February 2004 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

Re: Re:[LIS-Forum] Question of Full Text Request
by Mailing List Manager 17 Feb '04

17 Feb '04

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:42:51 +0530 From: murari <murari(a)darya.nio.org> I support Dr Ratnakar's argument. Murari P Tapaswi National Information Centre for Marine Sciences (NICMAS) National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, India Phone: 91-(0)832-2450275 (Direct); 91-(0)832-2450450 (Institute) Fax: 91-(0)832-2450602

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Re:[LIS-Forum] Question of Full Text Request
by Mailing List Manager 17 Feb '04

17 Feb '04

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 10:09:58 +0530 (IST) From: kanade(a)ces.iisc.ernet.in Really it is a very good suggestion, I am strongly supporting Dr.A.Ratnakar's statement, we should plan for a policy for commercial users which should not effect to researcher, and academic user. Because the lis-forum is one of the best media where we can share our resources in a very short time. Yashwant Kanade CES, IISc, Bangalore-12

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Open Access Initiative
by Mailing List Manager 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

Dear Member: Sorry for the delayed approval of the following message from Anita S Coleman. - moderator Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:59:37 -0700 (MST) From: Anita S. Coleman <asc(a)U.Arizona.EDU> Sanjay, DLIST, http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/ is an OAI-PMH compliant repository for LIS materials that are openly available. OISter is more along the portal lines that I think you're inquiring about - it currently harvests metadata from DLIST and more than 200 other OAI repositories in all disciplines. One stop searching of all these repositories of freely-held (open access) is also available through OAIster. URL: http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/. To see the complete list of institutions from which OAIster harvests, visit, http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/viewcolls.html. Best, Anita Coleman > ************************************************ > On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Mailing List Manager wrote: > > > > > Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:02:31 +0000 (GMT) > > From: "[iso-8859-1] Sanjay Kataria" <katariasanjay2001(a)yahoo.com> > > > > Dear Professionals, > > > > Firstly, I am thankful to LIS-Forum team and all participant > > professionals for discussions on great profession. > > > > I have a query in regard of OAI (Open Access Initiative). Any one tell > > me or explain about OAI or any model/portal of OAI which is providing > > the Open Access effectively. > > > > I look forward to your valuable advise. > > > > With kind regards. > > > > Sanjay Kataria > > Librarian (Acting) > > Learning Resource Centre (Library) > > Jaypee Institute of Information Technology > > A-10, Sector-62, Noida-201307 > > Uttar Pradesh > > Ph. 09810503341 (Mobile) > > 0120-2400973 to 978 Ext. 251(Office) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Re:[LIS-Forum] Question of Full Text Request
by Mailing List Manager 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:05:52 +0530 From: Ratnakar Aspari <aspari_r(a)hotmail.com> Dear Moderator: I have been following the the arguments in the Lis-Forum regarding the requests for full artilce from libraries. While it is good and correct to review policy of any forum from time to time, it is my earnest request to the Forum not to take a hasty decision which would hamper the very helpful nature of the Forum. While the forum should be a channel for intellectual (?) communication, it certainly should not forget one of its most fundamental goals - to provide a platform for librarians to serve their clientele better through the use of technology. Finally whatever a librian/information officer/technical information officer (call him/her by whatever title) does, if he is not able to provide a basic material like an article requested by an user, all the efforts being made by organisations like NCSI to be a part of the serving community will be lost. I certainly endorse the view that commerical organisations should not be allowed the freedom to get this facility but a resear! cher working in a university or institution should not be made to suffer for this reason. As long as no finacial transaction is involved in requesting/offering the full text to a genuine user, I do not see any impropriety in such an action. I am reacting to the present issue only because of my connections with NCSI as an user (librarian) from its inception and the benefits the scientific community is getting through it. A. Ratnakar Former librarian, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, and Consultant (Education and Training), Informatics India Ltd.Bangalore

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Is the book available
by Mailing List Manager 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:03:28 +0530 From: sumita panse <sumita_panse(a)hotmail.com> Dear Sir, Is the book "pushing to the front" vol 1&2 by Orison Swett Marden is available? Pl. let me know at the earliest. sumita Librarian Amrita Bharati Bhartiya Vidya bhavan, mumbai

