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open letter to international publishers sent by a group of Chinese institutions
by Mailing List Admin 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:08:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Friends: Here is an open letter to international publishers sent by a group of Chinese institutions. Indian science policy makers, directors of institutions, vice chancellors and senior scientists and scholars should support this initiative with a letter of their own to international publishers. Subbiah Arunachalam http://www.las.ac.cn/subpage/Information_Content.jsp?InformationID=5372 Joint Open Letter to International Publishers Scholarly journals and monographs are knowledge created by worldwide scientists and scholars. With the efforts of Chinese libraries and international publishers, China has introduced a large number of international full text STM journal databases in recent years, which has indeed improved the wide dissemination and sharing of knowledge, and has played an important role in the development of Chinese research and education. However, in recent years, the prices of international STM journals and their full text databases have continuously been increased well above the general CPI increase rate. Some went up annually at the rateof more than 10%, and a few have raised their prices even at an annual rate above 20%. This has dramatically pushed Chinese library acquisition expenses for international journals to double or even triple within no more than 10 years, causing some librariesto reduce the subscriptions. Facing the international financial crisis, many countries have kept their library budgets under strict caps or even cut library budgets, and Chinese libraries have also experienced severe pressures for rigorously controlling their subscription budgets. To our dismay and anger, a few international STM publishers, using their monopolistic position, recently demand to raise the subscription prices for their full-text database at a yearly rate of more than 14% for the next 3 years, despite of the fact that their prices have already had a yearly increase of more than 10% in the last contract period. Those publishers claimed that they aim to raise the Chinese users’ cost per article to that of most developed countries in Europe and America in 2020, completely ignoring the fact that China is still a developing country with GDP per capita and investment in research and education per capita still far below the average level of developed countries. Those publishers require that the growth of subscription fees for their products to be kept pace with the nominal growth rate of R&D investment in China, intentionally blind to the fact that China’s education and science are still at an early stage, and the spending coverage of Chinese R&D investment is usually far greater than those of similar institutions in developed countries. Those publishers care solely for their ownprofit growth targets, paying no real attention to the rights of China users to access to STM information and the actual Chinese economic situation. The sharp price rises they demand are simply far beyond any reasonable product price growth in the world and absolutely exceed the capacity of Chinese libraries. It is totally unreasonable, and categorically unacceptable. Libraries and publishers have mutual responsibility and common interest in promoting the wide dissemination of knowledge and in meeting people’s needs for information. The dutifully fulfillment of this responsibility and the reliable realization of the interest can only be based on an affordable, stable, and sustainable mechanism to protect users’ rights, to promote positive cooperation, and to establish long-term affordability, with a keen understanding of the social realities. Especially with the fast developing digital information networks, almost all the physical, technical, and even economic barriers of knowledge dissemination are fast being overcome, the open dissemination of knowledge and forceful protection of public interest become mainstream social needs. Any attempts to deprive user rights, reap extravagant profits, and to sabotage the STM supply chain, will not only harm users and libraries, destroy the stability of the STM information market, but will also inevitably hurt the long term self interests of those publishers. And because of the rigid constrains of library subscription funding, it will unquestionably attack the market shares of other STM publishers and reduce the vitality of the entire market. Therefore, we strongly require those publishers to act with a