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

OA picking up at last
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Heather Morrison, The Dramatic Growth of Open Access: March 31, 2006 Update, Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, March 31, 2006. Excerpt: In the last quarter, over 780,000 records have been added to OAIster, suggesting that those open access archives are beginning to fill! There are 170 more titles in DOAJ, likely an understated increase due to a weeding project. 78 titles have been added to DOAJ in the past 30 days, a growth rate of more than 2 new titles per day. Disciplinary archives are showing remarkable growth. E-LIS has been increasing at the equivalent of 56% annually. Differences in growth rates suggest the possibility of a life-cycle factor in open access archives growth, perhaps initial slow growth, followed by very rapid growth, then a more steady growth as the archive matures....The most notable increase is the addition of over 780,000 records to OAIster, the equivalent of a 50% annual increase. This rate of increase doubles that of 2005 (25%). This evidence suggests that those open access institutional archives are beginning to fill! Among the disciplinary archives examined, the highest growth rate was shown at E-LIS, with an equivalent of a 56% annual increase. The longer-established disciplinary archives showed impressive but slower growth rates: RePEC, 25%, and arXiv, 12%. One possible explanation could be a life-cycle factor for successful disciplinary archives, with a relatively high percentage growth rate at an early stage, followed by slower percentage growth at a more mature phase. This will reflect, in part, the larger size of the repository. It takes more records to create a 12% increase in a large repository than a 50% increase in a small one. Data from the Canadian Metadata Harvester may indicate another potential life-cycle effect. That is, the Canadian repositories showed a growth rate equivalent to less than 12% per year. The difference between the Canadian open access archives data increase and the OAIster increase (50%) may reflect the relative newness of many of the Canadian repositories. While delayed free access is not true open access, the 200,000 articles added to the Highwire Free program - an equivalent of a 72% annual increase - does represent a dramatic increase in free access. DOAJ includes 170 more titles now than on Dec. 31, 2006, an equivalent annual growth rate of 34%. This percentage is likely an understatement, as DOAJ has been undertaking a weeding project to remove titles no longer

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GOC Conversion Rates - April '2006
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

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College libraries in A.P.
by Jai Haravu 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Dear Friends We would like to share some of our experiences in working with college libraries in Andhra Pradesh in their modernization plans. These experiences and observations are being made as dispassionately as possible. The intention is not to blame any one. In fact there are too many players and we believe that all are responsible, to some degree or other, for the problems we found. Many college libraries seem to want to automate their libraries only to please either AICTE and NAAC visiting teams. We would like to share two of our experiences and our conclusions. 1. One college was expecting a NAAC team to visit the college in a week's time. There was a frantic call from the Principal asking that our software be installed the next day and their data in MS-Access be converted in time for the visit of the NAAC team. The software was installed on a system that was supposed to have been acquired for the library, their data was migrated; the NAAC committee came and went. Soon after, we approached the librarian of the college to find out when we could train him and his colleagues so that they could make full use of the software. We were surprised to learn that the system on which we had installed the software and data was in fact the property of the Physics department who promptly reclaimed their machine. The librarian told us that since they did not have any system, there was no point of getting any training. 2. Similar scenario except that this time it was the AICTE committee's visit. Frantic call. Installation of software. However, this time, we had to convert data that was entered as an Excel spreadsheet. When we saw the data we were aghast. Both the professional librarians of the college had M.L.I.Sc degrees, one even had a post-graduate diploma relating to automation. We pointed out that their data had apparently been entered without reference to any standard. For instance author names were entered in the normal form e.g. Peter Drucker instead of Drucker, Peter. When a monograph had more than one personal name, these were entered as a single string without any separators between the names. They did not think it necessary to subject index the items in their collection. All books in chemistry (organic, inorganic, physical, molecular, etc.) were subsumed under the code CHE standing for chemistry. Similar was the case for books in other subjects. We asked them why they had not used any standard subject headings list. We were told that the NAAC/AICTE team would be interested in seeing all books held by the library, say on chemistry, and therefore simply by searching under CHE they would be able to show a list of all books on chemistry. We pointed out that this could have easily been achieved also by searching for books under the Dewey classification number 54. They had no answer to this. There were other lacunae in their data which will take long to describe. Our conclusions based on these two and other experiences: 1.Managements of colleges are driven more by NAAC and AICTE to modernize their libraries than real academic considerations. 2.Librarians have very little or no initiative to drive the modernization of their libraries. Some librarians even complained that they do not have the time to learn new ways of doing things. 3.Only a few libraries can boast of having a connection to the Internet. 4.In spite of all the graduate/postgraduate education that Library schools seem to be providing to students of library science, the quality of the work of college librarians seems to be far from even satisfactory. 5.College librarians have not carved a niche for themselves as useful members of the academic community they serve in these libraries. Understandably, their salaries too are poor and motivation to make an impact often non-existent. 6.We found from the data conversion exercises that we did and from visits to college libraries that these are no better than text book banks and not eclectic collections of older and contemporary books, and useful reference materials. In quite a few places, we found that as many as 30 copies of all text books are acquired. The library's budget serves little else than for the acquisition of text books. Students depend on the library mainly for text books and little else. This reflects only on the text book and examination oriented teaching that obviously predominates in these colleges. 7.Apparently, NAAC and AICTE committee's look only at the nitty gritty of libraries and their modernization. They do not seem to look deeper to see if libraries serve a greater purpose as knowledge centres and whether their collections reflect to some extent at least modern thought and principles. There are no bench marks for collection evaluation. All the above observations are made with our experience of colleges in big cities of A.P. What the situation is in smaller towns is anybody's guess. Is the situation in other states better? In fairness, it must be pointed out that librarians in special library's do not fortunately fit into the same mould as those in college libraries. They have created an impact and are well sought after. There are too many cats to bell: librarians, library schools, managements, NAAC, AICTE, professional bodies, teachers, etc., etc., and mice alone cannot help. Like the proverbial elephant and six blind men, each entity seems to seeing its own side of the problem . L J Haravu Trustee Kesavan Inst. of Information & Knowledge Management

