January 2006 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

Funder requires grantees to share data quickly
by Subbiah Arunachalam 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

Funder requires grantees to share data every two months Sharon Begley, In Switch, Scientists Share Data to Develop Useful Drug Therapies, Wall Street Journal, January 20, 2006. (Thanks to John Wilbanks.) Excerpt: >From Alzheimer's and diabetes to cancer, schizophrenia and even baldness, the list of ailments that elude cure marches on. The crisis in "translational science," or turning basic discoveries into therapies, has been brewing for years, but it hit a depressing nadir in 2005, when just 20 new drugs won approval from the Food and Drug Administration....[T]he three-year-old Myelin Repair Foundation...requires that the five biologists it supports share results in real time. Because they don't keep discoveries under wraps until publication, they can build on each other's work sooner....The foundation's insistence that its scientists exchange results every two months is a sea change from the standard every-two-to-five-years progress report. "This has been one of the most difficult transitions, getting scientists to understand accountability in the short term," says Robert Miller of Case Western Reserve University.

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lib furniture
by Rajendra Thaty 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

Dear all, I would like to have the addresses and e-mail ids of firms dealing with furnitre and stationery and other items used in Libraries. Please help. Also, please send information about mouse repeller, and where can I procure it from? Regards, RAjendra Rajendra Kumar Thaty Librarian Samabalpur University Central Library Jyoti Vihar, Burla, Sambalpur, Orissa PIN 768019 Telephone# 0663-2430548 (O) 98610-47084 (Mob) Dear all, I would like to have the addresses and e-mail ids of firms dealing with furnitre and stationery and other items used in Libraries. Please help. Also, please send information about mouse repeller, and where can I procure it from? Regards, RAjendra Rajendra Kumar Thaty Librarian Samabalpur University Central Library Jyoti Vihar, Burla, Sambalpur, Orissa PIN 768019 Telephone# 0663-2430548 (O) 98610-47084 (Mob) 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 News
by Subbiah Arunachalam 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

Friends: I just visited the cluster map of Open Access News hits. Most readers of Open Access News are in Western Europe and North America. There are not many users in India and hardly anybody in China! This must be rectified. We need to improve our advocacy efforts! Friends: I just visited the cluster map of Open Access News hits. Most readers of Open Access News are in Western Europe and North America. There are not many users in India and hardly anybody in China! This must be rectified. We need to improve our advocacy efforts!

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Nobel laureate Richard Roberts advocates Open Access
by Subbiah Arunachalam 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

Friends: Here is a report on a talk by a Nobel laureate. I am trying to get the full text of the talk. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Richard Roberts at Johns Hopkins on OA Yesterday Richard Roberts --Nobel laureate and OA advocate-- gave the Sixth Annual Daniel Nathans, M.D. Lecture in Molecular Genetics at Johns Hopkins University. Karl Broman liked it: This afternoon, I went to the best seminar of the year. Sure, it's just January 19, but I'm confident that I won't attend a better seminar this year, as it was among the best I've ever attended....Why did I enjoy the seminar so much? First, [Roberts] began with a bit of a sermon about the importance of open access journals. That if you're anywhere but Hopkins (and a few other places), it's extremely difficult to get access to the literature. He also made the important point that: wouldn't it be great if the entire scientific literature, ever, was accessible online for searching? It's easily within our power. There are so many interesting papers that are languishing in dust. If they could all be online, and if the full text were free for searching, wouldn't everything be so much better? I was completely on his side from the start. Friends: Here is a report on a talk by a Nobel laureate. I am trying to get the full text of the talk. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Richard Roberts at Johns Hopkins on OA Yesterday Richard Roberts --Nobel laureate and OA advocate-- gave the Sixth Annual Daniel Nathans, M.D. Lecture in Molecular Genetics at Johns Hopkins University. http://kbroman.blogspot.com/2006/01/best-seminar-of-year.html Karl Broman liked it : This afternoon, I went to the best seminar of the year. Sure, it's just January 19, but I'm confident that I won't attend a better seminar this year, as it was among the best I've ever attended....Why did I enjoy the seminar so much? First, [Roberts] began with a bit of a sermon about the importance of open access journals. That if you're anywhere but Hopkins (and a few other places), it's extremely difficult to get access to the literature. He also made the important point that: wouldn't it be great if the entire scientific literature, ever, was accessible online for searching? It's easily within our power. There are so many interesting papers that are languishing in dust. If they could all be online, and if the full text were free for searching, wouldn't everything be so much better? I was completely on his side from the start.

