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Advertisement. of the post -- Dy. Librarian at IIM, Lucknow- please see the attachment (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 28 May '04

28 May '04

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 19:08:12 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> hello friends please see the details below regarding the advertisement of the post--Deputy Librarian at IIM, Lucknow laxman rao Indian Institute of Management Lucknow invites applications for the post of Dy. Librarian in the pay scale of Rs. 10000-325-15200/-. Essential Qualifications: The applicant should be possessing :(a) First or second class M.A / M.Sc / M.Com plus a first or second class B. Lib. Sc. or diploma in Library Science. The degree of M. Lib. Sc. being a preferential qualification.(b) At least 7 years experience as librarian or of working in a responsible professional capacity in a library(c) Preference will be given to the applicants who have been associated with the development of libraries in technical subjects and also who have sound and practical knowledge/experience of computer application in the management of a modern library in a highly automated, integrated, and networked environment.Note:1. The reservation criteria and the percentage thereof for SC/ST, OBC and Physically Handicapped/Ex-servicemen will be as per current Central Govt. Orders. Applicants are required to attach the necessary certificates in this regard as prescribed by the Govt. of India.2. Post carries Dearness Allowance and other allowances as applicable to Central Government employees.3. Persons working in Government/Semi-Government/Public Sector Undertakings etc, should send their applications either through PROPER CHANNEL or should furnish a NO OBJECTION CERTIFICATE at the time of interview.4. Candidates called for interview will be paid 2-tier AC to and fro railway fare by the shortest route.How to apply:Please send the detailed resume containing name, father's name, date of birth, qualification, experience etc alongwith attested photocopies of certificates of educational qualifications and a recent passport size photograph pasted on the application. Applications should be sent within a week from the date of this advertisement to:Lucknow DIRECTOR26.05.2004 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT PRABANDH NAGAR, OFF SITAPUR ROADLUCKNOW - 226 013

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DRTC colloquium on Content Management
by Mailing List Manager 28 May '04

28 May '04

Date: 26 May 2004 18:44:49 -0000 From: ravi inder <elibrarian(a)rediffmail.com> � INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Banglore-560059 DRTC Colloquium On CONTENT MANAGEMENT ABSTRACT The present world is denoted as the world of Digital resources and communication. A revolution has been made in information environment due to digital technology. Digital content forms the base of digital environment and it is the essential part of web, internet, multimedia and specially digital library technology. Various standards, tools and methods have been developed for better resource management, information retrieval, storage and transmission in the Digital world. This colloquium is an attempt to focus on various issues, formats, standards and organization of digital content. SPEAKERS TOPICS 1. P.Ravinder : Overview of Content Management. 2. Rajesh Mishra : Content Formats and Digital Archiving 3. Sarandha singh : Content Organization 4. Rashid Hussain : Content Issues and Challenges 5. Amith Jha : Standards for Content Management All are cordially invited Dr.Devika P. Madalli Colloquium Coordinator

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NewGenLib: Presentation and demo today (28th May)
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 28 May '04

28 May '04

Dear All Reminder about today's programme at NCSI. Regards T.B. Rajashekar NCSI, IISc -----Original Message----- From: ncsi-net-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:ncsi-net-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 11:47 AM To: Ncsistaff; Trainees03; Ncsi-Net@Ncsi. Iisc. Ernet. In Subject: [Ncsi-net] FW: [LIS-Forum] Invitation FYI -----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, May 24, 2004 11:59 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Invitation Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 12:11:14 +0530 From: Srels <srels(a)blr.vsnl.net.in> Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore and National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in association with Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management, Secunderabad cordially invite you to the demonstration of NewGenLib, A WEB-BASED LIBRARY AUTOMATION & NETWORKING SOFTWARE developed as an initiative of the Kesavan Institute by Mr. L.J. Haravu Trustee, Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management at 6.00 p.m. on Friday 28th May 2004 at NCSI Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore RSVP: 080 - 23305109 (Prasad) 23092511 (Rajashekar) _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum _______________________________________________ Ncsi-net mailing list Ncsi-net(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/ncsi-net

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FW: Current Cites, May 2004
by Mailing List Manager 26 May '04

26 May '04

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 14:37:48 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is monthly webzine I receive regularly and find very useful in my work. In this issue there are articles on populating archives, cutting edge metadata practices, Internet in the developing countries, etc. Many of you might wish to subscribe. It is, of course, free. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] -----Original Message----- From: CITES Moderator [mailto:citeschk@library.berkeley.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:26 AM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Current Cites, May 2004 Current Cites Volume 15, no. 5, May 2004 Edited by [2]Roy Tennant ISSN: 1060-2356 - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2004/cc04.15.5.html Contributors: [3]Charles W. Bailey, Jr., [4]Terry Huwe, [5]Shirl Kennedy, [6]Leo Robert Klein, [7]Roy Tennant [8]Metadata Practices on the Cutting Edge Washington, DC: National Information Standards Organization, 10 May 2004. (http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/MD-2004_agenda.html). - The PowerPoint presentations from this one-day workshop on emerging metadata practices are available at this web site. Topics include metadata quality, interoperability, linking metadata, metadata for image collections, RSS, MODS, METS, and MPEG-21. Contributors include representatives from OCLC, CrossRef, the Library of Congress, universities and the private sector. Given the wide range of presentations, if you're interested in metadata you can likely find something of interest here, but no single topic is explored in much depth, and you are sometimes left wondering what the speaker said about a particular slide if there are no accompanying notes. - [9]RT Christiansen, Lars, Mindy Stombler, and Lyn Thaxton. "[10]A Report on Librarian-Faculty Relations from a Sociological Perspective " [11]Journal of Academic Librarianship 30(2) (March 2004): 116-121. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W50-4BP9R8V-1/2/c8c e5b45547451e8e5cbea5cb70e5927). - Results from a literature review and survey focusing on librarian-faculty relations. The study reveals a tale of unrequited love, so to speak, with much interest in faculty by librarians but "little or no concern" coming from the other direction. - [12]LRK Fallows, James. "[13]The Twilight of the Information Middlemen" [14]The New York Times (16 May 2004) (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/16/business/yourmoney/16tech.html). - "Information is both invaluable and impossible to value," declares James Fallows, in this engaging essay about how "the Internet's most fascinating impact has been on those who have decided not to charge for their work." Many publishers realize the value of giving away content for free -- there is the possibility of attracting additional paying subscribers and also, those who freeload can be included in circulation figures, making the publication that much more attractive to advertisers. Fallows indentifies "two information sources that make us collectively richer and exist only because of fairly recent changes in the Internet" -- blogs and taxpayer-funded data. Blogs, he fully realizes, run the gamut from "a nightmare vision of a publishing house's 'slush pile' come to life" to "an intensified version of insider journalism." And "taxpayer money," he points out, "is still behind a surprising amount of crucial data: nearly all weather observations and the supercomputer-based models that create forecasts; most basic scientific research; most research into disease causes and cures." As a specific example, he mentions Dr. Harold Varmus, who as head of the [15]National Institutes of Health, spearheaded the creation of [16]PubMed Central "as a publicly accessible repository of medical research articles." And he notes such conflicts of interest that result, for example, in commercial weather data providers lobbying Congress to restrict what the [17]National Weather Service puts out for free on its Internet sites. - [18]SK Hane, Paula. "[19]Science.gov 2.0 Launches with New Relevance Ranking Technology" [20]Information Today NewsBreaks (24 May 2004) (http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb040524-1.shtml). - [21]Science.gov, originally launched in December 2002, [22]calls itself "a gateway to information resources at the U.S. government science agencies." It offers links to authoritative science websites and databases of technical reports, conference proceedings, etc. A new iteration, Science.gov 2.0, was launched this month and, according to Paula Hane, it offers "additional content, technological enhancements, and a newly-developed relevancy ranking technology that helps patrons get to the best documents quickly." You can now access 30 science-oriented databases, up from 10 via the original Science.gov, and 1,700 websites, for a total of 47 million web pages. When you search, your results are "presented in relevancy ranked order," thanks to QuickRank technology developed by [23]Deep Web Technologies. Hane goes on to describe how this works, and pinpoints a particular weakness: "QuickRank filtering is based on placement of key words: if a keyword is not in a prime location in the document, it's likely the result won't be ranked." Gary Price, editor of the [24]ResourceShelf points out [25]another weakness, that "...direct links to citations found via this metasearch tool are not available. This could cause problems in trying to get back to a citation or including it in a bibliography." Science.gov 3.0, due out in another year, will include more sophisticated relevancy ranking, better Boolean capabilities, field searching options and an alert service. - [26]SK Mackie, Morag. "[27]Filling Institutional Repositories: Practical Strategies from the DAEDALUS Project" [28]Ariadne (39) (2004) (http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue39/mackie/). - Filling an institutional repository with scholarly articles can be a tough job. This article discusses a variety of innovative strategies used by the DAEDALUS Project at the University of Glasgow to encourage faculty to contribute articles and to support the effort to do so. Initially, the project built support by giving presentations, offering a conference on open access, and including key faculty members on an advisory board. When this did not result in the desired contribution levels, project staff focused on contacting faculty who had personal publication Web sites or who had published articles in either open access journals or journals that clearly permitted archiving. Inevitably, it was unclear whether a subset of articles that faculty wanted to contribute could be legally stored, and project staff needed to contact publishers for clarification in these cases. Unfortunately, the project has been given "significant amounts of content that cannot be added because of restrictive publisher copyright agreements." - [29]CB Miller, Dick R.. "[30]XOBIS -- An Experimental Schema for Unifying Bibliographic and Authority Records" [31]Cataloging & Classification Quarterly (forthcoming) (http://elane.stanford.edu/laneauth/XOBIS_CCQ/XOBIS_CCQ.html). - This preprint of an article destined for Cataloging & Classification Quarterly discusses an experimental XML schema for encoding bibliographic and authority data elements called the XML Organic Bibliographic Information Schema (XOBIS). More information is avaiable on the [32]XOBIS web site. This paper is based on an August 2003 presentation to the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) Working Group in Berlin. Whether XOBIS itself ever goes anywhere or not, the concepts laid out by this proposal can inform and inspire us to consider the possibilities of a post-MARC world. - [33]RT Press, Larry. "[34]The Internet in Developing Nations: Grand Challenges" [35]First Monday 9(4) (5 April 2004) (http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_4/press/index.html). - While the title of this article may seem more grandiose than grand, Press makes a compelling case for wiring the rural regions of the world. He argues that a model for effective deployment already exists, simply by following the strategies of NSFNet as it enabled American universities to connect to the Internet. Of course, it's not that simple; people everywhere would need to "buy in", and cultural perceptions and cross cultural communication remain hurdles at a fundamental level. Most importantly, Press argues, the maintenance of newly networked ports in remote regions must necessarily lie in the hands of the village leaders, not a distant oversight agency. This is a timely article insofar as it illustrates how satellite technologies, wireless networks, and portable energy systems (such as solar technology) can combine to help remote regions and tribal societies "leapfrog" to the network era. What remains is the challenge of securing a long-term commitment to investing funds globally in support of rural networking. - [36]TH _________________________________________________________________ Current Cites - ISSN: 1060-2356 Copyright (c) 2004 by the Regents of the University of California All rights reserved. Copying is permitted for noncommercial use by computerized bulletin board/conference systems, individual scholars, and libraries. Libraries are authorized to add the journal to their collections at no cost. This message must appear on copied material. All commercial use requires permission from the editor. All product names are trademarks or registered trade marks of their respective holders. Mention of a product in this publication does not necessarily imply endorsement of the product. To subscribe to the Current Cites distribution list, send the message "sub cites [your name]" to [37]listserv(a)library.berkeley.edu, replacing "[your name]" with your name. To unsubscribe, send the message "unsub cites" to the same address. Document maintained at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2004/cc04.15.5.html by [38]Roy Tennant. Last update May 25, 2004. SunSITE Manager: [39]manager(a)sunsite.berkeley.edu References Visible links 1. LYNXIMGMAP:http://sunsite/CurrentCites/2004/cc04.15.5.html#head 2. http://escholarship.cdlib.org/rtennant/ 3. http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm 4. http://iir.berkeley.edu/faculty/huwe/ 5. http://www.hooboy.com/ 6. http://leoklein.com/ 7. http://escholarship.cdlib.org/rtennant/ 8. http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/MD-2004_agenda.html 9. http://escholarship.cdlib.org/rtennant/ 10. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W50-4BP9R8V-1/2/c8ce5b4554745 1e8e5cbea5cb70e5927 11. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00991333 12. http://leoklein.com/ 13. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/16/business/yourmoney/16tech.html 14. http://www.nytimes.com/ 15. http://www.nih.gov/ 16. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ 17. http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ 18. http://www.hooboy.com/ 19. http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb040524-1.shtml 20. http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/default.shtml 21. http://www.science.gov/ 22. http://www.science.gov/about.html 23. http://www.deepwebtech.com/ 24. http://www.resourceshelf.com/ 25. http://www.resourceshelf.com/archives/2004_05_01_resourceshelf_archive.html# 108540949215958829 26. http://www.hooboy.com/ 27. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue39/mackie/ 28. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/ 29. http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm 30. http://elane.stanford.edu/laneauth/XOBIS_CCQ/XOBIS_CCQ.html 31. http://sunsite/CurrentCites/2004/cc04.15.5.html 32. http://xobis.stanford.edu/ 33. http://escholarship.cdlib.org/rtennant/ 34. http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_4/press/index.html 35. http://www.firstmonday.org/ 36. http://iir.berkeley.edu/faculty/huwe/ 37. mailto:listserv@library.berkeley.edu 38. http://escholarship.cdlib.org/rtennant/ 39. mailto:manager@sunsite.berkeley.edu Hidden links: 40. http://sunsite/CurrentCites/2004/cc04.15.5.html

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FW: [BOAI] Australian Group of Eight Statement on Open Access
by Mailing List Manager 26 May '04

26 May '04

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 09:28:07 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Here is a statement from a group of eight Vice Chancellors of Australian universities supporting open access. Many American universities, including MIT, encourage open access. Physicists world wide place their preprints and postprints in arXiv, the centralised archive for physics, astronomy, mathematical biology and related fields. We must quickly mobilise Indian universities to adopt open access. Prof. Nigavekar might wish to convene a meeting of vice chancellors especially to discuss issues of access to information generated world wide, dissemination of information generated in Indian universities and the advantages of open access. In my view, open access benefits developing countries far more than developed countries. Regards. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] [Forwarding from Colin Steele. Though dated "April 2004", this document was released today, May 25, 2004. --Peter.] Statement on open access to scholarly information The Group of Eight vice-chancellors, representing Australia's pre-eminent research universities, record their commitment to open access initiatives that will enhance global access to scholarly information for the public good. The vice-chancellors note that: * information, if it is to achieve maximum benefit for society, must be readily available to a global audience * the rapid development of digital communication technologies provides expanded opportunities for the widespread dissemination of scholarly information * new business models are required to ensure that scholarly publishing is cost effective * any development in digital publishing must incorporate the current framework of scholarly publishing standards relating to the quality of inquiry and reporting * digital publishing initiatives must appropriately recognise and protect the intellectual property of the authors and require accepted standards of attribution * the Group of Eight universities are providing leadership in the development of digital publishing initiatives in Australia. The vice-chancellors support: * ongoing development of open access initiatives in Group of Eight universities * digital publishing practices that underpin the timely, cost-effective dissemination of the highest quality scholarly information with a commitment to good practice * further examination of criteria for promotion in new publishing models. Professor Ian W. Chubb AO Chair, The Group of Eight Vice-Chancellor The Australian National University Professor James McWha Vice-Chancellor The University of Adelaide Professor Kwong Lee Dow AM Vice-Chancellor The University of Melbourne Professor Richard Larkins AO Vice-Chancellor Monash University Professor Mark Wainwright Vice-Chancellor The University of New South Wales Professor John A. Hay AC Vice-Chancellor The University of Queensland Professor Gavin Brown Vice-Chancellor The University of Sydney Professor Alan Robson AM Vice-Chancellor The University of Western Australia April 2004

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Digital Atlas
by Mailing List Manager 25 May '04

25 May '04

Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 15:29:03 +0530 From: Monitor Information Services <emonitor(a)sancharnet.in> Dear Professionals I am looking for an Atlas in the Digital form which should enable us to identify locations in any part of the world.This is required for us to identify location for planning of satellite data acquisitions. Please let us know the details of such products and oblige. Thanks Mukesh Anand emonitor(a)sancharnet.in

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RE: [LIS-Forum] care of books
by Mailing List Manager 25 May '04

25 May '04

Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 09:56:29 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> I would like to offer some tips: 1. Spreading red colored paper (gift wrapper - porous and absorbant variety) on the shelf partitions will help. 2. Naphthalein balls, not very cheap though, would also help. 3. If wooden cup boards are used they may be painted red - the color you find in old printed books in paintings - vegetable based printing ink. 4. 'Gemmexine' dusting would also help. 5. If the atmosphere is highly humid (say, near sea side), Dishes containing Calcium Chloride (any desicant will do - even plain crytal salt) may be kept inside closed book cabinets. Such salt containers must be changed frequently with fresh salt. 6. Frequent de-dusting would help. 7. If the books (manuscripts) are rare, you need to seek professional help say from: National Research Laboratory for Conservation (NRLC) - Lucknow. Vyasamoorthy, P [original truncated message] I am looking for a simple, low cost, eco-friendly method for preservation of personal collection books at home.

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MyLISA Anniversary-May 26, 2004-invitation
by Mailing List Manager 24 May '04

24 May '04

MyLISA Annual Celebrations -------------------------- Chief Guest PROF. D. JAVARE GOWDA Former Vice Chancellor University of Mysore DR. H. S. SIDDAMALLAIAH President, Karnataka Library Association (KALA) Principal Library and Information Officer National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) Will preside YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED Venue: Seminar Hall Department of Library & Information Science Manasagangotri University of Mysore Date: May 26, 2004 Time: 5:00 PM Prof. Shalini R. Urs President Sri. S. Nagaraja Secretary

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second planner organised at Imphal on November 4-5, 2004. Please contribute articles... and participate in the convention (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 24 May '04

24 May '04

Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 14:25:51 +0530 From: K Prakash <prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in> Dear Professionals, The Second PLANNER will be organized for the library professionals in = the North Eastern region at Manipur University, Imphal, during November = 4-5, 2004. PLANNER stands for "Promotion of Library Automation and = Networking in North Eastern Region".=20 Brochure can be viewed by clicking on pdf files.=20 For more information and updates please visit http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/info/planner/index.htm 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

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care of books
by Prafulla Chandra 24 May '04

24 May '04

Dear All, I am looking for a simple, low cost, eco-friendly method for preservation of personal collection books at home. Mainly, I need to protect them from insects such as termites, cockroaches, silverfish, etc. I shall appreciate any suggestions in this regard. I understand that dry leaves of neem could be spread on the shelves and the books placed on them. I would like to know the effectiveness or otherwise of this method from those who have used this method or have knowledge about it. Many thanks for your help 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Regarding bad odour
by Mailing List Manager 24 May '04

24 May '04

Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 12:35:00 +0530 From: manish mankad <Manish.Mankad(a)unilever.com> I presume that your library has a central AC. Commonly the maodour from the AC is due to unclean ducts. The causes can be fungus, dead rodents, birds, rotting insulating materials like foam.. If the AC's outlet ducts are not functioning to its optimum, even then it can lead to malodor as the level of fresh air will be much less due to poor circulation. -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, May 24, 2004 11:58 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Regarding bad odour Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 15:01:13 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Hanamanthraya Biradar" <biradar_76(a)yahoo.co.in> hello, In our library one type of bad smell is comming while entering to the library that because of contineous AC on or any thing else i do not know exactly but it is comming contineously one type of fungal & bacteria smell please suggest me to eradicte that one what steps has to be taken as early as possible Hanamanthray Biradar Librarian _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Regarding bad odour
by Mailing List Manager 24 May '04

24 May '04

Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 15:01:13 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Hanamanthraya Biradar" <biradar_76(a)yahoo.co.in> hello, In our library one type of bad smell is comming while entering to the library that because of contineous AC on or any thing else i do not know exactly but it is comming contineously one type of fungal & bacteria smell please suggest me to eradicte that one what steps has to be taken as early as possible Hanamanthray Biradar Librarian

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Invitation
by Mailing List Manager 24 May '04

24 May '04

Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 12:11:14 +0530 From: Srels <srels(a)blr.vsnl.net.in> Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore and National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in association with Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management, Secunderabad cordially invite you to the demonstration of NewGenLib, A WEB-BASED LIBRARY AUTOMATION & NETWORKING SOFTWARE developed as an initiative of the Kesavan Institute by Mr. L.J. Haravu Trustee, Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management at 6.00 p.m. on Friday 28th May 2004 at NCSI Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore RSVP: 080 - 23305109 (Prasad) 23092511 (Rajashekar)

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ICIM 2005
by Mailing List Manager 24 May '04

24 May '04

Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 15:55:57 +0530 From: Ramesh C. Gaur <rcgaur(a)tifr.res.in> The IASLIC will be the host of this International Conference on Information Management in a Knowledge Society ( ICIM 2005) which is being organized to commemorate its GOLDEN JUBILEE celebrations at Grand Hyatt, Mumbai, India during Feb. 2125, 2005. More details available at conference Website http://www.icim2005.org/ Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC) was established in 1955 as a non-profit national organization to promote quality in the profession through improvement in technical efficiency and act as a nodal point for information in scientific and other related fields. A democratically structured organization IASLIC has been in the forefront for training of librarians, documentation work, promotion of cooperation amongst the libraries and information centres. It is therefore natural for IASLIC to organize this event when the profession is in transition from managing data and information to knowledge. Objectives The objective of the conference is to juxtapose knowledge construction and development through various information management processes and then associated technologies. The conference will provide a platform for bringing to the fore local and global initiatives in this area encompassing research as well as practical applications. This interaction is expected to create understanding of the needs of the various players in the creation of knowledge. Programme Structure ICIM 2005 will have a mix of educative events and programmes spread over four days. Date Morning Afternoon Evening 21st Feb. Tutorial Session Tutorial Session Inaugural 22nd Feb. Conference / Poster Sessions Conference / Poster Sessions Business Session 23rd Feb. Conference / Poster Sessions Conference / Poster Sessions Business Session 24th Feb. Conference / Poster Sessions Panel Discussion Valedictory Session 25th Feb. Sight Seeing Programme For further details the brochure is enclosed. Regards Ramesh ################################################################## Ramesh C. Gaur, Ph.D. Librarian(Scientific Officer "E") Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) ( Deemed University and National Centre of the Government of India for Nuclear Science and Mathematics) Homi Bhabha Road, Navy Nagar, Colaba, Mumbai-400 005 Phone: 022-22804545 Ext. 2230, Fax: 022-22804610, 22804611 URL: www.tifr.res.in\~library, E-mail: rcgaur(a)tifr.res.in, Alternate E-mail: rameshcgaur(a)rediffmail.com ##################################################################

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INVITATION
by Daulat Jotwani 22 May '04

22 May '04

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Central Library Cordially invites you to the INAUGURAL FUNCTION Of Workshop on Optimal Use of e-Resource At KReSIT Lecture Hall 27 May 2004 at 10.00 am Prof Ashok Misra, Director IIT Bombay has kindly agreed to be the Chief Guest RSVP Daulat Jotwani Librarian Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Powai, Mumbai 400076 Phone 91-22-25768920, 91-22-25720227

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New cross-publisher search tool (3/86)
by Ramesh Gaur 21 May '04

21 May '04

Hi! It may be of interest to the members. Best, Ramesh ----- Original Message ----- From: <custserv(a)iop.org> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 4:01 PM Subject: New cross-publisher search tool (3/86) > On behalf of the Institute of Physics, I'm pleased to announce our > participation in CrossRef Search, a new initiative enabling you to perform > cross-publisher, full text searches of the latest scholarly research. > > CrossRef Search is available free of charge in our Electronic Journals service > at http://www.iop.org/EJ/search_crossref. It can also be found on the Web > sites of the other eight participating publishers, which include The American > Physical Society, Nature Publishing Group and Oxford University Press. > > *Google(tm) technology* > CrossRef Search has been developed by CrossRef in partnership with Google. > Said Ed Pentz, Executive Director of CrossRef: > > 'CrossRef is very excited to work with Google on this pilot program. > Researchers, scientists and librarians should find CrossRef Search a valuable > search tool. Now, researchers and students interested in mining published > scholarship have immediate access to targeted, interdisciplinary and > cross-publisher search on full text using the powerful and familiar Google > technology'. > > CrossRef Search is a pilot program which will run through 2004 to evaluate > functionality and gather feedback. We are sure that you will find this new > free service useful (http://www.iop.org/EJ/search_crossref). > > Further information on CrossRef Search can be found online at > http://www.crossref.org/crossrefsearch.html. If you have any questions, please > do not hesitate to contact us at custserv(a)iop.org. > > Kind regards, > > Lucy Braithwaite (formerly Pearce) > Senior Product Manager > Institute of Physics Publishing > > custserv(a)iop.org > www.iop.org > > *Data Protection* > If you would prefer not to receive updates on our Electronic Journals in > future, please reply to this e-mail, entering the word 'Unsubscribe' in the > body of your e-mail (please do not delete the subject line). > > IOP Publishing Limited is the data controller (data.protection(a)iop.org). We > will take all reasonable measures to prevent unauthorised or unlawful > processing. > > > *Data Protection* > If you would prefer not to receive updates on our Electronic Journals in > future, please go to the following URL and follow the simple instructions: > > http://www.iop.org/EJ/optout/-digest=93231.riqgJEpjsqPhlj.Rrcx6KA > > IOP Publishing is the data controller (data.protection(a)iop.org). We will > take all reasonable measures to prevent unauthorised or unlawful processing. > Ramesh C. Gaur, Ph.D Librarian (Scientific Officer 'E') ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Deemed University and National Centre of the Government of India) Homi Bhabha Road, Navy Nagar, Colaba, Mumbai-400 005 Phone: 022-22804545 Ext. 2230, Fax: 022-22804610, 22804611 URL: www.tifr.res.in\~library E-mails: rcgaur(a)tifr.res.in, ramesh_c_gaur(a)hotmail.com

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Alliance for ICTs for Basic Human Needs
by Mailing List Manager 21 May '04

21 May '04

Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 09:10:31 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Alliance for ICTs for Basic Human Needs formed in India We had an excellent meeting here at MSSRF the past two days (19-20 May 2004) and we have now formed a National Alliance for ICTs for Basic Human Needs. More than 50 people were invited to the Consultatiuon - drawn from NGOs, Government departments, Academia, and private sector. Prof. M S Swaminathan is the Chairman of the Alliance. Ms Sukanya Rath, Executive Director of NASSCOM Foundation is the Secretary General. B H Shadrach (Shaddy) of OneWorld South Asia and Subbiah Arunachalam (Arun) of MSSRF are the two Joint Secretaries. There are seven task forces [Connectivity, Content, Policy, Capacity building, Resources, Organization and management, and Programme design]. These will be convened by active partners. For more information, please contact Arun at <arun(a)mssrf.res.in>. Arun

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Vidyanidhi-Outreach-Travel Grants-ETD2004-JCDL2004-results
by Mailing List Manager 21 May '04

21 May '04

Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 17:01:41 +0530 From: bp.prakash(a)tcs.com 'Congrats' to the selected colleagues and 'Kudos' to Dr Shalini Urs ! Library profession in India wants such promotions and sponsorships. BP Prakash Tata Consultancy Services, Pune

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FW: [is] OWSA and MSSRF launch e-discussion on InfoKiosks
by Mailing List Manager 21 May '04

21 May '04

Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 17:34:06 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> -----Original Message----- From: Geeta Sharma [mailto:geeta.sharma@oneworld.net] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 4:40 PM To: Information Society: Voices from the South Subject: [is] OWSA and MSSRF launch e-discussion on InfoKiosks Dear Friends, We have the pleasure of inviting you to join a discussion list on "Information Kiosks in every Indian village by 2007 - a myth or reality?" ( http://www.dgroups.org/groups/infokiosks/ <http://www.dgroups.org/groups/infokiosks/> ) The need for accelerating the pace of ICT enabled interventions in helping achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the Indian context makes it imperative to look closely at their potential to cover over six lakh villages in the country within a short span of time. Towards this end OneWorld South Asia and MS Swaminathan Research Foundation are hosting this online discussion over the next six weeks. The major themes for this email and web-based discussion are: Scalability, Sustainability and Collaboration. The Sectoral focus within each of these themes would be on Education, Health and Livelihoods. A summary of the discussions would be shared at two separate national workshops on technology and policy issues on the ICT4D initiatives. These workshops are tentatively scheduled to be held in Delhi, towards the end of June and early July 2004. This is an open debate, so any one can join. We would specially like to invite groups, individuals and organizations, policy planners and practitioners interested in technology, ICT and development issues to join us in these discussions. HOW TO SIGN UP Joining this discussion list is very easy! Just send a blank message to: join-infokiosks(a)dgroups.org On successful sign-up, you will receive an email giving you a password and other relevant details. Please note that messages to the list should be sent to: Infokiosks(a)dgroups.org Messages sent to the above address will be sent out to all participants in the discussion. If you encounter any problems, please contact the administrator of this dgroup by sending an email to Infokiosks-owner(a)dgroups.org We look forward to you active participation in this discussion list. Contact Us: This discussion list will be co-moderated by stakeholders working on ICT4D issues. The moderators for the initial phase include Nikhil Raj (nikhil.raj(a)oneworld.net) from OneWorld South Asia, Osama Manzar (Osama(a)manzar.info) of the Digital Empowerment Foundation, Senthil Kumaran, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (senthil(a)mssrf.res.in) and Jitendra Shah (jitendras(a)vsnl.com) VJTI, Mumbai. As the discussions proceed, we would invite more experts to lead the debate as moderators. Thanks and regards Geeta Sharma ICT Advocacy Manager OneWorld South Asia http://southasia.oneworld.net <http://southasia.oneworld.net> ------ For discussion archives visit: http://www.dgroups.org/groups/IS/index.cfm To join, send a blank message to: join-IS(a)dgroups.org To leave the list, send a blank message to: leave-IS(a)dgroups.org

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Vidyanidhi-Outreach-Travel Grants-ETD2004-JCDL2004-results
by Mailing List Manager 20 May '04

20 May '04

Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 20:26:12 +0530 From: shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in Friends, I am happy to announce the results of the Travel Grants for ETD 2004 and JCDL 2004 at Lexington and Tucson, USA respectively. This Travel Grants initiative is part of the Vidyanidhi's endeavour to advocate, promote and contribute to the digital library development/ETD initiatives in India through its 'Out reach' Programme . ETD 2004-JCDL 2004 -Travel Grants is one such 'out reach' Programme of Vidyanidhi. Under this programme, Vidyanidhi was able to procure support for funding the participation of 6 Indian information professionals to participate in the two key International digital library conferences - ETD 2004 ( http://www.uky.edu/ETD/ETD2004) and JCDL 2004 (http://www.jcdl2004.org) This travel grants programme was announced in LIS-Forum and letters were sent to universities and other institutions soliciting applications. We received very good response. Thanks to the generous support by the Ford Foundation , it was possible to procure this Travel Grants. Given the number and quality of applications, it was a difficult task for the international selection committee to short list the candidates for approval by the Ford Foundation which is supporting this initiative. Dr.Sumathi Ramaswamy, Program Officer for Education, Arts, and Culture, in consultation with the Ford Representative, Dr.Balachander, made the final selection of six candidates out of the short listed candidates. Those professionals who are receiving the grants are- 1. Dr.M.D.Baby ( Cochin University of Sciene and Technology) 2. Prof. Rajib Bandypadhyay ( Jadavpur University , Kolkota) 3. Mr. G.K.Manjunath ( IGIDR, Mumbai) 4. Ms. Shubhada Nagarkar ( University of Pune) 5. Mr. Ganesan Sundar ( Roja Muthaiah Research Library) These five professionals under the leadership of Prof.Shalini Urs, University of Mysore, would be participating in the conferences. ------------ 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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From SciDevNet
by Mailing List Manager 20 May '04

20 May '04

Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 13:07:14 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is a short piece from today's SciDevNet. Arun http://www.scidev.net/Editorials/index.cfm?fuseaction=readEditorials&itemid= 115&language=1 India's new challenge on technology policy David Dickson 17 May 2004 The surprise defeat of the BJP in last week's Indian election appears to reflect widespread resentment that the benefits of rapid technological innovation have reached only a relatively small section of society. This has implications for the whole developing world. A few weeks ago, a leading aid expert described how, in the 1970s, he had spent three years in India working for the United Nations Development Programme. At the time, he had been engaged in helping India set up its first microelectronics research facility. But he became convinced that the country's real needs lay at the other end of the technological scale, in the diffusion of more effective agricultural techniques and other innovations to help the rural poor. Yet given the country's success in turning itself into a major industrial player in a range of key technologies, he admitted that he now felt he had been wrong. Last week's surprise success of the Congress Party, headed by Sonia Gandhi, in India's general election suggests that he may not have been as wrong as he thought. For, according to many commentators, the rejection of the incumbent government - headed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - appears to reflect widespread disillusionment with the way that the country's recent rapid economic and technological growth has been enjoyed unequally by different social groups. It would, of course, be na�ve to pretend that this is the whole story behind the election result. The success of the Congress Party in some of India's largest cities, including Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai, immediately challenges the argument that it is the votes of excluded rural communities that have brought the Congress Party - the dominant political party in India since it achieved independence in 1947 - back to power after a gap of eight years. Conversely there are several states that still face massive social and economic problems, but that voted for parties belonging to the ousted National Democratic Alliance, rather than opting for the pro-poor messages offered by the Congress Party. Those living in the world's largest democracy appear merely to have been exercising their right to protest against mismanagement by voting their rulers out of office. Balancing innovation with basic needs Despite all this, it would be equally na�ve to believe that rejection of the BJP was a conventional protest vote against an incumbent government. There is considerable evidence to back the claim that many of those voting against the party and its political allies were expressing resentment at their exclusion from the country's economic miracle of the past decade. Deregulation and privatisation, central planks in the BJP's economic policy, have certainly led to a boom in several new technology areas, and left many Indians considerably better off - some extremely. But relatively few of the benefits have filtered down to the rural poor, many of whom continue to lack basic human needs, such as clean water and adequate food. To some extent, the protest was relatively apolitical. It is significant that two south Indian states threw out ruling parties of differing political complexions. Andhra Pradesh, with its capital Hyderabad, and Karnataka, with Bangalore, are vying to become global information technology (IT) powers. In doing so, however, both have become excessively focused on IT development, ignoring the conventional rural development that should have gone along in parallel. The need for the latter is plain. For example, both states have experienced periods of severe drought over the past three years, with farmers committing suicide because of mounting debts. Voters in both states threw out their ruling party, underlining the need to focus on basic issues such as water for irrigation, rather than on attracting multinational investment and creating software parks. The various platforms on which the Congress Party and its political allies appear to have won the election do contain various measures designed to redress this balance. And there is some evidence of its success in doing so. It is notable that in Delhi, for example, the local Congress Party leadership that was re-elected has recently been responsible - actively prompted, admittedly, by campaigning groups such as the Centre for Science and Environment - for the introduction of rigorous new regulations on vehicle emissions. These regulations have already significantly reduced the city's air pollution problems, as well as the incidence of breathing problems and other associated diseases. Such outcomes point towards a new form of participatory politics. Indeed, the Indian electorate's rejection of the self-congratulatory modernism in the BJP's election slogan, 'India shining', is eerily reminiscent of the rejection by the British electorate in the 1970s of a Labour Party that had raised the flag of "white hot technological revolution", and the subsequent growth of the environmental movement as a new political force. The outcome has important lessons for other developing countries. For it is a reminder that although technological innovation is a necessary condition for social and economic progress, it is not a sufficient condition. Equally important are accompanying policies to ensure that the benefits of successful innovation are widely shared and experienced. Forging an alternative development strategy Last week's election poses an important set of challenges for the new Indian government. The country is not short of ideas about alternative technology strategies aimed directly at meeting the needs of the rural poor - or charismatic individuals to promote them. During the political struggle for independence, for example, this was a key concern of Mahatma Gandhi. Today a wide range of organisations continue to pursue such strategies, ranging from the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation - which is already doing much to explore the potential of computers in rural development - to groups such as Development Alternatives, equally committed to exploring ways in which technology can directly aid the poor. The task is to find ways in which such initiatives, many of which continue to operate on an essentially local scale, can become better integrated with the scientific and technological institutions that, in recent years, have been increasingly taking on the characteristics of Western industrial research systems. Nor is the task unique to India. It would be an exaggeration to say that there is widespread disenchantment with the global knowledge economy. Nevertheless, it is true that there is growing resentment among those being asked to help share the costs of participation in such an economy, yet at the same time are excluded from its benefits. In issues that range from the application of intellectual property rights to the integration of biodiversity concerns with development strategies, there is growing evidence that solutions designed by the North are not always applicable in the South - and that alternative approaches are needed. If India can now explore and develop some of these alternatives, ensuring firstly that they are based on a thorough comprehension of the underlying science, and secondly that they are capable of meeting the basic needs of the country's rural poor, it will have made a substantial contribution to the whole development community. Conversely there is a strong case for reviewing the future direction of IT policies in India, ensuring that these effectively complement and support rural development and poverty-reduction strategies, and not substitute for them. And if the Congress Party can successfully tackle these two central issues, it will have demonstrated that last week's election was not merely a protest vote, but a democratic endorsement of a viable alternative development strategy that will be eagerly watched. And it might even see itself re-elected for a second term.

