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Launching of Open J-Gate (www.openj-gate.com)
by Puna Das 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

Launching of Open J-Gate (www.openj-gate.com) on Monday, February 27, 2006 at 5.45 p.m. (two hours programme) at the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Auditorium, New Delhi. Open J-Gate (www.openj-gate.com) The J-Gate coverage includes over 2,500 open access journals. About 1,500 of these are peer-reviewed research journals. J-Gate is only service in the world to index articles from the largest number of open access journals. Responding to the Open Access movement in the world for scholarly and research literature, Informatics is launching Open J-Gate as a separate free portal to access open access literature. Currently Open J-Gate has indexed over a million articles published since 2001. Informatics plans to go back in coverage to all available years for these 2,500+ journals. As the service name suggests, access to Open J-Gate is free to all students and researchers. Informatics is proud to launch and dedicate Open J-Gate as India's contribution to the cause of promoting global science communication. Kudos for this novel effort!!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anup Kumar Das/ Bidyarthi Dutta Information and Communication Society of India, New Delhi ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. Launching of Open J-Gate (www.openj-gate.com) on Monday, February 27, 2006 at 5.45 p.m. (two hours programme) at the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Auditorium, New Delhi . Open J-Gate (www.openj-gate.com) The J-Gate coverage includes over 2,500 open access journals. About 1,500 of these are peer-reviewed research journals. J-Gate is only service in the world to index articles from the largest number of open access journals. Responding to the Open Access movement in the world for scholarly and research literature, Informatics is launching Open J-Gate as a separate free portal to access open access literature. Currently Open J-Gate has indexed over a million articles published since 2001. Informatics plans to go back in coverage to all available years for these 2,500+ journals. As the service name suggests, access to Open J-Gate is free to all students and researchers. Informatics is proud to launch and dedicate Open J-Gate as India 's contribution to the cause of promoting global science communication. Kudos for this novel effort!!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anup Kumar Das/ Bidyarthi Dutta Information and Communication Society of India , New Delhi ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailcricket/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cric… Yahoo! India cricket http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailmobilemessenger/*http://in.mobile.yahoo.… Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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Seminar on 'Libraries and Area Studies in a Knowledge Society'
by Puna Das 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

Central Secretariat Library cordially invites you to the Book Exhibition-cum-Seminar on Libraries and Area Studies in a Knowledge Society at the Central Secretariat Library, 'G' Wing, Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi-1 on Friday, February 24, 2006 at 10.00 a.m. (six hours programme) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anup Kumar Das/ Bidyarthi Dutta Information and Communication Society of India, New Delhi ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. Central Secretariat Library cordially invites you to the Book Exhibition-cum-Seminar on Libraries and Area Studies in a Knowledge Society at the Central Secretariat Library, 'G' Wing, Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi-1 on Friday, February 24, 2006 at 10.00 a.m. (six hours programme) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anup Kumar Das/ Bidyarthi Dutta Information and Communication Society of India , New Delhi ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailcricket/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cric… Yahoo! India cricket http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailmobilemessenger/*http://in.mobile.yahoo.… Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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Re: Regarding RFID
by Mailing List Manager 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:50:03 +0530 (IST) From: Krishnamurthy M <krish(a)isibang.ac.in> Regarding RFID the following is the details. 1. Liberty PX Primary 2.5 feet Coverage from both side 2. Liberty Px Seecondary (2.5 Feet Coverage ) 3. Non Detactive Soft tag 410 for 50000 4. Power Supply Total US $ 4250.00 You can get the details about from: Checkpoint Systems Hongkong Ltd 4/F block A Shatin Industrial Centre Slulek Yuen Hongkong M.Krishnamurthy -- Dr.M.Krishnamurthy Librarian Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road R.V.C.E. Post Bangalore 560059 Ph:91-80-8483002/3/4/4 Fax: 91-80-8484265

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Check out this page at UNESCO-CI
by Indira Koneru 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

