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Need an article
by uma.vaithy＠wipro.com 09 May '06

09 May '06

Dear all I'm in need of these two articles (softcopy) , Kindly send me if you have this in your collection S. Park, Y. Kim, S. Kim, and Y. Seo, "Multi-Layer Bit-Sliced Bit-Rate Scalable Audio Coding," in 103rd AES Convention, New York, 1997, preprint 4520. Thanks and Regards Uma Vaithy The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. WARNING: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.wipro.com

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Neuroscience Gateway
by Mailing List Manager 08 May '06

08 May '06

Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 18:01:10 +0530 (IST) From: arun(a)mssrf.res.in OA neuroscience resource from Nature and Allen Institute The Nature Publishing Group and the Allen Institute for Brain Science are partners in the OA Neuroscience Gateway. From yesterday's announcement: Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the Allen Institute for Brain Science are delighted to announce the launch of the Neuroscience Gateway, a free online resource for cutting-edge neuroscience and genomics research. The first update of the Neuroscience Gateway, which has been developed as a close collaboration between NPG and the Allen Institute, will be available on May 4th 2006 at www.brainatlas.org, and twice a month thereafter. The Neuroscience Gateway will provide a library of the latest papers, up-to-the-minute neuroscience news, and free access to highlights of key articles.

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IEEE First International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2006)
by Mailing List Manager 08 May '06

08 May '06

Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 12:25:11 +0100 (BST) From: Puna Das <puna_05(a)yahoo.co.in> Call For Papers IEEE First International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2006) December 06-08, 2006 Sponsored by IEEE visit http://www.icdim.org for more etails.

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A Free Library of Computer Science Knowledge (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 08 May '06

08 May '06

Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 03:23:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Dabas Bharat K <dabasbk(a)yahoo.com> A Free Library of Computer Science Knowledge The Springer Computer Science Reading Room offers you free access to books and journals in your area of interest. Each month, new content is added to the Reading Room in: Artificial Intelligence Graphics, Vision, and Imaging Database Management Foundations of Computing Information Security and Cryptology Software Engineering and Programming Human-Computer Interaction. In addition, all Springer Computer Science Readers are entitled to a 20% discount on all springeronline.com book purchases The Springer Computer Science Reading Room Inside the Computer Science Reading Room you will find free content from the highly respected Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series and a wide array of Springer journals. Each month, seven LNCS volumes and a number of journal issues are added to the Reading Room, creating an ever-growing personal library. Best of all, you never have to return the content of this library. Using the functionality offered by SpringerLink, the content is accessible via PDF or HTML files, which you can download and print. Read for Free: Become a Computer Science Reader 1) Visit www.springer.com/readingroom (Click on the link below) 2) Create your user account Click on CONTINUE under the I am a new customer section. On the following registration page, please enter a password and user name of your choice together with your e-mail address (for our e-mail confirmation to you). 3) Enter or copy and paste the SpringerToken: 2Q6x5N4GGPZbnp3 and click SUBMIT and you will be taken directly to the Reading Room If you already have an account with springeronline.com, please log in with your user name and password. At the bottom of the registration page, click on CHANGE. Then enter the above SpringerToken and click on SUBMIT. Bharat Kumar Librarian Mody Institute of Technology & Science (A Deemed University u/s 3 of the UGC Act 1956) Lakshmangarh - 332311. Disst - Sikar. Rajasthan. India. Phone No - (O) +91-1573-225001-12 Ext-283 (M) +91-9414390757

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Laura Bush announces grants for libraries
by Mailing List Manager 08 May '06

08 May '06

Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 15:58:15 +0100 (BST) From: vasanth raj <gooche_1981(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear all Bush, a former librarian and public school teacher, announced the grants at Chalmette High School in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, where every building -- including 15 schools -- was flooded..... http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/05/04/first.lady.libraries.ap/ Your Sincerely ------------------------- Plz re-direct Your mail to vasanthrz(a)gmail.com Vasantha Raju N --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new. Click here

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Lecture Notice
by Krishnamurthy M 08 May '06

08 May '06

ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH SCHOLARS ( Karnataka Chapter) and BRITISH LIBRARY Cordially invite you to the specical lecture on " INFORMATION INDUSTRY- A Global Perspective" by Shri N.V.Satyanarayana Chairman & Managing Director Informatics (India ) Ltd., Bangalore 560003 at British Library on Friday, 12th May 2006 at 4.30 p.m Prof.I.K.Ravichandra Rao Mr.K.T.Rajan Mr .R.Dhandapani I.H.Jahagirdar President Secretary Treasurer Manager -- Dr.M.Krishnamurthy Librarian Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road R.V.C.E. Post Bangalore 560059 Ph:91-80-28483002/3/4/4 Fax: 91-80-28484265

