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Details of SIS-24th National Convention and Conference
by rajesh bhardwaj 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

Dear Professionals, Plz. see the details of SIS-24th National Convention and Conference. ** ***Registration Fee:* * * Keeping in mind the philosophy of the partner institution i.e. the L,al Bahadur Shastri Institute of Mgmt., Delhi, SIS has consciously stipulated a nominal registration fee of Rs. 500/-. All Bank Drafts my be sent in the name of " Society for Information Science, New Delhi" Drawn in Syndicate bank before 15th Jan.2007. Contact to Dr. Ramesh Kundra r_kundra(a)yahoo.com Ph. 011-25843011 *Programme* * * In keeping with the above Conference will provide experts in the field as to under following four theme *1. Content **Management* - Digital Library Concepts - Digital Preservation, Manuscripts and Archiving - E-Publishing. Dublin Core and Metadata Issues - Content Management, Knowledge Management - E-learning - Institutional Repository. *2. Technology Management* * *- Technology: Planning, Development and Management - Semantic, Thesauri Generation, Ontologies, System Scalability and Interoperability, Standards - Digital Library Architecture, Networking Technology - Human Machine Interface, User Interaction and Futuristic. *3. Digital Rights Management* * *- Copyright and legal Issues - Copyright cases in India *4. Policy Development* - Digital library Policies - Indian Initiatives *PAPER SUBMISSION* * * Interested participants may send their contributions on or before *January 15th 2007** *on any topic listed above. *CONFERENCE DIRECTOR* * * *Dr. R.L. Raina, *Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, Shastri Sadan, Sector 3, R.K.Puram, New Delhi 110022 *Key Speakers *include the following: Dr. Jagdish Arora (lIT, New Delhi); Dr. Ramesh C.Gaur (IGNCA, New Delhi); Dr. Ravinder Chadha (Parliament, New Delhi ), Dr. Inder Vir Malhan (Jammu University); Mr. Shantanu Ganguly (IIM Lucknow); and Dr. Sangeeta Kaul (Delnet, New Delhi). *Participants would include:* Library and Information Science Professionals; Information Technology Professionals; Knowledge Workers; Policy Makers; Educationists; Archivists; Content and Knowledge Managers; IT Service Providers; Information Providers and Vendors; Museologists; Electronic Publishing etc. -- Rajesh Kr. Bhardwaj Assistant Librarian, Delhi College of Engineering, Bawana Road- Delhi 110042 M-9213567224, Off-011-27871018- Ext- 2203 http://www.rajweb.name and http://www.dce.edu/library Dear Professionals, Plz. see the details of SIS-24th National Convention and Conference. Registration Fee: Keeping in mind the philosophy of the partner institution i.e. the L,al Bahadur Shastri Institute of Mgmt., Delhi, SIS has consciously stipulated a nominal registration fee of Rs. 500/-. All Bank Drafts my be sent in the name of " Society for Information Science, New Delhi " Drawn in Syndicate bank before 15 th Jan.2007. Contact to Dr. Ramesh Kundra mailto:r_kundra@yahoo.com r_kundra(a)yahoo.com Ph. 011-25843011 Programme In keeping with the above Conference will provide experts in the field as to under following four theme 1. Content Management - Digital Library Concepts - Digital Preservation, Manuscripts and Archiving - E-Publishing. Dublin Core and Metadata Issues - Content Management, Knowledge Management - E-learning - Institutional Repository. 2. Technology Management - Technology: Planning, Development and Management - Semantic, Thesauri Generation, Ontologies, System Scalability and Interoperability, Standards - Digital Library Architecture, Networking Technology - Human Machine Interface, User Interaction and Futuristic. 3. Digital Rights Management - Copyright and legal Issues - Copyright cases in India 4. Policy Development - Digital library Policies - Indian Initiatives PAPER SUBMISSION Interested participants may send their contributions on or before January 15th 2007 on any topic listed above. CONFERENCE DIRECTOR Dr. R.L. Raina, Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, Shastri Sadan, Sector 3, R.K.Puram, New Delhi 110022 Key Speakers include the following: Dr. Jagdish Arora (lIT, New Delhi ); Dr. Ramesh C.Gaur (IGNCA, New Delhi ); Dr. Ravinder Chadha (Parliament, New Delhi ), Dr. Inder Vir Malhan ( Jammu University ); Mr. Shantanu Ganguly (IIM Lucknow); and Dr. Sangeeta Kaul (Delnet, New Delhi ). Participants would include: Library and Information Science Professionals; Information Technology Professionals; Knowledge Workers; Policy Makers; Educationists; Archivists; Content and Knowledge Managers; IT Service Providers; Information Providers and Vendors; Museologists; Electronic Publishing etc. -- Rajesh Kr. Bhardwaj Assistant Librarian, Delhi College of Engineering, Bawana Road- Delhi 110042 M-9213567224, Off-011-27871018- Ext- 2203 http://www.rajweb.name http://www.rajweb.name and http://www.dce.edu/library http://www.dce.edu/library

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Bold Norwegian librarians
by Subbiah Arunachalam 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

