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XXVI All India Conference of IASLIC ~V 2007
by Mailing List Manager 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:38:59 +0530 From: Dr. Arun K. Chakraborty <akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in> Kindly circulate ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- XXVI All India Conference of IASLIC 2007 Venue : Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi Date : 26th 29th December, 2007 Theme : Digital Media and Library & Information Science Organizing Secretary : Dr. Gayas Makhdumi University Librarian & Head Dr. Zakir Husain Library Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University) Jamia Nagar, New Delhi 110 025 Ph (Off) 011-2698-4190 (Direct) Ph(Off) 011-2698-8044 (Extn. 1500) e-mail : zhl(a)jml.ernet.in DR. ARUN KUMAR CHAKRABORTY LIBRARIAN BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA, INDIA MAIN CAMPUS: 93/1 A.P.C. ROAD, KOLKATA 700 009 INDIA PH: 91-33-2350 2402/03, FAX: 91-33-2350-6790 CENTENARY CAMPUS : P1/12 CIT SCHEME - VII-M, KOLKATA 700 054 INDIA PH: 91-33-2355 9544, 9416, 9219 FAX: 91-33-2355 3886 Ph(Res): 33-25768192, E-MAIL: akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in

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OA developments in 2006
by Subbiah Arunachalam 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Peter Suber's summary of OA developments is now available from: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/01-02-07.htm#2006 It makes very encouraging reading and can be forwarded to your colleagues. It mentions MedKnow and Open J-Gate. Best wishes for 2007! Arun Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Fwd: Re: Bangalore OA policy document
by Subbiah Arunachalam 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Friends: NIT-Rourkela is mentioned in the year-end review by Peter Suber. Arun > Dear All, > > Peter Suber's summary of OA developments is now > available from: > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/01-02-07.htm#2006 > It makes very encouraging reading and can be > forwarded to your colleagues. > > Best wishes for 2007! > > Barbara Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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One day Seminar on Benchmarking and Best Practices in Special Libraries
by Mailing List Manager 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 09:04:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Muniraj. T <t_muniraj(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear All, Asian Chapter of Special Libraries Association will organize a One day Seminar on Benchmarking and Best Practices in Special Libraries on Feb. 2, 2007, Venue: Indian Institute of Public Administration, I P Estate, ITO, New Delhi. For details of the program please visit: http://units. sla.org/chapter/ cas/bench07. html Regards, MUNIRAJU.T IV Sem. MLISc Department of Library and Information Science. E-mail:t_muniraj@yahoo.co.in E-mail: muniraj.t(a)gmail.com

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Sensitization workshop on Information Literacy at Calicut
by vimal kumar 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Sensitization workshop on Information Literacy 27 January 2007 (9am to 5pm) Organized by Kerala Library Association Sponsored by UNESCO Venue Hotel Alakapuri Kozhikode (Preferred Participants from Ernakulam Dist. & northwards up to Kasaragod) Coverage/Contents IL overview components of IL, Models and the learning process ICT applications, Internet/ e-Resources, etc. in the IL perspective IL and Life skills development IL competency standards Target Groups: LIS professionals/ practitioners, LIS students Mode of selection: By registration in the prescribed form. Preference will be given to young LIS professionals & students. Registration Fee: Nil Filled up Registration form may be sent to Dr. Dineshan Koovakkai Regional Secretary, KLA CHMK Library University of Calicut Calicut University-PO Malappuram Dist. 673635 P.S. Can be registered by e-mail also. E-mail registrations are to be mailed to any of the following addresses: dineshank(a)gmail.com dineshkoovakkai(a)yahoo.co.in mgsree(a)iimk.ac.in Brochure and registration form can be download at http://www.asb.edu.in/library/IL-calicut.pdf Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Sensitization workshop on Information Literacy 27 January 2007 (9am to 5pm) Organized by Kerala Library Association Sponsored by UNESCO Venue Hotel Alakapuri Kozhikode (Preferred Participants from Ernakulam Dist. & northwards up to Kasaragod) Coverage/Contents IL overview components of IL, Models and the learning process ICT applications, Internet/ e-Resources, etc. in the IL perspective IL and Life skills development IL competency standards Target Groups: LIS professionals/ practitioners, LIS students Mode of selection: By registration in the prescribed form. Preference will be given to young LIS professionals & students. Registration Fee: Nil Filled up Registration form may be sent to Dr. Dineshan Koovakkai Regional Secretary, KLA CHMK Library University of Calicut Calicut University-PO Malappuram Dist. 673635 P.S. Can be registered by e-mail also. E-mail registrations are to be mailed to any of the following addresses: mailto:dineshank@gmail.com dineshank(a)gmail.com mailto:dineshkoovakkai@yahoo.co.in dineshkoovakkai(a)yahoo.co.in mailto:mgsree@iimk.ac.in mgsree(a)iimk.ac.in Brochure and registration form can be download at http://www.asb.edu.in/library/IL-calicut.pdf http://www.asb.edu.in/library/IL-calicut.pdf Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Let 2007 be the year of Open Access.
by Sukhdev Singh 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Dear Friends, Let us welcome the 2007 year. Let us all wish that 2007 would be the year of open access to peer-reviewed scientific literature. Scientific Content - We, the scientific community, create it. Let us share it openly. Knowledge - More it is shared - the more it grows and makes humans differ from other animals. So friends, let us resolve to promote and support Open Access in 2007. --Sukhdev Singh Co-Moderator - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oadl/ Join and Contribute.

