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Medical Journals seeking FDI
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Please see the following news item on many journals (among other periodicals) form India seeking Foreign Direct Investment. If this happens, even Indian journals would start asking for heavy copyright fees for supplying Journal articles. In this context pushing hard for starting Open Archives including legal measures supporting this facility is needed. Regards Vyasamoorthy, P =============== http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=73117 NEW DELHI: Around 60 publications, across news and specialty categories, are awaiting foreign investment, according to sources. While most of these are English newspapers/magazines, regional publications are also making a pitch for foreign investment, it is learnt. Many of these applications, mainly specialty/technical journals, are understood to be in the process of getting the government nod. Medical journals form a large chunk of publications seeking foreign investment, sources said. When contacted, a senior official in the information and broadcasting ministry, refused to share any information regarding the pending applications. "I cannot indicate numbers or names," he told FE. He, however, added that very often there was a delay in clearing applications, as companies did not furnish sufficient information. Under normal circumstances, clearances/comments from various ministries take about a month or so. Besides the administrative ministry - I&B - others consulted, through an inter-ministerial committee, include finance, commerce and industry, external affairs and home. Depending on the subject matter of the publication, comments from ministries such as health and sports could also be sought, it is learnt. In addition, companies are required to get clearance from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB). Among the media groups which have already been granted clearance for foreign investment include Business Standard, Hindustan Times, Living Media and Bennett Coleman. Among others, Bennett Coleman's application to publish Wall Street Journal from India is still being examined. Earlier, Cybermedia's request to publish BusinessWeek from the country was not considered by the government. Sources indicated that till the International Herald Tribune (IHT) issue is resolved, the government may not like to deal with news publications. Hyderabad-based Midram Publications had started printing IHT from India a few months ago, stirring a controversy. As per current government norms, foreign news publications cannot be printed in India. Foreign investment was allowed in print media around two years ago. While up to 26% foreign direct investment is allowed in news, specialty and technical journals can go up to 74% foreign investment. ================== Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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TAPIR arrives for ETD Projects using DSpace
by JK Vijayakumar 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Good news for users of DSpace for their ETD Projects. The Edinburgh University initiative "EUL-DSpace Add-On" may now be referred to as TAPIR - Theses Alive Plugin for Institutional Repositories has been developed at Edinburgh University Library to help provide an E-Thesis service within an institution using DSpace. It has been developed as part of the Theses Alive! Project under funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), as part of the Focus on Access to Institutional Resources (FAIR) Programme. You can find more on The Tapir, including a download of the source code, at its home on SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/tapir-eul. Or visit the site http://www.thesesalive.ac.uk/dsp_home.shtml for more details. You can also read two articles on TAPIR at Aridane http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue41/jones/ and http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/jones/ ---- J. K. Vijayakumar INFLIBNET __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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"Reed Elsevier: Science Friction" - A Citicorp Report
by Subbiah Arunachalam 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Citicorp report on Elsevier and open access On October 8, Citigroup Smith Barney issued a 56 page report, _Reed Elsevier: Science Friction_, analyzing the STM journal industry and the market position of Reed Elsevier. The authors are Rogan Angelini-Hurll, Marc Sugarman, Roberto Odierna, and Tom Singlehurst, in consultation with Vighnesh Padiachy. The report is not online, so I can't link to it. But here is my summary of its main conclusions, or at least the main conclusions of interest to proponents of open access. * During 2004, Reed Elsevier profits will grow more slowly than the STM publishing sector overall. Moreover, constrained library budgets and increased government scrutiny exert pricing pressure on the whole STM sector. Consequently Citicorp is downgrading its rating of Elsevier stock from Hold/Medium Risk to Sell/Medium Risk and lowering its price target from 500p to 450p. * Growth in the Reed Elsevier science division will slow down in the short term and require new investment. However, the rise of OA institutional repositories will create new risks for that investment. * Most libraries have finished switching over to electronic delivery, so Elsevier's premium for ejournals will no longer bring in much revenue. At the same time, more and more libraries want out of the big deal. * Open access is rising in popularity and will not go away. OA archives and OA journals are increasing in number and usage, and governments are considering policies that would mandate OA to taxpayer-funded research. * The market will move towards upfront-funded OA journals. However, several factors will slow the transition, which will therefore be evolutionary rather than revolutionary. For the short or medium term, but not the long term, the transition to upfront funding for journals will cost more than the present system. Governments may be reluctant to reduce research funding in order to pay for OA. To support their journals, society publishers might have to give up revenue now used for other purposes. OA journals will not have the benefit of funding from corporate users that conventional journals currently enjoy. * The STM journal market is peculiar. Journals don't pay authors. Readers don't pay journals; because libraries pay on behalf of readers, readers know the quality but rarely the cost of what they read. Journals don't compete directly with one another and have a monopoly on the distribution of their own articles. Unlike other consumers, libraries spend up to the limit of their budgets. * Publishers explain their price increases by citing increased costs, increased volume, increased usage, and increased investment in infrastructure for electronic publishing. However, when examined closely (details in the report), these explanations are misleading and unpersuasive. Citicorp believes that price increases are mainly due to a desire to maintain high profit margins. * If the price per article is falling, it is due to greater volume, clever bookkeeping, and bundling, and does not result in lower costs for subscribers. * Library budgets are maxed out. If publishers continue to raise prices, libraries will have to purchase smaller and smaller percentages of the published literature. * Universities are starting to understand that rising journal prices and journal use of copyright are reducing access to research. At the same time universities are starting to see the benefits of open access as an alternative to the current system. (At this point, the report offers a table based on my list of University Actions Against High Journal Prices, <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/lists.htm#actions>.) However, while universities protest high prices, and some endorse open access, most renew their Elsevier subscriptions. * OA advocates are correct to argue that OA removes access barriers, increases the visibility and impact of authors and their work, increases a funding agency's return on investment, relieves library budgets, brings access to non-academics, and provides a business model that scales with research funding rather than with library funding. * On the downside, the "author-pays" model may not be economically sustainable, may not transfer from biomedicine to other fields, may "penalize" high-output research institutions and countries (though this "penalty" may be "more than recouped" through OA efficiencies), and may not generate revenue needed for post-publication expenses such as long-term preservation and upgrading technology. * Government intervention is justified by the use of public money to fund research, to fund researcher salaries, and to fund the purchase of journal subscriptions. * Today the level of knowledge about open access among scientists is low, but this will change. Universities are starting to educate their faculty about OA and to recommend it (in part) as a solution to library budget problems. Large and conspicuous government-sponsored OA initiatives are imminent in the U.S. and U.K. Successful OA journals are rising in usage and repute. ___________________________________________________________ Win a castle for NYE with your mates and Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Radio Talk on E-mail Communication
by I.R.N.Goudar 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Hello Lis-forum members, You may like to listen to a Radio Talk on " Know about E-Affairs: E-mail as a Quick and Effective Means of Communication" by Mrs. Poornima Narayana, Deputy Head, ICAST, NAL, Bangalore All India Radio, Bangalore, Bhadravathi, Mysore, etc On 3rd Nov 2004 (Wednesday) at 9.16 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-5086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-5235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-5268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road http://www.icast.org.in/staff1.htm BANGALORE-560 017 India

