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Unacknowledged convergence of open source, open access, and open science
by Sukhdev Singh 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

John Willinsky[1] in an article[2] argues that initiatives like opensource software, open access to research and scholarship, and openscience are based on common commitments and priciples. All theseinitiatives are committed to resist any barriers to exchange ofinformation and ideas. Even the business model is almost similierbased on the principles of (1) the efficacy of free software and research; (2) the reputation–building afforded by public access and patronage; and, (3) the emergence of a free–or–subscribe access model. Still, with this much in common, the strong sense of convergence amongthese open initiatives has yet to be fully realized, to the detrimentof the larger, common issue. He talks of three principles: Principle One: Before software was open, it was freePrinciple Two: The economics of patronagePrinciple Three: Free or subscribe Some extracts of his article: .."To pursue a strictly business perspective on open source softwareonly serves to prevent readers from realizing open source's closeconnections to the long–standing traditions of open science.".. .."The publishing economy of scholarly journals is dominated by arather perverse property relation, in which the last investor in theresearch production chain — consisting of university, researcher,funding agency, and publisher — owns the resulting work outrightthrough a very small investment in relation to the work's overall costand value.".. .."Open source software is also free like free beer, in most instances.".. .."With the use of open source code, no less than with scholarly work,the property right at issue is almost entirely a matter of respectingthe authorship of the original work".. .."Scholarship has long strived to open its processes to critique andcontribution, even if at best those processes are shaped inhistorically contingent ways. The open access movement is no lessdevoted to lowering barriers by enabling more researchers and studentsto read the current published literature.".. .."perhaps 15 percent of the current literature is being posted byauthors in archives.".. .."Open access has the potential to make very close to the entire bodyof literature available to anyone with an Internet connection ... Thiswould make a considerable difference to a wide range of scholars,students and others who are otherwise unable to obtain or affordaccess. What is holding back this far greater circulation ofknowledge, at this point, is general lack of faculty awareness andinterest in increasing access to published literature.".. References: 1.John Willinsky is Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technologyat the University of British Columbia http://www.lled.educ.ubc.ca/faculty/willinsky.htm 2."Unacknowledged convergence of open source, open access, and open science"First Monday, volume 10, number 8 (August 2005), http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_8/willinsky/index.html ------------Sukhdev Singh, NIC.http://openmed.nic.in

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Regd. posting message on LIS forum...
by guhamba 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

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Article Indexing of Indian Journals
by Chitra P Rao 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Respected collegues of the Library Professional: On 5th Jan I had sent out a message on the LIS forum on the above topic.. I would like to respond to the same. I have recieved many replies and interestingly those who have OA inititive in their Libraries are from NIC and IGIDR. That is my point exactly when we have such a large population of Librarians in our country why only a select few can take up such projects.. Answers to this are many.. my only conclusion is that it is not very probable to undertake this kind of tasks without Committment from within and the organization you work in. Hence my mail to the LIS Forum. Interestingly I have come accross one email from Divan Enterprises a part of Globe publishing which has undertaken a very valient effort in this direction. His objective is to have a single platform of Indian Journals and to highlight Indian Contributions Globally. He is in constant touch with various Indian Publishers to give him the right to host their Journals online as well as provide this service to all Librraies. For procuring Indian Journals online abstracts and full text.. This I found to be the answer to what I was trying accomplish.. I request that all of us should write to the publishesrs of journals which we subscribe and ask them to host their journal on the site.. This is the address of the site. http://indianjournals.com I request your feedback on this and hope to get good cooperation from Publishers and Libraries to support this.. With regards chitra Rao Sr Librarian and Head LIS NITIE Mumbai 400 087 ph: 28573371 extn 337

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Relationship between "IndMED" and "Yoga for depression: The research evidence"!!
by Sukhdev Singh 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Relationship between "IndMED" and "Yoga for depression: The research evidence"!! I just came accross an article where researchers from UK includedIndMED [ http://indmed.nic.in ] as part of their research methodology.The abstract of the same is given below of this email. Do I need to say more about utility of IndMED? And I keep remindingpeople IndMED is not for Indians(?). It is for exposure of IndianResearch world wide. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC.http://indmed.nic.in ; http://medind.nic.in and http://openmed.nic.in ------------------------------Journal of Affective Disorders, Volume 89, Issue 1-3, Pages 13-24http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2005.08.013 Yoga for depression: The research evidence Karen Pilkingtona; Graham Kirkwooda; Hagen Rampesc and Janet Richardson [--Research Council for Complementary Medicine, London, UK--School of Integrated Health, University of Westminster, 115 NewCavendish Street, London W1W 6UW, UK--Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust, NorthwestCommunity Mental Health Team, Edgware, Middlesex, UK--Health and Social Work, University of Plymouth and Research Councilfor Complementary Medicine, London, UK] Received 8 April 2005; revised 31 August 2005; accepted 31 August2005. Available online 26 September 2005. Abstract:-Background- Yoga-based interventions may prove to be an attractive option for thetreatment of depression. The aim of this study is to systematicallyreview the research evidence on the effectiveness of yoga for thisindication. -Methods- Searches of the major biomedical databases including MEDLINE, EMBASE,ClNAHL, PsycINFO and the Cochrane Library were conducted. Specialistcomplementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and the IndMED databaseswere also searched and efforts made to identify unpublished andongoing research. Searches were conducted between January and June2004. Relevant research was categorised by study type and appraised.Clinical commentaries were obtained for studies reporting clinicaloutcomes. -Results- Five randomised controlled trials were located, each of which utiliseddifferent forms of yoga interventions and in which the severity of thecondition ranged from mild to severe. All trials reported positivefindings but methodological details such as method of randomisation,compliance and attrition rates were missing. No adverse effects werereported with the exception of fatigue and breathlessness inparticipants in one study. -Limitations- No language restrictions were imposed on the searches conducted but nosearches of databases in languages other than English were included. -Conclusions- Overall, the initial indications are of potentially beneficial effectsof yoga interventions on depressive disorders. Variation ininterventions, severity and reporting of trial methodology suggeststhat the findings must be interpreted with caution. Several of theinterventions may not be feasible in those with reduced or impairedmobility. Nevertheless, further investigation of yoga as a therapeuticintervention is warranted.

