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NISCAIR Seminar on Evaluating Research
by Puna Das 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

NISCAIR Seminar on Evaluating Research Organized by: National Institute of Science Communication & Information Resources (NISCAIR), CSIR, New Delhi Topics: I. Using Bibliometrics in Evaluating Research David A. Pendlebury, Citation Analyst, Scientific & Scholarly Research, Thomson Reuters II. An Energy assessment metric for monitoring impact and performance Dr. Gangan Prathap, Director, NISCAIR Presided by Prof. B K Sen Venue: Seminar Hall, NISCAIR, 14 Satsang Vihar Marg, New Delhi- 110067 Date & Time: 6th November 2009 & 10:00 - 12:30 hrs Programme 10.30 Hrs. Welcome 10.35 Hrs. Opening Remarks - Prof. B K Sen 10.40 Hrs. Using Bibliometrics in Evaluating Research - David A. Pendlebury 11.40 Hrs. Tea Break 11.55 Hrs. An Energy assessment metric for monitoring impact and performance - Dr. Gangan Prathap 12.30 Hrs. Closing remarks – Prof. B K Sen All are cordially invited. RSVP: Director, NISCAIR, New Delhi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Now, send attachments up to 25MB with Yahoo! India Mail. Learn how. http://in.overview.mail.yahoo.com/photos -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Post of Junior Librarian
by muruli acharya 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

Hi Dear Professionals, There is a post of Junior Librarian in Central Council for Research in Heomeopathy- Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt of India. The Eligibility Criteria is as follows: Junior Librarian - 01 post (Unreserved) (Group ‘C’), Pay band Rs. 9300-34800 + Grade pay Rs. 4,200, Place of present posting : Noida (U.P.), Age: 25 years and below* Qualification: Essential: 1) Graduation in Library Science from recognized University. 2) One year experience in a Library of recognized Institution/University/Department. The details regarding the above post can be gathered on http://www.ccrhindia.org. Thanks and Regards Muruli Librarian, Krupanidhi Business School, Bangalore email: muruli.acharya(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Koha workshop in Chennai Canceled
by savitra sirohi 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

All, We are regretfully canceling our Koha workshop in Chennai scheduled for 5th (Fri), 6th (Sat), 7th (Sun) November as we could secure timely approval for use of computer lab and other workshop infrastructure from a local university that we were in talks with. We will publish fresh dates when available. We will returns DDs of those who have registered or accommodate them at our Mumbai workshop to be held on 19th (Thu), 20th (Fri), 21st (Sat) November. Registrations for the Mumbai workshop continue to be open. Thank you, Savitra Sirohi Nucsoft OSS Labs http://www.osslabs.biz -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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New initiave (join please)
by Vinod Kumar Mishra 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

Dear Moderator, Could you please forward this valuable massage to all. Dear Professionals/Friends, I would like to inform you about the new initiative taken to strengthen the LIS profession and society via the social network entitled "HELP DESK FOR LIBRARY AND SOCIETY" (HDLS). Kindly visit the website (http://lishelp.ning.com)which will be formally launch on 14th November, 2009 i.e. on first day of National library week. Till 14th November kindly evaluate and also sign up/register and let me know any problem and suggest what other pin pointed information can be placed on the site as per its aim & objective. The aim of the Initiative TO STRENGTHEN THE LIBRARY PROFESSION/PROFESSIONAL AND SOCIETY OBJECTIVES 1. To inform library professionals and society about the recent happenings/events. 2. To reduce the rate of corruption from the society and use RTI Act effectively. 3. To help the library users/library professionals on any professional/ technical problem. 4. To make strong/active group of Lis professionals via HDLS. 5. To enhance the status of Lis profession/professionals in the society. 6. To bring all the consortia members at one plate form for resource sharing. 7. To provide one strong common plate form for discussion/highlight professional issues and their solutions. 8. Attempt to provide cost free ICT based and other services to LIS professionals and society. Note: kindly propose your name to be included in the list of: 1. Advisory (To advise administrators and other members for improvement) OR 2. Active members (Who could be contacted for professional/other issues along with interest aea for help like Open source software like newgenlib, koha dspace, etc. 3. You can suggest your name for both the above. With regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra Senior Library Information Assistant P.K.Kelkar Library IIT Kanpur. Mob: 91+9455306495 email: vinod_librarian(a)rediffmail.com : mishravk79(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Integrating library automation package with digital library software and workshop material
by Anuradha.K.T. 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

