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INDEST-NCSI Workshop on Institutional Repositories: Workshop Report
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Dear All I am giving below a brief report of the INDEST-NCSI Workshop on Institutional Repositories, held at IISc during 27-29 July 2004. Regards Rajashekar ----------------------------- INDEST-NCSI Workshop on Institutional Repositories: Workshop Report A training workshop on Institutional Repositories was successfully conducted during 27-29 July 2004 at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Participants from twenty-one leading academic research institutions in India were imparted training in setting up institutional e-print archives using the EPrints open source software. Participating institutions included Indian Institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Management and National Institutes of Technology. The workshop was organized and conducted by the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in association with the Digital Library Research Group, Computer Science Department, Old Dominion University, USA. The workshop was sponsored by the INDEST Consortium, a programme of the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India. The main objective of the workshop was to fulfill a recommendation of the INDEST consortium to the member institutions to set up OAI-compliant digital research archives of their research publications, following the model already set up at Indian Institute of Science (http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/) and to work towards establishment of a virtual research archive using the OAI inter-operability framework. It was strongly felt that this would facilitate improved visibility and impact of research output of these organizations and supplement the existing scholarly publishing system. This initiative is an extension of the INDEST consortium's initial goal of provision of shared access to licensed e-resources like bibliographic databases and e-journals (http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/) Workshop programme and content: The workshop was conducted in a training laboratory equipped with 20 workstations with Linux Red Hat 9.0 operating system. Each participant was provided with a CD-ROM prepared by NCSI especially for the workshop. The CD-ROM consisted of EPrints (version 2.3.4) and other related software (Apache, MySQL, dependent Perl modules, etc.); presentations made in the workshop; sample documents to be used in lab sessions; and resources related to institutional repositories, metadata, and OAI. Participants used a shell scripts developed by NCSI for automating the process of installing EPrints and other required software. The workshop sessions covered the following topics: - Overview of OAI framework and introduction to OAI-PMH - Institutional repository software features and functionality - Overview of EPrints software and EPrints-based archives - EPrints software installation and test archive set up - Document submission, moderation, search and browse - Archive configuration and customization (home page, subjects, metadata) - Automatic metadata extraction - OAI in action harvesting demonstration using local DSPace and EPrints archives and ARC service provider set up - Repository policies, content enrichment and advocacy Workshop inauguration and valedictory: On first day morning, Prof. R.S. Sirohi, Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Chairman, National Steering Committee, INDEST Consortium, inaugurated the workshop. Prof. Goverdhan Mehta, Director, Indian Institute of Science, was the Chief Guest. On third day evening, Prof. P. Balaram, Chairman, Division of Biological Science, Indian Institute of Science, and Editor of Current Science journal published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, chaired the valedictory session. Workshop evaluation: All the participants were successful in installing the required software and set up test e-print archives on their workstations. They also went through the document submission and approval processes. They also experimented with simple customization changes to the test archives. In a formal feedback gathered, most participants felt confident of setting up e-print archives in their institutions. Many expressed the need for further help and suggested more hands-on time in future workshops. On a scale of 1-5 (1-very poor, 5- very good), workshop content got average rating of 4.7, logistics arrangement got 4.4, and overall assessment got 4.5. A major suggestion was to make available faster machines in the training lab, compared to the slow PII machines that we made available to the participants! Workshop Website: More details about the workshop including workshop programme, presentations, resources and other related content is available at the workshop website - http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/indest-ncsi-ir/ Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Associate Chairman National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 560 012 (India) (Workshop Coordinator) E-Mail: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

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Invitation: Function and Lecture
by I.R.N.Goudar 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Karnataka State Library Association (Regd.), Bangalore University and Society for information science (SIS), Bangalore Chapter Cordially invites you to the 112th Birth Anniversary of Dr.S.R.Ranganathan and Prof. M.A.Gopinath Annual Lecture Series Topic1: The Library and Rich Media by Dr Srinivasan Ramani Research Director, HP Labs India President, International Council for Computer Communication Chairman of the Governing Board - INFLIBNET Topic 2: Relevance of Dr.S.R. Ranganathan by SHRI. N.V.SATHYANARAYAN Chairman and Managing Director Informatics India Ltd., Bangalore. Presided by: Dr.Katre Shankunthala, Registrar, Bangalore University Date: 12 August 2004, Time: 5.30 p.m.-7.00 p.m. Venue: Jnana Jyothi- Seminar hall, Central College Campus, Bangalore University, Bangalore. Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah I.R.N. Goudar President, KALA Secretary, SIS Bangalore, Chapter -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Convert ur 6 Mb yahoo id to 100Mb
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 23:02:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Banda Shankar <bandashankar(a)yahoo.co.in> Respected all, Here is a way to convert your yahoo.co.in/.com from 6MB to 100MB if u have not done it. Follow the steps 1. Login to your Yahoo! Mail account 2. If you see only 6MB, go to Mail Options 3. Select Account Information from the left of the screen 4. You'll be asked for your password again. Enter it. 5. You will see the Membership Information page 6. Copy your url into notepad. 7. Copy the below url page also into notepad http://edit.yahoo.com/config/set_intl?.child=&.scrumb=2hPLZhYEBSq&.done=htt… 8. Copy your scrumb code (this should be the last 11characters of your url after "scrumb=") from your url and replace it in the two places of my url(above one) where the scrumb code is. Copy this url (modified url, which has your scrumb code) back into your browser. Hit Enter.. 9. Change your settings to English - US 10. Accept the New User Agreement 11. You will be logged out 12. Go to mail.yahoo.com and re logon 13, You will now see a 100MB mailbox 14. Enjoy Banda Shankar Student, DRTC Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore-560 059 URL: http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/~banda

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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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