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Call for Applications - 2007 SLA Business & Finance Division International Travel Award, sponsored by ISI Emerging Markets
by Subbiah Arunachalam 16 Dec '06

16 Dec '06

Friends: If you have not attended an SLA conference so far and if you are a business library/ info specialist, here is an opportunity to win financial support for attending the 2007 SLA Annual Conference. Years ago I was invited to speak at the SLA Annual Conference held at Brighton, UK, and I found the meeting very useful. The papers presented were of a high standard. Many of them could have been published in international journals with stringent refereeing standards. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] >From "Robert Frederick Clarke, Mr" <robert.clarke(a)mcgill.ca> To: "International Information Exchange Caucus" <sla-kiie(a)lists.sla.org> Dear colleague: Applications are being sought for the 2007 SLA Business & Finance Division International Travel Award, sponsored by ISI Emerging Markets. This award is available to business library and information specialists from non-G8 countries who have not previously attended a SLA Annual Conference. The 2007 SLA Annual Conference will be held in Denver, Colorado, USA from June 3-6, 2007. The deadline for applications is Friday, January 12, 2007. For complete information on how to apply, please consult the SLA Business & Finance Division website at: http://www.slabf.org/division_awards_desc.html <http://www.slabf.org/division_awards_desc.html> Please give this message the widest possible distribution. Regards, Robert F. Clarke Chair, International Relations Committee SLA Business and Finance Division Voice: (514) 398-5725 Fax: (514) 398-6273 Email: slabfinternational(a)yahoo.ca Website: www.slabf.org <http://www.slabf.org/> ___________________________________________________________ All New Yahoo! Mail Tired of Vi@gr@! come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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Request to give information about books for descriptive paper of Library & information Science for Librarian post of KVS
by ramdeo upadhey 16 Dec '06

16 Dec '06

To, The Forum Member LIS Forum, Bangalore Respected Sir, In relation to above subject that I am one of the candidate appeared for Competitive Exam to be conducted by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan for recruitment of Librarians. In that exam there is one objective & one descriptive paper each of 200 marks . I am not knowing correct books for this subject. So please suggst me books for preparation of Objective as well as descriptive question papers of Librarian exam or LIS exam book wriitten for competitive exam & Oblidge me. Thanking You Yours Sincerely Ramdeo Upadhey Teacher, Science, Maths, Ashoka Education Foundation, Nashik(M.S.) Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php To, The Forum Member LIS Forum, Bangalore Respected Sir, In relation to above subject that I am one of the candidate appeared for Competitive Exam to be conducted by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan for recruitment of Librarians. In that exam there is one objective & one descriptive paper each of 200 marks . I am not knowing correct books for this subject. So please suggst me books for preparation of Objective as well as descriptive question papers of Librarian exam or LIS exam book wriitten for competitive exam & Oblidge me. Thanking You Yours Sincerely Ramdeo Upadhey Teacher, Science, Maths, Ashoka Education Foundation, Nashik(M.S.) Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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The Ten Library Stories That Shaped 2006
by Mallikarjun 16 Dec '06

16 Dec '06

The Ten Library Stories That Shaped 2006 Another year, another few thousand stories on LISNews! Read on for a look back at the good, the bad, and the ugly library stories of 2006, including "Get Tasered @ your library," "P is for Privacy," and "The Quote of the Year." in http://features.lisnews.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/15/137213 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com The Ten Library Stories That Shaped 2006 Another year, another few thousand stories on LISNews! Read on for a look back at the good, the bad, and the ugly library stories of 2006, including "Get Tasered @ your library," "P is for Privacy," and "The Quote of the Year." in http://features.lisnews.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/15/137213 http://features.lisnews.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/15/137213 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Digital information in the Information Research field
by sheela nag 16 Dec '06