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Need to change selection criteria
by rajkumar mallik 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Dear Professional friends, In the information age we became the most important among all professionals, but in carreer and opportunities we are far away from real things.Today in our education industry there is many more scopes to provide regular professional as well as corresspondence courses and both the courses get equal opportunities, still then regular courses has no more importance, As am writing this , whenever our regular students applied for any post they are not called for interview or cutoff when short listing , as there is less percentage as compared to corresponding courses,In my opinion if reqiured criteria if full filled then without short listing there may be other option like written test or screening test, then there is scope of getting better result, because in regular courses there is too much difficult to get much more percentage as compared to correspondence.But the selection commettee makes cuttoff candidates having eligibility criteria full filled, So my request to our professional's who are in recruitment committee should think fo it. thank you Raj Kumar Mallik Research Assitant, Scientometric Unit Indian Council Of Medical Research (ICMR) V.Ramalingaswami Bhavan Ansari Nagar New Delhi-110029 --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP. Dear Professional friends, In the information age we became the most important among all professionals, but in carreer and opportunities we are far away from real things.Today in our education industry there is many more scopes to provide regular professional as well as corresspondence courses and both the courses get equal opportunities, still then regular courses has no more importance, As am writing this , whenever our regular students applied for any post they are not called for interview or cutoff when short listing , as there is less percentage as compared to corresponding courses,In my opinion if reqiured criteria if full filled then without short listing there may be other option like written test or screening test, then there is scope of getting better result, because in regular courses there is too much difficult to get much more percentage as compared to correspondence.But the selection commettee makes cuttoff candidates having eligibility criteria full filled, So my request to our professional's who are in recruitment committee should think fo it. thank you Raj Kumar Mallik Research Assitant, Scientometric Unit Indian Council Of Medical Research (ICMR) V.Ramalingaswami Bhavan Ansari Nagar New Delhi-110029 Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/holidayprints/*http://pa.yahoo.com/… See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP.

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Monologue of Ranganathan - MULISSA activity at DLIS, Mysore
by N.S. Harinarayana 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Let's Hear Ranganathan - Friday Talk activity at DLIS, Mysore S.R. Ranganathan is undoubtedly an undisputed champion of Indian librarianship. His seminal contributions, particularly in the field of library classification, have attracted the attention of the best in the world. Melvil Dewey and Ranganathan, the two giants in the field of Library Classification, never met face to face. But Ranganathan, on few occasions, has communicated with Dewey. Ranganathan�s talk in 1964 on his interactions with Dewey has been recorded at University of Toronto and digitized by William Denton (available at http://www.miskatonic.org/library/ranganathan-audio.html) We came to know about this in one of the postings in LIS-FORUM. With a view to inspire students, the Department of Library and Information Science (DLIS), University of Mysore, Mysore had organized the local broadcasting of the audio file on the Friday, January 13, 2006. As some part of the audio is not clear, the transcription of the same was also simultaneously displayed using a multimedia projector. In the opinion of the students, they were trilled to hear Ranganathan in absentia. More than 45 students and a few faculty members attended the event. This event was organized by Mysore University Library and Information Science Students Association (MULISSA). Dr. Mallinath Kumbar, Chairman, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore in his introductory remarks outlined the major contributions of Ranganathan to Library and Information Science in general and library classification in particular. -- N.S.Harinarayana Ph.D Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri, Mysore 570 006 Ph: 2419393 -- N.S.Harinarayana Ph.D Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri, Mysore 570 006 Ph: 2419393 !DSPAM:43cf2b46148781804284693!

