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OARE Project
by Shyam Prasad pujar 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Of possible interest. __________________________ December 2005 Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) for Developing Nations. http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/05-12-22-04.all.html For immediate release: Grants to Enable Developing World to Access Leading Scientific Research New Haven, Conn.-Two grants totaling $500,000 will support Yale University's participation in an international consortium to make prestigious scientific journals in the environmental sciences available online, at little or no cost, to the developing world The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation each have given $250,000 to Yale to help establish Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE). OARE, a digital internet library for developing countries, will provide access to the peer-reviewed scientific literature of leading international publishing houses. Organizations eligible to use OARE will include approximately 1,000 public, non-profit institutions in more than 100 underdeveloped nations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. Literature in environmental chemistry, economics, law and policy, and other environmental subjects such as botany, conservation biology, ecology and zoology will be available through a portal presented in several world languages, including Arabic, English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. Yale's OARE activities will be directed by Oswald Schmitz, professor of population and community ecology and associate dean of academic affairs at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Ann Okerson, associate university librarian for collections and international programs. James Gustav Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, stated, "Thanks to advances in information and communication technologies and the great generosity of many leading scientific publishers and foundations, we now have an unprecedented opportunity to provide environmental institutions in 110 less-developed countries intellectual resources that we in the developed world take for granted." Alice Prochaska, University Librarian added: "We are eager to work together to increase the ability of leading scientists in developing countries to conduct their own high-quality research and develop their own educational programs in the environmental sciences. Helping the world benefit from Yale's wealth of expertise by extending access to information and resources is central to the library's mission." Published in the United States and Europe under copyright and with annual subscription fees averaging $1,000, the prestigious journals in which a majority of scientific research is published are too costly for most developing nations to purchase. OARE will enable countries to build their own higher education programs in the environmental sciences, educate their own leaders, conduct their own research, publish their own scientific findings and disseminate information to policy makers and the public. Next year, OARE will be offered to users in 70 developing nations with a per capita gross national product (GNP) of $1,000 or less in the first phase of the project's implementation. In the project's second phase, approximately 45 more countries with GNP per capita between $1,000 and $3,000 will be enrolled. Yale will develop OARE in cooperation with the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, Cornell University and leading scientific publishers around the world. Yale will create software for OARE's secure internet portal, organize and updates its database of scientific literature, attract new publishers to the consortium, and develop partnerships between the consortium and American and European institutions to expand internet connectivity and offer training. Paul Bendiks Walberg, a recent graduate of the School of Management and School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and Kimberly Parker, head of the university library's electronic collections, conceived the OARE project over the course of the last three years. The project is inspired by Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI), a World Heath Organization program in which Yale played a leading role, that has strengthened public health services in developing countries by providing access to research in the medical sciences. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, based in Menlo Park, Calif., supports activities in education, the environment, global development, the performing arts and population. The MacArthur Foundation, which has offices around the world, is dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition. ## ********************************************************************** Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * Phone: (022) 28400919-21 Extn: 514 * * Fax: (022) 28402752 * * E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in * * URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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How to Reinvent Ourselves in 2006
by Sukhdev Singh 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Will wishing Happy New Year make us happy 2006? We are seeing revolutionary changes around us in service sector.Do we bank the same way now?Do we talk over the same old plain telephone? Will our users' expectations remain the same?Do we need to reinvent ourselves? HOW? , WHEN? WISH YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR. --Sukhdev Singh.

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LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD presented to Dr. Harish Chandra
by Arunachalam Hariharan 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Dear friends, I am very happy to inform you all that Dr. Harish Chandra, Librarian, IIT Madras, Chennai, has been awarded "LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD" for his Outstanding Contributions & Services to the Library Profession by the Society for the Advancement and Library and Information Science (SALIS) during the 25th All India IASLIC Conference held at IIT Madras on 29th December 2005. The Gold Medal Award was presented by Hon'ble Chief Guest of the Valedictory Function Dr. G. Viswanathan, former Minister and Chancellor, Vellore Institute of Technology(Deemed University), Vellore. The citation was presented to Dr. Harish Chandra by Prof. S.Narayanan, Dean, Academic Reasearch & Chairman, LAC. IIT Madras. A.Hariharan __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com

