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New Year wishes
by SRELS 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Members of the Staff of Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore, wish all the subscribers of LISFORUM a very happy and prosperous New Year. K.N. Prasad Executive Officer

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Position of Information Officer at ICICI Knowledge Park
by aparajita＠icicikp.com 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Dear Friends, ICICI Knowledge Park has an exciting opportunity in our Virtual Information Centre (VIC) at Hyderabad. VIC is a unique facility offered by ICICI Knowledge Park, with the support of DSIR, Government of India. It provides a wide range of services with the cooperation of several libraries and information centers that form the IKP knowledge network; focused on Biotechnology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Information technology, Material Sciences and Telecommunications.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> As an Information Officer, you will be responsible for the development, operations and maintenance of the VIC, for providing networking and information support to the Park tenants and liaison with Knowledge Network members. Candidates must possess a Masters Degree in Library and Information Science; MLS/ MLISc. from Library Schools of repute/ ADIS from DRTC or INSDOC. Our ideal candidate will be people-oriented, possess excellent organizational and communication skills, along with a team-oriented, flexible work style. 1 to 2 years of professional library experience is required, candidates having experience in Virtual or digital library setup will be preferred. ICICI Knowledge Park offers a professional work environment, competitive wages and an excellent benefits package. Please send your resume to a <mailto:Aparajita@icicikp.com> parajita(a)icicikp.com Best regards, Aparajita ----- Aparajita Suman Information Officer Virtual Information Centre ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500 078 INDIA < mailto:aparajita@icicikp.com> Phone - Office: +91(40)2348 0054 Fax: +91(40)2348 0007 Dear Friends, ICICI Knowledge Park has an exciting opportunity in our Virtual Information Centre (VIC) at Hyderabad. VIC is a unique facility offered by ICICI Knowledge Park, with the support of DSIR, Government of India. It provides a wide range of services with the cooperation of several libraries and information centers that form the IKP knowledge network; focused on Biotechnology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Information technology, Material Sciences and Telecommunications. As an Information Officer, you will be responsible for the development, operations and maintenance of the VIC, for providing networking and information support to the Park tenants and liaison with Knowledge Network members. Candidates must possess a Masters Degree in Library and Information Science; MLS/ MLISc. from Library Schools of repute/ ADIS from DRTC or INSDOC. Our ideal candidate will be people-oriented, possess excellent organizational and communication skills, along with a team-oriented, flexible work style. 1 to 2 years of professional library experience is required, candidates having experience in Virtual or digital library setup will be preferred. ICICI Knowledge Park offers a professional work environment, competitive wages and an excellent benefits package. Please send your resume to a mailto:Aparajita@icicikp.com parajita(a)icicikp.com Best regards, Aparajita ----- Aparajita Suman Information Officer Virtual Information Centre ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500 078 INDIA < mailto:aparajita@icicikp.com mailto:aparajita@icicikp.com > Phone - Office: +91(40)2348 0054 Fax: +91(40)2348 0007

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OA and print publishers
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Friends: With the advent of Internet and email, you thought that the post office would have become less important. Please read the latest US Postal Service Annual report (for the year 2005), which is just out. United States Postal Service Source: United States Postal Service (USPS) USPS Annual Report 2005 >From press release: "The results are in - the U.S. Postal Service ended 2005 with a record sixth consecutive year of growth in productivity, wiped out its debt and delivered fifty percent more mail to 32 million more homes and businesses than it did 20 years ago while doing it at 1985 staffing levels. These results are highlighted in the just released 2005 Annual Report of the U.S. Postal Service." With the advent of Open access journals [and open access archives], other professional print journals wouldn't die, as feared by the writer(s) of the recent report of the Royal Society! Physics journals and the central archive (arXiv) coexist for the past 15 years. Free availability of Internet downloaded music has not resulted in music recording companies closing down. Commonsense would make us believe that heavy objects cannot remain up in the air for even a minute, and that thanks to gravity they will fall down. Every day thousands of planes, weighing in tonnes, are crisscrossing the skies at altitudes of 30,000 feet. The same way, contrary to the 'commonsense thinking' of many who believe that giving information free on the Internet will destroy the publishing industry, it will continue to thrive. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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A new book by John Willinsky
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Open Access Source: Inside Higher Ed 'The Access Principle' "Paying for information? In print? That's a model that's just so early 20th century, according to The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship, published last week by MIT Press. The book reviews the various models to bring the dissemination of knowledge online and to make it free, and along the way, the book criticizes plenty of publishing practices, copyright interpretations and scholarly traditions. John Willinsky, professor of language and literacy education at the University of British Columbia, has devoted much of his scholarship to the ideas behind the book. Among other things, he directs the Public Knowledge Project, which is financed by the Canadian government to promote the free exchange of information. Willinsky responded to questions about the themes of his book." --

