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ProQuest supports ETDs
by Subbiah Arunachalam 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Friends: Even commercial firms have started supporting open access. Oracle has plans to go the whole hog with Linux and is expected to buy a major Linux company very soon. Now ProQuest is supporting open access to electronic theses and dissertatations. Read Peter Suber's blog entry reproduced below. Best wishes. Arun ---------- ProQuest offers OA option for ETDs ProQuest has launched UMI Open Access Publishing. >From the site: Open Access is a term used to describe content that a reader can access free of charge. With the new UMI® Open Access publishing service, graduate students can now publish their dissertations and theses with ProQuest on an open access basis. Those graduate student authors that choose to publish their graduate works on an open access basis will be significantly increasing the reach of their research.... The primary benefit of Open Access publishing is that it guarantees the widest possible exposure of your graduate research. It can also help ensure that the officially published version of your dissertation or thesis is the most widely available version in the primary literature.... In addition to the standard features of our Traditional publishing service - rigorous quality assurance, assignment of an ISBN, permanent storage in our microfilm vault, and so on - the Open Access publishing service includes the following: * Free, public access to your graduate work in PQDT Open, our online repository of Open Access graduate works (launching in late fall 2006). * Free access to your graduate work for all institutional subscribers to ProQuest® Dissertations & Theses (PQDT), the database of record for graduate research. * Explicit author permission for the degree-granting institution to make the full text of your graduate work available to the world through their institutional repository. How does Open Access publishing compare with ProQuest's Traditional publishing service? Read more here about the details and see a comparison chart showing the benefits of our Open Access and Traditional Publishing services.... Learn more about how Open Access publishing works in our downloadable Overview, and check out our Open Access Publishing FAQ. Posted by Peter Suber at 10/28/2006 03:46:00 PM. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Google:Google Co-op - Custom Search Engine for Indian Libraries and Librarians
by Mallikarjuna, H.B 28 Oct '06

28 Oct '06

Dear Professionals, Specialized Custom Search Engine for Indian libraries and librarians I have been working on my Google custom search engine for Indian Libraries and Librarians. I am working on finding a way to include Indian libraries and librarians web pages. If you have other websites or even individual web pages that should be added, please send me the URL. My goals for this search engine are: Provide a searchable interface to selected resources, Show how useful Google Custom Search can be. And also, please give me your feedback on how useful this search engine is to you. I would be incredibly grateful if someone is willing to help me with this. I can be reached at my email: hbmallikarjuna(a)gmail.com. Once again, thank you for all of your help and dedication. I need your comments or suggestions on how to improve the search engine and make it more useful, When leaving comments, please let us know who you are and what you do, as this will help us put the feedback in context. If you ever have any problems, questions, comments, or suggestions, please contact. hbmallikarjuna(a)gmail.com. Available at: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=008216745263207366915%3As-dzhkvvpxk Small URL: http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb It is available at : http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Home page: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=008216745263207366915%3As-dzhkvvpxk -- Regards H.B Mallikarjuna Indegene, Bangalore-38. Mobile: 9980998157 -- Regards H.B.Mallikarjuna Email: hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjuna.blogspot.com http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/libtech/ --"All power is within you, you can do anything and everything.Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... You can do anything and everything, without even the guidance of any one. All power is there......"--Swamy Vivekananda --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW Dear Professionals, Specialized Custom Search Engine for Indian libraries and librarians I have been working on my Google custom search engine for Indian Libraries and Librarians. I am working on finding a way to include Indian libraries and librarians web pages. If you have other websites or even individual web pages that should be added, please send me the URL. My goals for this search engine are: Provide a searchable interface to selected resources, Show how useful Google Custom Search can be. And also, please give me your feedback on how useful this search engine is to you. I would be incredibly grateful if someone is willing to help me with this. I can be reached at my email: mailto:hbmallikarjuna@gmail.com hbmallikarjuna(a)gmail.com . Once again, thank you for all of your help and dedication. I need your comments or suggestions on how to improve the search engine and make it more useful, When leaving comments, please let us know who you are and what you do, as this will help us put the feedback in context. If you ever have any problems, questions, comments, or suggestions , please contact. mailto:hbmallikarjuna@gmail.com hbmallikarjuna(a)gmail.com . Available at: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=008216745263207366915%3As-dzhkvvpxk http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=008216745263207366915%3As-dzhkvvpxk Small URL: http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb It is available at : http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com/ http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Home page: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=008216745263207366915%3As-dzhkvvpxk http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=008216745263207366915%3As-dzhkvvpxk -- Regards H.B Mallikarjuna Indegene, Bangalore-38. Mobile: 9980998157 http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com/ -- Regards H.B.Mallikarjuna Email: hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjuna.blogspot.com http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/libtech/ --"All power is within you, you can do anything and everything.Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... You can do anything and everything, without even the guidance of any one. All power is there......"--Swamy Vivekananda Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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Who is using Koha in India
by Murari 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Dear Colleagues, Can someone indicate who is using Koha (Library Management Software) in India and their experiences. With warm regards, Murari P Tapaswi National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, India Phone: 91-(0)832-2450275; Fax: 91-(0)832-2450602 www.nio.org, www.coastalhazards.info, www.mangroveindia.org

