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Wikimania - Call for Papers
by Subbiah Arunachalam 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Friends: Here is a conference some of you may be interested to take part. I received it from my friend Andy Carvin. Arun Wikimania Call for Papers http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Call_for_Papers Wikimania 2005 - The First International Wikimedia Conference will be held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from 4 August 2005 to 8 August 2005. Wikimedia is the non-profit organization operating Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wikispecies, and the Wikimedia Commons. We are now accepting papers and other submissions (from everyone within and outside the Wikimedia and Wikipedia communities) for presentations, workshops, and discussion groups. We are also accepting nominations for speaker panels and keynote speakers, and suggestions for other activities. Mail all submissions to cfp(a)wikimedia.org. For more conference information, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:Main_Page.

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three new studies
by Subbiah Arunachalam 20 Mar '05

20 Mar '05

Friends: Here is some news from Peter Suber's blog. Arun Three repository studies from Eprints UK The Eprints UK project has released three new supporting studies: 1.. Philip Hunter and Michael Day, Institutional repositories, aggregator services and collection development, January 2005. Abstract: 'Institutional repositories are managed collections of the intellectual output of university and other research-based institutions. This report introduces collection development issues from two distinct perspectives. Firstly, it highlights issues that may need to be addressed by institutional repositories as OAI data providers. For example, repositories may need to make decisions on the type, quality and format of content, on submission workflows, rights management, access, sustainability and evaluation. Secondly, the report will consider similar issues from the perspective of third party service providers like ePrints UK that harvest selective metadata from institutional repositories. The concluding section will provide some recommendations on best practice for repositories to support such harvesting.' 2.. Philip Hunter, Institutional e-Print Repositories: Business and IPR Issues, March 16, 2005. Abstract: 'A report summarising business models and IPR issues in the context of the e-Prints UK poject.' Excerpt: 'What is not clear so far is how business models might apply to public organisations such as universities, archives, libraries etc. Many if not most public organisations do nevertheless have extant business models, usually in the form of a mission statement or corporate strategy....Most public organisations, in common with large corporate bodies, tend to employ multiple concurrent business models. For example University Libraries will employ a merchant model in its dealings with publishers and a community model in it's dealings with students....The overriding modus operendi for UK public organisations, however, is a model that is essentially fixed by the community through the government. For Universities this model works something like this: The government collects taxes and gives part of that money to educators. The educators increase the potential value of the workforce by producing well educated students. The students join the workforce, earn money and pay tax to the Government. This type of model could be called a social subscription model....Public organisations should embrace the OA approach for the following reasons. Sharing knowledge is a primary function and as we have seen is already written into their business models. It provides one means of conforming to the freedom of information acts - enacted Europe wide in 2000 and 2001....Any organisation using a public subscription model is very likely to be both amenable to and gain benefit from integrating the OA approach. Many private organisations could benefit from the OA approach at some level.' 3.. Michael Day, Institutional repositories and research assessment, undated. Abstract: 'This study concerns the potential role of institutional repositories in supporting research assessment in universities with specific reference to the Research Assessment Exercises in the UK. After a brief look at research evaluation methods, it introduces the UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), focusing on its role in determining the distribution of research funding, the assessment process itself, and some concerns that have been raised by participants and observers. The study will then introduce institutional repositories and consider the ways in which they might be used to enhance the research assessment process in the UK. It will first consider the role of repositories in providing institutional support for the submission and review process. Secondly, the paper will consider the ways in which citation linking between papers in repositories might be used as the basis for generating quantitative data on research impact that could be used for assessment. Thirdly, this study will consider other ways in which repositories might be able to provide quantitative data, e.g. usage statistics or Webometric link data, which may be able to be used - together with other indicators - to support the evaluation of research.' These are the second, third, and fourth supporting studies from Eprints UK. The first came out in May 2003: Michael Day, Prospects for institutional e-print repositories in the United Kingdom. Friends: Here is some news from Peter Suber's blog. Arun Three repository studies from Eprints UK [A] The http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/ Eprints UK project has released three new http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/docs/ supporting studies : Philip Hunter and Michael Day, http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/docs/studies/coll-development/coll… Institutional repositories, aggregator services and collection development , January 2005. Abstract: 'Institutional repositories are managed collections of the intellectual output of university and other research-based institutions. This report introduces collection development issues from two distinct perspectives. Firstly, it highlights issues that may need to be addressed by institutional repositories as OAI data providers. For example, repositories may need to make decisions on the type, quality and format of content, on submission workflows, rights management, access, sustainability and evaluation. Secondly, the report will consider similar issues from the perspective of third party service providers like ePrints UK that harvest selective metadata from institutional repositories. The concluding section will provide some recommendations on best practice for repositories to support such harvesting.' Philip Hunter, http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/docs/studies/business-ipr/business… Institutional e-Print Repositories: Business and IPR Issues , March 16, 2005. Abstract: 'A report summarising business models and IPR issues in the context of the e-Prints UK poject.' Excerpt: 'What is not clear so far is how business models might apply to public organisations such as universities, archives, libraries etc. Many if not most public organisations do nevertheless have extant business models, usually in the form of a mission statement or corporate strategy....Most public organisations, in common with large corporate bodies, tend to employ multiple concurrent business models. For example University Libraries will employ a merchant model in its dealings with publishers and a community model in it's dealings with students....The overriding modus operendi for UK public organisations, however, is a model that is essentially fixed by the community through the government. For Universities this model works something like this: The government collects taxes and gives part of that money to educators. The educators increase the potential value of the workforce by producing well educated students. The students join the workforce, earn money and pay tax to the Government. This type of model could be called a social subscription model....Public organisations should embrace the OA approach for the following reasons. Sharing knowledge is a primary function and as we have seen is already written into their business models. It provides one means of conforming to the freedom of information acts - enacted Europe wide in 2000 and 2001....Any organisation using a public subscription model is very likely to be both amenable to and gain benefit from integrating the OA approach. Many private organisations could benefit from the OA approach at some level.' Michael Day, http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/docs/studies/rae/rae-study.pdf Institutional repositories and research assessment , undated. Abstract: 'This study concerns the potential role of institutional repositories in supporting research assessment in universities with specific reference to the Research Assessment Exercises in the UK. After a brief look at research evaluation methods, it introduces the UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), focusing on its role in determining the distribution of research funding, the assessment process itself, and some concerns that have been raised by participants and observers. The study will then introduce institutional repositories and consider the ways in which they might be used to enhance the research assessment process in the UK. It will first consider the role of repositories in providing institutional support for the submission and review process. Secondly, the paper will consider the ways in which citation linking between papers in repositories might be used as the basis for generating quantitative data on research impact that could be used for assessment. Thirdly, this study will consider other ways in which repositories might be able to provide quantitative data, e.g. usage statistics or Webometric link data, which may be able to be used - together with other indicators - to support the evaluation of research.' These are the second, third, and fourth supporting studies from Eprints UK. The first came out in May 2003: Michael Day, http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/docs/studies/impact/ Prospects for institutional e-print repositories in the United Kingdom .

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Wellcome Trust and OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 20 Mar '05

20 Mar '05

Friends: Robert Terry of the Wellcome Trust has written an excellent article in the March issue of PLoS, the wel-known open access journal. I found it interesting. Hope you do too. Thanks and best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----- PLoS Biology Volume 3 | Issue 3 | MARCH 2005 Funding the Way to Open Access Robert Terry Robert Terry is Senior Policy Adviser at the Wellcome Trust, Cambridge, United Kingdom. E-mail: r.terry(a)wellcome.ac.uk Published: March 15, 2005 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030097 Copyright: © 2005 Robert Terry. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abbreviations: UKPMC, United Kingdom PubMed Central Citation: Terry R (2005) Funding the Way to Open Access. PLoS Biol 3(3): e97. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Imagine this scenario. You're the director of one of the world's largest medical research charities, and you receive notification from one of your funded investigators in Africa reporting some exciting progress toward the development of a vaccine for malaria. The work has just been published, so you log onto the Web to do a quick keyword search, and a link to the article is brought up on your screen. Then imagine the frustration when you click on the link to read the message, "Access Denied-access to this journal is restricted to registered institutional and individual subscribers." And there's the rub: this actually happened to the Director of the Wellcome Trust. Prior to this, the committee that advises the Wellcome Trust Library were already asking whether the Trust should adopt a formal position on the continually increasing prices of journal subscriptions and the problems this trend was causing research libraries. These events encouraged the Trust to investigate the publication of scientific research, to see if there was anything research-funding organisations could be doing to stimulate change in what appears to be a failing market. As it turns out, there is quite a lot. I now believe it is the funders of research-charities, governments, and other publicly funded bodies such as national research agencies-who hold the purse strings that can untie scientific discoveries from a publishing market that is no longer serving the community as well as it could. That is why today the Trust is a leading advocate for enabling free access to research literature through support for new publishing models, such as that of the Public Library of Science, and the establishment of publicly accessible repositories, working in partnership with the United States National Institutes of Health-funded PubMed Central [1]. It is worth noting that the Trust is not a novice in seeking better ways to disseminate research findings. The fact that the sequence of the human genome is an openly accessible work is due in large measure to the Trust's determination that this information be in the public domain and not hidden behind commercial subscriptions. As a consequence of that insistence, we believe, these data are a more widely used and valuable resource. "Trust-funded researchers will have to deposit an electronic version of their manuscripts in PMC to be made available for free via the Internet within 6 months of publication." The Trust began its investigation of the scientific publishing sector by commissioning two pieces of research: one to inform itself of the economics of the publishing sector, and a second to explore whether there were alternative business models out there that could enable research to have the quality assurance it needs (peer review) whilst being available for free, using the Web as the medium of publication. The Economics of Publishing The first Trust-commissioned study described how scientific research publishing has traditionally worked and why it can be described, in economic terms, as a failing market [2]. Essentially, the producers (researchers as authors) and the consumers (researchers as readers) are isolated from any of the costs within the system. Researchers give away the copyright to their work, for free, to the publishers, who organise the peer review and copyedit the article. The publishers then sell it to libraries at prices that range from enough to cover their costs through to some pretty high profits-some over 30%. These profits escape from an otherwise self-contained financial cycle to satisfy shareholders or run learned societies; unlike typical publishing relationships, none are returned directly to the author (the researcher who wrote the piece) or even to the consulting experts (the researchers who provided the peer review). At the same time, researchers as readers access the material, if they are able to do so, through their employing institution, either using the library or-more typically now-via the Internet through the institution's subscription. To the researcher this access appears free, effectively creating a market system that has no pressures from the producers or consumers to change. One consequence of this is that publishers have been able to increase subscription prices well above inflation; the United Kingdom has seen subscription rates rise by more than 200% in the last ten years (Blackwell's periodical price indexes; [3]). The money used to fund UK libraries is all public money, and over 90% of the funds paying for research in the UK university system is either government or charitable [4]-so in a sense the people who are paying for the research cannot access its findings without paying an additional fee. Access denied at The Journal of Infectious Diseases This then begs the question of what alternatives there are to this traditional system, now that the Internet has become the researcher's tool of choice for searching and accessing the literature. The second piece of research commissioned by the Trust looked at different business models for research publishing, in order to address this question [5]. It compared open-access journals, which often levy a charge to publish but provide the journal for free, and the majority of the traditional models, which take the research for free but charge readers to read it. This study convinced the Trust that the best way forward to improve access to research findings would be through open access to scientific research articles. This essentially means two things: first, that the copyright holder or holders must grant to the public a free, irrevocable, perpetual license to use, copy, distribute, and make derivative works of their research article, in any medium for any purpose (excepting those that constitute plagiarism or other dishonest acts, of course); and second, that a digital copy must be deposited in an open public archival repository (for example, the US National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central). Whilst a debate continues as to the most appropriate route to achieve open access to all research literature, it is important to bear in mind that the publication and the archiving of research articles are intrinsically linked. Both aspects of open access need to be explored and experimented with, and the Trust is actively pursuing solutions for the problems of both. Alternative Business Models The findings of the second report seem to have caused quite a controversy-particularly in the suggestion that moving wholesale to an open-access publishing model might produce savings of up to 30% [6]. One common misinterpretation of this conclusion is that any such savings would be due solely to discontinuing the printed versions of publications that are freely available online. This is incorrect. In fact, if savings are to be made in an open-access model, they will largely be found in the variable costs of journal production-since an open-access journal will not have to cover the costs of subscription management, licence negotiations, or sales, and little is required for marketing and distribution. In a comparison included in the report, an article in a good- to high-quality journal produced in the subscription model is estimated to cost US$2,750. The equivalent cost under an author-side payment model is estimated as US$1,950-a comparable saving of 30% on the costs, and a saving of 90% when the variable costs are compared. It must be remembered that cost does not equate to price, so to these figures, regardless of the mode of publication, must be added overhead expenses and, of course, profit. However, if a truly competitive market is created-where payments are directed to publishers not by third parties but by those directly involved in the scientific enterprise, who could easily compare the varying article processing charges of different open-access publishers-then the actual savings might well be substantially higher. At its essence though, the open-access debate is not about economics, it is about access. That is why the Trust has been in discussion with the US National Library of Medicine about the possibility of creating a UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) as a publicly accessible repository for Trust-funded research. UK PubMed Central The proposal is that a UKPMC will be run as a proper electronic library: it will collect, collate, and archive whole journals and be developed to receive single articles as well. Submission will be as straightforward as attaching a document to an email. UKPMC will be able to accept manuscripts in any format, including Microsoft Word, and it will be the responsibility of UKPMC to convert the files it receives into extensible markup language (XML) to enable the appropriate document type definition (DTD) to be assigned. UKPMC will also correct the structural, content, and consistency errors that occur when converting text for digital preservation, and provide the conversion process to print a "clear" PDF version of included articles to those users who download them. This is a process well used by the National Library of Medicine, and the one most suited for the long-term, digital preservation of articles. And once articles are in a digital format they can be searched and used in different ways. For example, genome sequence data, chemical compounds, or protein structures embedded within an article can be searched for in other articles and linked directly to genome or structural databases uncovering new genetic markers, drug uses, or protein functions. The articles themselves become live research material greatly improving the efficacy of the research itself. For a funder, having all its research in one format, "under one roof", and searchable will improve the efficiency of strategy setting-for example, setting funding priorities-assessing the outputs of the funded research, and even gaining an insight into the impact of the work. As grants management becomes more electronic, there can be a direct link between original research proposals and the research outputs. For a medical charity like the Trust, I believe it is our duty to actively encourage the most efficient processes available to maximise the likelihood that the research we fund will have the greatest possible health benefit. That is why the Trust will be making it a requirement of its grant conditions that Trust-funded researchers deposit an electronic version of their manuscripts in UKPMC to be made available for free via the Internet within 6 months of publication. The delay means that this is not open access in the truest sense. However, the Trust considers that the development of a PubMed Central portal in the UK offers the best next step in the transition towards a situation where all high-quality peer-reviewed research is available for free via the Internet, whilst leaving all publishers room for manoeuvre in this changing market. References 1.. Wellcome Trust (2004 November 4) Wellcome Trust and National Library of Medicine in talks for worldwide open access archive. Available: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTX022826.html. Accessed 19 January 2005. 2.. Wellcome Trust (2003 October) An economic analysis of scientific research publishing: A report commissioned by the Wellcome Trust, revised ed. Available: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/assets/wtd003182.pdf. Accessed 19 January 2005. 3.. LISU (2002) LISU annual library statistics 2002. Leicestershire: LISU. 4.. Department of Trade and Industry HM Treasury Department for Education and Skills (2002 July) Investing in innovation: A strategy for science, engineering and technology. Available: http://www.ost.gov.uk/policy/science_strategy.pdf. Accessed 19 January 2005. 5.. Wellcome Trust (2004 April) Costs and business models in scientific research publishing: A report commissioned by the Wellcome Trust. Available: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/assets/wtd003184.pdf. Accessed 19 January 2005. 6.. Wellcome Trust (2004 April 1) New report reveals open access could reduce cost of scientific publishing by up to 30 per cent. Available: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD002874.html. Accessed 19 January 2005. Friends: Robert Terry of the Wellcome Trust has written an excellent article in the March issue of PLoS, the wel-known open access journal. I found it interesting. Hope you do too. Thanks and best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----- PLoS Biology http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-toc&issn=1545-7885&vo… Volume 3 | Issue 3 | MARCH 2005 Funding the Way to Open Access Robert Terry [A] Robert Terry is Senior Policy Adviser at the Wellcome Trust, Cambridge, United Kingdom. E-mail: mailto:r.terry@wellcome.ac.uk r.terry(a)wellcome.ac.uk Published: March 15, 2005 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030097 Copyright: © 2005 Robert Terry. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. [A] Abbreviations: UKPMC, United Kingdom PubMed Central Citation: Terry R (2005) Funding the Way to Open Access. PLoS Biol 3(3): e97. Imagine this scenario. You're the director of one of the world's largest medical research charities, and you receive notification from one of your funded investigators in Africa reporting some exciting progress toward the development of a vaccine for malaria. The work has just been published, so you log onto the Web to do a quick keyword search, and a link to the article is brought up on your screen. Then imagine the frustration when you click on the link to read the message, Access Deniedaccess to this journal is restricted to registered institutional and individual subscribers. And there's the rub: this actually happened to the Director of the Wellcome Trust. Prior to this, the committee that advises the Wellcome Trust Library were already asking whether the Trust should adopt a formal position on the continually increasing prices of journal subscriptions and the problems this trend was causing research libraries. These events encouraged the Trust to investigate the publication of scientific research, to see if there was anything research-funding organisations could be doing to stimulate change in what appears to be a failing market. As it turns out, there is quite a lot. I now believe it is the funders of researchcharities, governments, and other publicly funded bodies such as national research agencieswho hold the purse strings that can untie scientific discoveries from a publishing market that is no longer serving the community as well as it could. That is why today the Trust is a leading advocate for enabling free access to research literature through support for new publishing models, such as that of the Public Library of Science, and the establishment of publicly accessible repositories, working in partnership with the United States National Institutes of Healthfunded PubMed Central [ http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/… 1 ]. [A] http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=slideshow&type=figure&doi… It is worth noting that the Trust is not a novice in seeking better ways to disseminate research findings. The fact that the sequence of the human genome is an openly accessible work is due in large measure to the Trust's determination that this information be in the public domain and not hidden behind commercial subscriptions. As a consequence of that insistence, we believe, these data are a more widely used and valuable resource. Trust-funded researchers will have to deposit an electronic version of their manuscripts in PMC to be made available for free via the Internet within 6 months of publication. The Trust began its investigation of the scientific publishing sector by commissioning two pieces of research: one to inform itself of the economics of the publishing sector, and a second to explore whether there were alternative business models out there that could enable research to have the quality assurance it needs (peer review) whilst being available for free, using the Web as the medium of publication. The Economics of Publishing The first Trust-commissioned study described how scientific research publishing has traditionally worked and why it can be described, in economic terms, as a failing market [ http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/… 2 ]. Essentially, the producers (researchers as authors) and the consumers (researchers as readers) are isolated from any of the costs within the system. Researchers give away the copyright to their work, for free, to the publishers, who organise the peer review and copyedit the article. The publishers then sell it to libraries at prices that range from enough to cover their costs through to some pretty high profitssome over 30%. These profits escape from an otherwise self-contained financial cycle to satisfy shareholders or run learned societies; unlike typical publishing relationships, none are returned directly to the author (the researcher who wrote the piece) or even to the consulting experts (the researchers who provided the peer review). At the same time, researchers as readers access the material, if they are able to do so, through their employing institution, either using the library ormore typically nowvia the Internet through the institution's subscription. To the researcher this access appears free, effectively creating a market system that has no pressures from the producers or consumers to change. One consequence of this is that publishers have been able to increase subscription prices well above inflation; the United Kingdom has seen subscription rates rise by more than 200% in the last ten years (Blackwell's periodical price indexes; [ http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/… 3 ]). The money used to fund UK libraries is all public money, and over 90% of the funds paying for research in the UK university system is either government or charitable [ http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/… 4 ]so in a sense the people who are paying for the research cannot access its findings without paying an additional fee. http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/… [A] http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=slideshow&type=figure&doi… http://biology.plosjournals.org/archive/1545-7885/3/3/figure/10.1371_journa… http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=slideshow&type=figure&doi… Access denied at The Journal of Infectious Diseases This then begs the question of what alternatives there are to this traditional system, now that the Internet has become the researcher's tool of choice for searching and accessing the literature. The second piece of research commissioned by the Trust looked at different business models for research publishing, in order to address this question [ http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/… 5 ]. It compared open-access journals, which often levy a charge to publish but provide the journal for free, and the majority of the traditional models, which take the research for free but charge readers to read it. This study convinced the Trust that the best way forward to improve access to research findings would be through open access to scientific research articles. This essentially means two things: first, that the copyright holder or holders must grant to the public a free, irrevocable, perpetual license to use, copy, distribute, and make derivative works of their research article, in any medium for any purpose (excepting those that constitute plagiarism or other dishonest acts, of course); and second, that a digital copy must be deposited in an open public archival repository (for example, the US National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central). Whilst a debate continues as to the most appropriate route to achieve open access to all research literature, it is important to bear in mind that the publication and the archiving of research articles are intrinsically linked. Both aspects of open access need to be explored and experimented with, and the Trust is actively pursuing solutions for the problems of both. Alternative Business Models The findings of the second report seem to have caused quite a controversyparticularly in the suggestion that moving wholesale to an open-access publishing model might produce savings of up to 30% [ http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/… 6 ]. One common misinterpretation of this conclusion is that any such savings would be due solely to discontinuing the printed versions of publications that are freely available online. This is incorrect. In fact, if savings are to be made in an open-access model, they will largely be found in the variable costs of journal productionsince an open-access journal will not have to cover the costs of subscription management, licence negotiations, or sales, and little is required for marketing and distribution. In a comparison included in the report, an article in a good- to high-quality journal produced in the subscription model is estimated to cost US$2,750. The equivalent cost under an author-side payment model is estimated as US$1,950a comparable saving of 30% on the costs, and a saving of 90% when the variable costs are compared. It must be remembered that cost does not equate to price, so to these figures, regardless of the mode of publication, must be added overhead expenses and, of course, profit. However, if a truly competitive market is createdwhere payments are directed to publishers not by third parties but by those directly involved in the scientific enterprise, who could easily compare the varying article processing charges of different open-access publishersthen the actual savings might well be substantially higher. At its essence though, the open-access debate is not about economics, it is about access. That is why the Trust has been in discussion with the US National Library of Medicine about the possibility of creating a UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) as a publicly accessible repository for Trust-funded research. UK PubMed Central The proposal is that a UKPMC will be run as a proper electronic library: it will collect, collate, and archive whole journals and be developed to receive single articles as well. Submission will be as straightforward as attaching a document to an email. UKPMC will be able to accept manuscripts in any format, including Microsoft Word, and it will be the responsibility of UKPMC to convert the files it receives into extensible markup language (XML) to enable the appropriate document type definition (DTD) to be assigned. UKPMC will also correct the structural, content, and consistency errors that occur when converting text for digital preservation, and provide the conversion process to print a clear PDF version of included articles to those users who download them. This is a process well used by the National Library of Medicine, and the one most suited for the long-term, digital preservation of articles. And once articles are in a digital format they can be searched and used in different ways. For example, genome sequence data, chemical compounds, or protein structures embedded within an article can be searched for in other articles and linked directly to genome or structural databases uncovering new genetic markers, drug uses, or protein functions. The articles themselves become live research material greatly improving the efficacy of the research itself. For a funder, having all its research in one format, under one roof, and searchable will improve the efficiency of strategy settingfor example, setting funding prioritiesassessing the outputs of the funded research, and even gaining an insight into the impact of the work. As grants management becomes more electronic, there can be a direct link between original research proposals and the research outputs. For a medical charity like the Trust, I believe it is our duty to actively encourage the most efficient processes available to maximise the likelihood that the research we fund will have the greatest possible health benefit. That is why the Trust will be making it a requirement of its grant conditions that Trust-funded researchers deposit an electronic version of their manuscripts in UKPMC to be made available for free via the Internet within 6 months of publication. The delay means that this is not open access in the truest sense. However, the Trust considers that the development of a PubMed Central portal in the UK offers the best next step in the transition towards a situation where all high-quality peer-reviewed research is available for free via the Internet, whilst leaving all publishers room for manoeuvre in this changing market. References [A] Wellcome Trust (2004 November 4) Wellcome Trust and National Library of Medicine in talks for worldwide open access archive. Available: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTX022826.html http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTX022826.html . Accessed 19 January 2005. [A] Wellcome Trust (2003 October) An economic analysis of scientific research publishing: A report commissioned by the Wellcome Trust, revised ed. Available: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/assets/wtd003182.pdf http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/assets/wtd003182.pdf . Accessed 19 January 2005. [A] LISU (2002) LISU annual library statistics 2002. Leicestershire: LISU. [A] Department of Trade and Industry HM Treasury Department for Education and Skills (2002 July) Investing in innovation: A strategy for science, engineering and technology. Available: http://www.ost.gov.uk/policy/science_strategy.pdf http://www.ost.gov.uk/policy/science_strategy.pdf . Accessed 19 January 2005. [A] Wellcome Trust (2004 April) Costs and business models in scientific research publishing: A report commissioned by the Wellcome Trust. Available: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/assets/wtd003184.pdf http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/assets/wtd003184.pdf . Accessed 19 January 2005. [A] Wellcome Trust (2004 April 1) New report reveals open access could reduce cost of scientific publishing by up to 30 per cent. Available: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD002874.html http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD002874.html . Accessed 19 January 2005.

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INASP and OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 20 Mar '05

20 Mar '05

Friends: Here is an article that appeared recently in PLoS Biology, a well-known open access journal. The author Ms Pippa Smart works for INASP. Prof. N Mukunda of CTS, IISc, Bangalore, is the chairman of the Advisory Board of INASP. I wish INASP promotes interoperable open access archiving around the world with the same zeal it is trying to promote free or subsidised access to key journals for scientists in the developing world. Best wishes. Arun ---------- PLoS Biology Volume 2 | Issue 11 | NOVEMBER 2004 International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications: Facilitating Scientific Publishing in Developing Countries Pippa Smart Pippa Smart is head of publishing and publishing initiatives for the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, Oxford, United Kingdom. E-mail: psmart(a)inasp.info Published: November 16, 2004 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020326 Copyright: © 2004 Pippa Smart. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abbreviations: AJOL, African Journals OnLine; INASP, International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications Citation: Smart P (2004) International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications: Facilitating Scientific Publishing in Developing Countries. PLoS Biol 2(11): e326. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'The most important element that restricts our researchers is access to information.'-Subbiah Arunachalam, India, 2003 The International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) was established by the International Council for Science in 1992 to provide support for networking between information providers and users, particularly to bridge the information divide between the developed and developing world. Since 1992 INASP has worked, in response to requests, to develop its activities for capacity building in information production, access, and use, with an overarching vision that all people are able to access and contribute information, ideas, and knowledge necessary for sustainable and equitable development. To ensure that INASP activities are appropriate for the communities and cultures of the countries in which INASP works, local partners are used to build networks and to provide advice and support. Enhancing capacities is central to all activities, and local ownership and sensitivity to local conditions and opinions are of paramount importance. Here I highlight two aspects of our work: increasing access to information and supporting the visibility of regional journals within the global research community. Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information The growth and acceptability of the internet during the 1990s opened up tremendous possibilities for the dissemination of research information, providing many nations with access to information that had previously been out of their reach. Although internet connectivity remains problematic in many countries, it still offers great potential for bridging the information gap. Arising from discussions with librarians and researchers in 1999 and 2000, the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information was formally launched in 2002 after a two-year pilot programme. The Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information works in a two-phase manner: (1) providing and supporting access to international research information and (2) supporting and promoting access to nationally published research. To support access to international information, INASP negotiates for heavily discounted or free access to online information from publishers and information providers in developed countries. Enabling access, however, does not guarantee that resources are used; both training and promotion are needed so that researchers and downstream information providers know how to make the best use of what is available. With this in mind, INASP has set up four series of training workshops, which have trained over 1,000 people from over 200 institutions in over 17 countries during the last two years. Although some of the training is undertaken by INASP staff, most is facilitated by in-country trainers. Planning for long-term sustainability, INASP aims to hand over the tasks of negotiation, purchasing, and training to local consortia, associations, or networks. African Journals OnLine Although much needed, access to international resources can discriminate against nationally published scholarly information. This may be due to one of the following: a perception that local publications are lower quality, distribution problems and irregular publishing, or lack of online visibility. However, national publications provide vital access to potential collaborators and information about research on topics of local relevance-since 1998, INASP has provided support to indigenous research publications to enable them to survive and coexist with international information. One specific project that exemplifies these aims is known as African Journals OnLine (AJOL). AJOL launched in 1998 in response to requests from African journals. Starting with only ten titles, it now includes 189 from 21 African countries. Access to the site, which includes tables of contents, article abstracts, and a homepage for each journal with information about editorial boards, guidelines for authors, and more, is entirely free. Participating journals report increased international submissions and increasing contact with international researchers. Researchers make wide use of this service, and over 8,000 people have registered to use AJOL since it launched. Registration is optional and until March this year did not provide the user any benefit-it simply provided an indication of the number of people visiting and from which countries. However, since March 2004 anyone who registers can sign up to receive a free E-mail table of contents alert. Over 500 people have chosen to receive E-mail alerts from an average of four journals each, and the effect of these alerts is felt through the increase in document delivery requests. AJOL does not currently host full text, but can provide full-text articles through a document delivery service (there are plans to load full-text articles on AJOL in the future). This service is provided to researchers from developing countries for free and to researchers elsewhere at a minimal charge (to cover costs, plus a small payment to the journal). In the first six months of 2004, over 700 articles were ordered and sent out. Most journals publishing out of Africa are not run by commercial publishers, and most of them operate at a loss, subsidised by universities, associations, funding agencies, or a mixture of all three. Paid subscriptions to print journals are frequently a vital part of their economics, and the financial viability of many journals is constantly under threat. Originally, it was hoped that AJOL would increase subscriptions, thereby providing greater financial security to the journals. This has not been achieved and is unlikely to occur in the future. However, with increasing visibility, the value of the journals increases along with, hopefully, their importance to the supporting agencies and long-term sustainability. Since AJOL is set up to provide support for the participating journals, the journals' opinions are constantly sought before any developments are undertaken, meaning AJOL is effectively "owned" by them. Although the service is not actively run by the journals themselves, all participating journals are considered to be part of a community, receiving regular E-mail contact and skills support. Many journal editors (who frequently undertake all the publishing activities) feel isolated and unskilled, and even though AJOL does not operate as an association for the journals, it encourages communication between the editors, and a sharing of experience. The AJOL website was relaunched in March 2004 using open-source software called Open Journal System, originally developed in Canada by the Public Knowledge Project at the University of British Columbia and further developed for AJOL at Bristol University, United Kingdom. This software was written to enable a single journal to manage the entire publishing process online from submission to publishing. Being open source, the software can also easily be adapted and modified. The Public Knowledge Project set up the system with the developing world in mind: it operates efficiently at low bandwidths and is easy to use, with many guides and help functions built in. For the users, this software offers sophisticated searching, E-mail alerts, and a space for each journal within AJOL for journal-specific information. It also now provides a range of management tools, which makes the service more efficient and enables it to grow. Another important consideration for choosing this system was that individual journals can take over the responsibility for maintaining their own journal areas within AJOL via the Internet. Over 50 journals have expressed an interest in taking this on, and one publisher is already successfully maintaining its material. To support this, training workshops are currently in preparation. This development will assist the long-term sustainability of AJOL and also give the participating journals experience in managing and publishing content online. In the near future, INASP will be including full text on AJOL and hopes to move the management of AJOL to an African organisation so that it will truly become an African gateway for published research. In addition, INASP continues to work with journals to strengthen their quality and sustainability, providing advice, training workshops, study tours, and a coordinating point for discussion and collaboration. Outside Africa, INASP is working on similar developments in Nepal and the Caribbean and has received expressions of interest from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. The Future of Journal Access It is vital that researchers everywhere in the world have access to reliable, relevant information. At the same time, providing access to international literature needs to be balanced with supporting local publications to ensure that indigenous knowledge is not lost, but can take its place in the research community and contribute to the continuing development of science. Worldwide access to information is central to all INASP activities, and INASP supports policies and activities that work towards this. Where to Find Out More INASP: http://www.inasp.info AJOL: http://www.ajol.info Public Knowledge Project: http://pkp.ubc.ca Friends: Here is an article that appeared recently in PLoS Biology, a well-known open access journal. The author Ms Pippa Smart works for INASP. Prof. N Mukunda of CTS, IISc, Bangalore, is the chairman of the Advisory Board of INASP. I wish INASP promotes interoperable open access archiving around the world with the same zeal it is trying to promote free or subsidised access to key journals for scientists in the developing world. Best wishes. Arun ---------- PLoS Biology http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-toc&issn=1545-7885&vo… Volume 2 | Issue 11 | NOVEMBER 2004 International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications: Facilitating Scientific Publishing in Developing Countries Pippa Smart [A] Pippa Smart is head of publishing and publishing initiatives for the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, Oxford, United Kingdom. E-mail: mailto:psmart@inasp.info psmart(a)inasp.info Published: November 16, 2004 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020326 Copyright: © 2004 Pippa Smart. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. [A] Abbreviations: AJOL, African Journals OnLine; INASP, International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications Citation: Smart P (2004) International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications: Facilitating Scientific Publishing in Developing Countries. PLoS Biol 2(11): e326. The most important element that restricts our researchers is access to information.Subbiah Arunachalam, India, 2003 The International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) was established by the International Council for Science in 1992 to provide support for networking between information providers and users, particularly to bridge the information divide between the developed and developing world. Since 1992 INASP has worked, in response to requests, to develop its activities for capacity building in information production, access, and use, with an overarching vision that all people are able to access and contribute information, ideas, and knowledge necessary for sustainable and equitable development. http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371%… [A] http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=slideshow&type=figure&doi… To ensure that INASP activities are appropriate for the communities and cultures of the countries in which INASP works, local partners are used to build networks and to provide advice and support. Enhancing capacities is central to all activities, and local ownership and sensitivity to local conditions and opinions are of paramount importance. Here I highlight two aspects of our work: increasing access to information and supporting the visibility of regional journals within the global research community. Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information The growth and acceptability of the internet during the 1990s opened up tremendous possibilities for the dissemination of research information, providing many nations with access to information that had previously been out of their reach. Although internet connectivity remains problematic in many countries, it still offers great potential for bridging the information gap. Arising from discussions with librarians and researchers in 1999 and 2000, the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information was formally launched in 2002 after a two-year pilot programme. The Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information works in a two-phase manner: (1) providing and supporting access to international research information and (2) supporting and promoting access to nationally published research. To support access to international information, INASP negotiates for heavily discounted or free access to online information from publishers and information providers in developed countries. Enabling access, however, does not guarantee that resources are used; both training and promotion are needed so that researchers and downstream information providers know how to make the best use of what is available. With this in mind, INASP has set up four series of training workshops, which have trained over 1,000 people from over 200 institutions in over 17 countries during the last two years. Although some of the training is undertaken by INASP staff, most is facilitated by in-country trainers. Planning for long-term sustainability, INASP aims to hand over the tasks of negotiation, purchasing, and training to local consortia, associations, or networks. African Journals OnLine Although much needed, access to international resources can discriminate against nationally published scholarly information. This may be due to one of the following: a perception that local publications are lower quality, distribution problems and irregular publishing, or lack of online visibility. However, national publications provide vital access to potential collaborators and information about research on topics of local relevancesince 1998, INASP has provided support to indigenous research publications to enable them to survive and coexist with international information. One specific project that exemplifies these aims is known as African Journals OnLine (AJOL). AJOL launched in 1998 in response to requests from African journals. Starting with only ten titles, it now includes 189 from 21 African countries. Access to the site, which includes tables of contents, article abstracts, and a homepage for each journal with information about editorial boards, guidelines for authors, and more, is entirely free. Participating journals report increased international submissions and increasing contact with international researchers. Researchers make wide use of this service, and over 8,000 people have registered to use AJOL since it launched. Registration is optional and until March this year did not provide the user any benefitit simply provided an indication of the number of people visiting and from which countries. However, since March 2004 anyone who registers can sign up to receive a free E-mail table of contents alert. Over 500 people have chosen to receive E-mail alerts from an average of four journals each, and the effect of these alerts is felt through the increase in document delivery requests. AJOL does not currently host full text, but can provide full-text articles through a document delivery service (there are plans to load full-text articles on AJOL in the future). This service is provided to researchers from developing countries for free and to researchers elsewhere at a minimal charge (to cover costs, plus a small payment to the journal). In the first six months of 2004, over 700 articles were ordered and sent out. Most journals publishing out of Africa are not run by commercial publishers, and most of them operate at a loss, subsidised by universities, associations, funding agencies, or a mixture of all three. Paid subscriptions to print journals are frequently a vital part of their economics, and the financial viability of many journals is constantly under threat. Originally, it was hoped that AJOL would increase subscriptions, thereby providing greater financial security to the journals. This has not been achieved and is unlikely to occur in the future. However, with increasing visibility, the value of the journals increases along with, hopefully, their importance to the supporting agencies and long-term sustainability. Since AJOL is set up to provide support for the participating journals, the journals' opinions are constantly sought before any developments are undertaken, meaning AJOL is effectively owned by them. Although the service is not actively run by the journals themselves, all participating journals are considered to be part of a community, receiving regular E-mail contact and skills support. Many journal editors (who frequently undertake all the publishing activities) feel isolated and unskilled, and even though AJOL does not operate as an association for the journals, it encourages communication between the editors, and a sharing of experience. The AJOL website was relaunched in March 2004 using open-source software called Open Journal System, originally developed in Canada by the Public Knowledge Project at the University of British Columbia and further developed for AJOL at Bristol University, United Kingdom. This software was written to enable a single journal to manage the entire publishing process online from submission to publishing. Being open source, the software can also easily be adapted and modified. The Public Knowledge Project set up the system with the developing world in mind: it operates efficiently at low bandwidths and is easy to use, with many guides and help functions built in. For the users, this software offers sophisticated searching, E-mail alerts, and a space for each journal within AJOL for journal-specific information. It also now provides a range of management tools, which makes the service more efficient and enables it to grow. Another important consideration for choosing this system was that individual journals can take over the responsibility for maintaining their own journal areas within AJOL via the Internet. Over 50 journals have expressed an interest in taking this on, and one publisher is already successfully maintaining its material. To support this, training workshops are currently in preparation. This development will assist the long-term sustainability of AJOL and also give the participating journals experience in managing and publishing content online. In the near future, INASP will be including full text on AJOL and hopes to move the management of AJOL to an African organisation so that it will truly become an African gateway for published research. In addition, INASP continues to work with journals to strengthen their quality and sustainability, providing advice, training workshops, study tours, and a coordinating point for discussion and collaboration. Outside Africa, INASP is working on similar developments in Nepal and the Caribbean and has received expressions of interest from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. The Future of Journal Access It is vital that researchers everywhere in the world have access to reliable, relevant information. At the same time, providing access to international literature needs to be balanced with supporting local publications to ensure that indigenous knowledge is not lost, but can take its place in the research community and contribute to the continuing development of science. Worldwide access to information is central to all INASP activities, and INASP supports policies and activities that work towards this. Where to Find Out More INASP: http://www.inasp.info/ http://www.inasp.info AJOL: http://www.ajol.info/ http://www.ajol.info Public Knowledge Project: http://pkp.ubc.ca http://pkp.ubc.ca

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More on Berlin and Scottish Declarations
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Friends: Here is someting from Peter Suber's blog. Arun -------------- Academics take the initiative in open access debate, CORDIS News, March 16, 2005. An unsigned news story. Excerpt: 'The Southampton meeting concluded that: 'In order to implement the Berlin Declaration, institutions should: (1) implement a policy to require their researchers to deposit a copy of all their published articles in an open access repository; and (2) encourage their researchers to publish their research articles in open access journals where a suitable journal exists and provide the support to enable that to happen.' Stevan Harnad, a professor at Southampton University and leading proponent of open access, said after the meeting: 'Everybody will benefit from it - researchers will be able to access what they could not before and the impact of their research will go up. At last those who agree open access is a good thing know how to provide it.' He also argued that open access to research papers would not undermine sales of those scientific journals in which they were originally published, but would in fact increase their impact in terms of the number of times they are cited. The most recent example of just such an initiative came on 14 March, when 16 university heads in Scotland concluded a Scottish declaration on open access, committing their institutions to setting up online libraries of research papers that all academics can access. They will also examine the possibility of setting up a joint repository, and some will even make it mandatory for their researchers to publish their work on an open access basis. Derek Law, librarian at the University of Strathclyde, said: 'There is now clear evidence that open access articles are more frequently cited. If Scottish-based research is made available through open access it will be cited more, which means it will, by definition, be read more. The hope is that this will in turn lead both to a positive cycle of increased research funding and also to increased inward investment as business recognises the added value of a powerful research base.' ' Friends: Here is someting from Peter Suber's blog. Arun -------------- [A] http://dbs.cordis.lu/cgi-bin/srchidadb?CALLER=NHP_EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=… Academics take the initiative in open access debate , CORDIS News , March 16, 2005. An unsigned news story. Excerpt: 'The http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/ Southampton meeting concluded that: 'In order to implement the http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html Berlin Declaration , institutions should: (1) implement a policy to require their researchers to deposit a copy of all their published articles in an open access repository; and (2) encourage their researchers to publish their research articles in open access journals where a suitable journal exists and provide the support to enable that to happen.' Stevan Harnad, a professor at Southampton University and leading proponent of open access, said after the meeting: 'Everybody will benefit from it - researchers will be able to access what they could not before and the impact of their research will go up. At last those who agree open access is a good thing know how to provide it.' He also argued that open access to research papers would not undermine sales of those scientific journals in which they were originally published, but would in fact increase their impact in terms of the number of times they are cited. The most recent example of just such an initiative came on 14 March, when 16 university heads in Scotland concluded a http://scurl.ac.uk/WG/OATS/declaration.htm Scottish declaration on open access , committing their institutions to setting up online libraries of research papers that all academics can access. They will also examine the possibility of setting up a joint repository, and some will even make it mandatory for their researchers to publish their work on an open access basis. Derek Law, librarian at the University of Strathclyde, said: 'There is now clear evidence that open access articles are more frequently cited. If Scottish-based research is made available through open access it will be cited more, which means it will, by definition, be read more. The hope is that this will in turn lead both to a positive cycle of increased research funding and also to increased inward investment as business recognises the added value of a powerful research base.' '

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Self-archiving does not take much time!
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

How much work is self-archiving? Leslie Carr and Stevan Harnad, Keystroke Economy: A Study of the Time and Effort Involved in Self-Archiving, a preprint. Abstract: 'A common objection to self-archiving is that it is an extra task that puts an unnecessary burden on each researcher. In particular, the need to enter the extra bibliographic metadata demanded by repositories for accurate searching and identification is presumed to be a particularly onerous task. This paper describes a preliminary study on two months of submissions for a mature repository and concludes that the amount of time spent entering metadata would be as little as 40 minutes per year for a highly active researcher.' How much work is self-archiving? [A] Leslie Carr and Stevan Harnad, http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10688/ Keystroke Economy: A Study of the Time and Effort Involved in Self-Archiving , a preprint. Abstract: 'A common objection to self-archiving is that it is an extra task that puts an unnecessary burden on each researcher. In particular, the need to enter the extra bibliographic metadata demanded by repositories for accurate searching and identification is presumed to be a particularly onerous task. This paper describes a preliminary study on two months of submissions for a mature repository and concludes that the amount of time spent entering metadata would be as little as 40 minutes per year for a highly active researcher.'

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Why does the Wellcome Trust favour open access archiving?
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Friends: Here is a short news story on why the Wellcome Trust favours open access archiving. It is time for us in India (and other developing countries) to insist that all publicly-funded research be made available on open access archives - such as the Eprints archive at the Indian Institute of Science. As Robert Terry says, there are two roads to open access: Open Access Journals (OAJ) and Open Access Archiving. In India many important journals - those published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, INSA, MedKnow Publications, etc. - are available on open access, although the Academy journals can improve their web presence. The MedKnow journals are technically as good as the best OA journals in the world. But we are rather poor in OAA. The IISc archive and the library and information science repository put together by Dr A R D Prasad at ISI, Bangalore, come to mind readily. In a country with more than 250 universities and several hundred publicly-funded research labs, there are only half a dozen archives as of today. It is a mystery why the other institutions are not having archives of their own. A recent survey by Alma Swan reveals that many researchers are ignorant and there is a need for creating awareness. She also points out that most researchers are ready to deposit their papers in an open access archive if they are told to do so by the head of the institution or the funding agency! May be we should try that - Vice chancellors of universities and Directors of research labs and heads of funding agencies may demand that all researchers place their papers in a publicly accessible archive, preferably one set up at their own institution. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------------- The Wellcome Trust's commitment to OA Robert Terry, Funding the Way to Open Access, PLoS Biology, March 2005. Excerpt: 'Imagine this scenario. You're the director of one of the world's largest medical research charities, and you receive notification from one of your funded investigators in Africa reporting some exciting progress toward the development of a vaccine for malaria. The work has just been published, so you log onto the Web to do a quick keyword search, and a link to the article is brought up on your screen. Then imagine the frustration when you click on the link to read the message, "Access Denied --access to this journal is restricted to registered institutional and individual subscribers." And there's the rub: this actually happened to the Director of the Wellcome Trust....I now believe it is the funders of research --charities, governments, and other publicly funded bodies such as national research agencies-- who hold the purse strings that can untie scientific discoveries from a publishing market that is no longer serving the community as well as it could. That is why today the Trust is a leading advocate for enabling free access to research literature through support for new publishing models, such as that of the Public Library of Science, and the establishment of publicly accessible repositories, working in partnership with the United States National Institutes of Health-funded PubMed Central....The first Trust-commissioned study described how scientific research publishing has traditionally worked and why it can be described, in economic terms, as a failing market....This then begs the question of what alternatives there are to this traditional system, now that the Internet has become the researcher's tool of choice for searching and accessing the literature. The second piece of research commissioned by the Trust looked at different business models for research publishing, in order to address this question....This study convinced the Trust that the best way forward to improve access to research findings would be through open access to scientific research articles. This essentially means two things: first, that the copyright holder or holders must grant to the public a free, irrevocable, perpetual license to use, copy, distribute, and make derivative works of their research article, in any medium for any purpose (excepting those that constitute plagiarism or other dishonest acts, of course); and second, that a digital copy must be deposited in an open public archival repository (for example, the US National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central)....For a medical charity like the Trust, I believe it is our duty to actively encourage the most efficient processes available to maximise the likelihood that the research we fund will have the greatest possible health benefit.' Robert Terry is Senior Policy Adviser at the Wellcome Trust. Friends: Here is a short news story on why the Wellcome Trust favours open access archiving. It is time for us in India (and other developing countries) to insist that all publicly-funded research be made available on open access archives - such as the Eprints archive at the Indian Institute of Science. As Robert Terry says, there are two roads to open access: Open Access Journals (OAJ) and Open Access Archiving. In India many important journals - those published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, INSA, MedKnow Publications, etc. - are available on open access, although the Academy journals can improve their web presence. The MedKnow journals are technically as good as the best OA journals in the world. But we are rather poor in OAA. The IISc archive and the library and information science repository put together by Dr A R D Prasad at ISI, Bangalore, come to mind readily. In a country with more than 250 universities and several hundred publicly-funded research labs, there are only half a dozen archives as of today. It is a mystery why the other institutions are not having archives of their own. A recent survey by Alma Swan reveals that many researchers are ignorant and there is a need for creating awareness. She also points out that most researchers are ready to deposit their papers in an open access archive if they are told to do so by the head of the institution or the funding agency! May be we should try that - Vice chancellors of universities and Directors of research labs and heads of funding agencies may demand that all researchers place their papers in a publicly accessible archive, preferably one set up at their own institution. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------------- The Wellcome Trust's commitment to OA [A] Robert Terry, http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/… Funding the Way to Open Access , PLoS Biology , March 2005. Excerpt: 'Imagine this scenario. You're the director of one of the world's largest medical research charities, and you receive notification from one of your funded investigators in Africa reporting some exciting progress toward the development of a vaccine for malaria. The work has just been published, so you log onto the Web to do a quick keyword search, and a link to the article is brought up on your screen. Then imagine the frustration when you click on the link to read the message, "Access Denied --access to this journal is restricted to registered institutional and individual subscribers." And there's the rub: this actually happened to the Director of the Wellcome Trust....I now believe it is the funders of research --charities, governments, and other publicly funded bodies such as national research agencies-- who hold the purse strings that can untie scientific discoveries from a publishing market that is no longer serving the community as well as it could. That is why today the Trust is a leading advocate for enabling free access to research literature through support for new publishing models, such as that of the Public Library of Science, and the establishment of publicly accessible repositories, working in partnership with the United States National Institutes of Healthfunded PubMed Central....The first Trust-commissioned study described how scientific research publishing has traditionally worked and why it can be described, in economic terms, as a failing market....This then begs the question of what alternatives there are to this traditional system, now that the Internet has become the researcher's tool of choice for searching and accessing the literature. The second piece of research commissioned by the Trust looked at different business models for research publishing, in order to address this question....This study convinced the Trust that the best way forward to improve access to research findings would be through open access to scientific research articles. This essentially means two things: first, that the copyright holder or holders must grant to the public a free, irrevocable, perpetual license to use, copy, distribute, and make derivative works of their research article, in any medium for any purpose (excepting those that constitute plagiarism or other dishonest acts, of course); and second, that a digital copy must be deposited in an open public archival repository (for example, the US National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central)....For a medical charity like the Trust, I believe it is our duty to actively encourage the most efficient processes available to maximise the likelihood that the research we fund will have the greatest possible health benefit.' Robert Terry is Senior Policy Adviser at the Wellcome Trust.

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Open access archives and web citation index
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Friends: Here is a news story on Thomson ISI's interest in open access archives. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------- More on the ISI-Citeseer Web Citation Index James Pringle, Partnering helps institutional repositories thrive, Thomson Customer News, February 2005. Excerpt: 'Open access (OA) publishing is growing in importance, and, in parallel, the role of institutional repositories (IRs) has come to the forefront of discussion within the library community. The two are intertwined but not synonymous, and different motivations are driving the growth of each. The Thomson Scientific role in promoting institutional repositories' growth was highlighted recently in three workshops held in London, Boston, and Sydney....Our approach to IRs has been different [from our approach to journals]. Repositories represent new ways of organizing research and are taking shape in a variety of experimental forms. They vary in the types of content, the purposes of their creators, and their relationship to researchers. Increasingly, publishers are allowing researchers to archive their own content, and IRs can play a role in aiding researchers in this endeavor. We estimate that publishers now allow over half of all scholarly articles to be archived by their authors, based on average articles published in the journals of the 2003 Journal Citation Report and publishers listed as Project Romeo. But far less than half of all scholarly articles are actually posted to IRs today, often because of lack of awareness and incentive for researchers to do so. Overcoming this barrier is a critical need for IR developers. As one administrator remarked in a planning session: "The key issue is turning now on the willingness of faculty to automatically put stuff into their repository."...Seven institutions joined with us in a Web Citation Index pilot project to explore the proper relationship between ISI Web of Knowledge, Web of Science, and the world of IRs. A collaboration with NEC on the basis of its CiteSeer environment provided the technology partnership to support this new undertaking....The project has run for the past 10 months, and will continue as we move toward release of the full-scale environment for use by researchers over the next several months....At a Thomson Scientific workshop during ALA Midwinter in January 2005, Jean Poland of Cornell University and Katie Clark of the University of Rochester outlined the state of IR development at their institutions, and the potential role of the Web Citation Index in encouraging the growth of IRs. Ms. Clark emphasized the challenge of gaining faculty buy-in, noting that for researchers: "it is all about me and my research", and faculties need to be shown how the IR can help their everyday activities. Ms. Poland pointed out that citation-based tools such as the Web Citation Index can have a positive influence on user awareness and reputation of IRs.' Friends: Here is a news story on Thomson ISI's interest in open access archives. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------- More on the ISI-Citeseer Web Citation Index [A] James Pringle, http://scientific.thomson.com/news/newsletter/2005-02/8264025/ Partnering helps institutional repositories thrive , Thomson Customer News , February 2005. Excerpt: 'Open access (OA) publishing is growing in importance, and, in parallel, the role of institutional repositories (IRs) has come to the forefront of discussion within the library community. The two are intertwined but not synonymous, and different motivations are driving the growth of each. The Thomson Scientific role in promoting institutional repositories' growth was highlighted recently in three workshops held in London, Boston, and Sydney....Our approach to IRs has been different [from our approach to journals]. Repositories represent new ways of organizing research and are taking shape in a variety of experimental forms. They vary in the types of content, the purposes of their creators, and their relationship to researchers. Increasingly, publishers are allowing researchers to archive their own content, and IRs can play a role in aiding researchers in this endeavor. We estimate that publishers now allow over half of all scholarly articles to be archived by their authors, based on average articles published in the journals of the 2003 Journal Citation Report and publishers listed as http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php Project Romeo . But far less than half of all scholarly articles are actually posted to IRs today, often because of lack of awareness and incentive for researchers to do so. Overcoming this barrier is a critical need for IR developers. As one administrator remarked in a planning session: "The key issue is turning now on the willingness of faculty to automatically put stuff into their repository."...Seven institutions joined with us in a Web Citation Index pilot project to explore the proper relationship between ISI Web of Knowledge, Web of Science, and the world of IRs. A collaboration with NEC on the basis of its CiteSeer environment provided the technology partnership to support this new undertaking....The project has run for the past 10 months, and will continue as we move toward release of the full-scale environment for use by researchers over the next several months....At a Thomson Scientific workshop during ALA Midwinter in January 2005, Jean Poland of Cornell University and Katie Clark of the University of Rochester outlined the state of IR development at their institutions, and the potential role of the Web Citation Index in encouraging the growth of IRs. Ms. Clark emphasized the challenge of gaining faculty buy-in, noting that for researchers: "it is all about me and my research", and faculties need to be shown how the IR can help their everyday activities. Ms. Poland pointed out that citation-based tools such as the Web Citation Index can have a positive influence on user awareness and reputation of IRs.'

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"Ownership and Access in Scholarly Publishing" web cast April 6
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Dear Professionals, The University of Maryland (UMB) Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL) and the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Libraries are co-hosting a web cast on "Ownership and Access in Scholarly Publishing" Wednesday, April 6, 2005 UMB School of Nursing Auditorium 655 West Lombard Street Baltimore, MD 21201 ** From your own desktop <http://www.openaccess.umaryland.edu/webcast.html> (Web cast) The web cast will inform you on publishing trends and explain new models likely to affect their professional communication and research and feature information on Emerging Issues in Scientific Publishing. Keynote Speaker: David Lipman, M.D., Director, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health. Panelists: Kenneth R. Fulton, Publisher, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. John Wilbanks, Executive Director, Science Commons. Valuing New Models of Scholarship in Promotion and Tenure Keynote Speaker: Chi V. Dang, M.D., Ph.D., Vice Dean of Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Professor of Medicine, Oncology, Pathology and Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Panelists Sharon, Krag, Ph.D., Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Associate Dean, Graduate Education and Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Marian Jackson, Ph.D., Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs, UMBI, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute. Additional information, including instructions on how to access the web cast and a conference program, are available at <http://www.openaccess.umaryland.edu/> or email oasp(a)hshsl.umaryland.edu C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Professionals, The University of Maryland (UMB) Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL) and the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Libraries are co-hosting a web cast on " Ownership and Access in Scholarly Publishing" Wednesday, April 6, 2005 UMB School of Nursing Auditorium 655 West Lombard Street Baltimore, MD 21201 ** From your own desktop < http://www.openaccess.umaryland.edu/webcast.html http://www.openaccess.umaryland.edu/webcast.html > (Web cast) The web cast will inform you on publishing trends and explain new models likely to affect their professional communication and research and feature information on Emerging Issues in Scientific Publishing. Keynote Speaker: David Lipman, M.D., Director, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health. Panelists: Kenneth R. Fulton, Publisher, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. John Wilbanks, Executive Director, Science Commons. Valuing New Models of Scholarship in Promotion and Tenure Keynote Speaker: Chi V. Dang, M.D., Ph.D., Vice Dean of Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Professor of Medicine, Oncology, Pathology and Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Panelists Sharon, Krag, Ph.D., Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Associate Dean, Graduate Education and Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Marian Jackson, Ph.D., Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs, UMBI, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute. Additional information, including instructions on how to access the web cast and a conference program, are available at < http://www.openaccess.umaryland.edu/ http://www.openaccess.umaryland.edu/ > or email http://in.f85.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=oasp@hshsl.umaryland.edu&YY=6963… oasp(a)hshsl.umaryland.edu C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Indian books on OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Friends: There is a culture war brewing in Europe! The French are mobilizing Europeans to bring all their books on open access, as they feel the Google project is favouring English language books. We have a rich heritage of literature and scholarly work in many Indian languages such as Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam. And we have abundant computing and software talent. Should we in India not mount a similar initiative to provide open access to all that is graet and wonderful in ALL Indian languages? Will Balki at IISc, Ramki at C-DAC, and Badri and Satya at Kizhakku Pathipagam and many others from different parts of India take up the challenge? Will the Ministry of HRD, Sahitya Akademi and similar other organizations come forward to support such a projet. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----- French response to Google library project When we left off, Jean-Noël Jeanneney, former French secretary of state for communications and the current President of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF), had criticized the Google library project for Anglo-American bias and called on France to launch a comparable program. His words are having an effect. Reuters reports that French President Jacques Chirac has asked the BNF to draw up plans for a similar digitization program. Quoting Reuters: 'Chirac asked Jeanneney and France's culture minister to look at ways "in which the collections of the great libraries in France and Europe could be made more widely and more quickly accessible by Internet," Chirac's office said in a statement. Chirac would seek support among other European countries in the coming weeks for a bigger, coordinated push to get Europe's literary works online....Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres said the French move was not a direct challenge to Google's project. "It is simply the wish for a diversity of influence," he said.' The BBC is reporting the same news. Quoting the BBC: '[Chirac] held a meeting in Paris with Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres and Mr Jeanneney on Wednesday to discuss the project...."Because of France and Europe's exceptional cultural heritage, they must play a key role" in the development of the internet, Mr Chirac said.' More coverage. (PS: Google's library project was already admirable. If it starts a new code war, sending files across the globe and developing digital arsenals ready for launch at a moment's notice, then it will be even more admirable. France is right to fight bits with bits, to recognize a digitization gap, and to escalate its cultural scan. Who's next?)ct? Friends: There is a culture war brewing in Europe! The French are mobilizing Europeans to bring all their books on open access, as they feel the Google project is favouring English language books. We have a rich heritage of literature and scholarly work in many Indian languages such as Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam. And we have abundant computing and software talent. Should we in India not mount a similar initiative to provide open access to all that is graet and wonderful in ALL Indian languages? Will Balki at IISc, Ramki at C-DAC, and Badri and Satya at Kizhakku Pathipagam and many others from different parts of India take up the challenge? Will the Ministry of HRD, Sahitya Akademi and similar other organizations come forward to support such a projet. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----- French response to Google library project [A] When we http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/03-02-05.htm#jeanneney left off , Jean-Noël Jeanneney, former French secretary of state for communications and the current President of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF), had https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/1675.html criticized the http://print.google.com/googleprint/library.html Google library project for Anglo-American bias and called on France to launch a comparable program. His words are having an effect. Reuters http://news.com.com/Paris+match+for+Googles+library+plan/2100-1025_3-562285… reports that French President Jacques Chirac has asked the BNF to draw up plans for a similar digitization program. Quoting Reuters: 'Chirac asked Jeanneney and France's culture minister to look at ways "in which the collections of the great libraries in France and Europe could be made more widely and more quickly accessible by Internet," Chirac's office said in a statement. Chirac would seek support among other European countries in the coming weeks for a bigger, coordinated push to get Europe's literary works online....Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres said the French move was not a direct challenge to Google's project. "It is simply the wish for a diversity of influence," he said.' The BBC is http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4358871.stm reporting the same news. Quoting the BBC: '[Chirac] held a meeting in Paris with Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres and Mr Jeanneney on Wednesday to discuss the project...."Because of France and Europe's exceptional cultural heritage, they must play a key role" in the development of the internet, Mr Chirac said.' http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004… More coverage . (PS: Google's library project was already admirable. If it starts a new code war, sending files across the globe and developing digital arsenals ready for launch at a moment's notice, then it will be even more admirable. France is right to fight bits with bits, to recognize a digitization gap, and to escalate its cultural scan. Who's next?) ct?

