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Library Technology Conclave (LTC2022) Rescheduled for April 28-30, 2022.
by Sathyanarayana NV 10 Feb '22

10 Feb '22

Dear Member of LIS-Forum Owing to the compulsions of the Covid pandemic’s 3rd wave which has disrupted by its fast spread, though milder, we have decided to reschedule the LTC2022 (www.LTC2022.org<http://www.LTC2022.org>) from the earlier March 3-5 to April 28-30 now. Please note this date and other important dates below for registration and nomination for awards: REGISTRATION: * March 1, 2022: 3-5PM: Pre-Conclave Seminar > in Hybrid mode > Somaiya Vidyavihar University Campus, Mumbai > Registration is free. * April 28-30, 2022: Conclave > in Hybrid mode > Somaiya Vidyavihar University Campus, Mumbai > For Registration Fee visit the Conclave site: https://www.ltc2022.org/registration-2022/. * Feb 28, 2022: Early bird offer ends NOMINATION FOR AWARDS * This year we have two awards: (1) Informatics Innovation Award; (2) Informatics Researcher Award. The first award is for the Institutions and is a continuation form the earlier LTCs. The second is a new award for LIS professionals. * March 10, 2022 is the last date for submitting the nominations for both the awards. CONCLAVE HIGHLIGHTS * Two pre-conclave workshops on April 28, 022 Workshop – 1: Research Data Management Basics by Dr. Kevin Crowston, Associate Dean of Research & Distinguished Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, USA Workshop – 2: Ontology development for Research Data Management * Six Technical Sessions on, each followed by panel discussion on the session topic * Open Science Framework and Open Data * Research Life Cycle, Data Management and Data Management Policy (DMP) * Research Data & Metadata Standards * Research Data Management Services * Data curation, documentation & preservations * Data Governance, data sharing reuse * Case-studies in Innovation in Libraries * Informatics Annual Lecture Please register and join us at the conclave venue or online. Best regards N. V. Sathyanarayana | Chairman & Managing Director | Informatics India Ltd. | Bangalore 560004 |INDIA | | www.informaticsglobal.com<http://www.informaticsglobal.com> | https://LTC2022.org | -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Guidance Needed
by Setuk Shah 10 Feb '22

10 Feb '22

Eminent Members of this Prestigious Platform, Respected Sirs, We are an Organization based in Ahmedabad working towards holistic cultural revival We have been approached to reconstruct the 150 years old Library in Kodai, Kutch, Gujrat it is rich collection of manuscripts dating back upto 11 BC and also Books.. For this,we seek guidance from eminent scholars of this forum specifically in field of Structures of Libraries, To specify listing some points 1- Best examples of Library structures in India , best for manuscript - books and convenience. 2- Books/Materials detailing about structures of Libraries , Ancient and Modern, in Indian Perspective 3- Small points noted out of experience for Library Structures by experienced librarians of this forum 4- Any expert in this field ? Requesting much needed guidance from all experts Thanking you, Setuk Shah Mahajanam Sansthan +91-9714479888

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Request for a Newsmagazine Item published in BLITZ - May 1981
by jiban 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

Dear Colleagues, A researcher wants to get a newsmagazine item titled: "HIJACKED PAKISTANI PLANE INTERVIEW OF ALAMGIR" published in BLITZ (in May 1981). Blitz is an investigative newsmagazine published weekly from Mumbai (started in 1941). This investigative newsmagazine was published in English, and with editions in Hindi, Urdu and Marathi languages. I tried to get it online but in vain. Can anyone please locate this to give a support to the Researcher. Even if I get the contact address of the archival office of the source item (BLITZ) would be useful too. Thanks in advance. Regards Jiban JIBAN K. PAL, PHD Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata Email: jiban(a)isical.ac.in; Mobile: 9433161580 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Z library: World’s largest Free Ebook Library
by Ajay Kum Sharma 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

