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Register on IP Registry to manage online resources
by Satish Munnolli 08 Oct '20

08 Oct '20

Dear Colleagues, The IP Registry (https://theipregistry.org/) is a single repository of the validated IP addresses for over 70,000 content licensing organisations worldwide, accessible by both publishers and libraries and maintained for the benefit of the whole scholarly communication community by PSI based in Oxford, UK and Boston, USA. How it works Register your organisation and receive your admin login. Check and update (if necessary) the IP ranges held. Add your organisation if it is not one of the 70,000+ currently in the database. Updates and additions are checked, validated and made live in the Registry. Publishers harvest the validated ranges manually or via our API for inclusion in their access management systems. Hope you will find this useful to manage your online resources. Dr. Satish Munnolli, PhD ------------------------------------------------------------- Librarian & Officer-In-Charge, SCoPE Cell Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410210 Ph: (022) 2740 5026/ 68735026/ 5052 Fax: 022 27405085 Email: smunnolli(a)actrec.gov.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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International Virtual Symposium on Digital Scholarship (14-15 October 2020)
by Rathina Sabapathy 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

The TANUVAS along with ICAR, New Delhi organises the International Virtual Symposium on Digital Scholarship during 14-15 October 2020. The International Virtual Symposium on Digital Scholarship (14-15 October 2020) provides an opportunity to share knowledge on the emerging practice. Internationally renowned professionals from USA, Canada and Australia, who have contributed for the development of this emerging field will share their knowledge, expertise and wisdom. Registration is free. Research scholars, faculty of any discipline including practicing librarians may register at *https://forms.gle/qkDWvBR789TXU1UWA <https://forms.gle/qkDWvBR789TXU1UWA>* There is no registration fee for the participants. We welcome interested persons to attend the symposium. -- Thanking you, Yours sincerely, Dr.G. Rathinasabapathy, Ph.D., University Librarian & CCPI, NAHEP (IG) on NKMC4AER Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University Chennai - 600 051, Tamil Nadu, INDIA President, Tamil Nadu Library Association Secretary, Madras Library Network (MALIBNET) Editor-in-Chief, Indian Journal of Agricultural Libraries & Information Services (IJALIS) Tel.: (Dir. ) 91-44-2555 1588 (Res) 91-44-25611619 Mob.: 098400 17397 email: librarian(a)tanuvas.org.in ORCID: 0000-0002-9146-8279 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Open Interview launches Open Commentaries
by Santosh C. Hulagabali 05 Oct '20

05 Oct '20

Dear Sir/Madam, Wishing you all a very Happy World Teachers' Day! On this special occasion, we are happy to launch 'Open Commentaries'*, *yet another initiative by the team of 'Open Interview <https://openinterview.org>'. 'Open Commentaries' is an exclusive blog of short-commentaries to discuss trends and developments in academic communication and research. We could come up with this new blog all because of your splendid support and encouragement for our 'Open Interview' which is well received in academia. For 'Open Commentaries' too, your critical appreciation and best wishes will double our efforts. Launching https://opencommentaries.in with the postings of the following four thought provoking articles. Hope you will enjoy reading them. - Why using Impact Factor for measuring research is snake oil? <https://opencommentaries.in/why-using-impact-factor-for-measuring-research-…>/ by Sanjaya Mishra - Unfunded research: Why academics do it and its unvalued contribution to the impact agenda/ by Rosalind Edwards <https://opencommentaries.in/unfunded-research-why-academics-do-it-and-its-u…> - Adaptability to e-learning: How a survey gives the right insights <https://opencommentaries.in/adaptability-to-e-learning-how-a-survey-gave-th…>/ by Gopakumar V. - How funders can change the academia seamlessly by sharing conference literature openly <https://opencommentaries.in/how-funders-can-change-the-academia-seamlessly-…>/ by Santosh C. Hulagabali Your comments are valuable for us. Please do share. Best regards, Editor, 'Open Commentaries' -- Santosh C. Hulagabali, PhD <https://santoshch.weebly.com/> University Librarian Central University of Haryana <http://cuh.ac.in/> Jant-Pali, Mahendergarh-123 031 Haryana, India Cell: +91-99874 28147 .. DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail & discard all copies of the original message. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Discrimination by UPSC for Librarian, non teaching staff not to be given invigilation duty in any circumstances for civil service exam 2020
by Tanmay Mondal 04 Oct '20

