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"copyleft" licensing
by Benny MD 26 Jun '03

26 Jun '03

Dear professionals As information/knowledge managers it become our duty to allow free flow of information. Any barrier to this will delay or even prevent the birth of new information, and probably result in the misuse of the existing one. In this context it is apt to think about adopting the "copyleft" rules and apply the same in the "context" of printed documents. I encourage you all to comment on this and express your views on "intellectual property right" What is copyleft? "Copyleft," in the popular usage of the term, means "a copyright notice that permits unrestricted redistribution and modification, provided that all copies and derivatives retain the same permissions." The idea of copyleft originated with uber-hacker Richard Stallman in 1983 when he started the GNU Project. In brief, his goal was "to develop a complete free Unix-like operating system." As part of that goal, he invented and wrote the GNU General Public License, a legal construct that included a copyright notice but added to it (or, technically, removed certain restrictions), so its terms allowed for the freedoms of reuse, modification and reproduction of a work or its derivatives to be kept for all. The idea is to have a free society where any license or copyright is unnecessary, and where anyone could share all published works for the common good with no sovereign-nation laws dictating who can say or use what in their expression or communication. For more information please visit Reference http://www.dsl.org/copyleft/ http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/nonsoftware-copyleft.html http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html ___________________________________________________________________________ ******************************************************* * BENNY M.D. * * LIBRARIAN * * DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS * * INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE * * BANGALORE-12., KARNATAKA, INDIA. * * PH:2932265 (EXTN.317) * * EMAIL: benny(a)math.iisc.ernet.in * * mdliles72(a)yahoo.com * *******************************************************

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Professor designation to university librarian-parity with the teachers- implications
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 25 Jun '03

25 Jun '03

dear friends, Recently, Govt of Andhra Pradesh had issued GO Ms. No 35 dated 16-06-2003. sub: Universities- Uniform designation of Librarians, Deputy Librarians, assistant Librarians and Documentation Officers working in all Universities. The Govt had isssued GO and the crux of the GO is "After careful examination of the proposal of the Secretary, AP Stae Council of Higher Education, Govt have decided to adopt the uniform o designations by re-designating the posts of the University Library Professionals, who are drqwing UGC Scales. i.e. University Librarian, deputy Librarain, assistant Librarian and Documentation Officer to that of Professor in LIS, Associate Professor in LIS and Assistant Professor in LIS respectively" subject to there is no financial commitment on the part of the Governement and also the following conditions. 1. Asst Librarians working in the Universities possess the same qualifications like the Librarains earlier working in Govt Degree Colleges and later designated as Lecturers in Library Science vide GOMas No. 91. 2. The Asst Librarians have the duties separately identified and as and when necessary they may be asked to teach classes and they are not regular teaching staff of the Dept of LIS. 3. The Asst Librarains are non-vacation academic staff charged with the responsibility of offering academic services to various depts. in the Universities. THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE GO : 1. Till now the library staff were retiring by the age 58, now it gives a clear guidance TO THE Universities for retiring them at 60 (in AP the teachers retire at 60). This is advantage to the libraraians. Thanks to the Govt of AP. 2. Recently, the UGC had given a clarification that the Deputy Librarains are not eligible for CAS to enable them to be promoted as Librarians (Professor scale). Now the implication of this GO is Deputy Librarians are eligible under CAS and can get the Professor or Librarians scale.- thanks. 3. There was a contradiction in UGC norms for CAS to Asst Librarians. They were to be governed by OLD NORMS for CAS, and several universities were giving the promotion after 16 years (with out Ph.D. But this GO's implication is they also need to be considered selection grade after 11 years (with out Ph.D.). 4.The third condition of the GO is the Asst Librarians are non-vacation staff. It implies that others that is both Deputy Librarians and Librarians could be considered as vacation staff. 5. The ASST Librarians possess the same qualifications mentioned in GO no 91. That means, the present UGC qualifications are not necessary. Old qualifications stand good? 6. Unfortunately, the GO specifies, that only Asst Librarians are to be associated with teaching as and when asked to teach classes. How about seniors, (both Deputy Librarians and Librarians)? They should have also been considered for the same status. The professionals and Professiona Associations thank the Government of AP for considering favourably the problems of University Library Staff. The present GO has solved problems of University library staff of the State. LAXMAN RAO ===== Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS) AND President, Academy of Library Science & Documentation, Hyderabad. Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/