Dear Library Professionals, Z library is the world’s largest and most comprehensive free eBook library, with thousands of PDF files of published books, papers, and journals. Z-lib or Z Library is a virtual library with a database of academic, general interest, and scholarly books and periodicals. You can download books in the form of Ebooks from Z Library on various topics, including travel, technology, mythology, astrophysics, fashion, science, literature, history, and much more. Over 6,605,421 books and 80,659,561 articles are available for free in the world’s largest Free Ebook Library. Go to https://z-lib.org/ to get started. The site looks the same as Google and is very user-friendly. Type the author’s name, book title, or ISBN into the search field, and you’ll get related results in seconds, you may quickly download the PDF copy of your selected book. -- Thanks and regards. अजय कुमार शर्मा 阿贾伊·库马尔·夏尔马 Ajay Kumar Sharma Assistant Librarian (Selection Grade) & In-charge, Cheena Bhavana Library & Additional charge, Hindi Bhavana Library Visva Bharati, Santiniketan - 731235, Bolpur, Birbhum, West Bengal Email: ajaysharma.lib(a)visva-bharati.ac.in Mobile No.: +91 9735111064 ******************************************************************************* *Academic Identity:* ORC ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4047-6658 Vidwan-ID : https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/48521 Google Scholar Id: scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=Fxy_PWMAAAAJ&hl ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ajay_Sharma81 ******************************************************************************* Web: http://visva-bharati-library.in/index.php/about/our-team/4-ajay http://visva-bharati.wixsite.com/cbvbs/ajay https://sites.google.com/view/ajayvbln Web Blog: https://www.blogger.com/profile/05822511374443224341 ******************************************************************************* 1. Join today Digital Library Discussion Forum http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg 2. Join today LIS-Forum mailing list http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum ******************************************************************************* You can’t change the past but you can change the future, always remember to recycle... -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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International Webinar on Essential Skills for Research Writing & Publishing: Special Reference to IPR
by Dr.Dattatraya Kalbande 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

*Sadhubella Education Society’s* *(Minority Institution)* *J. Watumull Sadhubella Girls College* *Near Government Dispensary, Ulhasnagar, Dist. Thane-421001 (Mumbai)* *Permanently Affiliated to University of Mumbai l NAAC Reaccredited “B+” Grade* *----------------------------------------------------------------------------* International Webinar on Essential Skills for Research Writing & Publishing: Special Reference to IPR Organized by IQAC & Library On 24/02/2022 _________ Resource Persons *Dr. Sanjay Kataria* Founding Librarian - BITS School of Management, Commonwealth Professional Fellowship, University of East London UK, LIAL-HGSE USA *Dr. Shri Ram* University Librarian Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim Commonwealth Professional Fellowship, University of East London UK, LIAL-HGSE USA _________ President of Webinar *Dr. Subhash Chavan* Director, KRC and Head, DLISc, SNDT Women's University, Mumbai *Dr. Nandkishor Motewar* Director, KRC and Head, DLISc, Mumbai University, Mumbai _________ Participants will get E-certificate only after filling up webinar feedback form No Registration fees College will provide YouTube Link/ Zoom link on Telegram Group Link for Telegram Group *https://t.me/+RRQj1h5J3gFhpNP2* <https://t.me/+RRQj1h5J3gFhpNP2> Link for Registration https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdqAl141h0fFp5cVRevJrLQzK6xaIXJ-9V… _________ Director of Webinar Dr. Vasant Pandit Mali (Principal) ------------------------ Chief Organizer Dr. Dattatraya Kalbande IQAC Coordinator & Librarian Ph. 9403773528 -- @*...,With Regards* *Dr.Kalbande,Dattatraya.T. **(**B.A,MLISc,M.Phil,UGC NET,Ph.D)* *Librarian* *J. Watumull Sadhubella Girls College, Ulhasnagar, Dist: Thane (Mumbai)* *Email ID: kalbanded(a)gmail.com <kalbanded(a)gmail.com>*. *Website: *https://kalbanded.wixsite.com/dattatraya *Cell No: 09403773528, 07770071477* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 227, Issue 16
by D V Singh 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