*** Apologies for cross posting a long mail *** As part of a project entitled "Enhancing Knowledge Innovation Culture of Libraries through Union Catalogue" carried out at National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, funded by The International Development Research Centre, Canada, a prototype union catalog is created using Koha, a open source library automation software with 4 different collections: 1. Records from a big library (about 120,000 records) 2. Records from a medium size library (about 20,000 records) 3. A few multilingual records downloaded from the Net and 4. About 15 e-books downloaded from the Net, which do not violate copyright law. With these four collections we have successfully addressed the issues of data mining, data migration, bulk import, multilingual records handling and full text searching (using both Greenstone and Fedora Commons) in a library automation package. All these are carried out using Koha as it supports developmental work. The implementation of these can be accessed at: http://dharmaganja.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in:8082/ Though we have extensively tested other software: NewGenLib, PMB, Vufind and Evergreen (library automation package), because of clashes with the supporting software versions, we have not implemented them on the server. A series of workshops was organized to train manpower in using the available technological tools for library automation (Koha, NewGenLib, PMB, Vufind, MarcEdit, Greenstone, Fedora Commons, PHP and CSS tutorials, Ubuntu installation). The workshop material including technical sessions and lab sessions can be accessed at: http://dharmaganja.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshopmodi2/ Whenever the material from this site is made use of, kindly acknowledge the site and let us know by sending a mail to anu(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in. -- Regards, Dr.Anuradha.K.T. National Centre for Science Information Indian Institute of Science Karnataka, Bangalore 560 012 URL: http://vidya-mapak.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://dharmaganja.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in FAX:(+91-80) 23601426/23600683 Tel:(+91-80) 23600271/22932511

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Required Library Trainee at L&T Infotech- Banglore
by Mangesh J Ghodke 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