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DD Interview of Ex-KALA President
by I.R.N.Goudar 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Dear Professionals, I am happy to learn about the following DD Interview, being telecast " BELAGU programme in Chandana DD-9" Topic: Visibility of Libraries in Digital Era (Mahiti and Manassu) By Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah, Ph.D. Principal Library and Information Officer, NIMHANS-Deemed University Bangalore-560029 Date & Time: Jan 5, 2006 (Thursday) between 7,00 - 7.40 am Please watch, enjoy and give your feed back. Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html

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Story of the OA repository at India's National Informatics Centre
by Sukhdev Singh 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

In November 2005, one of our article [ http://openmed.nic.in/1108/ ]on OpenMED@NIC has been highlighted in Prof Peter Suber's Blog dated :*Saturday, November 12, 2005 under the heading of "Story of the OArepository at India's National Informatics Centre". *http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2005_11_06_fosblogarchive.html Story of the OA repository at India's National Informatics Centre * Sukhdev Singh, and Naina Pandita, Building the open accessself-archiving repository for the bio-medical sciences at NationalInformatics Centre http://openmed.nic.in/1108/, in: NationalConvention of Medical Library Association of India, November 7-9m2005, Bangalore, India. Abstract: Self-Archiving is an important model of the Open Access movement. National Informatics Centre has been providing various services and products to the biomedical community. Building up a Self-archiving repository for Bio-medical and Allied sciences was a natural extension of these activities. To make this repository interoperable with other such repositories Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) was adopted. The selection of suitable software for the archive was done from OAI-PMH compatible softwares. GNU EPrints was finally selected. A prototype was build for planning of activities, demonstration and checking security aspects. To provide subject-wise browse view to the archive a MeSH based categorization was adopted. A dedicated server was procured and installed in the NIC Network Domain under RedHat Advanced Server Version 3.0. EPrints software was then installed and customized. Making scientists and authors aware of Open Access and its benefits remains a major challenge for any such attempt. However efforts are bearing fruits in the form of Open Self-archiving repository for Bio-medical and Allied Sciences i.e. OpenMED@NIC http://openmed.nic.in. ThanksSukhdev Singh, NIC.http://openmed.nic.in

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Position Announcement--Indexers & Abstractors
by T.V. Prafulla Chandra 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Position Announcement INDEXERS and ABSTRACTORS NISC Export Services (NES) Private Limited invites applications for positions of INDEXERS and ABSTRACTORS in its Content Department. NES and its affiliates together comprise one of the foremost database access, production and publishing companies in the world. NESs 100+ database products, published online (BiblioLine) or on CD-ROM (NISC DISCover), cover most areas of the universe of know-ledgearts & humanities, earth sciences, environment, social sciences, life sciences and technology. NES is looking for candidates who have at least ONE of the following degrees: M.L.I.Sc., M.C.J., M.A. (in English or any Social Science subject), M.Com., or M.B.A. In addition, the candidates should have the following skills: --Good typing skills are required as the working environment involves online computer use for access to offices worldwide. --Familiarity with Internet browsing. --Ability to communicate in a formal, clear, empathetic and pleasant style, with excellent command of written and spoken English. If you are not a resident of Hyderabad and are willing to relocate, please indicate that at the top of your resume. NES would shortly move into its own building coming up at Cherlapally (about 15 kms from Secunderabad Railway Station) and the selected candidates would be based there. Apart from on- job training inputs, NES provides a comfortable, pleasant and enjoyable work environment with bright career prospects and exciting opportunities to realize ones potentialities. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. NES considers applications from candidates who had appeared for examinations and awaiting announcement of results. Please submit a letter of application, resume, and names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of three references to: The Managing Director NISC Export Services Co. Pvt. Ltd. 3rd Floor, Ballad Estates, St. Anns Road, Tarnaka Hyderabad 500 017 Email: hrd(a)nisc.co.in Phone: +91 40 27001517 Fax: +91 40 27002538 Applications are accepted until the positions are filled. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Happy new year to all LIS Professionals
by Hemant Bhoot 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

