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

RE: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE
by Mailing List Manager 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:22:27 +0530 To: khaisernikam(a)yahoo.com There is a saying "Facts are Secred&Comments are free, " .As far as I am concerened , i feel what ever news we get on LIS - FORUM is just fine & it is doing well .It is well with in its scope and aims ."Knowledge is power sharing knowledge is wwealth ". So long as we communicate some thing original , academic & professional information irrespective of where it comes from ( I mean geographical -- zonal ,regional or local etc.) it should not matter . We must also adeher to very high ethical standards. However ,certain items like sending festival greetings and sharing personal information , may kindly be avoided . These comments are purely personal ,and not to hurt any bodys feeling ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr Khaiser Nikam Reader /Management consultant University of Mysore Mysore -570 006 0821-2419399(O)

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Open Journal Systems
by Mailing List Manager 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:18:42 +0530 From: Bhojaraju G <bhojaraju.g(a)gmail.com> *Dear Colleagues* ** FYI & Use.. *What is the Open Journal Systems?* Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research. OJS assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions through to online publication and indexing. Through its management systems, its finely grained indexing of research, and the context it provides for research, OJS seeks to improve both the scholarly and public quality of referred research. OJS is open source software made freely available to journals worldwide for the purpose of making open access publishing a viable option for more journals, as open access can increase a journal's readership as well as its contribution to the public good on a global scale (see PKP Publications <http://pkp.ubc.ca/publications/>). *Features* 1. OJS is installed locally and locally controlled. 2. Editors configure requirements, sections, review process, etc. 3. Online submission and management of all content. 4. Subscription module with delayed open access options. 5. Comprehensive indexing of content part of global system. 6. Reading Tools for content, based on field and editors' choice. 7. Email notification and commenting ability for readers. 8. Complete context-sensitive online Help support. Consult OJS in an Hour <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/OJSinanHour.pdf> for more details and to take OJS for a test-drive. *September 17, 2005: OJS 2.0.2 Released* This release features Microsoft IIS 6 support, LOCKSS<http://lockss.stanford.edu/>support, custom email templates, search enhancements, bug fixes and much more. See the Download <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ojs_download.html> page and release notes <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/RELEASE> for more information. *OJS 2.0 Release Announcement*<http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ojs2announcement.html> *OJS in an Hour* <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/OJSinanHour.pdf> *OJS Technical Reference* <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/OJSTechnicalReference.pdf> *Early Reviews of OJS* <http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/ojs/ojs_comments.html> *OJS FAQs<http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/ojs/faq.html> * *Examples of OJS Users <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/journals.html>* *Demo of OJS v2.0 <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/demo/present/>* *Demo of OJS v1.1.9<http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/demo/ojs119/> * *OJS Online Support Forum <http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/support/forum/index.php> * *Other Open Source Systems <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/other_OJS.html>* * Download <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ojs_download.html>* Thanks & Regards Bhojaraju G, Librarian�Knowledge Management Homepage: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com ************************************************************ ICICI OneSource Ltd. 148 Bhaskara Plaza, RV Road, VV Puram, Bangalore-560004, INDIA. Cell:+91-944 836 9905 E-mail: Bhojaraju.G(a)gmail.com, bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com ************************************************************ Pl do visit & put your comments on Guest Book "KM Cyberary" @ http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.html KM-Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/

