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Celebrating software freedom!
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 10:49:59 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> SOUTH AFRICA: SOFTWARE FREEDOM DAY, 28TH AUGUST 2004 http://www.softwarefreedomday.org.za/ The first Software Freedom Day will be held in South Africa on August 28th. Linux user groups, companies, organisations and individuals from around South Africa will get together to celebrate free and open source software in numerous events to be held throughout the country. The day aims to increase awareness about free software and it is hoped it will become an annual event. Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Tel: +91-44-5528 4776, 2254 1229, 2254 2791 Fax:+91-44-2254 1319

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RE: [LIS-Forum] OA and copyright
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 19:11:16 +0530 From: sathya <sathya(a)informindia.co.in> A good example Arun. It is like, you see the movie because you have read the book that the movie is based on; or you buy the book to read because a movie is made out of it. The underlying factor is not the "Book" or the "Movie", but the "Economics". One medium fuels the market (or need) for the other. "Pricing" is only an exchange factor; it could be "Nil", or it could be any sum. The concept of OA is not new to the society. How much do you pay for your morning newspaper? The Newspaper publishing houses are real big. The sales revenues of the Hindu which wrote the recent editorial on OA runs into a few thousand million Rupees. What you pay may not even cover the cost of the ink incurred by the Hindu! How much do you pay for your favorite movie you watch on the TV? This is "Pure OA". The publishing industry is the corner stone of knowledge economy. It is quite concerned about the "OA wave" and its impact on scholarly journals market but is surely not as worried as the proponents of OA want them to feel threatened. According to Welcome Foundation's report on "Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing (2003), the money spent by all the UK academic libraries for buying scholarly journals is around 0.35 percent of UK's publishing industry turnover! To quote this report -- "Academic journals are a small and peculiar part of this (publishing) world. They are vitally important for the dissemination of knowledge but tiny in the context of publishing turnover". There is lot of merit in moving scholarly journals to OA Model in the new technology environment. Springer has followed suit with the "author-pays" model of PLoS, by offering to declare any article to Open Access if author pays a fee. Don't forget, a large number of journals published today by commercial publishers are those started by various professional societies and sold of to commercial publishers as they found it hard to sustain. The challenge before us is to find a viable economic model that sustains. It is important to focus on this challenge without getting lost in the emotional tirades of who makes how much profit? Sathya -------------------------------------------------- N V Sathyanarayana Chairman & Managing Director Informatics (India) Ltd Bangalore 560003, India Phone : 91-80-23365940 www.informindia.co.in -------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message-----From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 6:15 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] OA and copyright Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:44:26 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends, in particular Sathya: Please see this news item from Peter Suber's blog: More on Lessig's Free Culture Give It Away and They'll Buy It <http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2004/julaug/farm/news/lessig.ht ml>, Stanford Magazine, July/August 2004. On Lawrence Lessig's new book, Free Culture, which is available in both open-access <http://www.free-culture.cc/> and priced/printed <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1594200068/qid=1091586887/sr= 1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-2808347-4161631?v=glance&s=books> editions. Excerpt: "You can pay $25 for Lawrence Lessig's new book. Or you can download it for free. What's the catch? None, according to Lessig, a law professor who specializes in intellectual property and is the author of Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. A memo Lessig wrote to his publisher convinced Penguin Books that releasing Free Culture online actually would increase sales of hardcove copies. Which may be true: there have been more than 180,000 downloads --and Penguin is on its third printing." Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Tel: +91-44-5528 4776, 2254 1229, 2254 2791 Fax:+91-44-2254 1319

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Help to locate a journal
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 05:39:23 -0700 (PDT) From: raghavendra patil <raghapatil(a)yahoo.com> Dear Professional , this journal is available in IIT Roorkee. With Regards Raghav,Ahmedabad. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: From: mkrao Dear Colleagues, Please let me know if any library in India is subscribing to the journal- "EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing". Koteswara Rao Deputy Librarian IIT Madras

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Help to locate a journal
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 18:02:50 +0530 From: rajesh chandrakar <rajesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in> Cc: tav(a)inflibnet.ac.in Dear Dr. Koteswara Rao, According to INFLIBNET's current serial database, which can also be accessed through the website http://caliber2004.inflibnet.ac.in:7001/cgi-bin/serial/serial.jsp, following two institutes are subscribing the "EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing" journal. Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, and Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad thanking you. Rajesh ----- Original Message ----- > > From: mkrao <mkrao(a)iitm.ac.in> > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > Dear Colleagues, > > Please let me know if any library in India is subscribing to > the journal- "EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing". > > Koteswara Rao > Deputy Librarian > IIT Madras

