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Interactive Health Tutorials (MedlinePlus)
by Thapar, Amit 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Interactive Health Tutorials (MedlinePlus) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials.html "Using animated graphics each tutorial explains a procedure or condition in easy-to-read language. You can also listen to the tutorial." Requires the free downloadable Flash plug-in. Totorials cover a variety of Diseases and Conditions, Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, Surgery and Treatment Procedures, and Prevention/Wellness. Interactive Health Tutorials (MedlinePlus) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials.html http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials.html "Using animated graphics each tutorial explains a procedure or condition in easy-to-read language. You can also listen to the tutorial." Requires the free downloadable Flash plug-in. Totorials cover a variety of Diseases and Conditions, Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, Surgery and Treatment Procedures, and Prevention/Wellness.

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Eve Gray on the Bangalore workshop on OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Friends: Here is what Eve Gray posted on her blog yesterday about the Bangalore workshop on Open Access. I have made minor corrections. Arun -------- South-South Alliances - the Bangalore workshop on Electronic Publishing and Open Access We met for our meals on a shaded terrace under palms and spreading tropical trees in the centre of the enormous campus of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and held our discussions in their senate room, distinguished home to many of India's leading scientists. Coming from India, China, Brazil and Africa, Germany, the UK and US, we were the guests of the Indian Academy of Science, the IISC and the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation and had met to discuss South-South relationships in the development of Open Access research dissemination. The workshop was an important further step in a growing movement of South-South alliances. What emerged most strongly at the Africa-centred conference in Leiden a few months ago was the question, 'Whose knowledge, for what purpose for whom?' The issue there was the tendency for development rhetoric to focus on the supply of knowledge to the developing world rather than the production of knowledge in and from the African continent. This time, in India, the assertion of the rights of developing nations went a step further. Right at the beginning of the workshop, in one of the introductory addresses, Prof N Balakrishnan, the Associate Director of the Indian Institute of Science, said, 'What we need to do is change the developing country rhetoric to a world perspective.' Put another way when I emailed Gordon Graham, of the LOGOS journal, one of the wisest people I know from the publishing industry, he wrote back, 'Do tell me more about the workshop. What a combination. India, China, Brazil and Africa constitute about two thirds of humanity.' They are both right what this workshop reminded us is that we in the developing world are the norm - with all our challenges - not the privileged and powerful who call the shots in scholarly publishing. Alma Swan raised the same issue in another way, echoing something that was said in Leiden: that we have a problem with the common expression of the international/local dichotomy. Why should developing country issues be considered 'local' when these apply to the greater proportion of the global population, while , for example, we bow down to the 'international' status of the comparatively narrowly-focused ISI indexed journals? Lawrence Liang, of the Alternative Law Forum in Bangalore, gave us the message in another way. In a typically virtuoso and mind-stretching keynote address, in which he charted different meanings of ownership, in different languages and cultures. He invited us to resist a property discourse that conflates property rights with academic rights and turns the collegiality of academe into the hierarchy of property. In that world, he said, those who have most freedom are those who own the most IP. Property in the English sense, he said, the conflation of 'self' and 'own' resting on exclusion, is something not common to other languages. In Hindi, apnapen is not a matter of owning, or property , but of closeness. Ownership in this sense has the obligation of care and the opposite of care is brutality, like the 'war' on piracy that is currently being waged passport control in a borderless world, Liang argued. Its insistence on the importance of a developing world view has led India to be an early and successful adopter of Open Access. The Indian Academy of Sciences publishes 11 OA journals and, strikingly from my point of view as a publisher, Prof Chandrasekran, the Secretary of the IASc, said that whenever the IASc works with international partners, it insists that this must be on its own terms, in ways suitable to the situation in the developing world. There is a lesson to be learned here by those struggling African journal editors who hand over their journals to UK publishers in the name of 'viability', all too often landing up unable to afford to buy back their own output. The general tone of the contributions and discussions at the