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by Ragaavendra R 07 Jul '12

07 Jul '12

Competition panel finds Springer guilty of unfair trade practices The Competition Commission of India has found publisher - Springer India - guilty of abusing its dominant position in the market for academic journals. While imposing a penalty of 5 per cent of the average turnover for the last three years, CCI warned Springer India against imposing unfair prices and sale conditions. It was also asked to lift the ban on experts from writing for other publications. Academic publication Acting on a complaint by Prints India, CCI said Springer India and other opposing parties - India Academy of Sciences; Indian Association for the Cultivation of Sciences; Indian National Science Academy; Operational Research Society of India; Department of Psychology (University of Delhi); Indian Statistical Institute; Association of Food Scientist and Technologist; IGCAR, Kalpakkam - had entered into anti-competitive agreements (co-publishing) thereby violating norms of fair trade practices. Academic publication is a small, specialised part of the bigger market of books and magazine publications. Largely present in the field of science, technology and medicines, these journals are usually called STM by the publishing industry. Unlike books, these have to be sourced from publishers through subscription and cannot be bought from bookshops. Print India had approached CCI in 2010 stating that Springer was imposing excessive pricing and unfair conditions in sale. Print India is engaged in the business of distribution and export of Indian journals for domestic and foreign clients. During its probe, CCI found Springer had about 31 per cent market share in terms of the number of STM journals and 64 per cent in terms of circulation. It also found that 47 journals that Springer India had acquired rights for were 'must have' titles for researchers. This made its position in the STM segment dominant. "Any library or institution or even individuals interested in research work being done in India cannot afford to ignore Springer's portfolio," CCI said, adding that its market position fortifies its dominant position. Springer publishes around 2,000 journals and over 6,500 new books a year and is present in 20 countries. CCI also found that Springer's portfolio of STM journals had co-publishing arrangements with 43 STM journals, in association with prominent scientific societies/institutes in India. Springer India's turnover for 2010-11 stood at Rs 30.03 crore with net profit at Rs 9.85 crore (which includes Rs 4.04 crore royalty paid to parent company). "The dominance in this case is acquired through the various agreements Springer had entered and not on the basis of its market share," CCI said. SOURCE LINK: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/article3606654.ece Best Regards, Raghvendra R The information contained in this electronic message and in any attachments to this message is confidential, legally privileged and intended only for use by the person or entity to which this electronic message is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please notify the sender and system manager by return email and delete the message and its attachments and also you are hereby notified that any distribution, copying, review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this electronic transmission or the information contained in it is strictly prohibited. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not represent those of the Company or bind the Company. Any commitments made over e-mail are not financially binding on the company unless accompanied or followed by a valid purchase order. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Mail Scanner, and is believed to be clean. The Company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.jubl.com -- 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] UGC NET
by Vimal Kumar 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

Dear Friends, We have to seriously think about the issue raised by Ratheesh. Librarians have no role in teaching activity in university. From academic community's view point, university library is a place like mere storage space of books. In the real sense, we can't blame them. Library professionals could not made a good image in front of academic community yet. Library authorities do not take initiative for organize information literacy programme and add on programmes for researchers, teachers and students. Such initiative can give opportunity for librarians to expose the teaching expertise. In my experience, most of the faculty members and research scholars are very poor in using WWW for retrieving relevant information for their learning purpose. Most of the teachers dont know how to move a mouse properly !! Library professionals has good expertise in retrieving information from online resources. But teachers and students think that librarians are non professionals and reluctant to approach for assistance. Once a teacher inquired (few years back) to one of my senior colleague "You get a promotion if you pass 10th standard examination?" Cold war between library professionals are another curse. Fierce fight (cold war) between library professionals (NET holders and others) in universities in Kerala. Development is stopped in university libraries for many years. We can compare situation in university libraries against "crabs in the bucket". They think that "if I can't have it, neither can you." Competition which prevents any from escaping and ensures their collective demise. In certain extent such experience in university libraries prevent professionals to get UGC pay scale and enhanced status. I know that my answer not reached the correct explanation to Ratheesh's question. I invite other professionals to fill the gap in my reply. -- Vimal Kumar V. Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.org Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IEEE
by Sangeetha Govindasami 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