high sense of responsibilities to users, themselves, and the market, to respect the legitimate rights of Chinese users, and to develop a reasonable, realistic price policy and flexible subscription options in line with the Chinese conditions and economical realities, avoiding cutting off the access of Chinese users to their products and forcing them to re-allocate funding to other and many equally important resources. We also call upon all other international publishers to work together with libraries and user communities for the benefit of wide dissemination and utilization of knowledge, and to keep down the price changes of STM journals and databases and to maintain a reasonable, cooperative, and sustainable STM journal market. We, the undersigned libraries, promise to work together to fight the unreasonable high price increase, for the sake of China users’ long-term and legitimate rights and interests, and also for the interest of a sustainable STM information market. We are willing to work together actively and responsibly with all the publishers to discuss and explore appropriate and effective solutions to well balance the interests of users, publishers and libraries. Signatures of Library Representatives Library Name Duty National Science and Technology Library Yuan Haibo Director National Library of China Chen Li Associate Director National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences Zhang Xiaolin Director Sun Tan Associate Director PekingUniversityLibrary ZhuQiang Director Xiao Long Associate Director TsinghuaUniversityLibrary Deng Jingkang Director FudanUniversityLibrary Ge Jianxiong Director Shanghai Library Zhou Deming Associate Director Instituteof Medical Information, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Dai Tao Director Agricultural Information Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Meng Xianxue Associate Director The Library of Renmin University of China Liu Chunhong Associate Director ChinaAgricultural University Library Pan Wei Associate Director TianjinAcademic Library and Information System Li Qiushi Director JilinUniversityLibrary Li Shuyuan Director ZhejiangUniversityLibraries Ma Jingdi Associate Director NanjingUniversityLibrary Shi Mei Associate Director SoutheastUniversityLibrary Li Aiguo Associate Director ShanghaiJiao Tong UniversityLibrary Lin Haoming Associate Director Xi’anJiaotong University Library Shao Jing Associate Director WuhanUniversityLibrary Liu Xia Associate Director HuazhongUniversityof Science & Technology Library Yuan Qing Associate Director SunYat-sen UniversityLibraries Luo Chunrong Associate Director Harbin Institute of Technology Library Yu Guang Associate Director DalianUniversityof Technology Library Liu Bin Associate Director BeijingNormal UniversityLibrary Huang Yanyun Associate Director PKU Health Science Library Wang Jinling Associate Director CapitalNormal UniversityLibrary Xiong Li Associate Director ShandongUniversityLibrary Jiang Baoliang Associate Director SichuanUniversityLibrary Lin Ping Associate Director XiamenUniversitylibraries Chen Xiaohui Associate Director ChongqingUniversityLibrary Peng Xiaodong Director LanzhouUniversityLibrary Sha Zhongyong Director CentralSouth UniversityLibrary Zhang Zengrong Director ZhengzhouUniversityLibrary Zhu Rong Associate Director September 1, 2010

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Invitation for NCSI-Net Lecture – 18th September 2010
by shivaram gowda 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Dear Members I cordially invite you all for NCSI-Net lecture scheduled on 18th of September 2010 (Third Saturday) at NCSI Seminar hall at 11.00AM. Details of the Talk: Topic (tentative): Relevance of Dr. SR Ranganathan in 21st century Speaker: Dr. KN Prasad, Executive Officer, SRELS, Bangalore Date & Time: 18-09-2010 at 11.00 AM Venue: NCSI seminar hall, IISc, Bangalore Kindly confirm your participation to NCSI-Net coordinators with regards NCSI-Net Coordinators Shivaram BS ICAST, CSIR-NAL Kodihalli Bangaluru-560017 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Register to attend International Conference on Digital Library Management (ICDLM) Jan 2011
by Debal Chandra Kar 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