To, Dear All Friends, Wish u happy and prosperous 2006. May god fullfill all your professional desire in coming year. All the best to u all. Thanks Hemant Bhoot Librarian Institute of Professional Education & Research, Bhojpur Road, Bhopal. email: hb_iper(a)rediffmail.com To, Dear All Friends, Wish u happy and prosperous 2006. May god fullfill all your professional desire in coming year. All the best to u all. Thanks Hemant Bhoot Librarian Institute of Professional Education & Research, Bhojpur Road, Bhopal. email: hb_iper(a)rediffmail.com 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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LECTURE ON OPEN ACCESS- BY DR ALMA SWAN on 5 jan 2006. invitation
by Mailing List Manager 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:53:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE OSMANIA UNIVERSITY In collaboration with ICSSR SOUTHERN REGIONAL CENTRE Invite you for a lecture by DR. ALMA SWAN (Director, Key Perspectives Ltd, UK) on PERSPECTIVES ON OPEN ACCESS on Thursday, the 5th January, 2006 at 11.00 a.m. at ICSSR Conference Hall PROF. P. JAYA PRAKASH RAO (Vice-Chairman, A.P. State Council for Higher Education) will preside over the Function --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. N. Laxman Rao Dr. V. Vishwa Mohan Dr. Masood Ali Khan Chairman Head, DLIS Director Board of Studies in LIS ICSSR Southern Regional Centre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Open Access is The Open Access research literature is composed of free, online copies of peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers as well as technical reports, theses and working papers. In most cases there are no licensing restrictions on their use by readers. They can therefore be used freely for research, teaching and other purposes. What Open Access is not There are various misunderstandings about Open Access. It is not self-publishing, nor a way to bypass peer-review and publication, nor is it a kind of second-class, cut-price publishing route. It is simply a means to make research results freely available online to the whole research community. How is Open Access provided? Open Access can be provided by various means. A researcher can place a copy of each article in an Open Access archive or repository or can publish articles in Open Access journals. In addition, a researcher may place a copy of each article on a personal or departmental website. Whilst all three routes to Open Access ensure that far more users can access such articles than if they were hidden away in subscription-based journals, the first two constitute much more systematic and organised approaches than the third and maximise the chance of other researchers locating and reading articles. Open Access archives or repositories are digital collections of research articles that have been placed there by their authors. In the case of journal articles this may be done either before (preprints) or after publication (postprints). This is known as �self-archiving�. These repositories expose the metadata of each article (the title, authors, and other bibliographic details) in a format compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAIPMH). To access the contents of these archives, you can use Google or one of the specialised search engines for a more focused and efficient search. The latter systematically harvest the contents of the archives worldwide, forming a database of current global research. Open Access repositories may be multidisciplinary and located in universities or other research-based institutions, or they may be centralised and subject-based, such as the one covering certain areas of physics and related disciplines, called arXiv. By the beginning of 2005, there were almost 40 Open Access archives in the UK, and more universities and research institutes are planning to launch their own. A list of Open Access archives in the UK is maintained by the Eprints.org site at Southampton University. If your institution does not have an archive, extensive information on how to set one up can be found on that website. Self-archiving is an international movement that is developing fast, and some grant funders are also now planning central archives to house the articles of their grant-holders. If you are concerned that your journal�s publisher may have copyright restrictions that would prevent you from selfarchiving your articles, this will in most instances not be the case. Current publisher policies on self-archiving and copyright are detailed on the SHERPA project website at Nottingham University. Open Access journals are peer-reviewed journals whose articles may be accessed online by anyone without charge. In many cases they may also be published in print. Some, mainly those published from a university department or with substantial subsidy, make no author or page charges. Others levy a charge for publishing an article, turning on its head the traditional model where a library pays for access to the contents of a journal through a subscription. This charge may be paid by the author(s) but in most cases it is financed by a research grant or institutional funds. Your institution may already have taken the decision to pay for Open Access articles to be published, or your grant-awarding body may have adopted this as one of its policies. A list of grant awarding bodies that explicitly permit funds to be used for this purpose is maintained on the BioMed Central website. BioMed Central is a well-known Open Access publisher with over 100 journals in its portfolio. Other examples are the journals from the Public Library of Science, such as PLoS Medicine, PLoS Biology. In the case of an author�s financial hardship, BioMed Central, PLoS and other Open Access journal publishers will waive the publication fee. Fees levied by Open Access journals vary quite markedly but, as a guideline, BioMed Central charges �330 per article for most of its journals, and PLoS charges US$1,500 (approx. �800). In 2003 JISC secured a deal with BioMed Central on behalf of UK institutions to waive author fees for over 90 biomedical journals. A comprehensive list of Open Access journals in all subject areas is maintained by the University of Lund. In early 2005 this list contained over 1,400 journals. Many of these Open Access journals have impact factors and are indexed by the Institute for Scientific Information for its Web of Knowledge/ Web of Science service. At June 2004, 239 Open Access journals were in this category. Another form of Open Access is found in �hybrid� journals: these are publications that will make an article accessible to everyone online without charge if the author opts to pay for publication. An example of a hybrid journal is the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which will make an article Open Access for a fee of US$1,000. Why should authors provide Open Access to their work? There is accumulating evidence that shows that research articles that have been self-archived are cited more often than those that have not. Across most subject areas there is at least a twofold increase in citation rate. In some subject areas it is even higher. This form of Open Access means that research has much more impact than before. Moreover, the research cycle � where work is published, read, cited and then built upon by other researchers � is enhanced and accelerated when results are available on an Open Access basis. Would you not prefer to be able to access all the articles you need to read and use for your research, easily and without restriction? This paper has been written by Alma Swan of Key Perspectives Ltd on behalf of JISC and produced and edited by Sara Hassen and the JISC Communications Team. Alternative formats of the briefing paper can be found at: Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, Chairman, Board of Studies, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) Vice President, Association of British Scholars(AP Chapter) Vice-President, Faculty Club, Osmania University Ph:+91-40-27171565(res): +91-40-27682290(off) 9246547599(Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! CarsNEW - sell your car and browse thousands of new and used cars online search now ---------------------------------

