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World Book Day and Copyright Day
by Mailing List Manager 23 Apr '04

23 Apr '04

Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:34:17 +0530 From: Monitor Information Services <emonitor(a)sancharnet.in> April 23rd is World Book Day and Copyright Day. The idea for this celebration originated in Catalonia where on April 23rd, St.George's Day, a rose is traditionally given as a gift for each book sold. In today's context World Book Day aims to prioritize reading and publishing and to promote protection of intellectual property rights through copyrights. Though World Book Day may seem just like any other "Day" declared to create something out of nothing and generate more business, but it is actually a rather symbolic way to show respect to authors who have contributed to social and cultural progress. "Reading sets your imagination afire; It can make you larger than life and Make your understanding of life so much more complete" READ A BOOK !, GIFT A BOOK TODAY !!! Mukesh Anand www.monitorinfo.com

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new comer
by Mailing List Manager 23 Apr '04

23 Apr '04

Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:09:02 +0530 From: Vrushali Rane <librarian(a)nmims.edu> Dear All, HI! I am a new entrant on Lis Forum. I wanted to know the type of research one can take up on library consortia. Thanks & Regards Vrushali Rane Librarian Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (Deemed University) V.L.Mehta Road, JVPD Scheme, Vile Parle(W), Mumbai 400056. Tel: 26134577/26183688/26143177 Fax:26114512 E-Mail:librarian@nmims.edu

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Radio Talk on 23rd April 2004
by Mailing List Manager 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 11:14:07 +0530 From: Srels <srels(a)blr.vsnl.net.in> A Radio Talk on World Book and Copy Right Day by Dr. K.N. Prasad, Executive Officer, Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore will be broadcast on 23rd (Friday) April 2004 at 9.16 p.m. by the All-India Radio, Bangalore Centre. Dr. K.N. Prasad SRELS, Bangalore

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webometric - books or articls
by Mailing List Manager 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:57:52 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Thajudin S" <thaj60(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Sir I would like to know more about webometric methodology. I request that available literature may please send to me. Thanking you THAJUDIN CPCRI REGIONAL STATION KRISNAPURAM PO KAYANKULAM - 690533 KERALA

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Forwarded mail....
by Mailing List Manager 19 Apr '04

19 Apr '04

Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 10:14:13 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Hanamanthraya Biradar" <biradar_76(a)yahoo.co.in> dear friends, i am in need of a patent numbers regarding US patent number so &so in the subject field of chemistry, pharmacy, & health sciences. please inform me the specific websites in this concern as soon as possible & how to down load those articles also. thanking you Hanamanthraya Biradar

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Free Book Cable an autobiography (Digital format only)
by Mailing List Manager 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:22:52 +0530 From: Satish Hulyalkar <satish(a)vsnl.com> Dear Friends, "Cable An Autobiography" booklet written by Mr. V M Gogte is now available for reading on line/download for those interested. We all know cable (TV, Telephone, Electric, Fiber etc) plays an important role in our day to day life. Mr. V. M. Gogte who has spent his life in telecommunications has written this book to explain some plain and simple facts about cable in this book for lay man. He has granted me rights to be made available for reading free of cost, specially to school and college students interested in telecommunications. Those interested will find this at http://www.SatishHulyalkar.com/downloads/cable.pdf with regards Satish Hulyalkar Consultant Telecom & Knowledge Management Enhancing Office Productivity through Training and Coaching Pune/India Phone: +91 (20) 567 4343 Mobile: +91 98223-41468 http://www.SatishHulyalkar.com _________________________________________________________________

