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

Video interview on Open Access
by Sukhdev Singh 24 May '06

24 May '06

Richard Poynder, a Freelance Journalist, had an excellent Video interview with Open Access advocate Stevan Harnad. It is about 30 minutes interview that can be viewed on a multi-media PC having a Windows Media Player installed. Apart from OA Publishing and Self-Arching, Prof Harnad also talk of role of librarians in OA Movement. Here are the Broadband < http://www.streamingmedia.com/internetlibrarian/inetlib1_300.asx > and Dial-up < http://www.streamingmedia.com/internetlibrarian/inetlib1_56.asx > Links. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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A letter to SciDev.net
by Subbiah Arunachalam 24 May '06

24 May '06

Friends: Here is a letter we posted to SciDev.Net a few days ago. It was published two days ago. Please spread the word. Arun -------- Dear Editor, My colleagues and I have read with interest your news item, 'Open-access research makes a bigger splash', on the Gunther Eysenbach study on the impact of open access on citations. This is a welcome study, and is confirmation of a growing number of similar studies carried out since 2001, (eg http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html). It will be of interest to your readers that statistics becoming available now from journals published in developing countries are showing a similar very marked increase in usage following conversion to Open Access. For example, the journals distributed by the Brazil/Canada service, Bioline International, show a remarkable increase in full text paper downloads, rising from an average of about 2500 in 2004 to an average of 200,000 full papers per month since becoming OAI-compliant in January 2005, an eight-fold increase. The journals are from 16 developing countries (Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Egypt, Croatia, India, Iran, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Senegal, Turkey, Uganda, Venezuela - see http://www.bioline.org.br/journals, and the service is provided free-of-charge to authors, institutions and countries). It seems certain that the recovery of full papers will have a direct impact on the citation index as data becomes available. Similarly, the distribution service, MedKnow (http://www.medknow.com) managing biomedical journals in India, has found that as a result of converting to Open Access, accessions to full text papers have risen dramatically, the numbers of submissions has grown (and submissions are increasingly received from non-Indian authors), the citation index has reached over 1.0 for the first time for an Indian journal, and significantly the numbers of subscriptions have increased. As a result, the authors and the publishers are extremely pleased with the development. The MedKnow journals are also distributed through Bioline International. Although these statistics are not comparing the same papers available either OA or non-OA as in the PNAS study, but are comparing the journal usage before and after converting to OA, it is certainly clear that open access is creating a remarkable and hugely encouraging usage of research publications from developing countries. Further monitoring will continue and no doubt the pattern of usage, geographically and by discipline, will emerge as the OA environment beds down into common practice. We feel these findings may be of interest to readers of your news item and the authors of this letter can provide more detailed information if requested. Yours truly, Subbiah Arunachalam, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai Vanderlei Canhos, Bioline International, Campinas, Brazil Leslie Chan, Bioline International, Toronto, Canada D K Sahu, MedKnow, Mumbai Barbara Kirsop, Electronic Publishing Trust for Development http://www.epublishingtrust.org Friends: Here is a letter we posted to SciDev.Net a few days ago. It was published two days ago. Please spread the word. Arun -------- Dear Editor, My colleagues and I have read with interest your news item, Open-access research makes a bigger splash , on the Gunther Eysenbach study on the impact of open access on citations. This is a welcome study, and is confirmation of a growing number of similar studies carried out since 2001, (eg http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html ). It will be of interest to your readers that statistics becoming available now from journals published in developing countries are showing a similar very marked increase in usage following conversion to Open Access. For example, the journals distributed by the Brazil/Canada service, Bioline International, show a remarkable increase in full text paper downloads, rising from an average of about 2500 in 2004 to an average of 200,000 full papers per month since becoming OAI-compliant in January 2005, an eight-fold increase. The journals are from 16 developing countries (Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Egypt, Croatia, India, Iran, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Senegal, Turkey, Uganda, Venezuela see http://www.bioline.org.br/journals http://www.bioline.org.br/journals , and the service is provided free-of-charge to authors, institutions and countries). It seems certain that the recovery of full papers will have a direct impact on the citation index as data becomes available. Similarly, the distribution service, MedKnow ( http://www.medknow.com/ http://www.medknow.com ) managing biomedical journals in India, has found that as a result of converting to Open Access, accessions to full text papers have risen dramatically, the numbers of submissions has grown (and submissions are increasingly received from non-Indian authors), the citation index has reached over 1.0 for the first time for an Indian journal, and significantly the numbers of subscriptions have increased. As a result, the authors and the publishers are extremely pleased with the development. The MedKnow journals are also distributed through Bioline International. Although these statistics are not comparing the same papers available either OA or non-OA as in the PNAS study, but are comparing the journal usage before and after converting to OA, it is certainly clear that open access is creating a remarkable and hugely encouraging usage of research publications from developing countries. Further monitoring will continue and no doubt the pattern of usage, geographically and by discipline, will emerge as the OA environment beds down into common practice. We feel these findings may be of interest to readers of your news item and the authors of this letter can provide more detailed information if requested. Yours truly, Subbiah Arunachalam, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai Vanderlei Canhos, Bioline International, Campinas, Brazil Leslie Chan, Bioline International, Toronto, Canada D K Sahu, MedKnow, Mumbai Barbara Kirsop, Electronic Publishing Trust for Development http://www.epublishingtrust.org/ http://www.epublishingtrust.org

