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Open Access Week 2012 @ IIA
by praba 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Dear Friends,     To support the 'International Open Access Week' event observed all over the world between 22nd to 28th Oct.,2012, IIA library has designed a poster with the theme of promoting Open Access Journals. This poster is available for viewing in the following URL, http://prints.iiap.res.in/handle/2248/5928   The previous year’s OA week celebration at IIA also can be viewed from the following URL, http://prints.iiap.res.in/handle/2248/5286   With Regards, Christina Birdie Librarian,IIA -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article Request
by LIJESH TK 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Dear All Professionals, Our Scientist need below article. Kindly help me in this regard. Seasonal and habitat-related diets of sloth bears in Nepal. Joshi, Anup R; Garshelis, David L; Smith, James L.D Journal of Mammalogy 78(2): p584 (1997) Sample size formula for proportional hazards modelling of competing risks Aurélien Latouche; Raphaël Porcher; Sylvie Chevret Statistics in Medicine 23(21): 3263–3274 (2004) By, Lijesh T.K Project Fellow (Library) Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Peechi, Thrissur, Kerala. PH: 09497249813 Visit: http://www.libraryjobs4u. blogspot.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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AIP Free Online Access is extended to November 2012
by Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

AIP Journals and conference proceedings FREE Access Extended through November 2012! http://journals.aip.org/free_initiative.html?track=LMFALL12 ------ Dr. J. K. VIJAYAKUMAR, http://www.linkedin.com/in/vijayakumarjk -----Original Message----- Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 9:37 PM Subject: AIP Offers Free Online Access OCTOBER 2012 – Nobel Prize Month This message is cross-posted. Please pardon the duplication. Dear Colleagues: AIP Offers Free Online Access OCTOBER 2012 – Nobel Prize Month October is always an exciting month for the scientific community as we anticipate the Nobel Prize announcements. In honor of this exciting time, we’ve selected this month to make AIP content freely available. We are proud to count many Nobel Laureates and their colleagues among our authors, editors, reviewers and readers, and we wish to celebrate all of the advancements that drive physical sciences forward. You and your patrons have online access to all AIP journals and Conference Proceedings back to 1999 throughout the month. We encourage you to share this news so your library community can take full advantage of this offer! For more information click on the link below: http://journals.aip.org/free_initiative.html <http://journals.aip.org/free_initiative.html> Regards, Adriana Acosta Chief Marketing and Sales Officer American Institute of Physics Suite 1NO1 2 Huntington Quadrangle Melville, NY 11747 Marketing & Sales Tel. +1 516-576-2452 Fax +1 516-576-2272 aacosta at aip.org ------------Forwarded by------------ Dr. J. K. VIJAYAKUMAR, http://www.linkedin.com/in/vijayakumarjk -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Dr. Abdul Majid Baba- University Librarian, University of Kashmir
by jeelani shah 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Dear Sir, Kindly arrange to post the following message to all LIS Forum members. Dear Library Professionals, Dr. Abdul Majid Baba has taken over as University Librarian, University of Kashmir, Hazratbal, Srinagar-190006, J&K, India with effect from 31st October, 2012 Afternoon. With warm regards Ghulam Jeelani Shah Jr. Professional Assistant Library Innovation & IT Support Centre Allama Iqbal Library, University of Kashmir Hazratbal, Srinagar-190006 J & K, INDIA -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Research topic
by Mamatha N 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

This is Mamatha,completed my course work in mysore university and i thought of doing research on "Citation analysis of top research papers in Mathematics with specific reference to india". Is any work is going on this topic anywhere?, kindly letme know. With regards Mamatha -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IASLIC XXV National Seminar- Dec. 10-13, 2012-reminder
by Mailing List Admin 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

