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A book on Open Access
by Sukhdev Singh 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

Dear Friends Following book on Open Access is available for download. Willinsky, J. (2005) The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship MIT Press < https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/willinsky/TheAccessPrinciple_TheMITPress_026… > --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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Google Calendar
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 16 Apr '06

16 Apr '06

Google has launched a new service. and this time its about time and more precisely Google will help you organize your time with Google Calendar. Google Calendar is a very strong initial release, with a good balance between powerful features and ease of use. The ability to easily work with multiple calendars and the sharing features are particularly appealing, especially for people who are dissatisfied with their current calendar application. Trying the Google Calendar is low-risk—if you don't like it, you can simply export your information and import it back into your current calendar application. Using Google Calendar, you can create an event, set reminder and even you can notify others about the event, by entering their email id. Looks like Google has taken a leaf from IBM Lotus Notes. Currently those who have Gmail ID can make use of it. www.google.com/calendar Regards ~Sreeharsha BG

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Internet for schools
by Subbiah Arunachalam 15 Apr '06

15 Apr '06

Internet2 Survey Finds Over 46,000 K20 Institutions Connected to its Advanced Network K20 access to advanced networking more than quadruples in four years. http://k20.internet2.edu/survey/survey_index.php More than 46,000 K-12 schools, community colleges, libraries, and museums in 35 U.S. states are now connected to the Internet2 backbone network according to the results of a bi-annual survey, released recently. The survey highlights the success of the nationwide Internet2 K20 Initiative in bringing together Internet2 member institutions and innovators from primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, libraries, and museums to extend new technologies, applications, and advanced content to all educational sectors across the country. -------------- Friends: It is important for us in India to provide Internet connectivity (of reasonable bandwidth) to all our educational institutions. It may sound esoteric, but it is a real need. While we still have schools without proper classrooms, blackboards and decent buildings, one may feel some trepidation to talk about Internet in every school. In my view both are important. We should work on both content and the best means to disseminate/ access the content. It is in this context, both open access and open course ware acquire tremendous importance. Look at what the Azim Premji Foundation is doing in distant hamlets in Kolar district. They have set up many computers in village schools (in mud buildings) and have employed a local graduate trained in computers and educational materal in CD-ROM and are enabling children of class 3 onwards to use the computers and augment their classroom learning with CD-ROM supplements. Look at what the National Virtual Academy for Rural Prosperity is aiming to do. Through a network of village knowledge centres and trained volunteers (from among the local communities), NVA is attempting to spread the knowledge revolution in rural India. The Knowledge Commission will do well to work with this enthusiastic rural cadres. Subbiah Arunachalam Internet2 Survey Finds Over 46,000 K20 Institutions Connected to its Advanced Network K20 access to advanced networking more than quadruples in four years. http://k20.internet2.edu/survey/survey_index.php http://k20.internet2.edu/survey/survey_index.php More than 46,000 K-12 schools, community colleges, libraries, and museums in 35 U.S. states are now connected to the Internet2 backbone network according to the results of a bi-annual survey, released recently. The survey highlights the success of the nationwide Internet2 K20 Initiative in bringing together Internet2 member institutions and innovators from primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, libraries, and museums to extend new technologies, applications, and advanced content to all educational sectors across the country. -------------- Friends: It is important for us in India to provide Internet connectivity (of reasonable bandwidth) to all our educational institutions. It may sound esoteric, but it is a real need. While we still have schools without proper classrooms, blackboards and decent buildings, one may feel some trepidation to talk about Internet in every school. In my view both are important. We should work on both content and the best means to disseminate/ access the content. It is in this context, both open access and open course ware acquire tremendous importance. Look at what the Azim Premji Foundation is doing in distant hamlets in Kolar district. They have set up many computers in village schools (in mud buildings) and have employed a local graduate trained in computers and educational materal in CD-ROM and are enabling children of class 3 onwards to use the computers and augment their classroom learning with CD-ROM supplements. Look at what the National Virtual Academy for Rural Prosperity is aiming to do. Through a network of village knowledge centres and trained volunteers (from among the local communities), NVA is attempting to spread the knowledge revolution in rural India. The Knowledge Commission will do well to work with this enthusiastic rural cadres. Subbiah Arunachalam

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Vacancy for the post of Library assistant
by js vijaya 15 Apr '06

15 Apr '06

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Request for article
by PRASHANTA KUMAR 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Dear Sir/Madam I will be thank full to you if anybody help me to get the blow mentioned article , & kindly consider it as an urgent message. Author : Singh D & Ahuja PS Title: 5S rDNA gene diversity in tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze) and its use for variety identification. Journal Details- "Genome", Vol.- 49, No- 1, year . 2006 Page- 91-96 Publisher- NRC Research Press, Canada Thanking You Thanks & Regards, PRASHANTA **************** IHBT, (CSIR), Govt. of India Library, Palampur, HP, Pin- 176061 Mobile- +91 94 18 18 44 21 --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. Dear Sir/Madam I will be thank full to you if anybody help me to get the blow mentioned article , & kindly consider it as an urgent message. Author : Singh D & Ahuja PS Title: 5S rDNA gene diversity in tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze) and its use for variety identification. Journal Details- "Genome", Vol.- 49, No- 1, year . 2006 Page- 91-96 Publisher- NRC Research Press , Canada Thanking You Thanks & Regards, PRASHANTA **************** IHBT, (CSIR), Govt. of India Library, Palampur, HP, Pin- 176061 Mobile- +91 94 18 18 44 21 Jiyo cricket on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailcricket/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cric… Yahoo! India cricket http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailmobilemessenger/*http://in.mobile.yahoo.… Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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Rajasthan enacts Library Legislation Act
by D Jotwani 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Dear All You will be pleased to know that the Rajasthan Assembly passed Public Libraries Act 2006 last week. The news was covered bery briefly by local press which I could see during my visit to Udaipur. All the members of Rajasthan Library Association and other professionals who worked hard for this purpose deserve our appreciation and congratulations for the job well done. Regards. -- D. Jotwani Librarian Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Powai, Mumbai 400076 Phone 91-22-25768920, 91-22-25720227

