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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.. An update in<BR>June 2004 will incorporate the AIChE Journal and Process Safety Progress -<BR>both official journals of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers,<BR>now published by Wiley effective in 2004.<BR><BR>About Wiley InterScience<BR><BR>Since its commercial launch in January 1999, Wiley InterScience<BR>(www.interscience.wiley.com) has earned its reputation as a world-leading<BR>Internet resource for quality research material promoting discovery across<BR>the spectrum of scientific, technical, medical and professional endeavors.<BR>Today Wiley InterScience features a vast reservoir of must-have content<BR>from more than 1000 journals, books, reference works, databases and<BR>! Current Protocols laboratory manuals.<BR><BR>About Wiley<BR><BR>Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., provides must-have content and<BR>services to customers worldwide. Its core businesses include scientific,<BR>technical, and medical journals, encyclopedias, books, and online products<BR>and services; professional and consumer books and subscription services;<BR>and educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students and<BR>lifelong learners. Wiley has publishing, marketing, and distribution<BR>centers in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The<BR>Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols JWa and<BR>JWb. Wiley's Internet site can be accessed at http://www.wiley.com.<BR><BR>***<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/mailtg/*http://pepsizone.yahoo.co.in/pepsi3…" target="_blank"> Win an evening</a> with the <b>Indian cricket captain</b>: <a href="http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://pepsizone.yahoo.co.in/pepsi…" target="_blank"> Yahoo! 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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
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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.
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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
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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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Query about RF-ID facilties
by Mailing List Manager 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

Date: 29 Jan 2004 03:53:46 -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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storing CD's & DVD's
by Mailing List Manager 28 Jan '04

28 Jan '04

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:29:32 +0530 From: Krishnan <krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in> Want to know how to store your CDs and DVDs safely for many years, please have a look at the information at: http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/carefordisc/ Guide: Care and Handling Guide for the Preservation of CDs and DVDs, CLIR and NIST joint project NIST Special Publication 500-252, October 2003, Final Dr. S. Krishnan Head, Information Division National Chemical Lab, PUNE 411008, INDIA

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Mapping intellectual milestones - CITESPACE
by Mailing List Manager 28 Jan '04

28 Jan '04

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:51:19 +0530 From: Madhuresh <madhuresh_s(a)aurigene.com> Want to find out what's hot and what's not in any given research area without actually having to read all the papers? Read on. Chaomei Chen, associate professor at the College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA, has developed software called CITESPACE, analyzes how the co-citation relationships change over time. He published a research paper recently in PNAS Online, which is available at http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0307513100v1.pdf The news item can be read at http://www.chemweb.com/alchem/articles/1066208793352.html or at http://gateways.bmn.com/sreport/previous?day=040122&story=1 Regards. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 562 158 Phone 8521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 Fax 852 6285 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com

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InfoWatch - January 2004
by M.R Lalitha 28 Jan '04

28 Jan '04

Dear LIS-Forum member, The January 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 (lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ InfoWatch Tracking Networked Scientific Information Sources and Services (An electronic update service brought to you by NCSI) Jan 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue: 1. Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) 2. ARKIVOC - Free online journal of organic chemistry 3. Biocomplexity Thesaurus 4. CircuitMaker 2000 5. Code Beach - A guide to free and open source codes & tutorials 6. Dali Server [A service for comparing protein structures in 3D] 7. Digital Laboratory [A source for electrical and electronics engineering resources] 8. Dspace Federation [A digital repository software system] 9. History of the robots in Victorian era 10. Interactions.org - A resource for communicators of particle physics 11. Inventors' Handbook 12. KnowItAll Academic - A set of free educational software tools 13. Mars Exploration Rover Mission 14. Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization (MALDI) Mass Spectrometry Recipes Page 15. Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE) [A resource for fuel additive] 16. NetBSD - A redistributable UNIX-like operating system 17. Probability Abstract Service 18. Science for all Americans [A book about science literacy] 19. Virtual DR - A community where computing problems get solved 20. XtremWeb [A free software platform to explore scientific issues and applications] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Workshop on "Consortia Approach to Resource Sharing, 5th Feb. 04
by DRTC General 28 Jan '04

28 Jan '04

WORKSHOP ON CONSORTIA APPROACH TO RESOURCE SHARING 5th February, 2004 Dear Colleagues, Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) is pleased to announce a one day intensive workshop on `Consortia Approach to Resource Sharing' on 5th February 2004 at DRTC. We are pleased to extend an invitation to you to participate as one of the delegates. Our objective is to get together professionals who are working in or towards consortia for information sharing and to leverage the existing knowledge, techniques and skills in this particular area. (see below - Programme). No registration fee will be charged and workshop materials will be provided by us. We will also be happy to extend local hospitality. However, we will not be able to provide TA. We hope that you will be able to accept our invitation and lend your expertise to the proceedings. A session (12.30 pm - 1.30 pm) is dedicated to presentations of case studies and experiences by delegates. We request you to kindly prepare a short presentation of your views for discussion at this session. Please send us a write-up including your role in a working consortium (or in planning and implementation of consortium) or relevant materials you wish to share with the delegates. Please confirm your participation with an email to drtc(a)isibang.ac.in with `consortium workshop registration' in the subject line no later than 2nd February 2004. Registration is on first-come-first-served basis for a maximum of 20 participants. Regards (Dr.Devika P. Madalli) Convenor, DRTC Workshop on Consortia ======================================================== WORKSHOP ON LIBRARY CONSORTIA FOR RESOURCE SHARING 5th February, 2004 Topics: Academic Library Consortia: Governance issues Consortium Models for information sharing among academic and research libraries Copyright issues in resource sharing consortia Planning and Financial management of Consortia Technology issues in implementation of Consortia Academia-industry collaborations Library consortia: Case studies P R O G R A M M E 9.30 am - 10 am : Registration 10 am - 10.30 am : Inaugural session 10.30 am - 11.30 am : Keynote Address 'Overview of Consortium approach to Information Access and Sharing' -- Prof. David Kohl, Senior Fulbright Specialist, Emeritus, University of Cincinnati 11.30 am - 12 noon : Tea Break 12 noon - 12.30 pm Presentation on 'Consortia - The Indian Scenario' -- Dr. Devika P. Madalli, Documentation Research and Training Centre, ISI, Bangalore-59 12.30- 1.30 pm : Individual presentations Delegates present case studies and experiences 1.30 pm - 2.30 pm : Lunch Break 2.30 pm - 4 pm : Panel Discussion Panelists maximum 8 members including : Prof. David Kohl (Chairman) Prof. Ravichandra Rao (moderator) Invited Heads of libraries and various consortia representatives and stake holders 4 pm - 4.30 pm : Tea Break 4.30 pm to 5 pm : Concluding Session

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article required
by Mailing List Manager 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

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.

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Request for participation in a course research study
by HR Mohan 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

Dear friends, I am sure that you would not mind for the liberty I am taking in sending this mail request. I am appending below a request from my daughter Nithya, who is doing a survey on Internet Users (in the age group of 18-35) in India. I will be thankful if could kindly participate in the survey. (if meet the age criteria) Also, I request you to pass on the request from my daughter (with your suitable forward msg -- you may drop mine) to your contacts in both IT & non IT fields in the age group of 18-35 and who are residents of India and request them to help in this survey. With regards HR Mohan Chief Systems Manager, The Hindu, 859 Anna Salai, Madras 600002, INDIA Phone: 91-44-28413344 :: Fax : 91-44-28415325 Email: hrmohan(a)vsnl.com Web : http://www.hinduonline.com ============================================================================== Req. from Nithya -- project questionnaire ============================================================================== Hi, I would like to introduce myself as Nithya, doing M.Sc. course in Psychology at Chennai. As a part of my course work, I am conducting a research survey on the personality of Internet users. The study focuses on the usage of the Internet along with the way individuals feel, act and behave in general. If you are in the age group of 18 to 35 and reside in India, please support this research by filling the questionnaire posted at the site: http://63.111.9.162/netsurvey I will be pleased and grateful if you could also request your friends to participate in this study by forwarding this mail to them. If you have any queries, feel free to contact me at: netsurvey2004(a)yahoo.com Thanks in advance for setting aside your valuable time and helping in my research. With regards Nithya P.S: Let me take this opportunity to wish you a very very happy and prosperous New Year.

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Mapping intellectual milestones - CITESPACE
by Madhuresh 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

Want to find out what's hot and what's not in any given research area without actually having to read all the papers? Read on. Chaomei Chen, associate professor at the College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA, has developed software called CITESPACE, analyzes how the co-citation relationships change over time. He published a research paper recently in PNAS Online, which is available at http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0307513100v1.pdf The news item can be read at http://www.chemweb.com/alchem/articles/1066208793352.html or at http://gateways.bmn.com/sreport/previous?day=040122&story=1 Regards. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 562 158 Phone 8521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 Fax 852 6285 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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Travel Grants to attend ETD 2004 and JCDL 2004
by Mailing List Manager 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:35:46 +0530 From: Shalini .R .Urs <shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in> Travel Grants for attending ETD 2004 and JCDL 2004 Announcement Availability of Travel Grants for the ETD 2004, June 3-5,2004, Lexington, KY, USA and JCDL 2004, June 7-11,2004, Tucson, Arizona, USA. Here is a wonderful opportunity for young information professionals who have passion, commitment and a track-record of academic, research and practical achievements in digital library project initiatives, to attend two major conferences in USA concerning digital library initiatives Applications are invited from interested and eligible professionals for the above Grants. Travel Grants to support the participation of 5-6 delegates from India to attend the above two conferences are re available. ETD 2004 -the Seventh International Conference on Electronic Theses and Dissertations is organized by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) from June 3-5,2004 on the campus of the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA. The theme of this year's conference is - 'Distributing knowledge world wide through better scholarly communication'. For more information, please visit the conference website : http://www.uky.edu/ETD/ETD2004 JCDL 2004- the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries sponsored by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society and others is being held at Tucson, Arizona, USA from June 7-11, 2004. The theme of this year's JCDL is- Global Reach and Diverse Impact. Given the fact that these two conferences are scheduled back to back, it was possible to source funds from an international funding agency to support the travel and participation of 5-6 of delegates from India for both these conferences. The grant will cover the travel, accommodation, and registration of the selected participants. Recognizing the lack of opportunities for Indian Library and Information professionals to attend international conferences and workshop, this funding opportunity has been identified with the objective of encouraging committed and capable LIS professionals to participate and contribute effectively to the emerging global digital library movement. The main goal is to help build capacities in LIS profession. This would provide an opportunity for the selected candidates to meet, interact, learn, and network with the international DL community. Guiding Principles 1.. These awards are open to all Indian nationals who have contributed to the development of Digital Libraries / ETD efforts 2.. Preference will be given to young professionals, who have demonstrated their capabilities and commitment and shown promise. 3.. The selection of the candidates will be competitive and done by an Expert Committee constituted for this purpose 4.. The selection process involves the submission of applications in the pres cribed format - the applications may be downloaded from http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ETD-JCDL2004 5.. The selection will be based on the following criteria- 1.. Contribution towards the development of Digital Libraries and ETDs in the last 5 years through specific programmes/efforts initiated 2.. Quality Publications in the area 3.. Your future visions and plans for taking your institution to the global DL mainstream. . 4.. Submitted papers / accepted for JCDL 2004/ETD 2004 Those interested may contact the undersigned for further details. Shalini -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr.Shalini R.Urs Professor and Chairperson Department of library and Information Science University of Mysore Project Director Vidyanidhi-Indian Digital Library of Electronic Theses Manasagangotri, Mysore.570006. India Ph:91-821-2514699 Fax:91-821-2519209 Website:http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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OAI Service Providers: SciTech and SocSci/Humanities (ReDox)
by Mailing List Manager 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:58:00 -0600 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> OAI Service Providers: SciTech and SocSci/Humanities In my haste two weeks ago to (self-)promote [:-) my two recent articles about OAI Service Providers: SciTech and SocSci/Humanities, I failed to list the services eProfiled in each. In addition, I inadvertently mounted a read-only PDF version for each, which were replaced with read/printing versions earlier today. Please find below the names and URLs of the OAI Service Providers beneath the citation for each article: Gerry McKiernan. "Open Archives Initiative Service Providers. Part I: Science and Technology," _Library Hi Tech News_ 20 no. 9: (November 2003): 30-38. [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-SP-I.pdf] **Arc: A Cross A rchive Search Service** [http://arc.cs.odu.edu/ ] **Citebase** [http://citebase.eprints.org/ ] **my.OAI** [http://www.myoai.com] **Open Archives Initiative Information in Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics (Grainger Engineering Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)** [http://g118.grainger.uiuc.edu/engroai/] **SAIL-eprints (Search, Alert, Impact and Link)** [ http://eprints.bo.cnr.it/ ] AND Gerry McKiernan. "Open Archives Initiative Service Providers. Part II: Social Sciences and Humanities," _Library Hi Tech News_ 20 no. 10: (December 2003): 24-31. [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-SP-II.pdf] **AmericanSouth** [ http://americansouth.org ] **Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) [http://www.language-archives.org/] **Sheet Music Consortium** [ http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/] **UIUC Digital Gateway to Cultural Heritage Materials** [http://nergal.grainger.uiuc.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx ] Enjoy (again)! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Latte-drinking, Sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, Left-Wing Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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Nature Biotechnology - duplicate copy if available
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:02:06 +0530 From: Krishnan <krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in> Does any one have a duplicate copy of the following journal? We have this as missing in our collection. Please reply directly Nature Biotechnology, 20(5), 2002 Thanks Dr. S. Krishnan Head, Information Division National Chemical Lab, PUNE 411008, INDIA e-mail: krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in http://www.ncl-india.org

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The grip of death...
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:19:49 +0530 From: Aman Jha <aman.jha(a)ciionline.org> Dear friends I need availability details of the following book in India: "The Grip of Death: a study of modern money, debt slavery and destructive economics" by Michael Rowbotham (Jon Carpenter Publishing, 1998) Jon Carpenter Publishing, 2, The Spendlove Centre, Charlbury, Oxfordshire OX7 3PQ For credit card orders tel/fax. +44 (0)1608 811969 or +44 (0)1689 870437. UK price: �15 Distributed in the USA & Canada by: Paul & Company, PO Box 442, Concord, MA 01742 tel. 978 369 3049/fax. 978 369 2385. US price: $29.95 Thanks and regards, Aman Jha Librarian CII

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Nature Biotechnology - duplicate copy if available
by Krishnan 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

Does any one have a duplicate copy of the following journal? We have this as missing in our collection. Please reply directly Nature Biotechnology, 20(5), 2002 Thanks Krishnan 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 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) Version: 6.0.564 / Virus Database: 356 - Release Date: 1/19/2004

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News Industry Text Format
by Madhuresh 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Dear Friends, I would like to share the following item. NITF (News Industry Text Format) is a solution for sharing news. It is developed by News Publishers and it is for News Publishers. NITF uses the eXtensible Markup Language to define the content and structure of news articles. Because metadata is applied throughout the news content, NITF documents are far more searchable and useful than HTML pages. By using NITF, publishers can adapt the look, feel, and interactivity of their documents to the bandwidth, devices, and personalized needs of their subscribers. These documents can be translated into HTML, WML (for wireless devices), RTF (for printing), or any other format the publisher wishes. NITF was developed by the International Press Telecommunications Council, an independent international association of the world's leading news agencies and publishers. It is a standard that is open, public, proven, well-used, well-documented, and well-supported. For more details, see http://www.nitf.org/ Regards. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 562 158 Phone 8521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 Fax 852 6285 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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ICADL 2004 (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