Shibu.K.M shibukm123(a)gmail.com Wed Nov 7 17:44:20 IST 2012 Dear Professional Colleagues, Ananda Rangapillai Library, Pondicherry University, Puducherry in association with Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC) is organizing *IASLIC XXV National Seminar* on the theme *Intellectual Property Rights: **Problems and Prospects with Special Reference to Library and Information Services* during December 10-13, 2012. The venue of the Seminar will be Pondicherry University, Puducherry. We request you to kindly participate in the seminar and make it a grand success. For registration and accommodation please log on to http://lib.pondiuni.edu.in/iaslic2012 Thanks and regards K.M. Shibu Assistant Librarian University Library Pondicherry University Puducherry-605 014

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How readers discover content in scholarly journals, Simon Inger and Tracy Gardner
by Mailing List Admin 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar vjkjk(a)yahoo.com Thu Nov 8 11:17:00 IST 2012 PRESS RELEASE: 7th November 2012 Simon Inger and Tracy Gardner publish results of largest ever study into How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Journals The report, which is the culmination of a 6-month research project and has the backing of leading publishers within STM, Humanities and Social Science, compares the changing reader behaviour between 2005 and 2012 and as a result looks at the impact on publisher and library web site design and function. Simon Inger and Tracy Gardner announced today the publication of a detailed report into discoverability of online content. Simon Inger, commenting on the reasoning behind the research said "There have been many studies using web logs that calculate where users of scholarly resources were referred from, but this approach doesn't indicate where those users started their research, merely the details of the last "hop" before hitting a content website. Discovery of academic content is complex with a plethora of discovery resources to choose from and many different routes to take. In order to expose content to the maximum number of potential readers, publishers and libraries need to understand these different routes and that is where this report can help them". This report is the output of a large-scale survey focussing on journal content discovery conducted during May, June and July of 2012. Over 19,000 responses were received from all over the world from readers in many different sectors, job roles and subject areas. The research repeats two earlier studies performed in 2005 by Scholarly Information Strategies (for whom the authors were consultants) and in 2008 by the authors. The shifts in reader preferences over time provide a valuable insight into reader navigation, the features that readers find useful in publisher web sites, and the role and effectiveness of library technologies. The 2012 survey was also updated to include questions about search engine preference and app use. Given such a large number of responses were received, this report goes much further than the previous two and is able to provide an insight into how readers in different sectors, regions, subject areas, and job roles behave. So, for example, answers to all the following questions can be found in the report: * In which subject areas, regions, job roles and sectors do readers make the most use of aggregated databases when searching for online articles? * Is Baidu, Google or Google Scholar the most popular search engine amongst students in China? * Which features do students, lecturers and academic researchers find most useful on Publisher web sites? * Which sectors make the most use of journal homepages and ToC Alerts? Tracy Gardner said "This report informs publishers, libraries, intermediaries and academics which resources the world's consumers prefer to use to discover scholarly content. It's an invaluable piece of research and we would like to wholeheartedly thank those organisations who supported us". The survey was supported by BMJ Group, CABI, Cambridge University Press, IOP Publishing, Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, Publishing Technology, RSC Publishing and SAGE. A summary report is available for free and the full report is available for 250 for organisations, 100 for academic libraries, and approximately 7 (or equivalent in other currencies) for individual use on Kindle (or Kindle viewers for PC, Mac, iPad). The full data set and the analytical tool are also available for purchase. See http://www.renewtraining.com/publications.htm for more details. ENDS Tracy Gardner TGM / Renew Training Tel: +44 (0) 7884 438007 Email: tracy at tgm.ox14.com Web: www.renewtraining.com NEW: How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Journals - the results of a large scale reader survey - is now available for download at www.renewtraining.com/publications.htm Forwarded by Dr. J.K.Vijayakumar

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openings for the position of library trainees
by Mailing List Admin 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

