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26 Apr '05

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Inflibnet E-Journals Usage Statistics
by kshema prakash 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

Sorry for Cross Postings Dear Professionals: Many of the university libraries must be having access to Inflibnet E-Journals. We, at DEI have recently started accessing e-journals through Inflibnet. And, I need to monitor the usage of the e-journals and derive statistics over a period of an year. Can any body please tell me as to how to strategise and implement this task? Is it possible for a librarian to keep track of the usage, either by means of computers or by any other method? Kshema Prakash Faculty Librarian -Gr I DEI Central Library Dayalbagh Educational Institute Dayalbagh, Agra 282 005 9897190604, 3098227 Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Sorry for Cross Postings Dear Professionals: Many of the university libraries must be having access to Inflibnet E-Journals. We, at DEI have recently started accessing e-journals through Inflibnet. And, I need to monitor the usage of the e-journals and derive statistics over a period of an year. Can any body please tell me as to how to strategise and implement this task? Is it possible for a librarian to keep track of the usage, either by means of computers or by any other method? Kshema Prakash Faculty Librarian -Gr I DEI Central Library Dayalbagh Educational Institute Dayalbagh, Agra 282 005 9897190604, 3098227 http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Harrod's Librarian's Glossary and Reference Book
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

Harrod's Librarian's Glossary and Reference Book 10th edition / 2005 A Directory of Over 10,200 Terms, Organizations, Projects and Acronyms in the Areas of Information Management, Liberary Science, Publishing and Archive Management Listing over 10,000 entries, Harrod's Librarians' Glossary and Reference Book spans everything from traditional printing terms to search engines and from book formats to URLs. Revisions for this tenth edition have centred in particular on the Information Society and its ramifications, on the general shift towards electronic resources, and on e-commerce, e-learning and e-government, whilst at the same time maintaining key areas predating the IT revolution. Web terminology, URLs and IT terms have been checked and updated, and coverage of terms relating to digitization and digital resources, portals, multimedia and electronic products has been revised or expanded as necessary. Harrod's Glossary now includes Knowledge Management terms, and this edition has also focused on developments in the field of intellectual property, copyright, patents, privacy and piracy. It gives wide international coverage of names, addresses and URLs of major libraries and other important organizations in the information sector, of professional associations, fellowships, networks, government bodies, projects and programmes, consortia and institutions, influential reports and other key publications. Entries are included on classification and file coding, on records management and archiving and on both the latest and the most enduring aspects of library and information skills. Even with the Web at your fingertips Harrod's Librarians' Glossary and Reference Book remains a quicker reference for explaining specialist terms, jargon and acronyms, and for finding the URLs you need, whether you are working in a print-based or digital library, in archiving, records management, conservation, bookselling or publishing. Order Information: Monitor Information Services # 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda, Opp. Deepak Theatre, Hyderabad - 500 029, India Telephone: 040-55787065 Fax: +91-40-27552390 monitorsales(a)gmail.com http://www.monitorinfo.com Harrod's Librarian's Glossary and Reference Book 10th edition / 2005 A Directory of Over 10,200 Terms, Organizations, Projects and Acronyms in the Areas of Information Management, Liberary Science, Publishing and Archive Management Listing over 10,000 entries, Harrod's Librarians' Glossary and Reference Book spans everything from traditional printing terms to search engines and from book formats to URLs. Revisions for this tenth edition have centred in particular on the Information Society and its ramifications, on the general shift towards electronic resources, and on e-commerce, e-learning and e-government, whilst at the same time maintaining key areas predating the IT revolution. Web terminology, URLs and IT terms have been checked and updated, and coverage of terms relating to digitization and digital resources, portals, multimedia and electronic products has been revised or expanded as necessary. Harrod's Glossary now includes Knowledge Management terms, and this edition has also focused on developments in the field of intellectual property, copyright, patents, privacy and piracy. It gives wide international coverage of names, addresses and URLs of major libraries and other important organizations in the information sector, of professional associations, fellowships, networks, government bodies, projects and programmes, consortia and institutions, influential reports and other key publications. Entries are included on classification and file coding, on records management and archiving and on both the latest and the most enduring aspects of library and information skills. Even with the Web at your fingertips Harrod's Librarians' Glossary and Reference Book remains a quicker reference for explaining specialist terms, jargon and acronyms, and for finding the URLs you need, whether you are working in a print-based or digital library, in archiving, records management, conservation, bookselling or publishing. Order Information: Monitor Information Services # 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda, Opp. Deepak Theatre, Hyderabad - 500 029, India Telephone: 040-55787065 Fax: +91-40-27552390 mailto:monitorsales@gmail.com monitorsales(a)gmail.com http://www.monitorinfo.com http://www.monitorinfo.com

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British Man Finds 'Moore's Law' Magazine, Collects $10, 000
by Francis Jayakanth 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