04 Oct '20

It has come to news that UPSC doesn't allow any non teaching staffs including Librarian, Head clerk to be invigilator for the prestigious exam civil service-preli-2020. I would like to know from Library community, Organisation... * Why such discrimination? *Are not librarians or any non teaching staffs trustworthy? Hope the rule will be charged by UPSC very soon. I request library organisations/ personals to come forward against such kind of discrimination against library staffs. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Webinar on "Science and Technology Research in India" on 10th Oct 2020.
by Mohan Hr 03 Oct '20

03 Oct '20

Dear all Greetings CSI Chennai, ACM Chennai & IEEE CS Madras cordially invite you to a webinar. Topic: Science and Technology Research in India Dr. T. Ramasami Former Secretary, Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India & Former Director, Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai has kindly consented to be the Guest of Honour. He will provide his remarks on Directions of Scientific Research. Following this, a presentation on “Leading Science and Technology: India Next?” (Can Indian lead the world in S&T? Essential steps that need Immediate Implementation) will be made by Mr. Varun Aggarwal Co-founder, Aspiring Minds Author of the book: Leading Science and Technology: India Next? Date & Time: Saturday, 10th Oct 2020 at 6.00 p.m. IST For presentation details & speaker's profile, pl see the PDF invite at https://bit.ly/2R1zNC4 Pl register at https://bit.ly/3bzbzJ6 With regards PV Subramanian, Chair, CSI Chennai HR Mohan, Chair, ACM Chennai P Sakthivel, Chair, IEEE CS Madras PS: Pl visit https://lnkd.in/g_tiSFu for all our other events scheduled in Oct 2020 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Webinar on "National Qualifier Test -- The Gateway to Thousands of Top Jobs in Multiple Corporates" on 12th Oct 2020
by Mohan Hr 02 Oct '20

02 Oct '20

Dear all CSI Chennai, ACM Chennai & IEEE CS Madras cordially invite you to a webinar. Topic: National Qualifier Test -- The Gateway to Thousands of Top Jobs in Multiple Corporates Speaker: Mr. Venguswamy Ramaswamy, Global Head -- TCS iON, Tata Consultancy Services Date: Monday, 12th Oct 2020 Time: 6 pm to 7 pm IST For presentation details & speaker profile, pl see the PDF invite at https://bit.ly/36lnw4l Pl register at https://bit.ly/30o1VV1 With regards PV Subramanian, Chair, CSI Chennai HR Mohan, Chair, ACM Chennai P Sakthivel, Chair, IEEE CS Madras PS: Pl visit https://lnkd.in/g_tiSFu for all our eleven events scheduled in Oct 2020

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Public libraries are giving away an insane amount of free food - Shareable
by Mohan Hr 02 Oct '20

02 Oct '20

Public libraries are giving away an insane amount of free food Across America, in major cities you’ve heard of and in countless places you most likely have never considered, public librarians are working with local, state, and national partners to bring food to those who need it during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Wait — librarians? Yes indeed. And, when librarians distribute food, they do more than merely give it away. They also use the library’s myriad educational and lifelong learning resources to confront the food insecurity that all too many Americans struggle with every day. https://www.shareable.net/public-libraries-are-giving-away-an-insane-amount… Quite interesting With regards -- hrmohan -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Admission Notification: PG Diploma in Digital Library & Information Mngt @ TISS Mumbai
by Satish Kanamadi 01 Oct '20