RAJENDRA SINGH rajendra.lib(a)gmail.com Wed Nov 7 15:07:00 IST 2012 Dear Professional Colleagues, Kindly bring the following announcement to the notice of interested candidates. Thanks & regards, Rajendra Singh Assistant Manager (Lib.& Info.Service) IIIT-Delhi, Okhla Phase III New Delhi-110020, India -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Institute invites applications for the position of Library Trainee (s) on purely contract basis. Required Qualification: Bachelors Degree in any discipline with Certificate/Diploma/ Degree in Library and Information Science. Maximum Age Limit: 25 Years (As on 31.10.2012) Stipend: Between Rs.8,000/- and Rs.10,000/- p.m. depending upon qualification, experience etc. Selected trainees will be trained in various aspects of Library such as Acquisition, Cataloguing, Classification, Serial Control, New subscription/Renewal of Print and Electronic Journals, Circulation, Reference Service, Working on Institute Archive/Institutional Repository, RFID etc. The Library and Information Center may remain open till late hours on holidays and weekends. The Institute shall, however, try to accommodate schedule constraints. Interested candidates may send their resume along with a recent color passport size photograph via e-mail at library[at]iiitd.ac.in latest by 22.11.2012

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Database access: the subscription fee is not taxable
by Piyush Gupta 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