The 7th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries ------- International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization Call for papers After its six-year��s 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 �C 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 Springer��s 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 Conference��s 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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Re: [LIS-Forum] LIBRARY SERVICES ON MOBILE PHONES WE ARE READY?
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Dear professionals, Have a good day and in respose to the mail of Mr. Mallikarjuan, In fact, Learning Resource Centre Beams Education Centre, Dubai has effectively utilizing the SMS of cellular phones/ mobile for providing readyreference services. The Learning Resource centres users are also uses the SMS of cellular phone for their general enquiry, reservation, renewals, and other purposes. The same system is introduce by self, in 2002 November itself. Regards Vijayakumar M

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Links related ETDs
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:42:54 -0500 From: Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur <rcgaur(a)tifr.res.in> Apologies for cross posting. Please feel free in forwarding this to others. Hi! Some of you who might be thinking to start / or working on ETDs in India, following links may be of some help: http://www.uky.edu/ETD/ETD2004/ http://etdguide.org/ http://www.ndltd.org/talks/index.htm http://www.ndltd.org/pubs/index.htm http://www.vtls.com/ndltd/ http://www.ndltd.org/etd_conf/ETD2003tutorial05.ppt http://www.ndltd.org/union.html http://www.ndltd.org/research.html http://www.ndltd.org/community.html http://www.unesco.org.uy/eventos/evento2000-10-20-0.html http://www.theses.org/ http://www.dissertation.com/library_frame.php http://www.diplomica.com/ http://tennessee.cc.vt.edu/~lming/cgi-bin/ODL/nm-ui/members/index.htm http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/home/index.html http://www.pitt.edu/AFShome/g/r/graduate/public/html/etd/ http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/gateway http://zeeb.library.cmu.edu/OLC/fall2001.html#ETD http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/ http://www.dlib.vt.edu http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/extended/indest-etd.pdf http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ETD/directory/browse.html http://www.rgs.uky.edu/gs/ETDintro.html http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/support/help/glossary/glossary.htm http://etdguide.org/content/1.2.htm http://www.etd.psu.edu/gen_info.html Best, Ramesh -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Visiting Scholar (Fulbright Program)( Till February 2004) Virginia Tech Dept. of Computer Science 660 McBryde Hall, M/C 0106 Blacksburg, VA 24061 +1-540-231-3615

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RSS feeds
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:22:00 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Dear Friends: This has nothing to do with RSS connected with BJP. I desire to bring to your attention about RSS feeds available from websites. Recently a Technology called RSS (=Really Simple Syndication) is available. Many websites offering news items also provide what is called an RSS feed. New Indian Express is the first such Indian Newspaper to offer RSS feeds. RSS feed is usually an xml file. This file has an URL (address of the page on the website). For instance the RSS feed for Indian Express is available at: http://www.xpressindia.com/syndications/ei.xml At the end-user's PC, one has to install a small program generally called RSS Aggregator. Many RSS readers (aggregators) are available for free download and Amphetadesk is one of them. After installing Amphetadesk and invoking it, one has to enter the URL of the XML page in this program. Thereafter, Amphetadesk automatically downloads frequently the XML page (RSS feed). We will then get on our desktop the latest news brought to us regularly every three hours. If we have entered five news channels then we would have latest news from five different channels. All of them have the URL of the actual news item plus a short abstract. In this way one can get himself updated easily with latest news from different newspapers (or web resources or portals) of his choice. Several sites give directories of available RSS feeds. www.feedster.com is such a directory. www.disobey.com the site that provides Amphetadesk also gives its own long list of several thousand RSS feeds. RSS feeds are also called Channels. There is a provision to display constantly updated news pages on your website using this technology. There are easy methods of providing such 'automatically updated' news services on your website too using this pull technology: html code to be inserted in your html page are shown in concerned websites offering RSS feeds. I suggest librarians to make use of this technology to offer better value added services to their clients. *Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre *ICICI Knowledge Park, Turkapalli Village, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA *Ph: +91(40) 2348 0053; Fax:+91(40) 2348 0007 Ph. Res: +91(40) 2784 6631 *Website: http://www.vic-ikp.info and http://www.iciciknowledgepark.com HAVE YOU TRIED OUR TRANSLATION SERVICES?

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Thomas Parry Library - E- Journals in L I Science
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:53:38 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] MALLIKARJUNA, C" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear professional Information on and links to more than 500 ejournals on LIS Annotated list of electronic journals in librarianship and information science. The list will be of use to anyone exploring electronic journals in the LIS field. Titles are listed alphabetically and for each entry a page of relevant information is provided, the accuracy and currency of links and information are checked on a monthly basis. URL:http://www.inf.aber.ac.uk/tpl/ejlib/ C.MALLIKARJUNA, ISEC LIBRARY, INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE NAGARABHAVI BANGALORE-560 079. hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in

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ELPUB2004 Electronic Publishing conference (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:01:46 +0100 From: Marian Polus <marian.polus(a)esat.kuleuven.ac.be> Dear Sirs, Could you forward the following message to lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, please? Thank you in advance. Regards, Marian Polus -------------------- http://www.elpub.net -------------------- Dear specialists and professionals in electronic publishing, On behalf of the Organising committee, I have the pleasure inviting you to participate as a contributor to the 8th ELPUB conference that will be hosted in June 2004 by the Department of Information Science at the University of Brasilia (West-central Brazil). This 8th ELPUB conference will keep the tradition of previous ELPUB conferences, which is to bring together researchers, developers, users and all those interested on issues regarding electronic publishing in widely differing contexts. Conference themes include the human, cultural, economic, social, scientific, technological, legal, commercial and other relevant aspects of Electronic Publishing. Elpub 2004 offers also a variety of activities, such as workshops, tutorials, panel debates etc. Details can be found on the above mentioned website. A first call for papers was sent out some time ago, but it might not have reached you. But now has come the moment I would like you to take a few minutes to consider submitting a paper, a tutorial theme, a poster or a demonstration. The deadline for abstracts, that have to be introduced electronically via a conference website submission page, has been fixed on January 31, 2004. The 2nd call for papers with all details has been attached to this email. If for any reason this attachment is not accessible or not present anymore, you will find it also at: http://www.docarch.be/engelen/Call_2_for_papers_Elpub2004.pdf Welcome to ELPUB2004, Jan Engelen ELPUB2004 Programme Chair ** With my apologies for possible double postings ** -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Jan Engelen | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | mailto:Jan.Engelen@kuleuven.ac.be Dept. Electrotechniek - ESAT | Onderzoeksgroep Documentarchitecturen | tel. : +32 (0)16 32 11 23 Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 | B-3001 Heverlee-Leuven | fax. : +32 (0)16 32 19 86 BELGIUM | or +32 (0)16 23 74 31 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marian Polus - Project Assistant K.U.Leuven - Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Heverlee (Belgium) tel: +32 16 32 18 65 fax: +32 16 32 85 39 http://www.docarch.be

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Fw: survey of aggregators
by Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

----- Original Message ----- From: "Astronomy Library" <astlibr(a)lepus.astro.utoronto.ca> To: <SLA-ST(a)welles.library.nwu.edu>; <SLAPAM-L(a)lists.yale.edu> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 2:27 PM Subject: survey of aggregators > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > --forwarded by M. Cummins UofToronto Astronomy and Astrophysics Library --- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > > >From owner-sts-l(a)listserv.utk.edu Fri Jan 16 12:58:31 2004 > Sender: "STS-L (Science and Technology Section, ACRL)" > > Subject: Announcing "A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services" > > ***Cross-posted announcement -- apologies for duplication*** > > "A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services." > By Martha L. Brogan. > Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources: > Washington DC, December 2003. > > http://www.diglib.org/pubs/brogan/ > [And available in print, 1st quarter 2004] > > This 100-page report, commissioned by the DLF, provides an overview of a > diverse set of more than thirty digital library aggregation services, > organizes them into functional clusters, and then evaluates them more fully > from the perspective of an informed user. Most of the services under review > rely wholly or partially on the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting of the Open > Archives Initiative (OAI-PMH). Each service is annotated with its > organizational affiliation, subject coverage, function, audience, status, > and size. Critical issues surrounding each of these elements are presented > in order to provide the reader with an appreciation of the nuances inherent > in seemingly straightforward factual information, such as "audience" or > "size." > > David Seaman > Executive Director, Digital Library Federation > Council on Library and Information Resources > 1755 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Suite 500 > Washington, DC 20036 > tel: 202-939-4762 > fax: 202-939-4765 > e-mail: dseaman(a)clir.org > web: http://www.diglib.org/ >

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SMS Development Tools
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 05:36:18 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] MALLIKARJUNA, C" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Professionals: SMS Development Tools: Short Message Service, A text message service that enables short messages of generally no more than 140-160 characters in length to be sent and transmitted from pc to a cellphone and other digital-based mobile communications systems. for these tools visit this web page: http://www.funsms.net/sms_development_tools.htm This Section is edited and maintained by Dr. Subrahmanyam Karuturi ( ksm(a)funSMS.net ) 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

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Change in URL for Web Enhanced Training Programme on WINISIS (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 06:13:03 +0000 From: Uma Kanjilal <uma_kanjilal(a)hotmail.com> Dear Member, With reference to the announcement on Web enhanced training programme on WINISIS, please note the change in the URL. The URL for the programme is http://winisis.ignou.ac.in . This message may kindly be posted at the earliest. Regards, Uma Kanjilal ======================================================== Dr. (Ms) Uma Kanjilal Reader, Faculty of Library & Information Science Indira Gandhi National Open University ( IGNOU) New Delhi 110 067 E-mail:uma_kanjilal@hotmail.com ======================================================== ________________________________________________________________________________ Send DD, pay no commission. Click here.

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

19 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:30:08 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is a posting to the GKD97 list I sent in early 1997. I wonder if things have cahnged much. Regards. Arun Dear GKD97 members: Mr P Jayarajan, British Council Division, British High Commission, New Delhi, asked me to give my comments on the impact of electronic publishing on the developing countries, for inclusion in a discussion at a forthcoming World Bank Conference. I thought many members of this forum might be interested in this question (even if they might not care for my views on it!). I reproduce my letter to Jayarajan. Your comments are welcome. My address: <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Dear Jay: Here are some random thoughts on Electronic Publishing and its impact on the developing countries. As bullet points, of course! * The transition to electronic publishing from print will widen the gap between the advanced countries and the developing countries, especially in the field of production and dissemination of knowledge. * Many developing countries, especially those with large populations, do not have the necessary infrastructure (computer terminals, networks, communication channels, bandwidth, etc.) and will take a long time to have it in place to be able to take part as equal partners in the worldwide enterprise of knowledge production and exchange. * While communication revolution is perceived as a liberating influence, what is more likely to happen is that in many developing countries (including India, I am afraid) scientists and scholars will be among the last to be reached by the revolution and therefore the relative disadvantage they now suffer from (in the matter of access to information and knowledge) will only increase. The number of institutions and individual scholars having access to Email and Internet in developing countries and the rate at which this access has grown over time will support this contention. * The transition to electronic publishing will make it much easier for scientists and scholars in the advanced countries to interact with colleagues and invisible colleges, and most Third World scientists and scholars are most likely to be excluded from this "worldwide" network, not because they are intellectually inferior but because they do not have the technological backup. The already existing gaps in the levels of science and technology performed in the advanced and the poorer countries will be widened further and this could lead to increased levels of brain drain and dependence on foreign aid of a different kind (knowledge imperialism). * Mastery of technology has led the West to dominate the world to such an extent that even in areas where the traditional societies of the poorer countries had a lead of millennia (such as ethnobotany and plant-based medicine), now it is the West which is exploiting this knowledge base and converting it into products (of modern medicine) and profits. What has happened in the area of plants and medicine will happen with even greater vigour in the area of knowledge production and dissemination (including publishing and patenting). * Most journals and databases are produced in the advanced countries and developing country scientists read articles written by their own countrymen in expensive journals produced by commercial publishers in the West and gain access to the same articles through exhorbitatntly priced secondary services produced in the West! Electronic publishing and online access will only make the situation even worse. * There is another very serious problem. The traditional knowledge systems, because their practitioners are not well-versed in electronic communication, will die out very soon. This has already happened, even before the arrival of electronic publishing, thanks to the homogenising effect of western cultures which made many facets of other cultures extinct. -----------------------

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

19 Jan '04

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:13:11 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Please visit http://www.jbc.org/misc/JBC_Open_Access.shtml to know about the open access policy of a publisher of leading biology journals. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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RE: summary of status of the 63 OA journals sent by Prof. Arunach alam
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:04:03 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is a physicist on the need to promote open access: http://newsobserver.com/front/story/3218830p-2886313c.html Arun

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LIBRARY SERVICES ON MOBILE PHONES WE ARE READY?
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 09:34:40 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] mallikarjuna chenna" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Professionals Mobile phones have become a part of the standard executive kit; usage of mobiles for messaging and information exchange is more widespread among younger cell phone users.We (librarians)can also use these technologies for our library service.for this we need special hardware and software tools. for this purpose Portalify Ltd. Tekniikantie 12 02150 Espoo FINLAND Developed " Liblet" software. We can intelink with our present libray systems.sending notices of arrived reservations to the user's mobile phone immediately and often results in same-day pick-up, making the material rotate quicker and allowing the library to serve more customers. for more details see below url link: http://www.portalify.com/products/liblet.html 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