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SLA-MAHD Travel Grant to attend SLA conference in Toronto
by JK Vijayakumar 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Original Message ----- From: Martha McPhail To: ifla-l(a)infoserv.inist.fr Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 12:26 AM Subject: travel grant to SLA conference in Toronto IFLA Colleagues: The Museums, Arts and Humanities Division of the Special Libraries Association is offering a travel grant to attend the SLA annual conference in Toronto, Canada, June 5-9, 2005. The grant is specifically for arts or humanities librarians from developing countries. Past awardees have come from Nicaragua, the Philippines, and Trinidad and Tobago. Application information and criteria are available on the SLA website: http://www.sla.org/division/dmah/Travel%20Grant.htm Martha McPhail Past-chair, Museums, Arts and Humanities Division, 2004/2005 Special Libraries Association http://www.sla.org/division/dmah/ E-Mail: mmcphail(a)mail.sdsu.edu San Diego State University 619-594-6736 ---- Posted by JK Vijayakumar __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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search full text article
by monawwer eqbal 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

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Workshop on DSpace, HTML and Mylibrary
by G. K. Manjunath 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Workshop on DSpace, HTML and Mylibrary December 27, 2004 to January 1, 2005 Organizers and Venue Library Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen Vaidy Marg, Film City Road, Santosh Nagar, Goregaon (E) MUMBAI-400 065 For further details please visit http://www.igidr.ac.in/lib/dlw.htm g.k.manjunath CHIEF LIBRARIAN INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) SANTOSH NAGAR GOREGAON ( EAST ) MUMBAI - 400 065 INDIA e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm phone 91-22-28490653 ************************************************

