November 2008 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

INFLIBNET Consortium opens Associate Membership
by Prem Chand 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

Dear Professionals, I am pleased to announce associate membership of UGC- INFONET Digital Library Consortium. Under the programme, selected e-resources are offered on subscription to private universities and research institutions that are not covered under the Consortium as its core members. The Associate Members can subscribe to one or more resources at the same rates that Consortium is paying for its core members. The libraries can take the benefit of negotiated price for selected e-resources which is listed below. An annual membership of Rs. 5000.00 will be charged from the members to join the Associate Membership Programme. List of Resources: 1.. American Institute of Physics and American Physical Society 2.. Annual Reviews 3.. Cambridge University Press 4.. Emerald (Library Science Collection) 5.. JSTOR 6.. Institute of Physics (IoP) 7.. MathSciNet 8.. Nature 9.. Oxford University Press 10.. Portland Press 11.. Royal Society of Chemistry 12.. SciFinder Scholar (CAS) 13.. SpringerLink 14.. Taylor and Francis For more detail, please visit our site at http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/econ/associate-membership.htm Regards, Prem Chand Scientist- D Convener UGC-INFONET Digital library Consortium Information & Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET) An Inter University Centre of UGC, Near Gujarat University Guest House Navrangpura, Ahmedabad Gujarat. India Phone: 079-26305971, 26304695 ( Office) 079- 29096170( R) 09427001489 prem65_chand(a)yahoo.co.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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REQUEST FOR ARTICLES
by Manik Nand lal 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

Dear Colleages, Some of our scientists require the following two article urgently. Can you please arrange to send me the same if you have access. 1. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.6;1963;732 and 2. Journal of Organic Chemistry.25;1960;96 Best regards, N. MANIK MANAGER-LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTRE DABUR PHARMA LTD. (R & D) 22, SITE IV, SAHIBABAD GHAZIABAD-201010 INDIA TEL. : +91-120-437 8497 FAX : +91-120-437 6905 "This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited." -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Swets opens office in New Delhi, India
by Mailing List Admin 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:32:12 +0100 From: Rakesh Malik <rmalik(a)in.swets.com> Swets continues its global expansion with the opening of its latest office in New Delhi, India. Coinciding with India's emergence as a global knowledge economy, Swets is committed to serving professional content users in the Academic, Government, Medical and Corporate fields through its class-leading suite of SwetsWise services, enabling seamless access and management tools for scientific and professional e-content. "As of yet, no such platform is available in India and initial customer feedback confirms the need for such a content management platform" says Thomas Snyder, Swets' Chief Commercial Officer. Through its presence in India, Swets will be in a prime position to act as an effective sales channel for publishers looking to enter or strengthen their position in the rapidly growing Indian market. "With the accelerating shift from print to web based content in the Indian market, we see a growing need for an agent with global experience in managing such transition well for both the publisher and users of their content. Swets not only has this experience but also offers an integrated platform and suite of services to efficiently access and manage such web based content" says Thomas Snyder. Swets Indian office is located in the Saket area, South New Delhi. Irwin Fouwels, Director Market Development, will act as Managing Director of Swets' Indian branch. Swets is currently in the process of hiring a Country Manager for its Indian operations. About Swets Swets is the world's leading subscription services company. We build on more than 100 years of experience to maximize the return on investments in time and money for clients and publishers in today's complex information marketplace. With clients in over 160 countries and more than twenty offices around the world, Swets is a true "long tail" powerhouse that provides the most comprehensive and sophisticated e-commerce platform currently available in its field. Swets has been included in E-Content Magazine's "100 Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry" for the past five years, and is consistently featured in the top 25% of FEM Business' "Top 500 Companies in The Netherlands". We are the only subscription services company that is ISO 9001:2000 certified on a global basis for 10 years running--a testament to our stringent operation and client service procedures.

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Research article on Chandrayaan-I
by Mailing List Admin 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:45:54 +0530 (IST) From: kk_suresh(a)blr.amrita.edu Dear All, A Research Article Published in 'Acta Astronautica'(available online at ScienceDirect:Acta Astronautica 63 (2008) 1215-1220) which gives the complete technical details of 'Chandrayaan-1 mission to the Moon'. With regards, KK Suresh Librarian Amrita School of Engineering Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Kasavanahalli; Off:Sarjapura Road Carmelaram Post Bangalore - 560 035 PH:080-28441216/17 Website: www.amrita.edu e-contact:suresh_amrita@rediffmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Invitation for Seminar
by Nihal Alam 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research and Training Center 8th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College Post Bangalore -560059 Seminar On Semantic Relation and its application in Information Science Semantic Relation and its application in information science Of late, then interest of many researchers is to examine the nature Free Add On semantic relations and their main application in the information science. Concepts (language) and relations (text) provide the foundation of knowledge and thought. When we look at the world, we perceive not only a mass of colors but also objects that automatically assign categories labels. Our perception system automatically segments the world into concepts and the Categories. Language is used not for the sake of communicating the concepts and the relations, but also employed to represent, store and reason with concepts and relation. Research and development in information science have focused on concepts and terms with increasing emphasis in identification, processing, management of the relation to achieve greater effectiveness and refinement in information science techniques. This seminar presents: (i) an overview of the semantic relation used in the knowledge structure such as thesauri and Ontologies, (ii) main techniques used in the automatic extraction of the semantic relations from text, and (iii) the use of semantic relation in the information extraction, information retrieval, question-answering, and automatic text summarization. Speaker: Nihal Alam 2nd Y ADIS All are cordially invited Venue: DRTC Classroom Seminar In charge Date: 19/11/2009 (Dr. Devika P. Madalli) Time: 2 PM -- Nihal Alam ADIS 2nd Year DRTC 8th Mile Mysore Road, RV College post Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore-059 Karnataka Email: nihalalam(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in Personal Mail: nihal.drtc(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for article
by Kshema Prakash 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

