January 2007 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

Bold Norwegian librarians
by Subbiah Arunachalam 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

Friends: We must congratulate the four Norwegian university librarians for the bold stand they have taken in not renewing subscriptions to the 778 electronic journals published by British publishing house and making their decision publicly known. Other librarians should follow suit and authors around the world should boycott publishing their papers in journals which charge exhorbitant subscription prices. Not only these publishers make huge profits and impose highly restrictive copyright agreements on authors, but also get into influential positions in international organizations meant to support science and scholarly communication in poor countries. Why would international organizations allow such a thing - counterproductive to their purported intentions - to happen is a mystery. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------------------------ >From Peter Suber's "Open Access News" Norwegian libraries reject Blackwell journals because of high prices Four Norwegian university libraries issued a joint statement on January 2: This autumn Norwegian university libraries have attempted to reach an agreement on access to electronic journals from Blackwell Publishing. The negotiations have come to an end without a successful result. Therefore from January 1, 2007 library patrons at the universities will no longer be able to access the 778 e-journals in Blackwell electronic portfolio. The reason for this is that the university libraries feel that Blackwell Publishing has stipulated unacceptable conditions and price increases. Blackwell has journals covering all universities disciplines, so this will affect all our users, says library director Helge Salvesen of Tromsø University Library. Libraries experience that publishers no longer negotiate but dictate prices and access conditions. The university library directors are in unanimous agreement that this situation is no longer acceptable.... Journal prices exceed the general retail price index, and moderate increases in library budgets cannot close the gap.... The statement is signed by the library directors of the University of Trondheim, University of Tromsø, University of Oslo, and University of Bergen. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Programme at NIT Silchar
by Kishor Satpathy 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

CENTRAL LIBRARY & ISTE TEACHER CHAPTER NIT SILCHAR Cordially invites you To the Panel Discussion on QUALITY IN Education Panelist Prof. G Biswas Vice Chancellor, Assam University, Silchar Prof. G D Sharma Former Vice Chancellor, Nagaland University Prof. N B Biswas Dean & Head, Deptt. of Education, Assam University, Silchar Dr. Sunrit Mullick Regional Officer & Education Advisor United States Educational Foundation in India & Prof. P K Banik Director, NIT Silchar Date: 11.01.07 Time: 1 PM Onwards Venue: CET Hall, NIT Silchar For Detail information please contact Kishor Satpathy, Librarian & Secretary, ISTE Chapter (M: 9435073452) Kishor C Satpathy Coordinator,Continuing Education Cell & Project Coodinator, Virtual Class Room & Digital Library National Institute of Technology (Deemed University) Silchar 788010,Assam,India Ph: 91 3842 240055(W) 240906 (R), Fax: 91 3842 233797 Mobile: 9435073452 E mail : kishor_satpathy(a)yahoo.com (personal) kishor(a)nits.ac.in (official) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com CENTRAL LIBRARY & ISTE TEACHER CHAPTER NIT SILCHAR Cordially invites you To the Panel Discussion on QUALITY IN Education Panelist Prof. G Biswas Vice Chancellor , Assam University, Silchar Prof. G D Sharma Former Vice Chancellor, Nagaland University Prof. N B Biswas Dean & Head, Deptt. of Education, Assam University , Silchar Dr. Sunrit Mullick Regional Officer & Education Advisor United States Educational Foundation in India & Prof. P K Banik Director, NIT Silchar Date: 11.01.07 Time: 1 PM Onwards Venue: CET Hall, NIT Silchar For Detail information please contact Kishor Satpathy, Librarian & Secretary, ISTE Chapter (M: 9435073452) Kishor C Satpathy Coordinator,Continuing Education Cell & Project Coodinator, Virtual Class Room & Digital Library National Institute of Technology (Deemed University) Silchar 788010,Assam,India Ph: 91 3842 240055(W) 240906 (R), Fax: 91 3842 233797 Mobile: 9435073452 E mail : kishor_satpathy(a)yahoo.com (personal) kishor(a)nits.ac.in (official) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Searching the Web
by champe mishra 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