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interactive Medical Library
by vasanth raj 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Dear sir/madam/ Friends There is a interactive Medical library at "Medical futures India" in Mysore which is exclusively for medical student , doctors and research schlors of health sciences. If you are intrested to visit that Library you can visit to following address. Interactive Medical library doctor's corner Gokulam 3rd stage Mysore Vasantha Raju N dept of library and Inforamation science University of Mysore Mysore Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear sir/madam/ Friends There is a interactive Medical library at "Medical futures India" in Mysore which is exclusively for medical student , doctors and research schlors of health sciences. If you are intrested to visit that Library you can visit to following address. Interactive Medical library doctor's corner Gokulam 3rd stage Mysore Vasantha Raju N dept of library and Inforamation science University of Mysore Mysore http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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SLA-PAM International Award Member Call for Nominations
by JK Vijayakumar 31 Oct '04

31 Oct '04

----- Original Message ----- From: Debra K. Bailey Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 12:02 AM Subject: SLA-PAM International Award Member Call for Nominations International Membership Award Call for Nominations for 2005-2006 The Physics Astronomy Mathematics (PAM) Division of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) is now calling for nominations for the International Membership Award. The SLA-PAM Division will present this award to a librarian from the Developing World; it provides a two-year SLA membership, for the years 2005 and 2006. For more information, please visit the following web page: http://www.sla.org/division/dpam/manual/awards/pamimadetails.html Nominations should be submitted to the chair of the International Relations Committee of the PAM Division (address below) by December 31, 2004 and the award will be announced in January 2005. Objective The purpose of the award is to provide an opportunity for a librarian from the Developing World to be an active member of SLA and of SLA-PAM. Components The award will provide SLA membership, including PAM Division affiliation, for a period of two years (2005-2006). The award recipient will serve as a member of PAM's International Relations Committee (IRC) during the term of the award. PAM will normally fund the award recipient to attend SLA's annual conference during the first year of the award. The award recipient will prepare a short report on the state of scientific information/libraries in his/her country, to be presented to the membership at the annual SLA conference either in person or in writing. The award recipient will also prepare a final report reflecting on his/her experience with PAM and providing recommendations for future improvements to the award program; this report is to be sent before the end of the second year of the award to the PAM Executive Board and PAM IRC. Qualifications The nominee must reside and work in a developing country and have basic English skills. The nominee must be working currently in a library, information center, library school or other information-related capacity, in one of the subject areas relevant to PAM: physics, astronomy, mathematics or computer science. The nominee will not normally have had a previous opportunity to become actively involved in SLA, such as by attending an SLA conference, or other professional library association meeting in the U.S. Nomination Process Self nominations are encouraged. Nomination documentation should include: A letter highlighting the candidate's professional career and qualifications and explaining why this person should be granted the award; The candidate's current professional resume [see resume guide at http://www.jobweb.com/Resumes_Interviews/default.htm if desired]; Contact information for the nominee: name, position, business address, and (if possible) email address. Nominations are to be submitted by 31 December 2004 to the PAM IRC chair, and the award recipient will be announced in January 2005. Selection Process The selection will be made by the PAM Executive Board in consultation with the PAM IRC chair. Address nominations to: Debra Bailey Chair, SLA-PAM International Relations Committee Fondren Library MS255 Rice University P.O. Box 1892 Houston, TX 77251-1892 Phone: 713-348-2350 Fax: 713-348-5859 Email: dbailey(a)rice.edu __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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MyLISA - November Lecture
by SUNIL M.V. 29 Oct '04

29 Oct '04

Mysore Librarian and Information Scientists Association (MyLISA) A Lecture on �Open Access and Institutional Repositories� By M G Sreekumar Librarian & Head Center for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL) Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode Kunnamangalam P.O., Kozhikode, Kerala, India-673 571 You are cordially invited Date : 06.11.2004 Time : 3.30 P.M Venue : Dept. of Library and Information Science, Manasagangothri, Mysore-6 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 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. Mysore Librarian and Information Scientists Association ( MyLISA) � A Lecture on �Open Access and Institutional Repositories� � By M G Sreekumar Librarian & Head Center for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL) Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode Kunnamangalam P.O., Kozhikode , Kerala, India-673 571 � You are cordially invited � Date � �� : 06.11.2004 Time � � � : 3.30 P.M Venue : Dept. of Library and Information Science, Manasagangothri, Mysore-6 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 Do you Yahoo!? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/mobile/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/mai… Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone.

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