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Asia and Pacific Student Essay Competition on Sustainable Development
by Mailing List Manager 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 08:53:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Puna Das <puna_05(a)yahoo.co.in> Asia and Pacific Student Essay Competition on Sustainable Development For details, visit: http://www.adb.org/AnnualMeeting/2007/Essay-Competition/default.asp

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Submission of new nomination proposals for inscription on the Memory of the World Register
by Mailing List Manager 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:57:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Puna Das <puna_05(a)yahoo.co.in> the World Register Submission of new nomination proposals for inscription on the Memory of the World Register: Last date for Submission: 31 March 2008 For details, visit, Memory of the World Programme Website http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1538&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTI… Information Society Division Communication and Information Sector UNESCO House B 5/29 Safdarjung Enclave New Delhi 110 029, INDIA Email: d.anup-kumar(a)unesco.org Tel : 91-11-26713000 Fax : 91-11-26713001/02

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IndianJournals.Com becomes only website in India having largest collection of multidisciplinary Indian Publications
by Mailing List Manager 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:21:16 +0530 From: Chandrima Roy <croy(a)docdelserv.com> Hello Everybody! We are proud to announce that IndianJournals.com becomes the only website in India hosting largest number of Indian Publications in different subject areas. We are aiming at making this a common platform for all Indian Publications so that it becomes a readily available source for all Indian Publications and hence a source guide for all the users of Indian Journals. We thank you all for the continuous support provided in terms of suggesting and introducing journals, without which we would not have reached so far in such a short span of time. Statistics as on 31st October 2006 (since 30th May 2005 - date of inception): No. of Publications: 50 Societies Associated: 41 Issues Archival: 697 Subject Areas Covered so far: 9 Visitors So far as on 31st October, 2006: 120543 We look forward for your similar patronage in future also. Thanks & Regards :-) Chandrima Roy Divan Enterprises B-9, Basement, "A" Block, Local Shopping Complex Naraina Vihar, Ring Road New Delhi - 110028 Tel: +91-11-25770411 Fax: +91-11-25778876

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Re:Who is using Koha in India
by Mailing List Manager 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:36:19 +0530 From: Eldho Joy <eldhoj(a)gmail.com> Sub: Koha users Dear Mr. Murari College of Engineering,Barton Hill, Trivandrum,Kerala is successfully using Koha.You will get more details from The New Indian Express dated,12/10/2006. Eldho Joy Librarian www.lbsitw.ac.in > > Dear Colleagues, > Can someone indicate who is using Koha (Library Management Software) in > India and their experiences. > > With warm regards, > > Murari P Tapaswi > National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, India > Phone: 91-(0)832-2450275; Fax: 91-(0)832-2450602 > www.nio.org, www.coastalhazards.info, www.mangroveindia.org >

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OA journals can be profitable for the publishers
by Subbiah Arunachalam 05 Nov '06

05 Nov '06

Friends: Peter Suber's blog carries this item today. Dr D K Sahu of MedKnow Publications, Bombay, has 40 OA titles and his experience is similar to that of Hindwani's. Arun ------- Viable business models for OA journals Victoria Rae and Fytton Rowland, "Is there a viable business model for commercial OA publishing?" Forthcoming in Serials. Thanks to William Walsh for the alert as well as for this abstract: The study reported here investigated the potential viability of open access (OA) models for commercial scholarly journal publishers by means of interviews with knowledgeable professionals in the business. The conclusion was that it is as yet unproven whether or not a viable OA business model exists. There are likely to be widely different approaches between different disciplines in the future, with OA unlikely to find acceptance in the humanities and social sciences. However, if any viable OA models do exist, they are likely to be more sophisticated than those tried hitherto, and some suggestions are made regarding possible variables that might be tested in future experiments. On the particular issue of "free riders", it is suggested that the use of a Creative Commons Deed may enable publishers to continue to receive additional non-subscription revenue from industrial users. PS: On June 21, 2006, Hindawi reported that its OA journal collection was already profitable. It's possible that this article was finished and in press before that date. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Fwd: Library Exchange Service
by J. K. Vijayakumar 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

FYI. Sorry for cross-postings. Cass Foster <Cass_Foster(a)centralaz.edu> wrote: Subject: Library Exchange Service Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:55:52 -0700 From: "Cass Foster" <Cass_Foster(a)centralaz.edu> To: Dear Librarians, Please excuse my intrusion. My name is Cass Foster. I am a theatre professor in Arizona that started an international service for librarians, professors and administrators. Networking is provided to help bring about temporary exchanges of homes and positions. Could be within the same country or with other countries. There are currently particpants from over 30 countries. Registration is free if you sign up before 15 September 2006. Please visit www.LibrarianExchange.NET to submit your registration at your early convenience. Regards, --cass Forwarded by J. K. Vijayakumar MLIS PhD Assistant Director - Library American University of Antigua Jasmine Court, Post Box W-1451 St. Johns, ANTIGUA, West Indies HQ: 501 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1600 New York, NY 10017, USA --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta. FYI. Sorry for cross-postings. Cass Foster <Cass_Foster(a)centralaz.edu> wrote: Subject: Library Exchange Service Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:55:52 -0700 From: "Cass Foster" <Cass_Foster(a)centralaz.edu> To: Dear Librarians, Please excuse my intrusion. My name is Cass Foster. I am a theatre professor in Arizona that started an international service for librarians, professors and administrators. Networking is provided to help bring about temporary exchanges of homes and positions. Could be within the same country or with other countries. There are currently particpants from over 30 countries. Registration is free if you sign up before 15 September 2006. Please visit www.LibrarianExchange.NET to submit your registration at your early convenience. Regards, --cass Forwarded by J. K. Vijayakumar MLIS PhD Assistant Director - Library American University of Antigua Jasmine Court, Post Box W-1451 St. Johns, ANTIGUA, West Indies HQ: 501 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1600 New York, NY 10017, USA Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=40791/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/handr… You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta.