International Conference on Digital Library Management (ICDLM) Theme: Extending Benefits of Modern Technology to Public, Academic and Special Libraries Science City, Kolkata, 11-13 January, 2011 Venue: Science City, Kolkata Organiser: TERI, New Delhi Co-Organiser: Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, Kolkata The success of ICDL 2004, ICDL 2006 and ICDL 2010 has encouraged and motivated TERI, New Delhi and Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, Kolkatai to conduct of the ICDLM 2011 which will provide yet another stimulating forum for DL professionals to share their knowledge, experience and wisdom. The conference will focus on creation, adoption, implementation and utilization of digital libraries, e-learning and a knowledge society. We invite you all to submit your research paper. Some speakers: 1. Dr. P. Anandan, Managing Director, Microsoft Research India 2. Prof. N Balakrishnan, Associate Director, Indian Institute of Science, India 3. Mr Jens Thorhauge, Director General, Danish Agency for Libraries and Media, DENMARK 4. Barbro Wigell-Ryynänen, Counsellor for Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Education and Culture,FINLAND 5. Professor Gobinda Chowdhury, Director, Centre for Information and Knowledge Management, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 6. Mr. Jean-Marc Comment, Archives fédérales suisses, Switzerland 7. Prof. Dr. Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Germany 8. Prof. Elena Maceviciute, Lithuania and Swedish School of Library and Information Science, Vilnius University, Sweden 9. Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium 10. John Paschoud, InfoSystems Engineer & Projects Manager, London School of Economics Library, UK 11. Rebecca B. Vargha, Library Director, Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina, USA 12. John Paul Anbu K., Head – Periodicals, University of Swaziland Libraries, Swaziland 13. Lizhu Zhou, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 14. Samuel Trosow, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information & Media Studies / Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario, Canada 15. Dr Tengku Mohd T Sembok ,Department of Information Science, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Malaysia 16. Prof. ARD Prasad, DRTC, Indian Statistical institute, India 17. Dr. Subbiah Arunachalam, MSRF, India Who should participate? (a) Professionals from public, academic and special libraries (b) Information Technology professionals. (c) Content and knowledge managers (d) Policy makers (e) Academicians, students and distance learners (f) Archivists and museologists (g) Information providers and vendors. (h) E-publishers and virtual electronic communities (i) Library and Information Science professionals. (j) All stakeholders in the digitization and knowledge business. Call for papers Original papers focusing on the theme of the conference— Extending Benefits of Modern Technology to Public, Academic and Special Libraries are invited for the. Some of the topics are listed below: § DL development and management § Content organization and management § DL architecture and access management § Knowledge management § Digital preservation § DL standards and policy § Thesauri and ontologies, semantics, metadata and retrieval § Open archives initiatives/PMH § Multilingual and interoperability § Copyrights issues in digital environment § DL services and applications § Collaboration and Networking between public libraries º Digital initiatives of public libraries § Open Educational resources For details of paper submission guidelines and submission process, visit < www.teriin.org/events/icdlm >. Important dates Submission of full papers 20 October 2010 Notification of acceptance of paper with comments 05 November 2010 Submission of the revised paper after incorporating comments 20 November 2010 For Early–bird registration offer please visit http://www.teriin.org/events/icdlm/registration.php Registration: please visit http://www.teriin.org/events/ICDLM Delegates fee | Up to 30 November 2010 | After 30 November 2010 ------------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------- | | India and SAARC | Indian Rs 3000 + Rs 309 | Indian Rs 3500 + Rs 360 countries | service tax | service tax ------------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------- | | Other countries | US$ 125 | US$ 150 (including | | service tax) | | Contact: DEBAL C KAR Organizing Secretary ICDLM Secretariat TERI, Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110 003, India Telephone 24644654, 24682100, 41504900 Fax 24682144, 24682145 E-mail icdl(a)teri.res.in Web www.teriin.org/events/icdlm India +91 • Delhi (0)11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer: The information contained in this e-mail is intended for the person or entity to which it is addressed, and it may contain confidential and/or privileged material. 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Karnataka Government College Librarians Association?