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Firefox 2.0 Released
by Sukhdev Singh 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Friends Firefox 2.0 has been released. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ The best new feature it has is the automatic spelling checking mechanism. I wish it could also include a Grammar checking tool as well. Anyway I am a satisfied Firefox user of its earlier version ( almost forgotten IE). I like the modular structure of the Browser. I put on lot of add-ons to Firefox [for example - a tool to rapidly post items to my blog - http://sukhdev.blogspot.com ]. --Sukhdev Singh. http://openmed.nic.in

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Kindly help find an article!!
by Chitra P Rao 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Hello: Happy Diwali to one and all. I was trying to get this article rather urgently, need your help. If anyone can locate kindly email it to me or FAX NITIE FAX number is 022-28573251 ( Kindly mark it Kind Attn to Chitra Rao) Tabucanon: Project Planning and Controlling maintenance Overhaul of Power Generating units. (International Journal of Physical distribution and Logistics Management: Oct 1989 Vol 19 (10)) Hoping for a Quick Response Sr Librarian and Head LIS NITIE Mumbai 400 087 ph: 28573371 extn 337

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List of Journals in Library & Information Sc. published in India
by Seema Vasishta 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Dear Friends, Please provide me the list of all the journals in the field of Library & Information Sc. being published in India. Thanking you in anticipation. Regards Seema Vasishta Sr. Librarian PEC(DU) Chandigarh --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW Dear Friends, Please provide me the list of all the journals in the field of Library & Information Sc. being published in India. Thanking you in anticipation. Regards Seema Vasishta Sr. Librarian PEC(DU) Chandigarh Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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PMB 3.0.2 version
by vimal kumar 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Dear Friends, PMB 3.0.2 now available for download. This new version is web 2.0 compliant. PMB is a powerful open source Library Management system. This ILS written in PHP and installation is easy. One draw back of this software is some documentation parts still in French. Library professionals from English speaking countries have to cooperate with this ILS project for English documentation. Click this link for PMB download page http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sigb.net%2Fdownloa… Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in --------------------------------- Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. Dear Friends, PMB 3.0.2 now available for download. This new version is web 2.0 compliant. PMB is a powerful open source Library Management system. This ILS written in PHP and installation is easy. One draw back of this software is some documentation parts still in French. Library professionals from English speaking countries have to cooperate with this ILS project for English documentation. Click this link for PMB download page http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sigb.net%2Fdownloa… http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sigb.net%2Fdownloa… Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42974/*http://www.yahoo.com/preview Check it out.