workshop was pragmatic, echoing Subbiah Arunachalam's plea at the start of the workshop that we move from words to action in developing South-South collaboration. Barbara Kirsop and Alma Swan both gave admirably clear expositions of the advantages of OA for developing countries, speeding up the solution of global problems, avoiding expensive duplication, increasing impact factors and providing greater visibility for national research. With preprint archiving, the impact of journal articles can begin even before the publication date of the article. Muthu Madhan of NIT in Rourkela gave quietly impressive practical advice on how to swing an organisation round to mandating OA archiving. Medknow, the Indian OA medical publisher goes from strength to strength, now publishing 40 journals all of them Open Access, none of them dependent on author fees, said DK Sahu, the MD of the company. He took us through an impressive account of the increased impact factors, the wider range of author submissions, the expanding global readership and the resultant improvements in quality, that come from making developing world journals OA. In this way, he argued, small local journals are being turned into international journals. Moreover this has come, in Medknow, without loss of print subscriptions, which remain the main revenue source for OA journals. In Latin America, SciELO , too, came early to Open Access. Abel Packer stressed the ways in which this collaborative effort across Latin America and the Caribbean is moving journals from the status of local and regional towards the international flow of scientific information. It creaties scalability by publishing collections rather than individual journals and takes care to maximise the exposure of all articles through search engines and databases. SciELO, said Packer, is among the ten most clicked searches in Google Scholar. There are 360 journals currently certified by SciELO and another 64 that should be added soon. The success of SciELO depends on its independence the main institution in each country is the science council, so that is is not directly involved with any university or individual journal. The cost efficiencies from the $1 million invested every year are also impressive at about $100 per article per year and 3.7 cents per download for the 27 million articles that are downloaded every year. In an interesting insight into the ways in which Chinese scholarly publishing is working, Prof Zu Guang'an, the Head of the Department of Publication at the National Science Foundation of China revealed that most journals were government supported, something that influences the journals' ability to choose its publication mode. There are 143 OA journals with the NSFC publishing four broad-based journals in Chinese and English and supporting and funding another 30. Most Chinese journals, he said, were not covered by any database and there is a small market at the moment for Chinese scientific journals outside of China. Amit Kapoor of Topaz also stressed the importance of developing countries even in his very high-tech environment. Topaz needs increased international participation, he said, getting other communities and developers involved. It is difficult to deal in change, however, he argued, as there are established communities out there, creating push-back. Developing countries provide greater potential for expanding new ideas. And, he said, rounding things off nicely, they are only about 80% of the world population. Against this background, African efforts seem fragmented and decentralised. As Susan Veldsman put it, after her account of the work that EIFL is doing in southern Africa, few repositories are actually up and running, most still in the incubation phase. The problems faced are lack of HR capacity, lack of government support, decentralised efforts and the need for strategic and not only operational efforts. My own paper, based on the work I have been doing for my OSI fellowship, looked at the consequences of publish and perish policies in South Africa in a context where government is, in contradiction of its scholarly publishing policy, looking for development impact from national research spending. Most of all, I have discovered a black hole in the policy documents where discussion of research publication and development impact ought to be. The most promising development is the South African Academy of Science report on scholarly publishing, commissioned by the Department of Science and Technology, that has come up with the proposal that the Academy take on the role of scholarly publishing coordination and quality control something that seems in line with SciElO's success, if we can pull it off. We could learn from the forward-thinking developments that we have heard about from India and Latin America. The African vice-chancellors meet in Cape Town next week to discuss ICTs in higher education. It will be interesting to see where this leads. Papers from the Bangalore workshop are online on www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/OAworkshop2006/presentations.htm [Posted by Eve Gray ( Open Access, Brazil, Scholarly publishing, South Africa, Journals, India )] Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Adobe offers hosted document management
