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Online Course material from IIT
by Babu Rajendra 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

Hi All, - The IITs have taken up an initiative of starting online teaching and thus have started offering course materials online for every engineering stream. - Many professors from all the IITs have provided course materials for each chapter and each subject. - One has to register at the link provided below and can access the course material. - Every Chapter has been described with diagrams and charts. - Please spread this message to everyone, as many can benefit from this program taken up by the government and IIT. This is just a trial period going on and hence everyone can register at the link given. 1] Go to http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/ 2] Click on Courses 3] Sign up as a NEW USER 4] And one can access any course material. Please spread the word, so that this initiative benefits as many people as possible. Warm Regards, H Rajendra Babu Financial Research Analyst Capco. Salarpuria Annexe, 351/5-10 Luskar, Hosur Road, Bangalore- 560 034 T-+91-80-41997351 http://www.capcoinstitute.com/ Capco Institute is the research arm of Capco Capco is the first services and technology solutions provider exclusively focused on forming the future of the financial markets. We unite thought leadership and practical application to improve profitability for our clients. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LEARN MORE - Capco is a consultant, managed services provider and thought leader. We are experts in the financial services industry. You can access our thinking and learn more about us at www.capco.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender of this email immediately. You should not copy, use or disseminate the information contained in the email. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Capco. http://www.capco.com/

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Oa thriving in Europe
by Subbiah Arunachalam 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

Beyond DRIVER to EDRI EU project to widen access to European research information, September 13, 2006. The CORDIS announcement of the DRIVER project. (See DRIVER's own announcement on Monday.) Excerpt: A new EU-funded project will lay the foundations of a large-scale, pan-European public infrastructure for research information. Open-access to research information is vital for researchers. The long-term vision of the DRIVER (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research) project is to create an knowledge infrastructure for European researchers, which could include any form of scientific resource, from reports, to research articles, to raw data to other media. A number of countries and institutions already have repositories and networks which bring together a wide range of research content. A good example of this is the DARE Network in the Netherlands. Launched in 2004, DARE networks the digital data collections of all Dutch universities, as well as several related institutions, and allows users to access the information, which is arranged consistently. To date, DARE provides access to more than 75,000 digital records. The organisation behind DARE, SURF (the Dutch higher education and research partnership organisation which networks services, information and communications technology), is a partner in the DRIVER project. In a similar way, the European Digital Repository Infrastructure will eventually be a virtual network of repositories from across Europe. Initially, the project will focus on linking 51 institutional repositories from the Netherlands, UK, Germany, France and Belgium. This early 'test-bed' version of the European Repository will offer users a number of services, such as search, data collection, profiling and recommendations.... Ultimately, the project partners hope their virtual repository will build up a critical mass of research materials which will represent a powerful demonstration of Europe's research output. ---- Why are countries in the South reluctant to embrace the culture of open access, even though they stand to benefit much more than the European countries? Is it because our scientists and schoalars are not aware of the tremendous benefits of OA or is it because our science leaders do not see the value of OA? Arun ___________________________________________________________ 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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DSpace Workshop
by Pijushkanti Panigrahi 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