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FW: Open Access
by Mailing List Manager 20 May '04

20 May '04

Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 11:41:10 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here are a few questions on the two workshops on open access I organised at MSSRF in the first week of May 2004 from Richard Poynder, a correspondent of Information Today, and my answers. I thought I must share it with all the workshop participants and some policy makers. Now I am working on holding a three-country policy makers workshop on open access for India, China and Brazil (plus representatives of TWAS, InterAcademy Council and InterAcademy Panel). Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] -----Original Message----- Dear Richard: Here are my answers to the questions. Sorry for the delay. I was away in Europe to attend two meetings and returned to my office only this morning. Regards. Arun -----Original Message----- From: Richard Poynder [mailto:aotg20@dsl.pipex.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 1:33 AM To: Subbiah Arunachalam Subject: FW: Open Access Dear Subbiah, In the hope that you can help the questions I had in mind are listed below. Best wishes, Richard Poynder >> " What was the primary objective of the Chennai workshops, and what do you think has been achieved/will be achieved as a result?" The primary aim of the workshop was to help Indian research laboratories and hihger educational institutions set up their own interoperable institutional archives and to raise the awareness of researchers (faculty, students and laboratory scientists) and librarians on the need for and usefulness of self archiving. Thanks to the dedicated and competent faculty, we hope we have achieved considerable success. The 48 participants [25 in the first workshop held during 2-4 May and 23 in the second held during 6-8 May] are now exposed to the concept and philosophy of open access (both open access journals and open access archives), the Eprints software [incorporating OAI interoperability protocol and all the important modules] and examples of both open access journals and open access archives. From our experience with the first workshop and the feedback received from participants, we made some changes in the second workshop which placed much greater emphasis on actually loading the eprints software on to a Linux server. Particiapants of the workshop actually loaded a few papers and created the metadata. We hear that already within a week after the workshops, Mr Madhan of National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, has set up a server at NITRKL. The National Chemical Laboratory has also begun work on archiving papers by its scientists. I expect to see at least a dozen archives up and running in the next four months. It is not just me. The OA workshops and the OA movement in India is backed by some very important people. Prof. M S Valiathan, President of the Indian National Science Academy, and Dr R A Mashelkar, Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, have extended their support. Soon INSA is likely to set up an archive for papers by ALL FELLOWS of INSA. The INSA Fellows constitute the cream de la cream of Indian science. Prof. M S Swaminathan and Prof. P Balaram, two of India's most respected scientists addressed the particiapnts and motivated them to adopt OA. After three months, I plan to do monitoring and evaluation; I or someone else such as Dr T B Rajashekar of Indian Institute of Science will visit some of the centres and talk to the persons implementng as well as the researchers depositing their papers. Stevan Harnad recently asked which country will be the first to be totally open access; I wish India should try to win this honour! " What further issues still need to be resolved?" The 48 participants have had a good exposure. When they actually start implementing what they have learnt surely they will face some problems. It is for this reason we have set up a discussion group (OA-India dgroup) so they can discuss among themselves. Incidentally, all four resource persons are members of this group. Also we had specially invited a Linux expert (Mr Suil Abraham of Mahiti) who will now be an evangelist for OA in India. We also need to persuade vice chancellors of universities and directors of research laboratories to proactively promote OA archiving in their institutions. We should ensure that they provide a dedicated Linux server and a decent Internet connection for the archive. " What would you envisage being placed in any archives that are created in the wake of the workshops (pre-prints/post-prints/self-archived papers that have been published in traditional peer- reviewed material/papers published in OA journals etc. etc., or something else?)" We have suggested that the archives (or institutional repositories) may be used to place preprints, postprints, PDF versions of published articles (where permited by the journal publishers), theses, etc. Indeed, the IISc archive is moving towards a repository of all publications of the institute. " There seems to be considerable confusion surrounding the topic of OA today (what it is, what needs to be done to achieve it, who should do what etc.). Based on what you witnessed at the Chennai workshops how would you envisage OA developing in India?" Yes. There is confusion. Much of these confusions were cleared by the faculty. Issues of copyright were discussed and participants were alerted to the list of journals permiting authors to archive preprints/postprints/both prepared by Dr N V Joshi of Indian Institute of Science on a request from Stevan Harnad. As and when participants start implementing, they will confront with some problems, and thse will be reflected in the discussion list. " Does OA raise specific issues/have particular implications in the Indian context? If so what, and why?" By placing Indian papers in interoperable archives, we can gain greater visibility for work done in India. But we also need to read papers written by scientists elsewhere, especially in the advanced countries. It is important for us, therefore, that scientists in advanced countries also place their papers in publicly available archives - either distributed institutional archives or centralised archives such as arXiv. The one great benefit I see is that if a large number of Indian papers become available through institutional archives, then institutions in other developing countries will start setting up their own archives. " What implications do you think the workshops will have for a) researchers, universities, and libraries in India, and b) the OA movement at large?" Overall, the OA movement in India will have many beneficial effects. First of all, scientists and research students will gain greater visibility to their work. Which in turn will add to the reputation and image of thir universities (research labs). Librarians, if they take the responsibility of setting up and running the archives, can improve their status among the academic community. The OA movement will make the field level playing for scientists in India and the rest of the developing countries. Already the workshops are being talked about as well organised and there are queries about when we will hold the next set of workshops on OA! My plan is to organise a meeting on OA for policy makers from India, China and Brazil, preferably at our Foundation (MSSRF, Chennai, India) and invite a few senior scientists from Third World Academy of Sciences, InterAcademy Panel and InterAcademy Council apart from policy makers from the three largest developing countries. The Director of the British Council at Chennai, Ms Eunice Crook, who addressed the participants of the first workshop, is looking at enlarging the virtual activities of the British Council Library (rather than the physical aspects) and is thinking of incresaing cross-country flow of scientific and scholarly information through OA archives. Leslie Chan, one of our resource persons, spooke at the Indian Institute of Science, Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, etc. after the workshops were over. I hear these were very well received and the scientific community in India is getting more aware of the virtues of OA ***** If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask. Thanks and regards. Arun

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Availability of Journal
by Mailing List Manager 18 May '04

18 May '04

Date: 17 May 2004 09:11:13 -0000 From: vishal verma <vishal_56verma(a)rediffmail.com> Dear All, I am searching for a reference, which is required by one of the scientists at TIFR, for quite a some time now and unable to locate it anywhere in India. The journal is not even listed in the union catalogue of INFLIBNET (2000). The details are as follows: -------------------------------------------------------------- Author: Parrott, Stephen Title: The no ghost theorem in string theory. Journal: Results Math. 21 (1992), no. 3-4, 379--395. --------------------------------------------------------------- I request if anyone can tell us about the availability of the journal anywhere in India, so that we can ask the concerned library or Inf. Centre for a copy of the same. Regards Vishal Verma TIFR, Mumbai

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FW: loreal prize
by Mailing List Manager 17 May '04

17 May '04

Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 14:20:03 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Please spread the word among all physicists. I wish many Indian women physicists are nominated. Arun -----Original Message----- From: Marcia C. B. Barbosa [mailto:barbosa@if.ufrgs.br] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 2:57 AM To: Subbiah Arunachalam Subject: loreal prize ~ Dear Colleagues, Loreal is lauching again the Loreal prize for women in Condensed Matter. The details about how to nominate can be found in the webpage: http://www.if.ufrgs.br/~barbosa The deadline for nominating or renominating candidates is June 15th, 2004. Marcia Barbosa

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EMPLOYMENT NOTICE (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 17 May '04

17 May '04

Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 15:26:16 +0530 From: T R B Sarma <trbsarma(a)isec.ac.in> EMPLOYMENT NOTICE Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore Library needs one temporary Technical Assistant on monthly salary of Rs. 5000/-. Essential Qualifications: M.L.I.Sc or any other equivalent degree with some computer experience. Interested candidates may please contact to Mr. TRB SARMA, Librarian immediately. TRB SARMA Librarian, ISEC Nagarabhavi, Bangalore. 560 072. E-mail : trbsarma(a)isec.ac.in Telephone: 080-23215468 Extn. 302

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SCI-5: Five Select Science and Technology Sites
by Mailing List Manager 17 May '04

17 May '04

Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 14:33:26 -0500 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> I am pleased to announce the publication of my latest SCI-5 column in _Science & Technology Libraries_ (Haworth) titled "Ecological and Environmental Data" (see below). In addition to the citation to this column, I have also provided the associated Web address for a self-archived post-print. In addition, I have also listed my previous SCI-5 columns published earlier this year and provided their respective self-archived locations. The purpose of the SCI-5 column is to profile science and technology sites with uncommon but useful content, as well as those with innovative features and functionalities. Members of the Science and Technology Communities are invited to nominate candidates which they believe will be of interest to our colleagues for the full SCI-5 treatment [:-)] Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Select Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu NOTE: '**' denotes a URL change from the published Web address. ************************************************************************************* I. "SCI-5: Ecological and Environmental Data," _Science & Technology Libraries_ 23, no. 4 (2003) [2004]: 95-104. Self-archived at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/EcoData.pdf (accessed 14 May 2004). 1) CEED: 'Caveat Emptor' Ecological Data Repository [ http://ceed.sdsc.edu/ ] [Temporarily Off-Line?] 2) Ecological Archives (Ecological Society of America) [ http://www.esapubs.org/archive/ ] 3) Ecological Information Network (EIN) [ http://ein.nbii.gov/ ] ** 4) Environmental Data Registry (U.S. EPA) [ http://www.epa.gov/edr/ ] 5) National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse [ http://clearinghouse1.fgdc.gov/ ] ** II. "SCI-5: OAI Service Providers," _Science & Technology Libraries_ 23, no. 1 (2002) [2004]: 87-98. Self-archived at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAISP.pdf (accessed 14 May 2004). 1) Arc: A Cross Archive Search Service [ http://arc.cs.odu.edu/ ] 2) Citebase [ http://citebase.eprints.org/ ] 3) my.OAI [ http://www.myoai.com/ ] 4) Open Archives Initiative Information in Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics (Grainger Engineering Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) [ http://g118.grainger.uiuc.edu/engroai/ ] 5) SAIL-eprints (Search, Alert, Impact and Link) [ http://eprints.bo.cnr.it/ ] NOTE: A more comprehensive review of each of these services can be found in my eProfile "Open Archives Initiative Service Providers. Part I: Science and Technology," _Library Hi Tech News_ 20, no. 9 (November 2003): 30-38. Self-archived at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-SP-I.pdf (accessed 14 May 2004). III. "SCI-5: Scholar-based Initiatives in Publishing," _Science & Technology Libraries_ 22, nos. 3/4 (2002) [2004]: 181-191. Self-archived at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/SBI.pdf (accessed 14 May 2004). 1) BioMed Central: The Open Access Publisher [ http://www.biomedcentral.com/ ] 2) Dspace*: Durable Digital Depository [ http://dspace.org/ ] 3) Organic Eprints [ http://orgprints.org/ ] 4) The Public Library of Science [ http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/ ] 5) SPARC-The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition [ http://www.arl.org/sparc/ ] NOTE: A more comprehensive review of each of these services can be found in the following eProfiles "Open Archives Initiative Data Providers. Part II: Science and Technology,"_ Library Hi Tech News_ 21, no. 5 (June 2004). In press. TO BE SELF-ARCHIVED at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-DP-II.pdf . "Scholar-based Innovations in Publishing. Part III: Organizational and National Initiatives," _Library Hi Tech News_ 20, no. 5 (June 2003): 15-23. Self-archived at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/ScholarBased-III.pdf (accessed 14 May 2004). "Scholar-based Innovations in Publishing. Part II: Library and Professional Initiatives," _Library Hi Tech News_ 20, no. 3 (April 2003): 19-27. Self-archived at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/ScholarBased-II.pdf (accessed 26 April 2004). IV. "SCI-5: Free International Web-based Patent Sites," _Science & Technology Libraries_ 22, nos. 1/2 (2001) [2004]: 175-185. Self-archived at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/FIP.pdf (accessed 28 April 2004). 1) [China Patent Database] [ http://www.sipo.gov.cn/sipo_English/default.htm ] [Temporarily Off-Line?] 2) DEPATISnet (Germany) [ http://www.depatisnet.de/ ] 3) Industrial Property Digital Library (Japan) [ http://www.ipdl.jpo.go.jp/homepg_e.ipdl ] 4) Intellectual Property Digital Library (WIPO) [ http://ipdl.wipo.int/ ] 5) SurfIP (Singapore) [ http://www.surfip.gov.sg/sip_home.htm ] ************************************************************************************

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employment announcement
by Mailing List Manager 14 May '04

14 May '04

Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 16:15:16 +0530 From: Prafulla Chandra <prafulla(a)nisc.co.in> EMPLOYMENT ANNOUNCEMENT Nexus Information Services Company Private Limited (affiliated to National Information Services Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland, USA) is one of the foremost database access, production and publishing companies in the world. We have openings for honest, hard working, knowledgeable and dedicated professionals in the areas of database editing, indexing and abstracting. ________________________________________________ Database Editor (3 posts) Essential Qualification: MLISc or any other equivalent degree Desirable Qualification: Masters degree in any subject other than LIS ________________________________________________ Indexer (1 post) Essential Qualification: MA or Master of Social Work or MCJ Desirable Qualification: MLISc or any other equivalent degree _________________________________________________ Abstractor (2 posts) Essential Qualification: MA or Master of Social Work or MCJ Desirable Qualification: MLISc or any other equivalent degree _________________________________________________ Applicants should have excellent command over written and spoken English. You would be based in Hyderabad and working in a pleasant and enjoyable work environment with bright career prospects and exciting opportunities to realize your potentialities. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. Candidates who had appeared for examinations and awaiting announcement of results would also be considered. Please send your applications, along with a comprehensive CV, by post or through email to: The Managing Director Nexus Information 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 our website at: 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: USEMARCON Plus v1.41 released
by Saiful Amin 13 May '04

13 May '04

Hi, Might be of interest to IT people of libraries!! Regards, Saiful -------- Original Message -------- Subject: USEMARCON Plus v1.41 released From: Ere Maijala <ere(a)atp.fi> Date: Mon, May 10, 2004 11:53 am To: www-zig(a)w3.org USEMARCON is a software application that allows users to convert bibliographic records from one MAchine-Readable Cataloguing (MARC) format to another. USEMARCON Plus version 1.41 has been released. This version is a minor update to version 1.4. It contains a fix for a zero length data field causing a crash and enhancements to the error messages. In addition there is a new switch in the command line version to turn on the verbose mode to see all warning and information messages. For more information and to download the software please visit the the British Library web site at http://www.bl.uk/services/bibliographic/usemarcon.html There is now also a mailing list for the users of USEMARCON at http://www.mailtalk.ac.uk/lists/usemarcon.html For further information please contact: ATP Library Systems Ltd, Finland by e-mail (usemarcon at atp.fi) or visit our web site at http://www.atp.fi/ or contact The British Library Bibliographic Standards & Systems Boston Spa, Wetherby West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ United Kingdom Tel: + 44 (0) 1937 546585 Fax: + 44 (0) 1937 546586 Email: usemarcon(a)bl.uk

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Training Workshop on Optimal Use of e-Resources on INDEST Consortium
by Daulat Jotwani 13 May '04

13 May '04

Dear Colleague The Central Library, IIT Bombay has planned to organize a 2-days Training Workshop on Optimal Use of e-Resources available through the INDEST Consortium on 27-28 May 2004. The workshop is aimed at imparting training to the librarians and other staff in the institutions to ensure optimum utilization of INDEST resources for the benefits of their users. It will also provide participants with an opportunity to discuss their concerns and difficulties directly with database producers / vendors. Only 30-35 participants, on first-come-first-served basis, will be taken for the course from engineering and technology institutions, NITs and other engineering colleges, preferably from the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa. Preference will be given to those from member institutions. Interested persons may forward their application in the enclosed proforma by email / fax at the earliest to the Librarian, IIT Bombay. Participants will be provided hostel accommodation free of charged. TA/DA will have to be borne by the participants or their organizations. D Jotwani, Librarian, IIT Bombay PROGRAMME 27th May 2004 Registration 0915 1000 hrs Inauguration 1000 1045 hrs Break 1045 1100 hrs Technical Session I 1100 1145 hrs INDEST Overview Technical Session II 1145 1230 hrs e-Resource at IITB Visit to IITB Library 1230 1315 hrs Lunch 1315 1400 hrs Technical Session III 1400 1445 hrs Elseviers Science Direct Technical Session IV 1445 1530 hrs CA - SciFind Scholar Break 1530 1545 hrs Technical Session V 1545 1630 hrs IEL Online 28th May 2004 Technical Session VI 0930 1015 hrs Compendex & Inspec on Ei-village Technical Session VII 1015 1100 hrs J-Gate/JCCC, Web of Science Break 1100 1115 hrs Technical Session VIII 1115 1200 hrs Current trends in Digitization Technical Session IX 1200 1300 hrs ACM & Emerald Lunch 1300 1400 hrs Technical Session X ETD at IIT Bombay 1400 1445 hrs Technical Session XI 1445 1530 hrs Springer-Link Valedictory 1530 1600 hrs PROFORMA Name : ____________________________________ Designation : ____________________________________ Institution/Organization : ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Address : ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Telephone / Fax No. ____________________________________ Email : ____________________________________ Accomodation needed : Yes / No Signature

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InfoWatch - Apr 2004
by M.R Lalitha 13 May '04

13 May '04

Dear LIS-Forum member, The April 2004 issue of InfoWatch is now online, bringing you details of new Internet sites related to Science and Engineering. You can access the complete issue on the NCSI Web server at the URL : http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/infowatch/iw.php You will also find earlier issues of InfoWatch here. For your convenience, the table of contents is given below. If you wish to be on the mailing list of InfoWatch to receive the complete issue by e-mail, let us know. Also mention your format preference - html or text. Regards -Lalitha M.R lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ------------------------------------------------------------------------ InfoWatch Tracking Networked Scientific Information Sources and Services (An electronic update service brought to you by NCSI) Apr 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue: 1. AllSyntax.com [Programming tutorials, code and sample programs] 2. BioPerl.org [An open-source Perl tools for bioinformatics, genomics and life science research] 3. Computer security dictionary - Dictionary of information security 4. DateDex - The calender directory of days, dates and events worldwide 5. DINO [A realtime 3D visualization program for structural biology data] 6. EE Times Design library 7. FirstScience.com - Amazing websites for interesting minds 8. Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) [Gene expression and molecular abundance data repository] 9. Gravity Probe B - Testing Einstein's universe 10. HP Labs technical reports 11. Living State Physics [Merges research of physics with exciting and significant biomedical investigations] 12. NASA GMCD Learning Center - A directory of Earth science data and services 13. Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB) 14. Polymorph - Knowhere [How the structure of space determines the shape of the things] 15. Simple Network Management Protocol(SNMP) 16. Sting Millenium Suite (SMS) [A software to study structures of macromolecules] 17. STORM [A nexus of Software Testing Online Resources] 18. TechRepublic - Real world, Relatime, Real IT 19. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) 20. Thingamablog [A cross-platform, standalone blogging tool] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ About InfoWatch : InfoWatch is a monthly electronic newsletter, brought out by the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, INDIA. Information in the newsletter is collected and verified by NCSI staff.The newsletter aims to raise awareness of new sources of information on the Internet, particularly those which are relevant for higher education and research. Some items may be of relevance only to the IISc community.Resources reported here have been taken from various discussion lists and other network tools and no special claims are made for accuracy or originality. Most of the sources cited in the newsletter were checked at the time of publication, however it is possible that some of the resources are no longer available. We welcome comments about the newsletter and suggestions for resources to be featured. Please e-mail your comments to Infowatch editors: Ms. K. Thulasi (thulasi(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) & Ms. M. R. Lalitha (lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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launch of lisgateway.com
by masoom raza 11 May '04

11 May '04

Dear friends I am glad to inform you about the launch of library and information science gateway.(www.lisgateway.com) 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. This gateway has been developed by Principal Investigator, UGC Major Research Project Lecturer, Deptt. of Library & Information Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India as a part UGC'S Major Research Project.This project will complete in June 2005.Please feel to share about the site at mail@lisgateway.com,masoom_r@lisgateway.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover

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New Title by The Director, CSIR
by Mailing List Manager 11 May '04

11 May '04

Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 13:35:16 +0530 From: Monitor Information Services <emonitor(a)sancharnet.in> New Title by Mr R.A.Mashelkar, Director CSIR -------------------------------------------- Intellectual Property and Competitive Strategies in the 21st Century This outstanding work s most important contribution lies in its vision of the organic cooperation of governments, institutions, supranational organisations, multinational corporations, small and medium enterprises, and civil society as they collectively fashion a 21st Century in which creativity and innovation are enabled to convert knowledge into wealth and social good. For this reason, as well as for its richly detailed treatment of trends and current reality in the field, Intellectual Property and Competitive Strategies in the 21st Century will be read and put to good use by business people, international lawyers, government officials, and interested academics in all parts of the world. Price: EURO 85.00 URL: http://www.aspenpublishers.com/Product.asp?catalog%5Fname=Aspen&category%5F… Ordering thru: MONITOR INFORMATION SERVICES library suppliers - books n cd-rom's 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda, Hyderabad - 500 029 tel : 040-55787065 / 040-27552390 fax : +91-40-27569299 http://www.monitorinfo.com

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Fwd: failure delivery
by Mailing List Manager 11 May '04

11 May '04

Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 05:58:07 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> > Friends: > > Here is a brief exchange betwen Gene garfield and > Stevan Harnad. Enjoy reading it. > > Arun > [Subbiah Arunachalam] > > [Moderator's Note: To save iterations, my reply > follows below, immediately after Gene's posting -- > S.H.] > > > Stevan Harnad wrote: > > > > > The rate of new OA journal start-ups is not > > likely to increase > > > substantially, because the literature is > already > > journal-saturated, > > > and there are few new journal niches. Most OA > > journal growth is hence > > > likely to come from the conversion of existing > > TA (toll-access) > > > journals to OA, in one of three ways: (1) The > > journal remains TA, > > > but makes its online version OA. (2) The > journal > > abandons the TA > > > cost-recovery model and adopts the OA > > (author-end) cost-recovery > > > model. (3) The journal's editorial board and > > authorship -- hence, > > > effectively, its title -- defect to an OA > > publisher. > > > > I am surprised to hear you say this Steve. It > flies > > in the face of > > experience. You should re-read Derek Price's > > statements about the growth > > of invisible colleges. > > > http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/lilscibi.html > > > > The latest techniques in publishing make it all > the > > more likely that > > new journal start ups of all kinds will continue > to > > occur. I have known > > dozens of pioneering editors who started new > > journals because they could > > not get a professional society or a private > > publisher to act. Ironically > > it made several of them quite wealthy because > > neither the slow moving > > societies or the conservative publishers could not > > foresee the potential. > > > > At one time the president of Gordon and Breach > told > > me he could start > > a journal with 50 subscribers. And Robert Maxwell > > jumped in to publish > > journals like Tetrahedron because he could find a > > brilliant editor. > > > > Today any free spirit could start a new journal. > > Some will fail and > > some will succeed. The process of "twigging" as it > > was once called > > is inevitable. > > > > Eugene Garfield > > > > [Stevan Harnad's reply: I defer to Gene > > Garfield's far broader > > knowledge and experience on the subject of new > > journal start-ups > > (though it would be nice to see the actual > data > > on new journal > > start-ups for, say, the past 20 years, perhaps > > subdivided in terms of > > hybrid vs. online-only -- as well, of course, > as > > a count of how many > > journals, new and old, hybrid and online-only, > > went belly-up within > > the same period, after what interval). My > point, > > however, was about > > OA (Open Access) journal start-ups. Around > 1000 > > journals (5%) out > > of a total of about 24,000 journals are OA > > journals today, and the > > question was about how quickly that > *percentage* > > can be expected to > > rise (via either new journal creation or old > > journal conversion or > > both). I hold by my prediction that it will be > > very slow, whereas > > self-archiving, which is already at around 20% > > right now, can rise to > > include at least all the articles in the 83% > of > > journals that have > > already given self-archiving the official > green > > light, or even to > > 100%, virtually overnight. I think the > potential > > growth rates via > > these two roads -- gold and green -- differ by > > at least an order of > > magnitude. -- S.H.] > > > > ------------ > > Eugene Garfield, PhD. email > > garfield(a)codex.cis.upenn.edu > > tel 215-243-2205 fax 215-387-1266 > > President, The Scientist www.the-scientist.com > > Chairman Emeritus, ISI www.isinet.com > > home page: www.eugenegarfield.org > > Past President, American Society for Information > > Science and Technology > > (ASIS&T) www.asis.org > > > > > > Chat instantly with your online friends? Get the > FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/

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Re: Research on library consortium
by Mailing List Manager 11 May '04

11 May '04

From: "[iso-8859-1] vijaya kumara" <vijayakumar71(a)yahoo.co.in> Hi, find some titles that you can do research on consortium Library Consortium in R& D Libraries of Karnataka: A study on Pit falls Model of library consortium for university/ R&D libraries in Karnataka And others good luck Vijayakumar M ------------- Dear All, HI! I am a new entrant on Lis Forum. I wanted to know the type of research one can take up on library consortia. 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 _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum ***************************************************************** Vijayakumar M, Learning Resource Centre, Beams International Education Institute, P O Box 31199, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Phone : 00971-4-3342929 Mobile : 00971-50-4734077 Fax : 00971-4-3342922 email :vijayakumar71@yahoo.co.in Website: http://www20.brinkster.com/vinija/ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online.

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About ICONLIS-2004 convention
by Mailing List Manager 11 May '04

11 May '04

From: "[iso-8859-1] ishwar bandi" <icbandi(a)yahoo.co.in> To: mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Dear All, I'm Mr. ISHAPPA BANDI library science professional from Mumbai would like to know regarding ICONLIS conferance, which was held in March 15-16 2004. If any body is having information please forward to me. Thanking you Mr.ISHAPPA BANDI Librarian Fr. Agnel Technical Education Complex Sector-9a, Vashi New Mumbai-400703 Email:icbandi@yahoo.co.in

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(no subject)
by Vijayalaxmi R Deshpande 06 May '04

06 May '04

Dear Sirs, Can anyone help me in getting the following books from whom we can get immediately which we browsed on internet. 1. Transformer Maintenance Guide 2004/ Myers, S.D 2. Dranetz-BMI Field handbook for Power Quality Analysis by Bruce Lonie and Tom Shaughnessy of POWERCET 3. Conference proceedings distributech in CD-ROM by Utility Automation (Publisher; pennwell) 4. etz-Report 32: Open communication platform for telecontrol applications: benefits from the new standard IEC:60870-6 TASE:2 (ICCP) VDE ENGLISH VERSION 5. Guide to the project management body of Knowledge (A(PMBOK(R) GUIDE) BY Project Management Institute 6. Managing a small HRD Department; you can do more than you think by McCoy, Carol P (The Jossey-Bass Management Series)

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Talk on Open Access and Libraries by Dr. Leslie Chan, at NCSI 10th May 5.00 PM
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 06 May '04

06 May '04

National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Cordially invites you to a talk on OPEN ACCESS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR LIBRARIES By Dr. Leslie Chan Program Supervisor, International Studies program and Supervisor, Joint Program in New Media Studies at the University of Toronto at Scarborough And Associate Director of Bioline International (a non-profit international electronic publishing collaboration) At 5.00 P.M. on 10th May 2004 (Monday) Venue: Seminar Hall, NCSI Coffee/Tea will be served at 4.30 PM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ About the Speaker and the talk: Leslie Chan is Program Supervisor for the International Studies program and also supervisor of studies for the Joint Program in New Media Studies at the University of Toronto at Scarborough and Associate Director of Bioline International, a non-profit international electronic publishing collaboration with the main objective of improving the visibility and impact of health and other scientific information from developing countries. From 1997-2002, Leslie also served as the managing editor of an experimental digital publishing unit within the Centre for Instructional Technology Development. Recently, Leslie was appointed by the American Anthropological Association to the Steering Committee of AnthroSource, an innovative scholar 's portal that promises to transform teaching and research in the field of anthropology and beyond. The above positions reflect Leslie's long-term interest in the use of information technology in support of teaching, learning and research, as well as his commitment to engage in new modes of scholarly publishing, human capacity building and international co-operation. As part of the Advisory Member of the Civil Society Science working group at the World Summit on the Information Society, he is preparing to take part in the second phase of the WSIS to ensure that open access to science continues to be on the main agenda of the second phase of the WSIS in Tunis in 2005. He is also organizing a special session on "Linking local and global knowledge with ICT" at the upcoming Elpub 2004 meeting in Brazil in June. As one of the original participants and signatories of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, Leslie has been active in advocating open access publishing and the development of online publishing projects that encourage scholars to explore new means of communicating their research. Leslie has been invited to participate in numerous international conferences on scholarly communication issues and conferences on ICT and development and he has conducted workshops on these topics for a wide variety of institutions, many of them in developing parts of the world. In this talk, Leslie will relate his various experiences in promoting alternative publishing initiatives at the University of Toronto as well as his involvement with the promotion of open access and institutional repositories. He will share some of the successes and failures of his projects and point to ways in which librarians and faculty could work together more productively to enhance the sharing, creation and dissemination of knowledge. ------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Associate Chairman Tel: +91-80-23600271, 23601427 National Centre for Science Fax: +91-80-23601426, 23600683 Information (NCSI) E-Mail: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Indian Institute of Science URL: http://144.16.72.189/raja/ BANGALORE-560012 (India) ------------------------------------------------------------- SciGate: http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/ The IISc Science Information Portal

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Free full text online
by Satish Munnolli 06 May '04

06 May '04

apologies for cross posting ! http://www.freefulltext.com/ The site directly links to over 7000 scholarly journals which allow some or all of their online content free. It's too good for those libraries wherein the library has INTERNET connection and do not subscribe to any online database. A real supplement to any library catalogue. Satish S. Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410208

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Seeking Minimum Wages for Bhopal
by Jeetender 05 May '04

05 May '04

Dear Friends Most suppliers request a long period for publications wich have to be brought in from outside. Apropos, can some librarian fom Bhopal Area acquire this publication for us. We will be glad to reimburse first class courier charges for the same. Sincerely Jeetender Chandna (Vicky) Coordinator Information Systems email: vicky(a)irft.org <mailto:%20Jeetender%20Chandna%20%3cvicky@irft.org%3e> 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 (Extn: 24) Fax : (91-22) 2823 5245 Website : <http://www.irft.org/> http://www.irft.org

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Libraries in the Digital World
by Saiful Amin 04 May '04

04 May '04

Hi, Some articles may be of interest to library professionals. Regards, Saiful "Edward J. Valauskas" <ejv(a)UIC.EDU> wrote:Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 23:20:39 -0500 From: "Edward J. Valauskas" Subject: First Monday May 2004 To: FIRSTMONDAY(a)LISTSERV.UIC.EDU Dear Reader, The May 2004 issue of First Monday (volume 9, number 5) is now available at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/ ------- Table of Contents Volume 9, Number 5 - May 3rd 2004 Sharing Digital Resources: Selected papers from the Fifth Annual Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World, sponsored by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services and the University of Illinois at Chicago, March 3-5 2004, Chicago. Keynote at The Field Museum by John McCarter http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/mccarter/ Imaging Pittsburgh: Creating a shared gateway to digital image collections of the Pittsburgh region by Edward A. Galloway http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/galloway/ The power and problems of public media by David B. Liroff http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/liroff/ CAMEO: A free Internet reference on materials used in the production and conservation of historic and artistic works by Michele Derrick http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/derrick/ Choosing the components of a digital infrastructure by Tim DiLauro http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/dilauro/ Building semantic bridges between museums, libraries and archives: The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model by Tony Gill http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/gill/ The role of museums in online teaching, learning, and research by Kenneth Hamma http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/hamma/ Can technology make the recommendations of learning science practical and affordable? by Henry Kelly http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/kelly/ Building on success, forging new ground: The question of sustainability by Don Waters http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/waters/ On My Mind: Commentary on Web-Wise by Bill Barnett http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/barnett/ Lessons from the Silurian: On digitization and the human element by Edward J. Valauskas http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/valauskas/ ---------------------------- You've received this message because you're registered to First Monday's Table of Contents service. You can unsubscribe to this service by sending a reply containing the word unsubscribe in the body of the message or use the form at http://firstmonday.org/join.html First Monday Editorial Group ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online. http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony/

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Multilingual Glossary Database
by VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

Please visit the following link: http://www.proz.com/?sp=glosspost Excallent source for locating multilingual Glossary Lists Dictionaries etc. Useful for translators. 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

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Prof. K.S. Deshpande Endowment Lectures (3) (2004) - invitation
by Mailing List Manager 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:52:12 +0530 From: Srels <srels(a)blr.vsnl.net.in> Dr. K.N. Prasad Convenor Prof. K.S. Deshpande Endowment Lectures Committee, Bangalore Dept. of Studies in Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore and Mysore Library and Information Scientists Association (MyLISA), Mysore Cordially invite you to the Prof. K.S. Deshpande Endowment Lecture (3)(2004) on "BOOK CULTURE" by Prof. C.P. Krishnakumar Director (Retd.), Kuvempu Institute of Kannada Studies, University of Mysore, Mysore on Wednesday, 5 May 2004 at 11.00 a.m. at the Dept. of Studies in Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Manasagangothri, Mysore Prof. C.K.N. Raja Director, Legal Studies, Mahajana Law College, Mysore will preside All are welcome RSVP: Ph: 0821-2514699 (Shalini Urs) President & Members 080 23305109 (Prasad) Prof. K.S. Deshpande Endowment Lecture Committee Dr. K.N. Prasad Convenor

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Courier journals
by Mailing List Manager 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:07:11 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Loss Prevention Association of India, whose details are given below, have a publication covering "FireProtection in Warehouse Installation". Please contact them. Vyasamoorthy, P ============= LPA Head Office (Mumbai) Managing Director: Mr. T.V. Viswanathan Address : Loss Prevention Association of India Ltd. 4th Floor, Warden House, Sir P.M. Road, Fort, Mumbai - 400 001, Maharashtra, India. Tel. Nos. : (022) 22870417 / 22870275 / 22872439 Fax No.: (022) 22816890 E-Mail : Managing Director: tvviswanathan(a)lpaindia.org Asst. General Manager: sudeshkapoor(a)lpaindia.org Manager (P&A): nmapte(a)lpaindia.org Manager (Tech.): abhijit(a)lpaindia.org Office - General: lpamumbai(a)lpaindia.org -----Original Message----- From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 11:24 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Courier journals Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 12:54:29 +0530 From: Rajeev Sharma <bic.crpo(a)tcil.com> Respected Professionals I am looking for journals/serials in courier industry and reference material for fire safety in warehouses. Looking forward for your kind help. Thanks and Best Regards Rajeev Kr. Sharma Officer - Information Services Business Information Center ( BIC) ------------------------------------ Transport Corporation of India Ltd. TCI House, 69 Institutional Area. Sector 32, Gurgaon - 122 001 Haryana, India Ph: (91) (124) 2381603 - 07 Ext. 104 Fax: (91) (124) 2381611 Email: bic.crpo(a)tcil.com Web: www.grouptci.com --------------------------------------

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Re: Web Enabled Databases
by Mailing List Manager 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:28:54 +0530 From: Rajeev K R <krr(a)sasken.com> You can get an over view of "Web databases" from the below word document http://krr1972.tripod.com/webdatabases.doc There are many scripting languages and RDBMs that you can use to create web databases. First you have to decide on which RDBMs and scripting language you should use and then concentrate on its features. You can get examples of access + asp and mysql + perl examples from the above doc. With Warm Regards Rajeev K R Library & Information Center Sasken Communication Technologies Limited 139/25, Ring Road, Domlur Bangalore - 560071 India Email: krr(a)sasken.com Tel: + 91 80 25355501 Extn: 2021 Fax: + 91 80 25351133 URL: www.sasken.com

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Invitation for 4th ASSIST Two-Day National Seminar on DIGITAL RESOURCES AND SERVICES IN LIBRARIES
by Mailing List Manager 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 00:16:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Biradar B.S. <bs_biradar(a)yahoo.com> Dear Professional Colleagues, Myself on the behalf of 4th ASSIST National Seminar Organising Committee welcome you all for the 4th ASSIST National Seminar on "DIGITAL RESOURCES AND SERVICES IN LIBRARIES" to be held on 30th April and 1st May 2004 at Kuvempu University, Shankarghatta, Shimoga, Karnataka, India. All accepted papers bibliographies are hosted at the seminar site URLed http://www.freewebs.com/assist2004/ For further queries pls. contact me at bs_biradar(a)yahoo.com Attached is the Invitation. Thanks and Warm Regards Dr. B.S. Biradar, Chairman, Dept. of Lib. & Inf. Science, Kuvempu University, Jana Sahyadri, Shankarghatta, -577451, Shimoga Karnataka, India. Email : bs_biradar(a)yahoo.com : bsbiradar53(a)rediffmail.com Phone : 91-8282-657319 (Off.) : 91-8282-656142 (Res.)

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Courier journals
by Mailing List Manager 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 12:54:29 +0530 From: Rajeev Sharma <bic.crpo(a)tcil.com> Respected Professionals I am looking for journals/serials in courier industry and reference material for fire safety in warehouses. Looking forward for your kind help. Thanks and Best Regards Rajeev Kr. Sharma Officer - Information Services Business Information Center ( BIC) ------------------------------------ Transport Corporation of India Ltd. TCI House, 69 Institutional Area. Sector 32, Gurgaon - 122 001 Haryana, India Ph: (91) (124) 2381603 - 07 Ext. 104 Fax: (91) (124) 2381611 Email: bic.crpo(a)tcil.com Web: www.grouptci.com --------------------------------------

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Data to be stored on paper disc!
by Mailing List Manager 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:45:46 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> Sony has developed Blu-ray Disc technology-based 25GB paper disc, along with Toppan Printing Co., aiming to produce low cost discs. Friday, April 16, 2004 NEW DELHI: Sony Corporation has announced that it has successfully developed a 25GB paper disc based on Blu-ray Disc technology. The paper discs, which marks a new phase in the Blu-ray disc technology, has been developed jointly by Sony and Toppan Printing Co Ltd. According to a Sony press release, the two companies have been working on for about a year on printing data onto Blu-ray discs made mostly of paper. The companies are aiming to produce lower-cost discs and expand the use of the technology. The discs will be able to store more than two hours of high-definition video. The companies plan to share more details about the new product at the Optical Data Storage conference beginning April 18, 2004 at Monterey, California. The Blu-ray Disc format uses blue laser light and is considered a successor to today's red-laser DVD drives. The discs that can store more than five times the capacity of current DVDs was introduced last year in Japan by Sony. The company is part of a group called the Blu-ray Disc Founders that promote the format. Talking about the paper discs, Toppans MD and head of corporate R&D division, Hideaki Kawai claimed that the use of printing technology on paper allows high level of artistic label printing on the optical disc, besides adding a level of security in some cases. "Since a paper disc can be cut by scissors easily, it is simple to preserve data security when disposing off the disc," he said. Sony claimed that the two companies were able to develop the paper discs by exploiting the fact that the Blu-ray Disc did not require laser light to travel through the substrate. Sony Corporation senior general manager of optical system development group Masanobu Yamamoto further said that it was also possible to decrease the amount of raw material used per unit of information by increasing the capacity of the disc. The worldwide production of optical discs is approximately 20 billion per year and optical discs are being adopted widely. The combination of paper material and printing technology is also expected to lead to a reduction in cost per disc and will expand usage. The Sony press release also said that the company would continue to work with Toppan towards developing the disc for practical usage. CyberMedia 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) 040-56547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com ____________________________________________________________ Does your mail provider give you a free online calendar? Yahoo! does. Get Yahoo! Mail http://uk.mail.yahoo.com

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Minimum standard of library as per UGC norms
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26 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:50:07 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Sanjay Kataria" <katariasanjay2001(a)yahoo.com> Dear friends, Kindly provide the detailed information on Library standard as per UGC norms. Best regards Thanks & Regards =============================== Sanjay Kataria Librarian (Acting) Learning Resource Centre (Library) Jaypee Institute of Information Technology A-10,Sector-62, Noida (UP) 201307 Ph. 9810503341 (Mobile) 0120-2400973 to 978 Ext. 251 E-mail: katariasanjay2001(a)yahoo.com, sanjay.kataria(a)jiitindia.org

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ICADL2004-Shangai, China-Dec 13-17-Call for papers
by Mailing List Manager 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 23:57:11 +0530 (IST) From: shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in -------------Apologies for cross postings------ Here is the call for papers for ICADL 2001. Important Dates are: Submission of Abstracts (full papers only) - June 10, 2004 Submission of Full Papers - July 1, 2004 Submission of Short Papers - July 1, 2004 --------- The 7th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries ------- International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization ( http://icadl2004.sjtu.edu.cn) Call for papers After its six-years efficient exploration in offering a forum to promote and share the latest development of technology of digital library, the International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) has turned out to be a grand annual event in the library and IT communities in Asia and the world as well. The 7th ICADL Conference in 2004 will be hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai Library in Shanghai, China from December 13 to 17. The theme of this conference is: Digital Libraries International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization. Papers are solicited in a wide variety of digital library related areas, including (but not limited to): Main Topics: Service and Management New forms and models of DL services; Digital library performance, resources, usefulness, usability and evaluation;User studies: user communities, user needs, user behavior, usage pattern; Social, legal and economic issues related DL, such as privacy, intelligence property, information security, sustainability;Knowledge management and its application in DL; New institution roles and responsibilities of DL in 21st century. Live reference service Personalization service Collaboration and Localization Case studies on successful national, cross-regional and international DL collaboration projects and impact in Asia-Pacific Region;Preserving, organizing and disseminating Asian unique and indigenous knowledge and culture;Novel methods and tools for Asian languages information processing. Exploring a Cross-Culture Context for DL studies in Asia, social impacts of DL in Asia. Technology Digital library system: architectures, interoperability, mobile applications, agents related to DL;Access to distributed and heterogeneous digital collections: interoperability, scalability, relevant information discovery, meta-information integration, Mass storage;Information retrieval and data mining: novel IR technologies of text and multimedia, data mining; multi- and cross-lingual data access and searching, machine translation and machine learning; Information organization and content management: metadata and OAI, ontologies and semantic web, topic maps;Human-computer interaction: interfaces, visualization, portals, personalization;Technical standards、protocol in DL area and implication strategies; Grid technologies and digital libraries E-publication Proceedings Conference Proceedings will be composed of long (full) papers (10 pages), short papers (4 pages) and poster papers (2 pages) and be published by Springers Lecture Note Series in Computer Science (LNCS). Important Date: Submission of Abstracts (full papers only) June 10, 2004 Submission of Full Papers July 1, 2004 Submission of Short Papers July 1, 2004 Papers should be written in English and submitted in electronic format. More details will be released dynamically at the 7th ICADL Conferences website: http://icadl2004.sjtu.edu.cn. And much more will be given around March. Please contact us if you have any questions: Mr. Yuan Guojing, Ms. Guojing Email: icadl2004(a)mail.lib.sjtu.edu.cn Tel.: +86-21-62933229 Fax: +86-21-62820892 The Organization Committee of the 7th ICADL Conference Shanghai, P.R. China

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PNAS - Free on the web to Indian readers
by Mailing List Manager 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 09:25:26 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> "All - Free access to PNAS Online was made available to India on Tuesday, April 20. We are excited about this development, and that PNAS Online and publications of the National Academies Press are now available in more than 140 developing countries. Please let me know if you have any difficulty with access to PNAS." -- Ken Fulton Publisher PNAS

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CMI launches Pervasive Computing initiative (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:41:41 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> CMI launches Pervasive Computing initiative For the last 40 years, humans have been slaves to their computers. Now the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) is setting up an innovative research community that will look for specific ways to reverse the relationship - and put humans firmly back in charge. For more information about these, and about CMI, please visit our website: http://www.cambridge-mit.org For more information please contact: Rachel Simpson, CMI 01223 448764 Mobile: 07796 261297 E-mail: r.simpson(a)cmi.cam.ac.uk

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FW: PNAS not yet free to Indians!
by Mailing List Manager 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 18:56:49 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: I am happy to inform you that soon scientists and research students in India will get free access to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, immediately on publication. I have been writing to officials at the NAS for some time and this letter from Prof. Bruce Alberts, President, NAS, makes me extremely happy. Best wishes. Arun ------- I am pleased to be able to announce that, at the NAS publishing committee meeting a week ago, it was voted to increase the list of immediately free nations for PNAS to match the list for our immediately free PDFs of 3000 Academy books and reports. Those nations just added include India and South Africa, and will now total 140. All nations everywhere (including the US) have been getting PNAS for free for many years, following a 6 month delay from the publication date. The publisher of PNAS, Ken Fulton, and I will send everyone an email once the new system has been fully implemented on the PNAS website. There has been a brief delay because of the software installations needed to implement the change on the site. With best regards, Bruce ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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US patent Search
by Mailing List Manager 23 Apr '04

23 Apr '04

Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:02:00 +0530 From: Bhojaraju G. <bhojaraju.g(a)icicionesource.com> Dear Mr.Biradar, You may refer Patents Page : http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html <http://www.uspto.gov/> Search Page : http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/search-bool.html Example : Search Results for Chemistry (the same way u can do for others) http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2 <http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2= HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TER M1=chemistry&FIELD1=&co1=AND&TERM2=&FIELD2=&d=ptxt> &Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l =50&TERM1=chemistry&FIELD1=&co1=AND&TERM2=&FIELD2=&d=ptxt with regards Bhojaraju G. www.bhojarajug.cjb.net <http://www.bhojarajug.cjb.net/>

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Moving over to Linux
by Mailing List Manager 23 Apr '04

23 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:56:23 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Here is some good news for those who want to migrate to Linux. New software would let Windows programs run on Linux A Philippine-based company unveiled software Thursday that would allow Windows-based programs to run on computers using the Linux operating system. SpecOps Labs said its software will help millions of users migrate from Windows to the free and open-source Linux platform. Several other companies have developed software that combines Linux's underpinnings with a Windows-like interface, but they generally cannot run programs written for Windows. Previous attempts to run Windows word processors, spreadsheets, and other applications smoothly on Linux machines have been largely unsuccessful and cumbersome. SpecOps said the 80MB program will be available commercially by the end of the year at a still-undetermined price. It said it expects to sell more than 30,000 copies of the program and generate about $1 million in gross revenues in the first year. InformationWeek / AP <http://infonomics.nl/ref.php?nid=1741>, April 22, 2004

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Applications are invited for the recruitment of Library Trainee
by Mailing List Manager 23 Apr '04

23 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:06:43 +0530 From: Ramesh Gaur <rcgaur(a)tifr.res.in> TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH HOMI BHABHA ROAD, MUMBAI-400 005. NOTICE NO. 16/2002 Applications are invited for the recruitment of Library Trainee in the Institute on monthly stipend of Rs.5000/-. The Library Trainee shall be admitted for one year from June 2004 to May 2005. Qualifications : Graduate and Degree in Library Science from a recognized university. Age : Below 30 years. Interested candidates may please send their applications indicating full particulars such as name, age, qualifications, experience, caste/tribe, names and addresses of two referees and the mark list to: The Administrative Officer II (Special Cell), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai-400 005 The application should reach to above address on or before May 10, 2004. The candidates who have appeared for final year Exam and results awaited can also apply. The selected trainees may have to work in shifts between 0745 hrs. and 2200 hrs. (including Saturdays, Sundays and other holidays) whenever instructed to do so. Regards Ramesh C. Gaur, Ph.D Librarian (Scientific Officer 'E') ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Deemed University and National Centre of the Government of India) Homi Bhabha Road, Navy Nagar, Colaba, Mumbai-400 005 Phone: 022-22804545 Ext. 2230, Fax: 022-22804610, 22804611 URL: www.tifr.res.in\~library E-mails: rcgaur(a)tifr.res.in, ramesh_c_gaur(a)hotmail.com

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Web Enabled Databases
by Mailing List Manager 23 Apr '04

23 Apr '04

Date: 23 Apr 2004 04:27:21 -0000 From: Geetha <vgitha(a)rediffmail.com> Respected Sir I need information on "Development of Web Enabled Databases" kindly give me references so that where can i get information. Thanking you Geetha Librarian Indegene Life Systems 130, 1st Main, 5th Block Koramangala Bangalore-560095 geetha(a)indegene.com www.indegene.com

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World Book Day and Copyright Day
by Mailing List Manager 23 Apr '04

23 Apr '04

Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:34:17 +0530 From: Monitor Information Services <emonitor(a)sancharnet.in> April 23rd is World Book Day and Copyright Day. The idea for this celebration originated in Catalonia where on April 23rd, St.George's Day, a rose is traditionally given as a gift for each book sold. In today's context World Book Day aims to prioritize reading and publishing and to promote protection of intellectual property rights through copyrights. Though World Book Day may seem just like any other "Day" declared to create something out of nothing and generate more business, but it is actually a rather symbolic way to show respect to authors who have contributed to social and cultural progress. "Reading sets your imagination afire; It can make you larger than life and Make your understanding of life so much more complete" READ A BOOK !, GIFT A BOOK TODAY !!! Mukesh Anand www.monitorinfo.com

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new comer
by Mailing List Manager 23 Apr '04

23 Apr '04

Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:09:02 +0530 From: Vrushali Rane <librarian(a)nmims.edu> Dear All, HI! I am a new entrant on Lis Forum. I wanted to know the type of research one can take up on library consortia. 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