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Library Manager 6.5
by Shyam Prasad pujar 25 Jun '03

25 Jun '03

Dear Member, 'Library Manager' is a library automation software suitable for small libraries. Through this one can undertake works of acquisition, circulation, search for books, etc. Reports on various aspects can be generated using this software. Backup, Restoration of backup and generation of Barcode label facilities are also available. This software is still in its nascent stage, suggestions may be forwarded to the developer of this software Mr Sawan Gupta. He is an Engineering student studying at Jaipur. It is a FREE-WARE available for download at the following URL address. It works on most of the versions of MS-Windows. http://sawansoft.cjb.net Regards, S.M. Pujar ********************************************************************** Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * Phone: (022) 28400919-21 Extn: 514 * * Fax: (022) 28402752 * * E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in * * URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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Software to make you a better writer!!
by Benny MD 24 Jun '03

24 Jun '03

Dear professionals Hope some of you will find this information useful. StyleWriter software helps anyone learn the secrets of editing, by cutting words and simplifying your style. Usually, StyleWriter helps you cut a quarter of the words from your draft and this lets your reader concentrate on your information. StyleWriter helps you write in plain language by highlighting your poor writing habits and helping you change them. It also measures and questions your use of long sentences and passive verbs and makes you think about every word you write. For more information, online demo and a trial version pls visit http://www.editorsoftware.com/stylewriter-software/ -- ___________________________________________________________________________ ******************************************************* * BENNY M.D. * * LIBRARIAN * * DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS * * INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE * * BANGALORE-12., KARNATAKA, INDIA. * * PH:2932265 (EXTN.317) * * EMAIL: benny(a)math.iisc.ernet.in * * mdliles72(a)yahoo.com * *******************************************************

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NLM Proposes New Journal Standards
by Mailing List Manager 24 Jun '03

24 Jun '03

Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:10:48 +0530 From: Madhuresh <madhuresh_s(a)aurigene.com> Dear All, The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced a new set of standards for publishing online journal articles. The Journal Archiving and Interchange Document Type Definition (JAIDTD) is freely available for public use and creates a standard that, if broadly adopted, could signal a significant sea change in the future of scholarly journals. The new DTD and the Tagset are in XML and they are in the public domain. Complete information and documentation can be found at http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov. The detail can be found at http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb030623-1.shtml. I am also attaching the whole news item. NLM Proposes New Journal Standards by Robin Peek June 23, 2003 — The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced a new set of standards for publishing online journal articles. The Journal Archiving and Interchange Document Type Definition (JAIDTD) is freely available for public use and creates a standard that, if broadly adopted, could signal a significant sea change in the future of scholarly journals. Since the mid-1990s, scholarly journals have been striving to make their content available on the Web for greater distribution, ease of searching and retrieval, or just to have a Web presence. “These electronic files are created to meet the needs of the Internet—usually without much thought given to long-term archiving of the content,” says Dr. David Lipman, director of the Library's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). “Today we release two Document Type Definitions (DTDs) that will simplify journal publishing and increase the accuracy of the archiving and exchange of scholarly journal articles.” To put this in context, the JAIDTD could be to journals what HTML was to the Web. The Journal Archiving and Interchange DTD Suite provides a set of XML modules that define elements and attributes for describing the textual and graphical content of journal articles, as well as some non-article material, such as letters, editorials, and book and product reviews. “We didn't start out to create a standardized archiving format for articles,” says NCBI’s Jeff Beck. “We were starting a major revision to our DTD at the same time that a company—Inera, Inc., of Newton, Mass.—was working on the 'E-Journal Archival DTD Feasibility Study' for the Harvard University E-Journal Archiving Project. That study concluded that a common format for archiving was possible, but that it hadn't been defined yet. We shared our revised DTD with Inera, and it seemed like we almost had it.” The new DTD and the Tagset are in XML and they are in the public domain. Complete information and documentation can be found at http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov. Of course no one knows how readily the publishing community will accept the JAIDTD. The NLM will naturally be encouraging journals that submit to PubMed Central (http://www.pubmed.org) to use the JAIDTD. But while the JAIDTD has been created for PubMed Central, and NCBI will manage the updates, adherence to the JAIDTD is not mandatory, as journals may have already established their own XML models. In the proverbial best case scenario, the journals not yet committed to an XML standard will embrace JAIDTD and its promise of a brand new (and better day) of publishing, transferring, and archiving journals. Sister disciplines will see the advantages of JAIDTD for their journals and proceed to adopt it themselves. This, in turn, will cause a snowball effect, and journals throughout the lands and the disciplines will take up the standard. For this to happen, there must be a considerable effort to promote JAIDTD so that journals do not become too deeply entrenched in their own ways of doing things. To date, no other organization has offered up an XML standard for journals and one hopes that there are not a multitude of such standards under development. In theory, at least, such a standard for journals would not really have a vast range of differences from journal to journal. But commercial publishers have a long history of creating their own ways of doing things with the notion of “sharing” perhaps not first and foremost on their agendas. But, of course, there is the possibility of a less positive outcome. Like PubMed Central, JAIDTD could be a really good idea that doesn’t get much traction. While not exactly fallow, with just over 100 journals in PubMed Central, this represents only a small fraction of the thousands of journal titles in the biomedical sciences. Hopefully other standard setting organizations will take a good long look at this new proposed standard and will elect to partner with NLM to make it a standard that matters. Robin Peek is associate professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. Her e-mail address is robin.peek(a)simmons.edu. Regards. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 562 158 India Phone 8521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822

