/color]
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How To Get The Perfect Job
How do People Get Jobs?
Your First Opportunity: Getting the Interview
Interview Rules
Preparing For a Job Interview
Being Yourself Under Pressure
Using Self-Disclosure to Create Empathy
Help with Interview Nerves
Prepare and Research for Your Interview
Take Care of the Interviewers!
Interview Follow Up
Going for a New Job?
Every once in a while something happens and our lives are shaken up. Sometimes we shake them up deliberately and sometimes outside forces come along and throw our world into a bit of a tailspin.That's certainly what it feels like at the moment.You are reading the most visited page on our website, and that's not just because of the current economic climate - though that certainly has a big impact. Given what's going on right now you may have been made redundant (or to use the irritating jargon, downsized or outplaced; whatever, it still means you're out of a job). Could be that people around you are being made redundant and work doesn't feel a particularly pleasant or inspiring place to be.When people are fed up, need a new challenge, want more money, want a more conducive work environment they start reading the want ads, polishing their CVs, pounding the pavements and trawling the internet job updates and interview help sites like ours.The current situation, however, does tend to mean that a whole lot of other people are also looking for new jobs, so you need to have a jump on the competition by presenting yourself at interview in the best possible light, no matter whether you've been made redundant or are looking for something fresh and motivating.Even before we created Impact Factory 18 years ago we were helping people develop their careers, present themselves more effectively, identify their best skills and acknowledge their unique qualities, all with the aim of interviewing well and getting terrific jobs. With our Impact Factory lives we continue to support individuals in building their confidence and skills which in turn enable them to go after their next job.
We have Interview,
Presentation,
Personal Impact,
Body Language,
Assertiveness
and
Leadership courses as well as Individual One to One Coaching designed to help stack the job seeking odds in your favour. Given our lengthy experience in career and skills development, here are some of our top tips for going for a new job.
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How do People Get Jobs?There are six ways to get a job:
Internal promotion
Applying for an advertised job
Word of mouth
Nepotism (a form of word of mouth, with a familial twist)
Going through an agency or using head hunters
Identifying a company you want to work for, a career you want to pursue or a fantasy job you'd like to have and being pro-active about getting through the door.
They're all valid. If your brother-in-law's second cousin knows the head of HR at a company you are really interested in, go for it! Equally, if you want to go to employment agencies and try your luck that way, go for it! Jo Ellen: "I'm a great fan of the sixth way of job hunting. It's one that many people don't think about and it does take courage. When I decided I wanted to move from the US to the UK over 25 years ago, I made a list of all the organisations I thought I might want to work for and wrote to each of them, told them when I'd be in the UK and asked for an interview. Of the 10 letters I sent, I got 5 interviews and one job. It works!"
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Your First Opportunity: Getting the InterviewIf you want the job, chances are so do about a million other eager people, so your application has to stand out from the crowd. The majority of CVs are usually dull and boring, and people create them as historical documents, rather than as marketing tools. Remember your CV has about seven seconds (yes 7) to make a visual impression. You can dramatically boost your chances of getting an interview by making your CV look and 'sound' special.
Use good paper
Design a personal logo
Fiddle with the layout to make it easy on the eye
Edit it ruthlessly (everyone always puts in too much detail)
Highlight the bits that relate to the job you're going for
They don't need to know you went to St Mary's School when you were 12!
Put "Who you are now" at the beginning of your CV
Leave education and qualifications for the end.
If you don't have what you think are the right educational qualifications, don't worry. Just leave them off. If you include enough interesting and intriguing material about who you are now, what you didn't do is far less important. Put a short paragraph at the beginning that says something about your personal qualities and your business skills. A short statement about what you're seeking can also go down a treat. As we know, a job for life is very rare nowadays, that eclectic, unusual and even inconsistent CVs are OK as long as they're presented well. Depending upon the specific job you're going after, you can be as creative as you like. We've seen CVs presented as graphs, as poems, as drawings, as a route map, as a podcast; you name it, we've probably seen it. Whichever route you choose, make sure your CV is pitched correctly for the audience who will be receiving it.
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You might also think about rewriting your CV for specific jobs.
Robin: "When I was a working actor I had separate CV's for television work, stage work and commercials work. It was just a matter of rearranging the order of things to give prominence to the work that would be of most interest to each prospective employer, and it worked!" You can do the same; highlighting certain areas of your CV to showcase the skills that will matter for the specific jobs you're going for. You are what you seem! So what do we mean by that? When we ourselves recruit for new members of staff we are absolutely appalled by the sloppy, unprofessional CVs we receive: misspellings, poor layout, bad grammar. Needless to say, our rubbish bins get filled quickly during our recruitment drives. So a word of advice: proofread. No. Forget that. Get someone else to proofread your CV. Make your 7 seconds matter.
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Interview Rules
You hear all sorts of rules about job interviews:
People decide about you in the first 10 seconds
You have to make a good first impression
Always ask insightful questions
Learn as much as you can about the company
They'll probably ask questions designed to trip you up
Have some quick answers to interview questions at the ready
Not bad, as far as rules go: some of them make perfect sense. But getting the job you want isn't about following rules or giving the right interview answer.
It's about presenting yourself in the most authentic way that takes care of you and the interviewers at the same time.
So many people chuck their interview chances away: they don't take enough care and interview preparation time so that the whole process is enjoyable, stimulating and informative for both parties.
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So the CV worked. You've got the Interview; now what?
Preparing For a Job InterviewIf you have been invited to an interview it's a given that someone has, however briefly, looked at your CV. Something about you, or the way you have presented yourself has felt a good enough 'fit' to get you through the door. Here's the key and the most important thing to remember before you go through that door.
Unless they are simply going through the motions because they've already appointed someone, they want it to be you
They want to know their search is over, so for the length of the interview, the job is yours. Something else you need to make the most of. Having said that, first impressions are incredibly important. People do make up their minds quickly so be yourself right from the start. Of course you can turn up the volume on those bits of you that most match the job and turn it down on the bits that don't. This will help show you in your best light. However, never ever shut the volume off entirely, as you will then be pretending to be someone you're not - people can smell pretence and it is a sure recipe for disaster.For the same reason it's not a good idea to lie! You can be judicious with the truth yes, but lies have a tendency to return and bite you in the bum! Even if they don't actually know that you've lied they will sense something is not right. When you are under pressure it's virtually impossible not to give out the signals that tell your interviewer that something is wrong. Even if you think your current job stinks, present the good points as though you were looking at the job from the outside in. Most jobs appear much better from the outside than they do from the inside (only you know the real truth); so pump up the goodies and soft-pedal the baddies! However, we do know that being put on the spot can feel very uncomfortable, and it's easy to fall into a defensive posture. If you're not sure of the answer or feel boxed into a corner it's all right to buy time - including saying "I need some time to think about that."
