December 2005 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

Microsoft, MCI announce PC-to-phone calling partnership
by rahul kumar 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Dear all SEATTLE Microsoft and MCI said Monday they'll soon offer a service that lets customers place calls from their personal computers to regular phones. But the service will permit only outbound calls at first, even as rivals Yahoo and America Online allow instant messaging users to receive calls from conventional phones as well as to call out. Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, and MCI, the telecommunications provider being acquired by Verizon Communications, said they will begin a test run of the service in the United States this week. Broader availability is set for the first half of next year. Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology(Deemed University) A-10 , Sec-62, Noida(UP) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping Dear all SEATTLE Microsoft and MCI said Monday they'll soon offer a service that lets customers place calls from their personal computers to regular phones. But the service will permit only outbound calls at first, even as rivals Yahoo and America Online allow instant messaging users to receive calls from conventional phones as well as to call out. Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, and MCI, the telecommunications provider being acquired by Verizon Communications, said they will begin a test run of the service in the United States this week. Broader availability is set for the first half of next year. Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology(Deemed University) A-10 , Sec-62, Noida(UP) Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/footer/shopping/*http://shopping.yahoo.com/;… Yahoo! Shopping

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Microsoft is expanding the reach of its mobile e-mail and IM services in India.
by rahul kumar 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Dear information Sc. and Library Patrons. The software giant's MSN division and messaging company Mobile 365 announced Tuesday that they've reached deals with five Indian mobile service providers. Under the deals, subscribers will be able to use text messaging on their cell phones to receive and reply to e-mail sent to their Hotmail accounts. They will also be able to use the MSN Messenger service from their phones. read in detail at http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-5993520.html Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology(Deemed University) A-10 , Sec-62, Noida(UP) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping Dear information Sc. and Library Patrons. The software giant's MSN division and messaging company Mobile 365 announced Tuesday that they've reached deals with five Indian mobile service providers. Under the deals, subscribers will be able to use text messaging on their cell phones to receive and reply to e-mail sent to their Hotmail accounts. They will also be able to http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5992141.html?tag=nl use the MSN Messenger service from their phones. read in detail at http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-5993520.html http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-5993520.html Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology(Deemed University) A-10 , Sec-62, Noida(UP) Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/footer/shopping/*http://shopping.yahoo.com/;… Yahoo! Shopping

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HarperCollins to create digital warehouse of books
by rahul kumar 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Dear all , NEW YORK U.S. publisher HarperCollins said Monday it plans to convert some 20,000 books in its catalogue into digital form in a bid to rein in potential copyright violations on the Internet. The move comes as the U.S. publishing industry is bringing lawsuits against Web search leader Google over its effort to scan copyrighted books in libraries a move the industry fears would set a dangerous copyright precedent. get the detail information from the link below http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-12-12-harpercollins-digital-books_x.… Regards Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology A-10, Sec-62, Noida(UP) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping Dear all , NEW YORK U.S. publisher HarperCollins said Monday it plans to convert some 20,000 books in its catalogue into digital form in a bid to rein in potential copyright violations on the Internet. The move comes as the U.S. publishing industry is bringing lawsuits against Web search leader Google over its effort to scan copyrighted books in libraries a move the industry fears would set a dangerous copyright precedent. get the detail information from the link below http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-12-12-harpercollins-digital-books_x.… http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-12-12-harpercollins-digital-books_x.… Regards Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology A-10, Sec-62, Noida(UP) Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/footer/shopping/*http://shopping.yahoo.com/;… Yahoo! Shopping

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LIS policy at National level
by Saji S. Nair 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Dear All, We have a plethora of policies in various disciplines and sub-disciplines at the national level. In our field, the National Policy on Library & Information System (NAPLIS) submitted in 1986 to the Government of India wasn't adopted. Eventhough an LIS policy is not a panacea, it could safeguard our professional interests to a large extent. In this era of Information & Communication Technologies, can we moot another one or restructure the NAPLIS? Bye Saji S. Nair Regional Cancer Centre Library Trivandrum Kerala _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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Traditional Knowledge encyclopedia
by Saji S. Nair 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Dear All, Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) project of NISCAIR is planning for a free electronic encycopedia, as an effort to tackle 'biopiracy'. The encylopedia comprising of 30 million pages will be made available at the public domain next year. See the news at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4506382.stm India hits back in 'bio-piracy' battle Bye Saji S. Nair Regional Cancer Centre Library Trivandrum Kerala _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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Life sciences in semantic web
by Subbiah Arunachalam 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

>From Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News" More on NeuroCommons Paul Krill, Semantic Web eyed for life sciences data, InfoWorld, December 9, 2005. Excerpt: The Semantic Web is getting a boost in the life sciences arena. The Semantic Web involves a concept in which data from multiple sources and ontologies can be integrated into a single information space. Experiment design automation (XDA) software vendor Teranode, which focuses on software for life sciences, plans to collaborate with Science Commons to build a neurology repository for the Semantic Web. Called Neurocommons.org, the project will provide a free repository of neurology-related data, tools and pathway knowledge for use by public and private researchers. Science Commons is an effort launched to promote the free flow of scientific information....Science Commons will use the Teranode XDA infrastructure for Neurocommons.org. All content will be available in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) format, allowing for participating foundations to use a shared repository of research.