Dear Sir/Madam,   I am working as a librarian in a Management institution in Coimbatore. We susbscibed to IEEE Society. We face some problem in accessing it. Hence I am in need of a IEEE local representative or marketing excecutive phone number.Could any ony one help me in this regard.   with regardsG.Sangeetha -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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subsidiaries of OUP in Africa have been debarred
by Mailing List Admin 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 08:55:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Two subsidiaries of OUP in Africa have been debarred for three years by the World Bank for misconduct, and earlier, Macmillan Publishers was fined and debarred in Sudan for six years for corrupt practices, says a report. But such practices, I am told, are common in India. Are you aware of such practices in India? Please write about them in this list. Subbiah Arunachalam http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/51899 The World Bank Group today announced the debarment of two wholly-owned subsidiaries of Oxford University Press (OUP), namely: Oxford University Press East Africa Limited (OUPEA) and Oxford University Press Tanzania Limited (OUPT) - for a period of three years following OUP’s acknowledgment of misconduct by its two subsidiaries in relation to two Bank-financed education projects in East Africa. The debarment is part of a Negotiated Resolution Agreement between OUP and the World Bank Group. In May 2011, investigators from the World Bank’s Integrity Vice Presidency (INT) approached OUP about potential misconduct in Africa. Following this, OUP conducted an internal investigation into its operations and reported its findings to INT. “This debarment is testimony to the Bank’s continued commitment to protecting the integrity of its projects. OUP’s acknowledgment of misconduct and the thoroughness of its investigation is evidence of how companies can address issues of fraud and corruption and change their corporate practices to foster integrity in the development business. In this case, working with the Serious Fraud Office also demonstrates the scope of collective action in deterring corruption impacting the progress of development,” said Leonard McCarthy, World Bank Integrity Vice President. The two companies made improper payments to government officials for two contracts to supply text books in relation to two World Bank-financed projects. As a result, OUPEA and OUPT will be debarred for three years and OUP will receive a conditional non-debarment. In addition, in order to remedy part of the harm done by the misconduct, OUP has agreed to make a payment of US$500,000 to the World Bank as part of the Negotiated Resolution. Under the Agreement, OUP and its related undertakings, including OUPEA and OUPT,commit to cooperate with the World Bank’s Integrity Vice Presidency and continue to improve their internal compliance program. The debarment of OUPEA and OUPT qualifies for cross-debarment by other MDBs under the Agreement of Mutual Recognition of Debarments that was signed on April 9, 2010. About The World Bank Integrity Vice Presidency (INT) The World Bank Integrity Vice Presidency (INT) is responsible for preventing, deterring and investigating allegations of fraud, collusion and corruption in World Bank projects, capitalizing on the experience of a multilingual and highly specialized team of investigators and forensic accountants. Key results of INT’s work include: 83 debarments of firms and individuals for engaging in wrongdoing during this fiscal year Following Alstom’s acknowledgment of misconduct in relation to a Bank-financed hydropower project in Zambia, the World Bank debarred Alstom Hydro France and Alstom Network Schweiz AG (Switzerland) - in addition to their affiliates - for a period of three years as part of a Negotiated Resolution Agreement between Alstom and the World Bank which also includes a restitution payment by the two companies totaling approximately $9.5 million. Based on an INT referral, UK authorities ordered Macmillan Publishers Limited to pay over £11 million. WBG debarred Macmillan for 6 years (2010), for bribery linked to an education project in Sudan. The Norwegian Authorities also took prosecutorial action against three former employees of “Norconsult,” based on an INT referral. The second meeting of the International Corruption Hunters Alliance brought together 175 senior enforcement and anticorruption officials from 6 regions, to inject momentum into global anti-corruption efforts. A functional cross-debarment agreement among the Multilateral Development Banks so that companies debarred by the Bank Group can no longer seek business from other multilateral development banks (MDBs), closing a loophole in multilateral development programs Cooperation agreements in support of parallel investigations, asset recovery and information sharing with the UK Serious Fraud Office, the European Anti-Fraud Office, Interpol, the International Criminal Court, USAID, the Australian Agency for International Development, the UN Office for Internal Oversight and several national authorities Enhanced preventive training and forensic audits designed to identify and address red flags and integrity controls in World Bank projects.

