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Open access
by Francis Jayakanth 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:15:29 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: If you are interested in promoting open access to scientific literature, you may find the following three sources very useful. Online Forum on Open Access <http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html> A complete archive of the ongoing discussion on providing online open access to the peer-reviewed research literature is available at the American Scientist Open Access Forum. Post discussion to: <september98-forum(a)amsci-forum.amsci.org> <<...OLE_Obj...>> Open Access News <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html> A blog edited by Peter Suber that focuses on efforts to create toll-free access to peer-reviewed research and scholarship. EPrints: Author/Institutional Archiving Software <http://www.eprints.org/> Provides open source software for self-archiving research, as well as running CiteBase and OpCit projects on improving online services such as reference linking. <<...OLE_Obj...>> You may also find The Scientist, the fortnightly journal for life scientists published by Eugene Garfield, useful. The Scientist includes a section called "Open Access Now". <www.the-scientist.com> Arun

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Engineering Information launches NTIS Database on Ei Village 2
by Mailing List Manager 07 Jan '04

07 Jan '04

Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 01:40:48 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Banda Shankar" <bandashankar(a)yahoo.co.in> Respected Professionals a useful platform Elsevier Engineering Information has launched the U.S. National Technical Information Service (NTIS) database on the Engineering Village 2, a Web-based discovery platform for the engineering community. Engineering Village 2 provides access to today's most important engineering content through one single interface: Compendex Inspec NTIS ENGnetBASE Patents from USPTO and esp@cenet Techstreet Standards GlobalSpec Scirus EEVL LexisNexis News further details at http://www.engineeringvillage2.org/controller/servlet/Controller with regards Banda Shankar, Student, DRTC.

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CNN.com: Information Visualization Article
by Mailing List Manager 07 Jan '04

07 Jan '04

Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:00:21 -0600 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> A very *timely* article published on the heals of my "New Age Navigation: Innovative Information Interfaces for Electronic Journals" article in _ The Serials Librarian_ [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/NewAge.pdf ] The Future *is* Now! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Next-Generation Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011

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Ovid database free access notification on LISFORUM (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 16:51:49 +0530 From: mkishore <mkishore(a)informindia.co.in> Dear Sir/Madam, We at Informatics request you to kindly put this notification for free access to OVID database from us on the LISFORUM for its members. The notification is attached here as a word file. Regards, Manish ================================================== Manish Kishore Product Marketing Informatics (India) Ltd. mkishore(a)informindia.co.in # 337, Karuna complex, Malleshwaram Post Box 360, Bangalore-560 003, India Ph: +91-80-336 7867/336 5940 F: +91-80-3344598, www.informindia.co.in " A PASSAGE TO KNOWLEDGE " ==================================================

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WIS and COLLNET Meeting at IIT Roorkee
by JK Vijayakumar 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

Dear All, International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Fifth COLLNET Meeting will be held at Central Library of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, India on 2-5 March, 2004 First Announcement and Call for Papers Scope Quantitative aspects of science of science. Collaboration and communication in science and in technology. Science policy. Combination and integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches. Theoretical, methodological and applied aspects, for example: - Emerging issues in scientometrics/informetrics/webometrics and history - Quantitative analysis of S&T innovations - Informetric laws and distributions, mathematical models of communication or collaboration - Information retrieval - Nature and growth of science and its relation with technological output - Evaluation indicators - Collaboration in science and in technology from both quantitative and qualitative points of view Please, note that these examples listed above give a broad outline of the scope of the workshop theme but do not limit it. Important Dates: Abstract: 30 th November 2003 Acceptance : 15 th December 2003 Full Paper : 15 th January 2004 Please send your abstracts to: Yogendra Singh Librarian Central Library Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee Roorkee-247667 U.A. India Tel: +91-1332-285239, 277587 Fax: +91-1332-277587, 273560 E-mail yogi(a)iitr.ernet.in, rulib(a)iitr.ernet.in r_kundra(a)yahoo.com Please send also a copy to: kretschmer.h(a)onlinehome.de Call for papers as PDF file is available at http://www.collnet.de/Roorkee.pdf ------------- Posted by J K Vijayakumar INFLIBNET, India __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus

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Query on Book
by Mailing List Manager 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 03:03:04 -0800 (PST) From: Mr.G.Bhojaraju <bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com> Dear Colleagues, Is any of your library having the following title, please let me know at your earliest. Radiation Processing of Polymers by Ajit Singh (Editor), Joseph Silverman Hope you will provide me the required information at your earliest. with regards Bhojaraju

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Continuation of the article links
by Ayesha Taranum 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

Hello, Links to all four articles by Arun Shourie in Indian express. Part 1 link : http://www.indianexpress.com/archive_full_story.php?content_id=38409 Part 2: http://www.indianexpress.com/archive_full_story.php?content_id=38528 Part 3: http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=38593&spf=true And the final part which appeared today Part 4: http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=38654 Regards, -- Ayesha __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus

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Re: oldage home info
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

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reference required
by Mailing List Manager 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Date: 5 Jan 2004 08:10:38 -0000 From: Subbiah Gunasekaran <gunasekaran_subbiah(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Members: I will be grateful if anyone could kindly send me the pdf of the following reference. Authors: Capron-ML Douy-A Title: Strontium Dialuminate Sral4O7 - Synthesis and Stability Full source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY 2002, Vol 85, Iss 12, pp 3036-3040. Thanks for your cooperation, Sincerely, S Guanasekaran Library, CECRI Karaikudi 630 006

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Interesting Article
by Ayesha Taranum 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Hello, Please find the link to an interesting analysis by Arun Shorie in Indian Express, called "IT�s written, now just dot the Is, cross the Ts" http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=38593&spf=true Part IV of this article will appear tomorrow. Regards, -- Ayesha __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/

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