Dear All, We are looking for a Library Trainees for a period of 6 months at L&T Infotech Ltd. (Bangalore-Whitefield). Candidate should possess at least Bachelor’s Degree in Library & Information Science (B.LISc.) with 0-1 years experience with fair knowledge of Library software, MS-Office, Internet & e-learning portals with good Communication skills. Selected candidate will be paid a consolidate amount upto Rs. 7000/- per month. Interested candidates can mail their resumes to renuka.lingaraju(a)lntinfotech.com at the earliest. Short listed candidates will be call for an interview, the schedule will be communicated later over the email. Regards, Mangesh Ghodke Librarian, Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd., Mumbai, Maharashtra. Tel.: +91-022-67953011 Mob.: 09892201993 Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd. www.Lntinfotech.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Last chance to submission of paper by 30 Oct 2009 for ICDL 2010, new Delhi
by Mailing List Admin 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:15:03 +0530 From: Debal Chandra Kar <dckar(a)teri.res.in> International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL) Theme: Shaping the Information Paradigm New Delhi, 23 – 26 February 2010 http://www.teriin.org/events/icdl Submission deadline is 30 October 2009. Venue: Conference at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi • 24–26 February 2010 Tutorial at IGNOU, Convention Centre, New Delhi • 23 February 2010 Organiser: TERI and IGNOU Associate: SLA, ICIM, Goethe Institute, Netherlands Embassy, CEMCA, Austrian Embassy. We are inviting you to submit the paper by 30 October 2009. This is last call for paper for ICDL 2010 Highlights Awards will be conferred for the "Best Paper" and "Best Poster" Objectives Provide a platform and enable interaction among DL experts and researchers Facilitate creation adoption, implementation and utilization of DL‘s, and their future implications Bridging the digital divide through knowledge sharing Who should participate? Information and library professionals IT and knowledge service providers Policy makers Academicians, students and distance learner E-publishers and virtual communities Other stake-holders Call for papers Submission deadline is 30 October 2009. Original papers focusing on the theme of the conference—Digital Libraries: Shaping the Information Paradigm are invited for the conference poster and tutorial. Some of the topics are listed below: DL development, architecture, and management Contents management in DL Multi-linguality and interoperability issues Digital rights management Digital preservation and access management Semantic web KM (knowledge management) and organizational repositories E-learning and e-publishing DL standards and policy Open archives initiatives ODOL (Open distance online learning) Multimedia content Virtual support to distance learners E-resources management for distance learners Access management M-learning technology Important dates Submission of full papers 30 October 2009 Notification of acceptance of paper with comments 30 November 2009 Submission of the final paper after incorporating comments 30 December 2009 Registration Early–bird offer (for registration on or before 31 December 2009) Delegates Tutorial Conference Conference and Tutorial India/Bhutan/Nepal Rs 2000 Rs 6000 Rs 7500 Other countries US$ 80 US$ 250 US$ 300 Registration after 31 December 2009 Delegates Tutorial Conference Conference and Tutorial India/Bhutan/Nepal Rs 2500 Rs 6500 Rs 8000 Other countries US$ 100 US$ 275 US$ 325 * Additional registration from the same organization and SLA member qualifies for 10% discount * Regular Students (Ph.D and masters), accompanied persons qualify for 20% discount. Contact: DEBAL C KAR, Organising Secretary, ICDL Secretariat, TERI (The Energy & Resources Institute), Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110003, India, Telephone 24682138, 24682100, 41504900, Fax 24682144, 24682145 E-mail icdl(a)teri.res.in, Web www.teriin.org/events/icdl

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President Obama signs Information Literacy Proclamation
by Mailing List Admin 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:55:01 +0000 From: Indira Koneru <indk68(a)hotmail.com> Dear LIS Professionals, President Obama proclaimed October 2009 as National Information Literacy Awareness month and by doing so "calls upon the people of the United States to recognize the important role information plays in our daily lives, and appreciate the need for a greater understanding of its impact". For pdf version follow the given path: http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/2009literacy_prc_rel.pdf Hope even in India, MHRD, NKC, UGC, National and State level education boards will recognise the significance of Information Literacy and undertake such initiatives that enforce Academic Institutions and libraries and Public Libraries to promote Information Literacy. Regards, Dr. (Mrs.) Indira Koneru

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Library Assistant, at M S Ramiah College of Law
by Mailing List Admin 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:12:55 +0530 (IST) From: Paramanand <paramanand_837(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear All, There is a vacancy�for 01 Post of Library Assistants, at M S Ramiah College of Law,New BEL Raoad, Bangalore-560054.�� Candidates (Preferably Male) with following qualifications who are ready to work in the evening shifts as well should apply. Essential Qualifications.: DLISc., or BLISC., with 1-2 years of experience in a technical institution Library.�� Knowledge of Computers & Good English communication skills. Salary will be commensurate with their Qualification & experience. Interested candidates shall apply to the following address/ E-mail on or before 30th October 2009. � The Principal, M. S. Ramaiah College of Law, New BEL Road, Bangalore-560054, Fax: 080-23601446, E-mail: info(a)msrcl.org Paramanand, MLISc; M Phil. Assistant Librarian, M. S. Ramaiah College of Law, Library and Information Center, New BEL Road, Bangalore-560054, Fax: 080-23601446, Phone No: 080-65708015, Cell No: 9844116650. Web site: - www.paramanandjh.webs.com E-Mail: paramanand.jh(a)gmail.com