by Vasanth 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

Dear Sir/Madam, Recently more than 150 First Grade Degree College librarians were appointed by the State Government. Now if hypothetically put it there are more than 300 librarians serving in first grade colleges across the state. There are lots of issues and problems librarians often have to face in government colleges. For instance, book acquisition policy, recent Collegiate Department decision on book circulations (they have not consulted government college librarians while formulating the rules for issuing books during examination period), and many other issues. We have no representative who can time to time bring all these issues to the higher authorities at the Department of Collegiate Education. Although we have Karnataka State College Librarians Association (KSCLA), they represent larger section- aided colleges, private colleges and government colleges together. This creates a kind of conflict of interest. The KSCLA has to protect the interest of all the stakeholders. But the diversification is so wide that some time the rules suited for aided college libraries may not suit for the government college libraries. Recent circulation policy is a case in point. The KSCLA has done its best to protect the interest of the government librarians. But as the college librarians’ number has increased, it is right time to form an association to protect the interest of the government college librarians. Karnataka State Government College Librarians Association can work with the KSCLA to strengthen the voice of the librarians. ----------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N GFGC-Periyapatna Mysore Dist -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article request (urgent)
by Apurba Jyoti Majumder 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Dear professional, One of our faculty member urgently needs the following article: "Diversification of employment AND earnings by rural households in West Bengal" by S K Bhowmik Source: Indian journal of Agricultural economics. Vol 62(4) Please send it to my email id. <apurbajyoti(a)gmail.com> -- Apurba Jyoti Majumder, JRF Assistant Librarian Rabindra Library (Central Library) Assam University. Silchar- 781011 Cell No: 09435268733, 09707626388 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Omingator: a Powerful Topic Map
by Pawan Agrawal 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

The Omnigator is a technology showcase and teaching aid designed to demonstrate the power of Topic Maps. It is also used extensively as a topic map debugger and prototyping tool. Now, with the introduction of RDF support, the Omnigator is evolving into a multi-purpose Semantic Web Agent. *Features* The Omnigator is omnivorous: It eats anything, provided it is a topic map – or can be viewed as one! Its most unique feature is that it lets you load and navigate any conforming topic map, whether its format be XTM, HyTM, LTM – or even RDF. What's more, although it isn't optimized for any particular application, the Omnigator is able to make reasonable sense out of any reasonably sensible topic map! But the Omnigator lets you do far more than simply browse your topic maps. It supports all aspects of the Topic Maps standard and has a host of powerful features, such as the ability to merge topic maps on the fly; search in ways that make Google boggle; export to a range of syntaxes; customize different views; produce filtered subsets based on scope; perform semantic validation; and much more besides. The most eye-catching new Omnigator feature is the Vizigator, which produces a graphic visualization of your topic map. The Vizigator is accessed via the Vizigateplug-in on any Topic Page. In addition, support for RDF has been improved through the addition of the RDF2TM plug-in which allows you to configure your mappings. I have browsed for Digital Library and found that this is a marvelous source of information. At present this is in its initial stage and will develop in future. It inculdes abstracts of the books and information of all related terms. It is more than a thesaurus. Check it once At present you can check Digital libraries and Metadata http://www.ontopedia.net/omnigator/models/index.jsp -- Join hands, Join eLibrarian www.elibrarian.grou.ps Thanks and Regards ------ Pawan R. Agrawal Librarian Takshshila Centre for Learning Transpek Silox Industry Ltd. Kalali Road- Atladra Vadodara- 390012 Ph. 9376135580 http:\\www.elibrarian.grou.ps -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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CRC Netbase wins the 2010 ALPSP eBooks award!
by Verma, Neeti 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Dear Everyone, I am pleased to inform that at yesterday's annual ALPSP conference dinner CRC Netbase was announced to have won the 2010 ALPSP eBooks award! Every year, the ALPSP (The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) awards recognise the "Best Journal", "Best Publishing Innovation" and "Best eBook Publisher", and these awards are one of the most reputable in the industry. The best eBook award "recognises exceptional expertise, innovation and enterprise in the publishing of academic or scholarly book content in electronic form" and this year the judges have been convinced by the CRC Netbase concept. Further information will soon be published on the ALPSP platform (www.alpsp.org <http://www.alpsp.org> ) Neeti Verma Sales Head - South Asia Journals and Online Resources Taylor & Francis Group 912 Tolstoy House 15-17 Tolstoy Marg New Delhi 110001 Ph: 011-43155117 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained in this email message may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, interference with, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. Although this message and any attachments are believed to be free of viruses, no responsibility is accepted by Informa for any loss or damage arising in any way from receipt or use thereof. Messages to and from the company are monitored for operational reasons and in accordance with lawful business practices. If you have received this message in error, please notify us by return and delete the message and any attachments. Further enquiries/returns can be sent to postmaster(a)informa.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Required a copy of article