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Dr. Ranganathan's Open Access
by Mailing List Manager 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:05:23 +0530 From: Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> Dear Friends In the context "Open Access and Five Laws" messages [Given below] I would like to put my reactions. 1. The term "Open Access" was used by Dr. S.R Ranganathan to describe a library system where a "reader" is permitted to go to the stack and browse through the collection. This is what the modern libraries now follow. However, in those days, libraries were not "open access" as the readers were required to give details of required book to the Library Staff. At the most, a reader was permitted to access the Library Catalogue. By advocating "Open Access" he wanted to provide the benefits of "browsing approach" to the readers. 2. The Works of Dr. S.R Ranganathan are wonderful. I happen read the Original Works "FIVE LAWS and PROLEGOMENA to Library Classification. Five Laws has been written in a very interesting format of "Animated Talks / Dialogues". I wish these should be available now in Open Access [as understood these days] Mode. 3. SRELS may stand to loose financially. But then, There are ways to compensate. They may put up their own web site which may be sponsored / Or Advertisement revenue could be generated. 4. Technology / Hosting / Digitisation should not be a problem. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in =======================REFERENCE MESSAGES=================== Message: 3 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:57:39 +0530 (IST) From: "Prabhash.Rath" <prabhash(a)gipe.ernet.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Apply Open Access to Five Laws? To: MichaelMay.10726764(a)bloglines.com Cc: michael.p.may(a)earthlink.net, lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <42007.202.41.82.51.1127370459.squirrel(a)gipe.ernet.in> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Dear all This is actually a very good and useful suggestion. Really we talk a lot about Prof Ranganathan's five laws but I doubt really how many of us have really gone through the original work. Most of us get the references from the secondary sources only. Of course there are some other works like Prolegomena...etc. which are also often referred to but rarely seen in original, five laws being a small book can well be digitised.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Open access to Dr Ranganthan's ideas
by Mailing List Manager 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:29:01 +0100 (BST) From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> Hello freinds the suggestion given by Dr Arunachalam is valid and a good suggestion. i feel that there is enough of scope to revise even the CCC and CC to a larger extent. Mainly, the CCC is much comfortably can be revised. unfortunately, many students and colleagues of Late Dr Ranganathan, take his name for their own purposes. they make use of SRR name for their selfishness. they never bothered to revise or sponsor intensive studies on his works. Every one takes pride in associating their names with SRR. I am one of the lucky persons to have taken a gift (CCC ) from SRELS in 1968, duly signed by the great man. there is every possibility of sponsoring studies on relevance of his theories. It is a known fact that five laws continue to be relevant in the changing information environment. it is high time for SRELS or DRTC or others who claim and boast themselves the great man's colleagues, to take the job seriously and do something to retain and promote the ideas of late Ranganathan. it is a known fact that SRR's contribution to this profession / knowledge, especially in India is phenomenal and no one can do as much as he has done at least in next century.already, the generation started ignoring him and his concepts. the schools are shying away to teach some of his concepts. still it is not late to take up to take the job and do some thing. i only suggest all professionals especially, who claim and take SRR' name for everything to take advantage should start working for popularising / improving the concepts and theories. in the process of writing this mail, i never meant hurting any individual. my apologies if some one gets hurt. laxman rao ----------------------------------------------------- Shahab <smshahabuddin(a)rediffmail.com> wrote: Dear friends: I have read the posting by Michael May asking for the digitisation of Dr Ranganathan's book, Five Laws of Library Science. It is very pathetic to know that due to the nonavailability of sufficient number of copies many library and information science graduates are unable to read the book. The case is similar for other books penned by Dr Ranganthan. He had preached open access and accessibility to information throughout his life. And it is his books being obstructed, by whatsoever the reasons be, for access.

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Oa in India
by Subbiah Arunachalam 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Friends: Please look up http://www.aardvarknet.info/access/number54/monthnews.cfm?monthnews=02 for my article on OA in India which appeared in Access recently. Arun Friends: Please look up http://www.aardvarknet.info/access/number54/monthnews.cfm?monthnews=02 http://www.aardvarknet.info/access/number54/monthnews.cfm?monthnews=02 for my article on OA in India which appeared in Access recently. Arun

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RE: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

