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Microsoft supports open access
by Mailing List Manager 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:45:02 +0530 (IST) From: arun(a)mssrf.res.in Friends: Here is an excerpt from a conversation between freelance technology journalist Richard Poynder and Prof. Tony Hey, Corporate vice president for technical computing at Microsoft. Prof. Hey explains why Microsoft supports open access. For the full text of the interview, please visit: http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/12/conversation-with-microsofts-tony-hey.h… Regards. Arun -------

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An OA consultant in each university!
by Subbiah Arunachalam 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Friends: Here is an interesting development at MIT, Cambridge. Arun ---------------- MIT's new Scholarly Publishing Consultant MIT has hired a Scholarly Publishing Consultant to advise faculty about their OA options. (Thanks to ResourceShelf.) From the announcement on the MIT Libraries News blog: The MIT Libraries now have a half-time position supporting MIT faculty and researchers who have questions about their options and rights in the world of scholarly publishing, which has evolved dramatically with the advent of the digital age. This position has been made possible with support from the Provosts office. In what ways would a faculty member make use of this new position? For example: * To ask about what rights you have over your own work, and how you can ensure that you have the rights in the future to do what you want with your work; * To ask questions about standard publisher copyright transfer agreements, including the use of MITs amendment to such agreements; * To gain feedback about options and rights related to archiving your work on the web, whether via a faculty home page, Dspace, or a discipline-based archive, or another means; * To discuss the options for publishing an article so that it will be openly available, without permission or subscription barriers, whether in a new open access journal or a long-standing journal; or * To ask about open access publication options, and funder or government policies in relation to those options. If you would like to discuss any of these issues, please contact Ellen Finnie Duranceau, who moved into the new position in mid September.... Peter Suber: Another great idea from MIT. Until OA is as familiar as email, every university should have something like this. ___________________________________________________________ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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UNESCO PRIZE for Best Perfomance in Assignments
by Shivendra Singh 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

UNESCO PRIZE for Best Perfomance in Assignments: International Workshop on Greenstone Digital Library Software http://greenstonesupport.iimk.ac.in/Program_CD/winners.htm -- Shiv E-mail: shiv.mail(a)gmail.com http://eirs.blogspot.com/ UNESCO PRIZE for Best Perfomance in Assignments: International Workshop on Greenstone Digital Library Software http://greenstonesupport.iimk.ac.in/Program_CD/winners.htm http://greenstonesupport.iimk.ac.in/Program_CD/winners.htm -- Shiv E-mail: mailto:shiv.mail@gmail.com shiv.mail(a)gmail.com http://eirs.blogspot.com/ http://eirs.blogspot.com/

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New Group - Open Access and Digital Libraries
by Sukhdev Singh 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Friends, I am back from an International Conference on Digital Libraries, 5-8 Dec. 2006 organised by TERI at New Delhi (ICDL 2006). In one of the session there was comment that nothing is being done for "Open Access" movement in India. I feel this is incorrect. Lot of things are being done but by very few people. Yes, now we need to involve more and more people in this movement - both LIS professional as well educators, researchers and policy makers. The first step I can think of is forming a discussion group. I know there are other groups as well - but these are mostly oriented towards LIS professionals. We never know what our target users feel about issues that may dear to us. So a Group called "Open Access and Digital Libraries" is been created with the following URL. If you are interested in Open Access, you are welcome to join it. I would suggest to join it through its Web Interface: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oadl If for some reason you prefer to join it by sending email, send a blank email to the following: oadl-subscribe(a)yahoogroups.com Thanks, Sukhdev Singh. NIC.

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2006 best 2.0 applications
by sandeep bhavsar 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Respected All The 2006 award-winning web2.0 applications are worth a browse.. http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0/# Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 40601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 elibrary : http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ --------------------------------- Now you can scan emails quickly with a reading pane. Get the new Yahoo! Mail. Respected All The 2006 award-winning web2.0 applications are worth a browse.. http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0/# Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 40601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 elibrary : http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Now you can http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/nowyoucan/reading_pane/*htt… scan emails quickly with a reading pane . Get the new http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/nowyoucan/reading_pane/*htt… Yahoo! Mail .

