- LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

RE: [LIS-Forum] 25,000 titles (books) in Enginering field
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:12:09 +0530 From: Basudev Mohanty <basudev_mohanty(a)infosys.com> There is no reason at all to point out finger towards Vijayakumar's mail. What I think it is the decision of his Management only. Librarians should know the trick where is the present Business (as we are support/service department) & How to address it? I have seen in many cases that Librarians are not quite good enough to maintain Goodwill of their Management. I welcome Vijayakumar that he has taken the challenge and trying some innovative ways to full-fill his Management decision & if he can then he will be in goodwill of his Management. This is one of the major areas where Librarians should re-think as I have seen in the interview board for a library staff; Chief-Librarian(s) are ignored. On the other hands books can't be compared with vegetables. I do believe there is nothing like "Bad-Books". If there is a book published definitely there is some value addition to the students of concerned branch (may not be for the Researcher) in context to Vijayakumar's organization. In this context we should help-out Vijayakumar rather blaming him or his organization. I would like to suggest Vijayakumar that this is the best time to bargain for discount as he is going for block-procurement. Regards, Basudev Infosys, Bhubaneswar, Orissa -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of ++ Mukesh Anand ++ Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 1:53 PM To: Mailing List Manager; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] 25,000 titles (books) in Enginering field Although I am a bookseller myself, I fully agree with Mr. Subbiah Arunachalam about this practice of buying books collection for library just to meet the deadlines. Book buying and development of Library Collection is a systematic and long drawn out method which should be followed scrupulously to have only relevant publications on the shelves. Mukesh Anand mukesh(a)monitorinfo.com

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum] Number of engineering Ph.D graduates from India
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:54:58 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Dr Rajashekar might wish to contact Dr Rajesh Shukla of NCAER, New Delhi, who is collecting data on degrees awarded, funds invested, and distribution by gender (often data from different sources are conflicting!). Arun

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum] RE: The Sabo Bill and Open Access
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:32:45 +0530 From: sathya <sathya(a)informindia.co.in> Hi Arun Our Feb 2004 editorial in U&I focuses on Martin Saboo's bill and its implications - "OAI and the Copyright Battle" http://www.informindia.co.in/u&i/Feb2004/u&i.htm A QUESTION(that haunts me), to Forum members. What should be the OAI's approach to "Indexes and database Aggregations"? For example, "Chemical Abstracts" and "the Journal of American Chemical Society" are different species of knowledge-animal, of entirely different value. Please note, a new separate Act is enacted recently by US Government to copyright protect databases, while Saboo's bill seeks to take-out federally funded (substantially) research publications out of copyright. Sathya -------------------------------------------------- N V Sathyanarayana Informatics www.informindia.co.in --------------------------------------------------

1 0

UK committee backs open access
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:03:49 +0530 From: Madhuresh <madhuresh_s(a)aurigene.com> This news item, appeared in The Scientist (http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040720/04), may be of your interest. Madhuresh UK committee backs open access Politicians urge the government to insist on free archiving of scientific papers | <mailto:stephen@thescientisteurope.com> By Stephen Pincock LONDON-Britain should insist that government-funded researchers deposit a copy of their scientific papers in an electronic archive that can be accessed for free online, an influential committee of politicians said Tuesday (July 20). The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee <http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/science_and_technolog y_committee.cfm> has been investigating <http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040310/05/> science publishing most of this year. Its deliberations drew on an ongoing debate over "open access" to research, whose advocates say that the output from scientific research should be available free of charge. "We have recommended that the UK government fund the establishment of an interlinked network of institutional repositories on which all research articles originating in the UK should be deposited and can be read for free," the committee's report, released today, states. "In order to ensure that the repositories are well populated, we have recommended that research councils mandate their funded researchers to deposit copies of all their articles in this way." The committee suggests that the government should appoint a central body to oversee the implementation of repositories and help with their setting up. The UK government has to respond to the committee's report and is expected to do so within 2 months. A spokesperson for the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) told The Scientist that the council wants to encourage data to be available as readily as possible, while ensuring that the quality of scientific publications is maintained. "BBSRC is working with its sister research councils under the coordination of Research Councils UK <http://www.rcuk.ac.uk> (RCUK) to continue to develop our policy for addressing the needs of this rapidly evolving area," the spokesperson said. The members of the committee stop short giving their full support to open-access publishing, in which the author pays to publish instead of the reader paying a fee for access. The United Kingdom has too little experience of this model to know what effect it would have, the politicians said. Nevertheless, they recommended that the research councils make funds available so researchers can publish in such journals if they want. Jan Velterop, publisher of BioMedCentral, a for-profit publisher of open-access journals, called the report an important milestone in the open-access movement. (BioMedCentral is a partner with The Scientist.) "The overall report... is really a ringing endorsement of the whole concept of open access to scientific material," Velterop said. "It definitely is a major development. I even think that with hindsight, we may look back on this as a turning point." Peter Suber, an open-access <http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040427/05/> advocate at Earlham College in Richmond, Ind., said he was delighted that the report "doesn't merely endorse open access, but calls for a national commitment to open access-encompassing all UK higher education institutions, the British Library, the research councils, the government funding agencies, and government policymakers."=20 "The report recommends many steps, but properly focuses on the one step that will do the most good: asking government funding agencies to put an open-access condition on research grants and requiring grantees to deposit the full-text articles based on funded research in open-access repositories," Suber told The Scientist. Most scientific research is currently published in journals that charge for access, although many allow their authors to self-archive papers. In June, Elsevier <http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem.cws_home/companynews 05_00145> , one of the biggest science publishers, made this move.=20 But this week, Arie Jongejan, chief executive officer of Science and Technology for Elsevier, said some of the concerns expressed in the report about government policy were overstated. "We are doubtful that the government will necessarily agree to recommendations made by the report," he said. The committee also urged the United Kingdom to take an international role as a proponent for change in scientific publishing. In response, Graham Taylor, director of Academic Publishing at the Publishers Association, said the UK industry was already a center of excellence for scientific publishing. "We look forward to engaging with government and its agencies on the issues that the committee has raised in order to ensure an efficient and sustainable strategy for the future," he said. Just last week, the US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee also recommended that the National Institutes for Health (NIH) make research it funds freely available. In a report, the committee called on NIH to offer access to authors' final manuscripts and supplemental materials via <http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/> PubMed Central 6 months after publication. If the grantee used NIH funds to pay any publication charges, free access would be immediate. Taken together, these political recommendations suggest an international consensus is growing in support of open access, said Michael B. Eisen, cofounder of open-access publisher Public Library of Science.=20 "The report from the House of Commons committee and the bill passed by the US House committee are a call to action. Both have made clear the need for better access to publicly funded scientific works, and both have offered concrete mechanisms for achieving it," Eisen said in a statement. Links for this article Science and Technology Committee http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/science_and_t <http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/science_and_technolog y_committee.cfm> echnology_committee.cfm=20 C. Brahic, "UK hears open access evidence," The Scientist, March 10, 2004. http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040310/05/=20 Research Councils UK http://www.rcuk.ac.uk=20 A. McCook, "Open-access journals rank well," The Scientist, April 27, 2004. http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040427/05/=20 "Elsevier further liberalizes copyright for authors," Elsevier company news, June 3, 2004. http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem.cws_home/com <http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem.cws_home/companynews 05_00145> panynews05_00145=20 PubMed Central http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/=20 =20 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=20 http://nettalk2.tripod.com/=20

1 0

Directorate of Library Services, Govt. of WB
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:55:13 +0530 From: Madhuresh <madhuresh_s(a)aurigene.com> Dear All, NIC has recently hosted one website of Directorate of Library Services, Govt. of West Bengal, which can be accessed at http://banglargranthagar.nic.in/ The website provides the information about the Rare Books, Old Libraries, Staff Pattern, Library Distribution, Budget Allocation, Library Services and Activities, List of Public and aided libraries etc. in West Bengal. This could be a useful source. It would be wonderful if such websites can be hosted for all states in India. 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=20 http://nettalk2.tripod.com/=20

1 0

International CALIBER-2005: Call for Papers
by JK Vijayakumar 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Dear Collegues, Website for International CALIBER-2005 is available at http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2005/inflibnet.jsp CALIBER (Convention on Automation of Libraries in Education and Research Institutions) is an international convention, organized every year by INFLIBNET Centre in different parts of India in collaboration with different universities. This is the premier convention in India which provides a unique forum to the library and information professionals, teachers, IT professionals, consultants and users involved in automation and networking of libraries as well as information providers to come together and interact on the subjects of mutual interest. The twelfth CALIBER in the series, for the year 2005, has been themed as "Multilingual Computing and Information Management in Digital Networked Environment" and will be hosted by Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi during February 2-4, 2005. The official language of the convention will be English. Convention Highlights Diverse topics and formats The convention features invited talks and contributed papers that provide coverage of standards, best practices, and recent advances in the area of multilingual computing and digital information management. Emphasis on current needs Multilingual computing and localization of the library resources around the world and its management will be addressed in several sessions as well as in the invited talks from the professionals devoted to the concerned areas. Exhibitions showcase and commercial presentations A forum that highlights the latest advances in language services, tools and technology in addition to management of the resources. CALL FOR PAPERS International CALIBER 2005 invites contributed papers and case studies on various aspects of the conference theme Multilingual Computing and Information Management in Digital Networked Environment and listed below sub-themes of the conference: Multilingual Computing and Natural Language Processing Multilingual Computing- Encoding issues, Scripts, Fonts. Character recognition and other challenges, Natural Language Processing, Multilingual Indexing Tool, Multilingual and Multimedia Access Content Management and Information Management Content Structuring and XML- Web Cataloguing, Metadata, Dublin Core, EAD, TEI, XML, Crosswalk, Automatic Classification, Document Clustering, Methodologies, Techniques, Indexing, Retrieval, Content Management, Multimedia Digital Information Processing and Interoperability Archiving, Digitization, Preservation, Information Retrieval, Digital Library Architecture, System Scalability, Systems Design, Distributed solutions, WebServices and Interoperability - Agents related to digital Information, Crossdomain searching, Browsing, Metasearch, OpenURL Framework OAI-PMH. Digital Libraries and Services Digital Library Development Issues, Digital Library Services, Digital Library and E-learning, Digital Library Applications. Subject Gateways, Library Portals, Digital Library Consortia, Wide area and high-speed Networks. Papers typed in MS-Word can be sent as attachment to INFLIBNET directly through E-Mail or in a floppy by post. The length of the paper should normally be within 5000 words. Papers should contain full name and affiliations with e-mail of author(s), an abstract, author biography and references properly cited in the text of article. The paper should neither be published anywhere nor should have been kept under consideration for publication elsewhere and the author should agree to transfer the copyright to the conference organisers. A passport size photograph(s) of author(s) has to be submitted with the paper. Detailed Guidelines and Editorial policy for CALIBER 2005 are available in the conference website http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2005/callforpapers.jsp Important dates Receipt of Full Papers: November 30, 2004 Intimation to Authors: December 15, 2004 Last Date for Registration: January 7, 2005 Convention Dates: February 2-4, 2005 Contacts For Paper Submission Dr. T.A.V. Murthy Editor-in-Chief Director INFLIBNET Centre (An IUC of UGC) Gujarat University Campus PB 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad - 380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone: +91-79-26304695/8528/5971/0002 Fax: +91-79-26300990/26307816 E-Mail: tav(a)inflibnet.ac.in or caliber2005(a)inflibnet.ac.in Registration and Accomodation Dr. (Mrs.) M.D. Baby Organizing Secretary, CALIBER-2005 Librarian Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin University P.O. Kochi - 682 022, (Kerala) India Phone: +91-484-2577595 E-mail: caliber2005(a)cusat.ac.in or ul(a)cusat.ac.in Queries Can Also be Sent to Mr. S.M. Salgar Chairman, Caliber-2005, Scientist -G, INFLIBNET Centre (An IUC of UGC) Gujarat University Campus PB 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad - 380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone: +91-79-26304695/8528/5971/0002 Fax: +91-79-26300990/26307816 E-Mail: salgar(a)inflibnet.ac.in For more details on International CALIBER-2005 visit http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2005/inflibnet.jsp __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

1 0

House of Commons S&T Committee Press Release on OA
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:05:45 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is the press release from the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee on the subject "SCIENTIF PUBLICATIONS: FREE FOR ALL? Prof. Balaram might wish to comment editorially in Current Science. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE HOUSE OF COMMONS PRESS NOTICE Committee Office, House of Commons, No. 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA Tel. Nos. 020 7219 2793-2794 (Fax. No. - 0896) email: scitechcom(a)parliament.uk No. 63 - Session 2003-20 20 July 2004 PUBLICATION OF REPORT SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS: FREE FOR ALL? The Science and Technology Committee today publishes its Tenth Report of Session 2003-04, Scientific Publications: Free for all? (HC 399-I). The Committee concludes that the current model for scientific publishing is unsatisfactory. An increase in the volume of research output, rising prices and static library budgets mean that libraries are struggling to purchase subscriptions to all the scientific journals needed by their users. The Report recommends that all UK higher education institutions establish institutional repositories on which their published output can be stored and from which it can be read, free of charge, online. It also recommends that Research Councils and other Government funders mandate their funded researchers to deposit a copy of all of their articles in this way. The Committee concludes that the creation of institutional repositories is an important first step towards a more radical change in the way that scientific papers are published. Early indications suggest that the author-pays publishing model could be viable and the Committee remains unconvinced by many of the arguments mounted against it. Nonetheless, this Report concludes that further experimentation is necessary, particularly to establish the impact that a change of publishing models would have on learned societies and in respect of the "free rider" problem. In order to encourage such experimentation the Report recommends that the Research Councils each establish a fund to which their funded researchers can apply should they wish to pay to publish. The Report criticises the UK Government for failing to respond to issues surrounding scientific publications in a coherent manner. The Committee is not convinced that it would be ready to deal with any changes to the publishing model and calls for the formulation of a strategy as a matter of urgency. The preservation of digital material is an expensive process that poses a significant technical challenge. The Report recommends that the British Library receives sufficient funding to enable it to carry out this work. Government needs to start work on new regulations for the legal deposit of non-print publications immediately. The market for scientific publications is international. The UK cannot act alone. For this reason the Committee recommends that the UK Government act as a proponent for change on the international stage and lead by example. This will ultimately benefit researchers across the globe. Chairman of the Committee, Dr Ian Gibson, said "Publishers are feathering their nests with big profits whilst scientific journals are becoming less and less affordable. Government has its head in the sand: it's about time that it landed in the in-tray of the Ministers in question. Instead of bashing all the alternatives, commercial publishers should be asked to justify the current publishing process they use. The Open Access movement needs to iron out the teething problems with the author-pays model. It's public money that oils the cogs of the publishing machine and we want to make sure that it's well spent." Hard copies of the Report can be obtained from TSO outlets and from the Parliamentary Bookshop, 12 Bridge Street, Parliament Square, London SW1A 2JX (020 7219 3890) by quoting HC 399-I. The text of the Report will also be available via the Committee=s internet homepage: www.parliament.uk/commons/selcom/s&thome.htm <http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/www.parliament.uk/commons/selcom/s%26th ome.htm> Further information on the work of the Committee can be obtained from Committee staff on 020 7219 2793/4. Previous press notices and publications are available on our website. Notes for Editors 1. Under the terms of Standing Order No. 152 the Committee is empowered to examine the "expenditure, policy and administration of the Office of Science and Technology and its associated public bodies". The Committee was appointed on 12 November 2001. 2. The Committee's inquiry was announced on 10 December 2003 in Press Notice 3 of Session 2003-04. 3. The Committee took evidence from Blackwell Publishing, John Wiley & Sons, Nature Publishing Group and Reed Elsevier on 1 March 2004; Oxford University Press, the Institute of Physics Publishing, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, BioMed Central, Public Library of Science and Axiope on 8 March 2004; the British Library, the Joint Information Systems Committee, Cambridge University Library, the University of Hertfordshire and a panel of academics on 21 April 2004; and the Department of Trade and Industry/the Office of Science and Technology, the Higher Education Funding Council for England and Research Councils UK on 5 May 2004.

1 0

RE: The Sabo Bill and Open Access
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:54:27 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is an interview with Robert Terry, Senior Policy Advisor at the Wellcome Trust, UK. It appeared in the latest issue of Open Access Now, a part of The Scientist. I thought that this should be read widely in India. Regards. Arun ------------------ http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/archive/?page=features&issue=18 Wellcome support for Open Access Funding bodies play a major role in the Open Access debate as they provide the money that pays for scientific research. Funders have the right to influence how their money is spent and how research results are disseminated. The Wellcome Trust is the UK's leading biomedical charity, spending over �400 million (over US$700 million) each year on research. Robert Terry, Senior Policy Advisor at the Wellcome Trust, talked to Open Access Now about why the Trust supports Open Access. The Wellcome Trust spends a lot of money supporting biomedical research in the UK and around the globe. Over the next five years the Trust expects to fund top-quality research to the tune of �2 billion (around US$3.6 billion). It seems only reasonable that the Trust be interested in how scientific findings are published and shared. To guide its decision-making the Trust commissioned two studies of the economics of scientific publishing. The results were so compelling that the Trust issued a position statement (see Open Access Now, November 3, 2003 <http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/news/?issue=8>) expressing unequivocal support for Open Access models. "The Wellcome Trust supports open and unrestricted access to the published output of research, including the open access model, as a fundamental part of its charitable mission and a public benefit to be encouraged wherever possible," said the statement. Robert Terry is the Senior Policy Advisor in the Strategic Planning and Policy Unit of the Wellcome Trust. "The unit is responsible for horizon scanning, policy and strategy on behalf of the Trust," explains Terry. As well as directly funding researchers, the Trust runs two libraries; one is a history of medicine library and the other is an information service for the general public. "The advisory committee of these libraries first raised the question of Open Access a few years ago. I led a small in-house group that began to research the issue. It became clear that one of the things that we didn't understand (and we wondered whether other people understood or not) was the real economics of the market." "In fact researchers on the whole are not directly paying for anything. There are really very few people in the biomedical research area that are paying for their own research. It's actually funders like ourselves and the research councils who are paying," Terry reminds us. "The funding bodies are the last players to get involved in Open Access. There needs to be a really significant step in raising consciousness among the funders, to see whether or not we can get things to change." The economics of publishing The Trust commissioned SQW, an economic and management consultancy company, to investigate the scientific publishing sector. In September 2003, the Trust published the results in a report entitled 'An Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing <http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/awtpubrepeas.html>'. Terry agrees that many people had begun to examine these issues, but the report provided an in-depth insight into how the economics of the scientific publishing industry influence the way in which scientific knowledge is disseminated. "I think that it was perhaps the first time that it had been pulled together in quite that way," says Terry. "For someone coming to this topic for the first time it pulls everything together in a fairly straightforward way. The report was certainly highly influential in the Trust. It encouraged the Trust to come out and say that we now believe in Open Access publication." "When you look at it from an economic point of view it is clear that you have a failing market," explains Terry. "Researchers give away their research data free to journals that then retain copyright. Then researchers and the users of that information obtain the information via libraries. So it is libraries that are paying the cost of re-accessing that information once it has been peer-reviewed and published. What we end up with is a very dysfunctional market," he notes. "The producers and the consumers are completely separated from any market forces, hence subscriptions can rise year on year and the people who are demanding the product are more or less oblivious. When you review the last ten years you come to fairly shocking figures of rises of 200% in journal subscription prices and the realization that certain commercial publishers are making large profits. And that is money that is leaving the system. It's going to shareholders or to learned societies. As a funder, we have to start thinking about how money that we are pumping into the system is leaving the system for a completely different purpose from our mission. That's really what started to drive us. So we began to consider what the alternatives are and how this could be organized in a much better way." ------------------------ "As a funder, we have to start thinking about how money that we are pumping into the system is leaving the system for a completely different purpose from our mission." Robert Terry ------------------------ "We published our statement to say that we think that the system is not working well. It became clear to us that the dissemination of research is actually a research cost and that by delegating that activity to others (journals and their publishers) we have actually got locked into a very inefficient system. We felt that there must be better ways to share information and make the Internet as efficient as possible in the dissemination of research and increasing knowledge." Open Access saves money The Wellcome Trust committed itself to paying the costs of Open Access publishing and encouraging researchers to deposit their work in open archives. But Terry's group wanted to have a better understanding of the true costs involved in Open Access publishing and the alternative publishing models, so they commissioned a second study by SQW. "The second study basically filled in another gap in the evidence base," recalls Terry. "People were questioning whether authors-pays models (though in reality they are 'funder-pays' models) are efficient, economical and commercially viable. They expressed concern about the sustainability of these models. That's why we commissioned the second report which is about the actual costs involved in peer-reviewing research papers, managing manuscripts and dissemination on the Internet." The second Wellcome report 'Costs and Business Models in Scientific Research Publishing <http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/awtpubrepcos.html>' was published in April 2004. "I think that it was really interesting because we tried as much as possible to talk to commercial publishers, learned society publishers and Open Access publishers," says Terry. The report provides evidence that an author-pays model offers a viable alternative to subscription journals. The Trust concluded that "Open Access publishing should be able to deliver high-quality, peer-reviewed research at a cost that is significantly less than the traditional model while bringing with it a number of additional benefits." The report concluded that savings of up to 30% might be achieved. The research shows that publishing a research article in the traditional way costs between �800 and �1,500 (between US$1440 and US$2700). Under Open Access the cost is about 70% of that, at �550 to �1,100. "I feel fairly confident with what we have come up with," says Terry. "Nobody has actually disputed the figures; they might disagree with the conclusions, but they haven't disputed the figures. The savings could even be more, because the costs that we identified were the 'first-copy' costs." "If we move to an Open Access system it allows for interesting other models to start being used. For example, you might think about introducing a submission fee to cover the costs of peer review. That would suddenly reduce the publication costs down to around US$500-600 by having a very small submission charge." The idea is that a submission charge would be paid by authors of all articles that are peer-reviewed, rather than the situation at present where the only charges that are paid are from authors whose work is eventually published - so they, in effect subsidize the cost of rejecting articles. Terry reminds us that currently many journals have page charges and extra charges for color figures. "It seems to have been forgotten, or at least it is never mentioned by the commercial publishers, that authors have been paying page charges for years and these are often much higher figures than are talked about for Open Access." The need for increased advocacy "The rationale for doing these two studies was to move the whole debate away from the economic issues," says Terry. "In a sense, the economics don't matter in that it should be viable to move towards another system - and that system should be more efficient and less expensive. And on top of all that you get all the fantastic benefits that Open Access should allow: far wider dissemination, higher impact in terms of people reading and citing your work, and reducing the barriers to research. These barriers and publisher restrictions are a real impediment to science and the way that science needs to be done. The reports certainly got a lot of media attention. They brought the issue right into the broadsheets and the financial newspapers. So, I think that they helped to get people seriously engaged in the debate and thinking about viable alternative models." Terry dismisses many of the myths being voiced by the opponents of Open Access. "Some argue that if the system isn't broken don't fix it: we would argue that the system is broken," says Terry. "Another way to look at it is that it's an engine running on two cylinders as opposed to six - it still gets you along the road, but is it really working efficiently or taking you to the all places that you want to go. You have to ask yourself the question - what sort of money is leaving the system to support that inefficiency." Terry suggests that learned societies have to think harder about their goals. "Is making a surplus from the dissemination of research still a justified activity when it might actually be an impediment to research itself? I think that some of the learned societies have to start thinking about what their purpose is and who they serve." ---------------- "Another way to look at it is that it's an engine running on two cylinders as opposed to six: it still gets you along the road, but is it really working efficiently or taking you to the all places that you want to go?" Robert Terry --------------- "There's a lot of talk about initiatives such as HINARI, but researchers in developing countries are still paying higher subscription fees than their American counterparts," says Terry. (HINARI is an initiative to provide free, or low-cost, access to major biomedical journals to public institutions in developing countries; see Open Access Now 19 January 2004 <http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/www/?issue=12>.) "While Open Access won't immediately make life any easier, because of the digital divide, I think that in time it will help the system because true Open Access puts no restrictions on reproduction. Someone can download various papers, or even a whole journal if they want to, print it up and distribute if for no charge or for a small distribution charge. There are all sorts of different models that could be used. Open Access systems offer a true market that will allow all sorts of different experiments to come and go, and fail or succeed, and hopefully lead to greater efficiency in the system." "Stimulating the debate was one of the first things we wanted to do and I think we can confidently say that we have done that," remarks Terry. The Trust is eagerly awaiting the report of the UK House of Commons Committee Inquiry <http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/inquiry/>. "I would like to think that the weight of arguments is so conclusive - certainly they have been to us - that the Committee will make certain recommendations to the government about Open Access being better for public money. Over 90% of the research that goes on in the universities in this country is funded either from government or from the charity sector. But if you are just an ordinary member of the public you cannot read it, unless you pay for it. I think that the government will find it difficult to come down in favor of one business model or another. But they could certainly be looking at how best to use what's available to disseminate publicly funded research." Terry says that the Trust is unlikely to insist that its fundees publish exclusively in Open Access journals - at least at this stage. "Whist I can see the strong arguments for that, one of the things that we are reluctant to do is to force researchers down a path too early and create unnecessary antagonism. If Open Access delivers as many benefits as we think it should, then researchers should be choosing it willingly. I think we need more advocacy work with our own stakeholders. We are looking at how to communicate to the people who take our grants about the benefits of Open Access. Ultimately that's where the argument has to be won. Researchers themselves must be convinced that this is in their best interests." Terry feels that repositories are also an effective way to disseminate science. While the Trust might consider building its own repository, Terry is hoping that the House of Commons Committee may recommend the creation of a national repository for all UK research. "That could be done in all sorts of ways. It could be something that was immediate, that anyone who had received public money would have to place their papers there, or it could be after three months or after six months or whatever. There are all sorts of steps that could be taken. That would be a positive step forward and we would be supportive of such a national open archive." The Wellcome Trust has provided a leading example for other funding bodies to follow. The Trust is motivated by its role in funding top quality research and is committed to making sure that the results of that research can be read by everyone. The Trust has emphasized that it considers the costs of research dissemination to be part of the costs of research. "Our analysis suggests that we are really only looking at 1-2% of standard research costs," says Terry. "I think that's a small price to pay for the increase in impact, citations, and so on. It might mean that we fund less research. But a 1-2% decrease in volume may not be a bad thing. What we are interested in is high quality research that has a real impact, not the numbers of papers. If one of our �5 million grants produces only one paper but that paper is really hugely significant then I think that we would be happy. And we would want it to be completely open and freely accessible." <http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/publications>

1 0

The Sabo Bill and Open Access
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:59:52 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is a report from Open Access Now, dated 19 July 2004. Sabo bill sparks copyright controversy When Congressman Martin O. Sabo introduced a bill in the US House of Representatives on June 26 that would make research funded by the American government exempt from copyright protection, he had no idea of the controversy it would generate amongst the research and publishing communities. "Some of my staff brought the issue to my attention and I thought it made a lot of sense, so I introduced the bill," said Sabo, a Democrat Representative from Minnesota. "I have discovered that it's generated lots of interest and lots of controversy. There are lots of scientists who are very interested. And clearly there are people involved in the publishing industry who are making the case for their role in the whole process." Currently, work produced by federal employees is exempt from copyright protection, but this doesn't cover grant recipients. The bill, officially called the 'Public Access to Science Act' but also referred to as the 'Sabo bill', aims to amend existing US copyright law so that research that has been "substantially funded" by the US federal government can also not be copyrighted, ensuring its free availability to the public. "The bill is really fairly simple. I think that it's a fundamental principle that research that has been funded by the public sector should be generally available to the public free of charge," Sabo told Open Access Now. He feels strongly that US residents shouldn't have to pay twice - once through taxation to fund research and a second time to gain access to the results. ------------- It's a fundamental principle that research that has been funded by the public sector should be generally available to the public free of charge. -- Martin Sabo ------------- "It's wrong when a breast cancer patient cannot access federally funded research data paid for by her hardearned taxes," said Sabo in a press statement. "It is wrong when the family whose child has a rare disease must pay again for research data their tax dollars already paid for. Common sense dictates we provide the most cutting-edge research to all who may benefit from it - especially when they've already paid for it with their tax dollars, and my legislation will do just that." When pushed on what "substantially funded" means, Sabo concedes "We haven't quite sorted that out yet. We'll have to define that either by law or regulation and come up with a more precise definition of the percentages." The fact that "substantially" is not defined in the bill might allow the many federal agencies that fund research to define it in their own ways. Peter Suber, an Open Access pioneer at Earlham College, USA, has called the Public Access to Science Act "the boldest and most direct legislative proposal ever submitted on behalf of Open Access," and has made suggestions that he feels would enhance the bill's effectiveness. "Putting works into the public domain and obtaining copyright - holder consent to Open Access are not themselves Open Access," explains Suber. "They are merely two ways to clear the legal path to Open Access." "The Public Access to Science Act could go further and require actual Open Access. It could require funded researchers to submit their work to Open Access journals or deposit it in Open Access archives." Suber suggests additional measures to ensure that copyright legislation accelerates the switch to Open Access. "[The bill] could require federal research grants to cover the processing fees charged by Open Access journals - that is, [it] could treat Open Access publication as a cost of research." This approach is already being taken by some funding agencies, such as the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (see Open Access Now, July 14, 2003). The Sabo bill has sparked heated debate within the life sciences community about the importance of copyright and the role of traditional publishers. The bill is supported by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a non-profit organization that is developing models for Open Access publishing, but some have questioned the consequences of removing copyright protection. Michael J. Held, Executive Director of Rockefeller University Press (RUP), calls the bill "a hasty and ill-timed measure". In an editorial in the Journal of Cell Biology, Held wrote "I take issue with a number of the points made by the Sabo Act. It appears to me that this is a thinly veiled attempt by Harold Varmus and the other founders of the Public Library of Science (PLoS) to eventually force all publishers into their Open Access publishing model. As this publishing model is unproven and may well be unsustainable, this is an irresponsible act." Held says that "publishers such as RUP seek to hold secure copyright so that we can ensure that we have both the legal right and the resources to guarantee free access, albeit after a brief interval." Held's editorial was freely available online prior to publication, to ensure that it reached a wide audience. The Association of American Universities (AAU) has also opposed the bill. In a letter to Sabo's office, AAU president Nils Hasselmo expressed the view that denying copyright protection for publications resulting from federally funded research was unnecessary and could prove "quite harmful to the nation's research enterprise." He maintains that copyright protection is important for assuring accuracy and authenticity of publications and maintaining the current publishing process. The senior editors at PLoS have written a reply to Held and other critics who have, among other points, raised the specter of increased plagiarism in the absence of copyright protection. "Although some concern has been voiced about the consequences of excluding copyright protection, its removal will not leave authors or their works vulnerable to abuse," they say. "Copyright has not been used by publishers or individual authors to protect the integrity of the scientific literature. Rather, rigorous standards of behavior within the scientific community have provided the best deterrent from abuse (including against acts of plagiarism and misuse of another's work)." Sabo is undeterred by the opposition his bill has met. "Clearly anytime that you are doing something different there are going to be people who are apprehensive and nervous about that. I have already heard from publishers expressing their concern and I am sure there will be others. People in the publishing business will continue to have an important role but it will involve some change for them. But I have also heard from lots of people supporting the bill. This is just the beginning and it will probably take a while. But we are going to be pushing forward." Since the bill's introduction, comment on the issue of access to research data has been made at a meeting of the House Appropriations Committee, which allocates the federal budget for the National Library of Medicine (NLM) - next year's budget will be US$316 million. The Committee commended the NLM for its leadership in developing PubMed Central (see Open Access Now, July 28, 2003) and expressed its concern about "reports that there has been a significant change in the availability of research data internationally and a dramatic rise in medical research data subscription costs. NLM is encouraged to examine how the consolidation of for-profit biomedical research publishers, with their increased subscription charges, has restricted access to vital research information to not-for-profit libraries." The Committee asked for a report by March 2004 on ways to ensure that taxpayerfunded research remains in the public domain and to alleviate restrictions on the availability of information. --------------------------- The Public Access to Science Act is the boldest and most direct legislative proposal ever submitted on behalf of Open Access ---Peter Suber ---------------------------- The Sabo bill is likely to generate other legislative fallout. "I hope it has impact in other countries too," says Congressman Sabo. Already there are signs in the UK that the call for Open Access to government-funded research is moving from the academy to the legislature. Dr Ian Gibson, UK Member of Parliament for Norwich North and Chairman of the House of Commons Select Committee for Science and Technology, has submitted a question to the new UK Secretary of State for Health that asks "what plans he has to ensure that all publicly funded research is recorded and made freely available to patients, health professionals, the public and members of the scientific community." Health Secretary John Reid is expected to answer Gibson's question by September 8. The Sabo bill will now go to a series of hearings and committees, starting with the Judiciary committee. "It's a long process that could take many months. Our system moves slowly," says Sabo. "I have no guarantee that it will become law. But we are expecting to stimulate lots of debate about this important issue." ---------------------- Public Access to Science Act 108th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2613 To amend title 17, United States Code, to exclude from copyright protection works resulting from scientific research substantially funded by the Federal Government. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 26, 2003 Mr. SABO (for himself, Ms. KAPTUR, and Mr. FROST) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Judiciary A BILL To amend title 17, United States Code, to exclude from copyright protection works resulting from scientific research substantially funded by the Federal Government. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the 'Public Access to Science Act'. SECTION 2. FINDINGS. The Congress finds that - (1) the United States Government funds basic research with the intention and the belief that the new ideas and discoveries that result from the research will improve the lives and welfare of the people of the United States and around the world; (2) works of the United States Government are beyond the reach of copyright protection so that they will be freely available for the benefit of the people of the United States; (3) the United States Government spends $45,000,000,000 a year to support scientific and medical research whose product is new knowledge for the public benefit; (4) the Internet makes it possible for this information to be promptly available not only to every scientist and physician who could use it to further the public good, but to every person with access to the Internet at home, in school, or in a library; and (5) United States Government funded research belongs to, and should be freely available to, every person in the United States. SECTION 3. COPYRIGHT STATUS OF WORKS SUBSTANTIALLY FUNDED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. (a) FUNDING AGREEMENTSSection 105 of title 17, United States Code, is amended - (1) by striking 'Copyright' and inserting '(a) IN GENERAL - Copyright'; and (2) by adding at the end the following: '(b) FEDERALLY FUNDED WORKS - '1) IN GENERAL- Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work produced pursuant to scientific research substantially funded by the Federal Government to the extent provided in the funding agreement entered into by the relevant Federal agency pursuant to paragraph (2). '(2) PROVISION IN FUNDING AGREEMENTS- Any Federal department or agency that enters into a funding agreement with any person for the performance of scientific research substantially funded by the Federal Government shall include in the agreement a provision that states that copyright protection under this title is not available for any work produced pursuant to such research under the agreement. '(3) REGULATIONS- Each Federal department or agency that enters into funding agreements to which paragraph (2) applies shall issue regulations to carry out that paragraph. '(4) DEFINITION- In this subsection, the term 'funding agreement' means any contract, grant, or cooperative agreement entered into between any Federal agency and any person for the performance of scientific research funded by the Federal Government. Such term includes any assignment, substitution of parties, or subcontract of any type entered into for the performance of such research'. (b) EFFECTIVE DATE- The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply to any funding agreement (as defined in section 105(b)(4) of title 17, United States Code, as added by subsection (a) of this section), entered into on or after the date of the enactment of this Act. SECTION 4. SENSE OF CONGRESS. It is the sense of the Congress that any Federal department or agency that enters into funding agreements (as defined in section 105(b)(4) of title 17, United States Code, as added by section 3(a) of this Act) should make every effort to develop and support mechanisms for making the published results of the research conducted pursuant to the agreements freely and easily available to the scientific community, the private sector, physicians, and the public.

1 0

UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Report on Op en Access
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:25:38 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: At one minute past midnight on July 20, the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee released the long-awaited report on its inquiry into journal prices and open access. Considering that India and other developing countries stand to gain by adopting open access far more than advanced countries such as the United Kingdom, I suggest that donor agencies in India insist that all publications resulting from their support be placed in interoperable institutional archives. A little bit of training may be necessary as well as decent Internet connections in universities and research institutions. Regards. Arun Here's Peter Suber's summary of the major recommendations: Moderator's Note ---------------- Since the Summary and excerpts from the UK report has already been circulated through a another posting, it has been truncated from this posting. - moderator

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum] 25,000 titles (books) in Engineering field
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:14:35 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] vijaya kumara" <vijayakumar71(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Sir You are right, but after getting all 25 thousand titles, we will circulate to all dept of our college, then with their recommendation we procure the same. For us money is not a problem. But we should get accredation from NBA/AICTE at any cost. Regards Vijayakumar M

1 0

Number of engineering Ph.D graduates from India
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:44:23 +0530 From: Aman Jha <aman.jha(a)ciionline.org> This refers to Dr Rajashekar's email seeking number of engineering Ph.D graduates from India. I suggest to refer a report published by All India Council for Technical Education titled "Reshaping postgraduate education and research in Engineering & Tecnology". This contains yearwise (1954 onwards) list of Engineering Ph.D graduates in India. In 1954, there were only 19 Ph.Ds in Engineering whereas in 1996, there were 374 Ph.Ds in Engineering. 675 were the highest number of Ph.Ds in Engineering in 1987. 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

1 0

Refresher course for Librarians and teachers -Osmania University
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:44:03 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> Dear friends, Academic Staff College, Osmania University is organising a refresher course for academic librarians and lecturers from 22 Nov 2004 to 11 Dec 2004. The professionals desirous of applying for the said course mya send their applications to the Director, Academic Staff College, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500007. 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

1 0

The UK House of Commons Report
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:28:49 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Here is a news story from The Independent, London. Arun MPs call for biennial review of profits from science journals By Rachel Stevenson 20 July 2004 Reed Elsevier and other publishers will be told by MPs today to be more transparent in the pricing of scientific journals, as part of a wider call to allow freer access to research. After an eight-month inquiry into the market for scientific research, the Science and Technology Committee publishes its report today. The committee has found that libraries are struggling to afford subscriptions to all the scientific journals its users need, and the committee will call on the Office of Fair Trading to review journal pricing biennially. The committee heard that average journal prices have risen 58 per cent between 1998 and 2003, while library budgets have been cut back. "While libraries are struggling to purchase journals, publishers' profit margins remain exceptionally high compared with the rest of the publishing industry - as much as 34 per cent at operating level in the case of Reed Elsevier, the market leader," the report says. "High publisher profit margins need to be set in the context of faltering library budgets and an impending crisis in scientific journals provision." As part of an overhaul of the system for publishing scientific material, the committee will suggest that all universities and public-funded research bodies publish all their research material online, free of charge. But the committee has also given rise to the potential for an about-turn in the business model for publishing scientific research. Publishing groups, most of whom operate on a subscription model whereby authors can publish freely and users of the material bear the cost, have been lobbying hard against an alternative. This is an "author-pays" model where the author pays to publish work and access to the research is free. The committee has found that the author-pays model "could be viable" and will ask for an independent study to look further at the possibility of converting scientific publishing to this model. "Although early indications are positive, it is too early to assess the impact that author-pays publishing has had on access to scientific publications," the report says. But it says the author-pays model could be vital for allowing researchers in the developing world, many of whom cannot afford the increasing subscription levels, to access research from the UK and the US. The committee wants the Government to explore giving "financial assistance" to publishers to make the switch to author-pays. Reed has already said it will allow wider scope for authors to "self-archive" by publishing their work on either their own or their university's website. And today it will make a statement to welcome the proposals. But its recent pronouncement on the issue raised eyebrows at the committee, which said it was "in little doubt that Elsevier timed the announcement of its new policy on self-archiving to pre-empt the publication of this report". It is understood that an inquiry has begun into whether the report was leaked to Reed, which has denied having any advance knowledge of the committee's findings. Reed was, at least, credited by the committee for keeping the rise in its prices to more moderate levels. In what will be another major upset to the publishing industry, the committee will call on authors to retain copyright of their material, which is then licensed out to publishing companies when the research is printed. The committee also scrutinised large, bulk-buy deals offered by publishing companies to libraries. This is known as bundling, and involves selling subscriptions of the entire range of titles from one publisher at a lower price than individual subscriptions. The committee will tell the publishing industry that bundling "does not present libraries with value for money".