Friends: We must congratulate the four Norwegian university librarians for the bold stand they have taken in not renewing subscriptions to the 778 electronic journals published by British publishing house and making their decision publicly known. Other librarians should follow suit and authors around the world should boycott publishing their papers in journals which charge exhorbitant subscription prices. Not only these publishers make huge profits and impose highly restrictive copyright agreements on authors, but also get into influential positions in international organizations meant to support science and scholarly communication in poor countries. Why would international organizations allow such a thing - counterproductive to their purported intentions - to happen is a mystery. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------------------------ >From Peter Suber's "Open Access News" Norwegian libraries reject Blackwell journals because of high prices Four Norwegian university libraries issued a joint statement on January 2: This autumn Norwegian university libraries have attempted to reach an agreement on access to electronic journals from Blackwell Publishing. The negotiations have come to an end without a successful result. Therefore from January 1, 2007 library patrons at the universities will no longer be able to access the 778 e-journals in Blackwell electronic portfolio. The reason for this is that the university libraries feel that Blackwell Publishing has stipulated unacceptable conditions and price increases. Blackwell has journals covering all universities disciplines, so this will affect all our users, says library director Helge Salvesen of Tromsø University Library. Libraries experience that publishers no longer negotiate but dictate prices and access conditions. The university library directors are in unanimous agreement that this situation is no longer acceptable.... Journal prices exceed the general retail price index, and moderate increases in library budgets cannot close the gap.... The statement is signed by the library directors of the University of Trondheim, University of Tromsø, University of Oslo, and University of Bergen. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Programme at NIT Silchar
by Kishor Satpathy 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

CENTRAL LIBRARY & ISTE TEACHER CHAPTER NIT SILCHAR Cordially invites you To the Panel Discussion on QUALITY IN Education Panelist Prof. G Biswas Vice Chancellor, Assam University, Silchar Prof. G D Sharma Former Vice Chancellor, Nagaland University Prof. N B Biswas Dean & Head, Deptt. of Education, Assam University, Silchar Dr. Sunrit Mullick Regional Officer & Education Advisor United States Educational Foundation in India & Prof. P K Banik Director, NIT Silchar Date: 11.01.07 Time: 1 PM Onwards Venue: CET Hall, NIT Silchar For Detail information please contact Kishor Satpathy, Librarian & Secretary, ISTE Chapter (M: 9435073452) Kishor C Satpathy Coordinator,Continuing Education Cell & Project Coodinator, Virtual Class Room & Digital Library National Institute of Technology (Deemed University) Silchar 788010,Assam,India Ph: 91 3842 240055(W) 240906 (R), Fax: 91 3842 233797 Mobile: 9435073452 E mail : kishor_satpathy(a)yahoo.com (personal) kishor(a)nits.ac.in (official) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com CENTRAL LIBRARY & ISTE TEACHER CHAPTER NIT SILCHAR Cordially invites you To the Panel Discussion on QUALITY IN Education Panelist Prof. G Biswas Vice Chancellor , Assam University, Silchar Prof. G D Sharma Former Vice Chancellor, Nagaland University Prof. N B Biswas Dean & Head, Deptt. of Education, Assam University , Silchar Dr. Sunrit Mullick Regional Officer & Education Advisor United States Educational Foundation in India & Prof. P K Banik Director, NIT Silchar Date: 11.01.07 Time: 1 PM Onwards Venue: CET Hall, NIT Silchar For Detail information please contact Kishor Satpathy, Librarian & Secretary, ISTE Chapter (M: 9435073452) Kishor C Satpathy Coordinator,Continuing Education Cell & Project Coodinator, Virtual Class Room & Digital Library National Institute of Technology (Deemed University) Silchar 788010,Assam,India Ph: 91 3842 240055(W) 240906 (R), Fax: 91 3842 233797 Mobile: 9435073452 E mail : kishor_satpathy(a)yahoo.com (personal) kishor(a)nits.ac.in (official) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Searching the Web
by champe mishra 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