No matter how nervous you are you do need to look after the people interviewing you. They will be looking for signs that you know how to communicate and relate to people. If you get stuck or tongue-tied ask one or two of the more surprising questions you have prepared.Have a stockpile of anecdotes of past triumphs (and even a few disasters, as long as they're funny or the humorous side is apparent). This is not just a list of what you can do, but some personal examples that help paint the whole picture.For instance, you could say "I successfully launched a new product for my company." Nothing wrong with that; it just doesn't tell anyone very much about you.Or you could say, "Let me tell you about the new product launch I ran earlier this year with my colleagues. We had a very tight deadline, the venue was booked, the product was ready, but it was bringing all the elements together that helped make it a success. I'll explain my part in all this...." And off you go.You're telling a story, not reciting facts. People like stories (as long as they are not long-winded and either too boastful or too self-deprecating) because they help show who you are as a person.
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So right about now you'll be thinking"That's all very well for you to say, but just how do I do all this?" Ok so let's take a pragmatic approach to interviewing here. Think about it for a second.
You've got through the door. They want it to be you. The job is yours to lose.
So the process you're in now is a test. Their starting point will be this: "Well, it all looks good on paper, let's get them in and see how they look in person."That is, by the way, how you will be viewed. Until they see you in person, until they see you walk and talk, until they can smell and hear you, you are an 'it'. Interestingly, every time Impact Factory pitches for a new piece of work, it's like going for a job interview and the same 'rules' apply. Our intention is to bring our brochure and website alive. Your job is to bring your CV to life as well. That's why we mentioned stories a few paragraphs back: they will bring your CV to life.
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Your first responsibility as the interviewee is to show yourself as a person
Let's be very clear here. They have information about you. If you've been clever at presenting your CV and application they will have expectations as to what sort of person you are. Now they want to meet you. Why? Because they want to know if they will like you, if you're someone they could spend working time with, if you're a good fit with the other people in the company. Robin: "In the world of theatre, where I have spent a considerable time people don't just interview. They audition; they perform and are judged on their performance and you would think that the performance was the most important part of an audition. "Nevertheless over and over again casting decisions are made on the basis of 'Can I work with this person?' 'Do I like them well enough to spend time (quite a lot of time) with them?' And surprisingly, often it is not the best actor for the part who gets it." Presenting yourself isn't an 'act', nor is it a 'performance', but they do want to see how you perform. Confusing, isn't it? Don't worry, there's more advice coming right up.
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Being Yourself Under Pressure
Ok so the problem now is how to 'be yourself' whilst under this sort of pressure. It's worse than a first date. So here is one of the tricks that successful actors learn (usually after having done hundreds of interview/auditions) that can help take away some of that pressure. Treat the interview as the job. The job is the interview, not what you will get if you do a good interview. Simple. Give good interview. And here are some other things that will help: Psychologically you will feel better if this is not the only egg in your basket, so apply for more jobs than you need. You will find that if you have another interview lined up there is less pressure. Wear something you feel good in. It is no good looking great if you feel uncomfortable. If you have an interview outfit it helps to wear it to one or two social events to bed it in. Have something to say in answer to an open question. They will ask open questions. Classic open interview questions are:
Tell me about yourself
What have you been doing lately?
What made you apply for this job?
Why should we pick you?
Prepare an answer that allows you to talk about something you've been involved in recently. Preferably something that has got you feeling really enthusiastic. Be sure to bring in non-work-related stuff to the interview. Remember this is about being a whole person. Don't go on at too much length about the excitement of your Saturday bowls club, but do use anything from your outside life that might illustrate some of your skills and qualities.
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Using Self-Disclosure to Create EmpathyWhat we mean by 'self-disclosure' is the giving or telling of something about yourself that is not actually necessary in order to answer the question. There is nothing more important you can do in an interview than help give people a feel of what you are like and self-disclosure is the most powerful way to do it. This is an extension of relating stories. With a little training this is not hard to do. If they ask "Why do you want to be a nanny?" You could answer:
"I've always wanted to work with children" Or you could say:
"Well two years ago my best friend Amanda had a little baby girl Sarah and when she had her christened she asked me to be her Godmother. Well of course I said yes, but as the christening came round and as I prepared for the ceremony I really started to think about Sarah and how important she was and how much we are all responsible for the well being of our children and it got me to thinking about what I really wanted to do with my life....
You get the picture? What you say hardly matters. What matters is that you speak about something that you feel really strongly about. If you feel strongly about it you will sound enthusiastic, authentic, engaged and alive.
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Help with Interview Nerves - You will be nervousThis again is a given, there is nothing wrong with being a bit on edge. If you use the approach laid out above the things you speak about will give you somewhere to channel that nervous energy. Remember they are unlikely to give the job to someone calm, relaxed and laid back either. Too laid back and you will seem as if you don't care. What makes everyone nervous about interview is the fact that they are going to judge you. Absolutely they are going to judge you! This is supposed to happen. Remember, it's a test, so get some interview help or interview training and do some practise. You wouldn't dream of going to your driving test without studying the Highway Code, so treat an interview in the same way. But remember also, you are interviewing them as well. The test is two way. If you can keep that in the forefront of your mind, it can also help settle interview nerves.
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Prepare and Research for your Interview
Prepare to talk about something current, a TV programme, the election, the war, the weather, it doesn't matter what so long as it has affected you and you have a strong opinion about it. Research - Look at their website
And again - LOOK AT THEIR WEBSITE. Read our lips: LOOK AT THEIR WEBSITE. The number of people who have come to Impact Factory for interview and have not read our website is astounding. People care about their websites and they will give you masses of information (both good and bad) about the organisations you are applying to. Think about these things:
What does their website tell you about them?
Why do you want to work for them?
Think about what they need
Who are their competitors?
Are they well established?
What do you want to know about them?
What do you like about them?
They will ask at least one of the following interview questions
What attracted you to xxx?
Why are you leaving your current job?
Why do you want to work for xxx?
What do you see as your strengths and weaknesses?
How do you see yourself in xx years time?
How do you like to work?
What can you bring to xxx?
Why should we employ you?
What do you do outside work?
Yes, and sometimes they will even ask - What are your hobbies? Have at least one question to ask them based on something you have seen in their brochure or on their website. If you can make it something you are genuinely curious about and include a compliment about the organisation so much the better.
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Leave the Interview well.
Never apologise at the end of an interview. Even if you were a few minutes late arriving do your apology at the beginning, no need to remind them of it now. Do smile at them as you leave the interview even if you feel like a Cheshire cat. Act as if it has been a good interview. Say thank you to everyone. Say goodbye to everyone. Shake hands. Look at people and leave with a spring in your step. Do all of this even if you think the interview has been a disaster. How you feel about your interview is unlikely to bear any relation to how you have done. Indeed, most people are the worst judges of how they actually did.
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Take Care of the Interviewers!
You know, interviews are so nerve-wracking and stressful that most people's attention goes solely on themselves. In their heads there's an on-going monologue:
How am I doing? Oh, damn, that answer was absolute crap. What did they just ask? I've gone totally blank, now what do I do? Maybe I shouldn't have worn the pink tie after all. I could really use the loo now. What if they ask me how much salary I want? Did I just say that? They're really going to think I'm an idiot.
