AEC Atomic Energy Commission
CDRI Central Drug Research Institute
CFTRI Central Food and Technological Research Institute
CMTRI Central Machine Tools Research Institute
COSATI Committee for Scientific and Technical Information
CSIR Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
DRDO Defense Research Development Organization
ICAR Indian Council of Agricultural Research
ICMR Indian Council of Medical Research
Development : Process of differentiation of activity (ies).
Disintermediation : Relates to the role of the intermediary in acting between information (and other products) and its end-users. In other words, it is the finding of the information by an end-user without the need of a third party. As applied to libraries, disintermediation means the diversion of information from centralized physical repositories to alternate sources available directly through computers and computer networks.
End-user Empowerment: Refers to end-users having access to information and having the necessary skills to retrieve their own information according to their own needs – in other words, they can do it on their own. With empowerment, they should be less dependent on information specialists.
Era : Period of history.
Evolution : Process of organization by development.
Growth Pattern : Process of increase in size and number with some consistency.
Information Broker : An individual of a firm, who, on demand, seeks to answer questions using all available sources and who is in business for profit.
Information Filter : An essential mediator between information sources and their users. Information
Institution: An institution which normally performs the activity (ies) related to the knowledge / information transfer.
Information Manager : Network consists of a group of information managers Network each of whom is assigned information responsibility for a specific technical division while remaining organisationally linked.
Information Transfer : A chain of activities, the main link being information generator, editor, publisher of primary publications, indexing and abstracting journal producers, libraries, documentation and information centers, on-line services, information companies and the end user.
Intelligent Agents : Sometimes called bots (and information industry and Push Services know bots) are persons who assist user in document access and delivery. These agents take query from a user and act on his/ her behalf to find a solution. They form the part of the portals infrastructure. Typical example is the Shopping bot.
Invisible College : An elite of high performing scientists who has an informal network of scientific communication and the published literature.
Knowledge Mediators : Persons or libraries who provide users with insight into the existing body of knowledge and assist them in acquiring resources referring to or containing such knowledge.
Technological : Expert both internal and external communication star, Gatekeeper having much higher incidence of exposure to the professional literature, attends more conferences and has more professional affiliations.
