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

Fwd: Statement on Open Access from the Russell Group of UK Universities
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Jun '05

19 Jun '05

The Russell Group, nineteen of the UK's major research-led universities http://www.russellgroup.ac.uk/index1.html http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/documents/rep_distrib.html have released a Statement on Scholarly Communication and Publishing http://www.russellgroup.ac.uk/2005/scholarly_communication.htm echoing the recommendations of the UK Parliamentary Select Committee http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/399… by pledging to "support the development of institutional repositories of research papers... [and to] actively encourage their researchers to deposit their work in them". (Of the Russell Group 84% [16/19] already have institutional repositories.) http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?page=all&country=uk Birmingham http://eprints.bham.ac.uk/ Bristol http://rose.bris.ac.uk/dspace/ Cambridge http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/ Cardiff Edinburgh http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/ Glasgow http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/ Imperial College http://eprints.imperial.ac.uk/ King's College London http://eprints.kcl.ac.uk/ Leeds http://sherpa.leeds.ac.uk/ Liverpool London School of Economics http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/ Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne http://rogue.ncl.ac.uk/ Nottingham http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/ Oxford http://eprints.ouls.ox.ac.uk/ Sheffield http://sherpa.leeds.ac.uk/ Southampton http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/ University College London http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/ Warwick http://eprints.csc.warwick.ac.uk/ ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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library website its content , design and uses in providing services to user
by badan barman 18 Jun '05

18 Jun '05

Respected all, I am a student of M.L.I.Sc. 4th sem, gauhati university, assam.I want to know each and every aspect of the topic library website its content , design and uses in providing services to user, so request guidance/information/ refference from the LIS-FORUM group.Any information regarding my topic will be of great helpful for me. Thanking you. __________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends 'n family snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://in.photos.yahoo.com

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Entrez: the cross-database life science search engine
by Mailing List Manager 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:57:41 +0530 From: Rupak Chakravarty <rupak2811(a)gmail.com> Now, 23 databases can be searched simultaneously through Entrez (the life science search engine). It includes PubMEd, Pubchem, Gensat and the likes. URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gquery/gquery.fcgi -- Rupak Chakravarty Assistant Librarian Panjab University Library Chandigarh 160014 INDIA

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Deep Web Search From Yahoo
by Mailing List Manager 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:37:44 +0530 From: Farooque Shaheen <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Deep Web Search From Yahoo A new search service from Yahoo! announced on Thursday will position the internet media company as a distributor and aggregator of paid-for content from an area known as the ?deep web?. In what could prove to be a challenge to online services such as Reed Elsevier's LexisNexis and Dow Jones' and Reuters' Factiva, Yahoo Search Subscriptions is launching with initial content from just seven sources. Subscription services that have signed up with Yahoo include ConsumerReports.org, The Wall Street Journal Online, TheStreet.com and The New England Journal of Medicine. In the coming weeks, Yahoo plans to add content aggregators Factiva and LexisNexis AlaCarte. Source: http://news.ft.com/cms/s/076d0c1e-de89-11d9-92cd-00000e2511c8.html Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Science Research Portal
by Shyam Prasad pujar 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

Dear Members, It is a free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases. Search can be made by selecting scientific disciplines. It can be accessed at: http://scienceresearch.com/search/index.php 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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Fwd: Call for Papers
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