And so on. We can't completely shut off those voices, but we can help divert our attention away from them. Pay attention to the things around you, notice things in the reception, the office environment. Comment about what you see. Jo Ellen: "I remember going to meet a client and they had the friendliest most helpful receptionist I'd met in a very long time. Not only that, they had the company Values plastered all over the reception walls in a very creative, unusual and accessible way. "The first thing I did when I sat down after the introductions was to compliment them on their helpful staff and the way they represented their Values. This wasn't grovelling; this was giving them genuine feedback on my own first impressions."But what things like this do is to serve as icebreakers. They help to break down some of the interviewer-interviewee barriers and help you to put yourself at ease by engaging with them about something to do with them (it can put them at ease as well). Of course, if you don't have anything good to say or haven't noticed anything outstanding, then don't make it up - then it will sound phoney and indeed, grovelling. You can help take care of 'them' in other ways during the interview. The type of questions you ask is, of course, important. But you don't just have to limit yourself to questions. It's OK to comment on something they've said; try to get a dialogue going.
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You'll know something is wrong if the interview begins to feel like a version of the Spanish Inquisition: Question, Answer, Question, Answer, Question, Answer. Dialogue means that both sides are engaged in the process. Be bold in the interview questions you ask. Nothing wrong with asking question like:
What's the most important quality you're looking for?
Why do you think people like working here?
Is there anything you think I should know that I've forgotten to ask?
When you make someone do a little extra work themselves, you help take care of them because you're engaging their creative process too.
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Phew! Got through that; anything else I can do?
Interview Follow Up
At the end of your interview, if you haven't been advised, ask when they think they'll be making their decision. At least then you'll know how long you'll have to wait before you hear. Many places don't automatically let people know if they haven't got the job; so one interview follow-up call is allowable. More than that and it can feel like badgering. No matter how badly you think the interview went, if you want the job, always send a follow-up letter. Since most of us think of clever things to say after the fact, include one or two of those, referring to something specific from the interview. Use phrases such as:
'I've given a lot of thought to our interview and...'
'Something you mentioned got me thinking...'
'What you said about _______ really struck home...'
If you don't get the job and you're curious why not, phone up and get some feedback. It may help you for the next interview. We have loads of help available at Impact Factory, so click on any of these links to check out our public courses and training programmes:
Career Action - Interview Skills - Presentation Skills - Personal Impact - Body Language - Assertiveness Skills - Communication Skills - Leadership Development - Individual One to One Coaching Or if you want to speak to a real person give us a call on 020 7226 1877
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Friday, June 5, 2009
OPEN ACCESS NEWS
New publisher of OA, ad-supportedtextbooks
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BASICS OF SPOKEN ENGLISH WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW
1. Don't study grammar
This rule might sound strange to many ESL students, but it is one of the most important rules. If you want to pass examinations, then study grammar. However, if you want to become fluent in English, then you should try to learn English without studying the grammar. Studying grammar will only slow you down and confuse you. You will think about the rules when creating sentences instead of naturally saying a sentence like a native. Remember that only a small fraction of English speakers know more than 20% of all the grammar rules. Many ESL students know more grammar than native speakers. I can confidently say this with experience. I am a native English speaker, majored in English Literature, and have been teaching English for more than 10 years. However, many of my students know more details about English grammar than I do. I can easily look up the definition and apply it, but I don't know it off the top of my head. I often ask my native English friends some grammar questions, and only a few of them know the correct answer. However, they are fluent in English and can read, speak, listen, and communicate effectively. Do you want to be able to recite the definition of a causative verb, or do you want to be able to speak English fluently?
2. Learn and study phrases
Many students learn vocabulary and try to put many words together to create a proper sentence. It amazes me how many words some of my students know, but they cannot create a proper sentence. The reason is because they didn't study phrases. When children learn a language, they learn both words and phrases together. Likewise, you need to study and learn phrases. If you know 1000 words, you might not be able to say one correct sentence. But if you know 1 phrase, you can make hundreds of correct sentences. If you know 100 phrases, you will be surprised at how many correct sentences you will be able to say. Finally, when you know only a 1000 phrases, you will be almost a fluent English speaker. So don't spend hours and hours learning many different words. Use that time to study phrases instead and you will be c loser to English fluency. Don't translate When you want to create an English sentence, do not translate the words from your Mother tongue. The order of words is probably completely different and you will be both slow and incorrect by doing this. Instead, learn phrases and sentences so you don't have to think about the words you are saying. It should be automatic. Another problem with translating is that you will be trying to incorporate grammar rules that you have learned. Translating and thinking about the grammar to create English sentences is incorrect and should be avoided.
3. Reading and Listening is NOT enough. Practice Speaking what you hear!
Reading, listening, and speaking are the most important aspects of any language. The same is true for English. However, speaking is the only requirement to be fluent. It is normal for babies and children to learn speaking first, become fluent, then start reading, then writing. So the natural order is listening, speaking, reading, then writing. First ProblemIsn't it strange that schools across the world teach reading first, then writing, then listening, and finally speaking? Although it is different, the main reason is because when you learn a second language, you need to read material to understand and learn it. So even though the natural order is listening, speaking, reading, then writing, the order for ESL students is reading, listening, speaking, then writing. Second ProblemThe reason many people can read and listen is because that's all they practice. But in order to speak English fluently, you need to practice speaking. Don't stop at the listening portion, and when you study, don't just listen. Speak out loud the material you are listening to and practice what you hear. Practice speaking out loud until your mouth and brain can do it without any effort. By doing so, you will be able to speak English fluently.
4. Submerge yourself
Being able to speak a language is not related to how smart you are. Anyone can learn how to speak any language. This is a proven fact by everyone in the world. Everyone can speak at least one language. Whether you are intelligent, or lacking some brain power, you are able to speak one language. This was achieved by being around that language at all times. In your country, you hear and speak your language constantly. You will notice that many people who are good English speakers are the ones who studied in an English speaking school. They can speak English not because they went to an English speaking school, but because they had an environment where they can be around English speaking people constantly. There are also some people who study abroad and learn very little. That is because they went to an English speaking school, but found friends from their own country and didn't practice English. You don't have to go anywhere to become a fluent English speaker. You only need to surround yourself with English. You can do this by making rules with your existing friends that you will only speak English. You can also carry around an iPod and constantly listen to English sentences. As you can see, you can achieve results by changing what your surroundings are. Submerge yourself in English and you will learn several times faster.
