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ILO, Geneva Job Offer
by Puna Das 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

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Open Course ware
by Subbiah Arunachalam 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Friends: The institutions listed below have publicly committed to the open publication of their materials in "opencourseware" initiatives, and are devoting resources to support these OCW projects. Incidentally, OCW was started by MIT, Cambridge. Not a single Indian university has joined the Open Course Ware movement! If we have an Alliance of Taxpayers, we can demand our universities to provide free access to their course ware! Arun China Visit the portal page for 156 Chinese-university OCW projects, featuring the following universities a.. Peking University b.. Tsinghua University c.. Zhejiang University d.. Xi'an Jiaotong University e.. Central South University f.. Beijing Jiaotong University g.. Sichuan University h.. Beijing Normal University i.. Dalian University of Technology j.. Central Radio and Television University k.. Shanghai Jiaotong University l.. Nanjing University m.. Jilin University n.. Northwest Polytechnic University o.. Southeast University p.. Sun Yat-Sen University q.. Fudan University r.. Huazhong University of Science and Technology s.. Renmin University of China t.. Huazhong Agricultural University Japan Visit the portal page for the following Japanese-university OCW projects a.. Keio University b.. Kyoto University c.. Tokyo Institute of Technology d.. Osaka University e.. University of Tokyo f.. Waseda University United States a.. Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health b.. Tufts University c.. Utah State University Vietnam a.. Fulbright Economics Teaching Program OCW Friends: The institutions listed below have publicly committed to the open publication of their materials in opencourseware initiatives, and are devoting resources to support these OCW projects. Incidentally, OCW was started by MIT, Cambridge. Not a single Indian university has joined the Open Course Ware movement! If we have an Alliance of Taxpayers, we can demand our universities to provide free access to their course ware! Arun China Visit the portal page for http://cnq.ocw.cn/ 156 Chinese-university OCW projects , featuring the following universities Peking University Tsinghua University Zhejiang University Xi'an Jiaotong University Central South University Beijing Jiaotong University Sichuan University Beijing Normal University Dalian University of Technology Central Radio and Television University Shanghai Jiaotong University Nanjing University Jilin University Northwest Polytechnic University Southeast University Sun Yat-Sen University Fudan University Huazhong University of Science and Technology Renmin University of China Huazhong Agricultural University Japan Visit the portal page for the http://www.jocw.jp/ following Japanese-university OCW projects Keio University Kyoto University Tokyo Institute of Technology Osaka University University of Tokyo Waseda University United States http://ocw.jhsph.edu/ Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health http://ocw.tufts.edu/?WT.mc_id=Link1 Tufts University http://ocw.usu.edu/ Utah State University Vietnam http://ocw.fetp.edu.vn/fetpocw.cfm Fulbright Economics Teaching Program OCW

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request for article
by Yashwant G. Kanade 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Respected Sir, I am in need of the following two papers. If you can help me find it, it would be of very great help. #1 Lack, D 1947. The significance of clutch size, I-II. Ibis, 89, 302-352. #2 Skutch, A.F 1949. Do tropical birds rear as many young as they can nourish? Ibis, 91, 430-435. Thank You Sir. -- R. Yuvaraj, Int. PhD in Biological Sciences, C/O Dr. Renee M Borges, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. 560012 Phone +91-080-22933103