1 0

Re:Outstanding books
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:07:46 +0530 From: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com Dear all, Here is an query.I hope I'll get the solution for it. Our's is not a big library but we are having 5500 books. Now i am facing the problem as on issue/return of books, earlier this library is not an automated, but from the last 2 years we are using Netlibsoftware. Earlier to this software books were circulated and did entries through manual system using one register.And some are not having the entry of issue /return else where. My previous librarian had issued some of the books which are having the entries in the register through software. But when i sent a over due notice to these people they argued with me that they were already returned these books to the previous librarian. Kindly inform me in what way we can solve the problem. Thanks and regards Vijayalakshmi J S Librarian STC ING Vysya Bank Ltd. PH NO: 26507281 e-mail: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com

1 0

Summary and excerpts from the UK House of Commons report
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Dear All The UK House of Commons had set up a Science and Technology Committee to study the issue of journal prices and open access and prepare a report. The Committee heard representations from different stakeholders including publishers, libraries, open access proponents, university administrators, grants agencies, etc, over the past few months. The report was released yesterday. From the following mail posted on American Scientist Open Access Forum by Dr. Peter Suber, it appears that the Committee has made very strong and positive recommendations supporting open access. I thought you may be interested. Regards Rajashekar T.B. Rajashekar NCSI, IISc -----Original Message----- From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM@LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG]On Behalf Of Peter Suber Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 8:26 PM To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM(a)LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG Subject: [SOAF] Summary and excerpts from the UK report At one minute past midnight on July 20, the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee released the long-awaited report on its inquiry into journal prices and open access (about 90 minutes ago). Here's my summary of the major recommendations: (1) The government should provide funds for all UK universities to launch open-access institutional repositories. (2) Authors of articles based on government-funded research should deposit copies in their institutional repositories. (3) The government should appoint a "central body" to oversee the launch of the institutional repositories, their networking needs, and their compliance with "technical standards needed to provide maximum functionality" (presumably the OAI metadata harvesting protocol). (4) The government should create a fund to help authors pay the processing fees charged by open-access journals. The committee is not yet ready to endorse the upfront funding model for OA journals (which it calls the "author-pays" model), but wants to create such a fund in order to promote further experimentation with the model. (5) The government should develop a wider, long-term open-access strategy, including open-access journals, "as a matter of urgency". (6) Universities should develop their "capacity to manage" the copyrights that faculty will increasingly retain in the future. (7) These steps can and should be undertaken without jeopardizing "rigorous and independent peer review". (8) The government should fund the British Library to take on the long-term preservation of digital scholarship. (9) Because the market for science and scholarship is international, the government should "act as a proponent for change on the international stage and lead by example". The full report (a 118 page PDF file) will soon be available at the committee's page of reports, http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmsctech.htm What follows below the line is a verbatim excerpt from the report. This section spells out the committee's specific recommendations and the its responses to the major arguments presented in the oral and written testimony. Peter Suber ----------cut here---------- Excerpt from Scientific Publications: Free for All?, House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, July 20, 2004, pp. 98-107. Conclusions and recommendations 1. It is discouraging that the Government does not yet appear to have given much consideration to balancing the needs of the research community, the taxpayer and the commercial sectors for which it has responsibility. (Paragraph 22) 2. We are convinced that the amount of public money invested in scientific research and its outputs is sufficient to merit Government involvement in the publishing process. Indeed, we would be very surprised if Government did not itself feel the need to account for its investment in the publishing process. We were disappointed by how little thought has been given to the issues within Government thus far and hope that this Report will prove to be a catalyst for change. (Paragraph 24) 3. The backdrop of international interest and momentum for change sets the scene for the UK Government to take a lead in establishing an efficient and sustainable environment for the publication of research findings. (Paragraph 25) 4. We will give a copy of this Report to the UK delegates to the Culture, Science and Education Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. We hope that the Committee will pursue the issues raised here, both within the Council of Europe and on a wider international stage. (Paragraph 28) 5. The British Library's Document Supply Service is an efficient and cost-effective method of providing access to articles in scientific journals. The decline in demand for Document Supply notwithstanding, we are persuaded that the service provides a valuable alternative route for users who would not otherwise have access to the journals that they needed. We recommend that the Government takes steps to protect the service. (Paragraph 31) 6. We are not convinced that the publisher practice of granting each subscriber access to a set number of digital "copies" of a journal is either effective or necessary. We recommend that the Joint Information Systems Committee strongly argues the case against such restrictive practices when it negotiates the terms for the next national site licence with publishers. (Paragraph 32) 7. We congratulate the Medical Research Council on its support of the principle that primary research data should be made available to the scientific community for subsequent research. We recommend that the Research Councils consider providing funds to enable researchers to publish their primary data alongside their research findings, where appropriate. (Paragraph 33) 8. All researchers, regardless of the nature of their institution, should be granted access to the scientific journals they need to carry out their work effectively. (Paragraph 35) 9. We recommend that the Joint Information Systems Committee and the NHS work together to implement joint procurement procedures that reflect the close working patterns of NHS and the higher education sector and represent value for money for both. (Paragraph 36) 10. Teaching is a crucial university function. Universities should be permitted, within reason, to derive maximum value from the digital journals to which they subscribe by using them for legitimate teaching purposes. We recommend that future licensing deals negotiated by the Joint Information Systems Committee explicitly include provisions to enable journal articles, whether print or digital, to be used for teaching purposes. (Paragraph 38) 11. It is not for either publishers or academics to decide who should, and who should not, be allowed to read scientific journal articles. We are encouraged by the growing interest in research findings shown by the public. It is in society's interest that public understanding of science should increase. Increased public access to research findings should be encouraged by publishers, academics and Government alike. (Paragraph 40) 12. We are not convinced that journal articles are consistently available to members of the public through public libraries. (Paragraph 42) 13. Digitisation should facilitate, not restrict access. We recommend that the next national site licence negotiated by the Joint Information Systems Committee explicitly provides for all library users without an Athens password to access the digital journals stocked by their library. (Paragraph 44) 14. Publishers are to be commended for signing up to laudable schemes such as HINARI, AGORA and INASP-PERI. We hope that the provision of free and low- cost access to scientific publications for institutions and researchers in developing countries will continue to be a significant aspect of the way that they conduct their businesses. (Paragraph 47) 15. The digitisation of journals has the potential to greatly increase access to research findings for researchers in the developing world. (Paragraph 48) 16. We recommend that the Joint Information Systems Committee develop an independent set of measures, agreed by subscribers and publishers alike, to monitor trends in journal pricing. This will help exert pressure on the publishing industry to self-regulate more effectively and will give libraries and other users greater knowledge when they are deciding which subscriptions to take. (Paragraph 53) 17. It is not for us to pronounce on the acceptability of the profit margins secured by private sector companies. Nonetheless, high publisher profit margins need to be set against the context of faltering library budgets and an impending crisis in STM journals provision. Cancelled journal subscriptions due to pressures on library budgets will have a negative impact on publishers. It is thus in everybody's interest for profit margins to be kept at a reasonable and sustainable level. We urge publishers to act on the recommendations of this Report to address these issues. (Paragraph 54) 18. Government invests a significant amount of money in scientific research, the outputs of which are expressed in terms of journal articles. It is accountable for this expenditure to the public. We were dismayed that the Government showed so little concern about where public money ended up. (Paragraph 55) 19. We recommend that the Joint Information Systems Committee ensure that provision for continuing access in the event of cancellation to articles published during the subscription period is written into its next national licensing deal. (Paragraph 61) 20. Increasing usage rates do not equate to an increased ability for libraries to pay for journal bundles. The recent availability of usage statistics should not be used as a justification for publishers to raise their prices. (Paragraph 66) 21. Although libraries may aspire to provide access to every scientific journal, they cannot afford to do this. It is inevitable that difficult choices between a number of journals with lower usage rates and impact factors will have to be made. Nonetheless, these decisions should be made in response to local user needs rather than as a side effect of bundling. (Paragraph 67) 22. Current levels of flexibility within the journal bundle do not present libraries with value for money. Whilst we accept that unbundling STM information carries risks for the main commercial publishers, only when flexible bundled deals are made available will libraries achieve value for money on their subscriptions. Furthermore, although we recognise that bundled deals may be advantageous to libraries in certain circumstances, we are concerned about the potential impact bundling may have on competition, given limited library budgets and sustained STM journal price growth. (Paragraph 68) 23. Publishers should publicly acknowledge the contribution of unpaid peer reviewers to the publishing process. We recommend that they provide modest financial rewards to the departments in which the reviewers are based. These rewards could be fed back into the system, helping to fund seminars or further research. (Paragraph 70) 24. We do not doubt the central importance of peer review to the STM publishing process. Nonetheless, we note a tendency for publishers to inflate the cost to them of peer review in order to justify charging high prices. This lack of transparency about actual costs hampers informed debate about scientific publishing. (Paragraph 76) 25. We applaud the development by publishers of new technologies for digital journals. Innovative products such as ScienceDirect have brought increased functionality to researchers and users, making journals a more valuable research tool. (Paragraph 78) 26. We are persuaded that the costs to publishers associated with digitisation will reduce over time. Consequently, we would no longer expect these costs to be used as a justification for steep increases in prices. In the meantime we are concerned that financially powerful STM publishers may be using their strength during this digital transition period to make excessive profits whilst the going is good (Paragraph 79) 27. We believe that publishers should make it clear to subscribers what services and costs are and are not covered by the overall subscription price, enabling libraries and other users to weigh up the costs and benefits of taking out the subscription. We urge the Joint Information Systems Committee and other buying bodies to press for greater transparency in this area. (Paragraph 80) 28. Like the Office of Fair Trading, we are not entirely convinced by the cost- justification argument employed by publishers to explain rising prices. Publishers undoubtedly add value to the scientific process, but they also profit from it. (Paragraph 83) 29. It is not enough for the Government departments involved to declare themselves to be aware of the problems surrounding the imposition of VAT on digital, but not print, publications. As the issue is so critical to the adequate provision of scientific publications and to reaping the full anticipated benefits from digitisation, we recommend that DTI, DfES and DCMS all make a strong case to HM Customs and Excise for a change to the existing VAT regime. (Paragraph 86) 30. We recommend that HM Customs and Excise make strong and immediate representations within the European Commission to bring about the introduction of a zero rate VAT relief for digital journals, in line with the zero rate currently charged on print journals. (Paragraph 88) 31. We recommend that HM Customs and Excise exempt libraries from the VAT currently payable on digital publications whilst it negotiates for a more permanent solution within the EU. (Paragraph 89) 32. Because library budgets generally have a fixed ceiling, by increasing prices, the publisher with the largest share of the budget can gain an even greater share and may also force other publishers out of the budget altogether. (Paragraph 93) 33. We recommend that the Government Response to this Report provides information on the measures being taken by the Office of Fair Trading to monitor the market for STM journals. We urge the Office of Fair Trading to commit to biennial public reporting on the state of the market, including how STM publication prices are developing; how prices change following mergers and acquisitions in the sector and the impact of bundling deals upon competition. (Paragraph 94) 34. We agree that universities should be able to allocate their budgets locally in response to the needs of their teaching and research communities. (Paragraph 96) 35. It is unacceptable that HEFCE has shown so little interest in library budgets. We recommend that it commission a study from HEPI to ascertain both current library funding levels and library funding needs. The results of this study could be used to inform the allocation of the block grant. (Paragraph 97) 36. HEFCE has a valuable role to play in advising universities on library funding requirements. We recommend that HEFCE establish a code of good practice for library funding that universities can draw upon when allocating their budgets. (Paragraph 98) 37. Pressure on library journal acquisitions budgets has resulted in cancelled subscriptions and has contributed to a decline in book purchasing. This compromises the library's ability to provide the full range of services required by its user community. (Paragraph 99) 38. There is undoubtedly some scope for libraries to make efficiency savings, as there is for most organisations. Nonetheless, the valuable services provided by the library are expensive and staff-intensive. It is unlikely that libraries will have more to spend on acquisitions until they see an increase in budgets. (Paragraph 101) 39. Whilst we accept that it is important that libraries are responsive to local needs, opting out of national licensing deals negotiated with those needs in mind only makes the situation faced by libraries worse. (Paragraph 104) 40. We recommend that the Joint Information Systems Committee negotiate with libraries, regional purchasing consortia and other national bodies responsible for procurement to agree a common strategy. Only by combining their resources will they be able to negotiate a licensing deal that secures national support and brings real benefits. (Paragraph 105) 41. It is disappointing that many academics are content to ignore the significant difficulties faced by libraries. Until they start to see the provision of journals as, in part, their problem, the situation will not improve. (Paragraph 107) 42. Elsevier is no sudden convert to Open Access. The company has seen the direction of trends in publishing and has acted accordingly to minimise criticism of its current policies. We are in little doubt that Elsevier timed the announcement of its new policy on self-archiving to pre-empt the publication of this Report. It is good news that our inquiry has prompted such a high profile endorsement of increased access to research papers. Nonetheless, there are a number of serious constraints to self- archiving in the model proposed by Elsevier. (Paragraph 112) 43. Institutions need an incentive to set up repositories. We recommend that the requirement for universities to disseminate their research as widely as possible be written into their charters. In addition, SHERPA should be funded by DfES to allow it to make grants available to all research institutions for the establishment and maintenance of repositories. (Paragraph 115) 44. Academic authors currently lack sufficient motivation to self-archive in institutional repositories. We recommend that the Research Councils and other Government funders mandate their funded researchers to deposit a copy of all their articles in their institution's repository within one month of publication or a reasonable period to be agreed following publication, as a condition of their research grant. An exception would need to be made for research findings that are deemed to be commercially sensitive. (Paragraph 117) 45. We recommend that institutional repositories are able to accept charitably- and privately-funded research articles from authors within the institution, providing that the funder has given their consent for the author to self-archive in this way. (Paragraph 118) 46. We recommend that DCMS provide adequate funds for the British Library to establish and maintain a central online repository for all UK research articles that are not housed in other institutional repositories. (Paragraph 118) 47. Institutional repositories should accept for archiving articles based on negative results, even when publication of the article in a journal is unlikely. This accumulated body of material would be a useful resource for the scientific community. It could help to prevent duplication of research and, particularly in the field of clinical research, would be in the public interest. Articles containing negative findings should be stored within a dedicated section of the repository to distinguish them from other articles. (Paragraph 118) 48. In order for institutional repositories to achieve maximum effectiveness, Government must adopt a joined-up approach. DTI, OST, DfES and DCMS should work together to create a strategy for the implementation of institutional repositories, with clearly defined aims and a realistic timetable. (Paragraph 120) 49. A greater degree of consistency is desirable in copyright agreements, from publishers, but also from Government, institutions and academics, who have the power to influence the terms on which copyright agreements are established. (Paragraph 121) 50. The issue of copyright is crucial to the success of self-archiving. We recommend that, as part of its strategy for the implementation of institutional repositories, Government ascertain what impact a UK-based policy of author copyright retention would have on UK authors. Providing that it can be established that such a policy would not have a disproportionately negative impact, Research Councils and other Government funders should mandate their funded researchers to retain the copyright on their research articles, licensing it to publishers for the purposes of publication. The Government would also need to be active in raising the issue of copyright at an international level. (Paragraph 126) 51. We recommend that higher education institutions are funded to enable them to assume control of copyright arising from their research. In order to carry out this function they will need in-house expertise and dedicated staff. (Paragraph 127) 52. The cost to the taxpayer of establishing and maintaining an infrastructure of institutional repositories across UK higher education would be minimal, particularly in proportion to the current total UK higher education spend. When the cost is weighed against the benefits they would bring, institutional repositories plainly represent value for money. (Paragraph 130) 53. Having taken the step of funding and supporting institutional repositories, the UK Government would need to become an advocate for them at a global level. If all countries archived their research findings in this way, access to scientific publications would increase dramatically. We see this as a great opportunity for the UK to lead the way in broadening access to publicly-funded research findings and making available software tools and resources for accomplishing this work. (Paragraph 131) 54. Peer review is a key element in the publishing process and should be a pillar of institutional repositories. We recommend that SHERPA agree a "kite mark" with publishers that can be used to denote articles that have been published in a peer- reviewed journal. Upon publication, articles in repositories should be allocated the kitemark and marked with the date and journal of publication by the staff member responsible for populating the repository. Authors depositing articles in institutional repositories should also be required to declare their funding sources in order to reduce the risk of conflicts of interest occurring. (Paragraph 135) 55. We recommend that the Government appoints and funds a central body, based on SHERPA, to co-ordinate the implementation of a network of institutional repositories. (Paragraph 136) 56. A Government-established central body would play a major role in implementing technical standards across institutional repositories to ensure maximum functionality and interoperability. (Paragraph 137) 57. We recommend that DTI works with UK publishers to establish how the industry might evolve in an environment where other business models flourished alongside the subscriber-pays model. Government also needs to become an intelligent procurer, outsourcing some of the technical work involved in establishing and maintaining institutional repositories to publishers who already have the relevant infrastructure and expertise in place. (Paragraph 140) 58. We see institutional repositories as operating alongside the publishing industry. In the immediate term they will enable readers to gain free access to journal articles whilst the publishing industry experiments with new publishing models, such as the author-pays model. (Paragraph 143) 59. For the Government either to endorse or dismiss the new publishing model would be too simplistic. Without any Government action, some authors are already choosing to publish in journals that use author payments to recover costs. Author- pays publishing is a phenomenon that has already arrived: it is for the Government and others to decide how best to respond. (Paragraph 144) 60. The evidence produced so far suggests that the author-pays model could be viable. We recommend that Government mobilise the different interest groups to support a comprehensive independent study into the costs associated with author-pays publishing. The study could be used to inform Government policy and strategy. (Paragraph 150) 61. Encouraging a public that is more scientifically literate and assisting women in their pursuit of successful careers in scientific research have been two of the Committee's longstanding concerns. We support, in principle, any measure that seeks to further these aims. (Paragraph 156) 62. Although early indications are positive, it is too early to assess the impact that author-pays publishing has had on access to scientific publications. (Paragraph 159) 63. The author-pays publishing model would be extremely advantageous to researchers in developing countries, enabling them to keep abreast of research conducted elsewhere. Financially, author charges would be less burdensome to researchers in the developing world than current subscription rates. If the author-pays model were to prevail, publishers, Government agencies and other donors would need to adapt existing schemes, such as HINARI, AGORA and INASP-PERI, to meet the demands of the altered cost recovery model. (Paragraph 162) 64. We recommend that the Research Councils each establish a fund to which their funded researchers can apply should they wish to publish their articles using the author-pays model. The Research Councils will need to be funded by OST to take account of this increase in costs. We hope that industry, charity and other Government funders will consider similar measures. (Paragraph 165) 65. Research Councils for disciplines that require only limited funding should be funded to enable them to pay for publication costs where necessary. (Paragraph 166) 66. In order to succeed, most author-pays publishers, like everyone else, will have to publish articles of a high quality. It is not, therefore, within the interest of journals at the higher end of the market to lessen the rigour of peer review. Nonetheless, there is a risk that lower quality journals might seek to reduce their quality threshold in order to generate profit. Were the author-pays publishing model to prevail it would be vital to ensure that peer review was not compromised in order to retain confidence in the integrity of the publishing process. (Paragraph 172) 67. The introduction of a submission fee would be an important step towards ensuring the quality of scientific publications and we strongly recommend that author-pays publishers introduce this system. (Paragraph 174) 68. The commercial and industrial sectors currently contribute significant funds to the publishing process through payments for journal subscriptions. Much of this money would be lost to the system if an author-pays model were to prevail. This is one of the key issues that needs to be addressed before the wholescale transition to an author-pays model can be supported. Government, publishers and industry need to work together to identify a solution to this problem in order to avoid a disproportionate increase in the amount of money that Government invests directly or indirectly in the publishing process. (Paragraph 177) 69. Learned societies are greatly valued by the academic and wider research community. It is of concern to us that learned societies could stand to lose a substantial portion of their income in a move to the author-pays publishing model. This is another key issue that proponents of the author-pays model need to address. (Paragraph 180) 70. We strongly support further experimentation with the author-pays publishing model. In the short term Government may need to provide limited financial assistance to encourage publishers and institutions to take part in what, for them, may be an expensive process. We applaud the Joint Information Systems Committee for providing funding for this purpose so far and hope that it will continue to do so. (Paragraph 184) 71. Author-pays publishing is a growing phenomenon. Its implementation on any scale will have important consequences for current funding structures and the UK publishing industry. So far the Government has shown little inclination to address this issue. (Paragraph 185) 72. Government has not shown much evidence of a joined-up approach to the challenges posed by changes to the model for scientific publishing. Whilst the central departments have been slow to respond to the author-pays publishing model, at least two Government-funded bodies have given public support to it. This creates unnecessary confusion. We recommend that it formulate a coherent strategy as a matter of urgency. (Paragraph 186) 73. We are satisfied that, by scaling publication with research costs, the author-pays publishing model would ensure a fairer global distribution of the costs of publishing research findings. (Paragraph 188) 74. The UK would put itself at a financial disadvantage internationally if it were to act alone in mandating publicly-funded researchers to publish in author-pays journals. (Paragraph 189) 75. Institutional repositories should be a key component of any long-term strategy to ensure the preservation of digital publications. (Paragraph 193) 76. The British Library has a crucial role to play in the preservation of digital publications, both strategically and practically. This is an expensive process. Whilst the publication of this Report is too late to have any influence on funding decisions made as part of the 2004 Spending Review, we strongly support the British Library's call for extra funding in recognition of the work that it has carried out in this capacity. Failure of the Government to give adequate funding to the British Library could result in the loss of a substantial proportion of the UK's scientific record. (Paragraph 196) 77. It is vital that work on regulations for the legal deposit of non-print publications begins as soon as possible. We cannot understand why DCMS has not yet established the Legal Deposit Advisory Panel. We recommend that they appoint the panel and begin preliminary work on the regulations at official level immediately. (Paragraph 199) 78. We recommend that the first task of the Advisory Panel is to establish definitions of a digital publication and a UK publication that are flexible enough to capture material from a range of sources in a range of formats. (Paragraph 200) 79. The existence of a secure network between the legal deposit libraries would create greater efficiencies in the deposit system and would have the potential to increase access to deposited material. We recommend that provisions for such a network are made in the regulations with these two aims in mind. The deposit libraries should be funded to establish the network. (Paragraph 201) 80. We recommend that the regulations make provision for the deposit libraries to deliver digital articles remotely to desktops on the same payment basis as Document Supply. (Paragraph 202) 81. Gaps of up to 60% in the deposit of electronically-delivered publications, including STM journals, represent a significant breach in the intellectual record. It is imperative that work on recovering and purchasing the missing items begins immediately. The six deposit libraries will need additional funding to do this. (Paragraph 203) 82. As is the case with any process, peer review is not an infallible system and to a large extent depends on the integrity and competence of the people involved and the degree of editorial oversight and quality assurance of the peer review process itself. Nonetheless we are satisfied that publishers are taking reasonable measures to main high standards of peer review. (Paragraph 207) [end]

1 0

The best business model for scholarly journals
by Shyam Prasad pujar 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Dear Members, Please go through Economists perspective about best business model for scholarly journals at: http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/28.html 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 * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

1 0

Keystone DLS from Indexdata
by Saiful Amin 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Hi, Has anybody tried to see how good or useful is the Keystone DL Suite developed by Indexdata (the company which developed YAZ toolkit for Z39.50)? The features looks promising and it's available under GNU License. The details are available at: http://www.indexdata.dk/keystone/ Regards, Saiful Keystone DLS The Keystone Digital Library Suite is a family of Open Source digital content management, portal management and information discovery software packaged together to provide libraries, museums and archives with state-of-the-art digital library services. KEYSTONE: CUSTOMIZED AND READY FOR USE If you are looking for a customized turnkey solution to provide your patrons with information portals and federated search services, and your staff with a digital object management system for cataloging and organizing locally created electronic objects, Index Data will install Keystone in your library, profiled for your unique needs. Our software and our support services are second to none. Just ask our satisfied customers! For libraries with the sufficient staff expertise, we offer several versions of Keystone for free downloading under a standard General Public License. Here are some of the functions supported by Keystone: * Portal Creation and Management * Federated Search Services * Harvesting Metadata from Remote Repositories * Link Resolver Services All this, and more, is available in our custom installed version of Keystone. And once we've installed Index Data software for your library, it is yours to keep and use for as long as you want, whether or not you choose to have a continuing relationship with Index Data. We think you will, however, because our service contracts provide you with all new releases along with the most responsive service available anywhere. KEYSTONE: YOURS WITHOUT EVEN ASKING Keystone is distributed under the standard General Public License, which means it is your to freely take and use, as long as you abide by the terms of the industry standard Open Source General Public License. The downloadable version of our flagship product relies on a number of lower level ID tools such as Zebra and YAZ/PHP, as well as on generic OSS tools such as database managers and XSLT processors. Please be advised that at this time it requires considerable expertise to download, integrate and customize all the separate pieces that go into making up the Keystone Suite of Digital Library Services. As time goes on we will evolve the Keystone download into a more packaged product that will be possible for non-programmers to install. KEYSTONE: AS YOU LIKE IT Many libraries have a great deal of in-house expertise, but still want limited installation services and ongoing maintenance support from Index Data's experienced staff. We can provide you with a balance between independence and a turnkey solution that meets your needs. KEYSTONE: BROWSER BASED All of Keystones rich functionality is accessible through a Web browser. No other client software is needed. The following browsers are supported: * Firefox 0.8+ * Internet Explorer 5.0+ * Konqueror 3.0+ * Mozilla 0.98+ * Netscape 7.0+ * Opera 7.23+ * Safari 1.0+ KEYSTONE IN ACTION The demoportal links to Bibliotheca, an installation of Keystone at Denmark's Electronic Research Library. You can go to the Library of Texas, which is powered by Keystone, for another example of a custom installation. KEYSTONE: COMPONENTS The Keystone Digital Library Suite has two Major Components: Keystone Organizer and Keystone Retriever. Keystone Organizer is both a content management service and a portal management service that stores all forms of digital content and facilitates metadata creation to describe that content. It also serves as the knowledge base for the federated search services, the harvesting services and the link resolver services that are elements of Keystone Retriever, as well as for its own portal management services. This means that library staff have one type of interface and one look-and-feel for all administration services and metadata creation throughout Keystone DLS. Keystone Retriever is a family of information discovery services that includes federated searching, harvesting services, and link resolution for linking from citations to full text. Index Data is also offering its Keystone Resolver either as a stand alone product or as part of its family of Keystone Retriever services. At this time Keystone Retriever uses third party electronic serials management systems to provide Keystone Retriever with the data it needs to perform its linking. ===== Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 28330999 Mobile: +91 98407 76214 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Careers: Over 65,000 jobs online Go to: http://yahoo.naukri.com/

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum] 25,000 titles (books) in Enginering field
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:58:34 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Strange indeed. Will any 25,000 books do? Is there no selection, no involvement in the selection by the faculty? In my long career I have had many friends in the publishing and bookselling industry. I have seen librarians/principals/professors coming to bookstalls in late March and procuring books in a hurry to beat the deadline. Even while we buy vegetables in the market, Indians pick and choose. But when it comes to books, we "have to procure' a certain number before a certain date to meet satisfy some body. The booksellers will unload all the unsold titles, remainders they bought by shipload. Arun -----Original Message----- From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 2:54 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] 25,000 titles (books) in Enginering field Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 07:08:15 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] vijaya kumara" <vijayakumar71(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear All Our College is going to get National Board of Accrediation, so we have to procure 25,000 title books on Engineering field. So any one of you will help me to get the list of 25,000 titles through net/web or any union catalogue of Engineering. The Engineering field may include Aeronauticla Engineering, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Electrical and Electronics, Industrial Engineering Management, Information Science Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Medical Electronics, Telecommunication Physics, Chemistry, and Mathes Wating for your good reply at the earliest Regards Vijayakumar M **************************************************************************** *********** Vijayakumar M, 080 - 28452324 Ext. 234 HOD - Library, library(a)mvjeducation.com MVJ College of Engineering, (ISO Certified Institute), Bangalore-560 067 _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

2 1

Re: [LIS-Forum] 25,000 titles (books) in Enginering field
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 22:57:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Puttaraj Choukimath <puttuc(a)yahoo.com> Dear Mr. Vijay, U can check 4 these options : 1. Web-OPACs : of the technological institites like IISc, IIT's, British Council Libraries, TIFR, CUSAT, NSL, ISI's, LOC, CoOPAC, etc. (Most of these are accessible via http://www.infolibrarian.com/opac.htm ) 2. Publishers' own sites : Most of the publishers have hosted their own web sites. Some of them popular in engg. are like * http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/ * http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/engineering.html * www.prenhall.com/ * http://www.textbookx.com/browse.php?code=TEC009000 * http://www.springeronline.com/ etc. 3.U may also require 2 aquire standards 4 ur library : U can check 4 these sites - * http://www.standardsindia.com/ * http://www.wssn.net/ * http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/CatalogueListPage.CatalogueList (many of such are accessible via http://www.infolibrarian.com/spt.htm 4. Union cataloges like : * http://www.rri.res.in/htmls/library/forsadb.html * 5. Other links to the publishers: such as - * http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/acqweb/pubr/ * http://www.business.com/directory/media_and_entertainment/publishing/books/… * http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Shopping_and_Services/Publishers/… OK? ALL THE BEST. Puttaraj, A.C. AL, TISS, Mumbai.

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum] 25,000 titles (books) in Engineering field
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:07:30 +0530 From: shubhada.apte(a)tcs.com 25,000 books - what is the approved expenditure for the same. Because while purchasing any book , cost as well as the quality of the content inside the book, both the things are important. Any book will have a value only when it is required by somebody. It is better to ask the staff, the employees, the subject experts which books are really needed. Also circulating the subject list among the reliable vendors will also help. Thanks and regards. Shubhada Sachin Apte Tata Consultancy Services Raja Shree Bldg. 8 Tadiwalla Road Pune - 411 001,Maharashtra India Mailto: shubhada.apte(a)tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com -----Original Truncated Message----- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 07:08:15 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] vijaya kumara" <vijayakumar71(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear All Our College is going to get National Board of Accrediation, so we have to procure 25,000 title books on Engineering field. So any one of you will help me to get the list of 25,000 titles through net/web or any union catalogue of Engineering. Wating for your good reply at the earliest Regards Vijayakumar M

1 0

25,000 titles-NBA
by Francis Jayakanth 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 22:25:10 -0700 (PDT) From: gayathri sen <gayatsen(a)yahoo.com> Dear Vijayakumar, Our college has got accredited by National Board for Accreditation and was ISO certified few years back. First thing please read AICTE norms for addition of books to Central Libraries of institutions carefully. You have to calculate the no. of titles that are required based on when your institution was incorporated and what was the intake. You get this AICTE handbook in its office near central college. After you calculate, see how many you already have in each subject area in your library. The shortage can be procured in this way. 1. I am sure you have reputed publishers catalog eg. PHI, Thomson Learning, TMH, Galgotia etc etc. with you. Circulate this to different departments or call for a meeting and bring it to their notice and ask them to give a list from each dept. 2. Arrange book exibitions in different areas required. 3. Get books on approval. Tell them you do not want very expensive books- but books from reputed publishers and economy editions. 4. If you are a member of DELNET go to their site and browse subject wise or institution wise, you get wonderful collection. Their address http://164.100.247.21/basisbwdocs/Welcome.html. Check in union catalog of books CCF format. Our institutions data is also there in DELNET database. In location field you give knPESIT, if you want pesit collection. 5. You can contact me for the list too. Hope this gives you enough information. Regards, Gayathri Sen, PESIT

1 0

Refresher course on IT for Librarians
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:38:38 +1000 From: Dr. Muttayya <muttayya_k(a)vsnl.com> Dear Member: Please find below a complete announcement regarding a refresher course to be conducted by Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library, TISS, Mumbai. There was an incomplete posting about this course yesterday. Sorry about it. - Moderator -------------- Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library, Tata Institute of Social Sciences is conducting a 21 days UGC Sponsored Refresher Course in the subject of Library & Information Science. The theme is Information Technology for Librarians. It is scheduled to be held from 6th to 26th Sept 2004. The objective of this Refresher Course is to make Librarians feel fresh and updated after the training is over and really contribute to the teaching learning process. The eligibility conditions are mentioned below. Application Form will be sent upon receipt of an e-mail request OR alternatively you can download the application form the library website <www.tiss.edu/library/> or from institute website <www.tiss.edu/ugcrc/> Minimum UGC Requirement for participation in Refresher Courses The Minimum UGC Requirement for participation in Refresher Courses is as follows: Here Librarian means either a College Librarian or a University Assistant Librarian/Lecturer In Library & Information Science who are in the pay scale of Rs.8000-13, 500 and above The gap in two successive Refresher Courses should normally be two years and may be relaxed if the adequate number of participants is not available or it is essential for the Librarian to fulfil eligibility condition for his/her career advancement. The College should be included in the List of Colleges under Section 2(f) of the UGC Act, even though they may not yet be fit under Section 12-13 of the same Act. If the College has not yet come within the purview of Section 2(f) but have been affiliated to a University for at least five years may also participate in the Refresher Course. The last date for submission of applications is 16th August 2004. Alternatively, for further assistance you may contact the Course Co-ordinators Satish Kanamadi Tel:022-25563290-96.Ext.285 E-mail: satish(a)tiss.edu Mallikarjun Angadi Tel:022-25563290-96.Ext.284 E-mail: angdi(a)rediffmail.com Your sincerely, Dr. Muttayya M. Koganuramath University Librarian -- ***************************************** Dr. Muttayya M. Koganuramath University Librarian Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library Tata Institute of Social Sciences P.B.No.8313, Sion-Trombay Road Deonar, Mumbai 400 088, INDIA Ph : 91-22- 2556 3289-96; Extn.281(O) 91-22- 2558 3375(R) Direct : 91-22-25513350 Fax : 91-22- 2556 2912 E.Mail : muttayya_k(a)vsnl.com Web : www.tiss.ernet.in/library *****************************************

1 0

Number of engineering Ph.D graduates from India
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Dear All We want to know (approximate) number of engineering Ph.D students graduating from Indian educational institutions per year, and institution wise distribution of these numbers. Thanks in advance for any help in this regard. 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

1 0

fixation of pay scale
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:01:09 +0530 From: Vijayalaxmi R Deshpande <vrd(a)powersearch.cpri.res.in> Moderator's Note: ----------------- Members who have inputs for the following posting are requested to send their replies directly to Vijayalaxmi R Deshpande <vrd(a)powersearch.cpri.res.in>. Vijayalaxmi, in turn is requested to consolidate all the inputs and post it back on the lis-forum for the benefit of other members. Please do not send your replies, for this posting, to either lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in or to mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in. Thanks for your cooperation and active participation. - Moderator ----------------Note ends here----------------- Dear Lis-forum members, I am Latha K N working as Librarian in CPRI since 1982. While fixing pay scale in V CPC, my scale was fixed to 5000 - 8000 scale instead of 5500 - 9000. Recently one more order published in Swamys News to fix all librarian's scale in 5500 -9000, when I gave representation by producing this order they are asking for original order where in central government autonomous organisation it is implemented. Kindly any of you have got this order or this is implemented let me know by return mail. Thanking you, Latha K N Librarian.

1 0

A news report on the national Allianace
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:55:41 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is a report that appeared in The Communication Initiative [http://www.comminit.com/pds72004/sld-10439.html]. Best wishes. Arun National Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Basic Human Needs - India Summary Formed in May 2004, the National Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Basic Human Needs will seek to take the knowledge-led services harnessed by ICTs to all of India's 600,000 villages by August 2007, when the country celebrates its 60th year of independence. The Alliance sees itself as acting as a catalyst for technology innovation for rural ICT applications and connectivity. "It will work to bring the private sector and the academia together with strong support from civil society organizations for experimenting every innovation among the target communities." The M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and OneWorld South Asia are jointly organising the Alliance. Main Communication Strategies The Alliance is using networking and partnership as strategies for taking ICTs to the poor and the disadvantaged in India's rural and urban communities. To begin the process of creating the alliance, 50 representatives drawn from civil society organisations, government departments, the private sector, and academia took part in consultations in May 2004. They set up 7 task forces, including connectivity, content, policy, capacity building, resources, organisation and management, and programme design. One focus of these task force activities will be how to use the ongoing efforts by the government and the private sector in creating an ICT infrastructure, human networks, and political institutions to provide multipurpose information kiosks in rural areas. "The info-kiosk of tomorrow would serve as a communication hub, providing multiple telephone and communication services to the village, a virtual academy and training center and banking, financial, insurance and trading outlet and much more." Face-to-face interaction will continue to be the Alliance's key strategy for sharing ideas and engaging in strategic planning toward the 2007 goal. These conversations take the form of "Policy Makers Workshops" like the May and July 2004 consultations. (Other such workshops were held in October 2003 and February 2004 to organise other MSRRF programmes designed to bridge the digital divide; please see Key Points, below). According to organisers, a number of key government people attended and spoke at the July 2004 meeting. According to MSRRF, these representatives expressed firm support for the National Alliance's work and a strong desire to collaborate. Here is an excerpt from the May 2004 meeting report, which indicates the Alliance's strategic direction (this document is available as a PDF document; please see contact section, below): The emergence of Rural Knowledge Centres and info-kiosk movement in our country has demonstrated that the local panchayats and self-help groups can take advantage of appropriate information and communication technologies and that they can easily access the scientific and technical knowledge they need to solve local problems and enhance the quality of their lives, as well as to communicate their own insights and needs back to Government departments and scientists. A national movement of knowledge centres needs to be established in mission mode to ensure quick implementation at the local level, create information infrastructure and locally appropriate and relevant content for rural economy through active involvement of Gram Sabhas, Local Self-Help groups and NGOs. For this a Rural Knowledge Centre Fund may be established by NABARD to cover 100,000 villages within 3 years. To provide the fillip the Government of India may provide necessary matching assistance to NABARD to the tune of Rs. 300 crores a year. These NABARD supported knowledge centres should work towards creating sustainable livelihood opportunities, and also serve as service providers and communication enablers for the landless and the poor, especially those belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other Backward Classes, women and the disabled - the most vulnerable groups in rural India....It will be useful if Government can proactively promote public-private and institutional partnerships facilitating outreach of the knowledge centres to cover the unreached villages in rural India. The active participation of this elected women and men members of local bodies crucial for the success of this movement. An integrated use of the Internet and Community Radio will be an effective means of reaching the unreached and voicing the voiceless. Development Issues Technology, Economic Development. Key Points The Alliance's work will be guided by the philosophy of MSSRF's Chairman, Prof. Swaminathan. Here is a synopsis of that approach, provided by MSSRF: "His focus is people. He looks at their contexts and needs and then proceeds to satisfy those needs within their context. He is ready to use any technology that comes in handy. For example, in our Information Village (Rural Knowledge Centres) project we use noticeboards, public address systems (loud speakers put up in different streets of a fishing village) and a local language twice-monthly community newspaper along with solar (photovoltaic) energy, the Internet, spread spectrum technology and Motorola two-way radio...For us technology is often a mere enabler. What people want delivered is healthcare, education, agriculture, markets, entitlements, credit, and better livelihoods. We work towards achieving the MDGs [Millenium Development Goals]." The National Alliance is a natural progression from MSSRF's ongoing efforts to set up rural knowledge centres in several villages - efforts that can be characterised as using a bottom-up approach and involving the community from the beginning. MSSRF comments, "These are not mere kiosks. They have become an integral part of the life of the village communities." This work is described in detail in "Rural Knowledge Centres: Harnessing Local Knowledge via Interactive Media Policy Makers Workshop" [PDF] </redirect.cgi?r=http://www.mssrf.org/publications/pmw.pdf>. For a summary of this workshop, click here <http://www.comminit.com/st2003/sld-9144.html>. Additional information is available on the MSSRF website </redirect.cgi?r=http://www.mssrf.org> (click on the words "Special Programmes" on the left navigation bar). Click here <http://www.comminit.com/DiscussionForums/sld-10232.html> to find out how to participate in a related Discussion Forum entitled "Information kiosks in every Indian village by 2007 - a myth or reality?". Partners The July workshop was supported by the International Development Research Center (IDRC), Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), NASSCOM Foundation, and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. It was organised by M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation and OneWorld South Asia. Source "National Alliance on ICTs for basic human needs launched" </redirect.cgi?r=http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/8 6557/1138/2150>, on the OneWorld South Asia website. Featured in the Digital Opportunity Channel - weekly newsletter - May 20-26, which was forwarded by Atanu Garai to the bytesforall_readers list server on May 26 2004 (click here to access the archives </redirect.cgi?r=http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers/>); and posting to the bytesforall_readers list server dated July 6 2004; and letter sent from Subbiah Arunachalam to The Communication Initiative on July 15 2004. For more information, contact: Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow arun(a)mssrf.res.in <mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in> subbiah_a(a)hotmail.com <mailto:subbiah_a@hotmail.com> Prof. M.S. Swaminathan Chairman msswami(a)mssrf.res.in <mailto:msswami@mssrf.res.in> M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) Third Cross Street, Institutional Area Taramani, Chennai - 600 113, India Tel.: +91-44-22541229, 22541698 Fax: +91-44-22541319 MSSRF website </redirect.cgi?r=http://www.mssrf.org> Dr. Basheerhamad Shadrach Director, OneWorld South Asia Basheerhamad.shadrach(a)oneworld.net <mailto:Basheerhamad.shadrach@oneworld.net> Placed on the Communication Initiative site July 15 2004. Last Updated July 15 2004. Please also see: http://www.comminit.com/pds72004/sld-10439.html National Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Basic Human Needs <http://www.comminit.com/pds72004/sld-10439.html> A network formed in May 2004 is working to bring ICTs to all of India's 600,000 villages by August 2007, when the country celebrates its 60th year of independence. The National Alliance sees itself as a catalyst for technology innovation for rural ICT applications and connectivity. Networking and partnership will be key strategies for taking ICTs to the poor and the disadvantaged: "It will work to bring the private sector and the academia together with strong support from civil society organizations for experimenting" with ICT innovations. The M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation and OneWorld South Asia are organising the Alliance.

1 0

Digital Libraries created by IIM Kozhikode, India
by JK Vijayakumar 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Dear Friends, Two Digital Libraries created by Center for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL) at Indian Institute of Management-Kozhikode (www.iimk.ac.in) is available for access 1. The first one crated basically for IIMK, is available at http://intranet.iimk.ac.in/cgi-bin/library . This DL has been created by using Greenstone Software and the same is listed at Greenstone site under examples at http://www.greenstone.org/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=examples. The copyrighted materials like eJournals and educational videos will not be able to access from outside, as they are accessible IP based only, and the second one (Videos) is copyrighted. But this can be a model, in a practical DL setting, which also can be emulated with our own collection. Also they are now putting lots of public domain material of interest to many people. 2. The second one "www.medinfoguide.org" they did for HIN/WHO as an eLearning platform for doctors in India, which has over 12 million citations, over 1500 plus free full-text eJournals and over 1000 eBooks meticulously packaged along with a host of value added information services. You can see the page announced at at "http://www.hin.org.in/". The test bed for this product was made at the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science, Bangalore in their 26 medical schools (you can see the site hosted at RGUHS "http://www.rguhs.ac.in/" also, at "E-Learning@RGUHS" link. Lots of our medical librarians/libraries shall benefit out of this. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/

1 0

25,000 titles (books) in Enginering field
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 07:08:15 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] vijaya kumara" <vijayakumar71(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear All Our College is going to get National Board of Accrediation, so we have to procure 25,000 title books on Engineering field. So any one of you will help me to get the list of 25,000 titles through net/web or any union catalogue of Engineering. The Engineering field may include Aeronauticla Engineering, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Electrical and Electronics, Industrial Engineering Management, Information Science Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Medical Electronics, Telecommunication Physics, Chemistry, and Mathes Wating for your good reply at the earliest Regards Vijayakumar M *************************************************************************************** Vijayakumar M, 080 - 28452324 Ext. 234 HOD - Library, library(a)mvjeducation.com MVJ College of Engineering, (ISO Certified Institute), Bangalore-560 067

2 1

full text articles
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 00:07:23 -0700 (PDT) From: gayathri sen <gayatsen(a)yahoo.com> Dear Arvindkumar, Your should regularly browse all issues of infowatch newletter by NCSI, IISc, which is an excellent resource for latest internet free sites. Maybe you will get something on the area of your interest. I find the newsletter very useful. Regards, Gayathri Sen, PESIT

1 0

justice
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 00:32:30 -0700 (PDT) From: gayathri sen <gayatsen(a)yahoo.com> Dear members, I congradulate Rajesh on passing the CAT Exam. It is very unfortunate to note that admission is not given at IIM. B.Lib.Sc. is a post graduate programme and he has done his M..Lib. Inf. Sc. also, and passed the entrence exam of IIM too. The university from which he passed, UGC and dept. of Lib.Sc. of different universities and also ILA should take up this issue very seriously to bring professional dignity for our profession. Regards, Gayathri Sen, PESIT

1 0

UC Press - free e-books
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:29:47 +0530 From: Krishnan <krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in> University of California Press http://www.ucpress.edu/ following the pioneering lead of the National Academy Press http://www.nap.edu/ has released 400+ books for public consumption http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/titles_public.html Dr. S. Krishnan Head, Information Division=20 National Chemical Lab, PUNE 411008, INDIA HYPERLINK "http://www.ncl-india.org"http://www.ncl-india.org Tel: 020-25893457; Fax: 020-25893973

1 0

Re: Re: [LIS-Forum] request for references
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:30:22 +0530 From: head_infoservices <head_infoservices(a)indiatimes.com> Dear Mr. Abhilash, Please refer to the magazine of Information Today, Inc. COMPUTERS IN LIBRARIES. It is an excellent source and I hope it will help you alot in your research study. Please visit the link below. http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/jul04/index.shtml Regards Sanjay Singh ---------Original Message---------- Dear Professionals I am doing research in the topic "IMPACT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES" Can you suggest any journals/articles or books published in this area. Abhilash SKCET COIMBATORE

1 0

Re: UDC Abridged Edition
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:28:06 +0530 (India Standard Time) From: indk68 <indk68(a)hotmail.com> Dear LIS Professionals, Ultimately, we r able to contact M/s Book Supply Bureau, Bangalore and also Mr.S. R. Taqi.Thanks alot for ur just-in-time response= Indira K. ICFAI University Hyderabad-500 082

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] Refresher Course in LIS
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 08:23:26 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] chandrakant gangurde" <gangurdechandrakant(a)yahoo.co.in> 16th July 2004 Dear all professionals Reply to infromation about refresher/orientation course in library and information science is going to organise in `Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial library,Tata Institute of Social Sciences, deonar , Mumbai-400 088. The topic of the course is `Information Technology for Librarians' and it is from 6th to 26th Sept. 2004.You can contact to address given below. Dr. Muttyya koganuramath University Librarian Tata Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Sion-Trombay Rd., Deonar, Mumbai 400 088 Phone: 91-22-5563289-96 Ext. 281(O) Fax 91-22-5562912 E.Mail:muttayya@bom3.vsnl.net.in Chandrakant Gangurde Library Asst. Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library TISS Mumbai-88. -----Original Message------- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 03:39:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Aloor Thomas Francis Dear Professionals, I would like to know about the Universiities or Institutes who have plan to organise Refresher / Orientation Courses in Library and Information Science in the near future. A.T. Francis Assistant Librarian Kerala Agricultural University Thrissur - 680 656 E-mail: francisaloor(a)yahoo.com

1 0

Fwd: Call for Papers- Encyclopedia of Digital Government
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:18:03 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> ************* Call for Papers ******************** Encyclopedia of Digital Government http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/ISI/EnDigG/ *********************************************** 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 --------------------------------- Too much spam in your inbox? Yahoo! Mail gives you the best spam protection for FREE! Get Yahoo!Mail

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] Websites of free Full text Articles
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:03:20 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> hi first of all u should tell what do u mean by full text articles? if it is journal, no one will give u free of cost. u have to subscribe for the databases or journals. if u want use google- they may not be very specific and specialised. if everything is avaialable free, why people buy the journals? there are free e-jpournals and some open access jpornals in sc & Tech - which u may try for articles laxman rao ------Original Message-------- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: 14 Jul 2004 13:41:50 -0000 From: aravind llm shety Dear members, I am working as Assistant Librarian in BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited, Hyderabad. The work of Internet literature searching is assigned to me.Can any body suggest the Internet sources for getting free full text articles on the following broad subjects. * Aerospace Engineering * Avionics * Radar engineering * Missile technology etc It will be of great help for me if any body suggest the websites relating to the above subjects. Thanking you Arvindkumar M Bhadrashetty Assistant Librarian BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd Hyderabad

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] How can we do justice?
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:39:18 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] RANJAN BARIK" <ranjan_tld(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Friends, It is really a matter of dissapointment for our profession and existence of LIS courses.We library and information science professionals contribute a lot in the development of our nation. Still then why we are kept in the back foot academically. It is a big challange for the library associations to keep the professional intrest . I would expect more suggessions and comments from the members of Prestigious LIS Discussion Group. With regards Ranjan Library Trainee, INFLIBNET Centre ranjan(a)inflibnet.ac.in -----Original Message------ Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:56:32 +0530 From: rajesh chandrakar Dear Professionals, Two years ago, having an enthusium to do something good in the career and for the profession, I appeared for CAT examination for Fellowship in Management offered by IIM, Ahmedabad on Information Systems. Eligibility for apprearing in the fellowship is Master Degree in any discipline with atleast 55 per cent marks. I am having Bachelor in Science (PCM), Master in Library Science & Information Science from Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University Raipur and Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application from the same university. Unfortunately, after getting passed in CAT-2002, I could not get the interview call letter from the IIM, Ahmedabad by saying that the Master degree which I acquired is not two years course as it is one year course after one year B.Lib.I.Sc on the subject. I contacted the Director of the Institute, Dr. Dolakiya and the Fellowship committee regarding my disqualification as mentioned to me. I got result from the committee saying that prima-facie it appears I am not illigible for it. Even though, I have contacted to the UGC as well as the Association of Indian University regarding my disqualification. I got certificates from both the institutes and submitted to the Fellowship committee, inspite of that they appeared neutral on the issue. Now, my request to the professionals, what can we do in this regards, if any dear and near professionals want to acquire kind of fellowship from kind of reputed institutes. If situation occurs like this, where they should go and get justice out it? This query is for other young professionals of the community for their bright future. with regards, Rajesh _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Yahoo! India Careers: Over 65,000 jobsonline.