UNESCO-CI ------------------- Indira Koneru has emailed you a link to an interesting page at UNESCO-CI. A Manual on "How to Create a Website" published by UNESCO, provides guidelines, based on lessons learned and good practices. Certainly, it is a valuable resource for LIS professionals to make their Websites more appealing and even for enhancing interactivity and promote Web-based instructions, such as 'Information Literacy', need of the contemporary era. Page URL: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/admin/ev.php?URL_ID=20938&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_S… Page Title: A manual on "How to Create a Website" published by UNESCO (News) Page Description: UNESCO’s orientation in providing intellectual inputs into any endeavours is manifested in the manual “How to create a website: Guiding Principles”. Available in hard copy and CD-ROM, it provides guidelines based on lessons learned and good practices. ------------------------- UNESCO-CI http://portal.unesco.org/ci/admin/

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Stock Taking through Bar Codes
by Vijay Raghav Tiwari 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

LIS Professionals I want to procure Bar Code reader/collector which can be used for collecting and mathcing with the records provided through libsys database for the stock taking purpose. Please provide me information about the procuring the same. If some one has used the same,please tell me your expreiences too. with regards vrt Vijay Raghav Tiwari Librarian Harish Chandra Research Institute (Department of Atomic Energy, Govt of India) Chhatnag Road,Jhunsi,Allahabad -211 019. Phone.91-532-2668302(O), 0532-2274325 (O), 0532-2274064 (R) <vrtiwari(a)mri.ernet.in> LIS Professionals I want to procure Bar Code reader/collector which can be used for collecting and mathcing with the records provided through libsys database for the stock taking purpose. Please provide me information about the procuring the same. If some one has used the same,please tell me your expreiences too. with regards vrt Vijay Raghav Tiwari Librarian Harish Chandra Research Institute (Department of Atomic Energy, Govt of India) Chhatnag Road,Jhunsi,Allahabad -211 019. Phone.91-532-2668302(O), 0532-2274325 (O), 0532-2274064 (R) <vrtiwari(a)mri.ernet.in> 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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Refresher courses
by ranjit dharmapurikar 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Dear Colleague, Iam working as an Information Scientist in a university since from last four years. I would like to know whether carrier advancement scheme is applicable to this post. It it is applicable Please let me forward UGC Circular in this regard. Thanks, R.G.Dharmapurikar, Information Scientist, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Vishnupuri, Nanded-431606 Maharashtra, India __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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A talk by Prof. Jean-Claude Guedon of the Univ of Montreal
by Mailing List Manager 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:57:17 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Please spread the word among scientists, publishing scholars, librarians of higher education and research institutions and doctorl students. Thanks. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, The Research and Discussion Forum of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Central Library, IIT Madras, together invite you to a Talk on; WHAT CAN OPEN ACCESS DO TO SCIENCE AND SCHOLARSHIP? By Prof. Jean-ClaudeGuedon of the University of Montreal (Historian of Science and a Professor of Comparative Literature) Date: 24-2-2006 Time: 3 pm Venue: Room No. HSB 333, IIT Madras All are welcome. Please also join for tea at the end of the Talk. Sincerely, Sreekumar -- Dr.N.Sreekumar Assistant Professor Philosophy Department of Humanities & Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai - 600 036 India Tel: 91-44-22576514(R), 22574514(O), 09444162769 (Mobile)

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[LIS-Forum] Version 61, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Version 61 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,610 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, by the same author, provides much more in-depth coverage of the open access movement and related topics (e.g., disciplinary archives, e-prints, institutional repositories, open access journals, and the Open Archives Initiative) than SEPB does. http://www.digital-scholarship.com/oab/oab.htm The Open Access Webliography (with Ho) complements the OAB, providing access to a number of Websites related to open access topics. http://www.digital-scholarship.com/cwb/oaw.htm Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 5.3 Other Legal Issues 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management* 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies Appendix B. About the Author* Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics* Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* Digital Libraries* Electronic Books and Texts* Electronic Serials* General Electronic Publishing* Images* Legal* Preservation* Publishers Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* SGML and Related Standards* Further Information about SEPB The HTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be can be searched using Boolean operators. The HTML document includes three sections not found in the Acrobat file: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of new resources; also available by mailing list--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepwlist.htm http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm The Acrobat file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 215 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 570 KB. Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston Libraries E-Mail: cbailey(a)digital-scholarship.com Publications: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/ (Provides access to DigitalKoans, Open Access Bibliography, Open Access Webliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog, and others)