Searching the net is an essential component of ones online life and a variety oftools meant for it are in place.The distinct feature of the search tools arena is the incessant inflow of new tools. Before settling down with a tool, one finds another one appearing on the scene. Even savvy netizens find it challenging to keep up with the developments in this realm. This edition of NetSpeak provides a brief description of the latest products in this genre.SearchMash .Anyone dealing with websearch products has to make sure that any new offerings from Google are explored. One will never be disappointed.Google has recently launched (http://www.searchmash.com/about/privacy.html) a test search service called SearchMash(http://www.searchmash.com/). Alongside the usual searchoutput (results are similar to those of Google, but each is numbered), the service provides options to get searchoutput from blog, image and video sites as well. An advantage of Search- Mash is the More Resultsoption available at the bottom of the output page forshowing the next set of results in the same page.Another notable feature is Hide Details, which lets you hide the details displayed along with each web page thus helping you to view more results per page. Google Notebook search Google Notebook helps us easily clip web content, add notes or comments and store\it online. Also, one can make her notebook public and share the contents with others. Now, Google has started a search service for finding information available on publicnotebooks.With Google Notebook search service (http://www.google.com/notebook/search) you may find lots of valuable information.However, this search service has generated some controversy as many people store private information on notebooks and share it without realising the implications.Decipho (http://decipho.com/) is another search service explored by this author.Besides the normal web search, this service has additional features contributed byits users. When you invoke a search,you can specify whether it is for shopping or research or both. Another feature is the subject-specific clustering of the results. For instance, if you start a search on statistics,the service presents you categories such as Statistics online, Glossary of statistics, Stats and Math Statistics. The search engine Hakia(http://www.hakia.com/),scheduled to activate its full operation sometime in 2007, seems to be a promising search tool. The beta version is available for testing its potential.One distinction of this service relates to question/answer facility. By framing good questions, you could obtain appropriate answers. In this regard, you can use the service along with other question/answer services such as Brainboost. Also, for certainqueries, Hakia providescategorised results. CometQuery (http://www.cometquery.com/) is yet another addition to the search tool landscape.With each of the links in the output, the service displays its screenshot as well.Open source journals As mentioned in the past,lots of open access repositories on a range of subjects that include Science, Medicine,Engineering and Business are in place.An open access repository permits anyone to access and use its content for free. Open- DOAR, the Directory of Open Access Repositories (http:// www.opendoar.org/index.html) is a good place to locate several such open content sources.To help you access the content stored on various repositories available on its list, OpenDOAR has recently assembled a search service using Googles new search tool, Google CSE.For more details: http://www.opendoar.org/search.php. Champeswar Mishra, Library and Information Centre (LIC) Indian Institute Of Management,Kozhikode IIM Campus P.O., Kunnamagalam, Kerla , India, pin-673571 Phone no- 0495-2809143 -147,148 Fax: +91-495-2803010-11 Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php Searching the net is an essential component of ones online life and a variety oftools meant for it are in place.The distinct feature of the search tools arena is the incessant inflow of new tools. Before settling down with a tool, one finds another one appearing on the scene. Even savvy netizens find it challenging to keep up with the developments in this realm. This edition of NetSpeak provides a brief description of the latest products in this genre.SearchMash .Anyone dealing with websearch products has to make sure that any new offerings from Google are explored. One will never be disappointed.Google has recently launched (http://www.searchmash.com/about/privacy.html) a test search service called SearchMash(http://www.searchmash.com/). Alongside the usual searchoutput (results are similar to those of Google, but each is numbered), the service provides options to get searchoutput from blog, image and video sites as well. An advantage of Search- Mash is the More Resultsoption available at the bottom of the output page forshowing the next set of results in the same page.Another notable feature is Hide Details, which lets you hide the details displayed along with each web page thus helping you to view more results per page. Google Notebook search Google Notebook helps us easily clip web content, add notes or comments and store\it online. Also, one can make her notebook public and share the contents with others. Now, Google has started a search service for finding information available on publicnotebooks.With Google Notebook search service (http://www.google.com/notebook/search) you may find lots of valuable information.However, this search service has generated some controversy as many people store private information on notebooks and share it without realising the implications.Decipho (http://decipho.com/) is another search service explored by this author.Besides the normal web search, this service has additional features contributed byits users. When you invoke a search,you can specify whether it is for shopping or research or both. Another feature is the subject-specific clustering of the results. For instance, if you start a search on statistics,the service presents you categories such as Statistics online, Glossary of statistics, Stats and Math Statistics. The search engine Hakia(http://www.hakia.com/),scheduled to activate its full operation sometime in 2007, seems to be a promising search tool. The beta version is available for testing its potential.One distinction of this service relates to question/answer facility. By framing good questions, you could obtain appropriate answers. In this regard, you can use the service along with other question/answer services such as Brainboost. Also, for certainqueries, Hakia providescategorised results. CometQuery (http://www.cometquery.com/) is yet another addition to the search tool landscape.With each of the links in the output, the service displays its screenshot as well.Open source journals As mentioned in the past,lots of open access repositories on a range of subjects that include Science, Medicine,Engineering and Business are in place.An open access repository permits anyone to access and use its content for free. Open- DOAR, the Directory of Open Access Repositories (http:// www.opendoar.org/index.html) is a good place to locate several such open content sources.To help you access the content stored on various repositories available on its list, OpenDOAR has recently assembled a search service using Googles new search tool, Google CSE.For more details: http://www.opendoar.org/search.php. Champeswar Mishra, Library and Information Centre (LIC) Indian Institute Of Management,Kozhikode IIM Campus P.O., Kunnamagalam, Kerla , India, pin-673571 Phone no- 0495-2809143 -147,148 Fax: +91-495-2803010-11 Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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Various news items from Inderscence
by MacLeod, Roderick A 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Here are some news items from Inderscience Publishers which may interest members of lis-forum 1. An RSS feed of Calls For Papers for special issues published by Inderscience is now available: http://www.inderscience.com/rss/calls.php <http://www.inderscience.com/rss/calls.php> 2. A New Articles Channel gives details of the latest articles published in Inderscience journals: http://www.inderscience.com/rss/rss.php <http://www.inderscience.com/rss/rss.php> 3. The Inderscience News Blog http://inderscience.blogspot.com/ gives information about new journal titles, new issues of the Highlights newsletter, Calls for papers, announcement of inaugural issues, contents of special issues, selective editorials, and more. 4. You can Search the full-text of 11978 articles in 143 Inderscience Journals at: http://www.inderscience.com/search/index.php?action=moreSearch 5. Inderscience has just launched a new journal: International Journal of Human Factors Modelling and Simulation (IJHFMS) http://www.inderscience.com/ijhfms <http://www.inderscience.com/ijhfms> ISSN (Online): 1742-5557 ISSN (Print): 1742-5549 IJHFMS will have particular focus on the following: * Human factors theory as related to computational models of human performance and interaction with virtual environments * Simulator-based evaluations of human factors issues * Computer simulation of human behaviour and performance * Digital human modelling and simulation * Developments in simulation and virtual environments to address human factors and ergonomics issues * Human performance modelling * Simulation of physiological behaviour, measures, and predictions Readership: IJHFMS is an archival record of original technical publications. The intent is to provide state of the art knowledge to professionals in human factors, ergonomics, animation, modelling and simulation of humans and human factors, academics, researchers, policy makers, and designers. Editor in Chief: Dr. Karim A. Malek Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering The University of Iowa Iowa City IA 52242 USA amalek(a)engineering.uiowa.edu <mailto:amalek@engineering.uiowa.edu> Content available by subscription. Abstracts available online. Articles available in HTML and PDF format. Current Issue: Volume 1 No 1 2006 Roddy MacLeod Here are some news items from Inderscience Publishers which may interest members of lis-forum 1. An RSS feed of Calls For Papers for special issues published by Inderscience is now available: http://www.inderscience.com/rss/calls.php http://www.inderscience.com/rss/calls.php 2. A New Articles Channel gives details of the latest articles published in Inderscience journals: http://www.inderscience.com/rss/rss.php http://www.inderscience.com/rss/rss.php 3. The Inderscience News Blog http://inderscience.blogspot.com/ http://inderscience.blogspot.com/ gives information about new journal titles, new issues of the Highlights newsletter, Calls for papers, announcement of inaugural issues, contents of special issues, selective editorials, and more. 4. You can Search the full-text of 11978 articles in 143 Inderscience Journals at: http://www.inderscience.com/search/index.php?action=moreSearch http://www.inderscience.com/search/index.php?action=moreSearch 5. Inderscience has just launched a new journal: International Journal of Human Factors Modelling and Simulation (IJHFMS) http://www.inderscience.com/ijhfms http://www.inderscience.com/ijhfms ISSN (Online): 1742-5557 ISSN (Print): 1742-5549 IJHFMS will have particular focus on the following: * Human factors theory as related to computational models of human performance and interaction with virtual environments * Simulator-based evaluations of human factors issues * Computer simulation of human behaviour and performance * Digital human modelling and simulation * Developments in simulation and virtual environments to address human factors and ergonomics issues * Human performance modelling * Simulation of physiological behaviour, measures, and predictions Readership: IJHFMS is an archival record of original technical publications. The intent is to provide state of the art knowledge to professionals in human factors, ergonomics, animation, modelling and simulation of humans and human factors, academics, researchers, policy makers, and designers. Editor in Chief: Dr. Karim A. Malek Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering The University of Iowa Iowa City IA 52242 USA mailto:amalek@engineering.uiowa.edu amalek(a)engineering.uiowa.edu Content available by subscription. Abstracts available online. Articles available in HTML and PDF format. Current Issue: Volume 1 No 1 2006 Roddy MacLeod