Searching the net is an essential component of ones online life and a variety oftools meant for it are in place.The distinct feature of the search tools arena is the incessant inflow of new tools. Before settling down with a tool, one finds another one appearing on the scene. Even savvy netizens find it challenging to keep up with the developments in this realm. This edition of NetSpeak provides a brief description of the latest products in this genre.SearchMash .Anyone dealing with websearch products has to make sure that any new offerings from Google are explored. One will never be disappointed.Google has recently launched (http://www.searchmash.com/about/privacy.html) a test search service called SearchMash(http://www.searchmash.com/). Alongside the usual searchoutput (results are similar to those of Google, but each is numbered), the service provides options to get searchoutput from blog, image and video sites as well. An advantage of Search- Mash is the More Resultsoption available at the bottom of the output page forshowing the next set of results in the same page.Another notable feature is Hide Details, which lets you hide the details displayed along with each web page thus helping you to view more results per page. Google Notebook search Google Notebook helps us easily clip web content, add notes or comments and store\it online. Also, one can make her notebook public and share the contents with others. Now, Google has started a search service for finding information available on publicnotebooks.With Google Notebook search service (http://www.google.com/notebook/search), you may find lots of valuable information.However, this search service has generated some controversy as many people store private information on notebooks and share it without realising the implications.Decipho (http://decipho.com/) is another search service explored by this author.Besides the normal web search, this service has additional features contributed byits users. When you invoke a search,you can specify whether it is for shopping or research or both. Another feature is the subject-specific clustering of the results. For instance, if you start a search on statistics,the service presents you categories such as Statistics online, Glossary of statistics, Stats and Math Statistics. The search engine Hakia(http://www.hakia.com/),scheduled to activate its full operation sometime in 2007, seems to be a promising search tool. The beta version is available for testing its potential.One distinction of this service relates to question/answer facility. By framing good questions, you could obtain appropriate answers. In this regard, you can use the service along with other question/answer services such as Brainboost. Also, for certainqueries, Hakia providescategorised results. CometQuery (http://www.cometquery.com/) is yet another addition to the search tool landscape.With each of the links in the output, the service displays its screenshot as well.Open source journals As mentioned in the past,lots of open access repositories on a range of subjects that include Science, Medicine,Engineering and Business are in place.An open access repository permits anyone to access and use its content for free. Open- DOAR, the Directory of Open Access Repositories (http:// www.opendoar.org/index.html) is a good place to locate several such open content sources.To help you access the content stored on various repositories available on its list, OpenDOAR has recently assembled a search service using Googles new search tool, Google CSE.For more details: http://www.opendoar.org/search.php. Champeswar Mishra, Library and Information Centre (LIC) Indian Institute Of Management,Kozhikode IIM Campus P.O., Kunnamagalam, Kerla , India, pin-673571 Phone no- 0495-2809143 -147,148 Fax: +91-495-2803010-11 Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php Searching the net is an essential component of ones online life and a variety oftools meant for it are in place.The distinct feature of the search tools arena is the incessant inflow of new tools. Before settling down with a tool, one finds another one appearing on the scene. Even savvy netizens find it challenging to keep up with the developments in this realm. This edition of NetSpeak provides a brief description of the latest products in this genre.SearchMash .Anyone dealing with websearch products has to make sure that any new offerings from Google are explored. One will never be disappointed.Google has recently launched (http://www.searchmash.com/about/privacy.html) a test search service called SearchMash(http://www.searchmash.com/). Alongside the usual searchoutput (results are similar to those of Google, but each is numbered), the service provides options to get searchoutput from blog, image and video sites as well. An advantage of Search- Mash is the More Resultsoption available at the bottom of the output page forshowing the next set of results in the same page.Another notable feature is Hide Details, which lets you hide the details displayed along with each web page thus helping you to view more results per page. Google Notebook search Google Notebook helps us easily clip web content, add notes or comments and store\it online. Also, one can make her notebook public and share the contents with others. Now, Google has started a search service for finding information available on publicnotebooks.With Google Notebook search service (http://www.google.com/notebook/search), you may find lots of valuable information.However, this search service has generated some controversy as many people store private information on notebooks and share it without realising the implications.Decipho (http://decipho.com/) is another search service explored by this author.Besides the normal web search, this service has additional features contributed byits users. When you invoke a search,you can specify whether it is for shopping or research or both. Another feature is the subject-specific clustering of the results. For instance, if you start a search on statistics,the service presents you categories such as Statistics online, Glossary of statistics, Stats and Math Statistics. The search engine Hakia(http://www.hakia.com/),scheduled to activate its full operation sometime in 2007, seems