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RE: [LIS-Forum] National level S&T information service providers
by Francis Jayakanth 23 Jun '03

23 Jun '03

Dear Member: I'm thankful to Dr. Vyasamoorthy of VIC, Mr. Sukhdev Singh of NIC, Dr Murari P Tapaswi of NIO, Mr. G Mahesh of NISCAIR, Ms. Chaya Devi of Dr. BRAOU, and Mr. Kishor Satpathy, NIT, Silchar for responding to my query on the above subject dated 12 June 03. The table below summarizes these responses. with regards, - Francis NCSI, IISc. Bangalore - 12 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organization Services Provided Areas Contact Details ------------ ----------------- ----- --------------- VIC of ICICI Document Delivery, Chemistry, Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy Knowledge Park Translation, Biotechnology, Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com H'bad Online & CDROM drugs & www.vic-ikp.info Databases searches, Pharmaceuticals www.iciciknowledgepark.com Customized News Bulletins on competition NIC, NEw Delhi CD-ROM Database Biological medinfo(a)hub.nic.in services Sciences, Agriculture, indmed.nic.in Forestry, Clinical Information, Population, Psychology NISCAIR, Bibliometric S&T, Engineering Mrs. Aruna Karanjai New Delhi Services, Industry etc aruna(a)niscair.res.in Literature Search Service, www.niscair.res.in Translation Service, Contents, Abstracts & Photocopy Service NICMA, NIO Contents Page Marine Science Murari P Tapaswi Goa Service, DDS murari(a)darya.nio.org Literature Search Service, IndOcean - A database of Abstracts ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Label Printig software for Libraries
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jun '03

20 Jun '03

Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 12:43:38 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] mallikarjuna chenna" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Professionals The best library label printing software: Label Maker runs on Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP. This is very useful for spine labe printig in Library. Label printing also very good quality. InfoWorks Label Maker (for laser printer) is a powerful and versatile label printing software specially designed for library label printing. It works with OCLC Passport for Windows, CatME, and other library systems, including DRA, NOTIS, Innovative Interfaces, SIRSI, and Dynix. It takes full advantage of the excellent print quality of laser printers, and produces labels with supreme quality. InfoWorks Label Maker automates and simplifies your label printing process and greatly increases your productivity. FOR MORE DETAILS SEE http://www.itcompany.com/labelmak.htm FROM C.Mallikarjuna, Asstt. Librarian, Karnataka Government Secretariat Library VIDHANA SOUDHA, BANGALORE. hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Phone 080+2092059

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Short Term Course in Library Automation and Resource Sharing
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jun '03

