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  The concept of Active indexing The content is from an article published in the journal "The Indexer- The International Journal of Indexing", 2020 issue 1 of Volume 38. The article was authored by Mary Coe and Jan Wright. E-Books today come with active indexes. Active indexing denotes a hyperlink that takes the reader to the exact page of the book. Coe and Wright (2019) describes the complexity of active indexing in their work published in The Indexer journal.    For a book, the locators play an important role in getting the information back by the reader. The page number is usually a locator in a book. But for an ebook, the locator can lead to a page, word, paragraph, picture and even a single letter.   The authors bring out the fact that selecting which part to hyperlink is a complex question. The complexity is due to the following reasons Who are the index users? Preferences of author and publisher The device and display software of ebooks One of the very practic...

  Course on Research Publication Statement of Purpose Research is part of a higher education activity. The teachers’ teaching in higher education institutions is expected to do research and share the knowledge gained through research with the students. For this, the teacher is required to conduct research that brings a new experience to the academic world. As the world is dynamic, especially with the fast adoption of technology, there is a redundancy in the body of academic knowledge. What was normal earlier is not normal after the technological intervention. Earlier there was an instrument to analyze the readiness of people to embrace the technology (Technology Readiness Index-TRI). Due to the Covid19 pandemic, people are forced to accept technology than embrace it. Now, using TRI on people for research may not be relevant. The academic research needs to catch up in tracking the behavioral and emotional changes people undergo in the society. The role of a teacher today is getting ...

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