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Vendors
by veena bhat 24 May '06

24 May '06

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SCHEME OF CARRER ADVANCEMENT FOR THE POST OF INFORMATION SCIENTIST
by ranjit dharmapurikar 24 May '06

24 May '06

Dear all, I would like to know whether the scheme of carrer advamcement is applicable for the post of Information Scientst. This post is considered as a non-vacational academic staff on par with university assistant librarian or college librarian, its basic pay is 8000-13500. However guidelines about carrer advancement are not available till now to the post of Information Scientst. Will anybody help me and clarify the matter. If such authontic document is availble kindly send it to me or at least communicate me the source. Thanks Ranjeet Dharmapurikar __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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One Day Workshop
by satish kumar 24 May '06

24 May '06

Dear all, Kindly accetp this invitation and forward this for all your professional friends It gives me immense pleasure to inform you that the Learning Resource Wing of East Point College of Engineering and Technology, Bangalore 49 is organizing one day workshop on E-Resources: A Tool to Make Science and Engineering Research Easier on May 26th 2006. The workshop will mainly focus on various dimensions of the theme. During the event eminent scholars and practioners will be sharing their experience on the subject. We cordially invite you to participate in one day workshop. This Workshop will help Librarians, Teaching faculty, research scholars, and staff involved in R&D Activities. Workshop E-Resources: A Tool to Make Science and Engineering Research Easier Date & Time May 26th 2006 : 09.00 am Registration Fee Librarians Rs. 200.00 Academicians Rs. 200.00 Research Scholars Rs. 100.00 Students Rs. 100.00 Payment Mode Cash or DD in favour of Principal, EPCET, payable at Bangalore Venue Seminar hall, East Point College of Engineering and Technology, Bidarahally, Near Avalahally, Bangalore-560 049 Contact details of Workshop Coordinator 9844116650, 080-28473777 e-mail: libraryworkskop(a)yahoo.co.in Thanking you Paramanand --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers Share what your know-how and wisdom Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger Download now professional friends It gives me immense pleasure to inform you that the Learning Resource Wing of East Point College of Engineering and Technology, Bangalore 49 is organizing one day workshop on E-Resources: A Tool to Make Science and Engineering Research Easier on May 26th 2006. The workshop will mainly focus on various dimensions of the theme. During the event eminent scholars and practioners will be sharing their experience on the subject. We cordially invite you to participate in one day workshop. This Workshop will help Librarians, Teaching faculty, research scholars, and staff involved in R&D Activities. Workshop E-Resources: A Tool to Make Science and Engineering Research Easier Date & Time May 26th 2006 : 09.00 am Registration Fee Librarians Rs. 200.00 Academicians Rs. 200.00 Research Scholars Rs. 100.00 Students Rs. 100.00 Payment Mode Cash or DD in favour of Principal, EPCET, payable at Bangalore Venue Seminar hall, East Point College of Engineering and Technology, Bidarahally, Near Avalahally, Bangalore-560 049 Contact details of Workshop Coordinator 9844116650, 080-28473777 e-mail: http://in.f85.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=libraryworkskop@yahoo.co.in&YY=1… libraryworkskop(a)yahoo.co.in Thanking you Paramanand http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswersshare/*http://in.answers.yahoo.co… Yahoo! India Answers Share what your know-how and wisdom Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/freesms/*http://messenger.yahoo.com/download… Download now

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Copyright Clearance of articles
by Kaushik 24 May '06

24 May '06

If a corporate library is looking for an article and procuring that article from another library by doing photocopy of the same and then using that in the library ....then will such procurement be copy right cleared ? What does our copyright act say on this ? -- Kaushik Ghosh Kolkata -- Kaushik Ghosh Kolkata

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NET or PhD
by nazim malik 24 May '06