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GoPubMed - Ontology-based Literature Search Tool
by Sukhdev Singh 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Dear Friends, I just happened to hit on a search engine called - GoPubMed < http://www.gopubmed.org/ > It is an Ontology-based literature search tool. It takes the query and submits it to PubMed. The references retrieved are then categorized using "Gene Ontology terms". Which is a hierarchical vocabulary for molecular biology covering cellular components, biological processes and molecular functions. Just wondering how fast new information retrieval innovations are taking around us while we keep on dreaming to retail our conventional tools. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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New Search Engine
by K.R. Mulla 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Dear professional colleagues, I come cross with the new search engine, this is hosted by Accoona Corp. 2006 for more details you can visit the following link http://www.accoona.com/ -- K. R. Mulla, Librarian, HKBK College of Engineering, # 22/1, Nagawara, Bangalore - 560 045. http://krmulla.googlepages.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/krmulla Dear professional colleagues, I come cross with the new search engine, this is hosted by Accoona Corp. 2006 for more details you can visit the following link http://www.accoona.com/ http://www.accoona.com/ -- K. R. Mulla, Librarian, HKBK College of Engineering, # 22/1, Nagawara, Bangalore - 560 045. http://krmulla.googlepages.com/ http://krmulla.googlepages.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/krmulla https://www.linkedin.com/in/krmulla

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Fwd: LibriVox
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Please visit http://librivox.org for audio versions of several books. Vyasamoorthy, P ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rangarajan <tncrangarajan(a)macinfo.net> Date: Apr 3, 2006 8:48 AM Subject: LibriVox To: Undisclosed-Recipient http://librivox.org/ -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, SENIORS (Society for Enriched Information of Relevance to Seniors), 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500018 Phone 27846631

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IR practices and YOUR experiences !
by Satish Munnolli 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

It is known fact that few Indian institutes have set up their own institutional repositories (IR's) and depositing their institutional publications for open access. There are many factors need to consider while setting up IR because achieving policies differ from publisher to publisher viz., a.. Publishers versions/PDF can not be used. b.. Publishers versions/PDF can be used. c.. Must link to publisher version or journal home page. d.. Author's own version can be deposited. e.. Publisher copyright and source must be acknowledged and linked. f.. Published source must be acknowledged. g.. Should not appear before publisher's publication. h.. Pre-referred only can be deposited. May I know from the faculty of experimenting institutes about their experiences faced while executing IR practices in their set ups viz., What are the LEGAL MAJORS one should consider while setting up an IR. Is there any OFFICIAL DOCUMENT published by the GOVT. OF INDIA for setting up IRs - Reference Manual. Is there any article / paper that states on status of IRs in Indian context and degree of success in Indian conditions. How many institutes in India (in numbers) have successfully set up IRs for their institutes. Has any institute received a LEGAL NOTICE from the publisher. Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 208 India Ph : +91 22 2740 5026 Fax : +91 22 2740 5085 Email : smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in It is known fact that few Indian institutes have set up their own institutional repositories (IR's) and depositing their institutional publications for open access. There are many factors need to consider while setting up IR because achieving policies differ from publisher to publisher viz., P ublishers versions/PDF can not be used. Publishers versions/PDF can be used. Must link to publisher version or journal home page. Author's own version can be deposited. Publisher copyright and source must be acknowledged and linked. Published source must be acknowledged. Should not appear before publisher's publication. Pre-referred only can be deposited. May I know from the faculty of experimenting institutes about their experiences faced while executing IR practices in their set ups viz., What are the LEGAL MAJORS one should consider while setting up an IR. Is there any OFFICIAL DOCUMENT published by the GOVT. OF INDIA for setting up IRs - Reference Manual. Is there any article / paper that states on status of IRs in Indian context and degree of success in Indian conditions. How many institutes in India (in numbers) have successfully set up IRs for their institutes. Has any institute received a LEGAL NOTICE from the publisher. Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 208 India Ph : +91 22 2740 5026 Fax : +91 22 2740 5085 Email : mailto:smunnolli@actrec.res.in smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in