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Radio Talk on 23rd April 2004
by Mailing List Manager 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 11:14:07 +0530 From: Srels <srels(a)blr.vsnl.net.in> A Radio Talk on World Book and Copy Right Day by Dr. K.N. Prasad, Executive Officer, Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore will be broadcast on 23rd (Friday) April 2004 at 9.16 p.m. by the All-India Radio, Bangalore Centre. Dr. K.N. Prasad SRELS, Bangalore

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webometric - books or articls
by Mailing List Manager 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:57:52 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Thajudin S" <thaj60(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Sir I would like to know more about webometric methodology. I request that available literature may please send to me. Thanking you THAJUDIN CPCRI REGIONAL STATION KRISNAPURAM PO KAYANKULAM - 690533 KERALA

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Forwarded mail....
by Mailing List Manager 19 Apr '04

19 Apr '04

Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 10:14:13 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Hanamanthraya Biradar" <biradar_76(a)yahoo.co.in> dear friends, i am in need of a patent numbers regarding US patent number so &so in the subject field of chemistry, pharmacy, & health sciences. please inform me the specific websites in this concern as soon as possible & how to down load those articles also. thanking you Hanamanthraya Biradar

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Free Book Cable an autobiography (Digital format only)
by Mailing List Manager 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:22:52 +0530 From: Satish Hulyalkar <satish(a)vsnl.com> Dear Friends, "Cable An Autobiography" booklet written by Mr. V M Gogte is now available for reading on line/download for those interested. We all know cable (TV, Telephone, Electric, Fiber etc) plays an important role in our day to day life. Mr. V. M. Gogte who has spent his life in telecommunications has written this book to explain some plain and simple facts about cable in this book for lay man. He has granted me rights to be made available for reading free of cost, specially to school and college students interested in telecommunications. Those interested will find this at http://www.SatishHulyalkar.com/downloads/cable.pdf with regards Satish Hulyalkar Consultant Telecom & Knowledge Management Enhancing Office Productivity through Training and Coaching Pune/India Phone: +91 (20) 567 4343 Mobile: +91 98223-41468 http://www.SatishHulyalkar.com _________________________________________________________________

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Google experiments with Fulltext eprint archives retrieval (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:44:02 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> >From Chronicle of Hugher EDucation: April 9, 2004 Website:http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php?id=uqhyv7n4hnlw9ke78oapjlpbflewz 7dm (The URL given above is a temporary URL valid for a few days as free source for fulltext for everyone, but the fulltext is available to subscribers permanantly at some other URL. URL given here only to show the source) Google, the popular search-engine company, has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 16 other universities around the world to provide a way to search the institutions' collections of scholarly papers, according to university officials. A pilot test of the project is just getting under way. If all goes as planned, the search feature could appear on Google in a few months, said MacKenzie Smith, associate director of technology for MIT's libraries. She said the search would probably be an option on Google's advanced-search page. <http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en> "A lot of times the richest scholarly literature is buried" in search-engine results, said Ms. Smith. "As more and more content is on the Web, it's harder and harder to find the high-quality stuff that you need." Google has long indexed university Web pages, but the new project will allow users to direct their searches to on-campus repositories of scholarly materials, sometimes known as superarchives. Those archives contain copies of academic papers, technical reports, drafts of articles, and other work by a university's professors. Scholars can choose whether their works will be available to all Internet users or only to others on their own campuses. The participating universities have tagged all the materials in their superarchives with "metadata tags" -- hidden codes that contain catalog information and summaries -- that can help a search engine like Google's sort through the material. MIT has developed free software, called DSpace, <http://www.dspace.org/> that colleges and universities can use to set up superarchives. About 125 universities have done so, but no one had created a tool that searches across the archives, said Ms. Smith. So far, each of the 17 participating institutions has, on average, about 1,000 papers in its archive, said Ms. Smith. But she said the collections are growing rapidly. "It's going to scale up pretty fast over the next few years," she said. Ms. Smith said the universities also plan to work with providers of other search engines. "It's not like we're working on an exclusive arrangement with Google," she said, adding that the universities are neither being paid nor paying for the arrangement. "We may even do our own thing over time" to search across the archives, she said. In the pilot test, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc., a nonprofit library organization, has set up a search process that will serve as an interface between Google and the universities. "This will make it a lot easier to find a particular article," said Thomas Hickey, a chief scientist for OCLC. Ms. Smith said that she hopes to include all 125 DSpace users in the search tool in the future. Officials at Google could not be reached for comment. Besides MIT's, <https://dspace.mit.edu/> the institutional archives that will be included in the pilot test are at: * Australian National University <http://dspace.anu.edu.au/> * Cornell University <http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/> * Cranfield University <http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk> * European University Institute <http://cadmus.iue.it/dspace/> * Hong Kong University of Science and Technology <http://repository.ust.hk/index.jsp> * Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis <https://dspace.iupui.edu/> * Minho University <https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/> * Ohio State University <https://dspace.lib.ohio-state.edu/index.jsp/> * Parma University <http://dspace-unipr.cilea.it:8080/> * University of Arizona <https://dlearn.arizona.edu/> * University of Calgary <https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/> * University of Oregon <https://ir.uoregon.edu:8443/dspace/> * University of Rochester <https://dspace.lib.rochester.edu/> * University of Toronto <https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/> * University of Washington <https://digital.lib.washington.edu/dspace/> * University of Wisconsin <http://dspace.library.wisc.edu/dspace/> 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

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New Center of Digital Knowledge for Public Health Brings Latest Research to Practitioners
by Mailing List Manager 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:06:03 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: I received this in the mail from a discussion list I belong to. You may find it useful. Arun New Center of Digital Knowledge for Public Health Brings Latest Research to Practitioners April 13, 2004 SLU Receives $400K Donation From Sun Microsystems ST. LOUIS -- Do patients always benefit from the latest scientific research and medical discoveries? The alarming answer is "no," says the dean of Saint Louis University School of Public Health. "It takes an average of 17 years to introduce newly discovered, effective clinical interventions in routine patient care, " said Dr. E. Andrew Balas. "The latest research results and medical discoveries are released so rapidly that health practitioners cannot learn and implement the new information fast enough." As a solution to this problem, the Saint Louis University School of Public Health will establish a new Center of Digital Knowledge for Public Health. This center will provide computer resources to assist key people in health care concerned about public health issues. It also will assist in disease surveillance, and provide access to a public health digital library and interactive digital resources for public health practitioners. The center will offer training opportunities in public health informatics, a science concerned with the gathering, manipulation, and storage of recorded health knowledge. Future public health leaders as well as current professionals will be able to take advantage of these opportunities. Read more: http://www.slu.edu/readstory/newsinfo/4175 <http://www.slu.edu/readstory/newsinfo/4175> Thanks, Bob

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FW: [DIGITALDIVIDE] EBSCO Provides Databases for Iraqi Universiti es (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:43:43 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is a news story I received in my mail through another discussion list I belong to. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] EBSCO Provides Databases for Iraqi Universities Wednesday, April 14, 2004 Ipswich Chronicle <http://www.townonline.com/ipswich/news/local_regional/ ips_newicebscoje04142004.htm> A shorter URL for the link above: <http://snipurl.com/5q51> As part of the Al Sharaka Program for Higher Education in Iraq, an important initiative undertaken by USAID and universities making up the Oklahoma Higher Education Partners, all non-commercial institutions in Iraq have instant access to a wealth of information through participation by EBSCO Publishing, based in Ipswich. Al Sharaka has partnered with EBSCO such that Iraqi universities, schools and public libraries gain unlimited online access to complete articles from thousands of journals, magazines, reference books, country reports and other information sources covering virtually every subject area. This critical information is available in specific databases through the Web-based research system, EBSCOhost. >From business and financial information to psychological and sociological literature, to the hard sciences of chemistry, physics, medicine, engineering and much more, EBSCOhost provides access to the world's most valued information sources for any university, school or public library researcher. Databases available to institutions in Iraq include: Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, MasterFILE Premier and MEDLINE. ----------------------------------------------------- The full article may be read at the URL above. For more information, visit: http://www.ebsco.com Sincerely, David Dillard Temple University (215) 204 - 4584 jwne(a)astro.temple.edu <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NetGold/> <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html> <http://www.kovacs.com/medref-l/medref-l.html>

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Interesting article on Google
by Mailing List Manager 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 23:12:58 +0530 From: Vasumathi Sriganesh <vasu(a)qmedin.com> Dear colleagues, Trust this sounds good to all library & information professionals! http://www.masshightech.com/displayarticledetail.asp?art_id=64126&cat_ id=172 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

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**OAI Data Providers: General**
by Mailing List Manager 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:27:55 -0500 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> **OAI Data Providers: General** I am pleased to announce the publication and availability of my latest eProfile column from _Library Hi Tech News_: Gerry McKiernan. "Open Archives Initiative Data Providers. Part I. General," _Library Hi Tech News_ 21 no. 3 (April 2004): 11-19. A copy of the article has been self-archived at http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-DP-I.pdf In this first of a planned three part series on OAI Data Providers I profile: Digital Library of the Commons [ http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/ ] E-LIS: Eprints in Library and Information Science [ http://eprints.rclis.org/ ] INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collection [ http://infomine.ucr.edu/ ] Open Video Project [ http://www.open-video.org/ ] . Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan PDB Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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NCSI's IKM Course Advertisement
by Francis Jayakanth 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Dear Member: The advertisement for the next batch of training programme on "Information and Knowledge Management (IKM)", offered by the National Centre for Science information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, has already appeared in the leading national and local news papers, and also in the English/Hindi/Urdu editions of employment news. A copy of the advertisement is furnished below with a request to provide a wide publicity for the training programme. Thanks & Regards, - Francis NCSI, IISc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advertisement ------------- NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENCE INFORMATION (NCSI) INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE BANGALORE- 560012 REQUIRES TRAINEES for the "Information and Knowledge Management (IKM)" training programme of NCSI Advt. No.R(IB)008-3/2004. No. of positions: 08 [GEN-03, OBC-01, SC-1 and Sponsored Candidates-03] Minimum Qualifications: 1. Ist Class Bachelor's Degree in Science (B.Sc) with Master's Degree in Library/Information Science or Associateship in Documentation/Information Science awarded by DRTC or INSDOC with a minimum of IInd Class. One or two years of experience in a Library/Information Centre and basic knowledge of computers is desirable. OR Ist Class B.E., M.B.B.S., or M.Sc with a minimum of one year experience in information handling. 2. SC candidates with pass class will also be considered. 3. The sponsored candidates should forward their application through the proper channel. No stipend will be paid to the sponsored candidates. Training is for a period of 18 months w.e.f. 01.08.2004 on a stipend of Rs.5,000/- per month (Fixed). Please visit our website at http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/training/ for more details. [Please note that the above website address is meant only for IKM training programme of NCSI - item # II in the advertisement. Also, Applications sent by email attachments and/or by emails *WILL NOT* be entertained]. GENERAL CONDITIONS Those who have completed their qualifying examination and awarded the degree only need apply. The Institute will have no obligation to absorb them on completion of the training. No accommodation will be available on the Institute campus during the training programme. Candidates who are willing to be considered strictly on the aforesaid conditions may send their application in plain paper with details of their (I) Name, (ii) Date of Birth, (iii) Address, (iv) Educational Qualifications (indicating examinations passed, year, percentage and class obtained since SSLC/Matriculation), (v) Caste(SC/ST/OBC/GEN) (vi) Copy of the medical certificate in the prescribed form issued by the Competent Medical Authority for the purpose of employment in the case of PH candidates, together with xerox copies of Marks Card, Certificates to THE ASSISTANT REGISTRAR, UNIT-lB, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, BANGALORE - 560 012 on or before 30.04.2004. ----------------------- Dated: 01.04.2004 REGISTRAR

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Free Books for Libraries
by Mailing List Manager 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:44:57 +0530 From: Monitor Information Services <emonitor(a)sancharnet.in> 16 April 2004 Dear Friends Continuing with our last year effort, this year we are once again offering Free Books on various subjects to deserving institutional libraries. Kindly provide us your area of interest thus enabling us to send appropriate books to you Free of Cost. Even the freight/post/courier charges will be paid by us. Please note that we are unable to provide List of Titles available in this lot and your subjects/areas , information will be useful in selecting free books for you byour trained staff. Best Wishes Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing Monitor Information Services library suppliers of books n cd-rom's 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda , Hyderabad 500 029 T: 040 - 55787065 : 040 - 27552390 F: +91-40-27569299 http://www.monitorinfo.com

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Invitation to National Mission for Manuscripts Forumfor Library scientists to stand
by rama.budihal＠wipro.com 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Dear Shafi, The idea is to join the National Mss Mission forum and to contribute for standardization of Meta data, classfication, cataloging in machine readable etc., along with other set of subject experts, scholars and manuscriptologists that is most suited for Indian Mss. Hope this clarifies. Best regards, Rama -----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: Thursday, April 15, 2004 12:10 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Invitation to National Mission for Manuscripts Forumfor Library scientists to stand Date: 13 Apr 2004 09:16:23 -0000 From: Dr. S M.SHAFI <shafi_sm(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Rama We could not understand the mail whether u are interested in developing metadata set for manuscripts databases or to help natioanl Mission of manuscripts in designing digital library etc or organise a different forum . It seems confusing . please clarify as we are concerned and interested in preservation , digitization and delivery of mss here as well Thanks s m shafi >You are welcome to participate in a National Forum for preservation, >conservation and Digitization of Manuscripts of India located in India >and abroad. On Feb 7th 2003, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Honorable Prime >Minister of India launched the National Mission for Manuscripts [truncated] _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Confidentiality Notice The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender at Wipro or Mailadmin(a)wipro.com immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments.

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Japan Ponders Starting a Global Journal
by Mailing List Manager 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:45:05 +0530 From: Krishnan <krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in> Interesting news item from Science =96 12th March 2004 issue TOKYO--Does a country need to publish its own internationally recognized journals to be a scientific power? Last month a group of Japanese scientists debated that question at a symposium and wound up offering a tentative "yes." Supporters argued = that publishing a top-tier international journal in English would benefit = efforts to disseminate the country's scientific achievements and strengthen = Japanese scientists' ability to evaluate and communicate research results. But = they readily admit that they have yet to address sizable logistical and = financial hurdles that such an endeavor would entail. The meeting, sponsored by an ad hoc group and held at the high-level = Science Council of Japan (SCJ), reflects growing concern about the health of the country's scientific publications. Japanese researchers and officials = are proud of the growing number of Japanese papers in top journals overseas, = and they note that the quality of an individual's publication record has = become an important element in promotion and grant decisions. Shun-Ichi Murahashi, a professor emeritus of chemistry at Okayama = University of Science and a member of an SCJ committee studying the issue, says = that the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), for example, has = grown in the last decade in part by boosting the number of papers by = Japan-based researchers. According to ACS, their share rose from 8.7% in 1997 to = 11.6% last year. "Overseas journals seem to be expanding by including more Japanese papers," Murahashi says. Over the same period, the number of Japanese authors on research papers in Science has grown by roughly = half, although the overall number of published papers has held steady. But some scientists believe that those developments mask an alarming = decline in the health of Japan's own scientific publications. The = English-language Journal of the Physical Society of Japan lost one-third of its = subscribers during the 1990s, Murahashi says, and experienced a comparable decline = in the number of papers published and their impact factor. Similar trends = are occurring at most Japanese journals. Murahashi welcomes the growing number of Japanese scientists on review boards and in editorial positions at foreign journals. But the decline = of domestic journals, he warns, shrinks the country's pool of research "assets." "It's quite clear that we need to start our own international journals," he says. Some speakers believe that a Japan-based international journal would = also result in a fairer shake for Japanese and Asian researchers. Ryoji = Noyori, a 2001 Nobel laureate in chemistry who leads the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), says that "the review process at foreign = journals is a black box" for many Japanese scientists, and he and others say they still hear occasional complaints about reviewers poaching research = results before the paper has been published.=20 Kiyoshi Kurokawa, a professor of medicine at Tokai University and = current SCJ president, is wary of such claims. He suspects that they date from decades ago and no longer reflect current practice. Instead of = complaining, he urged those interested in starting a new journal to first understand = "why Nature and Science have survived and have readers willing to pay for = their subscriptions." Both journals, he says, have earned a reputation for fairness and excellence.=20 If Japan decides to start such a journal, he suggested that it be electronic. He pointed to the popularity of J-STAGE (for Japan Science = and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic; www.jstage.jst.go.jp), a portal that provides access to the publications and news of more than = 140 Japanese societies. Each society determines what content will be = available through J-STAGE, which is operated by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), an affiliate of the Ministry of Education, and whether any restrictions should apply. In addition to making the material more accessible domestically, J-STAGE has greatly increased the foreign readership of Japanese journals. The print version of Cell Structure and Function, published by the Japan Society for Cell Biology, had a 97% Japanese readership, he notes, whereas 92% of the readers of the online version--with free and full access--are from overseas.=20 Whether electronic or print, a new journal will be expensive. Koichi Kitazawa, executive director of JST, shocked the audience by estimating = that an $18 million annual subsidy would be needed to create an interdisciplinary, international journal. His estimate, which includes = some sort of incentive plan to support successful research teams, is intended = to send a message "to people who think that it is possible to launch such a journal easily." And whereas RIKEN's Noyori believes that "strengthening = the dissemination of scientific information" should be a government = priority, Tokai's Kurokawa would prefer to see the journal pay its own way. Supporters of the idea haven't yet asked the government for money. But = one of the science community's best friends in the diet (legislature) has already signaled his support for the idea. "I recognize the need to strengthen Japan's efforts to broadcast Japanese research results to the world," Koji Omi told participants. As an added boost, Omi also proposed that granting agencies give greater weight to domestic publications when deciding which scientists to fund. Dr. S. Krishnan Head, Information Division=20 National Chemical Lab, PUNE 411008, INDIA e-mail: HYPERLINK "mailto:krish@ems.ncl.res.in"krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in HYPERLINK "http://www.ncl-india.org"http://www.ncl-india.org Tel: 020-25893457; Fax: 020-25893973 ---

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InfoWatch- March 2004
by M.R Lalitha 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Dear LIS-Forum member, The March 2004 issue of InfoWatch is now online, bringing you details of new Internet sites related to Science and Engineering. You can access the complete issue on the NCSI Web server at the URL : http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/infowatch/iw.php You will also find earlier issues of InfoWatch here. For your convenience, the table of contents is given below. If you wish to be on the mailing list of InfoWatch to receive the complete issue by e-mail, let us know. Also mention your format preference - html or text. Regards -Lalitha M.R lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ------------------------------------------------------------------------ InfoWatch Tracking Networked Scientific Information Sources and Services (An electronic update service brought to you by NCSI) Mar 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue: 1. Amethyst galleries - Mineral gallery 2. Aqua Data Studio - Database query tool 3. Crystal structure database 4. Earth Observing System (EOS) Aura [NASA mission to study the Earth's ozone, air quality and climate] 5. Electronics zone [A source of reference to engineers] 6. FOLDOC - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing 7. GeneTests [Medical genetics information resource] 8. Handbook of User-Centred Design 9. ITPRC.COM - The Information Technology Professional's Resource Center 10. KillerInfo - A meta search engine with clustering 11. libquantum - The C library for quantum computing 12. NetRexx programming language 13. PEERS - Physics Encyclopedia of Email Records 14. ProTherm - Thermodynamic database for proteins and mutants 15. Sedna [A new planet in the solar system discovered by astronomers from Caltech, Gemini Observatory and Yale University] 16. Silent PC Review.Com 17. SIMBAD Astronomical database 18. TOP500 Supercomputer sites 19. Topix.net - Pick your topic, get the news 20. VNC - Virtual Network Computing software ------------------------------------------------------------------------ About InfoWatch : InfoWatch is a monthly electronic newsletter, brought out by the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, INDIA. Information in the newsletter is collected and verified by NCSI staff.The newsletter aims to raise awareness of new sources of information on the Internet, particularly those which are relevant for higher education and research. Some items may be of relevance only to the IISc community.Resources reported here have been taken from various discussion lists and other network tools and no special claims are made for accuracy or originality. Most of the sources cited in the newsletter were checked at the time of publication, however it is possible that some of the resources are no longer available. We welcome comments about the newsletter and suggestions for resources to be featured. Please e-mail your comments to Infowatch editors: Ms. K. Thulasi (thulasi(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) & Ms. M. R. Lalitha (lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Invitation to National Mission for Manuscripts Forum for Library scientists to stand
by Mailing List Manager 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Date: 13 Apr 2004 09:16:23 -0000 From: Dr. S M.SHAFI <shafi_sm(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Rama We could not understand the mail whether u are interested in developing metadata set for manuscripts databases or to help natioanl Mission of manuscripts in designing digital library etc or organise a different forum . It seems confusing . please clarify as we are concerned and interested in preservation , digitization and delivery of mss here as well Thanks s m shafi >You are welcome to participate in a National Forum for preservation, >conservation and Digitization of Manuscripts of India located in India >and abroad. >On Feb 7th 2003, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Honorable Prime Minister of >India launched the National Mission for Manuscripts [truncated]

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FW: Invitation to National Mission for Manuscripts Forum for Library scientists to standardise on Meta Data
by Mailing List Manager 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:52:08 +0530 From: rama.budihal(a)wipro.com I think the link for people to join did not appear in the mail sent by the mailing list. So as a follow-up here it is. Welcome aboard!!! Click on the link below if you have a HTML view else kindly paste this address to you browser to subscribe http://groups.yahoo.com/group/namami_forum/join <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/namami_forum/join> Click to subscribe to namami_forum

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RE: [LIS-Forum] DDC--choice of main class
by Mailing List Manager 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:07:46 +0530 From: manish mankad <Manish.Mankad(a)unilever.com> As the central theme is on poverty alleviation ( social aspect, strategies, problems,etc.) and NOT on NGOs (i.e what they are, case studies, management thereof etc.), i would prefer the said book to be classified under Poverty. One need to ask a question: which principal group of readers will be interested in this book based on the central theme? In our case, is the book covering NGOs exhaustively enough to be the claimant for the main class or is it the poverty that gets discussed all the time ? The DDC has the principle of classifying under the respective discipline and not under subject. Hence the povery alleviation will come under the discipline of social sector/welfare (362.5) and welfare facilities will get under (362.583). This is as per DDC 20. -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, April 12, 2004 5:01 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] DDC--choice of main class Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:40:06 +0530 From: prafulla(a)nisc.co.in Dear All: Here's a book title: Poverty alleviation strategies of NGOs. Should we classify this book under "poverty alleviation" or under "NGOs"? Do we have any guidelines in DDC similar to Dr Ranganathan's wall-picture, cow-calf, etc. principles which we use in CC? Please note this issue pertains not just facet sequence, but in which class should we classify a book. Any help on the above would be appreciated. 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Invitation to National Mission for Manuscripts Forum for Library scientists to standardise on Meta Data
by Mailing List Manager 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:22:07 +0530 From: rama.budihal(a)wipro.com Greetings, You are welcome to participate in a National Forum for preservation, conservation and Digitization of Manuscripts of India located in India and abroad. On Feb 7th 2003, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Honorable Prime Minister of India launched the National Mission for Manuscripts As most of you are already aware that India has a largest collection of manuscripts in the world. Composed in different Indian languages and scripts, they cover religion, philosophy, systems of science, arts and literature. Preserved in materials such as birch bark, palm leaf, cloth, wood, stone and paper, they are spread all over the country and abroad in libraries, academic institutions, museums, temples, monasteries and with individuals. Some of this wealth has disappeared, while a large portion is in a state of damage and decay. India's manuscripts wealth has to be preserved and redeemed. This forum invites active professionals from various forms of learning to help the Mission. So if you are any one of the following and want to contribute meaningfully for a National Cause please join the forum by clicking on the link below. Management Professional/consultant Library Science specialist Scholar on Indology Quality professional (such as ISO, CMM, Six-sigma etc.,) Scientist S/W professional Economist/ Financial Expert Manuscriptologist Epigraphist Archivist Linguist Archeologist/Conversationalist Social Entrepreneur Etc., Etc., Also if you feel that you can give your time for the Forum's activity such as making presentations, generating leads on where Manuscripts are available etc., you should definitely enroll into the forum. It is imperative that a necessity to establish a Digital Library of Manuscripts that are located in Mutts, Institutions, private collections etc., are need of hour for all Indians. We need more volunteers to locate and also actively participate in digitization, cataloging, conservation and anti-fumigation of the manuscripts, Mission also need volunteers from US/Europe especially in London, Germany etc., to get in touch with Universities and Libraries to collect information on Indian Manuscripts, old books etc., this magnanimous project will definitely benefit all Indians World-wide to preserve the cultural heritage of the works of our ancestors.

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Lecture invitation
by Mailing List Manager 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 13:16:39 +0530 From: Srels <srels(a)blr.vsnl.net.in> Executive Committee Prof. M.R. Kumbhar Memorial Lectures, Bangalore Cordially invites you to the Prof. M.R. Kumbhar Memorial Lectures(10) (2004) on LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION IN INDIA: SOME ISSUES by Dr. V.G. Talawar Professor, Dept. of Studies in Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Mysore Dr. T.D. Kemparaju Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science, Bangalore University Library, Bangalore presides on 16th April 2004 at 6.00 pm at Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, Upstairs, 42nd Cross, (near Syndicate Bank) III Block, Rajajinagar, BANGALORE 560 010 RSVP: 23305109

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DDC--choice of main class
by Mailing List Manager 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:40:06 +0530 From: prafulla(a)nisc.co.in Dear All: Here's a book title: Poverty alleviation strategies of NGOs. Should we classify this book under "poverty alleviation" or under "NGOs"? Do we have any guidelines in DDC similar to Dr Ranganathan's wall-picture, cow-calf, etc. principles which we use in CC? Please note this issue pertains not just facet sequence, but in which class should we classify a book. Any help on the above would be appreciated. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Supreme court cases online-Free
by Mailing List Manager 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:44:09 +0530 From: Jayadev Kadli <jhkadli(a)hotmail.com> Dear Friends Some of you know the following website. This mail is to those who dont know about the following site. The website http://www.supremecourtonline.com/ brings the latest Cases decided by the Supreme Court of India totally FREE, with no obligations to buy or subscribe to any service. The Management and law schools, Colleges and higher studies can make use of this site for their studies. Jayadev H Kadli Librarian Lala Lajpat Rai College of Comm & Eco Opp. Haji Ali, Mahalaxmi Mumbai - 400034 ph. 24905187

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Google Webalerts
by Mailing List Manager 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:16:07 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Dear Friends: Google is experimenting with a new facility called Google Webalerts. It is at www.google.com/webalerts Like news alerts introduced some months ago, this is for monitoring new content on all websites visited by Google based on search words specified by you. Librarians can provide custom-made SDI service to customers without much efforts. Best wishes 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

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RE: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants
by Mailing List Manager 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 2:15:34 -0500 From: Atanu Garai <atanu(a)takingitglobal.org> I am not particularly aware of the incorporations of information literacy related modules in course instructions of school/undergraduate or graduate levels in S.Africa or SE Asian countries,but as you know information literacy as a precursor for making young citizens fit for the knowledge society has been promoted in US for a long time since past two decades by the LIS schools,LIS associations and even the government.Information literacy has been taught as part of curriculum even at the school level;students are encouraged to learn how to search and retreive information in very nascent stages.Whereas,lack of this skill prevents us to produce quality information literate people,even doctoral candidates lack basic information search skills. I wonder how many of our LIS schools have incoporated "information literacy" in thier course curriculum.I have gone through an LIS syllabi bank recently and have not traced a single one. It is indeed imperative to start from the LIS itself then intoducing the information literacy into other disciplines. ~Atanu -- Atanu Garai|atanu(a)takingitglobal.org http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/atanu http://www.dgroups.org/groups/education --------- 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> Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants (fwd) Date: 07/04/04 13:07 > Sir, > > Is there anything that can be done to market the OA initiative among > institutions in India ? Is it possible that we are wrong in our approach > each time ? I am talking here about the "Information literacy" competency > of our elite (the educated, of course). [truncated]

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Postponement of ASSIST National Seminar
by Mailing List Manager 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

Date: 8 Apr 2004 04:13:33 -0000 From: Drbalabhim Shankarappa Biradar <bsbiradar53(a)rediffmail.com> � Dear Sir /Madam For Kind attention to all Library and Information Science Professionals 4th ASSIST National Seminar on "Digital Resources and Services in Libraries" which was scheduled to be held on 12-13th April 2004 has been postponed to 30th April and 1st May 2004 due to general election for Assembly and Parliament. I also request to convey this message to all professional friends Dr. B.S. Biradar Organising Secretary 4th ASSIST National Seminar and Chairman, Dept. of Library and Information Science Kuvempu University

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Online database for Indian Journals
by Mailing List Manager 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

Date: 7 Apr 2004 12:59:46 -0000 From: Subbiah Gunasekaran <gunasekaran_subbiah(a)rediffmail.com> � Dear Members: Can anyone tell me if there is any online database available for Indian Scientific journals? Thanks S. Gunasekaran

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RE: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants
by Mailing List Manager 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:24:00 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Dear Ms Chandra: Good question! We at MSSRF are holding two workshops on OA with four truly top class experts as resource persons and am insisting that each participant should set up an institutional archive after the workshop. We will provide all the software on a CD. All they need is a Linux server and a decent Internet connection. A number of institutions have sent in nominations. And more nominations are coming in every day. I am talking to key people having a big say in making science policy both here and abroad [e.g. Dr Mashelkar, Prof. Valiathan, Prof. Bruce Alberts, the Open Source Institute, the US National Academy of Sciences, InterAcademy Panel] about the need to proactively promote open access in both forms [OA journals and more importantly OA archives]. I write about OA in international media. I provide important leads to others who want to write about OA. I keep writing to librarians, heads of institutions and government officials. I am not sure if information literacy is a problem. Anyone surfing the Net or reading journals like Nature and Science will come to know of OA. Even if it were a problem, that can be set right with a little effort. Members of this list should talk about it to publishing scientists and research students, write about it and organise small group seminars in their own institutions and library associations. A few weeks ago FRONTLINE carried a detailed article on OA by one of India's best science writers. I am also not sure if open access has picked up in other countries of Asia. I am trying to organise a trination conference (Brazil, China and India) where a number of leading scientists and policymakers from these three countries will look at open access and how it can make the fie;d level playing (as far as access to information is concerned). I work with some very committed people in the UK, Canada and Europe. All of us work with hope. Eventually, many people including a majority of Indian scientists will recognise the value and usefulness of OA. Best wishes. Arun -----Original Message----- From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 1:28 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants (fwd) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 22:02:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Smita Chandra <smitac_in(a)yahoo.com> Is there anything that can be done to market the OA initiative among institutions in India ? [truncated]

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Fw: [sla-kiie] 2004 International Paper Contest
by Mailing List Manager 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 21:22:25 -0700 (PDT) From: JK Vijayakumar <vjkjk(a)yahoo.com> Appologies for cross-postings ----------------------------- 2004 International Paper Contest on International Digital Libraries and Information Science & Technology Advances in Developing Countries The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST), International Information Issues Special Interest Group (SIG-III), is pleased to announce its fifth competition for papers to be submitted for the 2004 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Providence, Rhode Island, November 13 - 18, 2004. The theme of the paper is: "Managing and Enhancing Information: Cultures and Conflicts - the developing world perspective." The paper topic could be at the country or regional level. Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on specific aspects of this theme, such as, but not limited to, the following: *Social, ethical, political, legal, and economic issues: issues related to the role of information in society, such as information policy, access, security, privacy, and intellectual property, as well as the social uses and abuses of information technologies such as the Internet and World Wide Web in bridging or separating diverse communities. *Information management, organization and access. *Information seeking and use: the role of information in professional and daily lives, use of various types of information technology, and social contexts of information seeking. There will be six winners. Winners will be selected by a panel of judges, which will include Suzie Allard, University of Tennessee; Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto; Nathalie Leroy, United Nations; Duncan Omole, The World Bank; Liwen Vaughan, University of Western Ontario; and Hong Xu, University of Pittsburgh. The contest chairs are Yunfei Du, Wayne State University; Nathalie Leroy, United Nations; and Sue O'Neill Johnson, SIG-III Immediate Past Chair. The prize for each winner is a two-year individual membership in ASIST. In the case of multiple authors, the principal author will be awarded the ASIST membership. In addition, thanks to the continued generous support from Elsevier, the first place winner will be rewarded a minimum of $1,000 toward travel, conference registration, and accommodations while attending the ASIST Annual Conference in Providence, Rhode Island, November 13 - 18, 2004. Publishing opportunities Submitted papers will be considered for posting on the SIG III web site as pre-publications. In addition, they will also be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the International Information and Library Review, subject to the usual peer refereeing process. Information for authors Only papers by a principal author who is a citizen of, and resides in a developing country are eligible. Winners in the 2000, 2001, 2002, or 2003 contests are not eligible. The papers should be original, unpublished, and in English. We encourage submissions from librarians, information and network specialists, and educators involved in the creation, representation, maintenance, exchange, discovery, delivery, and use of digital information. ASIST Copyright Policy ASIST will have the non-exclusive right to publish any of the papers submitted on its web site or in print, with ownership and all other rights remaining with the author. Deadline for submission of full papers Authors are invited to submit manuscripts, not to exceed 5000 words, by June 30, 2004. Authors are encouraged to submit papers electronically. For more information or to submit manuscripts, please contact Yunfei Du, International Paper Contest Co-Chair, by e-mail at the following address: yunfei(a)wayne.edu Please check the SIG III website (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/) for a list of previous winners, sample papers, and success stories of some previous winners! ------------- J K Vijayakumar INFLIBNET

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Free Week for 24 databases
by Mailing List Manager 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 12:38:42 +0530 From: Jeetender "Vicky" Chandna <vicky(a)irft.org> Dear friends A free week of 24 databases. http://www.gale.com/nlw/-------- Coming April 18! Celebrate information with integrity - the resources in your library Thomson Gale, known around the world for information integrity, honors the nation's libraries by hosting a free-for-all - free, unlimited access to 24 diverse databases during National Library Week, April 18-24. Visit www.gale.com 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 ------------------------------------------

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RE: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 22:02:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Smita Chandra <smitac_in(a)yahoo.com> Sir, Is there anything that can be done to market the OA initiative among institutions in India ? Is it possible that we are wrong in our approach each time ? I am talking here about the "Information literacy" competency of our elite (the educated, of course). Information literacy has to be inherit in our information policy, which is so different that the IT policy that is often/always represented, even at forums like the WSIS. Maybe we can learn a few lessons from the way South Africa and other south east Asian countries have been doing it. Thanking you and with regards, Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 18:14:40 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam Dear Vijayakumar: We are talking to the Open Society Institute about the status of India. For the first time they may make an exception and are likely to provide partial support to our OA workshops in May. [truncated]

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RE: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants
by Mailing List Manager 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 18:14:40 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Dear Vijayakumar: We are talking to the Open Society Institute about the status of India. For the first time they may make an exception and are likely to provide partial support to our OA workshops in May. I am also talking to the National Academy of Sciences, USA, to make available PNAS free on the Internet to Indian researchers immediately on publication. Often one is confronted with the question: Have we done whatever WE COULD before seeking help from others? Often the answer is no. For example, it does not take much effort or money to set up interoperable institutional open access archives, and yet I do not know of any Indian institutional archive other than the one at IISc, B'lore. It does not take much money to make our journals open access, and yet only a small number of our journals have gone open access. I must congratulate Dr D K Sahu of Bombay who has done an excellent job in making the electronic versions of more than a dozen Indian medical journals freely accessible on the Internet. At a meeting of INDEST held on 7 October, a decision was taken to set up institutional archives in the major INDEST institutions (following the model of IISc), but so far no archive has been set up. I wrote to key persons in those institutions more than once, but I have received no reply from all but one of them (my friend Jeevan from IITKh). Incidentally, international connections do not play much of a role in getting things done; persistence does. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] -----Original Message----- From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 10:20 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 03:44:43 -0800 (PST) From: JK Vijayakumar <vjkjk(a)yahoo.com> George Soros is founder and chairman of the Open Society Institute and the Soros foundations network (http://www.soros.org/)Soros foundations are autonomous institutions established in particular countries or regions to initiate and support open society activities. The priorities and specific activities of each Soros foundation are determined by a local board of directors and staff in consultation with George Soros and OSI boards and advisors. As per the guidelines the fundings will go to the countries where Soros Network is active.Unfortunately India is not covered under this catagory (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/grants.shtml) I hope Shri Arun can utilise his international relations in open access initiative to activate Soros network in India, and then ask for fundings. > India is again excluded as was done earlier > with HINARI and AGORA! > > Arun _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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website of the Indian Journal of Pediatrics
by Mailing List Manager 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 18:55:37 +0530 From: Bala G Subramanian <balagsub(a)in.ibm.com> pleased to announce the launch of a new version of the website of the Indian Journal of Pediatrics. The site address would remain same [ http://www.ijppediatricsindia.org/>]. The features of the new site include: Free full text availability of articles accessible without login (Registration required only to access PDF; registration is free) Search across multiple journals [Journal of Postgraduate Medicine ( www.jpgmonline.com), Neurology India (www.neurologyindia.com), Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology ( www.ijdvl.com), Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine ( www.ijccm.org) and Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery (www.ijps.org). Direct link to abstracts and full text from the cited references Facility to submit comments on articles Email notifications on new issue release Statistics of articles download and visits Better user interface and structure based on OpenURL, DC Metadata and other international standards As a registered user with the old site you get the priviledge to continue the free and unrestricted usage of the scientific content of the journal. To confirm your re-registration, please click on the link below: http://www.ijppediatricsindia.org/verify.asp?id=145029-203.199.114.103 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

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FW: Current Cites, March 2004
by Mailing List Manager 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 07:33:44 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is something most lis-forum members would find useful. Best wishes and happy reading. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Current Cites Volume 15, no. 3, March 2004 Edited by [2]Roy Tennant The Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720 ISSN: 1060-2356 - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2004/cc04.15.3.html Contributors: [3]Charles W. Bailey, Jr., [4]Terry Huwe, [5]Shirl Kennedy, [6]Leo Robert Klein, [7]Roy Tennant [8]Nature Web Focus: Access to the Literature: The Debate Continues (2004) - Nature is offering a new series of freely available commissioned papers by noted authors on open access and other innovative publishing business models. Current contributions include "[9]Open Access and Learned Societies"; "[10]Open Access and Not-for-Profit Publishers"; "[11]Open Access: Yes, No, Maybe"; "[12]Universities' Own Electronic Repositories Yet to Impact on Open Access"; "[13]Why Electronic Publishing Means People Will Pay Different Prices"; and other papers. There are also useful links to related articles and resources. Like prior Nature debates on electronic publishing issues, this one is lively and very interesting. - [14]CB [15]Computers in Libraries 2004 Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2004. (http://www.infotoday.com/cil2004/presentations/). - Many of the presentations from this conference, held March 10-12, 2004 in Washington DC are available in either PowerPoint or Adobe Acrobat format, or both. Handouts are also often available, as well as the occasional Perl script. The topics range widely from strategies for keeping up to blogs to dead and emerging technologies. There is, in other words, something here for just about anyone. - [16]RT [17]Museums and the Web 2004 Toronto, ON: Archives and Museums Informatics, 2004. (http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/sessions/). - A number of the presentations at this conference are online in HTML as contributed papers. Although many of the topics are perhaps of interest mostly to museums or archives, there are other topics (e.g., building accessible web sites) that cross those boundaries. - [18]RT [19]Thinking Beyond Digital Libraries - Designing the Information Strategy for the Next Decade: Proceedings of the 7th International Bielefeld Conference Bielefeld, Germany: Bielefeld University Library, February 2004. (http://conference.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/proceedings/). - The presentations from this conference are available in PowerPoint format. A few also have the speakers remarks available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. Speakers include university professors, academic library directors, and high-level managers of library-related non-profits and commercial companies (e.g., Jay Jordan, President and CEO of OCLC). - [20]RT [21]METS Opening Day Washington, DC: Library of Congress, October 2003. (http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/od1_ppts.html). - A number of the PowerPoint presentations from the first "METS Opening Day" for the emerging standard Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) are available. Topics include an introduction to METS, building METS by hand, METS profiles, METS repositories, and METS case studies. A second METS Opening Day will be occuring on April 8 and 9 at Stanford University, with those presentations likely to be available shortly thereafter at the [22]METS web site. - [23]RT Christiansen, Donald. "[24]Ephemera for Engineers and Scientists" [25]Today's Engineer (IEEE) (February 2004) (http://www.todaysengineer.org/feb04/backscatter.asp). - It's not news to those of us in the information profession -- the fact that when it comes to Web-based resources, it's too often a case of here today, gone tomorrow. How many times have you spotted an interesting article while out surfing and, when you wanted to go back to it later on, you could no longer find it? Even if you saved the link, the link no longer works. While this is an annoyance when it comes to our everyday web browsing, it can be a disaster for resarch and scholarship. "Many technical articles now include references to Internet addresses, as opposed to hard-copy resources," the author correctly points out. But when authors or readers attempt to access these URLs at a later time, they have effectively vanished into cyberspace. The author cites a [26]study done at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in which researchers checked articles that appeared in Science, the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine. They found "that 3.8 percent of Internet references were inactive three months after journal publication, 10 percent after 15 months and 13 percent after 27 months." While there are ways of tracking these things down after the fact -- the author gives some suggestions, most would agree that this is a tremendous waste of time and energy. A solution, he says, may come in the form of "Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), the Uniform Resource Name (URN) syntax or the Persistent Uniform Resource Locator (PURL)." - [27]SK Dilevko, Juris, and Lisa Gottlieb. "Selection and Cataloging of Adult Pornography Web Sites for Academic Libraries" [28]Journal of Academic Librarianship 30(1) (January 2004): 36-50. - The authors argue that as interest in adult porn studies proliferates on campus, librarians are challenged to provide support material. The authors delineate various criteria for selecting subject-specific Web sites, reminding us that while the sites themselves may not be scholarly, they may still "represent a type of cultural artifact worthy of (and currently the subject of) scholarly inquiry." Catalogers will appreciate the extensive discussion on subject access in this area. The inclusion of material like this in the academic library's catalog would, we are told, "facilitate scholarly research in this area and fill a prominent gap in the library's collection." (Available through ScienceDirect.) - [29]LRK Ebare, Sean. "[30]Digital Music and Subculture: Sharing Files, Sharing Styles" [31]First Monday 9(2) (2 February 2004) (http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_2/ebare/index.html). - The author takes a fresh look at online music sharing communities, applying theories from popular music studies and cyberethnography. He explores how identity and difference, subculture and genre lifespans, and the political economy of technology and music production combine to influence the use of music on the Internet. Identity is more fluid, and anonymity more prevalent, making the music sharing community somewhat unique. He argues that the subculture of music sharing user-driven and that the ability to forecast how this community behaves will be invaluable for both music publishers and social scientists. He offers his own forecast on the future marketplace for music sharing, arguing that it will depend upon an understanding of the diversity of the members, their need for self-determination, and the mandate to allow these communities to exercise a substantial degree of independence within their online experience. - [32]TH Feldman, Susan. "[33]The High Cost of Not Finding Information" [34]KMWorld Magazine 13(3) (March 2004) (http://www.kmworld.com/publications/magazine/index.cfm?action=read article&Article_ID=1725&Publication_ID=108). - "There are all kinds of information disasters. Some are caused by wrong information. Some are caused by outdated information.... Missing or incomplete information plagues many projects..... Finally, there is the increasing problem of too much in formation." Some interesting statistics here: -- "(R)oughly 50% of most Web searches are abandoned." -- "Knowledge workers spend from 15% to 35% of their time searching for information." -- "Searchers are successful in finding what they seek 50% of the time or less...." -- "40% of corporate users reported that they can not find the information they need to do their jobs on their intranets." -- "Not locating and retrieving information has an opportunity cost of more than $15 million annually." -- "Some studies suggest that 90% of the time that knowledge workers spend in creating new reports or other products is spent in recreating information that already exists." - [35]SK Fiehn, Barbara. "[36]Federated Searching: A Viable Alternative to Web Surfing" [37]TechNewsWorld (21 March 2004) (http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/33160.html). - You'll be hearing lots more about federated search. Simple definition -- searching a variety of resources (databases, OPACs, the Web) from a single interface. This article (which originally appeared in the April 2004 issue of [38]MultiMedia & Internet@Schools but is not online there) focuses on school library media centers and the products available for that market. But it is worth reading by all information professionals since it presents a good overview of the topic and explains some of the pros and cons. The biggest advantage is the most obvious -- no need for the end user to hop from resource to resource in order to access all that an institution has available online. Some vendors' products will group results by source which, in essence, can show the user which resources are likely to be most useful for his/her particular information need. And the user only has to learn one search interface. But single-interface searching also has some downsides. Federated search technology is not quite "there" yet as far as relevance and de-duping are concerned. Also, the single interface may not permit the end user to take advantage of whatever sophisticated search features are offered by the individual resources. And this relatively new technology may prove challenging for librarians and IT people alike. If you don't have adequate in-house resources, hosting solutions may be available. - [39]SK Kurlantzick, Joshua. "[40]Dictatorship.com: The Web Won't Topple Tyranny" [41]The New Republic (25 March 2004) (http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?pt=oGG%2BvQEIjJRNjHGlOJiX4X%3D%3D). - As a tool to disseminate popular culture, the Internet has had spectacular success, even in "authoritarian nations" such as Laos, China, Singapore and Saudi Arabia. But, the author points out, its political impact has been negligible and, in some cases, "the Internet actually may be helping dictatorships remain in power." This in spite of the fact that pundits have been touting the political potential of the Net since it became more or less a mass medium in the mid-90s. Although "Internet usage has surged in many authoritarian nations," it has had little impact on "the political climate." Why? Because, the author says, it is not particularly useful "for expressing and organizing dissent," and -- technologically -- "it has proved surprisingly easy for authoritarian regimes to stifle, control, and co-opt." The author points out that the Internet is mainly used for individual rather than group activities. As one Laotian researcher quoted here observes, the Internet "is about people sitting in front of a terminal, barely interacting." Also, using the Net requires a relatively high level of literacy. The author provides examples of how different nations have attempted to control access to and content on the Internet, particularly China -- "Despite President Clinton's prediction, Beijing has proved that it can, in fact, nail Jell-O to the wall." And Western companies have proven only too eager "to sell the latest censorship technology" to any oppressive regime willing to ante up. Some dissidents claim the Internet actually facilitates monitoring of individuals by the government. Fascinating read; a don't-miss. - [42]SK Seebach, Peter. "[43]The Cranky User: Businesses Behaving Badly : Put Customers First Or Risk Losing Them" [44]developerWorks (4 March 2004) (http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-cranky38.html ). - The "Cranky User" is an occasional column on IBM's extremely helpful developerWorks site (the [45]Ease of Use section is wonderful). In this missive, the Cranky User complains about poor customer service. Poor customer service is a kind of action on the part of a company that produces a reaction in the customer, namely, a negative reaction. While I don't particularly agree with his example near the end of the column where he complains about contact email addresses being replaced by web forms, the notion that bad institutional practices have negative consequences is important to keep in mind. - [46]LRK Wells, Catherine A. "Location, Location, Location: The Importance of Placement of the Chat Request Button. " Reference & User Services Quarterly 43(2) (Winter 2003): 133-137. - Concerned that Chat Reference wasn't being used as much as expected, librarians at Case Western Reserve began experimenting with the size, shape, location and frequency of placement of the Chat Reference button on their site. They eventually found, perhaps to no one's surprise, that usage went up if the button appeared on the most heavily trafficked pages (home page, catalog page, database page). High on their wish list now is getting the button on vendor (i.e. subscription database) pages as well. - [47]LRK _________________________________________________________________ Current Cites - ISSN: 1060-2356 Copyright (c) 2004 by the Regents of the University of California All rights reserved. Copying is permitted for noncommercial use by computerized bulletin board/conference systems, individual scholars, and libraries. Libraries are authorized to add the journal to their collections at no cost. This message must appear on copied material. All commercial use requires permission from the editor. All product names are trademarks or registered trade marks of their respective holders. Mention of a product in this publication does not necessarily imply endorsement of the product. To subscribe to the Current Cites distribution list, send the message "sub cites [your name]" to [48]listserv(a)library.berkeley.edu, replacing "[your name]" with your name. 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Google's Gmail arriving shortly
by Shyam Prasad pujar 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