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ICSD-2007 :: Extended Deadline for Early Bird Registration
by Dr. A.R.D. Prasad 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Apologies if you received multiple copies of this message. ============================================= ========== ICSD-2007 Call For Participation Early Bird Registration is now open till 25th January, 2007 (Hard deadline) ========== ============================================= INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMANTIC WEB & DIGITAL LIBRARIES February 21-23, 2007 (http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/icsd) Bangalore, India Conference Venue: NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore ==== | TUTORIAL SPEAKERS & TOPICS ==== # Dr. Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead "Introduction to the Semantic Web" # Dr. Anupriya Ankolekar, Research Associate, AIFB Institute, University of Karlsruhe, Germany "Semantic Technologies for Digital Libraries" # Mr. Anurag Arora, (Coordinator - Digitization) & Mr. Vaibhav Chauhan, (Conservator), National Mission for Manuscripts, New Delhi, India "Digitization and Conservation of Manuscripts" # Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, India "Digitization and Digital Preservation of Indian Cultural Hertitage" ==== | PLENARY SPEAKER ==== # Prof. Fausto Giunchiglia, Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento, Italy ==== | INVITED SPEAKERS ==== # Prof. Peter Schirmbacher, Institut for Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft, University of Humboldt, Berlin, Germany # Prof. Frederick Friend, JISC Scholarly Communication Consultant, Honorary Director Scholarly Communication UCL, England # Dr. Johannes Keizer, Library & Documentation System Division, Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO), Italy # Prof. Michael Shepherd, Dept of Computer Science, University of Dalhousie, Canada ==== | REGISTRATION ==== To avail early bird registration price, please register on or before 25th January, 2007. * Early Bird registration: Till 25th January, 2007 Rs. 4000 (Indian & SAARC Delegates) ; USD 150 (Foreign Delegates other than SAARC) * Late Registration: 26th January, 2007 onwards Rs. 5000 (Indian & SAARC Delegates); USD 175 (Foreign Delegates other than SAARC) * Tutorial: Rs.1000 (Indian & SAARC Delegates); USD 40 (Foreign Delegates other than SAARC) Note: Registration Fee includes conference kit, tea/coffee and working lunch +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Registration form is available for download at http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/icsd/icsd-files/icsd_registration_form.doc Kindly post the filled-in registration forms to the address below: Dr. A.R.D. Prasad Convenor, ICSD 2007 DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), 8th Mile, Mysore Road, R.V. College Post, Bangalore, Karnataka (India) Pin - 560059 Electronic copy of registration form duly filled and signed can be sent to icsd(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in, but official copy should also be sent by regular mail. Please note: The Demand Draft (DD) Should be made in favour of Indian Statisitcal Institute, payable at Bangalore. Outstation cheques should include additional transaction fee. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Dr. A.R.D. Prasad Convenor ICSD-2007 DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore INDIA

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one terabyte drive
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 21:40:44 +0530 From: Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy <vyasamoorthy(a)gmail.com> Here comes the terabyte hard drive With a terabyte drive, consumers can store 250,000 MP3 songs. That's enough for two solid years of listening without a single repeat. For details, visit, http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6147409.html -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631 66 A torn book is better than a never touched book.