I agree with Mr Gouder. Lis-forum has already become (by virtue of heavy usage, members from diverse institutions, and the perceived utility by subscribers) number one among such forums for librarians and library science. It is necessary for the professional to keep abreast of happenings in the country. Therefore posts from other forums should be welcome. Only one minor problems needs to be addressed. As I am greedy, I subscribe to several mailing lists: Lis-forum, corp. librarians, Emala, IATLIS,Lis-net etc. When messages are cross-posted a lot of duplication at the subscriber's end occurs. As many messages contain replies to some first link in a thread, one has to read through a lot of messages before deleting duplicates. How can we avoid such duplication? Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of I.R.N.Goudar Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 12:05 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE Dear Professionals, As you are aware LIS-FORUM has emerged as an effective means of communication and discussion among LIS Professionals in the country for the last few years. One of the Lis-Forum member has strongly expressed his feelings that postings covering Regional/State level associations should not be broadcast on Lis-Forum. But if you see the postings all these years, forum has been covering items issued by be it MALIBNET, KALA, MYLISA, RSC-Delhi, IATLIS, SIS, etc or a message from an University. In this way forum is networking LIS Professionals and concerned professional associations all over the country, be it fron Kashmir, TN, West Bengal or Karnataka. I am of the opinion that apart from discussing professional matters we should know what is going on in professional circles elsewhere too. While each Association can have its own discussion forum, important announcemnets should be covered by Lis-Forum irrespective of whether the LIS Association is State/Regional level one as long as the matter is of interest, as has been the case all these days. Rather we need bother about the quality, importance and relevance of the of the content in the postings. Infact Late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar had posted an item toucing some issues concerned in this matter a year back or so. I INVITE LIS-FORUM MEMBERS TO GIVE THEIR OPINION IN THIS MATTER. Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum RE: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE I agree with Mr Gouder. Lis-forum has already become (by virtue of heavy usage, members from diverse institutions, and the perceived utility by subscribers) number one among such forums for librarians and library science. It is necessary for the professional to keep abreast of happenings in the country. Therefore posts from other foru m s should be welcome. Only one minor problems needs to be addressed. As I am greedy, I subscribe to several mailing lists: Lis-forum, corp. librarians, Emala, IATLIS,Lis-net etc. When messages are cross-posted a lot of duplication at the subscriber's end occurs. As many messages contain replies to some first link in a thread, one has to read through a lot of messages before deleting duplicates. How can we avoid such duplication? Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [ mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ]On Behalf Of I.R.N.Goudar Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 12:05 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE Dear Professionals, As you are aware LIS-FORUM has emerged as an effective means of communication and discussion among LIS Professionals in the country for the last few years. One of the Lis-Forum member has strongly expressed his feelings that postings covering Regional/State level associations should not be broadcast on Lis-Forum. But if you see the postings all these years, forum has been covering items issued by be it MALIBNET, KALA, MYLISA, RSC-Delhi, IATLIS, SIS, etc or a message from an University. In this way forum is networking LIS Professionals and concerned professional associations all over the country, be it fron Kashmir, TN, West Bengal or Karnataka. I am of the opinion that apart from discussing professional matters we should know what is going on in professional circles elsewhere too. While each Association can have its own discussion forum, important announcemnets should be covered by Lis-Forum irrespective of whether the LIS Association is State/Regional level one as long as the matter is of interest, as has been the case all these days. Rather we need bother about the quality, importance and relevance of the of the content in the postings. Infact Late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar had posted an item toucing some issues concerned in this matter a year back or so. I INVITE LIS-FORUM MEMBERS TO GIVE THEIR OPINION IN THIS MATTER. Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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SKCET LIBRARY WORKSHOP 2005
by Abhilash P P 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Dear Professionals Sri Krishna College of Engineering Technology , Dept of Library is organising one day workshop on 22nd Oct 2005 . Title of the Workshop: E-Resources: Collection Evaluation & Management Venue: Dept of Library Sri Krishna College of Engg & Tech, Kunaimuthur (Post) Coimbatore -641008, Tamil Nadu. Ph. 0422-2678001 (7 lines) Email: mailto:tamizhchelvan@gmail.com tamizhchelvan(a)gmail.com , mailto:skcetworkshop@yahoo.co.in skcetworkshop(a)yahoo.co.in The Workshop is intended to discuss the technological trends in digital libraries, discuss key issues involved in digital library development (using Greenstone Digital Library Open source software). Through this workshop, the participants come to know: Creating awareness on E-Resources E-resources format and standards Realising the importance of Institutional repositories Developing awareness of Digital Library Collection: and Enriching the participants on Digital Library on Open Resources (GSDL & Dspace) For further details please visit http://www.geocities.com/skcetworkshop/ http://www.geocities.com/skcetworkshop/ Expecting your participation with warm regards Dr. M. Tamizhchelvan, Librarian/Organising Secretary, Sri Krishna College of Engg & Tech, Kuniamuthur (PO) Coimbatore 641 008 Tamil Nadu - India. Email: tamizhchelvan(a)gmail.com Dear Professionals Sri Krishna College of Engineering Technology , Dept of Library is organising one day workshop on 22nd Oct 2005. Title of the Workshop: E-Resources: Collection Evaluation & Management Venue: Dept of Library Sri Krishna College of Engg & Tech, Kunaimuthur (Post) Coimbatore -641008, Tamil Nadu. Ph. 0422-2678001 (7 lines) Email: tamizhchelvan(a)gmail.com, skcetworkshop(a)yahoo.co.in The Workshop is intended to discuss the technological trends in digital libraries, discuss key issues involved in digital library development (using Greenstone Digital Library Open source software). Through this workshop, the participants come to know: Creating awareness on E-Resources E-resources format and standards Realising the importance of Institutional repositories Developing awareness of Digital Library Collection: and Enriching the participants on Digital Library on Open Resources (GSDL & Dspace) For further details please visit http://www.geocities.com/skcetworkshop/ Expecting your participation with warm regards Dr. M. Tamizhchelvan, Librarian/Organising Secretary, Sri Krishna College of Engg & Tech, Kuniamuthur (PO) Coimbatore 641 008 Tamil Nadu - India. Email: tamizhchelvan(a)gmail.com

