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ACRL supports OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

Friends: Here is an item from Peter Suber's blog. Arun ---- ACRL journal now OA with six-month embargo The ACRL has announced that new issues of College & Research Libraries will be available free online after a six month embargo. From yesterday's press release: The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is pleased to announce that its scholarly research journal College & Research Libraries is available free of charge in PDF format on the ACRL website six months after publication. Retrospective issues now are available through volume 58 (1997). "The editorial board is delighted that the journal is freely available in its electronic form, said William Gray Potter, editor of College & Research Libraries. This new arrangement will benefit both the authors and the readers by making the articles more widely available. Exposing the content to Internet search engines will also make it easier to find and read the articles. At the same time, we are committed to preserving the rigorous review process that has served ACRL and the profession well over the past sixty-six years." ACRL supports open access to scholarship as a principle for reform in the system of scholarly communication. In addition to this new access to College & Research Libraries, ACRL encourages author self-archiving of its published articles in both institutional and disciplinary repositories. College & Research Libraries is a premier journal for research related to academic libraries, said ACRL Scholarly Communication Committee Chair Ray English. Making the contents of the journal openly accessible, following a six-month delay, will be of great benefit to practicing academic librarians and researchers, and it will also help authors increase the impact of their work. This move underscores ACRL's strong commitment to access to scholarly research. Permanent link to this post Posted by Peter Suber at 11/09/2005 04:51:00 PM.

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[Fwd: Current Science Special Section on Citation Indexing]
by Subbiah Arunachalam 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Friends: Subject: Special Section in Current Science on 50 years of Citation Indexing Current Science dated 10th November 2005 has come out (saw it on the web about an hour back) and contains a Special Section on "50 Years of Citation Indexing". You can see it on the web at http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/nov102005/contents.htm It contains ten articles on various aspects of citation indexing, its origins, present status, WOS and its competitiors and a colour advertisement on WOS. The articles are interesting not only to know the developments of WOS, Garfield's views on various issues pertaining to indexing and his seminal papers published in 1955 in "Science". Arun, who put together this special section, has contributed a short introduction ("In this issue"). Please spread the word. Happy reading. With best wishes A Ratnakar New Delhi

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Re: [bytesforall_readers] Fwd: Re: [GKD] $100 Laptop World-wide
by Subbiah Arunachalam 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

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Website security
by T.V. Prafulla Chandra 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

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On OA in Canada - 1
by Subbiah Arunachalam 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

BCLA comment for the SSHRC consultation on OA The British Columbia Library Association has publicly released its October 27 comment for the SSHRC consultation on OA. Excerpt (Thanks to Peter Suber): Overall, our belief is that the results of SSHRC funded research should be immediately openly accessible, with perhaps some exceptions, such as monographs. Results of research should be placed in an institutional repository. SSHRC funding for journals should cover all peer review, administration and manuscript preparation costs, but not costs associated with distribution. SSHRC funding for journals should be limited to fully open access journals....Whether funded by SSHRC or not, librarians are very actively engaged in open access. Many are depositing their articles in institutional repositories, or one of the two disciplinary repositories for Library and Information Sciences: E-LIS and D-LIST. Many are also publishing in open access journals. The British Columbia Library Association, in partnership with other library associations across the province, is in the process of developing a new, open access journal. Libraries and librarians are also leading the development of institutional repositories, as exemplified by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries Institutional Repository program.

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OA in Canada
by Subbiah Arunachalam 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

Friends: Here is an interesting article from the Toronto Star and it is of great relevance to scientists and scholars in India. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --- http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1000 The Canadian Move Toward Open Access [Appeared in the Toronto Star on November 8, 2005 as What Good Are Ideas If You Lock Them Up?] Prime Minister Paul Martin' s decision to appoint Dr. Arthur Carty, the former head of the National Research Council, as Canada' s first national science advisor, clearly signaled the importance of research and development to the nation' s future economic prosperity. This month Dr. Carty sent a clear message of his own - scientific success increasingly depends upon fostering a "culture of sharing" based on open access models of communication that leveragwww.ue the Internet to disseminate research quickly and freely to all. The move toward an open access model represents a dramatic shift for the scientific and research communities. For decades, politicians and policy makers have emphasized greater intellectual property protections as the key to research success. As a result, Ottawa has regularly increased the level of copyright protection and is, in fact, facing renewed pressure to consider extending protection with new database rights and an extension in the term of copyright protection. It is no surprise that the primary winners under this approach have been the major scientific journal publishers. While researchers rarely receive compensation for their contributions, the publishers have enjoyed a financial windfall by charging thousands of dollars for journals filled with the free content generated with the financial support of the public purse through millions of dollars in research grants. To add to the frustration, the researchers are themselves the publishers' best customers - universities, supported by taxpayer dollars, spend millions on research only to buy back the results of that research with millions more for scientific journals. As Dr. Carty notes, the future success of scientific research depends upon changing this debilitating cycle. He argues that "an open-access philosophy is critical to the system' s success: if research findings and knowledge are to be built upon and used by other scientists, then this knowledge must be widely available on the web, not just stored in published journals that are often expensive and not universally available." The movement towards open access is taking hold in many countries around the globe. The National Institute of Health in the United States and the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom have both announced that all of their funded research must be housed in archives that are available to other scientists and the general public. Moreover, last year a UK Parliamentary Committee recommended open access in a report titled "Scientific Publications: Free For All?." Open access has also attracted increasing attention from individual scientists. Several years ago more than 34,000 scientists in 180 countries called on publishers to make primary research articles available through online libraries, while the 2003 Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities encouraged scientists to publish in open access journals. Private sector initiatives have similarly embraced open access. The Public Library of Science, founded in 2000, has emerged as one of the leading scientific publishers, attracting contributions from leaders in many scientific fields seeking to publish under an open access model. Similarly, the Creative Commons initiative, which facilitates more limited copyright controls over content, has experienced an explosive increase in the number of works under its licenses. Now searchable through both Yahoo and Google, more than 60 million works including books, music, and films, have adopted Creative Commons licenses. In Canada, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, a leading federal granting agency, has become the first such agency to commit to open access for federally funded research. The SSHRC, which just concluded a public consultation on the issue, plans to ensure that all funded research will be freely available online in full text. As Dr. Carty acknowledges, a culture of sharing will require "a new mindset among researchers, administrators, governments and in some cases companies - everyone involved in the creation and dissemination of knowledge." This is certainly true of politicians. Dr. Carty notes that regulatory frameworks, presumably including copyright, may require change. Yet rather than facilitating reforms that would benefit research and education, last week Canadian Heritage Minister Liza Frulla assured the House of Commons that Canada' s current copyright reform proposal "does not touch education." Across town, Industry Minister David Emerson used an address to the Canadian Club to rightly emphasize the need for national broadband connectivity and greater scholarship funding, yet he neglected to reference adoption of open access models to disseminate Canadian research. The failure to include policy reforms to facilitate the unlocking knowledge is an embarrassment. Canada has a world class Internet infrastructure and has experienced impressive growth in university based research and development. In fact, last week Statistics Canada reported that Canadian universities have also succeeded in greater commercialization of research initiatives with hundreds of spin-off companies that create new jobs and opportunities for all. If Canada is to maintain that growth, we should follow the advice of our new national science advisor. Science and research success depends on tearing down barriers, not erecting them. A national commitment to open access is the right place to start. Michael Geist holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. He can reached at mgeist(a)uottawa.ca or online at www.michaelgeist.ca.