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Refresher course
by gopikuttan gopikuttan 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Dear professionals Academic staff college of University of kerala has invited applications for attending refresher course in Library science. the details will be released within two days under the heading press release in the website of Kerala University or contact the Director of ASC, Uty of Kerala. last date 25th march. Thanking u Dr.A.Gopikuttan General Secretary, Kerala Library Association --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. Academic staff college of University of kerala has invited applications for attending refresher course in Library science. the details will be released within two days under the heading press release in the website of Kerala University or contact the Director of ASC, Uty of Kerala. last date 25th march. Thanking u Dr.A.Gopikuttan General Secretary, Kerala Library Association Jiyo cricket on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailcricket/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cric… Yahoo! India cricket http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailmobilemessenger/*http://in.mobile.yahoo.… Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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Fwd: Re: [LIS-Forum] Need to change present LIS Curriculum to meet the changing market requirements
by Nerida Hart 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Sorry meant to send to the list not just the author! > Nerida Hart <neridahart(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > > Hi all > > In Australia, our library schools tend to put you through about a 2 week > placement to get hands on experience. Although, the trend here seems to > be for either distance education or part time studies for librarianship. > I know the undergraduate and post greaduate course at University of > Canberra have been closed down and most people do the qualifications > through Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga (about 300 km away) > either distance education and some full time. > > Can I make a suggestion that you also get practicing library managers in > to do guest lecures and what they are looking for ina graduate. > Sometimes what is being taught and what is needed are 2 very different > things. > > Nerida Hart > Director, Knowledge and Information Services, > Australian Department of Familes, Community Services and Indigenous > Affairs > Box 7788 > Canberra Mail Centre ACT 2610 > Australia > > > > nagappa.b(a)tcs.com wrote: > > > > Dear All, > > > > Its a very good practice that SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT > > Women's > > University, Mumbai has 3 days internship programme as a part of the > > BLISc > > course. I would like to suggest / recommend that all LIS schools > should > > provide atleast "six month internship" in BLIS OR MLIS. If required > LIS > > > > school can cutdown the few traditional subject(s). Let the student > learn > > > > practically instead theory. By this students will get handson > > experience. > > Like other professional courses LIS also introduce the internship. > > > > What LIS schools shall do for improvement of Curriculum: > > > > 1. Work more towards marketing of our products/students. > > 2. Introduction of Communication skills to meet the MNCs requirements. > > 3. Introduce or Enhance the KM subject. > > 4. Teaching of office automation and Library softaware in depth. > > 5. Introduce the Long term internship (atleast 6 months) by that the > > students will more information about the field before joining the > > workforce. > > 6. Start inviting corporate sectors, Good B-schools, etc. for campus > > interview both for internship as well as placement. > > > > Regards > > > > Nagappa Veerappa Bakkannanavar > > Library & Information Centre > > Tata Consultancy Services Limited > > 1. Software Units Layout, > > Hitech City, Madhapur, > > Hyderabad > > Tel. 040-55672533/31 > > Mailto: nagappa.b(a)tcs.com > > Website: http://www.tcs.com > > > > > > Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or > > attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. > If > > you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, > > distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this > > > e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If > you > > have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply > > e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message > > > and any attachments. Thank you > > Nerida Hart > Lynsdale Park > Burra Creek NSW 2620 > 0402 832 689 Nerida Hart Lynsdale Park Burra Creek NSW 2620 0402 832 689

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