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looking for online courses in KM
by Snehashree Rahalkar 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Dear Professionals, I am looking for online KM courses / certification programs/ master degree. which university provide the reputed programs in KM? If anybody know the information please share with me. Regards, Snehashree Shriram Rahalkar. Information Specialist, Odyssey Capital Pvt. Ltd. Worli, Mumbai-400018 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Open Theses accedes to NDLTD-will not display full text-updates on Open Thesis Issue
by Shalini 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Hello LIS professionals, I reproduce below two mails one from Prof. Edward Fox, Director of NDLTD and another from Pete Celano of Open Thesis. These discussions give you a glimpse of not only the way NDLTD has been serving the cause of ETDs and also the issues involved and how a professional community can/should stand up to its values and beliefs. Happy reading! Shalini ---- Hi! Many thanks for your note, copied below, to the ETD listserv. I am glad that you have served the patent community, but patent documents are different from ETDs, calling for a different strategy. It is nice to hear that you wish to serve the ETD community. NDLTD is happy to work with partners, if we indeed can discuss and cooperate. John Hagen shared your draft announcement with me, and informed me that Gail, Thom, and he plan to talk with you about the press release and other matters. I am very glad they have been working with you, but was very concerned about your email today, and I'm rather unhappy with the tone of the press release, believing it mis-represents the current situation, and has other aspects that will be confusing and troublesome. Meanwhile, your recent action has, as was reported by R. Mutt, been harmful. As Executive Director of NDLTD I am writing to urge immediate action on your part to remove the full-texts ETDs that still appear from your site, e.g., http://www.openthesis.org/document/pdfView/22231.pdf As you have heard from others on our Board of Directors, you have taken a very unwise course of action, and may suffer serious consequences, even if you act now, but the situation will only get worse if you persist in illegal behavior. When you came to ETD 2009, I and others made it perfectly clear that we would be happy to discuss ways that you might assist the ETD community. But we never heard or saw any details about your plans until you put them in place in an inappropriate way. Reaching us was not hard, given information on our web site, and I personally gave you my contact information when we met in Texas (see also at the bottom of this message), so I am surprised and highly displeased by your failure to communicate your intentions, and by your unwise actions. Inviting the large number of subscribers to ETD-L to a phone discussion about this also seems very unwise. I hope people will not respond in numbers, complaining. I plan to call at 2pm EST tomorrow, though I already have another meeting at 2:30pm, so cannot stay long. But I am not sure how worthwhile it will be to talk now unless your actions demonstrate your willingness to cooperate. You launched your service 1/28, and though told on 2/2 about concerns, now, almost a week later, have not corrected the situation. The legal term is that I urge you to "cease and desist". I'd suggest after that a press release apologizing, and saying that you are exploring other types of services, which will be announced soon. We can work with you on your plan for services and on announcements, but I strongly urge you to delay those till after the dust has settled a bit. This note carries no commitment or endorsement, and in no way could be construed to protect your company from any legal action that others might bring to bear. My hope is solely to ensure that ill effects are reduced, and to help move things forward in a positive direction. Sincerely, Ed Fox (Edward A. Fox, Executive Director, NDLTD, fox(a)vt.edu, office +1-540-231-5113) On 2/8/2010 6:18 PM, Pete Celano wrote: > Ana and ETD professionals-- > > We're not going to display full-text from OAI; we heard you loud and clear; we'll make the change. > > Still, it's 2010 and ETDs are largely inaccessible or hard to access (keep in mind the web today favors a lack of friction; fewer clicks to get what you want). Â Patents once were the same way-- the province of paid subscription databases, till we took up the cause in 2004. Â Back then, a few hundred thousand folks per year could access patents worldwide. Â Now we serve 10 million or so people per month with free patent info, worldwide. > > With your help, we can expose ETDs to millions across the globe, in a way that fits your charter. Â We hope to work together with you in pragmatic ways; clearly there's no lack of passion among your members. > > We can drive a ton of traffic to your full-text links. Â And we will get ETDs you do NOT have, and will be sharing them via OAI. Â But how to work together in actionable ways, if you're willing? > > Join our call tomorrow at 2 pm EST (Feb 9th) if you can: Â the call-in # is 218 936 7988, the code is 64131. Â And you know our email: Â u(a)openthesis.org. > > We want yet more counsel and advice, and will tell you about a big new feature we aim to add. > > We can radically accelerate the cause of free ETDs with you. Â > > - Pete > Dr. Shalini Urs Executive Director and Professor International School of Information Management University of Mysore Mysore - 570006 Phone : + 91 821 2514699 Fax : + 91 821 2519209 www.isim.ac.in ISiM - Management School of IT. Technology School for IM -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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News: INFLIBNET starts ETD and E-Journal Hosting
