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Nature blog covers India's OA policy
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

A Nature blog has reported the OA policy of DBT and DST. Please see < http://blogs.nature.com/indigenus/2014/12/india-unveils-new-open-access-pol… >. Let us hope other funding agencies, research institutions and universities follow the example of DBT and DST. Arun -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] EPW publishes the research paper of a Librarian
by Puna Das 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Dear Dr. Bhattacharyya, Greetings! With the rapid advancement of open access to knowledge due to a strong global open access movement, things are changing very fast. Patnaik (author of this paper) is probably aware of recent developments with respect to rights retention by the authors through the “SPARC Author Addendum to Publication Agreement” (available at www.sparc.arl.org/sites/default/files/Access-Reuse_Addendum.pdf ). This instrument is nowadays used widely across the world to grant license-to-publish (LTP) to the publishers, and retaining copyrights by the authors or their funding/ affiliating institutions. Authors are now empowered to deny any copyright transfer to commercial publishers, rather insist on signing an LTP with the publishers. “DBT and DST Open Access Policy: Policy on Open Access to DBT and DST Funded Research”, approved and finalized in December 2014, is also supportive to the cause of retention of copyrights by the authors. UNESCO just launches an Open Access Curricula for researchers and librarians (available at http://bit.ly/1xb0Pti) This licensing aspect is discussed in great details in a module of this open access curricula. Interested researchers can take a note of this. Patnaik may offer an updated scenario after examining the “SPARC Author Addendum to Publication Agreement”, “DBT and DST Open Access Policy” and “UNESCO Open Access Curricula for Researchers and Librarians”. Her findings will be completely different than what is presented in this paper. With Best Regards Anup ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 14:15:07 +0530 From: "Swati Bhattacharyya ." <swati(a)iimcal.ac.in> To: "lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, MANLIBNET-india(a)yahoogroups.com Subject: [LIS-Forum] EPW publishes the research paper of a Librarian Economic & Political Weekly - popularly known as EPW and a prestigious journal from India has recently published a research paper of Dr. K. Rama Patnaik - the Librarian of IIM Bangalore. Please refer to the issue published in December 20, 2014. Sincerely, Swati Bhattacharyya, Ph.D. Librarian Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Joka, Diamond Harbor Road, Kolkata - 700104, India Phone: 91-33-2467-8300 (Bus extn: 416; Res extn: 106) Library: http://library.iimcal.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Koha latest 3.18.1 Livdvd (easykoha.iso)
by Vinod Kumar Mishra 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Dear All I have just uploaded Koha latest version 3.18.1 livedvd (easykoha.iso) at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vkmkoha/files/ How to install on dual booting (Windows and Linux): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mg8h394E28 Please Feel free to contact for any help. With regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library, NIT Rourkela, Mob:91+9439420860 91+6612462103 (O) email: vinod_librarian(a)rediffmail.com : mishravk79(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Workshop on Knowledge Analytics in Corporate Sector]
by mailman＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

From: Ravichandra <ikrrao(a)hotmail.com> Date: Mon 12/29/2014 10:18 AM Workshop on Knowledge Analytics in Corporate Sector (TEQIP-II/COE Sponsored), Tue, 13 January 2015 Venue: Tech Park Seminar Hall, PES Institute of Technology Who can attend? The workshop should be of interest to students, and teachers of Computer science, knowledge and Information management professionals, Faculty and students of PESIT and other engineering colleges as well as professionals from the industry. Registration is free of cost, but all participants must register online well before the event. How to register? To register for a KAnOE Workshop, please goto http://kanoe.org/workshopregistration.html and click appropriate button. Venue: Tech Park Seminar Hall, PES University, BSK 3rd Stage, Bangalore 560085. AGENDA: Tuesday, 13 January 2015 9:30 - 09:50 : Registration and Welcome 9:50 - 10:00 : Opening Remarks by Dr. I. K. Ravichandra Rao, Visiting Scientist, KAnOE 10:00 - 11:20 - Mr. N. V. Sathyanarayana, CEO and Managing Director, Informatics Ltd., Bangalore - Analytics in Information Industry 11:20 - 11:40 - Coffee break 11:40 - 1:00 - Dr. K. K. Chowdhury, Professor, SQC and OR Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore - Analytics in Industrial Quality Control 1:00 - 2:00 - Lunch 2:00 - 3:30 - Dr. J. K. Suresh, Designated Partner, KenAble Consultants, LLP., Bangalore - Analytics in Knowledge Management 3:30 - Tea For any queries, please write to ontology(a)pes.edu Director Centre for Knowledge Analytics and Ontological Engineering PES Institute of Technology Bangalore 560 085.

