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by M Krishnamurthy 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

Thank you for your active participation and input for bringing their expertise and experience and engaging in such fruitful, constructive and open exchanges throughout the seven days of Library Week 2022 recently concluded. My heartfelt thanks to all the organizers and participants. https://kalaonline.com/ Regards, M.Krishnamurthy * *********************************** Dr. M Krishnamurthy Ph.D Fulbright Scholar, University of Illinois, USA Associate Professor and Head, Documentation Research and Training Center (DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute Mysore Road, Bangalore 560059 India Phone No: 91-80-26985493 Mob: 91-9980035933 Secretary-Finance- Association of British Scholars, Bangalore Chapter -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[IFLA-L] New open access book: A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015 (UCL Press)
by Francis Jayakanth 20 Nov '22

20 Nov '22

Dear Members, the trailing email communication will interest some of you. Best, Francis ________________________________ From: ifla-l-request(a)iflalists.org <ifla-l-request(a)iflalists.org> on behalf of alison.major(a)ucl.ac.uk <alison.major(a)ucl.ac.uk> Sent: 18 November 2022 18:40 To: ifla-l(a)iflalists.org <ifla-l(a)iflalists.org> Subject: [IFLA-L] New open access book: A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015 (UCL Press) External Email *** We apologise for any cross-posting*** UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015 by Aileen Fyfe, Noah Moxham, Julie McDougall-Waters, and Camilla Mørk Røstvik. Download it free: https://bit.ly/3Rws1Ne ******************************************* A History of Scientific Journals Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015 Aileen Fyfe, Noah Moxham, Julie McDougall-Waters, and Camilla Mørk Røstvik Free download: https://bit.ly/3Rws1Ne ******************************************* Modern scientific research has changed so much since Isaac Newton’s day: it is more professional, collaborative and international, with more complicated equipment and a more diverse community of researchers. Yet the use of scientific journals to report, share and store results is a thread that runs through the history of science from Newton’s day to ours. Scientific journals are now central to academic research and careers. Their editorial and peer- review processes act as a check on new claims and findings, and researchers build their careers on the list of journal articles they have published. The journal that reported Newton’s optical experiments still exists. First published in 1665, and now fully digital, the Philosophical Transactions has carried papers by Charles Darwin, Dorothy Hodgkin and Stephen Hawking. It is now one of eleven journals published by the Royal Society of London. Unrivalled insights from the Royal Society’s comprehensive archives have enabled the authors to investigate more than 350 years of scientific journal publishing. The editorial management, business practices and financial difficulties of the Philosophical Transactions and its sibling Proceedings reveal the meaning and purpose of journals in a changing scientific community. At a time when we are surrounded by calls to reform the academic publishing system, it has never been more urgent that we understand its history. Free download: https://bit.ly/3Rws1Ne

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Important communication about LIS-Forum Postings, replies and Approvals.
by Francis Jayakanth 20 Nov '22

20 Nov '22

Dear Members, Greetings of the day! Please note some significant changes in the LIS-Forum operations. Since the inception of the LIS-Forum service in 1994, the LIS-Forum server has been on the IISc domain (iisc.ernet.in) and has been using the IISc email relay host for email communication. Thanks to the support extended by IISc and your active participation in the service, by and large, the service has been successfully sustained for nearly 28 (twenty-eight) years now, of course, with some minor hiccups once in a while. In the past, for various technical reasons, occasionally, the domain ernet.in has been blacklisted by DNS Blacklists. So, when a domain is on a blacklist, emails originating from such a domain are discarded by the ISPs. It is valid for of LIS-Forum emails as well. Consequently, approved LIS-Forum emails would not reach the subscriber's email inbox. In the past, whenever the domain ernet.in was blacklisted, the IISc network support team would help to overcome the issue. However, during the last couple of years, the frequency of blacklisting increased to the extent that the network support team can no longer resolve the issue. The blacklisting of IPs or domains happens for several reasons. In the case of LIS-Forum, it may be happening because of a large number of emails generated by LIS-Forum for every approved message and a burst of emails sent to specific domains like gmail.com or yahoo.com in very short intervals. Currently, there are close to 6,000 (six thousand) LIS-Forum subscriptions. Given the general technical issues in the operation of LIS-Forum, some changes are being tried. The changes will have some bearing on LIS-Forum operations. 1. LIS-Forum is no longer using the IISc email relay host. It is instead using Microsoft 365 email relay host on the ncsinet.in domain. 2. All approved LIS-Forum messages will be from a user <noreplay(a)ncsinet.in> or one of its variants like noreply1(a)ncsinet.in> 3. On Microsoft 365 email relay host, there is a per day (24 hours) limit of 10,000 (ten thousand) emails. The specific email originating user (noreply(a)ncsinet.in) will be automatically blocked/deactivated if that limit is exceeded. It will take at least 24 hours to reactivate a blocked account. 4. LIS-Forum messages will be approved just once a day at around 10 a.m. on all working days. Messages received after 10 a.m. will be approved only the following day after 10 a.m. 5. Post messages only in plain text format. Postings with attachments will be automatically discarded without notification. 6. Members are encouraged to change their subscription to Digest mode. This will reduce the sent email count. As far as LIS-Forum subscribers are concerned, you don't need to make any changes. One can continue to post messages to the same email id lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in. However, while replying to a message, one needs to change the default 'To' address to lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in. Thanking you, with best regards, Francis Francis Jayakanth LIS-Forum Administrator and Moderator JRD Tata Memorial Library IISC, Bengaluru -560012 francis(a)iisc.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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by Subbiah Arunachalam 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