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European Resaearch Council keen to mandate open access
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 10:05:13 -0800 (PST) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> >From "Open Access News" ERC pledges to adopt an OA mandate The Scientific Council of the European Research Council has issued a Statement on Open Access (December 2006). For full story, visit: http://erc.europa.eu/pdf/open-access.pdf

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Copyright addenda
by Subbiah Arunachalam 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Friends: Whenever an author publishes a paper in a journal the publishes sends a copyright agreement form, which is often restrictive, and would not allow the author to eithera archive his paper in his institutional archive or even use a table or figure in his lecture notes or a book he wants o write without levying a fee! To overcome this ridiculous situation the author could modify the copyright agreement using one of the fillowing addenda, says Peter Suber. Librarian friends may please alert scientists they serve. There are many different author addenda but in my view these are the best: SPARC Author's Addendum http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/addendum.html Science Commons Scholar's Copyright project http://sciencecommons.org/literature/scholars_copyright SURF-JISC License to Publish http://www.surf.nl/copyrighttoolbox/authors/licence/ Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Website for Free Software
by Farooque Shaheen 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Like softpedia.org and download.com,http://www.freewarefiles.com, hosts a huge collection of free-to-use utilities; complete with ratings and user recommendations. The resource is neatly divided in to sections including games, audio-video, Internet tools, business, graphic design, programming, Web development, screensavers, utilities, themes, drivers, etc. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 Like softpedia.org and download.com,http://www.freewarefiles.com, hosts a huge collection of free-to-use utilities; complete with ratings and user recommendations. The resource is neatly divided in to sections including games, audio-video, Internet tools, business, graphic design, programming, Web development, screensavers, utilities, themes, drivers, etc. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105

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Librairans World
by Pranaykumar D (Soft-AID Computers P.Ltd.) 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Hello All, I have come across a very Interesting website www.librariansworld.com hope it will intrest you too. Thanks & Regards, Pranaykumar Soft-AID (Bangalore) 080-23464717 / 23444860 9844278564 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Information transmitted by this EMAIL is proprietary to Soft-AID and is intended for use only by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient of this EMAIL immediately notify the sender at Soft-AID or mail admin(a)softaid.co.in and delete this EMAIL including any attachments. Hello All, I have come across a very Interesting website http://www.librariansworld.com www.librariansworld.com hope it will intrest you too. Thanks & Regards, Pranaykumar Soft-AID (Bangalore) 080-23464717 / 23444860 9844278564 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Information transmitted by this EMAIL is proprietary to Soft-AID and is intended for use only by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient of this EMAIL immediately notify the sender at Soft-AID or mail mailto:admin@softaid.co.in admin(a)softaid.co.in and delete this EMAIL including any attachments.

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Open Access Repositories over the World
by Sanjeev Kumar Jain 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Dear LIS Professionals and Managers The *Open*DOAR <http://www.opendoar.org/index.html> service provides a quality-assured listing of open access repositories around the world. *Open*DOAR staff harvest and assign metadata to allow categorisation and analysis to assist the wider use and exploitation of repositories. Each of the repositories has been visited by *Open*DOAR staff to ensure a high degree of quality and consistency in the information provided: *Open*DOAR is maintained by SHERPA. Service Aims of *Open*DOAR <http://www.opendoar.org/index.html> *Survey the growing field of academic open access research repositories and categorise them in terms of locale, content and other measures. * *Produce a descriptive list of open access repositories of relevance to academic research. * *Provide a comprehensive & authoritative list for end users wishing to find particular types of, or specific repositories. * *Deliver a comprehensive, structured and maintained list with clear update and self-regulation protocols to enable development of the list. * *Play a prominent international role in the organisation of and access to open access repository services. * *Support Open Access outreach and advocacy endeavours within institutions and globally. * .......................................................... Sanjeev Kumar Jain Central Library Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur - 721 302 Mobile: +91-97328-95328 ----------------------------------------------------------- sanjeevmlis(a)gmail.com sanjeevmlis(a)yahoo.co.in [A] Dear LIS Professionals and Managers The http://www.opendoar.org/index.html Open DOAR service provides a quality-assured listing of open access repositories around the world. Open DOAR staff harvest and assign metadata to allow categorisation and analysis to assist the wider use and exploitation of repositories. Each of the repositories has been visited by Open DOAR staff to ensure a high degree of quality and consistency in the information provided: Open DOAR is maintained by SHERPA. Service Aims of Open DOAR http://www.opendoar.org/index.html Survey the growing field of academic open access research repositories and categorise them in terms of locale, content and other measures. Produce a descriptive list of open access repositories of relevance to academic research. Provide a comprehensive & authoritative list for end users wishing to find particular types of, or specific repositories. Deliver a comprehensive, structured and maintained list with clear update and self-regulation protocols to enable development of the list. Play a prominent international role in the organisation of and access to open access repository services. Support Open Access outreach and advocacy endeavours within institutions and globally. .......................................................... Sanjeev Kumar Jain Central Library Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur - 721 302 Mobile: +91-97328-95328 ----------------------------------------------------------- mailto:sanjeevmlis@gmail.com sanjeevmlis(a)gmail.com mailto:sanjeevmlis@yahoo.co.in sanjeevmlis(a)yahoo.co.in

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Request for article
by Manju C 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