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Registration Open - ICDL2004 (International Conference on Digital Libraries) www.teriin.org/events/icdl
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:04:41 +0530 From: Debal Chandra Kar <dckar(a)teri.res.in> Our apologies for cross postings ICDL 2004 New Delhi 24-27 February 2004 International Conference on Digital Libraries: Knowledge creation, preservation, access and management *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We would appreciate disseminating this mail to your colleagues. *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Hon'ble President of India, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam has kindly accepted the invitation to be the Chief Guest at the inauguration of the conference on 24 February, 2004 at 1200 hrs at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. Digital libraries and knowledge management are innovations, the implementation of which is still nascent in developing countries. However, they hold the promise of becoming key technologies for knowledge creation and management in the future. In February 2003, the Government of India launched the National Mission for Manuscripts, aimed at preserving the valuable manuscripts in India. The mission is designed to undertake elaborate surveys, run awareness programmes, and impart training in conservation/preservation techniques. ICDL 2004 would contribute to the objectives of the mission by assembling a galaxy of experts, researchers, and academics from across the world to exchange ideas on digital libraries, and related technologies and issues. Objectives .Bridge knowledge gaps between developing and developed countries .Initiate capacity building activities in digital libraries .Evolve a road map for the digitization of archives, manuscripts, and libraries .Provide a forum for facilitating interaction amongst participants .Formulate recommendations on digitization technologies, Acts, and policies Who should participate? .Policy-makers .Library and information science professionals .IT professionals .Archivists and museologists .Content developers and knowledge managers .IT service providers .Information providers and vendors .Professionals from electronic publishing and virtual electronic communities .All stakeholders in the digitization and knowledge business Patrons: Mr Jagmohan Hon'ble Union Minister for Tourism and Culture Government of India * Tutorials .Conference sessions .Panel discussions .Business sessions .Exhibition Day 1: 24 February 2004 (Tuesday) 8.00 a.m. Registration for Tutorials and Conference 9.00-10.30 a.m. TUTORIALS TUTORIAL 1A TUTORIAL 1B TUTORIAL 1C Finding information Ontologies and Institutional through the Internet Thesauri repositories and the WWW Nicola Guarino T B Rajashekar Paul Nieuwenhuysen 10.30-11.00 a.m. Tea 11.00 a.m.-1.00 p.m. TUTORIALS TUTORIAL 2A TUTORIAL 2B TUTORIAL 1C Build digital library Knowledge Management Automatic classification of using open source and Systems: development of documents, or the software (GSDL)/ applications automatic generation of Ian Witten Hsinchun Chen metadata/ Fabrizio Sebatiani 1.00-2.00 p.m. Lunch 2.00-4.00 p.m. TUTORIALS TUTORIAL 3A TUTORIAL 3B TUTORIAL 3C Dublin Core Metadata: XML/RDF Building DLs using Stuart Weibel Erich Neuhold DSpace, OAI-PMH Version 2, Handle System 12.00-1330 a.m. Conference Inauguration At Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi Inaugural Address By Hon'ble President of India Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Day 2: 25 February 2004 (Wednesday) 8.00 a.m. Registration 9.00-9.30 a.m. Keynote Address 1 9.30-11.30 a.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 1 SESSION 1A SESSION 1B SESSION 1C ePublishing, Digital library Digital library initiatives multimedia, and technology: Digital library planning, development, evaluation and management 11.30 a.m.-12.00 noon Tea 12.00 noon-1.30 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 2 SESSION 2A SESSION 2B SESSION 2C Digital library Country initiatives/ Digital library policy issues case studies architecture, network and technology 1.30-2.30 p.m. Lunch 2.30-3.30 p.m. BUSSINESS SESSION 1 3.30-4.00 p.m. Tea 4.00-5.30 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 3 SESSION 3A SESSION 3B SESSION 3C Digital divide Multilingual Metadata issues metadata issues 7.30 p.m. Dinner Day 3: 26 February 2004 (Thursday) 9.00-9.30 a.m. Keynote Address 2 9.30-11.30 a.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 4 SESSION 4A SESSION 4B SESSION 4C Content Knowledge Semantics, thesauri, management management and ontologies 11.30 a.m.-12.00 noon Tea 12.00 noon-1.30 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 5 SESSION 5A SESSION 5B SESSION 5C Copyright issues e-Learning System scalability and digital and inter-operability rights management 1.30-2.30 p.m. Lunch 2.30-3.30 p.m. BUSINESS SESSION 2 3.30-4.00 p.m. Tea 4.00-6.00 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 6 SESSION 6A SESSION 6B SESSION 6C Archiving and Retrieval systems Human-machine sharing cultural interface, user heritage and interaction history globally Day 4: 27 February 2004 (Friday) 9.00-9.30 a.m. Keynote Address 3 9.30-11.00 a.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 7 SESSION 7A SESSION 7B SESSION 7C Manuscript: archiving Digital library Digital library and digitization consortium communities 11.00-11.30 a.m. Tea 11.30 a.m.-1.00 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 8 SESSION 8A SESSION 8B SESSION 8C Futuristics Digital library Digital library services security 1.00-2.00 p.m. Lunch 2.00 a.m.-4.00 p.m. PANEL DISCUSSION Digital library policy and strategic planning 4.00 - 5.30 p.m. Valedictory session For programme details please go to icdl site: www.teriin.org/events/icdl Advisory Committee Conference Co-chairs .Mr Dhanendra Kumar, IAS, Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr R K Pachauri, Director-General, TERI, New Delhi, and Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Geneva . Prof. N Balakrishnan, Professor and Chairman, Division of Information Sciences, IISc, Bangalore; Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Members .Ms Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Mission Director, National Mission for Manuscripts, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India .Mr K Jayakumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi .Mr Yateendra Joshi, Fellow, TERI, New Delhi .Dr Abhijit Lahiri, Adviser, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr S Majumdar, Director, Central Secretariat Library, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr S S Murthy, Former Director, Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr T A V Murthy, Director, Information and Library Network Centre, Ahmedabad .Dr Usha Reddi, Director, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia, The Commonwealth of Learning, New Delhi .Dr S Sadagopan, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore .Mr H D Singh, Director-General, National Archives of India, New Delhi .Prof. M Tawfik, Director, UNESCO New Delhi Office, UNESCO Representative to Bhutan, India, Maldives, and Sri Lanka .Dr R K Verma, Executive Director, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Noida .Dr N Vijayaditya, Director-General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr Om Vikas, Scientist 'G' and Head, Computer Development Division, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India International Programme Committee .Prof. Jos� Luis Borbinha, Direction of Services for Innovation and Development, National Library of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal .Dr Hsinchun Chen, McClelland Professor of MIS, Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab; Director, Hoffman E-Commerce Lab, University of Arizona, Management Information Systems, McClelland Hall, Tucson, USA .Dr Gobinda Chowdhury, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1, Scotland, UK .Dr Jean-Marc Comment, Archives f�d�rales suisses, Archivstrasse, Bern, Switzerland .Dr Dieter W Fellner, Professor, Computer Graphics, University of Technology Braunschweig, Germany .Mr Simon Huggard, Systems Manager, Systems Support Unit, Monash University Library, Monash University, Australia .Prof. Leonid A Kalinichenko, Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia .Dr Yan Quan Liu, Professor of Information and Library Science, School of Communication, Information and Library Science, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA .Prof. Gary Marchionini, Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA .Dr Erich Neuhold, Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries, Professor, GMD-IPSI Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany .Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Head, Information and Documentation University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium .Mr John Paschoud, Project Manager, ANGEL, DELIVER, SECURE, Information Systems Engineer of the Library, London School of conomics and Political Science, London, UK .Dr Michael Seadle, Head, Digital and Multimedia Center, Copyright Librarian, 100 Library, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA .Dr Atul Sharda, E-learning Adviser, E-Learning Strategy Unit, Department of Education and Skills, London, UK .Dr Stuart Weibel, Executive Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, OCLC Office of Research, Dublin, OH, USA .Prof. Ian H Witten, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand .Dr Norman Wiseman, JISC Head of Programmes, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK Steering Committee Co-chairs .Mr K Jayakumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr Leena Srivastava, Executive Director, TERI, New Delhi Conference Coordinator .Mr Debal C Kar, Fellow and Area Convenor, Library and Information Centre, TERI, New Delhi Members .Dr Jagdish Arora, Librarian and National Coordinator, INDEST Consortium, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi .Ms Martina Bartel, Head, Information Department and Library Regional Coordinator South Asia, Goethe Institut, New Delhi .Ms Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Mission Director, National Mission for Manuscripts, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr P R Goswami, Director, National Social Science Documentation Centre, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Government of India, New Delhi .Mr P Jayarajan, Head, Library and Information Services (India), British Council Division, British High Commission, New Delhi .Dr H K Kaul, Director, Developing Library Network (DELNET), New Delhi .Dr S Majumdar, Director, Central Secretariat Library, Government of India, New Delhi .Ms Rebecca McDuff, Information Resources Office and Public Affairs - US Embassy, American Center, New Delhi .Mr M Moni, Deputy Director-General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr Usha Mujoo-Munshi, Librarian, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi .Dr V N Shukla, Director (Special Applications) Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Noida .Mr H D Singh, Director-General, National Archives of India, New Delhi .Dr Shalini Urs, Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science Mysore University, Mysore Eminent speakers .Dr Jagdish Arora, Librarian and National Coordinator, INDEST Consortium, Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi .Prof. N Balakrishnan, Professor and Chairman, Division of Information Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore .Prof. Rahul Banerjee, Computer Science and Information Systems Co-ordinator, Centre for Software Development; Assistant Dean, Distance Learning Programmes Division, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani .Prof. Jos� Luis Borbinha, National Library of Portugal, Direction of Services for Innovation and Development, Portugal .Dr Muniram Budhu, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Arizona, USA .Dr Vinod Chachra, Chairman & CEO, VTLS Inc., VA, USA .Dr Harish Chandra, Librarian, Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, Chennai .Dr Ching-chih Chen, Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, USA .Prof. Hsinchun Chen, Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab and Hoffman E-Commerce Lab, Management Information Systems, University of Arizona, USA .Dr Gobinda Chowdhury, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, UK .Dr Jean-Marc Comment, Integration Manager, Archives F�d�rales Suisses, Switzerland .Dr Dieter W Fellner, Professor, Computer Graphics, University of Technology, Germany .Dr Schubert Foo Shou Boon, Associate Professor and Head, Division of Information Studies, School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore .Dr Nicola Guarino, Senior Research Scientist, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC-CNR, Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Italy .Prof. Amarnath Gupta, Director, Advanced Query Processing Lab, Data and Know-ledge Systems, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, USA .Mr Simon Huggard, Systems Manager, Monash University Library, Australia .Dr Ernie Ingles, Associate Vice-President (Learning Services) and Chief Librarian, University of Alberta, Canada .Prof. Leonid A Kalinichenko, Professor, Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia .Dr Yan Quan Liu, Professor, Information and Library Science, School of Communication, Southern Connecticut State University, USA .Dr Javed Mostafa, Victor H Yngve Associate Professor of Information Science, Associate Professor of Informatics, Indiana University, USA .Dr T A V Murthy, Director, Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET)/UGC, India .Prof. Erich J Neuhold, Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries; Director and Professor, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany .Dr Liddy Nevile, Adj. Associate Professor, Applied Computing Research Institute, La Trobe University, Australia .Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Head, Information and Documentation, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium .Dr Peter Noerr, Chief Technology Officer, MuseGlobal, Salt Lake City, USA .Dr Douglas W Oard, Digital Library Research Group, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, USA .Dr Harsha Parekh, Librarian and Professor of Library Science, SNDT Women's University, India .Mr John Paschoud, Project Manager, ANGEL, DELIVER, SECURE, Information Systems Engineer of the Library, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK .Dr Darren Peacock, Director, Information and Communications Technology, National Museum of Australia, Australia .Dr Annelise Mark Pejtersen, Senior Scientist, Systems Analysis Department, Ris� National Laboratory, Denmark .Dr T B Rajashekar, Associate Chairman, National Centre for Science Information, Bangalore, Indian Institute of Science, India .Dr Andreas Rauber, Research Fellow, Department of Software Technology, Vienna University of Technology, Austria .Dr Anshuman Razdan, Director, PRISM, Arizona State University, USA .Prof. Bruce Royan, Chief Executive, Concurrent Computing Ltd, UK .Prof. S Sadagopan, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore .Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Director, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad .Dr Peter Schirmbacher, Director, Computing and Media Services, Humboldt-University, Germany .Dr Michael Seadle, Head, Digital and Multimedia Center; Assistant Director for Systems and Digital Services; Copyright Librarian, Michigan State University Libraries; Editor, Library Hi Tech; USA .Dr Fabrizio Sebastiani, Instituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy .Prof. Tengku Mohd T Sembok, Professor in Computer Science, Department of Information Science, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia .Dr Atul Sharda, E-learning Adviser, E-Learning Strategy Unit, Department of Education and Skills, UK .Prof. Shigeo Sugimoto, Koichi Tabata, Tetsuo Sakaguchi, University of Library and Information Science, Japan .Dr Shalini Urs, Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science Mysore University, Mysore .Dr Stuart Weibel, Executive Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, OCLC Office of Research, USA .Dr Norman Wiseman, JISC Head of Programmes, University of Nottingham, UK .Prof. Ian H Witten, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand .Dr Vilas Wuwongse, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand .Dr Takeo Yamamoto, Director and Professor, Multimedia Information Division, National Institute of Informatics, Japan .Ms Xu Yinchi, Professor, Director of Chinese Science Digital Library, Beijing .Prof. Halimah Badioze Zaman, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia Registration The registration fee covers the conference kit, pre-conference proceedings, lunches, dinner, and tea. It does not include other meals and accommodation. Registration fee* Delegates Tutorials Conference Conference and tutorials Indian Rs 2500 Rs 5500 Rs 6500 Foreign US$ 100 US$ 225 US$ 250 * Additional registration from the same organization qualifies for a 10% discount . * Students (full-time) can avail 50% discount. * 25% special discount for foreign delegates from developing countries. Registration A registration form is sent along with this announcement brochure. The form can also be downloaded from the conference web site. The completed form, along with the registration fee should be sent to the ICDL 2004 Secretariat. Payment can also be made through any of the following modes: local cheque / bank draft favouring TERI and payable at New Delhi; credit card; and bank transfer. Registration confirmation Confirmation of registration will be sent upon receipt of the completed registration form and payment. Cancellation and substitution policy No cancellation or refund will be possible after a firm registration has been made. However, substitutions may be made. Please indicate, by 15 February 2004, the name and other necessary details, of the delegate who will replace the original registrant. Conference venue: India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India For conference details,contact Mr Debal C Kar Conference Coordinator ICDL 2004 Secretariat TERI Darbari Seth Block, Habitat Place (India Habitat Centre) Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110 003 India Telephone: 2465 1629, 2468 2100, or 2468 2111 (extn. 2724) Fax : 2468 2144 or 2468 2145 E-mail : ICDL2004(a)teri.res.in Web : www.teriin.org/events/icdl India +91 * Delhi (0)11

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Re: [LIS-Forum] FW: RRC Annual Convention
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 11:49:13 +0530 From: Sankaraiah <sankaraiah(a)vsnl.net> Dear Mr Deshmukh, Being far away from the Capital, I am unable to attend the panel discussion. However, wd it be paossible to post any important papers, points that emerge out of the proceedings on the LIS-Forum Thanks. sankaraiah > > Subject: RRC Annual Convention > Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:29:49 +0500 (GMT+0500) > > RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE, New Delhi >

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Indian Digitisation Activities
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:02:58 +0530 (IST) From: I.R.N.Goudar <goudar(a)css.nal.res.in> Dear Professionals, I am in the process of collecting information on Digitisation activities and Digital Library Initiatives in India. The objects digitised could be documents(books, journals, reports, patents, standards, manuscripts in any form like paper, palm leaves, metal sheets, etc), audio, video, graphics, paintings, models, photos, etc. I have got some details about few activities and still I may not be aware of many. If your organisation has some activity, please send me the details immediately (not more than a page). If not and if you know any institution carrying out this activity, please reply even if it is 3-4 lines or at least inform me the details (contact person and address, telephone, e-mail address, etc). THIS INFORMATION IS REQUIRED VERY URGENTLY. I will post the consolidated summary later through LIS-Forum. Thanks in advance. Regards 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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ePaper version of TOI
by Madhuresh 16 Jan '04

16 Jan '04

Dear friends, This is to make you aware about the service started by Times of India newspaper. Now the ePaper version of TOI is available over the Net at http://epaper.timesofindia.com/ Through this epaper version, one can see exactly the same newspaper as it is published in hard copy and access all the city editions (Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Pune, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Lucknow and Hyderabad) along with the supplements for the current day and the past 6 days. Complete Newspaper can also be downloaded in PDF format. This value added service along with various personalization options is currently available freely. Later on they have the plan to offer this service at nominal rate of Rs. 50/ per month and the complete archive at Rs. 5000/ per month. Regards. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 562 158 Phone 8521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 Fax 852 6285 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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Can any such consortia be made?
by Madhuresh 16 Jan '04

16 Jan '04

Dear Friends, See the news item "Libraries unite to strike digital gold for NZers" appears very recently at http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/ED0401/S00014.htm The news item says - ...... In a move that is the first of its kind in New Zealand, public, education, research and special libraries have joined together to buy collective access to tens of thousands of electronic resources that can be used by people from all parts of the country. ......... ..... "This collaborative venture also realises the vision of making information more easily available to a farmer in Southland, a student in Kerikeri, or a researcher in one of the large metropolitan areas," adds Ms Carnaby. "It's a great step for information democracy in this country." Primary, intermediate and high schools around the country will also have access to the resources, at no individual cost - the Ministry of Education is funding every school library in New Zealand to be a part of the group for the first year. ............... Can any such consortia be made in our own country for the general public? There may be many hurdles in doing so (no need to mention) but whether anyone thought of doing such things? One may also be interested in the title "How to Digitize Eight Million Books", an interview with Michael Keller, University Librarian, Director of Academic Information Resources, and Publisher of HighWire Press and the Stanford University Press. One can read it at http://www.honco.net/os/ Regards. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 562 158 Phone 8521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 Fax 852 6285 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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MOVIE ORGANIZER &BOOK ORGANIZER( freeware tools)
by Mailing List Manager 16 Jan '04