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DELNET is organising PACE PROGRAMMES during Feb 2007
by Sangeeta Kaul, Network Manager, DELNET 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

DELNET Developing Library Network is organising PACE PROGRAMMES (Professional Advancement and Continuing Education) Venue : DELNET - Developing Library Network Nelson Mandela Road, JNU Campus Vasant Kunj, New Delhi-110070 Participation Fee (Members): Rs.3,000/- per delegate per workshop. (Non-Members) : Rs 4000/- per delegate per workshop (Researchers/students): Rs 2000/- per delegate per workshop 25% discount will be provided for more than two nominations from the same institution for same/different workshops. 1. Workshop on Digital Libraries : Application of DSpace ========================================================= Dates of Workshop : February 12-14, 2007 This workshop is exclusively designed by DELNET to provide hands-on-experience to Library and Information Science Professionals in developing a digital library using DSpace software. The workshop covers the overview of DSpace, Installation of DSpace, DSpace Administration, DSpace Customisation and the Linux Installation. The workshop also covers Metadata, Dublin Core and planning of digital libraries. 2. Workshop on Library Automation and Networking ================================================= Dates of Workshop: February 22-24, 2007 The workshop will cover in depth the topics related to Library Automation, Networking Standards, Software solutions, etc. The topics include: 1. Internet Searching. 2. Library Automation. 3. MARC 21. 4. Software Solutions. 5. Library Networking. 6. Communication Technologies. For further details contact : Sangeeta Kaul Network Manager DELNET-Developing Library Network JNU Campus, Nelson Mandela Road Vasant Kunj New Delhi-110070 Tel :91-11- 32471001, 32471010 Email : sangs(a)delnet.ren.nic.in ############################################################################ A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. - John Neal ############################################################################ _______________________________________________________________________________ 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 ________________________________________________________________________________

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Who should own the copyright to research papers?
by Subbiah Arunachalam 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

An open letter to the Fellows of INSA and IASc. Dear Fellows of INSA and IASc: Recently, the Librarian of the Raman Research Institute, B'lore, wrote to a publishers seeking permission to deposit the full texts of research papers published in some of their journals by Prof. C V Raman decades ago in an institutional repository RRI is creating. The publisher refused permission! Refused permission for uploading papers written several decades ago. When we requested the publisher again and also publicised the incident through many electronic discussion groups, the publisher gave permission to RRI to upload those papers. Of course, the publisher had the legal right to deny permission as Prof. C V Raman must have signed a copyright transfer agreement with restrictive clauses (as most of us continue to do even now). Here is a quote from J F Sollenberger and M Shipley, The state of scientific publishing: problems and promise, Scand J Public Health, 2004; 32: 153156: "Librarians and many scientists suggest that authors propose alternative wording in publication agreements, specifically retaining the right to use their publications in subsequent works or in their teaching, and/or to self-archive their works in institutional repositories. Author control over the work is then partially preserved, even though the right of first distribution still belongs to the publisher." The authors need not even take the trouble to compose the text of a revised agreement. A few alternative versions are readily avaialble. Here is another excerpt from the same article: "Publishers have what is effectively a monopoly over the distribution of scientific research, since authors hand over copyright and libraries have little choice but to subscribe to the journal. Authors who want to use the results of their own research in future publications, even a figure or a table, must ask for permission to do so, unless they had negotiated this right in the original publication agreement. If not previously arranged, faculty also must request the right to include copies of their own papers in their course syllabi. The traditional model of publishing forces institutions to buy back results of research that they (or taxpayers) have paid for already. Publishers are in control!" Come to think of it. If most Indian researchers perform research with financial support from taxpayers' money (salaries and research grants from DST, DBT, CSIR, UGC, ICAR, ICMR, DAE, DoS, DOD, universities and lab facilities created with funds from a government source), how can they surrender the copyright to their work to a journal publisher? No research paper written by a scientist on the payroll of the US Governmnt (NASA, NIH labs, etc.) is copyrightable. We should pass such a law in India. Till then, our funding agencies and the government SHOULD DEMAND that no author signs away the right to archive and reuse the content of a research paper to a journal publisher - Indian or foreign. Of course, the authors (and their institutions) should have the freedom to choose the journal where they want to publish their papers. As of today, more than 92% of about 9,000 journals surveyed allow authors to archive their papers in their own institution's OA repositories, either immediately or within a few months of publication in the journal. The authors can and should negotiate with publishers of other journals and amend the copyright agreement form before signing it. The funding agency which supported the resaerch in the first palce and the authors who actually did the work and wrote the paper have a greater right on the paper than the publisher. Regards. Subbiah Arunachalam Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Online Directory of Indian Journals
by Mailing List Manager 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:10:42 +0530 From: Chandrima Roy <croy(a)docdelserv.com> IndianJournals.com wishes you all a Very Happy & Prosperous New Year 2007! On this occasion we are pleased to launch the highly demanded Online Directory of Indian Publications URL (http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=indianjournaldirectory) With a view to keep the information updated we have given Add / Update information link as well. URL (http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=journaldir_form) We invite all of you to view the directory and also Add / Update Publication(s) and help us to complete the directory. List of publications available can be sorted Alphabetically or Subject wise. We hope you will appreciate this initiative of Indianjournals.com. We will also welcome your comments/suggestions, if any. Thanks & Regards Chandrima Roy Divan Enterprises B-9, Basement, "A" Block, Local Shopping Complex Naraina Vihar, Ring Road New Delhi - 110028 Tel: +91-11-25770411 Fax: +91-11-25778876

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'Free' access to research should not be limited (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:40:34 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> >From SciDev.net 'Free' access to research should not be limited The Internet facilitates open access but this is being unnecessarily restricted. Donat Agosti 28 December 2006 Source: SciDev.Net All scientists - rich or poor - should have free and open access to published data; any attempt to restrict such access is unacceptable, argues Donat Agosti. For details, visit: http://www.scidev.net/content/opinions/eng/free-access-to-research-should-n… Arun

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