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Open Acess, Open Science, Open Data...yes they are cool! But, what next??
by Sri Amudha Sankar 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Dear Colleagues, Here's something new and interesting!! Keep reading! How do we find if our works all that had been made open for wider accessibility really had better impact in the society? That's where altmetrics come into the scene by tracking scholarly impact beyond h-index or journal impact factor or other traditional metrics we are using already! Impactstory is a researcher-run non-profit, funded by the NSF. They’ve created a website that compiles all the citations, downloads, tweets, Mendeley bookmarks, and so on for all of your research products... articles, data sets, slides, software, etc. It’ll also pull in your new products automatically, and send you email alerts whenever any of your products has a new impact. It’s a great way to stay up-to-date on your research impact, and discover research impact you didn’t even know you had! Here are some example Impactstory profiles: 1) https://impactstory.org/CarlBoettiger <https://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimpactstory%2Eorg%2FCar…> 2) https://impactstory.org/SridharGutam <https://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimpactstory%2Eorg%2FSri…> . If you’re interested, you can sign up for a free 30-day trial here: https://impactstory.org/signup <https://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimpactstory%2Eorg%2Fsig…> I'm an Impactstory Advisor! So feel free to contact me further! Best, Sri Amudha S, Research Scholar, Dept of Library and Information Science, Pondicherry University. Mob : 91-9443936630. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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RRRLF got New Director
by P. S. Mukhopadhyay 27 Dec '14

27 Dec '14

Dear All My heart-felt congratulations to Dr. Arun Kumar Chakraborty who took over the charge of Director-General, Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation (RRRLF) under Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India on 16.12.2014. Dr. Chakraborty has an excellent professional career and served the famous Bose Institute, Kolkata as Librarian from July 2000 to December 2014. He implemented a series of user-centric library services and initiated the first ever open source software based server cluster (fusing Koha, DSpace, and Joomla in an interactive software platform) in the Bose Institute, Kolkata way back in 2010. Alongside the professional duties, Dr. Chakborty is also enthusiastically engaged in professional development activities. He served the IASLIC as General Secretary from 2007 to 2010, worked as Standing Committee Member of Genealogy and Local History Section of IFLA and visited NIH Bethesda, Maryland, USA as Fulbright Scholar during 2005-2006. Despite his extremely busy schedule for the last ten years, Dr. Chakraborty sincerely served almost all Library schools in West Bengal in the capacity of guest lecturer, visiting faculty, resource person and keynote speaker. We do hope for a new dimension in country-wide public library services by RRRLF under the able leadership of Dr. Arun Kumar Chakraborty. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kalyani, Kalyani - 741 235 (WB), India ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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UNESCO launches Open Access Curricula for Researchers, Librarians and Library Science Schools
by Puna Das 26 Dec '14

26 Dec '14

UNESCO launches Open Access Curricula for Researchers, Librarians and Library Science Schools 19.12.2014 - Communication & Information Sector Within the overall framework of UNESCO Strategy on Open Access to scientific information and research and to take forward UNESCO’s leadership role in diffusing knowledge amongst its Member States, UNESCO has developed a set of manuals to facilitate capacity building of library and information professionals and researchers. The development of the modules has been undertaken very carefully and the development process covered diverse opinion in the subject area, and in consultation with more than 50 experts to include diversity and expertise from the developing south. The OA curricula developed by UNESCO includes a set of customized modules which can be easily be fitted with the educational needs of different OA stakeholders and can be integrated with any sensitization programmes of OA. The curricula for Library and Information Science Professionals entitled "Open Access for Library Schools", consists of four course modules. An Introductory Module aims at sensitizing the library community about the history, evolution, forms and impact of OA within the domain of scholarly communication environment and covers issues related to rights management, IPR and advocacy. The remaining three modules cover subject areas of OA Infrastructure, Resource Optimization and Interoperability and Retrieval. These sections give insights into the features, types, maintenance and standardization of OA resources, information retrieval/storage software and highlight the role of the new dimension of web-enabled resources such as e-journals, e-repositories and ICTSs. The curricula for researchers entitled "Open Access for Researchers" addresses OA issues within the community of research scholars. The modules cover the subject areas of Scholarly Communications, Concepts of Openness and Open Access, Intellectual Property Rights and Research Evaluation Metrics. The first four modules have been developed to nurture researchers with an elaborate understanding of the genesis, objectives, processes, types and existing limitations of OA scholarly communication, which include insights into the issues related to IPR, the methods and limitations of the process of peer reviewing and the concepts and roles of E-journals, databases, ICTs, OSS and other OERs. The final and fifth Module entitled "Sharing your Work in Open Access" provides a step-wise guideline for researchers about the process and options available for publishing their research work. These curricula were developed after undertaking two detailed capacity building need assessment studies of librarians and researchers on Open Access. A multi-stakeholder expert meeting was organized in New Delhi, where 23 experts participated to finalize the curriculum. Two online consultations were also held to substantiate the expert meeting, which helped UNESCO to outline the content for each of the curriculum and provided a framework to develop modules. The curricula were developed with the help of Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), New Delhi of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL). The curricula will soon be available for download. Currently, copies can be requested by writing to UNESCO’s OA programme. Source: www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-and-in-f… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Are you really Expert in LIS/softwares? then spend 2 minutes!!!
by Puna Das 26 Dec '14