by vjkjk＠yahoo.com 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

The Inflibnet Centre, Ahmedabad, has launched an online facility wherein students can submit electronic versions of their theses and dissertations for public access as well as faculty to submit their journals............... Source: The Indian Express Posted: Saturday , Feb 06, 2010 at 0524 hrs Ahmedabad: URL: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Inflibnet-starts-online-journal-service-f… - Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ISiM Seminar on Enterprise Content Management, 6th February 2010 - A Report
by Roopa 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Mysore Seminar on Enterprise Content Management (ECM) February 6, 2010 ****** ECM in Pharma Research Enterprises by Dr. Arun Gowda Global Product Manager for Healthcare, Nokia & ECM in IT Enterprises by Mr. Arjun Thomas Consultant, Knowledge Management Office, Dell Perot Systems ****** The event started with Prof. Shalini Urs, Executive Director, ISiM welcoming the guests. Mr. Bhanu Potta, faculty for ECM to the M.Tech students of ISiM, then introduced the two guests - Dr. Arun Gowda and Mr. Arjun Thomas. Of the two speakers, Dr. Arun Gowda who is currently the Global Product Manager with Emerging Market Services Unit of Nokia was the first one to address the gathering. Dr. Arun delivered his lecture on the topic of ECM in Pharma Research Enterprises. He started off the presentation by pointing out that the latest cinematic blockbuster - AVATAR had a script that ran into 6000 pages and it grossed USD 2 bn worldwide. With that as yardstick, he asked the audience to imagine what amount of content must have been developed to bring out 'Lipitor' - cholesterol reducing drug by Pfizer grossing an yearly revenue of over USD 10 bn for over a decade now. Citing this as a metric of the amount of content/research that goes into the making of a Pharma product. He then gave an insight in to the typical life cycle of a pharma drug and the various types of content that gets generated all along. He further pointed out that the typical drug related content follows a life cycle of five stages - Collection, Storage, Processing, Analysis and Dissemination. All along the data cycle, the technology acts as the enabler to draw conclusions and interpretations. He acknowledged the role of the Web crawlers, Analytic tools, Data mining techniques and Advanced Search features in assisting the clinical research. Dr. Arun then went on to point out the various forms of content that get generated during the lifecycle of drug research. The Clinical Test Protocol, Case reports Forms and Clinical Trial Data forms the bulk of data. These data, which is inherently confidential in nature is then stored in a secure database. The data is then analyzed employing advanced Clinical Trial Data Management (CDM) softwares. The analysis is done by the copy editors, Statisticians and Medical writers who report their findings through Regulatory Submission Reports, Posters and Publications among other means. He stressed that the entire process is carried out under utmost data confidentiality environments, perhaps next only to those in automobile manufacturing industry. He made a special mention of Oracle, Accenture and Quintiles as the leading technology providers for clinical R&D data analysis. Pennside, PharmARC, Genpact and TCS are some of the companies known for their expertise in Pharma related Data Analytics. The second part of the seminar was on the topic of 'ECM in IT Enterprises' presented by, Mr. Arjun Thomas, Sr. Consultant at the Knowledge Management Office at Dell Perot Systems. Mr. Arjun started his presentation by defining the ECM as applicable to the IT enterprise. He pointed out that the IT companies typically ride the wave of ECM and are more likely to endorse new trends in the field. He pointed out that since the advent of the Web 2.0 framework, many new channels of content creation have emerged. He compiled most of the new channels in a wagon wheel picture. He particularly, pointed out the popularity of Wiki's, Facebook, Blogs, Folksonomy, YouTube, RSS feeds and Slide Share among our generation and their impact on the social life. In a lighter vein, he also pointed out that "These days, one is so busy social networking on the internet that he has no time for face-to-face socializations". He then put forth the concept of incorporating these tools within an organization's intranet to engage the employees as an organizational strategy. Such a technique could result in better dissemination of information, formation of collective opinions and effective management of human resources. He also opined that such a framework can also be employed to create whitepapers to capture knowledge and expertise that could be archived for later use. He further mentioned how the ECM tools can be leveraged to meet organizational goals. He concluded his talk with some tips on looking out for usability and customer experience factors to create an effective ECM system. The event concluded with Prof. Shalini proposing the 'Vote of Thanks' and presenting the speakers with a memento. For more details of the event please log on to <http://isim.ac.in/Events/Enterprise%20Content%20Management%20(ECM).htm> http://isim.ac.in/Events/Enterprise%20Content%20Management%20(ECM).htm ************** Thanks & Regards Roopa International School of Information Management, (ISiM) University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore - 570006 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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RESULT OF HDLS QUIZ CONTEST
