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Physics world - special on publishing
by Krishnan 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

Physics World (2007), 20(1), January is essentially a special issue on publishing. Feature A revolution in bits <http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/20/1/3/1> Why the Web is changing physics publishing free The open-access debate <http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/20/1/4/1> The pros and cons of free-to-read papers free Talking physics in the social Web <http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/20/1/5/1> Blogs, wikis and social tagging Peer review steps out of the shadows <http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/20/1/6/1> How the Web can open up peer review The rise and rise of citation analysis <http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/20/1/7/1> Krishnan -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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On greenstone
by Rajan 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

Dear All, A Beginner's Guide to Greenstone Digital Library Software We have prepared a near-final draft document titled "Building up a Digital Library with Greenstone: A Self-Instructional Guide for Beginner's" containing simple descriptions and screenshots, to help the new users of Greenstone Digital Library Software 2.72 who have had no chance to attend any workshop (21 pages 665 KB). The document can be used as a handout for one day's demonstration workshops on Greenstone too. The guide deals with the essential steps on starting a new collection, gathering and enriching documents, designing a collection with search indexes and browsing classifiers (Author, Title & Keywords) and building the collection. You can get a copy by sending a mail to librariankila(a)hotmail.com Lack of clarity, language errors etc. may be brought to our notice, in return. K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local administration Mulagunnathukavu - 680 581 Thrissur, India Ph 0487-2204097 (O) 2201428 (R) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Library software for indexing newsclippings
by Vandana.Karande＠ril.com 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

We are interested in buying a library software for indexing newsclippings............Is there any specific software for the same??? OR is there any library software which can give only indexing module??? Thanks & Regards, Vandana Karande Information Specialist Corporate Development Group Reliance Industries Ltd Reliance Centre Tel No. 22847139 It takes so little to help change lives. Make a difference at www.giveindia.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Biology Image Library
by Satish Munnolli 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

Dear professionals, Biology Image Library - A virtual library or collection of images, illustrations, movies and animations that are useful for research and education particularly in the field of Biological Sciences. It is also a new, easy way to share your work with others without losing any rights to it or limiting how you use it in the future. It's coming soon from BioMed Central. Visit http://www.biologyimagelibrary.com I have seen few images and educational movies from this virtual library. They are quite interesting and can be used in many scientific endeavors especially for the biologists. Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 210 India Ph : +91 22 2740 5026 Fax : +91 22 2740 5085 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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digital library software
by ravija srivastava 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

Dear colleagues, I have been trying to collect information about the various digital library softwares. I would be happy to know your personal experiences with each or any of them, and kindly give your recommendation for a university library. Ravija Srivastava Lecturer Dept. of Library & Information Sciences University of Mumbai --------------------------------- TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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DELNET's Invitation : Interactive Seminar on Advances in Australian University Libraries on February 12, 2007 at DELNET, New Delhi
by Sangeeta Kaul, Network Manager, DELNET 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

DELNET/ISAAUL/2007 January 25, 2007 Sub : Interactive Seminar on Advances in Australian University Libraries February 12, 2007 Dear Colleague, DELNET is organising an Interactive Seminar on Advances in Australian University Libraries on February 12, 2007 at 3 p.m. at Conference Room, DELNET, JNU Campus, Nelson Mandela Road, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi-110070. The panelists comprise: 1. Mrs. Eve Woodberry (University of New England) and President of CAUL 2. Mrs. Shirley Oakley (Charles Sturt University) 3. Ms. Jennifer Peasley (Macquarie University) 4. Mrs. Val Moon (University of Sydney) 5. Mr. Vic Elliott (Australian National University) 6. Mr. John Shipp (University of Sydney) You are welcome to participate. Please fill in the enclosed acceptance form if you wish to participate in the Seminar and mail it to us immediately. Participation in the Seminar is free of charge. Thanking you, Yours faithfully, H. K. Kaul Interactive Seminar on Advances in Australian University Libraries To, The Director DELNET � Developing Library Network J. N. U. Campus, Nelson Mandela Road Vasant Kunj, New Delhi-110070 Email : hkkaul(a)delnet.ren.nic.in Dear Sir, Please register my name for participation in the Interactive Seminar on Advances in Australian University Libraries to be held on February 12, 2007 at 3 p.m. at DELNET. Name : _____________________________________________________ Designation : _________________________________________________ Institution�s Name : ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Telephone :___________________________________________________ Email : ______________________________________________________ Thanking you, Yours faithfully, ________________________ (Signature) _______________________________________________________________________________ Sangeeta Kaul Network Manager DELNET-Developing Library Network JNU Campus Nelson Mandela Road Vasant Kunj New Delhi-110070 Tel: 91-11-32471010, 32471002, 32471011 Web : www.delnet.nic.in ________________________________________________________________________________ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Rebels hold their own in journal price war
by Krishnan 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