01 Oct '20

Dear Professionals, Greetings! Centre for Library and Information Management Studies, Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai is a major Centre involved in capacity building of LIS professionals. It offers PG Diploma, Masters and PhD Programmes in Library and Information Science discipline with a focus on digital libraries, knowledge organization, e-Resources Management and web based information services. TISS is happy to announce admissions to the 11th Batch of "Post Graduate Diploma in Digital Library and Information Management" for the year 2020-21. This cutting edge, one year dual-mode programme uses contact classes for on-campus and Moodle e-learning platform for its off-campus sessions. It is aimed at creating trained human resource to handle digital libraries and electronic resources. There is a burgeoning need for trained librarians in the light of national priorities like Digital India, National Mission on Education through Information and Communication technology (NME-ICT) and National Knowledge Commission (NKC). With an emphasis on open source software, some of the tools we focus are Digital Libraries (DSpace, Greenstone), Content Management Systems (Drupal , Joomla), Library Automation (Koha), OJS,CORAL eResources Management, etc. The salient features of this programme are well crafted curriculum, expert faculty, enhanced emphasis on hands on lab experience, sound theory and experiential learning unique to TISS. Last date for submission of application is 21st October 2020 Please visit the following link to register/apply online. https://admissions.tiss.edu/view/10/admissions/stp-admissions/pg-diploma-in… We will also be happy to answer your queries. Please write to Dr.J.Shivarama Programme Coordinator, PGDLIM Centre for Library and Information Management Studies Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library Tata Institute of Social Sciences MUMBAI -400088 Tel: 022-25525284 Email: j.shivarama(a)tiss.edu OR The Secretariat Centre for Library and Information Management Studies Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library Tata Institute of Social Sciences MUMBAI -400088 Tel: 022-25525272 Email: madhuri.jagtap(a)tiss.edu ,pgdlim(a)tiss.edu Thanks and Regards, Satish Kanamadi PhD Chairperson, Centre for Library and Information Management Studies Librarian, SDTM Library Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) V N Purav Marg, Deonar MUMBAI - 400088. INDIA Tel: 91-22-25525283 Email: satish(a)tiss.edu "Disclaimer: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing it to outside parties, or taking any action on the contents of this information, that is unwarranted and without permission of the sender, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and do not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and please delete this e-mail from your system. "--- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: [CODE4LIB] Sign up for Mini-ELAG, the online mini conference! October 20, 2020
by Mohan Hr 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