5. Study correct material
A common phrase that is incorrect is, "Practice makes perfect." This is far from the truth. Practice only makes what you are practicing permanent. If you practice the incorrect sentence, you will have perfected saying the sentence incorrectly. Therefore, it is important that you study material that is commonly used by most people. Another problem I see is that many students study the news. However, the language they speak is more formal and the content they use is more political and not used in regular life. It is important to understand what they are saying, but this is more of an advanced lesson that should be studied after learning the fundamental basics of English. Studying English with a friend who is not a native English speaker is both good and bad. You should be aware of the pro's and con's of speaking with a non native speaking friend. Practicing with a non native person will give you practice. You can also motivate each other and point out basic mistakes. But you might pick up bad habits from one another if you are not sure about what are correct and incorrect sentences. So use these practice times as a time period to practice the correct material you studied. Not to learn how to say a sentence. In short, study English material that you can trust, that is commonly used, and that is correct. Summary These are the rules that will help you achieve your goal of speaking English fluently. All the teachings and lessons on TalkEnglish. com follow this method so you have the tools you need to achieve your goal right here on TalkEnglish. com.
HOW TO WRITE CORRECT RESUME
There is no single "correct" way to write and present a CV but the following general rules apply:
It is targeted on the specific job or career area for which you are applying and brings out the relevant skills you have to offer
It is carefully and clearly laid out: logically ordered, easy to read and not cramped
It is informative but concise
It is accurate in content, spelling and grammar
Two Personnel Managers answered this as follows.
A CV should be quick and easy to read
It should be clearly and logically laid out so it is uncluttered and pleasing to the eye.
Keep it simple for easy reading. Two pages are ideal and definitely not more than three.
Clear and easy to read, well set out text, saves time for the reader.
Employment details well set out and concise.
The information must be honest and relevant
Unpretentious, succinct, honest and realistic.
If applying for a specific job, the CV should respond to the qualities and experience asked for in the advertisement, but still be honest.
Avoid detail about early experience. The last five years is more important.
Include reason for leaving, if relevant.
The CV should tell the reader about the applicant
What you have done and what you have achieved should be set out clearly.
Give some clues as to the personality of the applicant
Describe yourself in your terms. This is a good selling point.
Finally
It is hard to write a CV. It is technically difficult to condense many years of work into few paragraphs. Most people get much more criticism than praise in their lives. This can carry over into self-criticism and make it hard to be positive. We then undersell ourselves when writing a CV.You can help each other produce your CV's. If you talk about it while someone else is listening your thoughts will become clearer
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Different between resume,biodata and curriculum vitae
Resume Is a French word meaning "summary", and true to the word meaning, signifies a summary of one's employment, education, and other skills, used in applying for a new position. A resume seldom exceeds one side of an A4 sheet, and at the most two sides. They do not list out all the education and qualifications, but only highlight specific skills customized to target the job profile in question. A resume is usually broken into bullets and written in the third person to appear objective and formal. A good resume starts with a brief Summary of Qualifications, followed by Areas of Strength or Industry Expertise in keywords, followed by Professional Experience in reverse chronological order. Focus is on the most recent experiences, and prior experiences summarized. The content aims at providing the reader a balance of responsibilities and accomplishments for each position. After Work experience come Professional Affiliations, Computer Skills, and Education
CV. CURRICULUM VITAE
C.V Is a Latin word meaning "course of life". Curriculum Vitae (C.V.) is therefore a regular or particular course of study pertaining to education and life. A C.V. is more detailed than a resume,
usually 2 to 3 pages, but can run even longer as per the requirement. A C.V. generally lists out every skills, jobs, degrees, and professional affiliations the applicant has acquired, usually in chronological order. A C.V. displays general talent rather than specific skills for any specific positions.
BIO-DATA
Bio Data the short form for Biographical Data, is the old-fashioned terminology for Resume or C.V. The emphasis in a bio data is on personal particulars like date of birth, religion, sex, race, nationality, residence, martial status, and the like. Next comes a chronological listing of education and experience. The things normally found in a resume, that is specific skills for the job in question comes last, and are seldom included. Bio-data also includes applications made in specified formats as required by the company.
A resume is ideally suited when applying for middle and senior level positions, where experience and specific skills rather than education is important. A C.V., on the other hand is the preferred option for fresh graduates, people looking for a career change, and those applying for academic positions. The term bio-data is mostly used in India while applying to government jobs, or when applying for research grants and other situations where one has to submit descriptive essays.
Resumes present a summary of highlights and allow the prospective employer to scan through the document visually or electronically, to see if your skills match their available positions. A good resume can do that very effectively, while a C.V. cannot. A bio-data could still perform this role, especially if the format happens to be the one recommended by the employer.
Personal information such as age, sex, religion and others, and hobbies are never mentioned in a resume. Many people include such particulars in the C.V. However, this is neither required nor considered
Thursday, May 21, 2009
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5 - Children's/Young Adult Books
A variety of famous classic titles.
6 - Children's Books Online: the Rosetta Project
Children's illustrated literature. Hundreds of children's books online. Because of the high picture content each page is presented as a separate image file (jpeg), or the whole book may be downloaded as a compressed (zip) file to read offline. In English, with some translated variously into Chinese, Farsi, Finnish, French, Dutch, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Maori, Polish, Romanian or Swedish.
7 - Comics
- Free daily comic strips with back archives. Related goodies for sale. They have Ginger Meggs! Comics
- Lots of e-freebies from DC.
8 - Computing
- Free Computer and Scientific books online. Over 480 full-text computer & internet books (some titles offer excerpts only). The front webpage shows new or updated titles, while the rest may be accessed alphabetically or by searching the database. You may also buy a paperback edition. In HTML for online reading, access one chapter at a time.
- Betabooks. Allows computing professionals to view partial and sometimes complete text versions of selected emerging technology titles online. Bet@Books viewing is free, & invites comments and feedback.
- Free Windows Security e-books. Surprisingly, these individual chapters or entire books are dowloadable in .pdf format. You need to register to access them.
- Realtime Publishers offer some valuable free Windows titles in Microsoft .lit or Adobe PDF formats. ("Real-time publishing" is the concept of posting a book as chapters/volumes are written, making up-to-the minute information available. You need to register to read the books - registered users will be notified via email when new chapters/volumes are added or existing content modified. Series include The Definitive Guides (for technical professionals), The Shortcut Guides (for the busy administrator and developer), and The Savvy Consumer Guides for consumers.
9 - Cooking
- The USENET Cookbook. Main dishes, appetizers & snacks, bread/pasta, beverages, cookies or cakes, sauces, salads, soups, deserts, vegetable dishes etc. Vegetarian alternatives offered. Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage. Copying is by permission of the USENET Community Trust or the original contributor. {Copyright (c) 1987 USENET Community Trust}.
- e-Cookbooks.net. Some 18 free samples are available from this commercial site, as pdfs for Adobe Acrobat Reader.
10 - Current Affairs
From prolific writer Shmuel (Sam) Vaknin: lively, controversial musings on issues in economics, politics, the Balkans, international affairs, history, psychology and more. Download as MS Word, RTF (Rich Text Format) or PDF files.
11 - E-book publishing
This fledgling e-publisher/bookstore also offers some free inspirational/New Age titles, free covers for e-authors & a free e-book on drawing.