Indian Association of Special Libraries & Information Centres(IASLIC) Kolkata 700 054 is going to organise a Workshop on Open Source Movement and the Use of DSpace Software Date : November 28 - December 01, 2006 (Tentatively) Objectives of the Workshop : 1. To provide background knowledge of the digital library and its related concepts. 2. To offer hands on experience on Linux . 3. To offer hands on experience in using Dspace Software. Areas to be covered in the Workshop: Open Source Movement, Digital Libraries: Current Scenario, Different Digital Library software and comparative study, Overview of Linux, Overview and Installation of DSpace, DSpace Users: Anonymous, Members & Authors, Lucene Search Engine, DSpace Administration, Dublin Core and OAI-PMH, Persistent Handles, DSpace Customization, Unicode and Indian Languages Laboratory Facilities The workshop lectures will be followed by demonstration and hands-on practices as far as practicable. An attractive Lab facilities (with one computer for two participants) will be made available for practice to the participants. Resource persons Prof A R D Prasad and Dr Devika P Madalli, Documentation Research and Training Centre (ISI), and different Institutions. Target Participants: Library and Information Science professionals with working knowledge of Information Technology. The Workshop is confined to a limited number of participants and will be filled strictly on first come first served basis. Venue at Kolkata National Institute for the Orthopaedically Handicapped (NIOH), (Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Govt of India), B T Road, Bonhooghly, Kolkata- 700 090. Registration Fees Rs. 4000/- only per participant. The DD/Cash payable in favour of "IASLIC, Kolkata", payable at Kolkata. The Registration Fee includes Workshop Kit (Workshop Volume, DSpace Software), Working Lunch and Tea. Last date of registration : November 10, 2006. For further details contact : Dr Pijushkanti Panigrahi, Workshop Coordinator and Secretary, Education Division, IASLIC, P-291, CIT Scheme No 6M, Kankurgachi, Kolkata 700 054. email: panigrahipk(a)yahoo.com, Mobile : +91 94342 43522 Dr Pijushkanti Panigrahi, Reader, Dept of Lib and Inf Science, University of Calcutta, 87/1 College Street,Kolkata - 700 073, West Bengal, India, email : panigrahipk(a)yahoo.com, Ph (M) : +91 94342 43522. Associate Editor, IASLIC Bulletin, IASLIC, Kolkata-700 054 --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. Indian Association of Special Libraries & Information Centres(IASLIC) Kolkata 700 054 is going to organise a Workshop on Open Source Movement and the Use of DSpace Software Date : November 28 - December 01, 2006 (Tentatively ) Objectives of the Workshop : 1. To provide background knowledge of the digital library and its related concepts. 2. To offer hands on experience on Linux . 3. To offer hands on experience in using Dspace Software. Areas to be covered in the Workshop: Open Source Movement, Digital Libraries: Current Scenario, Different Digital Library software and comparative study, Overview of Linux, Overview and Installation of DSpace, DSpace Users: Anonymous, Members & Authors, Lucene Search Engine, DSpace Administration, Dublin Core and OAI-PMH, Persistent Handles, DSpace Customization, Unicode and Indian Languages Laboratory Facilities The workshop lectures will be followed by demonstration and hands-on practices as far as practicable. An attractive Lab facilities (with one computer for two participants) will be made available for practice to the participants . Resource persons Prof A R D Prasad and Dr Devika P Madalli, Documentation Research and Training Centre (ISI), and different Institutions . Target Participants: Library and Information Science professionals with working knowledge of Information Technology. The Workshop is confined to a limited number of participants and will be filled strictly on first come first served basis. Venue at Kolkata National Institute for the Orthopaedically Handicapped (NIOH), (Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Govt of India ), B T Road , Bonhooghly, Kolkata- 700 090. Registration Fees Rs. 4000/- only per participant. The DD/Cash payable in favour of "IASLIC, Kolkata", payable at Kolkata. The Registration Fee includes Workshop Kit (Workshop Volume, DSpace Software), Working Lunch and Tea. Last date of registration : November 10, 2006 . For further details contact : Dr Pijushkanti Panigrahi, Workshop Coordinator and Secretary, Education Division, IASLIC, P-291, CIT Scheme No 6M, Kankurgachi, Kolkata 700 054. email: panigrahipk(a)yahoo.com , Mobile : +91 94342 43522 Dr Pijushkanti Panigrahi , Reader, Dept of Lib and Inf Science, University of Calcutta, 87/1 College Street,Kolkata - 700 073, West Bengal, India, email : panigrahipk(a)yahoo.com, Ph (M) : +91 94342 43522 . Associate Editor, IASLIC Bulletin, IASLIC, Kolkata-700 054 Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman7/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… Great rates starting at 1¢/min.

