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Digital reference sourses
by shankarprasad＠ntpc.co.in 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Dear All Please help me in collecting the following: 1- Diff digital reference soures-- Earlier we used to search - dictionary, encyclopedia, year books, directory,buyer's guide etc etc in printed hard copy for a particular information, 2- These must be available on the internet. I would like to collect names of various web address, so that relevant web maybe sought without wasting time on search engine Thanks (Shankar Prasad) Sr.Documentation Officer NTPC-Rihand Dear All Please help me in collecting the following: 1- Diff digital reference soures-- �Earlier we used to search - dictionary, encyclopedia, year books, directory,buyer's guide etc etc in printed hard copy for a particular information, 2- These must be available on the internet. �I would like to collect names of various web address, so that relevant web maybe sought without wasting time on search engine Thanks (Shankar Prasad) Sr.Documentation Officer NTPC-Rihand

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Shelfari - Virtual Shelf for Your Books
by sandeep bhavsar 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Respected All Shelfari - Virtual Shelf for Your Books http://www.shelfari.com/ The problem with our large bookshelves is that they are buried in our home where only a subset of people can see what we have read. Now with Shelfari you can show off that book collection to your friends and the world! Shelfari makes it easy to see what your friends are reading and even get and give book recommendations. With Shelfari you can easily connect with new and old friends to talk about the books you are passionate about. Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 elibrary : http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Respected All http://www.shelfari.com/images/splash-introtext.png Shelfari - Virtual Shelf for Your Books http://www.shelfari.com/ http://www.shelfari.com/ The problem with our large bookshelves is that they are buried in our home where only a subset of people can see what we have read. Now with Shelfari you can show off that book collection to your friends and the world! Shelfari makes it easy to see what your friends are reading and even get and give book recommendations. With Shelfari you can easily connect with new and old friends to talk about the books you are passionate about. Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 elibrary : http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and
by KR. Senthil Kumar 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

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invitation for the Workshop on Information Literacy on 23.12.2006
by Arunachalam Hariharan 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science(SALIS) SALIS Delhi NCR Chapter & Delhi College Engineering cordially invite you to the inaugural ceremony of Sensitization Workshop on Information Literacy Supported by UNESCO On Saturday, 23rd December 2006 at 9.30 A.M. at Central Library Conference Hall Delhi College of Engineering Bawana Road Delhi-110042 Prof S K Khanna Chairman Governing Board INFLIBNET, UGC Centre, Ahmdabad (Former Founder Chairman, AICTE & Former Vice Chairman, UGC) has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest Prof D Goldar, Principal DCE will be Guest of honor R.S.V.P SANJAY KATARIA R K SHUKLA SECRETARY (SALIS Delhi NCR) ORGANISING SECRETARY Programme Lighting of Lamp Welcome Address : Shri R.K. Shukla, Organizing Secretary & Librarian DCE Presidential Address : A. Hariharan, President, SALIS. Chennai Special Address : 1) Prof. D. Goldar, Principal, DCE 2) Shri I R Kumar, Chairman, SALIS Delhi NCR 3) UNESCO Representative Inaugural Address : Prof. S.K. Khanna Chairman, Governing Broad, INFLIBNET, Former Founder Chairman, AICTE & Former Vice-Chairman, UGC Keynote Address : Dr. Harish Chandra Librarian, IIT Madras Vote of Thanks : Shri. Sanjay Kataria, Secretary SALIS Delhi NCR High Tea: 11 A.M. Sanjay Kataria General Secretary SALIS Delhi NCR Chapter 9810503341 DeleteReplyForwardSpamMove... A.Hariharan Structural Engineering Research Centre CSIR Campus Taramani Chennai - 600 113 hariharan_ah(a)yahoo.com Cell: 9841601901 Off:044-22549133 -------------------------------------------------- SALIS B2-Solai Apatments Mount-Poonamallee Road (opp.to.MGR Garden) Chennai - 600 116 Tel: 044-22522448/42014772 www.autolib-india.net/salis __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Hyperlinking to Copyrighted Material is illegal: Australia
by Farooque Shaheen 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