Dear Colleagues, Can some one kindly send me a copy of the following article? * **Gupta, Reeta. 2006. Decomposition Method and Transportation Type Problems with a Fractional Objective Function. ZAMM - Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. Vol. 57(2). Pp 81-88. Published by Wiley Interscience. **Thanks and regards, Kshema * -- Mrs. Kshema Prakash Faculty Librarian - Gr I, Contact Person e-Journals (Library) & Coordinator - Distance Library Services DEI Central Library Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University) Dayalbagh, Agra 282 0110 Uttar Pradesh, India Mob: +919897190604 http://kshema-distancelibraryservices.blogspot.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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E-LIS Server Upgrade -- unavailable from Nov. 17 to 21
by Imma Subirats 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

*******Apologies for cross-postings******* __________________________________________ Dear all, E-LIS <http://eprints.rclis.org/>, the international open archive for library and information science, will be unavailable from Nov. 17-21 while the repository software -E-prints 3.0- and hardware -new server- are upgraded. The change will mean better service and new features. E-LIS will be operational at 9:00 a.m. (Italy time) on the 21st. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience, and thank you to all of our authors and readers. __________________________________________ Imma Subirats on behalf of the E-LIS team E-LIS Chief executive E-LIS, E-prints in Library and Information Science URL: http://eprints.rclis.org/ URL: http://openlib.org/home/subirats/ imma DOT subirats AT gmail DOT com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Stop the OCLC powergrab!
by Anand Chitipothu 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

OCLC, the supposedly-nonprofit organization that provides library services around the world, has grown out of control. First, it started taking libraries' catalog records and then charging them to get them back. Then it used all the money it made through this to buy up library services companies and use its monopoly power and influence to sell software and tools to libraries at exorbitant prices. But now it's gone a step too far -- it wants to claim exclusive copyright over every library record ever written, so that it can continue having them all to itself. In a very real sense, it's trying to steal the world's libraries. We have to make them stop -- sign this petition: http://watchdog.net/c/stop-oclc For more information, see this blog post: "Stealing Your Library: The OCLC Powergrab." - http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/oclcscam Thanks, Anand Open Library http://openlibrary.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Refresher course in Library and Information Science.
by chai tra 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

Department of Library and Information Science in collaboration with Academic Staff College is organizing a refresher course in Library and Information Science from 26th November to 16th December 2008.Hence all those Assistant Librarians, Lectures working in various college may contact, Sri Nanjundaswamy, Lecturer, Academic Staff Library, Manasagangothri, Mysore. Ph no: 2419314 Required forms may be obtained from the above address. The coordinator of this Program is Dr.Khaiser Nikam M.B.A., M.L.I.SC., Ph.D Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Manasagangothri, Mysore-570006 Tele: 91-821-2415202®, 2419399(O), 9845328672, 9342593105(M) e-mail: khaiser.nikam(a)gmail.com. http://www.lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in --------------------------------- Bollywood news, movie reviews, film trailers and more! Click here. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Gmail Gets Free Video Chat!
by रमाकांत नवघरे 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

To, Respected All, The users of Gmail service can now choose to communicate with friends not only through chat and e-mail but also through voice and video. To use this free service, users just need a webcam and a small Web browser plugin to start video chatting. And, those without a webcam can use an audio chat option, says Google. To get started, open a Gmail chat window, click on the 'Options' menu at the bottom and choose 'Add voice/video chat', which will walk you through a one-time installation of a free plugin. When you re-open Gmail, you'll notice your 'Options' link in your chat window has changed to 'Video & more'. Open this menu and click 'Start video chat' to start chatting. You can pop out the video and change its size and position, or switch to full screen. Gmail voice and video chat is being rolled out over the next day or so on PCs and on Macs. Google Apps customers get this service as well, at no extra charge, and can voice or video chat with any other Gmail or Apps users. To use voice and video chat, your PC must have Windows XP or a more recent version, or an Intel-Based Mac with Mac OS X v10.4 or later. It works in browsers that support the latest version of Gmail (Google Chrome, Firefox 2.0+, Internet Explorer 7.0 and Safari 3.0). For more detail : http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=30056&magid=11&ntype=ema… -- Thanks and Regards Ramakant Amar Navghare. Library Assistant Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W) 400601. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : ramakant.navghare(a)gmail.com Mob : 9324564183 elibrary :http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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