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Openarchives.eu
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Friends: I received this through another list. Arun --------- >From "Giulio Blasi" <blasi(a)horizons.it> We are glad to announce the publication of the portal Openarchives.eu (http://www.openarchives.eu) developed by Horizons Unlimited ( Bologna , Italy http://www.horizons.it) in collaboration with the University of Illinois OAI-PMH Registry . Openarchives.eu is the European Guide to OAI-PMH compliant digital repositories in the world. We hope Openarchives.eu will help the OAI community in finding and searching OAI-PMH compliant digital collections around the world (we also provide a gateway for searching metadata through the most important service providers engines, including DOAJ). Openarchives.eu is a contribution to the Open Access community. Our mission is providing the open access community with a new set of tools for data and service providers in the Universities, Public Libraries and the Public Administration. We will be very grateful for any suggestion, comment, correction, integration or new infos you will send us to make our work better. We are open to any form of collaboration to share our data and increase visibility of open digital repositories. Best regards Dr Giulio Blasi _______________________________________________ Horizons Unlimited srl via Fioravanti 59/2 | 40128 - Bologna tel. 051-41.56.611 | fax 051-3370387 Email e MSN Messenger: blasi(a)horizons.it | Web: http://www.horizons.it

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How to prevent spam
by Sunil Kumar DP 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Dear Colleagues, How to prevent spam Click the bellow link http://sunildp1982.googlepages.com/Howtopreventspam.htm Regards -- Sunil Kumar DP Asst. Librarian Indian Business Academy Laxmipura Bangalore. Email sunildp1982(a)yahoo.com http://sunildp1982.googlepages.com Cell +919845562817 Dear Colleagues, How to prevent spam Click the bellow link http://sunildp1982.googlepages.com/Howtopreventspam.htm http://sunildp1982.googlepages.com/Howtopreventspam.htm Regards -- Sunil Kumar DP Asst. Librarian Indian Business Academy Laxmipura Bangalore. Email mailto:sunildp1982@yahoo.com sunildp1982(a)yahoo.com http://sunildp1982.googlepages.com http://sunildp1982.googlepages.com Cell +919845562817

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IMPACT FACTOR
by Manik Nand lal 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Dear Colleagues, Can you please let us know the IMPACT FACTOR for the following journal :- MEDICAL SCIENCE MONITOR : INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL JOURNAL FOR EXPERIMENTAL & CLINICAL RESEARCH http://www.medscimonit.com/medscimonit/ Please also let us know how to find out Impact Factor for a particular journal? What are the databases/search engines available for searching Impact factor apart from Journal website? Thanking you & with warm regards, N. MANIK MANAGER-LIBRARY & INFORMATION CENTRE DABUR RESEARCH FOUNDATION 22 SITE IV, SAHIBABAD GHAZIABAD-201010 INDIA TEL. : 91-120-4378497 FAX : 91-120-4376902 This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary,or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately & delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited. IMPACT FACTOR Dear Colleagues, Can you please let us know the IMPACT FACTOR for the following journal :- MEDICAL SCIENCE MONITOR : INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL JOURNAL FOR EXPERIMENTAL & CLINICAL RESEARCH http://www.medscimonit.com/medscimonit/ http://www.medscimonit.com/medscimonit/ Please also let us know how to find out Impact Factor for a particular journal? What are the databases/search engines available for searching Impact factor apart from Journal website? Thanking you & with warm regards, N. MANIK MANAGER-LIBRARY & INFORMATION CENTRE DABUR RESEARCH FOUNDATION 22 SITE IV, SAHIBABAD GHAZIABAD-201010 INDIA TEL. : 91-120-4378497 FAX : 91-120-4376902 This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary,or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately & delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.