I am Manju C now I joined for MPhil Course in Library and Information Science and I selected the topic "Webometrics" So i Need one article That is Published in Annals of Library and Information Studies entitled Webometric study of LIbrary and Information Science Literature Published IN vol. 49 No.1 if any one have that article please send me Thanking you Manju C Librarian Miranda College of Nursing Bangalore Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php I am Manju C now I joined for MPhil Course in Library and Information Science and I selected the topic "Webometrics" So i Need one article That is Published in Annals of Library and Information Studies entitled Webometric study of LIbrary and Information Science Literature Published IN vol. 49 No.1 if any one have that article please send me Thanking you Manju C Librarian Miranda College of Nursing Bangalore Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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The American Physical Society Provides Open Access to Articles
by noufal palliparamban 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hello, It is very intresting news for us.... The American Physical Society (APS) has recently announced a program where most of their articles can be made publicly available to anyone who wishes to read them. In order for an article to be made "Free to Read," the APS requires a modest fee ($975/Physical Review article and $1300/Physical Review Letter article), which anyone can pay, and the article will then be available for download by the general public for free. This does not mean that the APS surrenders the copyright to these articles, nor can they be posted on any other websites without prior permission. Source: http://www.omninerd.com/2007/01/04/news/1086 Regards Noufal.P.P IIT Kanpur Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php Hello, It is very intresting news for us.... The American Physical Society ( http://www.aps.org/ APS ) has recently http://prl.aps.org/edannounce/PRLv97i11.html announced a program where most of their articles can be made publicly available to anyone who wishes to read them. In order for an article to be made "Free to Read," the APS requires a modest fee ($975/Physical Review article and $1300/Physical Review Letter article), which http://publish.aps.org/FREETOREAD_FAQ.html anyone can pay , and the article will then be available for download by the general public for free. This does not mean that the APS surrenders the copyright to these articles, nor can they be posted on any other websites without prior permission. Source: http://www.omninerd.com/2007/01/04/news/1086 http://www.omninerd.com/2007/01/04/news/1086 Regards Noufal.P.P IIT Kanpur Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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Library MIS
by Parinita Samant 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Dear All, I would like to request some help from you all. How does one generate an MIS report for the library? Has anyone worked on this? What has been your experience? Could you share it with me? Thanks & Regards Parinita Samant *************************************************************************************************************************** This e-mail communication and any attachments may be privileged and confidential to Hexaware and are intended only for the use of the recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not review, disclose, disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and attachments. If you have received this email in error, please delete the same alongwith all attachments thereto and notify us immediately at mailadmin(a)hexaware.com . *************************************************************************************************************************** Library MIS Dear All, I would like to request some help from you all. How does one generate an MIS report for the library? Has anyone worked on this? What has been your experience? Could you share it with me? [A] Thanks &� Regards � Parinita Samant *************************************************************************************************************************** This e-mail communication and any attachments may be privileged and confidential to Hexaware and are intended only for the use of the recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not review, disclose, disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and attachments. If you have received this email in error, please delete the same alongwith all attachments thereto and notify us immediately at mailadmin(a)hexaware.com . ***************************************************************************************************************************

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Library Outside Library
by Mailing List Manager 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:57:40 +0530 From: bhagyashree sane <bjsane(a)gmail.com> We implemented a project titled 'Library Outside Library' during 2003. Under the four headings, 'Isaac Newton (Science) Library, is a collection of 8" reflector telescope and a set of binoculars for bird watching etc. We conduct Sky Waching Sessions during Octobers to May every year with the help of experts from Sky Watchers Association of Pune [SWAP]. Sant Tukaram (Music) Library contains set of musical instruments that are used by the participants, campus residents for cultural programmes. We have also conducted 'Alert' sessions like 'Handwrititing analysis' by Madhusudan Ghanekar, 'Arunachal Pradesh' - Slide show by K.P.Tokear during last year. One may visit our academy for references. With Regards, Mrs.B.J.SANE Chief Librarian national insurance academy balewadi, baner road, nia po Pune 411 045

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SIS-24th National Convention and Conference.
by rajesh bhardwaj 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Dear Professionals, Society for Information Science (SIS) is going to organize its 24th National Convention and Conference on "Organizing and Managing Knowledge in Digital Enivironment" on 27th January, 2007 at Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management - Delhi, shastri Sadan, Sector - 3 R.K.Puram ND-110022. More details available at http://sis-india.netfirms.com with kind regards -- Rajesh Kr. Bhardwaj Assistant Librarian, Delhi College of Engineering, Bawana Road- Delhi 110042 M-9213567224, Off-011-27871018- Ext- 2203 http://www.rajweb.name and http://www.dce.edu/library Dear Professionals, Society for Information Science (SIS) is going to organize its 24th National Convention and Conference on "Organizing and Managing Knowledge in Digital Enivironment" on 27th January, 2007 at Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management - Delhi, shastri Sadan, Sector - 3 R.K.Puram ND-110022. More details available at http://sis-india.netfirms.com/ http://sis-india.netfirms.com with kind regards -- Rajesh Kr. Bhardwaj Assistant Librarian, Delhi College of Engineering, Bawana Road- Delhi 110042 M-9213567224, Off-011-27871018- Ext- 2203 http://www.rajweb.name http://www.rajweb.name and http://www.dce.edu/library http://www.dce.edu/library