1 0

Radio Talk on EIM!! (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:43:34 +0530 (IST) From: Poornima Narayan <poornima(a)css.nal.res.in> Topic: NEW TRENDS IN ELECTRONIC INFORMATION MANAGEMENT Speaker: Mr. I R N GOUDAR, HEAD, INFORMATION CENTER, N A L DATE & Time: Wednesday the 21th July at 21.15 Hrs (9.15 pm) ALL INDIA RADIO, BANGALORE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Poornima Narayana Contact: 080-25086083 (O) Dy Head, ICAST 080-26682781 (R) N.A.L E mail: poornima(a)css.nal.res.in Airport Road prn_1_in(a)yahoo.com Bangalore 560 017 Fax: 080-25268072

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum] need for web-based Platform/Software to host e-b ooks
by Raju MJM 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

Dear Anand, This is a valid point. These sort of features are existing for elearing mgmt tools. If the content is SCORM or AICC complaint irrespective of the vendor you can add your content to the tool which takes care of the integration. I am yet to come across such an ebook mgmt tool. Thnx With regards \|/ (o o) ( O ) o-o-o-o--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o MJM Raju Siemens Public Communication Networks(Pvt.)Ltd., Division : Siemens Communication Software 10th Floor, Raheja Towers, MG Road, Bangalore - 560 001, India. Tel: +91(080)2506 2245(Off), +91(080)2570 3745(Res) Fax: +91(080)2559 4369, Raju.MJM(a)Siemens.com -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o (__) (__) -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Byrappa, Ananda (Research) Sent: 15 July, 2004 10:01 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] need for web-based Platform/Software to host e-books Publishers are coming out with more and more e-books and existing e-book collections/databases like knovel, netlibrary and ebrary etc, does not allow us to integrate/add all the purchased e-books to their collection. This has created a barrier to Library & Information Centers to have an integrated and searchable e-book collection/database. Have you come across any third party/neutral tools/software to integrate e-books from different publishers, without compromising on IPR issues? Best Regards, Anand Anand T Byrappa Whitney Knowledge Centre GE India Technology Centre Pvt.Ltd., 122, EPIP, Phase 2, Hoodi Village, Whitefield Road, Bangalore - 560066, INDIA Phone : +91-80-2503-2618, DialCom: 8*901 2618 Fax : +91-80-2841-2114, Email : Ananda.Byrappa(a)ge.com _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

1 0

Websites of free Full text Articles
by Mailing List Manager 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

Date: 14 Jul 2004 13:41:50 -0000 From: aravind llm shety <aravind_1(a)rediffmail.com> Dear members, I am working as Assistant Librarian in BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited, Hyderabad. The work of Internet literature searching is assigned to me.Can any body suggest the Internet sources for getting free full text articles on the following broad subjects. * Aerospace Engineering * Avionics * Radar engineering * Missile technology etc It will be of great help for me if any body suggest the websites relating to the above subjects. Thanking you Arvindkumar M Bhadrashetty Assistant Librarian BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd Hyderabad

2 1

need for web-based Platform/Software to host e-books
by Byrappa, Ananda (Research) 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

Publishers are coming out with more and more e-books and existing e-book collections/databases like knovel, netlibrary and ebrary etc, does not allow us to integrate/add all the purchased e-books to their collection. This has created a barrier to Library & Information Centers to have an integrated and searchable e-book collection/database. Have you come across any third party/neutral tools/software to integrate e-books from different publishers, without compromising on IPR issues? Best Regards, Anand Anand T Byrappa Whitney Knowledge Centre GE India Technology Centre Pvt.Ltd., 122, EPIP, Phase 2, Hoodi Village, Whitefield Road, Bangalore - 560066, INDIA Phone : +91-80-2503-2618, DialCom: 8*901 2618 Fax : +91-80-2841-2114, Email : Ananda.Byrappa(a)ge.com

2 1

Brain Storming: OAI & OSS & S (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:46:49 +0530 (IST) From: I.R.N.Goudar <goudar(a)css.nal.res.in> Open Access Services, Sources and Standards Half a Day Brain Storming Session President and office bearers of Society for Information Science, Bangalore Chapter and British Library, Bangalore cordially invite you for half a day brain storming session on Open Access Services, Sources and Standards. Following colleagues will initiate the discussion on the topics mentioned: 1. Dr. T.B. Rajashekar, Associate Chairman, NCSI, IISc, Bangalore Open Access Movement, Services and Issues 2. Dr. A.R.D. Prasad, Associate Professor, DRTC/ISI, Bangalore Open Source Software and Standards VENUE: Conference Hall, British Library, Prestige Takt, 23, Kasturba Road Cross, Bangalore 560 001 Tel: 22489220 DATE : 20th July, 2004 (Tuesday), 2.00 pm Discussions will be moderated by Prof. C.R. Karisiddappa, Ex President ILA and Professor, Dept. of LIS, Karnatak University, Dharwad. (I.R.N. Goudar) Secretary, SIS Bangalore Chapter. Please Note: I have appended a brief note on this topic, an article on OSS&S and select list of reading materials along with URLs. Please make this program interesting and meaningful by your active participation. Society for Information Science Bangalore Chapter C/O ICAST, National Aerospace Laboratories, Airport Road, Bangalore-560017 Tel: 2508-6080; Fax No: 2526-8072; e-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Open Access Services, Sources and Standards A Brief Note Information resources especially journals have become very expensive. Even the best universities and research organizations cannot afford to buy all those resources that they need. The open access movement has brought some relief for this eternal problem. Vast collections of high-quality publications are being made available through Internet for everybody to use without any payment. Creating and distributing this information is expensive, yet individuals and organizations provide it freely. The roots of OAI lie in the development of e-print repositories. E-print repositories were established in order to communicate the results of ongoing scholarly research prior to peer review and journal publication. The earliest of these was xxx (later arXiv), which began with high energy physics in 1991 and expanded to cover the field of physics plus related fields of mathematics, nonlinear sciences and computer science. The Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (NCSTRL) provided access to computer sciences technical reports deposited either in xxx or in departmental repositories of cooperating research bodies. The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) built a digital library of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) authored by students of member institutions. Few other Open Access Services are: "PubMed Service" of The National Library of Medicine; "Books in Print +" through the web site of Amazon.com; and CERN Document Server. Web interfaces allowed people to interact with these repositories and some finding aids were provided. Different interfaces were designed for different repositories, so end users were forced to learn diverse interfaces in order to access the various repositories and finding aids. Certain key players in these developments came to see interoperability as an increasingly important issue to be addressed by the e-print community. Two key interoperability problems were identified as impairing the impact of e-print archives: end users were faced with multiple search interfaces making resource discovery harder, and there was no machine-based way of sharing the metadata. Solutions that were being explored included cross-searching of archives and harvesting archive metadata in order to provide centralised search services. OAI-PMH is a simple protocol based on HTTP and XML with flexible deployment. A number of toolkits are available. Metadata and full-text resources are typically made freely available. Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community, specifically through the OSI Certified Open Source Software certification mark and program. One can read about successful software products that have these properties, and about our certification mark and program, which allow you to be confident that software really is "Open Source." One also make copies of approved open source licenses here. The basic idea behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing. Some key definitions Open Archive Initiative (OAI) OAI is an initiative to develop and promote interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. Archive The term "archive" in the name Open Archives Initiative reflects the origins of the OAI in the e-prints community here the term archive is generally accepted as a synonym for repository of scholarly papers. Members of the archiving profession have justifiably noted the strict definition of an "archive" within their domain; with connotations of preservation of long-term value, statutory authorization and institutional policy. The OAI uses the term "archive" in a broader sense: as a repository for stored information. Language and terms are never unambiguous and uncontroversial and the OAI respectfully requests the indulgence of the professional archiving community with this broader use of "archive" . OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) OAI-PMH is a lightweight harvesting protocol for sharing metadata between services. Protocol A protocol is a set of rules defining communication between systems. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and HTTP (Hypertext Transport Protocol) are examples of other protocols used for communication between systems across the Internet. Harvesting In the OAI context, harvesting refers specifically to the gathering together of metadata from a number of distributed repositories into a combined data store. Data Provider A Data Provider maintains one or more repositories (web servers) that support the OAI-PMH as a means of exposing metadata. Service Provider A Service Provider issues OAI-PMH requests to data providers and uses the metadata as a basis for building value-added services. A Service Provider in this manner is "harvesting" the metadata exposed by Data Providers Aggregator An OAI aggregator is both a Service Provider and a Data Provider. It is a service that gathers metadata records from multiple Data Providers and then makes those records available for gathering by others using the OAI-PMH. Dublin Core Dublin Core (DC) is a metadata format defined on the basis of international consensus. The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set defines fifteen elements for simple resource description and discovery, all of which are recommended, and none of which are mandatory. DC has been extended with further optional elements, element qualifiers and vocabulary terms. DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI's activities include consensus-driven working groups, global workshops, conferences, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices. E-print An e-print is an author self-archived document. In the sense that the term is ordinarily used, the content of an e-print is the result of scientific or other scholarly research. Interoperability Interoperability is the ability of systems, services and organisations to work together seamlessly toward common or diverse goals. In the technical arena it is supported by open standards for communication between systems and for description of resources and collections, among others. Interoperability is considered here primarily in the context of resource discovery and access. Metadata Structured information about resources (including both digital and non-digital resources). Metadata can be used to help support a wide range of operations on those resources. In the context of services based on metadata harvested via OAI-PMH, the most common operation is discovery and retrieval of resources. ----------- Open Source, Open Standards Karen Coyle Information Technology and Libraries: 2004, 21(1), 33-37 (http://www.lita.org/ital/2101_coyle.html) When people speak of open source software they are referring to computer code - programs that run. But code is only the final step in the information technology process. Prior to writing code the information technology professional must do analysis to determine the nature of the problem to be solved and the best way to solve it. When software projects fail, the failure is more often than not attributable to shortcomings in the planning and analysis phase rather than in the coding itself. Open source software provides some particular challenges for planning since the code itself will be worked on by different programmers and will evolve over time. The success of an open source project will clearly depend on the clarity of the shared vision of the goals of the software and some strong definitions of basic functions and how they will work. This all-important work of defining often takes place through standards and the development of standards that everyone can use has become a movement in itself: open standards. Open standards are publicly available standards that anyone can incorporate into their software. An example from the library environment is the MARC record standard. The original documentation for the MARC record was published by the American National Standards Institute.1 The most common use of the standard, that of the MARC21 records that libraries adhere to, is also published and available for use. No one owns the MARC record format; there are no fees for its use and no restrictions on who can use it in their products. Any software developer who wishes to write for library systems therefore has access to a vital part of the system needs: the basic data structure that libraries use today. This may seem so obvious that its importance is hard to grasp. In fact, the library world has probably made more use of open standards than practically any other industry. Let's face it, "open" is practically our middle name. Examples from the non-open world of proprietary software might help us understand the importance of our preference for open standards, and the examples are not hard to find: Microsoft Windows versus the Macintosh operating system; VHS versus Betamax; Nintendo versus Sega. In each case you have unique products that are inherently incompatible. As a matter of fact, this incompatibility is purposeful and actually enhanced by the companies in question as part of their market strategy. If you need to compete, then openness is a disadvantage. If you need to cooperate, then openness is the way to go. Goals of Open Standards Open standards can serve multiple needs. The most common one is the need for interoperability. Interoperability refers to communication between systems or system parts. In the highly networked world of the twenty-first century, the ability for computer systems to exchange data in order to carry out basic functions is absolutely vital since most systems operate in a vast and varied digital community. Our library systems communicate electronically with sources of bibliographic records, book vendors, and users. They also now interconnect themselves with networked information resources outside of the library and deliver these through library-maintained interfaces. Much of this communication is through open-standard interfaces, such as Z39.50, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), and hypertext transport protocol (HTTP).2 These standards operate at the point where system boundaries touch; they determine the rules of the digital membrane but do not determine how systems handle data up to that point of permeability. Internally, few systems store bibliographic data in the format prescribed by ANSI Z39.2, the basis for the MARC record. But they are able to transform the data into that format for communication with other systems. Another purpose of open standards is to create the framework for a community. In many ways this is the prime reason for many library standards. The use of common cataloging rules does not so much allow libraries to intercommunicate as it does create a certain look and feel and a commonality between libraries that is an aid to users. It allows users to move between libraries without having to learn a whole new process for finding materials, and it makes it possible for the library profession to train librarians and hire from among a pool of candidates. The cataloging rules, published and readily available to anyone with the desire and patience to learn them, contributed to the rise of professional (rather than artisan) librarianship. Creating the rules brought members of the library community together to ponder not only the vagaries of title pages but also to confront some basic philosophical issues about the organization of knowledge. Today, in a world where many activities are performed through computer programs, open standards can be promulgated as a way to encourage decentralized development. Much of the work of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) falls into this area. The W3C is a membership-sponsored standards body that creates new standards for the Web. These standards can be used by anyone writing software for the Web. What is critical about many of these standards is that they set the foundation for entirely new Web functions; functions that will only work if many different people develop their part of the software that is needed. This is rather hard to describe but should become clear with an example. I'll use the recent development of the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P).3 P3P is a set of rules that allows Web sites to describe their privacy practices in a standard way. It would also allow Web users to express their "privacy preferences" using the same standard vocabulary. P3P does not specify how this will be implemented on the Web; the development of actual software will be left to the rather amorphous Web community. For P3P to be part of the Web, it will be necessary for Web site owners to incorporate P3P into their sites, and for Web browsers to create a user interface to the function. But for P3P to be successful, it needs to be recognized by all major browsers (Internet Explorer, Netscape, and AOL), and it must be used by a large number of Web sites. Since many companies and institutions make use of software like FrontPage or Cold Fusion to develop their large and complex Web sites, tools for building P3P will need to be included in these packages. By specifying a standard for privacy preferences, the W3C is attempting to set in motion a very decentralized software development project that will need to be undertaken by a wide variety of players. Sort of Open versus Really Open Although we speak about open standards, some are more open than others. This is because there are a variety of aspects to open standards, and standards that call themselves open do not always adhere to all of these. Open standards are: standards that anyone can use to develop software or functions; standards in which anyone can participate in their development and modification; and standards that anyone can obtain without a significant price barrier. The best example of standards that meet all of those criteria are those created by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The IETF dates back to pre-Internet days, when it was a group of engineers working on the first developments that eventually became the basis for that network. These engineers developed a way of chronicling and communicating their technical ideas through a series of documents called Requests for Comments or RFCs.4 The first RFCs were almost in the form of notices ("OK, I'm going to send packets with a 5-byte header, let me know if you can read them"), but as time went on the RFCs became well-thought-out standards that had been developed by groups of volunteers. Anyone can comment on the RFC, either to point out errors or to make suggestions. Even after the technical decisions in the RFC are accepted and implemented, the RFC remains an RFC. Some RFCs improve or comment on previous ones, as technology changes or as better ideas arise. The functioning of the IETF is like a lesson in democracy: one person or a group of people sees the need for a new or modified function for the Internet; they draft a proposal which is placed on the Internet for anyone to read and comment on; if the proposed function meets a need and is successfully tested with an actual program, it becomes part of Internet use. The IETF is open to anyone who wishes to participate. That last statement needs qualification, however: participation in the IETF requires a high level of technical knowledge and a considerable amount of a person's time. Those who make up the various IETF committees are a self-selected technocracy. And while the philosophy of the IETF is one of engineering "purity," today's committees invariably have members who represent technology companies that often have a particular bias toward their own products. Still, there is no other standards organization that is as open as the IETF, and there is still considerable input from the academic and research communities. This can be compared to the W3C, the standards organization formed to develop and promulgate standards for the Web. Participation in the W3C is limited to members - predominantly technology companies - who pay between $5,000 and $50,000 per year to belong to the group. Compared to the IETF, this group is lacking the academic and research engineers who bring a financially neutral viewpoint to the discussions. There are also almost no members who might represent a public interest viewpoint. This latter is significant because the W3C does not limit itself to standards of engineering; there is an effort called Technology and Society (within which P3P was developed) that develops standards for functions like content filtering and privacy. There are a number of other standards bodies, such as the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), the International Standards Organization (ISO), and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). These organizations have members who participate directly in the development of standards. The standards, once developed, are not only open for use, but some of them are actually mandatory within certain industries. Obtaining the actual text of the standards is, however, another question. Standards-making is an expensive enterprise and standards bodies have traditionally made money on the sale of the printed form of their standards. Since many companies and organizations would be required to adhere to the standard, this provided a kind of guaranteed audience for the standards documents, many of which carried rather hefty price tags. The W3C, having arisen from the Internet community (and with the example of the IETF preceding it) makes its standards available for open access on the Web. In comparison, the document from ISO describing the Universal Character Set which all modern computing is moving toward is priced at about one hundred dollars. Although it isn't a huge price if viewed in light of the research and development budget of a company, it does make it difficult for small organizations, nonprofits, schools and libraries, and individuals to make active use of the standards. Responding to these needs and to the move toward greater openness in the standards area, in 2000 NISO became the only national standards organization making its standards available over the Internet for free. There is some risk because this removes a significant revenue stream from the organization. The gain is that the organization should be even more successful in its primary mission, which is that of providing standards for widespread use. Open Standards and Libraries The first of the library technology standards was the decision at the first annual ALA meeting in September of 1877 to standardize the catalog card at 7.5 x 12.5 cm.5 While this was intended to make mass production of cards possible (and by analogy more standardized production of card cabinets as well), the advantages of an open standard manifested themselves when in 1898 the Library of Congress (LC) began its printed card service. This was possible only because libraries in the United States were using the same sized card and thus filing into cabinets that held cards of that size. We can consider the LC card service the technological predecessor of the MARC record service of the latter half of the twentieth century. The card-size standard was its key to interoperability. The next technological standard of great interest was the computerization of those same cards through the MARC record standard. Prior to the development of what we now think of as MARC, a group of librarians led by Henriette Avram of LC developed a machine-readable record format standard for bibliographic data, ANSI Z39.2. This standard made use of other national standards, such as the ASCII character set. Although at the time only LC had the capability of producing the records (and the motivation to do so), this is arguably the most significant technological development of modern librarianship. By establishing an open standard for machine-readable records, LC created the basis for the computerization of library catalogs. That wasn't the intention in 1965 when Z39.2 was proposed, however. LC was focused on automating its card production services and creating a print-on-demand card service. Like Dewey's desire to reduce the cost of card-stock production, the LC standard, because it was open, was available to be used in ways that its creators had not yet imagined. Few library open standards have been as successful as the MARC standard. Since 1965 arguably the most widely used standard is Z39.50, the protocol for information retrieval from remote databases. Z39.50 takes advantage of the existence of searchable bibliographic databases in library automation systems and the networking provided through the Internet. The protocol had a somewhat slow beginning, partly due to its complexity, but today the functionality is included in most library system packages and there are even open source versions of the software. Other standards have been less successful. One example is the Common Command Language (CCL), Z39.58. CCL is a standard set of commands for searching in online catalogs that was developed by NISO in 1992. When the standard came up for its five-year NISO review the organization's members allowed the standard to lapse. Although some systems claim to use a common command language, these generally do not use the standard commands defined in the NISO standard. So how did a standard become not a standard after all? The reason for creating a common command language was not unlike one of the original motivations behind a standardized set of cataloging rules: the uniformity between libraries makes it easier for users to move from library to library. A common command language is especially important in current times because users may be using a number of library systems almost simultaneously over the Internet. Why would such a useful standard fail? There are a number of reasons why standards might not be adopted. One of the obvious ones in terms of the CCL standard is the fact that the technology that the standard responded to, the command-line interface to library databases, was eclipsed by a new technology, the Web browser. Although some command-line searching remains, it is not the main user interface. Another reason for the lack of adoption of the CCL is something that gives standards development a tricky aspect: people seem less likely to accept standards that affect the content aspects of their computer systems. Successful standards tend to define background functions, and leave a great deal of flexibility for system developers in terms of presentation. For example, the protocols that control the Internet e-mail function do not dictate how e-mail will be presented to the user. Everything from the command line Pine e-mail software to the almost user-obsequious Microsoft Outlook product make use of the same e-mail protocols. Yet another reason is that standardizing the command line gains you very little where the underlying indexes of the system are not themselves standardized. The command line is merely the interface to a much more complex set of decisions about what fields feed into what indexes, and about how the data in those language-based fields is treated for the purpose of searching. The lesson here is that not all aspects of systems are ideal candidates for normalization. Whether rational or whimsical, system developers clearly express a need to have a certain amount of freedom. Standards need to facilitate functionality without suppressing the creativity of system developers or their ability to meet the needs of their particular target audience. Standards work best in the underlying technology layers and less well the closer one gets to the actual user. Some library standards currently in development might fit this bill. For example, the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP) standard for interlibrary loan (ILL) is intended to facilitate interoperability between library systems for ILL transactions.6 ILL is an obvious area where communication between diverse systems is needed for automation of the function. Libraries don't live by library standards alone, however. Increasingly our library systems are interacting with the wider world of technology, delivering library services over public networks. We use mainstream standards such as the Internet protocols developed by the IETF, the Web protocols of the W3C, the character sets defined internationally by the ISO. Library representatives were heavily involved in the latter effort, having already participated in the development of a similar standard known as Unicode. However, there is virtually no library participation in organizations such as the IETF or W3C, even though the standards developed by these organizations are vital to our operations. Not only are libraries missing from the standards groups, so also are schools and nonprofit organizations, which are kept out not only by the membership fees but also by the labor requirements for active participation: the need to dedicate a significant amount of time of a highly skilled technical worker to the standards process. While it is unlikely that individual libraries would be able to be active in a standards organization, we now have a possible model for greater library participation: in 2000, the American Library Association (ALA) joined the Open eBook Forum (OEBF), an industry group working on e-book standards. By leveraging the strength of ALA's membership it has been possible to spread the burden of participation while at the same time provide a visible library presence for the standards process. Conclusion The Internet has given us an entirely new model for the cooperative development of highly complex systems and subsequently of the standards that allow those systems to work. Although the Internet has not lived up to some of the Utopian promises of its early days, it still allows a low entry barrier for active participation; so low in fact that individuals can create their own Web sites right on the same network beside those of major companies. We might not be able to give all of the credit to the IETF and its example of open standards, but it is clear that open standards are an essential element in the success of the Internet and its widespread use. Continuing the open standards tradition will be essential for its continued success. References and Notes 1. National Information Standards Organization (U.S.), Information Interchange Format (Bethesda, Md.: NISO Pr., 1994.) National Information Standards Series ANSI/NISO Z39.2-1994. 2. National Information Standards Organization, Information Retrieval (Z39.50): Application Service Definition and Protocol Specification (Bethesda, Md.: NISO Pr., 1995.) 3. Full documentation on P3P is available at www.w3.org/P3P. Accessed Oct. 2, 2001. 4. There are a number of sites that house searchable copies of the IETF RFCs. The official IETF RFC site is www.ietf.org/rfc.html. Accessed Oct. 2, 2001. 5. Wayne A. Wiegand, Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey (Chicago: ALA, 1996): 53-54. 6. NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol is a draft standard, available for review and testing. Accessed Oct. 2, 2001, www.niso.org/committees/committee_at.html.

1 0

How can we do justice?
by Mailing List Manager 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:56:32 +0530 From: rajesh chandrakar <rajesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in> Dear Professionals, Two years ago, having an enthusium to do something good in the career and for the profession, I appeared for CAT examination for Fellowship in Management offered by IIM, Ahmedabad on Information Systems. Eligibility for apprearing in the fellowship is Master Degree in any discipline with atleast 55 per cent marks. I am having Bachelor in Science (PCM), Master in Library Science & Information Science from Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University Raipur and Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application from the same university. Unfortunately, after getting passed in CAT-2002, I could not get the interview call letter from the IIM, Ahmedabad by saying that the Master degree which I acquired is not two years course as it is one year course after one year B.Lib.I.Sc on the subject. I contacted the Director of the Institute, Dr. Dolakiya and the Fellowship committee regarding my disqualification as mentioned to me. I got result from the committee saying that prima-facie it appears I am not illigible for it. Even though, I have contacted to the UGC as well as the Association of Indian University regarding my disqualification. I got certificates from both the institutes and submitted to the Fellowship committee, inspite of that they appeared neutral on the issue. Now, my request to the professionals, what can we do in this regards, if any dear and near professionals want to acquire kind of fellowship from kind of reputed institutes. If situation occurs like this, where they should go and get justice out it? This query is for other young professionals of the community for their bright future. with regards, Rajesh

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] UDC Abridbed ed. & AACR2R
by Mailing List Manager 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:44:48 +0530 From: Vijayalaxmi R Deshpande <vrd(a)powersearch.cpri.res.in> Dear Madam, You can get UDC schedules from M/s Book Supply Bureau, Bangalore who deal with BS STANDARDS. As UDC has BS Standard no. we can get it from this firm. We are using UDC and purchased from this firm. Bangalore M/s. Book Supply Bureau Mr.N.Sasidharan Mr. P. Sunil Mr. P. Sudheer 628 1st MAIN ROAD, 1st Stage, Indira Nagar BANGALORE 560 038 KARNATAKA PHONE : +91 80 525 0374, 525 3511. Mobile Ph. +91 80 36886435 FAX : +91 80 525 0662 Email: bsb(a)bgl.vsnl.net.in Andhra Pradesh Mr. S.R. Taqi Hyderabad. Ph. +91 40 407 7081 Mobile Ph. +91 40 32337375 Mr. Akbar Shaik Visakhapatnam. Ph. +91 891 526755 Mobile Ph. +91 891 3124490 With regards, Mrs. Vijayalakshmi R.Deshpande SENIOR LIBRARIAN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTRE, CENTRAL POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, No.8066, Sadashivanagar post BANGALORE - 560 080 -----Original Message----- From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Date: Monday, July 12, 2004 5:32 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] UDC Abridbed ed. & AACR2R >Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:44:01 +0530 (India Standard Time) >From: indk68 <indk68(a)hotmail.com> > >Can anyone furnish the details of vendors, who can supply UDC -Abridged >edition, 2003 and AACR 2R 2003, within one week. We have been trying for >our institution since one month, but unable to locate a vendor. > > >Thank you > >Indira K. >ICFAI University >Hyderabad-500 082 > >E-mail: indk68(a)hotmail.com >

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] request for references
by Mailing List Manager 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 13:49:41 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> as no library or library school is getting sufficient number of journals, please try to see LISA and indian library science abstract (published by IASLIC) LAXMAN RAO -------original message-------- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: 13 Jul 2004 10:29:54 -0000 From: Abhilash P P Dear Professionals I am doing research in the topic "IMPACT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES" Can you suggest any journals/articles or books published in this area. Abhilash SKCET COIMBATORE _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum 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

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] Criteria for evaluating library software
by Mailing List Manager 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:11:22 +0800 From: Anant Sabane <anantsabane(a)india.com> In 1997 I had submitted a dissertation on evaluation of library software to the dept of Library Science, University of Mumbai. Although I do not have a soft copy of the same, the hard copy can be referred in the university library. Along with variety of functional and IT criteria I have introduced a good decision making tool regarding final selection of a software for any library from operational research. Although the tool hails from Mathematics, it is very easy to use. Interested professionals may contact Jawaharlal Nehru Library of Mumbai Unviersity Thanks and regards Anant Sabane ----- Original Message ----- > Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:41:22 +0530 (IST) > From: G. K. Manjunath <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> > > I have sent the information on this subject, to five professionals > who sent me the request. > > Those who need it, may please contact me directly without marking the > copy of email to the entire lis forum. > > For some personal and unspecified reasons, I welcome, > discussions/clarifications on this topic only from those members who > received the documentation from me. > > thanks > g.k.manjunath

1 0

deemed university
by Vrushali Rane 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

Dear All, Our institute has got Deemed University Status for more than one year. Rules and regulations have come in a big way. Many are also benefited from this. I want to know whether I am entitled for any benefits or increments. Also do I need to add on to my degree. Can someone please throw light on this. Let me know if there is any reading material available of any body. Thanks & Regards Vrushali Rane Librarian Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (Deemed University) V.L.Mehta Road, JVPD Scheme, Vile Parle(W), Mumbai 400056. Tel: 26134577/26183688/26143177 Fax:26114512 E-Mail:librarian@nmims.edu

1 0

Information Required
by Mailing List Manager 14 Jul '04

14 Jul '04

Date: 14 Jul 2004 11:05:10 -0000 From: mamata tendulkar <mamata_78(a)rediffmail.com> Dear all I am not a very active member of the forum as far as posting messages is concerned, however I do go through the posts quite regularly. Thought of asking this to the fellow members as I am sure some of us will have the knowledge about this topic. I wish to know if the bachelors degree in Library Information Science from India is valid to get a job abroad, say in countries like UK, US if you wish to relocate. Or are there any refresher course in India which we need to do to seek the job abroad. I would be greatfull if any of the member could reply to this message. Thanking you Sincerely Mamata

1 0

Criteria for evaluating library software
by Mailing List Manager 14 Jul '04

14 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:41:22 +0530 (IST) From: G. K. Manjunath <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> I have sent the information on this subject, to five professionals who sent me the request. Those who need it, may please contact me directly without marking the copy of email to the entire lis forum. For some personal and unspecified reasons, I welcome, discussions/clarifications on this topic only from those members who received the documentation from me. thanks g.k.manjunath CHIEF LIBRARIAN INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) SANTOSH NAGAR GOREGAON ( EAST ) MUMBAI - 400 065 INDIA e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm phone 91-22-28490653 ************************************************

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] Library software vendors
by Mailing List Manager 14 Jul '04

14 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:56:41 +0530 From: kavita harish mudgal <kavitam(a)tce.co.in> I have gone thru auto.ppt file for criteria for evaluating lib software, which I got from Mr.G.K.Manjunath, IGIDR, MUMBAI. I found it very useful. one needs to go thru it before purchasing lib software. thanks Mr.Manjunath. regards KH Mudgal Library Supervisor --------Original Message-------- "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> Sent by: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 13-07-2004 10:36 AM Infolibrarian.com provides list of library software. Regarding evaulation of software, we have prepared some notes. These points were discussed during the orientation programme at IGIDR, for the participants of a refresher course organized by uni of Mumbai. Those interesed may pl contact me thanks g.k.manjunath IGIDR, MUMBAI

1 0

request for references
by Mailing List Manager 14 Jul '04

14 Jul '04

Date: 13 Jul 2004 10:29:54 -0000 From: Abhilash P P <abhi_skcet(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Professionals I am doing research in the topic "IMPACT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES" Can you suggest any journals/articles or books published in this area. Abhilash SKCET COIMBATORE

1 0

UDC Abridbed ed. & AACR2R
by Mailing List Manager 14 Jul '04

14 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:44:01 +0530 (India Standard Time) From: indk68 <indk68(a)hotmail.com> Can anyone furnish the details of vendors, who can supply UDC -Abridged edition, 2003 and AACR 2R 2003, within one week. We have been trying for our institution since one month, but unable to locate a vendor. Thank you Indira K. ICFAI University Hyderabad-500 082 E-mail: indk68(a)hotmail.com

2 1

Re: [LIS-Forum] Database on Engineering Faculty.
by Mailing List Manager 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:11:50 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> hi friends the UGC list is for all the faculties, as this group is only for library science, i had put this message. otherwise any professor can register, as the database deals with all the subjects laxman rao

3 2

Refresher courses
by Mailing List Manager 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 03:12:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Aloor Thomas Francis <francisaloor(a)yahoo.com> Dear Professionals, The refresher courses in LIS should conducted in institutions with all facilities for training in modern methods of information processing and services. It is better to identify institutions such as DRTC, INFLIBNET, and universities and institutes having good facilties. It is also better to prepare a list of experts at the national level A.T. Francis Kerala Agricultural University

1 0

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
by Mailing List Manager 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:43:37 +0530 (IST) From: M. Paul Pandian <pandian(a)imsc.res.in> POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES C.I.T. Campus, Taramani, Chennai 600 113 (An Autonomous body under Department of Atomic Energy) Advt. No 184/2004 The Institute of Mathematical Sciences has fully computerized Library, catering to the needs of Scientists doing research in Fundamental Sciences such as Mathematics, Theoretical Physics and Theoretical Computer Science. It subscribes to more than 300 reputed International / National Journals in these areas. Online edition of several of these journals are also available. Plans are on to convert this into a complete Digital Library. Applications are invited for the post of a Trainee in the Library at the Institute. The applicant should be a fresh graduate/ post graduate with minimum first class in Library Science, well versed in Computer application in Library Science. Duration of Training is for a period of one year with no guarantee of continued employment, carrying a stipend of Rs. 4000/- per month with no other facilities / benefits, as applicable to regular employees, excepting casual leave. Applications with Bio-data, copies of certificates and passport size photograph, should reach the undersigned on or before 23.07.2004 super-scribing on the cover "APPLICATION FOR LIBRARY TRAINEE". REGISTRAR THE INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES C.I.T. Campus, Taramani, Chennai 600 113 URL:http://www.imsc.res.in/library/Index.php

1 0

OCLC Interlibrary Loan migration update
by Mailing List Manager 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 05:40:08 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> OCLC Interlibrary Loan migration update During the next year, OCLC will launch a new resource sharing system based on the FirstSearch interface. The new interface will, by July 2005, replace the OCLC Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Web interface, the OCLC ILL Micro Enhancer and Passport for ILL. Most of the borrowing and lending functionality available through ILL Web was added to the FirstSearch system in June 2004. Remaining borrowing and lending functionality will be added in August 2004, with the addition of custom holdings functionality. Subscribe to OCLC-SHARING-L to receive all migration updates as well as other OCLC resource sharing news. 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

1 0

Library Automation software
by Mailing List Manager 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:36:21 +0530 From: Jai Haravu <haravu(a)newgenlib.com> To: rafiq.ansari(a)timesgroup.com, Dear Mr Ansari/List forum members I have seen Mr Ansari's posting to Lis-Forum on the subject of library automation software and his list of software. He was probably not aware that the Trust that I head has collaborated with a software company in Hyderbad, M/s Verus Solutions Pvt., Ltd to develop a fully n-tier web-based library automation and networking solution called NewGenLib. You may like to see the features of this software at http://www.newgenlib com. Also, kindly note that we have several versions of the software: single library, single user version single library, multi user LAN/Intranet or web version, multi-library, multi user LAN/Intranet version, and multi-library, multi-user networking/consortium version that runs on the web in an Application Service Provider (ASP) mode. The software is available under both Windows and Linux operating systems. We have used many open source components and hence it is much more affordable than similar software from the west. We also have a version which runs on an open source RDBMS called Firebird. This runs on stand alones and LAN/Intranet's. We have still to test it in a web environment. Importantly, the networking/consortium version allows the configuration of a network of libraries that use a single server and software infrastructure so that all libraries in the network need not invest in costly servers and software on each of their locations. Our present work will lead to the development of a multi-lingual version which will allow input, storage and retrieval of information in Indian languages. Unfortunately, except Hindi, nobody seems to have developed Unicode, UTF-8 fonts for other Indian languages. We are also working on building digital library functionality in a future version. Goa University and Osmania University and a few other small colleges have already implemented this software. You may like to see the Goa Academic Library's networks called GOALNET's OPAC at http://goalnet.unigoa.ac in:8080/newgenlibctxt/index.jsp. This network has the Goa Univ and 14 other institutions on it. However, please note that since Goa receives a lot of rain, there are not infrequent power outages there and the site may not sometimes be accessible. 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

1 0

Library software vendors
by Mailing List Manager 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 05:50:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Dr.P.V.Konnur <pv_konnur(a)yahoo.com> Dear Professional friends, I appriciate the effort of Mr. Rafiq and the list of Software vendors is exhaustive. But I feel he has not noticed the new Library software developed by Dr.Haravu, Former Librarian of ICRISAT, Hyderabad. That is: NewGenLib. Please visit their website at:http://newgenlib.com. If you want to see the functioning of this software please visit: http://goalnet.unigoa.ac.in:8080/newgenlibctxt/index.jsp You will find the Goa Academic Library Network. This software is user friendly. Most inexpensive. For details please contact Dr.haravu at: haravu(a)newgenlib.com Thanks, Konnur. --- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:32:27 +0530 > From: Rafiq <rafiq.ansari(a)timesgroup.com> > > Dear Susmitha Ramesh > > > For yours, and others, benefit, I have listed below all > major software > vendors of library systems. Hope you will find this > useful. I have dealt > very closely with a number of library systems, and have > done some study by > listing out essential parameters for selecting any > library system. Should > anyone is desirous of having a look at the list need not > hesitate to get in > touch with me. > > Susmitha, can you further elaborate your view on:"...Can > we come out with a > new profile..."? This will help to pen thoughts. As it > is, my own submission > is that we need to entirely redo the profile of library > and information > professionals in the current milieu, which is driven by > technology. > > Regards, > > Rafiq L Ansari > Sr. Manager - Library > Television Division > The Times of India Group > Mumbai - 400 001 > Tel: 56354516 > Email: rafiq.ansari(a)timesgroup.com > > > Partial List of Library System Vendors in India: > > Libsys (Bangalore): > > Mr. Edwin, > Regional Coordinator - South > 812, 1st Floor, I Cross, > 7th Main, HAL Stage II, Bangalore-560008 > Tel: (080) 5216286 > Telefax: (080) 5210696 > Mobile: 9845219604 > E-mail: bangalore(a)libsys.co.in / edwin(a)libsys.co.in > > > SLIM++ (Bangalore): > > Informatics (India) Ltd > 337 Sampige Road, 3rd Floor, > Karuna Complex, Mallleswaram > Bangalore - 560003 > Email: sanjay(a)informatics.co.in > > > Lib-Suite (Bangalore): > > Soft-Aid > 1st Floor, No 45, 5th Cross, > 5th Main Road, Malleshwaram, > Bangalore - 560 003, India. > Tel: +91- 80- 23444860, 23464717 > > Easylib: > > Easylib Software Pvt. Ltd., > 45, 7th Cross, P R Layout, Murugesh Palya > Bangalore 560017 > Tel: 080-5669-1051 / 2520-0271 > Fax: 080-25200-271 > Email: info(a)easylibsoft.com > Mr. Ullas M N, Director: 98442-81710 > > Libris: > > Frontier Information Technologies Ltd. > D-18, Vikrampuri > Secunderabad, A.P > Tel: 040-784 8569 > Fax: 040-781 5418 > Email: frontier(a)helloap.com > > Alice: > > Softlink Asia Pvt. Ltd. > 10, Ashoka Encalve Extension III, Second Floor, Sector > -35 > Faridabad - 121003 > Tel: 0129-2257872/4/5 > Fax: 0129-2257872/4/5 > Email: softasia(a)del3.vsnl.net.in > > Auto Lib: > > AutoLib Software Systems > B2-Solai Apartments (Opp.to MGR Garden) > Chennai 600 089 - INDIA > Tel: 044-22522234 / 22522448 > Email: autolib(a)yahoo.com / autolib(a)vsnl.net > > Libra2000: > > SOFTWARE GROUP (SWG) - ELECTRONICS RESEARCH & > DEVELOPMENT CENTRE OF > INDIA (ERDCI), Ministry of Communications & Information > Technology, > Government of India > Vellayambalam, > Thiruvananthapuram 695 033 > Tel: 0471-2723333 > Email: swg(a)erdcitvm.org > > E-Granthalaya: > > Granthalaya Services > E 2/ 3:1, Sector 1, Vashi > Navi Mumbai-400 703 > Te;" 022-27823719 > Email: bmadhuwanti(a)rediffmail.com > > NexLib: > > NexEvolve Logic Solutions Pvt. Ltd. > #401, Swastik Plaza, SR Nagar > Hyderabad - 500038, India. > Tel: 040-55368401 / 7401 > Fax: +919849053507 > Email: raj(a)nexevolve.com > Mr. Rajasekhar Sajja, Director - Sales & Marketing > > SOUL: > > INFLIBNET (Information and Library Network Centre) > Opp. Gujarat University Guest House, Post Box No. 4116, > Navrangpura, > Ahmedabad - 380009. > Tel: 079-26308528/4695/5971 > Fax: 6300990 > > Edutech India: > > Edutech India Pvt. Ltd. > 8, Khadar Nawaz Khan Rd. > Chennai - 08 > Tel: 044-28330999 > Fax: 044-28331777 > Email: ganesh(a)edutech.com > Mr. Ganesh Kumar, Country Manager > > > > > Regards, > > Rafiq > > > |-----Original Message----- > | > |Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 07:03:20 +0100 (BST) > |From: "[iso-8859-1] susmitha ramesh" > <susmitharamesh2000(a)yahoo.co.in> > | > |Dear Professionals, > | > |Can you help me to figure out the different sources for > availing the > |Library Software, which works out economically - though > i have a few in > |mind like - > | > |Slim ++ > |Libsoft > |Libsys > |Easy Lib > |Edupro etc., > | > |Can I have any contacts in Bangalore where the > authorised can provide us > |with a demo. Ours is a IT company, which is newly > organised with 400 books > |and few business and IT magazines. > | > |Also dear professionals can you help me out how to equip > the library with > |modern amenities for storage and retrieval in a special > library. > | > |Dear Professionals - Can we come out with a new profile > - which is a > |challenging for library professionals - without much > technical > |qualification/knowledge but with couple of years of > experience, which is > |different from the services, like CAS, Reference > service, === message truncated === ===== Dr.P.V.Konnur, University Librarian & Head, Department of Library & Information Science, Goa University Library, Taleigao Plateau, Goa - 403 206. Phone: 0832-2456031 (O) 0832-2451008 (R) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

2 1

information about library software
by Mailing List Manager 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:22:02 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] monawwer eqbal" <monawwereqbal(a)yahoo.co.in> Susmitha Ramesh, librarian, if you want to more details about the library automation software so please see this website http://www.lisgateway.com/aut_softwares.asp LISGateway.com provides searchable and browsable catalogue of Internet based resources related to Library & Information Science. It encourages the exploitation of publishers material by providing free access to quality web resources. The data pages establishes links mainly to site, which have produced e-journals, e-books, reference resources etc. It improves the effectiveness of Internet searching and will serve as a source of information for LIS people. Users would be directed to high quality of Internet resources rather than to have evaluate, filter and organize the resources themselves. MONAWWER EQBAL PROJECT FELLOW DEPPT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE A.M.U ALIGARH UP 202002

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum] Library Software
by Mailing List Manager 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:43:59 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> hi every one i suggest to go for NEW GENLIB an automated software developed by well known librarian Sri Haravu. It is having all the features and it is also cheap comparatively. this is developed on behalf of avoluntary ofganisation established on the name of Late BS Kesavan. please communicate with Sri Haravu haravu(a)newgenlib.com laxman rao Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 06:30:41 -0400 (EDT) From: cal_sms Dear Ms Susmitha Ramesh: Why don't you go for AutoLib, a software designed by AutoLib Software system.You can look into the details for the software at:http://www.autolib-india.net/. Ours is a research library and we are working with this software quite comfortably. You can also have a look at the demo of the software. This software is relatively cheaper than others you mentioned. Thanks, S. M. Shahabuddin[Programme Associate M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Taramani, Chennai]

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] subscription to journals
by Mailing List Manager 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:20:03 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> hi please understand that GOC validity is in question. how the norms caould be valid. u need to discuss and observe few libraries and consolidate and prepare ur own rules (based on experience_) and get them approved. experiences of the people r varied, based on the budget, people, location etc. all the best, laxman rao Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 21:04:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Rajamma PK Dear friends, I would like to have your suggestions on jounrnal subscription to libraries, both directand though subscription agents in India. Are there any concrete guidelines for engaging a subscription agent in the present context of the GOC ? Awaiting your valuable suggestions. P.K. Rajamma, Librarian (T7-8), CTCRI. Sreekariyam

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum] Refresher Course in LIS
by Mailing List Manager 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:16:25 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> hi the refresher courses organised by the UGC are for a specified group of people and not for all. for every ones inf, thre r several conditions for inviting the resource persons. it is not so simple to organise the courses. some people hav too much expectations ans some of them r not interested and come for time pass. it is not correct to say repeat, but it is based on the need, group, objectives of a particular course. laxman rao Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:08:45 +0530 From: manish mankad Thanks Mr. Vijaykumar for UGC refresher course details. I have a suggestion: can we prepare a list of Lib professionals who could possibly form the resourse persons group for such refresher courses? It will be dynamic whereby each individual's competencies could be widened, narrowed or altered over a period of time. There will be additional details like current position, experience, publications, area of specialisation, lectures/presentation in past etc. This will help the refresher course organisers to pick and choose so that the participants are benefitted by the best of lot rather than getting the same, repeat persons because of lack of suitable alternatives. -Manish Mankad Information Services Ext: 208/460 Tel: 022 28276208 Hindustan Lever research Centre B.D. Sawant Marg Andheri (E), Mumbai 400099 INDIA

1 0

References on Re-engineering Libraries for IT Environment
by Aloor Thomas Francis 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Dear Professionals, I am doing Research on the topic, "Re-Engineering University Libraries for IT Environment". Will you please help me in giving references and articles related to this. Thanks Francis __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

2 1

RE: [LIS-Forum] Library Software
by Mailing List Manager 12 Jul '04

12 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 06:30:41 -0400 (EDT) From: cal_sms <cal_sms(a)myway.com> Dear Ms Susmitha Ramesh: Why don't you go for AutoLib, a software designed by AutoLib Software system.You can look into the details for the software at:http://www.autolib-india.net/. Ours is a research library and we are working with this software quite comfortably. You can also have a look at the demo of the software. This software is relatively cheaper than others you mentioned. Thanks, S. M. Shahabuddin[Programme Associate M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Taramani, Chennai] ----original message ---- Dear Professionals,Can you help me to figure out the different sources for availing theLibrary Software, which works out economically - though i have a few inmind like -Slim ++LibsoftLibsysEasy LibEdupro etc.,Can I have any contacts in Bangalore where the authorised can provide uswith a demo. Ours is a IT company, which is newly organised with 400 booksand few business and IT magazines.Also dear professionals can you help me out how to equip the library withmodern amenities for storage and retrieval in a special library.Dear Professionals - Can we come out with a new profile - which is achallenging for library professionals - without much technicalqualification/knowledge but with couple of years of experience, which isdiffer! ent from the services, like CAS, Reference service, SDI etc.Any suggestions, please share with the undersigned. Regards,Susmitha Ramesh Librarian.