24 May '06

Dear Friends Much has already been discussed regarding the exemption of NET. Some people are in favor and some are against the UGC decision. This is very difficult to say that UGC decision is right or wrong because those who having PhD or going to complete their PhD in near future obviously welcome the UGC decision. But those who after a hard work cleared the NET/JRF certainly reject the exemption of NET idea of UGC. This is my observation that in each discipline or subject number of NETs is more than number of available posts. It means supply is higher than demand. Then what is the need of exemption of NET? If UGC is really interested to improve quality in teaching and research then NET must be compulsory for those who want to do PhD and the essential qualification for lectureship must be NET+PhD. A PhD Holder may be expert in a very small field on which he has done his work but for clearing NET he must be master of his subject and that is necessary for a good teacher. One thing I would like to share that UGC decision is good as far as the post of Asstt. Librarian is concerned because this is purely administrative post which requires practical experiences rather than theoretical knowledge. 50% post of Asstt. Librarians should be filled up through the internal promotion and rest 50% through the NET or PhD. This is my personal views based on my experiences. But I have also experienced that candidates having sound knowledge of their subjects but could not cleared the NET. But these are exceptional cases. With Regards Nazim malik BHU, Varanasi --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers Share what your know-how and wisdom Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger Download now Dear Friends Much has already been discussed regarding the exemption of NET. Some people are in favor and some are against the UGC decision. This is very difficult to say that UGC decision is right or wrong because those who having PhD or going to complete their PhD in near future obviously welcome the UGC decision. But those who after a hard work cleared the NET/JRF certainly reject the exemption of NET idea of UGC. This is my observation that in each discipline or subject number of NETs is more than number of available posts. It means supply is higher than demand. Then what is the need of exemption of NET? If UGC is really interested to improve quality in teaching and research then NET must be compulsory for those who want to do PhD and the essential qualification for lectureship must be NET+PhD. A PhD Holder may be expert in a very small field on which he has done his work but for clearing NET he must be master of his subject and that is necessary for a good teacher. One thing I would like to share that UGC decision is good as far as the post of Asstt. Librarian is concerned because this is purely administrative post which requires practical experiences rather than theoretical knowledge. 50% post of Asstt. Librarians should be filled up through the internal promotion and rest 50% through the NET or PhD. This is my personal views based on my experiences. But I have also experienced that candidates having sound knowledge of their subjects but could not cleared the NET. But these are exceptional cases. With Regards Nazim malik BHU, Varanasi http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswersshare/*http://in.answers.yahoo.co… Yahoo! India Answers Share what your know-how and wisdom Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/freesms/*http://messenger.yahoo.com/download… Download now

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 38, Issue 20 (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 24 May '06

24 May '06

Date: 23 May 2006 11:03:42 -0000 From: sushanta kumar pathy <skpathy(a)rediffmail.com> � Dear All, It is a welcome step if UGC give relaxation to Mphil/PhD. holder but at the same time the NET and experience should be given top priority. Everybody talking about this but no body is certain about the circular. If any one having the circular please circulate it. Also it would not be wise if we generralize the comments on MPhil/PhD are easy to get. Though one will be eligible by having these degree but it is not easy to get a job without any productivity. Yours Sushanta

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Re: Copyright Clearance of articles (Kaushik)
by Byrappa, Ananda (GE, Research) 24 May '06

24 May '06

Kaushik, Copyright fee is separate from photocopy or your library membership fee. Therefore, you should clear copyright for articles you source from any other Library. As you might be aware, international document delivery service providers like CISTI, Linda hall, BL etc would charge handling(photocipy) fee and copyright fee separately for every article they deliver/supply. When you source articles from local libraries, you can get copy right clearance from Copyright Clearance Centre (CCC) http://www.copyright.com. They also offer annual memberships for the organisations,including corporates. However, when you source/procure articles from publishers you don't require to clear copyright since they are the right holders. I hope it clarifies your doubts. Best Regards, Anand Ananda T. Byrappa Manager, Library & Information Services GE Global Research 122, EPIP, Phase 2, Hoodi Village, Whitefield Road, Bangalore - 560066, INDIA Phone : +91-80-2503-2618, DialCom: 8*901 2618 Fax : +91-80-2841-2114, Email : Ananda.Byrappa(a)ge.com -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 12:02 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 38, Issue 26 Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in You can reach the person managing the list at lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Copyright Clearance of articles (Kaushik) 2. RFID design center in Bangalore (Jayadev P Hiremath) 3. Re: Open Access Journals? (sathya) 4. Re: (no subject) (Library) 5. Re: [nmlis] Casting away the NET (Dr.H.S.Siddmallaiah) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 18:02:05 +0530 From: Kaushik <kginfo(a)gmail.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Copyright Clearance of articles To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <e8ac0d7b0605230532o5b55ec36kf4b4536bd9298132(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" If a corporate library is looking for an article and procuring that article from another library by doing photocopy of the same and then using that in the library ....then will such procurement be copy right cleared ? What does our copyright act say on this ? -- Kaushik Ghosh Kolkata

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UGC-NET
by Hemant Bhoot 24 May '06

24 May '06

Dear Friends, Now the decision on NET exemption for the M.Phil or Ph.D holders has been taken.This is not a right move by the Balchandra Mungekar Committee.It has been decided that the Ph.D and M.Phil is equilant to the NET and can apply for the teaching in the Universities and colleges. In my openion, it is very difficult to revert the decision about net. but UGC needs to change selection parameter so entrance test would not be so easy to get register for the Ph.D. Research guide should have minimum 5 years teaching and research experience to guide the newly registered candidates. Hemant Bhoot Librarian Institute of Professional Education and Research Bhopal Dear Friends, Now the decision on NET exemption for the M.Phil or Ph.D holders has been taken.This is not a right move by the Balchandra Mungekar Committee.It has been decided that the Ph.D and M.Phil is equilant to the NET and can apply for the teaching in the Universities and colleges. In my openion, it is very difficult to revert the decision about net. but UGC needs to change selection parameter so entrance test would not be so easy to get register for the Ph.D. Research guide should have minimum 5 years teaching and research experience to guide the newly registered candidates. Hemant Bhoot Librarian Institute of Professional Education and Research Bhopal 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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