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Workshop on Greenstone Digital Library Software
by Gowri Ravindranth 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Dear Friends: We solicit your participation in 3-Day Regional Workshop on Greenstone Digital Library Software Organized by Department of Library Services Christian Medical College Vellore & Madras Library Association, Chennai February 8 - 10, 2007 at CHTC Auditorium, Christian Medical College Bagayam Campus About Christian Medical College , Vellore The Christian Medical College began in 1918, when Dr. Scudder started training women for the Licentiate Diploma (LMP). Here first batch of medical students achieved a 100 percent pass in the examinations. In 1942, the medical school was raised to the status of a college and 25 students were admitted to the MBBS course. The first men students were admitted to the college in 1947. Permanent affiliation to the University of Madras was obtained in 1950. From 1953 onwards 50 students were admitted, 25 men and 25 women and in 1964 the annual admissions were increased to 60. In 1988, the affiliation of this institution was transferred from the University of Madras to the newly established Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University . In 2001, the National Assessment and Accreditation Council, an autonomous institution of the University Grants Commission awarded a five star rating to the institution. The Postgraduate training programmes continue to be added as newer branches of medicine develop. At present, there are postgraduate diploma courses in 11 specialities and postgraduate degree courses in 35 specialities. This institution has been a pioneer in India in the development of higher specialities like cardiology, Thoracic Surgery, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Urology, Nephrology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology and Haematology. About MALA Chennai The library movement in the former Madras Presidency originated as part of the national movement for political freedom and social development. The fifth All India Library Conference was held in Madras , along with the Congress session, during the last week of December 1927. As a followup to the deliberations of this conference, through the initiative of Mr. K.V. Krishnanswamy Aiyar and Dr. S.R. Ranganathan, the Madras Library Association (MALA) was founded on 31st January 1928 . MALA continues to accomplish its library promotional initiatives through lecture- demos, conferences, seminars, workshops, exhibitions, discussion forums. Introduction The digital age has ushered in significant changes in the information space in terms of operations, collection development strategies, services, and user preferences. The current information environment unequivocally prompts libraries to leverage on the latest digital technologies towards building practical digital libraries and in setting up dynamic electronic information systems. Digital Libraries (DL) are structured storage environments of digital data with a consistent format for index and content abstraction. Digital libraries do enable the seamless integration of the scholarly electronic information, help in creating and maintaining local digital content, and strengthen the mechanisms and the capacity of the librarys information systems and services. They increase the portability, efficiency of access, flexibility, availability and preservation of digital objects. Open Digital Library (ODL) technologies are gaining attention the world over. Without proper understanding of the complexities, procedures and practices involved in content building, content management and collection building, individual DLs will remain islands of structure in an unstructured Internet sea. Todays information / IT professional must be capable of leveraging the new technology to its fullest extent. Objectives The objective of the Workshop is to conduct a 3- day rigorous training programme on Digital Libraries using the Open Source Software Greenstone at Christian Medical College (CMC) Vellore organized in collaboration with Madras Library Association (MALA). Rationale Developing world standard digital libraries demand deployment of costly software solutions which are beyond the reach of most of the universities/ institutions in India and those in the Asian region. The Greenstone Digital Library Software (GSDL) is a top of the line and internationally renowned software system for developing digital libraries, promoted by the New Zealand Digital Library project research group at the University of Waikato . Greenstone is developed and distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and the Human Info NGO. It is open source software, issued under the terms of the GNU General Public License. The aim of the software is to empower users, particularly in universities, libraries, and other public service institutions, to build their own digital libraries. More details of the software and example digital libraries built using the software is available at http://www.greenstone.org/ http://www.greenstone.org/ . Workshop Content The Workshop has been designed to facilitate the participants in creating state-of-art digital libraries using Greenstone, which include software installation, configuration, customization, digitization and other related workflow operations, content development and management, designing and creating standard metadata sets to describe digital objects and encoding it in standard markup formats. Pedagogy The workshop will be conducted at the Christian Medical College Vellore (CMC) which is equipped with world-class lecture rooms and computing laboratories with high speed Internet link. For lab sessions, each participant will be provided a PC supplemented with LCD projected live demos. The pedagogy will be a mix of lectures, discussions, case studies and hands-on sessions. Each participant shall be provided with a CD comprising of the Greenstone Software, faculty presentations, and other related software packages. Extensive hands-on labs will be a hall mark of this programme. Target Audience The workshop will be of immense benefit to all those involved in developing and maintaining digital collections such as librarians and information professionals, including software professionals belonging to the academia, Government and NGOs. Workshop Faculty Dr M.G. Sreekumar, UNESCO Coordinator, Greenstone Support Network South Asia and Librarian & Head, Center for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL), IIM, Kozhikode (IIMK). Ms. K. T. Anuradha, Scientific Officer, NCSI, IISC, Bangalore . Workshop Coordinators Dr. A. Amudhavalli, President, MALA & Professor & Head, Dept. of Information Science, University of Madras , Chennai, 600 005. email: mailto:amudha75@yahoo.com amudha75(a)yahoo.com & Mr. V. Newton, Senior Librarian & Head, Dept. of Library Services, CMC Vellore - 632 004. e-mail: mailto:newton@cmcvellore.ac.in newton(a)cmcvellore.ac.in Workshop Effect At the end of the workshop, the participants are expected to be well-versed and confident of developing digital libraries using the Greenstone software. Follow-up Follow-up support shall be extended through the CDDL of IIMK. Registration Fee A fee of Rs. 1500 ( without accommodation ) or Rs. 2500 (with accommodation) will be charged from the participants. Workshop Participants The participants are limited to 30. Selection of candidates will be made as per merit, commitment to DLs and familiarity with IT applications in libraries. Applications/ nominations should reach the CMC, Vellore , Library Office on or before Jan. 25, 2007 . Participants, while applying, shall give a brief statement of interest in Greenstone, major objectives of attending the workshop as well as their expectations from the programme. Dates and Venue The workshop will be held during February 8 to 10, 2007 at CHTC Auditorium , CMC Bagayam Campus, Vellore ( http://dodd.cmcvellore.ac.in/rwgsdl.htm http://dodd.cmcvellore.ac.in/rwgsdl.htm ) Inquiries or contact Mr. V. Newton, Senior Librarian & Head CMC Vellore 632 004, Tamilnadu , INDIA . e-mail: dodd(a)cmcvellore.ac.in Ms. R. Gowri, Secretary, MALA e-mail: mailto:gravindranth@hotmail.com gravindranth(a)hotmail.com About Vellore Vellore is a town bisected by the Palar river, one of many tributaries of the life giving Cauvery flowing west to east in south India . Vellore is famous for its historic Fort constructed in the 13th Century, and has the hallmark of grandeur with its double-walled fortress with a massive moat and high gateways that lead to the gigantic Jalakandeswarar temple with its ornate Kalyana Mandapam in the interior. Vellore itself has a place in India 's history of independence, since it is here that the first movement to free India was initiated by the Vellore Sepoy Mutiny some 200 years back, on 9th July 1806 . LAST DATE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATION: January 25, 2007 Registration Form CMC VELLORE MALA CHENNAI 3-Day Regional Workshop on Greenstone Digital Library Software February 8 10, 2007 REGISTRATION FORM Name _______________________________________ _____________________ Residential / Non-residential. Male / Female Address for communication _______________________________________ _______________________________________ ___________________________ _______________________________________ ___________________________ City ________________________________ Pin Tel :(O) ________________ (R) _________________ Fax_________________ Email _______________________________________ _____________________ Name of Institution/Organization ____________________________________ _______________________________________ ___________________________ Designation _______________________________________ _______________ Details of advance paid: D D No. _______________ Drawn in favour of CMC Vellore Association payable at Vellore dated ___________ for Rs _______/- only Signature of Participant _______________________________________ With best wishes, Sincerely, L R Gowri Secretary, MALA Spice up your IM conversations. New, colorful and animated emoticons. http://g.msn.com/8HMBENIN/2752??PS=47575 Get chatting!