Dear All Please see the link below: http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/cjs0pKtmTJZGGy4hAiyN9J/Database-access-the-… A number of international companies are engaged in the business of data collation/organization and creation of databases and software. With the growth in the Indian financial services and software sector, Indian companies in these sectors often subscribe to such databases to know the international best practices, research reports, etc. Typically, the business arrangement is such that the customer would be given a non-exclusive licence for access to the vendor’s database on payment of an annual subscription fee. The issue that arises from a direct tax perspective is whether the payment of subscription charges to access such databases would be characterized as royalty income and would consequently trigger a withholding tax. *Also Read *Ketan Dalal and Manish Desai’s earlier columns<http://www.livemint.com/Articles/Authors.aspx?author=Ketan%20Dalal%20and%20…> The Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR), in a case of FactSet Research Systems Inc., US (FactSet), said in a 30 June ruling that such subscription charges received by FactSet should not be subject to tax in India. In this context, it would be relevant to mention that the Madhya Pradesh high court, in the case of *CIT v. HEG Ltd, *dealing with the issue of payments made for the purchase of confidential data, has held that every information would not have the status of royalty. Although this decision deals with the purchase of data, its observation that every information should not have the status of royalty merely because of its commercial nature provides guidance on the taxability of transactions to access information/data even under the licensing arrangement. AAR, in the case of Dun and Bradstreet Espana S.A., has also held that payments for providing access to business information reports were not royalties or fee for technical services. The Bangalore tribunal in the case of *Wipro Ltd v. Income-tax officer* has held that payments made by Wipro Ltd towards annual subscription charges to Web-based foreign publishing houses for access to their databases would not be taxable as royalty under the Act or treaty. *FactSet case* FactSet is a company incorporated in the US. It maintains a database which is located outside India. This database contains financial information and other data on a large number of companies worldwide that is available in the public domain. FactSet enters into a master client licence agreement with customers under which it grants limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable rights to use its database, software tools, etc., and charges a subscription fee for this. FactSet does not carry out any business operations in India. FactSet sought a ruling from AAR on the following: • Whether the subscription fee received by it would be taxable in India under the provisions of the Act or the India-US Tax Treaty? • If the income is not taxable in India, whether its customers in India would have to withhold taxes under section 195 of the Act? • If FactSet has no other taxable income in India, whether it would be required to file its return of income in India? FactSet collates information/data available by applying its own methodology. This methodology is outside the public domain and the copyright in them is not transferred or licensed to the subscribers, who are only granted the right to view the information or access the database while online. Thus, subscribers are granted a right to use the copyrighted database and not the copyright in the database. After placing reliance on certain judicial precedents, FactSet contended that subscription fee received is not taxable as “royalty” under the Act/treaty. It was also contended that subscription fee is in the nature of “business income” and hence, in the absence of private equity in India, it is not taxable in India. Consequently, subscribers are not required to withhold taxes before making payments to the applicant. *Contention of revenue* The subscription fee paid to FactSet is for rights specified under the Copyright Act, 1957 [CP Act]. As per section 14(a)(i) of the CP Act (relating to reproducing and storing data) and section 14(a)(vi) (relating to right to adaptation of data), FactSet has granted rights in respect of “literary works” (including computer databases) to customers. Therefore, the applicant transfers the rights in the copyright of the database and hence, the subscription fees are “royalty” in nature. The subscription fee is for imparting any information on technical, industrial, commercial or scientific knowledge, experience or skill as per Article 12 of the tax treaty and hence, “royalty” in nature. Subscription fee could also be for the use of, or right to use, any industrial, commercial or scientific equipment as the server containing the database is used by customers as a point of interface. *Ruling of AAR* Subscription fee is not royalty. AAR relied on OECD commentaries and held that the payment to access databases is in the nature of business income, not royalty. The commentaries state that when the provider makes a repository of information available for customers to search and retrieve, or where special industry or investment reports are either sent or made available for purchase and download from an online catalogue or index, the payments made will be considered business income (falling within Article 7 of the tax treaty). Thus, AAR held that subscription fee received by FactSet is not royalty income on the following premise: • FactSet enters into a “non-exclusive” licence agreement with the customer whereby the customer is not granted the exclusive right to reproduce or adapt the work or distribute the contents of the database to others. • No proprietary rights or exclusive rights (that FactSet has in the database) are transferred to the subscriber. • FactSet doesn’t share its experience, techniques or the methodology employed in evolving the database with its subscribers and does not impart any information relating to this. • Subscription fee cannot be considered to be towards the use of “scientific equipment” as it is paid to make use of the facility to access the data/information collected and collated by the applicant in the database. • In the absence of PE, the subscription fee received by FactSet is not liable to be taxed in India as “business income”. FactSet does not have any obligation to file returns of income in India as the income is not liable to be taxed in India either as royalty or as business income. *Summary* This welcome ruling has upheld the view that subscription charges for accessing a database under a non-exclusive licence should not be characterized as royalty again. A string of judicial decisions has now established that such payment is not royalty. Given that Indian companies are also developing databases and are increasingly becoming recipients of such subscription fees from abroad, this will also enable such amounts not to be subjected to withholding tax in the overseas payer countries. *Ketan Dalal is executive director and Manish Desai is associate director, PricewaterhouseCoopers. Your comments and feedback are welcome at groundrules(a)livemint.com* *regards* * * *Piyush Kumar Gupta* *Emerald Group Publishing (India) Pvt Ltd* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: Questionnaire on Open Access publishing
by Dimple Patel 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Prof. Thomas Eger <thomas.Eger(a)uni-hamburg.de> Date: 7 November 2012 18:38 Subject: Questionnaire on Open Access publishing To: tvk2k4(a)gmail.com Dear colleague, Together with my doctoral student, Marc Scheufen, I have created a questionnaire on the experience of academic scholars with and their perception of open access publishing. One of our objectives is to examine the commonalities and differences between the academic disciplines. For this purpose, we have conducted a pretest in all faculties of the University of Hamburg, which has been already completed and statistically evaluated. The interesting results encouraged us to extend the survey to all German universities and research institutions. Further surveys are planned for other European countries, the US and Australia. Since India is worldwide the number four in publishing academic open access journals we decided, in co-operation with Prof. Babu from the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, to extend the survey to Indian universities and research institutions. We would kindly ask you to complete the questionnaire which you will find under the following link: http://www.equestionnaire.de/?q=10262 The completion of the questionnaire will take you around 10 minutes. Your participation will help to provide valuable information regarding the recent discussion on how to organize the dissemination of academic publications in a globalized and digital knowledge society. Thank you for your support! With kind regards, Thomas Eger -- Prof. Dr. Thomas Eger Vice-Dean for Research and International Affairs Director, Institute of Law & Economics University of Hamburg Rothenbaumchaussee 36, D-20148 Hamburg Tel +49- (0)40-42838-6777 Fax +49- (0)40-42838-6794 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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