16 Dec '06

Dear Professionals, The journals and newsletters listed here all include at least a sample of papers or news items that are freely accessible. Sites that simply provide the contents lists of journals that are not freely accessible are not listed. Note that only journals that still appear to be 'live' at the time this list was compiled are included. We welcome news of new journals and newsletters that you have found useful and that have free content. E-mail your suggestions to Professor Tom Wilson Go through this link http://informationr.net/fr/freejnls.html Regards Sheela Shivakumar Sheela S Junior Librarian IBA , Bangalore. sheelasheela(a)gmail.com Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php Dear Professionals, The journals and newsletters listed here all include at least a sample of papers or news items that are freely accessible. Sites that simply provide the contents lists of journals that are not freely accessible are not listed. Note that only journals that still appear to be 'live' at the time this list was compiled are included. We welcome news of new journals and newsletters that you have found useful and that have free content. E-mail your suggestions to mailto: t.d.wilson(a)shef.ac.uk Professor Tom Wilson Go through this link http://informationr.net/fr/freejnls.html http://informationr.net/fr/freejnls.html Regards Sheela Shivakumar Sheela S Junior Librarian IBA , Bangalore. mailto:sheelasheela@gmail.com sheelasheela(a)gmail.com Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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OA and copyright
by Subbiah Arunachalam 16 Dec '06

16 Dec '06

Friends: People often ask the question "We have surrendered the copyright to the journal publisher. How can we archive our papers?" There is no need to surrender copyright to work one has performed to a journal publisher. One can always negotiate with the publishers. Now alternative contracts are readily available. Please see the following excerpt. Regards. Arun -------- Hirtle, Peter B. Author Addenda: An Examination of Five Alternatives D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 12 No. 11, November 2006 Extracts: "Until recently, the primary method that authors could use to retain some rights in their writings was to rewrite the contract with the publishers themselves. Thanks to the development of standardized author addenda, the task has become much simpler. An author's addendum is a standardized legal instrument that modifies the publisher's agreement and allows the author to keep key rights." ... "Three different organizations MIT , Science Commons (through its Scholar's Copyright project), and SPARC have worked with lawyers to develop self-sufficient addenda that address these issues. These addenda can be attached to the publishing contracts received by publishers and are likely to be legally binding." Recommendation "While not perfect, author addenda can be an important tool that authors can use to retain the rights they want or that their employing institutions request that they retain. They can be an important component in ensuring open access to articles from either an institutional or a subject repository. The Scholar's Copyright addenda can also provide legal protection to authors who have contributed preprints to such repositories and then do not notice that the contract they sign with the publisher asks them to guarantee that the publisher will be able to exercise exclusive rights in the work. "Of the addenda analyzed, the Scholar's Copyright OpenAccess-CreativeCommons 1.0 Addendum, provides the greatest benefit to authors. In the absence of data on acceptance by publishers, authors may wish to submit it to the publishers along with the publisher's copyright transfer agreement." Comment: Peter Suber made reference to author addenda, most of which are analysed here, in his comments on the SURF-JISC Licence to Publish. In view of Hirtle's conclusion on the "absence of data on acceptance by publishers", another of Suber's remarks applies, that authors publishing in Romeo-green journals do not need to negotiate a different agreement, thus keeping it simpler than using new and untested legal constructs. ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Digital South Asia Library
by Mailing List Manager 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:17:21 +0530 From: KR. Senthil Kumar <alagusenthil(a)gmail.com> Digital South Asia Library - Schwartzberg Atlas The Digital Library of South Asia, University of Chicago, IL, US. Supplied note: "The Digital Library of South Asia, at the University of Chicago, has just mounted a digital version of Schwartzberg's invaluable historical atlas [Schwartzberg, Joseph E. A Historical Atlas of South Asia. 2nd impression, with additional material. New York ; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. - ed.]. See [the URL below]. We're still calling this a trial release. A number of smallish improvements will be added over the next few weeks. Some major improvements involving a GIS interface should be available before the middle of next year. - jn." [The interactive map viewer requires an ADOBE Flash Player. - ed.] URL http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/ -- KR.SENTHIL KUMAR

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A new database from NIH
by Mailing List Manager 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:06:56 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> from Peter Suber's blog NIH launches new OA database The http://www.nih.gov/ NIH has launched a new OA database on genome wide association studies.=A0 >From = today's http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/dec2006/nlm-12.html announcement Arun