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LTLOC Awards
by Mailing List Manager 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:59:59 -0800 (PST) From: Smita Chandra <smitac_in(a)yahoo.com> Dear friends : Please join me in CONGRATULATING two Indians from our profession who have made us proud yet once again. They are : Kaushik Purohit Information Officer Reliance Industries Limited and Rangashri Kishore Founder Secretary Richmond Fellowship Society The are the proud winners of the "Learning Times Innovation in Information Services Award". It is indeed our privilege to know that these two of our colleagues have been bestowed with the award, of which Senator Hillary Clinton and the likes are the recipients. Please scroll down the following link and I am sure we would have many more Indians on this list in the future : http://libraryconference.com/awards.shtml For the time, Congratulations to Kaushik and Ragshree for their efforts and for having made us proud. Thank you and with regards, Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, Kalamboli New Panvel, New Mumbai

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Re: [LIS-Forum] article required
by Mailing List Manager 11 Feb '04

11 Feb '04

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:00:08 +0530 From: "Koteswara Rao, M" <mkrao(a)iitm.ac.in> Dear Moderator, Thank you for informing the members about 'requesting articles over LisForum'. I think all our library professionals should agree upon certain issues related to IPR and avoid any legal tangles with the publishers. Afterall, librarians and publishers have a longstanding relationship in disseminating information. Thanks to Ms. Girija who has pointed it out in the first place. Koteswara Rao

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Re: [LIS-Forum] LIS-Forum and Resource sharing
by Mailing List Manager 11 Feb '04

11 Feb '04

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 7:38:43 -0500 From: Atanu Garai <atanu(a)takingitglobal.org> I would add that apart from the subject wise union catalogue,which are developed by various agencies and available both in online and offline formats in various scientific and non scientific disciplies,it is really imperative that we should develop a kind of formal mechansim in the field of LIS too,may be promoted by any LIS society or association,governmental and non governmental agencies.Such union catalogue in LIS is the need of hour and may be the starting point for knowledge sharing formally in India. Requests of journal papers through lists or personal channels must have a limited effect on scholarly research and I presume the reason for very limited citations in most of the LIS papers and conference proceedings must be attributed to this lack of access to LIS journals. best Atanu -- Atanu Garai | atanu(a)takingitglobal.org http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/atanu http://updates.takingitglobal.org/read/atanu http://www.dgroups.org/groups/education

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Open Access Initiative
by Mailing List Manager 10 Feb '04

10 Feb '04

Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:02:31 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Sanjay Kataria" <katariasanjay2001(a)yahoo.com> Dear Professionals, Firstly, I am thankful to LIS-Forum team and all participant professionals for discussions on great profession. I have a query in regard of OAI (Open Access Initiative). Any one tell me or explain about OAI or any model/portal of OAI which is providing the Open Access effectively. I look forward to your valuable advise. With kind regards. Sanjay Kataria Librarian (Acting) Learning Resource Centre (Library) Jaypee Institute of Information Technology A-10, Sector-62, Noida-201307 Uttar Pradesh Ph. 09810503341 (Mobile) 0120-2400973 to 978 Ext. 251(Office)

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Re:[LIS-Forum] article required
by Mailing List Manager 10 Feb '04

10 Feb '04

Dear Member: You may recall that sometime back some of the LIS-Forum members had expressed their concerns about fellow members requesting for articles on LIS-Forum. Based on these concerns we had decided not to encourage members requesting for fulltext articles on LIS-Forum. In fact as a moderator, I had sent a message requesting members not to make use of LIS-Forum for document delivery service. Quite a few members reacted to this message saying that LIS-Forum should *Not Discourage* members occasionally requesting for some fulltext articles from the fellow members. Owing to this popular demand and also the fact that the number of posting on LIS-Forum were very minimal, we had decided to entertain requests for articles from the members only under 'fair use' clause. Now the issue has been raised again. Till we take a policy decision on this matter, members should use LIS-Forum only as a last resort for their article needs and it should strictly adhere to the 'fair use' clause, i.e., for personal study/research only. There have been occasional requests for fulltext articles by the LIS-Forum members working for commercial organizations. Such requests are not entertained at all. I hope we have been able to adhere to this stance of not to entertain article requests from commercial organizations is being consistently followed. At least in future we will ensure that requests for fulltext articles from commercial organizations will *not be entertained* on LIS-Forum Thanks for your cooperation and support. - moderator >Dear Moderator, >I wonder if it is a good thing to circulate messages asking for pdfs of >articles by email? Isn't this against copyright policies of most >publishers? By the way, Lis-forum messages are available to the public >via google searches also so perhaps we should worry about this. (For this >reason, you need not circulate this message but you could take a policy >decision based on this) With best wishes, Girija

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