12 - Economics
The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) "groups 30 member countries sharing a commitment to democratic government and the market economy", and does extensive economic and social research. You can get some summary information from OECD publications free here
13 - Electronics ee.com
A free technical library and professional community for electrical and electronics engineers. Contains over 5,600 documents in a variety of forms. Qualified contributions welcome. Resource areas include aerospace, analogue and digital design, biomedical technology, computer engineering, consumer electronics, digital signal processing, dsp, electric power, microprocessors, nanotechnology, magnetic & electro physics, jobs, meeting, business, research and development, semiconductors, telecommunication, vlsi.
14 - English language reference
Over 320,000 references & still growing, with both US and British spellings. On this minimalist (no frills) website you can look up words alphabetically or by search.
Prepared by a Scot who has spent some time in the
The Online Etymology Dictionary. In HTML. This valuable, attractively presented resource is from historian and author Douglas Harper.
15 - English literature and Classics
Over one thousand titles online in plain text, also versions for PC/Mac or for Palm, Visor & PocketPC.
A collection of classic books, plays, stories and poems for online reading. Nearly seventy
authors are represented.
A select catalogue of free original and classic fiction. Available for download in MS Reader, Adobe Reader ( PDF), or to read online in your Web browser (in their Virtual Imprint WebBook format - a simple but bookmarkable double page layout. IE 5+ recommended). Their home page also offers an array of purchasable services for bibliophiles.
A number of famous Irish literary works available free to download as text or RTF files, also some HTML short stories to read online. Yes, all of the following famous "English" authors were actually Irish - George Bernard Shaw, Bram Stoker (author of Dracula), Jonathan Swift, J.M.Synge, Oscar Wilde.
Fiction and philosophy as novel, short story or poetry, plus the author's autobiography. Three books available for online reading; downloads are as zipped plain text files.
More than a thousand scholars have contributed to this huge Web reference work, focused on literature in English. With nearly three thousand entries, and well over 5million words, there's any amount to learn here about writers, literary works and literary topics, and numerous links to more. And they throw in a bit of a Books-in-print too!
16 - General Reference
Provides a free encyclopedia (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, from the Columbia University Press) & gazetteer, medical encyclopedia & other valuable reference resources. Thousands of articles available here in HTML, with useful links to related topics.
English, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew,Italian, Japanese, Latin, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish &Vietnamese. Also specialised dictionaries including Computers, Law, Science.
17 - History
How have the states of
18 - Mathematics
The Electronic Library of Mathematics contains free online journals, article collections, and monographs in the field of mathematics. View on-line or download as .pdfs for offline use.
A comprehensive and interactive mathematics encyclopedia intended for students, educators, maths enthusiasts and researchers. Claimed to be the Web's most complete maths resource.
19 - Medicine
"A free online medical dictionary search engine for definitions of medical terminology, pharmaceutical drugs, healthcare equipment, health conditions, medical devices, specialty terms and medical abbreviations." Note that definitions are brief, and should only be considered as a launching pad for further research. A handy resource, but self-diagnosers should note the disclaimer.
An online medical and health encyclopedia containing information on over 1,500 topics, including conditions, diseases, injuries, nutrition, surgeries, symptoms, tests and special topics. Use alphabetically or through the search function. The site also features significant current news stories and a variety of other resources.
A collection of searchable biomedical books for the Web. Illustrated, in HTML. Medical issues covered include asthma, cancer, high blood pressure, obesity, & retroviruses. There are also more general works on topics including the Cell, Developmental Biology, Glycobiology, Genes and Disease, Immunobiology and Neurochemistry.
20 - Military History
Richard Jensen offers a large page oflinks to a wide variety of resources in this subject area, from ancient times to present day. Jensen is an American scholar (retired Professor of History)
21 - Philosophy
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Alphabetical and searchable. A voluntary academic effort.
22 - Poetry
Many traditional poems, plus lyrics of traditional songs. To read online, or download as zipped files to your PC.
23 - Research
Provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by anyone for free (though some may require free registration).
The Public Library of Science is provided by "a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource". PLoS will publish its own journals.
24 - E-Library of Science Mathematics
E-books plus a few philosophy, physics and other titles. In pdf format (use the Adobe Reader).
25 - Science Fiction/Fantasy, & Horror
Never screened, these Seventh Doctor stories from 1992-1997 are a rare treasure from the friendly folk at the BBC. Online, by page in SHTML, or in plain text chapters if you wish to print them out.
Online since August 1997, UK-based Infinity Plus publishes some original fiction, but mostly republishes those short stories & other shorter works you're always trying to find again. With extra input from many writers that you may not see anywhere else. As such, this wonderful archive is a boon to devotees. Online in HTML, or you can save them ('Save as...') to read off-line. However please remember they remain copyright for all purposes other than simple reading.
SF/Fantasy e-books & assistance for the physically impaired. ReadAssist is an organization of Science Fiction and Fantasy fans with an easy-to-use site streamlined to assist those with physical disabilities. They provide links to sources of both free and purchasable written and audio e-books, in those genres. Further links are to software & hardware of use to those with impaired mobility or vision.
Gormglaith, by Heidi Wyss. 76,000 words of radical feminist separatist literature set in what is claimed to be a scientifically plausible future. Aesthetically presented for online reading.
Godspawn, by A. Zoic. A prophetic title with a human clone hero. Written at sunny
Grotesque, A Gothic Epic, by Graven. An intense, illustrated Gothic novel about religion and the Black Death. With animated sound effects, online in HTML plus. Excellently presented, but with its gruesome theme not for the faint-hearted.
26 - Technical Reports Online
Links to technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports of all kinds, as either full-text reports or searchable extended abstracts.
27 - Television
Includes more than 1,000 essays examining programmes, people, historic moments and trends, disputes, scandals and much else in the saga of the small screen. Also contains histories of major TV networks and broadcasting systems around the world, plus resource materials, photos and bibliographical information.
28 - Travel
Universal Currency Converter.
29 - IIT - Information Interactive Technology
This Netherlands-based site offers some classic e -books include Wodehouse humour, Sherlock Holmes and a serious essay About Violence and Democracy. There are also mini travel guides for all European countries. In PDF, use the Adobe Reader. Patience may be required; this site is slow to download for modem users.
Fully indexed. Available free as a downloadable zip file (requires a zip utility to decompress). Download the freedom.zip (40kb) under the sub-heading Freedom documents, from R.E. Harvey.
31 - U.S. Rightwing Christian Fundamentalism
The Institute for Christian Economics is a Texas-based, U.S. Christian fundamentalist site. Many "bible-based" religious & social titles are offered, plus a substantial foray into conservative and pro-free market economics & politics. Books are available in HTML or the DjVu compressed file format. The site authors recommend the latter, which they claim is superior to & less memory-hungry than PDF for representing original works. A free DjVu reader may be downloaded from the site.
