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Intern for couple of months
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

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Sharing your book collection with strangers !!!
by Jayadev P Hiremath 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

FYI. Regards. Jayadev P Hiremath http://www.bookcrossing.com/ bookcrossing n. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise. Let's get right down to it. You know the feeling you get after reading a book that speaks to you, that touches your life, a feeling that you want to share it with someone else? BookCrossing.com gives you a simple way to share books with the world, and follow their paths forever! http://www.mybookyourbook.co.uk mybookyourbook can best be described as an on-line co-operative library. Each member contributes a small number of book titles to the central database at mybookyourbook with these books remaining on their own shelf until requested by another member. Imagine a catalogue consisting of several thousand books spread throughout the country! The more members, the greater the choice of books. www.paperbackswap.com What is PaperBackSwap? We are a group of real people who have formed a Club to swap paperback books with each other. No gimmicks. No spam. No advertising. No kidding. We are not a large corporation trying to sell you something. We're just a group of real folks who wanted a way of trading paperbacks with each other through the U.S. mail. Please read the testimonials and you will understand that this book club is for rea

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FW: mylibrary@ockham
by Madhuresh 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

FYI. Index of various subjects and topics like Library Science (4100 articles), Life Science (35,000 articles), Mathematics (150,000 articles), Medicine (15,000 articles), Theses (182,000), Journals (1500 Open Access), Articles (57,000), EBooks (1200) etc. is available. All these can be searched separately as well as with a single Master Index. Just do a search and see the various functionalities and options it offers. From: emorgan(a)nd.edu Date: August 24, 2005 08:12:23 EDT [Please excuse the cross-posting.] Thanks to the GREAT work of Xiaorong Xiang (a Ph.D student here at Notre Dame in Computer Science), we have all but finished the development work on MyLibrary@Ockham. See: http://mylibrary.ockham.org/ MyLibrary@Ockham uses MyLibrary to collect, organize, and cache more than 430,000 records harvested from various scholarly OAI archives. The system then uses reports written against the database to find things like all the items classified as articles or all the items classified as medicine. These reports are sent to an indexer (Plucene), and finally an SRU interface was created allowing people to search the index. The SRU interface sports a number of cool features including: * lists of suggested alternative spellings with ASPELL * lists of possible synonyms using WordNet * lists of statistically created keyword The point of all this work is three-fold: 1) to demonstrate how digital library collections and services can be easily implemented using standard protocols and open source software 2) to address the perennial problem of "finding more like this one" 3) to demonstrate how the library profession can collect, organize, archive, and disseminate scholarly content if it is published using open access publishing techniques For more information about the system as well as to see how the content is organized, see: http://mylibrary.ockham.org/?cmd=about http://mylibrary.ockham.org/?cmd=facets Fun! -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 212 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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Faculty positions
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Dear colleague FYI The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at San Diego State University is looking to fill a few positions for next academic year: * Biomathematics/Dynamical Systems (Tenure track, Assistant Prof) * Chair (open field and open rank) * Algebra and/or Discrete Mathematics (Tenure track, Assistant Prof) Would you be so kind in distributing/posting this information for any potential candidates within your department/center? The html versions of the job postings can be found at: http://nlds.sdsu.edu/search2005.html ++ Mukesh ++ - - Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing Monitor Information Services # 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda, Opp. Deepak Theatre, Hyderabad - 500 029, India Telephone: 040-55787065 Fax: +91-40-27552390 http://www.monitorinfo.com Importers n Distributors of Technical Publications Dear colleague FYI The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at San Diego State University is looking to fill a few positions for next academic year: * Biomathematics/Dynamical Systems (Tenure track, Assistant Prof) * Chair (open field and open rank) * Algebra and/or Discrete Mathematics (Tenure track, Assistant Prof) Would you be so kind in distributing/posting this information for any potential candidates within your department/center? The html versions of the job postings can be found at: http://nlds.sdsu.edu/search2005.html http://nlds.sdsu.edu/search2005.html ++ Mukesh ++ - - Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing Monitor Information Services # 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda, Opp. Deepak Theatre, Hyderabad - 500 029, India Telephone: 040-55787065 Fax: +91-40-27552390 http://www.monitorinfo.com http://www.monitorinfo.com Importers n Distributors of Technical Publications