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Scholar Monitor
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Scholar Monitor Are you looking for research papers? Go http://scholar.google.com. Have you ever wanted to monitor research papers of particular authors, research groups, or research areas? If you have, Scholar Monitor is what you want. The program was inspired by and reused source code from Persistent Searches to Gmail. Scholar Monitor allows a user to set particular keywords, and monitors the result counts of keywords. If there are new papers, it shows a new! mark with counts. For example if a user is interested in monitoring a Jim's paper about WebDAV, she can add a keywors, "author: jim WebDAV" for Scholar Monitor. How to install (reused from Persistent Searches to Gmail.) a.. If you are not using Firefox yet, download and install one from Firefox homepage. b.. If you haven't already, install the excellent greasemonkey Firefox extension. c.. Open up this Scholar Monitor user script in Firefox . You can exam the source code. d.. From the "Tools" menu, select "Install User Script .." and confirm all of the various prompts. e.. Go to http://scholar.google.com (some refreshing may be necessary). f.. There should now be a "Scholar Monitor" box in the middle of the page and the result page. g.. Clicking on a search executes the saved query. To refresh result counts, click on the refresh icon in the upper right corner. h.. Use the "Edit monitor item" link to customize your Scholar Monitor. i.. Enjoy! We welcome any participation to improve Scholar Monitor such as adding Bibtex import button. Please send me a patch or join our project group. If you want to know how this works, read the script code or visit the Persistent Searches to Gmail page. The source code is distributed under a Creative Commons license. I have no affiliation with Google. This script is hijacking the whole HTML from Google Scholar and adds a monitor box. This program is not endorsed by Google. If you have any problems with Scholar Monitor, please contact Sung Kim, hunkim(a)gmail.com. Scholar Monitor A re you looking for research papers? Go http://scholar.google.com/ http://scholar.google.com . H ave you ever wanted to monitor research papers of particular authors, research groups, or research areas? If you have, Scholar Monitor is what you want. The program was inspired by and reused source code from http://persistent.info/archives/2005/03/01/gmail-searches Persistent Searches to Gmail . S cholar Monitor allows a user to set particular keywords, and monitors the result counts of keywords. If there are new papers, it shows a new! mark with counts. For example if a user is interested in monitoring a Jim's paper about WebDAV, she can add a keywors, "author: jim WebDAV" for Scholar Monitor. H ow to install (reused from http://persistent.info/archives/2005/03/01/gmail-searches Persistent Searches to Gmail .) If you are not using Firefox yet, download and install one from http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Firefox homepage . If you haven't already, install the excellent http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ greasemonkey Firefox extension. Open up this http://scholar.dforge.cse.ucsc.edu/scholar.user.js Scholar Monitor user script in Firefox . You can exam the source code. >From the "Tools" menu, select "Install User Script .." and confirm all of the various prompts. Go to http://scholar.google.com/ http://scholar.google.com (some refreshing may be necessary). There should now be a "Scholar Monitor" box in the middle of the page and the result page. Clicking on a search executes the saved query. To refresh result counts, click on the refresh icon in the upper right corner. Use the "Edit monitor item" link to customize your Scholar Monitor. Enjoy! W e welcome any participation to improve Scholar Monitor such as adding Bibtex import button. Please send me a patch or join http://dforge.cse.ucsc.edu/projects/scholar/ our project group . If you want to know how this works, read the script code or visit the http://persistent.info/archives/2005/03/01/gmail-searches Persistent Searches to Gmail page. The source code is distributed under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Creative Commons license . I have no affiliation with Google. This script is hijacking the whole HTML from Google Scholar and adds a monitor box. This program is not endorsed by Google. If you have any problems with Scholar Monitor, please contact Sung Kim, hunkim(a)gmail.com.

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MIT Backs Open Source in Brazil Computers for Poor (fwd)
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Open Source in Brazil Computers for Poor (fwd) > From Reuters..... -ac > > MIT Backs Open Source in Brazil Computers for Poor > > The director of MIT's Media Lab has recommended that Brazil install > open-source software on thousands of computers that will be sold to the > poor, saying proprietary software programs like ones offered by Microsoft > Corp. may be less attractive. > > "We advocate using high-quality free software as opposed to scaled-down > versions of more costly proprietary software," Walter Bender, director of > the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in a > letter to the Brazilian government obtained by Reuters on Thursday. "Free > software is far better on the dimensions of cost, power and quality." > > President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and several ministers may decide as > early as this week whether free software or a simplified version of > Microsoft Windows will be installed on computers for a new effort called > PC Conectado, or the Connected PC. The effort aims to sell up to 1 million > computers, with costs partially subsidized by the government, to lower > middle income Brazilians this year. > > <snip> > > http://www.reuters.com/audi/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=7… >

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Scotland favours open access
by Subbiah Arunachalam 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

Scottish universities sign open access deal Polly Curtis, education correspondent (The Guardian, UK) Monday March 14, 2005 Scottish university heads have agreed to make their academic research more freely available to one another in a bid to bypass the costly fees for publishing in journals. The new Scottish Declaration on Open Access is the latest in a series of challenges by universities to break the stranglehold of the major academic publishers which costs taxpayers millions of pounds a year. Publicly funded universities have to pay to have their academics' work assessed for publication, then again to read the journals. The declaration commits each of its 16 university signatories to setting up online libraries of research findings and doctorate papers which all academics can access. Universities will also look into developing a joint repository for academic work and some will make it mandatory for academics to publish their work on an open access basis. Funders of research are also considering how they can encourage recipients of their grants to publish their work on an open access basis. Timothy O'Shea, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, said: "The University of Edinburgh wants to ensure that its research is as visible as possible within Scotland, the UK and the world. This open access initiative provides an important route to deliver this." Sheila Cannell, the director of library services at the university, added: "We would like to see publicly funded research being publicly available rather than locked up in academic journals." Derek Law, university librarian at the University of Strathclyde said: "There is now clear evidence that open access articles are more frequently cited. If Scottish-based research is made available through open access it will be cited more, which means it will by definition be read more. "The hope is that this will in turn lead both to a positive cycle of increased research funding and also to increased inward investment as business recognises the added value of a powerful research base." Last year MPs on the Commons science and technology committee select committee condemned the rising costs to the taxpayer of publishing and accessing research. They backed new methods whereby the author pays a one-off fee and access is free. But the government rejected this method after what was believed to be a concerted lobby effort by journal publishers. Scottish Declaration on Open Access signatories: Glasgow Caledonian University Heriot-Watt University Napier University National Library of Scotland Open University Queen Margaret University College Robert Gordon University Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Scottish Agricultural College Scottish Crop Research Institute Scottish Library and Information Council University of Aberdeen University of Abertay Dundee University of Dundee University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow University of Paisley University of St Andrews University of Stirling University of Strathclyde Scottish universities sign open access deal Polly Curtis, education correspondent (The Guardian, UK) Monday March 14, 2005 Scottish university heads have agreed to make their academic research more freely available to one another in a bid to bypass the costly fees for publishing in journals. The new Scottish Declaration on Open Access is the latest in a series of challenges by universities to break the stranglehold of the major academic publishers which costs taxpayers millions of pounds a year. Publicly funded universities have to pay to have their academics' work assessed for publication, then again to read the journals. The declaration commits each of its 16 university signatories to setting up online libraries of research findings and doctorate papers which all academics can access. Universities will also look into developing a joint repository for academic work and some will make it mandatory for academics to publish their work on an open access basis. Funders of research are also considering how they can encourage recipients of their grants to publish their work on an open access basis. Timothy O'Shea, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, said: "The University of Edinburgh wants to ensure that its research is as visible as possible within Scotland, the UK and the world. This open access initiative provides an important route to deliver this." Sheila Cannell, the director of library services at the university, added: "We would like to see publicly funded research being publicly available rather than locked up in academic journals." Derek Law, university librarian at the University of Strathclyde said: "There is now clear evidence that open access articles are more frequently cited. If Scottish-based research is made available through open access it will be cited more, which means it will by definition be read more. "The hope is that this will in turn lead both to a positive cycle of increased research funding and also to increased inward investment as business recognises the added value of a powerful research base." Last year MPs on the Commons science and technology committee select committee condemned the rising costs to the taxpayer of publishing and accessing research. They backed new methods whereby the author pays a one-off fee and access is free. But the government rejected this method after what was believed to be a concerted lobby effort by journal publishers. Scottish Declaration on Open Access signatories: Glasgow Caledonian University Heriot-Watt University Napier University National Library of Scotland Open University Queen Margaret University College Robert Gordon University Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Scottish Agricultural College Scottish Crop Research Institute Scottish Library and Information Council University of Aberdeen University of Abertay Dundee University of Dundee University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow University of Paisley University of St Andrews University of Stirling University of Strathclyde

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First publisher to implement 'cited-by' links using crossRef's forward linking
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

"First publisher(IOP) to implement 'cited-by' links using crossRef's forward linking" " In September 2003, we announced that papers in our Electronic Journals had been enhanced by links to citing articles from The American Physical Society and NASA's Astrophysical Data System. I'm pleased to report that our 'Articles citing this article' tool has now been developed further. In keeping with our tradition of innovation, we have become the first publisher to implement 'cited-by' links using CrossRef's Forward Linking service. We have made 'cited-by' links available for papers published in the last 10 years. Over the coming months, we will be working our way through our entire journal archive, back to 1874. To take a look at forward linking in action, go to the following paper from New Journal of Physics and select the 'Articles citing this article link' on the right hand side: http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1367-2630/1/1/006 New Journal of Physics is our open-access electronic-only title (co-owned by the Institute of Physics and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft) so the 'cited-by' links are available to all. For our other journals, this facility is limited to subscribers." Ed Pentz, CrossRef's Executive Director C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. "First publisher(IOP) to implement 'cited-by' links using crossRef's forward linking" " In September 2003, we announced that papers in our Electronic Journals had been enhanced by links to citing articles from The American Physical Society and NASA's Astrophysical Data System. I'm pleased to report that our 'Articles citing this article' tool has now been developed further. In keeping with our tradition of innovation, we have become the first publisher to implement 'cited-by' links using CrossRef's Forward Linking service. We have made 'cited-by' links available for papers published in the last 10 years. Over the coming months, we will be working our way through our entire journal archive, back to 1874. To take a look at forward linking in action, go to the following paper from New Journal of Physics and select the 'Articles citing this article link' on the right hand side: http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1367-2630/1/1/006 http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1367-2630/1/1/006 New Journal of Physics is our open-access electronic-only title (co-owned by the Institute of Physics and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft) so the 'cited-by' links are available to all. For our other journals, this facility is limited to subscribers." Ed Pentz, CrossRef's Executive Director C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Unesco Training in Information Management- Asia- Pacific- at ISIM@IIITB- five fellowships available
by Mailing List Manager 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:59:37 +0530 From: Shalini R Urs <shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in> UN4IM- UNESCO Training Program in Information Management is being organised at ISIM@IIITB This Programme is supported by UNESCO and other organisations. There are five fellowships available for information workers from India. Those interested may apply for the same. The last date for receiving applications is March 30,2005 Details of the Programme available at the website- <http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/un4im> www.vidyanidhi.org.in/un4im Details below- ----- UN4IM -The UNESCO Training Programme for Information Management is envisioned to be a training programme with a difference- * Blending onsite ( face to face) with distance education mode. A unique six-month training programme based on a 1-4-1 month model- the first (May-June) and final month (November-December) face-to-face and the in-between four months distance mode. * Course Content- focused on ICT tools and technologies for Information Management. * Adopting/adapting different learning modes-lecture based theory, practice oriented hands on. Achieving a balance between discourse and demonstration; teaching and training, perception and performance * This programme is scheduled from May 9 to December 2, 2005. The first phase of the one-month face-to-face training is scheduled from May 9- June 3, 2005. The final face-to-face training programme is scheduled from November 7- December 2, 2005. o The Training Programme will have 20 participants from different parts of Asia-pacific. This will be held at the International School for Information Management @ Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India ( ISIM@IIITB) * The participants are required to be attending the UN4IM at the ISIM@IIITB during period of May-June and November-December. The intervening four months, they will go back to their workplace and work on the projects through the distance mode. ----- Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm

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GeoScienceWorld Full-Text Collection Now Available online
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

GeoScienceWorld's GSW Millennium Collection and GSW Literature Archives are now available through CSA.These collections offer a comprehensive Internet-based resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals. (Complete list available at http://info.csa.com/gsw/factsheet.shtml) The journals will be delivered through HighWire Press's Internet platform. One to five years of backfiles will be available for journals in the GSW Millennium Collection; complete backfiles will be available for journals in the GSW Literature Archives. Additional information about the Collection and GeoScienceWorld is available at the site- http://info.csa.com/gsw C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. GeoScienceWorld's GSW Millennium Collection and GSW Literature Archives are now available through CSA. These collections offer a comprehensive Internet-based resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals. (Complete list available at http://info.csa.com/gsw/factsheet.shtml http://info.csa.com/gsw/factsheet.shtml ) The journals will be delivered through HighWire Press's Internet p latform. One to five years of backfiles will be available for journals in the GSW Millennium Collection; complete backfiles will be available for journals in the GSW Literature Archives. Additional information about the Collection and GeoScienceWorld is available at the site- http://info.csa.com/gsw http://info.csa.com/gsw C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Datastream by Thomson Financials
by Anagha Agharkar 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Dear Friends, I am looking for the vendor/representative of the Datastream service by Thomson Financials. If anyone knows the details, please mail across the same. With regards, Anagha Agharkar Librarian/Associate ICICI Securities Ltd. Mumbai Tel #: 022-56377438 Regards, Anagha P Agharkar Librarian ICICI Securities Ltd. Mumbai Tel: 91-22-56377438 Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Friends, I am looking for the vendor/representative of the Datastream service by Thomson Financials. If anyone knows the details, please mail across the same. With regards, Anagha Agharkar Librarian/Associate ICICI Securities Ltd. Mumbai Tel #: 022-56377438 Regards, Anagha P Agharkar Librarian ICICI Securities Ltd. Mumbai Tel: 91-22-56377438 http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Sad loss of Library
by venky 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

I was saddened to read that "One million books, 10 million documents and 14,000 archaeological artifacts have been lost in the US-led invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq - the biggest cultural disaster since the descendants of Genghis Khan destroyed Baghdad in 1258, Venezuelan writer Fernando Baez told Inter Press Service (IPS)." http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB17Ak01.html S. Venkadesan I was saddened to read that "One million books, 10 million documents and 14,000 archaeological artifacts have been lost in the US-led invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq - the biggest cultural disaster since the descendants of Genghis Khan destroyed Baghdad in 1258, Venezuelan writer Fernando Baez told Inter Press Service (IPS)." http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB17Ak01.html http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB17Ak01.html S. Venkadesan

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Congrats to Ms Vijaya C Menon, International Travel Grant Winner - SLA DAM
by JK Vijayakumar 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

----- Original Message ----- From: <gvillamora(a)brightresearch.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:35 AM Subject: [sla-kiie] International Travel Grant Winner - SLA DAM > Please excuse the cross-posting -- > > The Advertising and Marketing Division (DAM) of SLA is pleased to announce > the winner of our International Travel Grant for SLA Toronto conference this > year. > > Vijaya C. Menon is the first recipient of our International Travel Grant. > She is Head of Knowledge Management at Grey Worldwide India. Vijaya manages > information services and dissemination to all ten offices in India, > including Srilanka and Bangladesh. She provides liaison work on information > queries with Grey Europe and the Americas. Vijaya has over 15 years of > library management work at Grey, J. Walter Thompson India, Accenture and the > Reserve Bank of India. > > Initiated at the Nashville June 2004 conference, the Travel Grant is open to > international SLA and DAM members. Application requirements were announced > in our 2004 Fall Bulletin and posted in various SLA discussion lists. The > Grant consists of $1,500 (US) plus conference registration fee and ticketed > DAM-sponsored events. > > Jo-Ann McQuillan, DAM chair and Director of Information at the Institute of > Communications and Advertising/Canada, will present the Grant to Vijaya at > the division�s business meeting on June 6, 2005. > > �I appreciate the overwhelming support and look forward to developing > global networking initiatives at SLA,� said Vijaya to the International > Relations Chair. > > We are happy and privileged to have her onboard. See you in Toronto. Grace > > > Grace Avellana Villamora > Advertising and Marketing Division (DAM) > International Relations Chair > Special Libraries Association (SLA) > > Information Strategist, Principal > brightresearch llc > Chicago, IL USA > Phone 773.973.4260 > Fax 773.761.7135 -------------- JK Vijayakumar INFLIBNET __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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SERIALS is now freely available on the Web
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Dear Professional, The UK Serials Group (UKSG) exists to encourage the exchange of ideas on printed and electronic serials and the process of scholarly communication. In a dynamic environment, the UKSG works to: 1) promote discussion and the free flow of information on serials matters and associated technology 2) develop links between all parties in the serials information chain 3) encourage professional awareness, stimulate research and provide a programme of training and education The UKSG is a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee. It is the only organisation spanning the wide range of interest and activity between serials producers and readers. With a membership of nearly 600 organisations, a third of them based outside the UK, the UKSG engages a broad cross-section of people concerned with the publication, distribution and use of serials. Members pay an annual corporate subscription which offers everyone in their organisation a range of valuable benefits. including papers from the United Kingdom's Serials Group (UKSG) Open Access seminar, November 2005. SERIALS is now freely available on the Web. SERIALS is the international journal for the serials community, published three times a year by the UK Serials Group and is available in print and online. It contains topical articles written by librarians, publishers, aggregators and other experts within the global serials industry, as well as conference reports, editorial comment and people in the news. C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Professional, The UK Serials Group (UKSG) exists to encourage the exchange of ideas on printed and electronic serials and the process of scholarly communication. In a dynamic environment, the UKSG works to: 1) promote discussion and the free flow of information on serials matters and associated technology 2) develop links between all parties in the serials information chain 3) encourage professional awareness, stimulate research and provide a programme of training and education The UKSG is a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee. It is the only organisation spanning the wide range of interest and activity between serials producers and readers. With a membership of nearly 600 organisations, a third of them based outside the UK, the UKSG engages a broad cross-section of people concerned with the publication, distribution and use of serials. Members pay an annual corporate subscription which offers everyone in their organisation a range of valuable benefits. including papers from the United Kingdom's Serials Group (UKSG) Open Access seminar, November 2005. SERIALS is now freely available on the Web. SERIALS is the international journal for the serials community, published three times a year by the UK Serials Group and is available in print and online. It contains topical articles written by librarians, publishers, aggregators and other experts within the global serials industry, as well as conference reports, editorial comment and people in the news. C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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NCSI-Net Meeting on 19th March 2005
by Madhuresh 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Dear All, You are cordially invited for next NCSI-NET meeting, which is going to be held on Saturday 19th of March 2005 by 11:00 AM at NCSI. The speaker will be Mr. Francis Jayakanth from NCSI. Tea/Coffee will be served at 10.45 AM. Title: My experiences as a Fulbrighter Through this informal talk-cum-demo, he will share his recent experience as a Fulbrighter in the US in general and at the Old Dominion University (ODU) in particular. The talk-cum-demo will mainly revolve around the work he did at the ODU. Title of his Fulbright proposal: Approaches to make CDS/ISIS Databases OAI-Compliant. Abstract -------- One of the biggest obstacles for information dissemination to a user community is that many Digital Libraries or bibliographic databases use heterogeneous technologies that inhibit interoperability. The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) addresses interoperability by using a framework to facilitate the discovery of content stored in distributed archives or bibliographic databases through the use of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Though the Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is becoming the de facto standard for digital libraries, some of the old bibliographic databases, for a variety of reasons, are still not OAI compliant. One such system is CDS/ISIS, which was designed specifically for handling bibliographic/textual information efficiently. CDS/ISIS is quite widely used by the LIS community. There is a need for making CDS/ISIS databases OAI-compliant to enable sharing of metadata and thus leading to better federated discovery services for the end users. In this talk-cum-demo, I'll describe two approaches for making CDS/ISIS databases OAI compliant: Static and Dynamic. In the static approach, CDS/ISIS records are exported and converted into an OAI static repository format. The static repository file is made OAI-compliant either by importing it into the Kepler archivelet, a light-weight, easy-to-install OAI compliant archive for the individuals or static repository file becomes OAI-compliant through the intermediation of static repository gateway. This approach has certain limitations. These limitations are overcome in the dynamic approach. In the dynamic approach, an OAI layer makes CDS-ISIS databases OAI-compliant in the real time. During the demo, a federated search on a few sample CDS/ISIS databases will be shown. Please confirm your presence to me (madhuresh_s(a)aurigene.com) or Prasanna (t.s.prasanna(a)intel.com). Regards NCSI-Net Coordinator Team Note: NCSI-NET is a network of National Center for Science Information (NCSI) employees and alumni and organizes presentations/talks every month for its members.

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ASIST 2005 International Paper Contest
by Shyam Prasad pujar 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Apologies for cross posting. Liwen Vaughan, PhD Professor Faculty of Information and Media Studies University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada 2005 INTERNATIONAL PAPER CONTEST on International Digital Libraries and Information Science & Technology Advances in Developing Countries More information is available from the Paper Contest page at http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/papercontest.htm The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST), International Information Issues Special Interest Group (SIG-III), is pleased to announce its sixth competition for papers to be submitted for the 2005 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Charlotte, North Carolina, October 28-November 2, 2005. The theme of the paper is: "Bringing Research and Practice Together - the Developing World Perspective." The paper topic may address either the country or regional level issues. Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on specific aspects of this theme, such as, but not limited to, the following: a.. Social, ethical, political, legal, and economic and cultural issues: issues related to the role of information in society, such as information policy, access, security, privacy, and intellectual property, as well as the social uses and abuses of information technologies such as the Internet and World Wide Web in bridging or separating diverse communities. b.. Information organization, management, access, and retrieval. c.. Information seeking and use: the role of information in professional and daily lives, use of various types of information technology, and social contexts of information seeking. d.. Information technology, social equity and development: IT and governance, IT & and the new economy, including the future of work and implications of technological hardware and software developments; the role of ICTs in conflict management, etc. There will be six winners. Winners will be selected by a panel of judges including Liwen Vaughan (chair), Yunfei Du, Yin Zhang, Duncan Omole, Merlyna Lim, Julian Warner, and Nathalie Leroy. The prize for each winner is a two-year individual membership in ASIST. In the case of multiple authors, the principal author will be awarded the ASIST membership. In addition, depending on SIG III fundraising this year, the first place winner will be rewarded a minimum of $1,000 toward travel, conference registration, and accommodations while attending the ASIST Annual Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, October 28-November 2, 2005. Publishing opportunities Submitted papers will be considered for posting on the SIG III web site as pre-publications. In addition, they will also be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the International Information and Library Review, subject to the usual peer refereeing process. Information for authors Only papers by a principal author who is a citizen of, and resides in a developing country are eligible. Winners in the 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 or 2004 contests are not eligible. The papers should be original, unpublished, and in English. We encourage submissions from librarians, information and network specialists, and educators involved in the creation, representation, maintenance, exchange, discovery, delivery, and use of digital information. ASIST Copyright Policy ASIST will have the non-exclusive right to publish any of the papers submitted on its web site or in print, with ownership and all other rights remaining with the author. Deadline for submission of full papers Authors are invited to submit manuscripts, not to exceed 5000 words, by June 30, 2005, to Duncan Omole at domole(a)worldbank.org . Please check the SIG III website (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/) for more information about the SIG III International Paper Contest, including Frequently Asked Questions, past CFPs, previous winners and winning papers, and successful stories from previous winners.

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Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry - an open access journal
by Krishnan 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

------- Launch of Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry announced ------- San Diego, CA.: The prestigious Beilstein-Institut today announced the launch of the first major Open Access journal for organic chemistry. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry will be published by the Beilstein-Institut in co-operation with BioMed Central, the Open Access publisher. The peer-reviewed online journal will begin publication during 2005, and a call for papers, providing full information for authors, will be issued in May. Director of the Beilstein-Institut Martin Hicks made the announcement at the American Chemical Society 229th Annual Meeting in San Diego, California. Professor Jonathan Clayden, of the University of Manchester, has been confirmed as the Editor-in-Chief, and an international editorial advisory board is also being appointed. The Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry will publish outstanding original research on all aspects of organic chemistry and related disciplines. Areas covered in the journal will include: organic synthesis, organic reactions and mechanisms, natural products chemistry and chemical biology, organic materials and macro- and supramolecular organic chemistry. As an Open Access journal, the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry will offer the international community of organic chemists the opportunity to make their research results freely available immediately on publication, and permanently available in the public archives of science. The journal will publish full research articles and short communications, as well as occasional reviews and commentary articles. Supplementary data will also be published. There will be particular emphasis on speed of publication and on presentation of the articles in a chemically intelligent way. The journal will be made freely available online, while an annual print archival edition will be available for purchase at cost. The Beilstein-Institut is committed to improving communication among chemists and will support the journal financially, including the publishing costs, to enable the journal to be open access without charge to authors. Just as Beilstein has been synonymous with high quality scientific publishing for over two centuries, so BioMed Central has become synonymous with high-quality, online Open Access publishing in the biomedical disciplines, and is now making its publishing expertise available to new fields. BioMed Central now publishes over 130 Open Access journals, and will provide the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry with a complete publishing system, maintain and host the journal. Together these two organizations will ensure that the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry offers authors, readers and libraries the highest quality service. For more information: For Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry http://www.beilstein-journals.org/ For the Beilstein-Institut bjoc(a)beilstein-institut.de or Tel: +49 (0) 69-716732-0 For BioMed Central Grace Baynes Tel: +44 (0)20 7631 9988 E-mail: press(a)biomedcentral.com About the Beilstein-Institut The Beilstein-Institut zur Förderung der Chemischen Wissenschaften (Beilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences) is a non-profit foundation located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The Beilstein-Institut pursues its purpose in particular in chemistry and its related areas and disciplines, especially information and communication. About BioMed Central BioMed Central is an independent online publishing house committed to providing open access to peer-reviewed research. This commitment is based on the view that immediate free access to research and the ability to freely archive and reuse published information is essential to the rapid and efficient communication of science.

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Prof. Ghosh becomes SC Member of IFLA Secion
by Dinesh K. Gupta 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Dear Professional collegaues, I have just come to know that Prof. S. B. Ghosh, IGNOU, New Delhi, becomes Member of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Section on Asia and Oceania for the term 2005-2009. I whole heartedly congratulate Prof. Ghosh and wish for a very successful tenure at this very important Section of IFLA. With kind regards, Dinesh K. Gupta (Member, Standing Committe, Management & Marketing Section, IFLA) Associate Professor, Dept. of Lib. & Inf. Sc. V M Open Univ. Kota Ph. 0744-2471412 M. 9828131412 Dear Professional collegaues, I have just come to know that Prof. S. B. Ghosh, IGNOU, New Delhi, becomes Member of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Section on Asia and Oceania for the term 2005-2009. I whole heartedly congratulate Prof. Ghosh and wish for a very successful tenure at this very important Section of IFLA. With kind regards, Dinesh K. Gupta (Member, Standing Committe, Management & Marketing Section, IFLA) Associate Professor, Dept. of Lib. & Inf. Sc. V M Open Univ. Kota Ph. 0744-2471412 M. 9828131412

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Vendor Details
by basu mudakappa pujar 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Dear Friends, Good Morning! The below mentioned book is out of print but it is available with the vendors in USA. We are in need this book very much. So if you know any vendor in USA who deals with the Technical books please let me know his address. One of Colleague is coming back from USA. I will purchase this book through him to my library. J2EE Performance Testing with BEA WebLogic Server./ by Peter Zadrozny, Philip Aston, Ted Osborne Thanking in advance. Basavaraj.M.Pujar CGI Dear Friends, Good Morning! The below mentioned book is out of print but it is available with the vendors in USA. We are in need this book very much. So if you know any vendor in USA who deals with the Technical books please let me know his address. One of Colleague is coming back from USA. I will purchase this book through him to my library. J2EE Performance Testing with BEA WebLogic Server./ by Peter Zadrozny, Philip Aston, Ted Osborne Thanking in advance. Basavaraj.M.Pujar CGI http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo…

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Documentation Research Center/Information Centers or Special libraries
by Mailing List Manager 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:44:06 +0530 From: Seshu Sripada <seshu.sripada(a)softprosys.com> Dear colleagues Please provide Url link of Documentation Research Center/Information Centers or Special libraries list in the world. Seshu

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Newsletter for Publishers and Booksellers from the Max Mueller Bhavan, Regional Information Centre
by Seth, Renu 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Dear Colleagues and Friends, The Max Mueller Bhavan Regional Information Centre (MMB RIC), New Delhi welcomes you to the first issue of its newsletter aimed at Publishers and Booksellers. This will apprise you of the latest happenings in the field of books and publishing in Germany as well as in the other parts of Europe. To access the newsletter please click on the following link: http://www.goethe.de/su/ned/bib/newsletters/publ/march_05/news.htm If you would like to continue receiving the next issues of this newsletter please subscribe by clicking on the following link: mailto:info.manager.mmb@delhi.goethe.org?subject=subscribe-Publnews Yours sincerely, Renu Seth Librarian In-Charge Max Mueller Bhavan Regional Information Centre & Library 3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg New Delhi 110001 Telephone +91-11-23329506 librarian.mmb(a)delhi.goethe.org www.goethe.de/newdelhi

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Re : Russian Patent
by Lakshmi Ravishankar 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Dear Ms. Jayalaxmi, Following are the websites for purchasing Russian Patents. http://PatentsFromRU.com - Russian patent and trademark search services http://www.iliac.org/production/patent.html http://www.delphion.com (subscription required) http://www.mospatent.ru/ (Moscow Patent Bureau) This site is in Russian Language. You can contact at info(a)mospatent.ru Hope this info is helpful to you. Regards Lakshmi Ravishankar Manager - Information & Knowledge Services Jubilant Biosys Limited 450, 12th Cross, 4-D Cross Mahalakshmipuram, Bangalore - 560 086 Ph : +91 80 2349 5461 - 65 (O) 98458-31382 (M) Fax : +91 80 23449 4118 E-mail : Lakshmi_Ravishankar(a)jubilantbiosys.com www.jubilantbiosys.com ================================================== Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 04:40:03 +0000 (GMT) From: jayalaxmi m <jayalaxmim(a)yahoo.co.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Procurement of Russian Patent To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20050311044003.77577.qmail(a)web8510.mail.in.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sir, We are looking for one Russian Patent, it will highly appreciated if you can suggest us the source from where it can procured. Please guide at your earliest. Details of the Patent: V.A. Smirnov, I.E. Crasnitscaya, Patent of Russia, 2066892.6.09 1993 Regards, Jayalaxmi. M MTRDC,DRDO Bangalore Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Query
by Mailing List Manager 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:02:34 -0800 (PST) From: vani rao <vanimysore(a)yahoo.com> Dear Mrs. Vishnav, The Psychometric testing evolved trough time and experience used by Ma-Foi HR Consultancy company (http://www.mafoi.com/)is by far the industry accepted norm and method. Vani P Rao Librarian St.Joseph's college of Education Mysore --- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:03:51 +0530 > From: Mrs. Vaishnav <ytv(a)godrej.com> > > Dear All, > > A guidance needed -Has there been standardized norms > for psychological > Testing in Indian industries? Please guide at your > earliest, With > regards & thanks, > > Mrs. Y.T.Vaishnav=0D > (Consulting Librarian-Godrej-Mumbai)

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Bibliometric theory/Biblio metric laws and Cybermetrics.
by Mailing List Manager 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:45:08 +0530 From: Seshu Sripada <seshu.sripada(a)softprosys.com> I would like to know complete tutorial of "Bibliometric Introduction to Bibliometric laws and also Cybermetrics', could you please provide information or url link for getting that information. Thanks Seshu

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NCSI: Talk on DSpace@Cambridge by Jim Downing (16th March 2005 11.30 AM)
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Cordially invites you to a talk on "DSpace@Cambridge: Digital Repository Project at University of Cambridge, U.K." By Mr. Jim Downing DSpace@Cambridge Project Group Cambridge University Library University of Cambridge Cambridge, U.K. On 16th March 2005 (Wednesday) Time: 11.30 A.M. Venue: NCSI Lecture Hall, NCSI, IISc Coffee: 11.00 11.30 A.M. Note: DSpace@Cambridge Project - http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/ DSpace@Cambridge Repository - http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/ ------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Associate Chairman Tel: +91-80-23600271, 23601427 National Centre for Science Fax: +91-80-23601426, 23600683 Information (NCSI) E-Mail: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Indian Institute of Science URL: http://144.16.72.189/raja/ BANGALORE-560012 (India) ------------------------------------------------------------- SciGate: http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/ The IISc Science Information Portal

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NET clearence compulsory for Librarian posts in Academic Libraries
by Dr.P.V.Konnur 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

Dear Friends, It is because the Academic Librarians always claim themselves equivalent to the Teaches and demand the academic status. If you claime the equivalent status and salary you should also possess the similar qualification. I think it is a right expectation. thanks, Konnur. --- Aman Jha <aman.jha(a)ciionline.org> wrote: > Friends, > > I want to know: > > 1. The logic of having NET qualification for the > recruitment of Librarian/Deputy Librarian/Assistant > Librarian. > 2. Whether NET qualification for Librarian (not for > library teachers) really add any value to their > profession? > > Thanks and regards, > > Aman Jha > Librarian > Confederation of Indian Industry > Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV > Sector 18, Gurgaon 122015 (Haryana) > Tel: 0124-5014060-67 * Fax: 0124-5014080 > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > Dr.P.V.Konnur, University Librarian, Goa University Library, Taleigao Plateau, Goa - 403 206. Phone: 0832-2456031 (O) 0832-2451008 (R) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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Fw: Re: Science Commons, a new project of Creative Commons (fwd)
by Subbiah Arunachalam 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

Friends: Here is a message I received from Stevan Harnad in response to my three-line note alerting him about the Science Commons. Arun ------------------------------- > Dear Arun (and colleagues): > > Science Commons is a wonderful, important project, but *please* don't > mix it up (or in) with Open Access! Here is the understanding that we > have (I think) reached with Larry Lessig on this topic: > > (1) OA is first and foremost about published journal articles. > > (2) A CC License is *always* desirable and beneficial if it can be > successfully negotiated with the journal publishers. > > (3) A CC License, however, is not *necessary* for OA via > self-archiving. (92% of journals already endorse self-archiving, > and there are ways to self-archive the remaining 8% without either > first having to seek permission or to successfully renegotiate a > copyright agreement with the publisher). > > (4) On the contrary, as authors are still not providing OA via > self-archiving in anywhere near sufficient numbers (only 10-20%) > it would be a great mistake to ask or imply that they first try > to negotiate a CC license with their publishers: They should just > self-archive. No need for CC. > > So the CC license is a blessing -- and should be strongly supported -- > wherever it is readily feasible; but seeking it is an unwelcome extra > handicap where it is unnecessary and where even without being burdened > with having to try to renegotiate copyright, authors are already far too > sluggish about self-archiving (partly because they are afraid it is too > burdensome and time-consuming, which it is not, partly because they think > it might somehow jeoparize their chances of being published in their > journal of choice, which it does not -- *except* if they negotiating a > CC license is erroneously recommended as a prerequisite for it!). > > What is needed to facilitate Green OA is further information > and incentives (about impact advantages), sytematic institutional > self-archiving policy (based on record keeping for institutional research > output and reseearcher performance evaluation) and clear reassurances > (about the absence of any problem with peer review or copyright or > preservation) -- *not* unnecessary further burdens such as CC. > > The CC License (or something equivalent to it) is intrinsic to the Golden > road to OA but *not* to the Green road. We have already had 3 years of > needless delay in OA because of one-sided preoccupation with the far > narrower, slower and more uncertain Golden road. Please let us not now > let the CC license provide a similar distraction and deterrent! > > See: > > Re: Free Access vs. Open Access > "On the Deep Disanalogy Between Text and Software and Between Text > and Data Insofar as Free/Open Access is Concerned" > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2967.html > > "Apercus of WOS Meeting: Making Ends Meet in the Creative Commons" > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3797.html > > Re: Open Access vs Copyleft? > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4377.html > > "Cloture on public-domain solution" (2001) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1713.html > > "Copyleft" article in New Scientist (2002) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1818.html > > Open Access vs Open Source/Software (2003) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2967.html > > "Public Access to Science Act (Sabo Bill, H.R. 2613)" (2003) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2977.html > > "Open Access Does Not require Republishing and Reprinting Rights" > (2004) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3444.html > > Best wishes, > > Stevan Harnad

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free softwarefrom Egypt for building repositories
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

Library of Alexandria releases FreeScience software The Biblioteca d'Alessandria (BdA) has released FreeScience v. 1.1.0, free software for building OAI-compliant repositories and accessing OAI-compliant content elsewhere online. FreeScience also creates a P2P network of participating scientists and supports direct communication among them through instant messaging and text conferencing. Although FreeScience is free software, it is not apparently open source. Library of Alexandria releases FreeScience software [A] The http://www.bdaweb.net/ Biblioteca d'Alessandria (BdA) has released http://www.bdaweb.net/freescience_learnmore_it.php FreeScience v. 1.1.0, free software for building OAI-compliant repositories and accessing OAI-compliant content elsewhere online. FreeScience also creates a P2P network of participating scientists and supports direct communication among them through instant messaging and text conferencing. Although FreeScience is free software, it is not apparently open source.

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Science Commons, a new project of Creative Commons
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

Friends: Are you all aware of the "Science Commons"? I got to know about it through a message I received from Dave Pentecost in today's mail and I thought I must alert you all immediately. Arun http://science.creativecommons.org/ Welcome to Science Commons Science Commons is a new project of Creative Commons and will launch early 2005. The mission of Science Commons is to encourage scientific innovation by making it easier for scientists, universities, and industries to use literature, data, and other scientific intellectual property and to share their knowledge with others. Science Commons works within current copyright and patent law to promote legal and technical mechanisms that remove barriers to sharing. Background The sciences depend on access to and use of factual data. Powered by developments in electronic storage and computational capability, scientific inquiry is becoming more data-intensive in almost every discipline. Whether the field is meteorology, genomics, medicine, or high-energy physics, research depends on the availability of multiple databases, from multiple public and private sources, and their openness to easy recombination, search and processing. The American Traditions In the United States, this process has traditionally been supported by a series of policies, laws, and practices that were largely invisible even to those who worked in the sciences themselves. First, American intellectual property law (and, until recently, the law of most developed countries) did not allow for intellectual property protection of "raw facts." One could patent the mousetrap, not the data on the behavior of mice, or the tensile strength of steel. A scientific article could be copyrighted. The data on which it rested could not be. Commercial proprietary ownership was to be limited to a stage close to the point where a finished product entered the marketplace. The data upstream remained for all the world to use. Second, US law mandated that even those federal government works that could be copyrighted, fell immediately into the public domain - a provision of great importance given massive governmental involvement in scientific research. More broadly, the practice in federally funded scientific research was to encourage the widespread dissemination of data at or below cost in the belief that, like the interstate system, this provision of a public good would yield incalculable economic benefits. Third, in the sciences themselves, and particularly in the universities, a strong sociological tradition - sometimes called the Mertonian tradition of open science - discouraged the proprietary exploitation of data (as opposed to inventions derived from data) and required as a condition of publication the availability of the datasets on which the work was based. Innovation in Technology and Legal Friction Each of these three central tenets evolved from concepts that existed even before the Industrial Revolution--at the innately slow rate of change of the legal system. Similarly, scientific publication has a long-standing tradition. Modern technologies, especially the evolving use of the World Wide Web as a library, have forever changed the mechanisms for delivery and replication of documents. In many fields, results are published nearly as quickly as they are found. But copyright law has evolved at a different rate. Progress in modern technology combined with a legal system designed for a different technology-based environment is now leading to some unintended consequences. One of these is a kind of legal "friction" that hinders reuse of scientific discoveries and could lead to discouraging innovation. To counterbalance, a large and vibrant community has joined together in support of the concept of Open Access for scientific literature - "digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions". The U.S. National Institutes of Health have proposed mandated Open Access to all NIH-funded research starting six months after the print date, and there is support for the initiative in the U.S. Congress. Most major journals have granted authors the right to self-publish versions of their peer-reviewed papers. But the legal questions - how can an author make her work available to the public, while taking comfort that she retains some rights to it - have yet to be answered. The different rates of change between modern technology and the law create friction in other places as well. For example, in the genetic realm, patent law has moved perilously close to being an intellectual property right over raw facts - the C's, G's A's and T's of a particular gene sequence. In other areas, complex contracts of adhesion create de facto intellectual property rights over databases, complete with "reach through agreements" and multiple limitations on use. Legislatively, the US is considering and the EU has adopted a "database right" which actually does accord intellectual property protection to facts - changing one of the most fundamental premises of intellectual property: that one could never own facts, or ideas, only the inventions or expressions yielded by their intersection. The Federal government's role is also changing. Under the important and admirable Bayh-Dole statute, federally funded researchers are encouraged to look for potential commercial use of their research. Universities have become partners in developing and reaping the fruits of research. This process has yielded amazing results in many cases by converting raw, basic science into useful products in many industries. But as a consequence, the quest to commercialize has moved upstream in some cases, to the fundamental levels of research and data, and that has created complex legal requirements. While the details can get complex when the intellectual property at hand is a novel "method" for assaying biological activity, there are even more questions about patents covering the genes, proteins and their inferred functions. The sheer cost in terms of time and money of such complex, multi-party legal work can take intellectual property "out of play" - it is simply more expensive to do the lawyer work than the product might reap on the open markets after the legal work is done. This hinders scientific innovation, as the value of scientific information increases exponentially in connection with other scientific information, and is of the least possible value when segregated by law. The Search for a Solution These facts have not gone unnoticed. Numerous scientists have pointed out the irony that, at the historical moment when we have the technologies to permit worldwide availability and distributed processing of scientific data, legal restrictions on transfer make it harder to connect the dots. Learned societies including the National Academies of Sciences, federal granting agencies such as the National Science Foundation, and other groups have all expressed concern about the trends that are developing. Any solution will be need to be as complex as the problem it seeks to solve, which is to say it will be interdisciplinary, multinational, and involve both public and private initiatives. Enter Science Commons Science Commons is an exploratory project to apply the philosophies and activities of Creative Commons in the realm of science. 1) Science Publishing /Open Access Journals & Archives Here Science Commons continues the traditional Creative Commons role as public interest lawyer. Existing Creative Commons licenses have immediate relevance in the field of scientific publishing. We cite as an example the Public Library of Science (PLoS) which has agreed to adopt CC attribution license as its standard license - enabling anyone to make and distribute translations, as long as they give credit to the original authors. But there are many more issues; the legal side has been slow to evolve, creating unnecessary pain, expense and barriers to innovation. We believe that, in addition to the CC licenses already created, scientific publication creates other areas for licenses, such as: a.. Licenses in other journals b.. Licenses on pre/postprints c.. Licenses for author self-archiving d.. Mechanisms for author self-archiving e.. Legal implications of Open Access business models f.. Application of machine-readable licenses to documents 2) Licensing and Technology Transfer Some barriers to the flow of scientific data or scientific discoveries are necessary; used the right way, patents, for example, can give the incentives necessary to fund future research. The question is whether there are unnecessary barriers to the flow of scientific data and discovery that Science Commons can help solve. This effort is exploratory. It contemplates the traditional role of public interest legal group, but extends beyond copyright into the realms of patents, technology transfer and intellectual property licensing. We are interested in exploring questions such as: a.. How to use collective action to keep upsream data flowing? b.. Would standard, open licenses reduce transaction costs in intellectual property licensing? c.. What value would standard, open licensing bring for orphan diseases and diseases of the global poor? d.. What would a realistic "technology trust" require in terms of standard licenses? e.. How can funding organizations and universities utilize standard, open licenses? f.. How to preserve the traditional public domain nature of databases? 3) Inefficient Data Economy Another trend in the sciences is towards the parallelization of data generation - more simply, machines are taking over the role of creating the data points, while humans remain the primary interpreters of data. Under Bayh-Dole, it is precisely these interpretations that are typically of the highest value: the mechanisms of action by which cancer operates, or the inferred function of a gene. Only a small percentage of the raw data is actually used to support such interpretations. The innovators also utilize only a small portion of the raw data, with the first step in analysis being a statistical reduction of data. After all, what scientist can store and interrogate a mental model of over 25,000 genes? This represents a massively wasteful data economy, in which valuable information about the state changes and contextual behavior of biology, chemistry, physics and other sciences simply spills onto the floor. Signigicant efforts to archive such sets online exist, but there are many legal and technical issues to consider. Science Commons is exploring both the legal mechanisms that govern raw datasets online and technological approaches to publishing those datasets that make them more useful. The World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web for Life Sciences effort is a key part of this exploration, as is the MIT DSpace project in digital archiving. We intend to ask such questions as: a.. How many combinations have been tested just because they were implicit on the design of the experiment as a massively parallel array? b.. How many of those hypotheses were actually contemplated by the creators of the experiment? c.. How have these 50 genes been observed to behave in a given tissue, across all public experiments? d.. What are the contractual terms that could govern such datasets? Links Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture BIOS Alliance for Taxpayer Access Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain Public Library of Science BioMedCentral NIH Open Access Resource Peter Suber's NIH Open Access FAQ Open Archives Initiative Budapest Open Access Initiative SPARC Institute for One World Health Friends: Are you all aware of the "Science Commons"? I got to know about it through a message I received from Dave Pentecost in today's mail and I thought I must alert you all immediately. Arun http://science.creativecommons.org/ http://science.creativecommons.org/ Welcome to Science Commons Science Commons is a new project of http://www.creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons and will launch early 2005. The mission of Science Commons is to encourage scientific innovation by making it easier for scientists, universities, and industries to use literature, data, and other scientific intellectual property and to share their knowledge with others. Science Commons works within current copyright and patent law to promote legal and technical mechanisms that remove barriers to sharing. Background The sciences depend on access to and use of factual data. Powered by developments in electronic storage and computational capability, scientific inquiry is becoming more data-intensive in almost every discipline. Whether the field is meteorology, genomics, medicine, or high-energy physics, research depends on the availability of multiple databases, from multiple public and private sources, and their openness to easy recombination, search and processing. The American Traditions In the United States, this process has traditionally been supported by a series of policies, laws, and practices that were largely invisible even to those who worked in the sciences themselves. First, American intellectual property law (and, until recently, the law of most developed countries) did not allow for intellectual property protection of "raw facts." One could patent the mousetrap, not the data on the behavior of mice, or the tensile strength of steel. A scientific article could be copyrighted. The data on which it rested could not be. Commercial proprietary ownership was to be limited to a stage close to the point where a finished product entered the marketplace. The data upstream remained for all the world to use. Second, US law mandated that even those federal government works that could be copyrighted, fell immediately into the public domain - a provision of great importance given massive governmental involvement in scientific research. More broadly, the practice in federally funded scientific research was to encourage the widespread dissemination of data at or below cost in the belief that, like the interstate system, this provision of a public good would yield incalculable economic benefits. Third, in the sciences themselves, and particularly in the universities, a strong sociological tradition - sometimes called the Mertonian tradition of open science - discouraged the proprietary exploitation of data (as opposed to inventions derived from data) and required as a condition of publication the availability of the datasets on which the work was based. Innovation in Technology and Legal Friction Each of these three central tenets evolved from concepts that existed even before the Industrial Revolution--at the innately slow rate of change of the legal system. Similarly, scientific publication has a long-standing tradition. Modern technologies, especially the evolving use of the World Wide Web as a library, have forever changed the mechanisms for delivery and replication of documents. In many fields, results are published nearly as quickly as they are found. But copyright law has evolved at a different rate. Progress in modern technology combined with a legal system designed for a different technology-based environment is now leading to some unintended consequences. One of these is a kind of legal "friction" that hinders reuse of scientific discoveries and could lead to discouraging innovation. To counterbalance, a large and vibrant community has joined together in support of the concept of Open Access for scientific literature - " http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions ". The U.S. National Institutes of Health have http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-04-064.html proposed mandated Open Access to all NIH-funded research starting six months after the print date, and there is support for the initiative in the U.S. Congress. Most major journals have granted authors the right to self-publish versions of their peer-reviewed papers. But the legal questions - how can an author make her work available to the public, while taking comfort that she retains some rights to it - have yet to be answered. The different rates of change between modern technology and the law create friction in other places as well. For example, in the genetic realm, patent law has moved perilously close to being an intellectual property right over raw facts - the C's, G's A's and T's of a particular gene sequence. In other areas, complex contracts of adhesion create de facto intellectual property rights over databases, complete with "reach through agreements" and multiple limitations on use. Legislatively, the US is considering and the EU has adopted a "database right" which actually does accord intellectual property protection to facts - changing one of the most fundamental premises of intellectual property: that one could never own facts, or ideas, only the inventions or expressions yielded by their intersection. The Federal government's role is also changing. Under the important and admirable http://www.cogr.edu/docs/Bayh_Dole.pdf Bayh-Dole statute , federally funded researchers are encouraged to look for potential commercial use of their research. Universities have become partners in developing and reaping the fruits of research. This process has yielded amazing results in many cases by converting raw, basic science into useful products in many industries. But as a consequence, the quest to commercialize has moved upstream in some cases, to the fundamental levels of research and data, and that has created complex legal requirements. While the details can get complex when the intellectual property at hand is http://www.signalsmag.com/signalsmag.nsf/0/8F89A41E7971F90888256EA9006A99DE a novel "method" for assaying biological activity, there are even more questions about http://www.forbes.com/2004/02/17/cx_mh_0217pfe_print.html patents covering the genes, proteins and their inferred functions . The sheer cost in terms of time and money of such complex, multi-party legal work can take intellectual property "out of play" - it is simply more expensive to do the lawyer work than the product might reap on the open markets after the legal work is done. This hinders scientific innovation, as the value of scientific information increases exponentially in connection with other scientific information, and is of the least possible value when segregated by law. The Search for a Solution These facts have not gone unnoticed. Numerous scientists have pointed out the irony that, at the historical moment when we have the technologies to permit worldwide availability and distributed processing of scientific data, legal restrictions on transfer make it harder to connect the dots. Learned societies including the National Academies of Sciences, federal granting agencies such as the National Science Foundation, and other groups have all expressed concern about the trends that are developing. Any solution will be need to be as complex as the problem it seeks to solve, which is to say it will be interdisciplinary, multinational, and involve both public and private initiatives. Enter Science Commons Science Commons is an exploratory project to apply the philosophies and activities of http://www.creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons in the realm of science. 1) Science Publishing /Open Access Journals & Archives Here Science Commons continues the traditional Creative Commons role as public interest lawyer. Existing Creative Commons licenses have immediate relevance in the field of scientific publishing. We cite as an example the http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/ Public Library of Science (PLoS) which has agreed to adopt CC attribution license as its standard license - enabling anyone to make and distribute translations, as long as they give credit to the original authors. But there are many more issues; the legal side has been slow to evolve, creating unnecessary pain, expense and barriers to innovation. We believe that, in addition to the CC licenses already created, scientific publication creates other areas for licenses, such as: Licenses in other journals Licenses on pre/postprints Licenses for author self-archiving Mechanisms for author self-archiving Legal implications of Open Access business models Application of machine-readable licenses to documents 2) Licensing and Technology Transfer Some barriers to the flow of scientific data or scientific discoveries are necessary; used the right way, patents, for example, can give the incentives necessary to fund future research. The question is whether there are unnecessary barriers to the flow of scientific data and discovery that Science Commons can help solve. This effort is exploratory. It contemplates the traditional role of public interest legal group, but extends beyond copyright into the realms of patents, technology transfer and intellectual property licensing. We are interested in exploring questions such as: How to use collective action to keep upsream data flowing? Would standard, open licenses reduce transaction costs in intellectual property licensing? What value would standard, open licensing bring for orphan diseases and diseases of the global poor? What would a realistic "technology trust" require in terms of standard licenses? How can funding organizations and universities utilize standard, open licenses? How to preserve the traditional public domain nature of databases? 3) Inefficient Data Economy Another trend in the sciences is towards the parallelization of data generation - more simply, machines are taking over the role of creating the data points, while humans remain the primary interpreters of data. Under Bayh-Dole, it is precisely these interpretations that are typically of the highest value: the mechanisms of action by which cancer operates, or the inferred function of a gene. Only a small percentage of the raw data is actually used to support such interpretations. The innovators also utilize only a small portion of the raw data, with the first step in analysis being a statistical reduction of data. After all, what scientist can store and interrogate a mental model of over 25,000 genes? This represents a massively wasteful data economy, in which valuable information about the state changes and contextual behavior of biology, chemistry, physics and other sciences simply spills onto the floor. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/ Signigicant efforts to archive such sets online exist , but there are many legal and technical issues to consider. Science Commons is exploring both the legal mechanisms that govern raw datasets online and technological approaches to publishing those datasets that make them more useful. The http://www.w3.org/ World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web for Life Sciences effort is a key part of this exploration, as is the MIT http://www.dspace.org/ DSpace project in digital archiving. We intend to ask such questions as: How many combinations have been tested just because they were implicit on the design of the experiment as a massively parallel array? How many of those hypotheses were actually contemplated by the creators of the experiment? How have these 50 genes been observed to behave in a given tissue, across all public experiments? What are the contractual terms that could govern such datasets? Links http://www.pipra.org/ Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture http://www.bios.net/ BIOS http://www.arl.org/ata/ Alliance for Taxpayer Access http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/ Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/ http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/ Public Library of Science http://www.biomedcentral.com/ BioMedCentral http://www.nih.gov/about/publicaccess/index.htm NIH Open Access Resource http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm Peter Suber's NIH Open Access FAQ http://www.openarchives.org/ Open Archives Initiative http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ Budapest Open Access Initiative http://www.arl.org/sparc/ SPARC http://www.oneworldhealth.org/ Institute for One World Health

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Document Imaging and Document Management-course
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

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Document management organizes scanned documents, paper documents, and born-digital documents in their native-format, for compliance with records retention requirements, including permanent preservation. The course content is intended to be useful to students in their professional work for twenty years into the future and is also intended to be useful for planning to preserve digital documents forever. The course may be too broad for those students seeking to learn a specific software application. Students will learn about the technology of scanning, importing, transmitting, organizing, indexing, storing, protecting, searching, retrieving, viewing, printing, preserving, and authenticating documents for document imaging systems, and archives. 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12 Mar '05

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On OAA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community Volume 18, Number 1, 30 - 34 / March 2005 http://www.uksg.org/ A mandate to self archive? The role of open access institutional repositories Stephen Pinfield Information Services Hallward Library, University Park, University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD UK +44?(0)?115?951?5109 Stephen.Pinfield(a)Nottingham.ac.uk http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~uazsjp/ Abstract: Based on a paper presented at the UKSG seminar 'Scientific Publications: Free for all?', The Geological Society, London, Tuesday 23 November 2004 This paper argues that the best way to achieve major improvements in scholarly communication in the short and medium term is to make it mandatory to deposit research papers in open access institutional repositories. This is what the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report of 20041 on scientific publishing recommended. The paper defines what open access repositories are and explains why they should be institutional. It also deals with the question of what should be deposited in institutional repositories and why these improve scholarly communication. It then deals with the issue of mandating deposition: why deposition should be mandatory, who should mandate deposition and who should carry out deposition. The paper concludes with an analysis of the wider implications of mandating deposition in institutional repositories and a summary of the existing situation in the UK and elsewhere. It discusses the Select Committee report and the UK Government response in relation to institutional repositories. Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community Volume 18, Number 1, 30 - 34 / March 2005 http://www.uksg.org/ http://www.uksg.org/ A mandate to self archive? The role of open access institutional repositories Stephen Pinfield Information Services Hallward Library, University Park, University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD UK +44?(0)?115?951?5109 http://uk.f304.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=Stephen.Pinfield@Nottingham.ac.… Stephen.Pinfield(a)Nottingham.ac.uk http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~uazsjp/ http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~uazsjp/ Abstract: Based on a paper presented at the UKSG seminar 'Scientific Publications: Free for all?', The Geological Society, London, Tuesday 23 November 2004 This paper argues that the best way to achieve major improvements in scholarly communication in the short and medium term is to make it mandatory to deposit research papers in open access institutional repositories. This is what the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report of 20041 on scientific publishing recommended. The paper defines what open access repositories are and explains why they should be institutional. It also deals with the question of what should be deposited in institutional repositories and why these improve scholarly communication. It then deals with the issue of mandating deposition: why deposition should be mandatory, who should mandate deposition and who should carry out deposition. The paper concludes with an analysis of the wider implications of mandating deposition in institutional repositories and a summary of the existing situation in the UK and elsewhere. It discusses the Select Committee report and the UK Government response in relation to institutional repositories.

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fulbright announced ....
by Puttaraj Choukimath 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Dear All: Hope all of you are enjoying the spring season! I am happy to inform you that USEFI has announced the competition for the 2006-2007 Fulbright fellowships for Indian academics, school teachers and professionals for graduate study, research, teaching and professional development in the United States. These fellowships cover a wide range of disciplines including art/culture management, conflict resolution, education, the humanities and social sciences, law, management, museum studies and public administration. New additions this year include the Fulbright Master�s Fellowships for Leadership Development, designed for outstanding Indians, preferably in the age group of 25-30 years, to pursue a master�s degree program at select U.S. colleges and universities in the areas of Public Administration, Economics, Communication Studies and Environment. These fellowships will be specially targeted at highly motivated individuals who demonstrate leadership qualities, have completed the equivalent of a U.S. Bachelor�s degree, have at least three years professional or work experience, and are committed to return and contribute to their communities. For application details and forms, visit http://www.fulbright-india.org. Application material can also be collected in person from any of the USEFI offices, after March 20, 2005. Request you to bring this to the notice of interested applicants. Best wishes, Yours sincerely Puttaraj. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! Dear All: Hope all of you are enjoying the spring season! I am happy to inform you that USEFI has announced the competition for the 2006-2007 Fulbright fellowships for Indian academics, school teachers and professionals for graduate study, research, teaching and professional development in the United States.� These fellowships cover a wide range of disciplines including art/culture management, conflict resolution, education, the humanities and social sciences, law, management, museum studies and public administration.� New additions this year include the Fulbright Master�s Fellowships for Leadership Development, designed for outstanding Indians, preferably in the age group of 25-30 years, to pursue a master�s degree program at select U.S. colleges and universities in the areas of Public Administration, Economics, Communication Studies and Environment. These fellowships will be specially targeted at highly motivated individuals who demonstrate leadership qualities, have completed the equivalent of a U.S. Bachelor�s degree, have at least three years professional or work experience, and are committed to return and contribute to their communities. For application details and forms, visit http://www.fulbright-india.org/ http://www.fulbright-india.org . Application material can also be collected in person from any of the USEFI offices, after March 20, 2005. Request you to bring this to the notice of interested applicants. Best wishes, Yours sincerely Puttaraj. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=31637/*http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ Try our new resources site!

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medIND now Includes 32 Full Text Journals
by Sukhdev Singh 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

The Following Journals have been added to medIND Project [http://medind.nic.in]. 1. Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2. Journal of Family Welfare With addition of these two journals, medIND site now provides FREE ACCESS to FULL TEXT of Following 32 Indian Biomedical Journals indexed in IndMED [http://indmed.nic.in]. * Endodontology * Health Administrator * Indian Journal of Aerospace Medicine * Indian Journal of Allergy Asthma and Immunology * Indian Journal of Anaesthesia * Indian Journal of Chest Diseases and Allied Sciences * Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry * Indian Journal of Community Medicine * Indian Journal of Gastroenterology * Indian Journal of Medical & Paediatric Oncology * Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology * Indian Journal of Medical Research * Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine * Indian Journal of Occupational and Enviornmental medicine * Indian Journal of Occupational Therapy * Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery * Indian Journal of Pharmacology * Indian Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine * Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases * Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery * Indian Journal of Tuberculosis * Indian Pediatrics * J.K. Practitioner * Journal, Indian Academy of Clinical Medicine * Journal of Family Welfare * Journal of Indian Rheumatology Association * Journal of The Anatomical Society of India * Journal of Indian Association of Pediatrics Surgeons * Journal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry * Medical Journal Armed Forces India * NTI Bulletin * Trends in Biomaterials and Artificial Organs In next few weeks one more Journal i.e. Indian Journal of Nephrology would become the 33rd Journal under medIND. --Thanks Sukhdev Singh, Principal Systems Analyst, Webmaster : http://indmed.nic.in & http://medind.nic.in National Informatics Centre, New Delhi.