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] Library Software : e-Granthalaya
by Mailing List Manager 12 Jul '04

12 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 03:00:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Dr. R M Vatnal <vatnal(a)yahoo.com> Hello, You can add this software to your list. Details of the software as follows: -Vatnal Library Automation package http://egranthalaya.kar.nic.in What is e-Granthalaya ? e-Granthalaya, the library automation package developed by National Informatics Centre Bangalore is aimed to suit the requirements of different classes of libraries. Features of e-Granthalaya User friendly package which needs minimum training Multi user package with database loaded on the server. The individual nodes across different departments can share the data from the server. Administrators can create/modify/delete users (password protected) with restrictions to handle different modules. Using this package, it is possible to store and retrieve data in languages like Assamese,Bengali,Gujarati,Hindi,Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. Circulation is integrated with barcode interface; hence it requires few interactions with the system. Search facility locate books, Journals and serials and other materials quickly Guest account allows non-members of the library to have a look into the holdings of the library. Contains extensive help facility to guide the users. Modules of e-Granthalaya Administration Maintenance of members, with password and access to selected modules. Stock verification, budget control etc. Serials Control Periodical subscription, receipt, billing, payment & daily newspaper monitoring. Acquisition Books indenting, picking the books required by the library from the list, placing purchase orders, supply of books, billing & payments for books, accessioning of books. Circulation Barcode enabled issue, return & renewal of books along with keeping track of books lost. OPAC Searching books / periodicals on title, author, publisher, subject heading, call no, year of publication, series & keywords. Boolean search for books on title, author or publisher. Reports Commonly used reports like accession register, member registers, and statistical reports are available in this module. These reports can be customised according to the requirements of Libraries. Web Utilities These utilities help in browsing the OPAC over internet/intranet. Also few utilities like readers view, books borrowed, readers statistics, request for a book etc is incorporated. HELP Online help for �e-granthalaya� operating procedure. Help window for each operation by pressing F1 key. Objective To promote IT in Library management at affordable price. To suit the requirements of different kinds of libraries. To provide maximum functionalities required by a librarian. Security Access controlled through Login and password. Built-in privilege groups of users / operating staff. Access may be denied through membership module. Training NIC regularly organizes �D7- Library Management system� training program to create awareness about �e-Granthalaya� package for Librarians. Multilingual capabilities Works with ISM office 2000 developed by CDAC. Can be customized to suite all Indian languages supported by ISM. Technology Platform supported: Windows 98 / Windows XP / Windows 2000 Professional Windows NT 4.0 / Windows 2000. Back end Database: MS ACCESS 2000 / SQL Server 7.0 or 2000. Multilingual Tool :ISM office 2000. Successful Installations Karnataka High Court Library, Bangalore Viveknanda Institute of Technology Library, Bangalore Lokayukta Library, Bangalore District Central Libraries in Karnataka State located at Mysore, Mangalore, Mandya,Tumkur, Bellary, Bidar, Dharwad, Gulbarga and karwar. RRL Library, Pondicherry Central Library, Karavatti, Lakshadweep. Secretariat Library, New Delhi. Rajbhavan Library, Bangalore. HARDWARE CONFIGUATION System requirements Minimum Recommended Processor Pentium Pentium III RAM (Primary Memory) 64 MB RAM 128 MB RAM Hard Disk Capacity 2.1 GB 4.3 GB Monitor Color SVGA(800X600) Color SVGA(800X600) Operating System Windows 98 & above Windows 98 & above Printers Dot Matrix HP Laser jet Barcode reader None Should be interfaced with keyboard Telephone/e-mail None Required for web enabled searching. CD ROM/DVD Drive CD ROM/DVD drive for installation CD ROM/DVD drive for installation For Details Contact Smt. Veena P Oak Mr Ramakrishna G S Mr M Manikandan National Informatics Centre Training Division 5th Floor, E-Wing, Kendriya Sadan, Koramangala, Bangalore - 560 034 Ph : 5630213 URL : http://egranthalaya.kar.nic.in email : veena(a)mail.kar.nic.in krishna(a)mail.kar.nic.in mani_pad(a)mail.kar.nic.in --- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 07:03:20 +0100 (BST) > From: "[iso-8859-1] susmitha ramesh" > <susmitharamesh2000(a)yahoo.co.in> > > Dear Professionals, > > Can you help me to figure out the different sources > for availing the > Library Software, which works out economically - > though i have a few in > mind like - > > Slim ++ > Libsoft > Libsys > Easy Lib > Edupro etc., > > Can I have any contacts in Bangalore where the > authorised can provide us > with a demo. Ours is a IT company, which is newly > organised with 400 books > and few business and IT magazines. > > Also dear professionals can you help me out how to > equip the library with > modern amenities for storage and retrieval in a > special library. > > Dear Professionals - Can we come out with a new > profile - which is a > challenging for library professionals - without much > technical > qualification/knowledge but with couple of years of > experience, which is > different from the services, like CAS, Reference > service, SDI etc. > > Any suggestions, please share with the undersigned. > > Regards, > > Susmitha Ramesh > Librarian. > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > ===== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. R M VATNAL Head, Computer Section, University Library, Karnatak University, Dharwad - 580 003 INDIA Ph: 0836-2747121 Ext: 313(O) 2770907(R) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

1 0

Library software vendors
by Mailing List Manager 12 Jul '04

12 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:32:27 +0530 From: Rafiq <rafiq.ansari(a)timesgroup.com> Dear Susmitha Ramesh For yours, and others, benefit, I have listed below all major software vendors of library systems. Hope you will find this useful. I have dealt very closely with a number of library systems, and have done some study by listing out essential parameters for selecting any library system. Should anyone is desirous of having a look at the list need not hesitate to get in touch with me. Susmitha, can you further elaborate your view on:"...Can we come out with a new profile..."? This will help to pen thoughts. As it is, my own submission is that we need to entirely redo the profile of library and information professionals in the current milieu, which is driven by technology. Regards, Rafiq L Ansari Sr. Manager - Library Television Division The Times of India Group Mumbai - 400 001 Tel: 56354516 Email: rafiq.ansari(a)timesgroup.com Partial List of Library System Vendors in India: Libsys (Bangalore): Mr. Edwin, Regional Coordinator - South 812, 1st Floor, I Cross, 7th Main, HAL Stage II, Bangalore-560008 Tel: (080) 5216286 Telefax: (080) 5210696 Mobile: 9845219604 E-mail: bangalore(a)libsys.co.in / edwin(a)libsys.co.in SLIM++ (Bangalore): Informatics (India) Ltd 337 Sampige Road, 3rd Floor, Karuna Complex, Mallleswaram Bangalore - 560003 Email: sanjay(a)informatics.co.in Lib-Suite (Bangalore): Soft-Aid 1st Floor, No 45, 5th Cross, 5th Main Road, Malleshwaram, Bangalore - 560 003, India. Tel: +91- 80- 23444860, 23464717 Easylib: Easylib Software Pvt. Ltd., 45, 7th Cross, P R Layout, Murugesh Palya Bangalore 560017 Tel: 080-5669-1051 / 2520-0271 Fax: 080-25200-271 Email: info(a)easylibsoft.com Mr. Ullas M N, Director: 98442-81710 Libris: Frontier Information Technologies Ltd. D-18, Vikrampuri Secunderabad, A.P Tel: 040-784 8569 Fax: 040-781 5418 Email: frontier(a)helloap.com Alice: Softlink Asia Pvt. Ltd. 10, Ashoka Encalve Extension III, Second Floor, Sector -35 Faridabad - 121003 Tel: 0129-2257872/4/5 Fax: 0129-2257872/4/5 Email: softasia(a)del3.vsnl.net.in Auto Lib: AutoLib Software Systems B2-Solai Apartments (Opp.to MGR Garden) Chennai 600 089 - INDIA Tel: 044-22522234 / 22522448 Email: autolib(a)yahoo.com / autolib(a)vsnl.net Libra2000: SOFTWARE GROUP (SWG) - ELECTRONICS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CENTRE OF INDIA (ERDCI), Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India Vellayambalam, Thiruvananthapuram 695 033 Tel: 0471-2723333 Email: swg(a)erdcitvm.org E-Granthalaya: Granthalaya Services E 2/ 3:1, Sector 1, Vashi Navi Mumbai-400 703 Te;" 022-27823719 Email: bmadhuwanti(a)rediffmail.com NexLib: NexEvolve Logic Solutions Pvt. Ltd. #401, Swastik Plaza, SR Nagar Hyderabad - 500038, India. Tel: 040-55368401 / 7401 Fax: +919849053507 Email: raj(a)nexevolve.com Mr. Rajasekhar Sajja, Director - Sales & Marketing SOUL: INFLIBNET (Information and Library Network Centre) Opp. Gujarat University Guest House, Post Box No. 4116, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380009. Tel: 079-26308528/4695/5971 Fax: 6300990 Edutech India: Edutech India Pvt. Ltd. 8, Khadar Nawaz Khan Rd. Chennai - 08 Tel: 044-28330999 Fax: 044-28331777 Email: ganesh(a)edutech.com Mr. Ganesh Kumar, Country Manager Regards, Rafiq |-----Original Message----- | |Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 07:03:20 +0100 (BST) |From: "[iso-8859-1] susmitha ramesh" <susmitharamesh2000(a)yahoo.co.in> | |Dear Professionals, | |Can you help me to figure out the different sources for availing the |Library Software, which works out economically - though i have a few in |mind like - | |Slim ++ |Libsoft |Libsys |Easy Lib |Edupro etc., | |Can I have any contacts in Bangalore where the authorised can provide us |with a demo. Ours is a IT company, which is newly organised with 400 books |and few business and IT magazines. | |Also dear professionals can you help me out how to equip the library with |modern amenities for storage and retrieval in a special library. | |Dear Professionals - Can we come out with a new profile - which is a |challenging for library professionals - without much technical |qualification/knowledge but with couple of years of experience, which is |different from the services, like CAS, Reference service, SDI etc. | |Any suggestions, please share with the undersigned. | |Regards, | |Susmitha Ramesh |Librarian. |

1 0

Database on Engineering Faculty.
by Mailing List Manager 12 Jul '04

12 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:15:16 +0530 From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Dear Friends: Supplementing what Dr Laxman Rao & Mr Premchand have brought to your notice, I wish to add another database of equal Value. The NAFEN database of Engineering Faculty in Indian Universities/Colleges was originally hosted on Vigyan Server. By permission from NAFEN & NISSAT we have re-hosted the same database in our VIC website. The URLs are: http://www.nafenindia.com http://vigyan.org.in/ http://www.vic-ikp.info/vic/index.asp To access the databases for searchig in our VIC site you need a UserId & Password. Those interested in exploring may ask me for a free guest password on a temporary basis. KINDLY SEND A MAIL DIRECTLY TO ME AND NOT AS A REPLY TO THIS FORUM POSTING!! The original NAFEN database has been totally re-structed, quering simplified and access made faster. However there is no provision for online updating or addition of data as in other two databases our friends which have brought to our attention. 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 -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Mailing List Manager Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 1:09 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] all professors-- please register your name with theUGC--online Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:37:10 +0530 From: premchand <premchand(a)inflibnet.ac.in> INFLIBNET has developed similar features and requested faculty members to submit the profiles for this online database. It contains more than 12000 profiles. Prior to this, we had distributed input sheet specifically designed for this database. For data collection , we approached , registrar, librarians and individuals. As a result of that we could capture 12000 profiles. Those who have not yet registered, requested to submit by visiting our site at http://nissat.inflibnet.ac.in/university/ Prem Chand Scientist- C INFLIBNET(Information and Library Network) Centre An IUC of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Navrangpura, PB No.4116 AHMEDABAD-380009 India # Tel. 91-079-26305971 / 26304695; 27458670(Res.) FAX: 079-26300990, 26307816 email: premc(a)mailcity.com http://www.inflibnet.ac.in

1 0

Internship for LIS graduates
by Mailing List Manager 12 Jul '04

12 Jul '04

Date: 12 Jul 2004 08:15:51 -0000 From: Rajesh K Patil <rajeshbcd(a)rediffmail.com> � Dear All, A dozen British Council Libraries in India offer excellent Internship Program alongwith a handsome Stipend for fresh LIS graduates. If I am not wrong, even American Center Libraries have this scheme. Regards. Rajesh

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] all professors-- please register your name with the UGC--online
by Mailing List Manager 12 Jul '04

12 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:37:10 +0530 From: premchand <premchand(a)inflibnet.ac.in> INFLIBNET has developed similar features and requested faculty members to submit the profiles for this online database. It contains more than 12000 profiles. Prior to this, we had distributed input sheet specifically designed for this database. For data collection , we approached , registrar, librarians and individuals. As a result of that we could capture 12000 profiles. Those who have not yet registered, requested to submit by visiting our site at http://nissat.inflibnet.ac.in/university/ Prem Chand Scientist- C INFLIBNET(Information and Library Network) Centre An IUC of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Navrangpura, PB No.4116 AHMEDABAD-380009 India # Tel. 91-079-26305971 / 26304695; 27458670(Res.) FAX: 079-26300990, 26307816 email: premc(a)mailcity.com http://www.inflibnet.ac.in ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mailing List Manager" <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 11:39 AM Subject: [LIS-Forum] all professors-- please register your name with the UGC--online ( > Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 06:00:05 +0100 (BST) > From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> > > dear teacher friends, > > UGC has a list of professors on line. whose who have not registered may > please go to the following website and register your name online. all the > best laxman rao > > http://www.ugc.ac.in/inside/prof_directory.html > > > 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

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum] Refresher Course in LIS
by Mailing List Manager 12 Jul '04

12 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:08:45 +0530 From: manish mankad <Manish.Mankad(a)unilever.com> Thanks Mr. Vijaykumar for UGC refresher course details. I have a suggestion: can we prepare a list of Lib professionals who could possibly form the resourse persons group for such refresher courses? It will be dynamic whereby each individual's competencies could be widened, narrowed or altered over a period of time. There will be additional details like current position, experience, publications, area of specialisation, lectures/presentation in past etc. This will help the refresher course organisers to pick and choose so that the participants are benefitted by the best of lot rather than getting the same, repeat persons because of lack of suitable alternatives. -Manish Mankad Information Services Ext: 208/460 Tel: 022 28276208 Hindustan Lever research Centre B.D. Sawant Marg Andheri (E), Mumbai 400099 INDIA -----Original Message----- From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 11:11 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Refresher Course in LIS Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:52:20 +0530 From: J.K.Vijayakumar <vijay(a)inflibnet.ac.in> Dear All, List of Orientation Programmes / Refresher courses in all subjects aprooved by UGC for the current academic year is available in UGC Newsletter April 2004 issue, page no 24 to 29. Online version is available at http://www.ugc.ac.in/pub/april_2004/24.htm to 29.htm As per this list, Refresher Courses in LIS will be held at the following Universities statewise; AP-Osmania Univ Gujarat- Saurashtra Univ & MSU Baroda Haryana-MD Rohtak Univ J&K-Kashmir Univ Karnatak-Bangalore Univ Kerala- Kerala Univ MP-HS Gaur Univ, Vikram Univ and Jiwaji MS-Marathwada Univ, Pune Univ and TISS Mumbai Meghalaya-NEHU Orissa-Utkal Univ Punjab-Punjabi Univ TN-Bharatidasan Univ UP-Aligarh WB-Jadavpur Orientation Programmes in LIS will be held in Gauhati Univ Interested may have to contact Academic Staff Colleges of concerened Universities. Few ourses might have over already. -JK Vijayakumar,INFLIBNET- _______________________________________________

1 0

all professors-- please register your name with the UGC --online (
by Mailing List Manager 12 Jul '04

12 Jul '04

Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 06:00:05 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> dear teacher friends, UGC has a list of professors on line. whose who have not registered may please go to the following website and register your name online. all the best laxman rao http://www.ugc.ac.in/inside/prof_directory.html 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

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] Refresher Course in LIS
by Mailing List Manager 12 Jul '04

12 Jul '04

Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:52:20 +0530 From: J.K.Vijayakumar <vijay(a)inflibnet.ac.in> Dear All, List of Orientation Programmes / Refresher courses in all subjects aprooved by UGC for the current academic year is available in UGC Newsletter April 2004 issue, page no 24 to 29. Online version is available at http://www.ugc.ac.in/pub/april_2004/24.htm to 29.htm As per this list, Refresher Courses in LIS will be held at the following Universities statewise; AP-Osmania Univ Gujarat- Saurashtra Univ & MSU Baroda Haryana-MD Rohtak Univ J&K-Kashmir Univ Karnatak-Bangalore Univ Kerala- Kerala Univ MP-HS Gaur Univ, Vikram Univ and Jiwaji MS-Marathwada Univ, Pune Univ and TISS Mumbai Meghalaya-NEHU Orissa-Utkal Univ Punjab-Punjabi Univ TN-Bharatidasan Univ UP-Aligarh WB-Jadavpur Orientation Programmes in LIS will be held in Gauhati Univ Interested may have to contact Academic Staff Colleges of concerened Universities. Few ourses might have over already. -JK Vijayakumar,INFLIBNET-

1 0

subscription to journals
by Mailing List Manager 12 Jul '04

12 Jul '04

Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 21:04:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Rajamma PK <pkrajamma(a)yahoo.com> Dear friends, I would like to have your suggestions on jounrnal subscription to libraries, both directand though subscription agents in India. Are there any concrete guidelines for engaging a subscription agent in the present context of the GOC ? Awaiting your valuable suggestions. P.K. Rajamma, Librarian (T7-8), CTCRI. Sreekariyam

1 0

Audio Book Club
by Mailing List Manager 12 Jul '04

12 Jul '04

Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 14:27:27 +0530 From: Bala G Subramanian <balagsub(a)in.ibm.com> Hi, Sub : Audio Book Club http://www.audiobookclub.com Now the books are coming into audio format also. Here is the little info about Audio Book Club. Unlike conventional books, audiobooks allow you to read all the great books available today while doing other things. So now you can enjoy a terrific suspense novel while driving to work. Or learn how to better organize your business affairs while raking your leaves. AUDIO BOOK CLUBsm is the original and premiere shopping club for people who love books, but don't always have time to read. Membership gives you access to hundreds of titles, together with tremendous members-only savings and the most convenient way to shop and buy. Visit their Website(http://www.audiobookclub.com). You can place an order through online. Thanks and Regards G.Balasubramanian Librarian, COC, India Learning Centre, IBM India Pvt Ltd., #99, Residency Road, Bangalore - 25. Ph: 91-080-2073504 ID:balagsub@in.ibm.com

1 0

Library Software
by Mailing List Manager 12 Jul '04

12 Jul '04

Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 07:03:20 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] susmitha ramesh" <susmitharamesh2000(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Professionals, Can you help me to figure out the different sources for availing the Library Software, which works out economically - though i have a few in mind like - Slim ++ Libsoft Libsys Easy Lib Edupro etc., Can I have any contacts in Bangalore where the authorised can provide us with a demo. Ours is a IT company, which is newly organised with 400 books and few business and IT magazines. Also dear professionals can you help me out how to equip the library with modern amenities for storage and retrieval in a special library. Dear Professionals - Can we come out with a new profile - which is a challenging for library professionals - without much technical qualification/knowledge but with couple of years of experience, which is different from the services, like CAS, Reference service, SDI etc. Any suggestions, please share with the undersigned. Regards, Susmitha Ramesh Librarian.

1 0

Announcing _B-Feeds(sm): Web Feeds for Books and Monographs_
by Mailing List Manager 12 Jul '04

12 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 10:00:39 -0500 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> I am pleased to announce the creation and availability of a registry devoted to Web Feeds for Books and Monographs. The site, called _B-Feeds(sm)_ is available at: [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/B-Feeds1.htm ] _B-Feeds(sm): Web Feeds for Books and Monographs_ is a categorized registry of site that offer RSS/XML, Atom, or other Web feeds, to compilations, directories, lists, or reviews for academic or scholarly books or monographic works. I have seeded _B-Feeds(sm)_ with several major General sources and a few specialized ones. _B-Feeds(sm)_ is a companion to _eFeeds(sm)_ [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/eFeeds.htm ], my registry devoted to electronic journals that offer Web feeds. Each of these are adjuncts to my original Web feeds registry _RSS(sm): Rick Site Services_ , devoted to library services that are delivered or provided through Web feeds. _RSS(sm)_ is available at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm ]. Those who wish to learn more about Web feeds and their current and potential uses may wish to consult a General Bibliography that I prepared for my RSS(sm) site. The bibliography is available via the RSS(sm) site or directly at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/GenBib.htm ] and currently includes full-text links for all entries. For _B-Feeds_, I am greatly interested in identifying additional sources that offer/provide Web feeds to "compilations, directories, lists, or reviews for academic or scholarly books or monographic works" in Any and All subject areas. I am *particularly* interested in feeds from publishers/booksellers/vendors, etc. for specialized fields (e.g., Architecture, Engineering, Zoology). [As time permits, I plan to systematically review various publisher directories for publishers that offer Web feeds, but would like to first populate _B-Feeds(sm)_ with sources that are known and used by my Web colleagues. Thanks!] To Spread The Word: Please FORWARD this posting to Any and All book/publisher related e-lists to which you subscribe. Thanks A Million! Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan B-Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

1 0

vVsitors to National Botanical Gardens
by Prafulla Chandra 11 Jul '04

11 Jul '04

Dear All, I shall appreciate it very much if any of you could provide latest statistics on the total number of visitors to the National Botanical Gardens, Kolkata per annum. Thank you Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1 0

Theme for IATLIS Conference
by Mailing List Manager 09 Jul '04

09 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 11:07:25 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] vijaya kumara" <vijayakumar71(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear All I trust the theme which is selected by IATLIS team for their conference is appropriate. So my suggestion to IATLIS team for the theme is 1. University Libraries are the laboratories for the LIS students 2. Promotion of LIS Students through Univeristy libraries 3. Role of LIS Professors and University librarians in framing the LIS syllabus 4. LIS relation between University librarians and respective university LIS professors Regards vijayakumar *************************************************************************************** Vijayakumar M, 080 - 28452324 Ext. 234 HOD - Library, library(a)mvjeducation.com MVJ College of Engineering, (ISO Certified Institute), Bangalore-560 067

2 1

RE: [LIS-Forum] RE: GOC Rates for month of July
by Mailing List Manager 09 Jul '04

09 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 16:29:36 +0530 From: "G, Sarvamangala (Sarvamangala)" <sarvamangala(a)lucent.com> Hello, I would like to know if any of you specifying terms & conditions for vendor who fails to deliver the ordered books with in specified time. > > Sarvamangala G. > Manager - Advanced Competency Development > ____________________________________________ > Lucent Technologies O > 2D15, 2nd Floor Voice: +91 80 505 2133 (D) > Golf View Campus Phone: +91 80 527 1771/2 > Wind Tunnel Road Fax: +91 80 527 1777 > Murgeshpalya, Bangalore 560 017, India > Mailto:Sarvamangala@lucent.com >

2 1

Refresher Course in LIS
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jul '04

08 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 03:39:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Aloor Thomas Francis <francisaloor(a)yahoo.com> Dear Professionals, I would like to know about the Universiities or Institutes who have plan to organise Refresher / Orientation Courses in Library and Information Science in the near future. A.T. Francis Assistant Librarian Kerala Agricultural University Thrissur - 680 656 E-mail: francisaloor(a)yahoo.com

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum]Theme for the IATLIS conference
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jul '04

08 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 15:18:07 +0530 From: Rafiq <rafiq.ansari(a)timesgroup.com> Vasumathi Sriganesh's input heralds a new thinking and practical approach for all departments of library and information science, particularly in Mumbai, from where I hail. There is an urgent need to invite practicing professionals from different areas and segments, and organize practical sessions on micro aspects of librarianship. It is done to some extent, though. There is, however, a need to deliberate further on this issue, so that our students learn what is not taught in courses. Regards, Rafiq L Ansari Sr. Manager - Library The Time of India Group Television Division D.N. Road, Fort Mumbai - 400 001 Tel: 56354516 Mobile: 98206 67271 Email: rafiq.ansari(a)timesgroup.com

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum] Theme for the IATLIS conference
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jul '04

08 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 12:27:33 +0530 From: manish mankad <Manish.Mankad(a)unilever.com> i am completely with Vasumathi on her excellent, practial suggestion. It is usually seen that a fresh Blib person needs a large inputs from the practical way of work. However, most of the time he/she learns ( or does not !) while on the job ( which sometimes mean making mistakes and then mending them. This has a dimension of loss of productivity as well. Internship /summer placement makes such learning less burdensome and as they are time-tested, the implementation and improvements are faster and efficient. IGIDR, TIFR, TISS comes to my mind. UGC refresher course for the working librarians can have a faculty from the working professionals. may be we shd discuss this with Univ Librarians abt their experiences/feedback. I thinks it will be win-win situation, if implemented in right spirit. -Manish Mankad Information Services Ext: 208/460 Tel: 022 28276208 Hindustan Lever research Centre B.D. Sawant Marg Andheri (E), Mumbai 400099 INDIA -----Original Message----- From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:16:31 +0530 From: Vasumathi Sriganesh <vasu(a)qmedin.com> The theme sounds excellent, and I hope it becomes a turning point in the profession. Couple of inputs from me: (I hope I can come up with better ideas as I think) 1. Should Working Librarians from different spheres be compulsorily used as external faculty in L & IS courses.(Benefits for students as well as academic faculty to be discussed) 2. Norms and Objectives for students to do Internship / Summer or vacation training / Post qualification training (If some good & very practical norms and objectives are drawn up, then students should get some high quality training, and the libraries in which they train, should get some defined results). Vasumathi Sriganesh Director, QMed Services Pvt. Ltd. A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India Ph: 91-22-28229223 Fax: 91-22-28224358 Email: vasu(a)qmedin.com, Web: www.qmedin.com

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum] RE: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 16, Issue 8
by HENAG 08 Jul '04

08 Jul '04

We also have the same tie up as GE has . but we cannot procure books from Amazon ,as it is not permitted by our auditor for FOREX Problem. These terms and conditions work well with us too. Regards Hena S Gupta -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Byrappa, Ananda (Research) Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 11:53 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] RE: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 16, Issue 8 All of us know how difficult it is to procure books from foreign publishers, particularly when you need them quickly (always!) At GE Bangalore, we have the following book procurement practice in place. Our priority is delivery time. We have tied-up with selected few book sellers with the following terms and conditions to procure foreign books. - Delivery time 30 days (maximum) - Discount 20% - Payment within 2 weeks - Conversion as per GOC rates In special cases, when we require books urgently, we pay actual courier charge (against proof) to the suppliers but he needs to deliver the book within 7 days. Discount and payment terms remain the same. Actually, we end up buying 20% of our books from online book stores, like amazon, due to urgent timelines. I feel, how nice if amazon can offer some discount to libraries & deliver the books with free of shipment charges! Regards, Anand T Byrappa Whitney Knowledge Centre GE India Technology Centre Pvt.Ltd., 122, EPIP, Phase 2, Hoodi Village, Whitefield Road, Bangalore - 560066, INDIA Phone : +91-80-2503-2618, DialCom: 8*901 2618 Fax : +91-80-2841-2114, Email : Ananda.Byrappa(a)ge.com -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 11:11 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 16, Issue 8 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. GOC (Mailing List Manager) 2. Re: RE: GOC Rates for month of July' 2004 (uma jaganath) 3. Re: Message for Vijaylakshmi (ganeshtk) 4. Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 16, Issue 7 (lata(a)iihmr.org) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:09:40 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] GOC To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0407061708120.27507(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:20:47 +0530 From: Mrs. Vaishnav <ytv(a)godrej.com> Dear All, I remember correctly about going thru' the same discussion last year also. It is a good platform to become aware of various practices in our field, touching different aspects. On this issue of GOC, can we come to any common giudeline? The example given by Mrs. Nirupama Bawdekar is self explanatory. With regards to all, Mrs. Y.T. Vaishnav, Consulting Librarian, Godrej Learning Center, Mumbai. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:09:45 +0530 (IST) From: uma jaganath <uma(a)library.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] RE: GOC Rates for month of July' 2004 To: Krishnan <krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in> Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.44.0407061656080.5778-100000(a)library.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII J R D Tata Memorial Library, at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore is also following the same procedure as NCL by sending the list of books published by foreign publishers that we want to procure asking them to quote the rate of discount and also the possible time of delivery. Whoever gives the highest discount (it ranges from 21% to 34%) , orders will be placed with those vendors. And also the vendors delivers the book with the price proof and we also verify the price by visiting publishers' websites and we are paying them Bank Rate (SBI) prevailing on the date of billing. By this procedure, our library is saving quite a good amount by way of discount, which we are using to update our Reference collection. Dr. Uma Jagannath Deputy Librarian J R D Tata Memorial Library Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 560012 Tel.No. 22932868 E-Mail: uma(a)library.iisc.ernet.in On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Krishnan wrote: > One option that we have been using is to send the list of books that we want > to few vendors and ask them to indicate the best possible discount and the > time period of delivery. Our terms - payment against bill (no advance > payment), bank rate on the date of the bill. We have been able to get > discounts ranging from 20% to 30% > > Dr. S. Krishnan > NCL > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.714 / Virus Database: 470 - Release Date: 7/2/2004 > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 23:39:25 -0700 (PDT) From: ganeshtk <ganeshtk(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: Message for Vijaylakshmi To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20040707063925.38473.qmail(a)web13604.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Dear Ms.Vijayalakshmi, You can do M.Phil course from Annamalai University and IGNOU. The admiissions for Annamalai University is starting from the Month of August 2004. GANESH T.K. Admin-cum-Library Assistant CISED BANGALORE ganeshtk(a)isec.ac.in --- 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. RE: GOC Rates for month of July' 2004 > (Krishnan) > 2. RE: Buying foreign books (G. K. Manjunath) > 3. RE: Buying foreign books (HENAG) > 4. Re: Theme for the IATLIS conference (K.S. > Chudamani) > 5. Re: Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books > (Mailing List Manager) > 6. New Parliament Library (Mailing List Manager) > 7. Cut the vendor out Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying > foreign books > (Mailing List Manager) > 8. Re: INDICATORS OF PUBLICATIONS (Mailing List > Manager) > 9. RE: M.Phil degree through correspondence from > South India. > (fwd) (Mailing List Manager) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:43:25 +0530 > From: "Krishnan" <krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] RE: GOC Rates for month of > July' 2004 > To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Message-ID: <000601c46317$f7036910$8c0a10ac@zeta> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > One option that we have been using is to send the > list of books that we want > to few vendors and ask them to indicate the best > possible discount and the > time period of delivery. Our terms - payment against > bill (no advance > payment), bank rate on the date of the bill. We have > been able to get > discounts ranging from 20% to 30% > > Dr. S. Krishnan > NCL > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system > (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.714 / Virus Database: 470 - Release > Date: 7/2/2004 > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:03:23 +0530 (IST) > From: "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> > Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books > To: HENAG <HENAG(a)infosys.com> > Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: > > <Pine.OSF.4.30.0407061047390.510201-100000(a)brahma.igidr.ac.in> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > > Regarding database of suppliers and the publishers > they represent, I would > like to inform , that British library has published > such online directory, > for British publishers. > > The directory published by National Book Trust > during World Bookfair, 2004 > has listed all the suppliers, who participated in > the fair, along with the > names of publishers they represent. > > Many publishers from US are not represented in > India. I wonder whether > there is any supplier to import books published by > ALA. If there are no > authorised stockists or representatives, then > postage will be too high as > mentioned by Mr.Chandra. Barnes and Noble, whom I > met recently in US are > willing to supply books to Indian libraries if the > business offered is US > $5000/- per year. They also offer about 20% > discount. > > We at IGIDR have prepared database of suppliers in > the area of social > sciencs. The data can be provided in ISO2709 format > for those who are > interested. > > g.k.manjunath > > CHIEF LIBRARIAN > INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT > RESEARCH > FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) > SANTOSH NAGAR > GOREGAON ( EAST ) > MUMBAI - 400 065 > INDIA > > > e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in > http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm > > phone 91-22-28490653 > ************************************************ > > > On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, HENAG wrote: > > > Very good suggestion MS Chudamani, It should be a > forum like where all suppliers account should be > there. > > > > > > Regards > > hena > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On > Behalf Of K.S. Chudamani > > Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 3:16 PM > > To: Prafulla Chandra > > Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books > > > > > > > > Now it is high time that all the book sellers come > together and create an > > accessible database for searching and procuring > books in India > > > > Chudamani > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:54:14 +0530 > From: "HENAG" <HENAG(a)infosys.com> > Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books > To: "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> > Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: > > <882B7E812BE14E4BA7E86387242C8DB90BA37433(a)kecmsg11.ad.infosys.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Thanks , I'm also aware of this , BCI Publication > alias Book Shoppe from Bangalore also was present > in that world book fair. > > === message truncated === __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 10:11:28 +0530 From: <lata(a)iihmr.org> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 16, Issue 7 To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: <002701c464a5$d835c340$0100007f(a)mantraonline.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" This is in reference to Ms. Vijayalaxmi's query regarding M.Phil You can apply M Phil degree on LIS through Distance learning from Anna Malai University and Madurai Kamaraj University in South India Lata Suresh Librarian IIHMR, Jaipur Message: 9 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:53:52 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] RE: M.Phil degree through correspondence from South India. (fwd) To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0407061653180.27507(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:43:45 +0530 From: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com Dear friends, Please let me know where we can do M.Phil degree in Library and Information Science from any of the university of south India through correspondence. Thanks and regards Vijayalakshmi J S Librarian STC ING Vysya Bank Ltd. PH NO: 26507281 e-mail: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 12:00 PM Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 16, Issue 7 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. RE: GOC Rates for month of July' 2004 (Krishnan) 2. RE: Buying foreign books (G. K. Manjunath) 3. RE: Buying foreign books (HENAG) 4. Re: Theme for the IATLIS conference (K.S. Chudamani) 5. Re: Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books (Mailing List Manager) 6. New Parliament Library (Mailing List Manager) 7. Cut the vendor out Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books (Mailing List Manager) 8. Re: INDICATORS OF PUBLICATIONS (Mailing List Manager) 9. RE: M.Phil degree through correspondence from South India. (fwd) (Mailing List Manager) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:43:25 +0530 From: "Krishnan" <krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] RE: GOC Rates for month of July' 2004 To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: <000601c46317$f7036910$8c0a10ac@zeta> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" One option that we have been using is to send the list of books that we want to few vendors and ask them to indicate the best possible discount and the time period of delivery. Our terms - payment against bill (no advance payment), bank rate on the date of the bill. We have been able to get discounts ranging from 20% to 30% Dr. S. Krishnan NCL --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.714 / Virus Database: 470 - Release Date: 7/2/2004 ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:03:23 +0530 (IST) From: "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books To: HENAG <HENAG(a)infosys.com> Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.30.0407061047390.510201-100000(a)brahma.igidr.ac.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Regarding database of suppliers and the publishers they represent, I would like to inform , that British library has published such online directory, for British publishers. The directory published by National Book Trust during World Bookfair, 2004 has listed all the suppliers, who participated in the fair, along with the names of publishers they represent. Many publishers from US are not represented in India. I wonder whether there is any supplier to import books published by ALA. If there are no authorised stockists or representatives, then postage will be too high as mentioned by Mr.Chandra. Barnes and Noble, whom I met recently in US are willing to supply books to Indian libraries if the business offered is US $5000/- per year. They also offer about 20% discount. We at IGIDR have prepared database of suppliers in the area of social sciencs. The data can be provided in ISO2709 format for those who are interested. g.k.manjunath CHIEF LIBRARIAN INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) SANTOSH NAGAR GOREGAON ( EAST ) MUMBAI - 400 065 INDIA e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm phone 91-22-28490653 ************************************************ On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, HENAG wrote: > Very good suggestion MS Chudamani, It should be a forum like where all suppliers account should be there. > > > Regards > hena > > -----Original Message----- > From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of K.S. Chudamani > Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 3:16 PM > To: Prafulla Chandra > Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books > > > > Now it is high time that all the book sellers come together and create an > accessible database for searching and procuring books in India > > Chudamani > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:54:14 +0530 From: "HENAG" <HENAG(a)infosys.com> Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books To: "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <882B7E812BE14E4BA7E86387242C8DB90BA37433(a)kecmsg11.ad.infosys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Thanks , I'm also aware of this , BCI Publication alias Book Shoppe from Bangalore also was present in that world book fair. And mostly they don't charge more than the book price ,if you are aregular customer.Rather will provide some discount if possible. -----Original Message----- From: G. K. Manjunath [mailto:gkm@igidr.ac.in] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 11:03 AM To: HENAG Cc: K.S. Chudamani; Prafulla Chandra; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books Regarding database of suppliers and the publishers they represent, I would like to inform , that British library has published such online directory, for British publishers. The directory published by National Book Trust during World Bookfair, 2004 has listed all the suppliers, who participated in the fair, along with the names of publishers they represent. Many publishers from US are not represented in India. I wonder whether there is any supplier to import books published by ALA. If there are no authorised stockists or representatives, then postage will be too high as mentioned by Mr.Chandra. Barnes and Noble, whom I met recently in US are willing to supply books to Indian libraries if the business offered is US $5000/- per year. They also offer about 20% discount. We at IGIDR have prepared database of suppliers in the area of social sciencs. The data can be provided in ISO2709 format for those who are interested. g.k.manjunath CHIEF LIBRARIAN INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) SANTOSH NAGAR GOREGAON ( EAST ) MUMBAI - 400 065 INDIA e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm phone 91-22-28490653 ************************************************ On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, HENAG wrote: > Very good suggestion MS Chudamani, It should be a forum like where all suppliers account should be there. > > > Regards > hena > > -----Original Message----- > From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of K.S. Chudamani > Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 3:16 PM > To: Prafulla Chandra > Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books > > > > Now it is high time that all the book sellers come together and create an > accessible database for searching and procuring books in India > > Chudamani > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:57:52 +0530 (IST) From: "K.S. Chudamani" <ksc(a)library.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Theme for the IATLIS conference To: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.44.0407061156030.22874-100000(a)library.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I think this theme is an very important one as it has to be examined in the digital environment. Curriculum development, practical training in knowledge management database creation, etc are required Chudamani On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Mailing List Manager wrote: > Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 17:08:13 +0100 (BST) > From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> > > dear friends > > the IATLIS organises annual conference every year/ this year we are > planning to organise the said conference during oct / nov 2004 at Nagpur. > we would like to suggest the following theme > > partnership between the LIS teachers and the librarians in professional > development. this is not exactly the theme, it will touch the theme. we > would like to frame it acccordingly. > > I will appreciate all the friends to suggest how the topic is and > otherwise please suggeest the topics to me i will apprciatel the > professional friends, who will be able to suggest the theme and contribute > for the success of the conf thanks 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 > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:39:34 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0407061638150.27507(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: 6 Jul 2004 04:58:06 -0000 From: Sanjay Kataria <lib_scholar(a)rediffmail.com> Dear professionals, I think, some of professional associations or society should take the initiative to design & develop the compressive databases/search engines which have the linkage with all major foreign publications. The databases could have the alert feature means as & when any publisher update their website, immediately the alert service inform their client libraries. In regard of exchange rate, I think the GOC rate is ok but Good offices Committee also should change their system and try to update themselves with help and associate with the Banks, Libraries Associations and other relevant societies. Best regards Sanjay Kataria Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology A-10, Sector-62, Noida (UP On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 KS.Chudamani wrote : > >Now it is high time that all the book sellers come together and create an >accessible database for searching and procuring books in India > >Chudamani > > ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:45:53 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] New Parliament Library To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0407061640130.27507(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: 6 Jul 2004 05:32:15 -0000 From: farooque <mfarooque(a)rediffmail.com> The second largest library of India took 8 years and over 200 crores to build. How many regular users are there? How many Staffs are working? Collection of the library and all these you'll find in an article published in Outlook July 12 issue. Title of this article is "NO DOG-EARS HERE" by Sheela Reddy. Below is the link of online version. http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20040712&fname=Library+%28F%29& sid=1 --------------------------------- Farooque, IBM Global Services (India) Pvt Ltd. First floor, GT Annexe, Airport Road, Bangalore-17 Tel: 25094107, 25094119 email... farooque(a)in.ibm.com ---------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:50:41 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Cut the vendor out Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0407061649080.27507(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Date: 6 Jul 2004 08:15:37 -0000 From: Rajesh K Patil <rajeshbcd(a)rediffmail.com> If you want to buy one title and are bothered about high freight and service charges, my suggestion is - abandon your local mortar and brick vendor and buy the book from a online vendor, how about amazon ? Regards. Rajesh On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 Prafulla Chandra wrote : >Dear All, > >I would like to know the best practices for buying foreign books. >Also, who are the top suppliers in India for these books? [truncated] > >T.V. Prafulla Chandra >Senior Editor ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:52:48 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] INDICATORS OF PUBLICATIONS To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0407061651470.27507(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:37:12 +0530 From: gargkc <gargkc(a)nistads.res.in> Dear Mr. Sadasivan Thanks for your e mail. In my opinion it is not proper that the Downloading should be treated as an Indicator of the quality of Papers. also it is not clear from the attached list which are the the second and third highest downloaded papers that have been authored by the scientists of your lab.however, a final decision about their quality can be taken only after a citation study of these papers. I may mention that of the 50 papers listed in the site you have refered 14 are review articles, which are cited more frequently than other articles. if you have any other query, pl. feel free to contact. regards K.C.Garg NISTADS ----- Original Message ----- > Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 22:18:32 -0700 (PDT) > From: Sadasivan KP <kps31147(a)yahoo.com> > > Dear Lis-Forum Members, > > The Impact Factor of journals/publications and Citation Counts of papers > are well known indicators of their quality/acceptance. Despite the current > debate worldwide on its acceptance / reservations, these indicators are > still widely accepted by the peers, professionals and funding agencies, > etc. , presumably due to the absence of an effective alternative mode of > rating. > > Now a new concept is emerging - as seen publicised and promoted by certain > publishers and authors : An Indicator based on the frequency/amount of > downloads of a paper ! > > For instance, the international journal " Biotechnology & Applied > Biochemistry" (Publisher : Portland Press on behalf of IUMBM) has widely > publicised in their website as follows: > > ' Top 50 Downloaded Papers: The Papers listed below are the 50 most > frequently downloaded Papers for the 12 months to the end of May 2004...' > (The list contains HTML Full Text & PDF downloadable options too) > > The details can be accessed at URL : http://bab.portlandpress.com/bab50.htm > > This has triggered a debate among the scientists (of my Lab) in favour of > and against the concept of "Downloading as an Indicator on the quality of > Papers". (Incidentally, the second and third highest downloaded papers > happened to have been authored by one of our own Scientists!) > > I seek the comments/views of our professionals, especially the > biblio/sciento-metricians . > > SADASIVAN KP > Head, Library & Informatics > Regional Research Laboratory (CSIR) > Trivandrum - 695 019 > E-Mail : kps31147(a)yahoo.com OR kps(a)csrrltrd.ren.nic.in > ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:53:52 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] RE: M.Phil degree through correspondence from South India. (fwd) To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0407061653180.27507(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:43:45 +0530 From: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com Dear friends, Please let me know where we can do M.Phil degree in Library and Information Science from any of the university of south India through correspondence. Thanks and regards Vijayalakshmi J S Librarian STC ING Vysya Bank Ltd. PH NO: 26507281 e-mail: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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 16, Issue 7 **************************************** ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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 16, Issue 8 **************************************** _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

1 0

RE: GOC Rates for month of July' 2004
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jul '04

08 Jul '04

Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 19:14:11 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> Dear Friends I have read the discussion, and I would like to make some comments and after wards I shall give my opinion 1. Do we find some relationship between us and publisher or not? 2. Our main concern is to purchase books, and many librarians are not having the selection sources / catalogues and they are not aware of the existing technology, infrastructure, books. Many librarians find the information as a sort of awareness 3. If we do not like to hav it or read it, u have an option to delete. once we start reading the mail. we understand and can be deleted. 4. how many professional memebres are sending useful messages. should we remove all of them from the group? important: Can we make use of the message from different dimension? Do we have GOC? Is it authorised by th Govt- now Govt is not participating. how far it is authentic? if it is not authentic, why no one is commenting on the aspect of illegality or irrelevance of the GOC rates.Who are the members? what is their authenticity), as i understand the IOLA have denied to associate with the GOC. People say that it is being fixed at the behest of few under the pressure of the select publisher ( subject to correction) Do you think that we should purchase the documents by paying GOC rates/ In almost all the academic libraries in south stopped purchase of periodicals throught GOC rates. mainly due to the fact that, by paying almost 5-6 %extra- for a budget of 25 lakhs it works out to be1.25 laks extra. therefore almost all the libraries have stopped purchasing the periodicals by GOC rates and they pay only bank rates. Is it justified to pay extra 5-6% to the publisher / Book seller? Let us insist not to pay extra 5-6% of the value, when we r undergoing the financial limitations. Now it is high time we pay actual rates in the stabilised economy. ( the GOC was to fix rates in volatile environment). Similarly any thing related to the profession may be permitted by the group. It gives an opportunity to many people to understand and know the issues. let our professional friends examine and write the critical comment on the messages. thanks laxman rao

5 6

FW: [ISSI] Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jul '04

08 Jul '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 12:05:49 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> -----Original Message----- From: Mistry, Meher To: ISSI(a)LISTSERV.REDIRIS.ES Sent: 7/8/04 12:03 AM Subject: [ISSI] Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship >From Henry Small We are pleased to announce the availability of the Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship to be awarded in conjunction with the 10th International Conference of ISSI in 2005. Please see www.umu.se/inforsk/ISSI2005/award/award_intro.htm for further information and instructions on how to apply.

