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

Information Literacy
by Mailing List Manager 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 21:44:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Anil Kumar <anil67(a)yahoo.com> Dear All, Are there any Information Literacy modules developed for students of higher education in India? Regards H Anil Kumar Nirma University Ahmedabad

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Brochure : National Seminar on Digitization : Practical Experiences
by Srels 08 Jun '04

08 Jun '04

Dear Sir, Please arrange to announce the following seminar announcement for the benefit of the members : Thanks. Dr. K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, Upstairs, 42nd Cross III Block, Rajajinagar BANGALORE 560 010. Ph: 23305109 ; E-mail : srels(a)vsnl.com ; ************** Seminar Announcement: NATIONAL SEMINAR ON DIGITIZATION: PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES. and SARADA RANGANATHAN ENDOWMENT LECTURES (2004) Objectives of the Seminar : Digitization is currently a buzz word. A variety of institutions (libraries, information and documentation centres, and other corporate bodies) have been digitizing documents of various kinds (text, manuscript, and image) on different media. The purpose includes development of databases and/or archival resources, to preserve, access, retrieve and disseminate information and documents. Digitization may also form the basis for creating products such as learning/teaching packages. A variety of software and techniques are being used. Some of the efforts have been successful while others have not been so. Nevertheless, many institutions are interested in digitization, and wish to learn from the experiences of those who have already undertaken digitization. An objective of this Seminar is to bring together for exchange of ideas those with experience in and those who have plans for, digitization. Papers are invited on practical experiences and case studies on the following aspects, but not exclusive of other aspects: 1.Use and evaluation of software and techniques for digitization (text, manuscript, image, sound, etc.) 2. Special aspects of digitization for archiving and preservation. 3.Classification, cataloguing and indexing methods, tools and techniques. Standards, meta-data, authority files, vocabulary control etc. 4. Searching, retrieval, and user-interfaces. 5. Copyright and other intellectual property issues. 6. Management, economics, and costs. 7. Handling non-Roman Scripts. Authors are requested to focus on practical experiences with digitization. The final paper should not exceed 5,000 (five thousand) words or 15 pages including figures, tables and annexes. An extended abstract of about 3-4 pages of the proposed paper should be submitted in advance. It will be refereed. Authors whose proposed papers are accepted will receive guidelines for preparing the final paper and its submission. Important dates : 25 June 2004: Last date for receipt of extended abstract by the Secretariat. 5 July 2004: Authors will be informed of the acceptance or otherwise of the paper. 25 July 2004: Last date for receipt of final paper by the Secretariat. 9-11 August 2004 : Seminar and SRELS Lectures. The extended abstract may be sent to the Secretariat as an e-mail document. Contact Details : The Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross III Block, Rajajinagar Bangalore 560 010, India. Ph: (080) 23305109. E-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com ******** Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Lectures (2004) Natural Language Processing in Information Storage and Retrieval by Dr.K.Narayanamurthy, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad >From 9-11 August at 4.30 - 6.00 p.m. each day

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Newsbreaks
by Shyam Prasad pujar 08 Jun '04

08 Jun '04

Dear Members, Information Today in its latest newsbreaks has listed following two important news items. You may please go through the links for more information. Elsevier Allows Open Access Self-Archiving By Robin Peek In a move that has stunned both the publishing community and the academic world, major journal publisher Elsevier is going to permit open access self-archiving for almost all of its journal titles. Under the new policy it will permit authors to self-archive their materials. This move will not change Elsevier^�s subscription model for funding. -->http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb040607-2.shtml New Version of DOAJ Now Available Lund University Libraries has launched phase 2 of the Directory of Open Access Journals. The new version of DOAJ now includes records at article level and a search functionality allowing users to search articles in potentially all open access journals.The directory now contains information about more than 1,100 open access journals, i.e., quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the Web. -->http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/wnd040607.shtml Regards, S.M. Pujar ********************************************************************** Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * Phone: (022) 28400919-21 Extn: 514 * * Fax: (022) 28402752 * * E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in * * URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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FW: India sets up alliance on ICTs for the poor
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jun '04