The Federal Court of Australia has upheld last year's ruling against Stephen Cooper who ran MP3s4free.net, and the ISP who hosted the site, for copyright infringement. Cooper's site didn't host any copyrighted material. Instead, it linked directly to recordings hosted on other servers, many of which were copyrighted. Experts say Australian copyright ruling has international implications could spell serious trouble for Search Engines and Bloggers. Some experts have different opinion, they draw a distinction between general-purpose sites and more narrowly-focused operations such as mp3s4free.net. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8219/53/ Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 The Federal Court of Australia has upheld last year's ruling against Stephen Cooper who ran MP3s4free.net, and the ISP who hosted the site, for copyright infringement. Cooper's site didn't host any copyrighted material. Instead, it linked directly to recordings hosted on other servers, many of which were copyrighted. Experts say Australian copyright ruling has international implications could spell serious trouble for Search Engines and Bloggers. Some experts have different opinion, they draw a distinction between general-purpose sites and more narrowly-focused operations such as mp3s4free.net. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8219/53/ Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105

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Elsevier Awards India's Young Scientists
by Mailing List Manager 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:36:59 +0800 From: "Muralidharan, Padma (ELS-DEL)" <P.Muralidharan(a)elsevier.com> Dear Reader, New Delhi - At a glittering award ceremony, the "SCOPUS - Young India Scientist Awards" for 2006 were given away to nine young brilliant scientists. These awards were instituted by Elsevier - the world's largest publisher in STM - Science, Technology & Medicine to honour and propel India's young research minds towards furthering Indian Science. The selection process involved senior academicians, subject experts and scientometricians from the eight subject areas in which the awards were given away. The evaluation criteria were both qualitative and quantitative criteria. For the former, the recently popular bibliometric tool - the Hirsch Index, published papers and citation data and the impact factors - another measurement tool for the quality of a journal were considered. Qualitative analysis was used to see if the research paper was path breaking and if it helped develop new insights into the field. The winners were : Dr. Sunil Kumar Manna from Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad and Dr. Rajesh S Gokhale from National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi for Biological Sciences Dr. Kumar Biradha from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur for Chemistry Dr. Shankar Doraiswamy from National Institute of Oceanography, Goa in Earth Sciences Dr. Giridhar Madras from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in Engineering, Dr. Abhay Gopal Bhatt from Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi in Mathematics Dr. G Venkatasubramanian from National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences, Bangalore in Medicine Dr. C P Safvan from Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi and Dr. Tarun Souradeep from Inter University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune for their work in Physics. We would like to thank all the applicants for participating in this. We hope to continue with this endeavour in the future years too. Kind regards, Padma Muralidharan Account Development Manager, Elsevier India (Science & Technology) Phone : 011-42890202

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Failed experiment of online knowledge sharing
by Aman Jha 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Dear Friends The quote below is self explanatory. Shows the future of online knowledge sharing culture. "Nature has given up on an effort to take peer review to the people. For several months beginning this past summer, Nature has invited scientists whose articles were short-listed for publication in the journal to first post their work online for public review. Normally, a handful of scientists review such submissions anonymously. But Nature, which is published by a unit of Macmillan Publishers Ltd., said in an editorial in today's issue that it was ending the experiment due to lack of participation. The journal found that in the competitive world of scientific publishing, the vast majority of authors were unwilling to post their papers and few scientists were willing to criticize their peers' work publicly by posting comments on Nature's Web site." Source: The Wall Street Journal, 21 December 2006 Regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon - 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-4014060-67 aman.jha(a)ciionline.org http://www.ciionline.org DISCLAIMER:The information in this message may be privileged. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete the message from your system. Any unauthorised use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Any information in this message that does not relate to official business shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by the Confederation of Indian Industry. Reach us via our unique Membership Helpline: 00-91-11-435 46244 / 00-99104 46244 (Monday-Saturday: 0900-1700 hrs)