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OA in China - the debate has begun
by Subbiah Arunachalam 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

OA to publicly-funded journals coming in China Jia Hepeng, China launches campaign to boost local journals, SciDev.Net, December 7, 2005. Excerpt: The Chinese government has launched a campaign to encourage Chinese researchers to publish their results in domestic rather than international journals, and to place their results in free archives. "We will gradually make scientists publish research that is funded by the government agencies in leading domestic journals," said Wu Bo'er, director of the Department of Facilities and Financial Support of the Ministry of Science and Technology, at a meeting last week (30 November). At the heart of the campaign is a new fund that will provide financial support to between 300 and 500 of the country's 5,000 scientific journals. The money, whose total amount has yet to be announced, is intended to help the journals improve their editorial and print quality. Some journals will be encouraged to publish in English....At present, papers published by Chinese researchers in journals quoted in the Science Citation Index can bring substantial rewards, such as professorships, research grants and even housing. This has encouraged Chinese scientists to publish their results in foreign journals. To reverse the trend, Wu told SciDev.Net that Chinese scientists may eventually be required to publish their work domestically....Yu Zailin of Peking University disagrees with a ban on publishing in international journals, saying it would impede academic progress. He suggests that instead, Chinese scientists could be asked to write a Chinese paper to be published simultaneously or shortly after their foreign publication....Wang Li, chief editor of Changchun-based Journal of Jilin University, raises another concern. While he accepts that the government's campaign may help to strengthen the country's leading journals, he warns that it could have a less beneficial impact on other scientific publications. "If all Chinese researchers are encouraged to submit their papers to the leading journals, the middle and small-level domestic ones could suffer," says Wang....The government will also fund an online database of the full text of all papers published in journals selected to receive financial support. Both researchers and the public will have access to the database. Comment. I applaud the Chinese plan to improve many of its journals and provide OA to publicly-funded research and publicly-funded journals. However, I also support the concerns of Yu Zailin. One solution is to let researchers publish in the journals of their choice but expect them to deposit copies of their work in OA repositories. This is the approach taken by the NIH, Wellcome Trust, and RCUK. Researchers will still have an incentive to publish in the improved Chinese journals because of their new quality and new access policies.

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NewGednLib Version 2 - comments requested
by Jai Haravu 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

