Orientation programme and remedial coaching

Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) organised an orientation programme and remedial coaching for students belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and backward communities recently.

The event was organised by the standing committee for the welfare of Scheduled Castes-Scheduled Tribes at the university.

Experts took classes on personality improvement and better communication skills on the occasion.

During the inaugural function, Gangan Prathap, Vice-Chancellor, urged the students to adapt quickly to the changing university atmosphere.

The Vice-Chancellor also urged the student community to improve their skills in communicative English.

Mr. Prathap said that Kerala should have at least 15 universities in the next five years.
He said that there were only two universities from the State at present among the top 100 in the country.

Online repository

CUSAT has come up with an institutional repository where its research publications and Ph.D. theses would be available online for the public. The facility will provide pre-prints and post-prints of research journal articles and digital versions of theses and dissertations.

Keeping in tune with the objectives of the open access movement, the facility helps the institute researchers in self-archiving and long-term preservation of their scholarly publications, provides easy access to these publications world wide and improves the impact of their research.
Institutional repositories are also partly linked to the notion of a digital library — collecting, housing, classifying, cataloguing, preserving and providing access to digital content, analogous with the library’s conventional function of collecting, housing classifying, preserving and providing access to analog content.

The main objectives for having an institutional repository include creating global visibility for an institution’s scholarly research and to collect content in a single location.

It also provides open access to institutional research output by self-archiving it.

Online repositories also help in storing and preserving other institutional digital assets, including unpublished theses or technical reports.