There are two types of election propaganda One: Requesting voters to vote in one favor without criticizing their opponent Two: Creticising opponent Criticizing an opponent must not be allowed ILA is the apex body of our profession It has been contributing to the development of our profession. I do not find any problem in type one request On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 at 21:21, <lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > 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. Re: ILA election (Vasumathi Sriganesh) > 2. Re: ILA Elections 2022-2025 - Team of Dr. Mohan R. Kherde, > Director KRC, SGB Amravati University (GANAGANUR MANJUNATH) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2022 18:12:02 +0530 > From: Vasumathi Sriganesh <vasu(a)qmed.ngo> > To: Koteswara Rao Mamidi <mk-rao(a)hotmail.com> > Cc: francis jaykanth <franc(a)library.iisc.ernet.in>, > "lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] ILA election > Message-ID: > <CAP898_NXhB9fiQWdEDqi5zct+NowZJnCSb9XrN1rr-3A= > gvcog(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Dr Rao - you probably missed - The moderator explained in an earlier email > that he inadvertently approved the post > We all know that a Moderator work is intense and anyone can have a slip. > > Let each one in the group take note and post about professional issues and > discussions only > > Dr Francis - thank you for your hard work. We understand > > Regards > Vasumathi Sriganesh > QMed Knowledge Foundation > Mumbai > > On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 at 5:51 PM, Koteswara Rao Mamidi <mk-rao(a)hotmail.com> > wrote: > > > Yes, it is wrong and unethical to use this forum for election propaganda, > > be it ILA or others. I fail to understand how the moderator had allowed > > this post? > > > > Dr. M Koteswara Rao > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: LIS-Forum <lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> on behalf of > > lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in < > lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > > > > Sent: Monday, February 7, 2022 9:56 AM > > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > > Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 227, Issue 11 > > > > 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..." > > > > -- > > This message has been scanned for viruses and > > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > > believed to be clean. > > > >

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ILA Elections 2022-2025 - Team of Dr. Mohan R. Kherde, Director KRC, SGB Amravati University
by Dr. Ravindra Mendhe 07 Feb '22

07 Feb '22

Dear LIS Professionals, Greetings! We all as a team are requesting you to cast your valuable vote in favour of us and to give wholehearted support in ILA Election for the term 2022-2025. The Indian Library Association is the premium association in the field of library and information science working at national level with concrete objectives. Our team will work, keeping these objectives in the vision and will attempt to put the association at the peak in respective of the recognition at the international level with the guidance, and cooperation of seniors and also young blooded valuable members of association like you all. Sr.No. Name Post 1. Dr.Mohan Rambhau Kherde, Director Knowledge Resource Centr, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati President 2. Dr. Prabhat Kumar Pandey, Head & Librarian, Department of Library and Information Science Sarojini Naidu Govt. Girls PG Auto College Bhopal (M.P.) Vice President (Central Zone) 3. Dr. Rupesh Gaur, Librarian, Indira Gandhi National college, Ladwa, Kurukshetra, Haryana. Vice President (North Zone) 4. Dr. Pardeep Rai, Librarian, Matreyi College, University of Delhi, New Delhi Vice President (UT Zone) 5. Dr. Abhijeet Sinha, Librarian, DDU College, New Delhi Council Member (Open) 6. Dr. Anand Pratap Singh, Deputy Librarian, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi 7. Dr. Dharam Kumar, Librarian, Aryabhatta College, University of Delhi, New Delhi 8. Dr. Ganesh D.Kulkarni, Librarian, Shri Sant Savta Mali Gramin Arts & Commerce College, Phulambri, Maharashtra 9. Dr. Gururaj S. Hadagali, Assistant Professor Department of Library and Information Science Karnatak University, Dharwad Karnataka 10. Dr. Jivesh Bansal, Librarian, Panjab University, Chandigarh 11. Dr. P.S.Kattimani, University Librarian, Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi 12. Ms. Mamta Amarpuri, Librarian, Darshan Academy, New Delhi 13. Mr. Nitin S. Joshi, Librarian, Dr. Vishwanath H Karad MIT World Peace University, Pune A. Contesting Team 14. Dr. Parveen Kumar, Librarian, I B (PG) College, Panipat 15. Mrs. Rajni Sharma, Librarian, Mahavir Senior Model School, Delhi 16. Dr. Shakuntala Dahiya, Sri Aurobindo College (Eve.), University of Delhi 17. Dr. Sivasankar Prasad Orugonda, Dy. Librarian, Central University of Hyderabad 18. Dr. Subhash Chavan, Director, KRC, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai Vice President (East Zone) Council Member (North Zone) Council Member (South Zone) 1. Dr. O. N. Chaubey, Indira Gandhi National Center For the Arts, New Delhi 2. Dr. Suresh Jange, Librarian Gulbarga University, Kalaburagi, Karnataka 3. Dr. Mayank Jasvantray Trivedi, University Librarian, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara 4. Dr. Sanjay Kumar Singh, Professor Department of Library and Information Science, Gauhati University, Guwahati 5. Dr. Chetan Sharma, University Librarian, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra 6. Dr. P. Rajendran, University Librarian, SRM Univerisity Kattankulathur 7. Dr. Milind Babarao Anasane, Librarian, College of Engineering & Technology, Amravati 8. Dr. Rakesh Kumar Mohindera, Asstt. Librarian, Dept of Law, Panjab University, Chandigarh General Secretary Vice President (South Zone) Vice President (West Zone) Council Member (West Zone) Council Member (UT Zone) B. Team Members Elected Unopposed Sr.No. Name Post Attempt to take follow -up to strengthen Public Libraries in India in all se Thanks and best wishes; Sincerely, Dr. Ravindra M. Mendhe, Ph.D. Deputy Librarian SVKM's NMIMS ( Deemed to be University, Mumbai) MPTP, Shirpur Campus, Dist- Dhule (MS) M- 9421149820 website: http://ravindramendhe.weebly.com/ https://sites.google.com/site/ravindramendhe/ http://ravindra4474.wix.com/ravindralibrary http://circular.lislinks.com/ Orchid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7103-6567 Vidwan ID : https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/254650 Profile URL: https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/254650 <https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/254650> *“New Technology, New Trends, New Ideas; Modifying the Library with the User in Mind'.*