16 Jan '04

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 07:05:09 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] mallikarjuna chenna" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Professionals! Here some tools for Movie & small libraries. You can download from this site free of cost.(FREEWARE) MOVIE ORGANIZER &BOOK ORGANIZER( freeware tools) MOVIE ORGANIZER Movie Organizer is fully integrated with MOOD, the Movie Organizer Online Database. When you add a movie to your collection you will be able to search MOOD for information which will be downloaded from the net and filled in automatically. You can also upload data to MOOD if you find that something is missing. Software Requirements: Movie Organizer can be run on Windows 9x/NT/2000/Me/XP. Movie Organizer features MOOD Movie Organizer is fully integrated with MOOD, the Movie Organizer Online Database. When you add a movie to your collection you will be able to search MOOD for information which will be downloaded from the net and filled in automatically. You can also upload data to MOOD if you find that something is missing. Advanced search and fast search These two search options makes Movie Organizer both powerful and easy to use. Search on any field in any combination. Sorting Your movie list can be sorted in any possible way. You can even combine sortings by first clicking on one field and then on another, and so on. And it's easy, you only have to click on the column header for the field you want to sort. Print Wizard The Print Wizard gives you very flexible reports. You have the following pr! inting features: * Select exactly what movies to print. * Select any field that is visible in the movie list. * Arrange the fields on your printout as you wish. * Select how many fields you want on your printout. * Select the size of the fields on your printout. * Sort the movies on your printout in any possible way. * Change caption, etc. CSV Import Wizard A very flexible import function. You can assign any CSV-field to any Movie Organizer field. Export to XML or CSV IMDb search Search the International Movie Database (IMDb) for information regarding your FOR DOWLOAD: http://www.movieorganizer.com/download.asp BOOK ORGANIZER: Book Organizer is a very useful program to organize books for small libraries view full details: http://www.bookorganizer.com/

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INTERESTING ARTICLE
by Mailing List Manager 16 Jan '04

16 Jan '04

Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 04:26:59 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] mallikarjuna chenna" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear professionals: For the first study of its kind (led by Roger Schonfeld of Ithaka)<?xml:namespac Regarding the comparative costs of handling, in a library, of print vs. Electronic journals over time, and for some surprises as well as Enlightenment, see the just published D-Lib here: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january04/schonfeld/01schonfeld.html C.MALLIKARJUNA, ISEC LIBRARY, INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL ECONOMIC CHANGE NAGARABHAVI BANGALORE-560 079. Office:080+3215468 EXT-301 Mobile:080+36757228

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FW: RRC Annual Convention
by Mailing List Manager 16 Jan '04

16 Jan '04

Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 08:26:09 +0530 From: Ratnakar Aspari <aspari_r(a)hotmail.com> For kind circulation on Lis-Forum Ratnakar _____________________________________ Subject: RRC Annual Convention Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:29:49 +0500 (GMT+0500) RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE, New Delhi Cordially invites you to X Annual Convention at the Tagore Hall, I Floor, Tutorial Building, Department of Library and Information Science University of Delhi, Delhi - 110 007 On January 31, 2004 Saturday at 10.00 A M There will be a Panel Discussion on "CHANGING ROLE MODEL OF LIS PROFESIONALS IN DIGITAL ERA" SUBHASH DESHMUKH

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Searching Vendor for Large Format Color Photocopying
by Mailing List Manager 16 Jan '04

16 Jan '04

Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:51:38 +0530 From: Samdarshi Pali <Samdarshi.Pali(a)relianceinfo.com> I am searching parties willing to do the Large Format Color Duplication at Mumbai/Navi Mumbai. This duplication work involve A0/A1 drawings for our Engineering Document Repository. I will be very thankful if anyone could help me in this matter. Regards Samdarshi Pali

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OAI Service Providers: SciTech and SocSciences and Humanities
by Mailing List Manager 16 Jan '04

16 Jan '04

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 09:47:06 -0600 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> OAI Service Providers: SciTech and SocSciences and Humanities I am pleased to announce the availability of two recently-published articles that profile various Open Archives Initiative Service Providers: Gerry McKiernan. "Open Archives Initiative Service Providers. Part I: Science and Technology," _Library Hi Tech News_ 20 no. 9: (November 2003): 30-38. [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-SP-I.pdf ] AND Gerry McKiernan. "Open Archives Initiative Service Providers. Part II: Social Sciences and Humanities," _Library Hi Tech News_ 20 no. 10: (December 2003): 24-31. [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-SP-II.pdf] Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Latte-drinking, Sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, Left-Wing Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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Can I get the full text of article?
by Mailing List Manager 16 Jan '04

16 Jan '04

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:34:20 +0530 From: Shivendra Singh <shivendra(a)niper.ac.in> Dear friends, Can I get the full text of article? A Mild and Efficient Method for Racemization of alpha-Amino Esters by U. Ramachandran, S. Kumar and H. P. S. Chawla. Volume 35, 1-637 (2003) 616-620. Published in Organic Preparations and Procedures International The New Journal for Organic Synthesis Thanks and regards, Shivendra Singh Electronic Information Retrieval System National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Govt. of India Sector-67, SAS Nagar (Mohali) - 160062 Phone: 91-172-2214683/87 Ext: 2017 Fax: 91-172-2214692 Mob:: 9815526163 http://sshivendra.tripod.com

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Web Enhanced Training Programme on WINISIS
by Mailing List Manager 16 Jan '04

16 Jan '04

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:51:13 +0000 From: Uma Kanjilal <uma_kanjilal(a)hotmail.com> Web Enhanced Training Programme on WINISIS<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> IGNOU-DSIR Initiative (http://www.winisis.ignou.ac.in) January 23- <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />February 22, 2004 Introduction: A pilot project of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) to develop a methodology for delivery of training programmes through e-learning mode taking WINISIS as an example. WINISIS is one of the most widely used information retrieval packages used for development of databases in library and information centres throughout the world. The training programme developed envisages delivery in both online as well as CD versions, providing multimedia based self-learning material with synchronous and asynchronous online interactive environment. The purpose of this training programme is to collect feedback from the participants about the effectiveness of the e-learning courseware. Objectives: The focus of the programme is to: � provide opportunity of learning the WINISIS package to those who are not able to do so otherwise; � facilitate self-learning through multimedia courseware; and � stimulate learning through online interaction with experts and peer group. Target Audience: The Programme is meant for: � LIS students minimum at degree level � LIS working professionals � LIS teachers This programme is at the beginners level. The advanced learners need not apply. The programme is available for both Indian and International participants especially from the SAARC and ASEAN countries. Course Structure The entire course content is divided into eleven modules. Each module contains reading material, slide shows, videos, e-tutorials and quiz. Some of the modules also have facility for hands on practice through simulation. Progress from one module to the next will depend on the successful completion of each module by self assessment tests. Modules Module 1 Database Concepts Module 2 Introduction to CDS/ISIS and WINISIS Module 3 WINISIS Installation Module 4 Menus and Dialog boxes in WINISIS Module 5 Database Design Module 6 Content Creation and Indexing Module 7 Information Retrieval Module 8 Formatting Language Module 9 Sorting and Printing Module 10 Database Conversion and Utilities Module 11 Web Enabled WINISIS Project Work (for final evaluation) The entire programme is required to be completed in 80 hours spread over a month�s time. Delivery Mechanism: The programme is designed in a manner that can cater to both category of users, those having unlimited as well as limited access to the Internet. The CD will contain the multimedia self-learning material whereas the Web will be used for the purpose of interaction both in a synchronous as well as asynchronous mode. Key features of the content delivery are: � Controlled Multimedia Components � Self Evaluation with Feedback � Interactive Learning Forum like Bulletin Board, E-mail, Chat sessions. � Additional Features like Calendar, Glossary, Related links, FAQs etc. � Online Project Evaluation How to Apply: Those desirous of participating in the training programme are requested to visit the training web site at http://www.winisis.ignou.ac.in for registration. Last date for registration is January 21, 2004. Only hundred participants will be registered on first-come first-serve basis. However, ten percent reservation is there for international participants. Selected participants will be informed through e-mail by January 22, 2004. Course Fee: Free Contact Person: Dr. Uma Kanjilal Project Coordinator (IGNOU-DSIR Project) & Reader, Library & Information Science Indira Gandhi National Open University Maidan Garhi, New Delhi Pin- 110 068 Phone: +91 11 26961845 Fax: +91 11 26961845 e-mail: ukanjilal(a)ignou.ac.in ======================================================== Dr. (Ms) Uma Kanjilal Reader, Faculty of Library & Information Science Indira Gandhi National Open University ( IGNOU) New Delhi 110 067 E-mail:uma_kanjilal@hotmail.com ========================================================

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FREE full text access to OCLC Systems and Services (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 14 Jan '04

14 Jan '04

Dear Moderator, Please ignore my earlier mail and post the following. Regards, Pujar -------- Dear Members, Emerald under its 'Journal of the Week' programme is providing FREE full text access to 'OCLC Systems and Services' journal. Available volumes are: Volume 10, 1994 to Volume 19, 2003. The access is availble till Jan 18, 2004. It can be accessed at: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/jotw 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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Conference Announcement
by DK SAHU 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

Apologies for cross posting As a part of the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, we have planned a conference in September 2004 for authors, reviewers and editors. The program is being jointly organized with INASP (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications) and WAME (World Association of Medical Editors). This will probably be the first such event in a developing country discussing all the aspects of journal writing and publishing in biomedical science. May we request you to kindly help us in promoting this event by appropriately including this information in your Calendar of Events or Forthcoming Events column/web pages? Title: JPGM GOLD CON: 50 years of medical writing - International conference on journal writing and publishing Organizers: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, INASP and WAME Dates: 23rd-26th September 2004 Venue: Mumbai, India URL: http://www.jpgmonline.com/goldcon.asp Main topics: Medical writing, editing, journal publishing, electronic publishing, open access, publication ethics Contact: Dr Atul Goel, Department of Neurosurgery, Seth G. S. Medical College, Parel, Mumbai - 400 012, INDIA. Phone: 91-22-24129884. Fax: 91-22-25032398, E-mail: goldcon(a)jpgmonline.com Thanking you, With personal regards, DK Sahu, MD Joint Organizing Secretary, JPGM Gold Con Managing Editor, Journal of Postgraduate Medicine www.jpgmonline.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus

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SOMLib Digital Library System
by Mailing List Manager 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 04:14:13 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] mallikarjuna chenna" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Professionals SOMLib project we create a digital library system that uses a neural network-based core for library representation and query processing. The self-organizing map, a popular unsupervised neural network model, is used to automatically structure a document collection. Based on this core, additional modules integrate distributed libraries and create an intuitive representation of the library, automatically labeling the various topical sections in the document collection. digital library system supporting intuitive, user friendly browsing of document collections by combining the benefits of conventional library organisation with the possibilities offered by digital collections. It is based on the self-organizing map (SOM), a popular unsupervised neural network, used to organize documents by content into bookshelves. Metaphor graphics facilitate the intuitive representation of the resulting document archive, allowing users to get an instant overview of its content and characteristics. New: SOMLib goes music!! They extended the principles of the SOMLib system to music archives, allowing you to organize and browse collections of music. mallikarjuna chenna

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RE: [LIS-Forum] SOMLib Digital Library System
by Sukhdev Singh 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

Thanks mallikarjuna chenna, I think LIS-FORUM would also be interested in knowing the software being used and availability of the software especially for R&D purposes. I would appreciate if you can educate us this aspect of SOMLIB. Regards Sukhdev >From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Subject: [LIS-Forum] SOMLib Digital Library System >Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:47:09 +0530 (IST) > >Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 04:14:13 +0000 (GMT) >From: "[iso-8859-1] mallikarjuna chenna" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> > >Dear Professionals > >SOMLib project we create a digital library system that uses a neural >network-based core for library representation and query processing. The >self-organizing map, a popular unsupervised neural network model, is used >to automatically structure a document collection. Based on this core, >additional modules integrate distributed libraries and create an >intuitive representation of the library, automatically labeling the >various topical sections in the document collection. >digital library system supporting intuitive, user friendly browsing of >document collections by combining the benefits of conventional library >organisation with the possibilities offered by digital collections. It is >based on the self-organizing map (SOM), a popular unsupervised neural >network, used to organize documents by content into bookshelves. Metaphor >graphics facilitate the intuitive representation of the resulting >document archive, allowing users to get an instant overview of its >content and characteristics. > >New: SOMLib goes music!! They extended the principles of the SOMLib >system to music archives, allowing you to organize and browse collections >of music. > >mallikarjuna chenna >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum _________________________________________________________________ Games, MMS cards, ringtones. Operator logos, picture messages & more. http://server1.msn.co.in/sp03/mobilesms/ Jazz up your mobile!

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Digitization of manuscripts
by sainul＠iiitmk.ac.in 10 Jan '04

10 Jan '04

Dear Friends, Can somebody give me the details of the Libraries which are invloved in Digitization of Old documents and Manuscripts/palmleaves etc With Regards, Sainul Abideen P Librarian IIITM-K Technopark Trivandrum This Mail has been sent from: ________________________________________________________________________ Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - Kerala, Park Centre, Techno Park, Thiruvananthapuram - 695 581. Kerala. India. Contact: Website: http://www.iiitmk.ac.in Phone: +91-471-2527567 / 3091334 Fax: +91-471-2527568 ________________________________________________________________________ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and /or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this in error,please contact the sender and delete the material from anycomputer.

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Good Articles
by Madhuresh 09 Jan '04

09 Jan '04

I would like to attract the attention of forum members towards the following articles. How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web http://www.miskatonic.org/library/facet-web-howto.html The recent issue of Cites and Insights (Midwinter 2004) is an A to Z Glossary of LIS terms, which is quite useful. http://cites.boisestate.edu/civ4i2.pdf "Recataloging Librarians" where author Allison Ogden has talked about A Technological History of Librarian Images; What do Librarians Really Do and What are Librarians Really Like. See it at http://www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/libr500/02-03-wt1/www/A_Ogden/index.htm Regards. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 562 158 Phone 8521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile: 98861 82822 Fax 852 6285 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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Free ISBN Search
by Mailing List Manager 09 Jan '04

09 Jan '04

Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 11:08:42 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Dear Friends: A free ISBN search of about 4 lac titles (still in experimental stage) is available at http://isbndb.com Please try it out! It gives Library holdings info too wherever available. *Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre *ICICI Knowledge Park, Turkapalli Village, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Ph: +91(40) 2348 0053; Fax:+91(40) 2348 0007 Ph. Res: +91(40) 2784 6631 *Website: http://www.vic-ikp.info and http://www.iciciknowledgepark.com HAVE YOU TRIED OUR TRANSLATION SERVICES?