to be a promising search tool. The beta version is available for testing its potential.One distinction of this service relates to question/answer facility. By framing good questions, you could obtain appropriate answers. In this regard, you can use the service along with other question/answer services such as Brainboost. Also, for certainqueries, Hakia providescategorised results. CometQuery (http://www.cometquery.com/) is yet another addition to the search tool landscape.With each of the links in the output, the service displays its screenshot as well.Open source journals As mentioned in the past,lots of open access repositories on a range of subjects that include Science, Medicine,Engineering and Business are in place.An open access repository permits anyone to access and use its content for free. Open- DOAR, the Directory of Open Access Repositories (http:// www.opendoar.org/index.html) is a good place to locate several such open content sources.To help you access the content stored on various repositories available on its list, OpenDOAR has recently assembled a search service using Googles new search tool, Google CSE.For more details: http://www.opendoar.org/search.php. Champeswar Mishra, Library and Information Centre (LIC) Indian Institute Of Management,Kozhikode IIM Campus P.O., Kunnamagalam, Kerla , India, pin-673571 Phone no- 0495-2809143 -147,148 Fax: +91-495-2803010-11 Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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Various news items from Inderscence
by MacLeod, Roderick A 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Here are some news items from Inderscience Publishers which may interest members of lis-forum 1. An RSS feed of Calls For Papers for special issues published by Inderscience is now available: http://www.inderscience.com/rss/calls.php <http://www.inderscience.com/rss/calls.php> 2. A New Articles Channel gives details of the latest articles published in Inderscience journals: http://www.inderscience.com/rss/rss.php <http://www.inderscience.com/rss/rss.php> 3. The Inderscience News Blog http://inderscience.blogspot.com/ gives information about new journal titles, new issues of the Highlights newsletter, Calls for papers, announcement of inaugural issues, contents of special issues, selective editorials, and more. 4. You can Search the full-text of 11978 articles in 143 Inderscience Journals at: http://www.inderscience.com/search/index.php?action=moreSearch 5. Inderscience has just launched a new journal: International Journal of Human Factors Modelling and Simulation (IJHFMS) http://www.inderscience.com/ijhfms <http://www.inderscience.com/ijhfms> ISSN (Online): 1742-5557 ISSN (Print): 1742-5549 IJHFMS will have particular focus on the following: * Human factors theory as related to computational models of human performance and interaction with virtual environments * Simulator-based evaluations of human factors issues * Computer simulation of human behaviour and performance * Digital human modelling and simulation * Developments in simulation and virtual environments to address human factors and ergonomics issues * Human performance modelling * Simulation of physiological behaviour, measures, and predictions Readership: IJHFMS is an archival record of original technical publications. The intent is to provide state of the art knowledge to professionals in human factors, ergonomics, animation, modelling and simulation of humans and human factors, academics, researchers, policy makers, and designers. Editor in Chief: Dr. Karim A. Malek Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering The University of Iowa Iowa City IA 52242 USA amalek(a)engineering.uiowa.edu <mailto:amalek@engineering.uiowa.edu> Content available by subscription. Abstracts available online. Articles available in HTML and PDF format. Current Issue: Volume 1 No 1 2006 Roddy MacLeod Here are some news items from Inderscience Publishers which may interest members of lis-forum 1. An RSS feed of Calls For Papers for special issues published by Inderscience is now available: http://www.inderscience.com/rss/calls.php http://www.inderscience.com/rss/calls.php 2. A New Articles Channel gives details of the latest articles published in Inderscience journals: http://www.inderscience.com/rss/rss.php http://www.inderscience.com/rss/rss.php 3. The Inderscience News Blog http://inderscience.blogspot.com/ http://inderscience.blogspot.com/ gives information about new journal titles, new issues of the Highlights newsletter, Calls for papers, announcement of inaugural issues, contents of special issues, selective editorials, and more. 4. You can Search the full-text of 11978 articles in 143 Inderscience Journals at: http://www.inderscience.com/search/index.php?action=moreSearch http://www.inderscience.com/search/index.php?action=moreSearch 5. Inderscience has just launched a new journal: International Journal of Human Factors Modelling and Simulation (IJHFMS) http://www.inderscience.com/ijhfms http://www.inderscience.com/ijhfms ISSN (Online): 1742-5557 ISSN (Print): 1742-5549 IJHFMS will have particular focus on the following: * Human factors theory as related to computational models of human performance and interaction with virtual environments * Simulator-based evaluations of human factors issues * Computer simulation of human behaviour and performance * Digital human modelling and simulation * Developments in simulation and virtual environments to address human factors and ergonomics issues * Human performance modelling * Simulation of physiological behaviour, measures, and predictions Readership: IJHFMS is an archival record of original technical publications. The intent is to provide state of the art knowledge to professionals in human factors, ergonomics, animation, modelling and simulation of humans and human factors, academics, researchers, policy makers, and designers. Editor in Chief: Dr. Karim A. Malek Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering The University of Iowa Iowa City IA 52242 USA mailto:amalek@engineering.uiowa.edu amalek(a)engineering.uiowa.edu Content available by subscription. Abstracts available online. Articles available in HTML and PDF format. Current Issue: Volume 1 No 1 2006 Roddy MacLeod