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Request for the vendor
by Yashwant G Kanade 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Respected Members, I would request you to provide me the list of vendors or persons who provides the articles/papers from some journals either soft or hard copy even on payment basis. Thank you very much with Regards Yashwant G Kanade Library and Information Centre CES, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore-12

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WIPO Manifesto for Transparency, Participation, Balance and
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

WIPO Manifesto for Transparency, Participation, Balance and Access Dear Professionals: The following open letter will be sent to WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, calling for TRANSPARENCY, PARTICIPATION, BALANCE and ACCESS in its work. Prior to a large and ambitious publicity campaign, your sign-on to this letter is essential. WIPO is locking NGOs out of its negotiations, using tactics to isolate those governments who stand up for you, and hiding the evidence by deleting it from their website. The mentioned letter goes into great detail on this. If you are a computer programmer or polititian; if you are ill, if you have an audio/visual or motor impairment, if you are a student, academic, information or knowledge worker, librarian, or citizen concerned about access to information and knowledge and the absence of balance between rightsholders and the public interest within developed countries and mainly in developing/least developed countries, please take a moment to read this and consider signing into it. Things you can do: 1. sign onto the open letter (now available in English and Portuguese) by visiting this link: <http://www.petitiononline.com/wipo/petition.html>, and 2. spread it all over the world by sending e-mails and putting in your webpage a link to the online petition. Gandhi said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you WIN." This is the fighting part, and your help is essential. Pedro de Paranaguá Moniz Brazilian citizen Post-graduate student at Queen Mary, University of London lc04013(a)qmul.ac.uk MALLIKARJUNA, C Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. WIPO Manifesto for Transparency, Participation, Balance and Access Dear Professionals: The following open letter will be sent to WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, calling for TRANSPARENCY, PARTICIPATION, BALANCE and ACCESS in its work. Prior to a large and ambitious publicity campaign, your sign-on to this letter is essential. WIPO is locking NGOs out of its negotiations, using tactics to isolate those governments who stand up for you, and hiding the evidence by deleting it from their website. The mentioned letter goes into great detail on this. If you are a computer programmer or polititian; if you are ill, if you have an audio/visual or motor impairment, if you are a student, academic, information or knowledge worker, librarian, or citizen concerned about access to information and knowledge and the absence of balance between rightsholders and the public interest within developed countries and mainly in developing/least developed countries, please take a moment to read this and consider signing into it. Things you can do: 1. sign onto the open letter (now available in English and Portuguese) by visiting this link: < http://www.petitiononline.com/wipo/petition.html http://www.petitiononline.com/wipo/petition.html >, and 2. spread it all over the world by sending e-mails and putting in your webpage a link to the online petition. Gandhi said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you WIN." This is the fighting part, and your help is essential. Pedro de Paranaguá Moniz Brazilian citizen Post-graduate student at Queen Mary, University of London mailto:lc04013@qmul.ac.uk lc04013(a)qmul.ac.uk MALLIKARJUNA, C http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Economics of scientific and biomedical journals: Where do scholars ........libraries...publishers
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Good artcle in the new issue of FirstMonday: Economics of scientific and biomedical journals: Where do scholars stand in the debate of online journal pricing and site license ownership between libraries and publishers? for more detials go through this link http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/jeon/ MALLIKARJUNA,C Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Good artcle in the new issue of FirstMonday: Economics of scientific and biomedical journals: Where do scholars stand in the debate of online journal pricing and site license ownership between libraries and publishers? for more detials go through this link http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/jeon/ http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/jeon/ MALLIKARJUNA,C http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Opn Access Archiving
by Subbiah Arunachalam 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Friends: I just visited the Bytesforall.net portal and found the following two interesting items. -------- UN opens its Official Document System to the general public The United Nations has launched its Official Document System (ODS), a full-text web resource for official UN documentation. INDIA * The 'virus' of Free Software is spreading... This is a list of the useful user groups that help in spreading Free/Libre and Open Source Software. Most are from around India, and could play a useful role in spreading the ideals of sharing and freedom in the FLOSS movement. Would really appreciate any help in updating and correcting this list and keeping it current. Thanks for helping to update this list and keeping it relevant. -- FN (Frederick Noronha in Goa) fred at bytesforall.org. ------- A number of the readers of this portal are keen to promote open source software. There is an equally important and useful goal to be achieved. I am talking about making the world's scientific and scholarly journal literature accessible to everyone free of cost and instantly on publication. The portal is happy to report that the UN has opened up its official documents. Should we not work towards opening up the scientific and schoalrly research literature? Some may ask why is that important. Let me explain. Knowledge is important at all levels. We at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation know from our experience with the knowledge centres in Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu in southern India over the past decade how very useful access to knowledge is for the rural poor. The role played by these centres both during and after the recent tsunami attack on our coasts has been written about and discussed in intenational fora. The orderly fashion in which relief measures were delivered in these villages was in stark contrast to what had happened elsewhere. Andy Carvin and others who attended the recent Baramati Conference were full of praise for Prof. Swaminathan's talk on our kowledge centres. If access to relevant and useful information makes a difference in the lives of the rural poor, it is even more crucial for those in the business of generating new knowledge that can form the basis of development. That is why scientists and scholars need to have immediate access to the newly emerging kowledge, irrespective of where it comes from. Unfortunately, the scholarly journals which mediate this process have become unaffordable; there are too many of them and most of them are very expensive. But developments in technology, especially ICTs, have made it possible for us now to have such access at a ridiculously low cost. Taking advantage of the web technology, physicists of the world started exchanging their research findings through an archive called arXiv about 15 years ago. Today most physicists worth the name use arXiv to let others know of therir new papers and to learn what other physicists are up to. arXiv is a centralised archive, originally located at Los Alamos National Laboratory and now at Cornell University, and it has more than 15 mirror sites, several of them in Asia including one at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai (Madras). People who have thought about archiving research papers have thought of interoperable institutional archives as another possibility and today there are about 400 such institutional open access archives around the world. The one at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has about 1,700 papers stored in it and the number is increasing every day. It is in the interest of developing country scientists and scholars to promote the culture of institutional archiving. Imagine a world where every institution performing and publishing research has an archive and every scientist deposits his/her papers in these archives. Now anyone can access any paper if he/she has an Internet connection. Knowledge will flow freely and science will advance much faster than in a regime where knowledge is locked up and kept inaccessible to all the users through cost barriers. There is another and possibly more important benefit for developing country scientists. Right now papers by scientists from DCs are rarely noticed, read and quoted by others. The journals produced in DCs are rarely subscribed by libraries in advanced countries. Often someone in Bangalore may not know what another scientist living in Kanpur has published! But if all these papers are available free on the Net, then their visibility and citability will increase manifold. And that is precisely what every scientist would want. Setting up interoperable institutional open access archives is pretty easy. The software is free and can be downloaded from the Net. There are experts who are willing to provide training (if needed). There are many international organizations actively promoting the culture if OA archiving. Those of us who are trying to promote the use of free and open source software could in addition promote OAA as well. A recent study has shown that we need to create an awareness among scientists and policymakers of the tremendous advantages of such archives. We need to mount many advocacy programmes. The recent meeting (Berlin-3) held at the Southampton University came up with the following recommendation: "In order to implement the Berlin Declaration institutions should 1) Implement a policy to require their researchers to deposit a copy of all their published articles in an open access repository. and 2) Encourage their researchers to publish their research articles in open access journals where a suitable journal exists and provide the support to enable that to happen." I would urge all of you friends to persuade institutions (your own and others) to adopt and implement these recommendations. Thanks and best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Friends: I just visited the Bytesforall.net portal and found the following two interesting items. -------- UN opens its Official Document System to the general public The United Nations has launched its Official Document System (ODS), a full-text web resource for official UN documentation. INDIA * The 'virus' of Free Software is spreading... This is a list of the useful user groups that help in spreading Free/Libre and Open Source Software. Most are from around India, and could play a useful role in spreading the ideals of sharing and freedom in the FLOSS movement. Would really appreciate any help in updating and correcting this list and keeping it current. Thanks for helping to update this list and keeping it relevant. -- FN (Frederick Noronha in Goa) fred at bytesforall.org. ------- A number of the readers of this portal are keen to promote open source software. There is an equally important and useful goal to be achieved. I am talking about making the world's scientific and scholarly journal literature accessible to everyone free of cost and instantly on publication. The portal is happy to report that the UN has opened up its official documents. Should we not work towards opening up the scientific and schoalrly research literature? Some may ask why is that important. Let me explain. Knowledge is important at all levels. We at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation know from our experience with the knowledge centres in Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu in southern India over the past decade how very useful access to knowledge is for the rural poor. The role played by these centres both during and after the recent tsunami attack on our coasts has been written about and discussed in intenational fora. The orderly fashion in which relief measures were delivered in these villages was in stark contrast to what had happened elsewhere. Andy Carvin and others who attended the recent Baramati Conference were full of praise for Prof. Swaminathan's talk on our kowledge centres. If access to relevant and useful information makes a difference in the lives of the rural poor, it is even more crucial for those in the business of generating new knowledge that can form the basis of development. That is why scientists and scholars need to have immediate access to the newly emerging kowledge, irrespective of where it comes from. Unfortunately, the scholarly journals which mediate this process have become unaffordable; there are too many of them and most of them are very expensive. But developments in technology, especially ICTs, have made it possible for us now to have such access at a ridiculously low cost. Taking advantage of the web technology, physicists of the world started exchanging their research findings through an archive called arXiv about 15 years ago. Today most physicists worth the name use arXiv to let others know of therir new papers and to learn what other physicists are up to. arXiv is a centralised archive, originally located at Los Alamos National Laboratory and now at Cornell University, and it has more than 15 mirror sites, several of them in Asia including one at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai (Madras). People who have thought about archiving research papers have thought of interoperable institutional archives as another possibility and today there are about 400 such institutional open access archives around the world. The one at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has about 1,700 papers stored in it and the number is increasing every day. It is in the interest of developing country scientists and scholars to promote the culture of institutional archiving. Imagine a world where every institution performing and publishing research has an archive and every scientist deposits his/her papers in these archives. Now anyone can access any paper if he/she has an Internet connection. Knowledge will flow freely and science will advance much faster than in a regime where knowledge is locked up and kept inaccessible to all the users through cost barriers. There is another and possibly more important benefit for developing country scientists. Right now papers by scientists from DCs are rarely noticed, read and quoted by others. The journals produced in DCs are rarely subscribed by libraries in advanced countries. Often someone in Bangalore may not know what another scientist living in Kanpur has published! But if all these papers are available free on the Net, then their visibility and citability will increase manifold. And that is precisely what every scientist would want. Setting up interoperable institutional open access archives is pretty easy. The software is free and can be downloaded from the Net. There are experts who are willing to provide training (if needed). There are many international organizations actively promoting the culture if OA archiving. Those of us who are trying to promote the use of free and open source software could in addition promote OAA as well. A recent study has shown that we need to create an awareness among scientists and policymakers of the tremendous advantages of such archives. We need to mount many advocacy programmes. The recent meeting (Berlin-3) held at the Southampton University came up with the following recommendation: " In order to implement the Berlin Declaration institutions should 1) Implement a policy to require their researchers to deposit a copy of all their published articles in an open access repository. and 2) Encourage their researchers to publish their research articles in open access journals where a suitable journal exists and provide the support to enable that to happen." I would urge all of you friends to persuade institutions (your own and others) to adopt and implement these recommendations. Thanks and best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Query on Pschycological testing
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Dear Ms Vaishnav, I refer to your query in Lis-forum quoted below. I think Dr Ms Amuliya Khurana may be the right person to help you as she has recently developed an instrument (Questionnaire) for assessing the mental health of industrial workers. I read about her project in IITD-Fitt website. Please contact her. A copy of this reply is marked to her as well. Best Wishes Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 ================================ [LIS-Forum] Query Mailing List Manager mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Thu Mar 10 16:26:07 IST 2005 Previous message: [LIS-Forum] Re: qualifications of Asst. Librarian Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:03:51 +0530 From: Mrs. Vaishnav <ytv at godrej.com> Dear All, A guidance needed -Has there been standardized norms for psychological Testing in Indian industries? Please guide at your earliest, With regards & thanks, Mrs. Y.T.Vaishnav=0D (Consulting Librarian-Godrej-Mumbai) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Previous message: [LIS-Forum] Re: qualifications of Asst. Librarian Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More information about the LIS-Forum mailing list Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Hyderabad I blog at: http://vyasamoorthy.blogspot.com

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Request for article from Dr. Prasad, SRELS
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

-----Original Message----- From: SRELS [mailto:srels@vsnl.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 1:18 PM To: Listforum Cc: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Article Dear Dr. Rajashekar : Can you please make arrangements to announce the following in LIS-FORUM ? Sincerely, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer, SRELS " If any one has a copy of the article on "Kaiser-Subject Heading" (title may not be fully in order or complete) by Prof. G. Bhattacharyya in mimeographed format, we would feel obliged to have a copy of it sent to us at the following address". Dr. K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, Upstairs, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010. Ph: 080 23305109 ; E-mail : srels(a)vsnl.com ;

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EDC- DL prototype for dot-EDU India Instructional Materials@Vidyanidhi
by Shalini R Urs 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

EDC- DL prototype for dot-EDU India Instructional Materials@Vidyanidhi A prototype digital library has been built for the dot-EDU India Interactive audio-video Instructional Materials using the Greenstone Digital Library Software. A demo version of the same is hosted on the website- www.vidyanidhi.org.in/edcdl The prototype with the current collection of 125 Interactive Radio Instructional materials is made available as EDC- DL- in a box. Dot-EDU Technology Tools for Teaching and Training (T4) is a project sponsored by USAID and implemented by Education Development Center (EDC) and its 39 dot-EDU NGO and government partners. Dot-EDU T4 was created to improve the quality of education in selected states in India. Education Development Center (EDC) and its 39 dot-EDU NGO and government partners believe that educational quality and equitable access are intrinsically connected. They aim to improve the mass delivery of educational quality in order to have an impact on what is learned and who is learning it. EDC and its partners are making great strides towards achieving these goals in the target states of Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand. This project seeks to accomplish its goals through carefully planned, locally-developed applications of digital technologies, coupled with workshops and interaction with the communities. For more info- www.ies.sdc.org <http://www.ies.sdc.org/> The EDC-DL project is a consultancy assignment to the Vidyanidhi Digital Library @University of Mysore. The project involved, the study of metadata standards and vocabularies and developing an appropriate metadata set for the collection. Dublin Core (DC), Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) and IMS Global were considered. The Dublin Core application profile for educational materials with 19 elements has been developed and deployed. Three controlled vocabularies- The Australian Council for Educational Research www.acer.edu.au <http://www.acer.edu.au/> ; The Eurydice Information network on Education in Europe: www.eurydice.org <http://www.eurydice.org/> ; Education Information Resources Center -ERIC www.eric.ed.gov <http://www.eric.ed.gov/> were studied and finally ERIC vocabulary was chosen. The collection comprised of three series - the Chukki Chinna series for Karnataka and the English is Fun series for the states of Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand.Chattisgharn and Jharkhand. The Chukki Chinna interactive radio instruction series is a project-based, active learning approach to teaching and learning emerging from identified hard spots for science, social studies (or environmental studies) and mathematics in the 4th and 5th standard curriculum. English is Fun series comprises of interactive radio instruction (IRI) programmes on introductory English for 1st and 2nd grades. The EDC- DL collection may be browsed and searched in three languages- English, Kannada, and Hindi. Interfaces are also available in these three languages. Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm  EDC- DL prototype for dot-EDU India Instructional Materials@Vidyanidhi � � A prototype digital library has been built for the dot-EDU India Interactive audio-video Instructional Materials using the Greenstone Digital Library Software. A demo version of the same is hosted on the website- http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/edcdl www.vidyanidhi.org.in/edcdl The prototype with the current collection of 125 Interactive Radio Instructional materials is made available as EDC- DL- in a box. � Dot-EDU Technology Tools for Teaching and Training (T4) is a project sponsored by USAID and implemented by Education Development Center (EDC) and its 39 dot-EDU NGO and government partners. � Dot-EDU T4 was created to improve the quality of education in selected states in India . � Education Development Center (EDC) and its 39 dot-EDU NGO and government partners believe that educational quality and equitable access are intrinsically connected. � They aim to improve the mass delivery of educational quality in order to have an impact on what is learned and who is learning it. � EDC and its partners are making great strides towards achieving these goals in the target states of Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand. This project seeks to accomplish its goals through carefully planned, locally-developed applications of digital technologies, coupled with workshops and interaction with the communities. For more info- http://www.ies.sdc.org/ www.ies.sdc.org � The EDC-DL project is a consultancy assignment to the Vidyanidhi Digital Library @ University of Mysore . The project involved, the study of metadata standards and vocabularies and developing an appropriate metadata set for the collection. Dublin Core (DC), Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) and IMS Global were considered. The Dublin Core application profile for educational materials with 19 elements has been developed and deployed. Three controlled vocabularies- The Australian Council for Educational Research http://www.acer.edu.au/ www.acer.edu.au ; The Eurydice Information network on Education in Europe : � http://www.eurydice.org/ www.eurydice.org ; Education Information Resources Center – ERIC � http://www.eric.ed.gov/ www.eric.ed.gov were studied � and finally ERIC vocabulary was chosen. � The collection comprised of three series – the Chukki Chinna series for Karnataka and the English is Fun series for the states of Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand.Chattisgharn and Jharkhand. The Chukki Chinna interactive radio instruction series is a project-based, active learning approach to teaching and learning emerging from identified hard spots for science, social studies (or environmental studies) and mathematics in the 4 th and 5 th standard curriculum. English is Fun series comprises of interactive radio instruction (IRI) programmes on introductory English for 1 st and 2 nd grades. � The EDC- DL � collection may be browsed and searched in three languages- English, Kannada, and Hindi. Interfaces are also available in these three languages. � � � Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm �

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Procurement of Russian Patent
by jayalaxmi m 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Sir, We are looking for one Russian Patent, it will highly appreciated if you can suggest us the source from where it can procured. Please guide at your earliest. Details of the Patent: V.A. Smirnov, I.E. Crasnitscaya, Patent of Russia, 2066892.6.09 1993 Regards, Jayalaxmi. M MTRDC,DRDO Bangalore ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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ACS opened for open Access
by Madhuresh 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Dear Friends, At last ACS (American Chemical society) opened its door for open access. ACS was considered as a toughest publisher for Open access. Now ACS announced its compliance with Public Access Guidelines released by the NIH i.e. free availability of articles after one year of publication with some conditions for its 33 scholarly journals. Here is the press release: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------- American Chemical Society broadens access to its articles Conditions set for free availability one year after publication http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/article_access.html http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/article_access.pdf The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, is broadening access to research articles published in its 33 scholarly journals. The Society is introducing two new experimental policies that define how readers can view free digital versions of ACS articles beginning one year after publication. First, in response to public access guidelines recently released by the NIH1, the ACS will post, for public accessibility 12 months after publication, the peer-reviewed version of authors' manuscripts on the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central during 2005. The NIH policy encourages authors whose work it funds to submit their peer-reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central, the agency's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Commenting on this new service, ACS Publications Senior Vice President Brian Crawford said, "We understand that NIH-funded authors will wish to comply voluntarily with the NIH's policy request. By introducing this service, the ACS will take on the administrative burden of compliance and at the same time will ensure the integrity of the scientific literature by depositing the appropriate author version of the manuscript after peer-review." Second, as a value-added service to ACS authors and a method of further opening access to its content, the full-text version of all research articles published in ACS journals will be made available at no charge via an author-directed Web link 12 months after final publication. Allowing unrestricted access to articles 12 months after publication is an expansion of the Society's current practice of permitting 50 downloads of authors' articles free of charge during the first year of publication. This initiative will go into effect during 2005. "We are very pleased to expand access in this way to research published in ACS journals," said Crawford. "It is fundamental to the ACS mission to support and promote the research enterprise and to foster communication among its scientists. Providing unrestricted access via author-directed links 12 months after publication - in addition to the 50 free e-prints currently allowed during the first year of publication - reinforces that mission." Robert Bovenschulte, president of the ACS Publications Division, said "These experimental policies balance the important goal of expanding dissemination of research with the need to preserve the integrity of the scientific record as well as the viability of our journals program." The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization, chartered by the U.S. Congress, with a multidisciplinary membership of more than 158,000 chemists and chemical engineers. It publishes numerous scientific journals and databases, convenes major research conferences and provides educational, science policy and career programs in chemistry. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio. 1(Notice Number NOT-OD-05-022/ http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-022.html) Released: March 7, 2005 #13859 Related Press Releases: * American Chemical Society broadens author-directed article access: http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/e_prints.html * American Chemical Society policy will offer service to authors of NIH-funded research articles: http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/nih.html Regards Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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Query
by Mailing List Manager 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:03:51 +0530 From: Mrs. Vaishnav <ytv(a)godrej.com> Dear All, A guidance needed -Has there been standardized norms for psychological Testing in Indian industries? Please guide at your earliest, With regards & thanks, Mrs. Y.T.Vaishnav=0D (Consulting Librarian-Godrej-Mumbai)

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NET for to be Librarian???
by Aman Jha 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Friends, I want to know: 1. The logic of having NET qualification for the recruitment of Librarian/Deputy Librarian/Assistant Librarian. 2. Whether NET qualification for Librarian (not for library teachers) really add any value to their profession? Thanks and regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-5014060-67 * Fax: 0124-5014080

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Re: qualifications of Asst. Librarian
by Mailing List Manager 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:50:04 +0530 From: anjrao <anjrao(a)indiatimes.com> dear sir Minimum Qualification for Asst.librarian in Degree level Technical Institutions 1. Qualifying in tghe national-level test conductd for the purpose by the UGC or any otheragency approved by UGC. 2. Master Degree inLibraryscience/ information science/ Documentation or Equivalent professional degree with 55% of the marks or its equivalentCGPA. and consistently good academic record, computeristion of library. regards janardhana rao librarian m s ramaiah Inst. of management

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Why English is so Difficult to Learn
by Mailing List Manager 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:05:53 +0530 From: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ <mukesh(a)monitorinfo.com> Dear All Hope the following will take some heat off the topical discussion among the forum members: Why English is so Difficult to Learn: The 500 most commonly used words in the English Language have over 14,000 meanings! Please ponder over some examples: 1. The bandage was wound around the wound 2. The farm was used to produce produce. 3. The dump was so full that she had to refuse more refuse. 4. He could lead if would get the lead out 5. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. 6. I did not object to the object lying on floor. 7. The insurance was invalid for the invalid. 8. They were too close to the door to close it. 9. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend. 10. When shot at, the dove dove into bushes. 11. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests. 12. He saw a saw, which could not saw. No wonder, English Language is so Difficult to Learn Best Wishes - - Mukesh Anand Hyderabad - India

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Re-Launch of Theoretical Librarian Blog
by Gerry Mckiernan 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Colleagues/ I am pleased to announce the re-launch of the Theoretical Librarian blog (TLB) at [ http://theoretical-librarian.blogspot.com/ ] As stated, "Theoretical Librarian is the blog of Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer at Iowa State University Library, Ames, IA 50011. Theoretical Librarian, in general, will include announcements of past, present, and future personal publications and presentations as well as postings on current and emerging technologies and their actual and potential application for enhanced information and library services." Recent postings to TLB include iPod® U: Duke iPod® First-Year Experience This Just In: Web Feeds for Enhanced Library Services NPR: Library Marks the Evolution of British English International Symposium on Wikis (October 17-18, 2005) Wired News: Library Shuffles Its Collection Compendex Now Offers RSS Feeds NYTimes: NYPL Digital Gallery Numa Numa A-Book Revolution? NPR: 'A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe' In addition to an Atom feed [ http://theoretical-librarian.blogspot.com/atom.xml ], TLB now has an RSS FeedBurner feed on the blog [ http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheoreticalLibrarian ] For All The News That You Can Use, Subscribe to TLB [:-) Joy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Theoretical Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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a new biodiversity website
by M P Tapaswi 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Dear Colleagues, We have revised a our biodiversity website for Mangroves of India (http://www.mangroveindia.org). Your comments to further improve upon would be very valuable. With warm regards, Murari P Tapaswi National Info Centre for Marine Sciences (NICMAS) National Institute of Oceanography Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, India Phone: 91-(0)832-2450275 (Direct); 91-(0)832-2450450 (EPBX) Fax: 91-(0)832-2450605/603 URL: www.nio.org

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The Tech Museum Awards: for who use technology to benefit humanity in the categories of Education, Equality, Environment, Economic Development, and Health
by Puttaraj Choukimath 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Dear friends, Greetings. http://techawards.thetech.org/index.cfm?id=talink The Tech Museum Awards, presented by Applied Materials, Inc., is a unique and prestigious program that honors and awards innovators from around the world who use technology to benefit humanity in the categories of Education, Equality, Environment, Economic Development, and Health. 25 Laureates will be honored at a black-tie celebration, invited to participate in press and media coverage, and introduced to a network of influential advisors. One Laureate in each category will be awarded a $50,000 cash prize. Reward those making a difference and nominate today. Nomination Deadline: April 4, 2005 GOOD LUCK Puttaraj, A.C. --------------------------------- Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web Dear friends, Greetings. � http://techawards.thetech.org/index.cfm?id=talink http://techawards.thetech.org/index.cfm?id=talink � The Tech Museum Awards, presented by Applied Materials, Inc., is a unique and prestigious program that honors and awards innovators from around the world who use technology to benefit humanity in the categories of Education, Equality, Environment, Economic Development, and Health. 25 Laureates will be honored at a black-tie celebration, invited to participate in press and media coverage, and introduced to a network of influential advisors. One Laureate in each category will be awarded a $50,000 cash prize. Reward those making a difference and nominate today. Nomination Deadline: April 4, 2005 � GOOD LUCK � Puttaraj, A.C. Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web

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Librarian's Friend
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

News Bit that might interest you: Mr Luis Sanchez, Mayor of Nezahualcoyoti in Mexico has ordered that all 1000 plus Police officers under his control shall read minimum one book per month; A list of books has been given. Those who do not comply, stand to loose their promotions whenever they are due! (The Hindu 9/3/2005) Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Hyderabad I blog at: http://vyasamoorthy.blogspot.com

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New user
by chitrarao＠nitie.edu 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Hello Librarian I have registered recentlyas a new user to this good forum..Please give me an introduction on thescope and how to use this forum Thank U. Scanning the mail has given me an idea obout the diversity but to use/contribute effectively I need some input. Thank U chitra Rao NITIE Mumbai

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A newbie is speaking...
by Subbiah Arunachalam 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Friends: Please spare eight minutes to watch this very perceptive look at the future. I got to know about it from Michael Keany, Director, Long Island School Leadership Center. http://oak.psych.gatech.edu/~epic/ Regards. Arun

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Libraries in Phone Directory
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Dear Friends, I did a telephone directory search using BSNL's website: http://www.ap.bsnl.com/enquiry/search.asp When I tried the search string 'library' in "name - anywhere" I got 14 results. Out of this only 8 were real libraries. Then I did a search for the same string (library) in "address - anywhere", and I got 220 results. Twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad do have a few hundred libraries - big and small, public and private, academic & special -- all put together. Only very few of them (just 8) have phone numbers listed against their own identification as a library. The larger number of results in the second search shows that people use library to identify their addresses / location by saying near 'so and so library'. While librarians are failing to use telephone directory as a means to publicity or as a tool for communication, unintended publicity comes from the public -- of course non-library users! At least that way they find libraries useful! Any comments? Vyasamoorthy, P ================== Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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Fwd: [FAIFE-L] International Women's Day - Reporters Without Borders pays tribute
by Smita Chandra 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

Dear colleagues : Please go through this heart rendering report, posted at one of the IFLA forums, on the ocassion of International Women's Day today ! I apologize for cross-postings. Best, Smita-- Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism INDIA. Note: forwarded message attached. --------------------------------- Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web Dear colleagues : � Please go through this heart rendering report, posted at one of the IFLA forums, on the ocassion of International Women's Day today !� � I apologize for cross-postings. � Best, Smita-- Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism INDIA. Note: forwarded message attached. Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web

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Fw: [IAMSLIC:4929] Fwd: [CHMINF-L] American Chemical Society broadens access to its articles
by M P Tapaswi 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

Should be interest to the lis-forum members list Murari P Tapaswi National Info Centre for Marine Sciences (NICMAS) National Institute of Oceanography Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, India Phone: 91-(0)832-2450275 (Direct); 91-(0)832-2450450 (EPBX) Fax: 91-(0)832-2450605/603 URL: www.nio.org > >X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 > >X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) > >Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 13:34:03 -0500 > >Reply-To: CHEMICAL INFORMATION SOURCES > >DISCUSSION LIST > ><CHMINF-L(a)LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU> > >Sender: CHEMICAL INFORMATION SOURCES DISCUSSION > >LIST <CHMINF-L(a)LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU> > >From: Adam Chesler <a_chesler(a)ACS.ORG> > >Subject: [CHMINF-L] American Chemical Society broadens access to its articles > >To: CHMINF-L(a)LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU > > > >I believe the following will be of interest to readers of this list. Links > >to further information are at the bottom of the press release; you may feel > >free to contact me directly if you have any questions. > > > >American Chemical Society broadens access to its articles > >Conditions set for free availability one year after publication > > > >http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/article_access.html > >http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/article_access.pdf > > > > > >The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, is > >broadening access to research articles published in its 33 scholarly > >journals. The Society is introducing two new experimental policies that > >define how readers can view free digital versions of ACS articles beginning > >one year after publication. > > > >First, in response to public access guidelines recently released by the > >NIH(1), the ACS will post, for public accessibility 12 months after > >publication, the peer-reviewed version of authors' manuscripts on the > >National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central during 2005. The NIH policy > >encourages authors whose work it funds to submit their peer-reviewed > >manuscripts to PubMed Central, the agency's free digital archive of > >biomedical and life sciences journal literature. > > > >Commenting on this new service, ACS Publications Senior Vice President Brian > >Crawford said, "We understand that NIH-funded authors will wish to comply > >voluntarily with the NIH's policy request. By introducing this service, the > >ACS will take on the administrative burden of compliance and at the same > >time will ensure the integrity of the scientific literature by depositing > >the appropriate author version of the manuscript after peer-review." > > > >Second, as a value-added service to ACS authors and a method of further > >opening access to its content, the full-text version of all research > >articles published in ACS journals will be made available at no charge via > >an author-directed Web link 12 months after final publication. Allowing > >unrestricted access to articles 12 months after publication is an expansion > >of the Society's current practice of permitting 50 downloads of authors' > >articles free of charge during the first year of publication. This > >initiative will go into effect during 2005. > > > >"We are very pleased to expand access in this way to research published in > >ACS journals," said Crawford. "It is fundamental to the ACS mission to > >support and promote the research enterprise and to foster communication > >among its scientists. Providing unrestricted access via author-directed > >links 12 months after publication - in addition to the 50 free e-prints > >currently allowed during the first year of publication - reinforces that > >mission." > > > >Robert Bovenschulte, president of the ACS Publications Division, said "These > >experimental policies balance the important goal of expanding dissemination > >of research with the need to preserve the integrity of the scientific record > >as well as the viability of our journals program." > > > >The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization, chartered by the > >U.S. Congress, with a multidisciplinary membership of more than 158,000 > >chemists and chemical engineers. It publishes numerous scientific journals > >and databases, convenes major research conferences and provides educational, > >science policy and career programs in chemistry. Its main offices are in > >Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio. > > > >(1) Notice Number NOT-OD-05-022/ > >http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-022.html > > > >Released: March 7, 2005 > > > >#13859 > > > >Related Press Releases: > > > >· American Chemical Society broadens author-directed article access: > >http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/e_prints.html > > > >· American Chemical Society policy will offer service to authors of > >NIH-funded research articles: http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/nih.html > > > > > >*********************************************** > >Adam Chesler > >Assistant Director, Sales and Library Relations > >American Chemical Society > >1155 16th Street NW > >Washington, DC 20036 > > > >Office Telephone/FAX: (781) 381-2814 > >Cell Phone: (617) 230-3201 > >E-Mail: a_chesler(a)acs.org > > > >Web Site: pubs.acs.org > > > >CHMINF-L Archives (also to join or leave CHMINF-L, etc.) > >http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/chminf-l.html > >Search the CHMINF-L archives at: > >https://listserv.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/wa-iub.exe?S1=chminf-l > >Sponsors of CHMINF-L: > >http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/chminf-l_support.html

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[Fwd: ACS broadens access to its articles]
by Krishnan 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

Interesting development from ACS. ACS till date did not allow institutional archive of even pre-prints! Krishnan

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Interesting websites for Librarian's
by Jayadev P Hiremath 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

Hi, Screen savers : http://www.libraryhq.com/screensavers.html Neat new stuff on the net : http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html ISBN database : http://isbndb.com/ An Introduction to the Thought of S.R. Ranganathan for Information Architects http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/ranganathan_for_ias.php Teaching Library http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/ Happy surfing !! Jayadev P Hiremath

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Guidelines for Appropriate List Behavior
by Dr.P.V.Konnur 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

Dear All, I agree with Mr.Manjunath. It is too much to fight on the discussion forum. If they disagree to that extent, let them exchange mails on their individual mail addresses but not on the discussion forum. Let us stop it. There are many itelligent people who know little english and many English experts who know nothing in the subject. We need not argue so much on only one issue. We have so many new things to be discussed on the forum. The one like FAQs in Interviews etc, yes let new ideas be brought to all our notices. I visited the site refered by Mr.Manjunath, for all your convenience I have pasted the following few paragraphs of the Guidelines for appropriate List Behaviours. Let us at least try to follow them from now onwards. Thanks, Konnur. Guidelines for Appropriate List Behavior The following guidelines are offered as advice for how to best participate in this discussion in a manner that will both contribute to the experience of all readers and also reflect well on you. Say something substantial. Simply saying "I agree" (in so many words) or "I disagree" (in so many words) does not meet this guideline. Specific technical questions are, however, quite appropriate, as are brief answers to such questions. Say something new. Mere redundancy will not convince an opponent of their error. Explaining the same argument differently in an attempt to make them see the light has not been proven to be an effective strategy. "Getting the last word" is for children. We're all beyond the age when we should be concerned with being the one to end the argument. Just because you are the last to speak doesn't mean you won the argument. Agree to disagree. The likelihood of convincing someone to change a strongly held opinion is nil. State your case, but give up on the idea of converting the heathen. Take "conversations" off the list. When list interaction becomes two-sided (two individuals trading comments or arguments) it is a sign that you should take the discussion off the list and correspond with that person directly. If the discussion was of interest to the general membership you will see others posting on the topic as well. Remember that you are being judged by the quality of your contributions. No matter whether you are employed or not, or a certain age, or have a certain education, you can create a good professional reputation by how you contribute to a large electronic discussion like Web4Lib. On the other hand, you can ruin your reputation even faster and easier. NEVER send email in anger. Go ahead and compose a message in anger, since that may help you work through what you're angry about, but don't send it. Sleep on it. You will nearly always decide to not send it or to recompose it. There's a reason for that. Be civil. Treat others how you wish to be treated. No matter how insulting someone is to you, you will always look better to the bystanders (of which there are many, I hasten to remind you) by responding politely. Respect the rights of others. An electronic discussion is a commons. Your right to post ends at the right of others to not be insulted, badgered, or to have their time needlessly wasted. --- "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> wrote: > > I personally feel that, we had enough debate on this > issue and is time for > the LIS- FORUM to stop further discussion on it. My > apololgy, if the > moderator or the forum members feel otherwise. > > Many good suggestions have been offered by our friends. > Therefore, let > individuals decide the language in which they prefer to > communicate and > the language that is most required and accepted in their > organizations or > by the peer group. > > Needless to say that LIS FORUM accepts only English. > > The guidelines provided by Berkeley Digital Library site > for participating > in E-discussion seem to be very useful. Those interested > may find these at > > http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/ > > > thanks, > g.k.Manjunath > IGIDR, MUMBAI > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, A.V. Nagarathna wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > ........Response to Mr./Dr. Hiremath�� > > > > I am annoyed only because your arguments are not > logical. > > > > Basically members on this forum can offer their > suggestions when the > > argument is logical. > > > > I am surprised that you talk about decency! Can you > just read once again > > all your messages to this forum how decent the words > you have used�. > > Disservice�unwarranted�slaves to English�unfortunate > Indians�show > > oof...look down upon� > > By the way who are you to refer to others as > �unfortunate�� > > > > You are questioning me what is �show off�, it is you > who used these words > > in your message first time�if you can offer me > explanation what you mean > > by this.. I can give you reply� > > > > Don�t you understand even now, after reading several > messages on this > > forum explaining why you need to know English and when > you need it ? > > > > Who are you to declare Tamil is the language of > Bangalore? > > > > If you want to promote or advice usage of regional > languages, canvas in > > that language, why are you using English for this > purpose? Since you are > > opposing usage of English, first you have to implement > and stop using > > English before you advice others. > > > > In spite of several responses on this forum --- > explaining why English is > > essential, you are continuing to argue BLINDLY and > enforcing your �fixed > > concepts and ideas� on others. > > > > May be it is better to simply IGNORE messages with no > logical arguments, > > so that little time is saved. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Regards, > > AVNagarathna > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Dr.P.V.Konnur, University Librarian, Goa University Library, Taleigao Plateau, Goa - 403 206. Phone: 0832-2456031 (O) 0832-2451008 (R) __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/

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"National Workshop on Open Source Software for Libraries"
by T R B Sarma 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

Announcement for "National Workshop on Open Source Software for Libraries" to be held at ISEC, Bangalore between 4-5th, April 2005. The Institute for social and Economic Change (ISEC) is a multi-disciplinary research and training institute in Social Sciences. It is one of the major ICSSR research organizations established by Professor V K R V Rao, in the year 1972 in Bangalore. ISEC Library and NASSDOC-ICSSR will be jointly conducting a National Workshop on "Open Source Software for Libraries" between 4-5th, April 2005 at the campus of ISEC, Nagarabhavi PO, Dr. V.K.R.V Rao Avenue, Bangalore-560 072. The Institute is well equipped with fully air-conditioned seminar halls, a meeting room with Multi-media and OHP facilities. The Workshop is designed to be a lecture - cum - demonstration on the following topics: 1.. E Prints Software 2.. Web designing Technology for librarians 3.. Introduction on "Digitization of Library and Information Centres. 4.. DSPACE Software 5.. Open Source Software for libraries 6.. Open Source Digital Library Software etc., There is no registration fee for the course participants. Participants will get conference material and free boarding for two days. The organizers will provide accommodation by charging a nominal fee of Rs. 125/- per day per participant at institute's guesthouse. Intake of the participants has restricted to 30 members only. Preference will be given to Social Science institution library professionals. Registration will be allowed on first cum and first served basis. Interested participants may please fill the enclosed registration form and transmit to the undersigned through e-mail or post for consideration at the earliest. TRB SARMA Librarian cum Course Cooridinator Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) Nagarabhavi, Bangalore. 560 072 (Karnataka) Telephone No.s 080-23215468/23215592 Extension 302 Fax: 080-23217008; E-mail trbsarma(a)isec.ac.in NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON "OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE FOR LIBRARIES" April 4-5, 2005 at ISEC, Banglaore - 560 072 Registration Form Name Mr/Ms/Dr : Designation & Official Address : Residential Address : Phones (Office and Res.) : Fax Nos. : E-mail : Accommodation needed : Yes or No Date: Signature TRB SARMA Librarian, ISEC Nagarabhavi, Bangalore. 560 072. E-mail : trbsarma(a)isec.ac.in Telephone: 080-23215468 Extn. 302 Announcement for "National Workshop on Open Source Software for Libraries" to be held at ISEC, Bangalore between 4-5 th , April 2005. The Institute for social and Economic Change (ISEC) is a multi-disciplinary research and training institute in Social Sciences. It is one of the major ICSSR research organizations established by Professor V K R V Rao, in the year 1972 in Bangalore . ISEC Library and NASSDOC-ICSSR will be jointly conducting a National Workshop on "Open Source Software for Libraries" between 4-5 th , April 2005 at the campus of ISEC, Nagarabhavi PO, Dr. V.K.R.V Rao Avenue, Bangalore-560 072 . The Institute is well equipped with fully air-conditioned seminar halls, a meeting room with Multi-media and OHP facilities. The Workshop is designed to be a lecture - cum - demonstration on the following topics: E Prints Software Web designing Technology for librarians Introduction on "Digitization of Library and Information Centres. DSPACE Software Open Source Software for libraries Open Source Digital Library Software etc., There is no registration fee for the course participants. Participants will get conference material and free boarding for two days. The organizers will provide accommodation by charging a nominal fee of Rs. 125/- per day per participant at institute's guesthouse. Intake of the participants has restricted to 30 members only. Preference will be given to Social Science institution library professionals. Registration will be allowed on first cum and first served basis. Interested participants may please fill the enclosed registration form and transmit to the undersigned through e-mail or post for consideration at the earliest. TRB SARMA Librarian cum Course Cooridinator Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) Nagarabhavi, Bangalore. 560 072 (Karnataka) Telephone No.s 080-23215468/23215592 Extension 302 Fax: 080-23217008; E-mail trbsarma(a)isec.ac.in NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON "OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE FOR LIBRARIES" April 4-5, 2005 at ISEC, Banglaore - 560 072 Registration Form Name Mr/Ms/Dr : Designation & Official Address : Residential Address : Phones (Office and Res.) : Fax Nos. : E-mail : Accommodation needed : Yes or No Date: Signature TRB SARMA Librarian, ISEC Nagarabhavi, Bangalore. 560 072. E-mail : mailto:trbsarma@isec.ac.in trbsarma(a)isec.ac.in Telephone: 080-23215468 Extn. 302

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Google Desktop Search Adds PDF, Multimedia.
by Farooque Shaheen 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

Google has launched an updated version of its desktop search tool (desktop.google.com) today whose enhancements include the ability to search the full text of Adobe PDF files and the metadata of multimedia files (Music, Images &Videos). Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 Google �has launched an updated version of its desktop search tool (desktop.google.com) today whose enhancements include the ability to search the full text of Adobe PDF files and the metadata of multimedia files (Music, Images &Videos). Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Don't Shoot the Dog!
by Mailing List Manager 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:31:24 +0530 From: Prafulla Chandra <prafulla(a)nisc.co.in> Dear All, I would like to buy a copy of the following book: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Extract from Amazon.com "Don't Shoot the Dog! : The New Art of Teaching and Training by KAREN PRYOR Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Bantam; Revised edition (August 3, 1999) ISBN: 0553380397 Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces. (View shipping rates and policies) Average Customer Review: based on 60 reviews. (Write a review) Amazon.com Sales Rank in Books: #866 List price $15 Amazon.com price $10.20" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is this book available in any Indian bookshop/library/personal collection? If not, what is the least expensive mode of acquiring it from abroad. I feel that amazon.com's shipping & handling charges are too high for an average Indian buyer who wishes to develop his personal collection. I would like to hear the experiences of list members on the use of credit card for such purchases from abroad. Many thanks in advance for your help. Sincerely T..V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor P.S. By the way, the title of the book is quite misleading. Although the book seems to deal with dog training, in fact, it is meant mainly for humans (as well as for dog trainers!) and offers valuable insights on human behaviour and its modification. Amazon.com offers a few pages. Enjoy! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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free E-books on Biological Science (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 02:17:09 -0800 (PST) From: raghavendra naidu <raghav_lis(a)yahoo.com> Dear Sir/Madam/Friends, iam doing my academic project on "E- Resource on Biological science".so if you know any free e-books and e-journals relating to Biological science please send me. with warm regards Raghavendra Dept.of Library and Information Science Manasagangothri Mysore.

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clarification
by Mailing List Manager 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

Date: 4 Mar 2005 09:05:14 -0000 From: anju govindani <anjugovindani(a)rediffmail.com> Dear friends, Please inform the qualifications of Asst. Librarian according to UGC norms to serve in college? A master degree in Science + B. LIS is sufficient for the same or M.LIS is = essential for the post? I am confused ,An immediate response is really appreciated. anju govindani

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Communication skills
by Mailing List Manager 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 07:15:14 -0500 (EST) From: UPENDRA PANDYA <upendra(a)myway.com> Hello, Communication skill is essential in this information age. We are as a Librarian and information provider, we require to presentation such information in perticular form and style and some time at the occation of seminar, conferance, etc.. Congratulation to the Head of the department of LIS , Mysore University to make the decision to introduce this subject as a one paper in the MLis study. Thanks. Upendra PandyaV S Library,Indian Institute of ManagementVastrapur Road, AHMEDABADE-Mail : Upendra(a)myway.com Upendraiim(a)rediffmail.com Mobile : 9879301847Phone : (079) 26324979 -

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Digital Library
by Casius C Issac 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

Dear subscribers I am a new member to these discussion lists . Grateful for your views on subject topic What is a Digital library ? Is it the combination of the following activities 1 Accessing library catalogue online (WEBOPAC) 2 accessing online commercial databases through Internet 3 creation of databases of subject specific or document specific (PhD Thesis; Project Reports ; reprints ) 4 Communicating electronically among librarians and user population In addition to the above anything more is included in the concept of digital library ? . How far the concept developed from theoretical aspect to practicality ? I presume that digital libraries helps librarians to improve service efficiencies to their patrons. Can I request subscribers of these lists to list few advantages they gained in their service efficiency due to digitalisation to their library .( preferably own experience ). Regards Casius Dear subscribers I am a new member to these discussion lists . Grateful for your views on subject topic What is a Digital library ? Is it the combination of the following activities 1 Accessing library catalogue online (WEBOPAC) 2 accessing online commercial databases through Internet 3 creation of databases of subject specific or document specific (PhD Thesis; Project Reports ; reprints ) 4 Communicating electronically among librarians and user population In addition to the above anything more is included in the concept of digital library ? . How far the concept developed from theoretical aspect to practicality ? I presume that digital libraries helps librarians to improve service efficiencies to their patrons. Can I request subscribers of these lists to list few advantages they gained in their service efficiency due to digitalisation to their library .( preferably own experience ). Regards Casius

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Fw: OA and the developing world
by Subbiah Arunachalam 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

Friends: Attached is a short article I wrote for the National Medical Journal of India a few months ago. Best wishes. Arun

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Language issues
by Rajesh P 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

Dear Moderator, All languages have their place under the sun with varying degree of importance. You need your mother tongue, your regional language, your national language and also English. I sincerely feel that one should not be at the cost of other. Moreover, it is natural for human beings to take pride in their own language. Time to put an end to this thread ? Regards. Raj ===== __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/

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Something for Windows and Macintosh
by Jayadev P Hiremath 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

Hi, Might be of use to you. Regards. Jayadev P Hiremath SecretMaker 4.1.4 http://www.secretmaker.com/update/default.html With more and more people sending all types of sensitive information via the Internet, this handy application should prove to be something that will be useful for many individuals. This application combines several tools, including a spam fighter, a pop-up blocker, history cleaners, and a cookie eraser. Additionally, users can create their own specialized plug-ins. This version of SecretMaker is compatible with all operating systems running Windows 98 and newer. NewsMac 3.1.3 http://www.thinkmac.co.uk/newsmac/index.html Individuals who seek to take control of the vast news sources on the Web will definitely want to take a look at the latest version of NewsMac offered here. The application allows visitors to bring together all of their favorite news sites into one place, along with performing full-text keyword searches. Of course, users can also synch all of this material up with their iPod devices as well. The rather sleek and well-designed interface is another highlight of this application. NewsMac 3.1.3 is compatible with all operating systems running Mac OS X 10.3 or later.

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Why do we need high proficiency in English language?
by Aman Jha 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Dear friends, English may have transformed the world, but with non-native speakers now outnumbering native speakers 3 to 1, the language is being reshaped in return. In Asia, alone, the number of English users has topped 350 million, roughly the combined populations of the United States, Britain and Canada. Please read the recent article "NOT THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH?", published in the NEWSWEEK (7 March 2005), and you will find answer why do we need high proficiency in English lanugage. Some quotes are mentioned below for your info: "We tell students you need two things to succeed: English and computers," says Chetan Kumar, a Euro Languages manager "Within a decade, 2 billion people will be studying English and about half the world - some 3 billion people - will speak it", according to a recent report from the British Council As one 12-year-old self-taught English-speaker from China's southwestern Sichuan province says, "If you can't speak English, it's like you're deaf and dumb." "Indeed, English has become the common linguistic denominator. Whether you're a Korean executive on business in Shanghai, a German Eurocrat hammering out laws in Brussels or a Brazilian biochemist at a conference in Sweden, you're probably speaking English", Says author of this article CARLA POWER. Regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-5014060-67 * Fax: 0124-5014080

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English...?
by A.V. Nagarathna 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Dear All, ........Response to Mr./Dr. Hiremath I am annoyed only because your arguments are not logical. Basically members on this forum can offer their suggestions when the argument is logical. I am surprised that you talk about decency! Can you just read once again all your messages to this forum how decent the words you have used. Disserviceunwarrantedslaves to Englishunfortunate Indiansshow oof...look down upon By the way who are you to refer to others as unfortunate You are questioning me what is show off, it is you who used these words in your message first timeif you can offer me explanation what you mean by this.. I can give you reply Dont you understand even now, after reading several messages on this forum explaining why you need to know English and when you need it ? Who are you to declare Tamil is the language of Bangalore? If you want to promote or advice usage of regional languages, canvas in that language, why are you using English for this purpose? Since you are opposing usage of English, first you have to implement and stop using English before you advice others. In spite of several responses on this forum --- explaining why English is essential, you are continuing to argue BLINDLY and enforcing your fixed concepts and ideas on others. May be it is better to simply IGNORE messages with no logical arguments, so that little time is saved. Thank you, Regards, AVNagarathna

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Advertisement for Librarian
by mouni＠nitt.edu 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Dear Sirs, Alagappa University, Karaikuid, Tamil Nadu has advertised for the following posts for its library. 1. University Librarian - GT 2. Dy. Librrian - GT 3. Assistasnt Librarian - GT Eligibility is as per the UGC norms. Applications and other conditions can be downloaded from the website http://www.aluniv.org. P. Mounissamy National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli-620 015 Tamil Nadu ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP(http://www.nitt.edu)

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MyLISA Monthly Lecture - March 2005
by SUNIL M.V. 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Dear Professional, Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association MyLISA, Mysore Invites you for An Exposition on INTERNET RESOURCES FOR LIBRARIES BY Smt. V. Vijayalakshmi Faculty, CIST (Center for Information Science and Technology) University of Mysore, Mysore On 5th March 2005 at 3.30pm Venue: Vidyanidhi Seminar Hall Department of Library and Information Science Manasagangothri, University of Mysore Mysore MyLISA Sunil MV Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development No. 1, Chamundi Hill Road Siddartha Nagar, Mysore Phone : 0821 - 2420490/491 2429722/161 Fax: 0821-2425557 --------------------------------- Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web Dear Professional, � Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association MyLISA, Mysore � Invites you for � An Exposition on INTERNET RESOURCES FOR LIBRARIES � BY Smt. V. Vijayalakshmi Faculty, CIST (Center for Information Science and Technology) University of Mysore, Mysore � On 5 th March 2005 at 3.30pm � Venue: Vidyanidhi Seminar Hall Department of Library and Information Science Manasagangothri, University of Mysore Mysore � MyLISA Sunil MV Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development No. 1, Chamundi Hill Road Siddartha Nagar, Mysore Phone : 0821 - 2420490/491 2429722/161 Fax: 0821-2425557 Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web

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Library to Offer audio books on iPod.
by Farooque Shaheen 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

South Huntington Public Library , New York, became one of the first public libraries in the country to loan out iPod shuffles bundled with audio books. For detail " http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,66756,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4" Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 South Huntington Public Library , New York, became one of the first public libraries in the country to loan out iPod shuffles bundled with audio books. For detail � � "http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,66756,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4" Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Phishing - U should know this - read on
by Ravi Nandhan 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Dear All, I was checking my Gmail and came across the term 'Phishing' in the mail option. Gmail is a very good mail service and is still in beta and one of the best available today. Gmail is good for lot many reasons like search facility for mails that you receive, labeling the mails for organizing, and of course Phishing. It is important for any LIS professionals to be with the latest technology. Phishing: Phishing is a form of fraud in which a message sender pretends to be a representative of a legitimate organization in an attempt to trick the recipient into divulging important personal information like a password or bank account number. If you believe the message that you got is a phishing attack, you can report it to the Gmail abuse team and help thwart the attack and others like it. Reporting this message as an attack will send the entire message to Gmail the team for review. To learn more just open Gmail that you have received and in the 'Show options' link you can find out more about this (check out wiht friends if you do not have a gmail id). Many of you would remember the mails that you would have forwarded to others thinking that the forward would fetch help to someone in trouble or promising a prize like a mobile phone etc. and the sender would have requested a copy to the original sender. This is nothing but drama to fetch the new email ids' and to send unsolicited or spam mails to the available mail Ids'. Pls remember not to send any such forwards as all the recepients would get so many spams. Try getting Gmail from your friends and start using it immediately as it requires invitation. I can help some of you as I have a few invitations. Wirh regards from, Sahini R Sahana MIM IV Sem, DOS in LIS, Manasa Gangothri, Univ. of Mysore, Mysore -- Wit Luv & Care Urs Ravi

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GDN/BLDS Document Delivery Service
by Shyam Prasad pujar 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Dear Members, Global Development Network (GDN) and the British Library of Development Studies (BLDS) have teamed up to bring you the GDN/BLDS Document Delivery service to meet the information needs of research institutes in the developing and transition countries and can be accessed by GDNet Organization Contacts. If your organization do not have GDNET profile, go to the organization sign up page to create one. The costs of delivering the documents are covered by GDN so there are NO COSTS to you. This is a very good facility especially for Social Science libraries in India. More information can be found at: http://www.gdnet.org/online_services/journals/gdn_journal_services/document… 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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Don't Shoot the Dog!
by Prafulla Chandra 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Dear All, I would like to buy a copy of the following book: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Extract from Amazon.com "Don't Shoot the Dog! : The New Art of Teaching and Training by KAREN PRYOR Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Bantam; Revised edition (August 3, 1999) ISBN: 0553380397 Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces. (View shipping rates and policies) Average Customer Review: based on 60 reviews. (Write a review) Amazon.com Sales Rank in Books: #866 List price $15 Amazon.com price $10.20" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is this book available in any Indian bookshop/library/personal collection? If not, what is the least expensive mode of acquiring it from abroad. I feel that amazon.com's shipping & handling charges are too high for an average Indian buyer who wishes to develop his personal collection. I would like to hear the experiences of list members on the use of credit card for such purchases from abroad. Many thanks in advance for your help. Sincerely T..V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor P.S. By the way, the title of the book is quite misleading. Although the book seems to deal with dog training, in fact, it is meant mainly for humans (as well as for dog trainers!) and offers valuable insights on human behaviour and its modification. Amazon.com offers a few pages. Enjoy! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Frequently Asked Interview Questions
by Jayadev P Hiremath 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

A compilation from From SLIS, South Carolina 1. Describe your strengths and weaknesses. 2. Considering your education and work experience, why do you feel you are qualified for this job? 3. What do you see as the value of belonging to professional organizations? 4. Why did you apply for this job? 5. What is your philosophy of collection development? 6. Do you like working with people? 7. Do you have any experience with audio-visual materials? 8. Do you have any experience in setting up displays? 9. How do you feel that your education has prepared you for this job? 10. Where do you expect to be professionally in five years? 11. How would you handle a person who objects to a sex education book on the shelf? 12. How would you handle a question over the phone that you canít answer immediately? 13. Is there any time that you would refuse to answer a patronís request? 14. If we ask your present supervisor what your present strengths are, what would he/she say? 15. Why should we hire you? 16. Name two books you have read within the past two months and describe one of them as though you were recommending it to a patron to read. Why would they want to read it? 17. What qualities do you think we should look for in a prospective reference librarian? 18. Considering your working career, tell about the most stressful event you ever faced, and how you coped with it. 19. Picture this: It is 5:00 PM and you are relieving the day shift. You are the only reference librarian on the desk and the following are waiting for help. In what order would you answer them and why? a. A young child with a homework assignment b. A trivia question; the contest is on now. c. A woman who has just read Jannette Daileyís latest book and wants a recommendation for a similar book. d. An elderly couple wanting advice on how to do their genealogy. e. The city managerís office is on the telephone. 20. What did you do to prepare for this interview? 21. What is your style of leadership? 22. Describe your ideal job. 23. What was your most challenging supervisory experience? 24. What do you like most about archival work? 25. Describe differences among patrons in a public library, an academic library, and a special library. 26. If you were assisting a person at the reference desk and the telephone rang, what would you do? 27. After you have eliminated the backlog, how do you see this job as challenging to you? What will motivate you to come to work? 28. Why did you elect to attend the University of South Carolina? 29. Why did you choose librarianship as a career? 30. Can you tell us about a particularly tense or chaotic situation at the reference desk and how you handled the incident? 31. What would you do if you heard a staff member provide a patron with an incorrect answer? 32. Tell us about a team or group project you have worked on and how you have contributed to it. 33. Tell us about your experience with information technology. 34. Why are you interested in this particular career? 35. What strengths do you bring to a reference position and what areas would you like to improve? 36. What are the things you particularly like about your present job? 37. What was your most important work-related accomplishment in the past year? 38. What contributions could you make to our library? 39. How would you describe your management philosophy? 40. What type of management style do you prefer? 41. What sorts of people do you enjoy working with most? 42. What kinds of situations do you find stressful? 43. What would you do if you were at the desk and both the phones were ringing and there were three or four patrons already waiting and a demanding professor interrupted? 44. Outline your science background, including: science coursework, library school coursework in science reference, and science library experience. 45. What is your public service experience, including bibliographic instruction, reference desk, and collection development? 46. What is your knowledge and/or experience of library technology: CD ROMís, online searching, OPACs, Internet. 47. How does this position fit into the career path you have set for yourself? 48. Give us an example of a time in which you felt you were able to build motivation in your coworkers or fellow students in school. 49. Describe the most significant achievement or written project/presentation/report which you have had to complete. 50. What are your strengths and weaknesses as a librarian? 51. Give us an example you did in a former job that contributed to a teamwork environment. 52. What would you do if you were unsure of how to answer a reference question? 53. What are your current research interests? 54. The role of the reference librarian and the reference department has changed a lot in the past five years and will probably continue to change. How do you see reference service changing in the next five years?