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Researcher's 3-D Digital Storage System Could Hold A Library On One Disc
by sandeep bhavsar 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Researcher's 3-D Digital Storage System Could Hold A Library On One Disc Imagine taking the entire collection of historical documents at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and storing it on a single DVD. The technology developed by chemistry professor Kevin Belfield and his research team could eventually be used to store historical documents or create complicated databases that could give decision-makers quick access to critical information. (Photo: Jerry Klein) University of Central Florida Chemistry Professor Kevin D. Belfield and his team have cracked a puzzle that stumped scientists for more than a dozen years. They have developed a new technology that will allow users to record and store massive amounts of data -- the museum's entire collection or as many as 500 movies, for example -- onto a single disc or, perhaps, a small cube. Belfield's Two-Photon 3-D Optical Data Storage system makes this possible. "For a while, the community has been able to record data in photochromic materials in several layers," Belfield said. "The problem was that no one could figure out how to read out the data without destroying it. But we cracked it." Think of it this way. Television viewers can tape a show on a VHS tape. They can use the tape several times. But each time the same segment of the tape is used, the quality diminishes as the tape wears out. Eventually, the data is lost. The same is true of recordable DVDs. Belfield's team figured out a way to use lasers to compact large amounts of information onto a DVD while maintaining excellent quality. The information is stored permanently without the possibility of damage. The process involves shooting two different wavelengths of light onto the recording surface. The use of two lasers creates a very specific image that is sharper than what current techniques can render. Depending on the color (wavelength) of the light, information is written onto a disk. The information is highly compacted, so the disk isn't much thicker. It's like a typical DVD. The challenge scientists faced for years was that light is also used to read the information. The light couldn't distinguish between reading and writing, so it would destroy the recorded information. Belfield's team developed a way to use light tuned to specific colors or wavelengths to allow information that a user wants to keep to stay intact. The UCF team's work was published in Advanced Materials (2006, vol. 18, pp. 2910-2914) and recently highlighted in Nature Photonics. A patent is pending. Once the technology is fine-tuned, it could be used to store historical documents or create complicated databases that could give decision-makers quick access to critical information, Belfield said. Blu-Ray Disc Association and industrial leaders in computer and other media recently commercially introduced Blu-Ray Disc technology that allows for storage of 25 gigabytes (GB) on a single layer of a disc and 50 GB on two layers. It has been referred to as the next generation of optical disc format, and it offers high-definition quality. Belfield's technique allows for storing on multiple layers with the capacity of at least 1,000 GB and high-definition quality. The UCF team has received a $270,000, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to continue its work. The team will focus on making the technique even more efficient, partly by reducing the required laser power. The team's work with lasers and lights has other practical applications. Belfield and his colleagues in the Department of Chemistry are exploring the use of light to detect and treat certain types of cancer. Belfield's research team is creating chemical agents that, after being injected into patients, will travel within the bloodstream to find and bind with cancer cells. Using light, doctors would then be able to see if and where a patient has cancer cells. Another agent could be injected that would then destroy the cancer cells when activated by light, without damaging other healthy cells. Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 9870484626 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ --------------------------------- The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider. Researcher's 3-D Digital Storage System Could Hold A Library On One Disc Imagine taking the entire collection of historical documents at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and storing it on a single DVD. The technology developed by chemistry professor Kevin Belfield and his research team could eventually be used to store historical documents or create complicated databases that could give decision-makers quick access to critical information. (Photo: Jerry Klein) University of Central Florida Chemistry Professor Kevin D. Belfield and his team have cracked a puzzle that stumped scientists for more than a dozen years. They have developed a new technology that will allow users to record and store massive amounts of data -- the museum's entire collection or as many as 500 movies, for example -- onto a single disc or, perhaps, a small cube. Belfield's Two-Photon 3-D Optical Data Storage system makes this possible. "For a while, the community has been able to record data in photochromic materials in several layers," Belfield said. "The problem was that no one could figure out how to read out the data without destroying it. But we cracked it." Think of it this way. Television viewers can tape a show on a VHS tape. They can use the tape several times. But each time the same segment of the tape is used, the quality diminishes as the tape wears out. Eventually, the data is lost. The same is true of recordable DVDs. Belfield's team figured out a way to use lasers to compact large amounts of information onto a DVD while maintaining excellent quality. The information is stored permanently without the possibility of damage. The process involves shooting two different wavelengths of light onto the recording surface. The use of two lasers creates a very specific image that is sharper than what current techniques can render. Depending on the color (wavelength) of the light, information is written onto a disk. The information is highly compacted, so the disk isn't much thicker. It's like a typical DVD. The challenge scientists faced for years was that light is also used to read the information. The light couldn't distinguish between reading and writing, so it would destroy the recorded information. Belfield's team developed a way to use light tuned to specific colors or wavelengths to allow information that a user wants to keep to stay intact. The UCF team's work was published in Advanced Materials (2006, vol. 18, pp. 2910-2914) and recently highlighted in Nature Photonics. A patent is pending. Once the technology is fine-tuned, it could be used to store historical documents or create complicated databases that could give decision-makers quick access to critical information, Belfield said. Blu-Ray Disc Association and industrial leaders in computer and other media recently commercially introduced Blu-Ray Disc technology that allows for storage of 25 gigabytes (GB) on a single layer of a disc and 50 GB on two layers. It has been referred to as the next generation of optical disc format, and it offers high-definition quality. Belfield's technique allows for storing on multiple layers with the capacity of at least 1,000 GB and high-definition quality. The UCF team has received a $270,000, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to continue its work. The team will focus on making the technique even more efficient, partly by reducing the required laser power. The team's work with lasers and lights has other practical applications. Belfield and his colleagues in the Department of Chemistry are exploring the use of light to detect and treat certain types of cancer. Belfield's research team is creating chemical agents that, after being injected into patients, will travel within the bloodstream to find and bind with cancer cells. Using light, doctors would then be able to see if and where a patient has cancer cells. Another agent could be injected that would then destroy the cancer cells when activated by light, without damaging other healthy cells. Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 9870484626 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ The http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/nowyoucan/free_from_isp/*ht… all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider.

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Rexa, a computer science repository
by Mailing List Manager 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:29:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Friends: Please alert all computer scientists you know to Rexa, a subject-based repository that has archived more than 7 million papers. In many ways it is similar to CiteSeer and Google Scholar but has additional features. The url is <http://hunch.net/?p=184>. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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