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E-LIS Introduces Usage Statistics for Authors
by Imma Subirats 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Dear all, * Apologies for cross-posting * We are glad to announce that has been implemented a new Statistics module in E-LIS, E-prints in Library and Information Science. The purpose of the statistics is to promote E-LIS repository and authors self-archiving as well, by demonstrating the accessibility and usage of deposited documents by access and downloads . Usage statistics (abstracts, downloads) are now available by the following elements: • Most viewed eprints in the last four weeks • Most viewed eprints in this year • Most viewed eprints in the last year • Most viewed eprints in all years • Repository-wide statistics by year/month • Repository-wide statistics by country You can see the implementation of the Statistics at http://eprints.rclis.org/. <http://eprints.rclis.org/.+>The use of statistics is basic for the development of Open Acess Model and for the achieve of our first objective: to encourage authors . Some examples are the following: • Prosser, David C. ( 2003) Scholarly communication in the 21st century : the impact of new technologies and models. *Serials : the journal for the serials community *16(2):pp. 163-167<http://eprints.rclis.org/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint&id=1180> . • Suber, Peter<http://eprints.rclis.org/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint&id=6671> (2006) *Open Access in the United States*, in Jacobs, Neil, Eds. *Open Access : Key strategic, technical and economic aspects*. Chandos Publishing <http://eprints.rclis.org/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint&id=6671>. • Estivill Rius, Assumpció and Abadal Falgueras, Ernest and Franganillo, Jorge and Gascón García, Jesús and Rodríguez i Gairín, Josep Manuel (2005) Uso de metadatos Dublin Core en la descripción y recuperación de artículos de revista digitales = Use of Dublin Core metadata for describing and retrieving digital journals . In *Proceedings DC-2005 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications*, Madrid (Spain). <http://eprints.rclis.org/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint&id=4792>• Parmar, Arvind Singh and Kumar, Sanghmitra A. and Prakash, Thushara (2004) Bibliometric analysis of information seeking behaviour related literature <http://eprints.rclis.org/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint&id=2332> We encourage other repositories to implement statistics for each archived document, In the case of E-LIS is used EPrints Software, but also DSpace has developed an Add-On for Statistics too. Some comments to the use of the statistics in E-LIS: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • "All authors crave impact - we hope that what we write will affect readers and will make a difference. However, often it is difficult to tell if our work has even been read. Now we have a clue. The newly implemented download statistics in E-LIS tell me fascinating stories about the usage of my work - papers that I thought 'old news' are still being downloaded, the geographical distribution of readers is greater than I would have guessed. This is a wonderful tool for both authors and readers and shows, once again, the power of self-archiving. Now all I need to know is what the readers thought of my work!" David Prosser SPARC Europe "Having statistics for each article posted in E-LIS can be a valuable tool for the study of the development of the intellectual production in librarianship and information science. This and the use of bibliometric techniques would help us assess library development around the world…" Julio Santillan Aldana Responsible of the open access journal Biblios E-LIS Editor for Peru "The Eprint Statistics feature is an impressive new addition to E-LIS. It presents clear and immediate data on use of documents in the repository, something every author wants to see. I've found myself checking the statistics on my documents regularly and have also discovered that it's a very effective recruitment feature for E-LIS; colleagues who have never deposited in E-LIS have done so very soon after seeing the Eprints Statistics function in action". Andrew Waller Author and E-LIS Editor for Canada • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • For any information about the implementation do not hesitate to contact us. Best Regards, E-LIS Team <http://eprints.rclis.org/staff.html> -- Imma Subirats Coordinator E-LIS, E-prints in Library and Information Science Dear all, * Apologies for cross-posting * We are glad to announce that has been implemented a new Statistics module in E-LIS, E-prints in Library and Information Science. The purpose of the statistics is to promote E-LIS repository and authors self-archiving as well, by demonstrating the accessibility and usage of deposited documents by access and downloads . Usage statistics (abstracts, downloads) are now available by the following elements: • Most viewed eprints in the last four weeks • Most viewed eprints in this year • Most viewed eprints in the last year • Most viewed eprints in all years • Repository-wide statistics by year/month • Repository-wide statistics by country You can see the implementation of the Statistics at http://eprints.rclis.org/.