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"BioRxiv": biologists' version of arXiv
by Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <aokerson(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 16:20:15 -0500 With thanks to Gary Price: **** From: Gary Price <gprice(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:19 PM "BioRxiv, launched yesterday by the nonprofit Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), aims to be biologists' version of arXiv, the popular preprint server where physicists have shared their draft manuscripts for more than 20 years. The goal is to speed the dissemination of research and give scientists a way to get feedback on their papers before they are formally peer-reviewed, says John Inglis, CSHL Press executive director. "There is a growing desire in the community for this kind of service,” Inglis says. It will be free to submit a paper or to read it in bioRxiv, Inglis says. CSHL is paying the costs of the service (he declines to specify them) but hopes that, like arXiv, it will ultimately attract contributions. Although anybody can submit a paper, not everything will be posted: A group of more than 40 "affiliate" scientists have agreed to screen submissions to "assure us that this is real science," Inglis says. "We certainly don't want the enterprise to be sunk by publishing a load of crap." Another limitation is that bioRxiv is for life sciences, not medicine, so it will not publish clinical trials or other research that is "medically relevant," Inglis says. Human genetic data could be posted, however." Full Text Article via Science http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2013/11/new-preprint-server-aims-be-biol… __gary Gary D. Price, MLIS Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal's INFOdocket.com Co-Founder and Editor, FullTextReports.com Information Industry Analyst Librarian http://INFOdocket.com http://FullTextReports.com Dr. J. K. VIJAYAKUMAR, -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Library Executive Vacant @ Hippocampus, Chennai
by Usha Ramu 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Hippocampus Children's Experience Centre (Kids Commercial Library) Job Position : Library Executive Nature of the job : Handling llibrary routines, management and administration Salary : Negotiable Female Candidates Preferable Hippocampus Children's Experience Centre is a commercial kids library located in Indra Nagar, Adyar. It is functioning in tie up with German Consulate in its operations. Conducts workshops and summer camps as part of their services to kids. To know more about Hippocampus please click the link : http://hippocampus.in/html/about_us.html Interested can mail their resumes to chandni(a)hippocampus.in Contact Person Mrs. Chandni Khanna Managing Director Cell : 9444039175 chandni(a)hippocampus.in *Thanks & Regards* *Usha Ramu | Librarian | Archaeological Survey of India| Chennai Circle, Fort St. George|Chennai - 600 009* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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9th Dr. TB Rajashekar Memorial Seminar (2013): Digital Information Services in Academic and R&D Information Centers
by Madhuresh Singhal 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Dear Members, NCSI-Net, an informal association comprising of erstwhile NCSI staff and its trainees, was established in 2000. During its 13 years of existence, the association has been constantly engaged in organizing various professional activities like monthly lectures, invited talks, seminars, conferences, and workshops. It has also been collaborating with other professional associations in organizing and conducting various professional activities. Being an informal association, it had its own advantages and to some extent, some constraints, too. Also, many of NCSIians have been expressing their intent, for a long time now, that it should become a registered body so that it can engage itself in lot more diversified activities. Several of senior NCSI-Net members have been mulling about the idea of NCSI-Net being a registered body for a long time. Around March 2013, it was decided that NCSI-Net would be registered as a charitable trust. The process for registration was started thereafter and after few initial hurdles, we finally managed to get it registered. We are very happy to convey that our plan came into fruition on Friday, 14 June 2013. So, NCSI-Net is now NCSI-Net Foundation, a registered charitable trust. The foundation, for the present, will continue with the existing activities including the annual lecture and seminar series in honor and memory of late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar. In fact, the TBR Memorial lecture, 2013, on "Knowledge Diversity in Media Content Analysis - An Analytico-synthetic Approach" delivered by Dr. Devika P. Madalli of DRTC, on Friday 21 June 2013, was the inaugural event of the foundation. The foundation already has a web presence with a very rudimentary web site, accessible at http://www.ncsinet.org/. It will be improved up on in due course of time. We are now gearing up for the second event by the foundation – Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Memorial Seminar. The announcement about the seminar follows: NCSI-Net Foundation cordially invites you to the 9th Dr. TBR Memorial Seminar (2013). This year's topic will be "Digital Information Services in Academic and R&D Information Centers". It’s a one-day seminar targeted for the benefit of students of Library and Information Science and budding LIS professionals. The details of the seminar are given below. Brochure is available at Foundation website. Title: Dr. TBR Memorial Seminar (2013): Digital Information Services in Academic and R&D Information Centers Date: November 23, 2013 (Saturday); 08:45 AM - 04:30 PM Venue: APC (erstwhile NCSI) Seminar Hall, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore - 560012 Registration fee: Rs. 250/- for Students and Rs. 500/- for budding professionals (includes working Lunch). Target audience: Students of Library & Information Science courses & budding information professionals. Seminar coverage: The Seminar is being conducted with an intention to create awareness amongst the students and budding information professionals about the latest developments in the field of Information and Communication technologies applicable to LIS profession. This year's Seminar will give an overview on the various Digital Information Services provided by the Library & Information Centers in R&D and Academic Institutions. There will also be a session dealing with soft skills/communication skills and career building strategies for LIS professionals. Please do note that no arrangements for accommodation are being made for outstation participants. Number of participants restricted to 40 (due to Space constraint), it will be on first come first serve basis. Kindly bring this to the attention of the budding professionals and encourage them to attend the seminar. Participants will get an opportunity to interact with fellow professionals working in the industry and academia. For further information and Seminar Brochure, please visit the Seminar website at: http://www.ncsinet.org/ Regards Madhuresh Singhal On behalf of NCSI-Net Foundation -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Librrary Professional Asst. - Trainee: Please post to the forum members
by Shreyasi Parikh 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

National Institute of Design invites applications from the prospective Library and Information Science candidates to to work as a Library professional Asst. Trainee for one year Remuneration will be Rs.10,000/- per month. Fresh passed out MLISC are preferable. Vacancy ; Ahmedabad (Two/Three Trainees) Gandhinagar (One trainee) Bengulru (One trainee) Library Timings : Monday to Friday (9.00 am to 6.00 pm) Saturday (9.00 am to 6.00 pm) The interested applicants may send the applications to the below mentioned address by 20th Nov., 2013. Thanks -- Dr. Shreyasi K. Parikh Head, Knowledge Management Center (KMC) National Institute of Design Paldi, Opp. Museum AHMEDABAD - 380007 Tel. No. : 079-26629749 (Direct) 079 .26629 500/600, Extn 749 (O) http://www.nid.edu/ If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing; Love what you are doing; And believe in what you are doing. ~ Will Rogers -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Paper Submission (NCDL-2014).Few days Left
by Rasmita Mohanty 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Dear Forum Members, As all of you are aware that Tolani College of Commerce, Mumbai is organizing an UGC-Sponsored National Conference on DIGITAL LIBRARIES: Re-SHAPING TRADITIONAL LIBRARIES INTO NEXT-GEN LIBRARIES (NCDL) during 16th and 17th January 2014. There are only few more days left for Paper submission. Therefore those who have already submitted their abstracts are hereby requested to submit the full papers soon. And those who are still interested to submit the papers can directly send the full papers. Kindly note that all the selected papers will be published in the Pre-Conference proceedings with ISBN. We believe your strong presence and participation in the conference will add value to it. We count on your support for a successful conference and look forward to your contribution and participation in the event. For Details kindly visit the conference page at URL: http://ncdl-2014.hpage.com Best Regards. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Mrs. Rasmita Mohanty [MLISc(Gold Medal), UGC-NET, PGDLAN, PGDCA] Librarian & Organizing Secretary (NCDL 2014) Tolani College of Commerce (NAAC Re-accredited with Grade-A) Mumbai-400093 Phone:022-61535442 E-mail: rasmita06(a)gmail.com, rashmitam(a)tcc.tolani.edu URL: http://ncdl-2014.hpage.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Open Repositories 2014 -- Call for Proposals
by Imma Subirats 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

* * apologies for cross-posting ** The Ninth International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2014, will be held 9-13 June 2014 in Helsinki, Finland. The organizers are pleased to invite you to contribute to the program. This year's conference theme is: *Towards Repository Ecosystems* Repository systems are but one part of the ecosystem in 21st century research, and it is increasingly clear that no single repository will serve as the sole resource for its community. How can repositories best be positioned to offer complementary services in a network that includes research data management systems, institutional and discipline repositories, publishers, and the open Web? When should service providers build to fill identified niches, and where should they connect with related services? How might these networks offer services to support organizations that lack the resources to build their own, or researchers seeking to optimize their domain workflows? Examining how repositories best integrate into the holistic research flow; exploring ties between domain-specific repositories and institutional repositories; and understanding durable content strategies outside of traditional repository environments are the central themes of the Open Repositories 2014 conference. We welcome proposals on these themes, but also on the theoretical, practical, organizational or administrative topics related to digital repositories. We're particularly interested in hearing about: * Unconventional approaches to repository-like services * Interconnection between publishers and repositories * Researcher-centered design for scholarly workflows * Adaptations to support curation lifecycle management, e.g., for research data * Real-world scalability and performance stories: working at web-scale, with big data for global usage * Requirements for holding restricted or classified data in repositories * Infrastructure to accommodate national and international mandates for data management and open access * Positioning repositories closer to (local, consortial, or cloud-based) cyberinfrastructure for data processing * Leveraging connections to external services including: * Remote identifier services (e.g., DOI, ORCID) * (Re-)using repository data/metadata in new and unexpected ways, including integrated discovery * Scholarly social media services, such as for annotation, review, comment, reputation, citation, and altmetrics * CRIS and research management systems * Digital preservation tools, services & infrastructure * Community and sustainability in an open world *KEY DATES* • 3 February 2014: Deadline for submissions • 4 April 2014: Submitters notified of acceptance to general conference • 17 April 2014: Submitters notified of acceptance to interest groups • 9-13 June 2014: OR2014 conference SUBMISSION PROCESS *Conference Papers and Panels* We welcome proposals that are at least two pages and no more than four pages in length for presentations or panels that deal with digital repositories and repository services. Abstracts of accepted papers will be made available through the conference’s web site, and later they and associated materials will be made available in a repository intended for current and future OR content. In general, sessions are an hour and a half long with three papers per session; panels may take an entire session. Relevant papers unsuccessful in the main track will automatically be considered for inclusion, as appropriate, as an Interest Group presentation. *Interest Group Presentations* One to two-page proposals for presentations or panels that focus on use of one of the major repository platforms (DSpace, ePrints, and Fedora) are invited from developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners describing novel experiences or developments in the construction and use of repositories involving issues specific to these technical platforms. *24x7 Presentation Proposals* We welcome one- to two-page proposals for 7 minute presentations comprising no more than 24 slides. Similar to Pecha Kuchas or Lightning Talks, these 24x7 presentations will be grouped into blocks based on conference themes, with each block followed by a moderated discussion / question and answer session involving the audience and whole block of presenters. This format will provide conference goers with a fast-paced survey of like work across many institutions, and presenters the chance to disseminate their work in more depth and context than a traditional poster. *"Repository Rants" 24x7 Block.* One block of 24x7's at OR14 will revolve around "repository rants": brief exposés that challenge the conventional wisdom or practice, and highlight what the repository community is doing that is misguided, or perhaps just missing altogether. The top proposals will be incorporated into a track meant to provoke unconventional approaches to repository services. *Posters, Demos and Developer "How-To's"* We invite developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners to submit one-page proposals for posters, demonstrations, technical how-tos and technology briefings. Posters provide an opportunity to present work that isn’t appropriate for a paper; you’ll have the chance to do a 60-second pitch for your poster or demo during a plenary session at the conference. Developer "How-To's" will provide a forum for running a mini-tutorial or demonstration in the developer lounge, if there are enough interested parties. *Developer Challenge* Each year a significant proportion of the delegates at Open Repositories are software developers who work on repository software or related services, and once again OR2014 will feature a Developer Challenge. An announcement will be made in the future with more details on the Challenge. Developers are also encouraged to make submissions to the other tracks--including posters, demonstrations, and 24x7 presentations--to present on recently completed work and works-in-progress. *Workshops and Tutorials* One- to two-page proposals for Workshops and Tutorials addressing theoretical or practical issues around digital repositories are welcomed. Please address the following in your proposal: • The subject of the event and what knowledge you intend to convey • Length of session (e.g., 1-hour, 2-hour? half a day? whole day?) • How many attendees you plan to accommodate • Technology and facility requirements • Any other supplies or support required • A brief statement on the learning outcomes from the session • Anything else you believe is pertinent to carrying out the session Submit your paper, poster, demo or workshop proposal through the conference system. PDF format is preferred. Please include presentation title, authors’ names and affiliations in the submission. The conference system will be open for submissions by 16 December 2013, and is linked from the conference web site: http://or2014.helsinki.fi/ *Program Co-Chairs* Tom Cramer, Stanford University Mike Giarlo, Pennsylvania State University Simeon Warner, Cornell University contact: or-program-chair(a)googlegroups.com *Local Hosts* Helsinki University Library National Library of Finland contact: or-2014(a)helsinki.fi Social Media #or2014 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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EasyLibrary (ISO File) (DSpace 3.2 with NewGenLib and Joomla 3.2)
by DP Tripathi 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Dear All, It gives me immense pleasure to inform everyone that EasyLibrary (An ISO File) (DSpace 3.2 with NewGenLib and Joomla 3.2 - Pr-configured with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) is available at www.librarianguide.in under the link Digital Library --> DSpace 3.2 The link is given below to download for your kind reference. http://librarianguide.in/easylibrary.iso Thanks, -- ********************* D. P. Tripathi Assistant Librarian Biju Patnaik Central Library NIT Rourkela Odisha - 769008 ********************** -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Librarians Can Also Undertake MRP Under UGC XII Plan (?)