From Peter Suber Elsevier absent from journal cost comparison | Times Higher Education (THE) <https://harvard.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4f3527d69da76653d98a27177…>"Of the 2,070 titles whose information will become accessible under the JCS, although not directly to researchers, 1,000 belong to the US academic publishing giant Wiley, while another 219 journals owned by Hindawi, which was bought by Wiley last year, also appear on the list. Several other fully open access publishers will also participate on the comparison site including Plos, the Open Library of Humanities, and F1000, while learned society presses and university publishers, including the Royal Society, Rockefeller University Press, and the International Union of Crystallography, are also part of the scheme. Other notable participants include the prestigious life sciences publisher eLife, EMBO Press and the rapidly growing open access publisher, Frontiers. However, the two of the world’s largest scholarly publishers – Elsevier and Springer Nature, whose most prestigious titles charge about £8,000 for APCs – are not part of the scheme.... Under the Plan S agreement, scholarly journals are obliged to become ‘transformative journals’ and gradually increase the proportion of non-paywalled content over a number of years. Those titles that do not make their papers free at the point of publication will drop out of the Plan S scheme, meaning authors cannot use funds provided by any of the 17 funding agencies and six foundations now signed up to Plan S. There are, however, no immediate consequences for a publisher who decides not to share their price and service data through the JCS. ..... -- Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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History of the Institute of Information Scientists
by Subbiah Arunachalam 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

Friends, Here is a book on the history of the Institute of Information Scientists, UK, which about 20 years ago merged with the Library Association to become the Chartered Institution of Library and Information Professionals. It is free to download and share. Evolution and impact: a history of the Institute of Information Scientists 1958-2002 by Sandra Ward and Martin White. https://sheffield.pressbooks.pub/historyofinstituteofinformationscientists/ . Happy reading. Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Library has been providing Remote Access to its subscribed E-Resources through Access Control Software to its bona fide members
by Subhodip Bid 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

Dear Professional The National Library has been providing Remote Access to its subscribed E-Resources through Access Control Software <https://app.myloft.xyz/user/login?institute=cl263uwrupvor0a60u8gqaene>. Interested Bona fide Members of the National Library (the user may get the membership id/registration from National Library website) after getting the registration id <http://nationallibrary.gov.in/account/register>, who fulfill the criteria, may send the filled in form (PDF) along with supporting documents to the email id readingroom.nl(a)gmail.com for using the e-resource collections. E-Resources Registration <http://nationallibrary.gov.in/files/contents/eresource_applicant_registrati…> Form The following collections are freely available inside the National Library campus as well as outside bona fide registered members of e-resource collections. Online Collections <http://nationallibrary.gov.in/files/contents/eresource2.pdf> Online Journals <http://nationallibrary.gov.in/files/contents/online_journals_2022.pdf> Foreign Journals <http://nationallibrary.gov.in/files/contents/list_of_foreign_print_journals…> For more details: https://www.nationallibrary.gov.in/home/E_Resources -- Dr. Subhodip Bid M.Sc,M.L.I.S, AIS, Ph.D Library & Information Assistant National Library, Kolkata -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Today : Invitation : National Library Week 2022 celebration on Friday, November 18, 2022 at Faculty Hall, Main Building, IISc
by Suresh Balutagi 17 Nov '22

17 Nov '22

Dear Professional Friends, JRD Tata Memorial Library, IISc and Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) invites you for an event on the celebration of National Library Week 2022. Date & Time: 18th November 2022 @ 4:00 pm Venue: Faculty Hall, Main Building, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru Keynote Address: Title: AR, VR, MR : How Does it Matter - A Human Factor Analysis of Metaverse Speaker: Prof. Pradipta Biswas, Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing (CPDM), IISc Abstract: The Covid 19 pandemic and associated work-from-home culture reignites the importance of immersive media. Major industries used various terms like Metaverse (Facebook), Mesh (Microsoft), Nth Floor (Accesnture) and so on to invest and commercialize immersive media related products. Traditionally, immersive media is described through a continuum between reality and virtual reality along with intermediate systems known as Augmented and Mixed Reality systems. In the middle of the commercialization efforts and advertisements from software giants, end users are often confused about the best solution for their needs. There are not many studies on analysing end users’ feedback across the continuum of immersive media. This talk will present analysis on ocular parameters and EEG power bands of different brain regions while users undertook pointing and selection tasks using state-of-the-art AR, MR and VR media. In parallel, novel case studies will be presented from Aerospace, Smart Manufacturing and Assistive Technology involving XR technologies. Coffee/Tea: 5:00 p.m. Registration Link : https://bit.ly/3UjUzvJ with regards, Suresh Balutagi Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru - 560012 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ARL Releases Report on US Academic Member Libraries’ Open Infrastructure Expenses
by Subbiah Arunachalam 16 Nov '22