+ http://eprints.rclis.org/. The use of statistics is basic for the development of Open Acess Model and for the achieve of our first objective: to encourage authors . Some examples are the following: http://eprints.rclis.org/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint&id=1180 • Prosser, David C. ( 2003) Scholarly communication in the 21st century : the impact of new technologies and models. Serials : the journal for the serials community 16(2):pp. 163-167 . • http://eprints.rclis.org/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint&id=6671 Suber, Peter http://eprints.rclis.org/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint&id=6671 (2006) Open Access in the United States , in Jacobs, Neil, Eds. Open Access : Key strategic, technical and economic aspects . Chandos Publishing . • http://eprints.rclis.org/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint&id=4792 Estivill Rius, Assumpció and Abadal Falgueras, Ernest and Franganillo, Jorge and Gascón García, Jesús and Rodríguez i Gairín, Josep Manuel (2005) Uso de metadatos Dublin Core en la descripción y recuperación de artículos de revista digitales = Use of Dublin Core metadata for describing and retrieving digital journals . In Proceedings DC-2005 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications , Madrid (Spain). • http://eprints.rclis.org/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint&id=2332 Parmar, Arvind Singh and Kumar, Sanghmitra A. and Prakash, Thushara (2004) Bibliometric analysis of information seeking behaviour related literature We encourage other repositories to implement statistics for each archived document, In the case of E-LIS is used EPrints Software, but also DSpace has developed an Add-On for Statistics too. Some comments to the use of the statistics in E-LIS: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • "All authors crave impact - we hope that what we write will affect readers and will make a difference. However, often it is difficult to tell if our work has even been read. Now we have a clue. The newly implemented download statistics in E-LIS tell me fascinating stories about the usage of my work - papers that I thought 'old news' are still being downloaded, the geographical distribution of readers is greater than I would have guessed. This is a wonderful tool for both authors and readers and shows, once again, the power of self-archiving. Now all I need to know is what the readers thought of my work!" David Prosser SPARC Europe "Having statistics for each article posted in E-LIS can be a valuable tool for the study of the development of the intellectual production in librarianship and information science. This and the use of bibliometric techniques would help us assess library development around the world…" Julio Santillan Aldana Responsible of the open access journal Biblios E-LIS Editor for Peru "The Eprint Statistics feature is an impressive new addition to E-LIS. It presents clear and immediate data on use of documents in the repository, something every author wants to see. I've found myself checking the statistics on my documents regularly and have also discovered that it's a very effective recruitment feature for E-LIS; colleagues who have never deposited in E-LIS have done so very soon after seeing the Eprints Statistics function in action". Andrew Waller Author and E-LIS Editor for Canada • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • For any information about the implementation do not hesitate to contact us. Best Regards, http://eprints.rclis.org/staff.html E-LIS Team -- Imma Subirats Coordinator E-LIS, E-prints in Library and Information Science

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Resources on Resources and Knowledge Generation
by Mailing List Manager 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:59:20 +0530 From: Rajankila <rajankila(a)hotmail.com> Dear All, Can anyone please suggest any good information material/internet resource/presentation that would help me prepare my presentation for a three hour session on "Resources and Knowledge Generation" in a UGC refresher course for the young teachers of the university month.. The focus should be on library utilization ,sources of information, Internet for information acess, collecting and managing notes,references etc. that would enable a teacher to build up his knowledge base. Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration Mulagunnathu Kavu P O Thrissur - 680 581 India ---------------------------------------------------- Ph 91- 487-2204097(O) , 2201428 (R)

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Journals in the Time of Google
by vimal kumar 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Dear Professionals, Here is an interesting artilce titled "Journals in the Time of Google" appeared in Library Journal, give an over view of journal publishing in Internet and place of open access in the present scenario. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6321722.html Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in --------------------------------- Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr. We'll help. Yahoo! Small Business. Here is an interesting artilce titled "Journals in the Time of Google" appeared in Library Journal, give an over view of journal publishing in Internet and place of open access in the present scenario. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6321722.html Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in Get your own http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=43290/*http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains web address for just $1.99/1st yr . We'll help. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=41244/*http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Small Business .

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