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Re: [sla-kiie] Call for Volunteers and Suggestions, SLA Natural Disaster Taskfor ce
by Smita Chandra 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Dear Professionals, Please go through the mail below. A special request to our professional bodies, please take congizance of the message being conveyed. Regards, Smita-- (SLA-SF Bay Region Twinning Member 2003-2005) Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218. INDIA Ph. 91-22-27484137 "Robertson, Dav (NIH/NIEHS)" <robert11(a)niehs.nih.gov> wrote: To all members of the International Information Exchange Caucus: SLA seeks your suggestions on how we might be able to assist in the recovery effort following the tsunami in Southern Asia. We have urged our members to make financial donations; now we are trying to determine how we can apply our expertise in information organization and delivery to be of assistance. SLA President Ethel Salonen has established a Taskforce on Natural Disasters with the following mandate: "To investigate and establish ways in which the global community of information professionals can contribute their expertise in information organization and access to the recovery efforts following the tsunami in south Asia. The focus will be on voluntary contributions of time and resources rather than direct financial donations. Vital to this effort will be alliances between SLA and other library and information organizations to make the best use of the knowledge and skills of the informal, international network of information professionals. The resulting methodology will be used as a model for providing assistance in future instances of natural disasters." For example, the Taskforce is establishing a recovery information response center that will be composed of an international network of volunteers who will respond to questions from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other aid groups. These volunteers will do online searches and provide reference assistance in areas such as clinical medicine, environmental clean-up, ecological restoration, business development, disaster recovery, and library restoration. The focal point will be SLA, but the network will be an alliance of volunteers from library associations around the world. The alliance is called the Information Professionals' Alliance on Natural Disasters and Accidents (IPANDA). Here's how you can help: Volunteer to be a responder in the recovery information response network. There will be no reimbursement for expenses, so your time and your organization's resources will have to be donated. Be sure to get your organization's permission to use its commercial databases. If you work for an organization that has significant publications, collections or human resources that relate to disasters or disaster recovery, send a brief description and contact information to the Taskforce to become part of a resource directory. Tell the Taskforce about NGOs or other organizations you know of that might have an immediate need to use the recovery information response network so the Taskforce can send them descriptive information. Send other suggestions to the Taskforce about how SLA and other library organizations might be able to assist the people, libraries, and recovery organizations in south Asia. (We need ideas beyond the direct financial contributions SLA is already urging its members to make.) Contact the Taskforce at IPANDA(a)sla.org. More information will be forthcoming, especially for those who volunteer to be information responders. The Taskforce is targeting March 2005 to begin the response network. Best regards to all, Davenport ("Dav") Robertson, Chair SLA Taskforce on Natural Disasters ************************* Davenport ("Dav") Robertson, M.S.L.S. Library Director National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences P.O.Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 robert11(a)niehs.nih.gov (919)541-1386 Fax (919)541-0669 --- You are currently subscribed to sla-kiie as: smitac_in(a)yahoo.com To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-sla-kiie-120509735H(a)lists.sla.org ********************************************************************************** Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218 Maharashtra, INDIA Ph.: 91-022-27484137 (9.30AM-6.00PM, excluding Sat/Sun) Fax: 91-022-27480763 Email : iiglib(a)iigs.iigm.res.in (official) smitac_in(a)yahoo.com (personal) ********************************************************************************** --------------------------------- Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web Dear Professionals, � Please go through the mail below. A special request to our professional bodies,� please take congizance of the message being conveyed. � Regards, � Smita-- (SLA-SF Bay Region Twinning Member 2003-2005) Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218. INDIA Ph. 91-22-27484137 "Robertson, Dav (NIH/NIEHS)" <robert11(a)niehs.nih.gov> wrote: To all members of the International Information Exchange Caucus: SLA seeks your suggestions on how we might be able to assist in the recovery effort following the tsunami in Southern Asia.� We have urged our members to make financial donations; now we are trying to determine how we can apply our expertise in information organization and delivery to be of assistance. SLA President Ethel Salonen has established a Taskforce on Natural Disasters with the following mandate: "To investigate and establish ways in which the global community of information professionals can contribute their expertise in information organization and access to the recovery efforts following the tsunami in south Asia. The focus will be on voluntary contributions of time and resources rather than direct financial donations. Vital to this effort will be alliances between SLA and other library and information organizations to make the best use of the knowledge and skills of the informal, international network of information professionals. The resulting methodology will be used as a model for providing assistance in future instances of natural disasters." For example, the Taskforce is establishing a recovery information response center that will be composed of an international network of volunteers who will respond to questions from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other aid groups.� These volunteers will do online searches and provide reference assistance in areas such as clinical medicine, environmental clean-up, ecological restoration, business development, disaster recovery, and library restoration.� The focal point will be SLA, but the network will be an alliance of volunteers from library associations around the world.� The alliance is called the Information Professionals' Alliance on Natural Disasters and Accidents (IPANDA). Here's how you can help: Volunteer to be a responder in the recovery information response network.� There will be no reimbursement for expenses, so your time and your organization's resources will have to be donated.� Be sure to get your organization's permission to use its commercial databases. If you work for an organization that has significant publications, collections or human resources that relate to disasters or disaster recovery, send a brief description and contact information to the Taskforce to become part of a resource directory. Tell the Taskforce about NGOs or other organizations you know of that might have an immediate need to use the recovery information response network so the Taskforce can send them descriptive information. Send other suggestions to the Taskforce about how SLA and other library organizations might be able to assist the people, libraries, and recovery organizations in south Asia.� (We need ideas beyond the direct financial contributions SLA is already urging its members to make.) Contact the Taskforce at IPANDA@sla.org.� More information will be forthcoming, especially for those who volunteer to be information responders.� The Taskforce is targeting March 2005 to begin the response network.� Best regards to all, Davenport ("Dav") Robertson, Chair SLA Taskforce on Natural Disasters ************************* Davenport ("Dav") Robertson, M.S.L.S. Library Director National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences P.O.Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 mailto:robert11@niehs.nih.gov robert11(a)niehs.nih.gov (919)541-1386�� Fax (919)541-0669 --- You are currently subscribed to sla-kiie as: smitac_in(a)yahoo.com To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-sla-kiie-120509735H(a)lists.sla.org **********************************************************************************� Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218 Maharashtra, INDIA Ph .: 91-022-27484137 (9.30AM-6.00PM, excluding Sat/Sun) Fax : 91-022-27480763 Email : mailto:iiglib@iigs.iigm.res.in iiglib(a)iigs.iigm.res.in �(official) �� mailto:smitac_in@yahoo.com smitac_in(a)yahoo.com �(personal) ********************************************************************************** Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web

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Communication and presentation skills are not English language centric, Classification and cataloguing.........
by Jayadev P Hiremath 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Hi, Lot's of initiatives by Mysore University L & IS Department and others too. Though commendable, I am still unable to digest the fact that everything is terribly English centric. To begin with ...Communication skills and Presentation skills can be put into action in any language. You do not need mastery in English language to show off your competencies in Communication and Presentation skills. PowerPoint will certainly come in handy !! Mysore University is in Karnataka and the regional language is Kannada. There is a vast amount of Knowledge available in the regional language, thousands of books are published every year in Kannada. All the public and academic libraries in Karnataka, stock Kannada books. Old Kannada manuscripts are a source of history. Technical processing of these books is hampered due to lack of in-depth Kannada language skills of L & IS professionals . I would like to know what Mysore University L & IS is doing for the language of the land. Taking pride in producing Library Science graduates with all the English language, Communication, Presentation and IT skills and all the soft skiils sounds fantastic But does anybody think of the regional languages or the National language ? Doesn't Mysore University have to bother about this. Majority of the LIS teachers in India are fully concentrating on imparting knowledge directly relevant to L & IS sphere and they are the ones who need to be appreciated. English language, communication and presentation skills and other soft skills are secondary and need not be taught in a PG Course devoted to a specialized field. This would not only lead to diversion of limited resources but also affect the students who have just two years to learn about library and information science, gain a solid foundation and build their whole career upon it. All the softskills required for survival in the big bad world of WORKING can be picked up over a period of time or instantly from Training shops. With high unemployment rates there is no possiblity of Campus interviews or Job fairs during LIS Conferences. An essential skill for a freshly minted LIS graduate would be...... how to write a resume, how to hunt for a job and how to face an interview ? Does any LIS Department in India teach this ? Classification, Cataloguing and Indexing of Books : In India we keep reinventing the wheel. The same monograph is classified, catalogued and indexed in thousands libraries by thousands of professionals. It's high time this duplication of work comes to an end. The time, money and resources consumed by this task is phenomenal and can be put to better use in serving the customers. With the advent of library automation and internet penetration we can easily download the bibliographical details of monographs inclusive of call numbers and keywords from various WebPACs and integrate them into individual library's databases, may be after incorporating certain local variations. We are in the twenty first century and the days or original cataloging at individual library level are over, especially with respect to titles published in English. Copy cataloging should be embraced whole heartedly. With regards. Jayadev P Hiremath

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by Jayadev P Hiremath 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Dear Ramesh, This is commendable. I do hope other Universities take note of this and organise such fruitful activity which benefit fresh graduates. Regards. Jayadev On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 11:47:04 +0530, Dr. Ramesh B <bramesha(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Dear Jayadev, > > In response to your comment in the list form I would like to bring to > your kind notice that the Department of Information Science, University of > Madras is conducting campus interviews for fresh graduates and at the same > time we are giving ideas who to face the interview and writing a resume. > Very recently we had conducted such interviews in our department, there are > three candidates have qualified in this process. > > This is for your kind information. > > With good regards, > > Ramesh > > **********------------------- > Dr. RAMESH > LECTURER, > DEPT. OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, > UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS, > CHENNAI - 600 005. > PHONE: 044 - 28442376 (R) > 044 - 25368778 Extn. 278 > 044 - 25385078 > E-mail: bramesha(a)hotmail.com > bramesha(a)rediffmail.com > >From: Jayadev P Hiremath <jayadevph(a)gmail.com> >Reply-To: Jayadev P > Hiremath <jayadevph(a)gmail.com> >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Subject: > [LIS-Forum] Communication and presentation skills are not Englishlanguage > centric, Classification and cataloguing......... >Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 > 12:02:49 +0300 > >Hi, > >Lot's of initiatives by Mysore University L & IS > Department and others >too. Though commendable, I am still unable to digest > the fact that >everything is terribly English centric. To begin with > ...Communication >skills and Presentation skills can be put into action in > any language. >You do not need mastery in English language to show off your > >competencies in Communication and Presentation skills. PowerPoint >will > certainly come in handy !! > >Mysore University is in Karnataka and the > regional language is >Kannada. There is a vast amount of Knowledge available > in the regional >language, thousands of books are published every year in > Kannada. All >the public and academic libraries in Karnataka, stock Kannada > books. >Old Kannada manuscripts are a source of history. Technical > processing >of these books is hampered due to lack of in-depth Kannada > language >skills of L & IS professionals . I would like to know what Mysore > >University L & IS is doing for the language of the land. > >Taking pride in > producing Library Science graduates with all the >English language, > Communication, Presentation and IT skills and all >the soft skiils sounds > fantastic But does anybody think of the >regional languages or the National > language ? Doesn't Mysore >University have to bother about this. > >Majority > of the LIS teachers in India are fully concentrating on >imparting knowledge > directly relevant to L & IS sphere and they are >the ones who need to be > appreciated. English language, communication >and presentation skills and > other soft skills are secondary and need >not be taught in a PG Course > devoted to a specialized field. This >would not only lead to diversion of > limited resources but also affect >the students who have just two years to > learn about library and >information science, gain a solid foundation and > build their whole >career upon it. > >All the softskills required for > survival in the big bad world of >WORKING can be picked up over a period of > time or instantly from >Training shops. > >With high unemployment rates > there is no possiblity of Campus >interviews or Job fairs during LIS > Conferences. An essential skill >for a freshly minted LIS graduate would > be...... how to write a >resume, how to hunt for a job and how to face an > interview ? Does any >LIS Department in India teach this ? > > >Classification, Cataloguing and Indexing of Books : In India we keep > >reinventing the wheel. The same monograph is classified, catalogued >and > indexed in thousands libraries by thousands of professionals. It's >high > time this duplication of work comes to an end. The time, money >and > resources consumed by this task is phenomenal and can be put to >better use > in serving the customers. With the advent of library >automation and > internet penetration we can easily download the >bibliographical details of > monographs inclusive of call numbers and >keywords from various WebPACs and > integrate them into individual >library's databases, may be after > incorporating certain local >variations. We are in the twenty first century > and the days or >original cataloging at individual library level are over, > especially >with respect to titles published in English. Copy cataloging > should be >embraced whole heartedly. > >With regards. > >Jayadev P Hiremath > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list > >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > ________________________________ > Apply to over 75,000 jobs now. Post your CV on naukri.com today.

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Digital Library
by Thapar, Amit 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Dear friends, I wanted to know in detail about creation of digital library , its hardware and software requirements. Many of you know about the whole concept of Digital Library so, i think all of you will help me out. regards, Amit Thapar Library & Information Centre National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research (NIPER) Sector-67, Phase-10 S.A.S.Nagar-160062, Punjab, INDIA Phone: 0172-2214682-87 Ext. 2073 Mobile: 09417419457 e-mail: amitt(a)niper.ac.in amit.niper(a)gmail.com http://www.niper.ac.in/ " The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." Dear friends, I wanted to know in detail about creation of digital library , its hardware and software requirements. Many of you know about the whole concept of Digital Library so, i think all of you will help me out. regards, Amit Thapar Library & Information Centre National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research (NIPER) Sector-67, Phase-10 S.A.S.Nagar-160062, Punjab, INDIA Phone: 0172-2214682-87 Ext. 2073 Mobile: 09417419457 e-mail: mailto:amitt@niper.ac.in amitt(a)niper.ac.in mailto:amit.niper@gmail.com amit.niper(a)gmail.com http://www.niper.ac.in/ http://www.niper.ac.in/ " The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

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GDN/BLDS Document Delivery Service
by Shyam Prasad pujar 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Dear Members, Global Development Network (GDN) and the British Library of Development Studies (BLDS) have teamed up to bring you the GDN/BLDS Document Delivery service to meet the information needs of research institutes in the developing and transition countries and can be accessed by GDNet Organization Contacts. If your organization do not have GDNET profile, go to the organization sign up page to create one. The costs of delivering the documents are covered by GDN so there are NO COSTS to you. This is a very good facility especially for Social Science libraries in India. More information can be found at: http://www.gdnet.org/online_services/journals/gdn_journal_services/document… 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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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 24, Issue 5
by vasanth raj 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Dear Sir, its very fascinating week for LISC professionals.At last we break our shackles and come to know that English is the language which is very much need for us to communicate in this global village. But still there is lot of debate about weather one should have mastery over English language or not. Dr S.R. Ranganthan himself stated in one of his book " Reference services".That if he didn't not visit England and got associated with Some of leading professionals in England at that time.He could not able to introduce and practise the concept of reference service in India in a systematic way. Was Dr. Ranganthan communicated in regional language to get know about the Reference Service?. Even tourist guide in places like Agra, Delhi. Rajasthan etc are earning 40.000 to 50.000 in a season by explaining the history and cultural heritage of India to Western people in English If we are not associated with the other world it is very difficult for us to know the new developments.In regional language we can only able to know the tips of an iceberg. English is used from so many years and it is the livelihood for so many in this Information society. regards Vasantha Raju N Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Sir, its very fascinating week for LISC professionals.At last we break our shackles and come to know that English is the language which is very much need for us to communicate in this global village. But still there is lot of debate about weather one should have mastery over English language or not. Dr S.R. Ranganthan himself stated in one of his book " Reference services".That if he didn't not visit England and got associated with Some of leading professionals in England at that time.He could not able to introduce and practise the concept of reference service in India in a systematic way. Was Dr. Ranganthan communicated in regional language to get know about the Reference Service?. Even tourist guide in places like Agra, Delhi. Rajasthan etc are earning 40.000 to 50.000 in a season by explaining the history and cultural heritage of India to Western people in English If we are not associated with the other world it is very difficult for us to know the new developments.In regional language we can only able to know the tips of an iceberg. English is used from so many years and it is the livelihood for so many in this Information society. regards Vasantha Raju N http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Connotea-Free Reference Management Service from Nature
by Madhuresh 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Nature Publishing Group has developed a tool to help you store, manage and share your online references and links. Connotea is a free, easy-to-use service, where you can save and annotate reference lists and links with one click, and discover new publications by viewing other user's links. In Connotea, every user's links are visible both to visitors and to every other user, and different users' libraries are linked together through the use of common tags or common bookmarks. Connotea also recognises links to certain websites, and automatically collects the bibliographic information for the article or book that is being linked to. The great advantage is that you can get to know the persons with similar interest and see their stored reference links. Also every article listing on Connotea has an RSS link at the bottom of the page. This allows you to be notified of new additions to the page by subscribing to the RSS feed in your RSS reader. However many reference management tools are available on the net but those are for general purposes. This tool is basically developed for research purpose with some value additions. I believe this resource will be useful for librarians and researchers. Point your browser to http://www.connotea.org/ Regards, Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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Articles on Patents
by anand ulaya 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

Dear Members Pls send me articles on 1.Software Patents 2. Computer Programme Patents With regards anandulaya Anand U --------------------------------- Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web Dear Members � Pls send me articles on � �1.Software Patents �2. Computer Programme Patents � With regards � anandulaya � Anand U Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web

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Communication skills
by Mailing List Manager 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 02:18:47 -0800 (PST) From: sayali walimbe <sayaliw(a)yahoo.com> Hello Greetings! I belive there is no harm in acquiring new skills. We librarians are adaptable to every new thing. It is just a matter of common base language. We all are petriotic. We also have a "Lbrarian's language". Hence Hindi, English should not matter. When we have crossed the geograhical barriers then why language barriers?! Hindi is known to everybody. Just need to learn better English! Best Regards, Sayali Thite BAIF, Pune.

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RE: EU Software Patent Law may halt Linux Development
by Shalini R Urs 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

Open source developers at risk - http://www.wirelessiq.info/content/topstories/479.html Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm  Open source developers at risk – � http://www.wirelessiq.info/content/topstories/479.html http://www.wirelessiq.info/content/topstories/479.html � � � Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm �

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FW: Google- the book scanning project- Microsoft of the future other issues- the scenario gets murkier
by Shalini R Urs 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

The Google Library book scanning project has raised may issues in the world of information. Please read on the msg below for some more light (or is more dust in the cloud!) It makes an interesting read anyways - Shalini -----Original Message----- From: owner-ipr(a)mailhost.soros.org [mailto:owner-ipr@mailhost.soros.org] On Behalf Of Darius Cuplinskas Sent: 01 March 2005 14:02 To: ipr & public domain list Subject: [ipr] How Google will scan the world, 1 book at a time This project, although valuable, will not provide full-text access, and will entail severe restrictions even on "fair use" permitted by copyright law: "You can't print the book out or digitally cut and paste any of it, even for this, an out-of-copyright volume. The restrictions will be more severe on in-copyright volumes, essentially those printed after 1920, limiting searchers to seeing a line or two around their search term." Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive is bringing together a group of libraries to organize a rival project which would allow full-text access and put fewer restrictions on in-copyright materials. DC -------- Original Message -------- How Google will scan the world, 1 book at a time Steve Johnson Chicago Times February 25, 2005 As Google prepares to create the world's most comprehensive digital library, it's getting harder not to think of the company as the next Microsoft, morphing from a friendly Internet helper with a cutesy name into an awesome and inescapable force of digital nature. Already the dominant search engine, the California technology company is testing Gmail, a free e-mail service that's likely to be a blockbuster, Google Maps, a rival to Mapquest, and Google Desktop, a function that allows users to search within their computers much more quickly than Microsoft Windows does. And then there's the small matter of accumulating vast chunks of humankind's recorded knowledge. Even as you read this, Google scanners are busy making bits and bytes out of books from the Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and University of Michigan libraries, as well as from the New York Public Library, a project that ultimately could total more than 57 million volumes. The company's goal in all it does, it says, is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" (along with, you know, selling ads alongside the world's information). But another goal seems to be ubiquity, and as Bill Gates has learned, when you become unavoidable, you also become resented. Altruistic project For now, though, Google remains mostly well-liked because the core of its business, the search engine, is so good. And the book-scanning project it's taking on seems more altruistic than not because Google is bearing the enormous (and, of course, unspecified) cost of copying the books into the digital world. "There are [other] people who had that vision," says Sidney Verba, director of the Harvard University Library. "What Google had was the vision and the ambition, the technical skill. ..." Shifting to a whisper, he adds the most important factor: "a lot of money -- in some sense I think more than they knew what to do with. .. For these kinds of people to invest millions and millions of dollars in it, it is a good exploitation of the profit sector for public purposes." The University of Michigan says its pre-Google digital collection of 21,000 volumes is among the country's "most ambitious." But making it -- actually placing the books, page by page, onto scanners and then making sure the result is clean and accurate -- is very slow, hard work. "At its current rate of digital production," the school explains in a press release, "it would take the university more than a thousand years to digitize the 7 million volumes in the collection. Google plans to do the job in a matter of years." Beyond vague talk about Google having developed a much more efficient process, the project's specifics are secret. At Harvard, for instance, Google won't allow reporters to visit or photograph the scanning currently being done -- of 40,000 volumes as a kind of pilot project, just to make sure the books don't get damaged or lost -- at the university library's 5-million-volume off-campus storage facility. But the aims seem transparent enough. It will bring to the masses these great research institutions, full of books one would normally need a plane ride and permission to access, and make them as easy to search for and within as a particular city's restaurant listings. "The company as a whole has been really excited about it," says Susan Wojcicki, Google's director of product management, in part because it relates to the company's roots. "The founders were working on a library digitization project when they wound up creating a search engine that today is called Google. "We're just really excited to be working with these institutions as well. A lot of them have been around for hundreds of years," adds Wojcicki. Google's age: 6 1/2. Libraries will get copies The books will be gathered by Google in the Google Print company subdivision, known previously for trying to get publishers to put their current books in print up for public perusal. The libraries will also get their own copies of their texts turned binary. "We're very anxious to make sure this is of real service to our own users and a public good, as well," Verba says. "We're very sensitive to not having somebody come back and say, `Look, you've just turned over to a monopoly something that should belong to the world.'" The project, almost everybody agreed at its December announcement, holds enormous promise. Scholars will be able to learn, at the press of a button, which books have discussed Francis Bacon, for instance, and in what manner. Journalists and bloggers can add books to their research repertoire; previously, they have used mostly other journalism, the already-digitized and quickly searchable record of newspapers, magazines and some television shows. "There'll be more of that contextual information which you'll be able to get more readily," says Harvard's Verba, "How that'll change the way people think, I don't know, but it's really exciting. "It will give us this huge digitized file of our books to do things with that we don't know yet what they are. Searching text is really a thing that's on the frontier. As it evolves, we will have a text to search. We are thinking of it as a very valuable resource for things that are not 100 percent clear." Ordinary users can see the project at work already. Type "books and culture" into the company's familiar search interface, and you get access not only to all the Web pages Google has indexed that contain those words, but also, right near the top of your search, to one of the early books to be scanned in, an 1896 tome of that title by Hamilton Wright Mabie. Right away you notice that there are no ads on the page, and there are no plans to add them "at this time," Wojcicki says. You may also notice there are links to help you "Buy this book" and to "Find this book in a library." No printing allowed You can't print the book out or digitally cut and paste any of it, even for this, an out-of-copyright volume. (The restrictions will be more severe on in-copyright volumes, essentially those printed after 1920, limiting searchers to seeing a line or two around their search term. But Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig, writing in the Los Angeles Times, questioned the right of Google to make available even "snippets" of copyrighted material.) Verba says you can certainly make notes on it, and that a print-on-demand feature is worth considering. In the meantime, want to know whether Mabie's "Books and Culture" contains the word "ominous"? Type the word into the "Search within this book" field. There it is on page 193, in a sentence praising the ability of the cultured man to recognize the characteristics of his era. The thing that's really encouraging, Verba says, is that the project turns the current fears of scholars and parents on their ear. "There's no academic and in fact there's no parent with a teenager who isn't worried about the fact that that generation will believe that all knowledge is on the Internet and on Google and will never want to open a book again," he says. "The nice thing about this project is that it's a kind of, `If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.' People will go to Google, and they will find books, and they will have to then go to the library and get the books. We think this is really a nice way of squaring that circle." ----------

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Communication skills
by Mailing List Manager 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 07:04:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> hello let me share the experiences of our university. our dept is in the college of arts and social science, of osmania university. the college has english language training centre. every year, six to eight week programs are offered to all the students at free of cost. those who r desirous can attend. this optional opportunity is due to the fact that--many urbanites from english medium do not want such course it is an established fact that skills are essential to survive as well as grow. 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). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile)

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Communication skills
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

Dear All It has been a fascinating week or so of discussions on this important issue. Several very useful practical suggestions have been made many of which we would like to consider for our training programme at NCSI. Some thoughts based on my experience with NCSI training programme. I think there is a strong case for introducing a formal course in communication (English) and other soft skills in L&IS courses and training programmes. As part of a 1 credit course on communication skills (IS 210) we have included in our training programme (see http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/training/courses.html), we had experimented with a faculty from our Foreign Language School in IISc, specializing in scientific/technical communication, teaching English communication skills and presentation skills to one batch of trainees. We did see appreciable improvement towards the end of the course. Unfortunately this faculty has left IISc and we are yet to find a way of regularizing this course. We also have a formal 1 credit course (IS 249), in second semester, called Seminars (see above URL page). Trainees are given select papers and are expected to give presentations after studying these. Apart from these, each instructor also makes the trainees to give ample number of presentations based on assignments. NCSI alumni association (NCSI-NET) also organizes occasional guest lectures on communication skills/ personality development as part of its monthly meetings in Bangalore. While these are a few of our efforts, we still have a long way to go in getting these efforts to produce consistently good results. I think it should not be difficult to introduce a formal 1 or 2 credits course in L&IS programmes in universities since most universities have full-fledged departments in English/ Journalism/ Mass communication. Nice to see this being done at Mysore University. British Council conducts exams and provides training material related to Business English. I believe they also conduct English proficiency exams for corporate employees. Is there someway we could get British council to conduct a few workshops for L&IS teachers? I think there is much scope in this area. I remember several workshops on scientific/ technical writing skills used to be conducted a few years back. Mr. Arunachalam (of MSSRF, Chennai) used to be an instructor a few of these courses. Could these be revived? Practice of some instructors to apportion some marks for correct use of English in the exam papers is a very useful one (something most secondary/ high schools do!). I wonder if this should be a mandatory feature in L&IS programmes. As we all know, language is something that is learnt more by practice. I find many students are either shy or scared of speaking, worrying about making mistakes. In as much as it is in their hand to overcome this, it is also the responsibility of the teachers (and fellow students) to encourage such students, instead of making fun of them (verbally or through body language). I know couple of our trainees, who were quite poor in communication, made very good progress simply by being bold and not afraid of speaking (and making mistakes). I agree with Ms. Nagarathna that in the final count, the onus is on the student doing well should come from within instructors can provide opportunities, directions and feedback based on their performance. Also, does it make sense to encourage students to spend some time reading English literature (e.g. fiction)? Though such reading habit is usually picked up in younger age, we also know that this is one easy way of improving English usage. There is lots of very useful self-learning material available online on this topic. I feel we should prepare a good gateway site pointing to quality learning material. On our training site we currently make available tutorials and self-learning material related to technical topics (see http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/training/Tutorials.htm). We can easily extend this to communication skills related material. InfoLibrarian site could also host such material. Finally, a word of caution about pushing McLuhans saying Medium is the message too far. We should avoid emphasizing this message too much, lest our students begin to think that form and style is more important than content and message. Certainly message/content should be the prime focus (Content is king!), and not form and style. I feel employers should avoid assessing potential employees based only on their communication abilities. We know competencies vary some are good in doing and relatively poor in expressing. We need to recognize this and find the proper mix of job and worker competencies. Regards Rajashekar ------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Associate Chairman Tel: +91-80-23600271, 23601427 National Centre for Science Fax: +91-80-23601426, 23600683 Information (NCSI) E-Mail: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Indian Institute of Science URL: http://144.16.72.189/raja/ BANGALORE-560012 (India) ------------------------------------------------------------- SciGate: http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/ The IISc Science Information Portal

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Fedora 2.0 Press Release (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:28:20 -0500 From: Sandy Payette <payette(a)cs.cornell.edu> To: diglib(a)infoserv.inist.fr Subject: [DIGLIB] Fedora 2.0 Press Release Hello there, Below (and attached) please find the press release for Fedora 2.0. The Fedora Project provides powerful open-source digital repository software and is a joint developed effort by Cornell University and the University of Virginia with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information go to the project web site at: http://www.fedora.info/ <http://www.fedora.info/> - Sandy Payette ================================================================ For Immediate Release Fedora 2.0 - A Powerful Open-Source Solution for Digital Repositories The Fedora Project (http://www.fedora.info) is proud to announce the release of version 2.0 of the Fedora open-source digital repository software. This release represents a significant increase in features and functionality over previous releases. New features include the ability to represent and query relationships among digital objects, a simple XML encoding for Fedora digital objects, enhanced ingest and export interfaces for interoperability with other repository systems, enhanced administrative features, and improved documentation. More than ever, Fedora is capable of serving as the foundation for many types of information management applications, including institutional repositories, digital libraries, records management systems, archives, and educational software. As with prior versions of the software, all Fedora functionality is exposed through web service interfaces. At the core of this functionality is the Fedora object model that enables the aggregation of multiple content items into digital objects. This allows objects to have several accessible "representations." For example, a digital object can represent an electronic document in multiple formats, a digital image with its descriptive metadata, or a complex science publication containing text, data, and video. Services can be associated with digital objects, allowing dynamically-produced views, or "virtual representations" of the objects. Historical views of digital objects are preserved through a powerful content versioning system. The new Fedora 2.0 introduces the "Resource Index" which is a module that allows a Fedora repository to be viewed as a graph of inter-related objects. Using the Resource Description Framework (RDF), relationships among objects can be declared, and queries against these relationships are supported by an RDF-based triple store. Fedora 2.0 also introduces "Fedora Object XML" (FOXML) which is a simple XML format for encoding Fedora digital objects. To support multiple XML standards, Fedora's ingest/export interface has been enhanced, permitting digital objects to be encoded in different formats. Currently, there is support for METS and FOXML. In future releases other XML formats will be supported, including MPEG21-DIDL. Other new features include a mass-update utility for modifying objects, a new administrative reporting interface, improved documentation, and tutorials. The Fedora open-source software is jointly developed by Cornell University and the University of Virginia with generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Fedora 2.0 marks the final milestone in Phase I, a three year project to develop the core Fedora Repository system. Now underway, Fedora Phase II is a three year development project that will focus on advanced features including workflow, digital preservation, policy enforcement, information networks, and federated repositories. For more information, contact Ronda Grizzle (rag9b(a)virginia.edu), Technical Coordinator; Sandra Payette (payette(a)cs.cornell.edu), Co-director Cornell University; or Thornton Staples (tls(a)virginia.edu), Co-director University of Virginia. Sandy Payette Cornell Information Science 301 College Ave. Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14850-4623 Tel: (607) 255-9222 URL: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/payette

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Communication Skills- LIS-DLIS, Mysore initiatives
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

I thank Shalini for the quick response. The clarity she has brought in regarding LIS schools in a University set up and Training Institutions is worth remembering by everyone. The odds against which the LIS educator has to carry out his/her duties look insurmountable indeed. But then, nobody kicks a dead horse - It is only the active, energetic, enthusiastic & innovative teachers like Shalini and others get criticized! My only humble suggestion is that teachers like her should continue to serve the student & research community without getting dismayed by occasional criticisms. It is not possible to set things right overnight. Suggestions from 'users' like me may be considered as 'wish-lists', at the best. Vyasamoorthy, P -----Original Message----- From: Shalini R Urs [mailto:shalini@vidyanidhi.org.in] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 4:51 PM To: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD; LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Communication Skills- LIS-DLIS, Mysore initiatives While thanking Vyasamoothry for his response and kind words, let me also share some of the concerns (and the burden/responsibilities) and the challenges that we- the LIS educators face. 1. Given the fast paced changes that are sweeping the LIS world, evolving a right balance of 'conventional and contemporary topics' ; 'theoretical and practical aspects of the field is a major challenge 2 .It is also felt (justifiably so), that in our efforts to transit to the digital age, our students neither have a good grounding in the conventional areas (classification and cataloguing-which I still consider as the very core of the profession) nor the contemporary ones such as Dublin Core or Ontologies or DSAPCE or Greenstone. I guess there is the danger of falling between the two stools! 3. Meeting the demands of a heterogeneous 'employer market- ranging from a small college library to a KM centric corporate sector' is kind of tough 4. LIS schools (like in any university setting) are not 'Training Institutes' (there is a big difference between education and training) 5. We are expected to provide broad theoretical grounding- which is a long term thing, which may not be appreciated by the short term needs of 'employers' 6. We only have two years (or 4 semesters) at our disposal and we have a conventional examination system to contend with 7. Our students have to be taught the ABC of Libraries- as their exposure to and understanding of libraries is minimum, especially since our education system being what it is- it is not library centered 8. On top of it all- our students lack the general communication and other skills -tools that are required to imbibe the knowledge Some times we feel overwhelmed by these issues and do try to address them as best as we can, but then LIS teaching fraternity continues to be the favorite whipping boy of the LIS community Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm -----Original Message----- From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com [mailto:Vyasamoorthy@icicikp.com] Sent: 01 March 2005 14:41 To: shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in; LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Communication Skills- LIS-DLIS, Mysore initiatives Dear Dr Shalini I am very happy to read your succinct statements on the importance of Language and Communication skills. Laudable are your efforts in DLIS to tackle the problem of Language deficiencies among LIS students. I suggest that all other Universities too may try to include a paper on Communication & personality development and teach this topic with equal seriousness. Many senior working librarians and LIS teachers act as resource persons during interviews to select librarians. They have lot of ideas about the situation obtaining now and they may have solutions too. LIS schools may benefit by obtaining this 'knowledge' from Interviewers through some survey/study. Such studies would indicate not only gaps in Language skills but in other areas as well. If the results of the study are used, there is a possibility of market demands being met fully by the products turned by LIS schools. Regards Vyasamoorthy, P ============== -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Shalini R Urs Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 6:00 PM To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Cc: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Communication Skills- LIS-DLIS, Mysore initiatives Dear Friends, Having followed with interest the discussion in this regard, I thought of sharing the following with you all. * Criticality of 'Language' as a conduit for 'carrying knowledge' and as an inevitable means of expressing and articulating ones ideas cannot be over emphasised. * Ideas/Knowledge is as good as it is packaged and presented in a medium. Let us not forget the McLuhian 'Medium is the message' axiom * Ranganathan's 'three planes of work' concept in the realm of Classification applies to all aspects of work in general. It is important that we understand the influence and impact of the verbal plane on the idea plane and vice versa * The field of Psycholinguistics has wrestled with the issues of language , concept formation and thought processes without reaching a consensus * Our ancient Indic Scholars had very skillfully and adroitly explicated the importance of interplay of 'language or words' and 'thoughts and meanings' in this way- they recognised three genres of 'UKTI' (speeches or statements'): MANTRA (Vedic Verses); SHASTRA (or precepts-learned works); and KAVYA ( Poetry or literature in general). According to our sages, words and their meanings have different levels of 'import' in these three categories. In SHASTRA ( i.e. scientific knowledge' ) the language is a tool to learn, to understand the world and we reach out to the world outside through the language. Knowledge or truths (as knowledge was known as) is assimilated through the meanings of words. If the link between 'concepts' 'words' and meanings are broken, then the world of knowledge gets segregated resulting in a kind of turmoil. Since it is not possible to express knowledge without language, it is necessary THOUGH NOT PRIMARY We at DLIS, Mysore believing in the significance of Language and communication skills have always striven to help our students augment their language skills through a variety of activities. For example some years back, we used to conduct 'what is the good word' contest. Some of our recent efforts in this direction are- 1. In the new revised syllabus for M.L.I. Sc (coming to effect from the academic year 2005-2006), we have introduced one full paper on ' Personality development and communication skills' (carrying 100 marks) in the first semester (thanks to our Board of Studies, which deemed it fit to introduce this change). Visit our website- www.lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in <http://www.lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in/> 2. We have also introduced a novel competition for the students. Recognizing the importance of reading habits in strengthening communication skills, a monthly newspaper reading and clipping contest with two prizes- of INR 100 and 75 -where in students identify, collect newspaper write ups relating to 'Information world' and submit a well presented and bound volume 3. Weekly 'English coaching classes' for students * the above two have been voluntary efforts and initiatives by the faculty Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Communication Skills- LIS-DLIS, Mysore initiatives
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Dear Dr Shalini I am very happy to read your succinct statements on the importance of Language and Communication skills. Laudable are your efforts in DLIS to tackle the problem of Language deficiencies among LIS students. I suggest that all other Universities too may try to include a paper on Communication & personality development and teach this topic with equal seriousness. Many senior working librarians and LIS teachers act as resource persons during interviews to select librarians. They have lot of ideas about the situation obtaining now and they may have solutions too. LIS schools may benefit by obtaining this 'knowledge' from Interviewers through some survey/study. Such studies would indicate not only gaps in Language skills but in other areas as well. If the results of the study are used, there is a possibility of market demands being met fully by the products turned by LIS schools. Regards Vyasamoorthy, P ============== -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Shalini R Urs Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 6:00 PM To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Cc: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Communication Skills- LIS-DLIS, Mysore initiatives Dear Friends, Having followed with interest the discussion in this regard, I thought of sharing the following with you all. * Criticality of 'Language' as a conduit for 'carrying knowledge' and as an inevitable means of expressing and articulating ones ideas cannot be over emphasised. * Ideas/Knowledge is as good as it is packaged and presented in a medium. Let us not forget the McLuhian 'Medium is the message' axiom * Ranganathan's 'three planes of work' concept in the realm of Classification applies to all aspects of work in general. It is important that we understand the influence and impact of the verbal plane on the idea plane and vice versa * The field of Psycholinguistics has wrestled with the issues of language , concept formation and thought processes without reaching a consensus * Our ancient Indic Scholars had very skillfully and adroitly explicated the importance of interplay of 'language or words' and 'thoughts and meanings' in this way- they recognised three genres of 'UKTI' (speeches or statements'): MANTRA (Vedic Verses); SHASTRA (or precepts-learned works); and KAVYA ( Poetry or literature in general). According to our sages, words and their meanings have different levels of 'import' in these three categories. In SHASTRA ( i.e. scientific knowledge' ) the language is a tool to learn, to understand the world and we reach out to the world outside through the language. Knowledge or truths (as knowledge was known as) is assimilated through the meanings of words. If the link between 'concepts' 'words' and meanings are broken, then the world of knowledge gets segregated resulting in a kind of turmoil. Since it is not possible to express knowledge without language, it is necessary THOUGH NOT PRIMARY We at DLIS, Mysore believing in the significance of Language and communication skills have always striven to help our students augment their language skills through a variety of activities. For example some years back, we used to conduct 'what is the good word' contest. Some of our recent efforts in this direction are- 1. In the new revised syllabus for M.L.I. Sc (coming to effect from the academic year 2005-2006), we have introduced one full paper on ' Personality development and communication skills' (carrying 100 marks) in the first semester (thanks to our Board of Studies, which deemed it fit to introduce this change). Visit our website- www.lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in <http://www.lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in/> 2. We have also introduced a novel competition for the students. Recognizing the importance of reading habits in strengthening communication skills, a monthly newspaper reading and clipping contest with two prizes- of INR 100 and 75 -where in students identify, collect newspaper write ups relating to 'Information world' and submit a well presented and bound volume 3. Weekly 'English coaching classes' for students * the above two have been voluntary efforts and initiatives by the faculty Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm

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Proficiency in English
by Sheshadri K.N 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Dear fellow professionals I am proud to say that I am the product of Department of Studies in Library and Information Science, University of Mysore. Now I am working at Dubai as Assistant Librarian for BITS PILANI Engineering College, Dubai Campus, Dubai, UAE. Department of LIS, University of Mysore is encouraging students to improve their communication skills in so many ways during their course days. All teachers are giving much importance to Communication skills & English. I got maximum utility from our department in this connection. Even though, Post graduate departments are not the place for students to learn Basic English, Basic Communication skills etc., Department of LIS, University of Mysore has taken one step ahead in this concern to help students. Thanks & Regards SHESHADRI.K.N Assistant Librarian P.O Box 500022, Block No. 11 BITS, Pilani - Campus, Knowledge Village Dubai, UAE. Tel : 009714 3664575 / 76 Mob:00971506944301 Fax : 009714 3664579 E-mail: sheshu150(a)yahoo.co.in --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. Dear fellow professionals I am proud to say that I am the product of Department of Studies in Library and Information Science, University of Mysore . Now I am working at Dubai as Assistant Librarian for BITS PILANI Engineering College , Dubai Campus, Dubai , UAE. Department of LIS, University of Mysore is�encouraging students to improve their communication skills in so many ways during�their�course days. All teachers are giving much importance to Communication skills & English.�I got maximum utility from our department in this connection. Even though, Post graduate departments are not the�place for students to learn Basic English, Basic Communication skills etc., Department of LIS, University of Mysore �has taken one step ahead in this concern to help students. � Thanks & Regards SHESHADRI.K.N Assistant Librarian P.O Box 500022, Block No. 11 BITS, Pilani - Campus, Knowledge Village Dubai, UAE. Tel : 009714 3664575 / 76 Mob:00971506944301 Fax : 009714 3664579 E mailto:E-mail:sheshu150@yahoo.co.in -mail: � mailto:sheshu150@yahoo.co.in sheshu150(a)yahoo.co.in Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=29915/*http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 Do more. Manage less.

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creators and users of information
by nandeesh nandu 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Dear Sir/madam. Iam going to present a seminar on "creators and users of information" so if you have any full text articles or any information relating to this issue please provide me. with warm regards Nandeesha,B MLISc, University of Mysore Manasagangothri, Mysore Dear Sir/madam. Iam going to present a seminar on "creators and users of information" so if you have any full text articles or any information relating to this issue please provide me. with warm regards Nandeesha,B MLISc, University of Mysore Manasagangothri, Mysore http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo…

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Copyright act for news paper articles
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

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Path To an Alternative Career
by Jayadev P Hiremath 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

My Path To an Alternative Career by Paul Duckworth How does a librarian move from a traditional job to something outside the box of library walls? If this sounds like a Zen koan to you, perhaps you're thinking about it too hard - just let the energy flow into your solar plexus. When you're centered, you can follow the path of the stepping stones that are submerged below the surface of the water. How? Step-by-step, feeling your way, remembering to breathe and center yourself - and not being afraid to get your feet wet. First Steps First My path began with the recognition that it was time to move on from my public library job in Missouri. I'd been there for over twenty-five years, moving upwards in responsibility. The job was great, my salary was excellent, and I had every reason to stay, except three: I was restless, felt stagnated, and found myself experiencing boredom. "What to do?" I thought. "How do I uproot myself? Where do I begin?" For me, a recent marriage had brought a fresh perspective and someone else's needs to consider. For many reasons, we decided to relocate to within a few hours of Toronto. So, the first decision had been made: the geographic focus was defined. Time to get out the career and resume guides. I raided my library's shelves, looked at more than a few, studied every style and strategy, then set the books down and never picked them up again. What I did reach for, though, was the ear of anyone who would listen to me as I told my story. Never underestimate the power of these words: "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you." I found talking with many people, especially those not in the library field, of immense assistance in clarifying muddy waters. I began bookmarking library job sites and searching them again and again - sometimes to the point where I felt desperate. There were jobs, but few interesting ones in the geographical area where I needed to land. I also reached out to colleagues through the networking approach, including joining an e-mail list from a state adjoining Ontario. It was fascinating to learn about the issues going on there, which affected services, employment, selection, and the financial health of libraries. Alternatives Can Find You Time was getting short. We needed to move before autumn, but nothing seemed to pan out. What to do...? Be persistent, I reminded myself. Success is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration. So, I did everything I could not to let discouragement slow me down: meditation, yoga, talking to friends, and strategizing through good note taking. And then, there it was - a job posting on an e-mail list for a library vendor in New York State. Good fortune - the vendor was a major supplier for my library. My application led to a response with a questionnaire to fill out; this led to more e-mail, and then... a call out of the blue from the company's sales manager, followed by a second one. Could I come to the ALA conference in Orlando, expenses paid, to meet with the company president and him? Yes, I could, and I did! I flew to Orlando and visited with them. And, while I was there with some free time to visit the exhibits hall, I stopped by the booth of another vendor I worked with on materials acquisition, to meet some of the friendly staff I had visited with on the phone over the years. So, I had a good chat with several staff, and casually mentioned that I was interviewing for a job that would take me to New York State. "We just happen to have an opening for an account rep for that area," one of their vice presidents mentioned. Would I be interested in talking about this position? Yes, I was, and I did. We talked, and the job sounded as intriguing and challenging as the first one. Always keep as many options open as possible, I reminded myself. Don't start closing doors until you know for sure which door you're going to walk through. When One Door Opens... At the end of the weekend I expected a job offer from the first vendor, who had flown me to the conference. It didn't come. So I waited, weighed my options, and decided that the better choice for me was the new possibility. Then, amazingly, a friend told me about yet a third prospect with the university library in the town to which we were considering moving. While in Toronto on vacation, I faxed my application, and within a few days had a telephone interview with the search committee. Within days, an offer was made by the second vendor and I accepted. A few days later, the initial vendor indicated they wanted to hire me. And, as I withdrew my application for the academic position, they indicated that I had been their top candidate. How is it, you ask, being outside those traditional walls? Well, I travel inside those walls throughout my sales territory, meet great people (we librarians ARE interesting), and sometimes have the exciting opportunity to show up for work in my home office in my pajamas. I still speak "library," am appreciated by my employer, and network every day with colleagues and customers across the country. My employer is tops, the job brings me the challenge I was looking for, and I'm traveling to lots of places I had never seen before. The path ahead isn't clear, but, truly, it never is. For right now, I'm enjoying getting my feet wet, taking one step at a time, and remembering to breathe.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Why do we need high proficiency in English language ?
by SCKumaresan 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Hello Mr. Jayadev P Hiremath, Greetings. I appreciate your love and concern for Hindi language. But please ask your self how many languages these european countries and for that matter any other country have compared to India. And by the way why do you think any two librarians in india should converse in hindi when they meet? Have you thought of a librarian from south or from far eastern state meeting with the librarian from hindi belt. What language do you think they should converse in, if hindi then why? I guess every one would have the same love for his language. If you say Hindi is the National language,excuse me.. then you have to read the constitution of India which does not specify so, provided 18 indian languages (pls corret if i'm wrong in the no) are given equal status. I guess one should think beyond the borders of such restrictions based on language and have a broader mind and thought, The point Dr. Vyasmoorthy has raised has some substance in it and we should give a thought to it, Ofcourse you have the right to express your opinion, but i think you should not get personnel. Try to take things in a broader sense. Is it not worth giving it a try. Good Luck and Best Regards S.C.Kumaresan On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 Jayadev P Hiremath wrote : >How many Librarians in East Europe, Japan, France, China and Russia >and many other countries know English. Haven't these countries >progressed ? If the Librarian has studied in Vernacular upto high >school, is it his fault ? Library Science teacher's are there to teach > Library Science and not English Language skills. > >When you were recruiting an Information Officer, what was the basic >requirement ? Was it his skills in Information Management or English >language ? > >You have a done a great disservice by writing highly unwarranted >mail. This will dissuade many Librarians from writing to this forum. >They all will develop inferiotity complex. Itis a national shame that >when two Indians...Librarians.... from different parts of the country >meet they have to communicate in English language. Have you ever >thought about conversing in Hindi ? > >I jolly well know the importance of English language in the world. But >that doesn't mean that we have to look down upon our fellow >professionals who are not proficient in English. We have all become >slaves to English language and take great pride in being so. > >I as a customer, have received many e-mails from your Organization and >I don't think ICICI as such attaches much importance to English >language skills and rightly so. Why is it that only you are so keen >about it when it is not an Institutional policy. Working knowledge of >the languages is more that sufficient for providing the services. >Unless ofcourse you are going to write a treatise. > >Jayadev P Hiremath > > > >On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:36:38 +0530, Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com ><Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > > > I am sure that some of you were expecting this. I am really appalled at the lack of any semblance of proficiency in the use of English language among many librarians. I wonder how one could pass through some 17 years of schooling and even after that manage not to learn basics of English Language. It is regrettable that our present system of Education does not emphasize the importance of Language abilities. Because of selfish politicians promoting their own agendas at the cost of the nation and because of a tendency to promote or put up with mediocrity everywhere -- the necessity for striving for excellence is once in a way heard from our president, though -- students do not look at Language skills with any concern. > > > > Recently we had to recruit an Information Officer for our VIC. Out of about fifteen persons we considered, hardly two or three could measure up as far as basic English Language skills are concerned. > > > > On one hand we find the Indian librarians community in India to be prolific writers - even an entry level resume mentions two or three 'papers' published and on the other hand we find that their presentation and communication skills at horribly very low levels. What are reasons? How can this be changed? Who should take action? Is it OK to be where & how we are? What do LIS teachers have to say? > > > > In this lamentation I am not bothered about typing errors (may be you are just lazy - not that you do not know), spelling mistakes (heavy dependence on spell checkers), occasional slippages (it happens to everyone), unheard of abbreviations being thrust on everyone by cell phone (or email?) culture and the like. I am concerned with basic English Language skills expected of a tenth class student. Kindly do not take recourse to "It is the same everywhere - in all other preofessions too" type of argument. > > > > Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, > > ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, > > RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA > > Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com > > Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum S.C.Kumaresan SeniorLibrarian, BITS - Pilani, Dubai Campus, P.O. Box No.500022. Block 11, Knowledge Village, Dubai, UAE Tele(009714)3664575/76, Fax(009714)3664580 Mobile. 00971508829462 Hello Mr. Jayadev P Hiremath, Greetings. I appreciate your love and concern for Hindi language. But please ask your self how many languages these european countries and for that matter any other country have compared to India. And by the way why do you think any two librarians in india should converse in hindi when they meet? Have you thought of a librarian from south or from far eastern state meeting with the librarian from hindi belt. What language do you think they should converse in, if hindi then why? I guess every one would have the same love for his language. If you say Hindi is the National language,excuse me.. then you have to read the constitution of India which does not specify so, provided 18 indian languages (pls corret if i'm wrong in the no) are given equal status. I guess one should think beyond the borders of such restrictions based on language and have a broader mind and thought, The point Dr. Vyasmoorthy has raised has some substance in it and we should give a thought to it, Ofcourse you have the right to express your opinion, but i think you should not get personnel. Try to take things in a broader sense. Is it not worth giving it a try. Good Luck and Best Regards S.C.Kumaresan On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 Jayadev P Hiremath wrote : >How many Librarians in East Europe, Japan, France, China and Russia >and many other countries know English. Haven't these countries >progressed ? If the Librarian has studied in Vernacular upto high >school, is it his fault ? Library Science teacher's are there to teach > Library Science and not English Language skills. > >When you were recruiting an Information Officer, what was the basic >requirement ? Was it his skills in Information Management or English >language ? > >You have a done a great disservice by writing highly unwarranted >mail. This will dissuade many Librarians from writing to this forum. >They all will develop inferiotity complex. Itis a national shame that >when two Indians...Librarians.... from different parts of the country >meet they have to communicate in English language. Have you ever >thought about conversing in Hindi ? > >I jolly well know the importance of English language in the world. But >that doesn't mean that we have to look down upon our fellow >professionals who are not proficient in English. We have all become >slaves to English language and take great pride in being so. > >I as a customer, have received many e-mails from your Organization and >I don't think ICICI as such attaches much importance to English >language skills and rightly so. Why is it that only you are so keen >about it when it is not an Institutional policy. Working knowledge of >the languages is more that sufficient for providing the services. >Unless ofcourse you are going to write a treatise. > >Jayadev P Hiremath > > > >On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:36:38 +0530, Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com ><Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > > > I am sure that some of you were expecting this. I am really appalled at the lack of any semblance of proficiency in the use of English language among many librarians. I wonder how one could pass through some 17 years of schooling and even after that manage not to learn basics of English Language. It is regrettable that our present system of Education does not emphasize the importance of Language abilities. Because of selfish politicians promoting their own agendas at the cost of the nation and because of a tendency to promote or put up with mediocrity everywhere -- the necessity for striving for excellence is once in a way heard from our president, though -- students do not look at Language skills with any concern. > > > > Recently we had to recruit an Information Officer for our VIC. Out of about fifteen persons we considered, hardly two or three could measure up as far as basic English Language skills are concerned. > > > > On one hand we find the Indian librarians community in India to be prolific writers - even an entry level resume mentions two or three 'papers' published and on the other hand we find that their presentation and communication skills at horribly very low levels. What are reasons? How can this be changed? Who should take action? Is it OK to be where & how we are? What do LIS teachers have to say? > > > > In this lamentation I am not bothered about typing errors (may be you are just lazy - not that you do not know), spelling mistakes (heavy dependence on spell checkers), occasional slippages (it happens to everyone), unheard of abbreviations being thrust on everyone by cell phone (or email?) culture and the like. I am concerned with basic English Language skills expected of a tenth class student. Kindly do not take recourse to "It is the same everywhere - in all other preofessions too" type of argument. > > > > Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, > > ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, > > RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA > > Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com > > Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum S.C.Kumaresan SeniorLibrarian, BITS - Pilani, Dubai Campus, P.O. Box No.500022. 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U.S. BioDefense Launches First Patent Search Engine to Model Google Strategy
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Dear Professionals, U.S. BioDefense, on Feb 28th announced that the launch of T2X.us ( http://www.t2x.us), "The #1 High Tech Transfer Search Engine", which is developing a search engine identifying intellectual property modeling the successful business model functionality of search engines like Google, Yahoo, and LookSmart. U.S. BioDefense staff currently uses the search engine to accelerate the identification of stem cell and biodefense intellectual property acquisition programs. Programmers are now updating its T2X search engine for more robustness in preparation for a commercial version launch. T2X is a search engine facilitating innovation exchange connecting VC's, small business, and public companies seeking technologies with universities, government agencies, and scientists. Over $30 billion is invested in innovation each year and much of the new technology developed is never put to commercial use. T2X is an online Technology Transfer Exchange where commercial members can identify technology that is available for licensing or partnering from universities, research labs, and scientists. Numerous tools are available on T2X.us including an abstract research for technology at the National Institutes of Health and the functionality to search for technology available for licensing. Searchable technologies consist of vaccines, drug discovery, nano technology and general biology from sources such as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Harvard's Office for Technology Transfer, University of California at Irvine Office of Technology Alliances, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Small Business Administration, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The T2X search engine will also be integrated into U.S. BioDefense's Open Source Stem Cell Research and Development Platform, which promotes collaboration amongst researchers, scientists and industry experts in the field of stem cell technology. T2X's ability to help identify intellectual property will boost the functional value of the open source platform helping participants explore the full realm of possibilities for research and development. **************************************** Sreeharsha BG KM Group i2 Technologies ‘One i2 Place’ #132 / 133, DivyaSree Technopolis Yamalur Post, Off Airport Road, Bangalore 560 037. Phone: +91-80-3028 8293 Email: sreeharsha_gopalakrishna(a)i2.com visit us @ www.i2.com **************************************** Happiness is easy... It's easier than we think!!!