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InfoVision-2005
by Mailing List Manager 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:01:23 +0000 From: Ravichandra Rao.I.K. <ikrrao(a)hotmail.com> � The first ever-global summit InfoVision-2005, will be held in Bangalore for practicing Information Professionals � both from Industries and Academia. � It is being organized with an objective to provide an opportunity for the LIS Professionals to interact with the leaders in the field. � The summit is organized by IIT-B and Informatics, Bangalore for two days from 15 th September 2005. The summit focuses on: �� . IT & IM � E-learning & digital libraries � IPM � ideologies, legalities and technologies � Polity framework for information society � E-publishing � KM etc � Those who have not yet registered, may kindly contact the Secretariat of the InfoVision-2005. � For details, see : � http://www.infovision2005.org/ I.K. RAVICHANDRA RAO Member, Organizing Committee

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On the advantages of OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Friends in Africa: Universities and research labs in Africa needs OA more than anyone else. Friends of OA would like to hear your voices supporting and demanding OA. Best wishes. Arun ----- Response to Olivieri In the August 27 issue of the Times Higher Education Supplement, Stephen Pinfield and Paul Ayris have a letter to the editor responding to Rene Olivieri's article of August 19, Making a pig's ear of an unscientific free-for-all. Excerpt: It is ironic that Rene Olivieri's criticism of supporters of open access...often lapsed into the polemical when this was a label he was trying to pin on his opponents. Despite his calls for the current debate to be more scientific, he omitted to mention many of the relevant facts. In particular, he failed to acknowledge the anomalies of the current system of research publishing. Universities generate research papers, give them away free of charge to publishers and then buy them back at high prices. Researchers give away their services as authors, referees and editorial board members all free of charge and yet their institutions have to buy back the value they have added. Prices are high because (as the Office of Fair Trading has observed) price competition does not properly operate in the academic periodicals market. This means institutions cannot afford to purchase all of the periodicals they would like and so researchers do not have easy access to all of the literature they need. Furthermore, society in general cannot get access to research funded by public money. Researchers want their work to be read and cited, and yet the impact their work can make is being limited. The rise of the Web, which makes wide distribution of content quick and easy, is making the system - which was developed a paper-based world - look anachronistic. Open access has the potential to overcome many of these problems. It is not just an interesting theory. There are a number of working examples, ranging from institutional databases of research papers to new peer reviewed journals. Many mainstream publishers are themselves experimenting with open access models and funding bodies are investing in experiments and studies to see what the future holds. Increasingly, research funders and governments are coming to see the benefits. Better communication means better science. Widening access will benefit the scientific community but will also bring benefits to health care, knowledge transfer and the public understanding of science. Empirical evidence of these benefits is beginning to emerge. Further work should be encouraged for the benefit of the academic community and society in general. Rather than try to turn back the oncoming tide, publishers such as Mr Olivieri would be better advised to ride the wave. Stephen Pinfield is the Deputy Chief Information Officer and Director of Research and Learning Resources at the University of Nottingham. Paul Ayris is the Director of Library Services and Copyright Officer at University College London. Friends in Africa: Universities and research labs in Africa needs OA more than anyone else. Friends of OA would like to hear your voices supporting and demanding OA. Best wishes. Arun ----- Response to Olivieri [A] In the August 27 issue of the http://www.thes.co.uk/current_edition/ Times Higher Education Supplement , Stephen Pinfield and Paul Ayris have a letter to the editor responding to http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2005_08_14_fosblogarchive.html#a11245643… Rene Olivieri's article of August 19, http://www.thes.co.uk/current_edition/story.aspx?story_id=2024070 Making a pig's ear of an unscientific free-for-all . Excerpt: It is ironic that Rene Olivieri's criticism of supporters of open access...often lapsed into the polemical when this was a label he was trying to pin on his opponents. Despite his calls for the current debate to be more scientific, he omitted to mention many of the relevant facts. In particular, he failed to acknowledge the anomalies of the current system of research publishing. Universities generate research papers, give them away free of charge to publishers and then buy them back at high prices. Researchers give away their services as authors, referees and editorial board members all free of charge and yet their institutions have to buy back the value they have added. Prices are high because (as the Office of Fair Trading has observed) price competition does not properly operate in the academic periodicals market. This means institutions cannot afford to purchase all of the periodicals they would like and so researchers do not have easy access to all of the literature they need. Furthermore, society in general cannot get access to research funded by public money. Researchers want their work to be read and cited, and yet the impact their work can make is being limited. The rise of the Web, which makes wide distribution of content quick and easy, is making the system which was developed a paper-based world look anachronistic. Open access has the potential to overcome many of these problems. It is not just an interesting theory. There are a number of working examples, ranging from institutional databases of research papers to new peer reviewed journals. Many mainstream publishers are themselves experimenting with open access models and funding bodies are investing in experiments and studies to see what the future holds. Increasingly, research funders and governments are coming to see the benefits. Better communication means better science. Widening access will benefit the scientific community but will also bring benefits to health care, knowledge transfer and the public understanding of science. Empirical evidence of these benefits is beginning to emerge. Further work should be encouraged for the benefit of the academic community and society in general. Rather than try to turn back the oncoming tide, publishers such as Mr Olivieri would be better advised to ride the wave. Stephen Pinfield is the Deputy Chief Information Officer and Director of Research and Learning Resources at the University of Nottingham. Paul Ayris is the Director of Library Services and Copyright Officer at University College London.