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] RE: GOC Rates for month of July' 2004
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jul '04

08 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:04:55 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> dear friends, i agree with the statements made by other friends. the difference is ssome time upto 7-8% i have collected data for a year and saw that the variation is too much. first of all we need to look for its legality. is GOC rates are legal? now neither ILA nor the Banks are participating in this program. some friends say that it has gone into pucca business minded people and the name of GOC is being exploited to a larger extent egarding the discount- many univs do not purchase if the discount is less than 15%- whatever the book may be. i have seen in aligarh muslim university the discounts r ranging upto 40% ( especially for medicine books) they r able to buy at a minimum of 20% why not other libraries? i think we need to examine this issue and seriously consider to join the hands to protect the interests of the libraries. laxman rao "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> wrote: I had gathered two years data to compare the difference between bank rate and GOC rate. I observed that the difference had exceeded 6% during some of the months during 2000 and 2001. During 1990's, the agreement between the then members of the Federation and librarians was to pay a markup of 2% over bank rate to negate the effect of fluctuations, which looked reasonable. Later, when this 2% markup was not agreable to the Federation, the librarians representing GOC withdrew. Some of the Delhi libraries are following ILA rates. Can I request the Delhi librarians to throw some light on it ? This issue of huge difference in exchange rate was discussed in a meeting organized by Mumbai's IASLIC chapter at British Library during April 2001. During this workshop I had made a small presentation on the data and suggested that bank rate for journals subscription. Majority of the members who were presented during the meeting agreed that libraries need to insist on Bank rate for journals, as the renewal is done once a year. To offset this problem in case of books, one can ask for more discount than recommended by GOC as this incovenient to check bank rate every day. Many booksuppliers are now offering 15% and some even 20%. Therefore, with this kind of arrangment, the GOC problem does not look too serious. G.K.MANJUNATH ************************************************** CHIEF LIBRARIAN INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) SANTOSH NAGAR GOREGAON ( EAST ) MUMBAI - 400 065 INDIA e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm phone 22-8490653 ************************************************

1 0

RE: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 16, Issue 8
by Byrappa, Ananda (Research) 08 Jul '04

08 Jul '04

All of us know how difficult it is to procure books from foreign publishers, particularly when you need them quickly (always!) At GE Bangalore, we have the following book procurement practice in place. Our priority is delivery time. We have tied-up with selected few book sellers with the following terms and conditions to procure foreign books. - Delivery time 30 days (maximum) - Discount 20% - Payment within 2 weeks - Conversion as per GOC rates In special cases, when we require books urgently, we pay actual courier charge (against proof) to the suppliers but he needs to deliver the book within 7 days. Discount and payment terms remain the same. Actually, we end up buying 20% of our books from online book stores, like amazon, due to urgent timelines. I feel, how nice if amazon can offer some discount to libraries & deliver the books with free of shipment charges! Regards, Anand T Byrappa Whitney Knowledge Centre GE India Technology Centre Pvt.Ltd., 122, EPIP, Phase 2, Hoodi Village, Whitefield Road, Bangalore - 560066, INDIA Phone : +91-80-2503-2618, DialCom: 8*901 2618 Fax : +91-80-2841-2114, Email : Ananda.Byrappa(a)ge.com -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 11:11 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 16, Issue 8 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. GOC (Mailing List Manager) 2. Re: RE: GOC Rates for month of July' 2004 (uma jaganath) 3. Re: Message for Vijaylakshmi (ganeshtk) 4. Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 16, Issue 7 (lata(a)iihmr.org) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:09:40 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] GOC To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0407061708120.27507(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:20:47 +0530 From: Mrs. Vaishnav <ytv(a)godrej.com> Dear All, I remember correctly about going thru' the same discussion last year also. It is a good platform to become aware of various practices in our field, touching different aspects. On this issue of GOC, can we come to any common giudeline? The example given by Mrs. Nirupama Bawdekar is self explanatory. With regards to all, Mrs. Y.T. Vaishnav, Consulting Librarian, Godrej Learning Center, Mumbai. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:09:45 +0530 (IST) From: uma jaganath <uma(a)library.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] RE: GOC Rates for month of July' 2004 To: Krishnan <krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in> Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.44.0407061656080.5778-100000(a)library.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII J R D Tata Memorial Library, at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore is also following the same procedure as NCL by sending the list of books published by foreign publishers that we want to procure asking them to quote the rate of discount and also the possible time of delivery. Whoever gives the highest discount (it ranges from 21% to 34%) , orders will be placed with those vendors. And also the vendors delivers the book with the price proof and we also verify the price by visiting publishers' websites and we are paying them Bank Rate (SBI) prevailing on the date of billing. By this procedure, our library is saving quite a good amount by way of discount, which we are using to update our Reference collection. Dr. Uma Jagannath Deputy Librarian J R D Tata Memorial Library Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 560012 Tel.No. 22932868 E-Mail: uma(a)library.iisc.ernet.in On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Krishnan wrote: > One option that we have been using is to send the list of books that we want > to few vendors and ask them to indicate the best possible discount and the > time period of delivery. Our terms - payment against bill (no advance > payment), bank rate on the date of the bill. We have been able to get > discounts ranging from 20% to 30% > > Dr. S. Krishnan > NCL > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.714 / Virus Database: 470 - Release Date: 7/2/2004 > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 23:39:25 -0700 (PDT) From: ganeshtk <ganeshtk(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: Message for Vijaylakshmi To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20040707063925.38473.qmail(a)web13604.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Dear Ms.Vijayalakshmi, You can do M.Phil course from Annamalai University and IGNOU. The admiissions for Annamalai University is starting from the Month of August 2004. GANESH T.K. Admin-cum-Library Assistant CISED BANGALORE ganeshtk(a)isec.ac.in --- 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. RE: GOC Rates for month of July' 2004 > (Krishnan) > 2. RE: Buying foreign books (G. K. Manjunath) > 3. RE: Buying foreign books (HENAG) > 4. Re: Theme for the IATLIS conference (K.S. > Chudamani) > 5. Re: Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books > (Mailing List Manager) > 6. New Parliament Library (Mailing List Manager) > 7. Cut the vendor out Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying > foreign books > (Mailing List Manager) > 8. Re: INDICATORS OF PUBLICATIONS (Mailing List > Manager) > 9. RE: M.Phil degree through correspondence from > South India. > (fwd) (Mailing List Manager) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:43:25 +0530 > From: "Krishnan" <krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] RE: GOC Rates for month of > July' 2004 > To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Message-ID: <000601c46317$f7036910$8c0a10ac@zeta> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > One option that we have been using is to send the > list of books that we want > to few vendors and ask them to indicate the best > possible discount and the > time period of delivery. Our terms - payment against > bill (no advance > payment), bank rate on the date of the bill. We have > been able to get > discounts ranging from 20% to 30% > > Dr. S. Krishnan > NCL > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system > (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.714 / Virus Database: 470 - Release > Date: 7/2/2004 > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:03:23 +0530 (IST) > From: "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> > Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books > To: HENAG <HENAG(a)infosys.com> > Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: > > <Pine.OSF.4.30.0407061047390.510201-100000(a)brahma.igidr.ac.in> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > > Regarding database of suppliers and the publishers > they represent, I would > like to inform , that British library has published > such online directory, > for British publishers. > > The directory published by National Book Trust > during World Bookfair, 2004 > has listed all the suppliers, who participated in > the fair, along with the > names of publishers they represent. > > Many publishers from US are not represented in > India. I wonder whether > there is any supplier to import books published by > ALA. If there are no > authorised stockists or representatives, then > postage will be too high as > mentioned by Mr.Chandra. Barnes and Noble, whom I > met recently in US are > willing to supply books to Indian libraries if the > business offered is US > $5000/- per year. They also offer about 20% > discount. > > We at IGIDR have prepared database of suppliers in > the area of social > sciencs. The data can be provided in ISO2709 format > for those who are > interested. > > g.k.manjunath > > CHIEF LIBRARIAN > INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT > RESEARCH > FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) > SANTOSH NAGAR > GOREGAON ( EAST ) > MUMBAI - 400 065 > INDIA > > > e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in > http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm > > phone 91-22-28490653 > ************************************************ > > > On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, HENAG wrote: > > > Very good suggestion MS Chudamani, It should be a > forum like where all suppliers account should be > there. > > > > > > Regards > > hena > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On > Behalf Of K.S. Chudamani > > Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 3:16 PM > > To: Prafulla Chandra > > Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books > > > > > > > > Now it is high time that all the book sellers come > together and create an > > accessible database for searching and procuring > books in India > > > > Chudamani > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:54:14 +0530 > From: "HENAG" <HENAG(a)infosys.com> > Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books > To: "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> > Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: > > <882B7E812BE14E4BA7E86387242C8DB90BA37433(a)kecmsg11.ad.infosys.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Thanks , I'm also aware of this , BCI Publication > alias Book Shoppe from Bangalore also was present > in that world book fair. > > === message truncated === __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 10:11:28 +0530 From: <lata(a)iihmr.org> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 16, Issue 7 To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: <002701c464a5$d835c340$0100007f(a)mantraonline.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" This is in reference to Ms. Vijayalaxmi's query regarding M.Phil You can apply M Phil degree on LIS through Distance learning from Anna Malai University and Madurai Kamaraj University in South India Lata Suresh Librarian IIHMR, Jaipur Message: 9 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:53:52 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] RE: M.Phil degree through correspondence from South India. (fwd) To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0407061653180.27507(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:43:45 +0530 From: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com Dear friends, Please let me know where we can do M.Phil degree in Library and Information Science from any of the university of south India through correspondence. Thanks and regards Vijayalakshmi J S Librarian STC ING Vysya Bank Ltd. PH NO: 26507281 e-mail: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 12:00 PM Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 16, Issue 7 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. RE: GOC Rates for month of July' 2004 (Krishnan) 2. RE: Buying foreign books (G. K. Manjunath) 3. RE: Buying foreign books (HENAG) 4. Re: Theme for the IATLIS conference (K.S. Chudamani) 5. Re: Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books (Mailing List Manager) 6. New Parliament Library (Mailing List Manager) 7. Cut the vendor out Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books (Mailing List Manager) 8. Re: INDICATORS OF PUBLICATIONS (Mailing List Manager) 9. RE: M.Phil degree through correspondence from South India. (fwd) (Mailing List Manager) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:43:25 +0530 From: "Krishnan" <krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] RE: GOC Rates for month of July' 2004 To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: <000601c46317$f7036910$8c0a10ac@zeta> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" One option that we have been using is to send the list of books that we want to few vendors and ask them to indicate the best possible discount and the time period of delivery. Our terms - payment against bill (no advance payment), bank rate on the date of the bill. We have been able to get discounts ranging from 20% to 30% Dr. S. Krishnan NCL --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.714 / Virus Database: 470 - Release Date: 7/2/2004 ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:03:23 +0530 (IST) From: "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books To: HENAG <HENAG(a)infosys.com> Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.30.0407061047390.510201-100000(a)brahma.igidr.ac.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Regarding database of suppliers and the publishers they represent, I would like to inform , that British library has published such online directory, for British publishers. The directory published by National Book Trust during World Bookfair, 2004 has listed all the suppliers, who participated in the fair, along with the names of publishers they represent. Many publishers from US are not represented in India. I wonder whether there is any supplier to import books published by ALA. If there are no authorised stockists or representatives, then postage will be too high as mentioned by Mr.Chandra. Barnes and Noble, whom I met recently in US are willing to supply books to Indian libraries if the business offered is US $5000/- per year. They also offer about 20% discount. We at IGIDR have prepared database of suppliers in the area of social sciencs. The data can be provided in ISO2709 format for those who are interested. g.k.manjunath CHIEF LIBRARIAN INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) SANTOSH NAGAR GOREGAON ( EAST ) MUMBAI - 400 065 INDIA e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm phone 91-22-28490653 ************************************************ On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, HENAG wrote: > Very good suggestion MS Chudamani, It should be a forum like where all suppliers account should be there. > > > Regards > hena > > -----Original Message----- > From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of K.S. Chudamani > Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 3:16 PM > To: Prafulla Chandra > Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books > > > > Now it is high time that all the book sellers come together and create an > accessible database for searching and procuring books in India > > Chudamani > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:54:14 +0530 From: "HENAG" <HENAG(a)infosys.com> Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books To: "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <882B7E812BE14E4BA7E86387242C8DB90BA37433(a)kecmsg11.ad.infosys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Thanks , I'm also aware of this , BCI Publication alias Book Shoppe from Bangalore also was present in that world book fair. And mostly they don't charge more than the book price ,if you are aregular customer.Rather will provide some discount if possible. -----Original Message----- From: G. K. Manjunath [mailto:gkm@igidr.ac.in] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 11:03 AM To: HENAG Cc: K.S. Chudamani; Prafulla Chandra; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books Regarding database of suppliers and the publishers they represent, I would like to inform , that British library has published such online directory, for British publishers. The directory published by National Book Trust during World Bookfair, 2004 has listed all the suppliers, who participated in the fair, along with the names of publishers they represent. Many publishers from US are not represented in India. I wonder whether there is any supplier to import books published by ALA. If there are no authorised stockists or representatives, then postage will be too high as mentioned by Mr.Chandra. Barnes and Noble, whom I met recently in US are willing to supply books to Indian libraries if the business offered is US $5000/- per year. They also offer about 20% discount. We at IGIDR have prepared database of suppliers in the area of social sciencs. The data can be provided in ISO2709 format for those who are interested. g.k.manjunath CHIEF LIBRARIAN INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) SANTOSH NAGAR GOREGAON ( EAST ) MUMBAI - 400 065 INDIA e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm phone 91-22-28490653 ************************************************ On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, HENAG wrote: > Very good suggestion MS Chudamani, It should be a forum like where all suppliers account should be there. > > > Regards > hena > > -----Original Message----- > From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of K.S. Chudamani > Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 3:16 PM > To: Prafulla Chandra > Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books > > > > Now it is high time that all the book sellers come together and create an > accessible database for searching and procuring books in India > > Chudamani > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:57:52 +0530 (IST) From: "K.S. Chudamani" <ksc(a)library.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Theme for the IATLIS conference To: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.44.0407061156030.22874-100000(a)library.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I think this theme is an very important one as it has to be examined in the digital environment. Curriculum development, practical training in knowledge management database creation, etc are required Chudamani On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Mailing List Manager wrote: > Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 17:08:13 +0100 (BST) > From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> > > dear friends > > the IATLIS organises annual conference every year/ this year we are > planning to organise the said conference during oct / nov 2004 at Nagpur. > we would like to suggest the following theme > > partnership between the LIS teachers and the librarians in professional > development. this is not exactly the theme, it will touch the theme. we > would like to frame it acccordingly. > > I will appreciate all the friends to suggest how the topic is and > otherwise please suggeest the topics to me i will apprciatel the > professional friends, who will be able to suggest the theme and contribute > for the success of the conf thanks 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 > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:39:34 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0407061638150.27507(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: 6 Jul 2004 04:58:06 -0000 From: Sanjay Kataria <lib_scholar(a)rediffmail.com> Dear professionals, I think, some of professional associations or society should take the initiative to design & develop the compressive databases/search engines which have the linkage with all major foreign publications. The databases could have the alert feature means as & when any publisher update their website, immediately the alert service inform their client libraries. In regard of exchange rate, I think the GOC rate is ok but Good offices Committee also should change their system and try to update themselves with help and associate with the Banks, Libraries Associations and other relevant societies. Best regards Sanjay Kataria Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology A-10, Sector-62, Noida (UP On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 KS.Chudamani wrote : > >Now it is high time that all the book sellers come together and create an >accessible database for searching and procuring books in India > >Chudamani > > ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:45:53 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] New Parliament Library To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0407061640130.27507(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: 6 Jul 2004 05:32:15 -0000 From: farooque <mfarooque(a)rediffmail.com> The second largest library of India took 8 years and over 200 crores to build. How many regular users are there? How many Staffs are working? Collection of the library and all these you'll find in an article published in Outlook July 12 issue. Title of this article is "NO DOG-EARS HERE" by Sheela Reddy. Below is the link of online version. http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20040712&fname=Library+%28F%29& sid=1 --------------------------------- Farooque, IBM Global Services (India) Pvt Ltd. First floor, GT Annexe, Airport Road, Bangalore-17 Tel: 25094107, 25094119 email... farooque(a)in.ibm.com ---------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:50:41 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Cut the vendor out Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0407061649080.27507(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Date: 6 Jul 2004 08:15:37 -0000 From: Rajesh K Patil <rajeshbcd(a)rediffmail.com> If you want to buy one title and are bothered about high freight and service charges, my suggestion is - abandon your local mortar and brick vendor and buy the book from a online vendor, how about amazon ? Regards. Rajesh On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 Prafulla Chandra wrote : >Dear All, > >I would like to know the best practices for buying foreign books. >Also, who are the top suppliers in India for these books? [truncated] > >T.V. Prafulla Chandra >Senior Editor ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:52:48 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] INDICATORS OF PUBLICATIONS To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0407061651470.27507(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:37:12 +0530 From: gargkc <gargkc(a)nistads.res.in> Dear Mr. Sadasivan Thanks for your e mail. In my opinion it is not proper that the Downloading should be treated as an Indicator of the quality of Papers. also it is not clear from the attached list which are the the second and third highest downloaded papers that have been authored by the scientists of your lab.however, a final decision about their quality can be taken only after a citation study of these papers. I may mention that of the 50 papers listed in the site you have refered 14 are review articles, which are cited more frequently than other articles. if you have any other query, pl. feel free to contact. regards K.C.Garg NISTADS ----- Original Message ----- > Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 22:18:32 -0700 (PDT) > From: Sadasivan KP <kps31147(a)yahoo.com> > > Dear Lis-Forum Members, > > The Impact Factor of journals/publications and Citation Counts of papers > are well known indicators of their quality/acceptance. Despite the current > debate worldwide on its acceptance / reservations, these indicators are > still widely accepted by the peers, professionals and funding agencies, > etc. , presumably due to the absence of an effective alternative mode of > rating. > > Now a new concept is emerging - as seen publicised and promoted by certain > publishers and authors : An Indicator based on the frequency/amount of > downloads of a paper ! > > For instance, the international journal " Biotechnology & Applied > Biochemistry" (Publisher : Portland Press on behalf of IUMBM) has widely > publicised in their website as follows: > > ' Top 50 Downloaded Papers: The Papers listed below are the 50 most > frequently downloaded Papers for the 12 months to the end of May 2004...' > (The list contains HTML Full Text & PDF downloadable options too) > > The details can be accessed at URL : http://bab.portlandpress.com/bab50.htm > > This has triggered a debate among the scientists (of my Lab) in favour of > and against the concept of "Downloading as an Indicator on the quality of > Papers". (Incidentally, the second and third highest downloaded papers > happened to have been authored by one of our own Scientists!) > > I seek the comments/views of our professionals, especially the > biblio/sciento-metricians . > > SADASIVAN KP > Head, Library & Informatics > Regional Research Laboratory (CSIR) > Trivandrum - 695 019 > E-Mail : kps31147(a)yahoo.com OR kps(a)csrrltrd.ren.nic.in > ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:53:52 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] RE: M.Phil degree through correspondence from South India. (fwd) To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0407061653180.27507(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:43:45 +0530 From: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com Dear friends, Please let me know where we can do M.Phil degree in Library and Information Science from any of the university of south India through correspondence. Thanks and regards Vijayalakshmi J S Librarian STC ING Vysya Bank Ltd. PH NO: 26507281 e-mail: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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 16, Issue 7 **************************************** ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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 16, Issue 8 ****************************************

1 0

New Open Access / OAI Articles and Reports
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jul '04

08 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 10:27:44 -0500 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> _New Open Access / OAI Articles and Reports_ I am pleased to announce the availability of three major publications relating to Open Access and the Open Archives Initiative: [I] "Open Archives Initiative Data Providers. Part II: Science and Technology," _Library Hi Tech News_ 21, no. 5 (June 2004): 22-30. Self-archived at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-DP-II.pdf (accessed 7 July 2004). Bioline [ http://www.bioline.org.br/ ] CERN Document Server (CDS) [ http://cds.cern.ch/ ] Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) [ http://www.dlese.org/dds/index.jsp ] Organic Eprints [ http://orgprints.org/ ] *********************************************************************************************** [II] "Gaining Independence with E-Print Archives and OAI: Report on the 2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative, October 17-19, 2002, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland," _Journal of Internet Cataloging_ 6, no. 3 (2003) [2004]: 35-52. Self-archived at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-WS-02.pdf (accessed 7 July) In addition to a detailed description and summary of individual presentations and reports, a bibliography of 'Related Readings, Reports, and Resources' was compiled and appended to the formal workshop report. ************************************************************************************************ [III] News from the Field," _Journal of Internet Cataloging_ 6, no. 3 (2003) [2004]: 61-80. Self-archived at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/NEWSv6n3.pdf (accessed 7 July 2004). In this latest news column, numerous Open Access and Open Archives Initiative programs, projects, and publications are profiled. Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

1 0

Articles on Public lib development
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jul '04

08 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:14:36 +0530 From: Achar <achar(a)ohiomanipal.edu> Dear Professionals, I am doing M.Phil in public library development special reference to rural library development. Will you please help me in giving references and articles related to this. Thanks Achar

1 0

NewGenLib now on Linux
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jul '04

08 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 08:49:37 +0530 From: Jai Haravu <haravu(a)newgenlib.com> Dear List members Some time back I has reported the development of NewGenLib, (http://www newgenlib.com) a web-based library automation and networking software developed as an initiative of the Kesavan Inst. of Information and Knowledge Management (KIIKM) in partnership with a software company in Hyderabad, Verus Solutions Pvt. Ltd. I am happy to let you know that NewGenLib has now been ported to run under Linux and also under an open source RDBMS, viz., Firebird. This RDBMS works well both under the Windows and Linux OS. This version has been tested on stand alones and on a LAN/Intranet and is well suited to small-to-medium libraries. We hope to test this version also on a web server and I will keep you informed of this. Best regards. 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

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] INDICATORS OF PUBLICATIONS
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jul '04

08 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 19:57:47 +0500 From: ppich(a)vsnl.net Certainly the number of downloads is not an indicator for measuring the quality or impact of papers. It is like the number of borrowings of a book in a library. Most of the papers downloaded in your list are review papers and they are used to know the current trend in a field. P.Pichappan Annamalai University ----- Original Message ----- > Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:37:12 +0530 > From: gargkc <gargkc(a)nistads.res.in> > > Dear Mr. Sadasivan > > Thanks for your e mail. In my opinion it is not proper that the > Downloadingshould be treated as an Indicator of the quality of > Papers. also it is not > clear from the attached list which are the the second and third > highestdownloaded papers that have been authored by the scientists > of your > lab.however, a final decision about their quality can be taken > only after a > citation study of these papers. I may mention that of the 50 > papers listed > in the site you have refered 14 are review articles, which are > cited more > frequently than other articles. > if you have any other query, pl. feel free to contact. > regards > > K.C.Garg > NISTADS >

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] Theme for the IATLIS conference
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jul '04

08 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 19:43:12 +0530 From: shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in My take on this : Possible themes ------ 1.LIS Educators and practitioners : Building Bridges 2.LIS Educators and Practitioners :Strengthening/Forging Alliances 3.Preaching and practicing LIS -New Alliances and old partnerships 4.Melding teaching with practice in LIS Profession:methods and models 5.LIS Education and practice -overarching and outreaching ---- Happy handshaking! Shalini -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr.Shalini R.Urs Director Professor and Chairperson Information & Communication Division Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore University of Mysore Manasagangotri Manasagangotri Mysore- 570006 Mysore -570006 India Ph : 91-821-2514699 Fax: 91-821-2519209 Website:http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] INDICATORS OF PUBLICATIONS
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jul '04

08 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:27:02 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> hello I accept the statement of Mr Garg. But let me also state that , citation is not a criteria- as many authors have not even seen the journal / article- still they quote in their to give quality touch to their own article. this is world know fact. is it possible to assess and evaluate the use pattern- is a very difficult laxman rao Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:37:12 +0530 From: gargkc Dear Mr. Sadasivan Thanks for your e mail. In my opinion it is not proper that the Downloading should be treated as an Indicator of the quality of Papers. also it is not clear from the attached list which are the the second and third highest downloaded papers that have been authored by the scientists of your lab.however, a final decision about their quality can be taken only after a citation study of these papers. I may mention that of the 50 papers listed in the site you have refered 14 are review articles, which are cited more frequently than other articles. if you have any other query, pl. feel free to contact. regards K.C.Garg NISTADS

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum] Theme for the IATLIS conference
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jul '04

08 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:19:17 +0530 From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com To: mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Theme for the IATLIS conference This has reference to DR Laxman Rao's request. Some possible sub-topics or connected issues are: Librarians allowing LIS students some short term training Librarians offering to help in teaching assignments Librarians providing projects for student activities Librarians allowing Student visits that are properly organised Librarians spelling out their expectations from students so that curriculam may be modified Librarians being on Board of Studies by rotation Librarians advertising vacancies through LIS schools Librarians requesting LIS teachers to help them select LIS employees Librarians helping LIS schools to prepare Alumni lists Applying Apprenticeship Act to all libraries Apart from "LIS school and Libraians relationships", LIS schools need to tap LIS Associations too. Nowadays students become 'captive audience' for lectures organised by LIS associations; They should be voluntary active audience. Vyasamoorthy, P -----Original Message----- Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 17:08:13 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> dear friends the IATLIS organises annual conference every year/ this year we are planning to organise the said conference during oct / nov 2004 at Nagpur. we would like to suggest the following theme partnership between the LIS teachers and the librarians in professional development. this is not exactly the theme, it will touch the theme. we would like to frame it acccordingly. I will appreciate all the friends to suggest how the topic is and otherwise please suggeest the topics to me i will apprciatel the professional friends, who will be able to suggest the theme and contribute for the success of the conf thanks laxman rao

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] Theme for the IATLIS conference
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jul '04

08 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:16:31 +0530 From: Vasumathi Sriganesh <vasu(a)qmedin.com> The theme sounds excellent, and I hope it becomes a turning point in the profession. Couple of inputs from me: (I hope I can come up with better ideas as I think) 1. Should Working Librarians from different spheres be compulsorily used as external faculty in L & IS courses.(Benefits for students as well as academic faculty to be discussed) 2. Norms and Objectives for students to do Internship / Summer or vacation training / Post qualification training (If some good & very practical norms and objectives are drawn up, then students should get some high quality training, and the libraries in which they train, should get some defined results). Vasumathi Sriganesh Director, QMed Services Pvt. Ltd. A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India Ph: 91-22-28229223 Fax: 91-22-28224358 Email: vasu(a)qmedin.com, Web: www.qmedin.com ----- Original Message ----- Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 17:08:13 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> dear friends the IATLIS organises annual conference every year/ this year we are planning to organise the said conference during oct / nov 2004 at Nagpur. we would like to suggest the following theme partnership between the LIS teachers and the librarians in professional development. this is not exactly the theme, it will touch the theme. we would like to frame it acccordingly. I will appreciate all the friends to suggest how the topic is and otherwise please suggeest the topics to me i will apprciatel the professional friends, who will be able to suggest the theme and contribute for the success of the conf thanks 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

1 0

Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 16, Issue 7
by lata＠iihmr.org 08 Jul '04

08 Jul '04

This is in reference to Ms. Vijayalaxmi's query regarding M.Phil You can apply M Phil degree on LIS through Distance learning from Anna Malai University and Madurai Kamaraj University in South India Lata Suresh Librarian IIHMR, Jaipur Message: 9 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:53:52 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] RE: M.Phil degree through correspondence from South India. (fwd) To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0407061653180.27507(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:43:45 +0530 From: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com Dear friends, Please let me know where we can do M.Phil degree in Library and Information Science from any of the university of south India through correspondence. Thanks and regards Vijayalakshmi J S Librarian STC ING Vysya Bank Ltd. PH NO: 26507281 e-mail: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 12:00 PM Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 16, Issue 7 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. RE: GOC Rates for month of July' 2004 (Krishnan) 2. RE: Buying foreign books (G. K. Manjunath) 3. RE: Buying foreign books (HENAG) 4. Re: Theme for the IATLIS conference (K.S. Chudamani) 5. Re: Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books (Mailing List Manager) 6. New Parliament Library (Mailing List Manager) 7. Cut the vendor out Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books (Mailing List Manager) 8. Re: INDICATORS OF PUBLICATIONS (Mailing List Manager) 9. RE: M.Phil degree through correspondence from South India. (fwd) (Mailing List Manager) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:43:25 +0530 From: "Krishnan" <krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] RE: GOC Rates for month of July' 2004 To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: <000601c46317$f7036910$8c0a10ac@zeta> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" One option that we have been using is to send the list of books that we want to few vendors and ask them to indicate the best possible discount and the time period of delivery. Our terms - payment against bill (no advance payment), bank rate on the date of the bill. We have been able to get discounts ranging from 20% to 30% Dr. S. Krishnan NCL --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.714 / Virus Database: 470 - Release Date: 7/2/2004 ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:03:23 +0530 (IST) From: "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books To: HENAG <HENAG(a)infosys.com> Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.30.0407061047390.510201-100000(a)brahma.igidr.ac.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Regarding database of suppliers and the publishers they represent, I would like to inform , that British library has published such online directory, for British publishers. The directory published by National Book Trust during World Bookfair, 2004 has listed all the suppliers, who participated in the fair, along with the names of publishers they represent. Many publishers from US are not represented in India. I wonder whether there is any supplier to import books published by ALA. If there are no authorised stockists or representatives, then postage will be too high as mentioned by Mr.Chandra. Barnes and Noble, whom I met recently in US are willing to supply books to Indian libraries if the business offered is US $5000/- per year. They also offer about 20% discount. We at IGIDR have prepared database of suppliers in the area of social sciencs. The data can be provided in ISO2709 format for those who are interested. g.k.manjunath CHIEF LIBRARIAN INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) SANTOSH NAGAR GOREGAON ( EAST ) MUMBAI - 400 065 INDIA e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm phone 91-22-28490653 ************************************************ On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, HENAG wrote: > Very good suggestion MS Chudamani, It should be a forum like where all suppliers account should be there. > > > Regards > hena > > -----Original Message----- > From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of K.S. Chudamani > Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 3:16 PM > To: Prafulla Chandra > Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books > > > > Now it is high time that all the book sellers come together and create an > accessible database for searching and procuring books in India > > Chudamani > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:54:14 +0530 From: "HENAG" <HENAG(a)infosys.com> Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books To: "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <882B7E812BE14E4BA7E86387242C8DB90BA37433(a)kecmsg11.ad.infosys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Thanks , I'm also aware of this , BCI Publication alias Book Shoppe from Bangalore also was present in that world book fair. And mostly they don't charge more than the book price ,if you are aregular customer.Rather will provide some discount if possible. -----Original Message----- From: G. K. Manjunath [mailto:gkm@igidr.ac.in] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 11:03 AM To: HENAG Cc: K.S. Chudamani; Prafulla Chandra; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books Regarding database of suppliers and the publishers they represent, I would like to inform , that British library has published such online directory, for British publishers. The directory published by National Book Trust during World Bookfair, 2004 has listed all the suppliers, who participated in the fair, along with the names of publishers they represent. Many publishers from US are not represented in India. I wonder whether there is any supplier to import books published by ALA. If there are no authorised stockists or representatives, then postage will be too high as mentioned by Mr.Chandra. Barnes and Noble, whom I met recently in US are willing to supply books to Indian libraries if the business offered is US $5000/- per year. They also offer about 20% discount. We at IGIDR have prepared database of suppliers in the area of social sciencs. The data can be provided in ISO2709 format for those who are interested. g.k.manjunath CHIEF LIBRARIAN INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) SANTOSH NAGAR GOREGAON ( EAST ) MUMBAI - 400 065 INDIA e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm phone 91-22-28490653 ************************************************ On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, HENAG wrote: > Very good suggestion MS Chudamani, It should be a forum like where all suppliers account should be there. > > > Regards > hena > > -----Original Message----- > From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of K.S. Chudamani > Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 3:16 PM > To: Prafulla Chandra > Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books > > > > Now it is high time that all the book sellers come together and create an > accessible database for searching and procuring books in India > > Chudamani > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:57:52 +0530 (IST) From: "K.S. Chudamani" <ksc(a)library.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Theme for the IATLIS conference To: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.44.0407061156030.22874-100000(a)library.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I think this theme is an very important one as it has to be examined in the digital environment. Curriculum development, practical training in knowledge management database creation, etc are required Chudamani On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Mailing List Manager wrote: > Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 17:08:13 +0100 (BST) > From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> > > dear friends > > the IATLIS organises annual conference every year/ this year we are > planning to organise the said conference during oct / nov 2004 at Nagpur. > we would like to suggest the following theme > > partnership between the LIS teachers and the librarians in professional > development. this is not exactly the theme, it will touch the theme. we > would like to frame it acccordingly. > > I will appreciate all the friends to suggest how the topic is and > otherwise please suggeest the topics to me i will apprciatel the > professional friends, who will be able to suggest the theme and contribute > for the success of the conf thanks 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 > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:39:34 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0407061638150.27507(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: 6 Jul 2004 04:58:06 -0000 From: Sanjay Kataria <lib_scholar(a)rediffmail.com> Dear professionals, I think, some of professional associations or society should take the initiative to design & develop the compressive databases/search engines which have the linkage with all major foreign publications. The databases could have the alert feature means as & when any publisher update their website, immediately the alert service inform their client libraries. In regard of exchange rate, I think the GOC rate is ok but Good offices Committee also should change their system and try to update themselves with help and associate with the Banks, Libraries Associations and other relevant societies. Best regards Sanjay Kataria Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology A-10, Sector-62, Noida (UP On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 KS.Chudamani wrote : > >Now it is high time that all the book sellers come together and create an >accessible database for searching and procuring books in India > >Chudamani > > ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:45:53 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] New Parliament Library To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0407061640130.27507(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: 6 Jul 2004 05:32:15 -0000 From: farooque <mfarooque(a)rediffmail.com> The second largest library of India took 8 years and over 200 crores to build. How many regular users are there? How many Staffs are working? Collection of the library and all these you'll find in an article published in Outlook July 12 issue. Title of this article is "NO DOG-EARS HERE" by Sheela Reddy. Below is the link of online version. http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20040712&fname=Library+%28F%29& sid=1 --------------------------------- Farooque, IBM Global Services (India) Pvt Ltd. First floor, GT Annexe, Airport Road, Bangalore-17 Tel: 25094107, 25094119 email... farooque(a)in.ibm.com ---------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:50:41 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Cut the vendor out Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0407061649080.27507(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Date: 6 Jul 2004 08:15:37 -0000 From: Rajesh K Patil <rajeshbcd(a)rediffmail.com> If you want to buy one title and are bothered about high freight and service charges, my suggestion is - abandon your local mortar and brick vendor and buy the book from a online vendor, how about amazon ? Regards. Rajesh On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 Prafulla Chandra wrote : >Dear All, > >I would like to know the best practices for buying foreign books. >Also, who are the top suppliers in India for these books? [truncated] > >T.V. Prafulla Chandra >Senior Editor ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:52:48 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] INDICATORS OF PUBLICATIONS To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0407061651470.27507(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:37:12 +0530 From: gargkc <gargkc(a)nistads.res.in> Dear Mr. Sadasivan Thanks for your e mail. In my opinion it is not proper that the Downloading should be treated as an Indicator of the quality of Papers. also it is not clear from the attached list which are the the second and third highest downloaded papers that have been authored by the scientists of your lab.however, a final decision about their quality can be taken only after a citation study of these papers. I may mention that of the 50 papers listed in the site you have refered 14 are review articles, which are cited more frequently than other articles. if you have any other query, pl. feel free to contact. regards K.C.Garg NISTADS ----- Original Message ----- > Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 22:18:32 -0700 (PDT) > From: Sadasivan KP <kps31147(a)yahoo.com> > > Dear Lis-Forum Members, > > The Impact Factor of journals/publications and Citation Counts of papers > are well known indicators of their quality/acceptance. Despite the current > debate worldwide on its acceptance / reservations, these indicators are > still widely accepted by the peers, professionals and funding agencies, > etc. , presumably due to the absence of an effective alternative mode of > rating. > > Now a new concept is emerging - as seen publicised and promoted by certain > publishers and authors : An Indicator based on the frequency/amount of > downloads of a paper ! > > For instance, the international journal " Biotechnology & Applied > Biochemistry" (Publisher : Portland Press on behalf of IUMBM) has widely > publicised in their website as follows: > > ' Top 50 Downloaded Papers: The Papers listed below are the 50 most > frequently downloaded Papers for the 12 months to the end of May 2004...' > (The list contains HTML Full Text & PDF downloadable options too) > > The details can be accessed at URL : http://bab.portlandpress.com/bab50.htm > > This has triggered a debate among the scientists (of my Lab) in favour of > and against the concept of "Downloading as an Indicator on the quality of > Papers". (Incidentally, the second and third highest downloaded papers > happened to have been authored by one of our own Scientists!) > > I seek the comments/views of our professionals, especially the > biblio/sciento-metricians . > > SADASIVAN KP > Head, Library & Informatics > Regional Research Laboratory (CSIR) > Trivandrum - 695 019 > E-Mail : kps31147(a)yahoo.com OR kps(a)csrrltrd.ren.nic.in > ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:53:52 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] RE: M.Phil degree through correspondence from South India. (fwd) To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0407061653180.27507(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:43:45 +0530 From: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com Dear friends, Please let me know where we can do M.Phil degree in Library and Information Science from any of the university of south India through correspondence. Thanks and regards Vijayalakshmi J S Librarian STC ING Vysya Bank Ltd. PH NO: 26507281 e-mail: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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 16, Issue 7 ****************************************

1 0

Re: Message for Vijaylakshmi
by ganeshtk 07 Jul '04

07 Jul '04

Dear Ms.Vijayalakshmi, You can do M.Phil course from Annamalai University and IGNOU. The admiissions for Annamalai University is starting from the Month of August 2004. GANESH T.K. Admin-cum-Library Assistant CISED BANGALORE ganeshtk(a)isec.ac.in --- 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. RE: GOC Rates for month of July' 2004 > (Krishnan) > 2. RE: Buying foreign books (G. K. Manjunath) > 3. RE: Buying foreign books (HENAG) > 4. Re: Theme for the IATLIS conference (K.S. > Chudamani) > 5. Re: Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books > (Mailing List Manager) > 6. New Parliament Library (Mailing List Manager) > 7. Cut the vendor out Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying > foreign books > (Mailing List Manager) > 8. Re: INDICATORS OF PUBLICATIONS (Mailing List > Manager) > 9. RE: M.Phil degree through correspondence from > South India. > (fwd) (Mailing List Manager) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:43:25 +0530 > From: "Krishnan" <krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] RE: GOC Rates for month of > July' 2004 > To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Message-ID: <000601c46317$f7036910$8c0a10ac@zeta> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > One option that we have been using is to send the > list of books that we want > to few vendors and ask them to indicate the best > possible discount and the > time period of delivery. Our terms - payment against > bill (no advance > payment), bank rate on the date of the bill. We have > been able to get > discounts ranging from 20% to 30% > > Dr. S. Krishnan > NCL > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system > (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.714 / Virus Database: 470 - Release > Date: 7/2/2004 > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:03:23 +0530 (IST) > From: "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> > Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books > To: HENAG <HENAG(a)infosys.com> > Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: > > <Pine.OSF.4.30.0407061047390.510201-100000(a)brahma.igidr.ac.in> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > > Regarding database of suppliers and the publishers > they represent, I would > like to inform , that British library has published > such online directory, > for British publishers. > > The directory published by National Book Trust > during World Bookfair, 2004 > has listed all the suppliers, who participated in > the fair, along with the > names of publishers they represent. > > Many publishers from US are not represented in > India. I wonder whether > there is any supplier to import books published by > ALA. If there are no > authorised stockists or representatives, then > postage will be too high as > mentioned by Mr.Chandra. Barnes and Noble, whom I > met recently in US are > willing to supply books to Indian libraries if the > business offered is US > $5000/- per year. They also offer about 20% > discount. > > We at IGIDR have prepared database of suppliers in > the area of social > sciencs. The data can be provided in ISO2709 format > for those who are > interested. > > g.k.manjunath > > CHIEF LIBRARIAN > INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT > RESEARCH > FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) > SANTOSH NAGAR > GOREGAON ( EAST ) > MUMBAI - 400 065 > INDIA > > > e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in > http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm > > phone 91-22-28490653 > ************************************************ > > > On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, HENAG wrote: > > > Very good suggestion MS Chudamani, It should be a > forum like where all suppliers account should be > there. > > > > > > Regards > > hena > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On > Behalf Of K.S. Chudamani > > Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 3:16 PM > > To: Prafulla Chandra > > Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books > > > > > > > > Now it is high time that all the book sellers come > together and create an > > accessible database for searching and procuring > books in India > > > > Chudamani > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:54:14 +0530 > From: "HENAG" <HENAG(a)infosys.com> > Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books > To: "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> > Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: > > <882B7E812BE14E4BA7E86387242C8DB90BA37433(a)kecmsg11.ad.infosys.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Thanks , I'm also aware of this , BCI Publication > alias Book Shoppe from Bangalore also was present > in that world book fair. > > === message truncated === __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

1 0

GOC
by Mailing List Manager 06 Jul '04

06 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:20:47 +0530 From: Mrs. Vaishnav <ytv(a)godrej.com> Dear All, I remember correctly about going thru' the same discussion last year also. It is a good platform to become aware of various practices in our field, touching different aspects. On this issue of GOC, can we come to any common giudeline? The example given by Mrs. Nirupama Bawdekar is self explanatory. With regards to all, Mrs. Y.T. Vaishnav, Consulting Librarian, Godrej Learning Center, Mumbai.