Dear Member: An interesting news article regarding a British engineer who found a copy of the April 19, 1965 Electronics magazine under the floorboards of his Surrey home. Quoting from the article: A British engineer whose wife complained about his stash of old magazines has collected $10,000 from Intel Corp. after he found a 40-year-old periodical in which the chip maker's co-founder predicted the future of the semiconductor industry. Complete article is available at: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=74&e=3&u=/cmp/20050423/tc_c… - Francis NCSI, IISc Bangalore

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OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

From Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News" Stevan Harnad's Haworth column, first in a series Stevan Harnad, On Maximizing Journal Article Access, Usage and Impact, Haworth Press, April 21, 2005. The first in a series of occasional columns called "Skywritings: Scholarly and Leisurely". This inaugural column brings readers up to speed on current OA issues, to set the stage for future columns. Excerpt: 'The mainstay of an author's research usage and impact is, and will remain, the publication of the article in the best possible peer-reviewed journal in its field. The bulk of the usage and citations will come from those users who have an individual or institutional subscription or site-license to the journal in which it is published (and, increasingly, to the online version of that journal). But the online age has also provided a way for authors to maximize their articles' usage and impact by supplementing this paid access to the publisher's official version of their article with an open access version of the article that authors self-archive on their own institutional websites for any would-be users webwide who cannot afford the paid access to the publisher's official version. A growing number of studies is showing that articles that have been supplemented with such self-archived versions have higher (and sometimes substantially higher) citation impacts than articles that have not been self-archived. All parties to the research publication and production co-benefit from this supplementary open-access self-archiving: Authors, their institutions, their funders, their publishers, and research itself. The author receives more citations (as well as more downloads). The institution has greater research impact, and its research output is more visible, attracting more researchers, students, and research funding. The research funder (and the tax payer funding the funder) receives greater return on their investment in the research. The journal gains a higher citation impact factor, wider visibility and greater usage per published article. And of course the progress and productivity of researchers and research itself are enhanced.' From Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News" Stevan Harnad's Haworth column, first in a series [A] Stevan Harnad, http://www.haworthpressinc.com/library/StevanHarnad/04212005.asp On Maximizing Journal Article Access, Usage and Impact , Haworth Press, April 21, 2005. The first in a series of occasional columns called "Skywritings: Scholarly and Leisurely". This inaugural column brings readers up to speed on current OA issues, to set the stage for future columns. Excerpt: 'The mainstay of an author's research usage and impact is, and will remain, the publication of the article in the best possible peer-reviewed journal in its field. The bulk of the usage and citations will come from those users who have an individual or institutional subscription or site-license to the journal in which it is published (and, increasingly, to the online version of that journal). But the online age has also provided a way for authors to maximize their articles' usage and impact by supplementing this paid access to the publisher's official version of their article with an open access version of the article that authors self-archive on their own institutional websites for any would-be users webwide who cannot afford the paid access to the publisher's official version. A growing number of http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html studies is showing that articles that have been supplemented with such self-archived versions have higher (and sometimes substantially higher) citation impacts than articles that have not been self-archived. All parties to the research publication and production co-benefit from this supplementary open-access self-archiving: Authors, their institutions, their funders, their publishers, and research itself. The author receives more citations (as well as more http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10647/ downloads ). The institution has greater research impact, and its research output is more visible, attracting more researchers, students, and research funding. The research funder (and the tax payer funding the funder) receives greater return on their investment in the research. The journal gains a higher citation impact factor, wider visibility and greater usage per published article. And of course the progress and productivity of researchers and research itself are enhanced.'

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An OA advocate from Brazil
by Subbiah Arunachalam 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

Friends: Here is another Third Worlder urging us all to set up interoperable institutional open access archives! Arun Van de Sompel on the future of repositories Herbert Van de Sompel, Challenges ahead, a slide presentation at Kos, Greece, April 18, 2005. On the future of digital repositories, especially when we recognize their many uses and many kinds of content, facilitate access to their full contents (not just metadata), ensure a clean machine interface for downstream applications, and build a global network of interoperable repositories. F riends: Here is another Third Worlder urging us all to set up interoperable institutional open access archives! Arun Van de Sompel on the future of repositories [A] Herbert Van de Sompel, http://public.lanl.gov/herbertv/presentations/olybris_keynote_2005.pdf Challenges ahead , a slide presentation at Kos, Greece, April 18, 2005. On the future of digital repositories, especially when we recognize their many uses and many kinds of content, facilitate access to their full contents (not just metadata), ensure a clean machine interface for downstream applications, and build a global network of interoperable repositories.

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Fw: [DDN] FW When iPod goes collegiate
by Mailing List Manager 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:02:53 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Students entering college in some US universities get free iPods! Arun > from the April 19, 2005 edition - > http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0419/p11s01-legn.html > > When iPod goes collegiate > By Elizabeth Armstrong Moore | Correspondent of The Christian Science > Monitor > > When Kenneth Rogerson walked into his newspaper journalism class on the > first day of the school year, the professor could barely contain his > excitement. > > After a quick introduction he broke the big news: "We got the grant," he > told his class. "You all get iPods." > > As if on cue, the students exhaled an audible "whoa" and exchanged > elated glances. Duke University in Durham, N.C., had already made many a > headline as the first school ever to provide all incoming freshmen with > their own 20-gigabyte iPods - enough space to store up to 5,000 songs. > > Now, thanks to a grant program set up within Duke, some upperclassmen > were overjoyed to also become recipients of the slim white gadgets. > > (...)