Intereresing pgm -- hrmohan ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: HR Mohan ACM <hrmohan.acm(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 9:27 PM Subject: Fwd: [CODE4LIB] Sign up for Mini-ELAG, the online mini conference! October 20, 2020 To: Mohan Hr <hrmohan(a)gmail.com> Date: October 20, 2020 14:00 – 15:00 CEST Registration is free, sign up here: https://forms.gle/5d9Sc91NhCcXnuAu7 We got a program for the Mini-ELAG next month! Join us on Microsoft Teams and learn what our ELAG presenters have been doing the last months. This Mini-ELAG will be filled with 5 to 10 minute lightning talks and is free for registered participants. ELAG is Europe’s premier conference on the application of information technology in libraries and documentation centres. For over thirty years, the ELAG (European Library Automation Group) Conference has provided library and IT professionals with the opportunity to discuss new technologies, to review on-going developments and to exchange best practices. Program Collections as Data and Juypter Notebooks: experimenting in Library Labs Sally Chambers, Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Ghent University, Belgium, Julie M. Birkholz, KBR, Royal Library of Belgium’s Digital Research Lab & Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Ghent University, Belgium and Gustavo Candela, Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, Spain The international GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) Labs Community [1] was established in September 2018 following a “Building Library Labs’’ workshop organised by the BL Labs team at the British Library [2]. This initial event led to a second workshop at the Royal Library of Denmark in Copenhagen in March 2019 [3] which in turn inspired a Book Sprint in Doha, Qatar to write the hands-on guide “Open a GLAM Lab” [4]. Such activities have been catalysts for other Labs activities in a range of libraries, including the establishment of the KBR Digital Research Lab [5], a long-term collaboration between KBR – Royal Library of Belgium and the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Ghent University, Belgium to facilitate text and data mining research on KBR’s digitised and born-digital collections; the emerging DATA-KBR-BE open data platform, facilitating data-level access to KBR Collections and inspired by the North American ‘Collections as Data’ initiative [6], as well as the development of a series of GLAM Jupyter Notebooks [7] set-up by the BVMC Labs as part of the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library, Alicante, Spain and inspired by the GLAM Workbench [8]. In this lightning talk we would like to give you a brief taste of some of our Labs’ experiments from the last few months, and hopefully inspire you to try some similar experiments in your library! References [1] https://glamlabs.io [2] https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2018/09/building-library-labs-aroun… [3] https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2019/02/the-world-wide-lab-building… [4] https://glamlabs.io/books/open-a-glam-lab/ [5] https://www.kbr.be/en/projects/digital-research-lab/ [6] https://collectionsasdata.github.io [7] http://data.cervantesvirtual.com/blog/notebooks/ [8] https://glam-workbench.github.io Duration: 5 minutes Federated Identity Management for Libraries Jos Westerbeke, Erasmus University Rotterdam Access to licensed e-resources is almost always provided based on IP address authentication. However, big publishers tend to move away from IP based access and libraries are facing publishers who want to use Single Sign-On (SSO) configurations. Libraries, then, need to setup SSO in the right way to protect the privacy of its patrons. Several librarians and technical specialists launched the Federated Identity Management for Libraries initiative (FIM4L, http://fim4l.org) to address the lack of a common best practise. A recommendation document is written about how to establish federated SSO for libraries while protecting privacy. It describes the attributes which can be released by the library and recommends two main options: An anonymous and a pseudonymous authentication. These recommendations would be useful for librarians and publishers too, to use FIM and set up federated SSO. Duration: 5 minutes STFC Open Science Portal prototype Vasily Bunakov, STFC UKRI STFC UKRI is a large research organization, and a funder of science. STFC Open Science Portal is a Web application that integrates STFC records of science from a few in-house catalogues and external quality information sources beyond the organization walls. The talk will give a brief outline of the progress made with the implementation of this new information service. Duration: 5 minutes The virtual librarian Peter van Boheemen, Wageningen University & Research Library Since your library user will not visit your library web site and will not use your library catalogue but will find what they need by browsing the internet, why not use browser plug-in technology to build a virtual librarian, that will travel with the user across any web site and assist the user when it is relevant. Duration: 5 minutes OCR-D: An open ecosystem for improving OCR on historical documents Clemens Neudecker, Berlin State Library OCR for historical documents remains a tricky challenge. The German OCR-D project and community have in recent years created a fully open source framework and ecosystem for historical document OCR (https://ocr-d.de) Now the solutions developed will have to demonstrate their effectiveness in real-world implementation scenarios. In this lightning talk we want to introduce the OCR-D stack and its features and discuss the open and participative development strategy of OCR-D in order to encourage others to experiment with OCR-D, engage with its community and contribute their own experiences and findings. Duration: 10 minutes Institutional Digital Archive Dries Vanacker & Dhany dHondt, Artevelde University of Applied Sciences Digitally archiving students’ research in the area of higher education has always been a challenge. Often these repositories are not very visual or lack integrations and transparent restrictions regarding access for external stakeholders is often missing. Moreover, the impact a digital archive has on the climate and physical storage is not to be underestimated. In this lightning talk we want to give you a demo of version one of the in-house developed open source repository that integrates with Learning Management Systems and tackles the earlier mentioned concerns. We will expand on the rationale behind the platform and dive into the technical architecture and infrastructure. Duration: 10 minutes Semantic structure recognition in tables of contents of periodicals and multilingual indexing of abstracts Manfred Hauer , AGI – Information Management Consultants intelligentCAPTURE articles moves metadata and abstract of – old and current – printed articles in periodicals or yearbooks into library catalogs. Metadata are recognized via a semantic structure recognition after scanning and OCR. Text like abstracts can be added and indexed from and into in many languages. Examples from Ibero-American Institute in Berlin will be given. Duration: 10 minutes First steps with FOLIO in Leipzig Leander Seige, Leipzig University Library On June 11, 2020, Leipzig University Library was the first institution in Germany to put services based on FOLIO into productive operation. This was preceded by about two years of intensive work with the system and participation in the international community. This talk briefly reports on the first experiences with the system in terms of technical, librarian and organizational aspects. Duration: 10 minutes Kim Pham Information Technologies Librarian, University of Denver 303-871-2285 @tolloid

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India's STI policy on journal subscrption and APC
by Subbiah Arunachalam 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

Please see https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02708-4 Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009

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