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Request for Article
by Dr.D.P Prathap 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Dear professionals If any library has access to JSTOR, please provide the following article: Wei, H.2001.Isolation and characterization of two sugarcane polyubiquitin gene promoters and matrix attachement regions. Published in BioOne Online Journals (http://www.bioone.org) Thanking you and awaiting your response Yours Sincerely Library Sugarcane Breeding Institute Coimbatore-7 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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10 websites to help you keep up-to-date with scholarly journal contents
by MacLeod, Roderick A 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

10 websites to help you keep up-to-date with scholarly journal contents, blog post at: http://hwlibrary.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/10-websites-to-help-you-keep-u p-to-date-with-scholarly-journal-contents/ Roddy MacLeod MA, DipLib, MCILIP Senior Subject Librarian Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS Tel (0131) 451 3576 Fax: (0131) 451 3164 R.A.MacLeod(a)hw.ac.uk Home: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/libram/roddy.html <http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/libram/roddy.html> Blogging at: http://hwlibrary.wordpress.com/ <http://hwlibrary.wordpress.com/> Library workshops: http://www.hw.ac.uk/library/workshops.html <http://www.hw.ac.uk/library/workshops.html> Twitter: http://twitter.com/libram <http://twitter.com/libram> Heriot-Watt University is a Charity registered in Scotland, SC000278 -- Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC000278. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Open Access Week (Christina Birdie)
by Mohan Shivaramu 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Dear Friends, The first-ever international awareness week for Open Access to research, is celebrated this week from 19th to 23rd Oct 2009 in over 30 countries. ( http://www.openaccessweek.org) Many research institutions in India have supported the Open Access Movement by creating the Open Access Repositories of their research contents open to scientific & research community all over the world in different ways. At Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) the library has taken the responsibility to create and maintain the OA Repository of the Institutes research contents. (http://prints.iiap.res.in) During this “Open Access Week” we have designed and brought out special poster on the importance and benefits of “Open Access” to scholarly contents and displayed it within the campus to create awareness among the faculty & students. We have also taken the efforts to upload more number of research papers into the repository during this week to reach the target of 5000 records as the contents of the repository. I request all my library friends and colleagues to share their experiences in this movement as participation to support the “Open Access Week” in India. with regards, Dr. Christina Birdie Librarian Indian Institute of Astrophysics [IIA] Koramangala, Bangalore - 560 034, India E-mail: chris(a)iiap.res.in Phone : 91 - 80 - 25530672 Extn: 210 Fax : 91 - 80 - 25534043 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Requirement of Library traniees at NISER Library (Bhubaneswar)
by Sh. Jitendra N. Dash 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Dear All, National Inst of Science Education & Research (NISER) Bhubaneswar has advertised for requirement of 3 library traniees at the Library. The walk in interview will be held on 7th Nov, 09. Details of advertisement may be found from website www.niser.ac.in. Thanks with regards, JN Dash Bhubaneswar Add whatever you love to the Yahoo! India homepage. Try now! http://in.yahoo.com/trynew -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sad demise of Prof. N.M. Malwad
by Mr.Puttabasavaiah <bas＠library.iisc.ernet.in> 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Dear Professional friends, With great sorrow with heavy heart it is informed that one of the stalwarts in the profession, a great teacher, scholar and very humanitarian Librarian Prof. N.. M. Malwad is no more with us. He left for heavenly abode on 15th, October, 2009 at 09:30AM. His sad demise is a great loss to the LIS Profession. As we all know, he had a very distinguished career heading TIFR and IISc Library and a rare distinction of working on INIS system in its initial stages. He was instrumental in setting up of several organizations including INFLIBNET. He was Invited by the UGC to work on a Special Committee formed for preparing a Project Report on INFILBNET and worked as the core member in preparing and finalizing Report on INFLIBNET. He is fondly remembered for his lively and scholarly talks and his human approach to help any body. It is a great personal loss to me and my family. We pray God to rest the departed Soul in Peace. Puttabasavaiah. Deputy Librarian JRD Tata Memorial Library Indian Institute of Science Bangalore - 560 012 INDIA.