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60th LIS journal in DOAJ!
by Sukhdev Singh 08 May '06

08 May '06

Forwarded Message! Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 11:01:12 -0400 From: Heather Morrison <heatherm(a)eln.bc.ca> Subject: 60th LIS journal in DOAJ! There are now 60 Library and Information Science journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals - an impressive list of journals to read, or to publish in! The list of LIS journals can be found at: http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=129 Welcome to new DOAJ listed journal, the Chinese / English Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences - perhaps an appropriate symbol of this global phenomenon that is open access? Journal of Education Media & Library Sciences can be found at: http://research.dils.tku.edu.tw/joemls/ Heather G. Morrison E-LIS Editor, Canada http://eprints.rclis.org/ postscript: intriguing new title in E-LIS that may interest list readers: House of Horrors: Exorcising Electronic Resources, by U.S. E-LIS Editor Norm Medeiros, at: http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00006168/

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Free access to bioloogical databases
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 07 May '06

07 May '06

>From Peter Suber's blog FELICS will offer OA to major biological databases Lautaro Vargas, EBI gives database boost to biotechs, Business Weekly, May 6, 2006. Excerpt: The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Cambridge is heading a £11.4 million infrastructure project to provide the scientific community with free and unrestricted access to some of the worlds most important biological databases. Titled FELICS Free European Life-science Information and Computational Services this unique electronic infrastructure project is designed to develop, enhance and interlink many of the most important data resources in Europe and widen their accessibility to the international research community. It will be funded under the Research Infrastructures action of the sixth Framework Programme (FP6) with the largest ever European award for computational infrastructures needed to support biological research....FELICS technical coordinator at the EBI, Phil Gardner, said: Our databases are accessed by many tens or even hundreds of thousands of scientists and are recognised as crucial resources by researchers worldwide....FELICS encompasses many of the EBIs familiar databases, but will also feature some crucial new activities and the group has been set several tasks and deliverables within three main areas: Networking activities; joint research activities; and transnational access activities....Graham Cameron, associate director of the EBI and coordinator of FELICS, said: Bioinformatics now pervades biology. Bioinformatics experts no longer sit between biologist and database. Researchers expect to directly access the databases and do real work. FELICS gives scientists the electronic right to roam the biological knowledge space.

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Call for Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards 2006
by Puna Das 06 May '06

06 May '06

Call for Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards 2006 The 2nd Annual Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards 2006 Emerald Group Publishing Limited, publisher of the largest collection of international business and management journals, and the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), a global membership organisation with more than 500 institutional members from academia, business and public services, seek to celebrate excellence in research by sponsoring the Annual Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards. Award-winning entries will receive a cash prize of €1,500 (or other currency equivalent), a certificate and the prospect of an offer of publication in the sponsoring journal, as a full paper, or as an executive summary/research note, at the discretion of the Editor. Prize categories Two Prizes will be awarded to the winners of the following categories: Subject Area : Sponsoring Journal 1. Library studies : Library Hi Tech 2. Information science : Journal of Documentation For Details Visit: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/researchers/funding/doctoralawards/2006a… http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/researchers/funding/doctoralawards/2005w… _______________________________________________________ Anup Kumar Das/ Bidyarthi Dutta/ Swapan Kumar Patra Information and Communication Society of India, New Delhi _______________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new. http://in.answers.yahoo.com

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Fwd: BMC in LJ Academic NewsWire
by Mallikarjuna, C 06 May '06

