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Full Text Freely Available Science & Technology Journal
by dibya pradhan 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Dear Professional Advanced Industrial Science and Technology: AIST http://www.aist.go.jp/index_en.html Full text of this journal is freely available. (Try for this) Dibya Kishor Pradhan NIT, Rourkela Dear Professional Advanced Industrial Science and Technology: AIST http://www.aist.go.jp/index_en.html Full text of this journal is freely available. (Try for this) 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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information
by abhishek kumar yadav 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Dear Friends, Could any one of you tell me wheteher any software is available that can convert PDF to .DOc. If it is free tell me... Thanks, Regards Abhishek InfoMedia, New Delhi Dear Friends, Could any one of you tell me wheteher any software is available that can convert PDF to .DOc. If it is free tell me... Thanks, Regards Abhishek InfoMedia, New Delhi 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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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
by noufal palliparamban 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Hi This site contains Darwin's complete publications, many handwritten manuscripts and the largest Darwin Plaese see the URL :http://darwin-online.org.uk/ Noufal.P.P Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php Hi This site contains Darwin's complete publications, many handwritten manuscripts and the largest Darwin Plaese see the URL :http://darwin-online.org.uk/ Noufal.P.P Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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Need for democratizing knowledge
by Mailing List Manager 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:58:53 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends:=0D In the US, there is a growing awareness among scientists, librarians, the g= eneral public and even the Congressmen that all publicly-funded research mu= st be available through open access. The UK, Australia and Europe are not f= ar behind. Ironically, in developing countries where the need for free and = open access to information is much greater, awareness is rather slow in com= ing. Enlightened librarians and other professionals can play a central role= in not only bringing about such awareness but also in making open access a= reality. =0D Open access to knowledge is especially important in the area of medicine an= d even more important in areas such as community health and cost-effective = rural healthcare delivery. The last two days I was listening to some excell= ent talks at the ICICI Knowledge Park sponsored Conference on "Improving Pu= blic Health in India: Need for Innovative Solutions in Healthcare Delivery.= " My friends Abhay and Rani Bang have perfected and IMPLEMENTED a low-cost = method of delivering babies in remote villages and hamlets of Gadchiroli di= strict of Maharashtra with the help of LOCAL WOMEN whom they have trained. = And Mr Amarjit Singh, Commissionar of Health, Government of Gujarat, told u= s about a public-private partnership (between the state government and priv= ate practitioners) that has reduced infant and birth-related mother mortali= ty rates considerably in the first ten months of the programme. Two differe= nt solutions to the same problem. The Bangs' programme is replicated in UP.