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

Why open access? Tim Brody answers
by Mailing List Manager 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:49:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Friends: Here is a short piece by Tim Brody of the University of Southampton. A strong arguement indeed in favour of mandating open access to all research, especially publicly funded research. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------- Open access and science I've been asked to contribute to a 'focus' section on open access: More precisely, do you think that open-access publication speeds up scientific dialog between researchers and, consequently, should be extended to the whole scientific literature as quickly as possible? Do you really think that Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact? If yes, what are, according to you the main consequences on communication between scientists? For details, visit, http://oapeon.blogspot.com/2006/06/open-access-and-science.html

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Fwd: ETD2007 Conference in Uppsala, Sweden - Call for papers
by Mailing List Manager 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:40:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> --- Eva Müller <eva.muller(a)UB.UU.SE> wrote: > Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:43:55 +0100 > From: Eva Müller <eva.muller(a)UB.UU.SE> > Subject: ETD2007 Conference in Uppsala, Sweden - > Call for papers > To: JISC-REPOSITORIES(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK > > From ETD2007 Conference Committee - etd2007(a)ub.uu.se > > Call for papers - ETD2007 > > 10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses > and Dissertations > Uppsala, Sweden, June 13-16, 2007 > http://epc.ub.uu.se/ETD2007/ > ETD2007 - Added Value for E-theses

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Call for Paticipation at the International Workshop on Digital Library at Kolkata
by Arup Raychaudhury 19 Nov '06

19 Nov '06

International Workshop on Research Issues in Digital Libraries (in co-operation with ACM SIGIR) December 12-15, 2006, Kolkata http://www.isical.ac.in/~iwridl ========================================================================= We are pleased to inform you that we are going to organize an International Workshop on Research Issues in Digital Libraries in co-operation with ACM SIGIR, from 12th December to 15th December, 2006 in Kolkata, India. Contributors/Speakers: ---------------------- Karen Sparck Jones Hiromichi Fujisawa Donald H. Kraft Joemon M. Jose Carol Peters Prateek Sarkar George Nagy Hsin-Hsi Chen Stephen M. Griffin Norbert Fuhr Richard Wright Michael S. Hart Henry S. Baird Ian H. Witten William I. Grosky Michael J. Kurtz Stephen Robertson Christian Fluhr Gerard Huet Gabriella Pasi Michel Beigbeder Noriko Kando Brigitte Grau Edward A. Fox Topics: ------- http://www.isical.ac.in/~iwridl/program.html Indexing and retrieval techniques Cross-lingual information retrieval XML retrieval Natural language processing Multimedia indexing and retrieval Document image processing Evaluation methodology eBooks and society Registration: ------------- http://www.isical.ac.in/~iwridl/online.html Registration Fees: Indian participants International participants >From Academia: INR 4,000 From SAARC countries: USD 100 >From Non-Academia: INR 10,000 Others: USD 250 All SIGIR members are eligible for the academic registration rate. Please register online at http://www.isical.ac.in/~iwridl/online.html. Organizers: ----------- Indian Statistical Institute Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Kolkata Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur -- Arup Raychaudhury _____________________________________________________________ Indian Statistical Institute |Phone: 91-33-2575 2106/2100/2118 203 B.T. Road | Kolkata 700 108 |Fax : 91-33-2578 1412 INDIA | _____________________________________________________________

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Google puts a face on Google Apps
by dibya pradhan 19 Nov '06