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Seminar on Organizing Electronic Resource for Digital Archiving
by SUNIL M.V. 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

Dear All, SDM Institute for Management Development, Mysore In collaboration with focuz INFOTECH is organizing one day seminar on ORGANIZING ELECTRONIC RESOURCES FOR DIGITAL ARCHIVING on September 25, 2006 at SDM Institute for Management Development Auditorium, Mysore The program schedule and the application form are available at www.sdmimd.net/seminar. With regards, Sunil MV Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development No. 1, Chamundi Hill Road Siddartha Nagar, Mysore Phone : 0821 - 2420490/491 2429722/161 Fax: 0821-2425557 --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. Dear All, SDM Institute for Management Development, Mysore In collaboration with focuz INFOTECH is organizing one day seminar on ORGANIZING ELECTRONIC RESOURCES FOR DIGITAL ARCHIVING on September 25, 2006 at SDM Institute for Management Development Auditorium, Mysore The program schedule and the application form are available at http://www.sdmimd.net/seminar www.sdmimd.net/seminar . With regards, Sunil MV Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development No. 1, Chamundi Hill Road Siddartha Nagar, Mysore Phone : 0821 - 2420490/491 2429722/161 Fax: 0821-2425557 Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman1/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.

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personal web page creation is a good practice
by Mailing List Manager 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:23:08 +0100 (BST) From: shashi jena <shashi_jena2001(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear professional, please have a look at Dr. Harish Chandra's (Librarian, IIT Madras) web site: http://www.harishchandra.com - Shashi __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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About Paul Otlet, the great Belgian information scientist
by Mailing List Manager 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:04:43 +0100 (BST) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Here is something on Paul Otlet, the great Belgian information scientist and one of the founders of modern information science. http://www.chemheritage.org/events/asist2002/33-levie-film.pdf Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Open Access News
by Mukesh - Monitor 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Dear Professionals Appended below please find the link to Peter Suber's "Open Access News" blog: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html This blog is more news than comment. You yourself may choose and make use of the news of your interest. The blog has Atom and RSS feeds. Hope the link will be a useful resource for OA crusade. Best Wishes - - Mukesh Anand Dear Professionals Appended below please find the link to Peter Suber's "Open Access News" blog: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html This blog is more news than comment. You yourself may choose and make use of the news of your interest. The blog has http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/atom.xml Atom and http://feeds.feedburner.com/earlham/dGCQ RSS feeds. Hope the link will be a useful resource for OA crusade. Best Wishes - - Mukesh Anand

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Digital Economy -- what are we doing about it.
by Sukhdev Singh 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Dear Friends, I hope most of you are aware of i2010 – A European Information Society for growth and employment" initiative. It was launched framework for addressing the main challenges and developments in the information society and media sectors up to 2010. It promotes an open and competitive digital economy and emphasises ICT as a driver of inclusion and quality of life. The initiative contains a range of EU policy instruments to encourage the development of the digital economy such as regulatory instruments, research and partnerships with stakeholders. On 13 September 2006 it launched a "Digital Libraries Initiative" Website. It starts explaining "What is the Digital Libraries Initiative" http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/what_… This Digital Libraries Initiative is a flagship project of European Commission's overall strategy to boost the digital economy, the i2010 strategy. Friends, while other countries are talking about Digital Economy - I wonder what we in India are doing? --Sukhdev Singh, NIC.

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Re: Royal Soc of London jrnls (backfile) (fwd)
by Library 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Dear all, The fulltext of many of the older volumes of Royal Society journals (years 1665 - 1934) are available online from Gallica at http://gallica.bnf.fr/. Choose Recherche and then Periodique from the list in the lower right corner to see a complete list of titles. This has been available for several years now and we have even added this information to our online journals page. Girija ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raman Research Institute Library, Tel: +91 80 2361 0122 Extn 250 C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Fax: +91 80 2361 0492 Bangalore 560 080, India. Email: library(a)rri.res.in

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Back issues of Royal Society journals on open access
by Subbiah Arunachalam 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

>From Prof. Peter Suber Temporary free access to Royal Society journals back to 1665 The Royal Society has finished digitizing all the back issues of all its journals back to 1665. To celebrate, it's offering free online access to the lot until December. See the RS announcement or The Register's news story. (Thanks to Matt Cockerill.) Normally I don't blog trial offers of free online access but I'm making an exception for this one. This window onto the history of science is extraordinary. ---- When will CSIR and other Indian journals digitize their back issues and give free access to them? Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust (and other Foundations) may support a programme of digitizing all back issues of scientific journals of the developing world and making them available via open access. Subbiah Arunachalam ___________________________________________________________ Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail. "The New Version is radically easier to use" The Wall Street Journal http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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