26 Dec '14

Hi Experts, You are also requested to register your expertise with DLNetSA (Digital Library Network of South Asia) for greater South Asian visibility at http://dlnetsa.info/expert-registration/. Best Regards Anup ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das http://anupkumardas.blogspot.in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 16/12/14, lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in <lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 141, Issue 20 To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: Tuesday, 16 December, 2014, 11:22 AM 1. Are you really Expert in LIS/softwares? than spend 2 minutes !!! (Vinod Kumar Mishra) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: 15 Dec 2014 07:23:57 -0000 From: "Vinod Kumar Mishra" <vinod_librarian(a)rediffmail.com> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Are you really Expert in LIS/softwares? than spend 2 minute!!! Message-ID: <20141215072357.26121.qmail(a)f5mail-224-155.rediffmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Dear all, I am trying to make strong group of people who can support in the Implementation of New tools and technology (especially open source solutions) in the Library and Information centers at Various corners of the country and abroad also on no profit no gain basis, i.e. Only TA/DA and honorariums as per Government/Concern Institute Rules. If you have experience in handling and implementation of such software's like Koha, Joomla, DSpace, Drupal, Newgenlib, Greenstone, Wordpress etc than please provide your data in the form linked here. The provided data will be broadcasted on the various forums ans social networking websites so that people can reach the concern experts for any assistance. http://goo.gl/forms/tmYmkroNfN Vinod Kumar Mishra Assistant Librarian NIT Rourkela With regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library, NIT Rourkela, Mob:91+9439420860 91+6612462103 (O) email: vinod_librarian(a)rediffmail.com, mishravk79(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Invitation for Nominations: Best Practices in Public Libraries System in India
by Puna Das 26 Dec '14

26 Dec '14

The India Public Libraries Conference 2015 (IPLC): Invitation of Best Practices Dates: March 11-12, 2015 Venue: India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India Organizers: Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF); PRATHAM; Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF); NASSCOM Foundation; The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) www.iplc.in IPLC 2015: Invitation of Best Practices Applications are invited from public libraries run by the government, communities, civil society and others in India that are doing good works innovatively in public library management in areas of – content and services, better management of resources, citizen engagement, library staff development, new methods, applications and strategies, use of technology including digital library initiatives, partnership development and in other ways that have served the citizens, communities, local agencies and others better. Public libraries best practices are invited on best applications, methods, framework, strategies, and policy and programme areas including digital library initiatives that have and can impact public library functioning in India towards positive transformation. Last Date for Nomination: 31st January 2015 About IPLC: The India Public Libraries Conference (IPLC) 2015 is a multi-stakeholder engagement that seeks to convene and engage librarians and library stakeholders including policy makers to dialogue and share experiences and lessons in public libraries in India. It seeks to arrive at a broad understanding of challenges and opportunities of how public libraries in India are and can contribute in overall development of communities with value added services, and collaboratively build a shared vision for the future as community oriented knowledge and resource centres of the 21st century. This stems from our recognition of Public Libraries playing a vital role in the lives of individuals and their communities. For generations, the local libraries have acted as a vehicle for access to knowledge, ideas and information and as democratic services open and available to anyone. The public library is not only a trusted and recognised feature of the local area; it is also a remarkable national asset and network. Identifying Best Public Library Practices: An IPLC 2015 Objective One of the objectives of the India Public Libraries Conference (IPLC) 2015 is to identify, encourage and document best practices in public libraries on the basis of above parameters. Invited and selected best practices will be documented, shared in IPLC 2015 workshops and will be showcased in the IPLC 2015 Exhibition. Download Public Library Best Practices Concept Note: http://iplc.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Best-Practices-Concept-Note.pdf Download Public Library Best Practices Application Form: http://iplc.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Application-Form.docx Further Details: Secretariat C/O – Digital Empowerment Foundation House 44, Second & Third Floor, Kalu Sarai, New Delhi – 110016, India Tel: +91-11-26532786 / 26532787 Fax: +91-11-26532787 Email: iplc2015(a)gmail.com, iplc(a)gmail.com, namita(a)defindia.net www.iplc.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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India's OA policy
by Subbiah Arunachalam 25 Dec '14

25 Dec '14

Friends: Please see < http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/APPROVED-OPEN-ACCESS-POLICY-D… > for the official (mandatory) OA policy of DBT and DST of India. You may spread the word. Regards. Arun -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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