19 Nov '06

Dear professional Google puts a face on Google Apps Start Page to aggregate e-mail, calendar, and IM This week, Google will put a face on Google Apps for Your Domain, released as beta last August, when it unveils Start Page, a customizable home page for single users and organizations that will aggregate all of the Google applications. Just like Google Apps, the Start Page will also be hosted by Google and like the Apps, it will allow organizations to brand the Start Page as their own. (http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/13/HNgooglestart_1.html?source=NLC-S… Regards. Dibya Kishor Pradhan NIT, Rourkela Dear professional Google puts a face on Google Apps Start Page to aggregate e-mail, calendar, and IM This week, Google will put a face on Google Apps for Your Domain, released as beta last August, when it unveils Start Page, a customizable home page for single users and organizations that will aggregate all of the Google applications. Just like Google Apps, the Start Page will also be hosted by Google and like the Apps, it will allow organizations to brand the Start Page as their own. (http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/13/HNgooglestart_1.html?source=NLC-S… Regards. Dibya Kishor Pradhan NIT, Rourkela 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 Educational Resources
by Indira K. 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Dear All, UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) and the OECD's Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) are holding an Internet discussion forum to focus on the findings and conclusions from a draft OECD study on Open Educational Resources. The forum will be organized in three week-long sessions: a.. Week 1 (13-19 November): What do we know about users and producers of OER? b.. Week 2 (20-26 November): What are the motives or incentives and barriers for individuals and institutions to use, produce and share OER? c.. Week 3 (27 November - 1 December): What are the policy implications and the most pressing policy issues at institutional, regional and national level coming out from this study? http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=23365&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… http://www.unesco.org/iiep/virtualuniversity/forumshome.php?queryforums_id=3 http://www.oecd.org/document/20/0,2340,en_2649_33723_35023444_1_1_1_1,00.ht… Regards, Indira -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ms. Indira Koneru Faculty Associate Department of Library Science Academic Wing ICFAI University 23, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabd- 500 082. Dear All, UNESCOs International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) and the OECDs Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) are holding an Internet discussion forum to focus on the findings and conclusions from a draft OECD study on Open Educational Resources. The forum will be organized in three week-long sessions: Week 1 (1319 November): What do we know about users and producers of OER? Week 2 (2026 November): What are the motives or incentives and barriers for individuals and institutions to use, produce and share OER? Week 3 (27 November 1 December): What are the policy implications and the most pressing policy issues at institutional, regional and national level coming out from this study? http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=23365&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=23365&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… http://www.unesco.org/iiep/virtualuniversity/forumshome.php?queryforums_id=3 http://www.unesco.org/iiep/virtualuniversity/forumshome.php?queryforums_id=3 http://www.oecd.org/document/20/0,2340,en_2649_33723_35023444_1_1_1_1,00.ht… http://www.oecd.org/document/20/0,2340,en_2649_33723_35023444_1_1_1_1,00.ht… Regards, Indira Ms. Indira Koneru Faculty Associate Department of Library Science Academic Wing ICFAI University 23, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabd- 500 082.

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National Workshop on LIS Teacher and the Digital Future at the Central Library of IIT Madras
by Harish Chandra 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Dear Moderators, We would be obliged if you kindly consider to post the information about the forthcoming National Workshop on LIS Teacher and the Digital Future jointly Organised by the Central Library of IIT Madras and IATLIS during 17th to 19th January, 2007. Eminent experts from IIT Madras and other institutions will deliever lectures followed by demonstrations, labs, site visits. The proposed contents of the workshop is Digital Technology Adaptability & Affordability, Future LIS Teacher as Cyber Teacher, Manuscript Conservation, E-Publishing in Cutting Edge Technologies, Technology Implications in LIS Teaching, Change Management in Libraries, Designing of Web based Courses Digital Repositories, Digital Asset Management, Information Literacy, Library Systems and Procedures Manual, ICT Implementation in Libraries, Portals and Web Communities, Technical Communication, Intellectual Property Rights, Web-Resources & Services, Networking Infrastructure, Marketing and Research Methods, Quality Indicators in LIS Teaching, Institute- Industries Interaction and Peer to Peer Networking for LIS Teaching. Objectives of Workshop · To provide a forum to the LIS Teachers, Research Scholars, Librarians and Academic Administrators to discuss or present their views on the recent developments and advances in ICT and its implementation in LIS Teaching and Library Services · To create awareness and understanding about the importance of introducing and executing information technology in LIS teaching to achieve academic excellence. · To provide an opportunity to the participants to see the world class Information Technology Infrastructure and other facilities available on IIT Madras Campus · To provide an opportunity to the participants to see the implementation of RFID Technology, Smart Cards, ISO-9001:2000, Contact less Smart Card enabled Access Control, Digital Knowledge Center, Media Resource Center, Children's Library Corner, Web based Library and Information Support Services and other facilities / services Target Audience: Maximum (36) Registration First Come First Served basis LIS TEACHERS (30), Full Time LIS Research Scholars (2) Librarians and Academic Administrators (4) Brochure of the Workshop can be downloaded http://www.cenlib.iitm.ac.in/docs/IATLISWorkshop.doc or write to Dr. Harish Chandra Workshop Director and Librarian IIT Madras, Chennai-600 036 Phone:91 044 22574951 (O) Mobile: 09444404951 e-mail:hchandra@iitm.ac.in Dear Moderators, We would be obliged if you kindly consider to post the information about the forthcoming National Workshop on LIS Teacher and the Digital Future jointly Organised by the Central Library of IIT Madras and IATLIS during 17th to 19th January, 2007. Eminent experts from IIT Madras and other institutions will deliever lectures followed by demonstrations, labs, site visits. The proposed contents of the workshop is Digital Technology Adaptability & Affordability, Future LIS Teacher as Cyber Teacher, Manuscript Conservation, E-Publishing in Cutting Edge Technologies, Technology Implications in LIS Teaching, Change Management in Libraries, Designing of Web based Courses Digital Repositories, Digital Asset Management, Information Literacy, Library Systems and Procedures Manual, ICT Implementation in Libraries, Portals and Web Communities, Technical Communication, Intellectual Property Rights, Web-Resources & Services, N etworking Infrastructure, Marketing and Research Methods, Quality Indicators in LIS Teaching, Institute- Industries Interaction and Peer to Peer Networking for LIS Teaching. Objectives of Workshop · To provide a forum to the LIS Teachers, Research Scholars, Librarians and Academic Administrators to discuss or present their views on the recent developments and advances in ICT and its implementation in LIS Teaching and Library Services · To create awareness and understanding about the importance of introducing and executing information technology in LIS teaching to achieve academic excellence. · To provide an opportunity to the participants to see the world class Information Technology Infrastructure and other facilities available on IIT Madras Campus · To provide an opportunity to the participants to see the implementation of RFID Technology, Smart Cards, ISO-9001:2000, Contact less Smart Card enabled Access Control, Digital Knowledge Center, Media Resource Center, Children’s Library Corner, Web based Library and Information Support Services and other facilities / services Target Audience : Maximum (36) Registration First Come First Served basis LIS TEACHERS (30), Full Time LIS Research Scholars (2) Librarians and Academic Administrators (4) Brochure of the Workshop can be downloaded http://www.cenlib.iitm.ac.in/docs/IATLISWorkshop.doc http://www.cenlib.iitm.ac.in/docs/IATLISWorkshop.doc or write to Dr. Harish Chandra Workshop Director and Librarian IIT Madras, Chennai-600 036 Phone:91 044 22574951 (O) Mobile: 09444404951 e-mail:hchandra@iitm.ac.in