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Help to locate a journal (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

From: mkrao <mkrao(a)iitm.ac.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Dear Colleagues, Please let me know if any library in India is subscribing to the journal- "EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing". Koteswara Rao Deputy Librarian IIT Madras

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OA and copyright
by Mailing List Manager 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:44:26 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends, in particular Sathya: Please see this news item from Peter Suber's blog: More on Lessig's Free Culture Give It Away and They'll Buy It <http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2004/julaug/farm/news/lessig.ht ml>, Stanford Magazine, July/August 2004. On Lawrence Lessig's new book, Free Culture, which is available in both open-access <http://www.free-culture.cc/> and priced/printed <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1594200068/qid=1091586887/sr= 1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-2808347-4161631?v=glance&s=books> editions. Excerpt: "You can pay $25 for Lawrence Lessig's new book. Or you can download it for free. What's the catch? None, according to Lessig, a law professor who specializes in intellectual property and is the author of Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. A memo Lessig wrote to his publisher convinced Penguin Books that releasing Free Culture online actually would increase sales of hardcove copies. Which may be true: there have been more than 180,000 downloads --and Penguin is on its third printing." Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Tel: +91-44-5528 4776, 2254 1229, 2254 2791 Fax:+91-44-2254 1319

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OA journalism
by Mailing List Manager 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:48:29 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> To: oa-india(a)dgroups.org, lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Friends: If you are interested in Internet journalism, here is a book you might wish to read. I found it in Peter Suber's blog. OA book on OA journalism Dan Gillmor's We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wemedia/book/> published by O'Reilly, has also been issued under a Creative Commons license, and you can download the book chapters in .pdf. Gillmor explores how the internet offers alternatives to traditional media, particularly through weblogs and web-based publishing. (Source: Joho the Blog <http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/002915.html>) Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Tel: +91-44-5528 4776, 2254 1229, 2254 2791 Fax:+91-44-2254 1319

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 17, Issue 2
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 11:47:23 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] anuradha" <radha_inf(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Professionals, I did my MLIS from osmania university, Hyderabad. I have 2years of work experience in traditional and modern libray. I would like to know what are the job oppurtunities in bangalore in this profession. I am also attaching my resume. Anuradha

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[lisnet] eJDS -The Free electronic Journals Delivery Service Programme
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 08:14:06 -0700 (PDT) From: JK Vijayakumar <vjkjk(a)yahoo.com> Sorry for Cross Postings! eJDS -The Free electronic Journals Delivery Service Programme The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics /TWAS Donation Programme, Italy in collaboration with the ICTP Scientific Computer Section and ICTP Library, is developing a prototype information retrieval system called `eJournals Delivery Service'. The goal is to distribute individual scientific articles via e-mail to world scientists who do not have access to sufficient bandwidth to download material from the internet in a timely manner and/or cannot afford the connection. Providing scientists with current literature will support their ongoing research. eJDS is geared to facilitate the access to current scientific literature for free. Several publishing companies have enthusiastically adhered to this programme, with rules which depend on the publisher. Visit the site at http://www.ejds.org/ ------------------ J. K. Vijayakumar INFLIBNET Ahmedabad

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Help Needed
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 14:28:21 +0530 From: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com Cc: HENAG(a)infosys.com Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Help Needed Dear Tejasvi, IIMB gives apprenticeship training to those who passed out from that particular academic year means only for freshers. You may also apply to IISC for apprenticeship or you may request librarian at IIMB to work as a honorary worker if time permits to you. And you can visit some of the educational institutions or companies like wipro, Infosys , IBM , ..... which are having the library and discuss and then implement the necessary steps which are suitable for your library. Thanks and regards Vijayalakshmi J S Librarian STC ING Vysya Bank Ltd. PH NO: 26507281 e-mail: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com <mailto:vijayalakshmijs@ingvysyabank.com> -----Original Message----- Date: 3 Aug 2004 09:48:24 -0000 From: thejasvi tv <tvthejasvi(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Professionals, Can any of you guide me as to where I can get some professional training in Bangalore? I very much require this training as I have graduated in LIS through the distance education mode. Thanking you all and awaiting your responses/advise. Regards Thejasvi.

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