Submission of a manuscript for International CALIBER 2008 should be the original work of the author(s). Author(s) is/are required transferring the copyright of the manuscript to the INFLIBNET for publishing in the convention proceedings as well as in the Institutional Repositories at INFLIBNET. The Centre holds copyright of the manuscript unless otherwise not communicated. It further implies that the manuscript submitted has neither published anywhere nor been kept under consideration for publication. 

• Submit your manuscript electronically.

• Please send your manuscript in Document format. 

• Try to limit manuscript within 5000 words.

• Save your manuscript using a file name in the pattern "X_Author.doc" where `X’ stand for Sub Theme Number and `author’ is the surname of the first author. In case your manuscript deals with more than one sub themes, please treat ‘X’ as a ‘XX’ and write number of both the sub themes. 

• Print figures and tables interspersed within manuscript should have proper numbers and descriptions.

Provide the list of references at the end of the paper in sequence as per the guidelines and the examples suggested. The reference guidelines for the author(s) are provided below.

1.Books

SURNAME followed by initials. Title of the book in bold italics. Place of publication: Name of the publisher, Year. pp. (referred pages).

2.For a paper/chapter in a book (multi-authored)

SURNAME followed by Initials, Surname followed by Initials, and Surname followed by Initials. Title of the paper/chapter in bold. In Title of the book in italics, pp. 45–50, edited by X and Y. Place of publication: Name of publisher, Year. (Number of Pages of the book) p.

3.Journals/Magazines/Newsletters

SURNAME followed by Initials, Surname followed by Initials, and Surname followed by Initials. Title of the paper in bold. Title of the journal/magazine/newsletter in italics, Year, Vol. No (issue no.), pp. 45–55.

4.Reports

SURNAME followed by Initials /organization. Title of the report in bold (only the first letter in caps).  Place of publication: Name of the organization/ publisher, Year. pp. (Referred page numbers).

5.Web site

Author/organization. Name of the article in bold. Available at Web site URL (Accessed on dd/mm/yyyy).

6.Paper in published proceedings

SURNAME followed by Initials. Title of the paper in bold. In Title of the published proceedings in italics. Name of the conference/workshop, city, country, date, organized by name (s) of organizer(s), edited by X, Y, and Z. Place: Publisher, Year. p.(number of pages of the paper).

Some examples of the bibliographic reference as per the guidelines are as below:

ROWLEY, Jennifer. The electronic library. London, Library Association Pub, 1998. p. 100-110.

CHANDRAKAR, Rajesh. Digital object identifier system: an overview. The Electronic Library, 2006, 24 (4), p. 445-452.

CAIN, Jack. Assessment of options for handling full Unicode character encoding in MARC 21: a study for the Library of Congress. Part 1: New Scripts. Available at http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2004/2004-report01.pdf (Accessed on 22/11/2007).

CHANDRAKAR, Rajesh. Electronic publishing model for Indian academic journals. Presented at International Conference on Digital Libraries, TERI, New Delhi, 5th - 8th December 2006.

PREM CHAND [et. al.]. Access to scholarly literature in higher education institutions under INFLIBNET Consortium. In Information and Knowledge Management in Networked World. Proceedings of the International CALIBER 2007, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 8th - 10th February 2007. Ahmedabad: INFLIBNET Centre, 2007. pp. 570-588.