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EMPI Digital Library National Convention - 2007
by PARSAI KAMAL L. 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Dear Professionals, It gives me immense pleasure to share with you our B-School Groups decade old library building efforts which have culminated in it being re-christened as EMPI Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre and identified as one of the best B-School Library in Delhi and NCR. Currently, in order to share our experience and further buildup on our effort, our Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre , Central Library, EMPI Business School, New Delhi has taken the initiatives to organize a National Convention on developing a Roadmap for Modernization of Library and Information Centres in the emerging Knowledge Era on 19 th -20 th March, 2007 at EMPI Business School and India International Centre, New Delhi. EMPI Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre invites Researchers, Information Professionals, Librarians, Business Leaders and Academics to join us for two days EMPI Digital Library National Convention - 2007 ( EMPI DLNC - 2007 ). The conference is going to be held at New Delhi . For more information on EMPI DLNC 2007 and EMPI Knowledge & Leaning Resource Centres other initiative you can visit http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eempidlnc%2… http://www.empidlnc.org or directly contact to Kamal L Parsai , Faculty (IT), Head (Central Library) & Organizing Secretary EMPI Digital Library National Convention - 2007 Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre, Central Library , EMPI Business School , CSKM Educational Complex, Satbari, Chattarpur, New Delhi - 110074 Phone: 91-11-26652373/2375/4727/3764 Fax: 91-11-26654422, Mobile - 0-9818854716 Email: empidlnc2007(a)gmail.com Website: http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eempidlnc%2… http://www.empidlnc.org Dear Professionals, It gives me immense pleasure to share with you our B-School Groups decade old library building efforts which have culminated in it being re-christened as EMPI Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre and identified as one of the best B-School Library in Delhi and NCR. Currently, in order to share our experience and further buildup on our effort, our Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre, Central Library, EMPI Business School, New Delhi has taken the initiatives to organize a National Convention on developing a Roadmap for Modernization of Library and Information Centres in the emerging Knowledge Era on 19th-20th March, 2007 at EMPI Business School and India International Centre, New Delhi. EMPI Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre invites Researchers, Information Professionals, Librarians, Business Leaders and Academics to join us for two days EMPI Digital Library National Convention - 2007 (EMPI DLNC - 2007). The conference is going to be held at New Delhi. For more information on EMPI DLNC 2007 and EMPI Knowledge & Leaning Resource Centres other initiative you can visit http://www.empidlnc.org or directly contact to Kamal L Parsai, Faculty (IT), Head (Central Library) & Organizing Secretary EMPI Digital Library National Convention - 2007 Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre, Central Library, EMPI Business School, CSKM Educational Complex, Satbari, Chattarpur, New Delhi - 110074 Phone: 91-11-26652373/2375/4727/3764 Fax: 91-11-26654422, Mobile - 0-9818854716 Email: empidlnc2007(a)gmail.com Website: http://www.empidlnc.org

