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Articles and information needed
by Shihab Illias 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Dear Professionals HAPPY NEW YEAR I am Shihab.I working as librarian in an Engineering College. A student for M-Tech project requires information and articles on the following topics in Biomedical engineering. 1) Extraction of fetal electrocardiogram using adaptive neuro fuzzy Inference system (ANFIS). 2) Filtering Classical methods 3) Neuro fuzzy advantageous, disadvantages 4) Matlab Program websites sites if Please send to me if any articles or information regarding the above topics. My mail ID is librarianmace(a)yahoo.co.in or shihabillias(a)yahoo.co.in With Regards Shihab.I. --------------------------------- Now you can chat without downloading messenger. Click here to know how. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Free journal-ranking tool enters citation market
by madhuresh.singhal 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

A new tool to measure the impact factor of journals and citation statistics of published research papers for free. Is it the end of Thomson Scientific's monopoly? Below is the article published in recent issue (03 Jan 2008) of Nature. It is been taken from http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080102/full/451006a.html (subscription required) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Free journal-ranking tool enters citation market Database offers on-the-fly results. Declan Butler A new Internet database lets users generate on-the-fly citation statistics of published research papers for free. The tool also calculates papers' impact factors using a new algorithm similar to PageRank, the algorithm Google uses to rank web pages. The open-access database is collaborating with Elsevier, the giant Amsterdam-based science publisher, and its underlying data come from Scopus, a subscription abstracts database created by Elsevier in 2004. The SCImago Journal & Country Rank database was launched in December by SCImago, a data-mining and visualization group at the universities of Granada, Extremadura, Carlos III and Alcalá de Henares, all in Spain. It ranks journals and countries using such citation metrics as the popular, if controversial, Hirsch Index. It also includes a new metric: the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR). The familiar impact factor created by industry leader Thomson Scientific, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is calculated as the average number of citations by the papers that each journal contains. The SJR also analyses the citation links between journals in a series of iterative cycles, in the same way as the Google PageRank algorithm. This means not all citations are considered equal; those coming from journals with higher SJRs are given more weight. The main difference between SJR and Google's PageRank is that SJR uses a citation window of three years. See Table 1 It will take time to assess the SJR properly, experts say. It is difficult to compare the results of SJR journal analyses directly with those based on impact factors, because the databases each is based on are different. Thomson's Web of Science abstracts database covers around 9,000 journals and Scopus more than 15,000, and in the years covered by the SCImago database - 1996 to 2007 - Scopus contains 20-45% more records, says Félix de Moya Anegón, a researcher at the SCImago group. The top journals in SJR rankings by discipline are often broadly similar to those generated by impact factors, but there are also large differences in position (see Table 2). Immunity (SJR of 9.34) scores higher than The Lancet (1.65), for example, but The Lancet 's 2006 impact factor of 25.8 is higher than the 18.31 of Immunity . Such differences can be understood in terms of popularity versus prestige, says de Moya Anegón - popular journals cited frequently by journals of low prestige have high impact factors and low SJRs, whereas journals that are prestigious may be cited less but by more prestigious journals, giving them high SJRs but lower impact factors. Thomson under fire The new rankings are welcomed by Carl Bergstrom of the University of Washington in Seattle, who works on a similar citation index, the Eigenfactor, using Thomson data. "It's yet one more confirmation of the importance and timeliness of a new generation of journal ranking systems to take us beyond the impact factor," says Bergstrom, "and another vote in favour of the basic idea of ranking journals using the sorts of Eigenvector centrality methods that Google's PageRank uses." Thomson has enjoyed a monopoly on citation numbers for years - its subscription products include the Web of Science, the Journal Citation Report and Essential Science Indicators. "Given the dominance of Thomson in this field it is very welcome to have journal indicators based on an alternative source, Scopus," says Anne-Wil Harzing of the University of Melbourne in Australia, who is developing citation metrics based on Google Scholar. Jim Pringle, vice-president for development at Thomson, says metrics similar to PageRank, such as SJR and Eigenfactor, have proven their utility on the web, but their use for evaluating science is less well understood. "Both employ complex algorithms to create relative measures and may seem opaque to the user and difficult to interpret," he says. Thomson is also under fire from researchers who want greater transparency over how citation metrics are calculated and the data sets used. In a hard-hitting editorial published in Journal of Cell Biology in December, Mike Rossner, head of Rockefeller University Press, and colleagues say their analyses of databases supplied by Thomson yielded different values for metrics from those published by the company (M. Rossner et al . J. Cell Biol. 179, 1091-1092 ; 2007). Moreover, Thomson, they claim, was unable to supply data to support its published impact factors. "Just as scientists would not accept the findings in a scientific paper without seeing the primary data," states the editorial, "so should they not rely on Thomson Scientific's impact factor, which is based on hidden data." Citation metrics produced by both academics and companies are often challenged, says Pringle. The editorial, he claims, "misunderstands much, and misstates several matters", including the authors' exchanges with Thomson on the affair. On 1 January, the company launched a web forum to formally respond to the editorial (see http://scientific.thomson.com/citationimpactforum) Regards Madhuresh Singhal Deputy Manager - Knowledge Services Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. 21 & 22, Phase 2, Peenya Industrial Area, Bangalore - 560058 Phone: +91 80 28394959; Mobile 098861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/ ************************************************************************************************* This email and its attachments are confidential and proprietary to Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. and are meant for the intended recipient only. 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Library Technology Guide