From Nature 445, 351 (25 January 2007) Rebels hold their own in journal price war Declan Butler Last August, the entire editorial board of the Elsevier journal Topology quit in a row over pricing. Now they are setting up a non-profit competitor to be published by the London Mathematical Society. The Journal of Topology, announced last week, will launch next January and will cost US$570 per year, compared with Topology's $1,665. It's not the first such move. Over the past eight years, around a dozen cheap or open-access journals have been created to compete directly with an expensive commercial journal, many by editorial boards that had quit the original publication in protest. So, do the cheaper journals fare better than their rivals? As far as scientific credibility is concerned, the answer is often yes — many of the challengers have obtained impact factors (a measure of the citations its papers receive) higher than their competitor. For example, the Journal of Machine Learning Research, set up in 2001 by editors of Springer's Machine Learning, has a 2005 impact factor of 4.027. "That's the highest in artificial intelligence, automation and control, and ninth in all of computer science," says Leslie Pack Kaelbling, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and the journal's editor-in-chief. Machine Learning has a 2005 impact factor of just 3.1. One of the first defections was Evolutionary Ecology Research, set up in 1999 by Michael Rosenzweig, a researcher at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He defected, along with the entire editorial board, from Evolutionary Ecology, then published by Wolters Kluwer. Rosenzweig had established the journal in 1987, but became disillusioned with price increases. The new journal has survived, with the online version getting up to 80,000 page views a month and a 50% increase in its number of pages, says Rosenzweig. He says the journal pioneered the idea of allowing libraries to subscribe only to an electronic version. Although its impact factor of 1.61 lags behind Evolutionary Ecology's 1.77, he dismisses this as unimportant: "Impact factors are toxic for science and the journals that serve it." Like many of the rebel journals, Evolutionary Ecology Research was set up with help from the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), which fosters greater access to the literature. Joan Birman of Columbia University in New York is on the editorial board of Geometry and Topology, another SPARC-supported journal. She says it "has done better than we could have dreamed". Despite scholarly success, the rebel journals often get poor support from libraries. But despite scholarly success, the journals often get poor support from libraries. "Libraries have not given us anything like the support, via subscriptions, that mathematicians have given us via submissions," says Birman. "Subscriptions have been an uphill battle. Our journals are self-supporting, but just barely so." Krishnan -- Dr. S.Krishnan Head, Information Division National Chemical Laboratory Pashan Road PUNE 411008, INDIA e-mail: s.krishnan(a)ncl.res.in Tel: +91-20-25902650 Fax: +91-20-25902850 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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PR's 'pit bull' takes on open access
by madhuresh.singhal 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