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OA and Copyright are compatible
by Sukhdev Singh 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Dear Friends, I would like put forward a discussion between me and IJP editor on OA-India discussion forum. The comments by Dr. Peter Suber, an active advocate of OA, shows how OA and Copyright can be compatible with other. Please read all the emails. Thanks Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in http://indmed.nic.in http://medind.nic.in ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Suber <peters(a)earlham.edu> Date: Oct 31, 2005 10:09 PM Subject: Re: [oa-india] Re: OA To: Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev(a)gmail.com>, Discussion Group for Open Access Workshop India <oa-india(a)dgroups.org> Cc: harnad(a)uqam.ca, peters(a)earlham.edu Sukhdev's response is correct. But I can elaborate further if that would help. Copyright is only anathema to OA when it is in the hands of someone who will not consent to OA. But when it is in the hands of someone who *will* consent to OA, then copyright is the legal basis of OA. It's the proof that the OA copy is not infringing anyone's rights. OA can be based on the absence of copyright (the public domain) or on copyright-holder consent. It's not limited to the former. For my own writings, I assert both the copyright and my consent to OA in order to answer all doubts about their status. The copyright statement means that I have the standing to authorize OA. The OA statement means that I have done so. In a similar way, Creative Commons licenses depend on copyright and do not bypass or abolish copyright. (Please feel free to forward this message to the OA-India list.) Best wishes, Peter Peter Suber Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College Author, SPARC Open Access Newsletter Editor, Open Access News blog http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/ peter.suber(a)earlham.edu At 05:06 AM 10/28/2005, Sukhdev Singh wrote: >In the copyright statement, "This is an open-access document" is >important. Which means that document can be further be distributed "as >such" along with copy-right notice. > >Please someone correct me if I am wrong. > >CC: harnad(a)uqam.ca and peters(a)earlham.edu for their comments. > >--Sukhdev Singh, NIC. >http://openmed.nic.in > > >On 10/28/05, R.Raveendran <ravee(a)jipmer.edu> wrote: > > Sukhdev > > > > There is a copyright statement at the bottom ("Copyright (c) 2004-2005, > > Peter Suber. This is an open-access document"). I thought copyright is > > anathema to OA and I am surprised the key protagonist of OA could not do > > without copyright!!!!!!! (Perhaps I need more lessons on OA). > > > > By the way, if I want to publish this write up (in toto) in the IJP, should > > I get permission from the copyright owner? > > > > R.Raveendran > > Chief Editor, IJP > > [IJP is a free access journal; not an OA journal] > > > > > > > > At 12:16 PM 10/26/2005, you wrote: > > >I am enclosing the contents of the link by Peter Suber on . Which > > >would be useful for anyone new to OA. Hope others won't mind. > > > > > >--Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in > > > > > >http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm > > > > > >A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access > > > by Peter Suber > > > > > > Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, > > >and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it > > >possible is the internet and the consent of the author or > > >copyright-holder. > > > > > > In most fields, scholarly journals do not pay authors, who can > > >therefore consent to OA without losing revenue. In this respect > > >scholars and scientists are very differently situated from most > > >musicians and movie-makers, and controversies about OA to music and > > >movies do not carry over to research literature. > > > > > > OA is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the major OA > > >initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on its > > >importance. Just as authors of journal articles donate their labor, so > > >do most journal editors and referees participating in peer review. > > > > > > OA literature is not free to produce, even if it is less expensive > > >to produce than conventionally published literature. The question is > > >not whether scholarly literature can be made costless, but whether > > >there are better ways to pay the bills than by charging readers and > > >creating access barriers. Business models for paying the bills depend > > >on how OA is delivered. > > > > > > There are two primary vehicles for delivering OA to research > > >articles: OA journals and OA archives or repositories. > > > > > > * OA archives or repositories do not perform peer review, but > > >simply make their contents freely available to the world. They may > > >contain unrefereed preprints, refereed postprints, or both. Archives > > >may belong to institutions, such as universities and laboratories, or > > >disciplines, such as physics and economics. Authors may archive their > > >preprints without anyone else's permission, and a majority of journals > > >already permit authors to archive their postprints. When archives > > >comply with the metadata harvesting protocol of the Open Archives > > >Initiative, then they are interoperable and users can find their > > >contents without knowing which archives exist, where they are located, > > >or what they contain. There is now open-source software for building > > >and maintaining OAI-compliant archives and worldwide momentum for > > >using it. The costs of an archive are negligible: some server space > > >and a fraction of the time of a technician. > > > > > > * OA journals perform peer review and then make the approved > > >contents freely available to the world. Their expenses consist of peer > > >review, manuscript preparation, and server space. OA journals pay > > >their bills very much the way broadcast television and radio stations > > >do: those with an interest in disseminating the content pay the > > >production costs upfront so that access can be free of charge for > > >everyone with the right equipment. Sometimes this means that journals > > >have a subsidy from the hosting university or professional society. > > >Sometimes it means that journals charge a processing fee on accepted > > >articles, to be paid by the author or the author's sponsor (employer, > > >funding agency). OA journals that charge processing fees usually waive > > >them in cases of economic hardship. OA journals with institutional > > >subsidies tend to charge no processing fees. OA journals can get by on > > >lower subsidies or fees if they have income from other publications, > > >advertising, priced add-ons, or auxiliary services. Some institutions > > >and consortia arrange fee discounts. Some OA publishers waive the fee > > >for all researchers affiliated with institutions that have purchased > > >an annual membership. There's a lot of room for creativity in finding > > >ways to pay the costs of a peer-reviewed OA journal, and we're far > > >from having exhausted our cleverness and imagination. > > > > > > For a longer introduction, with live links for further reading, > > >see my Open Access Overview, > > >http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm. > > > > > >First put online December 29, 2004. > > > > > >This introduction is also available in Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, > > >French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish and > > >Ukrainian. I welcome other translations. > > > > > >Peter Suber > > >Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge > > >Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College > > >Senior Researcher, SPARC > > >peters(a)earlham.edu > > > > > >Copyright (c) 2004-2005, Peter Suber. This is an open-access document.