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Vendors list for complete digital library solutions
by Shriram Pandey 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Dear List members, We are am looking for the compete digital library solutions for our library. If anyone have experience and list of such vendors/company, please send to me. Any suggestion would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Regards, Shri Ram Pandey - Asst. Librarian The LNM Institute of Information Technology Rupa ki Nangal, Post-Sumel, Via-Jamdoli Jaipur-302 031, (Rajasthan) INDIA Tel: 0141-5189211(Ext-253(O),324(H)) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2010 at IGNCA, New Delhi in India
by Dr. Ramesh C Gaur 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

apologies for cross-posting Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to inform you that Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) www.ignca.nic.in in collaboration with IFLA Newspaper Section is organizing IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2010 at IGNCA, New Delhi in India during 26th February to 28th February, 2010 on theme "Digital Preservation and Access to news and views". The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) was established in 1987 as an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Culture, as a centre for research, academic pursuit and dissemination in the field of the arts. The Arts' encompass a wide range of subjects - from archaeology and anthropology to the visual and performing arts, enveloping them in a complementary and non-demarcated vision. IFLA (The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession. This is the first time, such an international newspaper libraries conference being organized in India. Even at national level problems and issues concerning media libraries are hardly discussed. So, this is the opportunity to all media librarians to actively participate and make this event a grand success. More details regarding the conference can be had from http://www.ignca.nic.in/ifla2010/ifla2010.htm We take an opportunity to invite you to this International event and also request you to share your views by contributing papers and be the delegate in the conference Best regards Ramesh C Gaur Conference Director IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2010 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Ramesh C Gaur PGDCA, MLISc,Ph.D. Fulbright Scholar (Virginia Tech, USA) Librarian & Head-Kala Nidhi Division Coordinator- ABIA International Index Project Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts(IGNCA) (An Autonomous Trust under Ministry of Culture. Govt. of India) 11 Man Singh Road, New Delhi-110001 Phone: 91-11-23385442, 23385884 Fax: 91-11-23385884 Mobile: 91-9810487158 URL: www.ignca.gov.in Email: gaur(a)ignca.nic.in; rcgaur(a)bol.net.in ramesh.gaur(a)fulbrightmail.org http://www.ignca.nic.in/PDF_data/Profile_Dr_RC_Gaur.pdf -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Trend In LIS Profession............
by Charu Mathur 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Respected Friends, Greetings for the day, Please accept my heartiest gratitude for overwhelming positive response of the issue raised. Ever LIs professional is somehow is agree with this statement that this profession is the nice integration of all stake holders, I.e. Faculties, Students, Professional Groups –Online and Offline and last but not the least Government Bodies. I am in with same opinion of Dr. I.R.N.Goudar that each part has to take equal interest to change the scenario. No doubt some of them are doing well at their own level and making sincere efforts in this regard. I wish to add some points in list of their valuable and note to worthy suggestions… 11. A. In continuation of Point No. 11 of Dr. Goudar, delegation of authority is an essential element of successful management. 14. Unlike learned Professional Association, we have a nice array of online groups managed by learned professional friends. They are actively involved in many types of activities like arranging the one day conferences, seminars and group talks to enlighten and encourage the new entrants on regular basis. MLOSC and Mr.Ajay Kamble is the best example of this. These activities can be extended to state level and some time at national level also. 15. Library and Information word is associated with SCIENCE and this word demands the necessity of a LABORATORIES. This should be equipped with all necessary latest and updated tools and equipments. On the pattern of any scientific lab we can develop LIBRARY LAB where a student can get chance to aware the practical environments where they suppose to be serve later on. Again I am thankful and grateful to all friends for such nice support and encouragement. Please accept my heartiest wishes for Diwali and Kali Pooja ….. Thanks and Regards, -- Miss Charu Mathur. http://openlink-charu.blogspot.com/ http://charu-virtualworld.blogspot.com/ http://charu-libraryworld.blogspot.com/ http://charu-openair.blogspot.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article request
by ramesh chander 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Dear Members, I need of this article for one of our reserach Scholar. It is very urgent, please those who have access to it, mail soft copy to me. The details of the article are as under: Title: The Use of Piezoelectric Thin Film Sensors for Structural Integrity Monitoring Journal Title: Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Vol. 5, No. 5, 683-693 (1994) DOI: 10.1177/1045389X9400500513 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ With Best Regards, Romesh Chander National Center for Science Information(NCSI), Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore-560012. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Scopus Young Scientist Awards
by Mailing List Admin 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:48:56 +0800 From: "Muralidharan, Padma (ELS-DEL)" <P.Muralidharan(a)elsevier.com> Dear LIS_forum Moderator, Could you please post this message on LIS-FORUM on my behalf? Scopus Young Scientist Awards 2009 Elsevier announced their 4th Scopus Young Scientist Awards for 2009 and the last date for sending in applications is the 25th October, 2009. All information about the eligibility and criteria can be had from their South Asia website : http://southasia.elsevier.com For any further queries, please contact Padma at the address and numbers below. Thanks & regards, Padma Muralidharan Senior Manager - Account Development Elsevier India (Science & Technology) 14th Floor, Building 10B, DLF Cyber City, Phase II Gurgaon - 122 002 Phone : +91-124-4774202 l +91-9810739993 kk