IRMJ <irmj(a)idea-group.com> wrote: Subject: Call for Papers Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:03:08 -0400 ****** CALL FOR PAPERS ****** ****** SUBMISSION DUE DATE: JULY 13, 2005 ****** INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT JOURNAL (IRMJ) Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association http://www.idea-group.com/irmj Editor-in-Chief: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. Information Resources Management Association Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) International Editorial Review Board http://www.idea-group.com/irmj MISSION OF IRMJ: Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ). The Journal publishes original material concerned with all aspects of information resources management, managerial and organizational applications, as well as implications of information technology. The primary mission of IRMJ is to be instrumental in the improvement and development of the theory and practice of information resources management, appealing to both practicing managers and academics. It is our further aim to educate organizations on how they can benefit from their information resources and all the tools utilized to gather, process, disseminate, and manage these valuable resources. Coverage of IRMJ: Topics should be drawn from, but not limited to, the following areas, with major emphasis on the managerial and organizational aspects of information resource and technology management: * Application of IT to Operation * Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems Technologies and Issues * Business Process Management and Modeling * Data Warehousing and Mining * Database Management Technologies and Issues * Decision Support and Group Decision Support Systems * Distance Learning Technologies and Issues * Distributed Software Development * E-collaboration * Electronic Commerce Technologies and Issues * Electronic Government * Emerging Technologies Management * End User Computing Issues * Enterprise Resource Planning * Executive Information Systems * Global Information Technology Management * Healthcare Information Technology * Human and Societal Issues in IT Management * Information Technology Education and Training Issues * Information Technology Security and Ethics * IS/IT Education * IT Governance Issues * IT Innovation and Diffusion * IT Management in Public Organizations * IT Management Research and Practice * IT Outsourcing * IT/E-business in Small Businesses * Knowledge Management * MIS Re-engineering Management * Mobile Commerce * Multimedia Computing Technologies and Issues * Object Oriented Technologies and Issues * Project Management * Software Process Improvement * Standards and Standardization Issues * Strategic IT Management * Supply Chain Management * Systems Development and CASE * Telecommunications and Networking Technologies * Virtual Organizations * Virtual Teams * Web Services and Technologies SUBMITTING TO IRMJ: Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNALS GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at www.idea-group.com/irmj. All manuscript submissions will be forwarded to at least five members of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal for a double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to irmj(a)idea-group.com by ****** NO LATER THAN JULY 13, 2005. ****** All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. Editor-in-Chief Information Resources Management Journal E-mail: irmj(a)idea-group.com www.idea-group.com/irmj Sent to: naglaxman(a)yahoo.com Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PCcalling worldwide with voicemail IRMJ <irmj(a)idea-group.com> wrote: Subject: Call for Papers Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:03:08 -0400 ****** CALL FOR PAPERS ****** ****** SUBMISSION DUE DATE: JULY 13, 2005 ****** INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT JOURNAL (IRMJ) Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association http://www.idea-group.com/irmj Editor-in-Chief: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. Information Resources Management Association Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) International Editorial Review Board http://www.idea-group.com/irmj MISSION OF IRMJ: Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ). The Journal publishes original material concerned with all aspects of information resources management, managerial and organizational applications, as well as implications of information technology. The primary mission of IRMJ is to be instrumental in the improvement and development of the theory and practice of information resources management, appealing to both practicing managers and academics. It is our further aim to educate organizations on how they can benefit from their information resources and all the tools utilized to gather, process, disseminate, and manage these valuable resources. Coverage of IRMJ: Topics should be drawn from, but not limited to, the following areas, with major emphasis on the managerial and organizational aspects of information resource and technology management: * Application of IT to Operation * Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems Technologies and Issues * Business Process Management and Modeling * Data Warehousing and Mining * Database Management Technologies and Issues * Decision Support and Group Decision Support Systems * Distance Learning Technologies and Issues * Distributed Software Development * E-collaboration * Electronic Commerce Technologies and Issues * Electronic Government * Emerging Technologies Management * End User Computing Issues * Enterprise Resource Planning * Executive Information Systems * Global Information Technology Management * Healthcare Information Technology * Human and Societal Issues in IT Management * Information Technology Education and Training Issues * Information Technology Security and Ethics * IS/IT Education * IT Governance Issues * IT Innovation and Diffusion * IT Management in Public Organizations * IT Management Research and Practice * IT Outsourcing * IT/E-business in Small Businesses * Knowledge Management * MIS Re-engineering Management * Mobile Commerce * Multimedia Computing Technologies and Issues * Object Oriented Technologies and Issues * Project Management * Software Process Improvement * Standards and Standardization Issues * Strategic IT Management * Supply Chain Management * Systems Development and CASE * Telecommunications and Networking Technologies * Virtual Organizations * Virtual Teams * Web Services and Technologies SUBMITTING TO IRMJ: Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNALS GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at www.idea-group.com/irmj. All manuscript submissions will be forwarded to at least five members of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal for a double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to irmj(a)idea-group.com by ****** NO LATER THAN JULY 13, 2005. ****** All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. Editor-in-Chief Information Resources Management Journal E-mail: irmj(a)idea-group.com www.idea-group.com/irmj Sent to: naglaxman(a)yahoo.com Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/messenger/*http://uk.messen… Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PC http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/messenger/*http://uk.beta.m… calling worldwide with voicemail