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Shouldn't Indian libraries join either the Open Content Alliance or the Google Library?
by Subbiah Arunachalam 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Dear Balki: I have a specific question for you, as you are a pioneer and the first in India to set up both an open access institutional archive for research papers (at IISc) and the Million Books Digial Library. Should not major Indian libraries join the Open Content Alliance (promoted by Brewster Kahle) and/ or the Google Library? Major western libraries are joining one or the other, but our libraries have some unique collections in the areas of philosophy, religion, literature in our own languages, some of them (e.g. Sanskrit and Tamil) older than all the western languages, indigenous systems of medicine, etc. Please take the lead and make our books widely known and read around the world. Generations of Indians will begrateful to you! NCSI could be the nodal point. I am sure the Knowledge Commission and the Department of Culture can be approached for any funds required. Microsoft (USA) has pledged to scan 150,000 books. May be you could ask Microsoft (India) and other IT majors to lend support. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Dear Balki: I have a specific question for you, as you are a pioneer and the first in India to set up both an open access institutional archive for research papers (at IISc) and the Million Books Digial Library. Should not major Indian libraries join the Open Content Alliance (promoted by Brewster Kahle) and/ or the Google Library? Major western libraries are joining one or the other, but our libraries have some unique collections in the areas of philosophy, religion, literature in our own languages, some of them (e.g. Sanskrit and Tamil) older than all the western languages, indigenous systems of medicine, etc. Please take the lead and make our books widely known and read around the world. Generations of Indians will begrateful to you! NCSI could be the nodal point. I am sure the Knowledge Commission and the Department of Culture can be approached for any funds required. Microsoft (USA) has pledged to scan 150,000 books. May be you could ask Microsoft (India) and other IT majors to lend support. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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(no subject)
by Subbiah Arunachalam 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

UNESCO endorses OA On September 22, UNESCO adopted Amendments to the Draft Programme and Budget for 2006-2007 that have the effect of endorsing OA. (Thanks to Heather Morrison.) Excerpt: [UNESCO] Requests the Member States (a) to foster through the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) dissemination of the principles of open access; (b) to foster dissemination of the principles of open access, particularly in universities; (c) to promote developing countries open access to archives for the sake of spreading scientific know-how; Invites the Director-General (a) to assess the feasibility of creating a database on existing open access initiatives worldwide and to report at the forthcoming sessions of the Executive Board and the General Conference on the progress of open access strategies throughout the world; (b) to promote a network of national working groups with a view to fostering open access in their universities, to cooperate internationally in initiatives and projects on the subject of open access, and to promote the training of experts for cooperation in the publication of and open access to texts free of charge.

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Regarding Bibliogrphy compilation on Museology
by Rehan Siddiqui 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Dear friends, I am working in National Museum of Mankind, bhopal as an Information Asstt. My Inst. has decided to compile and publish a comprehensive bibliography on museology : Science of museum. I want y' r help in this regard and want to information from you. So please suggests the primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Sources , E-sources, INTERNET links, other digital database in this field or whrerever you may find. This information will be very helpful to us to compile Bibliography and will be acknowledged in our book. So please guide me right sousce and give relevent information in this regard. Thanking You Mohammad Rehan Library and Information Asstt. Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya Post Box No. 2, Shamla Hills, Bhopal (M.P.) Ph. 0755- 2661290 2661319 --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. Dear friends, I am working in National Museum of Mankind, bhopal as an Information Asstt. My Inst. has decided to compile and publish a comprehensive bibliography on museology : Science of museum. I want y' r help in this regard and want to information from you. So please suggests the primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Sources , E-sources, INTERNET links, other digital database in this field or whrerever you may find. This information will be very helpful to us to compile Bibliography and will be acknowledged in our book. So please guide me right sousce and give relevent information in this regard. Thanking You Mohammad Rehan Library and Information Asstt. Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya Post Box No. 2, Shamla Hills, Bhopal (M.P.) Ph. 0755- 2661290 2661319 http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylc=X3oDMTFqODRtdXQ4BF9TAzMyOTc1MDIEX3MDOTY2ODgxNj… Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.