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FIP is a Feloowship awarded by the UGC
by Gopakumar Velayudhanpillai 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Dear Professionals, After my posting regarding the denial of FIP, I have received several e-mails asking me what is FIP. Let me please explain it. F.I.P (Faculty Improvemnet Programme) is a UGC sponsored Fellowship for College Teachers for doing their M.Phil and Ph.D. by availing two years leave. The entire salary for the substitute will be provided by the UGC. The present FIP scheme ends with March 2007, when the Xth plan period ends. The UGC has extende the benefit of FIP to physical education teachers and librarians. As such several librarians have availed this benefit previously. Thank you for all your responses. Gopakumar.V Research Scholar mangalore University Gopakumar.V Research Scholar Department of Library & Information Science Mangalore University Mangalagangotri gopakumar.v(a)rediffmail.com Dear Professionals, After my posting regarding the denial of FIP, I have received several e-mails asking me what is FIP. Let me please explain it. F.I.P (Faculty Improvemnet Programme) is a UGC sponsored Fellowship for College Teachers for doing their M.Phil and Ph.D. by availing two years leave. The entire salary for the substitute will be provided by the UGC. The present FIP scheme ends with March 2007, when the Xth plan period ends. The UGC has extende the benefit of FIP to physical education teachers and librarians. As such several librarians have availed this benefit previously. Thank you for all your responses. Gopakumar.V Research Scholar mangalore University Gopakumar.V Research Scholar Department of Library & Information Science Mangalore University Mangalagangotri gopakumar.v(a)rediffmail.com 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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Reminder: NCSI-NET talk on OJS on Saturday, 21st Jan
by Suvarsha Walters 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Title : Open Journal Systems and the Challenge to Improve Research Capacity in India Date and Time: Saturday 21st January, 2006 at 11:00 a.m. Venue: Seminar Hall of NCSI, IISc, Bangalore. Speaker: By Patrick Inglis, PhD student in sociology at the City University of New York Graduate Center Abstract of the talk: India remains a leader in the field of science and technology. Some of its institutions of higher education, as well as several research and design facilities, are some of the best in the world. But there are also the less prestigious institutes that do not enjoy the same research facilities as the privileged ones. This has the effect of creating a deep division between those who have access to knowledge and those that do not, but it also limits the ability of students and scholars at these other institutions to partake in the production and dissemination of information. Not only will more researchers gain from greater access to knowledge with free online publication media, but that this greater access will improve the scholarly quality of the research produced. When knowledge is free and open access it can provide a foundation for further research to emerge from the exchanges made between increasing numbers of participants. The presentation will expand upon the argument for open access scholarship in the public interest by introducing the Open Journal Systems developed at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada and the benefits this software can bring to the intellectual community in India. (A demo of the Open Journal Systems (OJS) software will also be given.) About Patrick Inglis: Patrick Inglis is a PhD student in sociology at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He studies the effects of globalization on labor and business management and will conduct part of his dissertation research in Bangalore, India. While a master's degree student in education at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, he was a member of the Public Knowledge Project research team that developed the first version of the Open Journal Systems. He continues to work with the Public Knowledge Project in shaping current and future versions of the software. ------------------------------- Please confirm your participation to Prasanna (t.s.prasanna at intel.com) or Suvarsha (suvarsha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) Warm Regards, NCSI-NET coordinators

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Regd. posting a message on LIS forum...
by guhamba 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

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Language CDs and software
by Parinita Samant 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Dear All, I am looking for foreign language CDs and software. Do you know of any distributors/vendors for the same? Could you give me the details..?? Thanks & Regards Parinita DISCLAIMER: This e-mail communication and any attachments may be privileged and confidential to Hexaware and are intended only for the use of the recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not review, disclose, disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and attachments. If you have received this email in error, please delete the same along with all attachments thereto and notify us immediately at mailadmin(a)hexaware.com <mailto:mailadmin@hexaware.com>.  Dear All, � I am looking for foreign language CDs and software. Do you know of any distributors/vendors for the same? Could you give me the details..?? � Thanks &� Regards � Parinita � DISCLAIMER: This e-mail communication and any attachments may be privileged and confidential to Hexaware and are intended only for the use of the recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not review, disclose, disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and attachments. If you have received this email in error, please delete the same along with all attachments thereto and notify us immediately at mailadmin(a)hexaware.com

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by pradeep kumar 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

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(no subject)
by shruthi jayaram 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Dear Friends, I want to a document on Laws on prevention of corruption. Please let me know the where do i get this book. shruthi Librarian Public Affairs Centre koramangal Dear Friends, I want to a document on Laws on prevention of corruption. Please let me know the where do i get this book. shruthi Librarian Public Affairs Centre koramangal 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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