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DELNET's Invitation : Interactive Seminar on Advances in Australian University Libraries on February 12, 2007 at DELNET, New Delhi
by Sangeeta Kaul, Network Manager, DELNET 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

DELNET/ISAAUL/2007 January 25, 2007 Sub : Interactive Seminar on Advances in Australian University Libraries February 12, 2007 Dear Colleague, DELNET is organising an Interactive Seminar on Advances in Australian University Libraries on February 12, 2007 at 3 p.m. at Conference Room, DELNET, JNU Campus, Nelson Mandela Road, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi-110070. The panelists comprise: 1. Mrs. Eve Woodberry (University of New England) and President of CAUL 2. Mrs. Shirley Oakley (Charles Sturt University) 3. Ms. Jennifer Peasley (Macquarie University) 4. Mrs. Val Moon (University of Sydney) 5. Mr. Vic Elliott (Australian National University) 6. Mr. John Shipp (University of Sydney) You are welcome to participate. Please fill in the enclosed acceptance form if you wish to participate in the Seminar and mail it to us immediately. Participation in the Seminar is free of charge. Thanking you, Yours faithfully, H. K. Kaul Interactive Seminar on Advances in Australian University Libraries To, The Director DELNET � Developing Library Network J. N. U. Campus, Nelson Mandela Road Vasant Kunj, New Delhi-110070 Email : hkkaul(a)delnet.ren.nic.in Dear Sir, Please register my name for participation in the Interactive Seminar on Advances in Australian University Libraries to be held on February 12, 2007 at 3 p.m. at DELNET. Name : _____________________________________________________ Designation : _________________________________________________ Institution�s Name : ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Telephone :___________________________________________________ Email : ______________________________________________________ Thanking you, Yours faithfully, ________________________ (Signature) _______________________________________________________________________________ Sangeeta Kaul Network Manager DELNET-Developing Library Network JNU Campus Nelson Mandela Road Vasant Kunj New Delhi-110070 Tel: 91-11-32471010, 32471002, 32471011 Web : www.delnet.nic.in ________________________________________________________________________________ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Rebels hold their own in journal price war
by Krishnan 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

From Nature 445, 351 (25 January 2007) Rebels hold their own in journal price war Declan Butler Last August, the entire editorial board of the Elsevier journal Topology quit in a row over pricing. Now they are setting up a non-profit competitor to be published by the London Mathematical Society. The Journal of Topology, announced last week, will launch next January and will cost US$570 per year, compared with Topology's $1,665. It's not the first such move. Over the past eight years, around a dozen cheap or open-access journals have been created to compete directly with an expensive commercial journal, many by editorial boards that had quit the original publication in protest. So, do the cheaper journals fare better than their rivals? As far as scientific credibility is concerned, the answer is often yes — many of the challengers have obtained impact factors (a measure of the citations its papers receive) higher than their competitor. For example, the Journal of Machine Learning Research, set up in 2001 by editors of Springer's Machine Learning, has a 2005 impact factor of 4.027. "That's the highest in artificial intelligence, automation and control, and ninth in all of computer science," says Leslie Pack Kaelbling, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and the journal's editor-in-chief. Machine Learning has a 2005 impact factor of just 3.1. One of the first defections was Evolutionary Ecology Research, set up in 1999 by Michael Rosenzweig, a researcher at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He defected, along with the entire editorial board, from Evolutionary Ecology, then published by Wolters Kluwer. Rosenzweig had established the journal in 1987, but became disillusioned with price increases. The new journal has survived, with the online version getting up to 80,000 page views a month and a 50% increase in its number of pages, says Rosenzweig. He says the journal pioneered the idea of allowing libraries to subscribe only to an electronic version. Although its impact factor of 1.61 lags behind Evolutionary Ecology's 1.77, he dismisses this as unimportant: "Impact factors are toxic for science and the journals that serve it." Like many of the rebel journals, Evolutionary Ecology Research was set up with help from the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), which fosters greater access to the literature. Joan Birman of Columbia University in New York is on the editorial board of Geometry and Topology, another SPARC-supported journal. She says it "has done better than we could have dreamed". Despite scholarly success, the rebel journals often get poor support from libraries. But despite scholarly success, the journals often get poor support from libraries. "Libraries have not given us anything like the support, via subscriptions, that mathematicians have given us via submissions," says Birman. "Subscriptions have been an uphill battle. Our journals are self-supporting, but just barely so." Krishnan -- Dr. S.Krishnan Head, Information Division National Chemical Laboratory Pashan Road PUNE 411008, INDIA e-mail: s.krishnan(a)ncl.res.in Tel: +91-20-25902650 Fax: +91-20-25902850 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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PR's 'pit bull' takes on open access