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On scientific research in India
by Subbiah Arunachalam 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Friends: Here is an article from Central Chronicle, Bhopal, 16 December 2006. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Promote scientific research Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has always been a votary of spreading scientific knowledge and pointed to the need for giving more attention to this sector. Not only have financial allocations for science teaching in India increased but he has also committed to boost up the annual expenditure on science and technology from less than one per cent of GDP to two per cent in the next five years. Over the years lot of concern has been expressed by various sections of academicians and also by our Prime Minister and President, all of whom have expressed the need to concentrate on research and translate the benefits to the field and factory. The PM regretted recently that research standards have declined in Indian universities and warned about a "disconnect between research and teaching in the sciences". Moreover the type of research being conducted was concentrated in specialized institutes and generally did not have a direct bearing on society. The universities also had difficulty in mobilizing adequate financial and intellectual resources which, in turn, hampered research. Delving into some bare facts, one finds that R&D expenditure has remained static at 0.8 per cent of the GDP during 1985 to 2005 though China increased it from 0.5 per cent to 1.3 per cent during the same period. Japan and South Korea spend 3 and 2 per cent respectively on R&D. Moreover China increased its number of scientific publications to 104 times during the two decades while India could do it only 2.3 times, according ta a study by R. N. Kostoff of the US Office of Naval Research. Eugene Garfield, the American pioneer in mapping scientific information, has corroborated the decline in Indian standards. According to him, in 1973 Indian scientists accounted for about half of the developing world's quality science papers. In the 70s, his benchmark Science Citation Index places India in the 8th place behind the US, UK, USSR, France, Japan and Canada. By 2000, India had slid to the 15th place. Though one may argue that citations need not be the only benchmark, India's agricultural research has also not been very successful to develop ground-breaking techniques for the rain-dependent farmers, as result of which production and productivity is very low in drought prone areas. Regarding defence research, the Defence Research & Development Organization's (DRDO's) ambitious plans to achieve 70 per cent weapons indigenisation by 2005 has been abysmal failure and may not be accomplished even by 2010. According to a 1999 CAG audit, the development of the Pinaka, a multi-barrel rocket launcher, was compromised by non-availability of qualified manpower. The DRDO's scientists are grossly outnumbered by up to four times the auxiliary staff than found in similar private sector establishments. As regards the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is concerned, India's success stories are far behind that of global competitors. For example, China has launched 24 foreign satellites so far, sent two manned missions into space, is believed to be planning a human mission to Mars in 2017 and a satellite navigation system akin to the European Galileo. India has only just begun to consider sending a man into space and would still take another 6-7 years to launch manned space aircraft. Moreover, the GSLV crash is indeed a big setback to the country's entry into the $ 2 billion commercial satellite launch market. In pharmaceuticals though, India is a leader in the Third World, it has done no better when it comes to discovering new molecules to treat diseases. "No new molecules are being discovered", observed Dr. C. M. Gulati, a drug expert, adding that what is happening is just "peripheral research where the industry is developing new formulations of existing drugs or new routes of drug delivery and getting patents for these". With this kind of research, experts believe that India cannot capture even 0.5 per cent of the drug R&D market. In fact, the country's medical research has no productive link with the rising pharma industry. Apart from these sectoral developments, interest in science education is also on the decline. Students opting for pure science for graduation in India dropped from 32 per cent in 1950 to 15 per cent in 2000. Scientists per million population in the country is a mere 157 compared to 545 in China and 2319 in South Korea. Obviously this is because on R&D expenditure per capita is a mere $ 5.5 compared to $11.7 of China and $ 241 of South Korea. It is true that India produces some finest scientists and has some very good laboratories but they are like proverbial islands of excellence surrounded by a vast ocean of mediocrity. Although our science and technology policy has advocated pubic-private partnership in research, industry's contribution remains just about 20 per cent as compared to around 70-80 per cent in advanced countries and 40 per cent in China. It is indeed intriguing why the Indian private sector has been unable to contribute to R&D compared to their counterparts in South Korea and Singapore not to speak of the Western nations. Except for the Tata group and another one or two in the pharmaceutical sector, the contribution of even the market leaders in industry towards research has been quite poor. Even industry-wise, R&D expenditure has not been encouraging except, of course, for the pharma and IT sectors. Realizing the imperative need to give a boost to science education and attract more students in this field, the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister decided to set up the National Science & Engineering Foundation and two new institutes of science. The proposals come with some hefty price tags: Rs 500 crores for each of the two institutes and Rs 1000 crores for the Foundation to fund basic research in the universities. The obvious goal is to inject more money into science and create more centres of excellence and basic research. The Government's concern at this juncture cannot be doubted and quite justifiably, so as the country aims at achieving international standards and become globally competitive in the coming years. The warning of 'acting now' has been rightly sounded by Prof. C. N. Rao, the PM's Scientific Advisor, and this has resulted in evolving an action plan at the highest level with the following objectives: Selected few to be handsomely funded so that they attain international standards; demand performance from individuals and institutions after providing necessary funds; create an autonomous research foundation to take care of all aspect of scientific research; initiate a massive programme of rejuvenation of state and central universities; encourage top talent from all corners of the country to enter the field of pure science and also encourage young scientists in research work in all possible ways; and provide freedom of operation to scientists, universities and scientific institutions. Scientific innovations in key areas such as power (atomic power), defence, biotechnology, pharma, IT and mining sectors are imperative for the country at this juncture. To emerge as a world leader in the true sense, there is need for sustained research in the above areas, responsibility for which has to be shared jointly by the government and the private sector. For a country to emerge big and strong R&D has to be given priority and more funds allocated for this purpose under different heads so that the benefits of research reach society, both rural and urban and industrial and agricultural. Dhurjati Mukherjee, INFA ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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Australian govt funds OA repositories
by Subbiah Arunachalam 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