1 0

RE: M.Phil degree through correspondence from South India. (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 06 Jul '04

06 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:43:45 +0530 From: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com Dear friends, Please let me know where we can do M.Phil degree in Library and Information Science from any of the university of south India through correspondence. Thanks and regards Vijayalakshmi J S Librarian STC ING Vysya Bank Ltd. PH NO: 26507281 e-mail: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] INDICATORS OF PUBLICATIONS
by Mailing List Manager 06 Jul '04

06 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:37:12 +0530 From: gargkc <gargkc(a)nistads.res.in> Dear Mr. Sadasivan Thanks for your e mail. In my opinion it is not proper that the Downloading should be treated as an Indicator of the quality of Papers. also it is not clear from the attached list which are the the second and third highest downloaded papers that have been authored by the scientists of your lab.however, a final decision about their quality can be taken only after a citation study of these papers. I may mention that of the 50 papers listed in the site you have refered 14 are review articles, which are cited more frequently than other articles. if you have any other query, pl. feel free to contact. regards K.C.Garg NISTADS ----- Original Message ----- > Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 22:18:32 -0700 (PDT) > From: Sadasivan KP <kps31147(a)yahoo.com> > > Dear Lis-Forum Members, > > The Impact Factor of journals/publications and Citation Counts of papers > are well known indicators of their quality/acceptance. Despite the current > debate worldwide on its acceptance / reservations, these indicators are > still widely accepted by the peers, professionals and funding agencies, > etc. , presumably due to the absence of an effective alternative mode of > rating. > > Now a new concept is emerging - as seen publicised and promoted by certain > publishers and authors : An Indicator based on the frequency/amount of > downloads of a paper ! > > For instance, the international journal " Biotechnology & Applied > Biochemistry" (Publisher : Portland Press on behalf of IUMBM) has widely > publicised in their website as follows: > > ' Top 50 Downloaded Papers: The Papers listed below are the 50 most > frequently downloaded Papers for the 12 months to the end of May 2004...' > (The list contains HTML Full Text & PDF downloadable options too) > > The details can be accessed at URL : http://bab.portlandpress.com/bab50.htm > > This has triggered a debate among the scientists (of my Lab) in favour of > and against the concept of "Downloading as an Indicator on the quality of > Papers". (Incidentally, the second and third highest downloaded papers > happened to have been authored by one of our own Scientists!) > > I seek the comments/views of our professionals, especially the > biblio/sciento-metricians . > > SADASIVAN KP > Head, Library & Informatics > Regional Research Laboratory (CSIR) > Trivandrum - 695 019 > E-Mail : kps31147(a)yahoo.com OR kps(a)csrrltrd.ren.nic.in >

1 0

Cut the vendor out Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books
by Mailing List Manager 06 Jul '04

06 Jul '04

Date: 6 Jul 2004 08:15:37 -0000 From: Rajesh K Patil <rajeshbcd(a)rediffmail.com> � If you want to buy one title and are bothered about high freight and service charges, my suggestion is - abandon your local mortar and brick vendor and buy the book from a online vendor, how about amazon ? Regards. Rajesh On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 Prafulla Chandra wrote : >Dear All, > >I would like to know the best practices for buying foreign books. >Also, who are the top suppliers in India for these books? [truncated] > >T.V. Prafulla Chandra >Senior Editor

1 0

New Parliament Library
by Mailing List Manager 06 Jul '04

06 Jul '04

Date: 6 Jul 2004 05:32:15 -0000 From: farooque <mfarooque(a)rediffmail.com> The second largest library of India took 8 years and over 200 crores to build. How many regular users are there? How many Staffs are working? Collection of the library and all these you'll find in an article published in Outlook July 12 issue. Title of this article is "NO DOG-EARS HERE" by Sheela Reddy. Below is the link of online version. http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20040712&fname=Library+%28F%29… --------------------------------- Farooque, IBM Global Services (India) Pvt Ltd. First floor, GT Annexe, Airport Road, Bangalore-17 Tel: 25094107, 25094119 email... farooque(a)in.ibm.com ----------------------------------

1 0

Re: Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books
by Mailing List Manager 06 Jul '04

06 Jul '04

Date: 6 Jul 2004 04:58:06 -0000 From: Sanjay Kataria <lib_scholar(a)rediffmail.com> Dear professionals, I think, some of professional associations or society should take the initiative to design & develop the compressive databases/search engines which have the linkage with all major foreign publications. The databases could have the alert feature means as & when any publisher update their website, immediately the alert service inform their client libraries. In regard of exchange rate, I think the GOC rate is ok but Good offices Committee also should change their system and try to update themselves with help and associate with the Banks, Libraries Associations and other relevant societies. Best regards Sanjay Kataria Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology A-10, Sector-62, Noida (UP On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 KS.Chudamani wrote : > >Now it is high time that all the book sellers come together and create an >accessible database for searching and procuring books in India > >Chudamani > >

1 0

Theme for the IATLIS conference
by Mailing List Manager 06 Jul '04

06 Jul '04

Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 17:08:13 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> dear friends the IATLIS organises annual conference every year/ this year we are planning to organise the said conference during oct / nov 2004 at Nagpur. we would like to suggest the following theme partnership between the LIS teachers and the librarians in professional development. this is not exactly the theme, it will touch the theme. we would like to frame it acccordingly. I will appreciate all the friends to suggest how the topic is and otherwise please suggeest the topics to me i will apprciatel the professional friends, who will be able to suggest the theme and contribute for the success of the conf thanks 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

2 1

RE: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books
by HENAG 06 Jul '04

06 Jul '04

Thanks , I'm also aware of this , BCI Publication alias Book Shoppe from Bangalore also was present in that world book fair. And mostly they don't charge more than the book price ,if you are aregular customer.Rather will provide some discount if possible. -----Original Message----- From: G. K. Manjunath [mailto:gkm@igidr.ac.in] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 11:03 AM To: HENAG Cc: K.S. Chudamani; Prafulla Chandra; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books Regarding database of suppliers and the publishers they represent, I would like to inform , that British library has published such online directory, for British publishers. The directory published by National Book Trust during World Bookfair, 2004 has listed all the suppliers, who participated in the fair, along with the names of publishers they represent. Many publishers from US are not represented in India. I wonder whether there is any supplier to import books published by ALA. If there are no authorised stockists or representatives, then postage will be too high as mentioned by Mr.Chandra. Barnes and Noble, whom I met recently in US are willing to supply books to Indian libraries if the business offered is US $5000/- per year. They also offer about 20% discount. We at IGIDR have prepared database of suppliers in the area of social sciencs. The data can be provided in ISO2709 format for those who are interested. g.k.manjunath CHIEF LIBRARIAN INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) SANTOSH NAGAR GOREGAON ( EAST ) MUMBAI - 400 065 INDIA e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm phone 91-22-28490653 ************************************************ On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, HENAG wrote: > Very good suggestion MS Chudamani, It should be a forum like where all suppliers account should be there. > > > Regards > hena > > -----Original Message----- > From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of K.S. Chudamani > Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 3:16 PM > To: Prafulla Chandra > Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books > > > > Now it is high time that all the book sellers come together and create an > accessible database for searching and procuring books in India > > Chudamani > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books
by HENAG 06 Jul '04

06 Jul '04

Very good suggestion MS Chudamani, It should be a forum like where all suppliers account should be there. Regards hena -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of K.S. Chudamani Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 3:16 PM To: Prafulla Chandra Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books Now it is high time that all the book sellers come together and create an accessible database for searching and procuring books in India Chudamani _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

2 1

about paper presenations in IPv6
by Mailing List Manager 05 Jul '04

05 Jul '04

Date: 2 Jul 2004 12:59:57 -0000 From: prem dasari <dear_prem(a)rediffmail.com> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: about paper presenations in IPv6 Dear all, I'm an M.tech student doing my thesis work on the Next generation Internet Protocol(IPv6).I would like to know if any paper presenations are there in this area.I would be very much tahnkful to the one who would guide me in this thing. thanking you Prem

1 0

Yahoo! links to research resources
by Mailing List Manager 05 Jul '04

05 Jul '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 30 Jun 2004 08:13:27 -0000 From: Subbiah Gunasekaran <gunasekaran_subbiah(a)rediffmail.com> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Yahoo! links to research resources Apologies for cross postings ---------------------------- Yahoo! links to research resources Electronic research materials such as technical reports and preprints are now available through Yahoo! Search. This follows a deal between the OAIster Project, which was set up by the University of Michigan, US, and Yahoo!'s Content Acquisition Program (CAP). OAIster offers information that links to hidden digital resources, such as the complete contents of books and articles, technical reports, preprints, white papers, images of paintings, movies, and audio files of speeches. OAIster retrieves these by tapping directly into the collections of a variety of institutions using harvesting technology based on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. The OAIster service currently provides access to three million harvested records describing and pointing to these resources, which are created and hosted by 267 research institutions around the world. The deal with Yahoo! opens up these resources to a wider audience, because many of the scholarly collections included in OAIster were not previously indexed in popular Web search services. Collections available through OAIster include: the arXiv.org Eprint Archive (an archive of physics research); Carnegie Mellon University Informedia Public Domain Video Archive; Ethnologue: Languages of the World; Library of Congress American Memory Project; and Caltech Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory Technical Reports. http://www.researchinformation.info/news.html#jun10 Thanks S.Gunasekaran

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books
by HENAG 05 Jul '04

05 Jul '04

Dear Mr. Chandra, The vendors from Bangalore will ask extra charge if the book is brought by courier. I suppose he has mentioned the courier charge. You may please ask him the book should come on ordinary shipment, and not by courier . I'm sure he will not be charging more than $40 rather the vendor would give discount also. Please check once again. Thanks & regards Hena S Gupta Infosys Technologies Ltd.. -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Prafulla Chandra Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 9:42 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Buying foreign books Dear All, I would like to know the best practices for buying foreign books. Also, who are the top suppliers in India for these books? Recently, I wanted to buy the following book: DDC: Principles and Application, by Louis Main Chan. An OCLC publication, 2004. $40 I understand from one of the vendors that it would cost me $100 to procure this book for me ($40 cost of the book + $60 towards shipment and procurement). I strongly feel that we need to do something to correct this situation. I shall appreciate any pointers/help from members of this list on this point. We need to have a mechanism where importers of foreign books in India would be regularly announcing, at a single website, their new arrivals for the information of potential buyers. This site can also serve as a market place where the potential buyer can indicate his requirement for books and explore various options from different importers and select the best and most economical one. Thank you Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

1 0

Buying foreign books
by Prafulla Chandra 05 Jul '04

05 Jul '04

Dear All, I would like to know the best practices for buying foreign books. Also, who are the top suppliers in India for these books? Recently, I wanted to buy the following book: DDC: Principles and Application, by Louis Main Chan. An OCLC publication, 2004. $40 I understand from one of the vendors that it would cost me $100 to procure this book for me ($40 cost of the book + $60 towards shipment and procurement). I strongly feel that we need to do something to correct this situation. I shall appreciate any pointers/help from members of this list on this point. We need to have a mechanism where importers of foreign books in India would be regularly announcing, at a single website, their new arrivals for the information of potential buyers. This site can also serve as a market place where the potential buyer can indicate his requirement for books and explore various options from different importers and select the best and most economical one. Thank you Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

2 1

Fw: GOC Rates..
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 02 Jul '04

02 Jul '04

Dear All Appended below please find the message received by me from one of the member based at Kolkata, which is self explanatory. Best Mukesh Anand =========== ----- Original Message ----- From: <dg(a)indal.co.in> To: <mukesh(a)monitorinfo.com> Cc: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 5:58 PM Subject: GOC Rates.. > Dear Mr Anand, > > Thank you for keeping us updated on current GOC rates. It would be an > effective help to librarians if you or anybody can take responsibility for > posting GOC rates to lis-forum or similar mailing list as and when released > (http://www.kkbooks.com posts on their website on a regular basis). Look > forward to next updates. > > Regards > > Debasis Ghosh > INDAL, KOLKATA > > > > > > >

1 0

should lis-forum allow commercial vendors as members?
by Mailing List Manager 02 Jul '04

02 Jul '04

Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 10:12:24 +0530 From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Request to moderator of Lis-forum: If contents are OK with you, please = permit the entire message with all forwarded messages - just this time ; = this would give the background needed for discussion. Thanks. = Vyasamoorthy, P Dear All, Please see postings of: Rajendra Babu, Maduresh Singhal, Mukesh Anand = quoted below. I have no dilemma on this issue. We should allow all who are likely to = benefit librarians' community and promote (I would not say protect) our = interests. After all we do depend upon vendors for supply of books = periodicals & documents. What is wrong if they join and get to know our = problems, perspectives and feelings? Things might change for the better. There are many occasions in Lis-Forum where requests for sourcing old = books, info on RFID, info on certain software etc came up; I have = forwarded them individually to suitable vendors for action. Enquirers = have benefited. If library suppliers are part of the forum they could = respond directly to individual's requirements -- if answering via forum = may be looked upon as 'commercial' activity. Moreover, we, in VIC act as providers of information, literature = searches, documents etc to our customers by procuring the same from = other sources including libraries, commercial book sellers, publishers = and online sources. As we act as intermediaries we have interests of = librarians (as we are librarians) and that of vendors as we are vendors = too. I do not find anything bad, unwelcome, un-holy about commercial = activities. We should shed this inhibition of allowing commercial = fellows into our fold. Government Institutions still have this "Us" and = "they" attitude strongly entrenched in them. This must go. However when = one section of the society tends to unnecessarily exploit the other to = their undue advantage then that has to be checked. This correction will = occur automatically as and when aberrations happen. Regards, Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre,=20 ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal,=20 RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA=20 Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com=20 Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: = +91(40)27846631=20 -----Original Message----- From: Madhuresh [mailto:madhuresh_s@aurigene.com] Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 9:29 AM To: Babu Rajendra; G. K. Manjunath; VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD; Prof. = N.Laxman Rao Subject: RE: GOC Rates for month of July' 2004 Dear Babu, I feel that announcing the GOC rates is not a commercial activity. It is = just information which may be useful for us. Now regarding the question of allowing vendors to become a member of = professional forum, I feel any one can become the member as it would be = difficult for Moderator to find out whether a person is a vendor or not, = however their postings can be moderated. Again, these vendors may be = useful for supplying the information if any professional member needs = it, e.g., if a professional want to implement RFID and s/he expressed = her/his desire in the forum, vendor may directly contact.=20 I have seen so many mails in various forums in which professionals have = promoted their own products specially books. I am not sure whether to = take this as a commercial activity or to announce their professional = growth and to make others aware about such products/books. I personally = feel that this could also be taken as informative announcement. But I am = interested to know the views of others regarding this. Regards. Madhuresh Singhal Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: <mailto:madhureshsinghal@yahoo.com> madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com=20 http://nettalk2.tripod.com/=20 =20 -----Original Message----- From: Babu Rajendra [mailto:Rajendra.Babu@capco.com]=20 Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 6:18 PM To: G. K. Manjunath; Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com; Prof. N.Laxman Rao Cc: Madhuresh Subject: RE: GOC Rates for month of July' 2004 Importance: High Dear all, I guess you remember me.=20 I am in professional dilemma after looking at Mr. Mukesh's mail. I was = thinking whom to talk to, so I thought that all the people in the list = are the people who have seen me except Mr. Manjunath, but any way I have = interacted to Manjunath over e-mail. Madhuresh is my Junior in NCSI. I feel, how feasible it is to allow vendors like Mr. Mukesh in the = professional forum for Librarians only. I would also explain where I am = coming from. As we professional librarians would be discussing lot of = day-to-day issues to professional help/advise/guidance and so on = (sometimes it might be about vendors too). I guess this is the major = reason we have established professional forums like LISFORUM and others = run by our own prefessionals/organizations. Such as NCSI, Dr. Laxman Rao = (sir, pl. recall our discussions @mysore University) and others. In this = scenario, I need your advise, would we be allowing vendors to subscribe = to the professional forums like this or not. If YES why and on what = grounds we should be? (since, I have also worked in Universal = Subscripition agency/Global INformation systems technology). Looking forward for your opinions. It's only for my personal = clarification and not to target any one concerned. Thanks, Babu. -----Original Message----- From: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ [mailto:mukesh@monitorinfo.com]=20 Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 4:54 PM To: ytv(a)godrej.com; vasu(a)qmedin.com; IGIDR Shyam Prasad Pujar; G. K. = Manjunath; farooque(a)in.ibm.com; Bank Of Baroda Mumbai Mr. Dharmendra = Sachan; Babu Rajendra Cc: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com; smitac_in(a)yahoo.com; Samdarshi Pali; = rajeshbcd(a)rediffmail.com; Prof. N.Laxman Rao; prakash_inp(a)yahoo.com; = pharmalibrarians(a)yahoogroups.com; nub(a)iucaa.ernet.in; Nirma University = H.Anil Kumar; Menon KPR; Madhuresh Subject: GOC Rates for month of July' 2004 GOC Rates for month of July' 2004 USD : Rs. 48.10 UKP : Rs. 88.00 EURO : Rs. 58.30 S Fr. : Rs. 38.60 Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing Monitor Information Services # 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda, Hyderabad - 500 029 India T: 040-55787065 / 040-27552390 F: +91-40-27569299 http://www.monitorinfo.com Importers n Distributors of Technical Publications =20 ************************************************************************

2 1

National Seminar on Digitization
by Mailing List Manager 02 Jul '04

02 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:54:56 +0530 From: Srels <srels(a)blr.vsnl.net.in> Seminar Announcement: ---------------------- NATIONAL SEMINAR ON DIGITIZATION: PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES. and SARADA RANGANATHAN ENDOWMENT LECTURES (2004) Objectives of the Seminar : Digitization is currently a buzz word. A variety of institutions = (libraries, information and documentation centres, and other corporate bodies) have = been digitizing documents of various kinds (text, manuscript, and image) on different media. The purpose includes development of databases and/or archival resources, to preserve, access, retrieve and disseminate information and documents. Digitization may also form the basis for = creating products such as learning/teaching packages. A variety of software and techniques are being used. Some of the efforts have been successful = while others have not been so. Nevertheless, many institutions are interested = in digitization, and wish to learn from the experiences of those who have already undertaken digitization. An objective of this Seminar is to = bring together for exchange of ideas those with experience in and those who = have plans for, digitization. Papers are invited on practical experiences and case studies on the following aspects, but not exclusive of other aspects: 1.Use and evaluation of software and techniques for digitization (text, manuscript, image, sound, etc.) 2. Special aspects of digitization for archiving and preservation. 3.Classification, cataloguing and indexing =ADmethods, = tools and techniques. Standards, meta-data, authority files, vocabulary control etc. 4. Searching, retrieval, and user-interfaces. 5. Copyright and other intellectual property issues. 6. Management, economics, and costs. 7. Handling non-Roman Scripts. Authors are requested to focus on practical experiences with = digitization. The final paper should not exceed 5,000 (five thousand) words or 15 = pages including figures, tables and annexes. An extended abstract of about 3-4 pages of the proposed paper should be submitted in advance. It will be refereed. Authors whose proposed papers = are accepted will receive guidelines for preparing the final paper and its submission. 9-11 August 2004 : Seminar and SRELS Lectures. The extended abstract may be sent to the Secretariat as an e-mail = document. Contact Details : The Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross III Block, Rajajinagar Bangalore 560 010, India. Ph: (080) 23305109. E-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com ******** Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Lectures (2004) Natural Language Processing in Information Storage and Retrieval by Dr.K.Narayanamurthy, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad >From 9-11 August at 4.30 - 6.00 p.m. each day

1 0

Workshop on DSpace
by Mailing List Manager 02 Jul '04

02 Jul '04

Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 15:34:25 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Let us hope that many higher educational and research institutions in India set up their own interoperable institutional archives/repositories soon. We at MSSRF had organised two three-day workshops in early May and 48 participants took advantage of the workshops. Please see Current Science dated 25 June 2004 for a report on the workshops. Later this month Dr Rajashekar at NCSI-IISc is organising a three-day workshop for INDEST member institutions. Dr D K Sahu [dksahu(a)medknow.com] is running a discussion list for the faculty and participants of the MSSRF workshops. The faculty and participants of the Osmania University workshop and the NCSI-IISc workshop are invited to join the list. Holding workshops is one thing and actually setting up archives and populating them is another. I wish all the participants and faculty of the Osmania University workshop great success in setting up their own institutional archives. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

1 0

Microsoft enhances MSN search engine
by Mailing List Manager 02 Jul '04

02 Jul '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 2 Jul 2004 05:05:58 -0000 From: farooque <mfarooque(a)rediffmail.com> To: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Microsoft enhances MSN search engine Microsoft Corp. today plans to roll out enhancements to MSN Search that collectively represent the most significant upgrade in the search engine's history, the company said in a statement late yesterday. The improvements include a revamped layout to give the Web site a cleaner, simpler look and to more clearly distinguish between results generated organically by the search engine and results that appear because they are paid-for ads, often called sponsored results. Moreover, the search box in the home page will feature a pull-down menu to let users choose whether they want to query MSN Search's Web index, its news sources collection, a selection of the Encarta encyclopedia contents or stock quotes, among other options. MSN Search's performance has also been improved, as has the relevance of its query results As part of the revamp, Microsoft has decided to put its paid inclusion program on hold for now. Under the program, Web site owners pay to have their sites included in the MSN Search index. Search engines have been criticized for engaging in this practice, which detractors say artificially populates an index and thus skews the relevance of query results. Popular search engine Ask Jeeves Inc. last week announced that it was canceling its remaining paid inclusion program. Microsoft described MSN Search's upgrade as the biggest since it was launched in 1998, but added that the enhancements are "initial steps" in a massive push into the search arena. The company�s goal is to eventually deliver a search engine that provides direct answers to queries, Microsoft said. To day�s upgrade is part of a $100 million investment by Microsoft to develop its search engine technology. Along these lines, Microsoft beginning today will let users test-drive a next-generation search engine that it is developing and plans to launch within the next year. A link to the search engine, which is still in its very early stages, is located at http://sandbox.msn.com. Microsoft executives have said recently that their vision for the search segment includes the ability to search not only the Web, but also users' PCs and other sources of information. The Internet search market has become attractive in recent years thanks to search engines' practice of matching ads to individual searches, making the ads highly relevant to the information a user is searching for. For example, a vendor of sporting equipment may pay a search engine to run its ad whenever someone searches for keywords such as tennis, football or soccer. Advertising tied to keyword searching was the fastest-growing and the biggest of all U.S. Internet advertising categories in 2003, according to a report published in April by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and conducted independently by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Keyword search revenue made up 15% of online ad revenue in 2002, and jumped to 35% in 2003. The rest of the 2003 U.S. Internet advertising pie was made up of display advertising (ad banners) with 21% (down from 29% in 2002), classifieds with 17% (up from 15% in 2002) and rich media advertising with 8% (up from 5% in 2002), according to the report. Internet advertising for all of 2003 reached just under $7.3 billion, up nearly 21% from 2002. Google Inc. leads in search engine usage both in the U.S. and globally, according to recent statistics from market researcher ComScore Networks Inc. About 35% of Internet searches in the U.S. in February 2004 were done with Google. Yahoo Inc. came in second with 30%, and Microsoft's MSN was a distant third with 15.4%. Worldwide, Google accounted for 43% of all searches, followed by Yahoo with 31% and Microsoft's MSN with 14.1%, according to ComScore. --------------------------------- Farooque, IBM Global Services (India) Pvt Ltd. First floor, GT Annexe, Airport Road, Bangalore-17 Tel: 25094107, 25094119 email... farooque(a)in.ibm.com ----------------------------------

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] GOC Rates for month of July' 2004
by Mailing List Manager 02 Jul '04

02 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 18:42:25 +0530 From: rajesh chandrakar <rajesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in> Will you please anyone let me know, GOC plays what other roles into library and its development? Rajesh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mailing List Manager" <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] GOC Rates for month of July' 2004 > Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 16:57:51 +0530 > From: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ <mukesh(a)monitorinfo.com> > > GOC Rates for month of July' 2004 > > USD : Rs. 48.10 > UKP : Rs. 88.00 > EURO : Rs. 58.30 > S Fr. : Rs. 38.60 > > Mukesh Anand > Director - Marketing > Monitor Information Services > # 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex > Narayanguda, Hyderabad - 500 029 > India > > T: 040-55787065 / 040-27552390 > F: +91-40-27569299 > > http://www.monitorinfo.com > Importers n Distributors of Technical Publications

1 0

Position Annoucement--Technical Support Analyst
by Prafulla Chandra 02 Jul '04

02 Jul '04

Position Announcement NISC Export Services (NES) Private Limited invites applications for the position of TECHNICAL SUPPORT ANALYST in its newly created Technical Support Department. 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. Based in Hyderabad, the successful candidate will handle, using latest information and communication technologies, queries pertaining to technical support received from customers all over the world. NES is looking for candidates who have at least a Masters degree in English, Mass Communication, Journalism or any related subject. Candidates with MPhil or PhD degree in the relevant subject would be preferred. 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 communicate in a formal, clear, empathetic and pleasant style, with excellent command of written and spoken English. --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 understand and answer, with speed and accuracy, technical queries from customers. --to maintain good public relations with customers, both actual and potential. --to collect, organize, store and deliver information resources required for technical support. --to enjoy interactions with customers hailing from diverse national backgrounds and serve them in a most user-friendly manner. If you are not a resident of Hyderabad and are willing to relocate, please indicate that at the top of your resume. 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. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. NES considers applications from candidates who had appeared for examinations and awaiting announcement of results, 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 For more info about NISC, please visit www.nisc.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1 0

Position Announcement--Content Developer
by Prafulla Chandra 02 Jul '04

02 Jul '04

Position Announcement CONTENT DEVELOPER (4 posts) NISC Export Services (NES) Private Limited invites applications for four vacant positions of CONTENT DEVELOPER in its Content Department. 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. NES is looking for candidates who possess first-class Masters / MPhil / MLitt degree in any subject belonging to the arts, humanities or social sciences faculties and who are proficient in all/any of the following areas: --Internet searching --Proof reading --Various features and tools in MS Office package. --Editing skills --Profiling --Cataloging --Abstracting --Indexing --Data mining The successful candidate should have good command over English language--both written and oral, a strong memory, keen observation skills and typing abilities. Knowledge of Library and Information Science would be a plus point but it is not an essential qualification. If you are not a resident of Hyderabad and are willing to relocate, please indicate that at the top of your resume. 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. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. NES considers applications from candidates who had appeared for examinations and awaiting announcement of results, 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 For more info about NISC, please visit www.nisc.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1 0

GOC Rates for month of July' 2004
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 16:57:51 +0530 From: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ <mukesh(a)monitorinfo.com> GOC Rates for month of July' 2004 USD : Rs. 48.10 UKP : Rs. 88.00 EURO : Rs. 58.30 S Fr. : Rs. 38.60 Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing Monitor Information Services # 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda, Hyderabad - 500 029 India T: 040-55787065 / 040-27552390 F: +91-40-27569299 http://www.monitorinfo.com Importers n Distributors of Technical Publications

1 0

Yahoo! links to research resources
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

Yahoo! links to research resources Electronic research materials such as technical reports and preprints are now available through Yahoo! Search. This follows a deal between the OAIster Project, which was set up by the University of Michigan, US, and Yahoo!'s Content Acquisition Program (CAP). OAIster offers information that links to hidden digital resources, such as the complete contents of books and articles, technical reports, preprints, white papers, images of paintings, movies, and audio files of speeches. OAIster retrieves these by tapping directly into the collections of a variety of institutions using harvesting technology based on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. The OAIster service currently provides access to three million harvested records describing and pointing to these resources, which are created and hosted by 267 research institutions around the world. The deal with Yahoo! opens up these resources to a wider audience, because many of the scholarly collections included in OAIster were not previously indexed in popular Web search services. Collections available through OAIster include: the arXiv.org Eprint Archive (an archive of physics research); Carnegie Mellon University Informedia Public Domain Video Archive; Ethnologue: Languages of the World; Library of Congress American Memory Project; and Caltech Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory Technical Reports. http://www.researchinformation.info/news.html#jun10 Thanks S.Gunasekaran

1 0

"How much infrmation"
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:41:19 +0530 From: Satish Hulyalkar <satish(a)vsnl.com> Dear Friends I am forwarding a link where you can find "How much infrmation" is there in the world. Have a look at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/index. htm It might be interesting to know what we are handling and we still have more information paper form. Satish Hulyalkar Pune/India mailto:satish@satishhulyalkar.com Http://www.SatishHulyalkar.com

1 0

Monkey Tool from Google
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 30 Jun 2004 09:03:39 -0000 From: farooque <mfarooque(a)rediffmail.com> Students and developers at Google Inc. have jointly created an open-source tool designed to better predict the effect on real-world Web site performance if changes are made to things like network infrastructure. Called Monkey, the tool first captures data from actual client sessions, inferring various network and client conditions -- what its creators call the "monkey see" portion of its work. It then attempts to emulate those conditions for server tests -- a process called "monkey do." Monkey is aimed at helping solve a dilemma of Web testing: Trying out network or server changes on even a small portion of actual user traffic is risky, but simulations are often unrealistic because they don't accurately reflect users' network conditions, said Yu-Chung Cheng, a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego, who worked on the project during an internship at Google. Cheng presented a paper about Monkey yesterday at the Usenix Annual Technical Conference. Cheng admitted that the tool, which is optimized for Google's specific search application, might not be as accurate at predicting server response for other types of applications. In response to audience questions, he said Monkey also doesn't attempt to model how user behavior might change as server response speeds or slows (for example, more search requests might come in if server response improves). "In the end, we believe it is unrealistic to build a generic one-for-all TCP replay tool," the paper, "Monkey See, Monkey Do: A Tool for TCP Tracing and Replaying," concludes. "But it is possible to build replay tool[s] for specific applications." Source code for the tool is available at http://ramp.ucsd.edu/projects/monkey/. --------------------------------- Farooque, IBM Global Services (India) Pvt Ltd. First floor, GT Annexe, Airport Road, Bangalore-17 Tel: 25094107, 25094119 email... farooque(a)in.ibm.com ----------------------------------

1 0

23rd ANNUALCONVENTION & CONFERENCE OF SIS-2005 at Andhra University, Visakhapatanam, India during 27-29 Jan, 2005
by JK Vijayakumar 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

23rd ANNUALCONVENTION & CONFERENCE OF SIS-2005 at Andhra University, Visakhapatanam, India during 27-29 Jan, 2005 For details visit the Conference Site at http://sis-india.netfirms.com/sis2005.htm Address for Correspondence /Registration/ Accommodation Prof. R.S.R.Varalakshmi Organizing Secretary-SIS-2005 Professor Department of Library and Information Science, Andhra University, VISAKHAPATNAM-530003. E-mail: rvsn1234(a)hotmail.com Phone: 0891 2844385-7(O); 0891 2535251(R) Dr K.Somasekhara Rao Treasurer-SIS-2005 Associate Professor Department of Library and Information Science, Andhra University, VISAKHAPATNAM-530003. E-mail: kalepuss(a)yahoo.com Phone: 0891 2844388 (O); 0891 275013 (R) Dr C. Sasikala Editor-SIS-2005 Associate Professor and Chairperson, BOS, Department of Library and Information Science, Andhra University, VISAKHAPATNAM � 530 003 E-mail: csasikala(a)satyam.net.in Phone: 0891 2844389 (O) 0891 2536373 For details visit the Conference Site at http://sis-india.netfirms.com/sis2005.htm __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

1 0

INDICATORS OF PUBLICATIONS
by Mailing List Manager 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 22:18:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Sadasivan KP <kps31147(a)yahoo.com> Dear Lis-Forum Members, The Impact Factor of journals/publications and Citation Counts of papers are well known indicators of their quality/acceptance. Despite the current debate worldwide on its acceptance / reservations, these indicators are still widely accepted by the peers, professionals and funding agencies, etc. , presumably due to the absence of an effective alternative mode of rating. Now a new concept is emerging - as seen publicised and promoted by certain publishers and authors : An Indicator based on the frequency/amount of downloads of a paper ! For instance, the international journal " Biotechnology & Applied Biochemistry" (Publisher : Portland Press on behalf of IUMBM) has widely publicised in their website as follows: ' Top 50 Downloaded Papers: The Papers listed below are the 50 most frequently downloaded Papers for the 12 months to the end of May 2004...' (The list contains HTML Full Text & PDF downloadable options too) The details can be accessed at URL : http://bab.portlandpress.com/bab50.htm This has triggered a debate among the scientists (of my Lab) in favour of and against the concept of "Downloading as an Indicator on the quality of Papers". (Incidentally, the second and third highest downloaded papers happened to have been authored by one of our own Scientists!) I seek the comments/views of our professionals, especially the biblio/sciento-metricians . SADASIVAN KP Head, Library & Informatics Regional Research Laboratory (CSIR) Trivandrum - 695 019 E-Mail : kps31147(a)yahoo.com OR kps(a)csrrltrd.ren.nic.in

1 0

Library Automation - New Book
by Mailing List Manager 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:05:05 +0530 From: Jai Haravu <haravu(a)newgenlib.com> Dear professional colleagues and teachers of library and information science I am happy to let you know that a new book titled Library Automation: Design Principles and Practice will be published by Allied Publishers and become available by the end of July 2004. The book is authored by me (L.J. Haravu) and is targeted to students and teachers in library schools, librarians, and software developers interested in library automation. Some of you may not know me. I retired as senior Manager, Library and Documentation Services of ICRISAT in India in Jan 1996. The table of contents of the book is given at the end of this mail. The book also has an accompanying CD-ROM containing sample applications, data structures, presentations and web resources on topics discussed in the book. The book, in fact is being published on behalf of a charitable professional trust of which I am a trustee, viz., Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management (KIIKM) (http://www.kiikm.org/). This trust was formed to honour one of Indias great scholar-librarians, Mr B S Kesavan, who was independent Indias first National Librarian and later the first Director of the Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre (INSDOC in New Delhi, India). Mr Kesavan was a pioneer institution builder, a great humanist and a mentor to many young library professionals. The book is priced at Indian Rupees 445.00. However, KIIKM will be offering a limited number of copies of the book to librarys, library schools and individual library professionals at a concessional price of Rupees 330 plus Rupees 35 towards packing and air mail postage (Total of Rupees365.00). If you are interested in one or more copies of the publication for your library, do send me an advance payment by cheque for Rs. 365.00 per copy made out to the Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management. The cheque should be sent to the address given below. If you have difficulty in sending advance payment, kindly send me an email expressing interest in having the book so that I can reserve a copy for you/your library. The proceeds of the sale of the book will accrue to KIIKM. Best regards and looking forward to hearing from you. L J Haravu Table of Contents Library Automation: Design, Principles and Practice L J Haravu Chapter 1. B Background and brief history Scope Nature of library automation systems Brief history of library automation The period 195470 Information retrieval Library housekeeping Circulation control Serials control systems Acquisitions Technology and environment The period 197090 Online catalogues Retrospective conversion Access to resources outside the library Interlibrary loan services and document delivery Data exchange Integrating other online resources Technology and environment International initiatives Networking technologies The birth of the Internet and the World Wide Web Developments since 1990 Chapter 2. Introduction to library automation Scope Rationale Types of library automation systems Standalone systems Integrated systems Library automation subsystems Use scenarios in library automation Hardware and software for library automation Single user systems Multi-user systems Local area networks (LANs) Client-server architectures Software requirements References Suggested reading Chapter 3. Automation of book acquisition systems Scope The role of acquisitions Rationale for the automation of the acquisitions function Infrastructure for an automated acquisitions system Access to external databases and sources of information Access to internal databases and files Subsystems of an automated acquisitions system Request processing Order data entry and updating Order production and transmission Received item processing Accessioning Received invoice processing Claims Cancellation Physical preparation Financial records, budgeting and reporting Search and retrieval Management information reporting Interfaces with other library automation subsystems Review questions and exercises Suggested reading Chapter 4. File and data structures in automated book acquisitions systems Scope Workflows and files in book acquisitions Suggestions_file Approvals_file Vendors_file Budget files Bibliographic_file Invoices_file Order_file Currency_file Entity-relationship diagram Processing Algorithms in book acquisitions Chapter 5. Automation of the cataloguing function in libraries Scope The role of cataloguing Rationale for automating the cataloguing function Infrastructure and requirements of an automated cataloguing system Access to external databases Internal databases and files Data structures for the catalogue database Subsystems of an automated cataloguing system Search, retrieval, and display Cataloguing data entry Verification and validation Authority control Printing and output production Retrospective conversion Issues in RECON The RECON plan Determining library needs Establish parameters Establish standards Options for conversion of records Implementing the RECON plan The role of OCLC in automated cataloguing OCLC interfaces Copy-cataloguing Input of new records Transcribing paper records Authorities search OCLC tape and file transfer interfaces Interfaces with other library automation subsystems Review questions and exercises Reference and suggested reading Chapter 6. File and data structures automated cataloguing systems Scope The bibliographic database in library automation systems The Holdings_file Authority files The MARC record Leader Record directory Control fields Variable fields Pros and cons of the MARC record Representing the catalogue record in library automation software Proprietary and flat-file structures Relational database structures Alternative relational database structure XML Solutions Algorithms in the automation of cataloguing Review questions and exercises References Suggested reading Chapter 7. Online public access catalogues (OPACs) Scope What are OPACs? Early efforts User studies Multiple roles of an OPAC The technology of web-based OPACs DHTML Common gateway interface Dynamic link libraries (DLLs) Java Scripting languages Search and display functionality of web OPACs Basic search Advanced search Desirable features of web OPACs The OPAC user interface The physical screen General principles Results display screens Messages Welcome messages Prompts Status messages Error messages Help messages Organizational issues Algorithm to evaluate Boolean expressions Review questions and exercises References Suggested reading Chapter 8. Automation of circulation control systems Scope Introduction Rationale for automating circulation control Infrastructure and requirements of an automated circulation control system Membership records Membership privileges matrix Barcode making and reading equipment Subsystems of an automated circulation control system Membership registration subsystem Charge subsystem Discharge subsystem Renewals subsystem Holds/reservations subsystem Recalls subsystem Interlibrary loans subsystem Overdues subsystem Fines subsystem Binding subsystem Search and retrieval subsystem Management information reporting subsystem Interfaces with other library automation subsystems Review questions and exercises Suggested reading Chapter 9. File and data structures in automated circulation control Scope Nature of circulation control Files in circulation control User_file Privileges matrix Structures for transaction data Structures for reservation transactions Audit trail of fine transactions Security and transaction logging Entity-relationship diagram of data structures in circulation control Review questions and exercises Suggested reading Chapter 10. Automation of serials control Scope Nature of serials control Rationale for automating the serials control function Idiosyncrasies of serials Infrastructure and requirements of an automated serials control system Access to external databases Access to internal databases Subsystems of an automated serials control system Check-in or registration subsystem Claims subsystem Binding subsystem Serials union list subsystem Subscription management subsystem Search and retrieval subsystem Physical preparation subsystem Reports subsystem Interfaces with other library automation subsystems Review questions and exercises Chapter 11. F File ile and data str structures in serials control Scope Files in serials control Serials_Master_file Holdings records Binding file Orders, fund accounting, invoices and payment processing Review questions and exercises Chapter 12. Web-based library automation Scope The global nature of the Web What are web-based library automation systems? The technology of client-server architectures Web-based library automation systems from the users point of view Web-based library automation systems from the librarians point of view Networking via web-based library automation software References Chapter 13. Strategies for the implementation of library automation Scope Factors that influence the adoption of information technology Internal factors External factors Helpful factors Prerequisites to implementing library automation Library automation tasks Problem identification and planning Adoption strategies Feasibility study Analysis, design, and system specification Develop or buy decisions Tendering Implementation Training and procedure manuals Evaluation Review questions and exercises References Chapter 14. C Current trends and possible future directions Scope Leveraging the Internet Web-based OPACs Libraries as portals Document delivery and interlibrary loan services Ariel Global Sharing Program of OCLC ISO Interlibrary Loan Protocol Digital reference services Application service providers Cooperative library networks Digital libraries Interoperabilty of information systems The z39.50 standard Metadata initiatives The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) The Dublin Core elements Relationship of the DCMI with other Metadata Initiatives XML, RDF and Metadata Dublin Core Metadata Elements, z39.50 and MARC-21 The Open Source Movement Possible future directions The centrality and pervasiveness of the Web Digital libraries XML versus legacy formats Applications and Services References *************************************************************** CD-ROM containing the following: Resources for teachers and students Sample forms and data structures Demo applications Algorithms 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

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] Collection development/ weeding out
by Mailing List Manager 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 18:23:43 +0530 From: K Prakash <prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in> Dear Ms.Smita, I just reproduced the message which was sent by Beck, Sheila <SBeck(a)QCC.CUNY.EDU> to the SERIALST(a)LIST.UVM.EDU <SERIALST(a)LIST.UVM.EDU>. Hope it will be helpful to some level. Here is a summary of the criteria suggested for weeding serials collections. The items are in no particular order. 1. usage statistics 2. currency of material 3. physical condition of journals (age/bound/unbound) 4. completeness of holdings- short runs are better candidates for weeding 5. shelf space occupied vs. use of periodicals 6. overlaps with microfilm 7. support of the curriculum -is the subject still taught? 8. availability of full text in databases 9. stability of database (JSTOR & Project Muse vs. EBSCO) 10. availability of title elsewhere 11. whether the journal is indexed 12. ILL requests 13. faculty input 14. best practices from subject specialist 15. recommendations in Magazines for Libraries by Bill Katz for subject coverage 16. items for preservation/storage dated 1900 and previous 17. historical value for research Thanks to all of you who responded. Sheila Beck Serials Librarian Queensborough Community College With best wishes/ regards. Bye. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K PRAKASH Scientific/Technical Officer-I INFLIBNET(Information and Library Network) Centre An IUC of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Navrangpura, PB No.4116 AHMEDABAD-380009 India

1 0

Interesting News of WorldCat for all library professionals
by Mailing List Manager 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 03:07:50 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> WorldCat update Every 12 seconds an OCLC member library adds a new record to WorldCat, which contains more than 55 million records representing 927,972,598 holding locations as of June 26, 2004. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library fills an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported 136,785,582 interlibrary loan requests as of June 26, 2004. A library user searches WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second. See the latest WorldCat http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/firstsearch/databases/dbdetails/d… 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

1 0

Re: RE: [LIS-Forum] Collection development/ weeding out
by Mailing List Manager 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

Date: 28 Jun 2004 07:06:32 -0000 From: Rajesh K Patil <rajeshbcd(a)rediffmail.com> � Hi, It's a good suggestion but one should note that the British Council Libraries are not subject to Indian system of Audit procedures. In general they have a zero growth policy i.e. if a library adds 1000 titles in a year, the same number of titles are withdrawn. As you are based in New Mumbai you can contact the British Council Library in Mumbai personally and discuss the matter in detail. First and foremost the consent of the Management and the Internal and External Auditors need to be obtained. Developing and implementing internal library policies for weeding will not be cumbersome. It can be based on certain factors viz. : - Obsolete title - Superseded titles - Usage statistics - Damaged books Regards. Rajesh On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com wrote : >I understand that British Libraries in India have well set Weeding policy. >You may try to get help from Mr Goud of British Council library Hyderabad or others. > > >DR P Vyasamoorthy > >-----Original Message----- > From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >[mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Mailing List >Manager >Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 4:02 PM >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Collection development/ weeding out > > >Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 02:45:31 -0700 (PDT) > From: Smita Chandra <smitac_in(a)yahoo.com> > >Respected colleagues : > >Could any one please share their library's collection development policy ? >I am in particular interested in knowing the criteria being used for >weeding out in different libraries in India, like > >a. how do we decide what to weed ? > >b. how much should we weed ? (what percentage of library collection and frequency) > >I would also like to know if there are any rules or procedures specified by the government about such processes by libraries in India, or in any particular state (with reference to audits and accounts). > >Since my library comes in the science domain, policies and criteria of libraries within the S & T domain would be of great help. > >Thanking you and with regards, > >Smita Chandra >Librarian >Indian Institute of Geomagnetism >New Mumbai >_______________________________________________ >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

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum] Collection development/ weeding out
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

I understand that British Libraries in India have well set Weeding policy. You may try to get help from Mr Goud of British Council library Hyderabad or others. DR P Vyasamoorthy -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Mailing List Manager Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 4:02 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Collection development/ weeding out Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 02:45:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Smita Chandra <smitac_in(a)yahoo.com> Respected colleagues : Could any one please share their library's collection development policy ? I am in particular interested in knowing the criteria being used for weeding out in different libraries in India, like a. how do we decide what to weed ? b. how much should we weed ? (what percentage of library collection and frequency) I would also like to know if there are any rules or procedures specified by the government about such processes by libraries in India, or in any particular state (with reference to audits and accounts). Since my library comes in the science domain, policies and criteria of libraries within the S & T domain would be of great help. Thanking you and with regards, Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

1 0

Website on 'Fellowships'
by sangeeta Halijwale 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Dear Members, I have attempted to develop an internet site on 'Fellowships' available to Indian students and researchers. Guidance and motivation for this work came from Mr. Manjunath, Chief Librarian & Mr. Pujar, Asst Librarian, IGIDR. This site is specially designed for Indian academic Community and I intend to update it as frequently as possible. It can be accessed at: http://freewebs.com/fellowindia May I reqeust you all to please give your valuable suggestions for further improvement of the site? Regards, Sangeeta S.H Library Assistant IGIDR, Mumbai

2 1

Collection development/ weeding out
by Mailing List Manager 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 02:45:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Smita Chandra <smitac_in(a)yahoo.com> Respected colleagues : Could any one please share their library's collection development policy ? I am in particular interested in knowing the criteria being used for weeding out in different libraries in India, like a. how do we decide what to weed ? b. how much should we weed ? (what percentage of library collection and frequency) I would also like to know if there are any rules or procedures specified by the government about such processes by libraries in India, or in any particular state (with reference to audits and accounts). Since my library comes in the science domain, policies and criteria of libraries within the S & T domain would be of great help. Thanking you and with regards, Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai

1 0

complete e-library
by Mailing List Manager 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Date: 25 Jun 2004 03:51:45 -0000 From: thejasvi tv <tvthejasvi(a)rediffmail.com> Members, www.elibraryhub.com seems to be one of the best sites relating to e-library. you may please check it out. An article had appeared in The Hindu on 24 June in appreciation of this. Its a round the clock library and functions without the virtual prescence of a librarian. All the library activities are carried out mechanically without human interface. I request all professionals to comment on this kind of library.Its presently in Singapore. Regards, Thejasvi.