08 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 10:06:31 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> India sets up alliance on ICTs for the poor T V Padma 3 June 2004 Source: SciDev.Net [NEW DELHI] A group of Indian organizations has set up a 'national alliance' to ensure that the rural poor are not excluded from the benefits of information and communications technologies (ICTs). The National Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies for Basic Human Needs was launched at a meeting of more than 50 development experts at the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) in Chennai last week. Comprising representatives of the Indian government, civil society organisations, academics and industry, it aims to take knowledge-based services to all of India's 600,000 villages by 2007, when the country celebrates its 60th year of independence. Those attending last week's meeting established seven task forces to look into the issues of connectivity, content, policy, capacity building, resources, organisation, and management and programme design, respectively, and to develop a common minimum action plan. "This is the first time that a national level task force on ICT led by civil societies has been formed," says Basheerhamad Shadrach, director of OneWorld South Asia and a joint secretary with the alliance. Government and industry led the previous two nationwide ICT initiatives in India, with limited participation from civil society. Several Indian initiatives on ICT already exist, some aimed for example at social empowerment, others being promoted by the commercial sector or offering viable models of revenue generation and sustainable livelihoods. A convergence and synergy among these could help reach the alliance's goal, according to information scientists from MSSRF who attended the meeting. Several argued that providing broadband connectivity to rural homes at affordable costs and integrating it with diverse technological applications could be the key to helping the poor benefit from ICT. The national alliance would help India leapfrog from a few thousand information kiosks to a knowledge-based rural economy, they say. They advocate converting information kiosks into multipurpose community centres. Such communication hubs could provide multiple telephone and communication services to the village, including a 'virtual academy' and training centre; support centre for rural entrepreneurship; and outlet for banking, financial and insurance services, and trading. In addition, they could serve as social empowerment organisations and support centres providing health, education and livelihoods information and services. The participants agreed to piggyback on existing government and private ICT infrastructure to create such community knowledge centres. To catalyse technology innovation for rural ICT, they recommended setting up a national resource centre for learning and experimenting innovations in rural ICTs. Those attending the meeting also urged a greater role for ICT in preparing for and managing disasters. Shadrach says the Indian government "should liberate the vast amount of spatial data" available through its remote sensing satellites for use by grassroots civil society organisations. 'Geospatial empowerment' is key to local resource planning, he argues. But such data is only made available to district administrative officials, and is too technical for lay people to comprehend. http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=1406&languag e=1

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Announcing: _RSS(sm): Rich Site Services_
by Mailing List Manager 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 11:18:47 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Mckiernan others might be interested in the following site maintained by Rajesh Jain: http://www.blogstreet.com/bin/showcat.cgi?catcode=lib This leads you to some 3oplus RSS feeds related to Library Weblogs. I wonder why interest in RSS feeds as a resouce for "Current Alerting Services" is not picking up in India. Among the Indian newspapers Indian Express offers RSS feeds. Why don't you try it? To preserve the context I am quoting Mckiernan's posting in full. Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, Turkapally Village, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residece: +91(40)27846631 -----Original Message----- Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 15:16:48 -0500 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> RSS(sm): Rich Site Services I am pleased to announce the establishment of my latest Web registry titled_RSS(sm): Rich Site Services_ [truncated]

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cardiology, radiology, & physicians & American directoty
by Mailing List Manager 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

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Information about pesticide
by Mailing List Manager 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 09:56:06 -0700 (PDT) From: prakash in <prakash_inp(a)yahoo.com> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Dear all, I would like to know which Pesticides are being used in the libraries. Kindly give me the details. Regards Prakash ===== Prakash I.N. Librarian Indian Business Academy Lakshmipura, Tataguni Post, Kanakapura Main Road, Bangalore � 560 062. Ph : 080- 28435931-34 Ext. : 252. Fax : 080- 28435935 E-Mail : prakash(a)ibainternational.org