= The Gujarat programme, which was started as a pilot in five backward distr= icts of the state, is now being expanded to cover the entire state. To be h= onest I have known the Gadchiroli programme for about a year, because Abhay= was featured in Time. Abhay's work was done in India and I live and work i= n India and I am considered a very well-informed person and yet I had to kn= ow his work from Time magazine! I have not heard about the Gujarat governme= nt programme at all till I heard Mr Singh. I am sure that is the case with = most of us including policy makers, bureaucrats, civil societies and doctor= s. =0D There were two talks on diabetes in India. Dr Mohan from Chennai spoke abou= t how his own group of institutions - a money-earning profit-oriented hospi= tal, a research foundation and a charitable arm - is able to deal with poor= patients who cannot afford to get diagnosed in the first place and get tre= ated later on. His team has developed a simple test which includes three or= four questions and a waist measurement to predict diabetes. Dr C S Yajnik = of KEM, Pune, told us that it was adiposity rather than obesity one should = worry about. Although most Indian babies are thinner (and looking weaker) t= han babies born in the UK and Europe, our babies have a much higher body fa= t content. He also told us about the futility of giving high doses of folat= e to pregnant mothers (after a few weeks of the onset of pregnancy); instea= d we should be giving them vitamin B12. Both are excellent research effort= s and more so relevant to India. I am sure both Mohan and Yajnik have publi= shed their work in good international journals and it is more than likely m= any Indian diabetologists and general practitioners do not have access to t= hose journals. =0D Whether it is regular academic/clinical research or it is research aimed at= democratising access to low-cost healthcare delivery, what we need in comm= on is to democratise knowledge - making knowledge reach everyone cocerned. = I am glad that Mr Vaghul and friends who founded the Park called it the ICI= CI KNOWLEDGE Park acknowledging the central role knowledge plays in industr= y, economy, healthcare, agriculture and everything else we do and we need t= o do. =0D Both Vaghul and Dr Nachiket Mor, the chairman of the Steering Committee of = the two-day conference, talked briefly about the reach of the ICICI Bank (a= nd group of companies) in rural India. Thanks to the reach, one could take = the message (and knowledge) to the rural poor. But there is another great c= hallenge. Taking knowledge to the educated elite - the scientists and resea= rchers, policy makers, captains of industry, the professors and professiona= ls, practising doctors. Fortunately, thanks to developments in the area of = Internet and web technologies, that challenge could be met in a cost effect= ive manner. =0D Each research and higher education institution performing research should b= e persuaded to set up what is called an interoperable institutional open ac= cess archive. I will not go into the details now, but will just say that th= e software for setting up such interconnected archive is ABSOLUTELY FREE an= d the expertise is available in India. The Indian Institute of Science, for= example, has its own institutional archive. Every paper Mohan or Yajnik wr= ites cn be deposited in such archives {as full text and metadata} and anyon= e anywhere with an Internet connection can access those papers. Both Amarji= t Singh and Abahy can deposit a writeup on their work for the rest of the w= orld to read. =0D I have made a submission to the National Knowledge Commission and the idea = has been accepted and I hope will be implemented eventually. I suggest that= ICICI Knowledge Park and those who attended the Hyderabad Conference need = not wait till the government accepts the idea and acts on it and move ahaed= and facilitate not only setting up such archives but also other initiative= s to democratise knowledge. =0D Best wishes.=0D Subbiah Arunachalam=0D