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Infovision promotion
by Mailing List Manager 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

KM thoughts at InfoVision 2005 Knowledge Management is a discipline, which is in the limelight today. But, traditional LIS profession has been in the business of KM since the very beginning. Besides cross-functional collaboration for organizational strategic impact, the processes of classification and cataloguing systems form the basis of KM. Content management, one of the most critical aspects of KM is an extension and expansion of information processes in libraries. InfoVision - www.infovision2005.org <http://www.infovision2005.org/> is bringing a world-renowned expert in KM - Dr. Richard McDermoott. ( http://www.mcdermottconsulting.com <http://www.mcdermottconsulting.com/> ). Dr Dermott is a widely sought after speaker in the KM world. Join us at InfoVision to know what is new in the world of KM With Regards, Kottai Head - KM Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab

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coverage of OA documents by search engines
by Mailing List Manager 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 07:09:09 +0530 (IST) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: According to a recent posting by Eberhard Hilf, "the scientific OA documents on local institutes servers are barely covered by retrieval engines" and DOAJ lists only a part of OA journals. The OA supporters should coax search engines to cover OA documents in all OA repositories and persuade DOAJ and other similar services to cover OA journals far more comprehensively. Arun

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Fw: [IAMSLIC:5359] H index to quantify an individual's scientific output
by M.P.Tapaswi 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

Sorry for cross-posting but should be of interest to the ones interested in citation studies. - Tapaswi ----- Original Message ----- From: Susan Berteaux To: iamslic(a)ucdavis.edu Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 1:37 AM Subject: [IAMSLIC:5359] H index to quantify an individual's scientific output This morning a faculty member asked about a new factor which he had just read about in Science that measures the impact or stature of individual scientists. It's called the H Index after Jorge Hirsch who proposed it. For any researcher the h number is the largest number for which it is true that the researcher has h publications with at least h citations. For example, an eminent physicist has the very high h number of 110 because he has 110 publications with at least 110 citations. The article goes on to say that the h index can be easily found using WoK and then sorting by "times cited". There's more information at: http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/8/9/1 This page also provides a link to the original article by Hirsch, "An index to quantify an individual's scientific output". Note that the examples given were from a 20 year backfile so I'm not sure how that translates if your backfiles don't go back that far. -- Susan ============================================== Susan S. Berteaux...Head, Science & Technology Library Syracuse University...Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 Ph: 315/443-9766...Fax: 315/443-5549...Email: ssbertea(a)syr.edu Sorry for cross-posting but should be of interest to the ones interested in citation studies. - Tapaswi ----- Original Message ----- From: mailto:Ssbertea@syr.edu Susan Berteaux To: mailto:iamslic@ucdavis.edu iamslic(a)ucdavis.edu Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 1:37 AM Subject: [IAMSLIC:5359] H index to quantify an individual's scientific output This morning a faculty member asked about a new factor which he had just read about in Science that measures the impact or stature of individual scientists. It's called the H Index after Jorge Hirsch who proposed it. For any researcher the h number is the largest number for which it is true that the researcher has h publications with at least h citations. For example, an eminent physicist has the very high h number of 110 because he has 110 publications with at least 110 citations. The article goes on to say that the h index can be easily found using WoK and then sorting by "times cited". There's more information at: http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/8/9/1 http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/8/9/1 This page also provides a link to the original article by Hirsch, "An index to quantify an individual's scientific output". Note that the examples given were from a 20 year backfile so I'm not sure how that translates if your backfiles don't go back that far. -- Susan ============================================== Susan S. Berteaux...Head, Science & Technology Library Syracuse University...Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 Ph: 315/443-9766...Fax: 315/443-5549...Email: mailto:ssbertea@syr.edu ssbertea(a)syr.edu

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Information
by habiburrehman khan 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

Dear Members I would like to know if Jharkhand,Chattisgarh and Uttaranchal have state central public library. Habibur Rahman Khan Librarian Ingraham Institute,Aligarh Mob:09412065835 E-Mail:habibamu@yahoo.co.in Dear Members I would like to know if Jharkhand,Chattisgarh and Uttaranchal have state central public library. Habibur Rahman Khan Librarian Ingraham Institute,Aligarh Mob:09412065835 E-Mail:habibamu@yahoo.co.in 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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