Collnet 2007 partners

As Society is going to publish an updated directory of Members of SIS, please visit the SIS site (address is mentioned above) and check your details under ‘SIS Life Members [Surname wise] List’, if any corrections are needed , mail the details on Email: Ramesh Kundra, Email: Divya Srivastava or Email: Jain/a> latest by 1.11.2006. If you have an Email Address please provide it to us for a speedy communication.

Damodar Academy of Scientific & Educational Research, New Delhi established in 2002 is a registered non-profit making society .The society has been working in the area of education and awareness creation for capacity building of masses (specially rural) I the area of health, engineering, science and agriculture. The other area of priority is promotion and undertaking of R&D for rural upliftment. To meet the objectives the academy extends arms to collaborate with various national and international institutions engaged in similar activities.

COLLNET is a global interdisciplinary research network of scholars who are concerned to study aspects of collaboration in science and in technology (see COLLNET web site at: http://www.collnet.de/). This network of interdisciplinary scholars was established in January 2000 in Berlin with Hildrun Kretschmer as coordinator. Since that time there have been 7 meetings: the first in Berlin, September 2000, the 2nd in New Delhi, February 2001 and the 3rd in Sydney (in association with the 8th ISSI Conference), July 2001. The former ISSI President Mari Davis has mentioned in the Newsletter, July 2003: Importantly, ISSI needs alliance with other groups, such as COLLNET, for broader reach among a range of interdisciplinary researchers and to encourage new thinking and perspectives on investigations in science and in technology. The 4th COLLNET Meeting took place on August 29th in 2003 in Beijing in conjunction with the 9th International ISSI Conference, the International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics and 5th COLLNET Meeting in Roorkee, India, in March 2004. The 6th COLLNET Meeting took place in association with the 10th ISSI Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, in July 2005 and the International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics and 7th COLLNET Meeting in Nancy, France, in May 2006 (http://collnet.inist.fr).