32 - Website Development
Rick Rouse provides several free e-books, downloadable as zip files, for webmasters. They include How To Get Thousands Of Links To Your Website and How To Triple Your Website Traffic Every 90 Days under the heading Webmaster Freebies. Also some useful software for webmasters.
Literary and visual works by William Blake and his circle. Includes fully searchable and scalable electronic editions of all of Blake's 19 illuminated works. In HTML & SGML. With Biography, Glossary, and Chronology. Sponsored by the U.S. Library of Congress, with some high-powered support.
Electronic Text Archives
There are innumerable text archives are available on the internet. These could be research papers, working papers, journal articles etc. Please use the following links to get access to these archives.
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. Documents can be downloaded in .pdf and other fromats.
It contains documents in Law, History and Diplomacy.
It has more than 2000 free texts, study guides and reference resources. Most of them are taken from public domain and users are free to download one copy of any e-text for personal use.
This Eprints server is part of the Bioline International system for increasing the visibility and providing open access to research publications from developing countries. The primary content on the server is journal articles that are also present on the Bioline International main site located in
It contains full text papers related to library systems and technology.
It allows you to read first chapter of books reviewed by the Washington Post.
A repository of non-peer reviewed original research.
It is a repository for the self-archiving of research and technical papers in Information Science and Computer Science, and other disciplines pertinent to the Library activities.
CogPrints, an electronic archive for papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science, Philosophy, Biology, Medicine, Anthropology, as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition. One time registration is required to gain access.
Computer Science preprint server-the permanent web archive and rapid distribution medium for research articles in the field of computer science. At present there are around 341 full text papers are available.
The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science,forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science.
Dlist is a repository of electronic resources in the domains of Library and Information Science (LIS) and Information Technology (IT). Here you can deposit your papers related to the above fields.
Provides access to archives of Dr Peter F. Drucker, guru of management. The mission of the Drucker Archive is to preserve the profound intellectual legacy of Peter F. Drucker and to manage that legacy to the benefit of the scholarly community, the institution and the practice of management as a whole.
This service has been provided by the Economics Department of Washington University. It is devoted to the free distribution of working papers in Economics. Links can also be found on it to the other electronic archives in Economics.
Its holdings include approximately 51,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with more than 350,000 related images.
Tt provides a database of over 900 links to electronic texts by famous philosophers throughout history. Texts are searchable by three ways: title keyword, philosopher, topic category.
It holds classic collection of e-papers in Physics, Mathematics, Nuclear Sciences and Computer Sciences. This archive is based upon activities supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
E-LIS is an electronic open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, in Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related application activities. E-LIS is an archive to deposit preprints, postprints and other LIS publications, it is a service for finding and downloading documents in electronic format, offered as a free service to the international LIS community.
This service is an Open Archive set-up for the Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network (ERPANET) in conjunction with DAEDALUS to provide an ePrints preservation and access facility for the cultural and scientific heritage community.
It is a repository of papers established by
Home to electronic texts of all kinds, from the sacred to the profane, from the political to the personal.
FindArticles.com is a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals. Articles in FindArticles can be read in its entirety and printed at no cost.
Contains more than 450,000 high-energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses, comprehensively indexed by the SLAC and DESY libraries since 1974.
It holds excellent collection of electronic materials on Intellectual property related matters.
Magportal indexes and provides free of cost access to full text of articles selected from good number of free magazines available on the net on different subject areas. The coverage of most of the magazines starts from 1999 or 2000. It sends a newsletter of hot articles to subscribed members and also there is a provision to create your accounts as per your subject interest.
Holds materials which are used in the teaching of mathematics. Currently the Archives is particularly strong in its collection of educational software. Other areas, ranging from laboratory notebooks and problem sets to lecture notes and reports on innovative methods, are growing.
Mathematics Preprint Server is the permanent web archive and rapid distribution medium for research articles in the field of mathematics. At present it holds 814 articles in its database.
OpenMED is an open access archive for Medical and Allied Sciences. Here authors / owners can self-archive their scientific and technical documents. OpenMED is a discipline based International Archive. It accepts both published and unpublished documents having relevance to research in Medical and Allied Sciences including Bio-Medical, Medical Informatics, Dental, Nursing and Pharmaceutical Sciences. It has been developed by Bibliographic Informatics Division, National Informatics Centre,
PhilSci an electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science. At present, the PhilSci Archive contains 495 documents.
The Best of PhysicsWeb brings together articles about the most exciting areas of modern physics in a single place. Areas covered in it are applied physics, astronomy, condensed matter, etc.
PROL is a pre-print server that serves as the common resource for all emerging scholarship in political science. Provides free full text access to preprints in political science.
Provides access to more than 3,000 full text articles and chapters.
Provides access to over 185 full text articles/papers related to the study of how urban planning developed up to the end of World War I.
It contains works by British women writers of the 19th century.
Provides access to full text of all his works.
It contains encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations from the world's leading publishers.
Electronic Databases
Electronic databases come very handy for searching vast data within a shortest possible time. There are good number of such databases are available on the internet today, which can be accessed free of cost. Please follow the links to get further information.
General:
This database contains 2,8 million records, each record covers brief biographical information of individuals.
Contais information on African people, organisations and history. At present a Who's Who of prominent Africans now living or who have died since 1950, in all fields of expertise is available online.
Subject Specific:
Provides access to bibliographic details of articles published in Asiatic Society journals published between 1700 to 1960
It is a bibliographic database on Women's Studies and related issues. It includes Books, Reports, Conference Proceedings, Theses & Dissertations, Journal & Newspaper articles in English, Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati.
The ICMR-NIC Centre for Biomedical Information (Indian MEDLARS Centre) has designed and developed a bibliographic database from Indian biomedical literature. To startwith 75 prominent Indian journals, have been selected to build up the database entitled IndMED. The coverage of database is from 1985.
Indexes around 105 Indian Social Science journals enabling users to search for references on the basis of string (series of characters) either for author's name, or words in titles for selected journals. Most of the journals are indexed from the first volume. Also indexes press clippings taken out from 14
Indexes articles from the journals subscribed by National Law School Library,
Indexes Indian Social Science Journals. Presently under development stage covers selected journals starting from 2003.
International
AgEcon Search collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food supply, natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, agricultural trade, and economic development.
It is a searchable database of books and articles related to aging. It contains detailed summaries of publications about older adults and aging, including books, journal and magazine articles, research reports, and videos.
It is an index to all aspects of agricultural sciences
AGRIS provides worldwide bibliographic coverage of agricultural science and technology literature. Developed by the AGRIS Co-ordinating Centre, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, AGRIS offers an international perspective on crucial agricultural research. The database coverage is from 1975 till present.
ASCE CEDB Provides Access to over 90,000 bibliographic and abstracted records of its publications. The current coverage is form January 1973-June 2001.
The database has approximately 38,818 bibliographic entries. The entries for the period 1976 to 1987 come from INFORMS journals, while for the period 1988 to 2001 they come from a total of approximately 663 different INFORMS as well as non-INFORMS journals. The subjects include operations research, management, computing etc.