by DINESH SIDDAIAH 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Dear Friends, http://www.librarytechnology.org/ has reported the Breeding Marshall's letest presentation on "Working toward a new* *generation of library automation: Opportunities to break free from the traditional mould". The summary of the presentation is "Libraries today find themselves facing many challenges in the way that they deliver content and services to their users. Relative to the pace of change on the Web, the automation products available to libraries have evolved rather slowly. Much more rapid change is in order. Breeding will review the current state of the library automation arena and suggest some of the possible strategies for achieving a new generation of library automation products more in tune with current and future challenges. These strategies include a reworking the basic models of library automation systems, working toward more open systems, and engendering more effective partnerships with vendors. We're already seeing incredible progress on the front of next-generation catalogs. The presentation will include analysis of the current state of the library automation industry, a review of the technologies that show promise for supporting next-generation libraries, and perspective on the recent open source LMS alternatives. Source: http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=12859 Dinesh K S Librarian (Sl. Gr.) Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahally, Bangalore - 562110. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Job Vacancy
by pratap mlisc 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Dear professionals, I wish you and your family a HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR@2008 One post of Senior Librarian at Institute of Chemical Technology(Autonomous), Univeristy of Mumbai, is lying vacant. For further information, follow the link, www.vdct.org And One post of Deputy Librarian at IIT Bombay.Pay scale Rs.12000-420-18300. For further enquiry, check the link, www.iitb.ac.in Regards, Pratap sethy Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- 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] Content Management System
by Rajan 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Dear Ms Smita, Open eNRICH -a CMS - is said to be used widely (nationally & internationally) for content management. NIC has prepared and is revising a Panchayat Portal consisting of a website for each panchayat in the country numbering more than 2, 66,000 using this software. M S Swaminathan Foundation, Chennai has been using the software for many years for managing their rural knowledge centers. The revised version of the software appears to be released soon and it will be more user-friendly. I don't have direct experience with it, but have seen using it effectively. All those who are very familiar with it say that open eNRICH is powerful and friendly software for content management. It is free. It can manage amazingly large size of materials as I could understand. Please get technical advice from those who deal with it in NIC. The details of the software can be had from enrich(a)hub.nic.in or the website http://www.enrich.nic.in/default.htm Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India Ph 0487 - 2200244+208 (O) 2201428 (R) > > Smita Srinivasan <smita(a)qmedin.com> wrote: > > > > Dear All, > > > > We are planning to implement a "Content Management System" to manage > > the content in our organisation. Please let me know of any good CMS > > application that we can use.> > > > Please also indicate its user-friendliness, cost, ease of > > > > implementation, if ready-to-use tutorials are available, size of > > content it can handle, number of users. etc.> > > > Kindly share your experiences with the same. > > > > Smita Srinivasan -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy for the post of Asst Librarian
by yekanath kamble 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Date: 02.01.2008 Dear Professionals, There is one vacancy for the post of Asst Librarian. Required Qualification: M.L.I.Sc and Knowledge of computer with minimum of 5 year of experience in reputed Library. The candidate should have Good communication skills with access to digital resources and web portals etc. Pay Scale as Per. State Govt. Total Emoluments around Rs.12000/ PM. Interested candidate both (Male & Female) may apply on or before 10 Jan. 2008 to following address in conventional format as well as in electronic format. With regards, Librarian R V College of Engineering, Mysore Road, Bangalore E-mail: rvlibn(a)rediffmail.com --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Lecture invitation
by srels＠dataone.in 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS) 702, 'Upstairs', 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 and Ranganathan Centre for Information Stuides, Bangalore cordially invites you to a Lecture on WEB 2.0: CHALLENGES FOR LIBRARIES by Dr. Mohamed Taher Information Specialist, Ontario Multifaith Council on Spiritual and Religious Care Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Monday, 7th January 2008 at 6.00 p.m. at SRELS premises RSVP: Ph:23305109 E-mail: srels(a)dataone.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Reporting IASLIC Conference 2007