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Digital reference sourses
by shankarprasad＠ntpc.co.in 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Dear All Please help me in collecting the following: 1- Diff digital reference soures-- Earlier we used to search - dictionary, encyclopedia, year books, directory,buyer's guide etc etc in printed hard copy for a particular information, 2- These must be available on the internet. I would like to collect names of various web address, so that relevant web maybe sought without wasting time on search engine Thanks (Shankar Prasad) Sr.Documentation Officer NTPC-Rihand Dear All Please help me in collecting the following: 1- Diff digital reference soures-- �Earlier we used to search - dictionary, encyclopedia, year books, directory,buyer's guide etc etc in printed hard copy for a particular information, 2- These must be available on the internet. �I would like to collect names of various web address, so that relevant web maybe sought without wasting time on search engine Thanks (Shankar Prasad) Sr.Documentation Officer NTPC-Rihand

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Shelfari - Virtual Shelf for Your Books
by sandeep bhavsar 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

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Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and
by KR. Senthil Kumar 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

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invitation for the Workshop on Information Literacy on 23.12.2006
by Arunachalam Hariharan 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science(SALIS) SALIS Delhi NCR Chapter & Delhi College Engineering cordially invite you to the inaugural ceremony of Sensitization Workshop on Information Literacy Supported by UNESCO On Saturday, 23rd December 2006 at 9.30 A.M. at Central Library Conference Hall Delhi College of Engineering Bawana Road Delhi-110042 Prof S K Khanna Chairman Governing Board INFLIBNET, UGC Centre, Ahmdabad (Former Founder Chairman, AICTE & Former Vice Chairman, UGC) has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest Prof D Goldar, Principal DCE will be Guest of honor R.S.V.P SANJAY KATARIA R K SHUKLA SECRETARY (SALIS Delhi NCR) ORGANISING SECRETARY Programme Lighting of Lamp Welcome Address : Shri R.K. Shukla, Organizing Secretary & Librarian DCE Presidential Address : A. Hariharan, President, SALIS. Chennai Special Address : 1) Prof. D. Goldar, Principal, DCE 2) Shri I R Kumar, Chairman, SALIS Delhi NCR 3) UNESCO Representative Inaugural Address : Prof. S.K. Khanna Chairman, Governing Broad, INFLIBNET, Former Founder Chairman, AICTE & Former Vice-Chairman, UGC Keynote Address : Dr. Harish Chandra Librarian, IIT Madras Vote of Thanks : Shri. Sanjay Kataria, Secretary SALIS Delhi NCR High Tea: 11 A.M. Sanjay Kataria General Secretary SALIS Delhi NCR Chapter 9810503341 DeleteReplyForwardSpamMove... A.Hariharan Structural Engineering Research Centre CSIR Campus Taramani Chennai - 600 113 hariharan_ah(a)yahoo.com Cell: 9841601901 Off:044-22549133 -------------------------------------------------- SALIS B2-Solai Apatments Mount-Poonamallee Road (opp.to.MGR Garden) Chennai - 600 116 Tel: 044-22522448/42014772 www.autolib-india.net/salis __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Hyperlinking to Copyrighted Material is illegal: Australia
by Farooque Shaheen 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

The Federal Court of Australia has upheld last year's ruling against Stephen Cooper who ran MP3s4free.net, and the ISP who hosted the site, for copyright infringement. Cooper's site didn't host any copyrighted material. Instead, it linked directly to recordings hosted on other servers, many of which were copyrighted. Experts say Australian copyright ruling has international implications could spell serious trouble for Search Engines and Bloggers. Some experts have different opinion, they draw a distinction between general-purpose sites and more narrowly-focused operations such as mp3s4free.net. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8219/53/ Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 The Federal Court of Australia has upheld last year's ruling against Stephen Cooper who ran MP3s4free.net, and the ISP who hosted the site, for copyright infringement. Cooper's site didn't host any copyrighted material. Instead, it linked directly to recordings hosted on other servers, many of which were copyrighted. Experts say Australian copyright ruling has international implications could spell serious trouble for Search Engines and Bloggers. Some experts have different opinion, they draw a distinction between general-purpose sites and more narrowly-focused operations such as mp3s4free.net. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8219/53/ Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105

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Elsevier Awards India's Young Scientists
by Mailing List Manager 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:36:59 +0800 From: "Muralidharan, Padma (ELS-DEL)" <P.Muralidharan(a)elsevier.com> Dear Reader, New Delhi - At a glittering award ceremony, the "SCOPUS - Young India Scientist Awards" for 2006 were given away to nine young brilliant scientists. These awards were instituted by Elsevier - the world's largest publisher in STM - Science, Technology & Medicine to honour and propel India's young research minds towards furthering Indian Science. The selection process involved senior academicians, subject experts and scientometricians from the eight subject areas in which the awards were given away. The evaluation criteria were both qualitative and quantitative criteria. For the former, the recently popular bibliometric tool - the Hirsch Index, published papers and citation data and the impact factors - another measurement tool for the quality of a journal were considered. Qualitative analysis was used to see if the research paper was path breaking and if it helped develop new insights into the field. The winners were : Dr. Sunil Kumar Manna from Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad and Dr. Rajesh S Gokhale from National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi for Biological Sciences Dr. Kumar Biradha from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur for Chemistry Dr. Shankar Doraiswamy from National Institute of Oceanography, Goa in Earth Sciences Dr. Giridhar Madras from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in Engineering, Dr. Abhay Gopal Bhatt from Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi in Mathematics Dr. G Venkatasubramanian from National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences, Bangalore in Medicine Dr. C P Safvan from Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi and Dr. Tarun Souradeep from Inter University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune for their work in Physics. We would like to thank all the applicants for participating in this. We hope to continue with this endeavour in the future years too. Kind regards, Padma Muralidharan Account Development Manager, Elsevier India (Science & Technology) Phone : 011-42890202

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