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Journal price increase since 1993
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Friends: Do you want to know how journal prices (annual subscription costs) are increasing year by year? To gain more perspective about the history of price increases since 1993, read the report. History of SPI since 1993 (XLS, 61Kb). Please visit http://informationservices.swets.com/web/show/id=52169. You will certainly realise why we should promote open access archiving worldwide! Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Federated searching of archives
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Friends: I stumbled on this news item on open access to US archival information. With the Right to Information we in India should also have such access to government information. ---- National Archives and Records Administration Source: AP Archives Smooths Web Access to Records If you ever used the Access to Archival Databases (AAD) from the National Archives of the U.S. it was a pain in the rear. You had to search one database at a time. Well, that's changed. Yes, it's another example of meta or federated searching coming to life. From the AP article: "The revamped Access to Archival Databases site -- http://aad.archives.gov/aad/ -- allows the public to search for free through 85 million documents in 475 files amassed by more than 30 federal agencies." From the site itself, "...Feature global free- text searching across all series and files, in addition to our standard fielded search, and easier and faster ways to find the series and files you want!" Thanks to Randy H. for the news tip. I think the challenge now will being getting reaching these databases. I've been having trouble for the past hour. --- Subbiah Arunachalam

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Articles Indexing
by K A. Sardesai 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Dear All Lis-forum readers, I fully agree with the points open for discussion in case of articles inedxing.Saiful presently I have not yet started the same in my Library (RBI, DESACS Bandra)because of the issues raised by you ,I am facing practically in my profession.Articles indexing is no doubt one of the best service in our profession but then it takes your complete devotion and keen knowledge in the subject which requires heavy reading and awareness and up date knowledge in the respective field.The solo Librarian couldnot offer this service to the users due to lack of human resource to input the proper and concise text.It would be better to opt for the subscription of such databases Libraries or corporates like Informatics, Dialog etc.Manjunath has given a good suggestion to index such journals only which are not included in internationaly published databases. Also I came across with one of the well known organization working for Articles indexing in Libsys but if you ask for a particular back dated article it may not be available immediately may be due to lack of proper maintenance.In India I think there is a lot of manpower and work assimilated but who cares? is the mentality.But yes there are people who devote to the profession like information providers, librarians and Dear Saiful we are one of them . As it is aopen discussion I opined it personnaly and for Articles Indexing We should be selective as per requirement of the organizational needs. Articles Indexing in Libsys is sucessfully working in Reserve Bank of India, Department of Economic Analysis & Computer Services, Library, 6th floor,Mumbai 400001 under the Librarianship of Dr D Kamalavijayan Chief Librarian. kshipra sardesai Saiful we met at DRTC Digital Library workshop and IASLIC 2005 at Grand Haytt , Santacruz.

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article indexing
by Anuranjana Bharti 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Hello all, I would appreciate if you tell me about the scientific libraries using Libsys for journal article indexing. Thanks, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anuranjana Bharti Library Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology Deptt. of Atomic Energy Indore - 452 001 India ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: article indexing
by vaguloju venkateshwarlu 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