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Librarian through West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC)
by Subhodip Bid 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

*Librarian through West Bengal School Service Commission (*WBSSC) *Names of Posts:* 1. Librarian – 81 vacancies *Qualification Essential*: Bachelor’s Degree in General Stream in Arts/ Science/ Commerce as Regular/ External/ Private candidate or through Distance mode of Education/ Correspondence course with Degree in Library Science as Regular/ External/ Private candidate or through Distance mode of Education/ Correspondence course. *Selection Procedure:* Candidate will be Selected on the basis of personality test and Written test. *Application Fee:* Rs. 250 for General and OBC and Rs 80. for SC/ST and other candidates. *Age*: Minimum: 20 years as on 01.01.2012 (i.e. not born after 01.01.1992). Maximum: 40 years as on 01.01.2012 (i.e. not born before 01.01.1972) *Relaxation*: Relaxable by 05 years for SC/ST, 03 years for OBC, 08 years for PH candidates and upto 55 years of age for approved Non- teaching Staff in recognised non-Govt. aided Jr. High / High /Higher Secondary Schools. For more details *http://www.westbengalssc.com/wbssc/home/* * * * * -- SUBHODIP BID M.Sc,M.L.I.S, AIS Information Professional National Library, Kolkata -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[ELF] UGC moves to ensure academic rights for students
by Engg-Lib-Forum from India 05 Jul '12

05 Jul '12

The University Grants Commission (UGC) is soon going to bring about a Students' Entitlement Regulation, which will allow a student to know his/ her specific academic rights and entitlements. "The student must have complete knowledge about his rights relating to learning, living environment, physical activities, entertainment, sports facilities. If he feels that some specific right is not being met, he can complain," UGC Chairperson Prof Ved Prakash told HT. -- Posted By Engg-Lib-Forum from India to ELF at 7/05/2012 03:23:00 AM -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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UGC NET
by Ratheesh K 05 Jul '12

05 Jul '12

Dear Friends, Thank you for your comments about UGC NET Examination pattern.... But I raise another issue...what is the use/value of a Library Science & Inf. Science NET certificate in Kerala.... I cleared NET in 2009 June, three years over...I did not get a single chance to apply for a UGC post in Kerala government / state university..... Now I am working at Cochin University of Science and Technology as Professional Assistant ....my fifteen(15) library professional colleagues ,who cleared UGC NET are still working in lower positions........ Is it justifiable...? I invite your comments..... Regards, Ratheesh.K M.A.,M.L.I.Sc.,M.Phil,UGC-NET(L.S.) Professional Assistant University Library Cochin University of Science and Technology Kochi-22,Kerala. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Nominations Invited for IIPA-DST Training Programme on Knowledge Management July 23-29, 2012 -
by Usha Munshi 05 Jul '12