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ICSD-2007 :: Extended Deadline for Early Bird Registration
by Dr. A.R.D. Prasad 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Apologies if you received multiple copies of this message. ============================================= ========== ICSD-2007 Call For Participation Early Bird Registration is now open till 25th January, 2007 (Hard deadline) ========== ============================================= INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMANTIC WEB & DIGITAL LIBRARIES February 21-23, 2007 (http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/icsd), Bangalore, India Conference Venue: NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore ==== | TUTORIAL SPEAKERS & TOPICS ==== # Dr. Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead "Introduction to the Semantic Web" # Dr. Anupriya Ankolekar, Research Associate, AIFB Institute, University of Karlsruhe, Germany "Semantic Technologies for Digital Libraries" # Mr. Anurag Arora, (Coordinator - Digitization) & Mr. Vaibhav Chauhan, (Conservator), National Mission for Manuscripts, New Delhi, India "Digitization and Conservation of Manuscripts" # Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, India "Digitization and Digital Preservation of Indian Cultural Hertitage" ==== | PLENARY SPEAKER ==== # Prof. Fausto Giunchiglia, Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento, Italy ==== | INVITED SPEAKERS ==== # Prof. Peter Schirmbacher, Institut for Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft, University of Humboldt, Berlin, Germany # Prof. Frederick Friend, JISC Scholarly Communication Consultant, Honorary Director Scholarly Communication UCL, England # Dr. Johannes Keizer, Library & Documentation System Division, Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO), Italy # Prof. Michael Shepherd, Dept of Computer Science, University of Dalhousie, Canada ==== | REGISTRATION ==== To avail early bird registration price, please register on or before 25th January, 2007. * Early Bird registration: Till 25th January, 2007 Rs. 4000 (Indian & SAARC Delegates) ; USD 150 (Foreign Delegates other than SAARC) * Late Registration: 26th January, 2007 onwards Rs. 5000 (Indian & SAARC Delegates); USD 175 (Foreign Delegates other than SAARC) * Tutorial: Rs.1000 (Indian & SAARC Delegates); USD 40 (Foreign Delegates other than SAARC) Note: Registration Fee includes conference kit, tea/coffee and working lunch +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Registration form is available for download at http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/icsd/icsd-files/icsd_registration_form.doc Kindly post the filled-in registration forms to the address below: Dr. A.R.D. Prasad Convenor, ICSD 2007 DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), 8th Mile, Mysore Road, R.V. College Post, Bangalore, Karnataka (India) Pin - 560059 Electronic copy of registration form duly filled and signed can be sent to icsd(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in, but official copy should also be sent by regular mail. Please note: The Demand Draft (DD) Should be made in favour of Indian Statisitcal Institute, payable at Bangalore. Outstation cheques should include additional transaction fee. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Dr. A.R.D. Prasad Convenor ICSD-2007 DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore INDIA

