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Conference on Legal Aspects of Open Source Software at NLSIU
by madhu ks 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Dear Professional, The Law and Technology Committee of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, is organising its annual conference Consilience (http://www.nls.ac.in/students/consilience/index.htm) in Bangalore on the 8th and 9th July, 2005. The aim of Consilience is to bring together scholars, industry stakeholders, legal experts, and policy-makers to address issues that have been earmarked for them after intensive research. This year's theme is Free/Open Source Software (FOSS), and we intend to have the following conference tracks - o FOSS - An Introduction o Role of FOSS in developing countries o FOSS Business Models o Legal Aspects of FOSS We envisage a robust dialogue and thorough analysis of these issues relating to free/open source software, including its uses in ICT for development. We expect the conference to result in a recommendation paper/declaration having the potential to effect formulation of a comprehensive policy by the Indian Government concerning FOSS. For any other clarifications contact, E-mail: consilience(a)nls.ac.in Visit Our Website: http://www.nls.ac.in/students/consilience/index.htm Madhu K S Library Assistant NLSIU, Bangalore --------------------------------- Free antispam, antivirus and 1GB to save all your messages Only in Yahoo! Mail: http://in.mail.yahoo.com Dear Professional, The Law and Technology Committee of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore , is organising its annual conference Consilience ( http://www.nls.ac.in/students/consilience/index.htm http://www.nls.ac.in/students/consilience/index.htm ) in Bangalore on the 8th and 9th July, 2005. The aim of Consilience is to bring together scholars, industry stakeholders, legal experts, and policy-makers to address issues that have been earmarked for them after intensive research. This year's theme is Free/Open Source Software (FOSS), and we intend to have the following conference tracks - o FOSS - An Introduction o Role of FOSS in developing countries o FOSS Business Models o Legal Aspects of FOSS We envisage a robust dialogue and thorough analysis of these issues relating to free/open source software, including its uses in ICT for development. We expect the conference to result in a recommendation paper/declaration having the potential to effect formulation of a comprehensive policy by the Indian Government concerning FOSS. For any other clarifications contact, E-mail: https://mail.nls.ac.in/src/compose.php?send_to=consilience%40nls.ac.in consilience(a)nls.ac.in Visit Our Website: http://www.nls.ac.in/students/consilience/index.htm http://www.nls.ac.in/students/consilience/index.htm Madhu K S Library Assistant NLSIU, Bangalore Free antispam, antivirus and 1GB to save all your messages Only in Yahoo! Mail: http://in.mail.yahoo.com

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Controversy over Pubchem
by Rashid Hussain 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

A freely accessible public database of chemical information, produced by a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), is at the center of a controversy over publicly subsidized data competing with commercial information providers. The American Chemical Society (ACS), said to be the largest scientific society in the world, has voiced strenuous objections to the creation and availability of PubChem. The PubChem database provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. It is designed for medical researchers and is a component of NIHs Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative. Since it was unable to resolve the controversy directly with the NIH, ACS has met with members of Congress about the issues. PubChem is one of several databases developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) as part of the Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative. Created in 2004, it is a freely accessible database that provides information about small molecules. It is designed for use as a research tool for biomedical researchers and serves as a starting point in the development of new medications. According to the NCBI, the database contains approximately 850,000 chemical samples contributed from public sources. The database will grow when researchers add data from publicly funded sources. It will not include patents. Initially the database will contain chemically diverse small molecules. Over time the collection will be modified by screening for biological assays and other biological information to provide a working set of molecules for use in studying biology and disease. Thanks & Regards = = = = = = = = = = = Rashid Hussain Siddiqui Project Assistant Digital Library, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science Jayanagar, Bangalore : 560041 Phone No. : 080-26540930 e-mail : ras.botlib(a)gmail.com Homepage : http://www.drtc.isibang.ac.in/~hussain = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. Samuel NIGER (1883-1956) --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel & more fun for the weekend. Check it out! A freely accessible public database of chemical information, produced by a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), is at the center of a controversy over publicly subsidized data competing with commercial information providers. The American Chemical Society (ACS), said to be the largest scientific society in the world, has voiced strenuous objections to the creation and availability of PubChem. The PubChem database provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. It is designed for medical researchers and is a component of NIHs Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative. Since it was unable to resolve the controversy directly with the NIH, ACS has met with members of Congress about the issues. PubChem ! is one of several databases developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) as part of the Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative. Created in 2004, it is a freely accessible database that provides information about small molecules. It is designed for use as a research tool for biomedical researchers and serves as a starting point in the development of new medications. According to the NCBI, the database contains approximately 850,000 chemical samples contributed from public sources. The database will grow when researchers add data from publicly funded sources. It will not include patents. Initially the database will contain chemically diverse small molecules. Over time the collection will be modified by screening for biological assays and other biological information to provide a working set of molecules for use in studying biology and disease. Thanks & Regards = = = = = = = = = = = Rashid Hussain Siddiqui Project Assistant Digital Library, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science Jayanagar, Bangalore : 560041 Phone No. : 080-26540930 e-mail : ras.botlib(a)gmail.com Homepage : http://www.drtc.isibang.ac.in/~hussain = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. Samuel NIGER (1883-1956) Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel & more fun for the weekend. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=32658/*http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html Check it out!