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request for articles
by SCKumaresan 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

Dear friends, Greetings! please find below details of journal articles which is required by one of our faculty for his research. Kindly send me if u have these in your library. Thank you, Regards S.C.Kumaresan 1.Electrochromism in sputtered V2O5 thin films: structural and optical studies M. Benmoussa, , A. Outzourhit, A. Bennouna and E. L. Ameziane Thin Solid Films, Volume 405, Issues 1-2, 22 February 2002, Pages 11-16 2.ITO films sputter-deposited using an ITO target sintered with vanadium oxide additive M. Suzuki, Y. Maeda1, M. Muraoka2, S. Higuchi3 and Y. Sawada* Materials Science and Engineering B, Volume 54, Issues 1-2, 12 June 1998, Pages 43-45 3.Vanadium pentoxide thin films used as positive electrode in lithium microbatteries: An XPS study during cycling A. Benayada, H. Martineza, , , A. Giesb, B. Pecquenardb, A. Levasseurb and D. Gonbeaua Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 28 February 2006, 4.Optical and structural properties of vanadium pentoxide films prepared by d.c. reactive magnetron sputtering Li-Jian Menga, b, , , Rui A. Silvaa, Hain-Ning Cuib, Vasco Teixeirab, M.P. dos Santosc and Zheng Xud Thin Solid Films, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 18 January 2006, 5.XPS investigations achieved on the first cycle of V2O5 thin films used in lithium microbatteries A. Benayada, H. Martineza, , , A. Giesb, B. Pecquenardb, A. Levasseurb and D. Gonbeaua Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, Volume 150, Issue 1, January 2006, Pages 1-10 6.Electrochemical and structural properties of V2O5 thin films prepared by DC sputtering C. Navonea, J.P. Pereira-Ramosa, , , R. Baddour-Hadjeanb and R. Salotc Journal of Power Sources, Volume 146, Issues 1-2, 26 August 2005, Pages 327-330 7.Effect of total gas and oxygen partial pressure during deposition on the properties of sputtered V2O5 thin films A. Giesa, c, B. Pecquenarda, , , A. Benayadb, H. Martinezb, D. Gonbeaub, H. Fuessc and A. Levasseura Solid State Ionics, Volume 176, Issues 17-18, 31 May 2005, Pages 1627-1634 8. RF sputtered electrochromic V2O5 films L. Ottavianoa, A. Pennisia, c, F. Simone, , b, c and A. M. Salvid Optical Materials, Volume 27, Issue 2, November 2004, Pages 307-313 9.Effect of silver co-sputtering on amorphous V2O5 thin-films for microbatteries Jae Myung Leea, Ho-Sung Hwangb, Won-Il Chob, Byung-Won Chob and Kyoo Young Kim Journal of Power Sources, Volume 136, Issue 1, 10 September 2004, Pages 122-131 10.Electrochromism in sputtered V2O5 thin films: structural and optical studies M. Benmoussa, , A. Outzourhit, A. Bennouna and E. L. Ameziane Thin Solid Films, Volume 405, Issues 1-2, 22 February 2002, Pages 11-16 11.Sputter deposited ceriumvanadium oxide: optical characterization and electrochromic behavior E. Masetti, , a, F. Varsanob, F. Deckerb and A. Krasilnikovaa Electrochimica Acta, Volume 46, Issues 13-14, 2 April 2001, Pages 2085-2090 12.Structural, electrical and optical properties of sputtered vanadium pentoxide thin films M. Benmoussa, E. Ibnouelghazi, A. Bennouna and E. L. Ameziane Thin Solid Films, Volume 265, Issues 1-2, 1 September 1995, Pages 22-28 S.C.Kumaresan SeniorLibrarian, BITS - Pilani, Dubai Campus, P.O. Box No.500022. Block 11, Knowledge Village, Dubai, UAE Tele(009714)3664575/76, Fax(009714)3664580 Mobile. 00971508829462 Dear friends, Greetings! please find below details of journal articles which is required by one of our faculty for his research. Kindly send me if u have these in your library. Thank you, Regards S.C.Kumaresan 1.Electrochromism in sputtered V2O5 thin films: structural and optical studies M. Benmoussa, , A. Outzourhit, A. Bennouna and E. L. Ameziane Thin Solid Films, Volume 405, Issues 1-2, 22 February 2002, Pages 11-16 2.ITO films sputter-deposited using an ITO target sintered with vanadium oxide additive M. Suzuki, Y. Maeda1, M. Muraoka2, S. Higuchi3 and Y. Sawada* Materials Science and Engineering B, Volume 54, Issues 1-2, 12 June 1998, Pages 43-45 3.Vanadium pentoxide