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Usefull tools for Indexing and Thesaurus
by Mailing List Manager 09 Jan '04

09 Jan '04

Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:53:00 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] mallikarjuna chenna" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear professionals! Useful tools are available for download (Freeware) librarians they can use these tools for their libraries. These tools are windows based (32-bit) and dos based also; They can be used in the production of indexes in HTML format. You can download from: http://publish.uwo.ca/~craven/freeware.htm C.MALLIKARJUNA, ISEC LIBRARY, INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL ECONOMIC CHANGE NAGARABHAVI BANGALORE-560 079. Office:080+3215468 EXT-301 Mobile:080+36757228

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Article required
by Mailing List Manager 09 Jan '04

09 Jan '04

Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 22:51:27 -0800 (PST) From: Srinivasan R <seenukkd(a)yahoo.com> Dear Members I would be grateful if anyone sends me a copy of the following paper as one of our senior scientists needs a copy of that paper urgently. Bibliographic information: Journal:Accounts of Chemical Research Title:Polarons, bipolarons, and solitons in conducting polymers Authors:Jean Luc Bredas and G. Bryan Street Issue details: volume 18, year 1985, pp 309 - 315 Yours Sincerely R Srinivasan Library Officer Central Electrochemical Research Institute Karaikudi With Best Wishes Yours Sincerely R Srinivasan Phone: 225904 (R) ; 227750 (O) 7, kambar Street Thilagar Nagar Karaikudi - 630 002

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urgently required
by Mailing List Manager 09 Jan '04

09 Jan '04

Date: 9 Jan 2004 04:35:05 -0000 From: KISHOR <kishorawachar(a)rediffmail.com> Dear sir, I am searching for the source & avalabilty of these papers International wokshop on geotext 1989 Banglore, India 1. Paper presented by V. Radhakrishanan Nair on- Maunt & application of coir as geotext 2. Paper presented by P Jaganntharao O P Yadav ,Jai Bhagwan- Erosion control &slope protection with geofabric KISHOR J R D TATA MEMORIAL LIBRARY INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE BANGALORE-560012 Dept. WebSite:- www.library.iisc.ernet.in patilkv(a)library.iisc.ernet.in

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Indian Insect life
by Hari Sridhar 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

Hari Sridhar Wildlife Institute of India Dehradun Hi, I'm looking for copies of the following book - Maxwell-Lefroy,H. 1984 Indian Insect Life: A Manual of the Insects of the Plains Jagmander Book Agency, New Delhi 595.7095400000001 Maxwell-Lefroy,H. 1978 Indian Insect Life: A Manual of the Insects of the Plains (Tropical India) Today and Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers, New Delhi 595.7095400000001 Can anyone tell me if it is in print still and where I can buy it from? Thanks Yours sincerely, Hari Sridhar __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus

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Open access
by Francis Jayakanth 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:15:29 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: If you are interested in promoting open access to scientific literature, you may find the following three sources very useful. Online Forum on Open Access <http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html> A complete archive of the ongoing discussion on providing online open access to the peer-reviewed research literature is available at the American Scientist Open Access Forum. Post discussion to: <september98-forum(a)amsci-forum.amsci.org> <<...OLE_Obj...>> Open Access News <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html> A blog edited by Peter Suber that focuses on efforts to create toll-free access to peer-reviewed research and scholarship. EPrints: Author/Institutional Archiving Software <http://www.eprints.org/> Provides open source software for self-archiving research, as well as running CiteBase and OpCit projects on improving online services such as reference linking. <<...OLE_Obj...>> You may also find The Scientist, the fortnightly journal for life scientists published by Eugene Garfield, useful. The Scientist includes a section called "Open Access Now". <www.the-scientist.com> Arun

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Engineering Information launches NTIS Database on Ei Village 2
by Mailing List Manager 07 Jan '04

07 Jan '04

Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 01:40:48 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Banda Shankar" <bandashankar(a)yahoo.co.in> Respected Professionals a useful platform Elsevier Engineering Information has launched the U.S. National Technical Information Service (NTIS) database on the Engineering Village 2, a Web-based discovery platform for the engineering community. Engineering Village 2 provides access to today's most important engineering content through one single interface: Compendex Inspec NTIS ENGnetBASE Patents from USPTO and esp@cenet Techstreet Standards GlobalSpec Scirus EEVL LexisNexis News further details at http://www.engineeringvillage2.org/controller/servlet/Controller with regards Banda Shankar, Student, DRTC.

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CNN.com: Information Visualization Article
by Mailing List Manager 07 Jan '04

07 Jan '04

Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:00:21 -0600 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> A very *timely* article published on the heals of my "New Age Navigation: Innovative Information Interfaces for Electronic Journals" article in _ The Serials Librarian_ [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/NewAge.pdf ] The Future *is* Now! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Next-Generation Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011

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Ovid database free access notification on LISFORUM (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 16:51:49 +0530 From: mkishore <mkishore(a)informindia.co.in> Dear Sir/Madam, We at Informatics request you to kindly put this notification for free access to OVID database from us on the LISFORUM for its members. The notification is attached here as a word file. Regards, Manish ================================================== Manish Kishore Product Marketing Informatics (India) Ltd. mkishore(a)informindia.co.in # 337, Karuna complex, Malleshwaram Post Box 360, Bangalore-560 003, India Ph: +91-80-336 7867/336 5940 F: +91-80-3344598, www.informindia.co.in " A PASSAGE TO KNOWLEDGE " ==================================================

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WIS and COLLNET Meeting at IIT Roorkee
by JK Vijayakumar 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

Dear All, International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Fifth COLLNET Meeting will be held at Central Library of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, India on 2-5 March, 2004 First Announcement and Call for Papers Scope Quantitative aspects of science of science. Collaboration and communication in science and in technology. Science policy. Combination and integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches. Theoretical, methodological and applied aspects, for example: - Emerging issues in scientometrics/informetrics/webometrics and history - Quantitative analysis of S&T innovations - Informetric laws and distributions, mathematical models of communication or collaboration - Information retrieval - Nature and growth of science and its relation with technological output - Evaluation indicators - Collaboration in science and in technology from both quantitative and qualitative points of view Please, note that these examples listed above give a broad outline of the scope of the workshop theme but do not limit it. Important Dates: Abstract: 30 th November 2003 Acceptance : 15 th December 2003 Full Paper : 15 th January 2004 Please send your abstracts to: Yogendra Singh Librarian Central Library Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee Roorkee-247667 U.A. India Tel: +91-1332-285239, 277587 Fax: +91-1332-277587, 273560 E-mail yogi(a)iitr.ernet.in, rulib(a)iitr.ernet.in r_kundra(a)yahoo.com Please send also a copy to: kretschmer.h(a)onlinehome.de Call for papers as PDF file is available at http://www.collnet.de/Roorkee.pdf ------------- Posted by J K Vijayakumar INFLIBNET, India __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus

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Query on Book
by Mailing List Manager 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 03:03:04 -0800 (PST) From: Mr.G.Bhojaraju <bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com> Dear Colleagues, Is any of your library having the following title, please let me know at your earliest. Radiation Processing of Polymers by Ajit Singh (Editor), Joseph Silverman Hope you will provide me the required information at your earliest. with regards Bhojaraju

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Continuation of the article links
by Ayesha Taranum 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

Hello, Links to all four articles by Arun Shourie in Indian express. Part 1 link : http://www.indianexpress.com/archive_full_story.php?content_id=38409 Part 2: http://www.indianexpress.com/archive_full_story.php?content_id=38528 Part 3: http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=38593&spf=true And the final part which appeared today Part 4: http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=38654 Regards, -- Ayesha __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus

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Re: oldage home info
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

I thank Dr Vyasamoorthy who provided a useful list of addresses of oldage homes in and around Hyderabad. This is a classified list based on paying capacity. Also, I am thankful to Ms Hema Prem of IISc (Bangalore) for the useful pointer on Mother Theresa's oldage home in Bangalore. 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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reference required
by Mailing List Manager 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Date: 5 Jan 2004 08:10:38 -0000 From: Subbiah Gunasekaran <gunasekaran_subbiah(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Members: I will be grateful if anyone could kindly send me the pdf of the following reference. Authors: Capron-ML Douy-A Title: Strontium Dialuminate Sral4O7 - Synthesis and Stability Full source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY 2002, Vol 85, Iss 12, pp 3036-3040. Thanks for your cooperation, Sincerely, S Guanasekaran Library, CECRI Karaikudi 630 006

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Interesting Article
by Ayesha Taranum 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Hello, Please find the link to an interesting analysis by Arun Shorie in Indian Express, called "IT�s written, now just dot the Is, cross the Ts" http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=38593&spf=true Part IV of this article will appear tomorrow. Regards, -- Ayesha __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/

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Predictions for 2004 by info industry elite
by Mailing List Manager 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 10:46:08 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Please visit http://www.infotoday.com/IT/jan04/whatsahead.shtml to know what information industry leaders expect to happen in 2004. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Slides/Video of Major Open Access Conference Available
by Mailing List Manager 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Slides/Video of Major Open Access Conference Available_ In addition to the publication of the proceedings of the _ICSTI/INIST/INSERM Seminar on Open Access to Scientific and Technical Information: State of the Art and Future_ held January 23-24, 2003 which I noted in an earlier posting [ http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0312/0173.html ], the slides for select presentations as well as associated video/audio are also available [ http://www.inist.fr/openaccess/index_en.php ]. [Thanks, Peter Suber for reminding me !] IMHO These are important presentations that should be Required Viewing for every librarian (and those who wish they were {:->). Joy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan New Year Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011

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oldage home info
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

Dear All: I am searching for latest info on old age homes for the mentally challenged, preferably in Hyderabad or Bangalore. I shall appreciate any pointers on this. Info about homes in other cities/towns is also welcome. 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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Free Access to Gender Studies Database
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

Dear All: Wish you a happy and prosperous New Year! NISC is pleased to announce free access to the Gender Studies Database (GSD), an anthology of 12 database files, for the entire month of January 2004. To register, please visit www.nisc.com and click the Gender Studies Database link. About Gender Studies Database (GSD) Available Formats: BiblioLine (Internet-/Web-based), CD-ROM Number of Records: 542,700+ Dates of Coverage: 1972 & earlier Present Number of CD-ROMS: 1 Database: Anthology of 12 files Update Frequency: Monthly/BiblioLine, Quarterly/CD-ROM Subject Category: Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities, Gender Studies The Gender Studies Database (GSD) combines NISC's popular Women's Studies International, Men's Studies and Sexual Diversity Studies databases with relevant contributions from the Child Development & Adolescent Studies as well as Family & Society Studies Worldwide databases. GSD covers the spectrum of gender engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the web are available. Several hundred links provide access to carefully selected websites. 1) Men's Studies Database With over 44,500 citations & abstracts, MSD covers 250 core and hundreds more important periodicals providing access to the full diversity of literature including journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, theses, dissertations, bulletins, newsletters, internet documents and numerous other sources on men's studies from 1990 to the present. 2) Sexual Diversity Studies Sexual Diversity Studies (SDS) offers a balanced, objective, and thorough review of scholarly as well as popular print, electronic, and internet publications of the GLBT press. Most topics of interest to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities are covered in depth. Of paramount importance is the coverage of history, culture, social issues, interests, and concerns of the GLBT community. 3) Women Studies Abstracts Formerly edited by Sara Stauffer Whaley and recently acquired by NISC, Women Studies Abstracts contributes more than 40,160 records. Approximately 3,000 abstracts of core literature are added per year. 4) Women's Studies Bibliography Database Publications indexed cover a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, sociology, social work, psychology, health sciences, education, economics, law, history, and literary works. Source documents include related websites, internet documents, professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, selected popular literature, government reports, discussion & working papers and other sources. Enhanced sub-sets of records from U.S. Government databases and other files are included to make Women's Studies International as comprehensive as possible. This file of 168,466 records is produced by NISC with contributions by many individuals. 5) Women's Studies Database Women's Studies Database (1972-present) is compiled by Jeanne Guillaume, Women's Studies Collection Librarian of New College, University of Toronto; WSD provides more than 88,700 records drawn from 125 journals worldwide. About 4,000 records are added per year. Women Studies Librarian The following 4 files from the University of Wisconsin: 6) New Books on Women & Feminism (1987-present) is the complete guide to feminist publishing and provides 42,625 citations. About 2,800 records are added per year. 7) WAVE: Women's Audiovisuals in English: A Guide to Nonprint Resources in Women's Studies (1985-1990) is a guide to 803 feminist films, videos, audiocassettes, and filmstrips. 8) Women, Race, & Ethnicity: A Bibliography (1970-1990) is an annotated, selective bibliography of 2,458 books, journals, anthology chapters, and non-print materials. 9) The History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology: A Bibliographic Guide to the Professions and the Disciplines (1970- 1995 - selective coverage) is an excellent tool for curriculum development, providing 2,345 records from biographical and historical books and articles. 10) MEDLINE Subset on Women (1964 - present) 46,847 abstracts. The MEDLINE Subset on Women, part of the MEDLINE database from the National Library of Medicine, adds to the diversity of materials included in Women's Studies International. With an emphasis on the well-being and social concerns of women in general and the developing countries in particular, this subset includes many journals, reports, books, and published and unpublished papers, previously not indexed in WSI. The MEDLINE Subset on Women brings an overall health perspective to Women's Studies International, with an applied, practical and empirical approach. 11) Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research Women of Color (1975-1995) was produced by the Research Clearinghouse on Women of Color and Southern Women at the University of Memphis in Tennessee and provides over 7,600 citations on eighteen different ethnic groups. 12) Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography Women's Health (1995) provides 200 records drawn mainly from English-language journals and other holdings of the World Health Organization library in Geneva. The bibliography was compiled by the Division of Publishing, Language and Library Services, Office of Library and Health Literature Services, and is dedicated to the memory of the late chief of the library, Dr. Deborah Avriel (1935- 1995). Subject Coverage 1. age of consent 2. anthropology 3. art, language & culture 4. athletics & sports 5. coming out 6. criminology & criminal justice 7. culture & communities 8. developing countries 9. employment, workplace harassment 10. ethnic studies 11. fatherhood & family 12. feminist studies - theory & history 13. gender identity, sexual orientation 14. girl studies 15. growing up male 16. historical events & personalities 17. historical studies 18. history 19. homophobia & monosexism 20. language & terminology 21. law & legislation 22. legislation & rights, social change 23. lesbianism 24. literary criticism 25. literature 26. male genetic disorders (XXY, XYY, etc.) 27. male menopause, mid-life & aging 28. male sexualities, bodies & biology 29. male/female relationships 30. marriage & divorce, child custody 31. masculinities & boyhood/manhood 32. media & communication studies 33. mens movements & groups 34. men's health issues & andrology 35. men's studies & feminist pedagogy 36. mental & physical health 37. military 38. Modern period 39. political/social activism 40. prejudice & gender discrimination 41. psychology 42. psychology & body image 43. queer studies 44. race & ethnicity & color 45. religion & spirituality 46. reproductive rights 47. rights & movements 48. sexual practices & techniques 49. sexuality & sexology 50. social welfare & socioeconomics 51. sociology 52. spirituality, mythopoetic men 53. substance abuse 54. suicide & self abuse 55. Victorian period 56. violence & abusive relationships 57. women and the media 58. women in development 59. women's liberation movement 60. women's rights & suffrage 61. work/family relationships 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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_Proceedings of Major Open Access Conference Published_
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 10:46:56 -0600 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> The proceedings of the ICSTI/INIST/INSERM Seminar on Open Access to Scientific and Technical Information:State of the Art and Future held January 23-24, 2003 at the French Ministry of Research, Carr des Sciences, Paris, was recently published in a special issue of _Information Services & Use_ (v 23 (n. 2-3) (ISSN 0167-5265) (IOS Press (http://www.iospress.nl ). The issue includes the following major themes and notable papers: **Open Access: What Does It Mean for STI Distribution** o Open Access: marginal or core phenomenon? a commercial publisher's view (Pieter Bolman) o Open publishing: how publishers are reacting (Sally Morris) A brief overview of the OAI protocol and its potential impact (Andy Powell) **Open Access: Economic Models and Legal Implications** o Ingenta's economic and technical models for providing institutional OAarchives (Geoffrey Bilder) Open Access publishing (Jan Velterop) o Libraries and institutional infrastructure for Open Access services (Elmar Mittler) o The legal framework for access to STI (Thomas Dreier) **Open Access: Challenges for the Scientific Community** o Mathematics and databases: Open Access (Laurent Guillop) o The Centre for Direct Scientific Communication (Daniel Charnay) o The research-impact cycle (Stevan Harnad) **Open Access: Issues for Developing Countries** o Round Table: Open Access issues for developing countries (Kay Raseroka, Barbara Kirsop, Jean-Jacques Pierrat, Georges Malamoud, Barbara Aronson, Manfred Spiesberger) **Open Access: Projects and Initiatives** o Institutional repositories and Open Access: the future of scholarly communication (David Prosser) o The Budapest Initiative for Open Access (Jean-Claude Gudon) o FIGARO and Open Access to electronic information objects (Stefan Gradmann) o E-BioSci: Semantic networks of biological information (Les Grivell). The issue also contains a lengthy review titled "Open Access to Scientific and Technical Information: The State of the Art" prepared by Jack Franklin, ASFRAbv, Edam, The Netherlands (http://www.inist.fr/openaccess/en/etat_art.php) transcripts of Questions & Answers sessions, welcome and closing addresses, and a summary of discussions with commentary. An OCLC record for the issue is available [OCLC # 53966590] thanks to my Cataloging Colleagues at the ISU Library! I encourage all who own the journal to analyze it for their local OPAC. **Ironically, while the proceedings is a major contribution to the Open Access literature and movement, it is *not* Open Access [:-( ]. However, some authors have self-archived a version of their presentations [:-)]** [Google Author/Title to see who has self-archived] *** Perhaps, in the spirit of the Season, the publisher would make this issue available as their Free (Electronic) Sample Issue - How About It IOS Press? *** IMHO This is an important collection that should be required reading in the New Year for every librarian and those who wish they were {:-> Joy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan New Year Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011