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Open Document Fellowship
by Subbiah Arunachalam 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

Friends: Please visit http://opendocumentfellowship.org/Main/HomePage, if you have not done so already. I have not had the time yet to go through this site. But soon I will. Arun Friends: Please visit http://opendocumentfellowship.org/Main/HomePage http://opendocumentfellowship.org/Main/HomePage , if you have not done so already. I have not had the time yet to go through this site. But soon I will. Arun

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Winners of MAKE - 2005
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

FYI Pls ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The winners of the 8th annual Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) study, conducted by Teleos in association with The KNOW Network, have been announced. This year the following organizations have been recognized as 2005 Global MAKE Winners (in alphabetical order): - Accenture - BMW - BP - Buckman Laboratories - Dell - Ernst & Young - General Electric - Google - IBM - Infosys Technologies - McKinsey & Company - Microsoft - Nokia - PricewaterhouseCoopers - Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) - Samsung Group - Siemens - Sony - 3M - Toyota - Wipro Technologies To obtain your free Executive Summary of the "2005 Global MAKE Report," contact Teleos at e-mail: make_information(a)mac.com The 2005 MAKE reports - Asia, Europe, India, Japan, North America and Global - are available from Teleos either individually or as a set. Each report contains MAKE rankings, key findings, best knowledge practices, leaders by business sectors, trends, and profiles of winners. For more information on purchasing the MAKE Reports, contact: teleos(a)mac.com Best wishes Rory Chase Managing Director Teleos Tel: +44 1234 314197 Fax: +44 1234 308824 E-mail: teleos(a)mac.com Website: http://www.knowledgebusiness.com -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Google Advance Search: A way out of Copyright issues
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

Dear Friends Many of you must be using Google. Google Advanced Search has one extra option now. It is under Usage Rights. There are three options (drop down menu) here. If you choose the last one here ("can be freely modified, adapted or built upon"), the results would contain items or pages that are free of copyright problem. This is one way of making sure that we do not unknowingly infringe upon others copyright -- that is if we bother about it!! -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, SENIORS (Society for Enriched Information of Relevance to Seniors), 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500018 Phone 27846631

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Blogging Competition at DLIS, Mysore
by N.S. Harinarayana 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

Blogs have taken the world by storm. Blogs and RSS (Real Simple Syndication/Rich Site Summary) feeds and their applications in libraries are increasing exponentially. These applications range from current awareness type of settings in keeping up-to-date with new information, table of contents alerts of journal articles, feeds based on a research query in electronic databases, and news alerts from different subject areas. To introduce the students to the world of blogs, the Department of Library and Information Science (DLIS), University of Mysore, Mysore has organised a unique competition called �Express Yourself Online�. The modus operandi of the competition is as follows: � Students have to create their own blogs in Google blogger. � They have post their thoughts for a fortnight period starting from November 1, 2005. They can write on any topic of their choice. � Students can post as many entries as they wish during this period. � Two judges will be visiting these blogs frequently and provide suitable tips to individual bloggers. � Two best student bloggers will receive prizes. The links for the student blogs are available at http://nsharinarayana.blogspot.com . The judges of the competition have also created their blogs for this purpose and they are available at http://1ofthejudge.blogspot.com and http://2ndjudge.blogspot.com . LIS-FORUM members may visit these blogs and give comments. The two objectives of this competition are to induce some element of online culture in the students and to provide opportunity to express their thoughts freely. We feel that writing skills of students may be improved to some extent through this competition. The blogging competition is one of the events organized by Mysore University Library and Information Science Students Association (MULISSA). -- N.S.Harinarayana Ph.D Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri, Mysore 570 006 Ph: 2419393

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