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OA archives in India
by Mailing List Manager 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:35:02 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is an excellent article on why scientists and scholars, their institutions and funding agencies should focus on setting up institutional archives (or repositories). Stevan Harnad is simply unbeatable in his clartity of thinking and lucidity in exposition! I am surprised at the tremendous indifference prevailing in India. Only a handful of institutions either have set up or are setting up interoperable institutional open access archives in India. Scientists appear to be the least scientific when it comes to communicating and publicising their reserach findings. Steve Lawrence of NEC Research, Princeton, and a muli-institutional team comprising researchers fromSouthampton, Loughborough, Edinburgh and Quebec Universities have shown that papers available in the public domain are cited several times more often than papers available only in toll-access journals. And even toll access journals now permit authors to archive their papers in their own institutional archives. A few days ago, Ms Karen Hunter, Senior Vice President for Strategy at Elsevier, wrote to Stevan Harnad about the welcome change in Elsevier's policy which now allows authors to archive their papers in their institutional archives. And yet our scientists, laboratory directors, vice chancellors and heads of funding agencies have not proactively demanded, set up or supported setting up of institutional archives! On the brighter side, both the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy and CSIR are aware of the importance and benefits of Open Access and have supported a few workshops. INSA has also signed the Berlin Declaration. There are a few individuals - such as T B Rajashekar, A R D Prasad and D K Sahu and of late Sunil Abraham - who are willing to share their expertise with individuals and institutions keen to set up institutional archives/repositories. I wish their tribe increases. And more importantly, I wish librarians and scientists all over India set up archives at their institutions. Let us gain greater visibility for the research we perform. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------- Here is is a synopsis, based on the current data and trends, concerning: CENTRAL DISCIPLINE-BASED SELF-ARCHIVING versus DISTRIBUTED INSTITUTION-BASED SELF-ARCHIVING: (1) The number of articles in the biggest of the central archives, which have been around for some time, is growing at an unchanging linear rate that is far too slow. <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0043.gif> (2) The number of articles in individual institutional archives -- *when they have institutional self-archiving policies* <http://software.eprints.org/handbook/departments.php> -- is growing faster than any central archive. <http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php> (3) There are few central archives, their number is growing very slowly, and it requires far more concerted action to create new ones. (4) There are many institutional archives, their numbers are growing fast, and it takes only a little local action to create new ones. <http://software.eprints.org/handbook/managing-background.php> (5) There is a centralized funding and upkeep problem with centralized archives, and often no persistent "entity" to ensure they keep going. (6) With institutional archives the costs are distributed across the universities, and each university is a persistent entity. (*7) There is no entity behind a centralized archive to mandate and monitor their filling, nor is there any shared interest between the author and the archive in the enhanced impact that motivates authors to self-archive. (*8) The author's institution is in a position to create institutional archives and to mandate and monitor their filling (with an institutional policy of OA provision), and there is a strong shared interest between the author and the archive in the enhanced impact that motivates authors to self-archive. <http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php> (9) Although 80% of journals have already given their green light to author self-archiving, but many of them are still reluctant to sanction archiving in 3rd-party archives (i.e., other than those of the author's institution or publisher) for fear of sanctioning cut-rate 3rd-party publisher-rivals. (The fear is ungrounded for many reasons, but it is there as a further retardant on central archiving.) <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Romeo/romeosum.html> (10) OAI-compliance has made all OAI archives -- central and institutional -- equivalent, interoperable, jointly harvestable and searchable. The most important points are *7 and *8: Swan & Brown (2004) "asked authors to say how they would feel if their employer or funding body required them to deposit copies of their published articles in repositories. The vast majority... said they would do so willingly." Swan, A. & Brown, S.N. (2004) JISC/OSI Journal Authors Survey Report. <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/JISCOAreport1.pdf> <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3628.html> Swan, A. & Brown, S.N. (2004) Authors and open access publishing. Learned Publishing 2004:17(3) 219-224. I am pretty sure that many of the misplaced expectations for central archives (rather like the misplaced expectations for OA Journals) are simply based on a misunderstanding of the nature of OA, the motivation for OA, and the fastest and surest means of providing OA. All means are welcome, but please, let us invest our efforts in proportion to their power and probability of success, based on the available evidence and reason, and not on the basis of preconceptions (which are almost always papyrocentric in unconscious ways, and often obsolete) or abstract speculations. Pertinent Prior Amsci Forum Topic-Threads: "Central vs. Distributed Archives" <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0293.html> "Central versus institutional self-archiving" <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3206.html> "Association for Computer Machinery Copyright/Self-Archiving Policy" <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1944.html> "Open Letter to Philip Campbell, Editor, Nature" <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2601.html> "Nature's vs. Science's Embargo Policy" <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0497.html> "Elsevier Science Policy on Public Web Archiving Needs Re-Thinking" <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2071.html> "Elsevier Gives Authors Green Light for Open Access Self-Archiving" <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3770.html> "Draft Policy for Self-Archiving University Research Output" <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2549.html> "University policy mandating self-archiving of research output" <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3438.html> Stevan Harnad