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News on Web science
by ryerna＠iitk.ac.in 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

Dear Frineds, kindly share the following information http://ia.rediff.com/money/2006/nov/03web.htm?q=tp&file=.htm Or Text version Now 'Web science' to help improve the Internet Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, the British scientist who invented the World Wide Web, wants to turn the Internet into a science: Web science. In keeping with this, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Southampton on Thursday announced the launch of the Web Science Research Initiative, a panel that will understand the scientific, technical and social challenges underlying the growth of the Internet reported news.com The WSRI will have its headquarters at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT and at the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. The two collaborating universities will raise funds from the corporate world and set up a research centre 'that will sponsor Ph.D. students and ultimately create undergraduate curricula in Web science,' news.com reported. In a recent article, Berners-Lee had said that the Web has changed the ways people communicate, collaborate, and educate. But with the Net evolving rapidly, it is necessary to understand its potential impact in the future too. He said that since humans are the creators of Web pages and links between them, their interactions form emergent patterns in the Web at a macroscopic scale. These human interactions are, in turn, governed by social conventions and laws. Web science, therefore, must be inherently interdisciplinary; its goal is to both understand the growth of the Web and to create approaches that allow new powerful and more beneficial patterns to occur. The WSRI will have four directors: Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium; Wendy Hall, professor of computer science at University of Southampton; Nigel Shadbolt, professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Southampton; and Daniel J. Weitzner, principal research scientist at MIT. The father of the World Wide Web said that the social aspect of the Web demands that a field separate from computer science be explored. The WSRI members say that these social scientists and life sciences gurus can help study online communities and help 'Web scientists' understand how the Web operates and how it can be more responsive to the existing relationships people actually have online. The initiative will lead to better understanding of the Internet and will help improve the way people communicate, learn and work on the Internet. "We really must have a science of understanding this. We must be able to look at whether it's going to continue to serve us well, or whether we'll end up with some things which suddenly appear overnight and which in fact are very bad," Berners-Lee said in an interview with BBC.

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Journal on Knowledge Management
by librarymahad 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Dear all, Request you to send me a list of Journals on Knowledge Management or on Learning organisation. If possible the publication details. Awaiting for your favourable response. Regards, Pradip Das ================================================= Pradip Das. Sr. Librarian & Training Co-ordinator, Pidilite Industries Limited, A/21, MIDC, Mahad, Maharashtra - 402309. India. Ph. : 02145- 31444(R), 02145 - 232043 to 46 (Off.) Extn. : 226 Fax. : 01245 - 232048 E-mail : librarymahad(a)pidilite.co.in or, pradipbhadreswardas(a)gmail.com Web : www.pidilite.com ================================================ Dear all, Request you to send me a list of Journals on Knowledge Management or on Learning organisation. If possible the publication details. Awaiting for your favourable response. Regards, Pradip Das ================================================= Pradip Das. Sr. Librarian & Training Co-ordinator, Pidilite Industries Limited, A/21, MIDC, Mahad, Maharashtra - 402309. India. Ph. : 02145- 31444(R), 02145 - 232043 to 46 (Off.) Extn. : 226 Fax. : 01245 - 232048 E-mail : librarymahad(a)pidilite.co.in or, pradipbhadreswardas(a)gmail.com Web : www.pidilite.com ================================================

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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Changes
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

I have resigned my position as Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development at the University of Houston Libraries effective 1/31/07. Effective immediately, there are several important changes to the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB), Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (SEPR), and the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (SEPW) that users should be aware of: 1. These publications have been moved to my domain: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/ SEPB http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepb.html SEPR http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepr.htm SEPW http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepw.htm 2. While the UH Libraries will archive SEPB versions up to version 64, no new versions will be published on their Website. If you maintain a catalog record for SEPB, I would ask that you update it with the new address. Next Monday's SEPW will be published at the new site. 3. A transition version of SEPB (65) has been published at the new site. There are no content changes. This version simply makes a number of HTML coding adjustments needed for the new location. A Google Custom Search Engine replaces the prior search capability. Once Google starts indexing the new site, search results will be from that site. 4. The SEPW mailing list will be discontinued at the end work today. You can continue to get an e-mail version from FeedBurner. I'm sorry for the inconvenience of your having to sign up again; all that is required is your e-mail address. http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756 5. The SEPW RSS feed remains the same: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss 6. You can continue to follow my digital publishing activities at my domain and at DigitalKoans: http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/ Thanks for your patience during this transition. -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. E-Mail: cwbailey(a)digital-scholarship.com Publications: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/ (Provides access to DigitalKoans, Open Access Bibliography, Open Access Webliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog, and others.)

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onscreen key board
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Useful information in case your keyboard stops functioning for some reason and you need to use your computer in an emergency. In case you did not know this already ================== An On-Screen Keyboard in Windows. In case your keyboard or some keys stop working, Microsoft provides you with an alternative way to type-in using the mouse. To work this tool, Go to: 'Start menu' Select: 'Run' Type in: 'OSK' Press: 'OK' A keyboard will be displayed on your monitor, which you can use with your mouse -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors (Formerly SENIORS) 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500018 Phone 27846631

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