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13.707m pages transferred to researchers under COMSTECH programme in 2007
ISLAMABAD, Dec 13, 2007: The Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) Standing
Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH) has transferred
13.707 million pages to 13,556 researchers and scientists under its Literature
Search Service (LSS) during this year.
The service has been designed for
active researchers of the OIC region who frequently require abstracts of current
research in fields similar to their own research work, a senior COMSTECH
official said.
'A major challenge before COMSTECH today is to promote
scientific research, so that it takes roots in the OIC region," he told
reporters on Wednesday.
The official said information was the key to the
growth of knowledge and dissemination of information was crucial for the
scientific enterprise. "In today's world, there is a tremendous proliferation of
journals and many of them, especially those published by commercial firms, are
expensive and out of reach for most of the OIC universities and research
institutes," he added.
"The increase in subscription prices of journals
and databases have further jeopardised the ability of OIC libraries to procure
journals for their scientists," he said.
Keeping in view the problems of
the OIC researchers, the official said, COMSTECH had decided to address the
problem by initiating a free scientific literature search service with an
electronic database, covering a large number of journals.
"Now it covers
agricultural sciences, biology, environmental sciences, and life sciences,
physical, chemical, earth sciences, engineering and computing technology," he
added.
The official said the LSS was the most popular service in the OIC
member states including Pakistan, and since its start the service had continued
to improve, both in its quality and content while procedure has also been
constantly refined.
Talking about COMSTECH's Travel Grants Programme, the
official said financial assistance was provided to scientists who had been
invited to present papers at international conferences and seminars in 2007.
"Special consideration is given to those who have been invited as keynote
speakers and have an offer of partial support by the host institute," he said.
COMSTECH has awarded three travel grants to scientists of three OIC member
states including Iran, Turkey and Pakistan, he added. App
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