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Greeting Messages
by Francis Jayakanth 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Dear Members, In the last couple of days, there have been many Diwali greeting messages being posted on this forum. While it is very nice and thoughtful of members to wish the fellow members during the festive seasons, I would like to bring to your kind attention the repercussion these messages can have on the network bandwidth, if they were to be approved for circulation. As of today (Monday 19 Oct 2009) there are 4980 registered members on LIS-Forum. In the last of couple of days, close to 30 greeting messages have been received. if These messages were to be approved then the mail servers at NCSI and IISc will have have to send out close to 1.5 lac emails! This can have adverse effect on the network traffic. As it is members would have noticed that there is considerable amount of delay in the delivery of LIS-Forum mails. Apart from LIS-Forum, NCSI mail server is also handling few other mailing lists. The traffic on the other lists handled at NCSI are also quite high. The combined traffic of all the mailing lists from NCSI is very high and I wouldn't be surprised if NCSI will be reprimanded for high volume of email traffic it has been generating. Also, the NCSI mail server itself might get choked for the sheer volume of mails that it needs to handle on a day-to-day basis. I therefore request all the members to use the mailing list judiciously and avoid greeting messages and other lengthy forwarded messages. On behalf of all the members who have sent their good wishes for Diwali and my personal self, I Wish all the members A Very Happy, safe, and Prosperous Diwali. Thanks for your cooperation. With best wishes. - Moderator NCSI, IISc

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Information as public commons
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Friends in the LIS profession: Here is a paper by Nobel Laureate Elinor Orstorm that you might find relevant and useful. "Ideas, artifacts and facilities: Information as a common pool resource" by Charlotte Hess and Elinor Orstom, Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 66, No. 1 and 2, Winter/Spring 2003, pp. 111-146. Available at <http://dlcvm.dlib.indiana.edu/archive/00001591/01/Hess_Ideas_Artifacts.pdf>. Here is the abstract: "The goal of this paper is to summarize the lessons learned from a large body of international, interdisciplinary research on common-pool resources (CPRs) in the past 25 years and consider its usefulness in the analysis of scholarly information as a resource. We will suggest ways in which the study of the governance and management of common-pool resources can be applied to the analysis of information and 'the intellectual public domain.' The complexity of the issues is enormous for many reasons: the vast number of players, multiple conflicting interests, rapid changes of technology, the general lack of understanding of digital technologies, local versus global arenas, and a chronic lack of precision about the information resource at hand. We suggest, in the tradition of Hayek, that the combination of time and place analysis with general scientific knowledge is necessary for sufficient understanding of policy and action. In addition, the careful development of an unambiguous language and agreed-upon definitions is imperative. "As one of the framing papers for the Conference on the Public Domain, we focus on the language, the methodology, and outcomes of research on common-pool resources in order to better understand how various types of property regimes affect the provision, production, distribution, appropriation, and consumption of scholarly information. Our analysis will suggest that collective action and new institutional design play as large a part in the shaping of scholarly information as do legal restrictions and market forces." Happy reading. Subbiah Arunachalam -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 1
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