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Announcing: _RSS(sm): Rich Site Services_
by Mailing List Manager 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 15:16:48 -0500 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> RSS(sm): Rich Site Services I am pleased to announce the establishment of my latest Web registry titled_RSS(sm): Rich Site Services_ _RSS(sm)_ is a categorized registry of library services that are delivered or provided through RSS/XML feeds and is available at: [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm ] RSS is an initialism for RDF Site Summary / Rich Site Summary / Really Simple Syndication [ http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA296443 ] RSS(sm) has been seeded with examples in the following groups: | ANNOUNCEMENTS | INTERNET RESOURCES GUIDES | NEW BOOKS | NEW JOURNAL ISSUES | NEWS | For each entry within a category, a link is provided to a RSS (and/or XML) link for the item, or an information page that provides a subsequent link (or more). I am greatly interested in learning about other examples of ANY and ALL RSS service(s) provided by any type of Library (academic, corporate, public, research, special, etc.) for potential inclusion in this new registry. I am particularly interested in the use of syndication services such as that provided by Amazon.com [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/xs/syndicate.html/ ] for Collection Development (or other library service), as well as any that relate to other types of library services (e.g., ADMINISTRATION | ACQUISTIONS | CATALOGING | CIRCULATION | COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT | INSTRUCTION | INTERLIBRARY LOAN | ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS CATALOGS | REFERENCE SERVICES | TABLE OF CONTENTS , ETC|) Regards, Gerry Gerry McKiernan Syndicated Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu The RSS(sm) registry was inspired byrecent postings to the Web4Lib e-list [ http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive.html ]

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The Green and Gold Roads to Open Access to Refereed Research
by Mailing List Manager 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 12:01:47 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Friends: Here is a well argued case for interoperable institutional open access archives by Stevan Harnad. The full paper will be presented at the Free Science Panel at Wizards of OS 3: The Future of the Digital Commons, to be held at Berlin during 10-12 June. For deatils of the conference, please visit http://wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=36&L=3. Thanks and regards. Arun [forwarded mail ...] The Green and Gold Roads to Open Access to Refereed Research <http://wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=708&L=3> ABSTRACT: The problem of journal pricing/affordability and the problem of article access/impact are not the same problem, the solution to the one is not the solution to the other, and it is a great mistake to treat them as if they were the same. The solution to the journal pricing/affordability problem is lower journal prices and/or a conversion to "golden" journal publishing (Open Access [OA] Journals whose articles are free to all user online): <http://www.doaj.org/> The solution to the access/impact problem is for authors to provide Open Access to all their journal articles in order to maximize their usage and impact, either by publishing them in OA journals or by publishing them in conventional journals but also self-archiving them on their institutional OA websites (preferably OAI-compliant Eprint Archives for visibility and interoperability): <http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php> Over 80% of journals are already "green," i.e., they have given their official green light to author self-archiving: <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Romeo/romeosum.html> But only 5% of journals are gold (i.e., OA journals). It takes far more time, effort, resources and risk to create or convert gold journals, whereas it takes virtually no time, effort, resources or risk to create and fill OA Archives. Several studies have now confirmed the dramatic degree to which OA enhances research impact: <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/21.html> It is now time for institutions to adopt official policies requiring all their researchers to provide OA to all their research articles, via either the gold or green road: <http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php> What is holding this up is partly author/institution inertia but partly also an unfortunate tendency to conflate the article access/impact problem with the journal pricing/affordability problem, and hence to focus solely or mainly on the slow, narrow and uncertain golden road (5%) to OA, rather than the fast, wide, and certain green road (95%). Stevan Harnad

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