20 Jun '03

Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:15:07 +0530 From: G. Mahesh <gmahesh(a)niscair.res.in> NISCAIR'S SHORT TERM TRAINING COURSE IN LIBRARY AUTOMATION AND RESOURCE SHARING Duration: One Week Schedule: July 07 to July 11, 2003 Course Contents Library Automation: introduction and current trends Library automation software packages Barcode Technology CD-ROM/DVD Technology Electronic/Digital and Virtual Libraries Operating Systems Database Creation and Resource Sharing Library Networks Services from Library Networks, etc Course Fee: Rs. 1700 (without accommodation) and Rs. 2300/- (with accommodation) More details can be had from: Assistant Head Training Division Email: asrao(a)niscair.res.in

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Need for promoting use of Open Access journals
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jun '03

19 Jun '03

Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:39:10 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Here is a Press release that talks about the advantages of wholesale embracing of the Open Access journals. Regards. Arun 17 June 2003 UK research, accessible for free, for everyone UK leads world in publishing revolution to provide open access to scientific research More than 80,000 biology and medical researchers working at UK universities can now share their research findings freely with fellow researchers, funding bodies, students, journalists, and the general public worldwide. Making the results of science and medical research openly available will aid the global advancement of science and healthcare. Publishing in freely accessible online journals will also make the UK higher education system more cost-effective, by reducing the amount of money spent on journal subscriptions. The landmark deal announced today by The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), a joint committee of HEFCE and other UK further and higher education funding bodies, and open access publisher BioMed Central places the UK at the forefront of the drive to make scientific research freely available on the Internet. The BioMed Central membership agreement commences on the 1 July. From this date article-processing charges will be waived - for all UK higher education staff - when publishing in any of BioMed Central's 90+ peer-reviewed journals in which all research content is freely accessible. Dr Alicia Wise, Head of Development at JISC, explains the commitment by JISC to fund open access publishing for the entire UK Higher Education community: "This ground-breaking deal represents a major shift in the way that research is undertaken and its outputs published and shared. The implications for research and for our educational institutions beyond the health and medical field are immense." This is the first step of many that funding bodies are taking to ensure the success of open access. For the academic and clinical research communities working in UK Higher Education institutions, one of the biggest hurdles to publishing in open access journals - cost - has been removed. Funding bodies are now moving to acknowledge that authors who publish in open access journals are providing a service to the scientific community. The JISC deal means that 180 universities in the UK will now become BioMed Central members. Together with the recent NHS England membership agreement1, the vast majority of research produced in the UK could be published in open access journals at no cost to the individual author. Publisher Jan Velterop explains why this is so exciting for BioMed Central: "JISC's support is of huge significance. The UK is taking the fastest and the largest steps to become a completely open access environment for the sharing of biology and medical research results. Unrestricted access to the majority of UK biomedical research output is now a very real possibility. This represents our largest deal to date, and is a sure sign that the tide has turned to embrace open access." BioMed Central now has more members in the UK than in any other country. The UK is a major contributor to the global advance of knowledge. With just 1% of the world's population, Britain funds 4.5% of all scientific research, and produces 8.5% of the research articles that are published worldwide.2 BioMed Central and JISC look forward to seeing a fast-increasing proportion of these articles published with open access, for the benefit of science and society at large. ###

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Indo-US Workshop on Open Digital Libraries and Interoperability, June 23-25, 2003
by Shalini Urs 19 Jun '03

19 Jun '03

Dear All, I am pleased to announce the following upcoming event: ----------------- Indo-US Workshop on Open Digital Libraries and Inter Operability Holiday Inn, Arlington at Ballston, VA. USA, June 23-25, 2003(Organised by Virginia Tech & Old Dominion University, USA and University of Mysore & Indian Institute of Science, India) Supported by Indo-US Science & Technology Forum and by Virginias Internet Technology Innovation Center For more info:http://fox.cs.vt.edu/IndoUSdl/index.htm ---------- Shalini ------------- Prof.Shalini R.Urs Coordinator ( India) Indo-US Workshop on Open Digital Libraries and Inter operability Project Director Vidyanidhi-Indian Digital Library of Electronic Theses Department of library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore.570006. India Ph:91-821-2514699 Fax:91-821-2519209 Website:http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in

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