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Re: [LIS-Forum] ILA election
by Koteswara Rao Mamidi 07 Feb '22

07 Feb '22

Yes, it is wrong and unethical to use this forum for election propaganda, be it ILA or others. I fail to understand how the moderator had allowed this post? Dr. M Koteswara Rao ________________________________ From: LIS-Forum <lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> on behalf of lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in <lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Monday, February 7, 2022 9:56 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 227, Issue 11 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..." -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything I’ve ever written! - Paulo Coelho
by Subbiah Arunachalam 06 Feb '22

06 Feb '22

Friends, Allow me to add my two cents to the discussion generated by Mr Muthu Madhan's post on Paulo Coelho's 'interesting call.' Is Ms Alextandra Elbakyan a thief, or is she stealing from others? No, she is not a thief nor is she stealing from others. What she is doing is helping researchers achieve what they want to achieve but cannot achieve as individuals. Why do researchers around the world (including the tens of thousands in India and the rest of the Global South) write up their findings? Because they want to make their findings known to other researchers around the world, who in turn can use the findings along with the findings of many other researchers in their own research. As Sir Isaac Newton famously said in a letter he wrote to Robert Hooke as far back as 1675, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." By shoulders of giants, Newton meant the work of others. It is important for us to remember what Prof. Robert Merton has said about science; it is a communal (or community) activity, a collective enterprise of building knowledge brick by brick, the bricks coming from thousands of researchers and research groups (past and current), and institutions around the world. Ms Elbakyan and SciHub are making it possible for individual researchers around the world, no matter where they live and work, to make their own contribution by facilitating access to the bricks made by others. All one needs is access to the Internet and a device (say a laptop or mobile phone). At a scale unimaginable till two or three decades ago. She deserves to be rewarded for her innovative solution to a long standing problem (of access to relevant information) and not accused of thievery. Whose work is she making available to researchers (and whoever is interested)? The work of researchers which they want to give away to others so it could be read, used to advance knowledge and used in other ways, say in teaching and in treating patients in hospitals. As far as I know, no researcher has objected to Elbakyan making their work available to a worldwide audience. In the course of my work I meet a number of physicists, and they all make their preprints available through arXiv. In recent years, biologists and chemists have started placing their preprints in bioRxiv and chemRxiv. Why? All of them want their work to be known by researchers all over the world and almost immediately. Which is exactly what Ms Elbakyan is doing. Which is what Aaron Swartz tried to do before his untimely death in 2013 at the age of 26. No owner of scientific/scholarly knowledge has objected to Elbakyan making their work publicly accessible or dragged SciHub to court. It is some intermediaries who use scientific journal publishing as 'a perpetual financing machine' (I did not coin this term; it was coined by the man who actually showed that journal publishing is a perpetual financing machine, Mr Robert Maxwell), who are suing SciHub and Ms Elbakyan. Please see https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/13/ scientific-publishing-rip-off-taxpayers-fund-research . If you want to hear it from an Indian expert, please listen to the last 13 minutes of Prof. Balaram's 22-minute talk at the IISc DST CPR OA Week 2021 webinar. [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdCoJUrqeQA&t=3s; see from 08.45]. In reality, it is these intermediaries (unfortunately, including a large professional society) who are keen to protect their revenue and profit margins at the expense of science, scientists and knowledge production who have gone to court. Does it cost money to produce knowledge? Undoubtedly, yes. You can't build and sustain TIFRs, IITs, IISc and other centres of scientific learning and knowledge production without investing huge sums of money. That is why enlightened governments and philanthropic organizations around the world continue to invest huge sums on setting up such institutions and supporting the research and allied activities of the scientists and students working in these and other research institutions. Often, governments have to make choices such as should one invest their limited resources in scientific research or should one invest in poverty alleviation or providing noon meal to poor children who might not otherwise be able to attend schools. Obviously, scientists and their institutions must be aware of the need to spend the funds with utmost care. That is why we should not support publishers who have made 'journal publishing a perpetual financing machine' and who report upwards of 35% profit year after year. That is why we should persuade our government and its various agencies not to underwrite the immoral and unethical practice of paying APC to journal publishers. That is why we should collectively insist that the many institutional archives and central repositories in our country be run professionally. Please visit *https://kisdfoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-Top-21-Free-Online-Journal-and-Research-Databases.pdf <https://kisdfoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-Top-21-Free-Onlin…>* . And if you have not watched the European Open Science Conference (EOSC 2022) held online on 4 and 5 February, please watch it. The replay will soon be up, any day this week, on the EOSC website. Thanks Madhan for starting this discussion. Subbiah Arunachalam On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 6:50 PM madhan muthu <mu.madhan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: madhan muthu <mu.madhan(a)gmail.com> > Date: Thu, 31 Dec, 2020, 12:16 > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything > I’ve ever written! - Paulo Coelho > To: Sathyanarayana NV <sathya(a)informaticsglobal.com> > Cc: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > > > Dear Sathya: > > "For someone denounced as a criminal by powerful corporations and > scholarly societies, Elbakyan was surprisingly forthcoming and transparent. > After establishing contact through an encrypted chat system, she worked > with me over the course of several weeks to create a data set for public > release: every download event over the 6-month period starting 1 September > 2015, including the digital object identifier (DOI) for every paper." > > "Elbakyan also answered nearly every question I had about her operation of > the website, interaction with users, and even her personal life. Among the > few things she would not disclose is her current location, because she is > at risk of financial ruin, extradition, and imprisonment because of a > lawsuit launched by Elsevier last year." > > ......"It’s hard to discern how threatened by Sci-Hub Elsevier and other > major publishers truly feel, in part because legal download totals aren’t > typically made public." > > > https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-eve… > > Why publishers are not revealing "article level" download statistics to > even institutions that take subscription to their journals? > > Madhan > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 31 Dec, 2020, 08:34 Sathyanarayana NV, < > sathya(a)informaticsglobal.com> wrote: > >> Dear Madhan, >> >> Interesting call by Paulo Coelho! >> >> The universe owned by the authors should turn Gandhian by changing the >> currently used copyright statement “All rights reserved” to a new statement >> “All rights unreserved”. >> >> >> >> Gandhi wrote his famous book “Hind Swaraj: Indian Home Rule” in 1915 >> during his journey by ship from South Africa to India. He released this >> book in Gujarathi and English with both imprints carrying the statement >> “All rights unreserved”. Gandhi was a lawyer by profession as we know. Back >> in India, he intended this book to serve the purpose of launching his >> non-violence style of freedom movement. It is another story that his >> Gujarathi edition was banned by the British Government. They didn’t bother >> about Indian edition as they thought that none would read English version! >> >> >> >> The important message here from Gandhi to the authors of the scholarly >> communication in particular -- which is a far better message than Paul >> Coelho, is: declare your papers at the pre-print level itself with the >> statement: “All rights unreserved” and post it in a public repository site >> like arXiv or chemrXiv or medrXiv or biorXiv. This may start a new >> “Sathyagraha” (civil disobedience) movement leading to free the scholarly >> journals from the pay-wall controlled subscription model for ever! Gandhi >> taught us to be truthful and not steal from others. Instead of giving a >> call to defend thieves and pirates like Alexandra Elbakyan, OA movement >> should pursue the leading scientists and researchers of India and the >> world to rigorously pursue the Gandhian model. >> >> >> >> OA movement needs to be re-invented, two decades after its first-round of >> limited success so far, waking up the scholarly world only partially! We >> need a Gandhian of the scholarly world to emerge for this. Who could this >> be? >> >> >> >> *Sathya* >> >> N. V. Sathyanarayana >> >> *| *Chairman & Managing Director *| *Informatics India Ltd.* | *Bangalore >> 560004 *|*INDIA *|* >> >> *| **www.informaticsglobal.com* <http://www.informaticsglobal.com> *|* >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *From: *LIS-Forum <lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >> *Date: *Wednesday, 30 December 2020 at 11:08 PM >> *To: *lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >> *Subject: *[LIS-Forum] Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything >> I’ve ever written! - Paulo Coelho >> >> My thoughts on S.O.P.A. >> >> Paulo Coelho >> >> https://paulocoelhoblog.com/2012/01/20/welcome-to-pirate-my-books/ >> >> As an author, I should be defending ‘intellectual property’, but I’m not. >> >> Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything I’ve ever written! >> >> The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever. >> >> First, because all anyone ever does is recycle the same four themes: a >> love >> story between two people, a love triangle, the struggle for power, and the >> story of a journey. >> >> Second, because all writers want what they write to be read, whether in a >> newspaper, blog, pamphlet, or on a wall. >> >> The more often we hear a song on the radio, the keener we are to buy the >> CD. It’s the same with literature. >> >> -- >> Madhan, M >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >> believed to be clean. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LIS-Forum mailing list >> LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >> http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >> > -- Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009