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A useful site for information professionals
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

Date: 1 Jan 2004 04:19:38 -0000 From: Subbiah Gunasekaran <gunasekaran_subbiah(a)rediffmail.com> DEAR MEMBERS: I would like to bring to your kind attention A site for librarians, about librarians and by librarians. It is the LIS website "Information Professional" available at http://www.information-professional.com/. Thanks Gunasekaran CECRI, Karaikudi

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Useful Links
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 22:28:42 -0800 (PST) From: Mr.G.Bhojaraju <bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com> Dear Professional Colleagues, Wish you all a very Happy & Prosperous New Year : 2004 I hope u'll find the following links useful : International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) Newsletter : http://www.inasp.info/newslet/index.html Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI) http://www.inasp.info/peri/intro.html with regards G.Bhojaraju www.bhojarajug.cjb.net

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InfoWatch - Dec 03
by M.R Lalitha 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

Dear LIS-Forum member, Wish you a Happy New Year. The December 2003 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) Dec 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue: 1. ACM technology guide 2. ArrayExpress [A public repository for microarray data] 3. Component failure museum [Specific failure types & problems in different engineering materials] 4. Cygwin [Open source Red Hat GNU tool] 5. Deep content - Guide to effective searching of the Internet 6. Digital book index 7. dspGuru - Digital signal processing central 8. Free2Code [A site for computer related tutorials & codes] 9. e-Optimization.com [A website for optimization software] 10. EPA REACH IT - Remediation And CHaracterization Innovation Technologies 11. Methodology .org [Methods, tools and techniques for IT Professionals] 12. Microcontroller.com - Accurate embedded systems sourcing information 13. OJOSE - Online JOurnal Search Engine for scientific literature research 14. palowireless.com - Wireless technologies resource center 15. PostdocJobs.com [A career information service for postdoctoral positions, fellowships, other research and science jobs] 16. Protein Kinase Resource - PKR 17. Scientific life - World News Network 18. Spacewatch [Spectacular images & the latest top stories in space science] 19. Total hardware - Jumper settings for 18655 devices 20. Worldwide Ocean Optics Database - WOOD ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Web-based Library Automation and Networking solution
by Mailing List Manager 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

Date: 30 Dec 2003 10:05:57 -0000 From: Jai Haravu <haravu(a)newgenlib.com> I am happy to let members of this List know that they can now see a trial installation of the web-based library automation system developed as an initiative of Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management (http://www.kiikm.org/) in collaboration with a software company, Verus Solutions Pvt. Ltd., in Hyderabad. The software is called NewGenLib. Details of the software (a brochure) and a PowerPoint presentation may be seen at http://www.kiikm.org. The trial installation can be seen at the Osmania University's web site, http://www.osmania.ac.in/ Please go to this site and click the link for NewGenLib. However NewGenLib requires that client machines must have a Java plugin and a java policy file. How to obtian and install the free Java Plugin is explained in the Readme.Txt ** [sent with this mail as attachment. The .java.policy file also sent as an attachment (_java.polcy should be renamed as .java.policy) should be copied to the Operating System default directory. For e.g., for Windows98 it is C:/Windows/. Comments and feedback are welcome to:] haravu(a)newgenlib.com. L J Haravu ** PS: The attachments have not been included. Please write to Mr. Haravu to get the required files. - moderator

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New Year Wishes
by Mailing List Manager 30 Dec '03

30 Dec '03

Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 10:31:41 +0530 From: SRELS <srels(a)blr.vsnl.net.in> Dear Member : The Trustees and the Staff of the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore. Wishes you a Happy & Prosperous New Year.

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Talk on "Universal Access to Cyberspace" by Dr. John Rose
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 30 Dec '03

30 Dec '03

National Centre for Science Information Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in collaboration with the The Board of Trustees of the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science Bangalore cordially invite you to a public lecture by Dr. John Rose Information Society Division UNESCO, Paris, France on UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO CYBERSPACE at The Seminar Hall National Centre for Science Information Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 560 012 on Monday, 29th December 2003, at 5.30 p.m. Mr. N.V. Sathyanarayana Chairman and Managing Director Informatics (India) Ltd., Bangalore will preside ------------------------------------------------------- RSVP: Ph:3305109(Prasad, SRELS) E-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com 3600271(Rajashekar, NCSI) raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Coffee: 5.00 P.M.

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Websites required
by Mailing List Manager 29 Dec '03

29 Dec '03

Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:42:48 +0530 From: kss <kss(a)informindia.co.in> Hi Geetha, We are a company specialised in web research. We not only identify websites as per given seleection criteria but also index or keyword them. We have been offereing this service to several US companies. In the past we have identified 60,000 websites in the area of Life/Health Sciences, 15,000 Arts amd Humanity sites, 15,000 Linguistics, Social Science and Poltical Science, 15,000 Engineering sites. We charge US$1.5 per site identification including indexing. We generally do not undertake mere identification of sites. However, as a special case, we could offer this service at US$0.30/site provided the minimum number of sites to be identified is more than 1000. Tks. & Regds K S Subba Rao Director Informatics International Projects Division Informatics India Ltd 112/7, Vikas 11th Cross, 5th Main Malleshwaram Bangalore 560 003 Tel: 3464878 Fax: 3344598 www.informindia.co.in www.j-gate.informindia.co.in

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Academic ranking of world universities
by Mailing List Manager 28 Dec '03

28 Dec '03

Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 15:10:31 -0500 From: Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur <rcgaur(a)tifr.res.in> Shanghai University has conducted a study in which they have ranked world's universities according to their research merits. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India has been ranked at position in between 27-36 in Asia/Pacific and in between 251-300 position in the world. In case if you are interested, Rankings can be found here: http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/ranking.htm Regards Ramesh

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save US$ 225 on ' Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science'
by Mailing List Manager 28 Dec '03

28 Dec '03

Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:40:25 +0530 From: Monitor Information Services <emonitor(a)sancharnet.in> Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, 2nd edition published in May'2003 in 4 vol. set is being offered at its low pre-publication price of US$ 1275.00 instead of its current price of US$ 1500.00. Librarian who could not take advantage of its pre-publication price earlier can avail this limited period offer. Library Discounts permissible. Contact for full details Best Wishes Mukesh Anand emonitor(a)sancharnet.in

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Websites required
by Mailing List Manager 28 Dec '03

28 Dec '03

Date: 25 Dec 2003 04:58:01 -0000 From: Geetha <vgitha(a)rediffmail.com> Sir we are looking for different websites in the area of business process engineering kindly forward the same by return mail with regds *********** Geetha Admin. Executive Indegene Life Systems 130, 1st Main, 5th Block Koramangala Bangalore-560095 geetha(a)indegene.com www.indegene.com

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Distribution of the Extremal of Random varibales
by Hema Prem 26 Dec '03

26 Dec '03

Dear all, Does anyone have information on the Distribution of the Extremal of Random varibles. Someone from bangalore had some info on this..long back.. kindly let me know, i need that asap regards hema -- Hema Prem Research Student Dept of Management Studies Indian Institute Of Science Bangalore - 12 Ph: 91-80-3604538,2933269 (Lab) 91-80-2932291 (hostel) Room # 34 Fax: 91-80- 3604534

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Use of SCI-based publicaiton counts by Subbiah Arunachalam Current Science 25 Nov 2003
by Mailing List Manager 22 Dec '03

22 Dec '03

This excellent two page article is available free of charge at http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/nov252003/1391.pdf The author refers to a short piece I published in 1994 about “Research Fronts”. This appeared in Current Contents under the rubric “Citation Comments”. Since the print version of Current Contents is generally not available the full text can be found at: http://www.isinet.com/essays/citationanalysis/11.html/

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FW: Nature Magazine through INDEST
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 19 Dec '03

19 Dec '03

Dear All I am forwarding this message from Dr. Jagdish Arora, Librarian, IIT Delhi and National Coordinator, INDEST Consortium. The message is self explanatory. Those interested in this offer for online access subscription to Nature magazine, may kindly get in touch with Dr. Arora. Regards Rajashekar T.B. Rajashekar NCSI, IISc -----Original Message----- From: Dr. Jagdish Arora [mailto:jarora@library.iitd.ernet.in] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 11:13 AM To: Rajashekar Dr. T.B. Subject: Nature Magazine through INDEST Dear Rajashekar, Can you post the following message on the LIS Forum Listserv: The Nature would be available for subscription through the INDEST Consortium. We have received highly discounted rates of subscription. However, you will have to place your order urgently (before 20th) and make payment before 31st Dec., 2003 to avail this rate. Interested institutions may please contact me for the rates. Regards Jagdsish Arora

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Need inforantion about the library designation/stucture in unversity with new payscale (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:01:10 +0530 From: Chandrakant Gangrude <chandrakant(a)tiss.edu> Dear Members, Date -18/12/2003 I need some information about the Library Structure in Deemed University with payscale ,if have any information about the University level with Designation form Librarian to Library Asst. Please send it. *********************************************************************************************** Chandrakant Gangurde Tata Institute of Social Sciences sion-Trombay Road, Deonar, MUMBAI-400088. Tel. 022-25563290 - Ext.-285 E-mail : chandrakant(a)tiss.edu, gangurdechandrakant(a)yahoo.co.in

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FW: Project Assistant @ Digital Library of RGUHS
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

-----Original Message----- From: hemanthrao [mailto:hemanthrao@rguhs.ac.in] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 8:49 PM To: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Project Assistant @ Digital Library of RGUHS Dear respected Sir, Sub: Call for Project Assistant at Digital Library of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka You are hereby requested to host the following information at Lis-Forum. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Digital Library of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka is the nerve centre of HELINET consortium, providing round the clock access to global and local health science information to the faculty, students and researchers of all the colleges and institutions affiliated to the University. This library is looking for a candidate to work as project assistant on temporary basis for a period of one year. The details of the appointment are as below. Post : Project Assistant Duration : 1 Year (on Contract basis) Payment : 8k /month Essential Qualification : MLISc and IT exposure/experience Last date : On or Before 19/12/2003 Desirable : ~~~~~~~~~~~ Advanced training in IT application to Library Science. The preference will be given to the candidates residing in Bangalore. Candidates having good communication skill in English/Hindi/Kannada Nature of work: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Handling Digital Library services/Projects, Teaching assignments and Library resource management Contact details ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr.R.Rama Raj Urs Consortium Co-ordinator Digital Library Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka hemanthrao(a)rguhs.ac.in hemanthrao(a)hotmail.com Ph: 080-6546930,6546935 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ With regards, Hemanth Rao C. Technical Assistant Digital Library@RGUHS

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(Fwd) "Open Access and Retrieval: Liberating the Scholarly Lit
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 15:07:23 -0600 Send reply to: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group <LIS-E-JOURNALS(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)IASTATE.EDU> Subject: "Open Access and Retrieval: Liberating the Scholarly Literature" To: LIS-E-JOURNALS(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK "Open Access and Retrieval: Liberating the Scholarly Literature" "An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good" [ http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml ] I am pleased to inform you that my chapter on "Open Access and Retrieval: Liberating the Scholarly Literature" written for a volume on _E-Serials Collection Management: Transitions, Trends, and Technicalities _ (edited by David C. Fowler. New York : Haworth Information Press, 2004) has been officially published [http://www.haworthpressinc.com/store/sampletext/4879.pdf] Chapter 10. Open Access and Retrieval: Liberating the Scholarly Literature 197 Budapest Open Access Initiative 197 New Generation Journals 199 Self-Archiving 200 EPrints 201 Open Archives Initiative 206 Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 208 Roles and Responsibilities of Self-Archiving 212 "The Future of Ideas" 215 FROM THE CONCLUSION: Whether the self-archiving model becomes the new paradigm for scholarly publishing as envisioned by its proponents will depend not only on improved archiving and retrieval software and systems but also, and more importantly, on the degree to which all stakeholders endorse and embrace its potential as a viable and sustainable publishing alternative. I have self-archived the article at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/Open.pdf Season's Greetings! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Open Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." [ http://www.sric.org/voices/2003/v4n2/ ] ------- End of forwarded message ------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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_Library Knowledge Bases_
by Gerry Mckiernan 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

_Library Knowledge Bases_ For a new registry (and future presentations and articles), I am greatly interested in identifying library-created or library-related Knowledge Bases that have been applied to any and all venues (Acquisitions, Cataloging, Collection Development, Reference, or Library Systems, etc.). A Knowledge Base / Knowledgebase may be defined as a database with a focus on empirical or practical knowledge. In recent years, Knowledge bases have become common components for many businesses and services. The RealNetworks "Customer Support" Knowledge Base. [ http://service.real.com/kb/ ] is an excellent example of a technical support knowledge base. I am interested in library-created OR library-related Knowledge Bases Perhaps the most sophisticated Library Knowledge Base was the one planned as part of the OPAL Project. " The OPAL (Online Personal Academic Librarian) [ http://library.open.ac.uk/aboutus/opal/intro.html ] started as an eighteen month research project based at the Open University Library which is exploring the development of a fully automated online 24/7 reference service for distance students. The project began in November 2000 and was a partnership between the OU Library, the OU Knowledge Media Institute, and the libraries of the University of Leicester and the University of London's Birkbeck College." SEE ALSO: "The OPAL Project: Developing An Automated Online Reference System For Distance Learners" in the June 2001 issue of D-Lib Magazine. [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june01/06inbrief.html] Another innovative library-based Knowledge Base is EARS (Electronic Access to Reference Services), a service available from the Learning Resources division of the University of Northumbria at Newcastle. [ http://library.unn.ac.uk/ears/ ] The *Most* impressive general knowledge base that I've discovered in a recent Quick-and-Dirty search is START, [ http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/infolab/index.html ] "the world's first Web-based question answering system, has been on-line and continuously operating since December, 1993. It has been developed by Boris Katz and his associates of the InfoLab Group at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Unlike information retrieval systems (e.g., search engines), START aims to supply users with "just the right information," instead of merely providing a list of hits. Currently, the system can answer millions of English questions about places (e.g., cities, countries, lakes, coordinates, weather, maps, demographics, political and economic systems), movies (e.g., titles, actors, directors), people (e.g., birth dates, biographies), dictionary definitions, and much, much more... ." As Always, I Welcome Any and All contributions, queries, comments, nominations, Cosmic Insights, Etc. Etc. Etc. [I am NOT, however, interested in corporate Knowledge Bases per se] Articles, reports, studies, school papers or projects regarding Library Knowledge Bases are also of major interest for a planned General Bibliography. [I am NOT, however, interested in literature about Knowledge Bases per se] The registry is titled: KBL(sm): A Registry of Library Knowledge Bases and will be located at: [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/KBL.htm ] Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan, KnowledgeBased Librarian Iowa State University, Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." [ http://www.sric.org/voices/2003/v4n2/ ]

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Two Useful Articles
by Saiful Amin 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