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Could you please help me?
by Mailing List Manager 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:09:57 +0530 From: Dr.J.Samajdar <lalijyoti(a)vsnl.net> Dear colleagues, I am doing my PhD on Information seeking behaviour and information utilisation pattern of psychiatrists. Please help me with questionnaire/survey/references of literature on this topic. Please inform me about authentic sites on psychiatric literature. Addresses and/or email_id of Medical Library Associations. email_id of forums on college library/librarians. Hope to get some help from all of you. Regards. Susmita Librarian of M M C College,Kolkata,West Bengal,India Mobile:9830710918

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InfoWatch September 2005
by M.R Lalitha 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Dear LIS-Forum member, The September 2005 issue of InfoWatch is now online, bringing you the details of new Internet sites related to Science and Engineering. You can access the complete issue on the NCSI Web server at the URL : http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/infowatch/iw.php You will also find earlier issues of InfoWatch here. For your convenience, the table of contents is given below. If you wish to be on the mailing list of InfoWatch to receive the complete issue by e-mail, let us know. Also mention your format preference - html or text. Regards -Lalitha M.R (lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ InfoWatch Tracking Networked Scientific Information Sources and Services (An electronic update service brought to you by NCSI) September 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue 1. Amino Acid-Nucleotide Interaction Database (AANT) 2. AZoNano.com - The A to Z of Nanotechnology 3. Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) [A multi-disciplinary search engine to scholarly internet resources] 4. Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) 5. Engineering - An endless frontier [Insights into the underlying principles of engineering through a series of illustrated articles] 6. Flight Dynamics and Control toolbox (FDC) [A tool for aircraft dynamics analysis and flight control system design] 7. FreeMat [A free environment for rapid engineering and scientific prototyping and data processing] 8. FreePCB - A printed circuit board layout editor 9. FreeTechBooks.com - Free computer science books and lecture notes 10. Industrial Control DesignLine [A resource for industrial engineers and designers for up-to-date information] 11. IT Backbones [A resource with white papers and news for the IT sector] 12. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) 13. Microsoft Research [A unique corporate research lab] 14. Open Online Education Network (OOEN) [A reference guide to online distance education] 15. Protein Spotlight - One month one protein 16. SCATMECH - Polarized light scattering C++ class library 17. Science conferences - A disitributed portal to select science and technology conference proceedings 18. Sky View Cafe [Java applet to view the movements of astronomical objects] 19. Sustainable building sourcebook 20. Xcalcs - Online calculations for structural engineers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ About InfoWatch : InfoWatch is a monthly electronic newsletter, brought out by the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, INDIA. Information in the newsletter is collected and verified by NCSI staff.The newsletter aims to raise awareness of new sources of information on the Internet, particularly those which are relevant for higher education and research. Some items may be of relevance only to the IISc community.Resources reported here have been taken from various discussion lists and other network tools and no special claims are made for accuracy or originality. Most of the sources cited in the newsletter were checked at the time of publication, however it is possible that some of the resources are no longer available. We welcome comments about the newsletter and suggestions for resources to be featured. Please e-mail your comments to InfoWatch editors: Ms. K. Thulasi (thulasi(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) & Ms. M. R. Lalitha (lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE
by I.R.N.Goudar 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Dear Professionals, As you are aware LIS-FORUM has emerged as an effective means of communication and discussion among LIS Professionals in the country for the last few years. One of the Lis-Forum member has strongly expressed his feelings that postings covering Regional/State level associations should not be broadcast on Lis-Forum. But if you see the postings all these years, forum has been covering items issued by be it MALIBNET, KALA, MYLISA, RSC-Delhi, IATLIS, SIS, etc or a message from an University. In this way forum is networking LIS Professionals and concerned professional associations all over the country, be it fron Kashmir, TN, West Bengal or Karnataka. I am of the opinion that apart from discussing professional matters we should know what is going on in professional circles elsewhere too. While each Association can have its own discussion forum, important announcemnets should be covered by Lis-Forum irrespective of whether the LIS Association is State/Regional level one as long as the matter is of interest, as has been the case all these days. Rather we need bother about the quality, importance and relevance of the of the content in the postings. Infact Late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar had posted an item toucing some issues concerned in this matter a year back or so. I INVITE LIS-FORUM MEMBERS TO GIVE THEIR OPINION IN THIS MATTER. Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html

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