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First Author: a resource for scientists for publishing scientific research
by Sukhdev Singh 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Friends, Just came to know about a site called First Author < http://www.firstauthor.org/index.html > . It is a resource for scientists dedicated to innovations in, and debates surrounding, publishing scientific research. It reports news from top journals, publishers, and funding and research bodies. New technologies for referencing, producing, and archiving scientific papers are reviewed here. Long-term debates in scientific writing such as peer review, impact factors, open access publishing, and intellectual property are also discussed. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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Caseplace.org
by vimal kumar 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

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Trials is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal
by sandeep bhavsar 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Trials http://www.trialsjournal.com/ Trials is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that will encompass all aspects of the performance and findings of randomized controlled trials. Trials will experiment with, and then refine, innovative approaches to improving communication about trials. They are keen to move beyond publishing traditional trial results articles (although these will be included). They believe this represents an exciting opportunity to advance the science and reporting of trials. Prior to 2006, Trials was published as Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine (CCTCVM). All published CCTCVM articles are available via the Trials website and citations to CCTCVM article URLs will continue to be supported. The impact factor shown relates to articles published in CCTCVM during 2003-4. Making all its content open access and not retaining copyright, Trials offers a way to make data both freely available and highly visible to trialists worldwide; this will benefit the impact of your publication among peers and society. The journal has unrestricted space and takes advantage of all the technical possibilities available for electronic publishing. To date, journals have focused on reporting the results of trials, with very little coverage of why and how they are conducted. Reports of trials have been restricted both by authors and editors - both parties often select only a subset of the outcomes measured, while the latter often impose word limits on the articles published making it difficult to communicate the lessons learnt from conducting the trial, let alone include adequate details of how the trial was conducted. The Internet offers both unlimited space and interactivity, and they are keen to harness these attributes. For instance, trialists will be able to provide the detail required to be a true scientific record and do more to make the article's message comprehensible to a variety of reader groups. They will also be able to communicate not only all outcome measures, as well as varying analyses and interpretations, but also in-depth descriptions of what they did and what they learnt. This sharing of direct experience is fundamental to improving the quality and conduct of trials worldwide. Thanks and Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Research & Management Studies Thane (w) 400601 ------------------------------------------------------ Phone (Off) 25364492 25446554 Mobile 9870484626 email sandeep(a)vpmthane.org Website www.vpmthane.org ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- Yahoo! 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Making all its content open access and not retaining copyright, Trials offers a way to make data both freely available and highly visible to trialists worldwide; this will benefit the impact of your publication among peers and society. The journal has unrestricted space and takes advantage of all the technical possibilities available for electronic publishing. To date, journals have focused on reporting the results of trials, with very little coverage of why and how they are conducted. Reports of trials have been restricted both by authors and editors - both parties often select only a subset of the outcomes measured, while the latter often impose word limits on the articles published making it difficult to communicate the lessons learnt from conducting the trial, let alone include adequate details of how the trial was conducted. The Internet offers both unlimited space and interactivity, and they are keen to harness these attributes. For instance, trialists will be able to provide the detail required to be a true scientific record and do more to make the article's message comprehensible to a variety of reader groups. They will also be able to communicate not only all outcome measures, as well as varying analyses and interpretations, but also in-depth descriptions of what they did and what they learnt. This sharing of direct experience is fundamental to improving the quality and conduct of trials worldwide. Thanks and Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Research & Management Studies Thane (w) 400601 ------------------------------------------------------ Phone (Off) 25364492 25446554 Mobile 9870484626 email mailto:sandeep@vpmthane.org sandeep(a)vpmthane.org Website http://www.vpmthane.org/ www.vpmthane.org ----------------------------------------------------- http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/messenger/*http://uk.messen… Yahoo! 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Microsoft Academic Search
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Friends: "The scholarly organizations that have signed up to work with Microsoft on the new search tool [Microsoft Academic Search] include societies like the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society, and the Institute of Physics. Also cooperating are major publishers -- such as the Taylor & Francis Group, Blackwell Publishing, Elsevier, the Nature Publishing Group, and John Wiley & Sons -- and library organizations, including the British Library and OCLC Online Computer Library Center...." Major Indian publishers of research journals should sign up with Microsoft witout any delay. Especially those who publish open access journals (IASc, INSA, MedKnow, IISc, ICMR, Calcut Medical College, etc.). Being Indexed by Microsoft's new service and Google Scholar will give much greater visibility (and citability) to our journals. This is true especially for those journals which are not indexed by the Web of Science. Currently Microsoft Academic Search concentrates on computer science, electrical engineering and physics and it has indexed several million articles already. But soon the service will expand and cover other subjects. As it is competing with Google Scholar, and as both services are free of cost, it will be good for researchers. I am sure subscription-based abstracting and indexing services will start providing several free services very soon, just to be able to remain in business! Subbiah Arunachalam

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