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Request for an article
by Raju, MJM 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

Dear Colleagues, Can you someone help me with the following article. Utilizing the balanced scorecard for R&D performance measurement, R&D Management, June 2004, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 229-238(10). Would be highly grateful if somebody can provide this article. Thanks in Advance, With Warm Regards Raju MJM _________________________________________ MJM Raju ! Siemens Public Communication Networks (Pvt) Ltd., ! Division: Siemens Communications Software, ! 10th Floor, Raheja Towers, 26-27, M.G.Road ! Bangalore - 560 001, India. ! Tel.: +91-80-2506 2245 (Direct) ! +91-80-25062000/25594067 Ext.2245 ! FAX : +91-80-25594369 ! email : raju.mjm(a)siemens.com ! _________________________________________! The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ~Alvin Toffler

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Communication Skills- LIS-DLIS, Mysore initiatives
by Shalini R Urs 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

Dear Friends, Having followed with interest the discussion in this regard, I thought of sharing the following with you all. * Criticality of 'Language' as a conduit for 'carrying knowledge' and as an inevitable means of expressing and articulating ones ideas cannot be over emphasised. * Ideas/Knowledge is as good as it is packaged and presented in a medium. Let us not forget the McLuhian 'Medium is the message' axiom * Ranganathan's 'three planes of work' concept in the realm of Classification applies to all aspects of work in general. It is important that we understand the influence and impact of the verbal plane on the idea plane and vice versa * The field of Psycholinguistics has wrestled with the issues of language , concept formation and thought processes without reaching a consensus * Our ancient Indic Scholars had very skillfully and adroitly explicated the importance of interplay of 'language or words' and 'thoughts and meanings' in this way- they recognised three genres of 'UKTI' (speeches or statements'): MANTRA (Vedic Verses); SHASTRA (or precepts-learned works); and KAVYA ( Poetry or literature in general). According to our sages, words and their meanings have different levels of 'import' in these three categories. In SHASTRA ( i.e. scientific knowledge' ) the language is a tool to learn, to understand the world and we reach out to the world outside through the language. Knowledge or truths (as knowledge was known as) is assimilated through the meanings of words. If the link between 'concepts' 'words' and meanings are broken, then the world of knowledge gets segregated resulting in a kind of turmoil. Since it is not possible to express knowledge without language, it is necessary THOUGH NOT PRIMARY We at DLIS, Mysore believing in the significance of Language and communication skills have always striven to help our students augment their language skills through a variety of activities. For example some years back, we used to conduct 'what is the good word' contest. Some of our recent efforts in this direction are- 1. In the new revised syllabus for M.L.I. Sc (coming to effect from the academic year 2005-2006), we have introduced one full paper on ' Personality development and communication skills' (carrying 100 marks) in the first semester (thanks to our Board of Studies, which deemed it fit to introduce this change). Visit our website- www.lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in <http://www.lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in/> 2. We have also introduced a novel competition for the students. Recognizing the importance of reading habits in strengthening communication skills, a monthly newspaper reading and clipping contest with two prizes- of INR 100 and 75 -where in students identify, collect newspaper write ups relating to 'Information world' and submit a well presented and bound volume 3. Weekly 'English coaching classes' for students * the above two have been voluntary efforts and initiatives by the faculty Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm  Dear Friends, � Having followed with interest the discussion in this regard, I thought of sharing the following with you all. � Criticality of ‘Language’ as a conduit for ‘carrying knowledge’ and as an inevitable means of expressing and articulating ones ideas cannot be over emphasised. Ideas/Knowledge is as good as it is packaged and presented in a medium. Let us not forget the McLuhian ‘Medium � is the message’ axiom Ranganathan’s �� ‘three planes of work’ concept in the realm of Classification applies to all aspects of work in general. It is important that we understand the influence and impact of the verbal plane on the idea plane and vice versa The field of Psycholinguistics has wrestled with the issues of language , concept formation and thought processes without reaching a consensus Our ancient Indic Scholars had very skillfully and adroitly explicated the importance of interplay of ‘language or words’ and ‘thoughts and meanings’ in this way- they recognised three genres of �� ‘UKTI’ (speeches or statements’): MANTRA (Vedic Verses); SHASTRA (or precepts-learned works); and KAVYA ( Poetry or literature in general). According to our sages, words and their meanings have different levels of ‘import’ in these three categories. In SHASTRA ( i.e . scientific knowledge’ ) the language is a tool to learn, to understand the world and we reach out to the world outside through the language. Knowledge or truths (as knowledge was known as) is assimilated through the meanings of words. If the link between ‘concepts’ � ‘words’ and meanings are broken, then the world of knowledge gets segregated resulting in a kind of turmoil. Since it is not possible to express knowledge without language, it is necessary THOUGH � NOT PRIMARY � We at DLIS, Mysore believing in the significance of Language and communication skills have always striven to help our students augment their language skills through a variety of activities. For example some years back, we used to conduct ‘what is the good word’ contest. Some of our recent efforts in this direction are- � In the new revised syllabus for M.L.I. Sc (coming to effect from the academic year 2005-2006), we have introduced one full paper on ‘ Personality development and communication skills’ � (carrying 100 marks) in the first semester (thanks to our Board of Studies, which deemed it fit to introduce this change). Visit our website- http://www.lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in/ www.lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in We have also introduced a novel competition for the students. Recognizing the importance of reading habits in strengthening communication skills, a monthly newspaper reading and clipping contest with two prizes- of INR 100 and 75 –where in students identify, collect newspaper write ups relating to ‘Information world’ and submit a well presented and bound volume Weekly ‘English coaching classes’ for students � the above two have been voluntary efforts and initiatives by the faculty � � � Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm �

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Special Lecture by Prof.Paul Nieuwenhuysen at Bangalore University
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

BANGALORE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE JNANABHARATHI CAMPUS BANGALORE 560 056 Cordially extends an invitation to all the Professionals, to attend a special lecture on "DEVELOPING HYBRID LIBRARIES" by Prof.Paul Nieuwenhuysen Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2 B - 1050, Brussel Belgium On Tuesday, 1st March 2005 at 11 A.M. At DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE BANGALORE UNIVERSITY JNANABHARATHI CAMPUS BANGALORE 560 056 Dr.Lalitha Aswath Chairperson & Staff Members

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 23, Issue 31- e-journlas in Education, Forestry, Enviornmental science, Chimestry, Biology, etc.
by vasanth raj 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

Dear sir, Please visit to the following sites.I think you can able to find lot of e-resources on various subjects such as education, Forestry, Enviornmental science,Chemistry,Biology, Agricultural science, etc. http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html http://www.e-journals.org/ http://www.cellpress.com http://www.agrigate.edu.au/ http://www.eldis.org/ http://www.gesource.ac.uk/ http://thegateway.org/ http://www.botany.net/IDB/botany.html http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/link.html http://vlib.org/AlphaVL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/help/pmhelp.html#LinkOut http://www.academicinfo.net/index.html http://highwire.stanford.edu/top/journals.dtl http://infomine.ucr.edu/ http://www.biochemweb.org/journals.shtml http://www.doaj.org/ Regards Vasantha Raju N Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear sir, Please visit to the following sites.I think you can able to find lot of e-resources on various subjects such as education, Forestry, Enviornmental science,Chemistry,Biology, Agricultural science, etc. http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html http://www.e-journals.org/ http://www.e-journals.org/ http://www.cellpress.com http://www.cellpress.com http://www.agrigate.edu.au/ http://www.agrigate.edu.au/ http://www.eldis.org/ http://www.eldis.org/ http://www.gesource.ac.uk/ http://www.gesource.ac.uk/ http://thegateway.org/ http://thegateway.org/ http://www.botany.net/IDB/botany.html http://www.botany.net/IDB/botany.html http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/link.html http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/link.html http://vlib.org/AlphaVL http://vlib.org/AlphaVL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/help/pmhelp.html#LinkOut http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/help/pmhelp.html#LinkOut http://www.academicinfo.net/index.html http://www.academicinfo.net/index.html http://highwire.stanford.edu/top/journals.dtl http://highwire.stanford.edu/top/journals.dtl http://infomine.ucr.edu/ http://infomine.ucr.edu/ http://www.biochemweb.org/journals.shtml http://www.biochemweb.org/journals.shtml http://www.doaj.org/ http://www.doaj.org/ Regards Vasantha Raju N http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Excuse me for my blunder
by ishwar bandi 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Dear Professionals, I am sorry that I have made big mistake by typing Regretted instead of appreciated in my last mail. Please read my corrected mail as. We are developing software for our library with the help of computer engineering and IT staff and students. This work is carrying under our guidances. As you all professionals from different organizations may be having similar type of experiences. Please share your experiences and help us in completing this project successfully. Your valuable suggestions will be appreciated. Thank You Mr. Ishappa Bandi Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Professionals, I am sorry that I have made big mistake by typing Regretted instead of appreciated in my last mail. Please read my corrected mail as. We are developing software for our library with the help of computer engineering and IT staff and students. This work is carrying under our guidances. As you all professionals from different organizations may be having similar type of experiences. Please share your experiences and help us in completing this project successfully. Your valuable suggestions will be appreciated . Thank You Mr. Ishappa Bandi http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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subject gateway to e-resources
by vasanth raj 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Dear Murugan, Please visit to the following site.I think you can able to find lot of e-resources on various subjects, which you have listed. http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html Regards Vasantha Raju N Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Murugan, Please visit to the following site.I think you can able to find lot of e-resources on various subjects, which you have listed. http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html Regards Vasantha Raju N http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Librarians Proficiency in English: more questions
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Dear Friends Within two days of sending my message on the above topic there have been 25+ responses -- some directly and privately sent to me. That shows the great concern all of us have for this topic. I shall try to summarize the opinions after giving some more time. Meanwhile, I feel that the discussions would become meaningful if persons from all affected sections take part. LIS teachers have been silent. Can they react? Is it their responsibility to improve the language skills of their products? Are they equipped? Should they take this responsibility? Are they satisfied/happy with the obtaining situation? Are there alternate ways of achieving same results? Who will bell the cat? Who will foot the bill - extra cost of teaching English? Some forty years ago when I did my graduation, many students faced the familiar problem: migrating from vernacular medium to English Medium. Suddenly there is a vacuum, bewilderment and difficulty in adjusting. But the College authorities very thoughtfully provided 'bridge' courses of 2-3 months duration, after college hours, at no extra cost to those who wanted to learn English. Very many students benefited. Again, there is no representation from our customers, readers, users, patrons, clients whatever you call them. Can some of you informally raise this issue with your customers and obtain their viewpoints and disseminate it here? Dispassionate discussions would lead to fruitful pointers for further action. Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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Fwd: FW: UNDP-APDIP Survey on Internet Policy
by Smita Chandra 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Cross posted with apologies. Please invite participation from colleagues at your organization for this very important policy making initiative by the UN, which was also mentioned by Dr.N.Hothi at the ICIM2005. Regards, Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> wrote: Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:24:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Subbiah Arunachalam Subject: FW: UNDP-APDIP Survey on Internet Policy --- Shahid Akhtar wrote: > From: "Shahid Akhtar" > To: > Subject: FW: UNDP-APDIP Survey on Internet Policy > Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:37:13 +0800 > > > Dear Subbiah, > > Last week we rolled-out a major regional survey on > Internet governance > priorities in the Asia-Pacific region (covering over > 40 countries) and, > to-date, we already have over 300 responses from > most countries. > However, there have been only 37 responses to-date > from your country. > > While I am aware that the demands upon your precious > time are many, > please do take a few minutes to take a look at it at > http://survey.igov.apdip.net > > Maximum outreach is key to the success of the > survey, so we have made > the online questionnaire available in twelve major > languages of the > region. However, in order to reach all stakeholder > groups and countries, > we very much depend on your help to get the word > out. May I therefore > request you to broadcast the announcement below to > your electronic > mailing list(s) and those that are relevant > nationally. And if you find > a few moments to complete the questionnaire > yourself, that would be much > appreciated. > > Thanks in advance for all your help. > > Warmest regards, > > Shahid > ----------------------------------------------- > > UNDP-APDIP Survey on Internet Policy Issues in the > Asia-Pacific Region > ________________________________________________________ > > As a complement to UNDP Asia Pacific Development > Information Programme's > (UNDP-APDIP) on-line discussion Forum on Internet > Governance Priorities > in the Asia-Pacific Region, which has a very lively > debate on-going at > present on Internet governance (-please visit > http://igov.apdip.net/opening_discussion/subscribe > in order to subscribe > or view the archives), UNDP-APDIP in cooperation > with UN-ESCAP and APNIC > and IDRC, > is conducting a major survey on Internet policy > issues in the entire > Asia-Pacific region. > > The survey intends to reach out to all stakeholder > groups, public and private sector, Internet > developers and industry, as > well as civil society and normal Internet users in > the Asia-Pacific > region. By aiming at such a > diverse target audience the findings should provide > important insights > into the priorities in Internet policy in your own > country and also how > these preferences vary for different stakeholders > and across countries. > > The results of the survey will also be conveyed to > the U.N. Working > Group on Internet Governance and the identified > priorities will help us > focus our own research efforts on the most pressing > topics. > > All information provided, will be treated in strict > confidentiality. It > will > only be used in anonymous form by UNDP-APDIP and it > will not be passed > on to any > third party. > > It would be most helpful, if interested parties can > complete the > questionnaire in the > next few days. It will not take more than a few > minutes to complete. > > In order to participate, simply visit > http://survey.igov.apdip.net , > which is > the English version of the survey and which comes > with a brief > introductory note > as well as links to all other language versions of > the survey > questionnaire. > > Thankyou. > > Shahid Akhtar > Programme Co-ordinator, > UNDP Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme > Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia > www.apdip.net ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Dgroups is a joint initiative of Bellanet, DFID, Hivos, ICA, IICD, OneWorld, UNAIDS --- You are currently subscribed to c3net as: smitac_in(a)yahoo.com To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-c3net-110020V(a)dgroups.org ********************************************************************************** Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218 Maharashtra, INDIA Ph.: 91-022-27484137 (9.30AM-6.00PM, excluding Sat/Sun) Fax: 91-022-27480763 Email : iiglib(a)iigs.iigm.res.in (official) smitac_in(a)yahoo.com (personal) ********************************************************************************** --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. Cross posted with apologies. Please invite participation from colleagues at your organization for this very important policy making initiative by the UN, which was also mentioned by Dr.N.Hothi at the ICIM2005. � Regards, � Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> wrote: Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:24:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Subbiah Arunachalam Subject:�FW: UNDP-APDIP Survey on Internet Policy --- Shahid Akhtar wrote: > From: "Shahid Akhtar" > To: > Subject: FW: UNDP-APDIP Survey on Internet Policy > Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:37:13 +0800 > > > Dear Subbiah, > > Last week we rolled-out a major regional survey on > Internet governance > priorities in the Asia-Pacific region (covering over > 40 countries) and, > to-date, we already have over 300 responses from > most countries. > However, there have been only 37 responses to-date > from your country. > > While I am aware that the demands upon your precious > time are many, > please do take a few minutes to take a look at it at > http://survey.igov.apdip.net > > Maximum outreach is key to the success of the > survey, so we have made > the online questionnaire available in twelve major > languages of the > region. However, in order to reach all stakeholder > groups and countries, > we very much depend on your help to get the word > out. May I therefore > request you to broadcast the announcement below to > your electronic > mailing list(s) and those that are relevant > nationally. And if you find > a few moments to complete the questionnaire > yourself, that would be much > appreciated. > > Thanks in advance for all your help. > > Warmest regards, > > Shahid > ----------------------------------------------- > > UNDP-APDIP Survey on Internet Policy Issues in the > Asia-Pacific Region > ________________________________________________________ > > As a complement to UNDP Asia Pacific Development > Information Programme's > (UNDP-APDIP) on-line discussion Forum on Internet > Governance Priorities > in the Asia-Pacific Region, which has a very lively > debate on-going at > present on Internet governance (-please visit > http://igov.apdip.net/opening_discussion/subscribe > in order to subscribe > or view the archives), UNDP-APDIP in cooperation > with UN-ESCAP and APNIC > and IDRC, > is conducting a major survey on Internet policy > issues in the entire > Asia-Pacific region. > > The survey intends to reach out to all stakeholder > groups, public and private sector, Internet > developers and industry, as > well as civil society and normal Internet users in > the Asia-Pacific > region. 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Fw: [BOAI] Re: Open-Access Eprint Archive Registry
by Subbiah Arunachalam 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Friends: Here is a brief report from Prof. Stevan Harnad on the status of OA archives around the world. In India we have been talking about OA archiving and digital libraries and their advantages for a few years now, but Prof. Harnad could find only six archives from India! Brazil has 14 and China 6. We have conducted several workshops (at MSSRF, IISc and other institutions) and at least 150 people have been trained to set up such archives. INSA devoted a whole day at their Annual Meeting at Pune (December 2003) to a brainstorming session on open access. Both Prof. Valiathan and Dr mashelkar (the immediate past and the present Presidents of INSA) are great supporters of open access. We have world class experts (to name only a few, Rajashekar at NCSI and Prasad at DRTC) who are willing to help anyone who wants to set up an archive. Chennai-based The Hindu and Frontline have carried well-researched articles and an editorial on open access. And yet we have not established more than half a dozen archives. Both researchers and librarians in India need to introspect. Before the end of the year we should have at least a hundred archives in India. Even in physics and astronomy, where there is a central international archive (arXiv) with a mirror site at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai, only a small fraction of Indian physicists deposit their papers. It is difficult to understand why. A few days ago Churchill Brothers' prolific striker Ghanaian Yakubu Yusufi was interviewed in The Times of India about the sad state of football in India. When asked about facilities, he asked "What facilities? There are none." The grounds are aweful and maintenance very poor. He went on to say that at least half a dozen players could play in the Second Division Leagues in Europe or UK and gain valuable experience, but either they were happy with the money they got here or THEY LACKED GUTS. Are we in science and information profession in India content with status quo or do we lack guts to do something new? We can certainly not complain about lack of facilities. The top few hundred higher education and research institutions have the necessary equipment, connectivity and human resources. On the OA journals front the situation is somewhat better. All journals of both the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy are open access. MedKnow Publications in Bombay brings out more than twenty open access journals in the area of medicine, and their production quality and web presence are comparable to the best in the world. NIC provides open access to about 30 journals. And the ICMR jounal is open access. I am told that NMJI will soon go open access. There may be others. But we need to strengthen OAA in India and other developing countries. I have tried hard to bring together leading researchers, policy makers and Academies of India, China and Brazil to talk about OAA. The meeting is yet to take place. We could invite representatives of the Inter-Academy Council, the Inter-Academy Panel and the Wellcome Trust as well as experts such as Stevan Harnad, Peter Suber, Leslie Chan and Melissa Hagemann to such a meeting. If these three leading countries take to OAA in a big way, then the rest of the developing world will adopt OAA readily. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stevan Harnad" <harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> Newsgroups: bionet.journals.note Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 8:20 AM Subject: [BOAI] Re: Open-Access Eprint Archive Registry > Here are some recent data on the state of Open Access Eprint Archives > Worldwide (Registry created and maintained by Tim Brody, Southampton > University): > > (1) The Institutional Archives Registry > http://archives.eprints.org/ > recently updated, now indexes 388 archives in 39 countries. > (OAIster harvests from 405 archives, but some of those are not OA > Archives.) > > (2) For most OA Archives the Registry tracks their monthly growth in > number of articles. There are also summary analyses by categories: > * Research Institutional or Departmental (169) > * Research Cross-Institution (49) > * e-Theses (55) > * e-Journal/Publication (32) > * Database (8) > * Demonstration (39) > * Other (36) > > (3) The top 10 countries (10 tied for 10th place) are: > 1 United States (114) > 2 United Kingdom (51) > 3 Germany (28) > 4 Canada (26) > 5 Sweden (17) > 5 France (17) > 6 Australia (16) > 6 Netherlands (16) > 7 Brazil (14) > 8 Italy (13) > 9 India (6) > 10 Spain (4) > 10 Japan (4) > 10 Denmark (4) > 10 Hungary (4) > 10 Finland (4) > 10 Belgium (4) > 10 China (4) > > (4) The most widely used OAI-creating software packages: > * GNU EPrints v2 & v2 (161) > * DSpace (65) > * CDSWare (3) > * ARNO (2) > * Fedora (1) > * DiVA (1) > * other (various) (155) > > Time-plots of the growth in the number of archives: > http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=analysis > > Time-plots of the growth in the number of articles in > each archive (if an archive's data is missing, it means it > is not yet celestial-compliant: please contact the archive > administrator to urge them to correct this so their progress > can be tracked): > http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?page=all > > If your institution has -- or you know of -- OAI-compliant > OA archives, please register them at: > http://archives.eprints.org/index.php?action=add > > If your institution has an OA self-archiving policy, > please register it at: > http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php > > For further information on institutional OA self-archiving, > see: > http://www.eprints.org/jan2005/presentations.html > and > http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/program.html > > Stevan Harnad > > AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: > A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing > open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004) > is available at: > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ > To join or leave the Forum or change your subscription address: > http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.… > Post discussion to: > american-scientist-open-access-forum(a)amsci.org > > UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional > policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, > please describe your policy at: > http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php > > UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: > BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access > journal whenever one exists. > http://www.doaj.org/ > BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable > toll-access journal and also self-archive it. > http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ > http://romeo.eprints.org/ > http://archives.eprints.org/ >

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(Fwd) [IFLA-L] DigiCULT: Technology Watch Report 3 - Now Avail
by Prafulla Chandra 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

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Re: Librarian's proficiency in English - Dr Vyasamoorthy's lament
by Jai Haravu 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Friends I would like to expand on Dr Vyasamoorthy's lament somewhat with due apologies to the poet T S Elliot. I think the lack of proficiency in English is only the tip of the iceberg and hence my lament below. Where are the books we have lost in our 'digital libraries'? Where are the users we have lost in our 'library science'? Where is the service we have lost in our 'automation'? Where are the library networks we have lost in 'cyberspace'? Where are the leaders we have lost in our 'library schools'? Where are the scholars we have lost in our 'Ph Ds'? Where is the professionalism we have lost in our 'profession'? Where is the substance we have lost in 'hype'? L J Haravu Trustee, Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management [http://www.kiikm.org/] 69 Krishnapuri Colony West Marredpally Sedcunderabad 500 026 Tel: 91-40-27803947 -------Original Message------- From: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: 02/23/05 17:40:52 To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 23, Issue 30 Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in You can reach the person managing the list at lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." Today's Topics: 1. MSN Search Helpful to Net User (Farooque Shaheen) 2. FW: Special lecture at DRTC (Dr. T.B. Rajashekar) 3. Librarians' proficiency in English (Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com) 4. RE: Librarians' proficiency in English (Aman Jha) 5. Basic English (shantha venkatesan) 6. Communication skills (gayathri sen) 7. Why do we need high proficiency in English language ? (Jayadev P Hiremath) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:03:09 +0530 From: Farooque Shaheen <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] MSN Search Helpful to Net User To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <OFB6070F6A.8B1FE410-ON65256FB1.001DA55F-65256FB1.001F83C2(a)notes.caritor com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The Hindu, The next time you have a query such as "what is seven times 20" or "how high is Mt. Everest" or a complex arithmetic or algebra calculation,simply type the question in the window of MSN Search, Microsoft's latest innovation. A one-line answer would appear in microseconds on the web page, along with the other MSN search results. "How many inches in a mile?" Launched last fortnight in the country, this feature of MSN Search draws its results from the database of 1.5 million answers provided by Microsoft Encarta, the leading encyclopaedia brand. You could ask any question on geographical locations, historical and popular figures, definitions, facts, calculations, conversions, and solutions to equations. Till now, Internet browsers had to type out the key words in the search window and click on the search results to look out for precise definitions. But the one-line Encarta answer is only part of the long list of features offered by the new MSN Search, built from the ground up by Microsoft in about 16 months. Now available in 25 countries and 10 languages, the search service offers a collection of tools to Net users, giving them greater control in targeting and refining searches to get instant,accurate answers to specific questions. http://www.hindu.com/2005/02/23/stories/2005022315510300.htm Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 -------------- next part -------------- The Hindu, The next time you have a query such as "what is seven times 20" or "how high is Mt. Everest" or a complex arithmetic or algebra calculation,simply type the question in the window of MSN Search, Microsoft's latest innovation. A one-line answer would appear in microseconds on the web page, along with the other MSN search results. "How many inches in a mile?" Launched last fortnight in the country, this feature of MSN Search draws its results from the database of 1.5 million answers provided by Microsoft Encarta, the leading encyclopaedia brand. You could ask any question on geographical locations, historical and popular figures, definitions, facts, calculations, conversions, and solutions to equations. Till now, Internet browsers had to type out the key words in the search window and click on the search results to look out for precise definitions. But the one-line Encarta answer is only part of the long list of features offered by the new MSN Search, built from the ground up by Microsoft in about 16 months. Now available in 25 countries and 10 languages, the search service offers a collection of tools to Net users, giving them greater control in targeting and refining searches to get instant,accurate answers to specific questions. http://www.hindu.com/2005/02/23/stories/2005022315510300.htm Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:03:49 +0530 From: "Dr. T.B. Rajashekar" <raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] FW: Special lecture at DRTC To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: <002101c51971$a2f80810$bd481090@Rajashekar> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" -----Original Message----- From: DRTC General [mailto:drtc@ns.isibang.ac.in] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 10:42 AM To: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Cc: ikrrao(a)yahoo.co.in Subject: Special lecture at DRTC Dear Dr. Rajashekar, Kindly send this circular through lisforum. With regards, I.K. Ravichandra Rao Head, DRTC ======================================================== INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore - 59 Cordially invites you to attend a Special Seminar On "Finding Scholarly Information through the Internet and the WWW" By Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel Belgium On Monday, 28th February 2005, at 2 pm. At Documentation Research and Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore 560059 Professor and Head, DRTC ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:36:38 +0530 From: <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Librarians' proficiency in English To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: <DBF3A0D52B21954A91869AF702D1A32C083BCF(a)ikpex01.ikp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Friends, I am sure that some of you were expecting this. I am really appalled at the lack of any semblance of proficiency in the use of English language among many librarians. I wonder how one could pass through some 17 years of schooling and even after that manage not to learn basics of English Language It is regrettable that our present system of Education does not emphasize the importance of Language abilities. Because of selfish politicians promoting their own agendas at the cost of the nation and because of a tendency to promote or put up with mediocrity everywhere -- the necessity for striving for excellence is once in a way heard from our president, though -- students do not look at Lannguage skills with any concern. Recently we had to recruit an Information Officer for our VIC. Out of about fifteen persons we considered, hardly two or three could measure up as far as basic English Language skills are concerned. On one hand we find the Indian librarians community in India to be prolific writers - even an entry level resume mentions two or three 'papers' published and on the other hand we find that their presentation and communication skills at horribly very low levels. What are reasons? How can this be changed? Who should take action? Is it OK to be where & how we are? What do LIS teachers have to say? In this lamentation I am not bothered about typing errors (may be you are just lazy - not that you do not know), spelling mistakes (heavy dependence on spell checkers), occasional slippages (it happens to everyone), unheard of abbreviations being thrust on everyone by cell phone (or email?) culture and the like. I am concerned with basic English Language skills expected of a tenth class student. Kindly do not take recourse to "It is the same everywhere - in all other preofessions too" type of argument. Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:39:27 +0530 From: "Aman Jha" <aman.jha(a)ciionline.org> Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Librarians' proficiency in English To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Message-ID: <677A2BDC87B41F4C9059053630B29736050A7061@ciimail> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Dr Vyasamoorthy I too feel that English Language proficiency is a problem for many library professionals. This is basically for those who belong to BIMARU states. I myself belong to one of such states where English language is taught from 6th standards onwards and in 10th standard, it is not mandatory to pass in English. This is the case of many state boards. I somehow managed to fill this gap after 10th, may be due to my primary education took place in Delhi. Even in Delhi during 1980s, English was taught not before 6th standard in Govt schools. PROBLEMS: Education systems: State Boards: There is a general practice in many states where passing in English is not mandatory in the State Board examinations. Universities: Many universities allow Hindi speaking students, whose medium of instruction till Bachelor have been in Hindi, to get admission in BLIS course where BLIS is taught in Hindi. There are many other LIS departments where medium of instruction is mentioned English in Prospectus but Hinglish is practised. Attitude: In my case, since I was very weak in English till 10th, I took it very seriously for higher education and started studying basic English books even primary levels, grammar and translation with lot of self-practice at home which boosted my confidence of English language. WHAT TO BE DONE? I think British Council has taken a good lead in developing English language skills in the country. Professionals who feel are weak in English may join a short term course. As an interface between books and users, librarian must have good communication skills in English and should be primary requisite for the recruitment of the post. Employers should also enhance their employees' communication skills by organising an internal training/workshop program. Library associations should come forward, if not, library network centres in India can join hands with the primary employers to organise such programs. There are many other avenues where professionals may try for upgrading their English language skills. I had compiled a comprehensive list of English Language Training Schools/Centres in India last year. I will be happy to share that list. Best regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-5014060-67 * Fax: 0124-5014080 -----Original Message----- From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com [mailto:Vyasamoorthy@icicikp.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:07 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Librarians' proficiency in English Dear Friends, I am sure that some of you were expecting this. I am really appalled at the lack of any semblance of proficiency in the use of English language among many librarians. I wonder how one could pass through some 17 years of schooling and even after that manage not to learn basics of English Language It is regrettable that our present system of Education does not emphasize the importance of Language abilities. Because of selfish politicians promoting their own agendas at the cost of the nation and because of a tendency to promote or put up with mediocrity everywhere -- the necessity for striving for excellence is once in a way heard from our president, though -- students do not look at Lannguage skills with any concern. Recently we had to recruit an Information Officer for our VIC. Out of about fifteen persons we considered, hardly two or three could measure up as far as basic English Language skills are concerned. On one hand we find the Indian librarians community in India to be prolific writers - even an entry level resume mentions two or three 'papers' published and on the other hand we find that their presentation and communication skills at horribly very low levels. What are reasons? How can this be changed? Who should take action? Is it OK to be where & how we are? What do LIS teachers have to say? In this lamentation I am not bothered about typing errors (may be you are just lazy - not that you do not know), spelling mistakes (heavy dependence on spell checkers), occasional slippages (it happens to everyone), unheard of abbreviations being thrust on everyone by cell phone (or email?) culture and the like. I am concerned with basic English Language skills expected of a tenth class student. Kindly do not take recourse to "It is the same everywhere - in all other preofessions too" type of argument. Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:17:06 +0530 (IST) From: "shantha venkatesan" <mmslib(a)udct.org> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Basic English To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <1225.192.16.4.247.1109148426.squirrel(a)proxy.uict> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Kudos to Dr.Vyasamoorthy! Certainly the real culprits are the education system & selfish politicians. You will agree this is an exciting topic. We speak of national integration. We accept or do not accept that English language brings all castes & communities together. Ridiculous indeed! How many universities are conducting interviews for B.L.I.Sc in regional language to see that the mediocrity thrives everywhere. Are the teachers of LIS not responsible for this appalling state? Do the teachers of LIS identify & motivate the would-be prolific writers? Do the teachers speak correct English in the class? Are the teachers simply cynical of students who are better than the teachers? Are the teachers aware of difference between healthy criticism & cynicism? I believe the teachers are right in the centre of the field to mould the academic society. It is just like blaming the government for all ills not knowing that the govt. is of the people, by the people and for the people. As Dr.Radhakrishnan said " a teacher commands respect and not demands respect. Learning is directed both ways teacher-students and students-teachers. Now who is responsible for the poor communication skill : the system of education, the floating politicians or the sacred teachers? This is a food for thought. A proper analysis would bring in the answer. -- Shantha Venkatesan. Senior Librarian Prof.M.M.Sharma Library U.I.C.T.Matunga (East) Mumbai400 019 ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:24:43 -0800 (PST) From: gayathri sen <gayatsen(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Communication skills To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20050223092443.12145.qmail(a)web52907.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear friends, I strongly endorse the views of Dr. Vysamoorthy regarding the present day out comes of Libray Schools. I have even spoken about this to some professors teaching in library schools. Librarian or Information Officers position involves dealing with users, managements, government bodies etc. etc. When the library staff or the librarian himself cannot present himself well what respect can you expect in organizations? To improve the situation, like how english classes are introduced in technical courses like B.E., even in library courses english should be made compulsory. This may solve the problem to a small extent. I take english classes for few staff members in my library whenever I have some time, so that they can present themselves better in front of users. Many come from rural back ground and hence this drawback. Gayathri Sen PESIT --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. -------------- next part -------------- Dear friends, I strongly endorse the views of Dr. Vysamoorthy regarding the present day out comes of Libray Schools. I have even spoken about this to some professors teaching in library schools. Librarian or Information Officers position involves dealing with users, managements, government bodies etc. etc. When the library staff or the librarian himself cannot present himself well what respect can you expect in organizations? To improve the situation, like how english classes are introduced in technical courses like B.E., even in library courses english should be made compulsory. This may solve the problem to a small extent. I take english classes for few staff members in my library whenever I have some time, so that they can present themselves better in front of users. Many come from rural back ground and hence this drawback. Gayathri Sen PESIT Do you Yahoo!? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/virus/*http://promotions.yahoo com/new_mail/static/protection.html Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:50:38 +0300 From: Jayadev P Hiremath <jayadevph(a)gmail.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Why do we need high proficiency in English language ? To: "Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com" <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <f6d4da1f050223015059a3fc56(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII How many Librarians in East Europe, Japan, France, China and Russia and many other countries know English. Haven't these countries progressed ? If the Librarian has studied in Vernacular upto high school, is it his fault ? Library Science teacher's are there to teach Library Science and not English Language skills. When you were recruiting an Information Officer, what was the basic requirement ? Was it his skills in Information Management or English language ? You have a done a great disservice by writing highly unwarranted mail. This will dissuade many Librarians from writing to this forum. They all will develop inferiotity complex. Itis a national shame that when two Indians...Librarians.... from different parts of the country meet they have to communicate in English language. Have you ever thought about conversing in Hindi ? I jolly well know the importance of English language in the world. But that doesn't mean that we have to look down upon our fellow professionals who are not proficient in English. We have all become slaves to English language and take great pride in being so. I as a customer, have received many e-mails from your Organization and I don't think ICICI as such attaches much importance to English language skills and rightly so. Why is it that only you are so keen about it when it is not an Institutional policy. Working knowledge of the languages is more that sufficient for providing the services. Unless ofcourse you are going to write a treatise. Jayadev P Hiremath On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:36:38 +0530, Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I am sure that some of you were expecting this. I am really appalled at the lack of any semblance of proficiency in the use of English language among many librarians. I wonder how one could pass through some 17 years of schooling and even after that manage not to learn basics of English Language It is regrettable that our present system of Education does not emphasize the importance of Language abilities. Because of selfish politicians promoting their own agendas at the cost of the nation and because of a tendency to promote or put up with mediocrity everywhere -- the necessity for striving for excellence is once in a way heard from our president, though -- students do not look at Lannguage skills with any concern. > > Recently we had to recruit an Information Officer for our VIC. Out of about fifteen persons we considered, hardly two or three could measure up as far as basic English Language skills are concerned. > > On one hand we find the Indian librarians community in India to be prolific writers - even an entry level resume mentions two or three 'papers' published and on the other hand we find that their presentation and communication skills at horribly very low levels. What are reasons? How can this be changed? Who should take action? Is it OK to be where & how we are? What do LIS teachers have to say? > > In this lamentation I am not bothered about typing errors (may be you are just lazy - not that you do not know), spelling mistakes (heavy dependence on spell checkers), occasional slippages (it happens to everyone), unheard of abbreviations being thrust on everyone by cell phone (or email?) culture and the like. I am concerned with basic English Language skills expected of a tenth class student. Kindly do not take recourse to "It is the same everywhere - in all other preofessions too" type of argument. > > Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, > ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, > RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA > Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com > Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum End of LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 23, Issue 30 ***************************************** Friends I would like to expand on Dr Vyasamoorthy's lament somewhat with due apologies to the poet T S Elliot. I think the lack of proficiency in English is only the tip of the iceberg and hence my lament below. Where are the books we have lost in our 'digital libraries'? Where are the users we have lost in our 'library science'? Where is the service we have lost in our 'automation'? Where are the library networks we have lost in 'cyberspace'? Where are the leaders we have lost in our 'library schools'? Where are the scholars we have lost in our 'Ph Ds'? Where is the professionalism we have lost in our 'profession'? Where is the substance we have lost in 'hype'? L J Haravu Trustee, Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management [http://www.kiikm.org/] 69 Krishnapuri Colony West Marredpally Sedcunderabad 500 026 Tel: 91-40-27803947 -------Original Message------- From: mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: 02/23/05 17:40:52 To: mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 23, Issue 30 Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mailto:lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in You can reach the person managing the list at mailto:lis-forum-owner@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." Today's Topics: 1. MSN Search Helpful to Net User (Farooque Shaheen) 2. FW: Special lecture at DRTC (Dr. T.B. Rajashekar) 3. Librarians' proficiency in English ( mailto:Vyasamoorthy@icicikp.com Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com ) 4. RE: Librarians' proficiency in English (Aman Jha) 5. Basic English (shantha venkatesan) 6. Communication skills (gayathri sen) 7. Why do we need high proficiency in English language ? (Jayadev P Hiremath) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:03:09 +0530 From: Farooque Shaheen < mailto:Farooque.Shaheen@caritor.com Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com > Subject: [LIS-Forum] MSN Search Helpful to Net User To: mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: < mailto:OFB6070F6A.8B1FE410-ON65256FB1.001DA55F-65256FB1.001F83C2@notes.caritor.com OFB6070F6A.8B1FE410-ON65256FB1.001DA55F-65256FB1.001F83C2(a)notes.caritor.com > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The Hindu, The next time you have a query such as "what is seven times 20" or "how high is Mt. Everest" or a complex arithmetic or algebra calculation,simply type the question in the window of MSN Search, Microsoft's latest innovation. A one-line answer would appear in microseconds on the web page, along with the other MSN search results. "How many inches in a mile?" Launched last fortnight in the country, this feature of MSN Search draws its results from the database of 1.5 million answers provided by Microsoft Encarta, the leading encyclopaedia brand. You could ask any question on geographical locations, historical and popular figures, definitions, facts, calculations, conversions, and solutions to equations. Till now, Internet browsers had to type out the key words in the search window and click on the search results to look out for precise definitions. But the one-line Encarta answer is only part of the long list of features offered by the new MSN Search, built from the ground up by Microsoft in about 16 months. Now available in 25 countries and 10 languages, the search service offers a collection of tools to Net users, giving them greater control in targeting and refining searches to get instant,accurate answers to specific questions. http://www.hindu.com/2005/02/23/stories/2005022315510300.htm http://www.hindu.com/2005/02/23/stories/2005022315510300.htm Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Proficiency in English
by Prabhash Narayana Rath 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Dear friends What sort of proficiency are we talking about? Is it English as a means of communication or as a literary language? My personal feeling is that (please excuse me if I am incorrect) while selecting librarians, the selectors put more emphasis on communication skills in English (I mean spoken English). We belong to a profession which needs proficiency at least to a certain level, in both spoken as well as written English. Also, we need a fair knowledge of the local vernacular language. I disagree with Mr Jha that LIS schools should teach the course as a professional course and not as an academic discipline. I think this attitude has contributed a lot towards the downfall of the subject as an academic discipline in the country. There has been no basic research in LIS after Dr Ranganathan. Anyway, that is totally a different matter. So knowledge of English is, though an important one, but should not be the sole criterion for judging a better Library professional. Regards.. Prabhash N. Rath, Ph.D. Documentation Officer Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics Pune - 411004 Tel: 91+20-25650287 (O.) 91+20-25678311 (R.) E-mail: prabhashrath(a)yahoo.com

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high proficiency in English language
by ganeshtk 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Dear All, Being an information professional who has to gather information for the user one should not limit himself to any language, which definitely limit his career to a particular geographical area are culture. Today we are living in a world which has Global Village concept hence a professional need not limit himself to any language or geographical area. Always the user requirement varies and it has no limit of language are geographical area English being a widely used language and much of the literature are available in it. It is better one should learn English and be proficient user and interact in it whenever it is required. From the day one British came to India we have learning resources of English language, let us make better use of it and let us take it as a positive step. I would even go one step further by saying that we should not only limit ourselves to English if it is possible we should try to learn as many languages as possible which are widely used through out the world. It not only improves the efficiency of an individual but also access to information, which is very important for the information professional. This being a positive point in the career development of an Individual let us take this as a postive initiation and let us try to be open and retain our values rather limiting ourselves to any language or confining to a limited area While learning any language we should keep in mind the quote given by our Nations Father Shri. M K Gandhi that �I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blow about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blow off my feet by any of them� Thanking you all, GANESHA T.K. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

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Article requested
by Yashwant G Kanade 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Respected Lis members, May I request to send the soft/hard copy of the following research paper for our researher? With Warm Regards Yashwant G Kanade CES, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore-12. CENTURY ecosystem model application for quantifying vegetation dynamics in shifting cultivation areas: A case study from Rampa Forests, Eastern Ghats (India) V. Krishna Prasad, Yogesh Kant and K. V. S. Badarinath* Ecological Research Volume 16 Issue 3 Page 497 - September 2001 doi:10.1046/j.1440-1703.2001.00412.x

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English?
by Mrs. Vaishnav 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Dear All, I can only add that in some of the mails, all these "Mistakes" could have been avoided with simple spellchecker facility..even that has not been done. I am from Vernacular medium where Eng. Started at 8th std., was put to a convent by STD. 5th, where Eng. was introduced from K.G.. I had tough time getting through, was not knowing what teachers were asking in the Eng. period, if majority of the class got up, I would do the same,..etc...by 2nd Sem.I picked up to the level of standing First,did my B.A. with Eng.with first class, then M.A. in Eng. & after 13 yrs of it, did my B.Lib. in Mumbai.All through English was & is needed, the kind of info.level material one can get in Eng. is not available in Vernacular, b'cuz everything does not get translated It is matter of being meticulous or casual about the presentation. This is the case with all , not only with Librarians, I would fully agree with Ms. Vasumathi. With regards, Mrs. Vaishnav (Consulting Librarian-Godrej) ======================================================================= Godrej is now just a call away. Dial our 24 hour toll free number, 1600225511* for all your queries about our products, prices, dealers and service. We will be glad to be of assistance to you. * Toll free number available in Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata. " Visit our website - http://www.godrej.com " ======================================================================= Dear All, I can only add that in some of the mails, all these "Mistakes" could have been avoided with simple spellchecker facility..even that has not been done. I am from Vernacular medium where Eng. Started at 8th std., was put to a convent by STD. 5th, where Eng. was introduced from K.G.. I had tough time getting through, was not knowing what teachers were asking in the Eng. period, if majority of the class got up, I would do the same,..etc...by 2nd Sem.I picked up to the level of standing First,did my B.A. with Eng.with first class, then M.A. in Eng. & after 13 yrs of it, did my B.Lib. in Mumbai.All through English was & is needed, the kind of info.level material one can get in Eng. is not available in Vernacular, b'cuz everything does not get translated It is matter of being meticulous or casual about the presentation. This is the case with all , not only with Librarians, I would fully agree with Ms. Vasumathi. With regards, Mrs. Vaishnav (Consulting Librarian-Godrej) ======================================================================= Godrej is now just a call away. Dial our 24 hour toll free number, 1600225511* for all your queries about our products, prices, dealers and service. We will be glad to be of assistance to you. * Toll free number available in Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata. " Visit our website - http://www.godrej.com " =======================================================================

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Librarians' proficiency in English
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Dear Friends, I am sure that some of you were expecting this. I am really appalled at the lack of any semblance of proficiency in the use of English language among many librarians. I wonder how one could pass through some 17 years of schooling and even after that manage not to learn basics of English Language. It is regrettable that our present system of Education does not emphasize the importance of Language abilities. Because of selfish politicians promoting their own agendas at the cost of the nation and because of a tendency to promote or put up with mediocrity everywhere -- the necessity for striving for excellence is once in a way heard from our president, though -- students do not look at Language skills with any concern. Recently we had to recruit an Information Officer for our VIC. Out of about fifteen persons we considered, hardly two or three could measure up as far as basic English Language skills are concerned. On one hand we find the Indian librarians community in India to be prolific writers - even an entry level resume mentions two or three 'papers' published and on the other hand we find that their presentation and communication skills at horribly very low levels. What are reasons? How can this be changed? Who should take action? Is it OK to be where & how we are? What do LIS teachers have to say? In this lamentation I am not bothered about typing errors (may be you are just lazy - not that you do not know), spelling mistakes (heavy dependence on spell checkers), occasional slippages (it happens to everyone), unheard of abbreviations being thrust on everyone by cell phone (or email?) culture and the like. I am concerned with basic English Language skills expected of a tenth class student. Kindly do not take recourse to "It is the same everywhere - in all other preofessions too" type of argument. Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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please forward to forum...Why should we be proficient in English?
by A.V. Nagarathna 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Dear All, This has reference to the advice of Dr. P. Vyasamoorthy. I strongly feel that it is essential to have proficiency in English (to the extent where we will be able to communicate exactly what we want to), since it has already become an universal language all over the world. Why one need to know the English language is for the simple reason that we (being information professionals) have to convey / deliver / disseminate the information properly to others. ---------------------------- For eg.: I am based at an academic institution where the majority of the scientific community include visitors from all over the world. The students based at the Centre are selected on an all India selection basis. They will not know our regional language. If we do not know english properly how do we communicate and help them in locating any document or reference materials etc. How are we expected to interact with them, just like dumb people...with actions ? ---------------------------- It is essential and depends on where you are? what your job specifications? how are you are expected to execute your work etc..etc. Knowing a language which is universal is always good not only for LIS professionals but for all who want to communicate efficiently. --------------------------- I always welcome any suggestions (from this forum) which may help to execute our job in a more fruitful way (instead of taking it as an insult, why not take it as an advice from the experienced professionals to improve ourselves? ). It is left to the other members whether to take the suggestions or ignore it. But, why deny any one on this forum to express their views. After all, ours is a democratic country! ---------------------------- Since all of us able to communicate in English we are on this forum and take advantage of it. otherwise, can we ask NCSI to translate all our communication in regional languages and forward it to the forum ?????? Instead of blaming any language (for its universality), we need to appreciate that we have a language through which we can exchange our views/information all over the world ! I have read several articles in conference proceedings in the field library science, it is really horrible. I do not comment on the authors (of that particular article) proficiency in English ! but for the responsibility of the Editors/conference organisers who bring out the publications without editing it! At the same time I have read excellent articles by Dr. Rajashekar (NCSI), Prof. Shalini (Mysore univ.) to name a few, who always maintain high standards in their writings. Please accept suggestions with open mindedness. Thank you for your patience. Regards, A.V. Nagarathna

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Google Unveil Movie Show Time Search
by Farooque Shaheen 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Google has added yet another offering to its long list of custom Web searches: movie reviews. By including the "movie:" operator within a search query, Google brings up organized reviews of a flick from across the Web. The new service even calculates a movie's combined rating out of five stars. Google has also created dedicated pages for each movie, which give an overview of reviews and allow for searching of related terms, such as actors in the film. Much like its Google News service, the search giant indexes the review and displays its source and critic, along with a snippet of text. All of the content aggregation is done automatically and sorted by computers. Furthering its strategy of building a complete ecosystem of search tools, the new feature integrates with ?Google Local? to provide show times of nearby movies. Users can then utilize ?Google Maps? to bring up directions to the theater. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 Google has added yet another offering to its long list of custom Web searches: movie reviews. By including the "movie:" operator within a search query, Google brings up organized reviews of a flick from across the Web. The new service even calculates a movie's combined rating out of five stars. Google has also created dedicated pages for each movie, which give an overview of reviews and allow for searching of related terms, such as actors in the film. Much like its Google News service, the search giant indexes the review and displays its source and critic, along with a snippet of text. All of the content aggregation is done automatically and sorted by computers. Furthering its strategy of building a complete ecosystem of search tools, the new feature integrates with “Google Local” to provide show times of nearby movies. Users can then utilize “Google Maps” to bring up directions to the theater. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Why do we need high proficiency in English language ?
by Aman Jha 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Dear sir, I think library science teachers are to teach library science as a professional subject not as an academic subject. I give you an example: When I was doing my computer course from NIIT, they not only taught us computer skills but also how to present and behave in the professional environment. They taught us about perfect personality which included communication skills and application of TQM. YOU NEED TO RECONSIDER YOUR FIRST STATEMENT. I firmly believe that even Govt colleges and universities while recruiting librarians look for candidates having good communications skills in English. ICICI is a corporate organisation. I would not have been selected as a librarian of CII, if I had a weak background in English. Dr Chandra would not have got ISO 9002 certificate for his library, if he had a weak command over English. Similarly, Dr Ranganathan would not have got chance to study abroad for the upliftment of library science in India. There are so many examples. Those who have excelled their name in libaray science in India had very good command over English. Whereas the case of speaking in Hindi is concerned, it is really a shame for us that even in the Parliament, MPs prefer to speak in English. And we make fun of those who speak in Hindi. I remember a case when I was working in Eureka Forbes to support my study expenses in Delhi, the immediate boss of mine and other colleagues made fun of my signing appointment letter in Hindi. There is no question of looking down upon our fellow professionals but to raise their standards to cop with the present demand of professional requirements. I am sorry if I have hurt your feelings. My personal views pl. Best regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-5014060-67 * Fax: 0124-5014080 -----Original Message----- From: Jayadev P Hiremath [mailto:jayadevph@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:51 AM To: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Why do we need high proficiency in English language ? How many Librarians in East Europe, Japan, France, China and Russia and many other countries know English. Haven't these countries progressed ? If the Librarian has studied in Vernacular upto high school, is it his fault ? Library Science teacher's are there to teach Library Science and not English Language skills. When you were recruiting an Information Officer, what was the basic requirement ? Was it his skills in Information Management or English language ? You have a done a great disservice by writing highly unwarranted mail. This will dissuade many Librarians from writing to this forum. They all will develop inferiotity complex. Itis a national shame that when two Indians...Librarians.... from different parts of the country meet they have to communicate in English language. Have you ever thought about conversing in Hindi ? I jolly well know the importance of English language in the world. But that doesn't mean that we have to look down upon our fellow professionals who are not proficient in English. We have all become slaves to English language and take great pride in being so. I as a customer, have received many e-mails from your Organization and I don't think ICICI as such attaches much importance to English language skills and rightly so. Why is it that only you are so keen about it when it is not an Institutional policy. Working knowledge of the languages is more that sufficient for providing the services. Unless ofcourse you are going to write a treatise. Jayadev P Hiremath On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:36:38 +0530, Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I am sure that some of you were expecting this. I am really appalled at the lack of any semblance of proficiency in the use of English language among many librarians. I wonder how one could pass through some 17 years of schooling and even after that manage not to learn basics of English Language. It is regrettable that our present system of Education does not emphasize the importance of Language abilities. Because of selfish politicians promoting their own agendas at the cost of the nation and because of a tendency to promote or put up with mediocrity everywhere -- the necessity for striving for excellence is once in a way heard from our president, though -- students do not look at Language skills with any concern. > > Recently we had to recruit an Information Officer for our VIC. Out of about fifteen persons we considered, hardly two or three could measure up as far as basic English Language skills are concerned. > > On one hand we find the Indian librarians community in India to be prolific writers - even an entry level resume mentions two or three 'papers' published and on the other hand we find that their presentation and communication skills at horribly very low levels. What are reasons? How can this be changed? Who should take action? Is it OK to be where & how we are? What do LIS teachers have to say? > > In this lamentation I am not bothered about typing errors (may be you are just lazy - not that you do not know), spelling mistakes (heavy dependence on spell checkers), occasional slippages (it happens to everyone), unheard of abbreviations being thrust on everyone by cell phone (or email?) culture and the like. I am concerned with basic English Language skills expected of a tenth class student. Kindly do not take recourse to "It is the same everywhere - in all other preofessions too" type of argument. > > Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, > ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, > RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA > Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com > Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Librarians' proficiency in English
by Aman Jha 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Dear Dr Vyasamoorthy I too feel that English Language proficiency is a problem for many library professionals. This is basically for those who belong to BIMARU states. I myself belong to one of such states where English language is taught from 6th standards onwards and in 10th standard, it is not mandatory to pass in English. This is the case of many state boards. I somehow managed to fill this gap after 10th, may be due to my primary education took place in Delhi. Even in Delhi during 1980s, English was taught not before 6th standard in Govt schools. PROBLEMS: Education systems: State Boards: There is a general practice in many states where passing in English is not mandatory in the State Board examinations. Universities: Many universities allow Hindi speaking students, whose medium of instruction till Bachelor have been in Hindi, to get admission in BLIS course where BLIS is taught in Hindi. There are many other LIS departments where medium of instruction is mentioned English in Prospectus but Hinglish is practised. Attitude: In my case, since I was very weak in English till 10th, I took it very seriously for higher education and started studying basic English books even primary levels, grammar and translation with lot of self-practice at home which boosted my confidence of English language. WHAT TO BE DONE? I think British Council has taken a good lead in developing English language skills in the country. Professionals who feel are weak in English may join a short term course. As an interface between books and users, librarian must have good communication skills in English and should be primary requisite for the recruitment of the post. Employers should also enhance their employees' communication skills by organising an internal training/workshop program. Library associations should come forward, if not, library network centres in India can join hands with the primary employers to organise such programs. There are many other avenues where professionals may try for upgrading their English language skills. I had compiled a comprehensive list of English Language Training Schools/Centres in India last year. I will be happy to share that list. Best regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-5014060-67 * Fax: 0124-5014080 -----Original Message----- From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com [mailto:Vyasamoorthy@icicikp.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:07 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Librarians' proficiency in English Dear Friends, I am sure that some of you were expecting this. I am really appalled at the lack of any semblance of proficiency in the use of English language among many librarians. I wonder how one could pass through some 17 years of schooling and even after that manage not to learn basics of English Language. It is regrettable that our present system of Education does not emphasize the importance of Language abilities. Because of selfish politicians promoting their own agendas at the cost of the nation and because of a tendency to promote or put up with mediocrity everywhere -- the necessity for striving for excellence is once in a way heard from our president, though -- students do not look at Language skills with any concern. Recently we had to recruit an Information Officer for our VIC. Out of about fifteen persons we considered, hardly two or three could measure up as far as basic English Language skills are concerned. On one hand we find the Indian librarians community in India to be prolific writers - even an entry level resume mentions two or three 'papers' published and on the other hand we find that their presentation and communication skills at horribly very low levels. What are reasons? How can this be changed? Who should take action? Is it OK to be where & how we are? What do LIS teachers have to say? In this lamentation I am not bothered about typing errors (may be you are just lazy - not that you do not know), spelling mistakes (heavy dependence on spell checkers), occasional slippages (it happens to everyone), unheard of abbreviations being thrust on everyone by cell phone (or email?) culture and the like. I am concerned with basic English Language skills expected of a tenth class student. Kindly do not take recourse to "It is the same everywhere - in all other preofessions too" type of argument. Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Article Request
by amit thapar 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Good Morning to all friends, i urgently require this article for my assignment. If it is possible for anyone then pls send a soft copy of this article to me. Processes and problems in information consolidation Information Processing & Management Volume 22, Issue 1 , 1986, Pages 45-60 with best regards, Amit Thapar Library & Information Centre National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research Sector-67, Phase-X S.A.S.Nagar (Mohali)-160062, Punjab, INDIA www.niper.ac.in amit.thapar(a)gmail.com Cell no. 09417419457 Good Morning to all friends, i urgently require this article for my assignment. If it is possible for anyone then pls send a soft copy of this article to me. Processes and problems in information consolidation Information Processing & Management Volume 22, Issue 1 , 1986, Pages 45-60 with best regards, Amit Thapar Library & Information Centre National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research Sector-67, Phase-X S.A.S.Nagar (Mohali)-160062, Punjab, INDIA www.niper.ac.in amit.thapar(a)gmail.com Cell no. 09417419457 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.0.0 - Release Date: 8/11/04

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Fw: [oa-india] A new book on OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Here is a brief abstract of a new French book on OA. Arun ISBN : 2-7475-7695-7 - février 2005 - 186 pages http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=187… OPEN ARCHIVES AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION How to provide free access to research results? Thierry Chanier Preface: Jean-Max Noyer SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY The technical potential of the networked online medium offers concrete solutions for freeing access to the results of scientific and scholarly research. Conflicting social and economic models have generated deep controversies among the various players involved in scholarly/scientific publication [researchers, their institutions, their funders, and their publishers]. Network technology now offers the substrate from which the research community can reorganise itself to regain control over the publication and dissemination of its work. Two things are at stake: Free access and the development of a new research cycle to renew scientific communication. Dgroups is a joint initiative of Bellanet, DFID, Hivos, ICA, IICD, OneWorld, UNAIDS and World Bank --- You are currently subscribed to oa-india as: arun(a)mssrf.res.in To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-oa-india-137598Y(a)dgroups.org Here is a brief abstract of a new French book on OA. Arun ISBN : 2-7475-7695-7 - février 2005 - 186 pages http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=187… http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=187… OPEN ARCHIVES AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION How to provide free access to research results? Thierry Chanier Preface: Jean-Max Noyer SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY The technical potential of the networked online medium offers concrete solutions for freeing access to the results of scientific and scholarly research. Conflicting social and economic models have generated deep controversies among the various players involved in scholarly/scientific publication [researchers, their institutions, their funders, and their publishers]. Network technology now offers the substrate from which the research community can reorganise itself to regain control over the publication and dissemination of its work. Two things are at stake: Free access and the development of a new research cycle to renew scientific communication. Dgroups is a joint initiative of Bellanet, DFID, Hivos, ICA, IICD, OneWorld, UNAIDS and World Bank --- You are currently subscribed to oa-india as: arun(a)mssrf.res.in To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-oa-india-137598Y(a)dgroups.org

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information about south asia
by pradeep kumar 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Librarians' proficiency in English
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Thank you Mr Jha for the positive way you have looked at it. We are conducting shortly an English Language course for our employees, to help them speak with ease and to write simple correct English. Please do send me the list of English Teaching Schools to me. Your points are worth pursuing further. Best wishes Vyasamoorthy, P -----Original Message----- From: Aman Jha [mailto:aman.jha@ciionline.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:39 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Cc: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Librarians' proficiency in English Importance: High Dear Dr Vyasamoorthy I too feel that English Language proficiency is a problem for many library professionals. This is basically for those who belong to BIMARU states. I myself belong to one of such states where English language is taught from 6th standards onwards and in 10th standard, it is not mandatory to pass in English. This is the case of many state boards. I somehow managed to fill this gap after 10th, may be due to my primary education took place in Delhi. Even in Delhi during 1980s, English was taught not before 6th standard in Govt schools. PROBLEMS: Education systems: State Boards: There is a general practice in many states where passing in English is not mandatory in the State Board examinations. Universities: Many universities allow Hindi speaking students, whose medium of instruction till Bachelor have been in Hindi, to get admission in BLIS course where BLIS is taught in Hindi. There are many other LIS departments where medium of instruction is mentioned English in Prospectus but Hinglish is practised. Attitude: In my case, since I was very weak in English till 10th, I took it very seriously for higher education and started studying basic English books even primary levels, grammar and translation with lot of self-practice at home which boosted my confidence of English language. WHAT TO BE DONE? I think British Council has taken a good lead in developing English language skills in the country. Professionals who feel are weak in English may join a short term course. As an interface between books and users, librarian must have good communication skills in English and should be primary requisite for the recruitment of the post. Employers should also enhance their employees' communication skills by organising an internal training/workshop program. Library associations should come forward, if not, library network centres in India can join hands with the primary employers to organise such programs. There are many other avenues where professionals may try for upgrading their English language skills. I had compiled a comprehensive list of English Language Training Schools/Centres in India last year. I will be happy to share that list. Best regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-5014060-67 * Fax: 0124-5014080 ====== original posting clipped ====

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E - Journals
by Library 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Dear Professionals, Please provide me URL of free Electronic Journals (related to Agriculture, Biodiversity, Molecular Biology, Plant Tissue Culture, Ecology, Environment, Rural Development, Gender, Aquaculture, Forestry, Education, Training Programme, Management, Information science & Society) in full text format. Thank you very much. Sincerely, B. Murugan Library Services M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation 3rd Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area Chennai - 600 113 Phone: 22541229 / 22542698; Extn: 208/209 Dear Professionals, Please provide me URL of free Electronic Journals (related to Agriculture, Biodiversity, Molecular Biology, Plant Tissue Culture, Ecology, Environment, Rural Development, Gender, Aquaculture, Forestry, Education, Training Programme, Management, Information science & Society) in full text format. Thank you very much. Sincerely, B. Murugan Library Services M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation 3rd Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area Chennai - 600 113 Phone: 22541229 / 22542698; Extn: 208/209

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Communication skills
by gayathri sen 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Dear friends, I strongly endorse the views of Dr. Vysamoorthy regarding the present day out comes of Libray Schools. I have even spoken about this to some professors teaching in library schools. Librarian or Information Officers position involves dealing with users, managements, government bodies etc. etc. When the library staff or the librarian himself cannot present himself well what respect can you expect in organizations? To improve the situation, like how english classes are introduced in technical courses like B.E., even in library courses english should be made compulsory. This may solve the problem to a small extent. I take english classes for few staff members in my library whenever I have some time, so that they can present themselves better in front of users. Many come from rural back ground and hence this drawback. Gayathri Sen PESIT --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. Dear friends, I strongly endorse the views of Dr. Vysamoorthy regarding the present day out comes of Libray Schools. I have even spoken about this to some professors teaching in library schools. Librarian or Information Officers� position involves dealing with users, managements, government bodies etc. etc. When the library staff or the librarian himself cannot present himself well what respect can you expect in organizations? To improve the situation, like how english classes are introduced in technical courses like B.E., even in library courses english should be made compulsory. This�may solve the problem to a small extent. I take english classes for few staff members in my library whenever I have some time, so that�they can present themselves better in front of users. Many come from rural back ground and hence this drawback. Gayathri Sen PESIT Do you Yahoo!? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/virus/*http://promotions.yahoo.com/… Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.

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Basic English
by shantha venkatesan 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Kudos to Dr.Vyasamoorthy! Certainly the real culprits are the education system & selfish politicians. You will agree this is an exciting topic. We speak of national integration. We accept or do not accept that English language brings all castes & communities together. Ridiculous indeed! How many universities are conducting interviews for B.L.I.Sc in regional language to see that the mediocrity thrives everywhere. Are the teachers of LIS not responsible for this appalling state? Do the teachers of LIS identify & motivate the would-be prolific writers? Do the teachers speak correct English in the class? Are the teachers simply cynical of students who are better than the teachers? Are the teachers aware of difference between healthy criticism & cynicism? I believe the teachers are right in the centre of the field to mould the academic society. It is just like blaming the government for all ills not knowing that the govt. is of the people, by the people and for the people. As Dr.Radhakrishnan said " a teacher commands respect and not demands respect. Learning is directed both ways teacher-students and students-teachers. Now who is responsible for the poor communication skill : the system of education, the floating politicians or the sacred teachers? This is a food for thought. A proper analysis would bring in the answer. -- Shantha Venkatesan. Senior Librarian Prof.M.M.Sharma Library U.I.C.T.Matunga (East) Mumbai400 019

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FW: Special lecture at DRTC
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

-----Original Message----- From: DRTC General [mailto:drtc@ns.isibang.ac.in] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 10:42 AM To: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Cc: ikrrao(a)yahoo.co.in Subject: Special lecture at DRTC Dear Dr. Rajashekar, Kindly send this circular through lisforum. With regards, I.K. Ravichandra Rao Head, DRTC ======================================================== INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore - 59 Cordially invites you to attend a Special Seminar On "Finding Scholarly Information through the Internet and the WWW" By Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel Belgium On Monday, 28th February 2005, at 2 pm. At Documentation Research and Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore 560059 Professor and Head, DRTC

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MSN Search Helpful to Net User
by Farooque Shaheen 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

The Hindu, The next time you have a query such as "what is seven times 20" or "how high is Mt. Everest" or a complex arithmetic or algebra calculation,simply type the question in the window of MSN Search, Microsoft's latest innovation. A one-line answer would appear in microseconds on the web page, along with the other MSN search results. "How many inches in a mile?" Launched last fortnight in the country, this feature of MSN Search draws its results from the database of 1.5 million answers provided by Microsoft Encarta, the leading encyclopaedia brand. You could ask any question on geographical locations, historical and popular figures, definitions, facts, calculations, conversions, and solutions to equations. Till now, Internet browsers had to type out the key words in the search window and click on the search results to look out for precise definitions. But the one-line Encarta answer is only part of the long list of features offered by the new MSN Search, built from the ground up by Microsoft in about 16 months. Now available in 25 countries and 10 languages, the search service offers a collection of tools to Net users, giving them greater control in targeting and refining searches to get instant,accurate answers to specific questions. http://www.hindu.com/2005/02/23/stories/2005022315510300.htm Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 The Hindu, The next time you have a query such as "what is seven times 20" or "how high is Mt. Everest" or a complex arithmetic or algebra calculation,simply type the question in the window of MSN Search, Microsoft's latest innovation. A �one-line answer would appear in microseconds on the web page, along with the other MSN search results. "How many inches in a mile?" Launched last fortnight in the country, this feature of MSN Search draws its results from the database of 1.5 million answers provided by Microsoft Encarta, the leading encyclopaedia brand. You could ask any question on geographical locations, historical and popular figures, definitions, facts, calculations, conversions, and solutions to equations. Till now, Internet browsers had to type out the key words in the search window and click on the search results to look out for precise definitions. But the one-line Encarta answer is only part of the long list of features offered by the new MSN Search, built from the ground up by Microsoft in about 16 months. Now available in 25 countries and 10 languages, the search service offers a collection of tools to Net users, giving them greater control in targeting and refining searches to get instant,accurate answers to specific questions. http://www.hindu.com/2005/02/23/stories/2005022315510300.htm Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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e-journals
by anand ulaya 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

Dear Members Kindly provide me URL of the Electronic Journals in full text format (related to Management, Finance, Human Resource Management,Law, Production and Systems) Many thanks Anand Ulaya Library Aisstant SDM Institute for Management Development No.1 Chamundi Hil Main Road Siddarthanagar Post Mysore - 570 011 Anand U __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Members � Kindly provide me URL of the Electronic Journals in full text format (related to Management, Finance, Human Resource Management,Law,�Production and Systems) � Many thanks � Anand Ulaya Library Aisstant SDM Institute for Management Development No.1 Chamundi Hil Main Road Siddarthanagar Post Mysore - 570 011 Anand U __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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In-House software developments for Library
by ishwar bandi 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

Dear Professionals, We are developing software for our library with the help of computer engineering and IT staff and students. This work is carrying under our guidances. As you all professionals from different organizations may be having similar type of experiences. Please share your experiences and help us in completing this project successfully. Your valuable suggestions will be regretted. Waiting for your valuable responses. Thanking You Mr. Ishappa Bandi Librarian Fr.Agnel Technical Education Complex Sec-9a, Vashi, NaviMumbai Mob:9892724522 Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Professionals, We are developing software for our library with the help of computer engineering and IT staff and students. This work is carrying under our guidances. As you all professionals from different organizations may be having similar type of experiences. Please share your experiences and help us in completing this project successfully. Your valuable suggestions will be regretted. Waiting for your valuable responses. Thanking You Mr. Ishappa Bandi Librarian Fr.Agnel Technical Education Complex Sec-9a, Vashi, NaviMumbai Mob:9892724522 http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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CUTTER NUMBERS-REGARDING
by Seshu Sripada 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

Database ---- cutter table code is- D2625 Database---- Cutter Sanborn Four-Figure Table code is -D2327 What is the difference between two above two statements. Kindly proive complete picture this information got from down loaded OCLC Dewey cuttor progam. Seshu Database ---- cutter table code is- D2625 Database---- Cutter Sanborn Four-Figure Table code is -D2327 What is the difference between two above two statements. Kindly proive complete picture this information got from down loaded OCLC Dewey cuttor progam. Seshu

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Looking forward to career options
by shivaji 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

Dear all, Let me inform you all that I'm working as a 'Documentation Assistant' purely on contract basis in National Social Science Documentation Centre, New Delhi. My contract will be over on 25 Feb. 2005. I'm looking forward to more responsible career options. I may kindly be informed if in case there is a vacancy in your esteemed organisation. Looking forward to your response With kind regards Shiv S. Jha ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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request for a symposium
by K.S. Chudamani 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

Dear members, Here is a request for an article Johnson, G. R. and Cook, W. H. A constitutive model and data for metals subjected to large strains, high-strain rates and high temperatures presented at the 7th international symposium on Ballistics, the hague, the netherlands, april 1983. If anybody has it please send us a copy of the same as it is urgently required by our researchers Chudamani

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Guidelines for E-book Procurement
by Kumar M, Anil (Research) 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

Dear Members: Can anyone tell me if there is any guidelines for E-book Procurement Modeling......? Thanks Anil Kumar Information Assistant John F. Welch Technology Centre Pvt. Ltd. Export Promotion Industrial Park-Phase 1 Hoodi Village, Whitefield Road, Bangalore - 560066, India. Ph: 91-80-25032668; (Dial Com: *901-2668) E-mail: anil.kumarm(a)ge.com

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Theoretical Librarian Blog Launched
by Gerry Mckiernan 19 Feb '05

19 Feb '05

Colleagues/ I am pleased to announce the official launch of my personal/professional blog _Theoretical Librarian _ (TLB). TLB is located [ http://theoretical-librarian.blogspot.com ] I will no longer post (nor cross-post) original postings to this or other lists. Those who may be interested in my future Observations/Cosmic Insights/Publications/Etc. are welcome to visit TLB at their convenience, or subscribe to the Atom feed for this blog [ http://theoretical-librarian.blogspot.com/atom.xml ] I have activated the public Comment function in TLB to foster a dialog about the issues raised/presented in my postings so feel free to Engage! As for a reader, I use feed Pluck (http://www.pluck.com/) [FREE] but there are DozensOfOthers [e.g., http://www.davidmattison.ca/tiki/tiki-slideshow2.php?page_ref_id=26 ] Thanks to Dan C. for Suggesting this Transformation! BTW: The second posting in TLB is about today's NYTimes article on The Attack of the Pod(casting) People [:-) [ http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/19/technology/19podcasting.html ] Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Theoretical Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu P.S. Is any one aware of listservs/e-lists that have a blog component or have migrated from a list to a blog format? Thanks!