05 Jul '12

*IIPA-DST Programme on Knowledge Management July 23-29, 2012.* I am glad to inform you that the Indian Institute of Public Administration will be offering a Programme on *Knowledge Management (KM) *during July 23-29, 2012. The training programme is sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India KM is a core competency which transforms an organization’s business competitiveness, through integration of knowledge and decentralized intelligence to empower knowledge workers to do a better job all around. The future of knowledge lies in its increasing propensity for value, social networks and enrichment of knowledge, and that of KM depends on the right approach to organizational elements that lead to economic value (tangible and intangible). Knowledge (in the present century) reigns supreme, cutting across the core of an organization. In an era of connectivity, knowledge transfer and exchange via cooperation, coordination and creativity, studies have shown that 20% of an organization’s core knowledge can effectively operate 80% of daily transactions. Organizations all over the world began the process of learning how to use and “manage” the new resource called – knowledge. Thus the understanding of importance, role, and performance assessment of the Knowledge Management System in organizations, particularly in knowledge intensive service institutions is very crucial for survival and growth of such organizations to achieve the cutting-edge differentiation. The programme will deal with various issues, tools and techniques that would facilitate a complete array of activities in building KM system from , execution, implementation and assessment to deployment . Besides, the various modules will be covering aspects like Understanding Knowledge & Working Smarter in Knowledge Economy, cognition and Knowledge Management, KM Planning & Execution in Organizations and system evaluation, Pillars of KM in S&T Sector, Key enablers of KM (ICT & Human capital), legal & ethical aspects of KM. One of the important features of the programme is the opportunity provided to the participants to have a holistic approach for strategizing action plan for stimulating knowledge-centric culture in organizations. Thus developing an open-mind to pursue Knowledge-creation, acquisition- Unlearning, Relearning and Sharing with examples of best practices and case studies are drawn from different sectors. Eminent faculty from IIT’s, leading Management institutions, Government Sector and from Corporate domain will be pooling their knowledge resources for building a robust KM system in organizations. *The other key feature is the field visits and learning on site. * * * *Target Group* All Levels of Scientists and Technologists working in various research and academic institutions of Government of India.** * * *Course Fee : (Free)/ Lodging/Boarding * The Department of Science and Technology will bear the entire cost of the training. Only the expenses related to TA/DA of the participants for attending the training programmes at IIPA, and reporting back to their respective places of duty, are to be borne by the nominating organizations. The Institute will take care of the lodging/boarding. The Institute has a Hostel where board/lodging facilities are made available to all the participants on twin sharing basis. Please note that the programme is residential and the accommodation is only for the participants.** *For unwinding,* the institute generally makes arrangement for co-curricular activities. A certificate on completion will be awarded to the participants at the end of the programme.** We look forward to receiving nominations from your organization/s. For more details and programme brochure, kindly send mail to DST Cell IIPA < trgdstiipa(a)gmail.com or umunshi(a)gmail.com. *The nominations may be sent at the earliest (preferably by 13th July, 2012) , so that the requisite arrangements can be made.* Please note that only a maximum of 25 participants can be accommodated in the said training programme. In case there are any queries, please feel free to get in touch with us by either e-mail or phone *Supervisor (Training) 011-91-2346-8338 or *to the* Programme Coordinator *Dr. Usha Mujoo Munshi (011-91- 2346-8320, 9717967686) or* Co-Coordinator* Dr. Roma Mitra Debnath (011-91-* *2346-8376 , 9310338939). We look forward to your cooperation in sending a few nominations for the programmes at the earliest. With regards, Yours sincerely, Dr. Usha Mujoo Munshi Phone: 011-2346 8320 Mobile : 09717967686 e-mailumunshi(a)gmail.com, umunshi(a)iipa.org.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Second Workshop on Koha under LAN/NMEICT Project
by P. S. Mukhopadhyay 05 Jul '12

05 Jul '12

Library Automation and Resource Sharing Network Project (see koha.ignouonline.ac.in) under NMEICT (National Mission on Education through ICT) is going to organize the second workshop (Koha 3.8.2 on Ubuntu platform including MARC 21 bibliographic format and Indic scripts based document management) under a workshop series during July 20-23, 2012, at Bose Institute, P 1/12, C. I. T. Road, Scheme - VIIM Kolkata - 700054, West Bengal, India (see http://bic.boseinst.ernet.in/seminar.html/) The workshop involves no registration fees for librarians of colleges affiliated to UGC/AICTE. It will provide participants Software DVD (an easy-to-install software suite containing Koha and other library related software like Greenstone, DSpace, Joomla, Open Harvester, Open Journal System, easy backup/restore of bibliographic data, and many more in Unicode-compliant Indic Scripts-enabled environment on Ubuntu LTS), Training manual, Working lunch and refreshments. No accommodation and TA/DA are admissible in the project workshop. Interested professionals may send a mail to lan.nmeict(a)gmail.com showing their interest and details info (name and address of college, name of delegate, professional experience, college affiliation, state-of-the library automation, e-mail, mobile number etc.). Participating libraries need to be bibliographic data partner of the project to submit and receive validated MARC data to/from the Z 39.50 server (see http://irspy.indexdata.com/full.html?id=Z39.50%3Akoha.ignouonline.ac.in%3A9…) created by the project team for the purpose. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Request Article
by srinivas rao 05 Jul '12

05 Jul '12

Dear Professionals, Good morning. Can anybody help me to get the soft copy of full text of the following article which is being needed by one of our research scholar. Details of the article is: S. Chandra: Super Ionic Solids: Principles and Applications (North-Holland Pub. Co., 1981) SRINIVASA RAO GANTA Asst.Professor in LIS VBIT,Hyderabad http://vbitlibrary.blogspot.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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