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Fw: TB Rajashekar
by Subbiah Arunachalam 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

----- Original Message ----- From: "Uhlir, Paul" <PUhlir(a)nas.edu> To: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 1:35 AM Subject: RE: TB Rajashekar > Dear Arun, > > Thank you for sharing the background about Raja in memory of his > untimely, tragic death. I had the privilege of meeting him in Paris two > years ago at a Symposium I co-organized with UNESCO and CODATA on Open > Access and the Public Domain. I had very high regard for him and am > saddened by his departure from our midst. I know he will be greatly > missed. > > Best wishes, > > Paul

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[BOAI] T.B. Rajashekar, Indian Open Access Pioneer: 1954-2005 (fwd)
by Lohrii Kaini Mahemei 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

********************************************************* Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come - Rabindranath Tagore. Lohrii Kaini Mahemei NCSI,IISc, Bangalore - 560012. Ph# +91-080-22932511,23600271. ********************************************************* Subject: [BOAI] T.B. Rajashekar, Indian Open Access Pioneer: 1954-2005 [Forwarding from Subbiah Arunachalam and N. Balakrishnan. --Peter.] Dr T B Rajashekar - A Tribute Dr Tarikere Basappa Rajashekar, who was the Associate Chairman of the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, was killed in a road accident near Bangalore on 3 June 2005. Raja, as he was known to his close friends, was an achiever. When many others were talking about digital libraries, he started working on building one. He was clear in what he wanted to do and he went about it with dedication and commitment and what is more he knew his limitations and never attempted to do anything in which he did not have the required expertise. He was serious about his work and never would waste his time or energy in fruitless pursuits. When new technologies came in quick succession and transformed the way we handle information, Raja was quick to learn those technologies and apply them intelligently in the areas of database management and information dissemination. Raja's role in the creation of the Nation's first computerized current awareness service in the early 1980s at NCSI is commendable. He was one of the earliest in India to use COBOL and database, in both of which he had a rich experience and knowledge, in library applications. He had an exemplary skill in programming and an innate ability to understand, apply and disseminate newer programming paradigms to stay current all the time. Right from the early days of NCSI, Raja not only led the young team from the front with his insistence on discipline and timely delivery of quality services but also played a key role in capacity building. He was largely responsible for the content and curriculum of the 18-month training programme on information and knowledge management at NCSI, which is unlike any other programme taught anywhere else in India. The curriculum always reflected the most recent developments. Not only did he teach the key courses (information and knowledge organization, digital library and information services in enterprises, internet information resources and services) but also helped his younger colleagues to acquire the skills to teach state-of-the-art courses. Many of the professionals trained by him occupy important positions across the country and elsewhere and have been contributing immensely to the growth of information science. The fact that they stayed in touch with him and continue to hold him in reverence, vindicates the fact that Raja was not only a great and inspiring guru but also a fine gentleman. Raja had become synonymous with NCSI. Raja set up India's first interoperable institutional open access archive, but was dismayed at the rather slow pace at which it was filling. When it was pointed out that he should be more proactive and meet with faculty and talk to them about the archive, he took the suggestion in the right spirit and at the time of his tragic death there were more than 2,000 papers in the archive. He had conducted many training programmes on setting up open access archives. Raja was also largely responsible for marrying the Greenstone digital library software with an earlier version of the Eprints software (when the latter did not support full-text searching), and a few months before his death he and his colleague Francis Jayakanth, in collaboration with researchers at the Old Dominican University, developed two approaches to make CDS-ISIS databases OAI compliant. Raja was also the first in India to set up an e-mail based electronic discussion forum for the library and information science (LIS) professionals. Since its inception in 1994, he moderated the LIS-Forum democratically. Born on 2 November 1954, Raja took his bachelor's degree in library science from the Mysore University and the postgraduate Associateship in documentation and information science from the Documentation Research and Training Centre, Bangalore. After a few years at the National Informatics Centre, New Delhi, he had a brief stint at the British Council Library in New Delhi, where he impressed everyone with his technical savvy. It is then he moved to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and worked quietly and earned a reputation as a performer. Along the way he also took a doctoral degree from the Poona University. A very shy person, Raja would keep himself away from the limelight. Deeply committed to his family, when he took a sabbatical in 2000 he did not move out of Bangalore. He worked for Informatics (India) Ltd, a Bangalore-based company, and developed an excellent multidisciplinary current awareness tool, an e-journal portal and gateway called J-Gate, to aggregate thousands of journals. He also wrote a series of essays on digital libraries. Raja was on many committees, including the CODATA, and had contributed to the development of INFLIBNET and INDEST. He was also elected Fellow of the Society of Information Science (India). When he was on course to achieve much more, fate has snatched him away from us. The large number of condolence messages received from within the country and elsewhere is an indication of the regard he had earned. Once he remarked to his students, what mattered in life was what one left behind for others to remember and continue. By that yardstick he has done extremely well. The best tribute the LIS professionals in this country could pay to Raja is to set up institutional open access archives as soon as possible and fill them with papers, modernize their curricula and teach their students the values practiced by him. Subbiah Arunachalam & N Balakrishnan ----------------------------- Subbiah Arunachalam is Distinguished Fellow, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai 600 113, India N Balakrishnan is Chairman, Information Sciences Division, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India