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Need Suggestion or Discussion
by librarymahad 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Dear All, First of all wish you all a very happy, prosperous and peaceful new year 2006!!! I am a librarian in a Medium Scale Industry. I do also have experience in another three of such industries. Most of the Employers treat "LIBRARIAN" as a "C" grade staff. That's what I have experienced. My intention is to get information : 1. How we should change their mentality? 2. What are the actions to be taken? 3. Mostly they are treating Library as unwanted department, therefore giving less important. I tried all types of strategies to make Library "a temple of Knowledge" but failed. Please let me know what should we do? 4. Why academic libraries are not considering us to give a chance to serve them? 5. What Library professionals' Movement can be done against these injustices? There are many more. Regards, Pradip Das Librarian, Vinyl Chemicals (I) Ltd., A/21, MIDC, Maharashtra - 402309 India. Tel : 02145 - 232043 to 46 Extn. : 226 E-mail : librarymahad(a)pidilite.co.in or, pradip_das_55(a)rediffmail.com Dear All, First of all wish you all a very happy, prosperous and peaceful new year 2006!!! I am a librarian in a Medium Scale Industry. I do also have experience in another three of such industries. Most of the Employers treat " LIBRARIAN" as a "C" grade staff. That's what I have experienced. My intention is to get information : 1. How we should change their mentality? 2. What are the actions to be taken? 3. Mostly they are treating Library as unwanted department, therefore giving less important. I tried all types of strategies to make Library "a temple of Knowledge" but failed. Please let me know what should we do? 4. Why academic libraries are not considering us to give a chance to serve them? 5. What Library professionals' Movement can be done against these injustices? There are many more. Regards, Pradip Das Librarian, Vinyl Chemicals (I) Ltd., A/21, MIDC, Maharashtra - 402309 India. Tel : 02145 - 232043 to 46 Extn. : 226 E-mail : mailto:librarymahad@pidilite.co.in librarymahad(a)pidilite.co.in or, mailto:pradip_das_55@rediffmail.com pradip_das_55(a)rediffmail.com

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Article indexing
by Prabhash.Rath 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Dear all It is really good to see the topic article indexing is the focus of discussion in LIS forum for some time. I fully agree with the comments made by Mr C U Navalgund that this is a value added service mostly for in-house members and should be taken up by professionals if time and manpower permit. In GIPE Library, we have been bringing out 'Fortnightly List of articles on India' since 1967 which has been continuing uninterruptedly till date. We do index all articles on India that appear in all Indian and foreign journals and four financial newspapers which have been subscribed by our Library. In fact, four years back, in our Institute itself, some discussion was going on about the viability of this service when we started computerisation of the library. However, after examining several such services and databases of articles, we have decided to continue with our service. The service has been well-appreciated by our faculty and also outside members. Even there are non-members who subscribe to our articles list in hard copy format. Thus, from my own experience, I strongly feel the need of such service at least in libraries attached to such research institutions who do research pertaining to socio-economic problems of India. With regards Prabhash N. Rath, Ph. D. Documentation Officer Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics B M C C Road Pune - 411004 (India) Tel: +91-20-25650287 (O), +91-20-25678311 (R.) E-mail: prabhash(a)gipe.ernet.in, prabhashrath(a)yahoo.com

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