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FW: ICADL 2005 - Condolence message
by Shalini R Urs 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

FYI Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm -----Original Message----- From: Rachanee_ungrangsi [mailto:rachanee@shinawatra.ac.th] Sent: 08 June 2005 13:21 To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: ICADL 2005 - Condolence message Dear All, It is with profound sadness that we write to inform you that one of our PC members, Dr.TB Rajashekhar, passed away. He is a professor at Indian Institute of Science, India and has served on many committees including ICADL2005. We would like to take this opportunity to convey our condolences to Dr.TB Rajashekhar. ICADL2005 Organizers

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Promoting open Access
by Sourav Chakraborty 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Dear Mr.Arunachalam, This is really a good input. Thanks a lot. Regards, Sourav Chakraborty Aunwesha Knowledge Technologies Phone:+91 33 2357 7183 Fax:+91 33 2357 1739/7183 Mobile:098302 81140 email:sourav@aunwesha.com web:http://www.aunwesha.com On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 Subbiah Arunachalam wrote : >Friends: > >Promoting open access has at least two parts. One is to set up an archive at one's own institution, as Rajashekar had done at IISc, and populate it with the institution's research papers quickly. The second part is to help the faculty and students (and researchers in general) to take advantage of the increasing number of papers in the world's open archives. > >Please tell all your clients (research scientists, professors and students) to search for papers relevant to their work using >http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple >. > >There are >5,475,850 records > from >480 institutions >as of 5 June 2005. And the number is increasing every day. > >Best wishes. > >Arun > > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Dear Mr.Arunachalam, This is really a good input. Thanks a lot. Regards, Sourav Chakraborty Aunwesha Knowledge Technologies Phone:+91 33 2357 7183 Fax:+91 33 2357 1739/7183 Mobile:098302 81140 email:sourav@aunwesha.com web:http://www.aunwesha.com On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 Subbiah Arunachalam wrote : >Friends: > >Promoting open access has at least two parts. One is to set up an archive at one's own institution, as Rajashekar had done at IISc, and populate it with the institution's research papers quickly. The second part is to help the faculty and students (and researchers in general) to take advantage of the increasing number of papers in the world's open archives. > >Please tell all your clients (research scientists, professors and students) to search for papers relevant to their work using >http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple >. > >There are >5,475,850 records > from >480 institutions >as of 5 June 2005. And the number is increasing every day. > >Best wishes. > >Arun > > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo…

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A great loss
by Francis Jayakanth 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Dear Member: The untimely demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar is a great loss to his family, friends, colleagues, professionals and students. The condolence messages are pouring in. I take this opportunity to thank all of you who have been expressing your heartfelt condolences. I have had a great fortune of being associated with TBR as a colleague for more than 17 years. It was delightful and challenging working with him. With his passing away, I have lost a mentor and a great colleague. As Arun has rightly said, "we have lost a stalwart". - Francis NCSI, IISc, Bangalore

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Sad demise of Dr T.B.Rajasekhar
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 15:21:38 +0530 From: Bhojaraju Gunjal <bhojaraju.g(a)gmail.com> It is a great loss to the LIS and Knowledge Management profession as Dr.T.B.Rajashekar was associated with LIS and Knowledge Management profession. He was a great scholar and a nice human being. I had nice interactions with him whenever we met. Lets all pray God, may the departed soul rest in peace. News about the accident of Dr.T B Rajashekar is avaialble at http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/05/stories/2005060518470300.htm Bhojaraju G, Librarian, Knowledge Management, Homepage: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com KM-Forum Moderator : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/ ************************************************************************************************ ICICI OneSource Ltd. 148, Bhaskara Plaza, R.V.Road, V.V.Puram, Bangalore - 560 004, INDIA. Tel:+9180-2650 2540 Ext:103 Fax:+9180-2650 2086 Cell:+91-944 836 9905 E-mail: Bhojaraju.G(a)gmail.com ************************************************************************************************