Friends: The Australian Government has allocated a huge sum for Australian universities to build their own institutional open access archives (similar to the EPrints archive of IISc, B'lore). Please see the report appended below. When will we in India do such a thing and mandate setting up of OA archives at all major research-performing universities and laboratories? Four or five years ago Current Science carried a short (less than 2 pages) article that clearly showed that China was racing ahead of India in number of papers published as seen not only from the Web of Science but also from MatsciNet and Chemical Abstracts. Many Indian science managers either didn't take note of it or ignored it. A few months ago the Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister made a big case on the very same point and the Indian press covered it for several days. I hope in the case of open access archiving such a thing will not happen. And the science managers will look at what is said and if it is valid rather than who keeps saying it! Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----------------------- >From Peter Suber's blog Australian govt funds OA repositories Julie Bishop, Australia's Minister for Education, Science and Training, has allocated $25.5 million to build OA repositories at Australian universities as part of the country's new Research Quality Framework (RQF). Here's the key part of today's press release: $25.5 million - Australian Scheme for Higher Education Repositories programme - to assist with the establishment of university digital data storage systems that will allow research outputs to be submitted for RQF assessment. This programme builds on the Australian Governments $35 million investment in the research and development of data repository technology, funded as part of Backing Australias Ability. ___________________________________________________________ Now you can scan emails quickly with a reading pane. Get the new Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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For admission in Mphil
by ab verma 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

Respected all I Abhishek Verma, wants to pursue Mphil in Library and Information Science from Alagappa University, as Distance Education Mode, but recently Tamil nadu government has suspended(Mphil & Phd.) the course from 2007-08 session and further.I am from Varanasi and there is Algappa University's study center in our city which is going to start Mphil from 15th,January 2007and the session as i informed by the study centre will be Jan-Dec,2007 session. Please Suggest me whether i can pursue this course and after completion of this course my degree would be recognized by the govt. or not. Also suggest universities from where i can take admission in Mphil (library Science) Truly Yours Abhishek Verma Deputy Librarian School of Management Science Varanasi, 221005 Uttar Pradesh Email: abhishekverma81(a)gmail.com and abhishekwrverma(a)yahoo.co.in Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php Respected all I Abhishek Verma, wants to pursue Mphil in Library and Information Science from Alagappa University, as Distance Education Mode, but recently Tamil nadu government has suspended(Mphil & Phd.) the course from 2007-08 session and further.I am from Varanasi and there is Algappa University's study center in our city which is going to start Mphil from 15th,January 2007and the session as i informed by the study centre will be Jan-Dec,2007 session. Please Suggest me whether i can pursue this course and after completion of this course my degree would be recognized by the govt. or not. Also suggest universities from where i can take admission in Mphil (library Science) Truly Yours Abhishek Verma Deputy Librarian School of Management Science Varanasi, 221005 Uttar Pradesh Email: mailto:abhishekverma81@gmail.com abhishekverma81(a)gmail.com and mailto:abhishekwrverma@yahoo.co.in abhishekwrverma(a)yahoo.co.in Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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