by santosh hulagabali 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Librarians Can Also Undertake MRP Under UGC XII Plan (?) Dear friends, There is a huge uproar over barring (?) the Librarians from undertaking UGC's MRP. But is it really true? Is it really the right interpretation of the UGC XII Plan Guidelines related to MRPs?? (refer to the following URLs) My discussion with some (non-LIS) experts connected with education system revealed altogether a different story. They interpret the said UGC guidelines in a positive way. They mean that the in-service Librarians can also undertake UGC's MRP. So the moot point is: have we misinterpreted the guidelines/circular? or the guidelines are leading to misinterpretation? or are the Librarians really barred from undertaking UGC's MRP?. So the positive interpretation is (as per the experts' interpretation): In-service Librarians are eligible for MRP under UGC XII Plan but not post retirement. Whereas Library Science teachers, Principals, and Vice-Chancellors are eligible even after retirement for availing the MRP. Justification for the positive interpretation (as per the experts' interpretation): 1. The initial paragraph of the circular (page 2) states that any teacher of university and college (with 2 (F) & 12 (B) of UGC Act, 1956) can apply. So the Librarians should be considered here. 2. After stating the rule for retired teachers (Major RP, page 3), the very next paragraph states, "Only the teaching faculty of Library Science,Physical Education, Principals and VCs will also be eligible to participate in the scheme". So this should be considered in the context of the preceding paragraph discussing about the retired professionals. So what is your say on this?? Let us discuss. UGC XII Plan Guidelines, for your reference: 1. http://www.ugc.ac.in/pdfnews/7716504_12th-plan-guidelines.pdf (Major RP) 2. http://www.ugc.ac.in/pdfnews/6733319_12th-plan-Minor.pdf (Minor RP) Best regards, Santosh C. Hulagabali Librarian | Library & Information Centre Nagindas Khandwala College* | Malad (W) | Mumbai-64 | India Tel: 022-2808 5424| Extn.No.222/223 | Fax: 022-2865 0461 Library Blog| College Website | COIST | OAMII 2013 *Affiliated to University of Mumbai | Reaccredited 'A' Grade by NAAC| ISO 9001:2008 Certified College .................................................................................................................................... DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) & may contain confidential & privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail & descard all copies of the original message. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article Request
by Shihab Illias 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Respected Friends One of our research scholar needs the following article for his research. If you have access to the same, please send a soft copy to my mail Id i.e. shihabillias(a)gmail.com Safe at the Wheel? Security Issues for Female Taxi Drivers-N Westmarland1 and J Anderson,Security Journal (2001) 14, 29–40; doi:10.1057/palgrave.sj.8340080 http://www.palgrave-journals.com/sj/journal/v14/n2/abs/8340080a.html With regards Shihab.I. Library Professional University of Kerala Email: shihabillias(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Recruitment of Two Apprenticeship Trainees at Library of National Institute of Malaria Research New Delhi
by Rashid 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Dear All, Library of National Institute of Malaria Research requires two young professionals to work as Apprenticeship trainees for the year 2014 (January- December 2014) purely on temporary basis for the proposed term. For details advertisement, Pl. See the attached file. Regards, Librarian National Institute of Malaria Research, Sector-8, Dwarka, New Delhi-110077 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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