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library software
by sujendra suji 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

I want to use library manager software in my library.but before using the software i want to know some information about it.i want to know information like what is the difference between library manager 6.5.8 and 6.6.0, what is the maximum documents we can store in that software what are the demerits in this software whether it is useful for more operations or not Please reply sujendra --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term' I want to use library manager software in my library.but before using the software i want to know some information about it.i want to know information like what is the difference between library manager 6.5.8 and 6.6.0, what is the maximum documents we can store in that software what are the demerits in this software whether it is useful for more operations or not Please reply � sujendra Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=30648/*http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/ji… Jib Jab's 'Second Term'

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A Query regarding out of print
by amar mane 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

Dear all, In London where can we find the bookstores (not online) for outof print books? Our's is a management college. I tried with biblio.com for the same but most of the books required for me are not there. Since our director is going for London, I can get it through him. I would really appreciate if any body could provide the detailed adress/es of the same at the earliest. Thanx & Regards Amar Mane Librarian Russell Square International College, Gulmohar Cross Road No. 9, J.V.P.D, Juhu, Mumbai - 400 049 Tel: 2624 1670 Ext: 316 Fax:26237263 E-mail: librarian(a)rsicollege.org amar_mane(a)rediffmail.com Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear all, In London where can we find the bookstores (not online) for outof print books? Our's is a management college. I tried with biblio.com for the same but most of the books required for me are not there. Since our director is going for London, I can get it through him. I would really appreciate if any body could provide the detailed adress/es of the same at the earliest. Thanx & Regards Amar Mane Librarian Russell Square International College, Gulmohar Cross Road No. 9, J.V.P.D, Juhu, Mumbai - 400 049 Tel: 2624 1670 Ext: 316 Fax:26237263 E-mail: mailto:librarian@rsicollege.org librarian(a)rsicollege.org mailto:amar_mane@rediffmail.com amar_mane(a)rediffmail.com http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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eProfile: ebrary(r): A User-Centered Digital Library of Interactive Content
by Gerry Mckiernan 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

Colleagues/ I am pleased to announce the publication and availability of my latest eProfile in _Library Hi Tech News_ Gerry McKiernan, "ebrary®: A User-Centered Digital Library of Interactive Content," _Library Hi Tech News_ 22, no. 1 (February 2005): 31-39, Self-archived at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/ebrary.pdf ] (accessed 16 February 2005). "Imagine being able to send full text and graphics documents (newspapers, magazine articles, technical manuals etc.) over electronic mail distribution networks. These documents could be viewed on any machine and any selected document could be printed locally. This capability would truly change the way information is managed. Large centrally maintained databases of documents could be accessed remotely and selectively printed remotely." John Warnock (Warnock, 1991) *** "At present, ebrary offers access to "more than 40,000 full-text books and other documents from over 180 of the world's leading academic, trade and professional publishers(corp.ebrary.com/libraries/features.jsp#010), providing full-text, searchable collections and sub-collections for all major subject areas." Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Librarian.pdf Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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Launching of new Goa University Library Website
by Dr.P.V.Konnur 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

Dear Colleagues, The team of Goa University Library staff are pleased to present the new functional library website. You may visit the site on the following URL: http://goalnet.unigoa.ac.in/gulibrary/index.htm The new features of the website are as follows: i) Link to on-line journals comprising of UGC INFONET DELNET Services EBSCO Business Source Elite Emerald Full Text Data Access Trial & Free Access Database ii) Link to UGC Infonet comprising of UGC INFONET Overview Video Presentation on UGC INFONET Publisher wise PPT Presentation STN Access Presentation Subject wise Full Text Journals Publisher wise Full Text Journals iii) Online references (Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Thesauri Yearbooks, Almanacs, Handbooks, Sources of Biographical Information, Sources of Geographical Information, Sources of Statistical Information, Sources of Educational Information, Sources of Current Information, Indexing & Abstracting Services, Standards and Patents etc.) iv) Subject Guides: Selected scholarly resources: Conferences, Databases, Discussion Groups, Journals ... Sciences, Social Science, Arts and Humanities Please Explore the site for many more academic Treasures!!! YOUR VAUABLE SUGGESTIONS WILL HELP US TO SERVE OUR CLIENTS BETTER Thanks ===== Dr.P.V.Konnur, University Librarian, Goa University Library, Taleigao Plateau, Goa - 403 206. Phone: 0832-2456031 (O) 0832-2451008 (R) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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email server
by Indra Kaul 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

Dear Members, A library needs to set up an email list server. In order to help them I would like to know the procedure, requirements to set up it. If there are any vendors or any firms which set up these servers, a list of them shall be very useful. Indrakaul

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document published by Ministry of Expenditure
by Sunita Barve 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

I am looking for a latest document published (published after 24th July 1990) by Government of India Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure, Implementation Cell which describes about library staff pattern and scales. Can anyone send me this document ? I am ready to pay for the xerox/postal charges. This document also describes how to categorise libraries as per collection, total number of library users, services provided etc. with regards, sincerely, Sunita Barve Library-In-Charge National Centre for Radio Astrophysics Post Bag No. 3, Pune Univ. Campus Pune 411 007, INDIA Phone : 91-20-25697107 FAX : 91-20-5697257 Email :sunitab@ncra.tifr.res.in

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Update of _Online Research Tools_ White Paper (Marcus Zillman)
by Gerry Mckiernan 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

Colleagues/ I am pleased to announce the availability of a updated version of Online Research Tools by my WebColleague Marcus P. Zillman [ http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004/09/online-research-tools.html ] This WhitePaper is a comprehensive listing of online research tools that offer various downloadable as well as web applications to allow you to do your research and searching on the Internet far more effective and productive. It is a freely available 18 page .pdf document (458KB) that can be downloaded from the above URL along with other white papers and resources on information retrieval, information extraction and deep web research by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It was updated *02-11-05*. <http://marcuszillman.blogspot.com/> This WhitePaper is one of several resources selected and compiled by Marcus Zillman that I profiled in my recent eProfile "Z as Zillman" [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/Zillman.pdf ] /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Updated Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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Library Science Training
by Shyam Prasad pujar 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 11 Feb 2005 05:13:25 -0000 From: bidyarthi dutta <bidyarthidutta(a)rediffmail.com> To: india-lis(a)infoserv.inist.fr, ifla.listserv(a)infoserv.inist.fr, iaslic(a)vsnl.net Subject: [INDIA-LIS] Library Science Training Sri Aurobindo Institute of Vocational Training, New Delhi Announces Training of Youth Course: Library Science Training This course is of six months duration, commencing on 1st April and 1st October. This is only basic course with stress on practical training. Eligibility: Class XII pass only and candidate should know English. Candidates with higher qualifications will not be considered. Candidates from Delhi or NCR will not be considered. Candidates from HIG and MIG families will not be considered. Age: Between 18 and 35 years. No discrimination of caste, religion, race or sex. Certificates: Certificates will be given to the candidates on successful completion of the training. Travel Allowance: The Travel Expanses (both ways) by the shortest route and cheapest mode of travel will be reimbursed by the Sri Aurobindo Education Society on successful completion of the course. Production of tickets or photocopy of tickets essential. Board and Lodging: Free board and lodging will be provided at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Delhi Branch to the trainees throughout the training period by Sri Aurobindo Education Society. Pocket Expenses: Rs. 200/- per month will be given as pocket money during the training period out of which the participants will have to bear their own medical expenses, if necessary. Food: Food served in the Ashram Dining Hall is nutritious and entirely vegetarian. Discipline: Since the course is held in the Ashram, the trainees will be living on the Ashram campus, a strict discipline is maintained throughout and trainees will be expected to participate and integrate themselves in the Ashram life, attending morning shramdan and evening Meditation. Smoking, drinking, etc. is strictly prohibited. Extra Curricular Activities: During the training period, candidates will also be encouraged to participate in extra curricular activities, such as games, music etc. Hindi, English and Physical Education classes for the trainees are compulsory. Mode of Application: Application Form is available on request. Please write to us or collect personally. Preference will be given to candidates who are sponsored by recognized institutions. Do not proceed to Delhi without receiving proper acceptance letters from the Institute. (Convenor) Sri Aurobindo Institute of Vocational Training Sri Aurobindo Education Society Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Delhi Branch Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi - 110016 Email: aurobindo(a)vsnl.com Fax: 011-26857449 *Produced from the Leaflet for wide circulation. Placement information from the prospective employers is solicited.* �

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Thank You for guiding me on options for a career in LIS
by Thakkar, Neha 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

Hi All, I was totally overwhelmed with the kind of response I got from so many members on the group. I thank you all for giving me valuable suggestions and tips at the begining of my career in this field. I now have the more complex task of sitting down and analysing each option and see which one is really the most appropriate considering the resources I need to invest in the course/career. I am going to take some time to think through it. Am hoping to let you all know on what I would be doing soon! Thanks a ton! Regards, Neha ============================================================================== ****************************************************************************** "This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message and any attachments is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail and immediately and permanently delete this message and any attachments. Thank you." For, ACNielsen ORG MARG Pvt. Ltd., India ****************************************************************************** ==============================================================================

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Future Tense(r): Libraries Get Hip to RSS
by Gerry Mckiernan 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

Colleagues/ A *Great* Overiew of RSS/Web Feeds and Implications/Implementations for/by Libraries [ http://www.publicradio.org/columns/futuretense/2005/01/21.shtml ] Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Hip Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu "Web Feeds: It's a Good Thing" BTW: Don't Forget To Also Visit: RSS(sm): Rich Site Services [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm ] RSS(sm) General Bibliography [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/GenBib.htm ] eFeeds(sm) [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/eFeeds.htm ] B-Feeds [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/B-Feeds.htm ] OR Read Rich Site Services: Web Feeds for Extended Information and Library Services [ http://www.llrx.com/features/richsite.htm ] ********************************************************************************* January 21, 2005 Libraries get hip to RSS RSS, short for Really Simple Syndication, is an increasingly popular way to view Web sites -- without having to go to the actual sites. Using software called an RSS "reader" or "aggregator," users subscribe to "feeds" of content. For example, by subscribing to the Future Tense RSS feed, you automatically receive the content of the Future Tense Web site whenever it's updated, inside your RSS reader. Many major news sites have added RSS. Now, libraries are discovering that RSS might be a good way of providing new services and reaching out to patrons. Next month, the Seattle Public Library will offer feeds that will help patrons stay on top of their accounts, and track favorite authors or subjects from the library catalog. And library technology vendor Sirsi has announced new RSS features. [ http://www.publicradio.org/columns/futuretense/2005/01/21.shtml ]

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Invitation for the 11th Annual Lecture on Informatics - Feb. 22, 2005
by mouna 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

Informatics(India) Ltd cordially invites you to the 11th Annual Lecture on Informatics Date & Time: February 22, 2005; 6.00 pm Venue: The Grand Ball Room, Hotel Grand Hyatt, Mumbai Guest Speakers: Dr T Ramasami, Director, Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), Chennai, India "Managing Information & Knowledge; A New Social Paradigm" Mr Arthur E Smith, Director , OCLC, Online Computer Library Centre, Inc, USA "Ganesh, Games, Google and Gulab Jamun" Presided by Prof. G Sivakumar, Head, Dept of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology - Mumbai RSVP: Email: events(a)informindia.co.in <mailto:events@informindia.co.in> Fax: 91 80 23344598 Phone: 91 80 23365940 About the Lecture Series.... We instituted this Annual Lecture Series on Informatics on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of our Company. Dr N Seshagiri, the then Additional Secretary & Director General, NIC, with his Lecture on "Database Production and Distribution Technologies for 90s", inaugurated the Lecture Series. Subsequent Annual Lectures were delivered by eminent speakers like Shri N Vittal, former Vigilance Commissioner, Govt of India, Shri T H Chowdary, Information Technology Advisor to Govt of Andhra Pradesh, Padmashri Prof. N Balakrishnan, Chairman, Information Sciences Division, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Padmashri, Dr R A Mashelkar, Director General, CSIR, Dr Alan Gilchrist, Editor of Journal of Information Science, UK, Prof. R Natarajan, Chairman, AICTE, Dr Gio Wiederhold, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University, USA, Prof. P Balaram, Editor, Current Science, Chairman, Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science., Dr (Ms) Ching-Chih Chen, Professor, Graduate School of Lib. & Inf. Science, Simmons College, Boston, USA and the likes. The Lecture Series is intended to focus on current issues and emerging trends in Information Sciences.

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ETD2005, September 28-30, 2005, Sydney, Australia -call for papers
by Shalini R Urs 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

...evolution through discovery: ETD2005 8th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 28th - 30th September 2005 We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for ETD2005: evolution through discovery the key international conference tackling important issues of open access to scholarly research. Join this worldwide movement by being involved - your ideas and contributions are important. Please see the three conference themes: http://adt.caul.edu.au/etd2005/program.html To submit an expression of interest or abstract online, please see the Call for Papers page on the conference website: http://adt.caul.edu.au/etd2005/call.html. We look forward to seeing you at the conference. Andrew Wells Chair ETD2005 Conference mailto:etd2005@unsw.edu.au Tony Cargnelutti Chair, Program Committee ETD2005 Conference mailto:etd2005@unsw.edu.au *************************** Hosted by: Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) The University of New South Wales Library Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) *************************** Conference organisers: ICE Australia *************************** Holly Dowse Event Coordinator International Conferences and Events (ICE) Australia P/L 183 Albion Street Surry Hills NSW 2010 Ph: 61-2 9544 9134 Fx: 61-2 9522 4447 holly(a)iceaustralia.com www.iceaustralia.com <http://www.iceaustralia.com/> ************************************************************************ ********************************************* Tony Cargnelutti Manager, Online Services Department UNSW Library The University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA t.cargnelutti(a)unsw.edu.au ************************************************************** Tel: +61 2 9385 1531 Fax: +61 2 9385 8002 http://info.library.unsw.edu.au/ Australian Digital Theses (ADT) Program Manager http://adt.caul.edu.au/ NDLTD Board Member http://www.ndltd.org/ ETD2005 Program Committee Chair http://adt.caul.edu.au/etd2005/etd2005.html ____________________________________________ Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm  ...evolution through discovery: ETD2005 8th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations University of New South Wales , Sydney , Australia 28th - 30th September 2005 We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for ETD2005: evolution through discovery the key international conference tackling important issues of open access to scholarly research. Join this worldwide movement by being involved - your ideas and contributions are important. Please see the three conference themes: http://adt.caul.edu.au/etd2005/program.html http://adt.caul.edu.au/etd2005/program.html To submit an expression of interest or abstract online, please see the Call for Papers page on the conference website: http://adt.caul.edu.au/etd2005/call.html http://adt.caul.edu.au/etd2005/call.html . We look forward to seeing you at the conference. Andrew Wells Chair ETD2005 Conference mailto:etd2005@unsw.edu.au mailto:etd2005@unsw.edu.au Tony Cargnelutti Chair, Program Committee ETD2005 Conference mailto:etd2005@unsw.edu.au mailto:etd2005@unsw.edu.au *************************** Hosted by: Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) The University of New South Wales Library Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) *************************** Conference organisers: ICE Australia *************************** Holly Dowse Event Coordinator International Conferences and Events (ICE) Australia P/L 183 Albion Street Surry Hills NSW 2010 Ph: 61-2 9544 9134 Fx : 61-2 9522 4447 mailto:holly@iceaustralia.com holly(a)iceaustralia.com http://www.iceaustralia.com/ www.iceaustralia.com ********************************************************************************************************************* <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]> <![endif]> Tony Cargnelutti Manager, Online Services Department UNSW Library The University of New South Wales Sydney �� NSW � 2052 � AUSTRALIA t.cargnelutti(a)unsw.edu.au ************************************************************** Tel:� +61 2 9385 1531 � Fax :� +61 2 9385 8002 http://info.library.unsw.edu.au/ http://info.library.unsw.edu.au/ Australian Digital Theses (ADT) Program Manager http://adt.caul.edu.au/ http://adt.caul.edu.au/ NDLTD Board Member http://www.ndltd.org/ http://www.ndltd.org/ ETD2005 Program Committee Chair http://adt.caul.edu.au/etd2005/etd2005.html http://adt.caul.edu.au/etd2005/etd2005.html ____________________________________________ � � � Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm �

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ICADL 2005, 12-15 December 2005, Bangkok, Thailand- call for papers
by Shalini R Urs 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

-----Apologies for cross postings--- CALL FOR PAPERS ICADL2005 http://www.icadl2005.ait.ac.th <http://www.icadl2005.ait.ac.th/> The 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries Theme: Implementing Strategies and Sharing Experiences 12 - 15 December 2005, Bangkok, Thailand ========================================= ICADL2005 is the 8th in a well-established series of annual conferences on Asian Digital Libraries, and focuses on the creation, adoption, implementation and utilization of digital libraries. It provides an international forum for sharing experiences among researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers from a variety of disciplines such as computer science, library and information science, archival and museum studies, and knowledge management -- as well as many areas in the social sciences and humanities. Submissions of papers, panels, tutorials, and workshops are invited in all areas of digital libraries and related technologies, the management of knowledge in digital libraries, and the associated usability and social issues. Research, system, evaluation, policy, and position papers are all invited. Suitable topics include but are not limited to: + Strategies with regard to - economic issues - legal issues - organizational issues - pedagogical issues - policy issues - social issues + Implementation experiences regarding - collection development - international collaboration - quality of service - system evaluation - user communities - user studies + Systems - architecture - concepts and models - integration - interoperability + Techniques - Asian information processing - cross-language information access - human-computer interaction - information integration - information mining - information retrieval - localization - metadata - multimedia - ontologies - personalization - semantic web - semi-structured data management - web cataloging - web-page analysis + Management - access control - content management - intellectual property - security and privacy - service models + Application areas and concerns - digital archives and museums - digital preservation - knowledge management - education - e-science - Grid - scholarly publishing Further details about the conference including registration and conference location are posted on the conference Web site at http://www.icadl2005.ait.ac.th <http://www.icadl2005.ait.ac.th/> PAPER SUBMISSION AND REVIEWING PROCESS -------------------------------------- Prospective authors from all parts of the world are invited to submit their papers dealing with original work which, at the time of submission, is not under review or has not been published or accepted for publication in a journal or by another conference. Papers must be written in English, conforming to the formatting instructions of LNCS, Springer ( <http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html> http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Each paper must not exceed 10 pages and should contain a list of about 5 key-words, at least one of which must be taken from the topics listed above. Only electronic submission (PDF format) is accepted via the web page for papers. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Based on their recommendations, a decision will be made regarding rejection or acceptance as poster (up to 2 pages), short paper (up to 4 pages), or long paper (up to 10 pages). The Conference Proceedings will be published in the LNCS series, Springer. Best paper awards also will be conferred on the authors of the best paper(s) at the conference. Selected ICADL2005 papers may be expanded and revised for possible publication in special issues of: - International Journal on Digital Libraries (http://www.dljournal.org <http://www.dljournal.org/> ). - Journal of Digital Information (http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk <http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/> ) - Library Hi Tech (http://www.emeraldinsight.com/rpsv/lht.htm) SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS FOR PANELS, TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Proposals for panels, tutorials and workshops should be sent to icadl2005(a)ait.ac.th IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------- + Submission of paper abstracts: 8 June 2005 + Submission of full papers: 15 June 2005 + Submission of panel/tutorial/workshop proposals: 31 July 2005 + Notification of acceptance: 31 August 2005 + Camera-ready copy due date: 30 September 2005 Conference Organizers --------------------- - Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand (http://www.ait.ac.th <http://www.ait.ac.th/> ) - Chulalongkorn University, Thailand (http://www.chula.ac.th <http://www.chula.ac.th/> ) - Thai Library Association, Thailand (http://tla.tiac.or.th <http://tla.tiac.or.th/> ) Steering Committee Chair --------------------- Khunying Maenmas Chavalit, Professor and President, the Thai Library Association (TLA), Thailand. Steering Committee Co-Chairs --------------------- - Ching-chih Chen, Professor, Simmons College, USA. - Hsinchun Chen, Professor, The University of Arizona, USA. - Ee Peng Lim, Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Program Committee Co-Chairs -------------------------- - Edward Fox (Virginia Tech, USA) - Erich Neuhold (University of Vienna, Austria) - Pimrumpai Premsmit (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) - Vilas Wuwongse (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand) Program Committee --------------------- + America - Robert Allen (Drexel, USA) - Christine Borgman (UCLA, USA) - Weiguo Fan (Virginia Tech, USA) - James French (Univ. of Virginia, USA) - Jonathan Furner (UCLA, USA) - Richard K. Furuta (Texas A&M, USA) - Judith Klavans (Columbia University, USA) - Carl Lagoze (Cornell University, USA) - Yan Quan Liu (Southern Connecticut State University, USA) - Gary Marchionini (Univ. of North Carolina, USA) - Edie Rasmussen (U. of British Columbia, Canada) - Michael Seadle (Michigan State University Libraries, USA) - Howard Wactlar (CMU, USA) - Stuart Weibel (OCLC, USA) - Marcia Lei Zeng (Kent State University, USA) + Asia-Pacific - Jun Adachi (NII, Japan) - Toshiyuki Amagasa (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) - Chutiporn Anutariya (Shinawatra University, Thailand) - N.Balakrishnan (Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore, India) - Abdus Sattar Chaudhry (NTU, Singapore) - Chao-chen Chen (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan) - Hsueh-hua Chen (NTU, Taiwan) - Steve Ching (Feng Chia University, Taiwan) - Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea) - Schubert Foo (NTU, Singapore) - Wen Gao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) - Maruf Hasan (Shinawatra University, Thailand) - Jieh Hsiang (National Chi-nan Univ., Taiwan) - Ching-chun Hsieh (NDAP, Taiwan) - San-Yih Hwang (NSYSU, Taiwan) - Soon J. Hyun (Information Communication University, Korea) - Hiroshi Itsumura (Nagoya University, Japan) - Paul Janecek (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand) - Noriko Kando (NII, Japan) - Ji-Hoon Kang (Chungnam National Univ., Korea) - Wai Lam (CUHK, Hong Kong SAR) - Man-Ho Lee (Chungnam National Univ., Korea) - Jianzhong Li (Harbin Inst. of Technology, China) - Dion Goh Hoe Lian (NTU, Singapore) - Sung Hyun Myaeng (Chungnam National Univ., Korea) - Ekawit Nantajeewarawat (Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thailand) - Liddy Nevile (Univ. of Melbourne, Australia) - Somporn Puttapithakporn (Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand) - T.B.Rajashekar (Indian Institute of Science, India) - S.Sadagopan (Indian Institute of Information Technology, India) - Tetsuo Sakaguchi (Tsukaba University, Japan) - Hideyasu Sasaki (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) - Praditta Siripan (National Science&Technology Development Agency, Thailand) - Ohm Sornil (National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand) - Shigeo Sugimoto (ULIS, Japan) - Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan) - Yin-Leng Theng (NTU, Singapore) - Shalini Urs (University of Mysore, India) - Ian Witten (Waikato University, New Zealand) - Christopher C. Yang (CUHK, Hong Kong SAR) - Jerome Yen (Chinese University of HK, China) - Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Nagoya University, Japan) - Li-zhu Zhou (Tsinghua University, China) + Europe - Thomas Baker (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (FhG), Germany) - Ann Blandford (University College of London, UK) - Jose Borbinha (National Library of Portugal, Portugal) - Donatella Castelli (Italian National Research Council (IEI-CNR), Italy) - Gobinda Chowdhury (University of Strathclyde, UK) - Norbert Fuhr (University of Dortmund, Germany) - Marc Nanard (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microeacutelectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM), France) - Claudia Niederee (Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany) - Paul Nieuwenhuysen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) - Mike Papazoglou (Tilburg University , Netherlands) - Carol Peters (Italian National Research Council (IEI-CNR), Italy) - Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) - Keith van Rijsbergen (University of Glasgow, UK) - Ingeborg Solvberg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) - Harold Thimbleby (University College of London, UK) Organizing Committee Chair -------------------------- - Khunying Maenmas Chavalit (Thai Library Association (TLA), Thailand) Organizing Committee Co-Chairs -------------------- - Vatcharaporn Esichaikul (Asian Institute of Techology, Thailand) - Pimrumpai Premsmit (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) Local Organizing Committee Chair ----------------------- - Jaffee Yee (InfoMedia Asia, Ltd., Thailand) Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm  -----Apologies for cross postings--- � CALL FOR PAPERS � ICADL2005 http://www.icadl2005.ait.ac.th/ http://www.icadl2005.ait.ac.th � The 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries Theme: Implementing Strategies and Sharing Experiences � 12 - 15 December 2005 , Bangkok , Thailand ========================================= � ICADL2005 is the 8th in a well-established series of annual conferences on Asian Digital Libraries, and focuses on the creation, adoption, implementation and utilization of digital libraries. It provides an international forum for sharing experiences among researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers from a variety of disciplines such as computer science, library and information science , archival and museum studies, and knowledge management -- as well as many areas in the social sciences and humanities. Submissions of papers, panels , tutorials, and workshops are invited in all areas of digital libraries and related technologies, the management of knowledge in digital libraries, and the associated usability and social issues. Research, system, evaluation, policy, and position papers are all invited. Suitable topics include but are not limited to: � + Strategies with regard to �� - economic issues �� - legal issues �� - organizational issues �� - pedagogical issues �� - policy issues �� - social issues � + Implementation experiences regarding �� - collection development �� - international collaboration �� - quality of service �� - system evaluation �� - user communities �� - user studies � + Systems �� - architecture �� - concepts and models �� - integration �� - interoperability � + Techniques �� - Asian information processing �� - cross-language information access �� - human-computer interaction �� - information integration �� - information mining �� - information retrieval �� - localization �� - metadata �� - multimedia �� - ontologies �� - personalization �� - semantic web �� - semi-structured data management �� - web cataloging �� - web-page analysis � + Management �� - access control �� - content management �� - intellectual property �� - security and privacy �� - service models � + Application areas and concerns �� - digital archives and museums �� - digital preservation �� - knowledge management �� - education �� - e-science �� - Grid �� - scholarly publishing � Further details about the conference including registration and conference location are posted on the conference Web site at http://www.icadl2005.ait.ac.th/ http://www.icadl2005.ait.ac.th � PAPER SUBMISSION AND REVIEWING PROCESS -------------------------------------- Prospective authors from all parts of the world are invited to submit their papers dealing with original work which, at the time of submission, is not under review or has not been published or accepted for publication in a journal or by another conference . � Papers must be written in English, conforming to the formatting instructions of LNCS, Springer ( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ). Each paper must not exceed 10 pages and should contain a list of about 5 key-words, at least one of which must be taken from the topics listed above. Only electronic submission (PDF format) is accepted via the web page for papers. � Each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Based on their � recommendations , a decision will be made regarding rejection or acceptance as poster (up to 2 pages), short paper (up to 4 pages), or long paper (up to 10 pages ). The Conference Proceedings will be published in the LNCS series, Springer. � Best paper awards also will be conferred on the authors of the best paper(s) at the conference. Selected ICADL2005 papers may be expanded and revised for possible publication in special issues of: � - International Journal on Digital Libraries ( http://www.dljournal.org/ http://www.dljournal.org ). � - Journal of Digital Information ( http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk ) � - Library Hi Tech ( http://www.emeraldinsight.com/rpsv/lht.htm http://www.emeraldinsight.com/rpsv/lht.htm ) � � SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS FOR PANELS, TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposals for panels, tutorials and workshops should be sent to icadl2005(a)ait.ac.th � IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------- + Submission of paper abstracts: � 8 June 2005 + Submission of full papers: � 15 June 2005 + Submission of panel/tutorial/workshop proposals: � 31 July 2005 + Notification of acceptance: � 31 August 2005 + Camera-ready copy due date: � 30 September 2005 � Conference Organizers --------------------- � � - � Asian Institute of Technology , Thailand �� ( http://www.ait.ac.th/ http://www.ait.ac.th ) �� - � Chulalongkorn University , Thailand �� ( http://www.chula.ac.th/ http://www.chula.ac.th ) �� - � Thai Library Association, Thailand �� ( http://tla.tiac.or.th/ http://tla.tiac.or.th ) � � Steering Committee Chair --------------------- �� Khunying Maenmas Chavalit, Professor and President, �� the Thai Library Association (TLA), Thailand . � Steering Committee Co-Chairs --------------------- �� - � Ching-chih Chen , Professor, Simmons College , USA . �� - � Hsinchun Chen, Professor, The University of Arizona , USA . �� - � Ee Peng Lim, Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, �� Singapore . � Program Committee Co-Chairs -------------------------- �� - � Edward Fox (Virginia Tech, USA ) �� - � Erich Neuhold ( University of Vienna , Austria ) �� - � Pimrumpai Premsmit ( Chulalongkorn University , Thailand ) �� - � Vilas Wuwongse (Asian Institute of Technology , Thailand ) � Program Committee --------------------- � + America �� - � Robert Allen ( Drexel , USA ) �� - � Christine Borgman ( UCLA , USA ) �� - � Weiguo Fan (Virginia Tech, USA ) �� - � James French ( Univ. of Virginia , USA ) �� - � Jonathan Furner ( UCLA , USA ) �� - � Richard K. Furuta ( Texas A&M, USA ) �� - � Judith Klavans ( Columbia University , USA ) �� - � Carl Lagoze ( Cornell University , USA ) �� - � Yan Quan Liu (Southern Connecticut State University , USA ) �� - � Gary Marchionini ( Univ. of North Carolina , USA ) �� - � Edie Rasmussen ( U. of British Columbia , Canada ) �� - � Michael Seadle ( Michigan State University Libraries, USA ) �� - � Howard Wactlar (CMU, USA) �� - � Stuart Weibel (OCLC, USA) �� - � Marcia Lei Zeng (Kent State University, USA) � + Asia-Pacific �� - � Jun Adachi (NII, Japan) �� - � Toshiyuki Amagasa (Nara Institute of Science and Technology , Japan ) �� - � Chutiporn Anu tariya ( Shinawatra University , Thailand ) �� - � N.Balakrishnan (Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore , India ) �� - � Abdus Sattar Chaudhry (NTU, Singapore ) �� - � Chao-chen Chen ( National Taiwan Normal University , Taiwan ) �� - � Hsueh-hua Chen (NTU, Taiwan) �� - � Steve Ching ( Feng Chia University , Taiwan ) �� - � Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea ) �� - � Schubert Foo (NTU, Singapore ) �� - � Wen Gao (Chinese Academy of Sciences , China ) �� - � Maruf Hasan ( Shinawatra University , Thailand ) �� - � Jieh Hsiang (National Chi-nan Univ., Taiwan) �� - � Ching-chun Hsieh (NDAP, Taiwan ) �� - � San-Yih Hwang (NSYSU, Taiwan ) �� - � Soon J. Hyun ( Information Communication University , Korea ) �� - � Hiroshi Itsumura ( Nagoya University , Japan ) �� - � Paul Janecek (Asian Institute of Technology , Thailand ) �� - � Noriko Kando (NII, Japan) �� - � Ji-Hoon Kang (Chungnam National Univ., Korea) �� - � Wai Lam (CUHK, Hong Kong SAR) �� - � Man-Ho Lee (Chungnam National Univ., Korea) �� - � Jianzhong Li (Harbin Inst. of Technology, China) �� - � Dion Goh Hoe Lian (NTU, Singapore) �� - � Sung Hyun Myaeng (Chungnam National Univ., Korea ) �� - � Ekawit Nantajeewarawat (Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thailand ) �� - � Liddy Nevile ( Univ. of Melbourne , Australia ) �� - � Somporn Puttapithakporn (Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand ) �� - � T.B.Rajashekar (Indian Institute of Science , India ) �� - � S. Sadagopan (Indian Institute of Information Technology , India ) �� - � Tetsuo Sakaguchi ( Tsukaba University , Japan ) �� - � Hideyasu Sasaki ( Ritsumeikan University , Japan ) �� - � Praditta Siripan (National Science&Technology Development � Agency , Thailand ) �� - � Ohm Sornil (National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand ) �� - � Shigeo Sugimoto (ULIS, Japan ) �� - � Katsumi Tanaka ( Kyoto University , Japan ) �� - � Yin-Leng Theng (NTU, Singapore ) �� - � Shalini Urs ( University of Mysore , India ) �� - � Ian Witten ( Waikato University , New Zealand ) �� - � Christopher C. Yang (CUHK, Hong Kong SAR) �� - � Jerome Yen (Chinese University of HK , China ) �� - � Masatoshi Yoshikawa ( Nagoya University , Japan ) �� - � Li-zhu Zhou ( Tsinghua University , China ) � + Europe �� - � Thomas Baker (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (FhG), Germany) �� - � Ann Blandford (University College of London , UK ) �� - � Jose Borbinha (National Library of Portugal , Portugal ) �� - � Donatella Castelli (Italian National Research Council (IEI-CNR), Italy ) �� - � Gobinda Chowdhury ( University of Strathclyde , UK ) �� - � Norbert Fuhr (University of Dortmund, Germany) �� - � Marc Nanard (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microeacutelectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM), France) �� - � Claudia Niederee (Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany) � �� - � Paul Nieuwenhuysen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) �� - � Mike Papazoglou ( Tilburg University , Netherlands ) �� - � Carol Peters (Italian National Research Council (IEI-CNR), Italy ) �� - � Andreas Rauber ( Vienna University of Technology , Austria ) �� - � Keith van Rijsbergen ( University of Glasgow , UK ) �� - � Ingeborg Solvberg ( Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway ) �� - � Harold Thimbleby (University College of London , UK ) � Organizing Committee Chair -------------------------- �� - � Khunying Maenmas Chavalit (Thai Library Association (TLA), Thailand ) � Organizing Committee Co-Chairs -------------------- �� - � Vatcharaporn Esichaikul (Asian Institute of Techology , Thailand ) �� - � Pimrumpai Premsmit ( Chulalongkorn University , Thailand ) � Local Organizing Committee Chair ----------------------- � - � Jaffee Yee (InfoMedia Asia, Ltd., Thailand ) � � � Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm �

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FW: [LIS-Forum] Info. request - Credit Card use for book purchase &subscription
by Benny 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

Dear All The idea of using Credit Card for online purchase is good and timesaving, but entrusting that job to a vendor will do no good and one will end up in paying 10% or so service charge to the vendor. Venders now a days prefer credit cards to Wire Transfer. It is an excellent suggestion from Mr. Anand to involve "accounts department into such purchases thus avoiding after-purchase-accounts-hurdles". Looking for more suggestions Benny M.D. www.tisb.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ To: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com; mangeshg(a)pidilite.com Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: 2/14/05 4:58 PM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Info. request - Credit Card use for book purchase&subscription Dear All There cannot be more complete response to the one provided by Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy. It is like an, ' How to make Purchases on Internet Using Credit Card' , manual. However, making such purchases also depends on the accounts procedures adopted by individual companies. It is always prudent to involve your own accounts department into such purchases thus avoiding after-purchase-accounts-hurdles. The easiest and most convenient solution i can think of is to entrust the job of such purchases to your professional vendor. They will take out the hassles out of such purchase process. However, you have to choose a vendor based on your past experience with him or thru word of mouth recommendations by an experienced librarian, like ,Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy. Best Wishes Mukesh Anand Hyderabad - India - - - - - - - - - - - - ----- Original Message ----- From: <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> To: <mangeshg(a)pidilite.com> Cc: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 4:02 PM Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Info. request - Credit Card use for book purchase&subscription > Dear Mangesh Ghodke > > Yes, We do use personal credit card for official purchases of books & > journal articles, software, databases, Annual fees for online access to > databases etc -- all done online. One personal Credit Card issued by ICICI > Bank is used. This is used only for office use -- no personal purchases > are made. All expenses of the library purchases using this card are paid > by the company. The monthly invoice is settled by the accounts dept by > issuing a cheque in favour of Credit Card Account number itself and > directly deposited in the ICICI bank's ATM or branches. In our internal > payment records we note that payment was made via credit card. The userid > & password for online transactions is known only to the actual credit card > owner. Renewal fees are also bourne by company. Payments in foreign > currency is no problem. Many times it is cheaper!! Moreover, When a > document is available in several currency prices, you can choose the > currency that is cheaper for you on the day of ORDER!! > > Some advise while using credit cards for online purchases: > > 1. Please be cautious about slow connections. Slow connections cause time > out problems. After filling the order form, click just once. Wait for > confirmation. Slow connections sometimes do not show that order has been > recieved by the vendor properly , accepted and processed. Thinking that > the transaction did not go through you may (press) order again -- > duplicating the order. Getting back money for duplicating order > inadvertantly is tedious process though ultimately you will get back > money. > > 2 Placing orders sitting behind an Institute's proxy server causes > problems. We always use clean direct dial-up connection. > > 3. Never save passwords on the PC used for online orders. > > 4. Never allow such a PC to be used by others when you are on leave or > away; someone might install a background application that records all that > goes on in your screen and thereby steal your credit card passwords. > > 5. Be careful about "partly manual - partly automatic" online systems. > Here you just mention your credit card number - including addtional last > three digits - on the web order form. Vendor collects money from Credit > card company through manual process. In such cases there is a possibility > (it happened to me)of vendor renewing subscritions automatically without > proper authorisation from you. Sometimes, the credit card companies take > the previlege of automatically renewing subscriptions (like for instance > insurance premiums, journal subscriptions etc) -- if you keep quite > (silence is taken as consent) re-ordering is done. If you are careless you > will renew without your knowledge. > > Hope this is useful to you. > > Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, > ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, > RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA > Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com > Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: > +91(40)27846631 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Mangesh Ghodke > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 1:34 PM > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Info. request - Credit Card use for book purchase > &subscription > > > > Hi All, > > I need information regarding the use of credit card for purchase of books > & subscription online. My query is as follows, > > 1] Are you using your personal credit/debit card for online transaction of > library? > 2] What's the process to reimburse the amount (used for books purchase/ > subscription) in you bill statement. i.e. Do you reimburse Service > Charges, Fees if any. > 3] Who will bear the Annual Renewal charges of the Credit / Debit card? > 4] Is there any bank providing Credit card specifically used by library's > online transaction? > > Kindly revert back if you are practicing such activity in your library. > > Professional friends need to think about it. > > Thanks & Regards, > > Mangesh G. > Sr. Officer-Librarian, > Pidilite Industries Ltd. > Mumbai. > Tel.:022- 28357832 > site: www.pidilite.com > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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FatPat : Internationa Petent Database
by Rahul Hiremath 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

Announcing FamPat, a New International Patent Database from Questel�Orbit --------------------------------- Questel�Orbit recently announced the release of FamPat, the family-based version of its international patent database PlusPat. An interesting feature of FamPat is that it gives searchers a choice of how broad a patent family they may display. First, some background. Like PlusPat, FamPat has probably the broadest country and time coverage of any subject-searchable patent database. It covers 75 patenting authorities, and some countries go back to the early 20th century (or even earlier: Germany goes back to 1877). The very early records only have numeric information. However, this includes ECLA classes in some cases, so they can be retrieved in subject searches. Subject-searchable elements include: title and abstract text and (for some French patents) indexing terms ECLA (European Patent Office) classifications, as applied by the EPO, including the ICO (in computer only) classes that cover non-inventive and other aspects of the patent U.S. patent classes as applied by the USPTO International Patent Classes as applied by most countries� patent offices One major advantage of FamPat over PlusPat is that searchers can look for all these elements across all members of a patent family. For instance, a Boolean terminology search could pick up one term from one country�s abstract and another term from a different abstract. (And, yes, the abstracts can vary from country to country, depending on different countries� requirements.) Searchers can look for IPCs from all family members, as well as ECLA and U.S. classes, combined with terminology from all family members� text. Patent assignees and inventors, which can vary from country to country, are also searchable across all members of a patent family. As previously mentioned, an interesting aspect of FamPat is its handling of patent families. FamPat starts its patent family with the EPO/espacenet strict family�a group of patent documents that all have exactly the same priority or priorities. FamPat has expanded this to include additional family members as defined by some patenting authorities� varying rules. For example, Japanese patent law requires narrower claims than many other countries. Let�s say three Japanese patent publications that are closely related show up as three publications with three different priorities. They will be listed as three separate records. However, if a U.S. patent then shows up citing all three of the Japanese priorities (and, presumably, covering all three of the Japanese publications� technology), FamPat combines all four of them into one FamPat family. In other words, their families are dynamic rather than static. If searchers want broader families, they may choose to use the FAM command to generate an INPADOC extended family. This is a group of patent documents where every member has at least one common priority with at least one other member of the family. As my old friend and colleague Stu Kaback used to point out, this sometimes generates families full of third cousins twice removed who show no visible relationship to each other. And it can generate huge families that sometimes contain hundreds of members. Still, the capability helps you ensure that you have indeed found all members of interest in a patent family. Searchers can use the FAM command either on individual patents or on sets of search results. And, as in PlusPat, searchers can create merged family displays of members of an extended family. FamPat also provides extensive patent citation information. Forward and backward citation searching is available for U.S., European, PCT, British, and French family members; Questel�Orbit plans to add Germany soon. A family citation command will generate both forward and backward citations for all members of the patent family. Searchers may also specify EPO relevance indicators as applied to European, PCT, and French documents. The Questel�Orbit fact sheet for FamPat (located at http://www.questel.orbit.com/EN/customersupport/Userdoc/Fctsht/FamPat.pdf) lists eight different relevance indicators; of major interest are X (relates directly to the invention), Y (relates to the invention when combined with another reference), and A (technology background). So, to start a validity search for a granted U.S. patent, the searcher might look closely at all the X and Y citations in its European equivalent. Searchers have a wide choice of display options. They may see one abstract or all of them. They will always see a list of family members, but they may choose to see details for each family member: assignees, inventors, domestic applications, priorities, and IPCs as assigned by that country�s examiner. The fact sheet lists a wide variety of display options. Statistical searching is possible on FamPat, with some advantages. FamPat de-duplicates the assignees in a family record, so the searcher gets only one form of the assignee name in a statistical analysis. All fielded numeric data within a family are available for analysis; therefore, an analysis of patenting or priority dates will include that data from all family members. Look for developments involving FamPat�s cross-file and multifile search capabilities with other Questel�Orbit databases later this year. Rahul R.Hiremath Librarian, Terna Engineering College, Sector - 22, Nerul (E), Mumbai - 400 706 Maharastra India __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Announcing FamPat, a New International Patent Database from Questel�Orbit Questel�Orbit recently announced the release of FamPat, the family-based version of its international patent database PlusPat. An interesting feature of FamPat is that it gives searchers a choice of how broad a patent family they may display. First, some background. Like PlusPat, FamPat has probably the broadest country and time coverage of any subject-searchable patent database. It covers 75 patenting authorities, and some countries go back to the early 20th century (or even earlier: Germany goes back to 1877). The very early records only have numeric information. However, this includes ECLA classes in some cases, so they can be retrieved in subject searches. Subject-searchable elements include: title and abstract text and (for some French patents) indexing terms ECLA (European Patent Office) classifications, as applied by the EPO, including the ICO (in computer only) classes that cover non-inventive and other aspects of the patent U.S. patent classes as applied by the USPTO International Patent Classes as applied by most countries� patent offices One major advantage of FamPat over PlusPat is that searchers can look for all these elements across all members of a patent family. For instance, a Boolean terminology search could pick up one term from one country�s abstract and another term from a different abstract. (And, yes, the abstracts can vary from country to country, depending on different countries� requirements.) Searchers can look for IPCs from all family members, as well as ECLA and U.S. classes, combined with terminology from all family members� text. Patent assignees and inventors, which can vary from country to country, are also searchable across all members of a patent family. As previously mentioned, an interesting aspect of FamPat is its handling of patent families. FamPat starts its patent family with the EPO/espacenet strict family�a group of patent documents that all have exactly the same priority or priorities. FamPat has expanded this to include additional family members as defined by some patenting authorities� varying rules. For example, Japanese patent law requires narrower claims than many other countries. Let�s say three Japanese patent publications that are closely related show up as three publications with three different priorities. They will be listed as three separate records. However, if a U.S. patent then shows up citing all three of the Japanese priorities (and, presumably, covering all three of the Japanese publications� technology), FamPat combines all four of them into one FamPat family. In other words, their families are dynamic rather than static. If searchers want broader families, they may choose to use the FAM command to generate an INPADOC extended family. This is a group of patent documents where every member has at least one common priority with at least one other member of the family. As my old friend and colleague Stu Kaback used to point out, this sometimes generates families full of third cousins twice removed who show no visible relationship to each other. And it can generate huge families that sometimes contain hundreds of members. Still, the capability helps you ensure that you have indeed found all members of interest in a patent family. Searchers can use the FAM command either on individual patents or on sets of search results. And, as in PlusPat, searchers can create merged family displays of members of an extended family. FamPat also provides extensive patent citation information. Forward and backward citation searching is available for U.S., European, PCT, British, and French family members; Questel�Orbit plans to add Germany soon. A family citation command will generate both forward and backward citations for all members of the patent family. Searchers may also specify EPO relevance indicators as applied to European, PCT, and French documents. The Questel�Orbit fact sheet for FamPat (located at http://www.questel.orbit.com/EN/customersupport/Userdoc/Fctsht/FamPat.pdf http://www.questel.orbit.com/EN/customersupport/Userdoc/Fctsht/FamPat.pdf ) lists eight different relevance indicators; of major interest are X (relates directly to the invention), Y (relates to the invention when combined with another reference), and A (technology background). So, to start a validity search for a granted U.S. patent, the searcher might look closely at all the X and Y citations in its European equivalent. Searchers have a wide choice of display options. They may see one abstract or all of them. They will always see a list of family members, but they may choose to see details for each family member: assignees, inventors, domestic applications, priorities, and IPCs as assigned by that country�s examiner. The fact sheet lists a wide variety of display options. Statistical searching is possible on FamPat, with some advantages. FamPat de-duplicates the assignees in a family record, so the searcher gets only one form of the assignee name in a statistical analysis. All fielded numeric data within a family are available for analysis; therefore, an analysis of patenting or priority dates will include that data from all family members. Look for developments involving FamPat�s cross-file and multifile search capabilities with other Questel�Orbit databases later this year. Rahul R.Hiremath Librarian, Terna Engineering College, Sector - 22, Nerul (E), Mumbai - 400 706 Maharastra India __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Re: Credit Card use for purchases
by mamata tendulkar 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

Dear all In my organisation, i have managed to get a separate corporate credit card for the library. The card has been issued in my name and everytime i do any purchase, i attach the copy of the approval by my senior with the credit card statement and the organisation pays the bills directly. so far the process has worked smoothly. Also the purchase has been quiet safe. with this method, you can avoid the total process of the reimbusement. regards Mamata Tendulkar IDFC Ltd Mon, 14 Feb 2005 Lata Nair wrote : >Dear Mangesh, >In my organisation, we have arranged for credit cards which may be used for official purchases. Few prefer to use them, few make purchases and get the amount reimbursed. All the purchases require to be sanctioned in advance. >Ideally, the amount should be cleared before the next billing. Few institutes have a policy where they provide cell phones/credit cards to its staff or reimburse a part of the bill. >Irrespective of the facilities available, in the corporate sector, time is of essence. The work needs to be done, the method and means are immaterial. >Regards, >Lata G. Nair >Librarian >Datamatics Technologies Ltd. >Mumbai >On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in wrote : > >Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to > > lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > > >You can reach the person managing the list at > > lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > >than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." > > > > > >Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Info. request - Credit Card use for book purchase & > > subscription (Mangesh Ghodke) > > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >Message: 1 > >Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:33:52 +0530 > > From: Mangesh Ghodke <mangeshg(a)pidilite.com> > >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Info. request - Credit Card use for book purchase > > & subscription > >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > >Message-ID: > > <OF081CBAA6.271A246B-ON65256FA5.002676AC-65256FA5.002CFE25(a)pidilite.com> > > > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > > > >Hi All, > > > >I need information regarding the use of credit card for purchase of books > >& subscription online. My query is as follows, > > > >1] Are you using your personal credit/debit card for online transaction of > >library? > >2] What's the process to reimburse the amount (used for books purchase/ > >subscription) in you bill statement. i.e. Do you reimburse Service > >Charges, Fees if any. > >3] Who will bear the Annual Renewal charges of the Credit / Debit card? > >4] Is there any bank providing Credit card specifically used by library's > >online transaction? > > > >Kindly revert back if you are practicing such activity in your library. > > > >Professional friends need to think about it. > > > >Thanks & Regards, > > > >Mangesh G. > >Sr. Officer-Librarian, > >Pidilite Industries Ltd. > >Mumbai. > >Tel.:022- 28357832 > >site: www.pidilite.com > > > >CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > >====================== > >"The information contained in this communication is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and others authorised to receive it. It may contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by responding to this email and then delete it from your system. The contents of this email do not necessarily represent the views or policies of Pidilite Industries Limited." > > Dear all In my organisation, i have managed to get a separate corporate credit card for the library. The card has been issued in my name and everytime i do any purchase, i attach the copy of the approval by my senior with the credit card statement and the organisation pays the bills directly. so far the process has worked smoothly. Also the purchase has been quiet safe. with this method, you can avoid the total process of the reimbusement. regards Mamata Tendulkar IDFC Ltd Mon, 14 Feb 2005 Lata Nair wrote : >Dear Mangesh, >In my organisation, we have arranged for credit cards which may be used for official purchases. Few prefer to use them, few make purchases and get the amount reimbursed. All the purchases require to be sanctioned in advance. >Ideally, the amount should be cleared before the next billing. Few institutes have a policy where they provide cell phones/credit cards to its staff or reimburse a part of the bill. >Irrespective of the facilities available, in the corporate sector, time is of essence. The work needs to be done, the method and means are immaterial. >Regards, >Lata G. Nair >Librarian >Datamatics Technologies Ltd. >Mumbai >On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in wrote : > >Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to > > lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > > >You can reach the person managing the list at > > lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > >than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." > > > > > >Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Info. request - Credit Card use for book purchase & > > subscription (Mangesh Ghodke) > > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >Message: 1 > >Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:33:52 +0530 > > From: Mangesh Ghodke <mangeshg(a)pidilite.com> > >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Info. request - Credit Card use for book purchase > > & subscription > >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > >Message-ID: > > <OF081CBAA6.271A246B-ON65256FA5.002676AC-65256FA5.002CFE25(a)pidilite.com> > > > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > > > >Hi All, > > > >I need information regarding the use of credit card for purchase of books > >& subscription online. My query is as follows, > > > >1] Are you using your personal credit/debit card for online transaction of > >library? > >2] What's the process to reimburse the amount (used for books purchase/ > >subscription) in you bill statement. i.e. Do you reimburse Service > >Charges, Fees if any. > >3] Who will bear the Annual Renewal charges of the Credit / Debit card? > >4] Is there any bank providing Credit card specifically used by library's > >online transaction? > > > >Kindly revert back if you are practicing such activity in your library. > > > >Professional friends need to think about it. > > > >Thanks & Regards, > > > >Mangesh G. > >Sr. Officer-Librarian, > >Pidilite Industries Ltd. > >Mumbai. > >Tel.:022- 28357832 > >site: www.pidilite.com > > > >CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > >====================== > >"The information contained in this communication is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and others authorised to receive it. It may contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by responding to this email and then delete it from your system. The contents of this email do not necessarily represent the views or policies of Pidilite Industries Limited." > >

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Position Announcement--Management Level Leaders
by Prafulla Chandra 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>Dear All, Here's a position announcement from NES. <bold>Please send your applications directly to: <<hrd(a)nisc.co.in></bold> All the best! Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor ________________________________________________ No.NES/HRD/M Dated February 15, 2005 NISC Export Services (NES) Private Limited invites applications for <bold>Management Level Leaders</bold><bigger><bigger><bigger> <smaller><smaller><smaller>of database production processes. NES and its affiliates together comprise one of the foremost database access, production and publishing companies in the world. NESs 100+ database products, published online (BiblioLine) or on CD-ROM (NISC DISCover) and print, cover most areas of the universe of knowledgearts & humanities, earth sciences, environment, social sciences, life sciences and technology. These databases are used in academic research settings to serve as literature search tools in the above fields. Reporting to the Managing Director, the successful candidate will lead a small group of young and dynamic Library and Information Science professionals and software engineers engaged in various activities pertaining to database production such as content development, data checking, data feeding and product preparation. The incumbent of this senior level position would also interact and coordinate with software engineers in other Departments of NES to ensure timely updating of various database products at regular intervals. Based in Hyderabad, the job offers challenging and rewarding opportunities to work at the cutting-edge of information and communication technologies. NES is looking for candidates who have a <bold>Ph.D. degree in Library and Information Science </bold>or any related subject. It also considers applications from candidates who had submitted their doctoral theses and awaiting announcement of results. Good typing skills are required as the working environment involves online computer use for access to offices worldwide. In addition, the candidates should possess the ability --to manage the preparation and clean-up of data which is processed into various database products. --to edit database products conforming to global quality standards. --to communicate in a formal, clear, empathetic and pleasant style, with excellent command of written and spoken English. --to maintain good interpersonal relationships and foster team spirit among diverse work groups to ensure smooth work flow. --to motivate a work force comprising of wide variety of staff such as content indexers, content developers, content operators, data capture engineers, data designers, remotebase operators, data prep engineers and online service engineers. --to handle a wide variety of modern communication media in a professional manner, conforming to standards of international business communication with respect to etiquette and pronunciation. --to maintain good public relations with all publicsboth internal and external. --to handle interpersonal conflicts in a professional manner. <bold>If you are not a resident of Hyderabad and are willing to relocate, please indicate that at the top of your resume.</bold> Apart from on-job training inputs, NES provides a comfortable, pleasant and enjoyable work environment with bright career prospects and exciting opportunities to realize ones potentialities. <bold>Depending on experience and qualifications, NES offers an attractive salary package which is comparable to the best in the industry. </bold>Please submit a letter of application, resume, and names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of three references to: The Managing Director NISC Export Services Co. Pvt. Ltd. 3rd Floor, Ballad Estates, St. Anns Road, Tarnaka Hyderabad 500 017 Email: hrd(a)nisc.co.in Phone: +91 40 27001517 Applications are accepted until the positions are filled. END </color>_______________________________________________<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Re: Credit Card use for purchases
by Sankaralingam 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

Dear Mangesh, With reference to your query and below mail, i would like to add my part that we are using a corporate credit card which is provided by the company. You can use this card for purchasing Books/Reference Articles, etc. and for subscribing/renewing Periodicals. Company will bear all service charges/annual membership fee or renewal fee. You should check with your company whether they have corporate credit card or not. There are eligibility criteria for getting a corporate credit card which you have refer with your company account people. In an emergency, you can also use your credit card/debit card for the same. But, its better you clarify your account departments that will they bear the service charges and other fees. Thanks and regards, Sankaralngam R Librarian Avestha Gengraine Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 Lata Nair wrote : >Dear Mangesh, >In my organisation, we have arranged for credit cards which may >be used for official purchases. Few prefer to use them, few make >purchases and get the amount reimbursed. All the purchases >require to be sanctioned in advance. >Ideally, the amount should be cleared before the next billing. >Few institutes have a policy where they provide cell >phones/credit cards to its staff or reimburse a part of the >bill. >Irrespective of the facilities available, in the corporate >sector, time is of essence. The work needs to be done, the method >and means are immaterial. >Regards, >Lata G. Nair >Librarian >Datamatics Technologies Ltd. >Mumbai >On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in wrote >: > >Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to > > lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > > >You can reach the person managing the list at > > lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more >specific > >than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." > > > > > >Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Info. request - Credit Card use for book purchase & > > subscription (Mangesh Ghodke) > > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >Message: 1 > >Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:33:52 +0530 > > From: Mangesh Ghodke <mangeshg(a)pidilite.com> > >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Info. request - Credit Card use for book >purchase > > & subscription > >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > >Message-ID: > > ><OF081CBAA6.271A246B-ON65256FA5.002676AC-65256FA5.002CFE25(a)pidilite.com> > > > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > > > >Hi All, > > > >I need information regarding the use of credit card for >purchase of books > >& subscription online. My query is as follows, > > > >1] Are you using your personal credit/debit card for online >transaction of > >library? > >2] What's the process to reimburse the amount (used for books >purchase/ > >subscription) in you bill statement. i.e. Do you reimburse >Service > >Charges, Fees if any. > >3] Who will bear the Annual Renewal charges of the Credit / >Debit card? > >4] Is there any bank providing Credit card specifically used by >library's > >online transaction? > > > >Kindly revert back if you are practicing such activity in your >library. > > > >Professional friends need to think about it. > > > >Thanks & Regards, > > > >Mangesh G. > >Sr. Officer-Librarian, > >Pidilite Industries Ltd. > >Mumbai. > >Tel.:022- 28357832 > >site: www.pidilite.com > > > >CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > >====================== > >"The information contained in this communication is intended >solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is >addressed and others authorised to receive it. It may contain >confidential or legally privileged information. If you have >received this communication in error, please notify us >immediately by responding to this email and then delete it from >your system. The contents of this email do not necessarily >represent the views or policies of Pidilite Industries >Limited." > >

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Re: Credit Card use for purchases
by Lata Nair 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Dear Mangesh, In my organisation, we have arranged for credit cards which may be used for official purchases. Few prefer to use them, few make purchases and get the amount reimbursed. All the purchases require to be sanctioned in advance. Ideally, the amount should be cleared before the next billing. Few institutes have a policy where they provide cell phones/credit cards to its staff or reimburse a part of the bill. Irrespective of the facilities available, in the corporate sector, time is of essence. The work needs to be done, the method and means are immaterial. Regards, Lata G. Nair Librarian Datamatics Technologies Ltd. Mumbai On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in wrote : >Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to > lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > >You can reach the person managing the list at > lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Info. request - Credit Card use for book purchase & > subscription (Mangesh Ghodke) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:33:52 +0530 > From: Mangesh Ghodke <mangeshg(a)pidilite.com> >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Info. request - Credit Card use for book purchase > & subscription >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Message-ID: > <OF081CBAA6.271A246B-ON65256FA5.002676AC-65256FA5.002CFE25(a)pidilite.com> > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > >Hi All, > >I need information regarding the use of credit card for purchase of books >& subscription online. My query is as follows, > >1] Are you using your personal credit/debit card for online transaction of >library? >2] What's the process to reimburse the amount (used for books purchase/ >subscription) in you bill statement. i.e. Do you reimburse Service >Charges, Fees if any. >3] Who will bear the Annual Renewal charges of the Credit / Debit card? >4] Is there any bank providing Credit card specifically used by library's >online transaction? > >Kindly revert back if you are practicing such activity in your library. > >Professional friends need to think about it. > >Thanks & Regards, > >Mangesh G. >Sr. Officer-Librarian, >Pidilite Industries Ltd. >Mumbai. >Tel.:022- 28357832 >site: www.pidilite.com > >CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE >====================== >"The information contained in this communication is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and others authorised to receive it. It may contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by responding to this email and then delete it from your system. The contents of this email do not necessarily represent the views or policies of Pidilite Industries Limited." > Dear Mangesh, In my organisation, we have arranged for credit cards which may be used for official purchases. Few prefer to use them, few make purchases and get the amount reimbursed. All the purchases require to be sanctioned in advance. Ideally, the amount should be cleared before the next billing. Few institutes have a policy where they provide cell phones/credit cards to its staff or reimburse a part of the bill. Irrespective of the facilities available, in the corporate sector, time is of essence. The work needs to be done, the method and means are immaterial. Regards, Lata G. Nair Librarian Datamatics Technologies Ltd. Mumbai On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in wrote : >Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to > lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > >You can reach the person managing the list at > lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Info. request - Credit Card use for book purchase & > subscription (Mangesh Ghodke) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:33:52 +0530 > From: Mangesh Ghodke <mangeshg(a)pidilite.com> >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Info. request - Credit Card use for book purchase > & subscription >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Message-ID: > <OF081CBAA6.271A246B-ON65256FA5.002676AC-65256FA5.002CFE25(a)pidilite.com> > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > >Hi All, > >I need information regarding the use of credit card for purchase of books >& subscription online. My query is as follows, > >1] Are you using your personal credit/debit card for online transaction of >library? >2] What's the process to reimburse the amount (used for books purchase/ >subscription) in you bill statement. i.e. Do you reimburse Service >Charges, Fees if any. >3] Who will bear the Annual Renewal charges of the Credit / Debit card? >4] Is there any bank providing Credit card specifically used by library's >online transaction? > >Kindly revert back if you are practicing such activity in your library. > >Professional friends need to think about it. > >Thanks & Regards, > >Mangesh G. >Sr. Officer-Librarian, >Pidilite Industries Ltd. >Mumbai. >Tel.:022- 28357832 >site: www.pidilite.com > >CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE >====================== >"The information contained in this communication is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and others authorised to receive it. It may contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by responding to this email and then delete it from your system. The contents of this email do not necessarily represent the views or policies of Pidilite Industries Limited." >

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Info. request - Credit Card use for book purchase &subscription
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Dear Mangesh Ghodke Yes, We do use personal credit card for official purchases of books & journal articles, software, databases, Annual fees for online access to databases etc -- all done online. One personal Credit Card issued by ICICI Bank is used. This is used only for office use -- no personal purchases are made. All expenses of the library purchases using this card are paid by the company. The monthly invoice is settled by the accounts dept by issuing a cheque in favour of Credit Card Account number itself and directly deposited in the ICICI bank's ATM or branches. In our internal payment records we note that payment was made via credit card. The userid & password for online transactions is known only to the actual credit card owner. Renewal fees are also bourne by company. Payments in foreign currency is no problem. Many times it is cheaper!! Moreover, When a document is available in several currency prices, you can choose the currency that is cheaper for you on the day of ORDER!! Some advise while using credit cards for online purchases: 1. Please be cautious about slow connections. Slow connections cause time out problems. After filling the order form, click just once. Wait for confirmation. Slow connections sometimes do not show that order has been recieved by the vendor properly , accepted and processed. Thinking that the transaction did not go through you may (press) order again -- duplicating the order. Getting back money for duplicating order inadvertantly is tedious process though ultimately you will get back money. 2 Placing orders sitting behind an Institute's proxy server causes problems. We always use clean direct dial-up connection. 3. Never save passwords on the PC used for online orders. 4. Never allow such a PC to be used by others when you are on leave or away; someone might install a background application that records all that goes on in your screen and thereby steal your credit card passwords. 5. Be careful about "partly manual - partly automatic" online systems. Here you just mention your credit card number - including addtional last three digits - on the web order form. Vendor collects money from Credit card company through manual process. In such cases there is a possibility (it happened to me)of vendor renewing subscritions automatically without proper authorisation from you. Sometimes, the credit card companies take the previlege of automatically renewing subscriptions (like for instance insurance premiums, journal subscriptions etc) -- if you keep quite (silence is taken as consent) re-ordering is done. If you are careless you will renew without your knowledge. Hope this is useful to you. Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Mangesh Ghodke Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 1:34 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Info. request - Credit Card use for book purchase &subscription Hi All, I need information regarding the use of credit card for purchase of books & subscription online. My query is as follows, 1] Are you using your personal credit/debit card for online transaction of library? 2] What's the process to reimburse the amount (used for books purchase/ subscription) in you bill statement. i.e. Do you reimburse Service Charges, Fees if any. 3] Who will bear the Annual Renewal charges of the Credit / Debit card? 4] Is there any bank providing Credit card specifically used by library's online transaction? Kindly revert back if you are practicing such activity in your library. Professional friends need to think about it. Thanks & Regards, Mangesh G. Sr. Officer-Librarian, Pidilite Industries Ltd. Mumbai. Tel.:022- 28357832 site: www.pidilite.com

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DELNET & AIRC's Invitation for a Programme on 18th Feb 2005
by Sangeeta Kaul, Network Manager, DELNET 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

DELNET - Developing Library Network and American Information Resource Center (AIRC) Public Affairs Section, American Embassy, New Delhi cordially invite you to a discussion on PUBLIC LIBRARY SERVICES by Dr. Shameem J. Syed Associate Branch Manager Fairfax County Public Library, VA, USA and Dr. H. K. Kaul Director, DELNET on Friday, February 18, 2005 at 3:00 p.m. at India International Centre Annexe (Conference Room III) (behind World Bank) 72, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 Shri. K. Jayakumar Joint Secretary Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India has kindly agreed to preside Tea: 2:30 p.m. RSVP :24610802 _______________________________________________________________________________ Sangeeta Kaul Network Manager DELNET India International Centre 40 Lodi Estate New Delhi-110003 INDIA Tel.: 91-11-24610802, 24619328 FAX : 91-11-24619325 Web : www.delnet.nic.in ________________________________________________________________________________

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(no subject)
by A.Vagiswari 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Would it be possible to post this request Does anyone have copy of this book WE are in urgent need of it. Anne Wordsworth: Library Cooperation and Networks. A basic reeader. Neal Schuman , 1991 Thanks A.Vagiswari -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean.