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Why IITs have fallen in global rankings ( Manju Naika)
by manju nayak 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

There have been lots of discussion/debates among certain academic community who share the kind of concern expressed by Prof. Pankaj Jalote, not just in IITs but also in the higher education sector in general and central research institutes and universities in particular. There has been a hue and cry over `fall in quality’ and how to improve the quality of higher education, especially in the post 1990s. One major reason for the alleged fall in quality was the `governmental interferences’ as also mentioned in the Prof.Pankaj Jalote opinion as the autonomy of IIT is a `myth’ and also by citing some e.g. It is important to locate these debates in the context to understand the larger `forces’ that shaped it. 1990s was crucial period to understand the history of modern political India. The government’s decision to implement mandal commission report, the liberalization of country’s economy, the growth of identity politics of subaltern groups and also the rise of Hindutva politics happened during this period. As these factors are pertinent to the topic in debate I would like to go little further to show the link between these factors and the current debate on the falling standard of quality education and fixing the government for it. Studies have shown us that there was a near absence of OBCs, Dalits (both faculty and students) in these so called premier institutes (like IIT) ever since its inception and also there were ways and means to subvert the meager reservation made mandatory for the SCs and STs. The government’s decision to implement mandal commission was to make these exclusive spaces more inclusive. One has to welcome any such move in the otherwise deeply hierarchical society like ours. But the sudden hue and cry over falling standard of quality can ben seen as a response to the govt’s decision to implement 27% reservation for OBCs and also a strategy to subvert it. It is also important to notice the conspicuous absence of the notion of equality in any of these `how to improve the quality’ debates also in the above subject, which is of crucial important in a hierarchical society like ours. One can raise disturbing questions like why don’t you speak about equality which would lead to point out the problems of the positions taken in the above subject. Another major aspect I have with the Prof.Pankaj Jalote is that he is trying to put IIT vs universalities in other countries, especially US and countries which have, of late, been following neo-liberal market economic policies. As one goes through this topic one feels as if IIT has nothing to do with this society. And also the job of the national universities and the research institutes SHOULD NOT be to serve the market and its needs. If one feel so that is because of the intellectual dishonesty. IIT are established to fulfill certain objectives not to compete with other countries institute where social structure is entirely different from ours and also not to fight for ranking list. Criteria used for ranking is ultimate and perfect one? Any one criteria used for ranking in the list is there in the IITs objectives? International Publication and Prize award method is it not biased? The running of public institutes cannot be compared with that of the private as the former especially knowledge production centers like universities DO NOT run with the market principle of profiteering. It’s important to monitor what kind of knowledge these so called premier institutes like IIT are producing and who the products of these institutes serve. As more and more private forces, to name one TATA, are trying to take stake in the higher education, it becomes more important to see what role IIT like institute should have to perform. If one argues, by any means, that it has to continue to be exclusive spaces, then one goes against the very basic principle on which our constitution is founded, that is equality. The votaries of `global standard’, `competition’ etc (which is largely a discursive construct of the market economy) do not and will not understand the spirit of our constitution because they are blind to the social reality and lack insight Selection committee is existed in present day also, their duty is to suggest suitable candidate, but final selection power should not in the hands of again selection committee members. If these institutes are getting fund from the Government. Why they need autonomous, they must follow the guidelines of the Govt. If they need complete autonomy it is better to go for Capital Market instead of asking autonomy for Tax payer’s money. I will be happy if IIT education is accessible lowest section of our society without too much competition. There should be minimum one IIT in every state in the country. Then this is really tremendous achievement than being NO 1 in the World Ranking list. Thanks Manju Naika Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php  There have been lots of discussion/debates among certain academic community who share the kind of concern expressed by Prof. Pankaj Jalote, not just in IITs but also in the higher education sector in general and central research institutes and universities in particular. There has been a hue and cry over `fall in quality’ and how to improve the quality of higher education, especially in the post 1990s. One major reason for the alleged fall in quality was the `governmental interferences’ as also mentioned in the Prof.Pankaj Jalote opinion as the autonomy