thin films used as positive electrode in lithium microbatteries: An XPS study during cycling A. Benayada, H. Martineza, , , A. Giesb, B. Pecquenardb, A. Levasseurb and D. Gonbeaua Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 28 February 2006, 4.Optical and structural properties of vanadium pentoxide films prepared by d.c. reactive magnetron sputtering Li-Jian Menga, b, , , Rui A. Silvaa, Hain-Ning Cuib, Vasco Teixeirab, M.P. dos Santosc and Zheng Xud Thin Solid Films, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 18 January 2006, 5.XPS investigations achieved on the first cycle of V2O5 thin films used in lithium microbatteries A. Benayada, H. Martineza, , , A. Giesb, B. Pecquenardb, A. Levasseurb and D. Gonbeaua Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, Volume 150, Issue 1, January 2006, Pages 1-10 6.Electrochemical and structural properties of V2O5 thin films prepared by DC sputtering C. Navonea, J.P. Pereira-Ramosa, , , R. Baddour-Hadjeanb and R. Salotc Journal of Power Sources, Volume 146, Issues 1-2, 26 August 2005, Pages 327-330 7.Effect of total gas and oxygen partial pressure during deposition on the properties of sputtered V2O5 thin films A. Giesa, c, B. Pecquenarda, , , A. Benayadb, H. Martinezb, D. Gonbeaub, H. Fuessc and A. Levasseura Solid State Ionics, Volume 176, Issues 17-18, 31 May 2005, Pages 1627-1634 8. RF sputtered electrochromic V2O5 films L. Ottavianoa, A. Pennisia, c, F. Simone, , b, c and A. M. Salvid Optical Materials, Volume 27, Issue 2, November 2004, Pages 307-313 9.Effect of silver co-sputtering on amorphous V2O5 thin-films for microbatteries Jae Myung Leea, Ho-Sung Hwangb, Won-Il Chob, Byung-Won Chob and Kyoo Young Kim Journal of Power Sources, Volume 136, Issue 1, 10 September 2004, Pages 122-131 10.Electrochromism in sputtered V2O5 thin films: structural and optical studies M. Benmoussa, , A. Outzourhit, A. Bennouna and E. L. Ameziane Thin Solid Films, Volume 405, Issues 1-2, 22 February 2002, Pages 11-16 11.Sputter deposited ceriumvanadium oxide: optical characterization and electrochromic behavior E. Masetti, , a, F. Varsanob, F. Deckerb and A. Krasilnikovaa Electrochimica Acta, Volume 46, Issues 13-14, 2 April 2001, Pages 2085-2090 12.Structural, electrical and optical properties of sputtered vanadium pentoxide thin films M. Benmoussa, E. Ibnouelghazi, A. Bennouna and E. L. Ameziane Thin Solid Films, Volume 265, Issues 1-2, 1 September 1995, Pages 22-28 S.C.Kumaresan SeniorLibrarian, BITS - Pilani, Dubai Campus, P.O. Box No.500022. Block 11, Knowledge Village, Dubai, UAE Tele(009714)3664575/76, Fax(009714)3664580 Mobile. 00971508829462 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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Greenstone Digital Library Software
by rupesh kumar 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

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Accepting documents as gifts
by Saji S. Nair 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Dear Friends, I would like to seek opinion on a situation that you may perhaps be encountered. In a special library set up accepting documents as gifts is not uncommon. Suppose a very distinguished person/well-wisher of your library is so happy to donate his collection. It is noted that the person is so important for you and you can’t disregard him. But you noticed that the collection that he wants to hand over is entirely different from the subject area that you have and never comes in the ‘APUPA’ pattern, as envisaged by Dr. S. R. Ranganathan. More over chances of consulting that documents by your clientele in the foreseeable future is so bleak. In such circumstances, will you accept it? If it is no, then how can you pacify him? If it is yes, then what is the strategy to incorporate it in the collection? As part of the core documents OR a separate collection OR anything else…….. Thanks in advance for your comments. Bye for now. Saji S. Nair Regional Cancer Centre Library Thiruvananthapuram. Kerala www.rcctvm.org _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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