To celebrate Open Access Week, Digital Scholarship (http://digital-scholarship.org/)is releasing version one of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. This bibliography presents over 620 selected English-language articles, books, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding institutional repositories. Although institutional repositories intersect with a number of open access and scholarly communication topics, this bibliography only includes works that are primarily about institutional repositories. http://digital-scholarship.org/irb/irb.html Most sources have been published between 2000 and the present; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 2000 are also included. Where possible, links are provided to e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. Table of Contents 1 General 2 Country and Regional Institutional Repository Surveys 3 Multiple-Institution Repositories 4 Specific Institutional Repositories 5 Institutional Repository Digital Preservation Issues 6 Institutional Repository Library Issues 7 Institutional Repository Metadata Issues 8 Institutional Repository Open Access Policies 9 Institutional Repository R&D Projects 10 Institutional Repository Research Studies 11 Institutional Repository Software Appendix A. About the Author Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir, traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen): http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/irb_en_1.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://bit.ly/Z6HFx -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: Data, openness, and the future of science
by Subbiah Arunachalam 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

From: Lee Dirks (Microsoft research) Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 5:55 AM To: Digital Library & Archives Community Subject: Data, openness, and the future of science Our group in MSR External Research published this work and it was announced/released yesterday. There is a special section on Scholarly Communication. [And it is published under a creative commons license for free download of any article so it is definitely an open success publication! We will also have a print-on-demand book version and versions for the Kindle and Sony eBook Reader … Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley, and Kristin Tolle, eds., The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, published by Microsoft Research, October 16, 2009. See especially the section "Scholarly Communication": http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/ Lee Dirks, Introduction Clifford Lynch, Jim Gray’s fourth paradigm and the construction of the scientific record Paul Ginsparg, Text in a data-centric world Herbert Van de Sompel and Carl Lagoze, All aboard: toward a machine-friendly scholarly communication system Anne Fitzgerald, Brian Fitzgerald, and Kylie Pappalardo, The future of data policy John Wilbanks, I have seen the paradigm shift, and it is us Timo Hannay, From web 2.0 to the global database Also see this interview with Tony Hey: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/fourthparadigm-101609.aspx -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sad Demise of Dr. Malwad
by pramod mangla 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

Dear Friends, It is really sad to know about the sad demise of Dr. Malwad. I had known him from the days when he was in BARC Library and always held him in high esteem. He was a gentleman, a through professional and most willing to take responsibilities. We have indeed lost a good human being and professional. May his soul rest in peace. Prof.P.B.Mangla ex. University iof Delhi -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Google to Launch edition platform for eBook
by Shaheen, Farooque 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

An executive with Google says the company will launch a new platform next year that lets readers buy books that can be accessed from anywhere, be it a personal computer, cell phone or other platform. ``It will be a browser-based access,'' he said. ``The way the e-book market will evolve is by accessing the book from anywhere, from an access point of view and also from a geographical point of view.'' http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/internet-/Google-to-launch-edi… ____________________________ FAROOQUE SHAHEEN +91.80.2665 9482 X 40366 Direct +881.40366 VoIP +91.80.2653.0912 Fax Farooque.Shaheen(a)keane.com<mailto:emailaddress@keane.com> Keane India #18/1, South End Road, Basavanagudi, Bangalore 560004 www.keane.com<http://www.keane.com/> ______________________________________________________________________ Disclaimer: This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is confidential, legally privileged or otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient(s) or have received this message in error, you are instructed to immediately notify the sender by return email and required to delete this message from your computer system. This communication does not form any contractual obligation on behalf of the sender, the sender's employer or such employer's parent company, affiliates or subsidiaries. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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