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Knowledge Society, Societal GRID and Knowledge Sharing
by Sukhdev Singh 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

I would like to present some extracts Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam'srecent speech. These are on Knowledge Society, Societal GRID andKnowledge Sharing. -------------------------------------------------------- Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.INAUGURAL ADDRESS AT THE PARTNERSHIP SUMMIT 2006, 17-01-2006. KOLKATAhttp://presidentofindia.nic.in/scripts/eventslatest1.jsp?id=1126 ..."The whole purpose of education in a country is to develop andenhance the potential of our human resource and progressivelytransform it into a knowledge society. The knowledge society will be asociety producing products and services that are rich in both explicitand tacit knowledge, thus creating value added products. The realcapital of this knowledge society will be its knowledge components.The society will be highly networked to create knowledge intensiveenvironment along with enabling process to efficiently create, share,use and protect knowledge. Our education system should re-align itselfat the earliest to meet the needs of the present day challenges and befully geared to participate in the societal transformation throughinnovation, which is the key to competitiveness. It should alsodevelop a global outlook. India has many strengths. It has to reachout and make our individuals and institution capable of succeeding ina competitive world".... "The core of the connectivity model is Electronic Connectivity forprosperity of one billion people is the partnership betweengovernmental and multiple institutions in the public and privatedomains. The strength of this partnership for collaborative growth andeconomic prosperity is facilitated by free flow of knowledge andinformation in a seamless manner cutting across levels and boundariesembracing all walks of life in the three sectors of the economy suchas Agriculture, manufacturing and services sector.".. ..."To maximize the synergy between the various components ofeducation, healthcare, e-governance, rural development we need toestablish connectivities among them. These connectivities willcertainly bring seamless access and information flow among the variousdomains leading to maximization of GDP and productivity; hence, thereis need for establishing the GRIDs namely Knowledge grid, healthcaregrid, e-governance grid and the PURA knowledge grid. Thisinterconnecting grid will be known as societal grid. Knowledgesharing, knowledge utilization and knowledge re-use is very vital byall constituents of the society for promoting non-linear growth."... --------------------------------------------------- --Sukhdev Singh.http://openmed.nic.in

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Dr. Cholin's Demise
by Francis Jayakanth 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

I have been away from office (and email) for more than a week now. The sad news about the untimely demise of Dr. Cholin was revealed to me just yesterday. It was indeed shocking news for me. It is very unfortunate that the LIS fraternity has lost yet another stalwart in a short span of time. Apart from being a great professional, he was a true gentleman, ever willing to lend a helping hand to anybody who was in need of it. I had had couple email exchanges with him just the last week and it is hard to believe that he is no more with us today. I have just been able to go through couple of messages posted on this forum about Dr. Cholin's achievements. It is very impressive and heartening that an alumni of NCSI had so much of professional achievements in a short career of just over a decade. As Mr. Prafulla Chandra has rightly mentioned, like his teacher and mentor, late Dr. T B Rajashekar, Dr. Cholin is a role model for the budding LIS professionals. My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family. Francis NCSI, IISc -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)

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Denial of F.I.P for Librarians in Kerala
by Gopakumar Velayudhanpillai 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Dear Professionals, I am doing Ph.D. under the F.I.P scheme of the UGC from June 2005. Now the authorities in the Directorate of Collegiate Education and Higher Education Secretariate are saying that Librarians donct come under Teaching Fellows. As such they have denied another applicant's claim for F.I.P. I fear that my tenure in F.I.P also will be ended by a government order. Please give your opinions and suggestions so that I can manage this situation which may gradually affect others also. I request the authorities of Kerala Library Association to be alert in this matter. Gopakuamr.V Research Scholar, Department of Library & Information Science Magalore University Mangalagangothri, Mangalore - 574 199 Gopakumar.V Research Scholar Department of Library & Information Science Mangalore University Mangalagangotri gopakumar.v(a)rediffmail.com Dear Professionals, I am doing Ph.D. under the F.I.P scheme of the UGC from June 2005. Now the authorities in the Directorate of Collegiate Education and Higher Education Secretariate are saying that Librarians donct come under Teaching Fellows. As such they have denied another applicant's claim for F.I.P. I fear that my tenure in F.I.P also will be ended by a government order. Please give your opinions and suggestions so that I can manage this situation which may gradually affect others also. I request the authorities of Kerala Library Association to be alert in this matter. Gopakuamr.V Research Scholar, Department of Library & Information Science Magalore University Mangalagangothri, Mangalore - 574 199 Gopakumar.V Research Scholar Department of Library & Information Science Mangalore University Mangalagangotri gopakumar.v(a)rediffmail.com http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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So Sad
by Chinmaya Rout 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Dear Friends I am deeply shocked to know the unfortunate & sad demise od Dr. Cholin the young scintist of INFLIBNET. May God give peace to the departed soul and give strength and courage to the family members to bear the loss. I strongly believe that the LIS community will remember him forever. Regards, With Regards:- Chinmaya Kumar Rout ICMR Library(Room No-213) Ansari Nagar New Delhi-29 Mobile No-09868412978 Phone No-011-26589585(O) Dear Friends I am deeply shocked to know the unfortunate & sad demise od Dr. Cholin the young scintist of INFLIBNET. May God give peace to the departed soul and give strength and courage to the family members to bear the loss. I strongly believe that the LIS community will remember him forever. Regards, With Regards:- Chinmaya Kumar Rout ICMR Library(Room No-213) Ansari Nagar New Delhi-29 Mobile No-09868412978 Phone No-011-26589585(O) http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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