by madhuresh.singhal 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

Dear All, You may be interested to read the following news. This news item says that some big publishers have hired a PR firm to counter the free/open information movement. Interesting news from "Nature" available at http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070122/full/445347a.html "PR's 'pit bull' takes on open access" Journal publishers lock horns with free-information movement. Jim Giles The author of Nail 'Em! Confronting High-Profile Attacks on Celebrities and Businesses is not the kind of figure normally associated with the relatively sedate world of scientific publishing. Besides writing the odd novel, Eric Dezenhall has made a name for himself helping companies and celebrities protect their reputations, working for example with Jeffrey Skilling, the former Enron chief now serving a 24-year jail term for fraud. Although Dezenhall declines to comment on Skilling and his other clients, his firm, Dezenhall Resources, was also reported by Business Week to have used money from oil giant ExxonMobil to criticize the environmental group Greenpeace. "He's the pit bull of public relations," says Kevin McCauley, an editor at the magazine O'Dwyer's PR Report. Now, Nature has learned, a group of big scientific publishers has hired the pit bull to take on the free-information movement, which campaigns for scientific results to be made freely available. Some traditional journals, which depend on subscription charges, say that open-access journals and public databases of scientific papers such as the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) PubMed Central, threaten their livelihoods. >From e-mails passed to Nature, it seems Dezenhall spoke to employees from Elsevier, Wiley and the American Chemical Society at a meeting arranged last July by the Association of American Publishers (AAP). A follow-up message in which Dezenhall suggests a strategy for the publishers provides some insight into the approach they are considering taking. The consultant advised them to focus on simple messages, such as "Public access equals government censorship". He hinted that the publishers should attempt to equate traditional publishing models with peer review, and "paint a picture of what the world would look like without peer-reviewed articles". Dezenhall also recommended joining forces with groups that may be ideologically opposed to government-mandated projects such as PubMed Central, including organizations that have angered scientists. One suggestion was the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank based in Washington DC, which has used oil-industry money to promote sceptical views on climate change. Dezenhall estimated his fee for the campaign at $300,000-500,000. In an enthusiastic e-mail sent to colleagues after the meeting, Susan Spilka, Wiley's director of corporate communications, said Dezenhall explained that publishers had acted too defensively on the free-information issue and worried too much about making precise statements. Dezenhall noted that if the other side is on the defensive, it doesn't matter if they can discredit your statements, she added: "Media massaging is not the same as intellectual debate. Officials at the AAP would not comment to Nature on the details of their work with Dezenhall, or the money involved, but acknowledged that they had met him and subsequently contracted his firm to work on the issue. "We're like any firm under siege," says Barbara Meredith, a vice-president at the organization. "It's common to hire a PR firm when you're under siege." She says the AAP needs to counter messages from groups such as the Public Library of Science (PLoS), an open-access publisher and prominent advocate of free access to information. PLoS's publicity budget stretches to television advertisements produced by North Woods Advertising of Minneapolis, a firm best known for its role in the unexpected election of former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura to the governorship of Minnesota. The publishers' link with Dezenhall reflects how seriously they are taking recent developments on access to information. Minutes of a 2006 AAP meeting sent to Nature show that particular attention is being paid to PubMed Central. Since 2005, the NIH has asked all researchers that it funds to send copies of accepted papers to the archive, but only a small percentage actually do. Congress is expected to consider a bill later this year that would make submission compulsory. Brian Crawford, a senior vice-president at the American Chemical Society and a member of the AAP executive chair, says that Dezenhall's suggestions have been refined and that the publishers have not to his knowledge sought to work with the Competitive Enterprise Institute. On the censorship message, he adds: "When any government or funding agency houses and disseminates for public consumption only the work it itself funds, that constitutes a form of selection and self-promotion of that entity's interests." Regards Madhuresh Singhal Assoc. Res. Scientist - Inf. Sc. Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. 21 & 22, Phase 2, Peenya Industrial Area, Bangalore - 560058 Phone: +91 80 51172085, Ext. 25; 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. 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LIS Job: Electronic Resources Librarian - for The Cline Library at Northern Arizona University
by Mailing List Admin 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:45:26 -0800 (PST) From: Puttaraj Choukimath <puttuc(a)yahoo.com> The Cline Library at Northern Arizona University > invites applications > for: *Electronic Resources Librarian. *The > position�s primary goal is to > ensure consistent and integrated access to licensed > electronic resources > in a technology-intensiv e learning environment. As a > member of Content, > Access and Delivery Services (CADS), the Librarian > assists in evaluating > and strengthening access to electronic resources > within the NAU course > management system and through various other > University and Library > interfaces. The Librarian participates in the > refinement and > implementation of procedures related to licensed > electronic resources > procurement and management. NAU > <http://www4. nau.edu/presiden t/mission2. asp> > values service excellence in a learner-centered > environment. The Cline > Library > focuses on all students, faculty, and staff > regardless of their > locations and provides extraordinary service that > facilitates 24/7 > completion of course assignments and scholarship. We > seek personnel who > are committed to the Library's mission > <http://www.nau. edu/library/ information/ aboutcline. html> > and who > are flexible and reliable in an atmosphere of rapid > change. > > The salary is $47,400 DOE; a detailed job > description and application > procedure is located at: > <_http://hr.nau. edu/m/content/ view/796/ 549/_> > . > Northern Arizona University is a committed Equal > Opportunity/ Affirmative > Action Institution. Women, minorities, veterans and > individuals with > disabilities are encouraged to apply. NAU is > responsive to the needs of > dual career couples. > > Beth > -- > > -- > Beth Schuck > Coordinator Content, Access and Delivery Services > Co-Chair Commission on the Status of Women, 2006-7 > Cline Library, Northern Arizona University > PO Box 6022 > Flagstaff, AZ 86011 > (928) 523- 6779 > Beth.Schuck@ nau.edu > Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: puttuc(a)yahoo.com, choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: www.tiss.edu

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ICFAI to set up 15 pvt varsities at Rs 1000cr
by jasbir singh 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) is planning to set up 15 private universities in various states by 2010 at an estimated cost of Rs 1,000 crore. It had chalked out plans to set up the campuses in the wake of nine states enacting legislations facilitating establishment of private universities. Other states in the country are expected to introduce similar legislations. "We have so far established seven private universities in the states of Uttaranchal, Tripura, Sikkim, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Jharkhand. In addition, Chhattisgarh, Punjab and Rajasthan have issued letters of intent to set up universities in their respective states," ICFAI University vice-chancellor, V Panduranga Rao, told Business Standard. Rao said ICFAI has acquired land in Nagpur (54 acres), Kanpur (60 acres) and Chandigarh (50 acres) to establish these university campuses. To set up a university in Jaipur, the Rajasthan government has allotted 40 acres of land. According to Rao, ICFAI is building a 1.5-million square feet campus spread over an extent of 93 acres in Hyderabad. The first phase of the Rs 175-crore campus has been completed and the second and final phase would be completed by this year. This will be converted into a university once the Andhra Pradesh government implements its decision of introducing a Bill facilitating the establishment of private universities in the state. In Dehra Dun, ICFAI has started building a one-million square feet campus at a cost of about Rs 90 crore, the first phase of which would be ready by June this years. Similarly, the institute is expecting to complete the construction of a 4-lakh square feet campus in Agartala by May. The Agartala campus is being built at a cost of Rs 60 crore. "By the end of 2007, we will have three full-fledged campuses with residential accommodations for students and faculty and sports facilities," Rao said. Stating that the new universities would be funded through internal accruals and bank loans, Rao said ICFAI had the required experience, expertise, infrastructure and sound financial background to provide highly professional quality education. Jasbir Singh Learning Resource Center (LRC) Jaypee University of Information Technology Waknaghat Disst Solan (H.P) India http://www.juit.ac.in/ --------------------------------- Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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The latest version of EPrints software