Dear Members, Google is launching an e-mail service. Presently in beta testing, has the following features. Search, don't sort. Use Google search to find the exact message you want, no matter when it was sent or received. Don't throw anything away. 1000 megabytes of free storage so you'll never need to delete another message. Keep it all in context. Each message is grouped with all its replies and displayed as a conversation. No pop-up ads. No banners. You see only relevant text ads and links to related web pages of interest. For more information, please have a look at: http://gmail.google.com http://www.google.com/gmail/help/about.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 * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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2005 IFLA/OCLC Fellows Program
by Mailing List Manager 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:57:08 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> 2005 IFLA/OCLC Fellows Program Deadline Approaching ATLA seeks theological librarians for a new fifth fellowship The deadline to apply for the 2005 IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program is rapidly approaching. Complete applications, which include a cover sheet, a résumé, an essay of 1,000 words or less about the applicants professional plans and three letters of recommendation, must be submitted by Friday, April 23, 2004. Only complete applications will be considered. The Fellowship Program provides early career development and continuing education for library and information science professionals from countries with developing economies. OCLC and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions are happy to welcome a third sponsor for the 2005 program. This year, a fifth Fellow will be selected thanks to the generosity of the American Theological Library Association (ATLA). Established in 1946, ATLA is a professional association of more than 800 individual, institutional and affiliate members providing programs, products and services in support of theological and religious studies libraries and librarians. ATLAs ecumenical membership represents many religious traditions and denominations. Announcement http://www.ifla.org/V/press/pr110304.htm 2005 IFLA/OCLC Fellows Program Deadline Approaching Application information is available at: http://tinyurl.com/2oe55 or http://www.oclc.org/institute/resources/fellowships/ifla/default.htm More information at: http://www.ifla.org/III/grants/ecdf.htm

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DRTC COLLOQUIUM ON ICT FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
by Mailing List Manager 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:07:41 -0800 (PST) From: rajesh mishra <rajesh_mishra61(a)yahoo.com> INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Banglore-560059 DRTC Colloquium on ICT FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ABSTRACT The difference of classes has brought about the phenomenon of Digital Divide. This phenomenon made information accessible only to a few communities. Information Communication Technology (ICT) is one approach to fill this divide. This colloquium is an attempt to look closely at use of ICT to fill Digital Divide and various social and economic challenges associated to it. SPEAKERS TOPICS 1. Rajesh Mishra Overview on ICT 2. Sarandha Singh Digital Divide 3. Ravinder ICT Policies and Development 4. Rashid Hussain ICT Education and Training 5. Amit Jha ICT Models and Tools Venue: DRTC Classroom Date: 2nd Apr. 2004 Time: 2.00 PM All are cordially invited Dr. Devika P. Madalli

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Open access - Comments on the posting of Arun, Chan and Barbara (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:39:51 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here are some comments on one of our earlier postings. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --------- Just some clarification on the posting of Subbiah Arunachalam, Leslie Chan, and Barbara Kirsop. Open Access to scientific documents as the solution for making articles visible to other users and thus maximizing their reading and citation (scientific impact) may involve various different forms of document space, effort-levels by the authors or their institutions, and degrees of success in achieving the aims of OA. 1. AUTHOR SELF-ARCHIVED, UNTAGGED PAPERS. The largest space of documents is raw, untagged preprints and scientific reports self-archived by their authors on their institution's webserver (e.g. on their research group's website). For Physics alone, we have already collected more than 500,000 such documents. These are harvestable with almost zero effort by our web crawlers. With Physnet <http://www.physnet.net> we have achieved already have almost complete coverage in some areas of Physics. (Clearly, however, the crawler of such websites can only be as good as the native language assistance offered to us: check a Finnish author!) Since the authors often provide their publication lists on their local websites, information on journal articles is also harvested. But because such authors have made no effort to tag their documents with metadata, retrieval is somewhat fuzzy -- yet almost complete for field-specific search engines such as PhysNet (started in 1995; but not so with google, scirus, etc.). 2. AUTHOR SELF-ARCHIVED, LIGHTLY TAGGED PAPERS. More functionality can be gained if the author adds some metadata, e.g., by using a web template such as <http://www.isn-oldenburg.de/services/mmm/> and adding that to his document source code or by using a shadow file that points to the document. (See <http://www.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/hydro/main_public.html> [year 2002 and earlier] In case an author finds this too tedious, we [the ISN] will do it for your lists!) At the moment, in physics the portion of the document space provided in this form is under 10%. Visibility is much increased, since most search engines understand these metadata, thus they rank them favourably. Costs are small. Let as call 1 and 2 "individual author self-archiving." 3. INSTITUTIONAL OAI-COMPLIANT SELF-ARCHIVING. A University, Research Institute, Department, or University Library may set up an OAI-compliant data provider. The local document space is small; visibility is excellent because of the systematically added metadata, the larger public visibility of the institution as such, and easy retrievability by OAI service providers. This is Distributed institutional self-archiving and it increasing exponentially currently: <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0043.gif> <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0036.png> <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0037.png> <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0023.gif> Costs may be larger (because library employees' salaries are involved). 4. CENTRAL OAI-COMPLIANT SELF-ARCHIVING. Authors send their documents to central archives, such as <http://www.arXiv.org> or the new European HAL <http://hal.ccsd.cnrs.fr> operated by the CCSD, supported by the French central research ageny CNRS, and under the auspices of the EPS with regard to physics. Costs depend on services (e.g., time stamp, permanent archiving, retrieval) and these are paid by the server's institution. Coverage is even smaller (ArXiv has some 269,439 documents to date) -- about 15% of physics journal publications at to date, but this may increase exponentially as more and more content authors convince others. 5. PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARCHIVES. The costs depend on the services offered. The prices charged are known. ACP (Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics) <http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/acp/> has pretty much automatized the processing and covers its costs with $20 per page paid by the author, serving the journal open-access, with features such as several levels of refereeing, annotations, communications added by readers, etc. The Journals doing this form of archiving may be: (A) OPEN-ACCESS JOURNALS ('gold' journals in the Harnad and Romeo color-code), sometimes recovering costs by charging authors. Physics has 66 gold journals by now; see <http://de.physnet.net/PhysNet/journals.html> (B) TOLL-ACCESS JOURNALS ('green' journals in the Harnad and Romeo color-code), charging the reader but endorsing individual-article self-archiving by the author in one form or other (see the ROMEO list). <http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/Romeo%20Publisher%2 0Policies.htm> Now to close with some speculations about possible future scenarios for journal publishing: Since the refereeing normally takes place (and so it should) *after* the preprint is self-archived on the web in one of the above ways, refereeing can be much improved and diversified and can take its time (as it does with ACP <http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/acp/publication_process.html> ). Subscribing to a journal is thereby decoupled from gaining access to the information content of the raw document, and money is spent only on the refereeing and polishing, as well as the archiving of the document. Such a process of publicly self-archiving a document first and getting it refereed afterward would save money with which institutional libraries could subscribe to journals and would allow those publishers to flourish who add real value. The expert would gain the desired document directly from the author's website or elsewhere using search engines. Small departments in remote countries would be able to get the unrefereed information without having to pay, but they would miss the real added-value services. Eberhard R. Hilf, Dr. Prof.; CEO (Geschaeftsfuehrer) Institute for Science Networking Oldenburg GmbH an der Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Ammerlaender Heerstr.121; D-26129 Oldenburg ISN-home: <http://www.isn-oldenburg.de/> homepage: <http://isn-oldenburg.de/~hilf> email : hilf(a)isn-oldenburg.de </ym/Compose?To=hilf(a)isn-oldenburg.de&YY=48797&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&vi ew=a&head=b> tel : +49-441-798-2884 fax : +49-441-798-5851

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Postponement of 4th ASSIST National Seminar
by Mailing List Manager 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

Date: 30 Mar 2004 13:29:55 -0000 From: Drbalabhim Shankarappa Biradar <bsbiradar53(a)rediffmail.com> Postponement of 4th ASSIST National Seminar As a part of Kuvempu Birth Centenary Celebration and the Decennial year Celebration of the Department of Library and Information Science, the Department and ASSIST was planned to organise two-day National Seminar on "Digital Resources and Services in Libraries" during 12th-13th April 2004. But the general election for Assembly and Parliament in Karnataka is Schedule to be held in two phases i.e. on 20th and 26th April 2004 and most of the Librarians and Library and Information Science teachers are drawn for election duty. Election Commission is holding training on 12th �13th April 2004 for the staff who are drawn for election duty and therefore, it has become inconvenient to most of the interested participants to participate in the seminar. In this context Organising Committee meeting was held on 28-03-2004 and unanimously decided to postpone the seminar to 30th April and 1st May 2004 in the interest of the participants. We request all the participants to note this change in date of the 4th ASSIST National Seminar and without fail kindly arrange to participate in the seminar rescheduled to be held on 30th April 2004 and 1st May 2004 instead of 12th-13th April 2004. For more information we request you to contact Dr.B.S.Biradar, Organising Secretary, 4th ASSIST National Seminar. Organising Secretary, 4th ASSIST National Seminar.

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J-STAGE
by Mailing List Manager 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

Date: 30 Mar 2004 08:07:31 -0000 From: Subbiah Gunasekaran <gunasekaran_subbiah(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Members: Please explore the website: http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/ It offers access to full text of many journals published in Japan. Thanks S. Gunasekaran CECRI Karaikudi

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GlobalSpec, a specialized online resource for engineering
by Mailing List Manager 30 Mar '04

30 Mar '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:25:35 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> March 29, 2004 - GlobalSpec, a specialized online resource for engineering, has launched a new interface, added more powerful search functionality, and has introduced a specialized search engine it is calling "The Engineering Web," which it says provides "engineering context and relevancy" and access to Hidden Web resources. The newly introduced engine searches more than 100,000 engineering and technical Web sites and provides searching of specialized content the company says is not available on any other search engine-application notes, patents, material properties, and standards. In announcing the enhancements, Jeffrey M. Killeen, GlobalSpec chairman and CEO said: "We have built the specialized search engine and content repository for engineers and technical buyers-everything of relevance, expertly classified and indexed in one place. In fact, we believe we have built the definitive search platform for the engineering community." John Schneiter, president and co-founder of GlobalSpec, said: "Extensive research of our online community, as well as our own engineering experiences, told us that engineers and technical professionals are frustrated with general search engines and having to wade through pages of irrelevant results. We have built what they asked us for-and what we frankly wished we had ourselves as practicing engineering professionals-The Engineering Search Engine." The company's proprietary SpecSearch allows users to search by specification more than 60 million parts in 1,000,000 product families from more than 10,000 supplier catalogs. GlobalSpec says it now has more than 1,000,000 registered users for SpecSearch (registration is free). Suppliers of the catalogs pay annual fees to GlobalSpec so that searchers can discover these products for free. New with this launch is the ability to compare products in suppliers' catalogs in tabular form and even compare specific parts across suppliers. SpecSearch is proprietary technology that has been developed by GlobalSpec over the last 8 years. Schneiter said that the company built its own extensive taxonomy as well, and continues to expand it organically as needed. The company also developed its own engine to search "The Engineering Web," though the results page looks and feels very similar to a results page at Google. However, a feature that offers suggestions to "Refine your Results" presents terms and topics that are generated on the fly from search results. As a feature of The Engineering Web engine, users have the option of searching specifically for information in companies' notes about their applications. An application note is a document that describes the use of a product, and may contain quite detailed information and drawings. It may list detailed design specifications, as well as data describing how the product functions in different situations and with different variables. GlobalSpec uses an automatic text classification system to identify candidate application notes from all of the sites identified for inclusion in The Engineering Web. To provide the other specialized content-patents, material properties, and standards-from the Hidden Web, GlobalSpec has partnered with other content companies. Abstracts of patents are available for free online and complete documents are available for purchase from its partner, MicroPatent. Patent information from the following sources are included: - USPTO (U.S. Patent & Trademark Office): Granted patents from 1982 - present; Applications from 2001 - present - EP (European Patent Office): 1982 - present - WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization): 1982 - present Access to standards is available through a partnership with IHS (Information Handling Services), which provides "the world's largest file" of active and historical standards, specifications, drawings, handbooks, and related technical documents. Users can search and see abstracts for free. Complete copies of technical standards are available for purchase, as hardcopy or as electronic downloads. IHS specializes in enterprise subscription sales, so this represents an additional distribution network for its products. Corporate customers of MicroPatent and IHS run the risk of their engineers paying piecemeal to obtain patents or standards via GlobalSpec that the company already has access to through enterprise subscriptions. GlobalSpec admitted this could be an issue, with companies paying twice for the same information when employees were unaware of available resources. But, thinking on the spot, Killeen said it was conceivable they could work with their partners to get the ISP addresses of customers and then send a notice if this was about to occur. GlobalSpec users can also search and get free abstracts of material property information for industrial materials, specifying attributes such as flexural modulus, flexural strength, hardness, density, deflection temperature, electrical resistivity, conductivity, heat capacity, etc. for any given material. The full text can be accessed for free by clicking a link over to the MatWeb site (http://www.matweb.com). MatWeb is a free searchable database designed by engineers. (The advanced features and tools on its site are available to those who register and to Premium users, who have full access for $49.95.). Killeen said GlobalSpec plans to add Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) to the site sometime in the second quarter of 2004. The company is also in active discussions with key engineering publishers to add full-text journal content. Many technical articles, tutorials, and white papers are now included in the section of the site called "Tools & Useful Links," which also offers research and reference links, calculators, and links to other engineering and technical sites. GlobalSpec, founded in 1996, is a privately-held company with about 130 employees based in Troy, New York (near Albany). While GlobalSpec's management feels that its search platform really has no competition, engineering professionals will continue to use other complementary resources as well. Engineering Village 2 provides comprehensive database searching and linking to full text, for example. Other sites, such as Engineering.com (which offers software, services, news, directories, etc.) will continue to fill a niche as well. Scirus, the science-only search engine includes engineering as a subject. But, given the accelerating rate of new user registrations on GlobalSpec, the growth in numbers of searchable parts, and the number of online visitors to the site, the company is obviously filling a need in the engineering community and has found a business model that is working.

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FW: Benefits of Open Access Archiving
by Mailing List Manager 30 Mar '04

30 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:03:49 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: In response to messages to the Health Information Forum discussion list [ <mailto:hif-net@who.int> hif-net(a)who.int] on Open Access benefits, we would like to add the following comments: The two parallel Budapest Open Access Initiatives paths (Open Access Journals/Publishing and Open Access Archiving) both aim to achieve the same objective - the freeing of the research literature from access tolls - but use very different mechanisms to achieve it. Perhaps the two routes should be dissociated in our discussions, since discussing both routes under the common term 'open access' can create confusion. The messages from Ayo Onatola and others are focussing on Open Access journals, but we would like to draw attention again to the benefits of Open Access Archiving for developing countries. Open Access Archiving is the archiving of already published and refereed research papers in interoperable, minimal-cost institutional archives. The advantages of this are: [1] Nothing need change regarding the future of the publishers (because they will continue to publish as before and in parallel with the OA Archives - as already proven to be successful in physics through the 13-year old archive <http://arxive.org> <http://arxive.org> and the major physics journals. Over 60% of publishers have agreed to the institutional archiving of already published papers in OA Archives, including Elsevier and Nature Publishing); [2] Nothing need change for the authors (because they can continue to publish papers in their favourite journals). However, the impact of their work will be hugely increased if they also archive their full text publications in institutional archives using the free software that allows interoperable searching across all archives. Authors would be wise to publish in one of the majority of journals that agree to OA Archiving in order to benefit from this much increased international impact. OA-compliant archives are now also searchable through the Yahoo search engine. [3] The research output of the authors' institutes will be greatly enhanced through the establishment of institutional OA Archives, show-casing their academic publications. OA Archives are set up using free software and there are many support organisations offering help if needed. Note: there are three major workshops on setting up Open Access Archives being held this summer in Brazil, China and India. [4] If institutes are unable to set up their own institutional archives, authors may archive their *already published* research in any of the established archives (eg Cogprints, Bioline International etc). It does not matter at all where papers are archived, since the archives are all interoperable. However, establishing institutional archives has the advantage of additionally promoting the research output of the institutes. [5] As more and more archives are established, more and more of the world's research becomes internationally accessible for free. Harnad of Cogprints says 'Archive unto others as you would have them archive unto you'. For the developing country institutes, sharing their research with countries facing similar research priorities has clear benefits, and making their research 'visible' internationally will lead to many other advantages. In summary, archiving already published research in interoperable institutional archives greatly benefits global science at almost no cost. This could be done now, without changing established publishing practices. For developing country science and medical research this offers enormous opportunities. Maybe WHO should consider supporting the setting up of an OA Archive for medical research publications so that all developing countries can benefit from free access? Useful OA institutional archives links: Registry of institutional eprints: <http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php> <http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php> Developing country bioscience archive: <http://bioline.utsc.utoronto.ca> <http://bioline.utsc.utoronto.ca> BOAI self(institutional)-archiving FAQ: <http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/> <http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/> Eprints software: <http://software.eprints.org/> <http://software.eprints.org/> Eprints Handbook for setting up institutional archives: <http://software.eprints.org/handbook/> <http://software.eprints.org/handbook/> Budapest Open Access Iniative <http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml> <http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml> Subbiah Arunachalam, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, India Leslie Chan, University of Toronto, Canada Barbara Kirsop, Electronic Publishing Trust for Development <http://www.epublishingtrust.org> <http://www.epublishingtrust.org>

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address info
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29 Mar '04

Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:30:16 +0530 From: prafulla(a)nisc.co.in Dear All: I am searching for the contact info of National Center for Children's Literature located in New Delhi. I shall appreciate any help in this regard. Have a nice day! T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor National Center for Children's Literature, New Delhi --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: PRESS RELEASE: Wiley InterScience Launches The Biotechnology, Biochemistry
by Mailing List Manager 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 06:07:34 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] MALLIKARJUNA, C" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Please find below, a press release from Wiley that may be of interest to your readership. **** Wiley InterScience Launches The Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Biophysics Backfile Collection; 50 years of leading research now available from the convenience of the desktop. Hoboken, NJ, 25 March 2004 - Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced the launch of its latest collection of digitized journal backfiles - The Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Biophysics Backfile Collection on its dynamic online publishing platform, Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). Spanning more than fifty years of content across fifteen leading journal titles, the collection provides a backfile resource for core research across the biotechnology, biochemistry, biophysics and chemical engineering disciplines, and includes full coverage, back to inaugural issues, of seminal titles, including Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Proteins, Biopolymers, the AIChE Journal, Chemie Ingenieur Technik and Chemical Engineering & Technology. With a quarter of a million digitized pages, the Backfile Collection contains more than 40,000 research articles and provides a unique historical perspective to this progressive field of study. Susan King, Ph.D., Vice President, Scientific, Technical and Medical Marketing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., says that the launch of the Backfile Collection meets two important objectives of Wiley's backfile program: "Crucial historical research is preserved for generations of researchers to come. Research at the intersection of the life and physical sciences is rapidly evolving, but researchers need to be able to look back to its roots to help direct current and future pursuits. The digitization of this legacy information, serves to improve the research pathway - ensuring discovery is as seamless and time efficient as possible. The dynamism of Wiley InterScience as a web resource means researchers can access vital archival information quickly and simply from the convenience of their desktop." Presented in fully searchable PDF format, with abstracts, essential bibliographic content, and literature citations all available in HTML, the backfile collection provides enhanced searchablity and linking capabilities. Reference links include internal linking to cited content located on Wiley InterScience and to the content of more than 290 scientific, technical and medical publishers via CrossRef. The Wiley InterScience Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Biophysics Backfile Collection is the latest addition to a growing collection of journal backfile content, created to ensure ongoing access to fundamental research material in the research communities’ format of choice. "All our Backfile Collections are the result of informed dialogue with our customers to ensure we provide solutions of lasting value to them", said Reed Elfenbein, Vice President and General Manager, Wiley InterScience and Global STM Sales. "Digital backfiles ensure collections can remain complete while saving our customers the shelf space and administrative burden associated with millions of pages of print content." An ongoing initiative, Wiley InterScience will release four additional Backfile Collections over the course of 2004: the Chemistry Backfile Collection, Analytical Chemistry Backfile Collection, Neuroscience Backfile Collection and the Materials Science Backfile Collection. Together with the Polymer Backfile Collection and the Angewandte Chemie Backfile, Wiley has already made available more than one million pages of digitized legacy scientific content. Note to editors: Journals included in the Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Biophysics Backfiles Collection are: Acta Biotechnologica, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering & Technology - CET, Chemie Ingenieur Technik - CIT, (CET and CIT are both edited and supported by the German Chemical Society (GDCh), the Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (DECHEMA e.V.) and the Society for Chemical Engineering and Process Technology (GVC)), Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology (an official journal of the Society of Chemical Industry - SCI), Biospectroscopy, Biopolymers, Cell Biochemistry and Function, Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, Journal of Molecular Recognition, Journal of Peptide Science (an official journal of the European Peptide Society - EPS), Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics, and Yeast.. An update in June 2004 will incorporate the AIChE Journal and Process Safety Progress - both official journals of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, now published by Wiley effective in 2004. About Wiley InterScience Since its commercial launch in January 1999, Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) has earned its reputation as a world-leading Internet resource for quality research material promoting discovery across the spectrum of scientific, technical, medical and professional endeavors. Today Wiley InterScience features a vast reservoir of must-have content from more than 1000 journals, books, reference works, databases and Current Protocols laboratory manuals. About Wiley Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., provides must-have content and services to customers worldwide. Its core businesses include scientific, technical, and medical journals, encyclopedias, books, and online products and services; professional and consumer books and subscription services; and educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong learners. Wiley has publishing, marketing, and distribution centers in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols JWa and JWb. Wiley's Internet site can be accessed at http://www.wiley.com. *** C.MALLIKARJUNA, ISEC LIBRARY, INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE NAGARABHAVI BANGALORE-560 079. hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Office:080+3215468 EXT-301 Mobile:080+36757228 Win an evening with the Indian cricket captain: Yahoo! India Promos. --0-371865072-1080281254=:38994 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Ann Okerson <aokerson(a)pantheon.yale.edu></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:44:14 -0500 (EST)<BR>From: Ann Okerson <AOKERSON(a)PANTHEON.YALE.EDU><BR>To: liblicense-l(a)lists.yale.edu<BR>Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Wiley InterScience Launches The Biotechnology,<BR>Biochemistry<BR><BR>Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:34:41 EST<BR>From: KimAllan(a)wiley.co.uk<BR>Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Wiley InterScience Launches The Biotechnology,<BR>Biochemistry and Biophysics Backfile Collection<BR><BR>Please find below, a press release from Wiley that may be of interest to<BR>your readership.<BR><BR>****<BR><BR>Wiley InterScience Launches The Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Biophysics<BR>Backfile Collection; 50 years of leading research now available from the <BR>convenience of the desktop.<BR><BR>Hoboken, NJ, 25 March 2004 - Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,<BR>today announced the launch of its latest collection of digitized journal<BR>backfile! s - The Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Biophysics Backfile<BR>Collection on its dynamic online publishing platform, Wiley InterScience<BR>(www.interscience.wiley.com).<BR><BR>Spanning more than fifty years of content across fifteen leading journal<BR>titles, the collection provides a backfile resource for core research<BR>across the biotechnology, biochemistry, biophysics and chemical<BR>engineering disciplines, and includes full coverage, back to inaugural<BR>issues, of seminal titles, including Biotechnology and Bioengineering,<BR>Proteins, Biopolymers, the AIChE Journal, Chemie Ingenieur Technik and<BR>Chemical Engineering & Technology.<BR><BR>With a quarter of a million digitized pages, the Backfile Collection<BR>contains more than 40,000 research articles and provides a unique<BR>historical perspective to this progressive field of study.<BR><BR>Susan King, Ph.D., Vice President, Scientific, Technical and Medical<BR>Marketing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., says that the lau! nch of the Backfile<BR>Collection meets two important objectives of Wiley's backfile program:<BR>"Crucial historical research is preserved for generations of researchers<BR>to come. Research at the intersection of the life and physical sciences is<BR>rapidly evolving, but researchers need to be able to look back to its<BR>roots to help direct current and future pursuits. The digitization of this<BR>legacy information, serves to improve the research pathway - ensuring<BR>discovery is as seamless and time efficient as possible. The dynamism of<BR>Wiley InterScience as a web resource means researchers can access vital<BR>archival information quickly and simply from the convenience of their<BR>desktop."<BR><BR>Presented in fully searchable PDF format, with abstracts, essential<BR>bibliographic content, and literature citations all available in HTML, the<BR>backfile collection provides enhanced searchablity and linking<BR>capabilities. Reference links include internal linking to cited content<BR>located on Wiley InterScience and to the content of more than 290<BR>scientific, technical and medical publishers via CrossRef.<BR><BR>The Wiley InterScience Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Biophysics Backfile<BR>Collection is the latest addition to a growing collection of journal<BR>backfile content, created to ensure ongoing access to fundamental research<BR>material in the research communities’ format of choice.<BR><BR>"All our Backfile Collections are the result of informed dialogue with our<BR>customers to ensure we provide solutions of lasting value to them", said<BR>Reed Elfenbein, Vice President and General Manager, Wiley InterScience and<BR>Global STM Sales. "Digital backfiles ensure collections can remain<BR>complete while saving our customers the shelf space and administrative<BR>burden associated with millions of pages of print content."<BR><BR>An ongoing initiative, Wiley InterScience will release four additional<BR>Backfile Collections over the co! urse of 2004: the Chemistry Backfile<BR>Collection, Analytical Chemistry Backfile Collection, Neuroscience<BR>Backfile Collection and the Materials Science Backfile Collection.<BR>Together with the Polymer Backfile Collection and the Angewandte Chemie<BR>Backfile, Wiley has already made available more than one million pages of<BR>digitized legacy scientific content.<BR><BR>Note to editors:<BR><BR>Journals included in the Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Biophysics<BR>Backfiles Collection are: Acta Biotechnologica, Biotechnology and<BR>Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering & Technology - CET, Chemie Ingenieur<BR>Technik - CIT, (CET and CIT are both edited and supported by the German<BR>Chemical Society (GDCh), the Society for Chemical Engineering and<BR>Biotechnology (DECHEMA e.V.) and the Society for Chemical Engineering and<BR>Process Technology (GVC)), Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology<BR>(an official journal of the Society of Chemical Industry - SCI),<BR>Biospectroscopy, Biopolymers, Cell Biochemistry and Function, Journal of<BR>Cellular Biochemistry, Journal of Molecular Recognition, Journal of<BR>Peptide Science (an official journal of the European Peptide Society -<BR>EPS), Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics, and Yeast.. 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A champion of OA i9s honoured
by Mailing List Manager 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:07:29 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Carl Lagoze of Cornell University, a key player in the open access movement, is honoured. Please join me in congratulating him. On this happy occasion let us all resolve to adopt open access and to set up and quickly populate interoperable institutional archives in all major Indian higher educational and research institutions. Best wishes. Arun 2004 LITA Frederick G. Kilgour Award winner announced Carl Lagoze of Cornell University is the winner of the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology for 2004. The award is sponsored by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., and the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association. "The Kilgour Award Committee takes great pleasure in acknowledging the important work and contributions of Carl Lagoze, whose research has lead to significant achievements in the areas of distributed digital collections, the harvesting of metadata, and establishment of open standards," said Mark Farrar, chair of the award committee. Mr. Lagoze's achievements include the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) which he co-created with Herbert Van de Sompel. This initiative promotes interoperability standards for metadata harvesting, with the specific goal of enhancing the ability to access all forms of digital material. The project has lead to renewed interest in shared metadata and the increased ability of scholars to locate relevant digital assets regardless of geographical location. Carl Lagoze and Sandy Payette co-invented the Flexible and Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (Fedora). This project is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with prior support from the National Science Foundation, and is being co-developed by Cornell University and the University of Virginia. Fedora is open source software for creating digital object repositories which allow the accessing of content through a distributed and dynamic infrastructure. Fedora plays an important role in the creation of digital and institutional repositories and is being used or adapted in various academic and corporate settings. The Distributed Interactive Extensible Network Server for Technical Reports (Dienst) was co-invented by Carl Lagoze and James Davis. Dienst is both a protocol and software that were freely distributed for non-commercial use. While Dienst was an early effort in using metadata, the web and distributed content servers, it proved to be instrumental in further developments in these areas. Carl Lagoze received his Master of Software Engineering from the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies in 1987. Mr. Lagoze founded the Cornell Digital Library Research Group (CDLRG), and he is currently a Senior Research Associate in the Information Science program at Cornell University . The award was established to honor the achievements of Frederick G. Kilgour, the founder of OCLC and a seminal figure in library automation. The award is given to a person who has amassed a significant body of research in the field of library and information technology. Particular recognition is given to research which results in a positive and substantive impact on the publication, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information. The award consists of $2,000, an expense paid trip to the ALA Annual Conference, and a citation of merit. Mr. Lagoze will be accepting the award at the LITA President's Program on Monday, June 28, 2004 at the ALA Annual Conference in Orlando.

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A SFC article on open access
by Mailing List Manager 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:50:11 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is an article from San Francisco Chronicle. Please see <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/2 8/BAGQE5SL3I1.DTL>. Arun The staggering price of world's best research Bay Area universities leading charge against publishers, arguing the knowledge in academic journals must be kept within reach Charles Burress, Chronicle Staff Writer <mailto:cburress@sfchronicle.com> Sunday, March 28, 2004 An alarm bell is ringing in the ivory tower. Something's gone terribly wrong, frustrated scholars say, when scientific journals cost as much as new cars and diamond rings. Critics are complaining with growing intensity that the most important advances in human knowledge -- the new research and discoveries of top universities -- have been in effect seized and are being held for ransom by commercial publishers. The companion journals Nuclear Physics A & B cost the same as a 2004 Toyota Camry sedan -- $23,820, according to a "sticker shock" calculator from UC Berkeley. The calculator is "our way of raising hell," university librarian Thomas Leonard said. Theoretical Computer Science goes for $5,619 a year, enough to buy an 18- diamond gold ring from Tiffany's, according to a similar calculator from Cornell University. An academic rebellion simmering for half a dozen years has begun to boil over, with much of the heat generated in the Bay Area and California. "It is ironic," said a Stanford faculty resolution passed last month, "that many Stanford scholars -- like scholars throughout higher education -- volunteer their articles and labor in the production, review and editing of journal content, only to have the final product sold back to Stanford, sometimes at exorbitant prices." University libraries are suffering from journal price increases in recent years that have far outstripped inflation while library budgets starve. They've been forced to slash book and periodical purchases so much that they say the quality of their collections has become compromised. The public also is cheated, many critics say, because much of the research is funded by government grants, yet taxpayers -- say, breast cancer patients seeking the latest treatment breakthroughs -- "cannot freely access the published results of research financed by their own tax dollars," Stanford biochemistry Professor Patrick Brown wrote in a March 2 statement released by the campus. A recent letter from UC officials called the present system "incontrovertibly unsustainable." The university cut book purchases 26 percent and journal purchases 6 percent from 1986 to 1999. The 10-campus UC system claimed a temporary victory in January when it used its combined clout to win something virtually unheard of -- a reduction in the price it pays to the publishing giant of scientific and medical journals, the Elsevier arm of the British-Dutch conglomerate Reed Elsevier. Elsevier has about 1,800 titles, or about 20 to 22 percent of the most expensive segment of the market -- science, technical and medical journals. Its titles include Nuclear Physics A & B and Theoretical Computer Science, and its prices range from the $105-a-year Nurse Leader to Brain Research for $21, 269, with the average last year being $525, according to company data. Harvard, Columbia and a consortium of North Carolina universities have recently balked at Elsevier prices and threatened to curtail purchases. The Stanford resolution singled out Elsevier and called for a boycott of pricey journals, while the UC Santa Cruz faculty called for a boycott of Elsevier in October. "There is no serials crisis," said Elsevier spokesman Eric Merkel-Sobotta. "What there is, is a library funding crisis." Library budgets fell from about 4 percent of university spending in 1982 to about 3 percent in 2000, he said. He acknowledged that the company makes a "healthy" profit but added that production costs are rising with increased research spending, highly specialized editing and peer-review responsibilities, as well as the technology needed to keep pace with the growing online use of the journals. Over the past 16 years, according to UC Riverside chemistry Professor Christopher Reed, the average price of Elsevier journals has increased at three times the rate of the Consumer Price Index. "Elsevier profits were up 26 percent in 2002," he wrote in the Chronicle of Higher Education. UC is Elsevier's second-largest customer, UC officials say, and last year, the university paid the company about $10 million for about 1,400 journals in one "bundle," a method of purchasing that has replaced individual journal subscriptions at many universities. With growing reliance on online subscriptions, many libraries also have had to reduce or eliminate paper copies to save money. Under its new Elsevier contract, UC will receive only one print copy of each journal, to be kept in a central repository for use by all campuses. Half of UC's online budget has gone to Elsevier, even though its titles account for only 25 percent of the use of such journals, according to UC data. Academic journals are published both by commercial firms and by scholarly nonprofit societies like the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which sponsors the journal Science. Though most of the criticism is focused on firms like Elsevier, complaints are directed also at the nonprofit scientific societies. The societies, whose journals generally cost less than commercially published ones, say they have to charge more than publishing costs in order to pay for other activities. Leading the attack on the current system is the "open access" movement, which seeks to publish top-quality, peer-reviewed articles free on the Internet. An influential example is the San Francisco-based Public Library of Science (PLoS), which launched its first journal, PLoS Biology, amid fanfare in October. Under the PLoS model, the article's author pays a $1,500 fee, ideally paid by the writer's university or a grant, while the rest of the publishing costs come from other sources, such as private foundations or federal education dollars now siphoned off to offset high-priced subscriptions to commercial publishers. Merkel-Sobotta of Elsevier said open access is "dangerous" because it depends precariously on charity and cannot muster the resources needed for rigorous scientific review and long-term survival. Some scientists also question the viability of open access and the sustainability of such journals' archives. In a statement earlier this month, former Stanford President Donald Kennedy, now editor of Science, said open access deserves support as an experiment that should coexist with nonprofit journals but that it faces the sustainability problem. One of the toughest barriers to changing the current approach, many scholars say, is the publish-or-perish mandate that keeps professors -- especially those seeking tenure or promotion -- aiming for highly prestigious journals controlled by commercial publishers. Open access was challenged March 16 in a joint statement issued in Washington, D.C., by leading U.S. science and medical societies. The statement, representing 48 nonprofit publishers and more than 600,000 scientists and clinicians, called for "free access" to research through "many publishing models" and opposed a system where the publishing costs are "borne solely by researchers and their funding institutions." The issue is stirring heated debate also in Europe, where a Parliament committee in the United Kingdom is investigating scientific publications. "Whether or not open access ultimately gains ground as an alternative," reported Outsell Inc., an information industry research firm, "it's clear that the current model is breaking up." Elsevier disagrees. Merkel-Sobotta said the firm and similar publishers show robust growth and "take their guardianship of the intellectual heritage very, very seriously." E-mail Charles Burress at cburress(a)sfchronicle.com <mailto:cburress@sfchronicle.com>.