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Consultation on Electronic Thesis Online(India) .... within 15th June, 2005.
by K Prakash 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

source:http://www.ugc.ac.in/new_initiatives/consultation_electronic.html Consultation on Electronic Thesis Online(India) In line with international trend to preserve and centrally maintain repositories of electronic thesis and make them generally accessible, UGC plans to put in place a regulatory policy and an implementation mechanism for maintaining standards, archiving, accessing doctoral research from the Indian universities. Electronic Theses Online will not only ensure easy archive and access of Indian Doctoral theses but also help raise the standard of research. This would overcome serious problem of duplication of research and poor quality resulting from the 'poor visibility' and the 'unseen' factor in research output. In the above context, draft UGC(Submission of Metadata and Full-text of Doctoral Theses in Electronic Format) Regulations, 2005 along with a write up on current scenario, major issues, data standards and implementation process have been prepared. Before these are finalized, inputs from different stakeholders are invited on the Draft Regulations & Implementation Process with Annexure(s). Please send your specific inputs to pagarwal(a)ugc.ac.in within 15th June, 2005. With best regards. Bye. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- K PRAKASH Scientific/Technical Officer-I Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre An Inter-University Centre of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Post Box No.4116, Navrangpura, AHMEDABAD - 380 009 India # Tel.: 91-079-2630 5971/2630 4695 Extn: 38(Off.); 2676 3724(Res.); Fax: 91-079-2630 0990 # Email: prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in; prakash_k(a)yahoo.com # URL: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ ; http://www.prakashk.netfirms.com/

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Panjab University Library Staff:Condolences
by Rupak Chakravarty 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Information Science Community, All Panjab University Library Staff express their deep condolence on the sad demise of Dr. T.B. Rajshekhar. The vaccuum will never be filled. -- Rupak Chakravarty Assistant Librarian Panjab University Library Chandigarh 160014 INDIA Information Science Community, All Panjab University Library Staff express their deep condolence on the sad demise of Dr. T.B. Rajshekhar. The vaccuum will never be filled. -- Rupak Chakravarty Assistant Librarian Panjab University Library Chandigarh 160014 INDIA

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Fw: [DDN] Radical Reference
by Subbiah Arunachalam 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Friends: I received this message this morning. Will young Indian librarians be interested in such an initiative? Arun >I just learned about this group. It seem similar to the Internet Public > Library initiative http://www.ipl.org/ but plays a more activist role > than IPL. > SIobhan > > Mission Statement: Radical Reference is a collective of volunteer > library workers who believe in social justice and equality. We support > activist communities, progressive organizations, and independent > journalists by providing professional research support, education and > access to information. We work in a collaborative virtual setting and > are dedicated to information activism to foster a more egalitarian > society. > > > That's the official line. Here's "the rest of the story." Radical > reference originated as a service provided by volunteer library workers > from all over the United States to assist demonstrators and activists at > the convergence surrounding the Republican National Convention in New > York City August 29-September 2, 2004. We are evolving, expanding our > services, and continuing to utilize our professional skills and tools to > answer information needs from the general public, independent > journalists, and activists. Service will be provided via this web site, > blog, e-mail, chat, phone, in the street and Ouija board. > http://www.radicalreference.info/ > > > Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, MSLIS > Community Outreach Liaison > National Network of Libraries of Medicine - MidContinental Region > Creighton University Health Sciences Library > 2500 California Plaza > Omaha, NE 68178 > 402-280-4156/800-338-7657 > siobhan(a)creighton.edu > http://nnlm.gov/mcr/ (NN/LM MCR Web Site) > http://medstat.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/ (Web Log) > http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/siobhanchamp-blackwell (Digital > Divide Network Profile) > > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE(a)mailman.edc.org > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-request(a)mailman.edc.org > with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.

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Great loss to LIS profession
by d.v. patwardhan 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Dear sir, I was deeply moved by reading the e-mailed news of Dr.TBR, whom I am associating for more than 20 years. Both as my friend and as a member of LIS profession he was friendly, helpful, humane and a first class intellecutal. May his soul rest in peace. d.v.patwardhan Librarian, Global Academy of Technology, Bangalore-560098 __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Get on-the-go sports scores, stock quotes, news and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/mobile.html

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