by Subbiah Arunachalam 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Friends: Please visit <http://www.eprints.org/software/v3/> to learn about the features and advantages of the latest version of EPrints software for setting up interoperable institutional open access archives. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ___________________________________________________________ New Yahoo! Mail is the ultimate force in competitive emailing. Find out more at the Yahoo! Mail Championships. Plus: play games and win prizes. http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://mail.yahoo.net/uk -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Gene garfield
by Subbiah Arunachalam 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Friends: Those of you who have read and enjoyed (and perhaps used) Gene Garfield's prolific writings will find the following two papers by Stephen J. Bensman interesting. Happy readig! These two publications are now available in full text at : Bensman S.J. "Garfield and the Impact Factor" Annual Review of Information Science and Technology" Vol: 41, p.93-155, 2007. Editor B. Cronin. http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/bensman/bensman.html Bensman SJ. "Garfield and the Impact Factor: The creation, utilization, and validation of a citation measure" Part 2, The Probabilistic, Statistical, and Sociological Bases of the Measure - (Unpublished as of January 2007). http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/bensman/bensmanegif22007.pdf Stephen J Bensman : notsjb(a)lsu.edu ___________________________________________________________ The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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What does Vista have that XP doesn't?
by ryerna＠iitk.ac.in 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Dear Friends, Kindly share about "Windows Vista" through the following link. http://infotech.indiatimes.com/What_does_Vista_have_that_XP_doesnt/articles…. With Regards, Ramesh Yernagula -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Libraries without walls
by Subbiah Arunachalam 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

SECOND CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Closing date Friday 2 March 2007 Libraries Without Walls 7: Exploring anywhere, anytime delivery of library services http://www.cerlim.ac.uk/conf/lww7/ An international conference organised by CERLIM - The Centre for Research in Library and Information Management http://www.cerlim.ac.uk/ To be held on the Aegean Island of Lesvos, Greece, at the Delphinia Hotel, Molyvos http://www.molyvoshotel.com/eng/hotel.htm 14 - 18 September 2007 Cost 495 GBP (including accommodation and breakfast for four nights, with lunches and refreshments during the Conference, and two evening dinners) Keynote Speaker Christine Borgman, Professor & Presidential Chair in Information Studies within the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. Conference Themes >From their beginnings in 1995, the Libraries without Walls conferences have mapped a major change in the practice of librarianship. While library services are still concerned to provide users with physical access to their buildings, electronic access, often from remote locations, is becoming ever more dominant. Library services are being integrated into virtual learning, research and personal environments. Papers presented at previous LWW conferences have mapped this change and provided examples of how libraries are delivering their services whenever and wherever their users need them. In 2007 we wish to encourage the widest possible range of papers to reflect the diverse current developments in library service delivery. We anticipate that papers may cover: New kinds of service, especially those which open up new paradigms of library perhaps the library equivalent of YouTube or MySpace? Papers which describe the librarys role within new models of scholarly publishing, including experience of developing services based on institutional or other repositories, and papers examining the responsibility of the library for digital curation. Service delivery in challenging environments, especially where the infrastructure may be sub-optimal as in some developing countries, or where the user group represents particular challenges. New technological solutions, provided these are presented to illustrate the impact on users of the improved services they make possible Delivery and assessment of