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Elsevier Foundation Grants for attending International TICER School
by JK Vijayakumar 26 Mar '04

26 Mar '04

Dear All, The course "Electronic Resources and Electronic Publishing" will take place at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, from Tuesday evening 10 August up to and including Friday afternoon 13 August 2004, with an optional programme on Tuesday afternoon. Details are available at http://www.ticer.nl/04elres/index.htm Elsevier Foundation Grants (Last Date15 June 2004) Participants from developing countries can apply for an Elsevier Foundation Grant for the course "Electronic Resources and Electronic Publishing", made available by the Elsevier Foundation. The Elsevier Foundation are willing to sponsor 4 participants from Asia, Africa or South America. You can only apply for a grant if you originate from a country which is mentioned in the first five columns of the OECD "DAC List of Aid Recipients as at 1 January 2003", countries indicated in this list as developing countries and territories (official development assistance). The grant includes: the course fee (including 3 lunches and 3 dinners); accommodation in a student room for the duration of the course;an economy class return flight to an airport near Tilburg;travel and health insurance during your stay in Tilburg. The sponsorship does not cover costs which are not mentioned above, e.g., visa fee, transportation in your own country, public transport in the Netherlands from the airport to Tilburg and back, breakfasts, remaining dinners and lunches, and personal expenses. If you want to apply for this grant, please send an email to the course coordinator Ms. Anja Huijben at Anja.Huijben(a)uvt.nl before 15 June 2004. The email should contain the following information: -what organisation you work for; -what your job title is and what your work entails; -what country you are from; -a short biography or curriculum vitae; -your motivation to apply for this course; -why you are the right person to sponsor; -how you intend to distribute the knowledge your gained during this course in your country; -what kind of activities your institute develops in the field of digital libraries. Incomplete applications will not be taken into consideration. Please do not fill out the official application form as well, because you will then be treated as a normal applicant and will thus receive an invoice for your participation. The following international experts have confirmed their contribution to the course. The list is continuously updated. Jonathan Clark Technology Director, Elsevier, Netherlands Hans Geleijnse Chief Information Officer, Director IT Services and Librarian, Tilburg University, Netherlands Emanuella Giavarra Copyright lawyer, Chambers of Mark Watson-Gandy, United Kingdom Arnold Hirshon Executive Director, NELINET, United States Donald W. King Research Professor, University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences, United States Teun Nijssen Security Advisor, Tilburg University, IT Services, Netherlands Mark Patterson Senior Editor, Public Library of Science, European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom Thomas W. Place Deputy Librarian, Tilburg University, Library, Netherlands Hans E. Roosendaal Professor of Scientific Information, University of Twente, School of Business, Public Administration & Technology, Department of Computer Science, Netherlands Sylvia Van Peteghem Chief Librarian, University of Ghent, Library, Belgium Herbert Van de Sompel Digital Library Research & Prototyping, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library, United States Details are available at http://www.ticer.nl/04elres/index.htm Ticer B.V., PO Box 4191 5004 JD Tilburg The Netherlands telephone +31-13-466 83 10 telefax +31-13-466 83 83 e-mail Ticer(a)uvt.nl http://www.ticer.nl ---------- J.K.Vijayakumar INFLIBNET __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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Websites of UGC Infonet
by JK Vijayakumar 26 Mar '04

26 Mar '04

Dear All, Details of University Grants Commission's new initiative -UGC Infonet and E-Journal Consortia are available at the following websites. http://www.ugcinfonet.ernet.in http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/econsortia/index.htm http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/info/ugcinfonet/ugcinfonet.jsp -INFLIBNET __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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Re: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants
by Mailing List Manager 25 Mar '04

25 Mar '04

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 03:44:43 -0800 (PST) From: JK Vijayakumar <vjkjk(a)yahoo.com> George Soros is founder and chairman of the Open Society Institute and the Soros foundations network (http://www.soros.org/)Soros foundations are autonomous institutions established in particular countries or regions to initiate and support open society activities. The priorities and specific activities of each Soros foundation are determined by a local board of directors and staff in consultation with George Soros and OSI boards and advisors. As per the guidelines the fundings will go to the countries where Soros Network is active.Unfortunately India is not covered under this catagory (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/grants.shtml) I hope Shri Arun can utilise his international relations in open access initiative to activate Soros network in India, and then ask for fundings. > India is again excluded as was done earlier > with HINARI and AGORA! > > Arun

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[DIGLIB] New and Old Articles About Innovative Information Systems
by Mailing List Manager 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:47:47 -0600 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> I am pleased to announce the publication and availability of self-archived copies of two of my SCI-5 columns devoted to Innovative Information Systems: "New Age E-Journals, Indexes, and Services," Science & Technology Libraries, Vol. 21, No. 3/4, 2001 [2003], pp. 223-233. [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/EJIS.pdf] "Scholar-Based Initiatives in Publishing," Science & Technology Libraries, Vol. 22, No. 3/4, 2002 [2003], pp. 181-191 [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/SBI.pdf ] **************************************************************************** I am also pleased to announce the availability of self-archived copies of previously published articles that profile other Innovative Information Systems, etc: "eCONF: The SLAC Electronic Conference Proceedings Archive," Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 18 No. 5, 2001, pp. 16-23. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/eCONF.pdf ABSTRACT To promote the publication and expedite the availability of conference proceedings, an experimental archive titled eConf has been established under the auspices of the SLAC Technical Information Services department. At this time, the eConf archive is limited to proceedings in high-energy physics and related fields. The archive presently contains the conference papers of two proceedings: the 19th International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies (LP 99) and 20th International Linac Conference. http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/ **************************************************************************** "EnergyFiles: The Virtual Library of Energy Science and Technology," Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 20, No. 1, January/February 2003, 30-36. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/EnergyFiles.pdf ABSTRACT The targeted audience for EnergyFiles is end users and organizations having a need for energy-related scientific and technical information. Anticipated primary users include researchers, scientists, project managers, program, managers, academic (educators and students), and associated information professionals. NOTE: Review of previous version of interface and system http://www.osti.gov/EnergyFiles/ ************************************************************************** "Library Database Advisors - Emerging Innovative Augmented Digital Library Services," Library Hi Tech News Vol. 19, No. 4, May 2002, pp. 27-33. "Why should we make our users hunt down the best resource for a given information need and learn how to use its particular options for searching? Why not provide them with a simple way to get started?" || Roy Tennant || http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/LDBA.pdf **************************************************************************** "Web-based Journal Manuscript Management and Peer-Review Systems and Services," Library Hi Tech News Vol. 19, No. 7, August 2002, pp. 31-43. "* [A] paperless system would significantly reduce delays in all aspects of the dissemination cycle. The composition process itself should be speeded up and so should the whole interaction among writers, publishers, and referees." || F. W. Lancaster || [Lancaster, F.W., Toward Paperless Information Systems ( Academic Press: New York, NY, 1978), 127.] http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/PeerSoft.pdf **************************************************************************** And BTW: For the Irish amongst us, as well as those who wish they were [:-)]: Happy St. Patrick's Day! Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan New and Old Irish Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants
by Mailing List Manager 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:47:01 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> India is again excluded as was done earlier with HINARI and AGORA! Arun For immediate release � Contact: Melissa Hageman, Open Society Institute: (212) 548-0142 MHagemann@sorosny.org� Helen Doyle, Public Library of Science: (415) 624-1217 hdoyle @plos.org � Academic publishing made more accessible for scientists in developing world New Open Society Institute Grants Program Will Promote Open Access Publishing March 22, 2004 New York, NY & San Francisco, CA� The Open Society Institute (OSI) and Public Library of Science (PLoS) today announced a new grants program to support open access publishing in developing and transition countries. The grants will make it much easier for scientists based in developing and transition countries to submit articles to the premiere peer-reviewed research journals published by PLoS. "Scientists in poorer countries have been virtually excluded from the journal publishing world," said Darius Cuplinskas, director of OSI's Information Program. "Open access journals will remove barriers and make these scientists full members of the international scientific community. PLoS is a non-profit advocacy organization and a publisher of open-access journals, which are available free of charge online and are subsidized largely by author-side charges for publication. While this pay-to-publish system allows PLoS to make scientific and medical literature immediately accessible to anyone in the world with an Internet connection, many authors from developing countries cannot afford the fees. Now, scientists affiliated with the OSI-funded member institutions will be entitled to a waiver of publication charges for their articles in PLoS journals. OSI's Information Program has been a strong supporter of the open access movement. Its Budapest Open Access Initiative, launched in 2002, advocates for the support of two parallel strategies for the adoption of open access:� self-archiving and open access journals. The OSI/PLoS Institutional Membership grants will target developing and transition countries.� Authors from the least developed countries will receive a waiver of publication charge upon request, a policy PLoS has had in place since the launch of its first journal, PLoS Biology, in October 2003.� To ensure that ability to pay publication charges does not influence the review process, PLoS has a firewall in place to shield requests from all editors and reviewers. The debate about open access has shifted recently, said Dr. Helen Doyle, PLoS director of development and strategic alliances. Doubts about its value have been replaced with doubts about its viability. This commitment from OSI answers the question of how scientists in developing countries will be able to publish in our journals on a large scale. The complete list of countries and regions where institutions are eligible for the new memberships is as follows: Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Bulgaria Cameroon Cote d'Ivoire Croatia Czech Republic Estonia Georgia Ghana Guatemala Hungary Indonesia Kazakhstan Kosovo Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia� Lithuania Macedonia Moldova Mongolia Namibia Nigeria Peru Poland Romania Russia Serbia and Montenegro Slovakia South Africa Swaziland Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Ukraine Uzbekistan Vietnam Zimbabwe�� More information about the grants is available at http://www.soros.org/openaccess/grants.shtml . The joint OSI-PLoS announcement follows the January launch of the PLoS Institutional Membership program. More information about the PLoS Membership Program is available at http://www.plos.org/support.

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Fwd: Re: UK Select Committee Inquiry into Scientific Publication
by Mailing List Manager 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:38:52 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Of potential interest to the readers of this list: > > Press Release > > 22 March 2004 > > BioMed Central explodes Open Access myths > > Open Access is good news for UK research funding > > "A switch to Open Access would not negatively impact research funding," > BioMed Central declared today. The Open Access publisher issued a strong > rebuttal of arguments that have been submitted by opponents of Open > Access to the ongoing UK House of Commons Select Committee inquiry into > scientific publishing. > > In Open Access Myths, a statement released today, BioMed Central > counters claims that Open Access publishing would cut into research > funding, asserting: > > "The vastly increased access to research that is delivered by Open > Access will greatly increase the effectiveness of the research money > that is spent." > > The statement continues: > > "Open Access publishers are leading the way in using web technology to > reduce costs further, so the cost of Open Access publishing to the > scientific community will be significantly less than the cost of the > system that it replaces." > > Open Access publishing, which makes all original research articles > freely available to anyone, has been a major focus of the Government > inquiry. > > Today's statement from BioMed Central responds to each of the major > "anti-Open Access" arguments made during the course of the inquiry so > far. > > "We felt it was important, at this stage when many people are hearing > about Open Access for the first time, to dispel some of these myths," > says Jan Velterop, BioMed Central's Publisher. > > Other myths dispelled in the document include: "transferring copyright > to a publisher protects scientific integrity"; "UK researchers already > have all the access they need"; "industry will benefit from Open Access > at the expense of research institutes"; and "the public would be > confused if they had access to medical research". > > The BioMed Central statement appears on a new web page, also launched > today, which brings together links to all the publicly accessible > evidence that has been submitted to the Select Committee, together with > the uncorrected transcripts of the oral evidence sessions. This web page > will be continually updated as the inquiry proceeds, providing a central > resource for information relating to the inquiry. > > The site includes links to evidence from both Open Access's supporters > and its detractors. "We want people to read all of the arguments about > Open Access - both for and against," says BioMed Central Publisher Jan > Velterop. "We firmly believe that we have convincing arguments to > counter the objections to Open Access. We want to have an open debate." > > END > > The BioMed Central statement is available at: > > http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/inquiry/myths.pdf > > The BioMed Central inquiry website is available at: > > http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/inquiry/ > > For more information, please contact Grace Baynes. > press(a)biomedcentral.com > Tel: +44 (0) 20 7631 9988 > > About BioMed Central: > > BioMed Central (www.biomedcentral.com) is an independent online > publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to the > peer-reviewed biological and medical research it publishes. This > commitment is based on the view that open access to research is > essential to the rapid and efficient communication of science. In > addition to open-access original research, BioMed Central also publishes > reviews and other subscription-based content.

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Fwd: Manlibnet 6th National Convention
by Mailing List Manager 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:56:12 +0530 From: Jitender Sharma <jsharma(a)niilm.com> 6th MANLIBNET NATIONAL CONVENTION ON Information Services in Management and Business Libraries : Recent Trends May 12-14 2004 Mumbai In Collaboration with Indian Council of Social Science Research Western Regional Centre J P Naik Bhavan, Vidyanagari Kalina, Mumbai 400098 6th National MANLIBNET Convention is to be held at Western Regional Centre, Indian Council of Social Science Research, ICSSR, Mumbai from May 12-14, 2004. The main theme will be Information Services in Management and Business Libraries : Recent Trends. The sub-themes of the convention are : - Databases for Management and Business Libraries : Users view point. - Internet Based Resources for the Librarians - Information Services : Case Studies - Networking and Consortia Approach : Plans and Programmes. Submission of Papers Participants are welcome to submit original unpublished papers preferably based on practical experience or research for presentation at the convention. The length of the paper should not exceed 4000 words. Two copies of the paper should be submitted in A4 size with a soft copy in 1.44MB floppy using MS Word latest by 15th April 2004. Articles can also be submitted by email at: manlibnet2004(a)yahoo.co.in Title page of the paper should contain the name of the author, title of the paper, designation and official address of the author (including telephone number and E-mail address); and an abstract of the paper in about 200 words. Authors are requested to prepare a power point or Over Head Projector presentation for the convention. The authors will be communicated about the acceptance of the paper by the Organising Secretary. Authors are expected to come well prepared to present the paper. Papers are to be sent to : The General Secretary, MANLIBNET, B-2/B-223, Janakpuri, New Delhi-110058 Registration / Delegation Fee Without Accommodation Rs.1000 With Accommodation Rs.1750 Accommodation will be provided in the guest house and the hostel of Western Regional Centre of the ICSSR. Since the number of rooms in the guest house / hostel is limited, it may not be possible to provide accommodation to all the outstation participants. As such, prospective delegates are requested to send their registration fee well in advance so that accommodation can be reserved for them. Completed Registration Forms with all necessary details should be sent to the General Secretary, MANLIBNET, B-2/B-223, Janakpuri, New Delhi-110058 alongwith a demand draft for Rs.1000 or Rs.1750 in favour of Management Libraries Network, payable at Delhi / New Delhi Jitender Sharma Librarian NIILM CMS & UNIVERSITY B-II/66, MCIE, Sher Shah Suri Marg Badarpur, New Delhi - 110044 Tel: 91-011-29891529/39, 29893143 (Dir.) Fax: 91-011-29894212 E-mail: jsharma(a)niilm.com, jitendersharma(a)hotmail.com

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Forwarded mail....
by Mailing List Manager 22 Mar '04

22 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:45:57 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: [The following has been posted by the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development on March 19, 2004, to the Health Information Forum sponsored by the WHO (HIF-net)] Recent messages have shown that the concept of Open Access is now beginning to be more widely understood and earlier misconceptions dispelled. We have responded individually to correspondents, but feel it would be helpful to provide further information to the general list. For some time, the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development has been promoting the importance of the open access movement for the strengthening of the science base in developing countries. The EPT web site (http://www.epublishingtrust.org) now contains much information on open access, particularly as it relates to developing countries. Additionally the Bioline International web site (http://www.bioline.org.br) contains the full text of some 28 journals published in developing countries, free to all. These journals contain much research of medical significance and so are of interest to this list. In order that developing countries are also part of the open access evolution, Bioline International has set up an Open Access Archive (bioline.utsc.utoronto.ca) specifically for developing country publishers. Much of the material on the main Bioline International site is now also archived in a way that is compatible with the open access search engines and so interoperable with the increasing numbers of Archives being established around the world. Institutional archiving was one of two routes recommended by the Soros-supported Budapest Open Access Initiative (1). As well as freeing research literature from the crippling toll-access situation, it also promotes the research output of all contributing institutes. The establishment of institutional archives in the developing countries ensures that their national research becomes mainstream and contributes on an equal footing to the global knowledge pool. It is important to understand that open access Institutional Archives contain already reviewed and published research papers. Quality is unaffected. Scientists can continue to publish in their preferred refereed journals, merely archiving the already published papers in their institutional archives, simultaneously or subsequently. Approaching 60% of publishers (including Nature publisher and Elsevier) allow simultaneous archiving to take place. The remainder seem likely to follow, or accept institutional archiving a few months after the primary publication. Publishers now recognise that this will not affect their sales - as has been clearly demonstrated by the physics communities' archive, http://arxiv.org, which has existed side by side with prestigious physics journals for more than 10 years now. >From the point of view of authors, it is already shown that the visibility and impact of open access published papers is greatly increased (2). This is the ultimate aim of scientific publishing and leads to the establishment of important research partnerships with fellow scientists in their field. The professional isolation felt by many scientists in developing countries is overcome. Open access archives can be established at almost no cost, or institutes may use an already-established archive. All software is free of charge and there is much technical help available to institutes (see below). This is therefore a highly appropriate route for developing country institutes to follow, and great strides are already being made. India is planning its second OA workshop and has a series of institute meetings planned (3); OA workshops are also planned this summer in Brasil and China to raise awareness and transfer technical support. The alternative BOAI route to open access is via the establishment of OA journals, the route followed by BioMedCentral, PubMedCentral and others. This route is likely to take longer to accomplish, but is making an important contribution to the freeing of research literature from unaffordable subscription charges. Again, quality of publications is firmly maintained. Attached, below, is a list of sites showing a) papers on OA developments, b) the growing international support for this endeavour, c) activities already underway in the developing world and technical information, such as access to the free software for the establishment of interoperable archives and a FAQ answering many common misunderstandings. The connectivity problem is gradually being overcome, as shown by the message from Najeeb Al-Shorbaji (shorbajin(a)emro.who.int), and it is important that developing countries are part of the information evolution now underway. The message from Dr.Vinod Scaria (drvinod(a)hotpop.com) shows how fast things are beginning to move and how the impact of OA publications is encouraging publishers, authors and their institutes. The problem of language (upieks(a)fetp.org) remains and should be the main focus of development once access problems are resolved. We hope the following links are of value to list readers. If further information or help is required, please contact us. Barbara Kirsop, EPT Secretariat, UK, barbara(a)biostrat.demon.co.uk Leslie Chan, Trustee EPT, Bioline International, Canada, chan(a)utsc.utoronto.ca Subbiah Arunachalam, Trustee EPT, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, India arun(a)mssrf.res.in (1). Soros Budapest Open Access Initiative http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ (2). S. Lawrence paper in Nature, 411(6387):521, 2002 'Free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact' http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/papers/online-nature01/ (3) 'India's march towards open access', Subbiah Arunachalam, recent SciDevNet paper http://www.scidev.net/Opinions/index.cfm?fuseaction=readOpinions&itemid=243& language=1 a) SOME INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS TO THE OPEN ACCESS MOVEMENT World Summit for the Information Society Declaration of Principles 3,28 and Plan of Action C3i and 22d http://www.wsis.org Wellcome Trust Statement of Support for OA http://www.wellcome.ac.uk Berlin Declaration (signed by many research institutes in Germany, France and other EU countries) http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html American Research Libraries, SPARC statement and guidelines http://www.arl.org/sparc/ b) DEVELOPING COUNTRY OA INITIATIVES AND PAPERS Bioline International main web site (Brazil/Canada non-profit initiative in support of developing country publishers) http://www.bioline.org.br Indian Institute of Science OA server http://www.iisc.ernet.in/ Bangalore OA workshop 2003 http://www.ias.ac.in/epubworkshop/curriculum.html L Chan, B Kirsop, 'Impact of OA on developing country science', Ariadne, 30, 2001 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue30/oai-chan Open Access Now Interview of Subbiah Arunachalam http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/archive/?page=features&issue=11 c) FREE OA DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE AND SUPPORT SERVICES OA archives information and support http://www.eprints.org Frequently Asked Question on OA http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ Handbook for setting up eprints servers http://www.eprints.org/handbook/ OAIster search service http://www.oaister.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.curl.ac.uk/about/isca.html

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RE: [BOAI] Workshop on Open Access
by Mailing List Manager 22 Mar '04

22 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:24:34 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Thanks very much Peter. I do not know how many subscribers are there in India for BOAI Forum. I request them to spread the word. We are keen to get participants from higher educational institutions (general universities, especially central universities and the larger state universities; agricultural universities; larger medical institutions; IITs) and government research institutions (CSIR, ICAR, ICMR, DAE, DST, Dept of Space, DRDO, etc.). In particular institutions publishing more than a few hundred papers a year are most welcome to nominate candidates. Regards. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] -----Original Message----- From: Peter Suber [mailto:peters@earlham.edu] Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 11:01 PM To: boai-forum(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk Subject: [BOAI] Workshop on Open Access M S SWAMINATHAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION Third Cross Street, Taramani Instituional Area, Chennai 600 113 Tel: 044 2254 1229, 2254 2791 Fax: 044 2254 1319 Workshop on Open Access Overview All scientists need to publish their findings. Indeed, research is incomplete as long as it remains unpublished. The last few years have witnessed the unprecedented rise in the subscription costs of journals and even well-endowed institutions in rich countries find it difficult to retain journal subscriptions. The situation in developing countries like India is even worse. Besides, others in the rest of the world do not really read much of the work that we do in India. What is more, if our scientists publish their papers in expensive journals, then even other Indian scientists do not read them, as not many Indian institutions may subscribe to those journals. It is for this reason that the open access (OA) movement is gaining ground around the world - both in the advanced countries and in the developing countries. Indeed, OA will be of much greater advantage to India than to the western countries. Physicists have been placing their preprints and postprints for well over 13 years in a centralized archive called arXiv, which has more than 15 mirror sites including one located in India (Matscience, Chennai). There are several other centralized archives such as Cogprints (for cognitive sciences), CiteSeer (for computer science) and RePEc (for economics). Currently, institutional archives are favoured, as they work to satisfy the felt needs of both individual scientists and their institutions. There are at least three sets of software available, all of them free, to set up such interoperable institutional archives. This workshop aims to help Indian scientists (representing general and agricultural universities and government laboratories under the various councils and departments) to acquire the skills necessary to be able to set up and maintain institutional open archives. This workshop will provide training in Eprints software developed at the University of Southampton and the Open Archives Interoperability protocol. There is great interest in open access around the world. In the USA, Congressman Martin Sabo has introduced a bill suggesting that findings of all publicly funded research must be made freely available to all. In the UK, the Parliament has appointed a committee to inquire current and potentially useful practices in science publishing. Several discussion lists are actively promoting exchange of views on open access. The Budapest Open Access Initiative is providing funds to promote open access initiatives. In India, INSA devoted a whole day for a seminar on open access at its annual meeting held at NCL, Pune, in late December 2003. Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, held two workshops on open access journals in March 2002. The Workshop On a suggestion from Prof. M S Valiathan, President of the Indian National Science Academy, the Bioinformatics Centre of the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation will be holding two identical three-day workshops with a view to developing a cadre of open access experts in Indian higher educational institutions and government laboratories. We expect that before the end of the year at least a dozen institutions will have their own institutional archives up and running. There will be 20-24 participants in each workshop. Each participant and the faculty will have an Internet-connected computer on his/her desk. Dates: 2-4 May 2004 and 6-8 May 2004 Venue: M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Sambasivan Auditorium The Faculty: The workshop will be conducted by the following four experts, known for their commitment to promoting this technology worldwide: Prof. Leslie Chan of the University of Toronto and Bioline International, Dr Leslie Carr of the University of Southampton, Dr D K Sahu of MedKnow Publications, Mumbai, and Dr T B Rajashekar of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. All of them have considerable hands-on experience in open access. Participants: Higher educational institutions and government research laboratories (under the different Councils and Departments) may nominate candidates in the prescribed form. [Heads of these institutions may kindly ensure that an institutional archive is set up within three months after the conclusion of the workshop]. 4048 candidates will be selected. Participants will either be scientists or be librarians. The important thing is they should be computer savvy and committed to the cause of open access and be able to persuade scientists (faculty and students) in their respective institutions to place their research papers in the archives. Guest speakers: We are inviting Prof. M S Swaminathan, Prof. M S Valiathan, Dr R A Mashelkar and Prof. P Balaram to give guest lectures (on how they, as working scientists, view open access). Two of them will address the participants of the first workshop and the other two the second workshop. Workshop Coordinator: Subbiah Arunachalam, Distinguished Fellow, MSSRF, Chennai. His email address is <arun(a)mssrf.res.in>. Mr S Senthilkumaran and colleagues from the Informatics Division and Ms R V Bhavani of MSSRF will provide technical and managerial support for the event. Nominations of participants may please be sent to Mr S Senthilkumaran, Associate Director, Informatics, MSSRF, Chennai 600 113, India. His email address is <senthil(a)mssrf.res.in>. All participants will be provided guesthouse accommodation and all meals. A few travel grants (First class or Second A/C class by Express train) will be made available, depending on funds available. Some Relevant Documents The Bethesda Statement http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm> Wellcome Trust, "Scientific Publishing: A Position Statement by the Wellcome Trust in Support of Open Access Publishing," http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/awtvispolpub.html <http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/awtvispolpub.html> Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html <http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html> Subbiah Arunachalam: India's march towards open access http://www.scidev.net/Opinions/index.cfm?fuseaction=readOpinions <http://www.scidev.net/Opinions/index.cfm?fuseaction=readOpinions&itemid=243 &language=1> &itemid=243&language=1 M S SWAMINATHAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION Third Cross Street, Taramani Instituional Area, Chennai 600 113 Tel: 044 2254 1229, 2254 2791 Fax: 044 2254 1319 Workshop on Open Access Nomination Institution Name and Address: No. of papers from the Institution annually: Name of the candidate: Designation Date of birth: Qualification: Familiarity with Computers and Internet: Membership in Discussion Groups: Past experience in Electronic Publishing: Familiarity with Open Access: Preferred dates: 2-4 May (Workshop 1) / 6-8 May (Workshop 2) Travel grant: Needed / Not needed Date: Signature of the recommending authority: Signature of the candidate:

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Eprints software milestones and OA workshop
by Mailing List Manager 22 Mar '04

22 Mar '04

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:49:14 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here are the main Eprints milestones listed by Stevan Harnad in another list I subscribe to. Many lis-forum members may find this useful. Incidentally, participants of the three-day workshop on Open Access to be held at MSSRF, Chennai, in the first week of May will get trained in the use of Eprints software. For more information on the workshop, please contact Mr S Senthilkumaran, Associate Director of Informatics, MSSRF, Chennai 600 113 <senthil(a)mssrf.res.in>. Arun --------- The GNU Eprints software itself, with Chris Gutteridge's continuous upgrades incorporating features requested by the user community <http://software.eprints.org/> Eprints runs an Institutional Archives Registry (not just for Eprints Archives) <http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php> It currently lists 143 archives (11 of them Dspace, 123 of them Eprints) Please come and register your Archives too! Eprints has also created an Eprints Handbook (funded by the Open Society Institute) to help universities create OAI Archives and to develop procedures and policies for filling them: <http://software.eprints.org/handbook/> Eprints also created and hosts the BOAI self-archiving FAQ: <http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/> as well as the BOAI Forum <http://www.eprints.org/boaiforum.php> Eprints's Steve Hitchcock and other Eprints staff and students have generated the many OpCit projects and papers on citation linking and analysis, self-archiving users surveys, etc. <http://opcit.eprints.org/> Eprints' Tim Brody's citebase <http://citebase.eprints.org/> is a citation-link-based "google" for the OA literature, ranking papers and authors by citation impact or download impact. The download/citation correlator/predictor can also predict eventual citations from today's downloads: <http://citebase.eprints.org/analysis/correlation.php> Eprints deposited in Eprints accordingly focus on the article's reference lists and citation linking. Mike Jewell has created paracite which seeks the full-text of cited articles on the web. <http://paracite.eprints.org/> Eprints has also developed models for university self-archiving policy that universities can consider adopting along with the Eprints software: <http://software.eprints.org/handbook/departments.php> as well as the model Tardis project <http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19prog.html> Eprints's Mike Jewell has also created a standardized OAI CV that universities and research funders can use in research evaluation and performance assessment: <http://paracite.eprints.org/cgi-bin/rae_front.cgi> <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/harnad/> Eprints's Tim Brody has also created Celestial, a software that harvests metadata from OAI-compliant repositories and re-exposes that metadata to other services <http://celestial.eprints.org/> as well as an oai-perl library <http://oai-perl.sourceforge.net/> Eprints staff have contributed to many conferences and workshops to promote self-archiving in general (and Eprints in particular), e.g.: <http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19prog.html> Eprints runs three mailing lists for users: EP-General, EP-Tech and EP-Underground <http://software.eprints.org/maillist.php> as well as a demonstration server in which potential adopters can try out the features of Eprints: <http://software.eprints.org/demo.php> Eprints provides powerpoints to be used for the promotion of self-archiving and Open Access Provision: <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/openaccess.ppt> Eprints is conducting an extensive series of digitometric studies to measure and document the dramatic degree to which open access enhances research impact: <http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/brody-impact.pdf> Eprints is also one of the cornerstones of the ePrints-UK Project: <http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/> as well as a contributor to the JISC Romeo Project (on publishers' policies on author self-archiving) <http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/> Stevan Harnad

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Opening for Aditya Birla Group
by Mailing List Manager 22 Mar '04

22 Mar '04

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 12:42:55 +0530 From: Shivanand <Shivu_murgod(a)hotmail.com> sorry for cross posting- Dear friends, Their is an opening in Aditya Birla Group as Research Information Specialist for Birla Management Corp. Ltd, Mumbai. They are looking for candidates who must be having science (physics/chemistry) or engineering background and proficient in . a.. Create and maintain Technical and Scientific Knowledge Bass for the Corporate Technology Strategy and Services Cell of the Aditya Birla Group. b.. Conduct specialized searches for technical and scientific information c.. Create special reports for Senior Management and select customers d.. Scientific searching on the internet and with specialized services e.. Documentation management f.. Patent searches g.. Good proficiency with computers for search and document management. Experience with following computer applications - Word, Excel, Power Point and Internet tools must posses 3 year hands-on in related field. for more details: visit: http://impact-in.jobstreet.com/Jobs/jobdesc.asp?eid=6211569&jid=186776&did=… Shivanand Gyanodaya Aditya Birla Group

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FW: From Madhan: Eldis document abstract
by Mailing List Manager 19 Mar '04

19 Mar '04

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:13:23 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: For those of you interested in building national agricultural information systems, here is an interesting report. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] FERTILE GROUND : OPPORTUNITIES FOR GREATER COHERENCE IN AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS Besemer, H.; Addison, C.; Ferguson, J. International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) (2003) This study examines the current landscape of Internet-based agricultural information services, to identify gaps and inconsistancies, and to suggest avenues for bringing greater coherence to the system as a whole. As the number of ICT-enabled information services increases, the intended user risks being swamped with possibilities to address his or her information needs. The challenge faced by donor-supported agricultural information services is to make it easier for those who need information to find what they are looking for by working together to build a more coherent total system. This report looks at the issue of coherence among agricultural information services from three perspectives: * Service providers: institutions providing development- oriented information services in the agriculture sector * Agriculture stakeholders in the South: information workers addressing the needs of the main clients for the services provided, such as extension workers, researchers and policymakers * Donors: providing financial support to many of the major agricultural information services and systems. <P>What emerges is a picture of an overall system in which there are striking gaps, areas of inefficiency, and duplications, as well as a certain mismatch between the information needs of the South and what is being provided by the current donor-supported services. To address these issues, the authors suggest both practical and policy-oriented actions that all three stakeholder groups can take to ensure a more coherent approach to matching supply and demand. Technical options for ensuring greater flexibility in mixing and matching information from different sources are explored in some detail. The survey and analysis as well as the recommendations presented in this report were verified in a stakeholder workshop hosted by the United Kingdom Department for International Development in London, June 2003. [author] TO SEE THIS DOCUMENT, PLEASE GO TO: http://www.ftpiicd.org/files/research/reports/report19.pdf

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Training Workshop in Digital Libraries-April 5-7-University of Mysore 2004
by Mailing List Manager 18 Mar '04

18 Mar '04

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:24:30 +0530 From: Shalini .R .Urs <shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in> Vidyanidhi Training Workshop in Digital Libraries and E-publishing, April 5-7, 2004, University of Mysore, Mysore The Vidyanidhi Digital Library Initiative, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, is organizing a three day Training Workshop on Digital Libraries and E-Publishing from April 5-7, 2004 This Program is intended to train LIS professionals in the basics of digital library technologies and building digital libraries with an emphasis on imparting hands on experience. This Program is limited to 20 participants only. The selection will be on first come - first serve basis. The selected candidates would be paid second class Train fare and accommodation is arranged by the organizers. Those interested may contact the undersigned: Dr. Shalini R. Urs Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Mysore- 570006 Phone: 0821-2514699 FAX: 0821-2519209 Email : shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in

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Temporary staffing statistics
by Mailing List Manager 18 Mar '04

18 Mar '04

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:46:36 +0530 From: Aman Jha <aman.jha(a)ciionline.org> Dear friends Any information about any reports/books on temporary staffing statistics = in India??? Thanks and regards, Aman Jha CII

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Indian Journal of Medical Research
by Mailing List Manager 18 Mar '04

18 Mar '04

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:56:22 +0530 From: Ratnakar Aspari <aspari_r(a)hotmail.com> Starting from January 2004 issue the Indian Journal of Medical Research (published by the Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi) is available FULL TEXT ONLINE FREE. It can be accessed at http://icmr.nic.in/ijmr/ijmr.htm A. Ratnakar New Delhi

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New and Old Articles About Innovative Information Systems
by Mailing List Manager 18 Mar '04

18 Mar '04

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:47:47 -0600 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> _New and Old Articles About Innovative Information Systems_ I am pleased to announce the publication and availability of self-archived copies of two of my SCI-5 columns devoted to Innovative Information Systems: "New Age E-Journals, Indexes, and Services," Science & Technology Libraries, Vol. 21, No. 3/4, 2001 [2003], pp. 223-233. [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/EJIS.pdf] "Scholar-Based Initiatives in Publishing," Science & Technology Libraries, Vol. 22, No. 3/4, 2002 [2003], pp. 181-191 [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/SBI.pdf ] **************************************************************************** I am also pleased to announce the availability of self-archived copies of previously published articles that profile other Innovative Information Systems, etc: "eCONF: The SLAC Electronic Conference Proceedings Archive," Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 18 No. 5, 2001, pp. 16-23. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/eCONF.pdf ABSTRACT To promote the publication and expedite the availability of conference proceedings, an experimental archive titled eConf has been established under the auspices of the SLAC Technical Information Services department. At this time, the eConf archive is limited to proceedings in high-energy physics and related fields. The archive presently contains the conference papers of two proceedings: the 19th International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies (LP 99) and 20th International Linac Conference. http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/ **************************************************************************** "EnergyFiles: The Virtual Library of Energy Science and Technology," Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 20, No. 1, January/February 2003, 30-36. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/EnergyFiles.pdf ABSTRACT The targeted audience for EnergyFiles is end users and organizations having a need for energy-related scientific and technical information. Anticipated primary users include researchers, scientists, project managers, program, managers, academic (educators and students), and associated information professionals. NOTE: Review of previous version of interface and system http://www.osti.gov/EnergyFiles/ ************************************************************************** "Library Database Advisors - Emerging Innovative Augmented Digital Library Services," Library Hi Tech News Vol. 19, No. 4, May 2002, pp. 27-33. "Why should we make our users hunt down the best resource for a given information need and learn how to use its particular options for searching? Why not provide them with a simple way to get started?" || Roy Tennant || http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/LDBA.pdf **************************************************************************** "Web-based Journal Manuscript Management and Peer-Review Systems and Services," Library Hi Tech News Vol. 19, No. 7, August 2002, pp. 31-43. "* [A] paperless system would significantly reduce delays in all aspects of the dissemination cycle. The composition process itself should be speeded up and so should the whole interaction among writers, publishers, and referees." || F. W. Lancaster || [Lancaster, F.W., Toward Paperless Information Systems ( Academic Press: New York, NY, 1978), 127.] http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/PeerSoft.pdf **************************************************************************** And BTW: For the Irish amongst us, as well as those who wish they were [:-)]: Happy St. Patrick's Day! Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan New and Old Irish Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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NATIONAL SEMINAR ON LIBRARY CONSORTIA- INAGURAL & VALEDICTORY INVITATION
by Mailing List Manager 17 Mar '04

17 Mar '04

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:46:22 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> THE DEPT. OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE, OSMANIA UNIVERSITY, HYDERABAD-500 007 and INDIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, DELHI Cordially invite you to attend the Inaugural Function of the NATIONAL SEMINAR ON LIBRARY CONSORTIA on Monday, the 22nd March, 2004 at 10.00 a.m. at ICSSR Conference Hall, OU Library Building, Hyderabad Mr. PAWAN AGARWAL, IAS (Financial Advisor, UGC, New Delhi) has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest and will inaugurate the Seminar PROF. J. ANANTHA SWAMY (Vice-Chancellor, Osmania University) has kindly consented to Preside over the function and release the Conference Volume Mr. N. V. SATYANARAYANA (Chairman & MD, Informatics India Ltd., Bangalore) has kindly agreed to deliver the Keynote Address Dr. E. RAMA REDDY (University Librarian, University of Hyderabad) has agreed to act as the Seminar Director PROF.N.LAXMAN RAO DR.J.YADAGIRI REDDY Dr.S.SUDARSHAN RAO Chairman, Organizing Secretary Joint Organizing Organizing Committee & Head, DLIS, OU Secretary ----------------------------------------------------------- THE DEPT. OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE, OSMANIA UNIVERSITY, HYDERABAD- 500 007 and INDIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, DELHI Cordially invite you to attend the Valedictory Function of the NATIONAL SEMINAR ON LIBRARY CONSORTIA on Tuesday, the 23rd March, 2004 at 3.00 p.m. at ICSSR Conference Hall, OU Library Building, Hyderabad PROF. M. MUTHA REDDY (Registrar, Osmania University) has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest PROF. M. VENKATESHWAR (Principal, Univ. College of Arts & Social Sciences & Member, Executive Council, O.U.) has kindly agreed to preside over the function PROF. C. R. KARISIDDAPPA (Chairman, DLIS, Karnataka University, Dharwad President, Indian Library Association) has agreed to deliver the Valedictory Address PROF.N.LAXMAN RAO DR.J.YADAGIRI REDDY DR.S.SUDARSHAN RAO Chairman, Organizing Secretary Joint Organizing Committee & Head,DLIS,OU Organizing Secretary ===== 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) 040-56547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com ___________________________________________________________ How much mail storage do you get for free? Yahoo! Mail gives you 6MB! Get Yahoo! Mail http://uk.mail.yahoo.com

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fw: ICIM2005 at Mumbai February 21-25, 2005
by JK Vijayakumar 16 Mar '04

16 Mar '04

Sorry for cross postings! More details available at conference Website http://www.icim2005.org/ Indian Association of Special Libraries and Inform ation Centres (IASLIC) will be hosting International Conference on Information Management in a Knowledge Society (ICIM-2005) to commemorate its GOLDEN JUBILEE celebrations at Grand Hyatt, Mumbai (Bombay), February 21-25, 2005 Website http://www.icim2005.org/ Objectives The objective of the conference is to juxtapose knowledge construction and development through various information management processes and then associated technologies. The conference will provide a platform for bringing to the fore local and global initiatives in this area encompassing research as well as practical applications. This interaction is expected to create understanding of the needs of the various players in the creation of knowledge. Call for Papers Theme : Information Management in a Knowledge Society ICIM 2005 invites original papers and case studies on various facets of the conference theme, as listed here. Knowledge Society � Leveraging Information for Knowledge � Characteristics of Knowledge Society - e-governance, e-learning, etc. � Virtual Communities � Digital Divide � Triangle of Knowledge Society: Freedom, Censorship and Security � IPR and Cyber Laws � Policy Support : National, Regional and Institutional Levels � Technological Support : NII (National Information Infrastructure) Internet, www, etc. � Institutional Infrastructure : Information Centres and Depositories including HRD. Information Management � Organization of Traditional and Electronic Resources Cataloguing, Metadata, XML, Dublin Core, Web Cataloguing, etc. Architecture, Ontologies, Natural Language Processing, Intelligent Mediators, etc. � Resource Discovery Tools - Search Engines, Directories, Semantic Web, Intelligent Retrieval, Multi and Cross Lingual Retrieval, Information Audit, etc. Knowledge Management � Knowledge Assets � Knowledge Sharing in Organizations : Models and Mechanisms � Organizational Learning � Knowledge Initiatives in Corporate, Govt, Academic & Voluntary Sectors. � Information Mapping : Data Mining, Data Warehousing, etc. � Technological Tools : Intranets, Extranets, CSCW, etc. Digital Libraries: Design & Usability � New Technologies and Adaptability � Digital Library Development: Technical Issues � Content Management and Structuring � Web Design and Interfaces � Digital Preservation � Digital Resource Sharing & Networking: Consortia, Open Archives, etc. Guidelines for Paper Submission Abstract of not more than 300 words to be submitted by June 30, 2004. Acceptance will be confirmed by July 31, 2004. Full paper to be submitted by October 31, 2004. Submission has to be in MS Word format, Times New Roman 12 points font. Subheadings should be bold, not underlined. Bibliographic references should be given at the end of the article under the heading Reference. All papers must be original and after acceptance IASLIC will hold the copyright. A committee of experts will review all contributions and their choice will be final. On the recommendation of the expert committee some papers will be chosen for presentation at the Conference. The remaining selected papers will be displayed during the Poster Sessions. All accepted papers will be presented in the Conference Proceedings which will be distributed at the Conference. Registration The registration fee covers the conference kit, conference proceedings, lunches, inaugural dinner and teas. It does not include the other meals and accommodation. Registration Fee Delegates Tutorial Conference Conference & Tutorial India & SAARC Countries Rs. 1500 Rs. 6000 Rs. 7500 Concessional Charges** Rs. 1500 Rs. 5000 Rs. 6500 Foreign US$ 100 US$ 300 US$ 400 An early bird incentive of US$ 50 will be allowed for registration made before June 30, 2004 for foreign delegates and for Indian and SAARC countries delegates 10% on the conference fee for registration made upto October 31, 2004. ** For students, Retired Library Science Professionals and IASLIC Members. Registration Confirmation Confirmation of registration will be sent upon receipt of the completed registration form and payment. Cancellation & Substitution Policy No cancellation or refund will be possible after a firm registration has been made. However, substitutions may be made. Please indicate the name & other necessary details, of the delegate who will replace the original registrant by December 31, 2004 Important Dates June 30, 2004 Last day for early bird incentive of $50 to foreign delegates. Last day for abstract submission October 31, 2004 Last day for 10% concession to Indian and SAARC country delegates Last day for full paper submission. Organising Committee Chairman Dr. D Kamalavijayan General Manager & Chief Librarian Reserve Bank of India Central Office Mumbai - 400 001 Tel.: 022 - 2265 5127 Fax : 022 - 2265 4993 E-mail : kamalavijayan(a)hotmail.com Convener Mr. Dharmendra Sachan Chief Learning Officer Bank of Baroda Baroda Corporate Centre C-26, G-Block, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra (E), Mumbai - 400 051. Tel.: 022 - 5698 5202 E-mail : clo.bcc(a)bankofbaroda.com Members Prof. Harsha Parekh Prof. Vijaya Rajhansa Dr. Bharati Sen Dr. Vijai Kumar Dr. D Jotwani Dr. Ramesh Gaur Mr. M B Meshram Dr. S K Savanur Mr. Girish Kunkur Ms. Usha Sunil Mr. D D Mistry Dr. Medha Joshi Prof. N R Satya Narayana Dr. A R D Prasad Prof. S B Ghosh Mr. Deepak Kumar Nag Dr. J N Satpathi Mr. T Ashok Babu International Programme Committee Prof. Marcia Bates (USA) Mr. Thomas H. Davenport (USA) Dr. Stephen Denning (World Bank) Dr. Foy Durrant (West Indies) Prof. Schubert Foo (Singapore) Dr. G.E. Gorman (New Zealand) Mr. Daniel Greenstein (USA) Prof. Susan Hockey (UK) Dr. Sjoerd Koopman (IFLA) Dr. Gail Macmillan (USA) Prof. Donald Marchand (Switzerland) Prof. Gary Marchionini (USA) Dr. Alan D. Marwick (USA) Mr. Danny O'Hare (USA) Mr. Axel Plathe (France) Mr. Larry Prusak (USA) Prof. Raj Reddy (USA) Ms. Pamela Samuelson (USA) Dr. Hussain Suleman (South Africa) Dr. Bob Usherhood (UK) Mr. Stuart L. Weibel (USA) National Programme Committee Prof. N. Balakrishnan (IISc) Mr. Ganesh Natarajan (Zensar/CII) Dr. Ramesh Gaur (TIFR) Dr. S. B. Ghosh (IGNOU) (Co-Convr.) Dr. D. Kamalavijayan (RBI) Dr. Mohinder Singh (DESIDOC) Dr. T.A. V. Murthy (INFLIBNET) Mr. Deepak K. Nag (IASLIC) Prof. Harsha Parekh (SNDT) Dr. A. R. D. Prasad (DRTC) Dr. K. S. Raghavan(MU) Dr. T. B. Rajasekhar (IISc) Prof. V. P. Rajhansa(MU) Dr. S. Sadagopan (IIITB) Mr. B. P. Sanjay (IIMC) Prof. N. L. Sarda ( IITB ) Dr. N. R. Satyanarayana (LU) Dr. S. K. Savanur (WRIC) Dr. Bharati Sen (SNDT) (Convr.) Dr. Aditya Sood (CKSB) Mrs. M.Thenmozhi (IITC) More details available at conference Website http://www.icim2005.org/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com

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Urgent requirement of Lib. professionals
by Mailing List Manager 16 Mar '04

16 Mar '04

> From: "Pravakar Rath" <pkrath_99(a)hotmail.com> > Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 15:08:33 +0530 > > > All those who are interested to apply may contact Rajender Singh Aswal > immediately. > Requirement: 1 Project co-ordinator for National Library and 20 Lib. Professional in different languages ie Arabic, Sanskrit, Punjabi and Hindi etc. Qualification: Master Degree in Library and information Science (MLIS),Knowledge of Cataloging in AACR II(Rev.), Classification in DDC 21st edition and Library of Congress Subject Heading in latest edition. Period of Project: 2 years, it may be extended. Location of Project: Anywhere in India but at present we need for National Library, Kolkatta and Central Institute of Indian Languages, Maysore. Salary: Minimum 4,000/- Others: 2 days training will be provided in MARC 21 Cataloguing format. Co. will provide only lodging for outside candidates. For Project coordinator at least 20 years experience. Retired librarian may be considered. Salary may be negotiable. ------------------------------------- For VTLS Software Private Ltd. B-219, Sector- 26, Noida Rajendra Singh Aswal Asst. Manager (Lib & Inf. Services) Tel. Office: +91-120-254 4235, 253 2689 Mobile: 9811295261 E-Mail: rs_aswal(a)hotmail.com ------------------------------------

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FW: Health CD-ROM Exhibition in Senegal
by Mailing List Manager 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:32:50 +0000 From: Tomas Allen <tomasallen(a)hotmail.com> Please forgive any cross postings, Tomas Dear partner, The Senegalese Chapter of the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA, http://www.ahila.org ) is organising a Health CD-ROM Exhibition at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Dakar, on April 29th this year. We invite you to provide copies of your health CD-ROMs for this occasion. Why are we holding a CD-ROM Exhibition? Internet connectivity is a problem for medical teachers, students and healthcare workers in our country, and we feel that health-related CD-ROMs should be available in all health resource centres to help respond to relevant health information needs. INASP-Health recently held an international health CD-ROM exhibition in London (see http://www.inasp.info/health/workshop32/cdroms.html), and this inspired us to do something similar in Senegal. The exhibition will help to share what we already have in Senegal, and to raise awareness about other international CD-ROMs that health stakeholders can access. This day will be an opportunity to know who has got what and where in our network, and help us really identify the resources we have all together. All represented resource centres will have a stand to display their resources, a computer and LCD for demonstrations. To make the day attractive, we intend to distribute to participants and visitors free copies of health CD-ROMs and other products that health information producers and those involved in health information can give us. On receiving your donations of CD-ROMs, we will credit your organisation generously and acknowledge your support to health in the developing world. If you would like to donate or need more information please contact: Ibrahima Bob (organiser of the day) AHILA President BP 5270, Dakar-Fann Dakar, Senegal Tel: 221 824 83 38 Mob 221 653 83 96 Fax : 221 824 07 41 Email: bobibrahim(a)yahoo.com or ibrahima.bob(a)oneworld.net URL: http://www.ahila.org Yours sincerely Ibrahima Bob ===== Ibrahima Bob, Office and Information Manager Africa Consultants International (ACI) B.P. 5270, Dakar-Fann, SENEGAL Tel.:B +221 824.83.38 Mob.: +221 653.83.96 Fax: B +221 824.07.41 // eFax : + 801 740-9578 Web: http://www.acibaobab.org E-mail : bobibrahim(a)yahoo.com

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Forwarded mail....
by Mailing List Manager 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:58:45 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Two news items of interest. Particularly the second one. Till we set up our own interoperable institutional open archives in India, Indian researchers may use the Bioline archive. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Posted in Open Access news by Peter Suber Saturday 13 March http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_03_07_fosblogarchive.html#a107919034 278577568 <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_03_07_fosblogarchive.html> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_03_07_fosblogarchive.html#a107919603 009393812 <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_03_07_fosblogarchive.html> (1) More written testimony for the UK inquiry The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT) <http://www.epublishingtrust.org/> has put its written testimony for the UK inquiry online. <http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/bioline/STC.htm> (2) New Bioline eprint archive for developing country bioscience Bioline International <http://www.bioline.org.br/> has launched the Bioline International EPrints Repository <http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2004/March/13/local/stories/08loca l.htm> an open-access, OAI-compliant archive for bioscience, especially from developing countries.