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Interactive Health Tutorials (MedlinePlus)
by Thapar, Amit 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Interactive Health Tutorials (MedlinePlus) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials.html "Using animated graphics each tutorial explains a procedure or condition in easy-to-read language. You can also listen to the tutorial." Requires the free downloadable Flash plug-in. Totorials cover a variety of Diseases and Conditions, Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, Surgery and Treatment Procedures, and Prevention/Wellness. Interactive Health Tutorials (MedlinePlus) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials.html http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials.html "Using animated graphics each tutorial explains a procedure or condition in easy-to-read language. You can also listen to the tutorial." Requires the free downloadable Flash plug-in. Totorials cover a variety of Diseases and Conditions, Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, Surgery and Treatment Procedures, and Prevention/Wellness.

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Eve Gray on the Bangalore workshop on OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Friends: Here is what Eve Gray posted on her blog yesterday about the Bangalore workshop on Open Access. I have made minor corrections. Arun -------- South-South Alliances - the Bangalore workshop on Electronic Publishing and Open Access We met for our meals on a shaded terrace under palms and spreading tropical trees in the centre of the enormous campus of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and held our discussions in their senate room, distinguished home to many of India's leading scientists. Coming from India, China, Brazil and Africa, Germany, the UK and US, we were the guests of the Indian Academy of Science, the IISC and the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation and had met to discuss South-South relationships in the development of Open Access research dissemination. The workshop was an important further step in a growing movement of South-South alliances. What emerged most strongly at the Africa-centred conference in Leiden a few months ago was the question, 'Whose knowledge, for what purpose for whom?' The issue there was the tendency for development rhetoric to focus on the supply of knowledge to the developing world rather than the production of knowledge in and from the African continent. This time, in India, the assertion of the rights of developing nations went a step further. Right at the beginning of the workshop, in one of the introductory addresses, Prof N Balakrishnan, the Associate Director of the Indian Institute of Science, said, 'What we need to do is change the developing country rhetoric to a world perspective.' Put another way when I emailed Gordon Graham, of the LOGOS journal, one of the wisest people I know from the publishing industry, he wrote back, 'Do tell me more about the workshop. What a combination. India, China, Brazil and Africa constitute about two thirds of humanity.' They are both right what this workshop reminded us is that we in the developing world are the norm - with all our challenges - not the privileged and powerful who call the shots in scholarly publishing. Alma Swan raised the same issue in another way, echoing something that was said in Leiden: that we have a problem with the common expression of the international/local dichotomy. Why should developing country issues be considered 'local' when these apply to the greater proportion of the global population, while , for example, we bow down to the 'international' status of the comparatively narrowly-focused ISI indexed journals? Lawrence Liang, of the Alternative Law Forum in Bangalore, gave us the message in another way. In a typically virtuoso and mind-stretching keynote address, in which he charted different meanings of ownership, in different languages and cultures. He invited us to resist a property discourse that conflates property rights with academic rights and turns the collegiality of academe into the hierarchy of property. In that world, he said, those who have most freedom are those who own the most IP. Property in the English sense, he said, the conflation of 'self' and 'own' resting on exclusion, is something not common to other languages. In Hindi, apnapen is not a matter of owning, or property , but of closeness. Ownership in this sense has the obligation of care and the opposite of care is brutality, like the 'war' on piracy that is currently being waged passport control in a borderless world, Liang argued. Its insistence on the importance of a developing world view has led India to be an early and successful adopter of Open Access. The Indian Academy of Sciences publishes 11 OA journals and, strikingly from my point of view as a publisher, Prof Chandrasekran, the Secretary of the IASc, said that whenever the IASc works with international partners, it insists that this must be on its own terms, in ways suitable to the situation in the developing world. There is a lesson to be learned here by those struggling African journal editors who hand over their journals to UK publishers in the name of 'viability', all too often landing up unable to afford to buy back their own output. The general tone of the contributions and discussions at the workshop was pragmatic, echoing Subbiah Arunachalam's plea at the start of the workshop that we move from words to action in developing South-South collaboration. Barbara Kirsop and Alma Swan both gave admirably clear expositions of the advantages of OA for developing countries, speeding up the solution of global problems, avoiding expensive duplication, increasing impact factors and providing greater visibility for national research. With preprint archiving, the impact of journal articles can begin even before the publication date of the article. Muthu Madhan of NIT in Rourkela gave quietly impressive practical advice on how to swing an organisation round to mandating OA archiving. Medknow, the