information skills/literacies, especially where this is achieved through electronic environments. As in the past these themes are indicative and we remain open to proposals which, while in the general area of interest of the conference, do not fit neatly into the defined themes. In addition to research papers, we welcome papers based on truly innovative practice, but these should assess the more general lessons to be learned rather than simply presenting a localised case study. Submissions Presentations at the conference can be either papers of 30 minutes duration or interactive workshops of 60 minutes. Workshop sessions could start before and finish after the extended lunch break to allow for discussion time. To be considered please submit an abstract (between 400 and 800 words) together with a 50 word biographical statement and a 50 word synopsis of the paper or workshop which can be used to publicise your session. Proposals for workshop sessions should also include a brief description of the proposed session format, and an indication of any special room or equipment requirements. Please make sure you have read the Information for Workshop Presenters on the FAQ section of the LWW7 website. All presenters are expected to submit a paper for publication in the LWW Conference Proceedings series, published by Facet Publishing. Closing date Submissions should be sent by email (as text rather than an attachment), to lww-7(a)mmu.ac.uk or mailed to the address below by Friday 2nd March 2007. All proposals will be considered by a panel of independent referees. Applicants will be informed whether their submissions have been selected by the end of March 2007. Please note that, as the conference does not aim to make a profit, we are unable to offer discounted conference rates to all presenters. However, a small number of subsidised places are available at LWW7, covering the conference fee and a contribution to travel and subsistence costs. These places are intended for participants from countries under-represented at these conferences (especially those from developing countries) who would be prevented from attending for financial reasons. To apply for a subsidised place please submit the abstract of your paper accompanied by a short statement of up to 300 words which sets out the grounds for your application and your estimated travel costs. Feedback from the last Libraries without Walls Conference included these comments: The wide range of perspectives and the high level of professionalism in research papers and discourse were among the best I have experienced in library conferences! The Conference papers were both very informative and relevant; a very good match with what you promised there would be. Sharing is the strength of the Conference; the fact that there are people from all around the world, with different backgrounds and experiences. Very thought-provoking For further information please visit the website at http://www.cerlim.ac.uk/conf/lww7/ All enquiries should be addressed to the organisers: Libraries Without Walls 7 Conference Centre for Research in Library & Information Management (CERLIM) Department of Information and Communications Manchester Metropolitan University Geoffrey Manton Building Rosamond Street West Manchester M15 6LL United Kingdom Email: lww-7(a)mmu.ac.uk Tel: ++44 (0)161 247 6142 Fax: ++44 (0) 161 247 6979 To make a provisional booking, please provide the information below. This does not commit you in any way, but indicates to us the level of interest. We will contact you again when booking opens. I wish to make a provisional booking for the conference only OR I wish to make a provisional booking for the conference and submit a paper (delete as appropriate) Surname First names Position Organisation Address Telephone . Fax Email A separate booking form with instructions for payment will be forwarded to you in due course. Margaret Markland Research Associate CERLIM Department of Information and Communications Manchester Metropolitan University Geoffrey Manton Building Rosamond St West off Oxford Road Manchester M15 6LL Tel 0161 247 6142 Fax 0161 247 6979 "Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read the Manchester Metropolitan University's email disclaimer available on its website http://www.mmu.ac.uk/emaildisclaimer " ___________________________________________________________ Copy addresses and emails from any email account to Yahoo! Mail - quick, easy and free. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/trueswitch2.html -- 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] Engineering Databases
by Mailing List Admin 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:46:46 +0000 (GMT) From: nirmala reddy <nirmabag(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear sir I suggest that your college join INDEST -AICTE Consortium. so that you will have access to e-journals, DEL, EDSU etc. It is strongly recommended by AICTE. For more details pl. visit the site http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/home.php Nirmala Reddy, YTIET, Bhivpuri, Karjat.

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