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Omeka online tutorial
by Vimal Kumar V. 06 Feb '22

06 Feb '22

Omeka online tutorial Kerala Library Association-Kottayam Region is organising Four days of “Omeka Online Tutorial” on 11,12, 13 and 20 February 2022 for the Library and Academic community. About Omeka Omeka is an Open Source web publication system for universities, galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. It consists of a local network of independently curated exhibits sharing a collaboratively built pool of items, media, and their metadata. Omeka is a lightweight solution in comparison to traditional institutional repository software like DSpace and Fedora. Originally developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Omeka was awarded a technology collaboration award by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Since 2016, the Omeka project has been a project developed by the non-profit Corporation for Digital Scholarship. Example Omeka Exhibits https://suffragettestories.omeka.net/ https://marathon.library.northeastern.edu/ http://peacockroom.wayne.edu/ Session details 11 February 2022(Friday), 7:30 PM - 9 PM(IST) Installation of LAMP Stack on Debian/Ubuntu 12 February 2022(Saturday), 3 PM - 4:30 PM(IST) Omeka: Installation and configuration 13 February 2022(Sunday), 3 PM - 4:30 PM(IST) Community, collection and items 20 February 2022(Sunday), 3 PM - 4:30 PM(IST) Advanced features in Omeka. Resource Persons Dr. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay Professor, Dept. of Library & Information Science, Kalyani University, West Bengal. Dr Vimal Kumar V. Reference Assistant Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam, Kerala. Registration Fee: Rs. 500 (Reg. The fee is non-refundable) The registration is open now and will be closed by the 10th of February 2022. Online registration form, https://forms.gle/BRKuB2esbmcU55tF6 Interested persons shall register using the link provided below (Need to sign in to Google to fill the form). UPI ID for the payment: keralalibrary@sbi For online payment, the bank accounts details of KLA is as follows: Account Name: Kerala Library Association-Kottayam Account No: 67151377251 Bank: State Bank of India Branch: Mahatma Gandhi University Campus, Priyadarshini Hills, Kottayam IFSc: SBIN0070669 Upload the fee receipt from the bank/UPI/Internet banking to the online registration form. For more details: Smt. Savithry T K Secretary KLA Kottayam Region 7025440235(Call/WhatsApp) -- *Dr Vimal Kumar V.* Reference Assistant Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala-686560 ------------------------------------------ My Home page:www.vimalkumar.info My Blogs:linuxhalwa.blogspot.com kohageek.blogspot.com moovandan.blogspot.com ----------------------------------------------------------- *"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Alvin Toffler* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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