16 Nov '22

Fellow info professionals, How much do academic libraries and research performing institutions in India spend on open infrastructure? Here is a report from ARL: https://www.stm-publishing.com/arl-releases-report-on-us-academic-member-li… . Does any library in India collect such data? Can anyone tell me how much India collectively spends annually on (1) journal subscriptions, (2) on APC paid to journal publishers? I will be grateful for your reply. . Subbiah Arunachalam -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Paper requirement
by Rajendra Singh 16 Nov '22

16 Nov '22

Dear All, One of my teaching staff needs a research paper - Role of IoT in Healthcare: A Comprehensive Review available at Springer Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2535-1_11 Please help if anyone is having this paper. -- Rajendra Singh Librarian Chitkara University Himachal Pradesh -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Applications Now Open for the NISO Plus 2023 Scholarship Program!
by Anjaneya Reddy 16 Nov '22

16 Nov '22

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: NISO Announce <niso-announce(a)niso.org> Date: Tue, 15 Nov, 2022, 10:31 pm Subject: Applications Now Open for the NISO Plus 2023 Scholarship Program! No images? Click here <https://nationalinformationstandardsorganization.cmail19.com/t/j-e-vkjltkt-…> *Applications Now Open for the * *NISO Plus 2023 Scholarship Program!* ______________________________________________________________ We are delighted to announce that, with the generous support of this year’s sponsors, Digital Science <https://nationalinformationstandardsorganization.cmail19.com/t/j-l-vkjltkt-…>, applications are now open <https://nationalinformationstandardsorganization.cmail19.com/t/j-l-vkjltkt-…> for the NISO Plus 2023 scholarship program <https://nationalinformationstandardsorganization.cmail19.com/t/j-l-vkjltkt-…> . Now in their fourth year, NISO Plus scholarships are intended for anyone who feels that their voice and views are currently under-represented in libraries, service providers/vendors, publishers, or other parts of the information ecosystem. This includes, for example, people whose job functions, organization types, or demographics are typically under-represented — or not represented at all — in information community events and activities. The scholarship program is part of our strategic goal to improve diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility <https://nationalinformationstandardsorganization.cmail19.com/t/j-l-vkjltkt-…> (DEIA) at NISO and in our wider community, and the selection committee will include representatives from the NISO Board <https://nationalinformationstandardsorganization.cmail19.com/t/j-l-vkjltkt-…>, our DEIA Committee <https://nationalinformationstandardsorganization.cmail19.com/t/j-l-vkjltkt-…>, the NISO Plus Advisory Committee <https://nationalinformationstandardsorganization.cmail19.com/t/j-l-vkjltkt-…>, and this year’s Planning Committee <https://nationalinformationstandardsorganization.cmail19.com/t/j-l-vkjltkt-…>, as well as from previous scholarship cohorts. Successful applicants will be eligible for: - Free registration for NISO Plus 2023 <https://nationalinformationstandardsorganization.cmail19.com/t/j-l-vkjltkt-…>, a fully virtual conference taking place on February 14-16, 2023 (February 15-17 in Asia Pacific) - Networking opportunities throughout the year with NISO Board members, staff, and other past and present scholarship winners - Free registration for all NISO educational webinars <https://nationalinformationstandardsorganization.cmail19.com/t/j-l-vkjltkt-…> in 2023-25 - Opportunities to volunteer for NISO committees and groups - And more! If you’re interested in joining our scholarship program in 2023, or know someone who is, please apply by December 5, 2023, using this questionnaire <https://nationalinformationstandardsorganization.cmail19.com/t/j-l-vkjltkt-…>. The NISO Plus Scholarships Committee will be reviewing all eligible applications, and we will get back to everyone who applied by January 9, 2023. Thanks and best wishes The NISO Team NISO 3600 Clipper Mill Road Suite 302 Baltimore, MD 21211-1948 Phone: +1.301.654.2512 Email: nisohq(a)niso.org Tweet <https://nationalinformationstandardsorganization.cmail19.com/t/j-tw-vkjltkt…> Preferences <https://nationalinformationstandardsorganization.updatemyprofile.com/j-vkjl…> | Unsubscribe <https://nationalinformationstandardsorganization.cmail19.com/t/j-u-vkjltkt-…>

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