by Farooque Shaheen 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Adobe is to offer an online service called Adobe Document Center than enables users to store PDF, Word and Excel documents online and selectively share them with others. Furthermore, you can grant and revoke access to the documents at will. The files are security-locked, and the people you want to access them must first have downloaded either Adobe Reader 8 for PDF files or a 'lightweight' plug-in for Word and Excel. After you have revoked access rights, the plug-ins will prevent the opening of documents even those they have downloaded. http://www.ovum.com/news/euronews.asp?id=5106 Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India (P) Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 Adobe is to offer an online service called Adobe Document Center than enables users to store PDF, Word and Excel documents online and selectively share them with others. Furthermore, you can grant and revoke access to the documents at will. The files are security-locked, and the people you want to access them must first have downloaded either Adobe Reader 8 for PDF files or a 'lightweight' plug-in for Word and Excel. After you have revoked access rights, the plug-ins will prevent the opening of documents even those they have downloaded. http://www.ovum.com/news/euronews.asp?id=5106 Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India (P) Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366

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Invitation of Papers for an edited book titled "MANAGING INFORMATION IN NEW MILLENIUM:OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR LIBRARY PROFESSIONALS"
by Ashok Sahu 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Invitation for submission of Papers: Papers on information management are invited for an edited book entitled, " MANAGING INFORMATION IN NEW MILLENNIUM:OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR LIBRARY PROFESSIONALS" The editor for the book would be Ashok Kumar Sahu. This book would be published by Kanishka Publisher, New Delhi or IIMT-Gurgaon. Significance of the work: The Information Communication Technology (ICT) revolution in the last decade has had a drastic and far-reaching impact on all aspects of professional endeavour particularly in the knowledge and information sector. By the late 1990's when information was regularly disseminated across computers and other electronic devices, information managers found themselves tasked with increasingly complex devices. With the latest tools available, information management has become a powerful resource for organizations.. Information Management (IM) is characterised by the phrase 'Getting the right information to the right person at the right place at the right time'. Present society is moved to knowledge-based society for which information is the primary importance. Information is the key resource of productivity and growth of any orgainization. In this changing context, library professionals are facing lot of challenges to capture, process, store, and disseminate the information for society. Information Management (IM) is a crucial job for the library professionals in the new era. This book helps to library professionals to better understand how to manage the information in 21st century. The book would be a valuable resource for the librarians, academics and professionals involved with managing information. It would also be immensely useful for students pursuing master degrees and doctoral work in the area of information management. Possible areas for submission: You could submit your papers on following areas: Information and Society a.. History -Information & Data b.. Role of Information in 21st Century c.. Importance & Impact of Information on Society Information Management a.. Knowledge Management b.. Marketing of Information Product/Services c.. Total Quality Management as applied to libraries d.. Strategic Planning on Information Management Digital Library & Information a.. Information Communication Technology b.. Digital Library-Concept, Model & Architecture c.. Digital Information Management d.. Metadata & Dublin Core Standards e.. Content Creation ,Organization,& Management f.. Digital Information Storage and Retrieval g.. Library Security-RFID, Barcode etc. Electronic Information Resources a.. Internet b.. E-Books & e-journals c.. Online / CD-ROM databases d.. Preservation of Electronic resources e.. Consortia of E-Journals, e-Books, & Online Databases f.. Intellectual Property Right (IPR) g.. Resource Sharing & Collaboration Future Trends a.. Librarian vs Information Manager b.. Fourth Generation Library c.. Virtual Library d.. Hi-Tech Library Format : The articles may be in the form of empirical research, theoretical models based on extensive research, case studies, and documentation of best practices. Papers are invited both from library professionals and academicians. The articles must be about 10 -15 pages , Times New Roman format, 11 font size, single line spacing. Appropriate referencing must be used wherever possible. It must also be accompanied by about 50-100 words abstract. The authors name and the article title must be indicated on page 1. The article must be accompanied by a small biography of contributing authors giving details on designation and current institutional affiliation. Submissions: Submissions must be made online. Submissions should be made to Ashok Kumar Sahu at the following email address aksahu(a)iimtobu.ac.in Deadlines: Submission of the papers: January 31st , 2007 