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Patent Lens(tm): Patent Database Associated with the 'Open Source' Biology Project
by Gerry Mckiernan 12 Feb '05

12 Feb '05

Colleagues/ FYI: Patent Lens TM : Free/FullText Life Sciences Patent Database [ http://www.bios.net/daisy/bios/50 ] /Gerry TM Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu *************************************************************************** The patent informatics and analysis component of the BIOS initiative aims to assist both professionals and non-professionals to understand and navigate the intellectual property landscape within the life sciences. These tools are an important and necessary component of the BIOS initiative, as they can assist the user to determine the IP boundaries of what is free and what is not free. Perhaps more appropriately this can be framed as: what are the constraints on deliverable innovations, and what are the useable building blocks for future innovations? The resource was initially developed by CAMBIA, as the CAMBIA IP Resource (formerly www.cambiaIP.org). The Intellectual Property (IP) resource currently consists of a fully text-searchable patents database which has recently been greatly expanded to contain 1,500,000 life science patents from the US, Australian and European-based databases, and will soon include others. We also present some key technology patent landscape analyses (white papers), guides to IP policies & practices and intellectual property tutorials. The CAMBIA-BIOS patent search resource now includes INPADOC patent family information provided by the national patent offices of over 70 countries, as well as status information provided by many of these countries. Once you have searched the patent and patent application database and identified patents of interest, a link on the search results page *************************************************************************** BIOS - Biological Innovation for Open Society - is a new initiative of CAMBIA to extend the metaphor and concepts of Open Source to biotechnology and other forms of innovation in biology. [ http://www.bios.net/daisy/bios/15 ] *************************************************************************** Hear Also NPR interview on Science Friday with Richard Jefferson, chairman and chief executive officer, chief scientist CAMBI [ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4495604 ] ************************************************************************** Read also NYTimes article [ http://www.bios.net/daisy/bios/470 ] ************************************************************************* And the Original Nature artilce [ http://www.bios.net/daisy/bios/462 ]

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Info. request - Credit Card use for book purchase & subscription
by Mangesh Ghodke 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

Hi All, I need information regarding the use of credit card for purchase of books & subscription online. My query is as follows, 1] Are you using your personal credit/debit card for online transaction of library? 2] What's the process to reimburse the amount (used for books purchase/ subscription) in you bill statement. i.e. Do you reimburse Service Charges, Fees if any. 3] Who will bear the Annual Renewal charges of the Credit / Debit card? 4] Is there any bank providing Credit card specifically used by library's online transaction? Kindly revert back if you are practicing such activity in your library. Professional friends need to think about it. Thanks & Regards, Mangesh G. Sr. Officer-Librarian, Pidilite Industries Ltd. Mumbai. Tel.:022- 28357832 site: www.pidilite.com CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ====================== "The information contained in this communication is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and others authorised to receive it. It may contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by responding to this email and then delete it from your system. The contents of this email do not necessarily represent the views or policies of Pidilite Industries Limited." Hi All, I need information regarding the use of credit card for purchase of books & subscription online. My query is as follows, 1] Are you using your personal credit/debit card for online transaction of library? 2] What's the process to reimburse the amount (used for books purchase/ subscription) in you bill statement. i.e. Do you reimburse Service Charges, Fees if any. 3] Who will bear the Annual Renewal charges of the Credit / Debit card? 4] Is there any bank providing Credit card specifically used by library's online transaction? Kindly revert back if you are practicing such activity in your library. Professional friends need to think about it. Thanks & Regards, Mangesh G. Sr. Officer-Librarian, Pidilite Industries Ltd. Mumbai. Tel.:022- 28357832 site: www.pidilite.com CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ====================== "The information contained in this communication is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and others authorised to receive it. It may contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by responding to this email and then delete it from your system. The contents of this email do not necessarily represent the views or policies of Pidilite Industries Limited."

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Article request
by Thapar, Amit 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

Dear friends, If possible for anyone then please provide this article in soft or hard copy to me for one of my seminar topics in MLIS. Danny P. Wallace, "The Use of Statistical Methods in Library and Information Science," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 36 (November 1985): 402-410. Thanks a lot, AMIT THAPAR Library & Information Assistant National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research Sector-67, Phase - 10 S.A.S.Nagar (Mohali)-160062, Punjab Dear friends, If possible for anyone then please provide this article in soft or hard copy to me for one of my seminar topics in MLIS. Danny P. Wallace, "The Use of Statistical Methods in Library and Information Science," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 36 (November 1985): 402-410. Thanks a lot, AMIT THAPAR Library & Information Assistant National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research Sector-67, Phase - 10 S.A.S.Nagar (Mohali)-160062, Punjab

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NYTimes: WikiNewsIsTheNews
by Gerry Mckiernan 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

Colleagues/ NYTimes:The Unassociated Press By AARON WEISS Published: February 10, 2005 YOU may, in the course of reading this article, spot a factual error that made it to press. A certain bit of grammar may makes you bristle, or you may think the writing is biased. But by now the ink has dried; all you can do is send an e-mail message or a letter of complaint. If this article had been published on Wikinews, a Web site begun recently, there would be something more you could do: change it, fix it, expand it or delete it. Wikinews (www.wikinews.org) is an experiment in collaborative news gathering and reporting, and the latest in a collection of Wikis (pronounced WIK-eez or WEEK-eez) under the umbrella of Wikimedia, which cultivates free and open information resources written by its users. [MORE] [ http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/10/technology/circuits/10wiki.html? ] Can We Say "Disruptive Scholarship" [:-) [ http://disruptivescholarship.blogspot.com/ ] /Gerry Gerry McKiernan InTheNews Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu "Limiting Possibilities, Limits Possibilities"

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InfoWatch Jan 2005
by M.R Lalitha 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

Dear LIS-Forum member, The January 2005 issue of InfoWatch is now online, bringing you details of new Internet sites related to Science and Engineering. You can access the complete issue on the NCSI Web server at the URL : http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/infowatch/iw.php You will also find earlier issues of InfoWatch here. For your convenience, the table of contents is given below. If you wish to be on the mailing list of InfoWatch to receive the complete issue by e-mail, let us know. Also mention your format preference - html or text. Regards -Lalitha M.R lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ------------------------------------------------------------------------ InfoWatch Tracking Networked Scientific Information Sources and Services (An electronic update service brought to you by NCSI) Jan 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue: 1. 8052 Online resource [A website for the 8052 microcontroller and related products] 2. ATutor - Learning Content Management System [A tool for developing web-based instructional content] 3. Best Manufacturing Practices (BMP) [A resource to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of an organisation] 4. cplusplus.com - C++ Resources network 5. Cassini-Huygens - A mission to Saturn and Titan 6. Discover circuits - Free electronic circuits schematics 7. Ecoinformatics.org - Online resource for managing Ecological data and information 8. Electronic waste guide - A knowledgebase on sustainable recycling of Electronic wastes 9. Fresh download - Free and fresh software utilities 10. FreshPatents.com- Latest US patents 11. Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) 12. Metadot portal server [A open source portal system] 13. mindat.org - The MINeral DATabase 14. MINT - A Molecular INtercations database 15. MolecularUniverse [An information source on molecules and molecular systems] 16. Performance materials net [A portal for advanced and high-performance materials] 17. Singularity Institute for artificial intelligence 18. Temperature sensors [A educational website about temperature sensors] 19. The World Year of Physics (WYP) - Einstein in the 21st century 20. W3C Voice browser activity [Access to the Internet via speech media] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ About InfoWatch : InfoWatch is a monthly electronic newsletter, brought out by the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, INDIA. Information in the newsletter is collected and verified by NCSI staff. The newsletter aims to raise awareness of new sources of information on the Internet, particularly those which are relevant for higher education and research. Some items may be of relevance only to the IISc community. Resources reported here have been taken from various discussion lists and other network tools and no special claims are made for accuracy or originality. Most of the sources cited in the newsletter were checked at the time of publication, however it is possible that some of the resources are no longer available. We welcome comments about the newsletter and suggestions for resources to be featured. Please e-mail your comments to Infowatch editors: Ms. K. Thulasi (thulasi(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) & Ms. M. R. Lalitha (lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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by Thapar, Amit 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

Tutorials This page is x-udd on a snarf of http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/programming.html C Introduction to C Programming C Optimization Tutorial Compiling C and C++ Programs on UNIX Systems - gcc/g++ Building and Using Static and Shared C Libraries Programming in C: UNIX System Calls and Subroutines Using C C FAQ C Programming Class Notes ANSI C for Programmers on UNIX Systems Sams Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours Sams Teach Yourself C in 21 Days (4th Ed.) The Standard C Library for Linux - Part 1: file functions The Standard C Library for Linux - Part 2: character input/output The Standard C Library for Linux - Part 3: formatted input/output The Standard C Library for Linux - Part 4: Character Handling The Standard C Library for Linux - Part 5: Miscellaneous Functions Programming in C: A Tutorial An Introduction to C Development on Linux C Programming Course C Language Tutorial CScene: An Online Magazine for C and C++ Programming C++ C++ Tutorial Understanding C++: An Accelerated Introduction An Introduction to C++ Class Hierarchies G++ FAQ Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming Using C++ Compiling C and C++ Programs on UNIX Systems - gcc/g++ C++ FAQ Lite C++ Programming Language Tutorials Reducing Dependencies in C++ C++ Exception Handling Part 1: Unicode Part 2: A Complete String Class Making C++ Loadable Modules Work Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days (2nd Ed.) C++ Portability Guide C++ Tips C++ Language Tutorial CScene: An Online Magazine for C and C++ Programming C++ Libraries FAQ CGI CGI Programming Tutorial CGI Programming 101 CGI Manual of Style CGI Developer's Guide CGI Programming Unleashed Sams Teach Yourself CGI Programming with Perl 5 in a Week (2nd Ed.) CGI/Perl Tips, Tricks and Hints A Tour of HTML Forms and CGI Scripts Reading CGI Data: URL-Encoding and the CGI Protocol CGI Programming FAQ CORBA CORBA FAQ A Brief Tutorial on CORBA CORBA 2.0 Specification CORBA Tutorials Sams Teach Yourself CORBA in 14 Days Linux Network Programming, Part 3 - CORBA: The Software Bus CORBA Program Development, Part 1 CORBA Program Development, Part 2 CORBA Program Development, Part 3 CSS CSS2 Tutorial CVS CVS Tutorial Concurrent Version System Tutorial DHTML Introduction to Dynamic HTML Emacs Emacs: The Software Engineer's ``Swiss Army Knife'' Emacs FAQ GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual Programming in Emacs Lisp GNU Emacs Manual A Tutorial Introduction to Emacs EMACSulation: Internet-ready! EMACSulation: Ediff - An Emacs interface to diff and patch EMACSulation: Emacs as a Server EMACSulation: Customizing Emacs Basic Emacs EMACSulation: Templating Mechanisms Emacs Macros and the Power-Macros Package Polyglot Emacs 20.4 Expect Advanced Programming in Expect: A Bulletproof Interface Automating Tasks with Expect What Can you Expect?--A Data Collection Project Using Linux Fortran Professional Programmer's Guide to Fortran 77 Fortran 90 and Computational Science User Notes on Fortran Programming Fortran Programming for Physics and Astronomy A Fortran 90 Tutorial Using GNU Fortran Fortran 90: A Course for Fortran 77 Programmers Fortran 90 for the Fortran 77 Programmer Introduction to Fortran GIMP GIMP Tutorial Index A Tutorial for Perl GIMP Users A Scheme Tutorial for GIMP Users GIMP Guide The GIMP User Manual Pseudo 3-D with GIMP Graphical Photocomposition with GIMP Creating Text with the GIMP Creating Fire Effects with the GIMP Creating and Editing Animations with GIMP GIMP-Perl: GIMP Scripting for the Rest of Us Writing a GIMP Plugin GIMP: The RRU Tutorial GIMP User FAQ Script-Fu Tutorial The Quick Start Guide to the GIMP, Part 1 The Quick Start Guide to the GIMP, Part 2 The Quick Start Guide to the GIMP, Part 3 The Quick Start Guide to the GIMP, Part 4 GNOME Application Programming Using the GNOME Libraries Part 1: Everything You Need to Get Started Part 2: Building a Sample Genealogy Program Part 3: Adding File Saving and Loading Using libxml Creating GTK+ Widgets with GOB: An Easier Way to Derive New GTK+ Widgets Handling Multipel Documents: Using the GnomeMDI Framework Livening Things Up: Graphics Made Easy Using the GNOME Canvas Developing Gnome Applications with Python - Part 1 GTK GDK Reference Manual GLib Reference Manual GTK+ Reference Manual The GIMP Toolkit GTK+ FAQ GTK V1.2 Tutorial Drawing and Event Handling in GTK An Introduction to the GIMP Tool Kit Gnuplot Constrained Dynamics Continuum Dynamics Differential Equation Basics Energy Functions and Stiffness Particle System Dynamics An Introduction to Physically Based Modeling Rigid Body Dynamics I Rigid Body Dynamics II Scientific Visualization Tutorials Gnuplot - An Interactive Plotting Program GIF Animation Tutorial HTML HTML Table Tutorial HTML by Example How to Use HTML 3.2 Creating a Client-Side Image Map Advanced HTML: How to Create Complex Multimedia Documents for the Web The ABCs of HTML Sharky's Netscape Frames Tutorial ILU ILU Reference Manual Using ILU with ANSI C: A Tutorial Using ILU with Java: A Tutorial Using ILU with Python: A Tutorial IP-Masquerading ipchains: Packet Filtering for Linux 2.2 Setting Up IP Masquerade Setting Up IP-Masquerading Ipchains: Easy Links to the Net Linux Networking Using Ipchains IPC Advanced 4.4BSD Interpprocess Communication Tutorial UNIX Multi-Process Programming and IPC Java Enterprise JavaBeans Tutorial JavaBeans Short Course Introduction to the JavaBeans API JDBC Short Course Essentials of the Java Programming Language, Part 1 Essentials of the Java Programming Language, Part 2 Writing Advanced Applications for the Java Platform Fundamentals of Java Security Fundamentals of Java Servlets Introduction to the Collections Framework Introduction to CORBA Fundamentals of RMI Advanced Introductory Intermediate Java Language Specification Java Tutorial: Servlet Trail Java Virtual Machine Specification (2nd Ed.) Glossary of Java and Related Terms The Java Language Environment Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines Story of a Servlet: An Instant Tutorial Introduction to Java Java2D: An Introduction and Tutorial Java Servlet Tutorial comp.lang.java FAQ Brewing Java: A Tutorial Shlurrrppp ... Java: The First User-Friendly Tutorial on Java Swing Tutorial Swing: A Quick Tutorial for AWT Programmers Thinking in Java Java RMI Tutorial Java for C++ Programmers The Advanced Jav/aJ2EE Tutorial Hacking Java: The Java Professional's Resource Kit JFC Unleashed Java Developer's Guide Java Developer's Reference Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days (Professional Reference Ed.) Java Unleashed (2nd Ed.) Java 1.1 Unleashed (3rd Ed.) Java Game Programming Tutorial Java Networking FAQ Java Tutorial: A Practical Guide for Programmers Sockets Programming in Java Programming with Java - Part I Programming with Java - Part II Setting Up a Java Development Environment for Linux Understanding Java Beginner's Guide to JDK GUI Development in Java Java Servlets: An introduction to writing and running Java servlets on Linux JavaScript Introductory JavaScript Tutorials JavaScript Authoring Guide Client-Side JavaScript 1.3 Guide Client-Side JavaScript 1.3 Reference Core JavaScript 1.4 Guide Core JavaScript 1.4 Reference Server-Side JavaScript 1.4 Guide JavaScript FAQ JavaScript Tutorial The Way of JavaScript Voodoo's Introduction to JavaScript JavaScript Tutorial for Programmers JavaScript Primer EchoEcho JavaScript Tutorial Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript 1.1 in a Week (2nd Ed.) Lisp Common Lisp Hints Common Lisp the Language (2nd Ed.) Lisp FAQ Lisp Programming Tutorial Lisp Tutorial LISP Tutorial Common Lisp HyperSpec MIDI Basic MIDI Tutorials Tutorial on MIDI and Music Synthesis ML ML Tutorial Programming in Standard ML '97 A Gentle Introduction to ML Moscow ML Owner's Manual MPI An MPI Tutorial Tutorial on MPI MPI: Portable Parallel Programming for Scientific Computing Tuning MPI Applications for Peak Performance MPI: From Fundamentals to Applications MPI Tutorial MPI: The Complete Reference Introduction to Parallel Programming Using MPI Basics of MPI Programming Matlab Matlab Basics Tutorial Matlab Summary and Tutorial Matlab - Official Online Manuals in PDF Misc The Soar 8 Tutorial Home Page 8051 Assembly Tutorial GNAT Reference Manual MOO Programming Tutorial Genetic Tutorial Basic SUIF Programming Guide Cosmology Tutorial Relativity Tutorial 80x86 Assembly Language Programming Tutorial ZPL Programming Guide VHDL Synthesis Tutorial Part 1: Overview Part 2: The Lexical Analyzer Part 3: The Parser Part 4: The Symbol Table and Syntax Tree Part 5: The Semantic Checker and Intermediate Code Generator Part 6: Optimization Part 7: The Virtual Machine Part 8: Executable Code Part 9: Advanced Subjects A tutorial on character code issues Imlib Programmer's Guide Speech Analysis Tutorial INTERCAL Programming Language Revised Reference Manual Quantum Computation: A Tutorial Modem Tutorial Biotiming Tutorial Motif Introduction to Motif Application Development X Window/Motif Programming Motif FAQ Motif/Lesstif Application Development X/Motif Programming OpenGL OpenGL Programming Guide - The Red Book NeHe OpenGL Tutorials Advanced Graphics Programming Techniques Using OpenGL Introduction to OpenMP OpenGL: From the Extensions to the Solutions Designing and Building Parallel Programs Tutorial Material on MPI Tutorial on MPI Parallel Programming - Basic Theory for the Unwary Building a Beowulf System High Performance Fortran in Practice Java Personal OpenGL Tutorial (JPOT) OpenGL Tutorial Advanced OpenGL Texture Mapping Linux Focus What is OpenGL? GLUT Programming: Windows and Animations OpenGL Programming: Simple Polygon Rendering OpenGL Programming: More About Lines GLUT Programming: Windows Management Programming with OpenGL: Advanced Rendering Programming with OpenGL: Advanced Techniques OpenGL Overview HPF: Programming Linux Clusters the Easy Way PHP PHP Knowledge Base PHP/MySQL Tutorial PHP3 Introduction PHP Tutorials PHP FAQ PHP Manual PHP How-To Columns An Introduction to PHP3 PVM Advanced Tutorial on PVM 3.4 PVM: A User's Guide and Tutorial for Networked Parallel Computing PVM FAQ Parallel Processing using PVM Pascal Pascal Programming OnLine Notes Roby's Pascal Tutorial Pascal Language Tutorial Perl Perl Modules Perl man pages Perl Tutorial A Quick Introduction to Perl Perl FAQ HTMLified Perl 5 Reference Guide Perl Regular Expression Tutorial Save it With Perl: A CPAN Solution to Data Persistence Introduction to Perl The Perl Programming Language Sams Teach Yourself Perl 5 in 21 Days (2nd Ed.) Using Perl for Web Programming Perl 5 Quick Reference Perl Part III - Arrays Perl Part II - Writing a Real Program Perl Part I - Introduction Perl Tutorial Robert's Perl Tutorial CGI/Perl Tips, Tricks and Hints An Introduction to Perl Embperl: Modern Templates Perl Embedding Network Programming with Perl PostScript PostScript FAQ PostScript Programming About PostScript Errors A First Guide to PostScript PostScript Tutorial and Reference PostScript III: The Operand Stack of PostScript: Arrays, Variables, Loops and Macro Definitions PostScript II: The Operand Stack, Manipulations and Mathematical Operators PostScript I: The Language Povray The Online POV-Ray Tutorial Povray I: First Steps Povray II: Basic Notions Povray III: Design of Recursive Structures Prolog Prolog Programming: A First Course On-Line Guide to Prolog Programming Prolog Programming Tutorial Python Practical ILU with Python: A Tutorial Learning to Program Numeric Python Tutorial Cheat Sheet: A Quick Reference Document for Newcomers Text Processing in Python: Tips for Beginners Using State Machines: Algorithms and Programming Approaches in Python Tinkering with XML and Python: An Introduction to XML Tools for Python The Other Scripting Language that Starts with a "P" The Dynamics of DOM: A Closer Look at Python's xml.dom Module My First Web-Based Filtering Proxy: Converting Text to HTML Using Txt2Html Instant Python Instant Hacking: Learn How to Program With Python The Whole Python FAQ The What, Why, Who, and Where of Python Extending and Embedding the Python Interpreter Python Library Reference Python Reference Manual An Introduction to Python Python Tutorial Getting Started With Python RPC Remote Procecure Call - AIX Programming Concepts Guide Protocol Compiling and Lower Level RPC Programming Programming with Remote Procedure Calls - SCO RPC Programming Documents - Sun RPC Programming Interface - DEC Remote Procedure Calls in Linux Rexx REXX/imc Tutorial Advanced Object REXX Programming Introduction to Object REXX Programming Rexx FAQ TCP/IP Socket Programming with REXX Ruby Ruby Language FAQ Ruby: A New Language Thirty-seven Reasons I Love Ruby The Ruby Programming Language Ruby User's Guide Ruby Language Reference Manual SCSI An Introduction to SCSI Drivers Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales SQL SQL Tutorial and Interpreter Introduction to Structured Query Language Beginning MySQL Tutorial Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days (2nd Ed.) SQL Tutorial I - Introduction to SQL and Installation of PostgreSQL MySQL: A Database Server Setting Up a MySQL Based Website - Part 1 Setting Up a MySQL Based Website - Part II PostgreSQL Tutorial Using mSQL in a Web-Based Production Environment Speaking SQL Integrating SQL with CGI, Part 1 Integrating SQL with CGI, Part 2 PostgreSQL--the Linux under the Databases Beagle SQL, A Client/Server Database for Linux NoSQL Tutorial MySQL Introduction SSI NCSA HTTPd Server Side Includes The Server Side Includes Tutorial Programming in Standard ML '97: An On-Line Tutorial SSI Tutorial STL A Modest STL Tutorial The Standard Template Library Tutorial Introduction to STL, Standard Template Library STL Tutorial Samba Introduction to Samba - Part 1: Key Concepts More Adventures with Samba Linux Networking: Exploring Samba Using Samba to Mount Windows 95 Introducing Samba Samba's Encrypted Password Support Scheme Scheme Tutorial A Scheme Tutorial for GIMP Users Revised (4) Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme MIT Scheme Reference DrScheme Programming Environment Manual MzScheme Language Manual Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days Lecture Notes on the Principles of Programming Languages An Introduction to Scheme and Its Implementation The Scheme Programming Language Scheme FAQ The PACT Scheme Language Fundamentals of Computer Science I Chez Scheme User's Guide The Scheme Programming Language (2nd Ed.) Smalltalk Basic Aspects of Squeak and the Smalltalk-80 Programming Language IBM Smalltalk Tutorial TCP/IP Daryl's TCP/IP Primer Introduction to the Internet Protocols IP Next Generation Overview IPv6: The New Internet Protocol Understanding IP Addressing Introduction to IP Multicast Routing TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview An Introduction to TCP/IP Programming TCP/IP FAQ - Part 1 TCP/IP FAQ - Part 2 TCP/IP: Introduction to the Internet Protocols Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 14 Days (2nd Ed.) TCP/IP for Idiots Tutorial T/TCP: TCP for Transactions TCP/IP and IPX Routing Tutorial Tcl/Tk Introduction to Programming with Tcl Programming Using Tcl/Tk Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk Tcl/Tk Cookbook Introduction to the Tcl/Tk Programming Language The Tcl Syntax Tcl/Tk Quick Reference Guide comp.lang.tcl FAQ Tcl/Tk Man Pages Rapid Prototyping with Tcl/Tk Tcl/Tk: The Swiss Army Knife of Web Applications TeX LaTeX for Secretaries UNIX The UNIX Time-Sharing System The Evolution of the UNIX Time-Sharing System The UNIX Time-Sharing System - A Retrospective UNIX - The Bare Minimum Using the UNIX Operating System History of UNIX UNIXhelp for Users STScI UNIX Users Guide UNIX System Administration UNIX Past Compiling C and C++ Programs on UNIX Systems - gcc/g++ Manipulating Files and Directories in UNIX Introduction to UNIX Signals Programming UNIX and Multics UNIX FAQ UNIX Man Pages Online UNIX Unleashed UNIX Unleashed: System Administrator's Edition UNIX Unleashed: Internet Edition A Basic UNIX Tutorial The UNIX Programming Environment Introduction to UNIX Intermediate UNIX Training Coping with UNIX: An Interactive Survival Kit Introduction to UNIX Course Notes Advanced Introduction to UNIX Basic Introduction to UNIX Programming the Shell Networking/Internet with UNIX Learning UNIX VRML Introduction to VRML VRML Primer and Tutorial VRML Audio Tutorial The Easy VRML Tutorial VRML 97 Tutorial Introduction to VRML 2.0 An Introduction to VRML VRML 2.0 Tutorial X11 Securing X Windows X Window Guide Using X11 Windows Looking Through X Windows X Widget FAQ Xlib Programming: A Short Tutorial X Windows Version 11.5: A Concise Description Beginning with X comp.windows.x.intrinsics (Xt) FAQ comp.windows.x FAQ Configuring X The 40 Most Common X Programming Errors (And How to Avoid Repeating Them) X Window System Application Performance Tuning Taming the X Display Manager (xdm) Introduction to X Windows XFree86 FAQ Programming with XView Developing Imaging Applications with XIE X Window System Administration XDR eXternal Data Representation Overview for Programming eXternal Data Representation - AIX Programming Concepts Guide External Data Representation: Sun Technical Notes External Data Representation: Technical Notes XML Working with XML: The Java API for XML Parsing (JAXP) Tutorial XQL Tutorial Tutorial Introduction to XML The XML Revolution: Technologies for the Future Web An Introduction to Perl's XML::XSLT Module XML Reference and Glossary XML FAQ Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 XUL Tutorial auto The GNU Configure and Build System Developing Software with GNU (w/ Learning Autoconf and Automake) Autoconf: Creating Automatic Configuration Scripts GNU Automake Adding Fortran 77 Support to Automake debugging Debugging C and C++ Programs using gdb Debugging with GDB (GNU Manual) elm The Elm Reference Guide The Elm User's Guide Email with the Elm Mailer ELM FAQ Elm Tutor lex Compiler Construction Using Flex and Bison How to Write a Simple Parser with Lex and Yacc A Guide to Lex and Yacc Creating an Input Language with the lex and yacc Commands A Brisk Tutorial on Lex and Yacc What Do Lex and Yacc Do? The Roles of Lex and YACC A Little Manual for Lex and Yacc GNU Bison Manual GNU Flex Manual Compiler Construction Tools - Part I: JFlex and CUP Compiler Construction Tools - Part II: Installing JFlex and CUP - Specific Instructions What is Lex? What is Yacc? lex and yacc: Tools Worth Knowing make Introductory Tutorial on Make A Brief Introduction to Make Getting Started with Make - Part 1: The Basics Getting Started with Make - Part 2 Tutorial on Make Automating Program Compilation - Writing Makefiles A Brief Make Tutorial Make - A Tutorial GNU Automake Manual GNU Make Manual Quick and Dirty Make Tutorial Building Projects with Imake networks VDSL Tutorial Cable Modem Tutorial Tutorial: Insight Into Current Internet Traffic Workloads Tutorial on Internet Monitoring Frame Relay Tutorial sed Serial Programming for POSIX Compliant Operating Systems sed Script Archive sed FAQ #2 Do It With sed sed - A Non-Interactive Text Editor Introduction to sed Handy One-Liners for sed sed FAQ #1 sed - The Stream Editor sed Tutorial shells UNIX Shell Patterns Korn Shell Reference UNIX Shell Programming Bourne and Korn Shells A Brief Introduction To C Shell Variables UNIX Shell Scripts Writing UNIX Scripts Part 1: Fundamental Programming in Bash Part 2: More Bash Programming Fundamentals Part 3: Exploring the Ebuild System Working the the Shell Environment pdksh (Public Domain Korn) Shell Script Programming C Shell Tutorial BASH FAQ Shell Differences FAQ Z-Shell FAQ GNU Bash Reference Manual Bourne/Bash: Shell Programming Introduction Functions and Aliases in Bash Introduction to Shell Scripting The Deep, Dark Secrets of Bash bash (GNU) csh (C) ksh (Korn) sh (Bourne) tcsh zsh (Z) Getting the Most from Your Shell Shell Command Language Index UNIX Bourne Shell Programming Features of the TCSH Shell Improve Bash Shell Scripts Using Dialog Extending the Bash Prompt Shell Functions and Path Variables, Part 1 Shell Functions and Path Variables, Part 2 Shell Functions and Path Variables, Part 3 sockets Introduction to Network Functions in C Berkeley UNIX System Calls and Interprocess Communication Using Internet Sockets Beginner's Guide to Sockets BSD Sockets: A Quick And Dirty Primer Sockets Programming in Java Introduction to Socket Programming An Introduction to Socket Programming Perl and Sockets Linux Network Programming, Part 1 - BSD Sockets threads Getting Started with POSIX Threads LinuxThreads FAQ Part 3: Improve Efficiency with Condition Variables Part 1: A Simple and Nimble Tool for Memory Sharing Part 2: The Little Things Called Mutexes Multi-Threaded Programming with POSIX Threads Threads FAQ Multithreaded Programming LinuxThreads Programming Pthreads - Overview and Manual What is Multi-Threading? Thread-Specific Data and Signal Handling in Multi-Threaded Applications Introduction to Multi-Threaded Programming POSIX Thread Libraries vi vi Tutorial elvis Manual An Extremely Quick and Simple Introduction to the Vi Text Editor vim Reference Manual Mastering the vi Editor vi FAQ - Part 1 vi FAQ - Part 2 vim Editor FAQ vi Quick Reference and Tutorial Revisiting VIM The vi/ex Editor Free E-Books Good Site for Software Engineers http://software-engineer.org/ No. Title/Author URL 1 10 minute guide to lotus notes mail 4.5 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 2 10 minute guide to Microsoft exchange 5.0 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 3 10 minute guide to outlook 97 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 4 10 minute guide to schedule+ for windows 95 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 5 ActiveX programming unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 6 ActiveX programming unleashed http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 7 Advanced perl programming http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 8 Advanced PL/SQL programming with packages http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 9 Adventure in Prolog/AMZI www.oopweb.com 10 Algorithms CMSC251/Mount, David www.oopweb.com 11 Alison Balter's Mastering Access 95 development, premier ed. http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 12 Apache : The definitive guide, 3rd.ed. http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 13 Beej's guide to network programming/Hall, Brain www.oopweb.com 14 Beyond Linux from Scratch/BLFS Development Team http://book.onairweb.net/computer/os/linux/Administration/Beyond_Linux_From… 15 Borland C++ builder unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 16 Building an intranet with windows NT 4 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 17 Building an Intranet with Windows NT 4 http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 18 Building expert systems in prolog/AMZI www.oopweb.com 19 C programming language http://book.onairweb.net/computer/pl/C/The_C_Programming_Language_by_K&R/ 20 C Programming/Holmes, Steven www.oopweb.com 21 C++ Annotations www.oopweb.com 22 CGI developer's guide http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 23 CGI manual of style http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 24 CGI manual of style online http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 25 CGI programming http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 26 CGI programming unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 27 CGI programming with Perl, 2nd.ed. http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 28 Charlie Calvert's Borland C++ builder unleashed http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 29 Client/server computing, 2nd.ed. http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 30 Client-server computing, 2nd.ed. http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 31 Common LISP, the language/Steele, Guy www.oopweb.com 32 Compilers and compiler generators : an introduction with C++/Terry, P.D. www.oopweb.com 33 Complete idiot's guide to creating HTML webpage http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 34 Computer graphics CMSC 427/Mount, David www.oopweb.com 35 Configuring and troubleshooting the windows NT/95 registry http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 36 Creating commercial websites http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 37 Creating web applets with Java http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 38 Crystal Reports.NET http://www.crystalreportsbook.com/Chapters.asp 39 Curious about the internet http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 40 Curious about the internet? http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 41 Dan appleman's developing activeX components with Visual Basic 5 http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 42 Dan appleman's developing activex components with Visual Basic 5.0 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 43 Data structures CMSC420/Mount, David www.oopweb.com 44 Database developer's guide with visual basic 4, 2nd.ed. http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 45 Database developer's guide with Visual Basic 4, 2nd.ed. http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 46 Database developer's guide with Visual C++ 4, 2nd.ed. http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 47 Database developer's guide with Visual C++ 4, 2nd.ed. http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 48 Design and analysis of computer algorithms CMSC451/Mount, David www.oopweb.com 49 Designing implementing Microsoft internet information server http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 50 Designing implementing Microsoft proxy server http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 51 Developing for netscape one http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 52 Developing intranet applications with java http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 53 Developing personal oracle 7 for windows 95 applications http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 54 Developing personal Oracle 7 for windows 95 applications http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 55 Developing professional java applets http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 56 Developing professional java applets http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 57 DNS and BIND http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 58 Doing objects with VB.NET and C# http://vbwire.com/nl?6814 59 EAI/BPM Evaluation Series: IBM WebSphere MQ Workflow v3.3.2 & EAI Suite by > Middleware Technology Evaluation Series, Phong Tran & Jeffrey Gosper http://www.cmis.csiro.au/mte/reports/BPM_IBMwebsphereMQ332.htm 60 Effective AWK programming http://book.onairweb.net/computer/os/shell/Effective_AWK_Programming/ 61 Enterprise javabeans, 2nd.ed. http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 62 Exploring java http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 63 GNOME/Sheets, John www.oopweb.com 64 Graph theory/Prof. Even www.oopweb.com 65 Hacking java http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 66 How intranets work http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 67 How intranets work http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 68 How to program visual basic 5.0 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 69 How to use HTML 3.2 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 70 Html : The definitive guide http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 71 HTML 3.2 & CGI unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 72 HTML 3.2 and CGI professional reference edition unleashed http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 73 HTML by example http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 74 Internet firewall http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 75 Intranets unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 76 Introduction to object-oriented programming using C++/Muller, Peter www.oopweb.com 77 Introduction to programming using Java/Eck, David www.oopweb.com 78 Introduction to socket programming http://book.onairweb.net/computer/network/An_Introduction_to_Socket_Program… 79 Java 1.1 unleashed http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 80 Java 1.1 unleashed, 2nd.ed. http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 81 Java 1.1 unleashed, 3rd.ed. http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 82 Java 114 documentation http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 83 Java AWT reference http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 84 Java by example http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 85 Java developer's guide http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 86 Java developer's guide http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 87 Java developer's reference http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 88 Java developer's reference http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 89 Java Distributed computing http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 90 Java enterprise http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 91 Java enterprise in a nutshell http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 92 Java foundation classes in a nutshell http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 93 Java fundamental classes reference http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 94 Java in a nutshell http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 95 Java in a nutshell, 3rd.ed. http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 96 Java language reference http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 97 Java security http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 98 Java servlet programming http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 99 Java unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 100 Java unleashed http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 101 Java, 2nd.ed. http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 102 JavaScript : the definitive guide http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 103 Javascript manual of style http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 104 Javascript manual of style http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 105 Josh's GNU Linux Guide/Joshua http://book.onairweb.net/computer/os/linux/Administration/Josh's_GNU_Linux_Guide/ 106 Late night activex http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 107 Late night activeX http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 108 Laura lemay's 3D graphics in and VRML 2 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 109 Laura lemay's activex and VBScript http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 110 Laura lemay's graphics and web page design http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 111 Laura lemay's guide to sizzling websites design http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 112 Laura lemay's javascript 1.1 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 113 Laura lemay's web workshop activex and VBScript http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 114 Laura lemay's web workshop Graphics web page design http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 115 Laura lemay's web workshop javascript http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 116 Learning perl http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 117 Learning perl on win32 http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 118 Learning the kornshell http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 119 Learning unix http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 120 Learning vi http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 121 Linux from Scratch/Beekmans, Gerard http://book.onairweb.net/computer/os/linux/Administration/Linux_From_Scratc… 122 Linux in a nutshell, 3rd.ed. http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 123 Linux kernel/Rusling, David www.oopweb.com 124 Linux network administrator's guide/Dawson, Terry www.oopweb.com 125 Linux system administrator's survival guide http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 126 MAPI, SAPI and TAPI developer's guide http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 127 Mastering access 95 development http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 128 Microsoft access 97 quick reference http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 129 Microsoft access 97 quick reference http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 130 Microsoft backoffice 2 unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 131 Microsoft excel 97 quick reference http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 132 Microsoft excel 97 quick reference http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 133 Microsoft exchange server survival guide http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 134 Microsoft frontpage unleashed http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 135 Microsoft word 97 quick reference http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 136 Microsoft word 97 quick reference http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 137 Microsoft works 4.5 6-In-1 http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 138 More than 100 full-text e-books http://www.allfreetech.com/EBookCategory.asp 139 Ms backoffice administrator's survival guide http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 140 Ms backoffice unleashed http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 141 Mysql and msql http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 142 Netscape plug-ins developer's kit http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 143 Official gamelan java directory http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 144 Oracle built-in packages http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 145 Oracle PL/SQL built-in pocket reference http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 146 Oracle PL/SQL language pocket reference http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 147 Oracle PL/SQL programming guide to Oracle 8 features http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 148 Oracle PL/SQL programming, 2nd.ed. http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 149 Oracle unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 150 Oracle unleashed http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 151 Oracle web applications PL/SQL developer's introduction http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 152 Patterns of enterprise application architecture/Fowler, Martin http://www.awprofessional.com/catalog/product.asp?product_id={574D77DF-6ED2… 153 PC week : the intranet advantage http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 154 Perl 5 by example http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 155 Perl 5 quick reference http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 156 Perl 5 unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 157 Perl 5.0 CGI web pages http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 158 Perl cookbook http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 159 Perl for system administration http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 160 Perl in a nutshell http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 161 Perl quick reference http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 162 Peter norton's complete guide to windows NT 4 workstations http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 163 Presenting activex http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 164 Presenting activex http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 165 Presenting javabeans http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 166 Presenting javabeans http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 167 Programming perl http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 168 Programming perl, 3rd.ed. http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 169 Programming the Perl DBI http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 170 Red hat linux unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 171 Running a perfect intranet http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 172 Running Linux, 3rd.ed. http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 173 Sams teach yourself java 1.1 in 24 hours/ http://book.onairweb.net/computer/sams/Sams_Teach_Yourself_Java_1.1_Program… 174 Sams Teach yourself java in 21 days/Lemay, Laura http://book.onairweb.net/computer/sams/Sams_Teach_Yourself_Java_in_21_Days/ 175 Sams teach yourself linux in 24 hours/Ball, Bill http://book.onairweb.net/computer/sams/Sams_Teach_Yourself_Linux_in_24%20Ho… 176 Sams teach yourself shell programming in 24 hours http://book.onairweb.net/computer/sams/Sams_Teach_Yourself_Shell_Programmin… 177 Sams teach yourself TCP/IP in 14 days http://book.onairweb.net/computer/sams/Sams_Teach_Yourself_TCP-IP_in_14_Day… 178 Sed and awk http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 179 Sendmail http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 180 Sendmail desktop reference http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 181 Slackware linux unleashed http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 182 Special edition using java, 2nd.ed. http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 183 Special edition using javascript http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 184 Special edition using javascript http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 185 Special edition using Jscript http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 186 Special edition using lotus notes and domino 4.5 http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 187 Special edition using Microsoft SQL server 6.5, 2nd.ed. http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 188 Special edition using Microsoft visual Interdev http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 189 Special edition using perl 5 for web programming http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 190 Special edition using perl for web programming http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 191 Special edition using Visual Basic 4 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 192 TCP/IP http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 193 Teach yourself activex programming in 21 days http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 194 Teach yourself C++ in 21 days http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 195 Teach yourself C++ in 21 days http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 196 Teach yourself CGI programming with Perl 5 in a week http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 197 Teach yourself database programming with VB5 in 21 days, 2nd.ed. http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 198 Teach yourself database programming with visual basic 5 in 21 days http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 199 Teach yourself HTML 3.2 in 24 hours http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 200 Teach yourself HTML 3.2 in 24 hours http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 201 Teach yourself internet game programming with java in 21 days http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 202 Teach yourself java 1.1 programming in 24 hours http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 203 Teach yourself jave in café in 21 days http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.tm 204 Teach yourself Microsoft visual Interdev in 21 days http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 205 Teach yourself Microsoft visual Interdev in 21 days http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 206 Teach yourself oracle 8 in 21 days http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 207 Teach yourself perl 5 in 21 days http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 208 Teach yourself perl 5 in 21 days, 2nd.ed. http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 209 Teach yourself SQL in 21 days http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 210 Teach yourself SQL in 21 days, 2nd.ed. http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 211 Teach yourself TCP/IP in 14 days http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 212 Teach yourself TCP/IP in 14 days, 2nd.ed. http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 213 Teach yourself the Internet in 24 hours http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 214 Teach yourself the internet in 24 hours http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 215 Teach yourself VBScript in 21 days http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 216 Teach yourself VBScript in 21 days http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 217 Teach yourself visual basic 5 in 24 hours http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 218 Teach yourself Visual Basic 5 in 24 hours http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 219 Teach yourself Visual J++ in 21 days http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 220 Teach yourself web publishing with HTML 3.2 in 14 days http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 221 Teach yourself web publishing with HTML in 14 days http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 222 Thinking in C++ http://www.mindview.net/Books 223 Thinking in C++/Eckel, Bruce - Vol.I, 2nd.ed. www.oopweb.com 224 Thinking in C++/Eckel, Bruce - Vol.II, 2nd.ed. www.oopweb.com 225 Thinking in Enterprise Java http://www.mindview.net/Books 226 Thinking in Java, 2nd.ed. www.oopweb.com 227 Thinking in Java, 3rd.ed. (pdf) http://www.mindview.net/Books 228 Tricks of the internet gurus http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 229 Tricks of the java programming gurus http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 230 Unix and internet security http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 231 Unix hints and hacks/Waingrow, Kirk http://book.onairweb.net/computer/os/unix/Administration/UNIX_Hints_&_Hacks… 232 Unix in a nutshell http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 233 Unix kornshell quick reference http://book.onairweb.net/computer/os/shell/Unix_KornShell_Quick_Reference/k… 234 Unix power tools http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 235 Unix shell guide http://book.onairweb.net/computer/os/shell/The_UNIX_Shell_Guide/ 236 Unix unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 237 Unix unleashed http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 238 Unix unleashed Internet Ed./Burk, Robin http://book.onairweb.net/computer/os/unix/Administration/UNIX_Unleashed(Int… 239 Unix unleashed, System administrator's Edition http://book.onairweb.net/computer/os/unix/Administration/UNIX_Unleashed_Sys…'s_Edition/toc.htm 240 Unix Unleashed/Sams Publication http://book.onairweb.net/computer/os/unix/Administration/UNIX_Unleashed/ 241 Upgrading PCs illustrated http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 242 Using windows NT workstation 4.0 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 243 VBScript unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 244 Vbscript unleashed http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 245 Visual basic 4 in 12 easy lessons http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 246 Visual basic 4 unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 247 Visual Basic 5 night school http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 248 Visual basic programming in 12 easy lessons http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 249 Visual Basic programming in 12 easy lessons http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 250 Visual C++ 4 unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 251 Visual C++ programming in 12 easy lessons http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 252 Web database developer's guide with visual basic 5 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 253 Web database developer's guide with visual basic 5 http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ AMIT@NIPER Tutorials This page is x-udd on a snarf of http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/programming.html http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/programming.html C http://devcentral.iftech.com/learning/tutorials/c-cpp/c/ Introduction to C Programming http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html C Optimization Tutorial http://www.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/c-on-unix/c-on-unix.html Compiling C and C++ Programs on UNIX Systems - 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gcc/g++ http://www.cerfnet.com/~mpcline/c++-faq-lite/ C++ FAQ Lite http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/C++/index.html C++ Programming Language Tutorials http://www.flipcode.com/tutorials/tut_cppdepend.shtml Reducing Dependencies in C++ http://www.flipcode.com/tutorials/tut_exceptions.shtml C++ Exception Handling http://www.flipcode.com/tutorials/tut_strings01.shtml Part 1: Unicode http://www.flipcode.com/tutorials/tut_strings02.shtml Part 2: A Complete String Class http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~fp/Tcl/tcl-c++/ Making C++ Loadable Modules Work http://www.informit.com/product/0672310708/ Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days (2nd Ed.) http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/portable-cpp.html C++ Portability Guide http://www.ses.com/~clarke/cpptips.html C++ Tips http://www.swcp.com/~dodrill/cppdoc/cpplist.htm C++ Language Tutorial http://www.syclus.com/cscene/ CScene: An Online Magazine for C and C++ Programming http://www.trumphurst.com/cpplibs1.html C++ Libraries FAQ CGI http://www.acm.vt.edu/~scott/cgi.html CGI Programming Tutorial http://www.cgi101.com/class/ CGI Programming 101 http://www.informit.com/product/1562763970/ CGI Manual of Style http://www.informit.com/product/1575210878/ CGI Developer's Guide http://www.informit.com/product/1575211513/ CGI Programming Unleashed http://www.informit.com/product/1575211963/ Sams Teach Yourself CGI Programming with Perl 5 in a Week (2nd Ed.) http://www.speakeasy.org/~cgires/cgi-tips.html CGI/Perl Tips, Tricks and Hints http://www.speakeasy.org/~cgires/cgi-tour.html A Tour of HTML Forms and CGI Scripts http://www.speakeasy.org/~cgires/readdat/aindex.html Reading CGI Data: URL-Encoding and the CGI Protocol http://www.webthing.com/tutorials/cgifaq.html CGI Programming FAQ CORBA http://www.cerfnet.com/~mpcline/corba-faq/ CORBA FAQ http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/kksiazek/tuto.html A Brief Tutorial on CORBA http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/CORBA-docs/index.html CORBA 2.0 Specification http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/tutorials-corba.html CORBA Tutorials http://www.informit.com/product/0672312085/ Sams Teach Yourself CORBA in 14 Days http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue48/2336.html Linux Network Programming, Part 3 - CORBA: The Software Bus http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue61/3201.html CORBA Program Development, Part 1 http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue62/3213.html CORBA Program Development, Part 2 http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue63/3214.html CORBA Program Development, Part 3 CSS http://richinstyle.com/guides/css2.html CSS2 Tutorial CVS http://cellworks.washington.edu/pub/docs/cvs/tutorial/cvs_tutorial_toc.html CVS Tutorial http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~dbutler/tutorials/winter96/cvs/ Concurrent Version System Tutorial DHTML http://www.stars.com/Authoring/DHTML/Intro/ Introduction to Dynamic HTML Emacs http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/UnixAndC/Editors/Emacs.html Emacs: The Software Engineer's ``Swiss Army Knife'' http://www.geek-girl.com/emacs/faq/index.html Emacs FAQ http://www.gnu.org/manual/elisp-manual-20-2.5/elisp.html GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual http://www.gnu.org/manual/emacs-lisp-intro/emacs-lisp-intro.html Programming in Emacs Lisp http://www.gprep.pvt.k12.md.us/technology/emacs_lesson/emacs_toc.html GNU Emacs Manual http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/tcl-course/emacs-tutorial.html A Tutorial Introduction to Emacs http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue26/marsden.html EMACSulation: Internet-ready! http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue27/marsden.html EMACSulation: Ediff - 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Smalltalk http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~wolfgang/cosc205/smalltalk1.html Basic Aspects of Squeak and the Smalltalk-80 Programming Language http://www2.ncsu.edu/eos/info/ece480_info/project/spring96/proj63/www/index… IBM Smalltalk Tutorial TCP/IP http://ipprimer.2ndlevel.net/ Daryl's TCP/IP Primer http://oac3.hsc.uth.tmc.edu/staff/snewton/tcp-tutorial/ Introduction to the Internet Protocols http://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng/html/INET-IPng-Paper.html IP Next Generation Overview http://winter.cs.umn.edu/~zhzhang/Papers/stallings.html IPv6: The New Internet Protocol http://www.3com.com/nsc/501302s.html Understanding IP Addressing http://www.3com.com/nsc/501303.html Introduction to IP Multicast Routing http://www.austin.ibm.com/resource/aix_resource/Pubs/redbooks/htmlbooks/gg2… TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview http://www.catalyst.com/reports.html An Introduction to TCP/IP Programming http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/internet/tcp-ip/domains-… TCP/IP FAQ - Part 1 http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/internet/tcp-ip/domains-… TCP/IP FAQ - Part 2 http://www.inform.umd.edu/CompRes/NetInfo/Internet/TCPIPIntro/ TCP/IP: Introduction to the Internet Protocols http://www.informit.com/product/0672308851/ Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 14 Days (2nd Ed.) http://www.interworks.org/conference/IWorks96/sessions/TCPtutorial/ TCP/IP for Idiots Tutorial http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue47/stacey.html T/TCP: TCP for Transactions http://www.sangoma.com/fguide.htm TCP/IP and IPX Routing Tutorial Tcl/Tk http://hegel.ittc.ukans.edu/topics/tcltk/index.html Introduction to Programming with Tcl http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov/TclCourse/ Programming Using Tcl/Tk http://www.beedub.com/book/ Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk http://www.dci.clrc.ac.uk/Publications/Cookbook/index.html Tcl/Tk Cookbook http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/tcl-course/ Introduction to the Tcl/Tk Programming Language http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/September1999/article110.html The Tcl Syntax http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~raines/tkref.html Tcl/Tk Quick Reference Guide http://www.tclfaq.wservice.com/tcl-faq/ comp.lang.tcl FAQ http://www.tcltk.com/TclTkMan/TclTkManPages.html Tcl/Tk Man Pages http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue49/2172.html Rapid Prototyping with Tcl/Tk http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue55/3114.html Tcl/Tk: The Swiss Army Knife of Web Applications TeX http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue70/3387.html LaTeX for Secretaries UNIX http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cacm.html The UNIX Time-Sharing System http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html The Evolution of the UNIX Time-Sharing System http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/retro.html The UNIX Time-Sharing System - A Retrospective http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/UnixAndC/Unix/UnixBareMn.html UNIX - The Bare Minimum http://lithos.gat.com/docview/unix.html Using the UNIX Operating System http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/TUHS/Mirror/Hauben/unix.html History of UNIX http://nacphy.physics.orst.edu/otherUNIX/edinburgh/unixhelp1.2/Pages/TOP_.h… UNIXhelp for Users http://ra.stsci.edu/documents/UUG/UnixGuide.book_65.html STScI UNIX Users Guide http://wks.uts.ohio-state.edu/sysadm_course/sysadm.html UNIX System Administration http://www.unix-systems.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html UNIX Past http://www.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/c-on-unix/c-on-unix.html Compiling C and C++ Programs on UNIX Systems - gcc/g++ http://www.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/handling-files/handling-files.… Manipulating Files and Directories in UNIX http://www.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/signals/signals-programming.ht… Introduction to UNIX Signals Programming http://www.best.com/~thvv/unix.html UNIX and Multics http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/ UNIX FAQ http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi UNIX Man Pages Online http://www.informit.com/product/0672304023/ UNIX Unleashed http://www.informit.com/product/0672309521/ UNIX Unleashed: System Administrator's Edition http://www.informit.com/product/0672312050/ UNIX Unleashed: Internet Edition http://www.isu.edu/departments/comcom/unix/workshop/unixindex.html A Basic UNIX Tutorial http://www.iu.hioslo.no/~mark/unix/unix.html The UNIX Programming Environment http://www.mhpcc.edu/training/vitecbids/UnixIntro/UnixIntro.html Introduction to UNIX http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Training/InterUnix/ Intermediate UNIX Training http://www.physics.orst.edu/tutorial/unix/ Coping with UNIX: An Interactive Survival Kit http://www.sao.nrc.c/aimsb/rcsg/documents/ Introduction to UNIX Course Notes http://www.sao.nrc.c/aimsb/rcsg/documents/advanced/advanced.html Advanced Introduction to UNIX http://www.sao.nrc.c/aimsb/rcsg/documents/basic/basic.html Basic Introduction to UNIX http://www.sao.nrc.c/aimsb/rcsg/documents/bourne/bourne.html Programming the Shell http://www.sao.nrc.c/aimsb/rcsg/documents/internet/internet.html Networking/Internet with UNIX http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/usail/firsttime/argh.html Learning UNIX VRML http://deslab.mit.edu/DesignLab/courses/13.016/visualization/second/ Introduction to VRML http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/vrml/vrmlman/vrmlman.html VRML Primer and Tutorial http://www.dform.com/inquiry/tutorials/vrmlaudio/ VRML Audio Tutorial http://www.mwc.edu/~pclark/ The Easy VRML Tutorial http://www.vapourtech.com/vrmlguide/index.html VRML 97 Tutorial http://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/siggraph96vrml/ Introduction to VRML 2.0 http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue57/3085.html An Introduction to VRML http://zansiii.millersv.edu/work2/vrmltutorial.dir/ VRML 2.0 Tutorial X11 http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/documents/ciac2316.html Securing X Windows http://formast.lut.ac.uk/ASlab/info/usage/X-doc/XwindowGuide/doc.html X Window Guide http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/UnixAndC/Unix/XWindows.html Using X11 Windows http://nacphy.physics.orst.edu/coping-with-unix/node116.html Looking Through X Windows http://reality.sgi.com/widgetFAQ/ X Widget FAQ http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib-tutorial/ Xlib Programming: A Short Tutorial http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/graphics/X/X11R5/Concise.html X Windows Version 11.5: A Concise Description http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/csd/doc/seminar.html Beginning with X http://www.faqs.org/faqs/Xt-FAQ/preamble.html comp.windows.x.intrinsics (Xt) FAQ http://www.faqs.org/faqs/x-faq/part1/preamble.html comp.windows.x FAQ http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/March1998/article11.html Configuring X http://www.rahul.net/kenton/40errs.html The 40 Most Common X Programming Errors (And How to Avoid Repeating Them) http://www.rahul.net/kenton/perf.html X Window System Application Performance Tuning http://www.rru.com/~meo/pubsntalks/xrj/xdm.html Taming the X Display Manager (xdm) http://www.strath.ac.uk/CC/Courses/oldXC/xc.html Introduction to X Windows http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/index.html XFree86 FAQ http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue47/2035.html Programming with XView http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue53/2259.html Developing Imaging Applications with XIE http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue56/3083.html X Window System Administration XDR http://anguilla.u.arizona.edu/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixprggd/progcomc/xd… eXternal Data Representation Overview for Programming http://www-aix.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixprgg… eXternal Data Representation - AIX Programming Concepts Guide http://www.sw.ru/~bob/docs/FreeBSD/psd/24.xdr.htm External Data Representation: Sun Technical Notes http://www.unix.digital.com/faqs/publications/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/HTML/A… External Data Representation: Technical Notes XML http://java.sun.com/xml/docs/tutorial/index.html Working with XML: The Java API for XML Parsing (JAXP) Tutorial http://metalab.unc.edu/xql/xql-tutorial.html XQL Tutorial http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/education/xmlintro/ Tutorial Introduction to XML http://www.brics.dk/~amoeller/XML/ The XML Revolution: Technologies for the Future Web http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/July2000/article156.shtml An Introduction to Perl's XML::XSLT Module http://www.projectcool.com/developer/xmlz/xmlref/index.html XML Reference and Glossary http://www.ucc.ie/xml/ XML FAQ http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210 Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 http://www.xulplanet.com/tutorials/xultu/ XUL Tutorial auto http://www.airs.com/ian/configure/ The GNU Configure and Build System http://www.amath.washington.edu/~lf/tutorials/autoconf/ Developing Software with GNU (w/ Learning Autoconf and Automake) http://www.amath.washington.edu/~lf/tutorials/autoconf/autoconf/autoconf_to… Autoconf: Creating Automatic Configuration Scripts http://www.amath.washington.edu/~lf/tutorials/autoconf/automake/automake_to… GNU Automake http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~langston/am-f77_toc.html Adding Fortran 77 Support to Automake debugging http://www.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/debugging/debugging-with-gdb.h… Debugging C and C++ Programs using gdb http://www.gnu.org/manual/gdb-4.17/gdb.html Debugging with GDB (GNU Manual) elm http://www.dorsai.org/help/unix/elm/ref_gd.html The Elm Reference Guide http://www.dorsai.org/help/unix/elm/usr_gd.html The Elm User's Guide http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/elm.html Email with the Elm Mailer http://www.stanford.edu/group/dcg/leland-docs/elmfaq.html ELM FAQ http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/cc/pub/tutorials/elm_tutor/elm_tutor.html Elm Tutor lex http://cs.wwc.edu/~aabyan/464/Book/ Compiler Construction Using Flex and Bison http://members.tripod.com/~ashimg/Parser.html How to Write a Simple Parser with Lex and Yacc http://members.xoom.com/thomasn/y_man.htm A Guide to Lex and Yacc http://nscp.upenn.edu/aix4.3html/aixprggd/genprogc/create_input_lang_lex_ya… Creating an Input Language with the lex and yacc Commands http://www.cs.arizona.edu/classes/cs553/notes.html A Brisk Tutorial on Lex and Yacc http://www.cs.latrobe.edu.au/~agapow/Teaching/Cs251/lex_yacc.html What Do Lex and Yacc Do? http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~bhsteel/250/examplesHandout/handouthtml The Roles of Lex and YACC http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Campus/3754/litl0.htm A Little Manual for Lex and Yacc http://www.gnu.org/manual/bison-1.25/bison.html GNU Bison Manual http://www.gnu.org/manual/flex-2.5.4/flex.html GNU Flex Manual http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue39/sevenich.html Compiler Construction Tools - Part I: JFlex and CUP http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue41/sevenich.html Compiler Construction Tools - Part II: Installing JFlex and CUP - Specific Instructions http://www.luv.asn.au/overheads/lex_yacc/ What is Lex? What is Yacc? http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue51/2227.html lex and yacc: Tools Worth Knowing make http://albrecht.ecn.purdue.edu/~rfisher/Tutorials/Make/ Introductory Tutorial on Make http://jerboa.student.harvard.edu/libsq-1998/ref/make.html A Brief Introduction to Make http://linux.com/development/newsitem.phtml?sid=64&aid=7822 Getting Started with Make - Part 1: The Basics http://linux.com/development/newsitem.phtml?sid=64&aid=7894 Getting Started with Make - Part 2 http://physics.ucsc.edu/tutor/make.html Tutorial on Make http://www.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/writing-makefiles/writing-make… Automating Program Compilation - Writing Makefiles http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~allen/f98/tutorials/make/ A Brief Make Tutorial http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/Make/ Make - A Tutorial http://www.gnu.org/manual/automake-1.3/automake.html GNU Automake Manual http://www.gnu.org/manual/make-3.77/make.html GNU Make Manual http://www.jrb3.com/bdh/Be/BeDev_Tips/make-tut/ Quick and Dirty Make Tutorial http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue48/2171.html Building Projects with Imake networks http://www.adsl.com/vdsl_tutorial.html VDSL Tutorial http://www.cable-modems.org/tutorial/ Cable Modem Tutorial http://www.nlanr.net/NA/tutorial.html Tutorial: Insight Into Current Internet Traffic Workloads http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/net/wan-mon/tutorial.html Tutorial on Internet Monitoring http://www.uswest.com/products/dat/aframe/tutorial/ Frame Relay Tutorial sed http://dns.easysw.com/~mike/serial/ Serial Programming for POSIX Compliant Operating Systems http://seders.icheme.org/scripts/ sed Script Archive http://seders.icheme.org/tutorials/sedfaq.html sed FAQ #2 http://seders.icheme.org/tutorials/sedtut_1.txt Do It With sed http://seders.icheme.org/tutorials/sedtut_4.txt sed - A Non-Interactive Text Editor http://seders.icheme.org/tutorials/sedtut_5.txt Introduction to sed http://seders.icheme.org/tutorials/sedtut_9.txt Handy One-Liners for sed http://www.dreamwvr.com/sed-info/sed-faq.html sed FAQ #1 http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/sed/ sed - The Stream Editor http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~leitner/sed/tutorial.html sed Tutorial shells http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?UnixShellPatterns UNIX Shell Patterns http://cres20.anu.edu.au/manuals/korn.html Korn Shell Reference http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~steveh/tns/shell/shell.html UNIX Shell Programming Bourne and Korn Shells http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/UnixAndC/Unix/CShellI.html A Brief Introduction To C Shell Variables http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/UnixAndC/Unix/CShellII.html UNIX Shell Scripts http://osiris.sund.ac.uk/ahu/comm57/script.html Writing UNIX Scripts http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/bash.html Part 1: Fundamental Programming in Bash http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/bash2.html Part 2: More Bash Programming Fundamentals http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/bash3.html?dwzone=linux Part 3: Exploring the Ebuild System http://www.cc.vt.edu/cc/us/docs/unix/shells.html Working the the Shell Environment http://www.cs.mun.c/a~michael/pdksh/pdksh-man.html pdksh (Public Domain Korn) http://www.csd.uu.se/~matkin/documents/shell/ Shell Script Programming http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/csh.html C Shell Tutorial http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/bash/ BASH FAQ http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/shell-differences/ Shell Differences FAQ http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/zsh/ Z-Shell FAQ http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash-2.02/bashref.html GNU Bash Reference Manual http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue25/dearman.html Bourne/Bash: Shell Programming Introduction http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue53/eyler.html Functions and Aliases in Bash http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue54/okopnik.html Introduction to Shell Scripting http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue55/okopnik.html The Deep, Dark Secrets of Bash http://www.neosoft.com/neosoft/man/bash.1.html bash (GNU) http://www.neosoft.com/neosoft/man/csh.1.html csh (C) http://www.neosoft.com/neosoft/man/ksh.1.html ksh (Korn) http://www.neosoft.com/neosoft/man/sh.1.html sh (Bourne) http://www.neosoft.com/neosoft/man/tcsh.1.html tcsh http://www.neosoft.com/neosoft/man/zsh.1.html zsh (Z) http://www.networkcomputing.com/unixworld/tutorial/018/018shell.html Getting the Most from Your Shell http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/shellix.html Shell Command Language Index http://www.torget.se/users/d/Devlin/shell/index.html UNIX Bourne Shell Programming http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue35/2066.html Features of the TCSH Shell http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue61/2460.html Improve Bash Shell Scripts Using Dialog http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue64/3215.html Extending the Bash Prompt http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue71/3645.html Shell Functions and Path Variables, Part 1 http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue72/3768.html Shell Functions and Path Variables, Part 2 http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue73/3935.html Shell Functions and Path Variables, Part 3 sockets http://homepages.stayfree.co.uk/zed/net/ Introduction to Network Functions in C http://winter.cs.umn.edu/~bentlem/aunix/BSD-UNIX:SysCalls_and_IPChtml Berkeley UNIX System Calls and Interprocess Communication http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/net/ Using Internet Sockets http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~chafey/prog/sockets/sinfo1.html Beginner's Guide to Sockets http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~chafey/prog/sockets/sinfo2.html BSD Sockets: A Quick And Dirty Primer http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-1996/jw-12-sockets.html Sockets Programming in Java http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue47/bueno.html Introduction to Socket Programming http://www.uwo.c/aits/doc/courses/notes/socket/index.html An Introduction to Socket Programming http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue35/2057.html Perl and Sockets http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue46/2333.html Linux Network Programming, Part 1 - BSD Sockets threads http://dis.cs.umass.edu/~wagner/threads_html/tutorial.html Getting Started with POSIX Threads http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/linuxthreads/faq.html LinuxThreads FAQ http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/l-posix3/?dwzone=linux Part 3: Improve Efficiency with Condition Variables http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/posix1.html Part 1: A Simple and Nimble Tool for Memory Sharing http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/posix2/index.html?dwzone=li… Part 2: The Little Things Called Mutexes http://www.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/multi-thread/multi-thread.html Multi-Threaded Programming with POSIX Threads http://www.best.com/~bos/threads-faq/ Threads FAQ http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~schmitt/331F96/tshida1/thread.html Multithreaded Programming http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue48/dellomodarme.html LinuxThreads Programming http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/proven/pthreads.html Pthreads - Overview and Manual http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue34/1363.html What is Multi-Threading? http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue36/2121.html Thread-Specific Data and Signal Handling in Multi-Threaded Applications http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue61/3138.html Introduction to Multi-Threaded Programming http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue70/3184.html POSIX Thread Libraries vi http://ecn.www.ecn.purdue.edu/ECN/Documents/VI/ vi Tutorial http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/Elvis/Doc/elvis.html elvis Manual http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/UnixAndC/Editors/ViIntro.html An Extremely Quick and Simple Introduction to the Vi Text Editor http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/Vim/Doc.html vim Reference Manual http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html Mastering the vi Editor http://www.faqs.org/faqs/editor-faq/vi/part1/ vi FAQ - Part 1 http://www.faqs.org/faqs/editor-faq/vi/part2/ vi FAQ - Part 2 http://www.faqs.org/faqs/editor-faq/vim/ vim Editor FAQ http://www.jaws.umn.edu/docs/vi/ vi Quick Reference and Tutorial http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue29/kahn.html Revisiting VIM http://www.networkcomputing.com/unixworld/tutorial/009/009.html The vi/ex Editor Free E-Books Good Site for Software Engineers http://software-engineer.org/ http://software-engineer.org/ No. Title/Author URL 1 10 minute guide to lotus notes mail 4.5 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 2 10 minute guide to Microsoft exchange 5.0 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 3 10 minute guide to outlook 97 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 4 10 minute guide to schedule+ for windows 95 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 5 ActiveX programming unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 6 ActiveX programming unleashed http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 7 Advanced perl programming http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 8 Advanced PL/SQL programming with packages http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 9 Adventure in Prolog/AMZI http://www.oopweb.com/ www.oopweb.com 10 Algorithms CMSC251/Mount, David http://www.oopweb.com/ www.oopweb.com 11 Alison Balter's Mastering Access 95 development, premier ed. http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 12 Apache : The definitive guide, 3 rd .ed. http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 13 Beej's guide to network programming/Hall, Brain http://www.oopweb.com/ www.oopweb.com 14 Beyond Linux from Scratch/BLFS Development Team http://book.onairweb.net/computer/os/linux/Administration/Beyond_Linux_From… http://book.onairweb.net/computer/os/linux/Administration/Beyond_Linux_From… 15 Borland C++ builder unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 16 Building an intranet with windows NT 4 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 17 Building an Intranet with Windows NT 4 http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 18 Building expert systems in prolog/AMZI http://www.oopweb.com/ www.oopweb.com 19 C programming language http://book.onairweb.net/computer/pl/C/The_C_Programming_Language_by_K&R/ http://book.onairweb.net/computer/pl/C/The_C_Programming_Language_by_K&R/ 20 C Programming/Holmes, Steven http://www.oopweb.com/ www.oopweb.com 21 C++ Annotations http://www.oopweb.com/ www.oopweb.com 22 CGI developer's guide http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 23 CGI manual of style http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 24 CGI manual of style online http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 25 CGI programming http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 26 CGI programming unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 27 CGI programming with Perl, 2 nd .ed. http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 28 Charlie Calvert's Borland C++ builder unleashed http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 29 Client/server computing, 2 nd .ed. http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 30 Client-server computing, 2 nd .ed. http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 31 Common LISP, the language/Steele, Guy http://www.oopweb.com/ www.oopweb.com 32 Compilers and compiler generators : an introduction with C++/Terry, P.D. http://www.oopweb.com/ www.oopweb.com 33 Complete idiot's guide to creating HTML webpage http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 34 Computer graphics CMSC 427/Mount, David http://www.oopweb.com/ www.oopweb.com 35 Configuring and troubleshooting the windows NT/95 registry http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 36 Creating commercial websites http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 37 Creating web applets with Java http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 38 Crystal Reports.NET http://www.crystalreportsbook.com/Chapters.asp http://www.crystalreportsbook.com/Chapters.asp 39 Curious about the internet http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 40 Curious about the internet? http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 41 Dan appleman's developing activeX components with Visual Basic 5 http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 42 Dan appleman's developing activex components with Visual Basic 5.0 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 43 Data structures CMSC420/Mount, David http://www.oopweb.com/ www.oopweb.com 44 Database developer's guide with visual basic 4, 2 nd .ed. http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 45 Database developer's guide with Visual Basic 4, 2 nd .ed. http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 46 Database developer's guide with Visual C++ 4, 2 nd .ed. http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 47 Database developer's guide with Visual C++ 4, 2 nd .ed. http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 48 Design and analysis of computer algorithms CMSC451/Mount, David http://www.oopweb.com/ www.oopweb.com 49 Designing implementing Microsoft internet information server http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 50 Designing implementing Microsoft proxy server http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 51 Developing for netscape one http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 52 Developing intranet applications with java http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 53 Developing personal oracle 7 for windows 95 applications http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 54 Developing personal Oracle 7 for windows 95 applications http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 55 Developing professional java applets http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 56 Developing professional java applets http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 57 DNS and BIND http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 58 Doing objects with VB.NET and C# http://vbwire.com/nl?6814 http://vbwire.com/nl?6814 59 EAI/BPM Evaluation Series: IBM WebSphere MQ Workflow v3.3.2 & EAI Suite by > Middleware Technology Evaluation Series, Phong Tran & Jeffrey Gosper http://www.cmis.csiro.au/mte/reports/BPM_IBMwebsphereMQ332.htm http://www.cmis.csiro.au/mte/reports/BPM_IBMwebsphereMQ332.htm 60 Effective AWK programming http://book.onairweb.net/computer/os/shell/Effective_AWK_Programming/ http://book.onairweb.net/computer/os/shell/Effective_AWK_Programming/ 61 Enterprise javabeans, 2 nd .ed. http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 62 Exploring java http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 63 GNOME/Sheets, John http://www.oopweb.com/ www.oopweb.com 64 Graph theory/Prof. Even http://www.oopweb.com/ www.oopweb.com 65 Hacking java http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 66 How intranets work http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 67 How intranets work http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib / 68 How to program visual basic 5.0 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 69 How to use HTML 3.2 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 70 Html : The definitive guide http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 71 HTML 3.2 & CGI unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 72 HTML 3.2 and CGI professional reference edition unleashed http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 73 HTML by example http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 74 Internet firewall http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 75 Intranets unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 76 Introduction to object-oriented programming using C++/Muller, Peter http://www.oopweb.com/ www.oopweb.com 77 Introduction to programming using Java/Eck, David 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http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 85 Java developer's guide http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 86 Java developer's guide http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 87 Java developer's reference http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 88 Java developer's reference http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 89 Java Distributed computing http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 90 Java enterprise http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 91 Java enterprise in a nutshell http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 92 Java foundation classes in a nutshell http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 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2 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 109 Laura lemay's activex and VBScript http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 110 Laura lemay's graphics and web page design http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 111 Laura lemay's guide to sizzling websites design http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 112 Laura lemay's javascript 1.1 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 113 Laura lemay's web workshop activex and VBScript http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 114 Laura lemay's web workshop Graphics web page design http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 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http://www.oopweb.com/ www.oopweb.com 124 Linux network administrator's guide/Dawson, Terry http://www.oopweb.com/ www.oopweb.com 125 Linux system administrator's survival guide http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 126 MAPI, SAPI and TAPI developer's guide http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 127 Mastering access 95 development http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 128 Microsoft access 97 quick reference http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 129 Microsoft access 97 quick reference http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 130 Microsoft backoffice 2 unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 131 Microsoft excel 97 quick reference http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 132 Microsoft excel 97 quick reference http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 133 Microsoft exchange server survival guide http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 134 Microsoft frontpage unleashed http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 135 Microsoft word 97 quick reference http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 136 Microsoft word 97 quick reference http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 137 Microsoft works 4.5 6-In-1 http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 138 More than 100 full-text e-books http://www.allfreetech.com/EBookCategory.asp http://www.allfreetech.com/EBookCategory.asp 139 Ms backoffice administrator's survival guide http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 140 Ms backoffice unleashed http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 141 Mysql and msql http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 142 Netscape plug-ins developer's kit http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 143 Official gamelan java directory http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 144 Oracle built-in packages http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 145 Oracle PL/SQL built-in pocket reference http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 146 Oracle PL/SQL language pocket reference http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 147 Oracle PL/SQL programming guide to Oracle 8 features http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web / 148 Oracle PL/SQL programming, 2 nd .ed. http://www.hk8.org/old_web http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web / 149 Oracle unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 150 Oracle unleashed http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 151 Oracle web applications PL/SQL developer's introduction http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 152 Patterns of enterprise application architecture/Fowler, Martin http://www.awprofessional.com/catalog/product.asp?product_id=%7b574D77DF-6E… http://www.awprofessional.com/catalog/product.asp?product_id={574D77DF-6ED2… } 153 PC week : the intranet advantage http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 154 Perl 5 by example http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib / 155 Perl 5 quick reference http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 156 Perl 5 unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 157 Perl 5.0 CGI web pages http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 158 Perl cookbook http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 159 Perl for system administration http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 160 Perl in a nutshell http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 161 Perl quick reference http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 162 Peter norton's complete guide to windows NT 4 workstations http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 163 Presenting activex http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 164 Presenting activex http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 165 Presenting javabeans http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 166 Presenting javabeans http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 167 Programming perl http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 168 Programming perl, 3 rd .ed. http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 169 Programming the Perl DBI http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 170 Red hat linux unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 171 Running a perfect intranet http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 172 Running Linux, 3 rd .ed. http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 173 Sams teach yourself java 1.1 in 24 hours/ http://book.onairweb.net/computer/sams/Sams_Teach_Yourself_Java_11_Programm… 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Career in Library and Information Science
by Thakkar, Neha 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