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Google experiments with Fulltext eprint archives retrieval (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:44:02 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> >From Chronicle of Hugher EDucation: April 9, 2004 Website:http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php?id=uqhyv7n4hnlw9ke78oapjlpbflewz 7dm (The URL given above is a temporary URL valid for a few days as free source for fulltext for everyone, but the fulltext is available to subscribers permanantly at some other URL. URL given here only to show the source) Google, the popular search-engine company, has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 16 other universities around the world to provide a way to search the institutions' collections of scholarly papers, according to university officials. A pilot test of the project is just getting under way. If all goes as planned, the search feature could appear on Google in a few months, said MacKenzie Smith, associate director of technology for MIT's libraries. She said the search would probably be an option on Google's advanced-search page. <http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en> "A lot of times the richest scholarly literature is buried" in search-engine results, said Ms. Smith. "As more and more content is on the Web, it's harder and harder to find the high-quality stuff that you need." Google has long indexed university Web pages, but the new project will allow users to direct their searches to on-campus repositories of scholarly materials, sometimes known as superarchives. Those archives contain copies of academic papers, technical reports, drafts of articles, and other work by a university's professors. Scholars can choose whether their works will be available to all Internet users or only to others on their own campuses. The participating universities have tagged all the materials in their superarchives with "metadata tags" -- hidden codes that contain catalog information and summaries -- that can help a search engine like Google's sort through the material. MIT has developed free software, called DSpace, <http://www.dspace.org/> that colleges and universities can use to set up superarchives. About 125 universities have done so, but no one had created a tool that searches across the archives, said Ms. Smith. So far, each of the 17 participating institutions has, on average, about 1,000 papers in its archive, said Ms. Smith. But she said the collections are growing rapidly. "It's going to scale up pretty fast over the next few years," she said. Ms. Smith said the universities also plan to work with providers of other search engines. "It's not like we're working on an exclusive arrangement with Google," she said, adding that the universities are neither being paid nor paying for the arrangement. "We may even do our own thing over time" to search across the archives, she said. In the pilot test, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc., a nonprofit library organization, has set up a search process that will serve as an interface between Google and the universities. "This will make it a lot easier to find a particular article," said Thomas Hickey, a chief scientist for OCLC. Ms. Smith said that she hopes to include all 125 DSpace users in the search tool in the future. Officials at Google could not be reached for comment. Besides MIT's, <https://dspace.mit.edu/> the institutional archives that will be included in the pilot test are at: * Australian National University <http://dspace.anu.edu.au/> * Cornell University <http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/> * Cranfield University <http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk> * European University Institute <http://cadmus.iue.it/dspace/> * Hong Kong University of Science and Technology <http://repository.ust.hk/index.jsp> * Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis <https://dspace.iupui.edu/> * Minho University <https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/> * Ohio State University <https://dspace.lib.ohio-state.edu/index.jsp/> * Parma University <http://dspace-unipr.cilea.it:8080/> * University of Arizona <https://dlearn.arizona.edu/> * University of Calgary <https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/> * University of Oregon <https://ir.uoregon.edu:8443/dspace/> * University of Rochester <https://dspace.lib.rochester.edu/> * University of Toronto <https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/> * University of Washington <https://digital.lib.washington.edu/dspace/> * University of Wisconsin <http://dspace.library.wisc.edu/dspace/> Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, Turkapally Village, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residece: +91(40)27846631

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New Center of Digital Knowledge for Public Health Brings Latest Research to Practitioners
by Mailing List Manager 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:06:03 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: I received this in the mail from a discussion list I belong to. You may find it useful. Arun New Center of Digital Knowledge for Public Health Brings Latest Research to Practitioners April 13, 2004 SLU Receives $400K Donation From Sun Microsystems ST. LOUIS -- Do patients always benefit from the latest scientific research and medical discoveries? The alarming answer is "no," says the dean of Saint Louis University School of Public Health. "It takes an average of 17 years to introduce newly discovered, effective clinical interventions in routine patient care, " said Dr. E. Andrew Balas. "The latest research results and medical discoveries are released so rapidly that health practitioners cannot learn and implement the new information fast enough." As a solution to this problem, the Saint Louis University School of Public Health will establish a new Center of Digital Knowledge for Public Health. This center will provide computer resources to assist key people in health care concerned about public health issues. It also will assist in disease surveillance, and provide access to a public health digital library and interactive digital resources for public health practitioners. The center will offer training opportunities in public health informatics, a science concerned with the gathering, manipulation, and storage of recorded health knowledge. Future public health leaders as well as current professionals will be able to take advantage of these opportunities. Read more: http://www.slu.edu/readstory/newsinfo/4175 <http://www.slu.edu/readstory/newsinfo/4175> Thanks, Bob

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FW: [DIGITALDIVIDE] EBSCO Provides Databases for Iraqi Universiti es (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:43:43 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is a news story I received in my mail through another discussion list I belong to. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] EBSCO Provides Databases for Iraqi Universities Wednesday, April 14, 2004 Ipswich Chronicle <http://www.townonline.com/ipswich/news/local_regional/ ips_newicebscoje04142004.htm> A shorter URL for the link above: <http://snipurl.com/5q51> As part of the Al Sharaka Program for Higher Education in Iraq, an important initiative undertaken by USAID and universities making up the Oklahoma Higher Education Partners, all non-commercial institutions in Iraq have instant access to a wealth of information through participation by EBSCO Publishing, based in Ipswich. Al Sharaka has partnered with EBSCO such that Iraqi universities, schools and public libraries gain unlimited online access to complete articles from thousands of journals, magazines, reference books, country reports and other information sources covering virtually every subject area. This critical information is available in specific databases through the Web-based research system, EBSCOhost. >From business and financial information to psychological and sociological literature, to the hard sciences of chemistry, physics, medicine, engineering and much more, EBSCOhost provides access to the world's most valued information sources for any university, school or public library researcher. Databases available to institutions in Iraq include: Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, MasterFILE Premier and MEDLINE. ----------------------------------------------------- The full article may be read at the URL above. For more information, visit: http://www.ebsco.com Sincerely, David Dillard Temple University (215) 204 - 4584 jwne(a)astro.temple.edu <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NetGold/> <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html> <http://www.kovacs.com/medref-l/medref-l.html>

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Interesting article on Google
by Mailing List Manager 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 23:12:58 +0530 From: Vasumathi Sriganesh <vasu(a)qmedin.com> Dear colleagues, Trust this sounds good to all library & information professionals! http://www.masshightech.com/displayarticledetail.asp?art_id=64126&cat_ id=172 Regards Vasumathi Sriganesh Director, QMed Services Pvt. Ltd. A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India Ph: 91-22-28229223 Fax: 91-22-28224358 Email: vasu(a)qmedin.com, Web: www.qmedin.com

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