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Maximising visibility of OA journal articles
by Mailing List Manager 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:53:52 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: How can we best alert would be readers to research papers published in journals and are free to access? Please read what a concerned American librarian has to say. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ---- When scholarly peer reviewed open access articles are imbedded in random issues or are random journal issues, there must be a means of systematically identifying them. If it is approaching 60% in some journals as Dr. Walker notes in his post, to the American Scientist Open Access Forum of yesterday, then the need for a standardized systems becomes critical. OPEN URL resolvers are a standard for navigation in many academic libraries-can we use them to send users to these articles-? Scientific World maintains a list of its open access articles. <http://www.thescientificworld.com/TSWPubs/Journal/openaccessarticles.asp> <<http://www.thescientificworld.com/TSWPubs/Journal/openaccessarticles.asp>> The free access 2004 issue of Nucleic Acids Research-annual database issue from OUP is noted on the journal's splash page at Highwire. The 2004 issues says free at each article, the 2003 issue which is also free, does not. The Entomological Society states "free pdf" on individual articles American Society of Limnology and Oceanography has an "unlocked" padlock icon. BMC has an icon on individual articles that says "free" . If author paid open access becomes standard, it can happen rapidly in fields that already have page charge and reprint traditions, then identification also must be standardized. OAI harvesters aren't currently sufficient. Some suggestions from talking with Dr. Herbert Van De Sompel of LANL: Publishers could expose these articles, with their data, to OAI harvesters which could feed the data to linking servers. He also suggested information could be included in a metadata tag, ie access=open (which could be used on an open URL) Other issues: Are these articles and issues also being deposited in OAI archives by publishers? Shouldn't they be? Is there some other unique identifying system that can be computed, reduced to a formula to be plugged into open url resolvers? I am not aware of a standard identifier for permanently free content in traditional journals? I assume individual publishers using unique marking systems internally-can those be used to configure resolvers? They will have something in their systems that says "free" How does that get guaranteed over time? What if publishers for a title change? Isn't that another reason to deposit these also in OAI systems? If users can't systematically identify which articles are free (my library bias) they will be underutilized, won't be identified as open access in standard sources (ISI or Compendex for instance) and could become orphaned. One of the 5 basic principles of librarianship from Ranganathan is: "Save the Time of the Reader." That is imperative. Free and easy and organized-predictable access all have to come together to guarantee that! Chuck Hamaker Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services Atkins Library University of North Carolina Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223 phone 704 687-2825

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OA and impact factor
by Mailing List Manager 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:42:44 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is Stevan Harnad's clear exposition of impact factor in the era of open access. Hope you find it interesting. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Rick Anderson asked: [I]sn't open access simply making the impact-factor data less meaningful? ...given two articles of equal merit and potential influence, one of which is freely available to the public and the other of which is only available to those who pay, wouldn't we expect that the impact of the former would be higher than that of the latter? And if so, how is the difference between those two impact factors meaningful or useful? Stevan Harnad's reply: The reason researchers publish their research ("publish or perish") rather than just putting it into a desk-drawer and moving on to do the next piece of research is so that it will be used, so that it makes a contribution to knowledge, so it makes a difference. This is research impact, of which citation counts are one correlate, hence predictor. Findings that cannot be accessed by all their would-be users are findings that cannot have their full potential research impact. The purpose of open access is to maximise the visibility, usage and hence the impact of research. To maximise the visibility, usage and impact of one's own research by providing open access to it is not to make the impact factor less meaningful or more meaningful. It is to maximize the impact of one's own research, just as publishing it at all was done in order to make it visible and usable, so the work can have its impact rather than remaining still-born, done in vain. Today, most journal articles are toll-access (TA), hence impact-limited, rather open-access (OA). How do we get there (universal OA) from here (restricted access)? By providing OA to one's own articles. Yes, of course, in the unlikely event that two articles are of exactly equal merit, and one is TA and the other OA, the OA article will have more users. That's the point! And the remedy for this momentary imbalance is that the OA should be provided for the other article too, and then access to both will be be maximized, and merit alone will again rule. The race is to the swift. Once all articles are OA, their impacts will all be rescaled upward, because all articles will have maximized impact. Until then, the OA article will have an extra edge over the TA article. Let that serve as another incentive to provide OA as swiftly as possible! A word about "journal impact factors," though: As David Goodman and Jean-Claude Guedon pointed out, these are merely average citation counts for the articles in a journal. That's a blunt instrument. The sharper instrument is the article's own citation count (and the author's, and the download count, which is an early-days measure, and highly correlated with, hence predictive of, later citation counts). <http://citebase.eprints.org/> <http://citebase.eprints.org/analysis/correlation.php> OA will not only give us a far richer array of impact indicators, but it will put the focus on the individual article's merit, rather than only on the average merit of the articles in the journal it was published in. (Do not, however, underestimate the predictive value of the journal name itself, for the journal is the peer-review service-provider, and its track record for the average quality of its articles is also an indicator of its acceptance standards. There are 24,000 journals, differing not only in field, but in peer-review standards and selectivity; there is usually a journal hierarchy of merit within each field. This filter is not to be sneezed at either.) Harnad, S., Carr, L., Brody, T. & Oppenheim, C. (2003) Mandated online RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives: Improving the UK Research Assessment Exercise whilst making it cheaper and easier. Ariadne 35 (April 2003). <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/harnad/> Harnad, Stevan (2003) Measuring and Maximising UK Research Impact. Times Higher Education Supplement. Friday, June 6 2003. <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/thes.html> Harnad, Stevan (2003) Maximising Research Impact Through Self-Archiving. <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/che.htm> Stevan Harnad NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004) is available at the American Scientist Open Access Forum: To join the Forum: <http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum. html> Post discussion to: american-scientist-open-access-forum(a)amsci.org </ym/Compose?To=american-scientist-open-access-forum(a)amsci.org&YY=77206&orde r=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b> Hypermail Archive: <http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html> Unified Dual Open-Access-Provision Policy: BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm> BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it. <http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/> <http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml> <http://www.eprints.org/signup/>

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RE: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 12, Issue 10
by Mailing List Manager 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:17:28 +0530 From: Jeetender "Vicky" Chandna <vicky(a)irft.org> Dr Krishnan Could you please return the hyperlink (in plain text)to the article sent in by you. Dear Friends In relation to fairness and giving us a chance to visit the originating, I sincerely hope that links to articles be posted on the discussion group rather than whole copying of the articles. Senders may make a critique on the topic and add a link to it, otherwise it does seem from the signature at the bottom of the article, that the sender has written the article. This is standard practice at most discussion groups around the world. Now, as an advocate of Open Source Policies, I personally believe that much has to be discussed and done in relation to open source in this corner of the world. Principally, I do not consider the moment to be a myth as indicated by the article. The amount of $1500 does seem to be inordinately high. Whatever amount is paid to the peer reviewers can be pooled by a common fund created by the whole world. Each nation paying a Open Source Tax (OST) with correlates to the GDP of that nation. Not only will such a revolution benefit mankind at large, but will also render information free from all fetters. 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 ------------------------------------------

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NewGenLib report in Hindu
by Mailing List Manager 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:35:30 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> Dear professional friends, please look at new library management software namely NEW GENLIB. Mr Haravu is assoicated with this project and it is a product of Keshavan Institute (a social organisation). u may see the details of the software at www.newgenlib.com Even a report on NewGenLib appeared in 9 Mar 2004 The Hindu and the same report is also on the web. The url is: http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/03/09/stories/2004030916150300.htm Best regards. 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) 040-56547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com

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Forwarded mail....
by Mailing List Manager 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 14:48:06 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Yahoo! is helping the cause of Open Access. Please read what Yahoo! and the University of Michigan are doing. I received this through another discussion list. Arun A repository of information that provides links to previously difficult-to-locate electronic scholarly resources is widely available under a new agreement between the University of Michigan and Yahoo! Inc. The repository -- developed through Michigan's University Library OAIster Project -- is now available through Yahoo!'s Content Acquisition Program (CAP) and accessible through Yahoo! Search. OAIster offers information that links to hidden digital resources such as the complete contents of books and articles, technical reports, preprints (unpublished works that have not yet been peer reviewed), white papers, images of paintings, movies and audio files of speeches. OAIster retrieves these elusive resources 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 U-M's OAIster service provides access to over 3 million harvested records describing and pointing to these resources. Currently, the resources are created and hosted by 267 research libraries and institutions from around the world. Many of the scholarly collections included in OAIster were not previously indexed in popular Web search services and remained hidden from those who need the resources for their research. By enabling access through Yahoo!'s CAP program, these materials will be widely available to an international audience of scholars, students, researchers and enthusiasts. OAIster provides a direct link to an actual digital object-an image, book, document-not just a catalog or descriptive information. Examples of some of the collections currently 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. CAP enables Yahoo! Search to expand the breadth and depth of content users can access. In addition to the OAIster project, other participants in CAP include National Public Radio, Northwestern University, the Library of Congress, The New York Public Library, Project Gutenberg, UCLA and the National Science Digital Library. For more information about Michigan's OAIster Project, visit <http://www.oaister.org>, or contact Katrina Hagedorn at khage(a)umich.edu. For more information about Yahoo! Search or the Content Acquisitions Program, contact Sumir Meghani of Yahoo! Inc. at sumir(a)yahoo-inc.com .You can view the press release at: <http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2004/Mar04/r031004> ------------------- Kat Hagedorn OAIster/Metadata Harvesting Librarian DLXS Bibliographic Class Coordinator DLXS Text Class Co-coordinator Digital Library Production Service University of Michigan <http://www.oaister.org/> <http://www.dlxs.org/> email: khage(a)umich.edu

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ISBN Standard Revision
by Mailing List Manager 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Date: 13 Mar 2004 08:59:36 -0000 From: Sharad Jadhav <email2sharad(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Members, ISBN Standard Revision The Guidelines for the Implementation of 13 Digit ISBNs Major changes to be aware of, and addressed by the guidelines, include the following: 1. The ISBN will change from 10 to 13 digits on 1 January 2007 2. Existing ISBNs will be prefixed by 978 3. The resulting 13-digit number will be identical with the EAN-13 number that is currently encoded in the bar code 4. The 979 prefix will be introduced when the current stock of numbers is exhausted 5. Publishers' identifier prefixes are not likely to remain the same for ISBNs using the 979 prefix 6. Bar codes will carry the 13-digit ISBN with hyphenation above the barcode and the EAN-13, the identical number without hyphens or spaces, below the bar code. More information is available on http://www.isbn-international.org/revision.html Sharad Jadhav Librarian Maharashtra Academy of Naval Education And Training, MIT Campus, Paud Rd.,Pune 411038 MS Homepage : http://www.geocities.com/sharad7703 sharad1977(a)indiatimes.com

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editiorial from C&E News
by Mailing List Manager 12 Mar '04

12 Mar '04

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:06:37 +0530 From: Krishnan <krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in> Editorial from C&E News makes interesting reading! The Open-Access Myth HYPERLINK "http://pubs.acs.org/cen/staff/biorb.html"RUDY M. BAUM Editor-in-chief Much has changed in scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing = in the past decade. New electronic methods of delivery and of searching and accessing the STM literature have combined with ferocious pressure on library budgets to create a whole new STM publishing environment. It is = an environment that challenges everyone involved in this important activity = to think hard about where it's going and what shape we want it to take. One response to developments in STM primary and secondary publishing is = the "open access" movement. Starting primarily among the West Coast biology = and biomedical research communities in the late 1990s, open-access advocates have pressed a variety of demands on STM publishers. Those demands have = one common theme: that access to the STM literature at some point becomes = free to the public. "At some point" variously has been defined as six months after publication, one year after publication, or immediately.=20 Open access is predicated on an obvious truth and a dangerous myth. The obvious truth is that most of the research published in the STM = literature is supported by public funding. Therefore, open-access advocates claim, = the research should be freely available to the public that funds it. At first blush, the argument seems reasonable. The dangerous, usually unspoken, myth that makes the argument seem reasonable is this: STM publishers add little value to the research they publish and therefore should not charge institutions for subscriptions to the electronic = versions of their journals, or, at the very least, they should provide open = access to the public a short time after publication. One of the most visible manifestations of the open-access movement is = the HYPERLINK "http://www.plos.org"Public Library of Science (PLoS), which describes itself as "a nonprofit organization of scientists and = physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a = public resource." That sounds noble, but it implies that the STM literature = isn't already a public resource, which is debatable. PLoS has already launched one open-access journal, PLoS Biology, and = plans to launch another, PLoS Medicine, later this year. PLoS acknowledges on = its website that it does, in fact, cost something to publish a journal, but argues that the current practice of charging for subscriptions and site licenses is "expensive and cumbersome and can involve complex = negotiations ... and, of course, many institutions simply cannot afford these = licenses. Open access solves all of these problems." PLoS's business model is to charge a fee of $1,500 per paper to authors = to cover the costs of publishing. Whether $1,500 per paper is a reasonable assessment of the cost of publishing a peer-reviewed research paper is = open to question. And it's not clear to me what advantage is conferred by shifting the cost of publishing from libraries to researchers. Most of = us thought the elimination of page charges was a good thing. Not = surprisingly, the PLoS model has raised other issues, such as what to do about = authors, like those in developing countries, who can't afford the charge. Interestingly, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences just released the results of a survey of 610 corresponding authors on open = access [101, 5 (2004)]. Only half of the respondents were willing to pay a fee = to provide open access, and of those, 80% said $500 was the most they would pay. STM publishing faces many challenges. Prices charged by some commercial publishers are way too high. However, the marketplace is responding to = those high prices in a predictable way as libraries make hard choices and = cancel subscriptions. The open-access movement's demand that an entirely new = and unproven model for STM publishing be adopted is not in the best = interests of science. It's human nature to want something for nothing. Unfortunately, = excellence rarely comes without a price. Perhaps that's the most dangerous myth = being fostered by the open-access movement: that access to high-quality STM literature can be had on the cheap. Dr. S. Krishnan Head, Information Division National Chemical Lab, PUNE 411008, INDIA e-mail: HYPERLINK "mailto:krish@ems.ncl.res.in"krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in HYPERLINK "http://www.ncl-india.org"http://www.ncl-india.org Tel: 020-25893457; Fax: 020-25893973

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New and Old Articles About Open Access / Open Archives
by Mailing List Manager 11 Mar '04

11 Mar '04

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:46:21 -0600 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> I am pleased to announce the publication and availability of the last and final part in my series on Open Archives Initiative Service Providers: "Open Archives Initiative Service Providers. Part III: General," Library Hi Tech News 21 (1) (January/February 2004): 38-46. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-SP-III.pdf In this part, I profile: CILEA Open Archives Platform http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00000518/ ePrints UK http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/ NDLTD Union Catalog (Electronic Thesis/Dissertation OAI Union Catalog bases At OCLC) http://rocky.dlib.vt.edu/~etdunion/search.html OAIster http://www.oaister.org Public Knowledge Project Archives Harvester http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/harvester/ **************************************************************************** I am also pleased to announce the availability of previously published articles that profile Open Access and the Open Archives resources and services: "arXiv.org: The Los Alamos National Laboratory e-Print Server," International Journal on Grey Literature 1 (3) (2000): 127-138. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/arXiv.org.pdf ABSTRACT Since its creation nearly ten years ago, the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) e-print service (arXiv.org) has revolutionized scholarly communication within many scientific communities. It has also inspired the development of alternatives to conventional and electronic journal publication in a variety of other disciplines. The LANL e-print database is also serving as the core collection for two major investigations that seek to enhance access and navigation within and between electronic archives and special collections. NOTE: The arXiv.org is now based at Cornell University. http://www.arXiv.org **************************************************************************** "Perspectives in Electronic Publishing: An Open Access-Dynamic-Virtual Electronic Journal, " Library Hi Tech News, 18(9) (October 2001): 19-27. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/PeP.pdf ABSTRACT Perspectives in Electronic Publishing (http://aims.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ pep.nsf/) is a "new model e-journal" that covers a broad range of topics relating to electronic networked publishing, with an emphasis on academic publishing and journals. In addition, PeP includes publications that discuss a wide range of scientific, technological and humanistic disciplines in the context of electronic publishing." As characterized by its editor, Stephen M. Hitchcock, Perspectives in Electronic Publishing (PeP), is a "distributed linkbase journal" and an "evaluated journal with full-text papers distributed on the Web." PeP may also be considered a review journal in that it provides critical assessments of major aspects and components. journal in that it provides selected extracts from source publication. In that it provides summaries and indexing of its primary and secondary content, it may also be considered an abstractingand indexing service. Alternatively, PePmay be viewed as a "vertically integrated portal", a resource discovery tool, or a subject-based information gateway ("What is PeP?", n.d.). In that its core content - open access full-text publications - is not original to the journal but incorporated within it, PeP may also be viewed as a "virtual e-journal http://aims.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pep.nsf ************************************************************************** "RePEc: An Open Library for Economics," Library Hi Tech News 18(3) (April 2001): 21-31. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/RePEc.pdf >From the RePEc perspective, a discipline can be viewed a set of four basic elements that are related to each other: paper, collection, person, and institution. Using a distinct ReDIF template for each of these elements, RePEc offers a centralized catalog of records for working papers, journal articles, and software components (paper); journals and working paper series (collection); authors of papers or editors of collections (person); and the names of organizations that conduct economics research (institution). http://www.repec.org **************************************************************************** Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Previously Published Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu "You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty." Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Classification numbers in WWW
by Mailing List Manager 10 Mar '04

10 Mar '04

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 15:55:09 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Saiful Amin" <saifulamin(a)yahoo.com> Hi, The Library of Congress catalogue (http://catalog.loc.gov/) is a good source for getting class numbers of LC and DDC. Another importance source which we use is Books in Print (http://www.globalbooksinprint.com). However, this is available only on paid subscription. But the problem is these are good source for only international books. Indian books, especially of vernacular languages, are not represented in these sources. I understand that the National Library of India is currently automating their catalogue records in MARC21 format to build a Z39.50 server. Once this is in place we would be saved a lot of duplication of effort in cataloguing and classification, provided the class numbers and other tags are assigned carefully. Let us wait and watch. With best wishes, Saiful -- Saiful Amin Learning Resource Center Indian School of Business Gachibowli Hyderabad - 500019 Ph. +91-40-2318-7963/7965 Mailing List Manager wrote: > Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 15:15:54 +0530 > > From: Samdarshi Pali <Samdarshi.Pali(a)relianceinfo.com> > > > > Dear Satish > > > > Many libraries published their catalogues on Internet. > > These OPAC contains complete metadata including > > class numbers (most according to DDC or LOC) > > for their collections in MARC format. > > Try to collect information /class numbers > > from these sites. > > > > regards, > > > > Samdarshi Pali > > Kendriya Vihar > > Sector 11, Kharghar, > > Navi Mumbai 410210 > > > > Original Message > > ---------------- > > Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 12:18:52 -0800 > > From: Satish Munnolli <smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in> > > > > Dear members, > > > > Classification of books is one of the basic activity of any library. > > Does anyone has the information of a site where in you give the title of a > > book and get the tentative or nearest class number(s) of standard > > classification systems in tabular format or series. The input is not > > necessarily the exact book title... even PMEST of the title. (Dr. > > Ranganathan's scheme). If it is available it will be of immense use for > > all classifiers. > > > > Because it's not possible for smaller to medium sized libraries to procure > > every updated edition of Classification schedules what they are following > > which are very expensive and above all it ease the work load of library > > staff. > > > > If not such site is available does anyone has the information on any > > project that is going on in this direction. > > > > Satish S. Munnolli ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Insurance Special: Be informed on the best policies, services, tools and more. Go to: http://in.insurance.yahoo.com/licspecial/index.html

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Fwd: Methodology for estimating cost per article at an institution
by Mailing List Manager 09 Mar '04

09 Mar '04

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 05:24:39 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] MALLIKARJUNA, C" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Phil Davis <pmd8(a)cornell.edu> wrote:From: Phil Davis To: liblicense-l(a)lists.yale.edu Subject: Methodology for estimating cost per article at an institution Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 21:24:13 EST Scott Plutchak, Ann Okerson and others have started some constructive dialog by comparing subscription vs. producer (author) payments at their own institutions. So librarians can begin to calculate these figures for their own institution, I have provided a methodology for estimating these figures below. The two most challenging tasks are 1) estimating the total article output of an institution in the absence of a single comprehensive index, and 2) correcting for articles that have authors from multiple institutions. Below is an example methodology. While I can imagine before even posting this, receiving a number of responses trying to pick holes in the weakness of the methodology, I ask those individuals in response to propose a correction or simpler model (Occam's Razor). ESTIMATING THE ARTICLE COVERAGE OF ISI Number of titles indexed by ISI (SCI, SSCI, AHCI) = 8,769 Estimate of the number of scholarly journals = 20,000 This means that ISI is only indexing 44% of journals; however, not all journals publish the same number of articles per year and ISI attempts to index the most prolific core journals. If we assume a logarithmic (skewed) distribution, these 44% of indexed journals represent nearly 92% of the number of articles published (i.e. log 8,769 / log 20,000). CORRECTING FOR MULTIPLE-AUTHOR ARTICLES Number of Cornell author "hits" in ISI for 2003 = 5,465 However, many of these articles have multiple authors from multiple institutions. If we assume that the first author would pay all publishing charges (this is the BMC model, and it seems more reasonable than splitting $525 among 100 authors of a high-energy physics article), then how many of the above "hits" represents first author-articles? ISI displays only the first 500 records and makes it difficult to get an absolute count. We need to resort to sampling. I took a distributed sample of 100 articles (the first and last article on each page of results), and found that 61 (of the 100) included a Cornellian as a first author. Therefore the % first author hits = 61% (do this calculation for your own institution). The estimate of article output by first authors at Cornell = 5,465 x 0.61 = 3,636 ESTIMATING THE COST PER ARTICLE IF AN INSTITUTION MOVED TO AN OPEN ACCESS MODEL Scenario 1. The entire industry swaps from a subscription model to an open-access model overnight, and all authors publish in open-access journals. The breakeven cost/article = total article output of an institution / total amount spent on purchasing journals. For Cornell, this number is about $1,100/article Scenario 2. The entire industry except Elsevier moves from a subscription to OA model. The library still purchases Elsevier journals and authors still publish in them. Calculate the number of articles published in Elsevier journals in 2003 by searching for your institution in Science Direct advanced journal search for affiliation. Correct for multiple authors. Remove money spent on Elsevier journals and number of articles published in Elsevier journals and recalculate the cost/article. For Cornell, this number is under $800/article. In other words, OA has to cost less than $800/article for the model to start saving money. Scenario 3. Same is 2 but assume all large publishers will not participate (Kluwer, Wiley, Springer). For Cornell, the cost/article is less than $400/article. The reason that the cost per article would need to be much lower in Scenario 1 and 2 is because the large commercial publishers take up a disproportionate amount of a libraries funds compared to the number of articles published in these journals. For example, the Elsevier ratio is 43% / 16%. Philip Davis, Life Sciences Bibliographer Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-7192 ; (607) 255-0318 fax pmd8(a)cornell.edu http://people.cornell.edu/pages/pmd8/ C.MALLIKARJUNA, ISEC LIBRARY, INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE NAGARABHAVI BANGALORE-560 079. hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Office:080+3215468 EXT-301 Mobile:080+36757228 Yahoo! India Insurance Special: Be informed on the best policies, services, tools and more. --0-1197097960-1078809879=:60659 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Phil Davis <pmd8(a)cornell.edu></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">From: Phil Davis <PMD8(a)CORNELL.EDU><BR>To: liblicense-l(a)lists.yale.edu<BR>Subject: Methodology for estimating cost per article at an institution<BR>Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 21:24:13 EST<BR><BR>Scott Plutchak, Ann Okerson and others have started some constructive<BR>dialog by comparing subscription vs. producer (author) payments at their<BR>own institutions. So librarians can begin to calculate these figures for<BR>their own institution, I have provided a methodology for estimating these<BR>figures below. The two most challenging tasks are 1) estimating the total<BR>article output of an institution in the absence of a single comprehensive<BR>index, and 2) correcting for articles that have authors from multiple<BR>institutions. Below is an example methodology. While I can imagine<BR>before even posting this, receiving a number of responses trying to pick<BR>holes in the weakness o! f the methodology, I ask those individuals in<BR>response to propose a correction or simpler model (Occam's Razor).<BR><BR><BR>ESTIMATING THE ARTICLE COVERAGE OF ISI<BR><BR>Number of titles indexed by ISI (SCI, SSCI, AHCI) = 8,769<BR>Estimate of the number of scholarly journals = 20,000<BR><BR>This means that ISI is only indexing 44% of journals; however, not all<BR>journals publish the same number of articles per year and ISI attempts to<BR>index the most prolific core journals. If we assume a logarithmic<BR>(skewed) distribution, these 44% of indexed journals represent nearly 92%<BR>of the number of articles published (i.e. log 8,769 / log 20,000).<BR><BR><BR>CORRECTING FOR MULTIPLE-AUTHOR ARTICLES<BR><BR>Number of Cornell author "hits" in ISI for 2003 = 5,465<BR><BR>However, many of these articles have multiple authors from multiple<BR>institutions. If we assume that the first author would pay all publishing<BR>charges (this is the BMC model, and it seems more reasonable than<BR>splitting $525 among 100 authors of a high-energy physics article), then<BR>how many of the above "hits" represents first author-articles?<BR><BR>ISI displays only the first 500 records and makes it difficult to get an<BR>absolute count. We need to resort to sampling. I took a distributed<BR>sample of 100 articles (the first and last article on each page of<BR>results), and found that 61 (of the 100) included a Cornellian as a first<BR>author. Therefore the % first author hits = 61% (do this calculation for<BR>your own institution).<BR><BR>The estimate of article output by first authors at Cornell = 5,465 x 0.61<BR>= 3,636<BR><BR><BR>ESTIMATING THE COST PER ARTICLE IF AN INSTITUTION MOVED TO AN OPEN ACCESS<BR>MODEL<BR><BR>Scenario 1. The entire industry swaps from a subscription model to an<BR>open-access model overnight, and all authors publish in open-access<BR>journals. The breakeven cost/article = total article output of an<BR>institution / total amount spent on purchasing journals. For Cornell,<BR>this number is about $1,100/article<BR><BR>Scenario 2. The entire industry except Elsevier moves from a subscription<BR>to OA model. The library still purchases Elsevier journals and authors<BR>still publish in them. Calculate the number of articles published in<BR>Elsevier journals in 2003 by searching for your institution in Science<BR>Direct advanced journal search for affiliation. Correct for multiple<BR>authors. Remove money spent on Elsevier journals and number of articles<BR>published in Elsevier journals and recalculate the cost/article. For<BR>Cornell, this number is under $800/article. In other words, OA has to<BR>cost less than $800/article for the model to start saving money.<BR><BR>Scenario 3. Same is 2 but assume all large publishers will not<BR>participate (Kluwer, Wiley, Springer). For Cornell, the cost/article is<BR>less than $400/article. The reason that the cost per article would need<BR>to be much lower in Scenario 1 ! and 2 is because the large commercial<BR>publishers take up a disproportionate amount of a libraries funds compared<BR>to the number of articles published in these journals. For example, the<BR>Elsevier ratio is 43% / 16%.<BR><BR>Philip Davis, Life Sciences Bibliographer<BR>Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853<BR>(607) 255-7192 ; (607) 255-0318 fax<BR>pmd8(a)cornell.edu<BR>http://people.cornell.edu/pages/pmd8/<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>C.MALLIKARJUNA,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>ISEC LIBRARY,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>NAGARABHAVI</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>BANGALORE-560 079.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><A href="mailto:hbmallikarjuna@yahoo.co.in">hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>Office:080+3215468 EXT-301 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>Mobile:080+36757228</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT> </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><p><font face=arial size=-1> <a href="http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtag/*http://in.insurance.yahoo.com/lics…" target="_blank"><b>Yahoo! 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Classification numbers in WWW
by Mailing List Manager 09 Mar '04

09 Mar '04

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 15:15:54 +0530 From: Samdarshi Pali <Samdarshi.Pali(a)relianceinfo.com> Dear Satish Many libraries published their catalogues on Internet. These OPAC contains complete metadata including class numbers (most according to DDC or LOC) for their collections in MARC format. Try to collect information /class numbers from these sites. regards, Samdarshi Pali Kendriya Vihar Sector 11, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410210 Original Message ---------------- Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 12:18:52 -0800 From: Satish Munnolli <smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in> Dear members, Classification of books is one of the basic activity of any library. Does anyone has the information of a site where in you give the title of a book and get the tentative or nearest class number(s) of standard classification systems in tabular format or series. The input is not necessarily the exact book title... even PMEST of the title. (Dr. Ranganathan's scheme). If it is available it will be of immense use for all classifiers. Because it's not possible for smaller to medium sized libraries to procure every updated edition of Classification schedules what they are following which are very expensive and above all it ease the work load of library staff. If not such site is available does anyone has the information on any project that is going on in this direction. Satish S. Munnolli LIbrarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410208 Email : smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in Ph: 2740 5026 (Direct) 2741 2919 Extn : 5026 Fax: 27412894

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Definitions of information management and knowledgemanagement
by Mailing List Manager 09 Mar '04

09 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 22:00:28 +0530 From: Satish Hulyalkar <satish(a)vsnl.com> Hello, I have analyzed it a step ahead. What we call knowledge is mostly VARI (Value Added Rich Information) Knowledge is process and is person (human) oriented only. KM is allowing a human being to enrich the process by refining the VARI gathered till last occurrence. I have published a paper on this in Competia.com Those interested may contact me for a copy. Satish Hulyalkar Consultant Telecom & Knowledge Management Pune/India Ph: +91 (20) 2567 4343 E-mail: satish(a)SatishHulyalkar.com http://www.SatishHulyalkar.com Original Message ---------------- Subject: [LIS-Forum] Definitions of information management and knowledgemanagement Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:51:12 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: This is what Paul Whiffen, a KM consultant, says on the distinction between knowledge and information: "This (the distinction between knowledge and information) used to trouble me until I came up with this: a) Knowledge is what is inside peoples' heads; b) Information is what you get when you write it down (or make a report, tape, file or whatever - ie, Information is the physical media representation of knowledge). At first I thought that surely it can't be that simple - but this distinction has served me very well now for years. Outcomes of using this distinction lead to the following deductions: KM is about putting in place the environment to enable and facilitate knowledge moving from human head to human head whether they are separated by time or geography or both (all aspects of the environment including cultural, technology and process aspects); IM is about managing your documents (or whatever your media is) in support of KM; I.T. (which, after all, stands for Information Technology) is therefore about the technology being in place to enable / support IM (which in turn enables KM). As I say, this is simple. To me it was worryingly simple at first but so far it has always served me well. Hope this helps, Paul. Paul R.Whiffen Knoco Ltd www.knoco.co.uk Phone: Mobile + 44 (0) 7808 162 302 Office + 44 (0) 1420 560 147 (Alton, Hants, UK) Email: paul.whiffen(a)knoco.co.uk or paul.whiffen(a)global123.freeserve.co.uk

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Open access in India
by Mailing List Manager 09 Mar '04

09 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 19:34:04 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> > > 5 March 2004 > Source: SciDev.Net > > > Subbiah Arunachalam argues that the best way to make scientific research > more available worldwide is to encourage scientists to self-archive their > research. The author is a distinguished fellow at the M S Swaminathan > Research Foundation, Chennai, India. <<...OLE_Obj...>> > In December 2003, the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) held a > one-day conference on access to scientific data and information as part of > its annual meeting in Pune. The conference was held to address two key > problems faced by Indian scientists - poor access to international > journals and the low visibility of papers published by Indian scientists - > and the possible solutions offered by electronic publishing and open > archives. > Inaugurating the conference, Raghunath A. Mashelkar, director-general of > India's Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, spoke of how > international organisations such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) > and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) were helping developing > countries improve electronic access to expensive journals through the > HINARI and AGORA programmes, respectively. > Unfortunately, however, India has not benefited from either of these > programmes. Although journal publishers are willing to provide toll-free > electronic access to researchers in countries where relatively few > scientists read their journals, they are not prepared to do so in larger > developing countries such as India, where they already have a considerable > number of subscribers. Yet India's average gross domestic product (GDP) > is, per capita, less than half the threshold agreed upon by the WHO and > FAO when they set up the HINARI and AGORA programmes. > A radical response > So scientists in such countries need to find a more radical response by > harnessing the new opportunities provided by information and communication > technologies (ICTs). We need to break away from the existing model of > publishing and communicating scientific knowledge. One way of doing this > is to embrace the 'open-access' approach being promoted by the Budapest > Open Access Initiative with its two complementary strategies of setting up > interoperable open archives and promoting open-access journals. > Several Indian publishers have already adopted the open-access philosophy > for the electronic versions of their journals. Unlike some open-access > journals in other countries, in which authors pay to publish their papers, > Indian open-access journals use government grants and subscriptions to > their print version to cover publishing costs. > All 10 journals of the Indian Academy of Sciences, for example, as well as > the four journals of INSA are open-access journals. In fact, INSA has > already produced free-access electronic versions of back volumes for all > its journals, and the Indian Academy of Sciences is also attempting a > similar 'retro-digitisation'. > The Journal of the Indian Institute of Science is also available in this > form back to its very first issue, published in 1914. The Indian Medlars > Centre of the National Informatics Centre, New Delhi, is bringing out > electronic versions of 22 biomedical journals, all of them accessible > without subscription. The Medlars Centre also has an online bibliographic > database, www.indmed.nic.in <http://www.indmed.nic.in/>, providing titles > and abstracts of articles from 77 Indian biomedical journals. > Medknow Publications, a small company based in Mumbai, has helped 10 > medical journals - including the Journal of Post Graduate Medicine and > Neurology India - make the transition from print to electronic open access > and all of them are doing much better now than before. > In addition, some Indian open-access journals are using international > agencies such as Bioline, a not-for-profit electronic publishing service > for developing countries, and JournalServer.org, an online library of > academic journals, to gain greater visibility. > However, open-access publishing needs to be complemented by setting up > interoperable institutional archives, which allow researchers to make > versions of their articles publicly available online both before and after > publication. > An additional attraction of such archives is that they would raise the > profile of Indian research. At present, research originating in an Indian > laboratory and published in expensive journals all too often goes > unnoticed, even by other researchers in India. Creating institutional > archives of such work would help to integrate it into the global knowledge > base, to reduce the isolation of our scientists and to improve > opportunities for funding and international collaboration. > The clear advantages offered by institutional archiving over the present > publishing system, in which many research papers are held in the back > issues of journals controlled by commercial (and some society) publishers > in other countries, suggests that the government should have an interest > in ensuring its success. India's University Grants Commission, for > example, should insist that major universities with a large output of > science and technology papers set up institutional archives. > Other funding agencies - such as the Department of Science & Technology, > Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, Department of > Biotechnology, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space, Indian > Council of Agricultural Research and Indian Council of Medical Research - > should also insist that research papers resulting from work supported by > their funds be made available through open-access archives and toll-free > journals. > India is not the only country being drawn towards open access. In China - > for example, among officials of the National Natural Science Foundation > and the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information in China, as > well as researchers with the Chinese Academy of Sciences - there is > already significant interest in its benefits to the country's scientists. > Reflecting this interest, in mid-June 2004 China will hold a major > national conference on open access in cooperation with the US National > Academy of Sciences. And in the last week of June, the Eighth > International Conference on Electronic Publishing will take place in > Brasilia. > The first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society, held last > December, has given a considerable boost to these efforts: the WSIS > Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action include strong statements in > favour of open access to scientific literature. UN secretary-general Kofi > Annan has also offered his support. > Nurturing the network > International action is one thing, but genuine free access is another. It > will need a champion (or champions) in every institution to promote the > creation of institutional archives, and persuade scientists to place their > papers in them. > Free access also requires adequate hardware and connectivity. Many > universities and research institutions in the developing world lack both > computers and high bandwidth Internet connectivity, so part of the > strategy of open-access proponents must include campaigning for improved > ICT facilities. Luckily, costs of both hardware and Internet bandwidth are > coming down all over the world. > Another important hurdle to overcome is the fact that many scientists > labour under the impression that journal editors may not accept archived > papers, claiming that this represents an unacceptable form of > 'pre-publication'. > These scientists worry that it will be difficult to assess the impact of > their research if it isn't published in conventional journals. After all, > they argue, promotions and awards are often determined by the impact > factor of the journals in which one's work is published. Many are also > unaware of the advantages of gaining greater visibility and are reluctant > to make the effort to post their articles on archives. > Just over a year ago, for example, the National Centre for Science > Information (NCSI) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), the > country's best-known higher education institution in science and > technology, set up an institutional archive. The institute publishes about > 1,800 papers a year, of which about 900 are indexed in the Web of Science, > which gives access to the world's most prestigious, high impact research > journals. > Yet so far, the archive has attracted less than 70 papers. This experience > emphasises an important point: it is not enough just to create an > open-access archive. Filling it is far more important (and difficult). > After all, an empty archive is worse than having no archive at all. > But attitudes of the journals are changing, making institutional archiving > a more attractive proposition. It is important for champions of open > access to let scientists know that many journals, including high-impact > titles such as Nature and the British Medical Journal, already permit > authors to archive both preprints and postprints. The emphasis should > therefore be on setting up open archives rather than on persuading journal > publishers to make their journals open access. > If scientists and scientific establishments in China, India and Brazil can > be persuaded to adopt open access quickly, then it is likely that the rest > of the developing world will follow. > > Related links: Indian National Science Academy > <http://www.insa.ac.in/html/home.asp> Indian Academy of Sciences > <http://www.ias.ac.in> Indian Medlars Centre <http://www.medind.nic.in> > HINARI <http://www.healthinternetwork.org/> AGORA > <http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/> Budapest Open Access Initiative > <http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml> Bioline International > <http://www.bioline.org.br/> JournalServer.org <http://journalserver.org/> > M S Swaminathan Research Foundation <http://www.mssrf.org/>

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SciDev.Net's Special Section on Open access and Scientific Publis hing
by Mailing List Manager 09 Mar '04

09 Mar '04

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:29:14 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> [Forwarding from SciDev.Net. --Peter.] The Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net) is pleased to announce its new quick guide on science publishing (www.scidev.net/scipub). Concentrating on the issue of how developing-country scientists can access the latest scientific research, the quick guide offers an insight into the discussions on this controversial topic and gives an overview of new initiatives to make science literature more accessible. Packed with news, features and opinions as well as updated background resources including key documents, links, definitions and events, the quick guide on science publishing aims to keep you up-to-date on the latest developments. Highlights include the following specially commissioned articles for SciDev.Net: 1) David Dickson, director of SciDev.Net, gives an overview of the different approaches being taken to increase access to the latest scientific literature for developing-country researchers. http://www.scidev.net/quickguides/index.cfm?fuseaction=dossierfulltext&qguid eid=4 2) Subbiah Arunachalam, a distinguished fellow at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India, argues that the best way to make scientific research more available worldwide is to encourage scientists to self-archive their research. http://www.scidev.net/quickguides/index.cfm?fuseaction=qguideReadItem&type=3 &itemid=243&language=1&qguideid=4 3) Helen J. Doyle of the Public Library of Science, calls on scientists, research funders and others to support the open-access movement and help increase access to scientific information across the globe. http://www.scidev.net/quickguides/index.cfm?fuseaction=qguideReadItem&type=3 &itemid=244&language=1&qguideid=4 The quick guide also contains a spotlight on WSIS, drawing together news and resources from the event, including SciDev.Net's reports from the first stage in Geneva in December 2003. The quick guide is aimed at those interested in the current challenges and discussions surrounding science publishing, and will be of particular interest to developing-country scientists who have difficulty accessing the latest research findings. Please pass this message to friends and colleagues. Many thanks, The SciDev.Net team.