dear sir/madam! NRSA(National Remote Sensing Agency) Library in hyderabad using LIBYS for article indexing Venkateshwarlu,V Hyderabad dear sir/madam! NRSA(National Remote Sensing Agency) Library in hyderabad using LIBYS for article indexing Venkateshwarlu,V Hyderabad http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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Open Access : Science and Scholarship in India
by Smita Chandra 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Dear Colleagues, Please find below an invitation from the LIS Department, University of Mumbai, Kalina, for a talk on "Open Access". We request you to please find time for this very interesting talk by a renowned speaker on the subject. We also request you to kindly forward this mail/message to your scientific community, and others who might be interested or benefit Thank you, Smita-- Talk on "Open Access: What it can do for science and scholarship in India" by Dr.Alma Swan (Director, Key Perspectives, UK) at Conference Hall, Jawaharlal Nehru Library University of Mumbai, Kalina, Santacruz (E), Mumbai 400 096 from 03.30 PM to 05.30 PM (Free for those interested. Lecture followed by discussions) Contact : Mrs.Rajhans, LIS Department, University of Mumbai. Ph. 022-26526679 (989232042) (rajhansa(a)yahoo.com) Ms.Ravija Srivastava, LIS Department, University of Mumbai. Ph.:981932070 (ravija_srivastava(a)yahoo.com) Ms.Vasumati Sriganesh, Director, QMed Services Pvt.Ltd.,Mumbai. Ph.022-28229223 & 9867292230 (vasu(a)qmedin.com) Dr.D.K.Sahu, Director, Medknow Publications, Mumbai . Ph. 022-5649181 Summary of the Talk Open access to research findings is the most effective means to enhance the communication, discussion and use of the outputs of scholarly endeavor. Scholars' findings have traditionally been largely locked away from all but the lucky few whose libraries were able to purchase expensive journals. Now the World Wide Web has made it possible for scholars to share their results, ideas and inspirations on a truly worldwide basis, whilst still preserving the best of the traditional way of publishing their results - high-quality peer review and editing procedures. Open Access is the great equalizer when it comes to scholarly communication. Dr. Alma Swan shall describe the ways to achieve Open Access, what advantages it brings to scholars and scientists in all parts of the world and what it can do for India's own scholarship and science now and in the foreseeable future. About the Speaker Dr. Alma Swan obtained a first class honours degree in zoology in 1974 and a PhD in cell biology in 1978 from Southampton University. After research fellowships funded by the Cancer Research Campaign at Southampton General Hospital and St. George's Hospital Medical School (London), she took a position as Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Leicester. Her research was in medical cell biology and she taught a range of courses from vertebrate biology to the biology of cancer. In 1985, she moved into science publishing as managing editor of a Pergamon Press (later Elsevier Science) biomedical research indexing service, published both in print and online. In 1996 she jointly founded Key Perspectives. Though she has worked in the commercial sphere for 20 years, Alma retains links with academic life: for four years she was tutor and consultant for the Open University Business School's MBA programme and since 1991 has been tutor for two business strategy courses on Warwick Business School's MBA programme. She holds honorary roles as business mentor and teacher for the Institute for Entrepreneurship (part of the School of Management) at Southampton University. Alma has an MBA from Warwick Business School and is a Member of the Institute of Biology. She is currently an independent consultant on scholarly communication issues and has been working on projects concerned with Open Access to the research literature for several years now, carrying out original research, writing reports and articles and giving many presentation. All her publicly available work can be found in the Open Access Archive on her organization's website at www.keyperspectives.co.uk. --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. Dear Colleagues, Please find below an invitation from the LIS Department, University of Mumbai, Kalina, for a talk on "Open Access". We request you to please find time for this very interesting talk by a renowned speaker on the subject. We also request you to kindly forward this mail/message to your scientific community, and others who might be interested or benefit Thank you, Smita-- Talk on " Open Access: What it can do for science and scholarship in India " by Dr.Alma Swan ( Director, Key Perspectives, UK ) at Conference Hall, Jawaharlal Nehru Library University of Mumbai, Kalina, Santacruz (E), Mumbai 400 096 from 03.30 PM to 05.30 PM (Free for those interested. Lecture followed by discussions) Contact : Mrs.Rajhans, LIS Department, University of Mumbai. Ph. 022-26526679 (989232042) ( mailto:rajhansa@yahoo.com rajhansa(a)yahoo.com ) Ms.Ravija Srivastava, LIS Department, University of Mumbai. Ph.:981932070 ( mailto:ravija_srivastava@yahoo.com ravija_srivastava(a)yahoo.com ) Ms.Vasumati Sriganesh, Director, http://www.qmedin.com/ QMed Services Pvt.Ltd .,Mumbai. Ph.022-28229223 & 9867292230 ( mailto:vasu@qmedin.com vasu(a)qmedin.com ) Dr.D.K.Sahu, Director, http://www.medknow.com/ Medknow Publications , Mumbai . Ph. 022-5649181 Summary of the Talk Open access to research findings is the most effective means to enhance the communication, discussion and use of the outputs of scholarly endeavor. Scholars' findings have traditionally been largely locked away from all but the lucky few whose libraries were able to purchase expensive journals. Now the World Wide Web has made it possible for scholars to share their results, ideas and inspirations on a truly worldwide basis, whilst still preserving the best of the traditional way of publishing their results - high-quality peer review and editing procedures. Open Access is the great equalizer when it comes to scholarly communication. Dr. Alma Swan shall describe the ways to achieve Open Access, what advantages it brings to scholars and scientists in all parts of the world and what it can do for India's own scholarship and science now and in the foreseeable future. About the Speaker Dr. Alma Swan obtained a first class honours degree in zoology in 1974 and a PhD in cell biology in 1978 from Southampton University. After research fellowships funded by the Cancer Research Campaign at Southampton General Hospital and St. George's Hospital Medical School (London), she took a position as Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Leicester. Her research was in medical cell biology and she taught a range of courses from vertebrate biology to the biology of cancer. In 1985, she moved into science publishing as managing editor of a Pergamon Press (later Elsevier Science) biomedical research indexing service, published both in print and online. In 1996 she jointly founded Key Perspectives. Though she has worked in the commercial sphere for 20 years, Alma retains links with academic life: for four years she was tutor and consultant for the Open University Business School's MBA programme and since 1991 has been tutor for two business strategy courses on Warwick Business School's MBA programme . She holds honorary roles as business mentor and teacher for the Institute for Entrepreneurship (part of the School of Management) at Southampton University. Alma has an MBA from Warwick Business School and is a Member of the Institute of Biology. She is currently an independent consultant on scholarly communication issues and has been working on projects concerned with Open Access to the research literature for several years now, carrying out original research, writing reports and articles and giving many presentation. All her publicly available work can be found in the Open Access Archive on her organization's website at http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/ www.keyperspectives.co.uk . Yahoo! for Good - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/charity/*http://brand.yahoo.com/cyb… Make a difference this year.

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