ends I am happy to announce the Beta testing of version 2.0 of NewGenLib. Both the librarian's Applet interface and the OPAC are under test and I welcome the comments and suggestions from professionals. I have provided two URLs which can be used in order to explore the version 2.0 OPAC. New features in The Applet Interface It will now be possible to import authority file records from the Library of Congress Authorities site. Authority records thus imported will become part of the local authority file and during cataloguing data entry the authority records can be seen. It is hoped that this will improve consistency and accuracy of catalogue records. Version 2.0 will allow a library to build an open archive of an Institution's pre-prints, post-prints, internal reports, slides, etc. This feature has become possible because version 2.0 supports the OAI-PMH protocol. Resources which are to be open-archived are identified specifically in the interface and only these records will be able to be harvested by others. The new version has also built functionality to connect to existing open archives compliant with OAI-PMH. The librarian can then selectively harvest records from the site. All such records then become an integral part of the local database and hence become searchable apart from the fact that they will point to the digital content attached to the harvested metadata record. Based on requests that we received from existing customers we have added a Simple template for cataloguing data entry. This template has the most widely used fields and will be adequate for most monograph records. Records created with this template will still be stored as MARC-21 records. For more complete cataloguing one would still need to use the General and/or MARC-21 templates. It will now be possible for a library to configure to receive news feeds from one or more Remote Site Summary (RSS) feeds. The news feeds can be viewed from the OPAC. The new version will allow a degree of customization of patron records. New features in the OPAC Two new search options have been provided: A Google-like search option using the Lucene search engine. names, single terms, or phrases can be entered in this and all fields of the metadata database are searched; and An Expert search interface that will allow a librarian/information specialist to enter complex search queries using the most important features of the Common Query Language (CQL). The possibility to choose between tabular and citation displays in the search output. The possibility to sort search output by different keys. The possibility for the search output to be exported (in addition to text and MARC-21 and MARC-XML) to the more recent MODS metadata standard and also to the AGRIS-Application Profile format in XML. The possibility for a user to define his/her SDI profile and constraints (time and type) and save it to the server. Once this is done, the software automatically pushes content to the user's email at intervals defined by the user. The possibility for viewing news feeds from one or more RSS sites already configured by the library. The viewing of statistics including OPAC usage. Kindly see the following OPACs and give us your comments/suggestions. ICRISAT, Patancheru OPAC at http://220.227.242.217:8080/newgenlibctxt/jsp/aportal/cataloguing/index1.jsp http://220.227.242.217:8080/newgenlibctxt/jsp/aportal/cataloguing/index1.jsp and An experimental digital library OPAC for the visually impaired at London at http://217.34.8.235:8080/newgenlibctxt/jsp/aportal/cataloguing/index1.jsp http://217.34.8.235:8080/newgenlibctxt/jsp/aportal/cataloguing/index1.jsp . The second OPAC has only a few records and is primarily to demonstrate how large font full text, audio and video can be accessed by visually impaired users. To test out this site please enter % in the opening page's text box and click Begin Search. You will see all the records in the database. Each of these has a digital attachment which can then be viewed by clicking the E-Resources icon and entering 1 and abc in the user id and password dialogue. I welcome comments and suggestions from professionals. L J Haravu Trustee Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management Dear friends I am happy to announce the Beta testing of version 2.0 of NewGenLib. Both the librarian's Applet interface and the OPAC are under test and I welcome the comments and suggestions from professionals. I have provided two URLs which can be used in order to explore the version 2.0 OPAC. New features in The Applet Interface It will now be possible to import authority file records from the Library of Congress Authorities site. Authority records thus imported will become part of the local authority file and during cataloguing data entry the authority records can be seen. It is hoped that this will improve consistency and accuracy of catalogue records. Version 2.0 will allow a library to build an open archive of an Institution's pre-prints, post-prints, internal reports, slides, etc. This feature has become possible because version 2.0 supports the OAI-PMH protocol. Resources which are to be open-archived are identified specifically in the interface and only these records will be able to be harvested by others. The new version has also built functionality to connect to existing open archives compliant with OAI-PMH. The librarian can then selectively harvest records from the site. All such records then become an integral part of the local database and hence become searchable apart from the fact that they will point to the digital content attached to the harvested metadata record. Based on requests that we received from existing customers we have added a Simple template for cataloguing data entry. This template has the most widely used fields and will be adequate for most monograph records. Records created with this template will still be stored as MARC-21 records. For more complete cataloguing one would still need to use the General and/or MARC-21 templates. It will now be possible for a library to configure to receive news feeds from one or more Remote Site Summary (RSS) feeds. The news feeds can be viewed from the OPAC. The new version will allow a degree of customization of patron records. New features in the OPAC Two new search options have been provided: A Google-like search option using the Lucene search engine. names, single terms, or phrases can be entered in this and all fields of the metadata database are searched; and An Expert search interface that will allow a librarian/information specialist to enter complex search queries using the most important features of the Common Query Language (CQL). The possibility to choose between tabular and citation displays in the search output. The possibility to sort search output by different keys. The possibility for the search output to be exported (in addition to text and MARC-21 and MARC-XML) to the more recent MODS metadata standard and also to the AGRIS-Application Profile format in XML. The possibility for a user to define his/her SDI profile and constraints (time and type) and save it to the server. Once this is done, the software automatically pushes content to the user's email at intervals defined by the user. The possibility for viewing news feeds from one or more RSS sites already configured by the library. The viewing of statistics including OPAC usage. Kindly see the following OPACs and give us your comments/suggestions. ICRISAT, Patancheru OPAC at http://220.227.242.217:8080/newgenlibctxt/jsp/aportal/cataloguing/index1.jsp and An experimental digital library OPAC for the visually impaired at London at http://217.34.8.235:8080/newgenlibctxt/jsp/aportal/cataloguing/index1.jsp. The second OPAC has only a few records and is primarily to demonstrate how large font full text, audio and video can be accessed by visually impaired users. To test out this site please enter % in the opening page's text box and click Begin Search. You will see all the records in the database. Each of these has a digital attachment which can then be viewed by clicking the E-Resources icon and entering 1 and abc in the user id and password dialogue. I welcome comments and suggestions from professionals. L J Haravu Trustee Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management

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International Library & Information Science Associations ( manjax4u )
by Manju manju 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

Dear All National & International Library & Information Science Associations http://my.execpc.com/~himmel/natassoc.html Your sincerely MANJUNATHA P.S SDM - IMD LIBRARY MYSORE

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OA policy of RCUK
by Subbiah Arunachalam 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Friends: Please visit <http://open-access.web.cern.ch/Open-Access/docs/20051207_LEMASURIER.pdf> to know about the stand taken by RCUK on OA. Regards. Arun

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