It is an Anthropological Index to Current Periodicals in the the Anthropology Library at the
Gives access to ACS journals' full text, images, illustrations, halftones, structures, figures and supporting information.
A bibliograhic database covers 140 Chemistry journals.
It is a bibliographic database that contains more than 1.8 million citations and abstracts from over 4,000 different sources including biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses. The database contains references to cancer literature published from the 1960s.
The CASI TRS database contains bibliographic citations and abstracts for publicly available aerospace documents, journal articles, and conference proceedings.
Provides access to abstracts of articles published in over 350 journals and 15 databases from a variety of publishers. A number of databases offer structure-based searching and manipulation of molecular structures.
Its document database contains over 32,000 records on child abuse and neglect and child welfare issues.
This database contains an ever growing number of screened bibliographical citations on child-related issues.
It contains citations relating to rehabilitation research conducted outside of the
Provides an annotated bibliography of selected articles, books and documents on Information Technology.
Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. The CIS Extended Database (CIS-ED) includes coverage, in most cases from 1974. The free access is available only to the records up to 1994.
DoIS is a searchable database of articles and conference proceedings published in electronic format in the area of Library and Information Science. At the moment it holds about 12908 articles and 3902 papers, 9258 of them are downloable from the site.
Provides access to world literature in earthquake engineering since 1971. The database contains 96,000 abstracts. A maximum of 200 records will be returned on any individual search.
ECOMMUNICS is the most featureful free economics research platform and network online, with many useful features for economists. It includes paper database from RePEc and other institutions, free blogger.com compatible weblog, per-paper discussion and rating, free email notification of new papers on specific topics and many community features and discussion possiblities. Registration is required to avail this FREE service.
Find articles, key websites, books, the latest industry news, job announcements, ejournals, eprints, technical reports, the latest research in Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing.
You can search content of over 95 key journals, from Elsevier as well as from other publishers or societies. The search also includes accepted but not yet published articles ('articles in press') and preprints. All abstracts, preprints and "Our Editor Selects" articles are freely available.
It is a portal of Elsevier Health Science periodicals. Here one can search contents of their health science peridicals plus MEDLINE.
Health Care Database is a bibliographical database with abstracts for each entry. As at July 2001, the Database contains nearly 55,000 records from
Contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)of
ERIC is the world's largest source of education information, with more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. The data is available from 1966 onwards.
This database is dedicated to gather all scientific literature published in the web about the evaluation of search engines.
Provides key data on advanced compression ignition fuels. The database includes data on various physical; chemical; operational; and environmental, safety, and health properties. The data result from tests conducted according to standard test methods i.e. ASTM.
getCITED is an online, member-controlled academic database, directory and discussion forum. Its contents are entered and edited by members of the academic community.
This database will allow the user to retreive information for any of 3995 hazardous chemicals or 'generic' entries based on a keyword search. Potential keywords include names, formula and registry numbers (CAS, DOT, RTECS and EPA).
- Index Morganagus: Full text index of library related electronic serials
- Index Translationum: International bibliography of translations
- Infotrieve Online Article Finder
Gives access to bibliographic details with abstract on Science and technology. The data coverage is from 1966 to present from over 30000 journals.
Ingenta.com offers access to article summaries from over 25,000 publications linked to the full text of over 5,200 titles. Full text access is set by each of our 170 publisher partners, but typically individual subscribers, or individuals within institutions that subscribe, can access the full text of their publications for free. Non-subscribers can, for the majority of articles, pay-per-view choosing from electronic, fax or Ariel delivery.
Search for articles appeared in all the journals published by
The Intellectual Property Digital Library Web site provides access to various intellectual property data collections currently hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization. These collections include
LTSN Engineering Resource Database is a searchable catalogue of learning and teaching resources for engineering academics.
MatWeb, the FREE materials information database with data on 24,704 materials including metals, plastics, ceramics, and composites.
NLM provides a wide variety of resources related to the biomedical and health sciences, both past and present. Some important such resources are MEDLINE, Toxnet, Biomedical information, Clinical alerts, etc.
Provides citations/bibliography of articles on recent developments in Library and Information Science field. The articles are selected from a sizable number of LIS journals. The coverage is from 1998.
The bibliography contains about 12617 references.
The California PATH Database provides access to the largest and most comprehensive collection of bibliographic information on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).
Allows all users to conduct searches, view tables of contents, and view abstracts for all online journals in theology, classics, oriental studies, archaeology, philosophy, literature and linguistics. Full text is restricted only to subscribers or pay per view facility may be used.
It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics. The coverage is from 1986-2000, containing total of 46,035 citations.
Project
psci-comlit is a bibliographic database covering science communication, public engagement with science and the broader issues of science and society.
PsycARTICLES is an online database containing more than 26,000 entries from 49 peer reviewed journals published by APA and allied organizations from 1988 to the present. Full text articles covered in it are available for price.
It holds an over 45,000 books and 360,000 journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. Search for this database is free, however access to full text of the documents is priced.
Recent Advances in Manufacturing (RAM) is a database of bibliographic information for manufacturing and related areas. It covers items in well over 500 niche and mainstream journals and magazines, and also details of books, videos and conference proceedings.
ResearchIndex is a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature. Includes over 400000 documents and over 5 million citations.
The SESAMM bibliographical database gives access to the entire CTIF information holdings made up of more than 33,000 documents.
Social Psychology Network, is a database providing links to more than 12,000 resources related to psychology.
Contains over 34,400 abstracts for papers submitted to SSRN. Also gives access to few full text articles.
Provides access to over 420,000 bibliographic records covering transportation research published in books, journal articles, technical reports and other media. Literature covered from 1960 to present. Also selected links to full text or sources of full text have been given.
TRIP Database started in 1997 provides search facility with a focus on medical articles considered evidence-based.
Search can be made for high quality full articles related the area of Economic and Business History.
SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online is a model for cooperative electronic publishing of scientific journals on the Internet. Especially conceived to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries, particularly Latin America and the
It is an open access electronic journal archive. The content can be downloaded as pdf or djvu files.
Data Sources Collections
- OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web
- International Statistical Data Sources
- Internet Crossroads in the Social Sciences: Data
- Selected Internet Resources for Statistics in the Social Sciences
- Social Science Data Archives
- Social Science Data Archives on the net
- Social Science Data Archives on the net, University California, San Diego
- Social Science Data Directories and Data Archives
- Sociosite: Social Science Data Archives
- Statistical Data Locators, Nanyang Technological University Library, Singapore
- Statistical Data Sources on the web: Economics
- Statistics for the Social Sciences
- Yale Social Science Data Archive: STATCAT
Provides statistics of All India population totals as per the Census 1991 and Census 2001,
This databse covers data on financial sector, real sector, financial market, external sector, public finance and corporate finance related to Indian economy. This has been developed by RBI.