Feedback on papers : March 1st , 2007 About the Authors Mr.Ashok Kumar Sahu is M.Phil in Library & Inf. Science from Allagapa University, Karaikudi and Master in Library and Information Science from Berhampur University. He is pursuing Ph.D. at Berhampur University, Orissa. He is currently Librarian at IIMT-Oxford Brookes University, Gurgaon. He has 12 years of professional experience in various libraries. He has contributed 5 papers in national/ international journals and conferences. He is the life member of ILA & MANLIBNET. His areas of interests are Library Administration, Information Management, Library Computerization, and Digital Library Ashok Kumar Sahu Librarian Institute for International Management & Technology 336, Phase-IV, Udyog Vihar Gurgaon, Haryana-122001 Phone:0124-2397783 Mobile:9313620271 Email: aksahu(a)iimtobu.ac.in

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Types of Questionnaires
by thippeswamy 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Dear All, I have been looking for different types of questionnaires for our staff, who has an assignment to do. Could anybody help me to find where or can send me the soft/hard copies of it. Will be very grateful if you could let me know. Thippeswamy K Librarian Srishti School of Art, Design & Tech. Yelahanka New Town Bangalore 64 Dear All, I have been looking for different types of questionnaires for our staff, who has an assignment to do. Could anybody help me to find where or can send me the soft/hard copies of it. Will be very grateful if you could let me know. Thippeswamy K Librarian Srishti School of Art, Design & Tech. Yelahanka New Town Bangalore 64 http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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Books on " Franchising"
by vimal kumar 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

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National Library Week Celebration Special Lecture - 17th November
by rupesh kumar 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Bangalore University Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore 560 056 And Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) Cordially invite you to a special lecture on "Library and Information Science Education, Research and Library Automation in Germany" By Prof. Achim Osswald University of Applied Science Institute for Information Science Clandiusstr. 1, 560678 - o - Dr. T.D. Kemparaju Professor & Chairman Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University will preside ======================================================= Date: 17th November 2006 Time: 11-30 AM ======================================================= Venue Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Hall Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University ======================================================= Compliments from Staff & Students ======================================================= Rupesh Kumar A Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University a_rupeshkumar(a)yahoo.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com --------------------------------- Sponsored Link Don't quit your job - take classes online and earn your degree in 1 year. Start Today Bangalore University Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore 560 056 And Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) Cordially invite you to a special lecture on "Library and Information Science Education, Research and Library Automation in Germany" By Prof. Achim Osswald University of Applied Science Institute for Information Science Clandiusstr. 1, 560678 - o - Dr. T.D. Kemparaju Professor & Chairman Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University will preside ======================================================= Date: 17th November 2006 Time: 11-30 AM ======================================================= Venue Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Hall Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University ======================================================= Compliments from Staff & Students ======================================================= Rupesh Kumar A Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University mailto:a_rupeshkumar@yahoo.com a_rupeshkumar(a)yahoo.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com Sponsored Link http://www.classesusa.com/clickcount.cfm?id=607556&goto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cl… Don't quit your job - take classes online and http://www.classesusa.com/clickcount.cfm?id=607556&goto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cl… earn your degree in 1 year. Start Today

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EU emphasises open access (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:55:21 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Interview: 'Open access key condition for EU research infrastructures' Published: Friday 20 October 2006 | Updated: Monday 23 October 2006 Any country is free to join the European research infrastructure projects and any scientist can access them, once they are operational. The perfect incentive for "foreign brains" to come to Europe, says John Wood in an interview with EurActiv.com. Dor details, visit: http://www.euractiv.com/en/science/interview-open-access-key-condition-eu-r…

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Need Information