of IIT is a `myth’ and also by citing some e.g. It is important to locate these debates in the context to understand the larger `forces’ that shaped it. 1990s was crucial period to understand the history of modern political India . The government’s decision to implement mandal commission report, the liberalization of country’s economy, the growth of identity politics of subaltern groups and also the rise of Hindutva politics happened during this period. As these factors are pertinent to the topic in debate I would like to go little further to show the link between these factors and the current debate on the falling standard of quality education and fixing the government for it. Studies have shown us that there was a near absence of OBCs, Dalits (both faculty and students) in these so called premier institutes (like IIT) ever since its inception and also there were ways and means to subvert the meager reservation made mandatory for the SCs and STs. The government’s decision to implement mandal commission was to make these exclusive spaces more inclusive. One has to welcome any such move in the otherwise deeply hierarchical society like ours. But the sudden hue and cry over falling standard of quality can ben seen as a response to the govt’s decision to implement 27% reservation for OBCs and also a strategy to subvert it. It is also important to notice the conspicuous absence of the notion of equality in any of these `how to improve the quality’ debates also in the above subject, which is of crucial important in a hierarchical society like ours. One can raise disturbing questions like why don’t you speak about equality which would lead to point out the problems of the positions taken in the above subject. Another major aspect I have with the Prof.Pankaj Jalote is that he is trying to put IIT vs universalities in other countries, especially US and countries which have, of late, been following neo-liberal market economic policies. As one goes through this topic one feels as if IIT has nothing to do with this society. And also the job of the national universities and the research institutes SHOULD NOT be to serve the market and its needs. If one feel so that is because of the intellectual dishonesty. IIT are established to fulfill certain objectives not to compete with other countries institute where social structure is entirely different from ours and also not to fight for ranking list. Criteria used for ranking is ultimate and perfect one? Any one criteria used for ranking in the list is there in the IITs objectives? International Publication and Prize award method is it not biased? The running of public institutes cannot be compared with that of the private as the former especially knowledge production centers like universities DO NOT run with the market principle of profiteering. It’s important to monitor what kind of knowledge these so called premier institutes like IIT are producing and who the products of these institutes serve. As more and more private forces, to name one TATA, are trying to take stake in the higher education, it becomes more important to see what role IIT like institute should have to perform. If one argues, by any means, that it has to continue to be exclusive spaces, then one goes against the very basic principle on which our constitution is founded, that is equality. The votaries of `global standard’, `competition’ etc (which is largely a discursive construct of the market economy) do not and will not understand the spirit of our constitution because they are blind to the social reality and lack insight Selection committee is existed in present day also, their duty is to suggest suitable candidate, but final selection power should not in the hands of again selection committee members. If these institutes are getting fund from the Government. Why they need autonomous, they must follow the guidelines of the Govt. If they need complete autonomy it is better to go for Capital Market instead of asking autonomy for Tax payer’s money. I will be happy if IIT education is accessible lowest section of our society without too much competition. There should be minimum one IIT in every state in the country. Then this is really tremendous achievement than being NO 1 in the World Ranking list. Thanks Manju Naika Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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EBM Librarian Wiki
by Sukhdev Singh 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

This is an interesting wiki from Medical Librarians. Shows what future librarians would be doing in future. Check out EBM Librarian - http://ebmlibrarian.wetpaint.com/ . It is a wiki is to develop a community of librarians who are involved in teaching and supporting the practice of evidence based medicine (ebm) or evidence based practice (ebp). --Sukhdev Singh, NIC.

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Google Launches Patent Search
by Farooque Shaheen 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

The patent search site, launched as a beta, is designed to sift through the approximately 7 million U.S. patents by a variety of parameters including filing date, issue date, patent number and inventor. http://www.google.com/patents Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 The patent search site, launched as a beta, is designed to sift through the approximately 7 million U.S. patents by a variety of parameters including filing date, issue date, patent number and inventor. http://www.google.com/patents Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366

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