by Vinod Kumar Mishra 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Dear All, The result of the HDLS Quiz contest held on 14th November 2009 during first day of launching of HDLS (http://lishelp.ning.com)is as follows: 1) Mr. Akhtar Hussain 2) Mr. Selvam.M 3) Mr. A.Madhava Rao I on behalf of all the HDLS members congratulate all the winners. Kindly Join HDLS at (http://lishelp.ning.com) to strengthen Library and Society. With regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra Senior Library Information Assistant P.K.Kelkar Library IIT Kanpur. Mob: 91+9198539740 email: vinod_librarian(a)rediffmail.com : mishravk79(a)gmail.com website: http://lishelp.ning.com (HDLS) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Change in the advertisement of Goa University Post for Assistant Librarian
by Gopakumar Velayudhanpillai 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Dear Professionals All aspirants for the post of Asistant Librarian may please note the change in the prescribed qualification for the post. The earlier notification has been revised. Please check the same in the university website http://www.unigoa.ac.in/ and do accordingly. Dr GOPAKUMAR V. University Librarian, Goa University Taleigao Plateau, Goa PIN 403 206 http://www.gopakumar.synthasite.com/ gopakumar.v(a)rediffmail.com Office Phone: 08326519012 Mobile No: 09447056713 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Evolution of the Book
by gmahesh＠niscair.res.in 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

A lucid evolutionary pathway of the Book is available at: http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2010/01/07/the-evolution-of-the-book/ G. Mahesh ----------------------------------------- This email was sent using NISCAIR's web mail service. "" http://niscair.res.in/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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request for information
by Dr.D.P Prathap 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Dear colleagues if anybody has the book entitled "Emerging trends in the biological control of phytophagous insects" edited by T.N.Ananthakrishnan, published by Oxford and IBH publishing house, New Delhi, 1992, I request you to kindly provide a photocopy or scanned image of the following chapter Singh, S.P.and Jalali, S.K.1992. Effect of different dosages on parasitism of Helicoverpa armigera eggs by Trichogramma species. thanking you Yours sincerely T.Shanmuganathan Technical officer Library Sugarcane Breeding Institute Coimbatore-7 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Call for Papers - Journal of Information Management
by Mailing List Admin 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 11:58:27 +0530 From: Kshema Prakash <kshemaprakash(a)gmail.com> Apologies for x-postings CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE JOURNAL OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ISSN: 0975-878X Dear Sir/ Madam, The Journal will seek quality research papers that present original theoretical approaches as well as experimental case studies related to digitization of libraries. Articles should examine concepts, analysis, new approaches and techniques pertaining to the field above mentioned. Case studies covering new initiatives of important issues in the digital library field would be included. I request you to contribute your valuable papers to this Journal on any topics related to Information Technology and Management All submissions will be reviewed keeping in view the accuracy and quality of contribution in this field. A certificate in this regard may also be furnished that the article has not been published elsewhere. Contributors are requested to send their papers typed in MS Word (Double Space) in hardcopy along with soft copy positively by 15th of March 2010 at following Address. We look forward to receiving your valuable cooperation in the new announced Journal With kind regards, Ram Chander, Managing Editor Journal of Library & Information Management Add. # Librarian, Aggarwal College Ballabgarh Faridabad-121004 (Haryana) Mobile 09968803538 E-Mail: p_ram72(a)rediffmail.com, ramchander72(a)sify.com Dr. (Ms.) Kshema Prakash Faculty Librarian - Gr I, Contact Person e-Journals (Library) & Coordinator - Distance Library Services DEI Central Library Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University) Dayalbagh, Agra 282 0110 Uttar Pradesh, India Mob: +919897190604 http://kshema-distancelibraryservices.blogspot.com/

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request
by sanjay sethi 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Dear friends We are very much interested in establishing Institutional Repository in a particular subject . In this respect i request all the seniors who have worked in this field , to kindly guide me how we can proceed further . Dr. sanjay sethi Librarian D/O Admin. Reforms & PG GOI Phone 23401477 9013309050 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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