by M. Anisur Rahman 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Dear Members: My Paper "Digital divide in developing countries:with special reference to Bangladesh" has been accepted in the 9th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2006) for Presentation. The Conference will be held in KYOTO University, JAPAN on 27-30 Nov. *It will be a good news for me if I could be informed about any member of this group staying in KYOTO.* If any members knows any organizations / Institutions, who provides TRAVEL GRANTS for attending conference, Please let me know. Best wishes. Md. Anisur Rahman Lecturer (Part-time) Post graduate Diploma Program in Library and Information Science Darul Ihsan University House # 9/B, Road # 2 Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka 1209 Bangladesh Fax:+(880-2) 9341044 Email: anisdacca(a)gmail.com Dear Members: My Paper "Digital divide in developing countries:with special reference to Bangladesh" has been accepted in the 9th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2006) for Presentation. The Conference will be held in KYOTO University, JAPAN on 27-30 Nov. It will be a good news for me if I could be informed about any member of this group staying in KYOTO. If any members knows any organizations / Institutions, who provides TRAVEL GRANTS for attending conference, Please let me know. Best wishes. Md. Anisur Rahman Lecturer (Part-time) Post graduate Diploma Program in Library and Information Science Darul Ihsan University House # 9/B, Road # 2 Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka 1209 Bangladesh Fax:+(880-2) 9341044 Email: mailto:anisdacca@gmail.com anisdacca(a)gmail.com

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IATLIS 2006 Inaugural Ceremony Invitation
by Jagtar Singh 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Dear Colleagues, Please plan your journey according to the details given below about the Inagural Ceremony of the IATLIS 2006. We are eagerly klooking forward to see you in Patiala. All the best, Jagtar DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE PUNJABI UNIVERSITY, PATIALA Cordially invites you to the Inaugural Session of the XXIII National Conference of IATLIS on the theme *'Building Curriculum with a Difference: * *A Vision for LIS Education in the 21st Century'* on *23rd November 2006** at **11:30 a.m.** * in the *Senate Hall* of Punjabi University, Patiala Prof. R. A. Yadav Vice-Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) would be the *Chief Guest * *Prof. Shudendu Mandal*, Director, National Library of India & *Prof. Ismail Abdullahi*, North Carolina Central University (USA) would be the *Guests of Honour* *Sardar Swarn Singh Boparai, *Kirti Chakra, Padma Shri awardee** Vice Chancellor, Punjabi University, shall *preside* over the function. Dr. Trishanjit Kaur Dr. Jagtar Singh Head of Department Organizing Secretary Cell phone: 098551 87461 Cell phone: 098554 44785 0175-3046179 (Work) 0175-3046180 (Work) *Programme Overleaf* * * Programme 11:30 a.m. University Dhuni 11:35 a.m. Welcome: Prof. Jagtar Singh, Organizing Secretary IATLIS 2006 11: 45 a.m. Address by Prof. C.R. Karisiddappa , President IATLIS 11:55 p.m. About the Seminar by Prof. Indervir Malhan, Seminar Director 12: 05 p.m. * *Inaugural Address: Prof. R.A. Yadav, Vice-Chairman, AICTE 12: 15 p.m. Keynote Address: Dr. M. P. Satija, Prof. & Head, DLIS, GNDU, Amritsar 12:30 p.m. Presidential Address: S. Swarn Singh Boparai, Vice-Chancellor 12:40 p.m. Presentation of Mementos/ University Publications 12.50 p.m. Vote of Thanks: Dr. B. D. Kumbar, General Secretary IATLIS Dear Colleagues, Please plan your journey according to the details given below about the Inagural Ceremony of the IATLIS 2006. We are eagerly klooking forward to see you in Patiala. All the best, Jagtar DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE PUNJABI UNIVERSITY, PATIALA Cordially invites you to the Inaugural Session of the XXIII National Conference of IATLIS on the theme 'Building Curriculum with a Difference: A Vision for LIS Education in the 21 st Century' on 23 rd November 2006 at 11:30 a.m. in the Senate Hall of Punjabi University, Patiala Prof. R. A. Yadav Vice-Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) would be the Chief Guest Prof. Shudendu Mandal , Director, National Library of India & Prof. Ismail Abdullahi , North Carolina Central University (USA) would be the Guests of Honour Sardar Swarn Singh Boparai, Kirti Chakra, Padma Shri awardee Vice Chancellor, Punjabi University, shall preside over the function. Dr. Trishanjit Kaur Dr. Jagtar Singh Head of Department Organizing Secretary Cell phone: 098551 87461 Cell phone: 098554 44785 0175-3046179 (Work) 0175-3046180 (Work) Programme Overleaf Programme 11:30 a.m. University Dhuni 11:35 a.m. Welcome: Prof. Jagtar Singh, Organizing Secretary IATLIS 2006 11: 45 a.m. Address by Prof. C.R. Karisiddappa , President IATLIS 11:55 p.m. About the Seminar by Prof. Indervir Malhan, Seminar Director 12: 05 p.m. Inaugural Address : Prof. R.A. Yadav, Vice-Chairman, AICTE 12: 15 p.m. Keynote Address : Dr. M. P. Satija, Prof. & Head, DLIS, GNDU, Amritsar 12:30 p.m. Presidential Address : S. Swarn Singh Boparai, Vice-Chancellor 12:40 p.m. Presentation of Mementos/ University Publications 12.50 p.m. Vote of Thanks: Dr. B. D. Kumbar, General Secretary IATLIS

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