Dear All, I recently came across two interesting articles in the First Monday magazine, which might interest library professionals. 1. The Internet and the right to communicate by William J. McIver, Jr., William F. Birdsall, and Merrilee Rasmussen http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/mciver/ 2. Licence fees and GDP per capita: The case for open source in developing countries by Rishab Aiyer Ghosh http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/ghosh/ Best regards, Saiful -- [Please http://remember.to/edit_messages ] Saiful Amin c/o, Learning Resource Center Indian School of Business Gachibowli Hyderabad - 500019 Ph. +91-40-2318-7963/7999 ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Mobile: Download the latest polyphonic ringtones. Go to http://in.mobile.yahoo.com

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Regarding research work in India on"Time and cost analysis of technical services in libraries".
by Mr. Mukesh Saikia 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

Dear Friend, I shall be grateful if you kindly inform me about the research work on the following topics: 1."Time and cost analysis in technical services in libraries "or 2. "Technical services in india" and 3. " Ranganathan's library staff formula" ------------------------ M.Saikia ( Mukesh Saikia) Tezpur University Napaam: Tezpur-28 Assam: India Pin-784028 Phone: 91-03712-267092(Off), 267184(Res),03621-286301(Res) Fax: 91-03712-267006,267005 E-mail:m_saikia03@yahoo.co.uk

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RE: [LIS-Forum] best sites in LIS
by Mailing List Manager 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

This is a good question. I hope many members answer your question. You may write to Dr S Krishnan of NCL, Pune, and Mr S Gunasekaran of CECRI, Karaikudi. Also ARD Prasad of DRTC. They are pretty good at such sources. Arun

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Senior scale of University Asstt.Librarian
by Mr. Mukesh Saikia 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

Dear Friends, I shall be grateful if you kindly send the latest UGC circular for senior scale of Asstt. Librarian of University and Carrer Advancement programme for University Asstt.Librarian. With regards, ------------------------ M.Saikia ( Mukesh Saikia) Tezpur University Napaam: Tezpur-28 Assam: India Pin-784028 Phone: 91-03712-267092(Off), 267184(Res),03621-286301(Res) Fax: 91-03712-267006,267005 E-mail:m_saikia03@yahoo.co.uk

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UK S&T Committee is to conduct an inquiry into scientific publications
by Mailing List Manager 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:10:25 +0530 From: "Byrappa, Ananda (CORP, GEITC)" <ananda.byrappa(a)ge.com> This may be of interest to you... Regards, Anand The Science and Technology Committee(of the UK House of Commons)is to conduct an inquiry into scientific publications. The Committee will be looking at access to journals within the scientific community, with particular reference to price and availability. It will be asking what measures are being taken in government, the publishing industry and academic institutions to ensure that researchers, teachers and students have access to the publications they need in order to carry out their work effectively. The inquiry will also examine the impact that the current trend towards e-publishing may have on the integrity of journals and the scientific process. The Committee is inviting written evidence on the following points: *What impact do publishers' current policies on pricing and provision of scientific journals, particularly "big deal schemes", have on libraries and the teaching and research communities they serve? * What action should Government, academic institutions and publishers be taking to promote a competitive market in scientific publications? *What are the consequences of increasing numbers of open-access journals, for example for the operation of the Research Assessment Exercise and other selection processes? Should the Government support such a trend and, if so, how? *How effectively are the Legal Deposit Libraries making available non-print scientific publications to the research community, and what steps should they be taking in this respect? *What impact will trends in academic journal publishing have on the risks of scientific fraud and malpractice? The Committee would welcome written evidence from interested organisations and individuals addressing these points. Evidence should be submitted by Thursday 12 February 2003. The oral evidence sessions will begin in March. In announcing the inquiry, the Chairman of the Committee, Ian Gibson MP, said "Journals are at the heart of the scientific process. Researchers, teachers and students must have easy access to scientific publications at a fair price. Scientific journals need to maintain their credibility and integrity as they move into the age of e-publication. The Committee will have some very tough questions for publishers, libraries and government on these issues." Evidence should be sent in hard copy to the Clerk of the Science and Technology Committee, 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA. Please send an electronic version also, in Word format, via e-mail to scitechcom(a)parliament.uk or on disk. Guidance on the submission of evidence can be found at www.parliament.uk/commons/selcom/witguide.htm Further information on the work of the Committee can be obtained from Committee staff on 020 7219 2793/4. Previous press notices and publications are available on the Committee's internet homepage: www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/science_and_technology_committee… Notes for Editors *Under the terms of Standing Order No. 152 the Committee is empowered to examine the 'expenditure, policy and administration of the Office of Science and Technology and its associated public bodies'. The Committee was appointed on 12 November 2001.

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Fw: [IAMSLIC:3729] Publisher Copyright Policies
by murari 13 Dec '03

13 Dec '03

Following may be of interest to the users of this group too. Regards, -Murari Tapaswi ----- Original Message ----- From: Pauline Simpson <ps(a)soc.soton.ac.uk> To: <iamslic(a)ucdavis.edu> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 10:40 PM Subject: [IAMSLIC:3729] Publisher Copyright Policies > The ROMEO listing of Publishers Copyright Policies has now been converted > to a database > > http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php > > also provides the opportunity to add publishers > > Pauline > > Pauline Simpson, > Head of Information Services, Southampton Oceanography Centre > and > Head of Engineering, Science and Math Faculty Library Services > and > TARDIS (Univ Southampton e-Prints) Project Manager > > University of Southampton Waterfront Campus, European Way, > Southampton, SO14 3ZH, England > > Tel: +44-(0)23 8059 6111: Fax +44-(0)23 8059 6115 > email: ps(a)soc.soton.ac.uk ; ps2(a)soton.ac.uk > Web : http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Fw: Library Security System
by Mailing List Manager 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 23:38:32 -0800 (PST) From: gayathri sen <gayatsen(a)yahoo.com> Dear friend, We have library security system called EAS electronic article survillence system. Does not mean you can compleatly avoid loss of books. It will only alert the Personnel at check point. So think twice before you purchase. here is the address. Monitor electronics pvt ltd Pune e-mail magic(a)giaspn01.vsnl.net.in India Satcom Ltd. B'lore e-mail rajesh(a)indiasatcom.com Essae Technologys Pvt. ltd, B'lore e-mail essaebir(a)vsnl.net Regards, Gayathri Sen PESIT, B"lore

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best sites in LIS
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

Dear Professional Colleagues: Could you please recommend around 25 best web sites relating to LIS which enable a professional to keep himself up to date or provide an overview of the electronic resources/tools available in LIS such as listserves, bulletin boards, alert services, new books, reference tools, cataloging and classification resources, etc.? Many thanks for your help 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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InfoWatch - November 03
by M.R Lalitha 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

Dear LIS-Forum member, The November 2003 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) Nov 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue: 1. AnalyzeThat.net - Math & circuit analysis 2. BioInteractive [Biology-focused teaching materials by Howard Hughes Medical Institute] 3. Circuit sage [A website designed by integrated circuit designers for circuit designers] 4. CommsDesign.com - An online resource for communications design engineers 5. Elsevier's Author gateway 6. Free electronic book - Thinking in Java, 3rd Edition 7. FreeTechMail.org - A search engine for IT e-Newsletters 8. GenePath - An intelligent assistant to discover genetic pathways 9. Heavy-Atom Derivatives of protein crystals (HAD) 10. Lives of microorganisms - A micronaturalist's notebook 11. Mental Athletics Programme creativity center (MAP) 12. Molecular Biology Toolkit (MBT) 13. OAI for beginners - The Open Archives Forum online tutorial 14. Ponder this- IBM's monthly puzzles 15. Research 101 [Student guide to improve how to research] 16. Solar flare theory [A website by NASA] 17. Stay safe online [Guide for securing personal computer] 18. The National Academies, USA [Advisors to the nation on science engineering and medicine] 19. TrooBloo database - A database of technology tutorials, code,examples & articles 20. Wayne's Windows 2000 resources for administrators and users ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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World Social Forum International Workshop
by Mailing List Manager 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:28:07 +1000 From: Dr. Muttayya <muttayya_k(a)vsnl.com> Dear Sir, Kindly make available the following announcement to the members of the forum. with high regards Dr. Muttayya K Librarian, TISS Dear Members, World Social Forum (WSF) is taking place in Mumbai 16-21, January 2003.On this occasion Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD), Bytes For all, and Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library, Tata Institute of Social Sciences are jointly organizing a library focused International Workshop on Sunday 18th January 2004 at Mumbai. Details of the workshop can be found on the website: www.nigd.org/libraries/mumbai. Theme: Democratization of Information with a Focus on Libraries Date : Sunday 18th January 2004 Timing: 09.00am Registration Venue: Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library, TISS, Mumbai Coordinator: Dr.Muttayya Koganuramath, Librarian, TISS IFLA Chair Ms.Kay Raseroka will be delivering the Key Note Address. Theme: Democratization of Information with a Focus on Libraries Sub themes for Panel Discussions 1. The right to memory 2. Library paradigm - library power 3. Alternative knowledge formation 4. Information literacy and capacity building 5. Open source systems in the library and on the net 6. Digital Divide The list of Panel Members: Dr. C.R.Karisiddappa, President, Indian Library Association and Professor and University Librarian, Karnatak Univeristy Dr. T.A.V.Murthy, Director Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET), Indian Universities Library Network (UGC) Ahmedabad Dr. Mike Featherstone, Director, Theory, Culture & Society Centre Professor of Sociology and Communications, Nottingham Trent University Dr. Pandey S.K.Sharma, Principal Library and Information Officer, University Grants Commission, New Delhi Ms. Mirja Ryynanen, MA, lecturer and politician; (she chaired the Finnish Library Association 1991-1997) Fred Noronha, Journalist, co-founder of Bytes for All, a South Asian group of volunteers who work for IT for Social Changes issues. Sunil Abraham Ayrookhuziel, Team leader of MAHITI company in Bangalore Mr. Mikael Book, MA, Director, Katto-Meny Cooperative Society, Helsinki Dr.E. Rama Reddy, University Librarian, University of Hyderabad Dr.T.S.Kumbar, Librarian, Dhirubhai Institute of Information Technology, Gandhinagar Dr.Sangayya Shirurmath Librarian and Head, NICMAN Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. A more complete list of speakers/panelists will be included in the final programme. I request you all to contribute your ideas, notes, articles etc on this forum. Spread the word about this in my opinion exceptionally interesting workshop; tell about the webpages at http://www.nigd.org/libraries/mumbai to your friends and to all friends of the libraries! Yours sincerely Dr.Muttayya Koganuramath Coordinator and Librarian, TISS ************************************** DR. MUTTAYYA KOGANURAMATH UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN Tata Institute of Social Sciences, P.B.No.8313, Sion-Trombay Rd., Deonar, Mumbai 400 088, INDIA. Ph: 91-22- 2556 3289-96; Extn.281(O) 91-22- 2558 3375(R) Direct: 91-22-25513350 Fax: 91-22- 2556 2912 E.Mail : muttayya(a)bom3.vsnl.net.in Website: www.geocities.com/tisslibraryin **************************************

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International CALIBER-2004 and World Book Fair in New Delhi
by JK Vijayakumar 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

Dear Friends, Professionals who attend International CALIBER-2004 can also visit the 15th New Delhi World Book Fair (the biggest event in India for books). This will be held in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India during 14 Feb 2004 - 22 Feb 2004. International CALIBER-2004 registration is open now. Last date for receiving full paper is December 15, 2003. This convention will be held at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India during 11 Feb - 13 Feb, 2004. We solicit international and national level participation in terms of technical papers and delegates. Welcome to New Delhi, INDIA. IMPORTANT DATES Receipt of full papers December 15, 2003 Intimation to Author(s) January 1, 2004 Last date for Registration January 15, 2004 Convention Dates February 11-13, 2004 Contact Details Paper Submission Dr T A V Murthy Editor-in-Chief Director INFLIBNET Centre[An IUC of UGC] Gujarat University Campus PB 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad � 380 009, India Phone: +91-79-6304695/5971/8528/0002 Fax:+91-79-6300990 E-Mail: tav(a)inflibnet.ac.in copied to salgar(a)inflibnet.ac.in Registration Dr. Gayas Makhdumi Organising Secretary CALIBER-2004 University Librarian Jamia Millia Islamia, Maulana Mohammad Ali Johar Marg, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi � 110 025, India Phone:+91-11-26984910/26981717(Ext. 472) Fax:+91-11-26982360 E-mail:zhl@jmi.ernet.in Queries can also be sent to Mr S M Salgar Chairman, CALIBER-2004 Scientist-G INFLIBNET Centre[An IUC of UGC] Gujarat University Campus PB 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad � 380 009, India Phone: +91-79-6304695/5971/8528/0002 (Ext 33) Fax:+91-79-6300990 E-Mail: salgar(a)inflibnet.ac.in More details are available in the conference website http://caliber2004.inflibnet.ac.in/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/

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Lecture on Interoperability for Digital Libraries
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

The Board of Trustees of the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore in collaboration with the National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore cordially invite you to a public lecture by Dr. Michael Shepherd Professor and Director, Health Information, Faculty of Computer Science Dalhousie University, Canada on Interoperability for Digital Libraries at The Seminar Hall National Centre for Science Information Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012 on Friday, 12th December 2003, at 5.30 p.m. Dr. I.K. Ravichandra Rao Professor and Head, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore will preside ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- RSVP: Ph: 3305109 (Prasad, SRELS) E-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com 3600271 (Rajashekar, NCSI) raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