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Articles Request
by Arvind Bhadrashetty 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Dear Professionals, One of our user wants to have the following articles. 1. Stollery J L & Ehwany A A M ;A note on the use of boundary layer model for correlating film cooling data,International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer, Vol8. No 1, 1965, pp55-65. 1. Stollery J L & Ehwany A A M ;On the use of boundary layer model for correlating film cooling data,International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer, Vol l0. 1967, pp101-105. Anybody having access to the above articles may please send us the copy. Regards Arvind M Bhadrashetty BrahMos Aerospace Adj To DRDL Rear Gate Kanchanbagh Hyderabad - 500 058 Andhra Pradesh bmkchyd(a)brahmos.com Arvind Bhadrashetty Dear Professionals, One of our user wants to have the following articles. 1. Stollery J L & Ehwany A A M ;A note on the use of boundary layer model for correlating film cooling data,International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer, Vol8. No 1, 1965, pp55-65. 1. Stollery J L & Ehwany A A M ;On the use of boundary layer model for correlating film cooling data,International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer, Vol l0. 1967, pp101-105. Anybody having access to the above articles may please send us the copy. Regards Arvind M Bhadrashetty BrahMos Aerospace Adj To DRDL Rear Gate Kanchanbagh Hyderabad - 500 058 Andhra Pradesh bmkchyd(a)brahmos.com Arvind Bhadrashetty http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo…

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Lib Trainees wanted: Mumbai+Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education
by Mailing List Manager 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 01:43:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Puttaraj Choukimath <puttuc(a)yahoo.com> Dear All, GREETINGS. HOMI BHABHA CENTRE FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH National Cetre of the Government of Indlafor Nuclear Science and Mathematics V. N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd, Mumbai - 400 088. Fax: +9 t -22-2556 6803 EmaD: hbcadm(a)hbcse.tifr.res.in Ref.: HBC/EST/Scientific/ 530 tr : + 9 t -22-2558 0036, 2555 47 t 2, 2556 77 t t, 2555 5242 June 7, 2005 NOTICE No. 2/05 LIBRARY TRAINEES Applications are hereby invited from fresh B. Lib.lM. Lib degree holders for induction as Library Trainees in the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education which is a constituent unit of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, an autonomous body ofthe Govt. of India, Department of Atomic Energy. The HBCSE Library houses over 15, 000 books and journals catering to wide range of subjects. The Trainees appointed will thus have hands on experience with the library procedures and exposure to modern techniques of maintaining large scientific libraries. Educational qualifications: Fresh B. Lib / M. Lib., Age: Below 30 years. The tenure of the training will be one year. At the end of which the candidates will be given a certificate of experience. .. The selected candidates will be paid a consolidated honorarium of Rs.5,OOO/-p.m. They may be required to work in shifts and on Saturdays, Sundays and other public holidays. Applications giving full details with the copies of relevant certificates should reach the Sr. Administrative Officer, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, T.I.F.R, V.N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd, Mumbai- 400 088, on or before June 22, 2005 positively. regards, Puttaraj.

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