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Classification numbers in WWW
by Mailing List Manager 08 Mar '04

08 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 12:18:52 -0800 From: Satish Munnolli <smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in> Dear members, Classification of books is one of the basic activity of any library. Does anyone has the information of a site where in you give the title of a book and get the tentative or nearest class number(s) of standard classification systems in tabular format or series. The input is not necessarily the exact book title... even PMEST of the title. (Dr. Ranganathan's scheme). If it is available it will be of immense use for all classifiers. Because it's not possible for smaller to medium sized libraries to procure every updated edition of Classification schedules what they are following which are very expensive and above all it ease the work load of library staff. If not such site is available does anyone has the information on any project that is going on in this direction. Satish S. Munnolli LIbrarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410208 Email : smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in Ph: 2740 5026 (Direct) 2741 2919 Extn : 5026 Fax: 27412894

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Web site for NewGenLib
by Mailing List Manager 08 Mar '04

08 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 15:43:24 +0530 From: Jai Haravu <haravu(a)newgenlib.com> Dear List members I am happy to let members of the list know that the first generation web site for NewGenLib (a library automation and networking solution developed as an initiative of the Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management, http://www.kiikm.org/ in partnership with Verus Solutions Pvt., Ltd.) is now ready and can be seen at http://www.newgenlib.com/. I am also happy to let you know that Goa Univ has invited us to install it on their Server. They propose to build a network of Goa university library and some of the better equipped college libraries in Goa. Preliminary work on this has just been done and soon hopefully, their catalogue database should be accessible on a public domain server of the Univ. I welcome feedback from members. Best regards. L J Haravu 69 Krishnapuri Colony West Marredpally Secunderabad 500026 Tel: (91)-40-27803947

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ebook site
by Mailing List Manager 08 Mar '04

08 Mar '04

Date: 7 Mar 2004 08:31:44 -0000 From: ravi inder <elibrarian(a)rediffmail.com> Respected professionals , Here is an important link from where you can access to thousands of free ebooks of all subjects. http://www.digitalbookindex.com P.Ravinder ADIS(First year student) Documentation Research and Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore 560059 Ph:+91(80)8483975 e-mail:elibrarian@rediffmail.com

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Guide to Institutional Repository Software
by Mailing List Manager 08 Mar '04

08 Mar '04

Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 12:32:49 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> OSI is pleased to announce the release of the second edition of the Guide to Institutional Repository Software. The guide has been updated to include two additional systems: ARNO and Fedora. In addition, the new guide reflects comments and suggestions received following the release of the first edition. OSI intends to update the guide on a regular basis. Once again, OSI is grateful to the author of the guide, Raym Crow of the Chain Bridge Group, as well as the developers of the software systems for working with us to produce the guide. To view the guide, please see: <http://www.soros.org/openaccess/software/> Melissa Hagemann, Program Manager Open Access Project Open Society Institute

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Open Access - Institutional Repositories
by Mailing List Manager 08 Mar '04

08 Mar '04

Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 10:43:13 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is a brief summary of the Breakout session 7: "If you build it will they come - filling an institutional repository", part of the CERN Workshop OAI3 (in the series Innovations in Scholarly Communication), held last month (12-14 February 2004) at Geneva. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] -------- If you build it will they come - filling an institutional repository Concerns raised by academic staff: * Not willing to take on additional work. * Copyright * Fear of plagiarism. * Benefits not immediately obvious - why deposit in an institutional archive when their papers can be found on Google? * Worries re prior publication - Ingelfinger rule (a paper won't be commercially published if deemed to have been already published elsewhere). * Concerns re potential for harm to learned societies. * Quality control (or perceived lack of). Possible solutions: * Need for dedicated support for the institutional repository - establish a post to support advocacy, help authors with depositing papers, handle metadata, convert file formats etc. Implications - ongoing role for the Library. * Work with your liaison librarians. They often have good links into academic departments. If they are on board they can help spread the message. * Raise awareness of copyright issues - what authors can and can't do with their works. Use the RoMeo database to identify where pre and post prints can be deposited. Encourage authors to hang on to their copyright. * Explode the myth about prior publication. Ingelfinger is very much in decline apart from in certain subject areas (mainly Medicine). Make academics more aware of their rights. * Use of plagiarism software to make it easier to detect plagiarism. * Sell the benefits of proper indexing, and the benefit of papers appearing in a quality listing rather than in Google. * Sell the benefits of archive as a preservation tool. * Encourage academics to discuss the issues with their learned societies. * Consider that you may need departmental-level agreements on content (what is deposited) rather than broad institutional agreements. Different needs and requirements from discipline to discipline. * Consider format issues - need to meet accessibility legislation requirements as well as being suitable for long term preservation. * Use of national initiatives - such as the UK Research Assessment Exercise - to force change.

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free online journals
by Mailing List Manager 08 Mar '04

08 Mar '04

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 16:08:02 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Please visit http://www.gdnet.org/online_services/journals/public_access/index.html to learn about journals available for free viewing by developing country researchers in the areas of social sciences and development. Subbiah Arunachalam

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Institutional Archives
by Mailing List Manager 08 Mar '04

08 Mar '04

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 11:06:30 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Subject: Institutional Archives Call for self-archiving Katie Mantell, 'Self-archiving' urged for developing world scientists <http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=1261&langua ge=1>, SciDev.Net, March 5, 2004. On a widely distributed letter <http://www.scidev.net/ms/OA_letter/> by Subbiah Arunachalam, Leslie Chan, and Barbara Kirsop, calling on authors from developing countries to self-archive. Excerpt from the SciDev article: "Many current initiatives to free up access to scientific research focus on the development of open-access journals, which provide free online access to users, normally covering their costs by charging scientists to publish their research. The authors of the letter welcome this as a long-term strategy. But they add that for those in the developing world who cannot wait, it is better to encourage researchers to archive their published research in institutional archives." (PS: This call is exactly right, but shouldn't be misunderstood as applying only to scientists and scholars from the developing world. Self-archiving benefits all researchers. If the concept is new to you, see the Self-Archiving FAQ <http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/>.)

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Fwd: Re: Central versus institutional self-archiving
by Subbiah Arunachalam 07 Mar '04

07 Mar '04

--- Stevan Harnad <harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote: > Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 09:52:07 +0000 > From: Stevan Harnad <harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> > Subject: Re: Central versus institutional > self-archiving > To: > AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM(a)LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG > > "Central versus institutional self-archiving" > > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3208.html > > Depositing articles -- by authors who are > immediately ready to deposit > them today -- into existing Central Archives such as > Arxiv, Cogprints > or Bioline is a good idea, but it is extremely > important not to let that > replace systematic and general efforts to ensure > that every institution > also establishes its own eprint archives, and > self-archiving policy > (and policy fulfillment), and hence that Open Access > (OA) grows and > generalizes to all articles from all institutions in > all disciplines > worldwide. > > http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php > > It is universal institutional action that is needed: > They (the > universities and research institutions worldwide) > are the sources of > all the articles; they are the ones who need to > establish their own > systematic and monitored policy of self-archiving > their own research; > they produce research in all disciplines, not just > physics, or cognitive > science, or biology. Institutional self-archiving > (OAI-interoperable) > is the general solution for arriving at universal OA > at last, the natural > means, the one that fully engages institutions in > open-access provision > for all of their own output, in all of their > disciplines; it is the means > they can identify with, "own," and control. > > http://software.eprints.org/handbook/departments.php > > Offloading self-archiving on central archives like > Bioline is a good > immediate solution for those articles that their > authors are ready > and willing to self-archive today, when their > institutions do not yet > have eprint archives today. But in fulfilling this > immediate need, it > also risks joining the many, many factors (like an > exclusive focus on > OA journals) that slow and even impede the overall > solution, producing > limited OA for a special subset of articles, but > failing to generalize > to most or all of them. > > So please continue to stress the universal > institutional self-archiving > solution, and treat central archiving as a > provisional supplement to it, > rather than a way of handling the easy cases now, > and forgetting about > the hard ones (the vast majority)! > > Institutions all need their own eprint archives and > their own > eprint-archive-filling policies, for all of their > research output, not > just central archives in physics or biology for the > output that some > of their authors already happen to be ready to > self-archive. Moreover, > setting up, maintaining, and monitoring > institutional eprint archives is > so easy and inexpensive to do: it is important to > cultivate the motivation > and expertise to do it, rather than just to redirect > existing motivation > to central archives. > > http://software.eprints.org/handbook/ > > In the end, of course, once all articles are being > self-archived, the > distinction between local and central archiving will > not matter at all, > because of OAI-interoperability. > > "Central vs. Distributed Archives" > > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0293.html > > But now, when most of it is not, the difference > matters very much, > for the growth of OA. Please don't let your efforts > become diverted to > a side-street! > > > Stevan Harnad > > NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion > of providing open > access to the peer-reviewed research literature > online (1998-2004) > is available at the American Scientist Open Access > Forum: > To join the Forum: > http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.… > Post discussion to: > american-scientist-open-access-forum(a)amsci.org > Hypermail Archive: > > http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html > > Unified Dual Open-Access-Provision Policy: > BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a > suitable open-access > journal whenever one exists. > > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals > BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your > article in a suitable > toll-access journal and also > self-archive it. > http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ > http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml > http://www.eprints.org/signup/ Chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/

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[ERIL-L] PNAS backfile @ PubMed Central growing (fwd)
by Library 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

Dear friends, I am forwarding information about this important journal archives for those who are not aware of it. PubmedCentral has many medical and biological journals archived for free full-text access. Please check their website for further details. With best wishes, Girija Srinivasan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raman Research Institute Library, Tel: +91 80 361 0122 Extn 250 C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Fax: +91 80 361 0492 Bangalore 560 080, India. Email: library(a)rri.res.in ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 08:48:51 -0800 From: george(a)LIBRARY.CALTECH.EDU Reply-To: Electronic Resources in Libraries <ERIL-L(a)LISTSERV.BINGHAMTON.EDU> To: ERIL-L(a)LISTSERV.BINGHAMTON.EDU Subject: [ERIL-L] PNAS backfile @ PubMed Central growing PubMed Central's retrodigitization program <http://pubmedcentral.com/about/scanning.html> continues to provide benefits for the scholarly community. The open PNAS backfile has grown by almost two decades. PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) Fulltext v45+ (1959+) 1 year moving wall http://pubmedcentral.com/tocrender.fcgi?action=archive&journal=2 0027-8424 George S. Porter Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science California Institute of Technology Mail Code 1-43, Pasadena, CA 91125 Telephone (626) 395-3409 Fax (626) 431-2681

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Out with Print, in with the PC?
by Shyam Prasad pujar 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

Dear Members, Do you think it can happen to any of the Indian libraries and librarian's too?. Please have a look at this article. Virtual library: Out with print, in with the PC http://www.researchinformation.info/riwin03rees.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 * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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institutional repositories
by Mailing List Manager 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:58:16 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Here is an interesting report on institutional repositories (which archive not only preprints and reprints of resaerch papers but also other schoalrly material like conference papers, book chapters, etc.) http://www.palsgroup.org.uk/ Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Definitions of information management and knowledge management
by Mailing List Manager 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:51:12 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: This is what Paul Whiffen, a KM consultant, says on the distinction between knowledge and information: "This (the distinction between knowledge and information) used to trouble me until I came up with this: a) Knowledge is what is inside peoples' heads; b) Information is what you get when you write it down (or make a report, tape, file or whatever - ie, Information is the physical media representation of knowledge). At first I thought that surely it can't be that simple - but this distinction has served me very well now for years. Outcomes of using this distinction lead to the following deductions: KM is about putting in place the environment to enable and facilitate knowledge moving from human head to human head whether they are separated by time or geography or both (all aspects of the environment including cultural, technology and process aspects); IM is about managing your documents (or whatever your media is) in support of KM; I.T. (which, after all, stands for Information Technology) is therefore about the technology being in place to enable / support IM (which in turn enables KM). As I say, this is simple. To me it was worryingly simple at first but so far it has always served me well. Hope this helps, Paul. Paul R.Whiffen Knoco Ltd www.knoco.co.uk Phone: Mobile + 44 (0) 7808 162 302 Office + 44 (0) 1420 560 147 (Alton, Hants, UK) Email: paul.whiffen(a)knoco.co.uk or paul.whiffen(a)global123.freeserve.co.uk ------_=_NextPart_001_01C401B9.46013BC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2653.12"> <TITLE> Definitions of information management and knowledge management</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <BR> <P><FONT SIZE=2>Friends:</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>This is what Paul Whiffen, a KM consultant, says on the </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>distinction between knowledge and information: </FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>"This (the distinction between knowledge and information) </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>used to trouble me until I came up with this:</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>a) Knowledge is what is inside peoples' heads;</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>b) Information is what you get when you write it down (or make a report,</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>tape, file or whatever - ie, Information is the physical media</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>representation of knowledge). </FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>At first I thought that surely it can't be that simple - but this</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>distinction has served me very well now for years. </FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>Outcomes of using this distinction lead to the following deductions:</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>KM is about putting in place the environment to enable and facilitate</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>knowledge moving from human head to human head whether they are</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>separated by time or geography or both (all aspects of the environment</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>including cultural, technology and process aspects);</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>IM is about managing your documents (or whatever your media is) in</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>support of KM;</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>I.T. (which, after all, stands for Information Technology) is therefore</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>about the technology being in place to enable / support IM (which in</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>turn enables KM).</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>As I say, this is simple. To me it was worryingly simple at first but so</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>far it has always served me well.   </FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>Hope this helps,</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>Paul.   </FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>Paul R.Whiffen</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>Knoco  Ltd</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>www.knoco.co.uk</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2> </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>Phone:</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>Mobile   + 44 (0) 7808 162 302</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>Office     + 44 (0) 1420 560 147 (Alton, Hants, UK)</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2> </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>Email:</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>paul.whiffen(a)knoco.co.uk  or</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>paul.whiffen(a)global123.freeserve.co.uk</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2> </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2> </FONT> </P> </BODY> </HTML> ------_=_NextPart_001_01C401B9.46013BC0--

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Web site for NewGenLib
by Mailing List Manager 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 08:20:59 +0530 From: Jai Haravu <haravu(a)newgenlib.com> Dear List members I am happy to let members of the list know that the first generation web site for NewGenLib (a library automation and networking solution developed as an initiatve of the Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management, http://www.kiikm.org/ in partnership with Verus Solutions Pvt., Ltd.) is now ready and can be seen at http://www.newgenlib.com/. I am also happy to let you know that Goa Univ has invited us to install it on their Server. They propose to build a network of Goa university library and some of the better equipped college libraries in Goa. Preliminary work on this has just been done and soon hopefully, their catalogue database should be accessible on a public domain server of the Univ. I welcome feedback from members. Best regards. L J Haravu 69 Krishnapuri Colony West Marredpally Secunderabad 500026 Tel: (91)-40-27803947

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Seminar on Digital Libraries
by Mailing List Manager 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 10:56:45 +0530 (IST) From: DRTC General <drtc(a)isibang.ac.in> Documentation Research and Training Centere, Bangalore Indian Statistical Institute & Max Mueller Bhavan (Goethe Institut), Bangalore invite you to a seminar on DIGITAL LIBRARIES on 8th March, 2004, Monday at 10.00 am Speakers: 1. Dr. Erich J Neuhold, Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries 2. Dr. A.R.D. Prasad, Documentation Research and Training Centre, ISI, Bangalore Venue: DRTC, ISI, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore 560059 PROGRAMME 10.00 - 10.05 : Welcome address by Dr. I.K. Ravichandra Rao, Head, DRTC,ISI, Bangalore Centre 10.05 - 10.10 : Opening Remark by Ms. Juliane Stegner, Director, Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore 10.10 - 11.00 : LDL: Librarians' Digital Libraries by Dr. A.R.D. Prasad 11.00 - 11.30 : Coffee Break 11.30 - 1.30 : Personalization in Digital Libraries-An extended View by Dr. Erich J. Neuhold 1.30 - 2.30 : Lunch Break 2.30 - 4.30 : Tutorial on Web Technologies and persistent information and knowledge representation by Dr. Erich J. Neuhold 4.30 pm : Vote of Thanks by Dr. Devika P Madalli Please confirm your participation to drtc(a)isibang.ac.in before 5.3.2004 Professor and Head, DRTC,ISI

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On the Need to Take Both Roads to Open Access
by Mailing List Manager 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 04:12:59 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Friends: Working with ICT and development, and specifically with refereed research literature, we strongly support Stevan Harnad's message regarding the imbalance between OAPub ["gold"] and OAArch ["green"],both in the debates in discussion lists and in the general media coverage of OA. [BOAI-2 ("OAPub" "gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. BOAI-1 ("OAArch" "green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it.] http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0026.gif http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0027.gif Of course, ALL OA support is greatly welcomed, but OAPub will take some time to achieve. For those in the developing world who cannot wait, we are doing all we can to raise awareness about the opportunities offered by OAArch, by writing, talking, organising workshops for establishing archives .... Bioline International is doing sterling work showing the way by archiving all the 24 developing country journals it currently distributes -- http://bioline.utsc.utoronto.ca --. But more help is needed from the international scientific community. We would like to call on all those commited to the OA movement to redress the balance in your promotional activities by explaining to all that with OAArch nothing else need change. All organisations, including developing country institutes, can archive their refereed published research as soon as they have set up their own archives or, even easier, can use one of the other interoperable archives already established. At a stroke, the S to N, N to S and S to S knowledge gaps can begin to close. No need to worry about the fate of established journals, no need to worry about economic models, no need to worry about costs/workload/quality/ - no need to change anything else atall. Scholarly publishing continues in its well known and reliable path. Perhaps the other argument that will most pursuade researchers in the developed world is that the 'missing' research is essential for their own research too. They think they know it all, but search for 'gene', say, through the yet embryonic Bioline archive and the results will show that they do not. Search for 'malaria' in the main Bioline site -- http://www.bioline.org.br -- and a wealth of important data emerges. Developing country knowledge is essential for us all. The other most pursuasive argument to encourage archiving by scientists and their institutes in the developed world is the greatly increased impact of everyone's archived research -- http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php --. This is what all scientists, and every institute funding their work, most want. Why hide their achievements when institutional archiving is available to all? The OAPub route will progress and the economic debate will be resolved over time, but the OAArch can happen now and we owe it to our scientific colleagues in the less priviledged countries - and to ourselves - to 'just do it'. Ideas as to how to speed up this reform would be very welcome from subscribers to this list. Subbiah Arunachalam, Trustee EPT, MS Swaminathan Institute, Chennai Leslie Chan, Trustee EPT, University of Toronto Barbara Kirsop, Secretary EPT, UK Electronic Publishing Trust for Development <http://www.epublishingtrust.org> On the Need to Take Both Roads to Open Access http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2995.html The Green Road to Open Access: A Leveraged Transition http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3378.html The Green and Gold Roads to Open Access http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3147.html

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tracing the evolution of knowledge and ideas
by Mailing List Manager 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 09:45:17 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is some good news for scientometricists and others interested in tracing the evolution of knowledge and ideas. Thomson-ISI will use the CiteSeer software developed by Steve Lawrence and colleagues at NEC Research, Princeton, to create citation-based services that would cover not only print journals but also the papers in the 'open access' web domain. Read on: Thomson ISI to Track Web-Based Scholarship with NEC's CiteSeer By Barbara Quint With the Open Access movement bringing Web-based scholarship to increased prominence, leading A&I services that have long provided the access tools to identify scholarship face new challenges. Thomson ISI, a longtime leader in netting scholarship, primarily through citation patterns, has launched a new initiative to handle this problem. It will collaborate with NEC Laboratories America to create a comprehensive, multidisciplinary citation index for Web-based scholarly resources. Due out in early 2005, the new Web Citation Index will tap a number of technologies developed by NEC, primarily the "autonomous citation indexing" tools of NEC's CiteSeer software. CiteSeer has been highly praised for its strength at monitoring and connecting research for computer literature. <http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb040301-1.shtml> . Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Technology for libraries
by Mailing List Manager 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 09:34:19 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Here is an article by a well-known professional and columnist. Many Indian librarians may find it useful. Although this article talks of commercial products, I thought it could trigger some research and action among computer-savvy Indian librarians. Best wishes. Arun Cool Tech Tools for Libraries By Paula J. Hane While thinking about topics for this article, I was struck by how frequently I'm drawn to discussing search engine developments, enterprise content management solutions, and visualization interfaces-kind of techie stuff. What about some good, solid news about libraries, I thought? So, in reviewing the news and developments over the last few weeks, I was pleased to find a couple of interesting announcements of products that offer libraries real help in doing their jobs better. And, guess what? The products are the result of some neat technological advances-they're cool techie tools. I've been following news about applications for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for more than a dozen years. The April 1992 cover story of Database magazine (which I edited at the time) was an introduction to GIS and detailed the linking of maps and databases for business applications. Now, a small, privately owned company in Pasadena, Calif., called CIVIC Technologies (<http://www.civictechnologies.com>) is helping libraries use a specialized GIS tool to help deliver more effective public services. Marc Futterman, president and CEO, is an architect who used GIS in city planning and realized the potential for libraries to take advantage of similar tools. In 1999, he co-founded CIVIC Technologies, which offered a customized GIS application designed specifically to help librarians understand and use their data for planning and decision-making purposes. The company uses GIS technology developed by its business partner, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI), a well-known GIS developer. Last year, LibraryDecision was introduced as a Web service. Since then, a variety of public libraries throughout the U.S. have selected it to better match library services to user needs, reallocate resources, revise service area boundaries, and plan for new facilities. LibraryDecision helps librarians analyze, visualize, and interpret demographic data (census and local geographic data) in combination with information from their ILS on patron usage, collections, circulation, and facilities. Combining these and other diverse sources gives librarians a clear picture of their community and provides insights into the patterns of library usage and service demand. Current customers of LibraryDecision are incorporating ILS information from Dynix, TLC, and Innovative systems. According to Futterman: "We designed LibraryDecision to be useful to a diverse range of public libraries and each of our customer's conditions are [sic] unique: size, location, and population. What they have in common is the need for a robust, but affordable, GIS tool set that will enable them to intelligently plan for and manage the delivery of more effective public services." LibraryDecision has a tiered pricing model, depending on the number and type of libraries. A small, single-library jurisdiction can expect to pay under $1,000, while the cost for the largest multisite library might be $15,000. Futterman said the company would be announcing partnerships with some of the ILS vendors and was looking at future joint-product development with ESRI. I hear from a colleague that there are two other GIS applications for libraries: GeoLib (<http://www.geolib.org>), an IMLS grant program at Florida State University, and CybraryView (<http://www.cybraryn.com>). I haven't checked them out yet, but you might want to if you need planning assistance. One company that is well-known in library circles is Sirsi Corp., which is celebrating 25 years in business. The company just announced several innovative products that build upon its Sirsi Rooms technology, which provides content in the context of "virtual rooms." The new Sirsi Digital Community Center Kiosk is an ATM-like device with a touch screen monitor that makes it possible for libraries to deliver information, resources, and services to people and places that might otherwise not have access to the physical library. Fred E. Goodman, president of Public Information Kiosk, Inc. (<http://www.pik.com/pik>), Sirsi's partner for the kiosk device, stated: "The kiosks are the first units designed to deliver community information, resources, and services in an unattended environment, providing users with self-service options 24 hours per day. The kiosks are easily installed in shopping malls, government office buildings, senior citizen complexes, hospitals, transportation centers, and other high-traffic locations where citizens live, learn, work, and seek information." The kiosk device plus the virtual room construct gives libraries a chance to make a real difference in public places in their communities, delivering valuable content and resources geared to specific needs. It greatly expands a library's service capabilities and extends its reach and visibility. Sirsi also introduced the Sirsi Digital Heritage Room, powered by Sirsi Hyperion Digital Media Archive and Sirsi Rooms technologies. The new Web-hosted solution provides libraries with an easy and cost-effective way to preserve images, documents, and more. It is especially designed for libraries that may not have the resources for scanning collections, data loading, or administering a server with digital content. Sirsi will scan and bulk-load the images and associated metadata, which is fully searchable. As an optional feature, the textual material in the collection-newspapers, documents, journals-can be indexed and searched using full-text search capabilities licensed from Convera Corp. The product is scheduled to be available in the spring of 2004. Cool technology that helps libraries provide better library services. I like it. Paula J. Hane is Information Today, Inc.'s news bureau chief and editor of NewsBreaks. Her e-mail address is phane(a)infotoday.com <mailto:phane@infotoday.com>.

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IFLA has formally endorsed open access publishing
by Mailing List Manager 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, franc(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Friends: IFLA has formally endorsed open access publishing: http://www.ifla.org/V/press/oa240204.html IFLA supports Open Access movement PRESS RELEASE 24 February 2004 IFLA HQ The Hague, Netherlands The IFLA Governing Board has adopted a statement on 'Open access to Scholarly Literature and Research documentation </V/cdoc/open-access04.html>' Welcoming the IFLA statement, President-elect Alex Byrne noted IFLA's long commitment to open access to information, especially its concern for access to scholarly literature in the developing world. He said: "IFLA recognises that achieving affordable, global access to scholarly information and research documentation will require a great deal of commitment and a variety of strategies. IFLA strongly supports the Open Access movement and welcomes the launch of many OA compliant publications. IFLA also acknowledges the need to address the challenge on a number of fronts and in partnership with many stakeholders." One of the principal concerns identified by Alex Byrne was to support and defend the moral rights of creators, while simultaneously seeking balance in copyright legislation to protect and extend the public domain and public interest in access to information. "This is fundamental to many areas including health, education, development and culture", he added. Subbiah Arunachalam

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10th annual lectures of Informatics - was very informative (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 12:35:25 +0530 From: Rajeev K R <krr(a)sasken.com> Hi, 10th annual lectures of Informatics held on yesterday at Leea Palace, Bangalore was very informative. On behalf of Library professionals, I would like to thank all Informatics team members to organise such an interesting & informative lecture. Mr. Mick Bass - HP Labs, the man behind Dspace delivered a 2 hr intresting lecture on Dspace architecture and other details. He pointed that there are only few organisations in the world which have started to explore the full features of Dspace. In India, there is only one fully productive site and it is at DRTC, ISI. The digital library site (on Dspace) at DRTC (https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/index.jsp) is specifically designed for dessiminating the Library/Information resources. So you may upload your papers/articles at DRTC digial library to make it available to the whole library community. With Warm Regards Rajeev K R Library & Information Center Sasken Communication Technologies Limited 139/25, Ring Road, Domlur Bangalore - 560071 India Email: krr(a)sasken.com Tel: + 91 80 25355501 Extn: 2021 Fax: + 91 80 25351133 URL: www.sasken.com

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Global Biodiversity Database
by Mailing List Manager 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:54:10 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: > Here is something of interest to information scientists. From the latest > issue of Science (AAAS). All Indian Biodiversity databases should join > this world initiative. > > For years, experts have dreamed of a single Web site that would unite all > knowledge of the world's living things. Last month, an effort to do just > that debuted: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility's (GBIF's) new > Biodiversity Data Portal. The site lets users simultaneously search over 1 > million taxonomic records from museum collections, botanical gardens, and > global storehouses such as FishBase. Whether you're curious about a > mushroom, a newt, or the bacterium that causes tetanus, the portal > provides the latest on classification and nomenclature. Some of the > 30-plus linked data sources allow you to browse collection and observation > records and use them to map species' distributions. Others, such as > CephBase, also list details such as diet and size for creatures like the > white-spotted octopus (Octopus macropus). GBIF, a consortium of more than > 30 countries, hopes that more museums and other organizations will connect > their databases. > <http://www.gbif.net/portal> > Regards. > Arun > [Subbiah Arunachalam] > >

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Invitation to 10th Annual Lecture on Informatics
by Mailing List Manager 26 Feb '04

26 Feb '04

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:36:50 +0530 From: mouna1 <mouna1(a)informindia.co.in> Informatics (India) Limited, Bangalore Cordially invites you to 10th ANNUAL LECTURE ON INFORMATICS and WORKSHOP ON DSpace Date : 29 February 2004 -- Sunday Time : 10.15AM - 4PM Venue : The Leela Palace, (Grand Ball Room), Airport Road, Bangalore PROGRAM DETAILS Morning: 10:15AM--12:45PM: ANNUAL LECTURE ON INFORMATICS PRESIDED BY Padmavibhushan Dr K Kasturirangan, MP, Rajyasabha Former Chairman, ISRO, Bangalore SPEAKERS Padmashri Prof. P Balaram, Editor, Current Science Professor, Molecular Biophysics Unit. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, TOPIC: SCIENCE AND THE SCIENTOMETRICS Dr (Ms) Ching-Chih Chen, Professor, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Simmons College, Boston, USA . TOPIC : PAST FORWARD - DIGITAL MEDIA FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE Post Lunch : 2PM - 4PM : WORKSHOP ON DSpace (Jointly organized by HP Labs India and Informatics (India) Ltd) PRESIDED BY Prof. J Shashidhara Prasad Vice Chancellor, University of Mysore, Mysore Presented by : Mr Mick Bass, Manager - Research and Business Development, HP Laboratories Hewlett-Packard Company, USA REGISTRATION IS FREE. CONTACT ; mouna(a)informindia.co.in <mailto:mouna@informindia.co.in> Phone : 91 80 23365940 ( Priya ) FAX : 91 80 23344598 ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________ About DSpace and The Workshop: DSpace (<www.DSpace.org> <<http://www.dspace.org>>) is an open-source institutional repository system developed by HP Labs and MITLibraries. Mr Mick Bass, HP's Research Manager responsible for DSpace, will provide an overview of the DSpace system and describe a range of supporting efforts to which HP and MIT are contributing. Mick will describe the functionality of the current and upcoming 1.2 release of the DSpace system, and the DSpace Roadmap beyond the 1.2 release. He will also describe SIMILE (web.mit.edu/simile) a current research activity which aims to augment DSpace using Semantic Web Components and Techniques to provide end-to-end support for capturing, navigating, browsing, and searching heterogeneous community-specific schemes, metadata, and content types. ____________________________________________________________________________ _________

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[DIGLIB] DPC/OCLC: An Introduction to OAIS (Open Archival Information System) - fwd
by Mailing List Manager 26 Feb '04

26 Feb '04

Please excuse cross postings. Thanks, Smita C. Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai The first of a series of Technology Watch reports commissioned by the DPC is now available from: http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/reports/index.html#intoais The aims of the DPC Technology Watch Service are to identify and track developments in IT, standards and tools which are critical to digital preservation activities. The DPC has commissioned reports from experts on topics known to be of crucial interest and importance for digital preservation. The reports have been specifically commissioned to be written in a style which is suitable for a national and international audience with a wide range of backgrounds and written in clear, plain English which avoids unnecessary jargon and acronyms. The first of these reports is a DPC/OCLC report on An Introduction to OAIS (Open Archival Information System), authored by Brian Lavoie, from OCLC. The influence of OAIS extended, at a very early stage, well beyond the space data community it was initiated by but it still retains an aura of a complex framework applicable only to a highly specialised community. This report provides a clear introduction to OAIS accessible to all who have an interest in preserving digital information. It provides practical examples as well as contextual information about the development of OAIS. **************************** Maggie Jones DPC Coordinator Raymond Burton Library University of York Heslington YORK Y010 5DD Tel: +44 (0) 1904 321 131 Email: mjj4(a)york.ac.uk http://www.dpconline.org

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quotes on Library and Librarianship
by Mailing List Manager 26 Feb '04

26 Feb '04

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 05:54:47 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] RANJAN BARIK" <ranjan_tld(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear friends, Some quotations on Library and L ibrarianship. http://www.ifla.org/I/humour/subj.htm#book Thanks Ranjan K Barik INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad

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InfoWatch - February 2004
by M.R Lalitha 26 Feb '04

26 Feb '04

Dear LIS-Forum member, The February 2004 issue of InfoWatch is now online, bringing you details of new Internet sites related to Science and Engineering. You can access the complete issue on the NCSI Web server at the URL : http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/infowatch/iw.php You will also find earlier issues of InfoWatch here. For your convenience, the table of contents is given below. If you wish to be on the mailing list of InfoWatch to receive the complete issue by e-mail, let us know. Also mention your format preference - html or text. Regards -Lalitha M.R lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ------------------------------------------------------------------------ InfoWatch Tracking Networked Scientific Information Sources and Services (An electronic update service brought to you by NCSI) Feb 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue: 1. Achievement for all - Solving crucial problems through education 2. Acronym Finder 3. Atmospheric Optics 4. Bitpipe.com [A library of white papers, webcasts, case studies and product information in IT] 5. CACHE - A post-relational database 6. Coatings Guide [A pollution prevention tool for paints and coatings users] 7. DESY - The ZEUS experiment 8. ECOLEX - A gateway of environmental law 9. Free schematic diagrams from Glolab 10. Indian National Academy of Engineering 11. Material Data Network 12. NASA's Global Tropospheric Experiment (GTE) 13. Opening Gateways - The guide and online workbench 14. Photonics dictionary 15. RESID Database - A protein information resource 16. SAIL-eprints [Search, Alert, Impact and Link] 17. Science-A-GoGo [Latest science news and discussion forum] 18. SiD Design Guides - Accessible ideas for designers 19. SyntheticPages - An interactive database of chemical procedures 20. WSEAS [World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ About InfoWatch : InfoWatch is a monthly electronic newsletter, brought out by the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, INDIA. Information in the newsletter is collected and verified by NCSI staff.The newsletter aims to raise awareness of new sources of information on the Internet, particularly those which are relevant for higher education and research. Some items may be of relevance only to the IISc community.Resources reported here have been taken from various discussion lists and other network tools and no special claims are made for accuracy or originality. Most of the sources cited in the newsletter were checked at the time of publication, however it is possible that some of the resources are no longer available. We welcome comments about the newsletter and suggestions for resources to be featured. Please e-mail your comments to Infowatch editors: Ms. K. Thulasi (thulasi(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) & Ms. M. R. Lalitha (lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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President Speech on INAUGURATION OF ICDL - 2004
by Mailing List Manager 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 07:11:09 -0800 (PST) From: Mr.G.Bhojaraju <bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com> Dear Professional Colleagues, Pl refer to the following link for the speech on INAUGURATION OF ICDL - 2004 given by Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, President of India, today at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/scripts/eventslatest1.jsp?id=492 INAUGURATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES - 2004 24-02-2004 : New Delhi Digital Library and its Multidimensions ...... with regards Bhojaraju.G www.bhojarajug.cjb.net Indian Rubber Manufacturers Research Association (IRMRA), (ISO-9001 Certified), B-88 Road No. 24/ U-2, Wagle Industrial Estate,Thane - 400604. INDIA. Ph:022-25811348, 25803753 Fax: 25823910 Mob: 9892380905 E-mail : bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com www.irmra.org Homepage : http://www.bhojarajug.cjb.net/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. --0-412874553-1077635469=:51244 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <DIV>Dear Professional Colleagues,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Pl refer to the following link for the speech on INAUGURATION OF ICDL - 2004 given by </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, President of India, today at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=subheading><STRONG><A href="http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/scripts/eventslatest1.jsp?id=492">http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/scripts/eventslatest1.jsp?id=492</A></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=subheading><STRONG></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=subheading><STRONG>INAUGURATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES - 2004</STRONG> </SPAN><BR><SPAN class=subheading>24-02-2004 : New Delhi</SPAN> <BR> <BR><SPAN class=sep></SPAN><SPAN class=lean>Digital Library and its Multidimensions</SPAN><SPAN class=sep></SPAN> ......</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>with regards</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bhojaraju.G</DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.bhojarajug.cjb.net">www.bhojarajug.cjb.net</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <ADDRESS><FONT color=#c00000 face="times new roman" size=3>Please acknowledge the receipt of the mail !!!</FONT></ADDRESS> <ADDRESS><FONT color=blue face=verdana>G.Bhojaraju.</FONT></ADDRESS> <ADDRESS><FONT face=verdana><FONT color=#ff00ff><FONT color=#00407f>Library-cum-Information Officer,<BR>Indian Rubber Manufacturers Research Association (IRMRA),<BR>(ISO-9001 Certified), B-88 Road No. 24/ U-2, <BR>Wagle Industrial Estate,Thane - 400604. INDIA.<BR>Ph:022-25811348, 25803753 Fax: 25823910 </FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=verdana><FONT color=#ff00ff><FONT color=#00407f>Mob: 9892380905<BR><FONT color=#ff00ff>E-mail :</FONT> </FONT><A href="mailto:bhojarajug@yahoo.com">bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com</A>     <A href="http://www.irmra.org/">www.irmra.org</A>   Homepage : http://www.bhojarajug.cjb.net/  </FONT></FONT></ADDRESS></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><p><hr SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!?<br> <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mailtag_us/*http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools?tool=1">Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard</a> - Read only the mail you want.</a> --0-412874553-1077635469=:51244--

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Video Conference
by DRTC General 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

Association of British Scholars (Bangalore Chapter), British Library, Bangalore and Documentation Research and Training Centere, Bangalore invite you to a VIDEO CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES on 3rd March 2004, Wednesday at British Library Prestige Takt, 23 Kasturba Road Circle Bangalore 560001 at 6.00 PM Speakers Topic Dr. Alan Hopkinson, Head of Library Systems Digital Libraries & Meta Middlesex University, London Data Dr. A.R.D. Prasad, ISI/DRTC, Bangalore Digital Library: Indian Scenario K.T. Rajan I.H Jahagirdar Secretary, ABS, Karnataka Chapter Manager, British Library I.K Ravichandra Rao Prof. & Head, ISI/DRTC

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Seminar on Digital Libraries
by Mailing List Manager 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

University of Mysore Department of Library and Information Science, Manasagangotri, Mysore And Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association MyLISA), Mysore Jointly presents Seminar on Digital Libraries March 1, 2004 "Keeping Memories Alive: Digital Technologies for Cultural Heritage" By Prof. Ching-chih Chen (Graduate School of Library and Information Science,Simmons College, Boston, MA, USA) & "DSpace: An Open Source System for Content Management" By Mr. Mick Bass (Manager, Research and Business Development,Hewlett Packard Labs , USA) All are cordially invited

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Fw: RRC Monthly Meeting
by Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

Hi! During the presentation, I am going to share my experiences on following topics: 1. Digital Video Libraries 2. ETDs /NDLTD 3. LOCKSS Program of Stanford University 4. Open Digital Libray initiatives at Virginia Tech, USA 5. National Science Digital Library (NSDL), USA Programs and policies 6. INDO-US Digital Library Collaboration- Potentials and benefits For professional outside Delhi:- I would be happy to share my experiences via e-mails too!! Best, Ramesh Gaur ----- Original Message ----- From: "deshmukh" <deshmukh(a)cdotd.ernet.in> To: "Ramesh Gaur" <ramesh_c_gaur(a)hotmail.com> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 6:09 PM Subject: RRC Monthly Meeting > RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE > (An organ of Ranganathan Research Trust, Regd.:25953, 1995) > J8/123, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi > > Head > Program Committee > SUBHASH DESHMUKH > F-46 A > DDA Flats, Harinagar > NEW DELHI- 110 064 > Ph. 25496916 > > Date : 19th February, 2004 > > We have the pleasure to announce the 105th Monthly Meeting of RRC on 28th > February 2003 (4th Saturday) at 10.00 hrs. > > Venue : Central Library > Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi > > Topic : Fulbright Felloship Experience : > Information Science and Technology > > Speaker : Dr. Ramesh Gaur > Librarian, TFIR, Mumbai > > Kindly make it convenient to attend the meeting and participate to benefit > the group by discussions. > > Thanking you, > > Yours sincerely, > > > SUBHASH DESHMUKH > > > > > > > > > >

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10th Annual Lecture on Informatics
by Mailing List Manager 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:34:23 +0530 From: Mouna Raju <mouna(a)informindia.co.in> Informatics (India) Limited - Bangalore cordially invites you to the 10th Annual Lecture on Informatics On February 29, 2004 (Sunday) 10.15 am to 12.45 pm Venue The Leela Palace, (Grand Ball Room) Airport Road, Bangalore Lunch 1.00 pm Lectures By Prof. P Balaram, Editor, Current Science Professor, Molecular Biophysics Unit Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on "Science and the Scientometrics" Dr (Ms) Ching-Chih Chen, Professor, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Simmons College, Boston, USA on "Past Forward - Digital Media for Cultural Heritage" Presided by Padmavibhushan Dr K Kasturirangan, MP, Rajyasabha Former Chairman, ISRO, Bangalore RSVP: email: mouna(a)informindia.co.in <mailto:mouna@informindia.co.in> phone: 91 80 23365940 ( Priya ) fax: 91 80 23344598 About Annual Lecture Series on Informatics We instituted this Annual Lecture Series on Informatics on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of our Company. The Lecture Series was inaugurated by Dr N Seshagiri the then Additional Secretary & Director General, NIC, with his Lecture on " Database Production and Distribution Technologies for 90s. Subsequent Annual Lectures were delivered by eminent speakers like Shri N Vittal, Vigilance Commissioner, Govt of India, Shri. T H Chowdary, Information Technology Advisor to Govt of Andhra Pradesh, Padmashri, Dr R A Mashelkar, Director General, CSIR, Dr Alan Gilchrist, Editor of Journal of Information Science, UK, Prof. R Natarajan, Chairman, AICTE, Dr Geo Wiederhold, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University, USA and the likes... The Lecture Series is intended to focus on current issues and emerging trends in Information Science. Followed by the Lecture, you are also invited to A Workshop on D-SPACE Open Source Software for Content Management) Informatics (India) Limited., Bangalore And HP Labs India, Bangalore Jointly Present Workshop on DSpace (Open Source Software for Creation and Management of Content Repositories Jointly Developed by Hewlett-Packard Labs and MIT) Presented by Mr Mick Bass Manager - Research and Business Development, HP Laboratories Hewlett-Packard Company, USA Presided By Prof. J Shashidhara Prasad Vice Chancellor, University of Mysore, Mysore At The Leela Palace ( Grand Ball Room), Airport Road, Bangalore Date & Time February 29, 2004 2.00 to 4.30 pm Registration: Email: soji(a)informindia.co.in <mailto:soji@informindia.co.in> Phone: 91 80 23365940, Fax: 91 80 23344598 About DSpace DSpace (www.DSpace.org <http://www.dspace.org>) is an open-source institutional repository system developed by HP Labs and MIT. Mr Mick Bass, HP's Research Manager responsible for DSpace, will provide an overview of the DSpace system and describe a range of supporting efforts to which HP and MIT are contributing. Mick will describe the functionality of the current and upcoming 1.2 release of the DSpace system, and the DSpace Roadmap beyond the 1.2 release. He will also describe SIMILE (web.mit.edu/simile) a current research activity which aims to augment DSpace using Semantic Web Components and Techniques to provide end-to-end support for capturing, navigating, browsing, and searching heterogeneous community-specific schemes, metadata, and content types.