1 0

DLIST
by Anita S. Coleman 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hello everybody, just a quick message to let you know about DLIST, http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu. DLIST is an eprints repository for LIS and I encourage you to deposit your publications in it. I visited India in Feb. 2003 (CALIBER conference) to encourage Indian librarians and LIS academics to join in the global consortium for building DLIST. If you are a librarian or an LIS dept. head who is considering an institutional repository for LIS and IT, I encourage you join DLIST and use it as your repository. Please write to DLIST Project Manager paul(a)ahsl.arizona.edu or me, if you have questions. Thanks and best wishes, Anita Coleman

1 0

inagural function invitation to Workshop on Developing Digital Library using Dspace
by Mailing List Manager 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:14:30 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> DEPT. OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE, OSMANIA UNIVERSITY AND INFLIBNET CENTRE (UGC), AHMEDABAD Cordially invite you to the inauguration of WORKSHOP ON DEVELOPING DIGITAL LIBRARY USING DSPACE Prof. Y. Venkatarami Reddy Vice-Chancellor, JNTU, Hyderabad has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest Prof. M.Mutha Reddy Registrar, Osmania University has kindly consented to preside over Venue: New Conference Hall, Arts College, Osmania University Day & Date: Monday 28th June 2004 Time: 10.00 a m Dr. J.Yadagiri Reddy Dr. ARD Prasad Prof. N.Laxman Rao Head, DLIS Director of the Workshop Coordinator of the Workshop 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

1 0

Re: WiFi for library users and it is free!
by Samdarshi Pali 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Friends: All Indian libraries currently providing Internet facility can also extend/provide WiFi free access to their users. WiFi is now a matured technology and even a non-technical person can put the WiFi setup in less than 10K after some efforts. Some helpful links for all interested in WiFi: http://www.dqindia.com/content/search/showarticle.asp?arid=54642&way=search http://www.dqindia.com/content/search/showarticle.asp?arid=55912&way=search… Who will be first to announce the free WiFi service in their library in India? Regards Samdarshi Pali Reliance Engineering Associates Pvt Ltd 4W21 - G Block, First Floor Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City Koper Khairane, Navi Mumbai 400 709 Tel # Direct +91-22 - 303 85407 Tel # Board +91-22 - 3037 3333, 3038 3333 Fax # +91-22 - 30385599 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:49:57 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] WiFi for library users and it is free! To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0406231049380.25876(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:13:03 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: When will we have WiFi connections provided free to library users in India? Here is what is happening in the UK. Best wishes. Arun ----- Library trial puts Wi-Fi hot spots on the books Matt Loney ZDNet UK June 16, 2004, 13:25 BST The DTI has put its plan to roll out Wi-Fi hot spots to libraries across the UK into action. Speaking at the Mobile Enterprise conference in London's Earls Court on Wednesday, e-commerce minister Stephen Timms said a trial is now running at 10 libraries. "We want to understand how popular it really is," said Timms, adding that three trial sites are charging for access while the other seven are offering it free." Full article at http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/wireless/0,39020348,39157760,00.htm or http://shorterlink.com/?XGVEW ------------------------------ 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 15, Issue 15 *****************************************

1 0

WiFi for library users and it is free!
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:13:03 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: When will we have WiFi connections provided free to library users in India? Here is what is happening in the UK. Best wishes. Arun ----- Library trial puts Wi-Fi hot spots on the books Matt Loney ZDNet UK June 16, 2004, 13:25 BST The DTI has put its plan to roll out Wi-Fi hot spots to libraries across the UK into action. Speaking at the Mobile Enterprise conference in London's Earls Court on Wednesday, e-commerce minister Stephen Timms said a trial is now running at 10 libraries. "We want to understand how popular it really is," said Timms, adding that three trial sites are charging for access while the other seven are offering it free." Full article at http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/wireless/0,39020348,39157760,00.htm or http://shorterlink.com/?XGVEW

1 0

Old Search Engine
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Date: 22 Jun 2004 13:21:14 -0000 From: farooque <mfarooque(a)rediffmail.com> It's a very interesting article published on June 21,in NewYork Times by Katie Hafner. Old Search Engine, the Library, Tries to Fit Into a Google World Katarina Maxianova, who received her bachelor's degree in comparative literature from Columbia University in May, took a seminar last year in which the professor assigned two articles from New Left Review magazine. She found one immediately throug Google; for the other, she had to trek the library tacks."Everyone in class tried to get those articles online," she said, "and some people didn't even bother to go to the stacks when they couldn't Google them."For the last few years, librarians have increasingly seen people use online search sites not to supplement research libraries but to replace them. Yet only recently have librarians stopped lamenting the trend and started working to close the gap between traditional scholarly research and the incomplete, often random results of a Google search."We can't pretend people will go back to walking into a library and talking to a reference librarian," said Kate Wittenberg, director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia University. Ms. Wittenberg's group recently finished a three-year study of research habits, including surveys of 1,233 students across the country, that concluded that electronic resources have become the main tool for information gathering, particularly among undergraduates."We have to respond to these new ways," Ms. Wittenberg said, and come up with a way to make better research material available online.That means working with commercial search engines like Google and Yahoo to make ever more digital-research materials searchable. Undergraduates like Ms. Maxianova and her classmates are not the only ones conducting research from their computers. Faculty members also do it."One of the rarest things to find is a member of the faculty in the library stacks," said Paul Duguid, an information researcher who will teach a class this fall at the University of California, Berkeley on judging the authenticity of information found on the Web. In the Columbia survey, 90 percent of the faculty members who responded said they used electronic resources in their research several times a week or more. Nearly all said it was a valuable resource. While the accuracy of online information is notoriously uneven, the ubiquity of the Web means that a trip to the stacks is no longer the way most academic research begins. "The nature of discovery is changing," said Joseph Janes, associate professor and chairman of library and information science at the University of Washington. "I think the digital revolution and the use of digital resources in general is really the beginning of a change in the way humanity thinks and presents itself."A few research librarians say Google could eventually take on more of the role of a universal library."If you could use Google to just look across digital libraries, into any digital library collection, now that would be cool," said Daniel Greenstein, university librarian of the California Digital Library, the digital branch of the University of California library system."It would help libraries achieve something that we haven't yet been able to achieve by ourselves," Dr. Greenstein said, "which is to place all of our publicly accessible digital library collections in a common pool."The biggest problem is that search engines like Google skim only the thinnest layers of information that has been digitized. Most have no access to the so-alled deep Web, where information is contained in isolated databases like online library catalogs. Search engines seek so-called static Web pages, which generally do not have search functions of their own. Information on the deep Web, on the other hand, comes to the surface only as the result of a database query from within a particular site. Use Google, for instance, to research Upton Sinclair's 1934 campaign for governor of California, and you will miss an entire collection of pamphlets accessible only from the University of California at Los Angeles's archive of digitized campaign literature. --------------------------------- Farooque, IBM Global Services (India) Pvt Ltd. First floor, GT Annexe, Airport Road, Bangalore-17 Tel: 25094107, 25094119 email... farooque(a)in.ibm.com ----------------------------------

1 0

Gokhale Library: Online Public Access Catalogue
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 23:40:22 +1200 (NZST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Chaudhary Gokhale" <chaudhary_gokhale(a)yahoo.co.nz> Hello to all, I am pleased to inform you all lis-forum members that Dhananjayarao Gadgil Librarys online public access catalogue is available on the World Wide Web to browse and search the collection. Dhananjayarao Gadgil Library, the library of the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune has one of the largest and most important collections of social science documents in India. It has quite a large member of publications on Economics and allied social science subjects and successfully caters to the needs of scholars, academicians, policy makers and other users working in social science subjects in India and abroad. URL: http://www.gipe.ernet.in/library/ Total Number of records: 2,71,000 Home page: Designed using XHTML 1.0, HTML 4.0, CSS, JavaScript, ASP, Metadata Hosted at: Windows 2000 Advanced server Web server: IIS Designed and hosted by: N Murali For more details, please contact Webmaster With regards Chaudhary

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] FAO Statistical Databases
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:46:14 +0530 From: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ <mukesh(a)monitorinfo.com> FAOSTAT offers free on-line access to all of its data. In addition, FAOSTAT offers an annual subscription service that provides extended on-line query and download limits (10,000 records per query) and unlimited access to FTP bulk download files. FAO is a non-profit Organization with the mandate to work to alleviate poverty and hunger by promoting agricultural development, improved nutrition and the pursuit of food security. All proceeds from the sale of FAOSTAT services and products are used to improve those services by improving the collection, preparation and dissemination of information. ----- Original Message ----- From: "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> To: "Mailing List Manager" <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > > FAOSTAT is also avialble free on the net. For futher details you may > visit http://apps.fao.org/default.jsp > > > g.k.manjunath > IGIDR > > e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in > http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm > > phone 91-22-28490653 > ************************************************ > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Mailing List Manager wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:23:48 +0530 > > From: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ <mukesh(a)monitorinfo.com> > > > > Members may also be interested in the forthcoming publication: > > > > FAOSTAT CD 2004. > > FAO Statistical Databases. (CD-ROM) > > > > Year : 2004 > > ISBN 92-5-005125-5 > > Price : US$ 600.00 > > > > > > FAOSTAT is a statistical database that currently > > contains more than 3 million time-series records. > > This new, updated CD-ROM incorporates statistical > > information up to January 2004, covering more than > > 300 countries and territories and 3 000 items in > > the following areas of agriculture, fisheries, > > forestry and nutrition: > > > > > > * Production > > * Trade > > * Food Balance Sheets > > * Producer Prices > > * Forestry Trade Flow > > * Land Use and Irrigation > > * Forest Products > > * Fishery Products > > * Population > > * Codex Alimetarius Food Quality Control > > * Fertlizers and Pesticides > > * Agricultural Machinery > > * Food Aid Shipments > > * Exports by Destination > > > > > > Please confirm your order > > ------------------------- > > Monitor Information Services > > Library suppliers of books n software > > 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex > > Narayanguda > > HYDERABAD - 500 029 India > > > > http://www.monitorinfo.com > > > > Phone : (040) 55787065, 27552390 > > Fax : + 91-40-27552390 > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > >

1 0

FAO Statistical Databases
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:23:48 +0530 From: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ <mukesh(a)monitorinfo.com> Members may also be interested in the forthcoming publication: FAOSTAT CD 2004. FAO Statistical Databases. (CD-ROM) Year : 2004 ISBN 92-5-005125-5 Price : US$ 600.00 FAOSTAT is a statistical database that currently contains more than 3 million time-series records. This new, updated CD-ROM incorporates statistical information up to January 2004, covering more than 300 countries and territories and 3 000 items in the following areas of agriculture, fisheries, forestry and nutrition: * Production * Trade * Food Balance Sheets * Producer Prices * Forestry Trade Flow * Land Use and Irrigation * Forest Products * Fishery Products * Population * Codex Alimetarius Food Quality Control * Fertlizers and Pesticides * Agricultural Machinery * Food Aid Shipments * Exports by Destination Please confirm your order ------------------------- Monitor Information Services Library suppliers of books n software 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda HYDERABAD - 500 029 India http://www.monitorinfo.com Phone : (040) 55787065, 27552390 Fax : + 91-40-27552390

2 1

Workshop on Developing digital library using Dspace (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:23:48 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> dear professional friends, I am sure u r aware that the Dept of Library & Information Science, Osmania University in colloboration with INFLIBNET is organising a WORKSHOP ON DEVELOPING A DIGITAL LIBRARY USING DSPACE from 28 th June to 3 rd July 2004. Many professional friends have expressed desire to join the workshop but it appears that their office is taking much time to sponsor / depute, and have asked us to extend the date. We understand the problem, therefore, u may please wrtie to us and make the spot payment on 28th June 2004. Please intimate if u r intending to join the workshop. all the best 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

1 0

Home page
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:44:56 +0530 (IST) From: K.T Anuradha <anu(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Hello, Kindly access my home page at: vidya-mapak.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Regards, Anuradha -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ms.K.T.Anuradha E-mail: anu(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Senior Technical Officer URL:vidya-mapak.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in National Centre for Science Information Indian Institute of Science FAX:(+91-80) 23601426/23600683 Karnataka, Bangalore 560 012 Tel:(+91-80) 23600271/22932511 India ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] My Website
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

Date: 21 Jun 2004 10:22:02 -0000 From: Rajesh K Patil <rajeshbcd(a)rediffmail.com> � Hi, CONGRATULATIONS ! This is a beautiful piece of work. I have learned a lot about Karnataka today. Thanks for sharing this with the forum members. I have a suggestion : Many cities in Karnataka have websites devoted to them, may be you could provide links to these. Regards. Rajesh On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 Mailing List Manager wrote : >Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 10:18:26 +0530 > From: cynthiamum <cynthiamum(a)indiatimes.com> > >Hi, > >As a part of my training at IGIDR Library, I have developed a site on >�Political History of Karnataka� under the guidance of Mr. G. >K. Manjunath, Chief Librarian and Mr. S. M.Pujar, Assistant Librarian. > >The URL of the site is: http://freewebs.com/phkarnataka > >I request all the members to go through the site and give your valuable >suggestions and comments for incorporating for further improvement of the >site. > >Regards, > >Cynthia D Simeon >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

1 0

Databases for Agricultural Research in India
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:35:13 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Sub: Braianstorming Session on Databases for Agricultural Research in India. In association with the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, we at the Bioinformatics Centre of the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation are holding a one-day Brainstorming Session on Databases for Agricultural Research in India in New Delhi on 11 July 2004, 10.00 - 15.30. The purpose of the workshop is to decide on the databases to be developed in India. About 5-7% (depending on the database one uses) of the world's literature on agriculture and related areas is produced in India. It will be a good idea to have them all available readily. For this reason, we propose that we discuss the following databases: 1. A Research Output Database - This is a bibliographic database of all of India's literature ouitput in agriculture, horticulture, veterinary science and fisheries science. Right now this information is scattered over several databases, mostly produced outside India, such as CAB Abstracts. 2. A Full-text database of All Indian Research Papers - This could be either Interoperable Institutional Archives, each institution maintaining its own papers, or a nationwide centralised Archive, say maintained by NAAS. 3. A Database on Research Projects - As different agencies support agricultural research and different institutions perform , a regularly updated database of projects will be useful. This database will also be helpful in identifying experts in different specialties and research fronts. Such a database assumes special importance in the context of current developments in biotechnology and bioinformatics. Ideas on other useful databses are welcome. Needless to say that all these databases will be electronic and readily accessible in the public domain. Attendance at the brainstorming session will be by invitation only. Invitees include eminent researchers, information scientists and specialists in information systems and database production. The workshop will be held at the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, located between the National Physical Laboratory and Todapur (on the road from Hotel Siddharth at the east Patel Nagar-Pusa roundabout going to Indrapuri). Because of limited financial resources, we will not be able to cover the travel costs of outstation participants. However, we will provide a day's accommodation and local hospitality to outstation participants. We will be grateful for your suggestions on who should be invited to this event. Please send your suggestions to my colleague Mr Senthilkumaran, Associate Director, Informatics, MSSRF at <senthil(a)mssrf.res.in>. Fax: 044 2254 1319. Regards. Yours sincerely, Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

1 0

My Website
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 10:18:26 +0530 From: cynthiamum <cynthiamum(a)indiatimes.com> Hi, As a part of my training at IGIDR Library, I have developed a site on ‘Political History of Karnataka’ under the guidance of Mr. G. K. Manjunath, Chief Librarian and Mr. S. M.Pujar, Assistant Librarian. The URL of the site is: http://freewebs.com/phkarnataka I request all the members to go through the site and give your valuable suggestions and comments for incorporating for further improvement of the site. Regards, Cynthia D Simeon

1 0

RSS(sm): Rich Site Services General Bibliography
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:14:36 -0500 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> __RSS(sm): Rich Site Services General Bibliography__ I am pleased to announce that one of my latest registries, _RSS(sm): Rich Site Services_ [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm now includes a General Bibliography of key articles / tutorials / guides / presentations, etc. relating to RSS, its use, and potential [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm#GeneralBibliography ] . Currently, all items are hotlinked to their respective full-text documents. One of the most noteworthy entries is by Roddy MacLeod, (Senior Subject Specialist, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) published earlier this week in _FreePint_ [Roddy MacLeod, "RSS: Less Hype, More Action," _FreePint_ No. 161 (June 2004): 7-10]. I am greatly interested in adding ANY and ALL *other*relevant works to the General Bibliography that relate to RSS and its potential for enhancing *Library Services. [I am NOT interested in articles that deal with RSS in general (unless they are exceptional)]. Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan General Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

1 0

Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
by Mailing List Manager 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:55:38 +0530 From: Aman Jha <aman.jha(a)ciionline.org> Friends, 'Collected works of Mahatma Gandhi' from July 1888 to 30 January 1948 (all 98 volumes) are available online in pdf format at the following site and searchable (full text) through google. http://www.gandhiserve.org/cwmg/cwmg.html 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: 0124-5014083 Email: aman.jha(a)ciionline.org Website: <http://www.ciionline.org> www.ciionline.org

1 0

Rediffmail follows up!
by Mailing List Manager 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

Date: 18 Jun 2004 04:48:53 -0000 From: sm shahabuddin <smshahabuddin(a)rediffmail.com> Dear participants at the LISforum: Rediffmail goes the GMail way. It increases its capacity to 1 GB storage limit and 10 MB message limit. Previously it was 5MB and 1 MB respectively. Now we can send photo albums, music files and larger attachments. Besides we do not have to worry about deleting mails regularly to keep mail box free. The other day Yahoo went the same way providing 100 MB storage limit. But that's meant for those who have yahoo.com account. This is really good. I wonder what a mere announcement can do! Google is yet to open its GMail for the general public. Thanks S. M. Shahabuddin

1 0

New World Health Organization Library Databases Interface
by Mailing List Manager 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:32:58 +0000 From: Tomas Allen <tomasallen_who(a)hotmail.com> ** please excuse cross postings ** The World Health Organization Library is seeking your assistance. Since our mandate is a global one, we need to insure that our library database is responding to the needs of all types of library users worldwide. The WHO Library will be upgrading the library database web interface in July 2004 and are seeking volunteers from around the world to assist in pre-launch testing. In addition to volunteering, we hope that readers of this list would "buddy" up with a novice user from your library so that we have feedback from both experts and novices. If you are interested in testing the library database, please send an email to library(a)who.int Please place "library database tester" in the subject heading. We need to know Your Name and if possible your "buddy" novice user's name and details Expert (librarian/information specialist) or Novice Country of Residence (where you will access the library catalogue) Mother Language Many thanks, Tomas Allen WHO Library Further details Testing will run through the month of July. You will only be asked to respond to 10-15 simple questions that should take no more than 15 minutes. We also hope that you can assist in obtaining feedback from the your "buddy" novice tester. About the library catalogue The WHO Library and Information Networks for Knowledge (LNK) provides comprehensive library and information services on WHO-produced recorded information in print and other media. WHOLIS is the World Health Organization library database available on the web. WHOLIS indexes all WHO publications from 1948 onwards and articles from WHO-produced journals and technical documents from 1985 to the present. Many of WHO publications are available in full text pdf format through the library database. This can be viewed at http://dosei.who.int/. We encourage you to test the current database before July. If you have problems accessing this database please contact Ms Helen Heathcote at heathcoteh(a)who.int _________________________________________________________________

1 0

Free access to Gender Studies Database
by Prafulla Chandra 17 Jun '04

17 Jun '04

Dear All: NISC is pleased to announce free access to Gender Studies Database during June 2004. Available Formats: BiblioLine, CD-ROM Number of Records: 552,250+ Dates of Coverage: 1972 & earlier - Present Number of CD-ROMS: 1 Database: Anthology of 12 files Update Frequency: Monthly on BiblioLine (Internet-/Web-based service), Quarterly on CD-ROM The Gender Studies Database (GSD) combines NISC's popular Women's Studies International, Men's Studies and Sexual Diversity Studies databases with relevant contributions from the Child Development & Adolescent Studies as well as Family & Society Studies Worldwide databases. GSD covers the spectrum of gender engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the web are available. Several hundred links provide access to carefully selected websites. To register for free access, please visit NISC's website at www.nisc.com and click the Gender Studies Database link at the top. Happy searching! Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1 0

position announcement
by Prafulla Chandra 17 Jun '04

17 Jun '04

Position Announcement NISC Export Services (NES) Private Limited invites applications for the position of TECHNICAL SUPPORT ANALYST in its newly created Technical Support Department. 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. Based in Hyderabad, the successful candidate will handle, using latest information and communication technologies, queries pertaining to technical support received from customers all over the world. NES is looking for candidates who have at least a Masters degree in English, Mass Communication, Journalism or any related subject. Candidates with MPhil or PhD degree in the relevant subject would be preferred. --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 communicate in a formal, clear, empathetic and pleasant style, with excellent command of written and spoken English. -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 understand and answer, with speed and accuracy, technical queries from customers. -to maintain good public relations with customers, both actual and potential. -to collect, organize, store and deliver information resources required for technical support. -to enjoy interactions with customers hailing from diverse national backgrounds and serve them in a most user-friendly manner. --If you are not a resident of Hyderabad and are willing to relocate, please indicate that at the top of your resume. 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. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. NES considers applications from candidates who had appeared for examinations and awaiting announcement of results, 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 For more info about NISC, please visit www.nisc.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1 0

Site hosted
by Vinita 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

Dear Friends, The following site has been hosted by me on "Career Options in India". The site will be regularly updated, as of now it has covered only some subjects from the plethora of subjects available. URL: http://www.freewebs.com/careeri Comments and feedback for corrections and improvements are welcome. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vinita L. Hattangadi Library Assistant Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India E-mail: vinita(a)igidr.ac.in

1 0

library events
by Mailing List Manager 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:56:41 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] ramesh akula" <akula202(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear All, Can You Please let me know, if there are any library events on Digital libraries planned for any institution / associtions for the rest of the year , from 20th june 2004, regards, A.Ramesh Librarian Indur institue of Engineering and technology, siddipet-502 277

1 0

Announcing _eFeeds(sm): Web Feeds from Electronic Journals_
by Mailing List Manager 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:19:06 -0500 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> _eFeeds(sm): Web Feeds from Electronic Journals_ I am pleased to announce the creation of my newest registry - _eFeeds(sm)_ ! _eFeeds(sm)_ is located at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/eFeeds.htm ] "_eFeeds(sm): Web Feeds from Electronic Journals_ is a categorized registry of electronic journals that offer RSS/XML, Atom, or other Web feeds. Publisher-specific and vendor Web feeds are categorized in a separate category." I am greatly interested in adding additional entries to _eFeeds(sm) and would most appreciate Any and All nominations of other e-journals with Web feeds. BTW: _eFeeds(sm)_ is intended to complement _RSS(sm)_, my registry devoted to "Rich Site Services" located at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm ] Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Library-specific Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] Website on 'Academic and Research Institutions in Mumbai
by Mailing List Manager 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:53:51 +0530 From: bp.prakash(a)tcs.com This is a good effort and will go a long way with improvements and updation. How comprehensive is this ? Iam tempted to suggest add library contacts. Congrats ! Sarika and the IGIDR team ! BP Prakash Tata Consultancy Services ------ Original message ---------- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:50:37 +0530 From: gargi17 <gargi17(a)indiatimes.com> Hi, As a part of my training at IGIDR Library, I have developed a site on Academic and Research Institution in Mumbai under the guidance of Mr. G. K. Manjunath, Chief Librarian and Mr. S. M. Pujar, Assistant Librarian. The URL of the site is : http://freewebs.com/arimumbai I request all the members to go through the site and give your valuable suggestions and comments for further improvement of the site. Regards, Sarika B. Davakhar

1 0

Yahoo goes Gmail way!!
by Shyam Prasad pujar 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

Dear Members, >From Today June 15, 2004 Yahoo is offering 100 MB FREE E-mail box for its users. Just go to login page, Yahoo welcomes you with new features. Right at the moment this is available only for name(a)yahoo.com e-mail addresses. 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 * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

1 0

U.K. Academics and Librarians Disagree Over Open Access Publishing
by JK Vijayakumar 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

U.K. Academics and Librarians Disagree Over Open Access Publishing by Richard Poynder http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb040503-3.shtml -------------------------------------------- On April 21, the U.K. Parliament�s Science and Technology Select Committee held the third evidence session in its enquiry into the pricing and availability of scientific publications. Having heard testimony from publishers (See http://www.infotoday.com/it/apr04/poynder.shtml), British politicians now wanted to hear the views of librarians and academics. As it turned out, the librarians and academics disagreed with one another. First up were representatives of the library community, including the chief executive of The British Library, Lynne Brindley; the librarian of Cambridge University, Peter Fox; Di Martin, dean of learning and information services at the University of Hertfordshire; and Frederick Friend, consultant with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Committee chair Dr. Ian Gibson began: �Libraries have told us that there is a crisis in the provision of scientific publications: publishers vigorously deny this. Who is right?� The librarians were clear there was a crisis. Describing the environment as monopolistic, they expressed concerns over excessive pricing, inflexibility over the �bundling� of electronic journals, inequitable copyright agreements, and restrictions on long-term access to digital material. On pricing, Martin reported that while the RPI (Retail Price Index) had increased by just 11 percent over 5 years, there had been a 58 percent increase in STM journal subscriptions. Fox explained that for Cambridge University this meant that where 10 years ago scientific journals consumed around 25 percent of the materials budget, �currently that is 33 percent and rising.� This, he added, was depriving the University of �500,000 a year for �purchasing books and journals outside the scientific area.� The librarians also refuted claims made by publishers that there was flexibility in bundling. Any flexibility there was, said Martin, is disappearing. �The deal that has been put forward now for higher education � [would] � give us much fewer options and we would have to take a set package.� When Gibson asked who the best and worst publishers were, Friend replied that ALPSP members (The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) are easier to deal with. Two of the more difficult, he added, were Elsevier and the American Chemical Society (ACS). Last year, he explained, JISC spent 6 months in national negotiations with Elsevier. �You agree a national price of, say, 5 percent on what you paid last year; but then, when the detail gets down to local level, you find that the reality is very different.� The process, he said, was �extremely time-consuming, and is still not resolved for many universities.� ACS, he continued, imposes unreasonable restrictions on long-term access to its digital material. �In the electronic environment we are not allowed to purchase the content outright; it is licensed to us. Many publishers impose conditions upon long-term access�not all, and in general the ALPSP publishers are better on this, but the American Chemical Society is very difficult.� Much of the discussion revolved around OA (Open Access) publishing. OA, said Friend, is an appropriate response to the current monopolistic environment. �What I would urge this committee to consider is the recommendation to government that any articles based on publicly-funded research should be freely accessible over the Internet.� Since universities are a major provider of profit for these companies, asked committee member Dr. Brian Iddon, why did librarians not just use their clout to make publishers more flexible? �We do have some clout,� replied Friend. �[B]ut ultimately we are in the hands of our academic community, and if the academic community do not back the library up in saying �no�, then the library alone could not take action.� The problem, he later explained, is that those who pay for the journals (librarians) are not the people who make the buying decisions (academics). Since OA requires that researchers pay to be published, he added, it has the benefit of restoring �the decision on payment to the authors.� When academics were called it was apparent they viewed things differently. David Williams, professor of tissue engineering at the University of Liverpool, was critical of OA, and disputed there was a crisis. �I do not see that there is any significant problem in S&T publishing at the present time. My staff, my post-docs, my students have immense access to a wide variety of publications with tremendous facility. Comparing that to 5 years ago, the time saved in technology is very, very significant.� John Fry, professor of microbial ecology at the University of Cardiff, said that OA introduced �a whole host of minor practical problems.� As publications manager for The Federation of European Microbiological Societies, he was also worried that learned societies could not continue publishing without the support of traditional publishers. �All our journals at the moment are owned and published by Elsevier.� While supportive of self-archiving, Nigel Hitchin, professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford, was also doubtful about OA publishing. �Up-front payments are a big issue,� he said, adding that asking mathematicians�who are not big grant-earners�to pay to publish could act as a deterrent to submitting papers. The only academic to support OA was professor James Crabbe, head of animal and microbial sciences at the University of Reading. When the Committee asked about copyright, Williams replied: �In the vast majority of papers which I publish I have to sign over copyright to the publisher. It has never been a concern to me. As editor-in-chief [of an Elsevier journal] I have never had a concern raised by any author at any time about the copyright issue.� Jane Carr, chief executive of the Authors� Licensing & Collecting Society (ALCS)�who gave testimony alongside academics�disagreed. Based on an ALCS survey, she said, it was clear academics were concerned. One author had told ALCS: �The only journal I challenged over assigning copyright agreed to assign it to me as long as I understood they would not publish me again. Academic publishing is, from an author�s perspective, a complete rip-off.� Carr added she was concerned such copyright issues �could be carried through into an open access model.� In short, academics were skeptical about OA publishing. Outside the committee room, critics complained that, in their choice of whom to call, politicians had shown a bias towards publishers. �Of the four academics, three were editors of Elsevier journals,� angrily commented one OA advocate, on condition of anonymity. �I don�t think it was a representative panel of academics,� agrees Jan Velterop, from OA publisher BioMed Central. �But that doesn�t matter. It is my impression that the Committee just question what they perceive as unclear or flawed arguments.� The Select Committee�s final oral session�on May 5�will take evidence from U.K. research councils. A report will then be issued in June, after which the U.K. government has 2 months to respond. The Committee has posted the uncorrected transcript of oral evidence at: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/ cmselect/cmsctech/uc399-iii/uc39902.htm. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

1 0

BIREME
by Madhuresh 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

BIREME - The Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information http://www.bireme.br/bvs/I/ihome.htm BIREME's mission is to contribute to the development of health in the countries of the Latin America and the Caribbean by promoting the use of health scientific and technical information. Under the Scientific Literature section of the portal, one can select "database search", where a search can be done in 15 databases together, including MEDLINE. In advanced search, one can select the database/s and other Limits can also be applied. In fact it is using WWWISIS and provides Index terms also. It is also a portal of Scientific Journals (Health Science Journals) and divided in various subject categories. It also gives the details about the journal like availability (free or controlled), publisher, publication started/ended, ISSN, online link etc. A good source for Health Science Professionals. 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/

1 0

Website on 'Academic and Research Institutions in Mumbai
by Mailing List Manager 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:50:37 +0530 From: gargi17 <gargi17(a)indiatimes.com> Hi, As a part of my training at IGIDR Library, I have developed a site on Academic and Research Institution in Mumbai under the guidance of Mr. G. K. Manjunath, Chief Librarian and Mr. S. M. Pujar, Assistant Librarian. The URL of the site is : http://freewebs.com/arimumbai I request all the members to go through the site and give your valuable suggestions and comments for further improvement of the site. Regards, Sarika B. Davakhar

1 0

Google boosts enterprise search appliance
by Mailing List Manager 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

Date: 15 Jun 2004 04:49:35 -0000 From: farooque <mfarooque(a)rediffmail.com> Google Inc. is expanding its presence behind the firewall with an updated version of its Google Search Appliance featuring expanded capacity and improved security. Google Search Appliance GB-1001 supports five times the document capacity of the previous version, expanding from 300,000 documents to 1.5 million, according to Dave Girouard, general manager of enterprise at Google. Software enhancements include a continuous crawl feature that scans and indexes content continually rather than the previous batch crawling function. "Now it is always crawling documents and verifying if a document has changed. The result is that content is much fresher. It is a matter of minutes between a change and the update of the system," Girouard said. The updated appliance also bolsters security with added support for HTML-forms-based single sign-on. This feature allows the appliance to validate corporate user rights so that users will see only the search results they have access to, Girouard said. Another software enhancement, dubbed unlimited collections, allows IT managers to administer multiple appliances separately and tailor indexes for different departments. The appliance also includes improved filters and more detailed usage reporting and monitoring to provide information about the number of queries and most popular search terms, according to Google officials. --------------------------------- Farooque, IBM Global Services (India) Pvt Ltd. First floor, GT Annexe, Airport Road, Bangalore-17 Tel: 25094107, 25094119 email... farooque(a)in.ibm.com ----------------------------------

1 0

Web Feeds from Publishers and Book Vendors?
by Mailing List Manager 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 10:30:28 -0500 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> Web Feeds from Publishers and Book Vendors? I am greatly interested in learning of Any and All publishers or book vendors that provide Web feeds (RSS, Atom, etc.) for new and/or forthcoming books published or provided by the publisher or vendor. I will be happy to include each within my new registry _RSS(sm): Rich Site Services_ [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS2.htm ] Regards, Gerry Gerry McKiernan Approved Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

1 0

Re: Use of RSS in Bibliographic/Abstract Databases?
by Mailing List Manager 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:48:14 -0500 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> Colleagues/ In response to my query posted earlier this week, I have learned of two databases that offer RSS functionality HubMed: pubmed rewired: An Alternative Interface to the PubMed Medical Literature Database [ http://www.pmbrowser.info/ ] my.PubMed [ http://www.mypubmed.com/ ] [Thanks to Teri Vogel/ Georgia State University Libraries for these two nominations!!!] In addition, I has prompted to recall that an associated database of my. PubMed offered by FS Consulting, Inc. ( http://www.fsconsult.com/about/ ), also provides RSS functionality. The database, my.OAI [ http://www.myoai.com/ ], is a major Open Archives Initiative Service Provider [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-SP-I.pdf ] Each of these are now listed in RSS(sm) [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm ] Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan RSS Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] free online reading (www.nap.edu)
by Mailing List Manager 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:41:14 +0530 From: Murari Tapaswi <murari(a)darya.nio.org> To: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] free online reading (www.nap.edu) I had even downloaded a pdf file from this site for complete book: 'Illuminating the Hidden Planet'. The pdf files for cetain books are available for developing countries including India. Regards, -Murari Tapaswi ----- Original Message ----- > Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:26:15 +0530 > From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> > > Excellent source for many technical books. much of it free for online > reading. You must have a look at the beta "Discovery Engine" provided in > this site. I strongly recommend Librarians to 'study' it. Thanks Mukesh > for your message. > > Vyasamoorthy, P > =============== >

1 0

Web Feeds for E-Journal Issue Notification and Local OPAC/ILS Holdings?
by Mailing List Manager 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:00:28 -0500 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> It has occurred to me that Web feeds (RSS, [ http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA296443 ], Atom [ http://www.atomenabled.org/ ], Other(s)?) hold the potential of providing not only publication notification to institutional (or individual) subscribers for current electronic journal issues, but also could serve as the mechanism by which local holdings for the e-journal could be seamlessly updated within the local OPAC/ILS. Thanks to Owen Stephens I have learned that the Library of Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, provides not only RSS feeds for all new issues of subscribed [e-]journals, but to individual e-journal titles as well. My new RSS(sm) registry includes entries each of these types of public e-journal issue feeds: [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS2.htm#NewJournalIssues ] In my New World View, institutional subscribers to an e-journal could also be 'subscribed' to the associated Web feed for _each_ e-title by the publisher/vendor. Such eFeed subscriptions could be a Package Deal: a selected Feed Reader of a library's choice (e.g., Pluck [ http://www.pluck.com/ ] provided by a journal vendor (e.g., EBSCO, Swets, etc.) fully populated with the Web feeds addresses for each e-title. [There are of course, other possible scenarios; for example, a Third Party Service could serve as an Aggregator for many e-journal publishers, vendors, etc.][Do I Smell a Business Opportunity or What? [:-)]. Upon publication/release of a new e-journal issue, the local reader would be updated in its next cycle. Such entries would not only be made available through a local New Journal Issue feed similar to what is offered by Royal Holloway [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS2.htm#NewJournalIssues ], but through the Magic of an XML-based Black Box, update the holdings for an e-journal in the local staff and public OPAC. [Of course, The Devil Is In The Details Here, But Hey, RSS is XML, and So the Possibilities are Possible [:->]. I would most appreciate receiving Any and All Comments about MyNewWorldView (or Other Views that this Musings might inspire). Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Black-Box Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

1 0

Goa Academic Library Network
by Mailing List Manager 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 14:49:30 +0530 (IST) From: Goa Academic Library Network <goalnet(a)unigoa.ac.in> Dear Friends, I am happy to let members of this list know that Goa University Library has created an academic library network consisting of Goa University library and other college libraries in Goa who are willing to join the network by using NewGenLib Library networking Software. Members are already probably aware that NewGenLib is the joint effort between the Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management (http://www.kiikm.org/). And a software company, Verus Solutions Pvt., Ltd., both in Hyderabad. Details of NewGenLib and its features can be seen at its web site, http://www.newgenlib.com/. The Goa Academic library networks union database OPAC is now accessible at http://goalnet.unigoa.ac.in/ and I welcome members of this list to access our OPAC. However, all the links are not yet functional. However link to the goalnet database is functional. I would like to highlight some of the useful features of the OPAC. ·Member libraries can locate their databases online through their dialup connectivity. ·The member library users can find their library online and do their transactions also online. ·The member libraries can only upload/download their transactions/data end of the day through a dial up connection. ·Users can access all the libraries collection by searching Union catalogue. ·Rest of the libraries in the country and outside the country can access the union catalogue of all the libraries in Goa. ·Lastly, member libraries need not prepare the database for the books already entered by any libraries in the network. They can copy-paste as facilitated by the software. We can even download the records from the Library of Congress without any problem and paste them to our database and add our accession number. I request all of you to kindly access the network and give your valuable suggestions to the following e-mail address: goalnet(a)unigoa.ac.in Thanks, Konnur. Dr.P.V.Konnur, Co-ordinator, Goa Academic Library Network, Goa University Library, Taleigao Plateau, Goa-403 206 Phone: 0832-2456031

1 0

IASLIC Study Circle on 17th June, 2004
by Mailing List Manager 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 17:27:21 +0530 From: Dr. Arun K. Chakraborty <akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in> For circulation pl. INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPECIAL LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION CENTRES (I A S L I C)P-291 C I T Scheme, No.6M, Kankurgachi, Kolkata – 700 054Tel : 2352 – 9651 / e-mail : iaslic(a)vsnl.net, url: http://www.iaslic.org N O T I C E 275th IASLIC STUDY CIRCLE MEETING TOPIC : INFORMATION SUPPORT FOR PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT WITH REFERENCE TO RURAL DEVELOPMENT SPEAKER : Prof. Pulakesh Maity, Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute 203, B.T. Road, Kolkata 108 CHAIRPERSON : Shri Alok Kumar Mukhopadhyay, IAS Director, State Institute of Panchayats & Rural Development, Kalyani Venue : IASLIC Seminar Room, Kolkata Date & Time : Thursday, 17th June, 2004 at 6-30 p.m. You are cordially invited to attend the meeting along with your colleagues. (Dr. Arun Kumar Chakraborty) Secretary, IASLIC Study Circle akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in DR. ARUN KUMAR CHAKRABORTY LIBRARIAN BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA, INDIA MAIN CAMPUS : 93/1 A.P.C. ROAD, KOLKATA 700 009 INDIA PH : 91-33-2350 2402/03, 6619,6702 FAX : 91-33-2350 6790 CENTENARY CAMPUS : P1/12 CIT SCHEME - VII-M, KOLKATA 700 054 INDIA PH : 91-33-2337 9544, 9416, 9219 FAX : 91-33-2334 3886 Ph (Res) : 33-2672 1192, 3892 E-MAIL : akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in, arunchkr(a)vsnl.net.in, c_arunk(a)hotmail.com

1 0

INDEST-NCSI workshop on Institutional Repositories, 27-29 July 2004
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

Dear Members NCSI will be organizing the workshop "INDEST-NCSI workshop on Institutional Repositories" in IISc, Bangalore, during 27-29 July 2004. The workshop is aimed at setting up inter-operable e-print archives at core INDEST consortium member institutions http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/) covering Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT's), Indian Institutes of Management (IIM's), and National Institutes of Technology (NIT's - earlier Regional Engineering Colleges), apart from IISc. These institutions together account for significant portion of research output from India. Institutional repositories should help us in improving the visibility and impact of research done in these institutions. This effort is an extension of the initial focus of the INDEST consortium to provide licensed/shared access to a large number of e-journals and databases. You will find more details of the workshop on the INDEST website mentioned above (first item in 'What's New' box). This is for your kind information. 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

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum] free online reading (www.nap.edu)
by Mailing List Manager 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:26:15 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Excellent source for many technical books. much of it free for online reading. You must have a look at the beta "Discovery Engine" provided in this site. I strongly recommend Librarians to 'study' it. Thanks Mukesh for your message. Vyasamoorthy, P =============== -----Original Message----- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 17:27:53 +0530 From: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ <mukesh(a)monitorinfo.com> Dear Professionals, It is to remind/inform you that all the full texts of all National Academies Press books are available for free online reading at the NAP website (www.nap.edu). And if you decide you want to buy a copy, all books can be ordered through the NAP site at 10% off the list price. Many NAP book can now be purchased as searchable PDF files. You have the choice of buying either the whole book or individual chapters. The prices are low - and delivery is immediate! For the best value, you can buy the hard copy book along with the PDF file and save significantly. Visit NAP website and see which option is right for you. Happy Reading Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing Monitor Information Services http://www.monitorinfo.com _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

1 0

Explore Google with MoreGoogle
by Shyam Prasad pujar 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

Dear Members, Install 'MoreGoogle' tiny program on your system, which will enable added features to your Google searches like thumbnail of sites, site info, etc. Works best only with Internet Explorer. It is an API for Google. Download it from: http://www.moregoogle.com 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 * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

1 0

free online reading
by Mailing List Manager 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 17:27:53 +0530 From: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ <mukesh(a)monitorinfo.com> Dear Professionals, It is to remind/inform you that all the full texts of all National Academies Press books are available for free online reading at the NAP website (www.nap.edu). And if you decide you want to buy a copy, all books can be ordered through the NAP site at 10% off the list price. Many NAP book can now be purchased as searchable PDF files. You have the choice of buying either the whole book or individual chapters. The prices are low - and delivery is immediate! For the best value, you can buy the hard copy book along with the PDF file and save significantly. Visit NAP website and see which option is right for you. Happy Reading Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing Monitor Information Services http://www.monitorinfo.com

1 0

ALIC2004 Bangkok Conference (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 22:32:35 +0700 (ICT) From: Pensri Guaysuwan <iflaroao(a)tu.ac.th> To: rscao-l(a)infoserv.inist.fr, ifla-l(a)infoserv.inist.fr Subject: ALIC2004 Bangkok Conference (fwd) NEWS RELEASE June 2004, Bangkok The 1st biannual ASIAN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CONFERENCE (ALIC2004) <http://www.alic2004.org/>www.alic2004.org is being organizing by the Thai Library Association and Asia Library News, to be held at the 5-star Dusit Thani Hotel, Bangkok, <http://www.dusit.com/>www.dusit.com from November 21 to November 24, 2004. ALIC2004 is supported by UNESCO and IFLA. The main objectives of the conference are to promote library and information services throughout the Asia-Pacific region in a rapidly changing digital and knowledge-based social environment, to address various issues that affect the library and information profession, and to provide a forum for librarians from the region and elsewhere to network and exchange ideas. A panel of more than 25 distinguished information professionals and experts from various countries in the region will address the audience during the three-day conference. Current and timely topics include: the changing role of library and information professionals; information access and copyrights; collection development in the digital age; e-resources versus print resources; ICT for library and information services; digital libraries development in the Asia-Pacific countries etc. There will also be abundant opportunities for informal networking during lunches, coffee breaks, the welcome reception, and library and cultural tours. An exhibition of books, library products and services will be held simultaneously at the conference for participants to learn about the new products and services available in the library and publishing world. This conference is opened to all interested parties including librarians, information professionals, educators, publishers, distributors and vendors. For general information and details of the conference, please see Website: <http://www.alic2004.org/>www.alic2004.org Online registrations are accepted now by submitting the filled-out registration form along with payment of registration fee. Jaffee Yee Organizing Committee Chair ALIC2004 Bangkok ICADL2005 Bangkok Publisher, Editor-in-Chief ASIA LIBRARY NEWS, DIGITAL LIBRARY ASIA Tel: 66-2-722 0548 Fax: 66-2-722 0549 E-mail: <mailto:jyee@pacific.net.th>jyee(a)pacific.net.th <mailto:jaffee@alic2004.org>jaffee(a)alic2004.org Website: <http://www.alic2004.org/>www.alic2004.org www.icadl2005Bangkok.org Khunying Maenmas Chavalit ALIC2004 Organizing Committee Co-Chair Conference Co-Chair ICADL2005 President THAI LIBRARY ASSOCIATION SEAMEO-SPAFA Library Tel: 66-2-280 4022-9 Ext 129 Fax: 66-2-628 5361 E-mail: <mailto:maenmas@seameo-spafa.org>maenmas(a)seameo-spafa.org <mailto:wanpen@seameo-spafa.org>wanpen<mailto:wanpen@seameo-spafa.org>@seameo-spafa.org