06 May '06

From: Ann Okerson <ann.okerson(a)yale.edu> Subject: BMC in LJ Academic NewsWire Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 18:35:55 EDT Excerpted from LJN, thursday, 4 May: Growing Pain: Editors Voice Complaints About Open Access Pioneer BioMed Central Is trouble brewing at open access pioneer BioMed Central (BMC)? This week the BMC-owned magazine The Scientist published a lengthy article suggesting that a number of editors at some of BMC's 93 independent journals are unhappy with the publisher's efforts, and several were said to be considering leaving the company altogether. BMC, a for-profit open access publisher founded in 2000, has been touted as an alternative to the commercial subscription model, which is plagued by rampant inflation. Now, as the company makes changes to its business, it is beginning to hear some familiar complaints, including over price inflation. According to The Scientist, BMC editors, who are not paid, are upset with recent increases in BMC's author processing charge (APC), and the granting of fewer APC waivers for papers whose authors cannot afford to pay the full APC. Also, last year the new BMC contract required editors to transfer journal ownership over to BMC. BMC publisher Matthew Cockerill defended the changes, including the swelling APC. In January 2002, the APC was $500. Today it is 750 pounds, about $1340. "Having published many thousands of articles since then, we now have a much better idea of what we need to charge to cover our costs and ensure financial sustainability," Cockerill told the LJ Academic Newswire. Cockerill replaced founding publisher Jan Velterop last year, after Velterop left BMC to pursue other open access-related projects. Velterop later joined Springer. Cockerill noted that the new APC was still "well within the range regarded as reasonable by funders, and compares very favorably with the charges of other publishers offering open access." APC costs aside, editors' other major complaint, according The Scientist, appears to be with BMC management, described as "uncompromising" on a range of issues facing the company. Kuan-Teh Jeang, editor-in-chief of the BMC journal Retrovirology, echoed most editors in supporting open access, but questioned BMC's execution. "We all feel open access is where we want to donate our time, energy, and reputations," Jeang told The Scientist. "What we want from BMC is a sense that they value us as equal team members." Richard Feinman, co-editor-in-chief of Nutrition and Metabolism, was more blunt in his assessment, telling The Scientist that "open access is going to move forward and if the BMC management can meet this challenge, fine, if not, they should be replaced." Cockerill seemed unfazed by the criticism saying he valued the input of editors. "As with every challenging endeavor, there will occasionally be problems along the way," he told the LJ Academic Newswire. "The editors of new open access journals have taken on an important and challenging task. We are working hard with them, to make their journals a success." As for BMC's success? Cockerill said the company was "doing well." Although BMC is still not yet profitable, he said, "Support from authors for BioMed Central has never been stronger. Submissions are at record levels. Wider support for open access, too, continues to grow each day." Copyright 2006, Library Journal -- Regards HB Mallikarjuna World Language Lab Bangalore hbmallikarjuna(a)gmail.com Mobile:09343757228 --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new. Click here From: Ann Okerson <ann.okerson(a)yale.edu> Subject: BMC in LJ Academic NewsWire Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 18:35:55 EDT Excerpted from LJN, thursday, 4 May: Growing Pain: Editors Voice Complaints About Open Access Pioneer BioMed Central Is trouble brewing at open access pioneer BioMed Central (BMC)? This week the BMC-owned magazine The Scientist published a lengthy article suggesting that a number of editors at some of BMC's 93 independent journals are unhappy with the publisher's efforts, and several were said to be considering leaving the company altogether. BMC, a for-profit open access publisher founded in 2000, has been touted as an alternative to the commercial subscription model, which is plagued by rampant inflation. Now, as the company makes changes to its business, it is beginning to hear some familiar complaints, including over price inflation. According to The Scientist, BMC editors, who are not paid, are upset with recent increases in BMC's author processing charge (APC), and the granting of fewer APC waivers for papers whose authors cannot afford to pay the full APC. Also, last year the new BMC contract required editors to transfer journal ownership over to BMC. BMC publisher Matthew Cockerill defended the changes, including the swelling APC. In January 2002, the APC was $500. Today it is 750 pounds, about $1340. "Having published many thousands of articles since then, we now have a much better idea of what we need to charge to cover our costs and ensure financial sustainability," Cockerill told the LJ Academic Newswire. Cockerill replaced founding publisher Jan Velterop last year, after Velterop left BMC to pursue other open access-related projects. Velterop later joined Springer. Cockerill noted that the new APC was still "well within the range regarded as reasonable by funders, and compares very favorably with the charges of other publishers offering open access." APC costs aside, editors' other major complaint, according The Scientist, appears to be with BMC management, described as "uncompromising" on a range of issues facing the company. Kuan-Teh Jeang, editor-in-chief of the BMC journal Retrovirology, echoed most editors in supporting open access, but questioned BMC's execution. "We all feel open access is where we want to donate our time, energy, and reputations," Jeang told The Scientist. "What we want from BMC is a sense that they value us as equal team members." Richard Feinman, co-editor-in-chief of Nutrition and Metabolism, was more blunt in his assessment, telling The Scientist that "open access is going to move forward and if the BMC management can meet this challenge, fine, if not, they should be replaced." Cockerill seemed unfazed by the criticism saying he valued the input of editors. "As with every challenging endeavor, there will occasionally be problems along the way," he told the LJ Academic Newswire. "The editors of new open access journals have taken on an important and challenging task. We are working hard with them, to make their journals a success." As for BMC's success? Cockerill said the company was "doing well." Although BMC is still not yet profitable, he said, "Support from authors for BioMed Central has never been stronger. Submissions are at record levels. Wider support for open access, too, continues to grow each day." Copyright 2006, Library Journal -- Regards HB Mallikarjuna World Language Lab Bangalore mailto:hbmallikarjuna@gmail.com hbmallikarjuna(a)gmail.com Mobile:09343757228 Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com Click here

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