Hi All, I am very happy to join this grp of librarians / information professionals since I plan to become one in the near future. Currently I work with AC Nielsen ORG-MARG (market research firm) in client servicing. I have done my MBA (Marketing) from Symbiosis, Pune. Books and information have always been my passions since school and hence I have finally decided to pay heed to my heart and take up something seriously in this field and pursue a career in this. I require help from you all in terms of selecting an appropriate course to give me a headstart in this field. I have been thinking of pursuing Masters in Information and Library Science. Of what I understand, SNDT offers a very good masters course. I am however not aware of any other good university from where I could do this course. Could I get some suggestions in this regard? I plan to pursue a career either a a school / academic librarian (who deals with different media to educate children such as CD-ROMs, books, story-telling etc and assists school teachers on new materials/media which he / she can use effectively with children) I have limited experience in working (teaching, story telling etc) with under-priviledged children from 5 years as I used to volunteer with a Mumbai-based NGO called Vivekanand Youth Forum during college. OR a Business Reference librarian / Business Information Specialist (in Corporate) since I do similar work right now (only right now I deal with ACN proprietary tools and data for marketing data) I would like to explore other proprietory datasources and secondary sources. I am also considering a short stint with British Council Library in Mumbai (if any one works there or has ever worked there, could you please tell me what is the procedure to apply and whether they would be ok recruiting someone without a Masters in Library Science) Would be very very glad for any inputs from your side for me at the begining of my career in this field. Regards, Neha

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Finding the places online using Google Maps
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

Hello, Google, on Tuesday, released its Beta version of Google Maps service, wherein one can find the locality by navigating the online map, and get directions to reach there. http://maps.google.com Give the location name and you find the map. You can double click and / or drag the Google map using mouse pointer to get a better visibility. And using + & - signs you can zoom in or out the map. Currently, they have made only USA map available and are planning to extend it to Canada, then Europe. **************************************** Sreeharsha BG Knowledge Management Group i2 Technologies software Pvt. Ltd. 5th Floor, Diamond District, Airport Road, Bangalore-8 PH: 25047319 Visit us @ www.i2.com **************************************** Don't borrow sorrow from 'morrow

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New Posting to Disruptive Scholarship Blog
by Gerry Mckiernan 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Colleagues/ I am pleased to announce the SecondPosting to my _Disruptive Scholarship_ blog [ http://disruptivescholarship.blogspot.com ] Invisible Hand(s) There are forces, factors, and influences _other than_ pending classical peer review that assure the quality of scholarship _before_ formal publication. * "Invisible Hand(s): Quality Assurance in the Age of Author Self-Archiving," Jekyll.comm: International Journal on Science Communication no. 6 (September 2003). Available at [ http://jekyll.comm.sissa.it/commenti/foc06_01_eng.pdf ] (accessed 8 February 2005) * PowerPoint version self-archived at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/Hands.ppt ] (accessed 8 February 2005). The content of these two format is identical. I believe however that Many Will Find The PPT More Entertaining [:-) As Always, I Welcome Any and All Comments, Cosmic Insights, Observations, Critiques, Criticisms, Etc. BTW: ThanksToAll who commented on PostingOne!!! Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Second Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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Skype/Intenet Phone Services for Digital/Virtual/Chat Reference Service?
by Gerry Mckiernan 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Colleagues/ Yesterday, NPR has a great overview piece about Skype and other Internet calling services" "Morning Edition, February 7, 2005 · A growing number of people are making cheap long-distance calls using the Internet and special telephone adapters. Others are talking for free, relying solely on their computers and services like Skype [ http://www.skype.com ] Skype has become hugely popular with colleges kids and their parents, who like to stay in touch without running up a bill. Renee Montagne used Skype to talk with New York Times Technology writer David Pogue about the options of making contact without involving phone companies." [ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4488307 ] I am curious to know if any library is using Skype for local, regional, and/or consortial Digital/Virtual/Chat service(s). TIA! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Long-Distant Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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Google's step in Digital Library
by Ravi Nandhan 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Hi, Likn the following and read on.... http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v433/n7025/… -- Wit Luv & Care Urs Ravi

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where there is a idea there is a way.......
by ishwar bandi 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Dear Sir, It gives me immence pleaser to wish you for the initiation of the Children Library in villege. As you asked the suggetions you can more concentare on pictographic sources. I think CDs of morel stories and oter scientific events can deffinetly help the child, who has not exposed to the technology and also these materials will attract them and develops the curiocity in understanding new things. The role of the Librarian is very important and must be effective. As you said indoor games is again a best way to attract the child. I wish you best of luck and you can expect help from me and others... with regards Ishwar Bandi Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Sir, It gives me immence pleaser to wish you for the initiation of the Children Library in villege. As you asked the suggetions you can more concentare on pictographic sources. I think CDs of morel stories and oter scientific events can deffinetly help the child, who has not exposed to the technology and also these materials will attract them and develops the curiocity in understanding new things. The role of the Librarian is very important and must be effective. As you said indoor games is again a best way to attract the child. I wish you best of luck and you can expect help from me and others... with regards Ishwar Bandi http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Article already being sent to WHO, Geneva by NICD Library
by Sangeeta Kaul, Network Manager, DELNET 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Dear All This is with reference to the posting marked at no. 4 in today's topics. I enquired from the NICD Library, New Delhi about the article and was informed by Mrs Sashi Talwar, the Librarian that they have already dispatched this article to WHO Geneva since they also received this request from them directly. I just thought to share with all of you in the group about it. I have also written to Mr Tomas Allen informing him about it. Thanking you Yours faithfully Sangeeta Kaul Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader) _______________________________________________________________________________ Sangeeta Kaul Network Manager DELNET India International Centre 40 Lodi Estate New Delhi-110003 INDIA Tel.: 91-11-24610802, 24619328 FAX : 91-11-24619325 Web : www.delnet.nic.in ________________________________________________________________________________ On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in wrote: > Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to > lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > You can reach the person managing the list at > lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. (Fwd) [iatlis] Re: [nmlis] Reconition of Library > professionals (Prafulla Chandra) > 2. Rural Library Collection (Appasaheb Naikal) > 3. Seminar on ZING Standard for IR (ravi inder) > 4. ILL request - National Institute of Communicable Diseases > Report (Tomas Allen) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:07:29 +0530 > From: "Prafulla Chandra" <prafulla(a)nisc.co.in> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] (Fwd) [iatlis] Re: [nmlis] Reconition of Library > professionals > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: <42075A01.22140.60023F@localhost> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: not available > Type: text/enriched > Size: 14208 bytes > Desc: not available > Url : http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20050207/15ce70e6… > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:53:15 +0530 > From: "Appasaheb Naikal" <naikal(a)mahindrabt.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Rural Library Collection > To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Message-ID: <045e01c50cf6$a7064020$8312030a(a)mahindrabt.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > Dear All, > > We are in the process of setting up a School Library at kudiganur (A remote village in Gulbarga Dist Karnataka State) > This village is having school only till 7th std. But children's attendance at school is very poor due to poor infrastructure and other things like shortage of staff etc. > > One of my friend who was born and brought up in that village is now working in China as Mechanical Engineer and has approached me with the idea of starting a library. Using this library, we think we can provide a better Platform for rural kids to gain good knowledge and build confidence to come up in life. > Apart from books we are planning to add some indoor games to attract children to school. > So may I request you all to suggest what kind of books we can add and some good games as well along with supplier's name and address. > Since He is paying everything from his pocket the initial budget will be Rs. 10,000 to 15, 000/- which may go up later. > > In second phase we are even thinking of donating some second hand PC with CD drive and give some good educational CD's to them > > Looking forward for your valuable suggestions > > Thanks in advance > > > > With regards > Appasaheb Naikal > MBT Mumbai Library > Tel: 022- 56792000 Ext. 7438 > Fax: 022-28478959 > Cell: 91-9820524320 > Visit us at: www.mahindrabt.com > > > > ********************************************************* > Disclaimer: > > The contents of this E-mail (including the contents of the enclosure(s) or attachment(s) if any) are privileged and confidential material of MBT and should not be disclosed to, used by or copied in any manner by anyone other than the intended addressee(s). 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Invitation for Medical Librarians
by Sukhdev Singh 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Dear Friends, I am moderating an Unoffical Forum called IndMED Forum. The forum discusses a wide rage of topics including:- Information Retrieval for Bio-Medical Sciences; Internet and Digital Bio-Medical Information Resources; Personal Productivity Tools for Bio-Medical Researcher/Practitioner; Training platform for Continuing Education; IndMED [Bibliographic Database] and medIND [Fulltext Indian Journals]. The target audience includes: Medical Practisioners; Bio-Medical Researchers and Medical Librarians. It a low volume forum, having 55 members at present all over the world and sends about two or three emails per day. I invite Medical Librarians as well as Medical Information Professionals to join this group to serve their users. But please note, professional issues may not be included in the groups as bulk of the members in the forum are Medical Practisioners / Researchers. Please follow the following URL for Joining the Group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/indmedtraining/ Incase of any problem, please let me. Sukhdev Singh, http://indmed.nic.in & http://medind.nic.in

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Digital library and e-Publishing
by vasanth raj 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Dear Sir/Madam If we look at closely the two terms e-Publishing and Digital Library it seems different one and another. But Some people feels that both are similar.Is there any difference b/w e-Publishing and digital library or both are similar ? Regards Vasantha Raju N Vasantha Raju N Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Sir/Madam If we look at closely the two terms e-Publishing and Digital Library it seems different one and another. But Some people feels that both are similar.Is there any difference b/w e-Publishing and digital library or both are similar ? Regards Vasantha Raju N Vasantha Raju N http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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http://www.books24x7.com
by Jayadev P Hiremath 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Rural Library Collection
by Benny 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Dear Mr. Naikal Very happy to know about your rural library project. I have a CD ROM from CUP with Cambridge Learner's Dictionary, grammar and vocabulary questions etc. If you are interested please send me your postal address. Best wishes Benny M.D. TISB www.tisb.org -----Original Message----- From: Thapar, Amit To: Appasaheb Naikal Cc: LIS-FORUM Sent: 2/8/05 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Rural Library Collection Dear sir, I have my personal 3 CD's of Encyclopedia Britannica Learning Pack. I may send it to you in duplicate copies if u wish. you may send ur postal address thru mail. i feel very glad if these CDs will be used in ur library by children and it will also give me satisfaction that i have shared something personal with those whom i don't know and i am able to help them in some way. Best of Luck. AMIT THAPAR NIPER Library, Mohali ----- Original Message ----- From: "Appasaheb Naikal" <naikal(a)mahindrabt.com> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 2:53 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Rural Library Collection Dear All, We are in the process of setting up a School Library at kudiganur (A remote village in Gulbarga Dist Karnataka State) This village is having school only till 7th std. But children's attendance at school is very poor due to poor infrastructure and other things like shortage of staff etc. One of my friend who was born and brought up in that village is now working in China as Mechanical Engineer and has approached me with the idea of starting a library. Using this library, we think we can provide a better Platform for rural kids to gain good knowledge and build confidence to come up in life. Apart from books we are planning to add some indoor games to attract children to school. So may I request you all to suggest what kind of books we can add and some good games as well along with supplier's name and address. Since He is paying everything from his pocket the initial budget will be Rs. 10,000 to 15, 000/- which may go up later. In second phase we are even thinking of donating some second hand PC with CD drive and give some good educational CD's to them Looking forward for your valuable suggestions Thanks in advance With regards Appasaheb Naikal MBT Mumbai Library Tel: 022- 56792000 Ext. 7438 Fax: 022-28478959 Cell: 91-9820524320 Visit us at: www.mahindrabt.com ********************************************************* Disclaimer: The contents of this E-mail (including the contents of the enclosure(s) or attachment(s) if any) are privileged and confidential material of MBT and should not be disclosed to, used by or copied in any manner by anyone other than the intended addressee(s). In case you are not the desired addressee, you should delete this message and/or re-direct it to the sender. The views expressed in this E-mail message (including the enclosure(s) or attachment(s) if any) are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of MBT. This e-mail message including attachment/(s), if any, is believed to be free of any virus. However, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and MBT is not responsible for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use ******************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- ---- > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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TeN Digital Library
by Mailing List Manager 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

From: edward(a)ten.us.com Transversal e Networks offers TeN Digital Library solutions with following features. - Design based on the sound principles of library science - Customizable Taxonomy structure to create categories and sub-categories of resources - Metadata to help in indexing, search and retrieval of resources - Personalized views, with unique log-in ID and password - Distributed Content Management - Resources contribution by library users - Routing of resources for refereeing process - Notification and alerts For More information pl feel free to contact the undersigned: Edward Chelladurai Regional Business Manager- Education and Library Transversal e Networks No 46, C.C.Villa off Koramangala-Airport Road Tel :91-80-57687421 Mobile:9341064174 web:www.transversalnet.com e-mail: edward(a)ten.us.com edward(a)transversalnet.com Regards Edward Chelladurai

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Institutional Investor.
by chandrika.narasimhaiah＠wipro.com 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Hi, We are looking for a article from "Institutional Investor Magazine" January 2005. CEO INTERVIEW <http://www.institutionalinvestor.com/default.asp?page=1&ISS=12398&SID=4 63879&PUB=62> Richard Fairbank of Capital One Financial Corp.: Card sharp This American entrepreneur and CEO pioneered the sale of credit cards through intense data mining and customized marketing. Now he's going after foreign markets. Any assistance would be much appreciated. Regards Chandrika Wipro Technologies Confidentiality Notice The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender at Wipro or Mailadmin(a)wipro.com immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. Message Hi, � We are looking for�a�article from "Institutional Investor Magazine" January 2005.� � � CEO INTERVIEW http://www.institutionalinvestor.com/default.asp?page=1&ISS=12398&SID=46387… Richard Fairbank of Capital One Financial Corp.: Card sharp This American entrepreneur and CEO pioneered the sale of credit cards through intense data mining and customized marketing. Now he's going after foreign markets. � Any assistance would be much appreciated. � Regards Chandrika Wipro Technologies � � � Confidentiality Notice The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender at Wipro or Mailadmin(a)wipro.com immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments.

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Regarding Rural Library Collection
by Gowri Ravindranth 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

This is regarding Appasaheb Naikal's request for suggestions for collection development in a school library. I wish to share my personal experience with him: I have set up a small children's library in a village near Pondicherry spending money from my pocket to purchase books. It is actually a story reading session - we sit under a tree and I read stories to them in regional language and english and then explain it to them line by line. Sometimes we sing together. Children will tell a story, joke, riddles which they have learnt. We discuss current affairs since last class. Do craft work on alternate sessions. At the end of the session issue journal/books to them. Initially I collected the weekly supplements meant for children from the regional language newspapers and circulated them among the children. It helped me to identify the serious readers and their capacity to handle the reading material given to them. Recently I bought books in the Chennai Book Fair (i.e. the Fairs might help you to buy regional language books with a discount). Children's Book Trust, New Delhi might have a few regional language publications. You may check with your Government's Directorate of Public Libraries for possible help. I heard Infosys's Sudha Murthy is interested in establishing School Libraries in rural Karnataka. She might help you. I keep play material like Chess, Box of crayons and papers, Carrom, Tic Toe etc., They wish to have skipping ropes, volleyball or football - I tactfully declined this request since it will not keep them focused on 'reading' People might be willing to pay subscription for children's magazines should you let them know about your efforts. Hope the information will be of use. Regards L. R. Gowri, Reference Librarian, AIRC, Chennai 600 006 The real power of teamwork. Experience it in real time. http://g.msn.com/8HMAENIN/2749??PS=47575 Experience MS Office System.

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Rural Library
by Achar 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Ref. to Appasaheb Naikal, I am very happy to hear the news about your friends interest in rural library. I hav done my research in rural library development last year and got M.Phil degree also. I have some ideas to set up rural libraries and which inturn leads to social and economic change. You can start with News papers, childerens magazines, cultural programmes for childrens, debates, quizes to attract kids, book festival in the form of exibitions, etc. With this we can attract children for coming to school. You can explain this to your friend. You can put one TV to show programmes related to news, and entertainments. With best wishes. Achar Librarian Ohio-Manipal School of Business Bangalore website:www.ohiomanipal.edu Ref. to Appasaheb Naikal, I am very happy to hear the news about your friends interest in rural library. I hav done my research in rural library development last year and got M.Phil degree also. I have some ideas to set up rural libraries and which inturn leads to social and economic change. You can start with News papers, childerens magazines, cultural programmes for childrens, debates, quizes to attract kids, book festival in the form of exibitions, etc. With this we can attract children for coming to school. You can explain this to your friend. You can put one TV to show programmes related to news, and entertainments. With best wishes. Achar Librarian Ohio-Manipal School of Business Bangalore website:www.ohiomanipal.edu

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Rural Library Collection
by Appasaheb Naikal 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Dear All, We are in the process of setting up a School Library at kudiganur (A remote village in Gulbarga Dist Karnataka State) This village is having school only till 7th std. But children's attendance at school is very poor due to poor infrastructure and other things like shortage of staff etc. One of my friend who was born and brought up in that village is now working in China as Mechanical Engineer and has approached me with the idea of starting a library. Using this library, we think we can provide a better Platform for rural kids to gain good knowledge and build confidence to come up in life. Apart from books we are planning to add some indoor games to attract children to school. So may I request you all to suggest what kind of books we can add and some good games as well along with supplier's name and address. Since He is paying everything from his pocket the initial budget will be Rs. 10,000 to 15, 000/- which may go up later. In second phase we are even thinking of donating some second hand PC with CD drive and give some good educational CD's to them Looking forward for your valuable suggestions Thanks in advance With regards Appasaheb Naikal MBT Mumbai Library Tel: 022- 56792000 Ext. 7438 Fax: 022-28478959 Cell: 91-9820524320 Visit us at: www.mahindrabt.com ********************************************************* Disclaimer: The contents of this E-mail (including the contents of the enclosure(s) or attachment(s) if any) are privileged and confidential material of MBT and should not be disclosed to, used by or copied in any manner by anyone other than the intended addressee(s). In case you are not the desired addressee, you should delete this message and/or re-direct it to the sender. The views expressed in this E-mail message (including the enclosure(s) or attachment(s) if any) are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of MBT. This e-mail message including attachment/(s), if any, is believed to be free of any virus. However, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and MBT is not responsible for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use ******************************************************** Dear All, We are in the process of setting up a School Library at kudiganur (A remote village in Gulbarga Dist Karnataka State) This village is having school only till 7th std. But children's attendance at school is very poor due to poor infrastructure and other things like shortage of staff etc. One of my friend who was born and brought up in that village is now working in China as Mechanical Engineer and has approached me with the idea of starting a library. Using this library, we think we can provide a better Platform for rural kids to gain good knowledge and build confidence to come up in life. Apart from books we are planning to add some indoor games to attract children to school. So may I request you all to suggest what kind of books we can add and some good games as well along with supplier's name and address. Since He is paying everything from his pocket the initial budget will be Rs. 10,000 to 15, 000/- which may go up later. In second phase we are even thinking of donating some second hand PC with CD drive and give some good educational CD's to them Looking forward for your valuable suggestions Thanks in advance With regards Appasaheb Naikal MBT Mumbai Library Tel: 022- 56792000 Ext. 7438 Fax: 022-28478959 Cell: 91-9820524320 Visit us at: http://www.mahindrabt.com www.mahindrabt.com ********************************************************* Disclaimer: The contents of this E-mail (including the contents of the enclosure(s) or attachment(s) if any) are privileged and confidential material of MBT and should not be disclosed to, used by or copied in any manner by anyone other than the intended addressee(s). In case you are not the desired addressee, you should delete this message and/or re-direct it to the sender. The views expressed in this E-mail message (including the enclosure(s) or attachment(s) if any) are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of MBT. This e-mail message including attachment/(s), if any, is believed to be free of any virus. However, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and MBT is not responsible for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use ********************************************************

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The Library of Everything
by Farooque Shaheen 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

?The Library of Everything?, an article published in Business Standard, 8 Feb 2005. It talks about issues relating to Digital Libraries,Publishing Industries, mp3 file sharing, services offered by Amazon and Google etc. You can access the same article on http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?hpFlag=Y&chklogin=N&a… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Bangalore-04 Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 “The Library of Everything”, an article published in Business Standard, 8 Feb 2005. It talks about issues relating to Digital Libraries,Publishing Industries, mp3 file sharing, services offered by Amazon and Google etc. You can access the same article on http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?hpFlag=Y&chklogin=N&a… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Bangalore-04 Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Major CDS?ISIS databases
by Francis Jayakanth 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

Dear Member: I'm urgently in need of information or pointers related to major CDS/ISIS databases being maintained across the world. The databases could be on any subject domain. Its all the more better, if such databases are accessible on the web. Thanks very much for your attention. With regads, - Francis

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Approaches to make CDS/ISIS Databases OAI-Compliant
by Francis Jayakanth 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

Dear Members: For those of us using CDS/ISIS, we know how good this package is in handling textual data. This package is in use for decades now and the number of databases being maintained world-wide, using this package must be substantially high! Could somebody please let me know the major initiatives of CDS/ISIS world-wide? In the present day context of interoperability of DLs through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), http://www.openarchives.org/ , wouldn't it be wonderful, if CDS/ISIS databases could be made OAI-compliant, too? We have done just that and are happy to share the information with fellow members. The National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), IISc., Bangalore, and the Digital Library Research Group (DLRG) at the Old Dominion University (ODU), Norfolk, Virginia, USA, have jointly developed and successfully demonstrated, two approaches to make CDS/ISIS databases OAI compliant: static and dynamic. This has been reported on the UNESCO site as well and can be reached at: http://www.unesco.org/isis The papers resulting from our work are also available from the above link. For the present, only our first paper, entitled "Approaches to make CDS/ISIS Databases Interoperable With other Digital Libraries" is available from the site. Our second paper, entitled "Interoperability of Legacy Bibliographic Database Systems over Internet - A Case Study with CDS/ISIS" will be available from the above URL shortly. We believe that our work has a tremendous potential and CDS/ISIS community can happily continue to use this excellent package without having to worry about migrating to other software packages in order to be OAI-compliant. You may like to have a look at the test bed federation of a few sample CDS/ISIS databases that we have been able to build. Its available at: http://hutch.cs.odu.edu:9875/arc upon reaching this site, you may enter terms like, digital library, ocean, or information and the system will return a list of databases holding records matching the query string. Please note that Arc is an OAI service provider for DL federation. Its an open source software developed by the DLRG, ODU. For more details about Arc, visit http://dlib.cs.odu.edu With regards, - Francis Visiting Fulbright Fellow Old Dominion Univ Norfolk, VA

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Webology: Call for Papers
by AliReza Noruzi 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

Dear All, [Apologies for cross-posting.] Webology, an international online journal, is a scholarly journal in English devoted to the various fields of Library and Information Science and the World Wide Web. It serves as a forum for discussion and experimentation. Webology publishes scholarly articles, essays and reviews, and encourages the participation of academics and practitioners alike. Volume 2, Number 1 will focus on Web Search, including but not limited to, the following topics: - Web Searching - Web Search Behaviour - Web Search Trends - Web Information Retrieval - Search Engines We welcome and encourage all contributions on these or other aspects of the World Wide Web before the deadline on March 20, 2005. Saeid Asadi in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland will act as special editor of this issue. For further information, please visit our web site, contact our special editor Saeid Asadi: asadi(a)itee.uq.edu.au or other Editors. Regards, AliReza Noruzi Department of Information Science University of Paul Cezanne, France noruzi(a)crrm.u-3mrs.fr www.webology.ir --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. Dear All, [Apologies for cross-posting.] Web o logy , an international online journal, is a scholarly journal in English devoted to the various fields of Library and Information Science and the World Wide Web. It serves as a forum for discussion and experimentation. Webology publishes scholarly articles, essays and reviews, and encourages the participation of academics and practitioners alike. � Volume 2 , Number 1 will focus on Web Search , including but not limited to, the following topics: - Web Searching - Web Search Behaviour - Web Search Trends - Web Information Retrieval - Search Engines � We welcome and encourage all contributions on these or other aspects of the World Wide Web before the deadline on March 20 , 2005 . � http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~asadi/ Saeid Asadi in the http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/ School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland will act as special editor of this issue. For further information, please visit our http://www.webology.ir/callforpapers.html web site , contact our special editor Saeid Asadi : asadi(a)itee.uq.edu.au �� or other http://www.webology.ir/editors.html Editors . � Regards, AliReza Noruzi Department of Information Science University of Paul Cezanne , France mailto:noruzi@crrm.u-3mrs.fr noruzi @ crrm.u-3mrs.fr � http://www.webology.ir/ www.webology.ir Do you Yahoo!? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/mobile/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/mai… Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone.

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delivery of books act-amendment
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

hello friends every one of know that the publishers have to send one copy of ech published document act. to National library and other national level libraries (delhi, chennai, Mumbai). at present only 30% of published documents re sent under the act. manly it is due to lack punitive action and loopholes in the act. recently the publishers proposed the govt to reduce the no to TWO. the govt put up the proposal to consultative committee. it is beig examined. we know that the publishers give 40 to 60% discount on the books. may i seek opinion of the professionals in regard to the implementation of the act and suggested proposal by the publishers? further u may also suggestt the punishment, what is the fate of the similar acts in other countries. it will be highly appreciative if evey can participate and send their feelings, opinions and suggested actions. 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). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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ILL request - National Institute of Communicable Diseases Report
by Tomas Allen 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

My dear colleagues, We are seeking the following document and wonder if you would be able to supply a copy to our library. The document being sought is : Verghese T., Kumari S, Ichhpunjni RL Meningococcal Meningitis. Delhi : National Institute of Communicable Diseases 13-20 1990. While an electronic copy is desirable, paper would also be much appreciated. Any assistance would be much appreciated. We also share in your grief that has hit India due to the Tsunami. It has touched many people here as to how life can so quickly change. My best regards and support, Tomas Allen Librarian Library and Information Networks for Knowledge (LNK) World Health Organization Avenue Appia 20 CH-1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland _________________________________________________________________ Die MSN Suche - Kategorien helfen Ihnen dabei, präzise Ergebnisse zu erhalten. http://search.msn.ch/

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Seminar on ZING Standard for IR
by ravi inder 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore - 560059 DRTC Seminar on ZING STANDARD FOR INFORMATION RETRIVAL by Amit Jha Abstract Z39.50 is a standard that defines a protocol to support search and retrieval of information across networks. It is much used in libraries, working 'behind the scenes' to enable complex searches and multiple database searches carried out by users in a user-friendly way, where the complexity of search and retrieval is hidden from them. This seminar offers an overview of the Z39.50 specification, what it is, how and why it has been developed, how it works and where future developments might lead. The seminar also discusses ZING (Z39.50 International: Next Generation) and the experimental work occurring within the Z39.50 community, to determine what might become the future generation of the Z39.50 information retrieval protocol. In addition, the seminar explains terminology associated with ZING standards. Venue : DRTC Classroom Date : 10.02.2005 (Thursday) Time : 03:45 pm All are cordially invited. Seminar Coordinator DRTC, ISI INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore - 560059 DRTC Seminar on ZING STANDARD FOR INFORMATION RETRIVAL by Amit Jha Abstract Z39.50 is a standard that defines a protocol to support search and retrieval of information across networks. It is much used in libraries, working 'behind the scenes' to enable complex searches and multiple database searches carried out by users in a user-friendly way, where the complexity of search and retrieval is hidden from them. This seminar offers an overview of the Z39.50 specification, what it is, how and why it has been developed, how it works and where future developments might lead. The seminar also discusses ZING (Z39.50 International: Next Generation) and the experimental work occurring within the Z39.50 community, to determine what might become the future generation of the Z39.50 information retrieval protocol. In addition, the seminar explains terminology associated with ZING standards. Venue : DRTC Classroom Date : 10.02.2005 (Thursday) Time : 03:45 pm All are cordially invited. Seminar Coordinator DRTC, ISI http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo…

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(Fwd) [iatlis] Re: [nmlis] Reconition of Library professionals
by Prafulla Chandra 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>------- Forwarded message follows ------- </color>To: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>Syed Md Shahid <<smshahid2003(a)yahoo.co.in>,</color> <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com,</color> <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com</color> Priority: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>normal</color> From: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>"Prafulla Chandra" <<prafulla(a)nisc.co.in></color> Date sent: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:22:56 +0530</color> <bold>Subject: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>[iatlis] Re: [nmlis] Reconition of Library professionals</bold></color> Send reply to: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>prafulla(a)nisc.co.in</color> <underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>[ Double-click this line for list subscription options ]</underline></color> Dear All, This has reference to Mr Shahid's communication reproduced at the end of my communication: What Mr Shahid pointed out is true and reflects the sorry state of affairs regarding the status of library staff. My feeling is that this is an issue which the new body of ILA should take up immediately. There is an urgent need to have a cell in ILA which could take care of the issues relating to promotional avenues, recruitment rules, status, etc. Also, I have a feeling that there is a discrimination between the status accorded to the university librarian on the one hand and the Deputy Librarians and Asst Librarians on the other. I understand that while the University Librarians are accorded full academic status, with provision for extension of service even after the age of retirement, the same is not the case in respect of DLs and ALs. Gross injustrice has been done to DLs and ALs in recent years. For instance, because of the recent withdrawal of full academic status to ALs & DLs, even their age of retirement has been reduced. I can cite at least one case of an honest Deputy Librarian who suffered most because of this development. Mr NV Jagga Rao (Dy Librarian of the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad) was retired so suddenly that he is not receiving even a single rupee as pension. He joined the LIS profession in 1957 having served the Andhra University, CLRI, Chennai, BHEL and the American Studies Research Centre. Is this the treatment we mete out to honest LIS professionals who serve the profession with dedication and utmost integrity? My strong feeling is that ILA needs to play a key role in protecting the interests of LIS professionals at all levels. It should act as a clearinghouse for info on all Govt of India/Institutional orders relating to recruitment, promotion policies, etc. My experience at CIEFL reveals that recruitment rules/promotional policies are framed in secrecy, changes made in secrecy and the staff are not informed properly. Only the university librarian is kept informed and he does not disclose it to all his subordinate nor did he take the staff into confidence or consult them. We came to know of the changes only when they were implemented and that too with disastrous consequences. When we wrote to the Registrar for copies of the promotional policy document, we could not get. When we said that we would approach the National Human Rights Commisssion for redressal, he gave permission to do so. This is the state of affairs to get a copy of a document which does not fall under the category of Official Secrets. Finally, we preferred an appeal to the Honourable High Court of Andhra Pradesh and the case is pending. Also, all ALs and DLs should be once again declared as full- fledged academic staff and accorded parity with University Librarians in terms of retirement age, extension of service after retirement, etc. Another serious anomoly is promotional avenues for Professional Assistants working in libraries. The present hierarchy is as follows: Junior Library Asst Semi-Professional Asst Professional Asst Assistant Librarian Deputy Librarian University Librarian Of all the above categories, only Professional Assts cannot be promoted to the level of Asst Librarian. As a result, they are struck at the level of Professional Asst and there are hundreds of PAs stagnating without any promotional avenues. This issue also needs the attention of ILA. We would appreciate if all the office bearers of ILA join these discussion lists and respond to the points raised regularly. Thank you Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor To: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com, nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param> From: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>Syed Md Shahid <<smshahid2003(a)yahoo.co.in><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param> Date sent: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>Sat, 5 Feb 2005 12:25:00 +0000 (GMT)<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param> <bold>Subject: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>[nmlis] Reconition of Library professionals</bold><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param> Dear All, Dear Sir, My feeling is that all library staff from the cadre <underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>[ Double-click this line for list subscription options ]</underline><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param> Dear Sir, Though in your state They are called as lect in lib sc. the univ staff have been designated as prof,associ prof and asst prof.but this is not the ame in other places. as long as status is concerned What I have seen in Jammu that though asst. Librarian h aving the same qualification as a lecturer there is a very wide gap between them. At the time of selection both the post are equivalent but service condition and status wie this is totally different as at the time of status the authorities called Asst. Libra rians a non teaching employee. It is not that we (library professional) lack talent and skills it is the mindset of authorities and teaching community thet they think themselves more superior and efficient. How long one can perform if he/he can not get proper training, promotions and recognition etc. Most of the top positions of Library field are occopied by the people who have good political links and they do not think or discus about the plight of their junior staff. It i not that uer not give us proper reponse or not happy with our ervice etc. but they can not make much for our status and service conditions. as I was working prior this job at NCTE, New Delhi as LDPOand before that Asst. Librarian at British Council Library, Patna. Users were so satisfied by our kill and services that at the time in 2001 when british Council decided to close the Patna branchon pretext of downsizingthe uer made strong protet agint the closer. They even formed user forum and thet is stil l fighting a case in court against Britih Council's closure of the library. So ultimately, it i due to some of us and our ILA like bodies that we don't have still library legislation in big states like UP and Bihar etc. and proper recognition for the profession. Thanks Regards, Syed Mohd Shahid Asst. Librarian "Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <<naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> wrote: hi it is a big issue. in our state, the college librarians have been designated as lect in lib sc. the univ staff have been designated as prof, associ prof and asst prof. earlier ugc had given equivalent status, now the age of retirement is differrent. it is unfortunate. the lirarians responsibility had been enormously increased in the context of distance education and they should be in better recognition than teachersand otherr staff. it is also unfortunate, in spite of all the new developments, librarians are unable to prove that they are essential and nothing can happen with out them. they are also swimming in the same stream like teachers,other employeees leaving their responsibilities to the air. ofcourse, every one is not like. i am only stating majority. when the government does ot have the responsibility or accountability except the authority and power, how we can expect support from the govt to rectify, the education system. prvate orgns are doing better, as no out side involvment and therefore, they play with employees. however, please understand that i am not interested to criticise are comment on any one. what r the reasons? it may be parents non-involvement, politicians involvments, caste, religion and regional feelings--what not many? who has to bell the cat? i think the profession as a whole has to show to the world like in other countries- that librarians are essential services, and nothing less than that. it is possile with our services and recognition. i know that the facilities are not given but expectations are high. we have to do our best with in the given environmet. take associations, did they do anything except conf and seminars. except politics in its activities did we do develop any software, or standrds or any thing like assons in other countries. we have talent and skill and knowledge, but nothing happens and if some one want to do something, others put spokes? i leave further to others for comments. please do not comment personally or any one. it is a general issue. STILL I FEEL THE LIBRARY PROFESSIONALS ARE GREAT AD THE NEED COMPLETE RECOGNITION, AND IT CAN NOT E DENIED BECAUSE OF FEW PROFESSIONAL FRIENDS. sorry if i have hurted any one. LAXMAN RAO --- sushil sharma wrote: <color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>> > Respected sir, > > I am working with Pvt Engg college in Punjab sir my > question is library staff is non teaching and teaching > staff which is the diffrence with the teaching or non > teaching every thing is diffrent by management this is > not write sir my thinking sir > > Sushil Sharma > From Patiala > > --- nmlis Moderator > wrote: > > > > > > HI > > HAPPY NEW MILLENNIUM. > > > > Welcome my dear fellow Library/ Information > > professionals from the GLOBAL VILLAGE to this > > egroup. We have named this group as NMLIS = NEW > > MILLENIUM LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE GROUP. This > > group is initiated from Hyderabad (India) with an > > objective to link the professionals (both teachers & > > practioners) having a progresive thoughts for the > > next millennium. I will appreciate all the > > professional friends to inform other professional > > friends / colleagues to join this egroup. They can > > join at the address www.egroups.com/register and > > then look for -- nmlis --. Further, I will > > appreciate if you could fill in the table in > > database for thedetails of the members. I thought > > probably we may need another week time to start > > functioning as the members are just sending the > > acceptance. THANKS LAXMAN RAO > > > > > > This is a Mailing List of INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS > > to exchange views, ideas and opinions relating to > > the Library and Information fields. This is > > basically to develop inter-relationship and help > > this professional group in getting updated. This > > group is also interested in sharing the knowledge > > and experience among the information professionals > > between developing and developed countries. The > > interaction may also lead to initiation of > > collaborative projects. > > > > I will be happy and appreciate you, if you could > > join in this group. Please participate actively for > > the benefit of profession. > > > > Prof.N.Laxman Rao, > > Dept. of Library & Information Science, > > Osmania University, HYDERABAD -500 007 (India). > > Phone +91-40-7171565, 7176647 (res) > > +91-40-7018951 ext 290 (off) > > email naglaxman(a)yahoo.com > > > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________ ____________________ > Yahoo! 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Manipur State Central Library in Shambles
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

Dear Friends: Please read the news below. Here's another disturbing scenario of Public Library System. If lack of books due to funds crunch is a concern, I think a drive seeking donation Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 of books might also help. Vyasamoorthy, P =============================================== State Central library yearns for visitor Source: The Sangai Express http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=7.14.060205.feb05 Imphal, February 05: Unlike the past when staffs of the Manipur State Central Library had little time for relaxation due to constant thronging of readers and necessity to keep tap of book hirers and returners the library employees are these days literally yawning their time away as number of book readers have dwindled substantially. At the present juncture number of visitors, book hirers and returners that could reach upto ten in a single day can be described as the busiest day for the employees as many days pass without a single visitor showing up at the library. According to a frequent visitor the chief factor for dissuading readers are books at the library shelves that are comparatively irrelevant and outdated to the present day requirement for commoners while students keep distance from the library due to lack of reference books that could commiserate with the prescribed syllabus. When a group of higher secondary students were urged to justify visit to the library, they conveyed of coming to study only with books brought from their own homes or exchange views with friends. Neither are national newspapers, weeklies and monthly magazines nor foreign magazines and books capable of providing competition examination feedbacks available at the library, highlighted the students. Subject-wise magazines could also not be found at the library, they said while lamenting that even the reading rooms are congested with only one medium size table dotted by 15 chairs in the reference section. Moreover, desks and benches provided at the children's section of the library are also gathering dust and spider web all over clearly indicating that children were seldom present in the room unlike in the past when parents used to encourage children cultivate habit of book reading. Even worse is the general section where the book shelves are laying empty and the few available there hardly of any use these days. Established in 1958 the Central library is the first of its kind in the state. Painting a pitiable picture an employee observed that rather that expand knowledge of readers the library itself is on the verge of extinction unless prompt action is taken to woo back book enthusiasts. When queried the Chief Librarian attributed the deplorable condition to financial problem that had besieged the State Govt that ultimately curbed maintenance, purchase of new books and other necessary arrangements. Due to financial crunch for the past many years development activities not only fell behind but even office management had become an arduous tasks, said the Chief Librarian On the brighter side, the official expressed confidence of reviving the library as Government attention had been earned resulting in release of funds to purchase new books, said the official. Among the new purchases include encyclopedia, books for reference, guide, law and children, added the officials who informed that due to necessity of following official procedure the public will have to wait for some more time in gaining access to the fresh arrivals. The Chief Librarian also endorsing complaints of the reading rooms being too congested said the problem could be addressed once the new library building construction has been completed. ==============================

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Amazon's search engine
by Jayadev P Hiremath 06 Feb '05

06 Feb '05

Dear All, For your information. Regards. Jayadev P Hiremath A9.com The web is easy to use, but using it well is not easy. We are inventing new ways to take search one step farther and make it more effective. We provide a unique set of powerful features to find information, organize it, and remember it—all in one place. A9.com is a powerful search engine, using web search and image search results enhanced by Google, Search Inside the Book® results from Amazon.com, reference results from GuruNet, movies results from IMDb, and more. A9.com remembers your information so you don't have to. You can keep your own notes about any web page and search them; it is a new way to store and organize your bookmarks; it even recommends new sites and favorite old sites specifically for you to visit. With the A9 Toolbar installed your web browsing history will be saved so you can search through your whole history (and clear items you don't want kept). A9.com uses your history to recommend new sites, to alert you to new search results, and to let you know the last time you visited a page.

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Presentation Software/OtherMedia Wiki(s)?
by Gerry Mckiernan 05 Feb '05

05 Feb '05

Colleagues/ It has occurred to me that collaborative composition/editing/publishing need not be limited to standard text (e.g., Wikipedia) (w/wo photos/images/graphics) and that perhaps a the wiki framework could/might/does offer the possibly of collaborative preparation (PPT) presentations. By any chance has any created a (PPT) PresentationWiki? [or considered OtherMediaWikis (e.g., images, videos, audio)?] Regards /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Presentable Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu "To Limit Possibilities Limits Possibilities" [:-)

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CAREER OPPORTUNITY AT INFORMATICS FOR A SENIOR TECHNICAL POSITIO N
by Mouna Raju 05 Feb '05

05 Feb '05

INFORMATICS www.informindia.co.in is looking for suitable candidates for the post of "PROJECTS COORDINATOR - SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT" Role & Responsibilities * Project Coordination * Vendor Management * Infrastructure and Technology Management Knowledge & Experience * Project Management & Costing Skills * Programming Skills * Knowledge of Information Products & Content Development * Post Graduate or BE in Computers & Information Science * Preferred Age Group 28-35 Remuneration Package: Rs.25,000/- to Rs.40,000/- per month Selected candidate should be willing to give a minimum 2-3 years of commitment guarantee to work in the Company. INTERESTED CANDIDATES MAY SEND THEIR RESUME TO : Mr S Sathya Prakash Divisioanl Manager - Operations & & HRD Informatics (India) Ltd P B No. 360, Malleswaram Bangalore 560 003, India Phone: 91 80 23365940, Fax: 91 80 23344598; mailto:ssp@informindia.co.in ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________

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need help
by Bibhuti Bhusan Sahoo 05 Feb '05

05 Feb '05

Dear professional Colleagues, I am doing research in the area of Scientometrics. I need the CD version of COMPENDEX and INSPEC database for the year 2003 for the analysis. Any library who is subscribing CD version of COMPENDEX and INSPEC database for the year 2003 please let me know. I will be grateful if any one can help me in this regard. best wishes Bibhuti Bhusan Sahoo, DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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(no subject)
by A M Kamble 04 Feb '05

04 Feb '05

Dear All, May i know the source that can be used as a base for charging fine amount for lost books which are out of print and not available in market. Are there some special rules for the teachers of the college. A. M. Kamble Librarian ANNASAHEB VARTAK COLLEGE OF ARTS, KEDARNATH MALHOTRA COLLEGE OF COMMERCE, E.S. ANDRADES COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, VASAI ROAD(W), DIST. THANE. Ph. 0250-2352981 Dear All, May i know the source that can be used as a base for charging fine amount for lost books which are out of print and not available in market. Are there some special rules for the teachers of the college. A. M. Kamble Librarian ANNASAHEB VARTAK COLLEGE OF ARTS, KEDARNATH MALHOTRA COLLEGE OF COMMERCE, E.S. ANDRADES COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, VASAI ROAD(W), DIST. THANE. Ph. 0250-2352981 http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo…

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