1 0

Use of RSS in Bibliographic/Abstract Databases?
by Mailing List Manager 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 11:13:08 -0500 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> _Use of RSS in Bibliographic/Abstract Databases_? I am greatly interested in learning of ANY and ALL bibliographic/abstract databases that offer RSS feeds. Such feeds might offer current search results, or automatic updates for a saved search strategy. I would be interested in any current operational systems, working prototypes, or projects under consideration. For examples of other library-related uses of RSS, please see my latest registry_RSS(sm): Rich Site Services_ [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm ] BTW: Thanks to all for their nominations for _RSS(sm)_. Although still quite limited, it has nearly doubled in size from its establishment on Sunday, June 6 ! [ http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0406/0048.html ] Regards, Gerry McKiernan Working Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

1 0

Information Literacy
by Mailing List Manager 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 21:44:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Anil Kumar <anil67(a)yahoo.com> Dear All, Are there any Information Literacy modules developed for students of higher education in India? Regards H Anil Kumar Nirma University Ahmedabad

1 0

Brochure : National Seminar on Digitization : Practical Experiences
by Srels 08 Jun '04

08 Jun '04

Dear Sir, Please arrange to announce the following seminar announcement for the benefit of the members : Thanks. Dr. K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, Upstairs, 42nd Cross III Block, Rajajinagar BANGALORE 560 010. Ph: 23305109 ; E-mail : srels(a)vsnl.com ; ************** Seminar Announcement: NATIONAL SEMINAR ON DIGITIZATION: PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES. and SARADA RANGANATHAN ENDOWMENT LECTURES (2004) Objectives of the Seminar : Digitization is currently a buzz word. A variety of institutions (libraries, information and documentation centres, and other corporate bodies) have been digitizing documents of various kinds (text, manuscript, and image) on different media. The purpose includes development of databases and/or archival resources, to preserve, access, retrieve and disseminate information and documents. Digitization may also form the basis for creating products such as learning/teaching packages. A variety of software and techniques are being used. Some of the efforts have been successful while others have not been so. Nevertheless, many institutions are interested in digitization, and wish to learn from the experiences of those who have already undertaken digitization. An objective of this Seminar is to bring together for exchange of ideas those with experience in and those who have plans for, digitization. Papers are invited on practical experiences and case studies on the following aspects, but not exclusive of other aspects: 1.Use and evaluation of software and techniques for digitization (text, manuscript, image, sound, etc.) 2. Special aspects of digitization for archiving and preservation. 3.Classification, cataloguing and indexing methods, tools and techniques. Standards, meta-data, authority files, vocabulary control etc. 4. Searching, retrieval, and user-interfaces. 5. Copyright and other intellectual property issues. 6. Management, economics, and costs. 7. Handling non-Roman Scripts. Authors are requested to focus on practical experiences with digitization. The final paper should not exceed 5,000 (five thousand) words or 15 pages including figures, tables and annexes. An extended abstract of about 3-4 pages of the proposed paper should be submitted in advance. It will be refereed. Authors whose proposed papers are accepted will receive guidelines for preparing the final paper and its submission. Important dates : 25 June 2004: Last date for receipt of extended abstract by the Secretariat. 5 July 2004: Authors will be informed of the acceptance or otherwise of the paper. 25 July 2004: Last date for receipt of final paper by the Secretariat. 9-11 August 2004 : Seminar and SRELS Lectures. The extended abstract may be sent to the Secretariat as an e-mail document. Contact Details : The Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross III Block, Rajajinagar Bangalore 560 010, India. Ph: (080) 23305109. E-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com ******** Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Lectures (2004) Natural Language Processing in Information Storage and Retrieval by Dr.K.Narayanamurthy, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad >From 9-11 August at 4.30 - 6.00 p.m. each day

1 0

Newsbreaks
by Shyam Prasad pujar 08 Jun '04

08 Jun '04

Dear Members, Information Today in its latest newsbreaks has listed following two important news items. You may please go through the links for more information. Elsevier Allows Open Access Self-Archiving By Robin Peek In a move that has stunned both the publishing community and the academic world, major journal publisher Elsevier is going to permit open access self-archiving for almost all of its journal titles. Under the new policy it will permit authors to self-archive their materials. This move will not change Elsevier^�s subscription model for funding. -->http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb040607-2.shtml New Version of DOAJ Now Available Lund University Libraries has launched phase 2 of the Directory of Open Access Journals. The new version of DOAJ now includes records at article level and a search functionality allowing users to search articles in potentially all open access journals.The directory now contains information about more than 1,100 open access journals, i.e., quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the Web. -->http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/wnd040607.shtml 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 * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

1 0

FW: India sets up alliance on ICTs for the poor
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jun '04

08 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 10:06:31 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> India sets up alliance on ICTs for the poor T V Padma 3 June 2004 Source: SciDev.Net [NEW DELHI] A group of Indian organizations has set up a 'national alliance' to ensure that the rural poor are not excluded from the benefits of information and communications technologies (ICTs). The National Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies for Basic Human Needs was launched at a meeting of more than 50 development experts at the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) in Chennai last week. Comprising representatives of the Indian government, civil society organisations, academics and industry, it aims to take knowledge-based services to all of India's 600,000 villages by 2007, when the country celebrates its 60th year of independence. Those attending last week's meeting established seven task forces to look into the issues of connectivity, content, policy, capacity building, resources, organisation, and management and programme design, respectively, and to develop a common minimum action plan. "This is the first time that a national level task force on ICT led by civil societies has been formed," says Basheerhamad Shadrach, director of OneWorld South Asia and a joint secretary with the alliance. Government and industry led the previous two nationwide ICT initiatives in India, with limited participation from civil society. Several Indian initiatives on ICT already exist, some aimed for example at social empowerment, others being promoted by the commercial sector or offering viable models of revenue generation and sustainable livelihoods. A convergence and synergy among these could help reach the alliance's goal, according to information scientists from MSSRF who attended the meeting. Several argued that providing broadband connectivity to rural homes at affordable costs and integrating it with diverse technological applications could be the key to helping the poor benefit from ICT. The national alliance would help India leapfrog from a few thousand information kiosks to a knowledge-based rural economy, they say. They advocate converting information kiosks into multipurpose community centres. Such communication hubs could provide multiple telephone and communication services to the village, including a 'virtual academy' and training centre; support centre for rural entrepreneurship; and outlet for banking, financial and insurance services, and trading. In addition, they could serve as social empowerment organisations and support centres providing health, education and livelihoods information and services. The participants agreed to piggyback on existing government and private ICT infrastructure to create such community knowledge centres. To catalyse technology innovation for rural ICT, they recommended setting up a national resource centre for learning and experimenting innovations in rural ICTs. Those attending the meeting also urged a greater role for ICT in preparing for and managing disasters. Shadrach says the Indian government "should liberate the vast amount of spatial data" available through its remote sensing satellites for use by grassroots civil society organisations. 'Geospatial empowerment' is key to local resource planning, he argues. But such data is only made available to district administrative officials, and is too technical for lay people to comprehend. http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=1406&languag e=1

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum] Announcing: _RSS(sm): Rich Site Services_
by Mailing List Manager 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 11:18:47 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Mckiernan others might be interested in the following site maintained by Rajesh Jain: http://www.blogstreet.com/bin/showcat.cgi?catcode=lib This leads you to some 3oplus RSS feeds related to Library Weblogs. I wonder why interest in RSS feeds as a resouce for "Current Alerting Services" is not picking up in India. Among the Indian newspapers Indian Express offers RSS feeds. Why don't you try it? To preserve the context I am quoting Mckiernan's posting in full. Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, Turkapally Village, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residece: +91(40)27846631 -----Original Message----- Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 15:16:48 -0500 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> RSS(sm): Rich Site Services I am pleased to announce the establishment of my latest Web registry titled_RSS(sm): Rich Site Services_ [truncated]

2 1

cardiology, radiology, & physicians & American directoty
by Mailing List Manager 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

1 0

Information about pesticide
by Mailing List Manager 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 09:56:06 -0700 (PDT) From: prakash in <prakash_inp(a)yahoo.com> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Dear all, I would like to know which Pesticides are being used in the libraries. Kindly give me the details. Regards Prakash ===== Prakash I.N. Librarian Indian Business Academy Lakshmipura, Tataguni Post, Kanakapura Main Road, Bangalore � 560 062. Ph : 080- 28435931-34 Ext. : 252. Fax : 080- 28435935 E-Mail : prakash(a)ibainternational.org

1 0

OA archives in India
by Mailing List Manager 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:35:02 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is an excellent article on why scientists and scholars, their institutions and funding agencies should focus on setting up institutional archives (or repositories). Stevan Harnad is simply unbeatable in his clartity of thinking and lucidity in exposition! I am surprised at the tremendous indifference prevailing in India. Only a handful of institutions either have set up or are setting up interoperable institutional open access archives in India. Scientists appear to be the least scientific when it comes to communicating and publicising their reserach findings. Steve Lawrence of NEC Research, Princeton, and a muli-institutional team comprising researchers fromSouthampton, Loughborough, Edinburgh and Quebec Universities have shown that papers available in the public domain are cited several times more often than papers available only in toll-access journals. And even toll access journals now permit authors to archive their papers in their own institutional archives. A few days ago, Ms Karen Hunter, Senior Vice President for Strategy at Elsevier, wrote to Stevan Harnad about the welcome change in Elsevier's policy which now allows authors to archive their papers in their institutional archives. And yet our scientists, laboratory directors, vice chancellors and heads of funding agencies have not proactively demanded, set up or supported setting up of institutional archives! On the brighter side, both the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy and CSIR are aware of the importance and benefits of Open Access and have supported a few workshops. INSA has also signed the Berlin Declaration. There are a few individuals - such as T B Rajashekar, A R D Prasad and D K Sahu and of late Sunil Abraham - who are willing to share their expertise with individuals and institutions keen to set up institutional archives/repositories. I wish their tribe increases. And more importantly, I wish librarians and scientists all over India set up archives at their institutions. Let us gain greater visibility for the research we perform. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------- Here is is a synopsis, based on the current data and trends, concerning: CENTRAL DISCIPLINE-BASED SELF-ARCHIVING versus DISTRIBUTED INSTITUTION-BASED SELF-ARCHIVING: (1) The number of articles in the biggest of the central archives, which have been around for some time, is growing at an unchanging linear rate that is far too slow. <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0043.gif> (2) The number of articles in individual institutional archives -- *when they have institutional self-archiving policies* <http://software.eprints.org/handbook/departments.php> -- is growing faster than any central archive. <http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php> (3) There are few central archives, their number is growing very slowly, and it requires far more concerted action to create new ones. (4) There are many institutional archives, their numbers are growing fast, and it takes only a little local action to create new ones. <http://software.eprints.org/handbook/managing-background.php> (5) There is a centralized funding and upkeep problem with centralized archives, and often no persistent "entity" to ensure they keep going. (6) With institutional archives the costs are distributed across the universities, and each university is a persistent entity. (*7) There is no entity behind a centralized archive to mandate and monitor their filling, nor is there any shared interest between the author and the archive in the enhanced impact that motivates authors to self-archive. (*8) The author's institution is in a position to create institutional archives and to mandate and monitor their filling (with an institutional policy of OA provision), and there is a strong shared interest between the author and the archive in the enhanced impact that motivates authors to self-archive. <http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php> (9) Although 80% of journals have already given their green light to author self-archiving, but many of them are still reluctant to sanction archiving in 3rd-party archives (i.e., other than those of the author's institution or publisher) for fear of sanctioning cut-rate 3rd-party publisher-rivals. (The fear is ungrounded for many reasons, but it is there as a further retardant on central archiving.) <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Romeo/romeosum.html> (10) OAI-compliance has made all OAI archives -- central and institutional -- equivalent, interoperable, jointly harvestable and searchable. The most important points are *7 and *8: Swan & Brown (2004) "asked authors to say how they would feel if their employer or funding body required them to deposit copies of their published articles in repositories. The vast majority... said they would do so willingly." Swan, A. & Brown, S.N. (2004) JISC/OSI Journal Authors Survey Report. <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/JISCOAreport1.pdf> <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3628.html> Swan, A. & Brown, S.N. (2004) Authors and open access publishing. Learned Publishing 2004:17(3) 219-224. I am pretty sure that many of the misplaced expectations for central archives (rather like the misplaced expectations for OA Journals) are simply based on a misunderstanding of the nature of OA, the motivation for OA, and the fastest and surest means of providing OA. All means are welcome, but please, let us invest our efforts in proportion to their power and probability of success, based on the available evidence and reason, and not on the basis of preconceptions (which are almost always papyrocentric in unconscious ways, and often obsolete) or abstract speculations. Pertinent Prior Amsci Forum Topic-Threads: "Central vs. Distributed Archives" <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0293.html> "Central versus institutional self-archiving" <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3206.html> "Association for Computer Machinery Copyright/Self-Archiving Policy" <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1944.html> "Open Letter to Philip Campbell, Editor, Nature" <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2601.html> "Nature's vs. Science's Embargo Policy" <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0497.html> "Elsevier Science Policy on Public Web Archiving Needs Re-Thinking" <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2071.html> "Elsevier Gives Authors Green Light for Open Access Self-Archiving" <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3770.html> "Draft Policy for Self-Archiving University Research Output" <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2549.html> "University policy mandating self-archiving of research output" <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3438.html> Stevan Harnad

1 0

Announcing: _RSS(sm): Rich Site Services_
by Mailing List Manager 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 15:16:48 -0500 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> RSS(sm): Rich Site Services I am pleased to announce the establishment of my latest Web registry titled_RSS(sm): Rich Site Services_ _RSS(sm)_ is a categorized registry of library services that are delivered or provided through RSS/XML feeds and is available at: [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm ] RSS is an initialism for RDF Site Summary / Rich Site Summary / Really Simple Syndication [ http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA296443 ] RSS(sm) has been seeded with examples in the following groups: | ANNOUNCEMENTS | INTERNET RESOURCES GUIDES | NEW BOOKS | NEW JOURNAL ISSUES | NEWS | For each entry within a category, a link is provided to a RSS (and/or XML) link for the item, or an information page that provides a subsequent link (or more). I am greatly interested in learning about other examples of ANY and ALL RSS service(s) provided by any type of Library (academic, corporate, public, research, special, etc.) for potential inclusion in this new registry. I am particularly interested in the use of syndication services such as that provided by Amazon.com [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/xs/syndicate.html/ ] for Collection Development (or other library service), as well as any that relate to other types of library services (e.g., ADMINISTRATION | ACQUISTIONS | CATALOGING | CIRCULATION | COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT | INSTRUCTION | INTERLIBRARY LOAN | ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS CATALOGS | REFERENCE SERVICES | TABLE OF CONTENTS , ETC|) Regards, Gerry Gerry McKiernan Syndicated Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu The RSS(sm) registry was inspired byrecent postings to the Web4Lib e-list [ http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive.html ]

1 0

The Green and Gold Roads to Open Access to Refereed Research
by Mailing List Manager 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 12:01:47 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Friends: Here is a well argued case for interoperable institutional open access archives by Stevan Harnad. The full paper will be presented at the Free Science Panel at Wizards of OS 3: The Future of the Digital Commons, to be held at Berlin during 10-12 June. For deatils of the conference, please visit http://wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=36&L=3. Thanks and regards. Arun [forwarded mail ...] The Green and Gold Roads to Open Access to Refereed Research <http://wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=708&L=3> ABSTRACT: The problem of journal pricing/affordability and the problem of article access/impact are not the same problem, the solution to the one is not the solution to the other, and it is a great mistake to treat them as if they were the same. The solution to the journal pricing/affordability problem is lower journal prices and/or a conversion to "golden" journal publishing (Open Access [OA] Journals whose articles are free to all user online): <http://www.doaj.org/> The solution to the access/impact problem is for authors to provide Open Access to all their journal articles in order to maximize their usage and impact, either by publishing them in OA journals or by publishing them in conventional journals but also self-archiving them on their institutional OA websites (preferably OAI-compliant Eprint Archives for visibility and interoperability): <http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php> Over 80% of journals are already "green," i.e., they have given their official green light to author self-archiving: <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Romeo/romeosum.html> But only 5% of journals are gold (i.e., OA journals). It takes far more time, effort, resources and risk to create or convert gold journals, whereas it takes virtually no time, effort, resources or risk to create and fill OA Archives. Several studies have now confirmed the dramatic degree to which OA enhances research impact: <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/21.html> It is now time for institutions to adopt official policies requiring all their researchers to provide OA to all their research articles, via either the gold or green road: <http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php> What is holding this up is partly author/institution inertia but partly also an unfortunate tendency to conflate the article access/impact problem with the journal pricing/affordability problem, and hence to focus solely or mainly on the slow, narrow and uncertain golden road (5%) to OA, rather than the fast, wide, and certain green road (95%). Stevan Harnad

1 0

On axing costly journals
by Mailing List Manager 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 10:34:34 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> For librarians of large libraries with budget constraints, here is Michelle Wilde : mwilde(a)manta.colostate.edu </ym/Compose?To=mwilde(a)manta.colostate.edu&YY=63368&order=down&sort=date&pos =0&view=a&head=b> Halcyon R. Enssle : henssle(a)manta.colostate.edu </ym/Compose?To=henssle(a)manta.colostate.edu&YY=63368&order=down&sort=date&po s=0&view=a&head=b> TITLE So you have to cancel journals? Statistics that help AUTHOR Enssle HR, Wilde ML JOURNAL LIBRARY COLLECTIONS ACQUISITIONS & TECHNICAL SERVICES 26 (3): 259-281 FAL 2002 Document type: Article Abstract: Few libraries have been immune to the impact of inflation on journal prices, and many have been involved in extensive journal cancellation projects. To aid in the cancellation decision process, Colorado State University Libraries have been compiling internal statistics on journal usage and merging them with statistics from commercial sources. This paper describes the process and outlines how the collected data can be used both to identify journals for cancellation and to provide justification for these decisions to the campus community. As the inflation rate of journals has outstripped many library budgets, cancellation projects have become a routine part of library collection management for universities. These projects are extremely difficult since decisions have serious implications for the collection and library relations with the academic departments. Deciding which journals should be canceled becomes a serious and frustrating task. Statistical information about a library collection can be a valuable tool in both identifying journals for cancellation and justifying cancellation decisions. The Colorado State University Libraries (CSUL) have been collecting a variety of statistics about the periodicals collection for several years. This article will discuss how these statistics were used in a recent cancellation project. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. KeyWords Plus: RESEARCH-LIBRARIES, PHYSICS JOURNALS, CITATION-REPORTS, SERIALS, IMPACT, COST Addresses: Wilde ML, Colorado State Univ Lib, Morgan Lib, Room 157, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA Colorado State Univ Lib, Morgan Lib, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND

1 0

NCSI immediately requires 3 Information Professionals
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 06 Jun '04

06 Jun '04

Dear All NCSI, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, immediately requires 3 Information Professionals with following profile: Requirements: - First Class M.Lib.Sc. (or equivalent) degree - Good written and oral communication - Familiarity with searching electronic databases, e-journals, and Internet - Good knowledge of cataloguing and classification principles and practices - Use of MS Office and other productivity software - Familiarity with digitization and document formats like HTML and PDF - Familiarity with database packages like MS Access, and CDS/ISIS Job description: Content management of digital library and portal services of NCSI, including e-print archives (http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/), SciGate information portal (http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/) and E-Journals Information Service (http://e-jis.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/), Web and Internet based services, user orientation services and interaction with faculty and students, and assist in the IKM training programme (http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/training/). These are temporary appointments renewable on a year-to-year basis with a fixed monthly minimum salary of Rs. 6,500/- (and applicable annual increments). Higher fixed salary will be considered for exceptionally bright/ experienced candidates. NCSI offers excellent working and learning environment. You will have opportunity to work with state of art information systems, digital library technologies and services, and significantly enhance your professional knowledge, skills and experience. Selected candidates will be called for interview at NCSI. No financial support will be given for travel and stay for attending the interview. Interested candidates may apply immediately (not later than 15th June 2004) with their CV to the undersigned. LAST DATE FOR RECEIVING APPLICATIONS: 15TH JUNE 2004. Please bring this to the notice of potential candidates you know. 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

1 0

book request...
by Nirupama Bawdekar 04 Jun '04

04 Jun '04

Dear Colleagues, One of our user is in need of the following title not available with us. In case the same is available in any library, please let me know. Sensors and signal conditioning by Ramon, Pallas-Areny and John Webster John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2000 (2nd edn) Thanks, regards, Mrs Nirupama Bawdekar S/T Officer C,Library -- *************************************************************************** Mrs Nirupama Bawdekar Scientific/Technical Officer-Library Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics Post Bag No. 4, Ganeshkhind Pune 411 007 India --------------------------------------------------------------------------- email: nub(a)iucaa.ernet.in, telephone:+91-20-25604308, fax: +91-20-25604699 ****************************************************************************

1 0

Re: Publishers' details
by Prafulla Chandra 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Motor Transport All India Motor Transport Congress 1/16A Asaf Ali Road New Delhi 110 002 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum] Vacany notifications @Looks crazy BUT hard-reality
by Mailing List Manager 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 00:57:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Kishor Satpathy <kishor_satpathy(a)yahoo.com> Hello, I also share my concern with Mr. Rajesh & Mr. Basudev. Just Imagine a person coming from North East or J&K taking all the pain to attend a interview in far places like South India or west India where the the result is already pre decided. I would like to share an recent experience of my friend who is working librarian in a Engg. College in North East. He went to attend an interview for the post Librarian in a National Level Sc & Tech. (Govt. of India) Institute where no TA/DA was paid to him. It took him 3 days to reach the interview place. The funniest part of the interview is that all the question that were asked to him were related to Achieves & Archival Management even when my friend clarified that he don't deal with the things & don't have the a fare idea about the subject related Archival Management . Still all the questions that were asked to him were related to Archival Management when that particular Instirute is not dealing with Archival Management . Later, he came to know that that the person from same Institute got the post. Then he came know why those Questions were asked. Is there any solution to that? Regards, Kishor Satpathy Librarian, NIT Silchar

1 0

publishers deatils
by Mailing List Manager 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 17:35:38 +0530 From: Rajeev Sharma <bic.crpo(a)tcil.com> Respected Professionals It would be kind of you if any one can provide the details of the publishers of the Indian serials : 1. Motor Transport 2. Transport Market. Looking forward for your kind help. Regards Rajeev Sharma Officer - Information Services Business Information center Transport Corporation of India Ltd.

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum] Vacany notifications
by Mailing List Manager 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 12:24:43 +0530 From: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com Hi, I agree with all of you. What i had the my past experiences also the same. But the institution who gave the advertisement for the vacancy did not respond properly also. Because so many people who had applied for these are waiting and waiting....., and they invest their money for to take the print out of their Cvs,courier/postal charges some time DD's also. For so many students are having a difficulty to apply because of money problem. Is there any way can it be corrected? And i request the concerned person/Committee to take the action on these institutions. vijayalakshmi js

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] Vacany notifications
by Mailing List Manager 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 06:46:58 +0530 From: Vasumathi Sriganesh <vasu(a)qmedin.com> I agree with Mr. Rajesh Patil's inputs. It is important for anyone advertising to indicate a) Approximate salary or salary range b) Complete address etc of the institution c) A fairly good idea about the job profile and / or url of the Institution d) As clear an outline as possible about the candidate profile (eg - preferably a Science graduate etc) One more recommendation I have is that anyone posting any mail to this list, must include a complete "Signature file" - that tells people in the list that the person posting is a professional who is connected to the "Scope of discussions on this list" in some way. The mailing lists to which I subscribe - have this requirement - this is one step towards ensuring that quality discussions happen on the list Regards Vasumathi Sriganesh Director, QMed Services Pvt. Ltd. A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India Ph: 91-22-28229223 Fax: 91-22-28224358 Email: vasu(a)qmedin.com, Web: www.qmedin.com --------------- Date: 30 May 2004 06:58:41 -0000 From: Rajesh K Patil <rajeshbcd(a)rediffmail.com> Hi, It would be appreciated if Librarian's who advertise Vacancies on this forum provide some information about the activities of the Organization and/or the URL. [truncated]

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum] Vacany notifications @Looks crazy BUT hard-reality
by Mailing List Manager 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:58:28 +0530 From: Basudev Mohanty <basudev_mohanty(a)infosys.com> Hi, I fully agree with Mr. Rajesh. It will be great if the additional information (as Rajesh pointed out) can be provided. Looks crazy BUT hard-reality: Sometimes some organization having some employee already working their (contractual/permanent basis) and the Management also convinced to take them up for higher role but to avoid audit issues again they do advt. and people all over apply for the same and even do attend the interview while the result of the interview is predefined before the advt. is published. Is there any way can it be managed? Regards, Basudev Infosys, Bhubaneswar, Orissa Date: 30 May 2004 06:58:41 -0000 From: Rajesh K Patil <rajeshbcd(a)rediffmail.com> Hi, It would be appreciated if Librarian's who advertise Vacancies on this forum provide some information about the activities of the Organization and/or the URL. [truncated]

1 0

Re: [LIS-Forum] Vacany notifications
by Mailing List Manager 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:50:11 +0530 From: Mrs. Vaishnav <ytv(a)godrej.com> Thanks for this input, what u hv obsered is very true One has to be careful on this, YTV > Date: 30 May 2004 06:58:41 -0000 > From: Rajesh K Patil <rajeshbcd(a)rediffmail.com> > > > Hi, > > It would be appreciated if Librarian's who advertise Vacancies on this > forum provide some information about the activities of the Organization > and/or the URL. [trucated]

1 0

Fwd: Open Access Now Interview with lawrence Lessig
by Mailing List Manager 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 11:26:39 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> > > INTERVIEW > > Open Access and creative common sense > > Intellectual property and copyright laws exist to > protect creators and to encourage creative freedom. > But many feel that these laws have become too > restrictive for the Internet era and are now > stifling > creativity and innovation. Lawrence Lessig, an > expert > on the law of cyberspace, spoke to Open Access Now > about new projects to help remove the burden of > intellectual property law from authors and > scientists. > > > There are two ways to get hold of Professor Lessig's > latest book, Free Culture. Either you can purchase a > hardcover copy from your nearest bookstore for > US$24.95 or you can download it for no charge from > his > website. The publisher, Penguin Press, agreed to > release Free Culture under a new type of copyright > license being championed by Lessig and by Creative > Commons, a non-profit corporation that he founded. > Creative Commons promotes the use of copyright to > encourage the creative re-use of intellectual works, > rather than to prevent it. The organization provides > a > free set of copyright licenses that creators can > use, > which explicitly allow re-use while protecting > certain > rights. > > "Penguin adopted the licence because they believed > that if they did that they would sell more books," > explains Lessig, a professor at Stanford Law School > and founder of the school's Center for Internet and > Society. "Some publishers are beginning to see these > licenses as a strategy for increasing sales." When > asked whether it was hard to convince Penguin Press > to > adopt this unconventional tactic, Lessig chuckles. > "Actually, they raised the idea first. I wrote about > it in my book with respect to someone else's book. > And > during the editing process my editor said to me > 'should we do this with your publication?' I was > intending to suggest this later in the cycle. But > they > raised it first and I was excited to do it," recalls > Lessig. > > The Creative Commons licenses indicate that > copyrighted works are free for sharing, but only on > certain conditions. In the case of Lessig's book, > the > license specified that derivative works can be made > and distributed, as long as they are for > non-commercial purposes and the source is > attributed. > Within days of the launch of Free Culture derivative > works and copies had sprung up all over the > Internet. > "It has produced an extraordinary number of remixes > of > the book in different forms and formats. There is > even > an audio MP3 version," says Lessig, who is delighted > to see how other people's creativity is helping to > bring his work to a wider audience. "People have > made > a lot of changes that were enabled because of the > freedom attached to the license." > > "Whether in fact publishers need to control access > the > way that they control it today is a contestable > assertion," notes Lessig. "They don't really know > themselves." Lessig admires Penguin Press for having > the guts to experiment with the new license. "The > fact > that they needed to experiment with it signals that > there is a lot of learning to be done. So far the > experiment has been very successful. But we need a > lot > more data and a lot more time to get a better sense > of > how well it works. I can understand that traditional > publishers will view this as competition with their > model - and my view is that competition is something > that we should encourage, so let's have more of it!" > > Free Culture > Free Culture is Lessig's third book. His earlier > works, Code and The Future of Ideas, focused on the > influence of the Internet and related technologies. > Free Culture, which is subtitled How Big Media Uses > Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and > Control Creativity, addresses the wider issue of how > intellectual property law is being used to stifle > creativity and innovation. The law seeks a balance > between rewarding creativity and allowing the > building > on previous ideas from which new creativity springs. > Lessig feels that large powerful corporations are > using these laws to restrict creative freedom. > "Never > before have the big cultural monopolies used the > fear > created by new technologies, specifically the > Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even > as the same corporations use the same technologies > to > control more and more what we can and can't do with > culture." > > > In the book's introduction Lessig writes about how > the > Wright brothers' invention and the growth of the > aviation industry led to changes in American > property > laws. In 1945, Justice Douglas of the US Supreme > Court > ruled against the traditional doctrine that common > law > ownership of land extended to all the airspace above > that land, so those flying airplanes could not be > sued > for trespassing. "Common sense revolts at the idea," > wrote Douglas. Lessig is a big advocate of common > sense. He reminds us that "the law adjusts to the > technologies of the time. And as it adjusts, it > changes. Ideas that were as solid as rock in one age > crumble in another." > > "My view is that the law has, for unintended and > intended reasons, radically changed the burden on > creators and producers of knowledge who wish to > share > and make their work available to a larger public," > explains Lessig. "My objective is to work to find > ways > to reduce that burden. Creative Commons was started > with that as its objective. The basic intuition was > that the law, as it is right now, makes the default > in > the Internet 'No' (so one must seek permission > first), > whereas the technology screams 'Yes'. Initially > people > thought that would be the end of the law, but what > happens is that the law finds its revenge, finding > ways to reinforce the default as 'No'." > > Creative Commons licenses > Lessig founded Creative Commons in 2001 together > with > cyber-law and intellectual property experts and > computer scientists. "We were initially thinking > about > people who were creating text and music and film," > recalls Lessig. "They wanted to get content that > they > could build on or transform, as well as contribute > content to a common space so that others could use > it." The Creative Commons licensing tools allow > authors to define the nature of the agreement in > terms > of attribution, commercialization, derivative works, > and distribution. Creative Commons enables authors > and > creators to label their work "Some rights reserved" > or > even "No rights reserved." > > > The license is expressed in three ways: the 'Commons > Deed' is a simple, human-readable, plain-language > summary of the license that says what may be done > with > the content; the Legal Code ensures that the license > will stand up in court; and the Digital Code is a > machine-readable translation of the license that > helps > search engines and other applications identify the > terms of use. > > "I think that the third layer is the most > important," > says Lessig. "You can begin to imagine the Internet > developing an intelligence around content, so that > you > could search the Internet and say 'give me all the > pictures of the Empire State building that are > available for non-commercial use'. It increasingly > makes the user aware of the freedoms associated with > the content, as opposed to being afraid of the > potential liability." > > Science Commons > The first licenses were used for blog entries, > pictures, music files and film files. Over a million > Internet entries are now linked to Creative Commons > licenses. "Pretty early in the process it became > clear > that publishers who want to make sure that their > content is available in a certain free form could > take > advantage of the same tools," notes Lessig. Both > Public Library of Science and BioMed Central have > adopted Creative Commons licenses for their content > to > guarantee Open Access. "That led us into other areas > of scientific research where people had been > complaining about the burdens that intellectual > property were creating. And so we started thinking > about ways to remove those burdens," says Lessig. > > > This led to the Science Commons project. "Numerous > scientists have pointed out ... that, right at the > historical moment when we have the technologies to > permit worldwide availability and distributed > processing of scientific data ..., broadening > collaboration and accelerating the pace and depth of > discovery, we are busy locking up that data and > slapping legal restrictions on transfer," states the > project website. The Board feel that its experience > in > creating licensing solutions will be useful in > developing new strategies for sharing scientific > information. Commons hopes to address issues related > to patents and database sharing. "The general idea > is > that every time there is a burden that is created by > intellectual property that is unrelated to the > underlying purpose of the field of research, then we > should find a way to remove that burden," explains > Lessig. > > Creative Open Access > Lessig is enthusiastic about what Creative Commons > can > offer to Open Access. "Some people view the > objective > of the Open Access publishing movement as 'Let's > screw > the publishers'. I don't think that's a very > interesting or worthwhile objective. I think that > the > real objective of Open Access publishing is to > enable > scientists to distribute their work as widely as > possible around the world. This alternative model > has > a number of issues that it's trying to address and I > am eager to see it succeed." > > > Lessig cites the music industry in the United State > as > a classic example of how creativity was stifled by > copyright and lawsuits. "There was a huge amount of > innovation of content that was effectively quashed > by > a very powerful recording industry. And we are still > recovering from that." He feels that the best away > to > get around this is to compete and to demonstrate > that > the industry can produce high-quality material with > an > alternative business model. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "We all need to spend more time with technologists > who > can help us think through some of the technical > opportunities that might actually increase the value > of our work" > > Lawrence Lessig > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The scientific publishing industry is less > aggressive > than the recording industry, notes Lessig. "There is > less of a war in this context. But the alternative > modes of publishing, supported by scientists or > universities, have a lot to compete against. In some > ways it will be harder to crack it. And it's not > certain what the business model is to crack it," > comments Lessig. "There are obviously huge expenses > associated with entry and new technology, and how > you > support that expense is going to be difficult. But > that's an appropriate challenge for the competitive > market." > > Lessig has drawn much inspiration from Richard > Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. "I think > that the big lesson from Open Source Software is > that > you can support a platform of software development > that provides great positive externalities to the > world because it carries source code that people > know > how to change. But on the other hand you can still > make money from it by bundling it or tying it into > some other suite of services," says Lessig. "There > is > an equivalent struggle that is going to be necessary > in the context of Open Access publishing." > > Open Access publishing needs to be more creative, > suggests Lessig; "In some sense, that first stage of > Open Access publishing has taken some obvious steps. > Public Library of Science, for example, is trying to > be extremely conservative in its approach by > basically > replicating high-quality printed journals > supplemented > with an online version that is free. But I think > that > we all need to spend more time with technologists > who > can help us think through some of the technical > opportunities that might reduce the costs of > producing > work and might actually increase its value," Lessig > proposes. This might include mechanisms for > gathering > feedback that work effectively to add another layer > of > peer review from the consumers of the content, says > Lessig. > > Historically, new technologies have often been > conservative, notes Lessig. "Look at the very > beginning of the film era. Films were initially just > staged plays with cameras put in front of the stage. > It took a long time before filmmakers began to think > about the special genre of filmmaking rather than > just > remaking plays. The same thing needs to happen with > online publishing." > > "Another reason why [the uptake of Open Access] is > slow is that Open Access publishers have to convince > a > traditional market that this new form of publication > is as valuable, and has an equivalent set of > credentialing signals. So, it's going to take some > time to begin to develop a culture that supports > online Open Access publishing, from the norms as > well > as the financial perspective. We need stamps of > approval, and how we are going to create them is > going > to be a challenge. Yet it's clear to me that there > is > more than one way to create them." > > Lessig isn't against copyright. "Everyone needs > copyright. Open Access publishing isn't publishing > without copyright. It's publishing with copyright > exercised in a way that makes material open and > available for others to build upon. It still uses > copyright, but for a reason different than the > reason > used by proprietary publishers who exclude people > from > getting access to the content." > > Of course, there will always be people who resist > changes to the system, agrees Lessig. "But > technology > has changed radically, and in the face of a radical > new technology we should rethink the business model. > I > can understand how every business wants to avoid > that, > but nobody has the right to prevent progress." > > www.lessig.org > www.creativecommons.org > >

1 0

WORKSHOP ON DEVELOPING DIGITAL LIBRARY USING DSPACE- 28 JUNE TO 2 JULY 2004
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 19:23:26 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> DEAR PROFESSIONAL FRIENDS, THE DEPT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, OSMANIA UNIVERSITY IS ORGANISING A WORKSHOP ON DEVELOPING DIGITAL LIBRARY DURING JUNE 28 TO JULY 2, 2004. THE PROFESSIONALS INTENDING TO JOIN THE WORKSHOP MAY SEND THE APPLICATIONS ON OR BEFORE 22 JUNE 2004 ALONG WITH THE REGISTRATION FEE. THE COMPLETE DETAILS OF THE WORKSHOP ARE AS FOLLOWS (THE ATTACHMENT IS BROCHURE, WHICH MAY BE DOWNLOADED FOR USE. N.LAXMAN RAO WORKSHOP on DEVELOPING A DIGITAL LIBRARY USING DSPACE June 28 July 2, 2004 Organized by Dept. of Library & Information Science Osmania University, HYDERBAD 500 007 In collaboration with INFLIBNET Centre (UGC) Ahmedabad- 380 009 About the Workshop: The present day libraries are extensively using the Information Technology for information management. As part of storage and access of digital information, the libraries are developing their own digital librararies. There are a number of free software available for developing digital libraries and Dspace (http://www.dspace.org) is one of the most popular software developed jointly by MIT Libraries and HP labs. DSpace is a digital asset management system. It helps create, index and retrieve various forms of digital content. Dspace is adaptable to different community needs. Interoperability between systems is built-in and it adheres to international standards for metadata. This workshop is planned to meet the growing interest in Developing a Digital Libraries especially using DSpace by various LIS professionals. LDL: Librarians Digital Library is the outcome of successful launching of a Digital Library using the Dspace by DRTC (https://drtc.isibang.ac.in). The workshop is aimed at encouraging the LIS Professionals to build their own institutional digital libraries and repositories. DSpace: Dspace is an open source software and is freely downloadable from http://www.dspace.org o Submission facility allows scientists and researchers to upload digital documents from anywhere in the world o Workflow feature allows moderation of the submitted documents o Uses persistent handles o Conforms to the standards like Dublin Core and OAI-PMH v.2.0 o Security can be built at various levels to effect restricted access o Indian Language based digital libraries can be built as it conforms to the UNICODE standard Looking at the support, development and the features of the software, the Dspace is chosen for providing hands-on-experience to the participants in developing their personal or Institutional digital library. Objectives: 1. To provide background knowledge of the digital library and its related concepts 2. To offer hands on experience in using Dspace Software 3. To encourage the participants in developing their own Institutional Digital Libraries. The topics to be covered in the Workshop: 1) Overview of DSpace 2) Installation of DSpace 3) DSpace Users: Anonymous, Members & Authors 4) Lucene Search Engine 5) DSpace Administration 6) Dublin Core 7) OAI-PMH 8) Persistent Handles 9) DSpace Customization 10) Unicode and Indian Languages There will be twenty sessions in workshop which include lectures, demonstration and practice on the topics mentioned above. The Lab facilities are made available for practice to the participants during extended hours. The Resource persons are drawn from: DRTC, INFLIBNET and Osmania University. Target Participants: Library and information Science professionals with working knowledge of Information Technology. The Workshop is confined to limited number of participants. Registration: Rs.5,000/- per participant The DD / Cash payable in favour of The Head, Dept. of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, payable at Hyderabad. The Registration Fee includes: Workshop Kit (Workshop Volume, Dspace Software) Working Lunch / Tea Accommodation: The Guest House / Hotel Accommodation will be arranged on payment. About the Dept. of Library & Information Science: The Department was established in 1959. At present the Department is offering BLISc, MLISc, M.Phil and Ph.D. Programmes. It is well equipped with a Computer Lab and Seminary Library. The Department had earlier organized several National and International Conferences / Seminars / workshops covering various facets of Library and Information Science. Earlier it had organized Workshop on Digitization of Print Materials successfully. During March 2004, the Department had organized a two-day National Seminar on Library Consortia. INFLIBNET Centre: INFLIBNET Centre is an autonomous Inter-university Centre of the University Grants Commission. It is involved in creating infrastructure for sharing information among academic and research community of the country. Its major activities include training of LIS professionals, creation of national databases, software development etc. Presently it is involved in two major projects viz. UGC Infonet ( interconnecting about 180 universities in a wide area network) and e-journal subscription to universities in consortium mode Coordinator: Dr. N. Laxman Rao Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science Osmania University, Hyderabad 500 007. Telephone: 040-27682290 (off) 040-27171565 (resi) 040-56547599 (Mob) E-mail: naglaxman(a)yahoo.com naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com Director: Dr. ARD Prasad, Associate Professor, DRTC BANGALORE. Phone: 080-28516528 (res) 080-28483002 ext 496 (off) Email: ardprasad(a)hotmail.com Registration Form 1) Name 2) Designation: 3) Address: 4) Telephone Number: Office: _____________ Res: ___________ Mobile: ____________ E-mail: 5) Are you using IT in your Library: (Yes/ No) 6) Participants knowledge about the Digital Library: (Good / Satisfactory). 7) Does your Organization has Internet Connectivity: (Yes / No) 8) Do you have any plans to develop a Digital Library: (Yes / No) 9) Do you require accommodation during the Workshop? (Yes / No) 10) Payment Details Demand Draft / Cash DD No: Bank: Branch: Amount: Date: ===== 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

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum] Digital Atlas
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 10:31:14 +0530 From: Samdarshi Pali <Samdarshi.Pali(a)relianceinfo.com> Dear Mukesh There two excellent commercial software available at http://www.motherplanet.net/ for digital atlas and maps. They have high resolution satellite imagery (1km resolution) and shaded relief topographic imagery with kinds of map layers such as political boundaries, coastlines, rivers, lake and island boundaries, 267 countries and regions, 40000+ ranked cities, 15000+ islands, and 1700+ noteworthy historical earthquakes since 1980 into a fantastic 3D earth globe. 30 day trial versions are available for both the software as large downloads - 97MB & 187MB size respectively. You will need highspeed/broadband connection to download them. Regards Samdarshi Pali

1 0

Vacany notifications
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

Date: 30 May 2004 06:58:41 -0000 From: Rajesh K Patil <rajeshbcd(a)rediffmail.com> � Hi, It would be appreciated if Librarian's who advertise Vacancies on this forum provide some information about the activities of the Organization and/or the URL. Some rough idea about the Compensation package being offered also needs to be provided. By doing so they would be proving that their Organization will not be exploiting fellow library professionals. Further, Candidates will be spared the agony of applying, attending interviews and discovering that the wage offered is a pittance. Not to mention the anxiety associated with the whole process. We are aware that many Private Institutions these days are looking for the 'BEST CANDIDATE' who is willing to accept the 'LOWEST SALARY'. They should also ensure that the e-mail address provided for receiving CVs must be valid. The Yahoo address (padmavathit2 at yahoo.com) provided by our colleague in IACT has permanent errors. Let us help each other in maintaining the dignity of the Profession by dissuading exploiter's making hay through our Forum. Regards. Rajesh K Patil

1 0

response to an article in BMJ
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 18:38:54 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is a short response to an article in BMJ. About HINARI and OA. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/328/7449/1190#60617 Best wishes. Arun

1 0

RE: [LIS-Forum] Digital Atlas
by Mailing List Manager 29 May '04

29 May '04

Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 13:46:53 +0530 From: Jeetender Chandna <vicky(a)irft.org> Dear Mukesh You can check-out Microsoft's Encarta which includes an indepth atlas. Although this atlas is generic and may not fulfil advanced functions of Interactivity, it still is quite powerful in its mappings of the world. Regards Jeetender "Vicky" Chandna Coordinator Information Systems ------------------------------------------ INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES FOR FAIRER TRADE Sona Udyog Industrial Estate Unit No.7, Parsi Panchayat Road Andheri (E), Mumbai 400069 INDIA ------------------------------------------ Tel: (91-22) 2835 2811 / 2823 5246 Fax: (91-22) 2823 5245 Email: vicky(a)irft.org Website: http://www.irft.org ------------------------------------------

1 0

Opening at iACT-Bangalore
by Mailing List Manager 28 May '04

28 May '04

padmavathi t padmavathit2yahoo.com Thu May 27 11:09:18 IST 2004 Dear All, There is an immediate requirement for the position of Librarian at International Academy for Creative Teaching, Bangalore. Qualification/ Job Requirements: Degree with MLISC in library & information science,3-5 years work experience. Preference will be given for candidates with good exposure to IT. The job will involve: 1. Library operations 2. Web administration 3. Resourcing information for the faculty 4. Knowledge of publishing 5. Good knowlege of MS-Office, net surfing skills. Interested candidates can send in your updated CV to me (padmavathit at jaingroup.info or get in touch at the following tel nos. immediately. 23545246/48 Regards Padmavathi iACT

1 0

availability of a title
by Mailing List Manager 28 May '04

28 May '04

I need to know the availability in any library in Mumbai, of the title 'Life : science of Biology"- 6th ed.- c2001 Do guide, Thanks, Mrs. Vaishnav (Consulting Librarian, Godrej, Vikhroli,Mumbai)

1 0