Broad statistical information like national accounts statistics, energy statistics, consumer expenditure, annual survey of industries, live stock statistics, etc. can be found here. Most of these statistics is brought out by its agencies Central Statistical Organisation and National Sample Organisation.
Economywatch.com is a commercial site provides information and data on Indian economy. The data type available on this site include statistics related to national income, foreign investment, agriculture, industry, money and banking, balance of payments, population etc.
The information available on database includes banking statistics, industrial statistics, public finance, social sector statistics, census data etc.
Provides free of cost online access and download to vast amount of data related to banks and banking in
International
ADB gives access to social and economic data of its developing member countries. The type of data includes national accounts, financial accounts, trade, population, labour and employment etc.
Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) datasets are available for most countries. The datasets include individual women's data, household data, men and husband's data, couple's data, children data and service availability/facility, etc.
Provides latest and the most complete statistical information on the EU and the zero-zone. The topics include general statistics, economy and finance, population and social conditions, industry, trade and services, agriculture and fisheries, etc. But only the key indicators are available for free of cost.
FAOSTAT is an on-line and multilingual databases currently containing over one million time-series records covering international statistics in the areas of production, trade, food balance sheets, fertilizer and pesticides, land use and irrigation, forest products, fishery products etc. At a time, maximum 1000 records on any topic of different combinations can be downloaded from their site free of cost.
Globall Statistics deals with statistics on the human population. The main kind of data you can find here is on the population of regions, countries, provinces and cities. Next to that there are some statistics on economic factors like wealth, infrastructure, etc.
Indian district database provides district-level data from census and agricultural sources between 1961 and 1991.
InfoNation is an easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations.
It is a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic and socioeconomic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.
ILO database (LABORSTA) on labour statistics covering economically active population (data since 1945) employment, unemployment, hours of work, wages, labour cost, consumer prices, occupational injuries, occupational accidents, and strikes and lockouts (data since 1969) of different countries of the world. Also gives access to one more database, which contain data on 'Economically Active Population, 1950-2010' of different countries of the world.
It is a central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD.
Provides online access statistics covering 28 key variables on all the major world economies, from 1950 to 1998.
StatBase provides access to a comprehensive set of key statistics drawn from the whole range of official
It is a collection of about 800 time series, drawn from many different fields viz. Agriculture, Crime, Finance, Health, Labor market, Macroeconomics, Production, etc.
UNESCO gives access to its data sources on education, literacy, science and technology and culture and communication of different countries of the world.
United Nations provides data on different countries. Its data sources include social indicators, population statistics, and monthly bulletin of statistics.
Trade Data Online provides access and the ability to generate customized reports on
GED Online provides education data in two ways. Users can select a single indicator for multiple years and multiple countries by clicking on one of the bulleted groups of indicators under the UNESCO or DHS headings.
World Bank provides national statistics for countries and regions and country profiles of all its member countries pertaining to the aspects of agriculture, education, environment, finance, health, population, urban and social development etc.
United Nations World Crime Surveys of Crime Trends and Criminal Justice data sets are available here. Data is available in ASCII, Lotus 123, and SPSS formats.
WHO provides access statistics from its statistical system 'Whois'. The data types can be accessed from their databases are on mortality, basic health indicators, HIV/AIDS, statistical data from world health report, population etc.
WTO provides online access to many of its data sources, which include international trade statistics, annual reports and trade policy reviews.
WTO Data Base covers statistics on international outbound tourism, international inbound tourism, and tourism indicators covering a wide variety of tourism trends.
The term Digital Library has a variety of potential meanings, ranging from a digitized collection of material that one might find in a traditional library through to the collection of all digital information along with the services that make that information useful to all possible users. As there are many definitions of a “digital library,” terms such as “electronic library” and “virtual library” are often used synonymously. A digital library is nothing but a large database for the people who are working on hypertext environment. It is an environment, which supports the full life cycle of creation, storage, preservation, dissemination and use of data, information and knowledge
Consortia in Libraries
Consortia or Consortium is now being overheard everywhere. It is more because of electronic or digital form of information. In the West, Consortia is a thing of the past, where there were models for print journal subscriptions, co-operative resource sharing, etc. But in this electronic age it has gained momentum even in the developing countries. Please go through the following links to know more about consortia.
Basics:
- Consortia and the big deals: A new way of doing business or the end of the technical library? [Article in .pdf]
- Consortia governance and management [.ppt presentation]
- Consortia vs Reform: Creating Congruence [Article]
- Electronic books, journals, and beyond: Issues and opportunities for library consortia [.ppt presentation]
- Issues facing academic Library consortia and perceptions of members of the Illinois Digital Academic Library [Article in .pdf]
- Library consortia: Where have we come from? Where are you going? [.ppt presentation]
It is a collection of about 100 Web-accessible primary source documents dealing with the governance and administration of library consortia and cooperatives. This site will be useful for practitioners who need to study consortial governance documents while reviewing or creating their own consortium's governance structure. This site will also be helpful for library and information science educators with research interests in library consortia and cooperatives, as well LIS students doing class projects or research papers on the topic.
- Licensing and public libraries [Article]
Provides suite of standard licenses designed for the acquisition of electronic journals and other electronic resources. They contain the words needed to express most of the variables publishers and librarians – and the subscription agents who are experienced in handling the supply of journals - will meet in negotiating licenses.
A round table discussion on this topic held in Indian Institute of Astrophysics,
Consortia Coalitions:
Informatics
It is a consortium for CSIR Laboratories for Accessing e-journals.
Electronic access to journals published by few publishers with member and branch libraries has been made possible under this forum.
The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) as per the recommendations of expert group headed by Prof Balakrishnan of IISc has set-up "Consortia-based Subscription to Electronic Resources for Technical Education System in
Inflibnet under UGC Infonet is planning to have consortium of e-journals subscriptions among the university libraries. It is being planned to provide this service through higher bandwidth of internet connection, which will be given to University libraries in a phased manner.
International:
International:
The British Columbia Electronic Library Network (ELN) is a partnership between the
It is an international not-for-profit consortium of colleges, universities and libraries that makes available scholarly research resources to users everywhere. CRL is governed by the major research libraries of
Provides high quality collection of full text and image digitized resources that supports instruction, study, and research by students, faculty and staff in all eligible
It is an informal, self-organized group comprising (as of September 2000) nearly 150 library consortia from around the world. The Coalition serves primarily higher education institutions by facilitating discussion among consortia on issues of common interest. It conducts regular meetings to keep members informed about new electronic information resources, pricing practices of electronic providers and vendors, and other issues of importance to directors and governing boards of consortia.
It provides an overview of selected library consortia active in
Members of the Committee on Insitutional Cooperation [CIC] with major South Asia collections joined together in 1993 for a program of cooperative activity that will improve collections on South Asia in the
It is a regional resource-sharing organization established by several universities in the
Digital collection in pglibrary
About Me
- VELTECH Dr R.R Dr S.R Technical university
- i am Mr Damodharan working as a librarian in Vel Tech Dr R.R & Dr S.R Technical University