by Mailing List Admin 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 10:55:49 +0530 From: T. Shahab <tshahab(a)jamiahamdard.ac.in> Dear friends As a participant and non-official spokesperson, I like your valuable attention to the following reportage. The 26th All India annual IASLIC conference was held from 26-29 December at the University auditorium of the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), a central University located in south Delhi. The theme of this year conference was "DIGITAL MEDIA AND LIBRARY INFORMATION SERVICES". Over 200 delegates participated from all over the country hailing from various universities and private institutions. Of them, them two were foreign representatives one each belonging to Pakistan and Bangladesh. The opening cermoney started with the recital of verses from the Holy Quran exhorting the mankind to read and research what he doesn't know. Later the JMI musical club presented the beautiful Jamia tarana. Prof. Mushiru Hasan, the vice-chancellor of JMI and Prof. Abdul Aziz, the vice-chancellor of AMU as the chief guiest graced the inaugural function. Whereas, Prof. Hasan drew the attention of the gathered librarians and information professionals to the importance of human factor in making the library professionals successfully deliver the information related needs of the users, the chief guest layed stress on the role of the librarians in meeting the challanges of information literacy; he also advocated the Kerala model where public libraries became the hub centres of information collections & disseminations; he also stressed the significance of digital conversion of the valuable unrecorded information sources so that posterity may benefit from it.The inaugural session came to a close with the singing of the national song Jana Gana.The 2nd. day plenary session received the thought provoking talk on significance of digital identity and the role of librarian in making information delivery sound and secure through digitisation; it was delivered by retd, Prof Syed Ismail Ahson from the dept. of Computer science, JMI. The day third plenary session started with a lively talk on practices in digitisation by Mr. Shukla from the CDAC centre NOIDA. The concluding day plenary session opened with the very informative talk delivered by Dr. Moni, Dy. Director General NIC.His talk was delivered in the backdrop of the Knowledge commision report on the significant role of libraries in bridging the digital divide as well as fulfilling the task of inclusive growth before the nation. Now on the fillip side. Whereas a record more than 100 academic papers touching the subject under discussion were repotedly received by the organisers only 75 out of these could be selected for publication in the IASLIC proceeding. Moreover, only 25 were actually read out during the conference. The level of discussions was mostly medicore. The responses from the scholars to the queries and supplementaries from the audience were at best half hearted. Regards. Shahab

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Mysore University Library Website
by T. Shahab 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

Yours is a welcome initiative. By putting our library resources as well as other relevant information sources on the knowledge portal we can act as a window through which users near and far can benefit. This shall aid the open access movement towards knowledge creation and dissemination. We at Hamdard University, New Delhi have also put a step forward in that direction. Our library portal and the various web pages linked to it can be viewed at: www.jamiahamdard.ac.in/LibrayInformationSystem Regards. -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Mailing List Admin Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 1:15 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Mysore University Library Website Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:13:51 +0530 From: madaiah krishnamurthy <mkrishna_murthy(a)hotmail.com> Dear Professional Friends, Best wishes for New Year. On behalf of University Librarian and Staff of Mysore University Library, I am happy to inform you that, we have launched our Library Website on the Internet. You may access the same through the following URL:http://mul.uni-mysore.ac.in Most of the links, like online journals, open access are connected. One can also access the UGC-Info net online access journals. Prof P.Ishwar Bhat, Acting Vice Chancellor Inaugurated the virtual Zone, and he said "It is a big leap by the University library for having launched its own website. Students, research scholars and lecturers will be benefited through this website", he was speaking after inaugurating the virtual zone of Mysore University Library. The launch of this website will help many students in their research, information gathered such websites will be of great use to the students and the teaching faculty. Students should use more the facility in their endeavor towards success", he added. On this occasion the University library website was inaugurated by journalist, Rajashekar Koti. Inaugurating the website, he said, "The Library is like a brain to any university or institution. University grant commission has been granting crores for the development of libraries in various universities".Mysore University Registrar B.G .Hosmat, I.F.S, launched the Data Base and University Finance Officer M.K.Sannaswamy released the "Outline of Library Website and Database" on this occasion. Your suggestions are most valuable to us. Thanking You, Dr.M.Krishnamurthy,M.A.,M.L.I.Sc., PhD. University Librarian University of Mysore Manasagangothri, Mysore 570006 Ph: 91-0821-2514808/2419388 Fax: 91-0821-2419335 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- 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 on IT & IL and Opening of UNESCO-SALIS e-Learning Portal on Awareness Raising on Information Literacy for Southern Asia
by Arunachalam Hariharan 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

Dear Professional Colleagues and Friends, Wish you all a very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2008 You are cordially invited for the Inaugural Function of the State Level Seminar on Information Technology and Information Literacy for School Librarians On 5th (Saturday) Jan 2008 at 10.00 A.M at Connemara Public Library By Padmashree Dr. Nalli Kuppusamy Chetty And Opening of UNESCO-SALIS e-Learning Portal for Awareness Raising on Information Literacy Competency Skill Development for Southern Asia By Thiru A.Natarajan, Former Director, Doordarshan, Chennai On 10th Jan 2008 at 10.30 A.M And Distribution of Cash Awards for the Winners of (Corporation School Children) the Speech Competition on âLibrary â a Self Learning Centreâ High Tea: 11.00 A.M The Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS), Chennai & Connemara Public Library, Chennai --------------------------------------------------- ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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