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MDPI open access chemistry journals
by Mailing List Manager 17 Feb '04

17 Feb '04

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:36:49 +0530 From: ramshirish mamidala <ramshirish(a)hotmail.com> Respected Professionals, MDPI (Molecular Diversity Preservation International ) molecular and biomolecular diversity preservation project is providing MDPI open access chemistry journals at the following url: http://www.mdpi.org/ with regards, M.RAMSHIRISH (Student ADIS), Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institue, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, R.V.College : PO, Bangalore 560 059 phone:080-8483975 (Hostel) 8483002 Ext:495(ABC Lab) email:ramshirish@hotmail.com ram(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in

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Re: Re:[LIS-Forum] Question of Full Text Request
by Mailing List Manager 17 Feb '04

17 Feb '04

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:42:51 +0530 From: murari <murari(a)darya.nio.org> I support Dr Ratnakar's argument. Murari P Tapaswi National Information Centre for Marine Sciences (NICMAS) National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, India Phone: 91-(0)832-2450275 (Direct); 91-(0)832-2450450 (Institute) Fax: 91-(0)832-2450602

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Re:[LIS-Forum] Question of Full Text Request
by Mailing List Manager 17 Feb '04

17 Feb '04

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 10:09:58 +0530 (IST) From: kanade(a)ces.iisc.ernet.in Really it is a very good suggestion, I am strongly supporting Dr.A.Ratnakar's statement, we should plan for a policy for commercial users which should not effect to researcher, and academic user. Because the lis-forum is one of the best media where we can share our resources in a very short time. Yashwant Kanade CES, IISc, Bangalore-12

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Open Access Initiative
by Mailing List Manager 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

Dear Member: Sorry for the delayed approval of the following message from Anita S Coleman. - moderator Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:59:37 -0700 (MST) From: Anita S. Coleman <asc(a)U.Arizona.EDU> Sanjay, DLIST, http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/ is an OAI-PMH compliant repository for LIS materials that are openly available. OISter is more along the portal lines that I think you're inquiring about - it currently harvests metadata from DLIST and more than 200 other OAI repositories in all disciplines. One stop searching of all these repositories of freely-held (open access) is also available through OAIster. URL: http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/. To see the complete list of institutions from which OAIster harvests, visit, http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/viewcolls.html. Best, Anita Coleman > ************************************************ > On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Mailing List Manager wrote: > > > > > Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:02:31 +0000 (GMT) > > From: "[iso-8859-1] Sanjay Kataria" <katariasanjay2001(a)yahoo.com> > > > > Dear Professionals, > > > > Firstly, I am thankful to LIS-Forum team and all participant > > professionals for discussions on great profession. > > > > I have a query in regard of OAI (Open Access Initiative). Any one tell > > me or explain about OAI or any model/portal of OAI which is providing > > the Open Access effectively. > > > > I look forward to your valuable advise. > > > > With kind regards. > > > > Sanjay Kataria > > Librarian (Acting) > > Learning Resource Centre (Library) > > Jaypee Institute of Information Technology > > A-10, Sector-62, Noida-201307 > > Uttar Pradesh > > Ph. 09810503341 (Mobile) > > 0120-2400973 to 978 Ext. 251(Office) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Re:[LIS-Forum] Question of Full Text Request
by Mailing List Manager 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:05:52 +0530 From: Ratnakar Aspari <aspari_r(a)hotmail.com> Dear Moderator: I have been following the the arguments in the Lis-Forum regarding the requests for full artilce from libraries. While it is good and correct to review policy of any forum from time to time, it is my earnest request to the Forum not to take a hasty decision which would hamper the very helpful nature of the Forum. While the forum should be a channel for intellectual (?) communication, it certainly should not forget one of its most fundamental goals - to provide a platform for librarians to serve their clientele better through the use of technology. Finally whatever a librian/information officer/technical information officer (call him/her by whatever title) does, if he is not able to provide a basic material like an article requested by an user, all the efforts being made by organisations like NCSI to be a part of the serving community will be lost. I certainly endorse the view that commerical organisations should not be allowed the freedom to get this facility but a resear! cher working in a university or institution should not be made to suffer for this reason. As long as no finacial transaction is involved in requesting/offering the full text to a genuine user, I do not see any impropriety in such an action. I am reacting to the present issue only because of my connections with NCSI as an user (librarian) from its inception and the benefits the scientific community is getting through it. A. Ratnakar Former librarian, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, and Consultant (Education and Training), Informatics India Ltd.Bangalore

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Is the book available
by Mailing List Manager 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:03:28 +0530 From: sumita panse <sumita_panse(a)hotmail.com> Dear Sir, Is the book "pushing to the front" vol 1&2 by Orison Swett Marden is available? Pl. let me know at the earliest. sumita Librarian Amrita Bharati Bhartiya Vidya bhavan, mumbai

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LTLOC Awards
by Mailing List Manager 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:59:59 -0800 (PST) From: Smita Chandra <smitac_in(a)yahoo.com> Dear friends : Please join me in CONGRATULATING two Indians from our profession who have made us proud yet once again. They are : Kaushik Purohit Information Officer Reliance Industries Limited and Rangashri Kishore Founder Secretary Richmond Fellowship Society The are the proud winners of the "Learning Times Innovation in Information Services Award". It is indeed our privilege to know that these two of our colleagues have been bestowed with the award, of which Senator Hillary Clinton and the likes are the recipients. Please scroll down the following link and I am sure we would have many more Indians on this list in the future : http://libraryconference.com/awards.shtml For the time, Congratulations to Kaushik and Ragshree for their efforts and for having made us proud. Thank you and with regards, Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, Kalamboli New Panvel, New Mumbai

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Re: [LIS-Forum] article required
by Mailing List Manager 11 Feb '04

11 Feb '04

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:00:08 +0530 From: "Koteswara Rao, M" <mkrao(a)iitm.ac.in> Dear Moderator, Thank you for informing the members about 'requesting articles over LisForum'. I think all our library professionals should agree upon certain issues related to IPR and avoid any legal tangles with the publishers. Afterall, librarians and publishers have a longstanding relationship in disseminating information. Thanks to Ms. Girija who has pointed it out in the first place. Koteswara Rao

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Re: [LIS-Forum] LIS-Forum and Resource sharing
by Mailing List Manager 11 Feb '04

11 Feb '04

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 7:38:43 -0500 From: Atanu Garai <atanu(a)takingitglobal.org> I would add that apart from the subject wise union catalogue,which are developed by various agencies and available both in online and offline formats in various scientific and non scientific disciplies,it is really imperative that we should develop a kind of formal mechansim in the field of LIS too,may be promoted by any LIS society or association,governmental and non governmental agencies.Such union catalogue in LIS is the need of hour and may be the starting point for knowledge sharing formally in India. Requests of journal papers through lists or personal channels must have a limited effect on scholarly research and I presume the reason for very limited citations in most of the LIS papers and conference proceedings must be attributed to this lack of access to LIS journals. best Atanu -- Atanu Garai | atanu(a)takingitglobal.org http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/atanu http://updates.takingitglobal.org/read/atanu http://www.dgroups.org/groups/education

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Open Access Initiative
by Mailing List Manager 10 Feb '04

10 Feb '04

Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:02:31 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Sanjay Kataria" <katariasanjay2001(a)yahoo.com> Dear Professionals, Firstly, I am thankful to LIS-Forum team and all participant professionals for discussions on great profession. I have a query in regard of OAI (Open Access Initiative). Any one tell me or explain about OAI or any model/portal of OAI which is providing the Open Access effectively. I look forward to your valuable advise. With kind regards. Sanjay Kataria Librarian (Acting) Learning Resource Centre (Library) Jaypee Institute of Information Technology A-10, Sector-62, Noida-201307 Uttar Pradesh Ph. 09810503341 (Mobile) 0120-2400973 to 978 Ext. 251(Office)

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Re:[LIS-Forum] article required
by Mailing List Manager 10 Feb '04

10 Feb '04

Dear Member: You may recall that sometime back some of the LIS-Forum members had expressed their concerns about fellow members requesting for articles on LIS-Forum. Based on these concerns we had decided not to encourage members requesting for fulltext articles on LIS-Forum. In fact as a moderator, I had sent a message requesting members not to make use of LIS-Forum for document delivery service. Quite a few members reacted to this message saying that LIS-Forum should *Not Discourage* members occasionally requesting for some fulltext articles from the fellow members. Owing to this popular demand and also the fact that the number of posting on LIS-Forum were very minimal, we had decided to entertain requests for articles from the members only under 'fair use' clause. Now the issue has been raised again. Till we take a policy decision on this matter, members should use LIS-Forum only as a last resort for their article needs and it should strictly adhere to the 'fair use' clause, i.e., for personal study/research only. There have been occasional requests for fulltext articles by the LIS-Forum members working for commercial organizations. Such requests are not entertained at all. I hope we have been able to adhere to this stance of not to entertain article requests from commercial organizations is being consistently followed. At least in future we will ensure that requests for fulltext articles from commercial organizations will *not be entertained* on LIS-Forum Thanks for your cooperation and support. - moderator >Dear Moderator, >I wonder if it is a good thing to circulate messages asking for pdfs of >articles by email? Isn't this against copyright policies of most >publishers? By the way, Lis-forum messages are available to the public >via google searches also so perhaps we should worry about this. (For this >reason, you need not circulate this message but you could take a policy >decision based on this) With best wishes, Girija

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RF-ID
by Mailing List Manager 10 Feb '04

10 Feb '04

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 01:05:57 -0800 (PST) From: gayathri sen <gayatsen(a)yahoo.com> Dear friend, Please contact the following address for all details. It may cost 3-4 lakhs essaetec(a)essaetec.com 100,18th main, 6th block, Koramangala, B'lore-560095 magic(a)giaspn01.vsnl.net.in Pune Regards, Gayathri Sen PESIT

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access to 8 Leading Kluwer Journals
by Mailing List Manager 10 Feb '04

10 Feb '04

Date: 7 Feb 2004 04:04:14 -0000 From: Subbiah Gunasekaran <gunasekaran_subbiah(a)rediffmail.com> ================================================= Free Access to 8 Leading Chemistry Journals through April 30 2004 ================================================= Kluwer Academic Publishers invites you to enjoy free access to eight of our leading chemistry journals through April 30, 2004. That's three months of unlimited access to all online articles published in: ================================================= Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry A leading international journal dealing with all aspects and applications of nuclear chemistry. http://www.chemweb.com/utils/email.asp?id=10356&uid=714188 ================================================= ================================================= Journal of Applied Electrochemistry The leading journal on technologically orientated aspects of electrochemistry with close to 100 issues available online. Plus forthcoming papers! http://www.chemweb.com/utils/email.asp?id=10357&uid=714188 ================================================= ================================================= Journal of Chemical Crystallography Now offering authors, editors and reviewers a fully web-enabled online manuscript submission and review system - keeping the review time as short as possible! http://www.chemweb.com/utils/email.asp?id=10358&uid=714188 ================================================= ================================================= Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds Covering the heterocyclic chemistry investigations of all scientific centers of Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Belorussia and other republics of the former Soviet Union. http://www.chemweb.com/utils/email.asp?id=10359&uid=714188 ================================================= ================================================= Journal of Cluster Science: Including Nanoclusters and Nanoparticles To better meet the needs of the cluster science community, the editors have expanded the journal's scope to include nanomaterials, complementing its traditional focus on chemistry. http://www.chemweb.com/utils/email.asp?id=10360&uid=714188 ================================================= ================================================= Catalysis Letters Encouraging the cross-fertilization of ideas and to facilitate the rapid dissemination of frontier research on a global basis. http://www.chemweb.com/utils/email.asp?id=10361&uid=714188 ================================================= ================================================= Tribology Letters An official STLE publication! ISI recognizes Tribology Letters as the most commonly cited publication in Tribology (Journal of Citation Reports, Issue 2000). http://www.chemweb.com/utils/email.asp?id=10362&uid=714188 ================================================= ================================================= Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry An international forum for thermal studies with several full volumes available online! http://www.chemweb.com/utils/email.asp?id=10363&uid=714188 ================================================= ================================================= Bookmark these journal pages and visit often during this special three month trial. The content is continually updated with new issues (including all figures, tables and high-resolution images), forthcoming papers and other subject related titles. Click here for a complete listing of Kluwer journals. http://www.chemweb.com/utils/email.asp?id=10364&uid=714188 ================================================= ================================================= Interested in other announcements and offers like this from Kluwer Academic Publishers? Sign up here to receive new titles, journal contents and special offers in your specific area of interest. http://www.chemweb.com/utils/email.asp?id=10365&uid=714188 ================================================= Please feel free to share this information with colleagues Sincerely, Maureen Naff Kluwer Academic Publishers www.wkap.nl mailto:chemistry@wkap.com

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Journals Pricing Issue
by I.R.N.Goudar 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Hello Professionals, There is an interesting news item dated Feb 6, 2004 on Journals pricing issue. "Editorial Board of Elsevier's Journal of Algorithms Resigns over Dispute Concerning Commercial Aspects of Scientific Publishing". For more details please visit the URL: http://www.library.gsu.edu/news/index.asp?typeID=62 Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-5086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-5235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-5268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road http://www.icast.org.in/staff1.htm BANGALORE-560 017 India

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Re: [LIS-Forum] article required (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 23:55:24 +0530 From: "Koteswara Rao , M" <mkrao(a)iitm.ac.in> Dear Colleagues, I too feel that Lis-Forum should not advocate/promote the free distribution of articles in PDF format among libraries. We should remember that copying and distribution of printed/electronic matter is based on 'fair use' policy and is meant for educational & research purposes only. If every library starts distributing such material to other than their own 'library members', it is definetely going to raise objections from the publishers. Also, it is not fair on our part to indulge in indiscriminate distribution of copyrighted material in the process of serving our user community. I hope the moderator should sense the 'inherent danger' and take necessary steps to curtail this. Koteswara Rao

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RE: [LIS-Forum] article required
by Mailing List Manager 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 10:09:05 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Dear Friends: This refers to article request by Mr Arunachalam and fears expressed by Girija. I suggest a way out. Just request for the article availability. The lending and the lendee libraries can contact each other for terms & conditions (free or paid), mode of delivery (courier/fax/email, format (digital/paper) of supply etc. Just One copy made available to the end-user (researcher) for his own personal study/research would be covered by 'fair use' may not attract adverse copyright/licensing problems. Vyasamoorthy, P

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National Seminar on LIBRARY CONSORTIA 22 23 March, 2004 (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 18:05:15 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> National Seminar on LIBRARY CONSORTIA (22 23 March, 2004) Dear PROFESSIONAL FRIENDS We take pleasure to bring to your notice that the Department of Library & Information Science, Osmania University in collaboration with Indian Library Association is organizing a National Seminar on Library Consortia during 22 - 23 March, 2004. It is expected that about 100 Library Science Teachers/Library Professionals will be participating in the said Seminar. You are one of the senior most Professors / Professionals in LIS with wide exposure and experience in the subject field. Therefore, the Department would like to make use of your rich experiences for the benefit of the professionals participating in the said Seminar. Therefore, we appeal you earnestly to actively associate with the said National Seminar especially by participating and contributing articles to the Seminar. We will be glad, if you could make it convenient to attend the National Seminar and share your rich experiences and knowledge with the participants. We will appreciate if you could kindly give wide publicity among your colleagues and professionals about the National Seminar. The Conference brochure is enclosed herewith for your information. Since, a limited accommodation is available at our disposal, we request you to inform us your itinerary in advance to the undersigned for arranging your accommodation at OU Campus Guest Houses. Due to limited financial resources the Department will not be able to pay you the TA & DA for attending the Conference. Looking forward to meet you at the Conference. THE BROCHURE IS ATTACHED FOR UR READY REFERENCE With warm regards, Yours sincerely, ===== 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) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com

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Fwd: [SIGMETRICS] Furner J. "Little book, big book: before and after Little science, big science: a review article, Part I and II" JOURNAL OF LIBRARIANSHIP AND INFORMATION SCIENCE 35 (2): 115-125 JUN 2003 and 35 (3): 189-201 SEP 2003
by Subbiah Arunachalam 08 Feb '04

08 Feb '04

MUST READING FOR FANS OF DEREK JOHN DESOLLA PRICE. IN THE NEAR FUTURE WE ARE POSTING DEREK'S COMPLETE CV AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. Eugene Garfield garfield(a)codex.cis.upenn.edu ----- J. Furner : jfurner(a)ucla.edu Author's Website : http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/jfurner/jfurner.html List of Publications by J. Furner : http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/jfurner/jfurner.html Here is a two-part article that appeared in J. Lib. Info Sci. These are available as pdf files at : http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/jfurner/03jolis-pt1- compact.pdf - Part I http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/jfurner/03jolis-pt2-compact.pdf - Part II ___________ full text pdf file : http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/jfurner/03jolis-pt1-compact.pdf TITLE Little book, big book: before and after Little science, big science: a review article, Part I AUTHOR Furner J SOURCE JOURNAL OF LIBRARIANSHIP AND INFORMATION SCIENCE 35 (2): 115-125 JUN 2003 Document type: Review Language: English Cited References: 62 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Since its publication in 1963, Derek Price's Little science, big science (LSBS) has achieved 'citation classic' status. Examination of the genesis of LSBS and the state of the discipline of the history of science in the UK and the USA in the late 1950s demonstrates that Price's ideas were formulated during a pivotal period in the development of socio-historical studies of science. Price's talent for innovation and synthesis at an unsettled but highly charged time, and his appreciation of the pioneering work in science studies of the crystallographer J.D. Bernal, are reflected in the uniquely profound and wide-ranging respects in which LSBS has contributed to the development of scientometric and sociological theory. KeyWords Plus: HISTORY, SOCIOLOGY Addresses: Furner J, Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Informat Studies, 300 Young Dr N,Mailbox 951520, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Informat Studies, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA ________ http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/jfurner/03jolis-pt2-compact.pdf TITLE Little book, big book: before and after little science, big science: a review article, Part II AUTHOR Furner J SOURCE JOURNAL OF LIBRARIANSHIP AND INFORMATION SCIENCE 35 (3): 189-201 SEP 2003 Document type: Review Language: English Cited References: 74 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: A bibliometric analysis, updating Garfield's previous study of 1985, shows that Derek Price's Little science, big science (LSBS) has been cited on more than 1,500 occasions since its publication in 1963. Content analysis of these citations shows that Price's work has inspired the formation and subsequent development of several distinct communities of scholarly practice, including the history, sociology, politics and 'science' of science. In library and information science, LSBS is best remembered for its model of the exponential growth of scientific literature. Recent scientometric work has demonstrated that other mathematical models may prove a better fit to data on the actual growth of the literature in various fields; of these alternatives, the power model is most commonly invoked as an all-purpose descriptor of growth processes in electronic communication systems such as the Web. Price's work thus retains its relevance, 40 years on, for the webometricians of today. KeyWords Plus: SQUARE-ROOT LAW, GROWTH, OBSOLESCENCE, SIZE, COLLABORATION, PRODUCTIVITY, NETWORKS, LIBRARY, IMPACT, NUMBER Addresses: Furner J, Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Informat Studies, 300 Young Dr N,Mailbox 951520, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Informat Studies, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA Does your mail provider give you FREE antivirus protection? Get Yahoo! Mail http://uk.mail.yahoo.com

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RE: [LIS-Forum] article required (fwd)
by VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

Dear Friends: This refers to article request by Mr Arunachalam and fears expressed by Girija. I suggest a way out. Just request for the article availability. The lending and the lendee libraries can contact each other for terms & conditions (free or paid), mode of delivery (courier/fax/email, format (digital/paper) of supply etc. Just One copy made available to the end-user (researcher) for his own personal study/research would be covered by 'fair use' may not attract adverse copyright/licensing problems. Vyasamoorthy, P From: Library [mailto:library@rri.res.in] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 9:56 AM To: lis-forum Subject: [LIS-Forum] article required (fwd) Dear moderator, Sorry, I forgot to add that I am all for people asking for documents (after exhausting usual sources only) on lis-forum. I am only worried if it is correct to ask for pdfs as it is a violation of copyright. As everyone knows, this is being done on a personal level in some cases but in a public forum? ... Girija ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Raman Research Institute Library, Tel: +91 80 361 0122 Extn 250 C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Fax: +91 80 361 0492 Bangalore 560 080, India. Email: library(a)rri.res.in

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Query about RF-ID facilties
by Mailing List Manager 06 Feb '04

06 Feb '04

Date: 3 Feb 2004 06:27:50 -0000 From: Vijay Raghav Tiwari <vijayrt(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Friends I would like to know more about the RF-ID facilities implementation aspects: Firstly : How much it will cost. Secondly: How much time it will take when all the database is on WEB OPAC available. Thirdly : Suggest some vendors who can provide this facility at the earliest. Hope that you will pass on the required information at the earliest. with regards, VR Tiwari Librarian HRI, Allahabad

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Fwd: Interesting article
by Mailing List Manager 06 Feb '04

06 Feb '04

Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 05:14:39 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] MALLIKARJUNA, C" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Cartia, Inc. has announced the availability of ThemeScape 1.0, a new application for managing high volumes of information. Using a process known as Enterprise Information Mapping (EIM), ThemeScape automatically harvests massive amounts of unstructured text, extracts the major themes and topics, and creates an interactive map of the information, according to the company. The topographical maps show a big-picture view of the content within large quantities of documents, Web pages, e-mail, and other sources. According to the company, the topographical landscapes produced by ThemeScape are not just maps of documents; they are the information within those documents. Major themes rise from the surface, much like mountain peaks, indicating a concentration of documents around a given topic. The distance between the peaks indicates how closely different themes are related. These visual cues rapidly accelerate a user's ability to understand the context of information. "It's like looking at information from 30,000 feet," said Greg Clark, a knowledge management consultant and beta user at British Petroleum. "You can see the patterns and relationships that emerge when you combine information from thousands of different documents. ThemeScape has given us insights we may have missed entirely." The underlying technology of ThemeScape has been in development for more than 4 years, beginning at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory operated by Battelle. With roots in highly classified covert operations, early development was directed by the U.S. government to help discover patterns and trends within hundreds of thousands of intelligence documents. In 1996, Cartia secured exclusive rights to the technology and has since redesigned both the mapping engine and user interface for use in commercial applications. ThemeScape has three primary components: a.. ThemeServer is the underlying engine that provides content aggregation, map generation, and information distribution to end users. Each ThemeServer can support multiple ThemePublishers and ThemeReaders. b.. ThemePublisher is the control center for ThemeScape. ThemePublisher users can harvest information from local directories, intranet servers, or Internet Web sites. They can customize map appearance, create time-sliced maps based on document dates, and even personalize the application with graphics, user controls, and text specific to their business. ThemePublisher also includes all of the capabilities of ThemeReader. c.. ThemeReader is a desktop client that allows users to view and interact with maps created using ThemePublisher. ThemeServer runs on a Microsoft Windows NT Server. ThemePublisher and ThemeReader are Java applications that run on Windows 95/98 and Windows NT. Pricing varies depending on configuration. ThemeScape 1.0 is currently in use at several major corporations, among them British Petroleum, Philips Electronics, Ford, and Texaco. Source: Cartia, Inc., Redmond, WA, 425/602-3550; http://www.cartia.com. ****

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4th ASSIST national Seminar on "Digital Resources and Services in Libraries.
by Mailing List Manager 06 Feb '04

06 Feb '04

Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 05:58:37 -0800 (PST) From: Biradar B.S. <bs_biradar(a)yahoo.com> Dear Professional Friends We are happy to inform you that we are organising 4th ASSIST National Seminar on "Digital Resources and Services in Libraries, during 12-13 April 2004. We are requesting you to send paper on any following sub-themes: Digital Libraries: what and why? Digital Resources and Services Tools and Technologies in Management of Digital Resources Processes and Methods of Digitization Formats and Standards Copyright Issues Open Source Materials and Open Archive Initiatives Manpower Development and Continuing Education User Education Important dates to be remembered : Last date for receipt of paper : 25th March 2004 Date of Seminar : 12-13 April 2004 Registration fee: With accommodation : Rs. 800/- Without accommodation : Rs. 500/- Students delegates: Rs. 300/- For further detail you may also visit the Web site: www.freewebs.com/assist2004 With Warm Regards Dr. B.S. Biradar Organising Secretary 4th ASSIST national Seminar, and Chairman DOS in Library and Information Science Kuvempu University Jnana Sahyadri-577 451 Shankaragatta, Shimoga, Karnataka Ph: Res: (08282) 656 142 (08282) 657 319 e-mail: bs_biradar(a)yahoo.com bsbiradar53(a)rediffmail.com assistku2004(a)yahoo.co.in

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DRTC Admission Notification for ADIS and JRF
by Mailing List Manager 06 Feb '04

06 Feb '04

Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 10:33:38 +0530 From: ramshirish mamidala <ramshirish(a)hotmail.com> Respected Professionals, Indian Statistical Institute has issued Admission notification for ADIS (Equivalent to MLISc) and Junior Research Fellowship offered by DRTC (Documentation Reserach and Training Centre) Bangalore, along with other subject courses. 2-year Associateship in Documentation and Information Science Eligibility Criteria (i) Bachelor�s degree in Library Science, or (ii) Master�s degree in any subject with at least two years� library/documentation/information handling experience or (iii) a four year plus degree, such as B.E. and M.B.B.S. with at least two years� library/documentation/information handling experience. Stipend Rs.1500/- per month.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Junior Research Fellowship : Library and Information Science Eligibility Criteria Associateship in Documentation and Information Science of ISI or INSDOC or Master�s degree in Library and Information Science. Fellowship : Rs. 8000/- per month . For more details please visit : http://www.isical.ac.in/~deanweb/ADMISSIONNOTICE2004.pdf Regards, M.RAMSHIRISH (Student ADIS), Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institue, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, R.V.College : PO, Bangqalore 560 059 phone:080-8483975 (Hostel) 8483002 Ext:495(ABC Lab) email:ramshirish@hotmail.com ram(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in

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OECD communique on open access
by Mailing List Manager 06 Feb '04

06 Feb '04

Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 11:58:26 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> DECLARATION ON ACCESS TO RESEARCH DATA FROM PUBLIC FUNDING adopted on 30 January 2004 in Paris The governments (1) of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Russian Federation, the Slovak Republic, the Republic of South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States Recognising that an optimum international exchange of data, information and knowledge contributes decisively to the advancement of scientific research and innovation; Recognising that open access to, and unrestricted use of, data promotes scientific progress and facilitates the training of researchers; Recognising that open access will maximise the value derived from public investments in data collection efforts; Recognising that the substantial increase in computing capacity enables vast quantities of digital research data from public funding to be put to use for multiple research purposes by many research institutes of the global science system, thereby substantially increasing the scope and scale of research; Recognising the substantial benefits that science, the economy and society at large could gain from the opportunities that expanded use of digital data resources have to offer, and recognising the risk that undue restrictions on access to and use of research data from public funding could diminish the quality and efficiency of scientific research and innovation; Recognising that optimum availability of research data from public funding for developing countries will enhance their participation in the global science system, thereby contributing to their social and economic development; Recognising that the disclosure of research data from public funding may be constrained by domestic law on national security, the protection of privacy of citizens and the protection of intellectual property rights and trade secrets that may require additional safeguards; Recognising that on some of the aspects of the accessibility of research data from public funding, additional measures have been taken or will be introduced in OECD countries and that disparities in national regulations could hamper the optimum use of publicly funded data on the national and international scales; Considering the beneficial impact of the establishment of OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data (1980, 1985 and 1998) and the OECD Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems and Networks (1992, 1997 and 2002) on international policies for access to digital data; DECLARE THEIR COMMITMENT TO: Work towards the establishment of access regimes for digital research data from public funding in accordance with the following objectives and principles: Openness: balancing the interests of open access to data to increase the quality and efficiency of research and innovation with the need for restriction of access in some instances to protect social, scientific and economic interests. Transparency: making information on data-producing organisations, documentation on the data they produce and specifications of conditions attached to the use of these data, available and accessible internationally. Legal conformity: paying due attention, in the design of access regimes for digital research data, to national legal requirements concerning national security, privacy and trade secrets. Formal responsibility: promoting explicit, formal institutional rules on the responsibilities of the various parties involved in data-related activities pertaining to authorship, producer credits, ownership, usage restrictions, financial arrangements, ethical rules, licensing terms, and liability. Professionalism: building institutional rules for the management of digital research data based on the relevant professional standards and values embodied in the codes of conduct of the scientific communities involved. Protection of intellectual property: describing ways to obtain open access under the different legal regimes of copyright or other intellectual property law applicable to databases as well as trade secrets. Interoperability: paying due attention to the relevant international standard requirements for use in multiple ways, in co-operation with other international organisations. Quality and security: describing good practices for methods, techniques and instruments employed in the collection, dissemination and accessible archiving of data to enable quality control by peer review and other means of safeguarding authenticity, originality, integrity, security and establishing liability. Efficiency: promoting further cost effectiveness within the global science system by describing good practices in data management and specialised support services. Accountability: evaluating the performance of data access regimes to Interoperability: paying due attention to the relevant international standard requirements for use in multiple ways, in co-operation with other international organisations. Quality and security: describing good practices for methods, techniques and instruments employed in the collection, dissemination and accessible archiving of data to enable quality control by peer review and other means of safeguarding authenticity, originality, integrity, security and establishing liability. Efficiency: promoting further cost effectiveness within the global science system by describing good practices in data management and specialised support services. Accountability: evaluating the performance of data access regimes to maximise the support for open access among the scientific community and society at large. Seek transparency in regulations and policies related to information, computer and communications services affecting international flows of data for research, and reducing unnecessary barriers to the international exchange of these data; Take the necessary steps to strengthen existing instruments and - where appropriate - create within the framework of international and national law, new mechanisms and practices supporting international collaboration in access to digital research data; Support OECD initiatives to promote the development and harmonisation of approaches by governments adhering to this Declaration aimed at maximising the accessibility of digital research data; Consider the possible implications for other countries, including developing countries and economies in transition, when dealing with issues of access to digital research data. INVITE THE OECD: To develop a set of OECD guidelines based on commonly agreed principles to facilitate optimal cost-effective access to digital research data from public funding, to be endorsed by the OECD Council at a later stage. ___________ (1) Including the European Community The Full communique <http://www.oecd.org/document/0,2340,en_2649_34487_25998799_1_1_1_1,00.html>

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Online Scholarly Journals: How Many?
by Mailing List Manager 06 Feb '04

06 Feb '04

Friends: I received this through a discussion list and so I think I can share it with others! Feb. 1, 2004 column for Library journal by Carol Tenopi Online Scholarly Journals: How Many? It should be easy to determine the exact number of scholarly journals that are available online. Surprisingly, it is a challenge. Even how many scholarly journals are published in print isn't easy to figure out. Coming up with these numbers is a tale that information specialists will appreciate. Straight to the source Ulrich's publishes its serials directory in many formats; the most up-to-date and complete is ulrichsweb.com (tm). According to Yvette Diven, Director, Product Management, Serials for R.R. Bowker LLC, "ulrichsweb.com is the version of Ulrich's that contains the largest numbers of publications pulled from the Ulrich's database...Ulrichsweb.com contains the active, ceased, suspended, and forthcoming titles from Ulrich's as well as records for titles announced but never published and records for which supplemental research is required in order to confirm the latest information." It is updated weekly. Luckily, ulrichsweb.com searches can be limited to "active" records. This is pretty unambiguous. In mid-November, 2003 there were over 180,200 active serial records. Restricting these to just scholarly journals gets more complicated. Ulrich's has two field designations that might be relevant; "academic/scholarly" and "refereed". Refereed designates refereed and peer-reviewed periodicals and is assigned mostly on information gathered from the publisher. Here is where the problem begins. Genuine academic publishers understand the process of peer review but others may not. According to Diven, "on occasion...a publication confuses peer-review with the fact that the publication is frequently consulted by readers of its peers in the marketplace. There is also a misperception among some publishers that a publication is necessarily peer-reviewed if it has an editorial board. Ulrich's editors make a concerted effort to clarify our definitions." Academic/scholarly is a term that publishers pick from a list that describes audience or focus (it includes Trade, Consumer, and Newspaper.) It refers to publications intended for an academic audience or which contain materials with a research focus. For active refereed periodicals we get just over 21,000 titles; active academic/scholarly weighs in at nearly 43,500. Most of the refereed are within the academic set, so the final answer to active and (refereed or academic/scholarly) comes to just over 43,500. Narrowing to online How many of these are e-journals? Ulrich's actually provides two digital designations: "online" or "CD-ROM". Online in Ulrich's means full text online but "does not necessarily mean online-only," according to Diven. In fact, most of the online periodicals are also published in print, with only about 4600 e-only publications. Many e-only publications are newsletters, consumer publications, or web-based zines rather than scholarly publications. CD-ROM availability is not included under online, although some titles may have both designations. Ulrich's lists over 34,500 online, active periodicals of all types (remember, this includes a few e-only, but many more publications have both online and print versions.) CD-ROM is far behind. Only 6500 titles have active CD-ROM versions. As expected, there is some overlap, so the total number for digital periodicals in Ulrich's (either CD-ROM or online and also active) is nearly 37,500. Restrict that to only online active refereed and you get 11,000; online and active and (scholarly/academic or refereed) yields over 14,600. CD-ROM may add another couple thousand titles. Limiting by subject It is more difficult to calculate how many are science, technology, or medical titles. Restricting searches to appropriate LC or Dewey classification numbers seems the best bet, but even that demands caution. Peter Jacso, well-known author and database reviewer, explains that as of summer 2003 over 80 percent of Ulrich's database records have no information in the LC field. Such "errors of omissions can be more dangerous than errors of commission because they are, well-invisible, and you don't get adequate warning about large scale omissions," says Jasco. Luckily, all Ulrich's records include at least one Dewey Decimal number. Restricting the search by Dewey classification can be time-consuming as fields vary considerably. Many of the online active titles are science, technology, or medicine, but by no means all. The humanities and social sciences have many online titles as well. On average, in Dewey 500s and 600s only one-quarter to one-third active peer reviewed titles are online. In some subfields, such as astronomy and medicine, the number of titles online is closer to 60 percent. Others are obsessed, too The American Scientist e-forum (run by Stevan Harnad) recently had a several-days debate on this topic, with some claiming that there are as many as half a million scholarly journals published today. Both librarians and publishers benefit from knowing the true scope of serial titles and online penetration. I can say with confidence that as of the end of 2003, there are just under 50,000 scholarly journals and somewhere between a third and just over half of them are in digital form. One thing I've learned is that these numbers are a moving target and somewhat suspect. Keep checking and keep definitive statements necessarily vague. Carol Tenopir, Professor School of Information Sciences Interim Director, Center for Information Studies University of Tennessee 1345 Circle Park Drive, 451 Communications Bldg. Knoxville, TN 37996-0341 Tel: (865) 974-7911 FAX: (865) 974-4967 web.utk.edu/~tenopir/

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Managing misinformation - introducing a new health management information system in Uganda
by Mailing List Manager 06 Feb '04

06 Feb '04

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:45:51 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> How can health management information systems (HMIS) be successfully introduced in low-income countries? Research coordinated by the University of Sheffield examined the introduction of HMIS in Uganda and identified the problems experienced in the process. Can the introduction of HMIS support the decentralisation of the Ugandan health service? Can it assist real organisational change at the local level? The transition to primary healthcare (PHC) oriented health systems in many low-income countries has influenced need for more health information to be effectively collected from health units and made accessible at the local level. In response, HMIS is a tool that allows for the decentralised local level management of health systems. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has identified this area as a priority in low-income countries.

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Microsoft Offers Linux-Interoperability Software For Free
by Mailing List Manager 06 Feb '04

06 Feb '04

Date: 29 Jan 2004 08:21:12 -0000 From: Subbiah Gunasekaran <gunasekaran_subbiah(a)rediffmail.com> Microsoft Offers Linux-Interoperability Software For Free Jan. 13, 2004 Services For Unix 3.5 also features improved performance and broader support for Posix APIs. By John Foley Microsoft has decided to drop the $99 licensing fee previously required for its Services For Unix software and plans to make a new version of the interoperability product available this week at no cost on its Web site. Services For Unix is a subsystem of Unix APIs and development and administration tools intended to help businesses migrate Unix or Linux applications to Windows computers or create heterogeneous environments where the operating systems coexist. SFU version 3.5, to be available Thursday, will come with performance improvements and new features that make it better at both of those functions, yet Microsoft officials say the price change represents a strategy shift that's equally important. "The big news on this release, we think, is that it's free," says Dennis Oldroyd, a director with Microsoft's Windows server group. Microsoft had developed a reputation among some customers for not doing enough to help them deal with the growing number of mixed computing environments. In a survey last fall by InformationWeek Research, more than half of the 400 business-technology professionals who responded said Windows-Linux interoperability was a problem, and 87% were of the opinion that Microsoft was leaving the interoperability work to others. "The real driver behind this [pricing] change is this interoperability issue," Oldroyd says. "We want Windows to be the best platform for interoperability." The three main components of SFU--Unix's Network File System and Network Identity Service and Microsoft's Interix layer of Posix APIs--have all been tuned for better performance, with some commands running 50% faster, Oldroyd says. SFU 3.5 also features first-time support for P-Threads (for Posix-compliant multithreaded applications), a broader set of Posix APIs, and updated utilities and libraries. http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17300643

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Prof.P N Kaula is honored with Padmasri
by Mailing List Manager 06 Feb '04

06 Feb '04

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 12:57:20 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> Dear professional Friends I am sure u may be aware that this year Republic day is a special for all the professionals. Prof. Prithvi Nath Kaula, an eminent and internationally renowned Library scientist, teacher to many professionals in the country had been honoured with PADMASRI award. It is great honor for all the professionals and the profession. Prof Kaula contribution is known to all over the world. His contributions are phenomenal. Even at this age he continues to contribute for the development of the profession. He is renowned International expert, worked for UN, Continuously (and single handedly) publishing the journals. His expert services are being utilized by both Governmental and non-Governmental organization. Awards are given on his name. The contributions are innumerable. He was also my teacher. Our profession is thankful to the Government of India for recognizing his services. On behalf of our profession and on my own behalf, I congratulate Prof. PN Kaula for getting this award, which he richly deserves. I also express my thanks to Govt of India for honoring Prof Kaula with this award. 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) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com

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ORIENTIATION COURSE ON IT FOR LIBRARIANS IN GOA UNIVERSITY, GOA
by Mailing List Manager 06 Feb '04

06 Feb '04

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 04:56:48 -0800 (PST) From: Dr.P.V.Konnur <pv_konnur(a)yahoo.com> ORIENTIATION COURSE ON IT FOR LIBRARIANS IN GOA UNIVERSITY, GOA This is to inform all the members of the LIS Forum that, Goa University Library in collaboration with Academic Staff College Goa University, Goa is organising one month Orientation Course for College Librarians and Teachers and Assistant/Deputy Librarians in Universities from 21st February 04 to 19th March 2004. The training will be totally practical based and all the components of the library automation and digitization are covered (Scheduled Time Table enclosed). The selection will be on all India base. The selected participants will be paid 2nd AC up and down Rail fare and DA for one month or local hospitality including accommodation. Those who fulfill the following conditions may apply in the format of any Academic staff college nearer to them: 1.They should be working on permanent basis in any colleges or University. 2.They must be at least in UGC lecturer scale and above. 3.The application should be forwarded by the college principal/Registrar of the University. 4.The applications must be addressed to the Director, Academic Staff College, Goa University, Taleigao Plateau, Goa � 403 206, with a copy to the University Librarian, University Library, Taleigao Plateau, Goa � 403 206 latest by 7th February 2004. For details please cotact: Dr.P.V.Konnur, University Librarian, Goa University Library, Taleigao Plateau, Goa � 403 206. Phone : 0832- 2456031 (O) 0832-2451008 ( R) ===== 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)

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Free Access to Avery Index
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

Dear All: NISC is pleased to offer free access to Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1741-Present) for the entire month of February 2004. A brief description about the database is given below for your information: Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1741-Present) Available Formats: BiblioLine, CD-ROM Number of Records: 510,000+ Dates of Coverage: 1741-to-present Number of CD-ROMS: 1 Subject Category: Arts & Humanities, Business Update Frequency: Weekly on BiblioLine; Semi-Annual for CD- ROM Product Overview The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals offers the most comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions and indexes on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration. Avery has been produced continuously since 1934. It is currently published by the Getty Research Institute of the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. Editorial offices are at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library of Columbia University, New York City. Administrative offices are at the Getty Research Institute. Database Content Avery covers subjects related to all geographical areas. It includes not only the scholarly and popular periodical literature, but also the publications of professional associations, American state and regional periodicals, and the major serial publications on architecture and design from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. The only comprehensive American guide to the current literature of architecture and design, the Avery Index now surveys more than 2,500 journals worldwide. Approximately 40% of the indexed articles are in English; 60% are in languages other than English, including Basque, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Subject Coverage Archaeology Architecture Architectural design City planning Furniture and decoration Historic preservation History of architecture Interior design Landscape architecture Urban planning To register for free trial, please click the Avery Index link on NISC's home page: www.nisc.com Happy browsing! 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Prof.PNKaula is honored with Padmasri -
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

Dear professional Friends I am sure u may be aware that this year Republic day is a special for all the professionals. Prof. Prithvi Nath Kaula, an eminent and internationally renowned Library scientist, teacher to many professionals in the country had been honoured with PADMASRI award. It is great honor for all the professionals and the profession. Prof Kaula contribution is known to all over the world. His contributions are phenomenal. Even at this age he continues to contribute for the development of the profession. He is renowned International expert, worked for UN, Continuously (and single handedly) publishing the journals. His expert services are being utilized by both Governmental and non-Governmental organization. Awards are given on his name. The contributions are innumerable. He was also my teacher. Our profession is thankful to the Government of India for recognizing his services. On behalf of our profession and on my own behalf, I congratulate Prof. PN Kaula for getting this award, which he richly deserves. I also express my thanks to Govt of India for honoring Prof Kaula with this award. 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) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com ____________________________________________________________ Does your mail provider give you a free online calendar? Yahoo! does. Get Yahoo! Mail http://uk.mail.yahoo.com

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Article request
by Nagesh Hadimani 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

Dear Mebmers, If any one could kindly send me the full text of the following papers by email or by post. 1) Development, Growth & Differentiation, 37(1): Page93-98. 1995 English author Myohara-M 2)Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, 32(2) page 187-196, 1996 Baden-Howard.P Please help to find these journals and send papers to the following address. i will be very much thankful for your help. thanking you Nagesh Hadimani Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research P.O.No.6436, Jakkur, Bangalore-560064 email:nagesh@jncasr.ac.in web:www.jncasr.ac.in/library

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article required (fwd)
by Library 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Dear moderator, Sorry, I forgot to add that I am all for people asking for documents (after exhausting usual sources only) on lis-forum. I am only worried if it is correct to ask for pdfs as it is a violation of copyright. As everyone knows, this is being done on a personal level in some cases but in a public forum? ... Girija ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raman Research Institute Library, Tel: +91 80 361 0122 Extn 250 C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Fax: +91 80 361 0492 Bangalore 560 080, India. Email: library(a)rri.res.in ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:32:06 +0530 (IST) From: Library <library(a)rri.res.in> To: lis-forum <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] article required (fwd) Dear Moderator, I wonder if it is a good thing to circulate messages asking for pdfs of articles by email? Isn't this against copyright policies of most publishers? By the way, Lis-forum messages are available to the public via google searches also so perhaps we should worry about this. (For this reason, you need not circulate this message but you could take a policy decision based on this) With best wishes, Girija ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raman Research Institute Library, Tel: +91 80 361 0122 Extn 250 C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Fax: +91 80 361 0492 Bangalore 560 080, India. Email: library(a)rri.res.in ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:35:04 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] article required Date: 27 Jan 2004 07:31:48 -0000 From: Subbiah Gunasekaran <gunasekaran_subbiah(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Members: I will be very grateful, if anyone could kindly send me the full text [in pdf] of the following paper by email. Author: M D Segall et al Title : First-principles simulation: ideas, illustrations and the CASTEP code Source: J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 14 (25 March 2002) 2717-2744 Thanks, Sincerely, S Gunasekaran Library & Inf. Services CECRI, Karaikudi 630 006 Tamil Nadu. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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article required (fwd)
by Library 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Dear Moderator, I wonder if it is a good thing to circulate messages asking for pdfs of articles by email? Isn't this against copyright policies of most publishers? By the way, Lis-forum messages are available to the public via google searches also so perhaps we should worry about this. (For this reason, you need not circulate this message but you could take a policy decision based on this) With best wishes, Girija ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raman Research Institute Library, Tel: +91 80 361 0122 Extn 250 C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Fax: +91 80 361 0492 Bangalore 560 080, India. Email: library(a)rri.res.in ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:35:04 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] article required Date: 27 Jan 2004 07:31:48 -0000 From: Subbiah Gunasekaran <gunasekaran_subbiah(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Members: I will be very grateful, if anyone could kindly send me the full text [in pdf] of the following paper by email. Author: M D Segall et al Title : First-principles simulation: ideas, illustrations and the CASTEP code Source: J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 14 (25 March 2002) 2717-2744 Thanks, Sincerely, S Gunasekaran Library & Inf. Services CECRI, Karaikudi 630 006 Tamil Nadu. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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