by Tejasvini.Ranadive＠ril.com 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Dear All, Required a copy of article for reference... http://www.springerlink.com/content/wyypcm2k092xb2rb/ Synthesis and characterization of complexes between poly(itaconic acid) and poly(ethylene glycol) Simonida Lj. Tomić and Jovanka M. Filipović Polymer Bulletin Volume 52, Number 5, 355-364, DOI: 10.1007/s00289-004-0298-5 Kindly share, if the said article is available with you! Thanks & Regards, Tejasvini Ranadive Reliance Industries Ltd., Central Library, Patalganga Manufacturing Division Rasayani 410220 District: Raigad MAHARASHTRA - INDIA Tel: 02192256270 tejasvini.ranadive(a)ril.com<mailto:tejasvini.ranadive@ril.com> Jim Rohn: "You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills." "Confidentiality Warning: This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). are confidential. and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient. you are hereby notified that any review. re-transmission. conversion to hard copy. copying. circulation or other use of this message and any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient. please notify the sender immediately by return email. and delete this message and any attachments from your system. Virus Warning: Although the company has taken reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email. The company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the use of this email or attachment." -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Memorandum to UGC
by G.R. Sabapathy 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Dear Sir, At the outset on behalf of LIS fraternity, I would like to thank for all your continuous efforts to taking up the LIS issues to the concerned for remedy. In this context, I would like to submit the following issues for your kind perusal. 1. Some universities have not creted the post of University Librarian even though it is a mandatory post as per UGC norms. They are mentioning the post in the Act of the University but actually they are not creating the post. They just post a Professor (who is not a library science qualified) as the University Librarian which is a very serious lapse. For example, the following universities have not created the post of 'University Librarian'. 1. Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai (The University was established in 1989. even after 20 years the university has not created the post of University Librarian so far) 2. Venkateswara Veterinary University, Tirupathi (Estt. in 2005) 3. West Bengal University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Kolkata 4. Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University Punjab This is only a sample list. If you investigate this matter, it will go large. This has to be brought to the notice of MHRD and UGC and strict instructions should be issued to such universities to immediately create the post of University Librarian for granting accreditation / approval by the UGC. 2. The qualifications for the post of University Librarian was made on par with Professors in the new UGC order. But, again the qualificiations were revised in the recent orders by extending a minimum of 18 years service. Further, Ph.D. has not been made as compulsory. If the Librarian needs to be treated on par with Professor, Ph.D. should be mandatory. Further, while a teacher after putting 10 years of service can compete for Professor post under direct recruitment. But, for the Asst Librarian / Deputy Librarian, it is 18 years. This is a major injustice to the LIS fraternity. So, it has to be made again as 10 years service with Ph.D. 3. CA is denied for DLs to become Librarian and it is made that the Librarian post should be open recruited. This again denies the CA benefits to the LIS fraternity. CA should be extended to DLs also so that they can get opportunities. I request you to kindly consider the above 3 issues and make suitable representation to the UGC / MHRD. Thanking you, Yours sincerely, Dr.G. Rathinasabapathy, Ph.D. Deputy Librarian Department of Library Science Madras Veterinary College Tamilnadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University Vepery, Chennai - 600 007 Tel: (Off)044-25388997 044-25381506 x 283,287 (Res)044-25611619 Email: grsaba(a)rediffmail.com grspathy(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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Re: [LIS-Forum] Submission of Representation to UGC Anomalies
by Mailing List Admin 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 11:45:41 +0530 (IST) From: loan fayaz <fayazlib(a)yahoo.co.in> Respected Sir, � Plz take the whole library community in consideration. Upto 5th pay commssion Documentation Officer was in UGC pay scales but unfortunately in UGC 6th Pay commission, the Documentation Officer hasn't been enlisted. Some state universities are not treating them at par with Assist. Librarians now. It is a great hurdle for them. Plz take this thing into consideration while submitting the proposal. � Thanking U in anticipation, Fayaz Lone (Documentation Officer) Centre of Central Asian Studies, University of Kashmir, Srinagar.

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