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Registration Open - ICDL 2004 www.teriin.org/events/icdl
by Mailing List Manager 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 17:22:45 +0530 From: ICDL2004 <ICDL2004(a)teri.res.in> Our apologies for cross postings Final announcement- Registration Open ICDL 2004 New Delhi 24-27 February 2004 International Conference on Digital Libraries: Knowledge creation, preservation, access and management *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We would appreciate disseminating this mail to your colleagues. *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital libraries and knowledge management are innovations, the implementation of which is still nascent in developing countries. However, they hold the promise of becoming key technologies for knowledge creation and management in the future. In February 2003, the Government of India launched the National Mission for Manuscripts, aimed at preserving the valuable manuscripts in India. The mission is designed to undertake elaborate surveys, run awareness programmes, and impart training in conservation/preservation techniques. ICDL 2004 would contribute to the objectives of the mission by assembling a galaxy of experts, researchers, and academics from across the world to exchange ideas on digital libraries, and related technologies and issues. Objectives .Bridge knowledge gaps between developing and developed countries .Initiate capacity building activities in digital libraries .Evolve a road map for the digitization of archives, manuscripts, and libraries .Provide a forum for facilitating interaction amongst participants .Formulate recommendations on digitization technologies, Acts, and policies Who should participate? .Policy-makers .Library and information science professionals .IT professionals .Archivists and museologists .Content developers and knowledge managers .IT service providers .Information providers and vendors .Professionals from electronic publishing and virtual electronic communities .All stakeholders in the digitization and knowledge business Patrons: Mr Jagmohan Hon'ble Union Minister for Tourism and Culture Government of India * Dr Arun Shourie (invited) Hon'ble Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology Government of India Programme highlights Tutorials .Conference sessions .Panel discussions .Business sessions .Exhibition Day 1: 24 February 2004 (Tuesday) 8.00 a.m. Registration for Tutorials and Conference 9.00-10.30 a.m. TUTORIALS TUTORIAL 1A TUTORIAL 1B TUTORIAL 1C Finding information Ontologies and Institutional through the Internet Thesauri repositories and the WWW Nicola Guarino T B Rajashekar Paul Nieuwenhuysen 10.30-11.00 a.m. Tea 11.00 a.m.-1.00 p.m. TUTORIALS TUTORIAL 2A TUTORIAL 2B Build digital library Knowledge Management using open source and Systems: development software (GSDL) applications Ian Witten Hsinchun Chen 1.00-2.00 p.m. Lunch 2.00-4.00 p.m. TUTORIALS TUTORIAL 3A TUTORIAL 3B Dublin Core Metadata: XML/RDF Stuart Weibel Erich Neuhold 6.00-7.00 p.m. Conference Inauguration Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi Day 2: 25 February 2004 (Wednesday) 8.00 a.m. Registration 9.00-9.30 a.m. Keynote Address 1 9.30-11.30 a.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 1 SESSION 1A SESSION 1B SESSION 1C ePublishing, Digital library Digital library initiatives multimedia, and technology: Digital library planning, development, evaluation and management 11.30 a.m.-12.00 noon Tea 12.00 noon-1.30 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 2 SESSION 2A SESSION 2B SESSION 2C Digital library Country initiatives/ Digital library policy issues case studies architecture, network and technology 1.30-2.30 p.m. Lunch 2.30-3.30 p.m. BUSSINESS SESSION 1 3.30-4.00 p.m. Tea 4.00-5.30 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 3 SESSION 3A SESSION 3B SESSION 3C Digital divide Multilingual Metadata issues metadata issues 7.30 p.m. Dinner Day 3: 26 February 2004 (Thursday) 9.00-9.30 a.m. Keynote Address 2 9.30-11.30 a.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 4 SESSION 4A SESSION 4B SESSION 4C Content Knowledge Semantics, thesauri, management management and ontologies 11.30 a.m.-12.00 noon Tea 12.00 noon-1.30 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 5 SESSION 5A SESSION 5B SESSION 5C Copyright issues e-Learning System scalability and digital and inter-operability rights management 1.30-2.30 p.m. Lunch 2.30-3.30 p.m. BUSINESS SESSION 2 3.30-4.00 p.m. Tea 4.00-6.00 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 6 SESSION 6A SESSION 6B SESSION 6C Archiving and Retrieval systems Human-machine sharing cultural interface, user heritage and interaction history globally Day 4: 27 February 2004 (Friday) 9.00-9.30 a.m. Keynote Address 3 9.30-11.00 a.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 7 SESSION 7A SESSION 7B SESSION 7C Manuscript: archiving Digital library Digital library and digitization consortium communities 11.00-11.30 a.m. Tea 11.30 a.m.-1.00 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 8 SESSION 8A SESSION 8B SESSION 8C Futuristics Digital library Digital library services security 1.00-2.00 p.m. Lunch 2.00 a.m.-4.00 p.m. PANEL DISCUSSION Digital library policy and strategic planning 4.00 - 5.30 p.m. Valedictory session For programme details please go to icdl site: www.teriin.org/events/icdl Advisory Committee Conference Co-chairs .Mr Dhanendra Kumar, IAS, Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr R K Pachauri, Director-General, TERI, New Delhi, and Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Geneva . Prof. N Balakrishnan, Professor and Chairman, Division of Information Sciences, IISc, Bangalore; Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Members .Ms Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Mission Director, National Mission for Manuscripts, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India .Mr K Jayakumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi .Mr Yateendra Joshi, Fellow, TERI, New Delhi .Dr Abhijit Lahiri, Adviser, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr S Majumdar, Director, Central Secretariat Library, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr S S Murthy, Former Director, Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr T A V Murthy, Director, Information and Library Network Centre, Ahmedabad .Dr Usha Reddi, Director, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia, The Commonwealth of Learning, New Delhi .Dr S Sadagopan, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore .Mr H D Singh, Director-General, National Archives of India, New Delhi .Prof. M Tawfik, Director, UNESCO New Delhi Office, UNESCO Representative to Bhutan, India, Maldives, and Sri Lanka .Dr R K Verma, Executive Director, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Noida .Dr N Vijayaditya, Director-General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr Om Vikas, Scientist 'G' and Head, Computer Development Division, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India International Programme Committee .Prof. José Luis Borbinha, Direction of Services for Innovation and Development, National Library of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal .Dr Hsinchun Chen, McClelland Professor of MIS, Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab; Director, Hoffman E-Commerce Lab, University of Arizona, Management Information Systems, McClelland Hall, Tucson, USA .Dr Gobinda Chowdhury, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1, Scotland, UK .Dr Jean-Marc Comment, Archives fédérales suisses, Archivstrasse, Bern, Switzerland .Dr Dieter W Fellner, Professor, Computer Graphics, University of Technology Braunschweig, Germany .Mr Simon Huggard, Systems Manager, Systems Support Unit, Monash University Library, Monash University, Australia .Prof. Leonid A Kalinichenko, Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia .Dr Yan Quan Liu, Professor of Information and Library Science, School of Communication, Information and Library Science, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA .Prof. Gary Marchionini, Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA .Dr Erich Neuhold, Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries, Professor, GMD-IPSI Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany .Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Head, Information and Documentation University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium .Mr John Paschoud, Project Manager, ANGEL, DELIVER, SECURE, Information Systems Engineer of the Library, London School of conomics and Political Science, London, UK .Dr Michael Seadle, Head, Digital and Multimedia Center, Copyright Librarian, 100 Library, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA .Dr Atul Sharda, E-learning Adviser, E-Learning Strategy Unit, Department of Education and Skills, London, UK .Dr Stuart Weibel, Executive Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, OCLC Office of Research, Dublin, OH, USA .Prof. Ian H Witten, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand .Dr Norman Wiseman, JISC Head of Programmes, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK Steering Committee Co-chairs .Mr K Jayakumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr Leena Srivastava, Executive Director, TERI, New Delhi Conference Coordinator .Mr Debal C Kar, Fellow and Area Convenor, Library and Information Centre, TERI, New Delhi Members .Dr Jagdish Arora, Librarian and National Coordinator, INDEST Consortium, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi .Ms Martina Bartel, Head, Information Department and Library Regional Coordinator South Asia, Goethe Institut, New Delhi .Ms Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Mission Director, National Mission for Manuscripts, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr P R Goswami, Director, National Social Science Documentation Centre, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Government of India, New Delhi .Mr P Jayarajan, Head, Library and Information Services (India), British Council Division, British High Commission, New Delhi .Dr H K Kaul, Director, Developing Library Network (DELNET), New Delhi .Dr S Majumdar, Director, Central Secretariat Library, Government of India, New Delhi .Ms Rebecca McDuff, Information Resources Office and Public Affairs - US Embassy, American Center, New Delhi .Mr M Moni, Deputy Director-General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr Usha Mujoo-Munshi, Librarian, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi .Dr V N Shukla, Director (Special Applications) Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Noida .Mr H D Singh, Director-General, National Archives of India, New Delhi .Dr Shalini Urs, Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science Mysore University, Mysore Eminent speakers .Dr Jagdish Arora, Librarian and National Coordinator, INDEST Consortium, Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi .Prof. N Balakrishnan, Professor and Chairman, Division of Information Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore .Prof. Rahul Banerjee, Computer Science and Information Systems Co-ordinator, Centre for Software Development; Assistant Dean, Distance Learning Programmes Division, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani .Prof. José Luis Borbinha, National Library of Portugal, Direction of Services for Innovation and Development, Portugal .Dr Muniram Budhu, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Arizona, USA .Dr Vinod Chachra, Chairman & CEO, VTLS Inc., VA, USA .Dr Harish Chandra, Librarian, Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, Chennai .Dr Ching-chih Chen, Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, USA .Prof. Hsinchun Chen, Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab and Hoffman E-Commerce Lab, Management Information Systems, University of Arizona, USA .Dr Gobinda Chowdhury, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, UK .Dr Jean-Marc Comment, Integration Manager, Archives Fédérales Suisses, Switzerland .Dr Dieter W Fellner, Professor, Computer Graphics, University of Technology, Germany .Dr Schubert Foo Shou Boon, Associate Professor and Head, Division of Information Studies, School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore .Dr Nicola Guarino, Senior Research Scientist, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC-CNR, Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Italy .Prof. Amarnath Gupta, Director, Advanced Query Processing Lab, Data and Know-ledge Systems, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, USA .Mr Simon Huggard, Systems Manager, Monash University Library, Australia .Dr Ernie Ingles, Associate Vice-President (Learning Services) and Chief Librarian, University of Alberta, Canada .Prof. Leonid A Kalinichenko, Professor, Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia .Dr Yan Quan Liu, Professor, Information and Library Science, School of Communication, Southern Connecticut State University, USA .Dr Javed Mostafa, Victor H Yngve Associate Professor of Information Science, Associate Professor of Informatics, Indiana University, USA .Dr T A V Murthy, Director, Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET)/UGC, India .Prof. Erich J Neuhold, Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries; Director and Professor, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany .Dr Liddy Nevile, Adj. Associate Professor, Applied Computing Research Institute, La Trobe University, Australia .Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Head, Information and Documentation, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium .Dr Peter Noerr, Chief Technology Officer, MuseGlobal, Salt Lake City, USA .Dr Douglas W Oard, Digital Library Research Group, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, USA .Dr Harsha Parekh, Librarian and Professor of Library Science, SNDT Women's University, India .Mr John Paschoud, Project Manager, ANGEL, DELIVER, SECURE, Information Systems Engineer of the Library, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK .Dr Darren Peacock, Director, Information and Communications Technology, National Museum of Australia, Australia .Dr Annelise Mark Pejtersen, Senior Scientist, Systems Analysis Department, Risø National Laboratory, Denmark .Dr T B Rajashekar, Associate Chairman, National Centre for Science Information, Bangalore, Indian Institute of Science, India .Dr Andreas Rauber, Research Fellow, Department of Software Technology, Vienna University of Technology, Austria .Dr Anshuman Razdan, Director, PRISM, Arizona State University, USA .Prof. Bruce Royan, Chief Executive, Concurrent Computing Ltd, UK .Prof. S Sadagopan, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore .Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Director, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad .Dr Peter Schirmbacher, Director, Computing and Media Services, Humboldt-University, Germany .Dr Michael Seadle, Head, Digital and Multimedia Center; Assistant Director for Systems and Digital Services; Copyright Librarian, Michigan State University Libraries; Editor, Library Hi Tech; USA .Dr Fabrizio Sebastiani, Instituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy .Prof. Tengku Mohd T Sembok, Professor in Computer Science, Department of Information Science, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia .Dr Atul Sharda, E-learning Adviser, E-Learning Strategy Unit, Department of Education and Skills, UK .Prof. Shigeo Sugimoto, Koichi Tabata, Tetsuo Sakaguchi, University of Library and Information Science, Japan .Dr Shalini Urs, Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science Mysore University, Mysore .Dr Stuart Weibel, Executive Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, OCLC Office of Research, USA .Dr Norman Wiseman, JISC Head of Programmes, University of Nottingham, UK .Prof. Ian H Witten, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand .Dr Vilas Wuwongse, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand .Dr Takeo Yamamoto, Director and Professor, Multimedia Information Division, National Institute of Informatics, Japan .Ms Xu Yinchi, Professor, Director of Chinese Science Digital Library, Beijing .Prof. Halimah Badioze Zaman, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia Registration The registration fee covers the conference kit, pre-conference proceedings, lunches, dinner, and tea. It does not include other meals and accommodation. Registration fee* For registrations done on or before 31 December 2003 Delegates Tutorials Conference Conference and tutorials Indian Rs 2000 Rs 5000 Rs 6000 Foreign US$ 75 US$ 200 US$ 225 For registrations done after 31 December 2003 Delegates Tutorials Conference Conference and tutorials Indian Rs 2500 Rs 5500 Rs 6500 Foreign US$ 100 US$ 225 US$ 250 * Additional registration from the same organization qualifies for a 10% discount . * Students (full-time) can avail 50% discount. * 25% special discount for foreign delegates from developing countries. Registration A registration form is sent along with this announcement brochure. The form can also be downloaded from the conference web site. The completed form, along with the registration fee should be sent to the ICDL 2004 Secretariat. Payment can also be made through any of the following modes: local cheque / bank draft favouring TERI and payable at New Delhi; credit card; and bank transfer. Registration confirmation Confirmation of registration will be sent upon receipt of the completed registration form and payment. Cancellation and substitution policy No cancellation or refund will be possible after a firm registration has been made. However, substitutions may be made. Please indicate, by 15 February 2004, the name and other necessary details, of the delegate who will replace the original registrant. Conference venue: India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India For conference details,contact Mr Debal C Kar Conference Coordinator ICDL 2004 Secretariat TERI Darbari Seth Block, Habitat Place (India Habitat Centre) Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110 003 India Telephone: 2465 1629, 2468 2100, or 2468 2111 (extn. 2724) Fax : 2468 2144 or 2468 2145 E-mail : ICDL2004(a)teri.res.in Web : www.teriin.org/events/icdl India +91 * Delhi (0)11

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Bulletin of the Medical Library Association archives online
by Shyam Prasad pujar 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

Dear Members, PubMedCentral has made available the full-text of the complete volumes of the 'Bulletin of the Medical Library Association' now published as 'Journal of the Medical Library Association' online. The archive begins with Vol.1, 1911. The full text articles are available in .pdf format. You may access the archives at: V.1, 1911 to V.89, 2001 http://pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?action=archive&journal=72 V.90, 2002 to V.91, 2003 http://pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?action=archive&journal=93 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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(Fwd) Library of Congress report on the National Library Baghd (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 15:52:17 +0530 From: prafulla(a)nisc.co.in A team from the Library of Congress visited Baghdad in October-November 2003 to advise the Ministry of Culture on the National Library of Baghdad. The report of their visit was distributed earlier this week: "Library of Congress Mission To Baghdad Report on the National Library and the House of Manuscripts, October 27-November 3, 2003" With the kind permission of Mary Jane Deeb, Team Leader and Arab World Area Specialist at the Library of Congress, the Middle East Librarians Association Committee on Iraqi Libraries has prepared and published the report on-line: http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/mela/LCIraqReport.html A suite of illustrations to accompany the text of the report is in preparation. Please repost this announcement wherever there might be interest. -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Charles Ellwood Jones Research Associate - Bibliographer The Oriental Institute - Chicago 1155 E. 58th St. Chicago IL 60637-1569 USA http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/Research_Arch.html

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ILA Information
by Mailing List Manager 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

Date: 5 Dec 2003 12:00:23 -0000 From: Geetha <vgitha(a)rediffmail.com> hello sir: i come to know about this site through my friend, i am searching for information on "Indian Libraries Association (ILA) Functions and activities and history" as soon as possible. i searched for this in internet but i didn't got the infromation coz that ILA site is down. please help me Thanking you *************************************** Geetha Admin. Executive Indegene Life Systems 130, 1st Main, 5th Block Koramangala Bangalore-560095 geetha(a)indegene.com www.indegene.com

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Fw: Library Security System
by Mailing List Manager 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:45:55 +0530 From: Swati.Gokhale(a)ril.com I am regularly receiving messages from LIS FORUM. I needed information of Library Security Systems to prevent theft of Library documents. We need to implement an Electronic Security System in our library and would also like to visit libraries which have installed the same. Please let me know if any of your libraries have such systems. Regards Swati Gokhale Swati Gokhale Technical Library Reliance Industries Ltd Village Mora Post Bhatha Surat-Hazira Rd, Dist Surat Gujarat 394510 Tel : 0261-3035357 , To: lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in. cc: Date: 03/12/2003 02:04:49 PM Subject: Fw: Library Security System Pl help . Am not able to post messages on LIS FORUM. regards, Swati Gokhale ----- Forwarded by Swati Gokhale/HAZIRA/RIL on 03/12/2003 01:57 PM ----- lis-forum-owner@ ncsi.iisc.ernet. in To Sent by: swati.gokhale(a)ril.com lis-forum-bounce cc s(a)ncsi.iisc.erne t.in Subject Library Security System 03/12/2003 02:04 PM You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has been automatically rejected. If you think that your messages are being rejected in error, contact the mailing list owner at lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in. ----- Message from Swati.Gokhale(a)ril.com on Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:57:33 +0530 ----- To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Library Security System Please post this message: We are looking for details on Library Security Systems . Please send information on any Security Systems installed in your libraries. Regards, Swati Gokhale Technical Library Reliance Industries Ltd Village Mora Post Bhatha Surat-Hazira Rd, Dist Surat Gujarat 394510 Tel : 0261-3035357

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