Indian OA medical publisher goes from strength to strength, now publishing 40 journals all of them Open Access, none of them dependent on author fees, said DK Sahu, the MD of the company. He took us through an impressive account of the increased impact factors, the wider range of author submissions, the expanding global readership and the resultant improvements in quality, that come from making developing world journals OA. In this way, he argued, small local journals are being turned into international journals. Moreover this has come, in Medknow, without loss of print subscriptions, which remain the main revenue source for OA journals. In Latin America, SciELO , too, came early to Open Access. Abel Packer stressed the ways in which this collaborative effort across Latin America and the Caribbean is moving journals from the status of local and regional towards the international flow of scientific information. It creaties scalability by publishing collections rather than individual journals and takes care to maximise the exposure of all articles through search engines and databases. SciELO, said Packer, is among the ten most clicked searches in Google Scholar. There are 360 journals currently certified by SciELO and another 64 that should be added soon. The success of SciELO depends on its independence the main institution in each country is the science council, so that is is not directly involved with any university or individual journal. The cost efficiencies from the $1 million invested every year are also impressive at about $100 per article per year and 3.7 cents per download for the 27 million articles that are downloaded every year. In an interesting insight into the ways in which Chinese scholarly publishing is working, Prof Zu Guang'an, the Head of the Department of Publication at the National Science Foundation of China revealed that most journals were government supported, something that influences the journals' ability to choose its publication mode. There are 143 OA journals with the NSFC publishing four broad-based journals in Chinese and English and supporting and funding another 30. Most Chinese journals, he said, were not covered by any database and there is a small market at the moment for Chinese scientific journals outside of China. Amit Kapoor of Topaz also stressed the importance of developing countries even in his very high-tech environment. Topaz needs increased international participation, he said, getting other communities and developers involved. It is difficult to deal in change, however, he argued, as there are established communities out there, creating push-back. Developing countries provide greater potential for expanding new ideas. And, he said, rounding things off nicely, they are only about 80% of the world population. Against this background, African efforts seem fragmented and decentralised. As Susan Veldsman put it, after her account of the work that EIFL is doing in southern Africa, few repositories are actually up and running, most still in the incubation phase. The problems faced are lack of HR capacity, lack of government support, decentralised efforts and the need for strategic and not only operational efforts. My own paper, based on the work I have been doing for my OSI fellowship, looked at the consequences of publish and perish policies in South Africa in a context where government is, in contradiction of its scholarly publishing policy, looking for development impact from national research spending. Most of all, I have discovered a black hole in the policy documents where discussion of research publication and development impact ought to be. The most promising development is the South African Academy of Science report on scholarly publishing, commissioned by the Department of Science and Technology, that has come up with the proposal that the Academy take on the role of scholarly publishing coordination and quality control something that seems in line with SciElO's success, if we can pull it off. We could learn from the forward-thinking developments that we have heard about from India and Latin America. The African vice-chancellors meet in Cape Town next week to discuss ICTs in higher education. It will be interesting to see where this leads. Papers from the Bangalore workshop are online on www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/OAworkshop2006/presentations.htm [Posted by Eve Gray ( Open Access, Brazil, Scholarly publishing, South Africa, Journals, India )] Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Adobe offers hosted document management
by Farooque Shaheen 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Adobe is to offer an online service called Adobe Document Center than enables users to store PDF, Word and Excel documents online and selectively share them with others. Furthermore, you can grant and revoke access to the documents at will. The files are security-locked, and the people you want to access them must first have downloaded either Adobe Reader 8 for PDF files or a 'lightweight' plug-in for Word and Excel. After you have revoked access rights, the plug-ins will prevent the opening of documents even those they have downloaded. http://www.ovum.com/news/euronews.asp?id=5106 Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India (P) Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 Adobe is to offer an online service called Adobe Document Center than enables users to store PDF, Word and Excel documents online and selectively share them with others. Furthermore, you can grant and revoke access to the documents at will. The files are security-locked, and the people you want to access them must first have downloaded either Adobe Reader 8 for PDF files or a 'lightweight' plug-in for Word and Excel. After you have revoked access rights, the plug-ins will prevent the opening of documents even those they have downloaded. http://www.ovum.com/news/euronews.asp?id=5106 Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India (P) Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366

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