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[Fwd: Alliance for Taxpayer Access]
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Alliance for Taxpayer Access From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah.arunachalam(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, November 1, 2005 7:56 pm To: arun(a)mssrf.res.in nvjoshi(a)ces.iisc.ernet.in ratnakar(a)informindia.co.in dksahu(a)medknow.com franc(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in balki(a)serc.iisc.ernet.in shaddy.shadrach(a)oneworld.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Bowdoin joins the ATA* The Bowdoin College Library <http://www.bowdoin.edu/> has joined<http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/member.html>the Alliance for Taxpayer Access <http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/>. (PS: If your US-based university, library, or non-profit organization has not joined the ATA, please recommend it. The ATA is a major force in OA advocacy in the US.) ---- We should promote an Alliance for Taxpayer Access in India! Especially with the Right to Information Act and the many initiatives in the area of e-governance, such an Alliance will be of great relevance. The Alliance can also promote OA to publicly funded research. Please forward this mail to others who might be interested in such an Alliance Arun

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OA for developing countries and public health
by Subbiah Arunachalam 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

The case for OA is powerfully argued in an article in PLoS Pathology. Arun ---- OA for developing countries and public health Josefina Coloma and Eva Harris, Open-Access Science: A Necessity for Global Public Health, PLoS Pathogens, October 2005. Excerpt: The world of scientific research and scholarly publishing is undergoing a profound transformation in large part due to the rapid development of information and communication technologies. The Internet and the advent of faster networking capabilities now allow virtually unlimited access to information, remote data gathering, real-time integration of data into databases and models, and online purchasing of research supplies. At the same time, it has opened new possibilities for researchers to communicate with colleagues and with the society in general. However, although some investigators in the developing world are keeping pace with this new reality, the majority are largely excluded from this transformation because of their limited access to scientific information. Particularly relevant to the area of pathogen research, the vast majority of infectious diseases in humans, animals, and plants occurs in the developing world, and efficient communication between local scientists in developing countries and the global community will facilitate advances in knowledge and control of these pathogens. Here we discuss open access and socially responsible philosophies in relation to scientific training, publishing, and intellectual property, and give examples of how we can help keep the developing world fully informed about these new models....In the developing world, scientists face a greater challenge to remain informed about the progress in their fields of research. Although they are disproportionately affected by infectious diseases, they are excluded from the relevant information that might help them cure, control, and manage the effects of these diseases....The first principle we should all support is that publicly funded research should be made publicly available through the most appropriate open-access channel. Funding agencies and reviewers need to give researchers credit, not penalize them, for efforts to publish in new open-access media. Even with strict peer review, new electronic journals will not immediately attain the same impact status as traditional print journals, but they will have a greater reach and a larger global influence. In fact, it has been shown that online accessibility increases the citation rate and, thus, the impact of a journal by 157%. This new online publishing venue might be the only way that scientists in the developing world conducting highly relevant research can make their data available to the world. It might also be the only means for them to obtain the most recent and relevant information for their research....We believe the whole spectrum of scientific endeavor should be as open access as possible, from training in laboratory and epidemiological techniques, proposal writing, and manuscript-writing skills to open-access publishing and socially responsible intellectual property policies. In this way, a new door of opportunity can be opened so that the fruits of our scientific breakthroughs are disseminated worldwide and benefit global public health.

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(no subject)
by Subbiah Arunachalam 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

Friends: Here is one reason why we need to promote open access WORLDWIDE. Escalating prices of journals have led to cancellations of subscriptions even in affluent libraries. But physicists are by and large not affected because many of them adopted open access about 15 years ago! Arun ---- >From Peter Suber's blog of 31 October 2005 More on the pricing crisis Anna Norman, Cost of scientific journals 'staggering', The Daily (newspaper of the University of Washington at Seattle), October 31, 2005. Excerpt: Every quarter, students wonder how to pay for expensive textbooks. The rising costs of scientific and scholarly journals is creating the same problem for the UW libraries, said Timothy Jewell, head of Collection Management Services, which manages research databases and scholarly journals...."The prices of [the journals] are just staggering," said UW President Mark Emmert. "If you went down a list of some of these major journals, you would see series with four issues a year for over $8,000."...Jewell cited publisher consolidation as the primary reason for soaring prices. "A lot of the smaller publishers have been bought out by large, multinational corporations," he said. "The largest scientific, technical and health journal publisher, Elsevier, has been overtaking publishers for the last 10 years or so." With fewer companies dominating the market, journal prices have risen exponentially Despite an estimated 7 to 8 percent increase each year aimed at journal costs, the libraries' budget isn't keeping up with escalating expenses, Jewell said. "In years that we can't find the necessary funding to pay, we have to cancel our subscriptions to stay in budget," he said....Although the library staff has increased funding, there is no end to cancellations in sight, said Mel DeSart, head of the Engineering Library. "I've only been here for five and a half years, and I've already been through two cancellations," he said. "They are substantial cuts - we've cut thousands of titles over the last ten years."...Without major changes in the academic publishing market, Jewell said he isn't sure where the libraries will be a few years from now.

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