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one terabyte drive
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 21:40:44 +0530 From: Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy <vyasamoorthy(a)gmail.com> Here comes the terabyte hard drive With a terabyte drive, consumers can store 250,000 MP3 songs. That's enough for two solid years of listening without a single repeat. For details, visit, http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6147409.html -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631 66 A torn book is better than a never touched book.

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European Resaearch Council keen to mandate open access
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 10:05:13 -0800 (PST) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> >From "Open Access News" ERC pledges to adopt an OA mandate The Scientific Council of the European Research Council has issued a Statement on Open Access (December 2006). For full story, visit: http://erc.europa.eu/pdf/open-access.pdf

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Copyright addenda
by Subbiah Arunachalam 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Friends: Whenever an author publishes a paper in a journal the publishes sends a copyright agreement form, which is often restrictive, and would not allow the author to eithera archive his paper in his institutional archive or even use a table or figure in his lecture notes or a book he wants o write without levying a fee! To overcome this ridiculous situation the author could modify the copyright agreement using one of the fillowing addenda, says Peter Suber. Librarian friends may please alert scientists they serve. There are many different author addenda but in my view these are the best: SPARC Author's Addendum http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/addendum.html Science Commons Scholar's Copyright project http://sciencecommons.org/literature/scholars_copyright SURF-JISC License to Publish http://www.surf.nl/copyrighttoolbox/authors/licence/ Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Website for Free Software
by Farooque Shaheen 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Like softpedia.org and download.com,http://www.freewarefiles.com, hosts a huge collection of free-to-use utilities; complete with ratings and user recommendations. The resource is neatly divided in to sections including games, audio-video, Internet tools, business, graphic design, programming, Web development, screensavers, utilities, themes, drivers, etc. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 Like softpedia.org and download.com,http://www.freewarefiles.com, hosts a huge collection of free-to-use utilities; complete with ratings and user recommendations. The resource is neatly divided in to sections including games, audio-video, Internet tools, business, graphic design, programming, Web development, screensavers, utilities, themes, drivers, etc. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105

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Librairans World
by Pranaykumar D (Soft-AID Computers P.Ltd.) 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Hello All, I have come across a very Interesting website www.librariansworld.com hope it will intrest you too. Thanks & Regards, Pranaykumar Soft-AID (Bangalore) 080-23464717 / 23444860 9844278564 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Information transmitted by this EMAIL is proprietary to Soft-AID and is intended for use only by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient of this EMAIL immediately notify the sender at Soft-AID or mail admin(a)softaid.co.in and delete this EMAIL including any attachments. Hello All, I have come across a very Interesting website http://www.librariansworld.com www.librariansworld.com hope it will intrest you too. Thanks & Regards, Pranaykumar Soft-AID (Bangalore) 080-23464717 / 23444860 9844278564 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Information transmitted by this EMAIL is proprietary to Soft-AID and is intended for use only by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient of this EMAIL immediately notify the sender at Soft-AID or mail mailto:admin@softaid.co.in admin(a)softaid.co.in and delete this EMAIL including any attachments.

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