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articles on ISO 9001:2000
by Mailing List Manager 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 04:23:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Vandana Khandelwal <vanu_kh(a)yahoo.com> Dear all I need good articles on ISO 9001:2000, I want information about the role of auditor in ISO and also information or article about Digital library, which content : collection, need of a digital library, sources of material, security, copyright, planning, budget, softwar & hardware needed etc. If you have any, kindly send me. Thanks & regards Vandana Khandelwal Librarian Maharashtra Academy of Engineering Alandi (D) Tal. Khed Pune

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Books across the border
by Jayadev P Hiremath 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

Books across the border Publishers look to storm Wagah FE "We want to set up three Corner Bookstores in Lahore by the year-end, one in a coffee parlour," says Wadhwa, who also has his eye on Indian border cities like Amritsar and Ludhiana. The Corner Bookstore will also strengthen its presence in the Urdu-speaking belt of Lucknow and Kanpur. "The Urdu publishing industry is pretty vibrant in Pakistan. There is big demand for good Urdu literature in India. So we'll try to tie up with local publishers in Pakistan," says Wadhwa. Last August, Najam Sethi, chief of Vanguard Books, Lahore, entered into an distribution agreement with Foundation Books of India, New Delhi. The editor of The Friday Times had enthused that Pakistani books would be available in India for the first time since 1965. "Indian audiences are keen to read literature, Islamic and philosophy books by Pakistani authors," says Manas Saikia, chief executive, Foundation Books. Even better, Delhi-based Manohar Publishers' turnover from Pakistan is Rs 10 lakh, with their books distributed in Pakistan by Vanguard Books. Last month, The Pakistan Publishers and Booksellers Association, in collaboration with the Federation of Indian Publishers, organised the Lahore international book fair. About 40 Indian publishers participated in LIFB and over 150 people from the country visited Lahore. Indian publishers who participated in the fair included names like National Book Trust, Jaico, Orient Longman, Oxford, Sage and S Chand. "Pakistan is a good market for technical and scientific books. Moreover, the textbook market is the biggest in the country," says Ramesh Jain, proprietor of Manohar Publishers. Manohar is also in talks with publisher/bookseller Feroze Sons of Lahore and is looking at a co-publication arrangement. "They are one of the oldest publishers in Pakistan," says Jain. Meanwhile, Delhi-based Sage Publications has published two books written by Pakistani authors in the recent past. Politics of Identity: Ethnic Nationalism and the State of Pakistan by Adeel Khan has done pretty well in India. " We have managed to sell about 400-500 copies in the last five months. The response has been pretty encouraging," says Tejeshwar Singh, managing director, Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd. Sage also publishes Asian Journal of Management. The material is put together by faculty members of the prestigious Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). "We have good relations with a few distributors and stockists in Pakistan. We have done a few special promotions with them in the recent past. The reading interests across the border are pretty much similar," comments Singh. With Track Two diplomacy gaining ground, publishers feel that books can help remove misconceptions that prevail in both countries. "They help in sharing points of view. We come to know their version of a particular subject," says Singh of Sage. Adds Jain,"Hordes of Pakistani publishers descend on the Delhi Book Fair and buy loads of books." But the trade is not without its pitfalls. For one, Indian books are being rampantly pirated across the border. "Once the market opens up and the book trade gains momentum, then piracy will automatically be curtailed," points out Jain. "Piracy knows no nationality. This is not particular to Indo-Pak trade," chuckles Singh. As book trade gains momentum, a larger issue pertains to tackling culturally sensitive issues. "Pakistanis fear cultural invasion from India," points out an industry source. For instance, books on Bollywood and Indian music have a huge fan follwing across the border. "90% of our books are international ones and as a policy we don't stock non-secular and culturally sensitive books," says Wadhwa of the Corner Bookstore.

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Fw: Literature on Gartner report
by Mailing List Manager 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:22:56 +0530 From: Appasaheb Naikal <naikal(a)mahindrabt.com> Dear All, Please read my request as "Gartner report on software benchmark" With regards Appasaheb Naikal MBT Mumbai Library Tel: 022- 56792000 Ext. 7438 Fax: 022-28478959 Library URL: http://10.3.4.130/slim Visit us at: www.mahindrabt.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Appasaheb Naikal To: LIS Net yahoo group Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ; nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com Sent: April 25, 2005 11:12 AM Subject: Literature on Gardner report Dear Professionals, I am looking for some latest reports or links on "Gardner's report on software benchmark" Request you to share if you have any literature on this subject. Thanks in advance With regards Appasaheb Naikal MBT Mumbai Library Tel: 022- 56792000 Ext. 7438 Fax: 022-28478959 Visit us at: www.mahindrabt.com

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