Library and Information Services for Bioinformatics Education and Research

Shri Ram (Thapar University, India)

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ISBN13: 9781522518716

EISBN13: 9781522518723

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1871-6

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The delivery and availability of information resources is a vital concern to professionals across multiple fields. This is particularly vital to data intensive professions, where easy accessibility to high-quality information is a crucial component of their research.

Library and Information Services for Bioinformatics Education and Research is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly material on the role of libraries for the effective delivery of information resources to optimize the study of biological data. Highlighting innovative perspectives across a range of topics, such as user assessment, collection development, and information accessibility, this publication is ideally designed for professionals, managers, computer scientists, graduate students, and practitioners actively involved in the field of bioinformatics.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Collection Development
Data Analytics
Information Accessibility
Information Network Analysis
Information Retrieval
Skill Development
User Assessment

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Shri Ram works at Thapar University. He worked as Deputy Librarian at Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan since 2002. Earlier, he has worked at Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi and CEMCA India in various capacities. After completing a double Master’s in Anthropology and Library and Information Science with NET, he is pursuing his PhD degree in Library and Information Science from Osmania University, Hyderabad. Recently, he has been awarded with Commonwealth Professional Fellowship at University of East London, UK. He has published more than 20 papers in different peer reviewed international and national journals and conferences of international & national repute.

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