Dear All, You may be interested to read the following news. This news item says that some big publishers have hired a PR firm to counter the free/open information movement. Interesting news from "Nature" available at http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070122/full/445347a.html "PR's 'pit bull' takes on open access" Journal publishers lock horns with free-information movement. Jim Giles The author of Nail 'Em! Confronting High-Profile Attacks on Celebrities and Businesses is not the kind of figure normally associated with the relatively sedate world of scientific publishing. Besides writing the odd novel, Eric Dezenhall has made a name for himself helping companies and celebrities protect their reputations, working for example with Jeffrey Skilling, the former Enron chief now serving a 24-year jail term for fraud. Although Dezenhall declines to comment on Skilling and his other clients, his firm, Dezenhall Resources, was also reported by Business Week to have used money from oil giant ExxonMobil to criticize the environmental group Greenpeace. "He's the pit bull of public relations," says Kevin McCauley, an editor at the magazine O'Dwyer's PR Report. Now, Nature has learned, a group of big scientific publishers has hired the pit bull to take on the free-information movement, which campaigns for scientific results to be made freely available. Some traditional journals, which depend on subscription charges, say that open-access journals and public databases of scientific papers such as the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) PubMed Central, threaten their livelihoods. >From e-mails passed to Nature, it seems Dezenhall spoke to employees from Elsevier, Wiley and the American Chemical Society at a meeting arranged last July by the Association of American Publishers (AAP). A follow-up message in which Dezenhall suggests a strategy for the publishers provides some insight into the approach they are considering taking. The consultant advised them to focus on simple messages, such as "Public access equals government censorship". He hinted that the publishers should attempt to equate traditional publishing models with peer review, and "paint a picture of what the world would look like without peer-reviewed articles". Dezenhall also recommended joining forces with groups that may be ideologically opposed to government-mandated projects such as PubMed Central, including organizations that have angered scientists. One suggestion was the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank based in Washington DC, which has used oil-industry money to promote sceptical views on climate change. Dezenhall estimated his fee for the campaign at $300,000-500,000. In an enthusiastic e-mail sent to colleagues after the meeting, Susan Spilka, Wiley's director of corporate communications, said Dezenhall explained that publishers had acted too defensively on the free-information issue and worried too much about making precise statements. Dezenhall noted that if the other side is on the defensive, it doesn't matter if they can discredit your statements, she added: "Media massaging is not the same as intellectual debate. Officials at the AAP would not comment to Nature on the details of their work with Dezenhall, or the money involved, but acknowledged that they had met him and subsequently contracted his firm to work on the issue. "We're like any firm under siege," says Barbara Meredith, a vice-president at the organization. "It's common to hire a PR firm when you're under siege." She says the AAP needs to counter messages from groups such as the Public Library of Science (PLoS), an open-access publisher and prominent advocate of free access to information. PLoS's publicity budget stretches to television advertisements produced by North Woods Advertising of Minneapolis, a firm best known for its role in the unexpected election of former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura to the governorship of Minnesota. The publishers' link with Dezenhall reflects how seriously they are taking recent developments on access to information. Minutes of a 2006 AAP meeting sent to Nature show that particular attention is being paid to PubMed Central. Since 2005, the NIH has asked all researchers that it funds to send copies of accepted papers to the archive, but only a small percentage actually do. Congress is expected to consider a bill later this year that would make submission compulsory. Brian Crawford, a senior vice-president at the American Chemical Society and a member of the AAP executive chair, says that Dezenhall's suggestions have been refined and that the publishers have not to his knowledge sought to work with the Competitive Enterprise Institute. On the censorship message, he adds: "When any government or funding agency houses and disseminates for public consumption only the work it itself funds, that constitutes a form of selection and self-promotion of that entity's interests." Regards Madhuresh Singhal Assoc. Res. Scientist - Inf. Sc. Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. 21 & 22, Phase 2, Peenya Industrial Area, Bangalore - 560058 Phone: +91 80 51172085, Ext. 25; Mobile 098861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/ ************************************************************************************************ This email and its attachments are confidential and proprietary to Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. 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LIS Job: Electronic Resources Librarian - for The Cline Library at Northern Arizona University
by Mailing List Admin 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:45:26 -0800 (PST) From: Puttaraj Choukimath <puttuc(a)yahoo.com> The Cline Library at Northern Arizona University > invites applications > for: *Electronic Resources Librarian. *The > position�s primary goal is to > ensure consistent and integrated access to licensed > electronic resources > in a technology-intensiv e learning environment. As a > member of Content, > Access and Delivery Services (CADS), the Librarian > assists in evaluating > and strengthening access to electronic resources > within the NAU course > management system and through various other > University and Library > interfaces. The Librarian participates in the > refinement and > implementation of procedures related to licensed > electronic resources > procurement and management. NAU > <http://www4. nau.edu/presiden t/mission2. asp> > values service excellence in a learner-centered > environment. The Cline > Library > focuses on all students, faculty, and staff > regardless of their > locations and provides extraordinary service that > facilitates 24/7 > completion of course assignments and scholarship. We > seek personnel who > are committed to the Library's mission > <http://www.nau. edu/library/ information/ aboutcline. html> > and who > are flexible and reliable in an atmosphere of rapid > change. > > The salary is $47,400 DOE; a detailed job > description and application > procedure is located at: > <_http://hr.nau. edu/m/content/ view/796/ 549/_> > . > Northern Arizona University is a committed Equal > Opportunity/ Affirmative > Action Institution. Women, minorities, veterans and > individuals with > disabilities are encouraged to apply. NAU is > responsive to the needs of > dual career couples. > > Beth > -- > > -- > Beth Schuck > Coordinator Content, Access and Delivery Services > Co-Chair Commission on the Status of Women, 2006-7 > Cline Library, Northern Arizona University > PO Box 6022 > Flagstaff, AZ 86011 > (928) 523- 6779 > Beth.Schuck@ nau.edu > Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: puttuc(a)yahoo.com, choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: www.tiss.edu

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ICFAI to set up 15 pvt varsities at Rs 1000cr
by jasbir singh 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) is planning to set up 15 private universities in various states by 2010 at an estimated cost of Rs 1,000 crore. It had chalked out plans to set up the campuses in the wake of nine states enacting legislations facilitating establishment of private universities. Other states in the country are expected to introduce similar legislations. "We have so far established seven private universities in the states of Uttaranchal, Tripura, Sikkim, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Jharkhand. In addition, Chhattisgarh, Punjab and Rajasthan have issued letters of intent to set up universities in their respective states," ICFAI University vice-chancellor, V Panduranga Rao, told Business Standard. Rao said ICFAI has acquired land in Nagpur (54 acres), Kanpur (60 acres) and Chandigarh (50 acres) to establish these university campuses. To set up a university in Jaipur, the Rajasthan government has allotted 40 acres of land. According to Rao, ICFAI is building a 1.5-million square feet campus spread over an extent of 93 acres in Hyderabad. The first phase of the Rs 175-crore campus has been completed and the second and final phase would be completed by this year. This will be converted into a university once the Andhra Pradesh government implements its decision of introducing a Bill facilitating the establishment of private universities in the state. In Dehra Dun, ICFAI has started building a one-million square feet campus at a cost of about Rs 90 crore, the first phase of which would be ready by June this years. Similarly, the institute is expecting to complete the construction of a 4-lakh square feet campus in Agartala by May. The Agartala campus is being built at a cost of Rs 60 crore. "By the end of 2007, we will have three full-fledged campuses with residential accommodations for students and faculty and sports facilities," Rao said. Stating that the new universities would be funded through internal accruals and bank loans, Rao said ICFAI had the required experience, expertise, infrastructure and sound financial background to provide highly professional quality education. Jasbir Singh Learning Resource Center (LRC) Jaypee University of Information Technology Waknaghat Disst Solan (H.P) India http://www.juit.ac.in/ --------------------------------- Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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