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Source Code for Biology and Medicine
by Subbiah Arunachalam 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

For the attention of all new biologists. Please spread the word. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --------------------- Source Code for Biology and Medicine <http://www.scfbm.org/> Editors-in-Chief: Emmanuel Ifeachor (United Kingdom) and Leif Peterson (United States) Dear Colleague, We are pleased to announce that Source Code for Biology and Medicine has now been launched and is freely available online <http://www.scfbm.org/>. Source Code for Biology and Medicine is an open access <http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/charter>, peer-reviewed online journal that publishes articles on source code employed over a wide range of applications in biology and medicine. Several articles that might be interesting to you have already been published: Editorial Welcome to Source Code for Biology and Medicine <http://www.scfbm.org/content/1/1/1> Leif E Peterson and Emmanuel C Ifeachor Source Code for Biology and Medicine 2006, 1:1 (12 October 2006) Research A traveling salesman approach for predicting protein functions <http://www.scfbm.org/content/1/1/3> Olin Johnson and Jing Liu Source Code for Biology and Medicine 2006, 1:3 (12 October 2006) Methodology DADOS-Prospective: an open source application for Web-based prospective data collection <http://www.scfbm.org/content/1/1/7> Lam Nguyen, Anand Shah, Matthew Harker, Henrique Martins, Mariana McCready, Andreia Menezes, Danny O Jacobs and Ricardo Pietrobon Source Code for Biology and Medicine 2006, 1:7 (13 November 2006) To keep up to date with the latest articles from Source Code for Biology and Medicine, why not register to receive article alerts <http://www.scfbm.org/alerts/> when new research is published? Submit your research to Source Code for Biology and Medicine and take advantage of a rapid, high quality peer-review service, an efficient online submission process, no colour charges or limits on the number of figures, and immediate publication upon acceptance. The published version of your article will be immediately placed in PubMed Central and other freely accessible full-text repositories, making it highly visible to fellow researchers and a general audience worldwide. This complies with the NIH Public Access Policy <http://publicaccess.nih.gov/> and the Wellcome Trust Open Access Policy <http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/node3302.html>. To enable the journal to make all of its content open access, Source Code for Biology and Medicine will levy an article-processing charge for each manuscript accepted after peer review (payable on acceptance <http://www.scfbm.org/info/faq/apcfaq.asp>). Please submit your manuscript via our online submission system <http://www.scfbm.org/manuscript/login/man.asp?txt_nav=chk&>. For more information about the journal, contact peterson.leif(a)ieee.org or visit our instructions for authors <http://www.scfbm.org/info/instructions/>. Yours sincerely, Emmanuel Ifeachor and Leif Peterson The Editors-in-Chief, Source Code for Biology and Medicine <http://www.scfbm.org/info/contact/> ----------------------------------------------------------------- Editors-in-Chief Emmanuel Ifeachor (United Kingdom) Leif Peterson (United States) Editorial Board Generoso Bevilacqua (Italy) Elia Biganzoli (Italy) Ramón Cacabelos (Spain) Xue-wen Chen (United States) Matthew Coleman (United States) Anne Denton (United States) Jose Fonseca (Portugal) Paolo Frasconi (Italy) Jonathan Garibaldi (United Kingdom) Owen Hoffman (United States) Jung-chang Huang (United States) Vasily Leonov (Russian Federation) Paulo Lisboa (United Kingdom) Francesco Masulli (Italy) Rita Noumeir (Canada) Lucila Ohno-Machado (United States) Silvano Paoli (Italy) Giovanni Parmigiani (United States) Ioannis Pitas (Greece) Edward Sarkisyan-Grinbaum (Switzerland) Scott Smith (United States) Roberto Tagliaferri (Italy) Manuel Ujaldon (Spain) Staal Vinterbo (United States) Michalis Zervakis (Greece) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Open access biomedical journals
by Ajay Kum Sharma 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Dear Library Professionals *Medknow* is the largest publisher in India for academic and scientific biomedical journals. Medknow Publications publishes high quality peer-reviewed scholarly journals. All of these journals provide immediate free access to the full text of articles. The open access policy of the journals aims at increasing the visibility and accessibility of the published content. Most of these journals are indexed with important bibliographic databases including Index Medicus and EMBASE. The unique feature of these journals is immediate full text access without the author/author institution pay model. These journals are searchable from DOAJ (www.doaj.org) and are part of HINARI ( http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/browse_journal_publisher.php?pub=95) The complete list of journals is available from www.medknow.com/journals.asp. All the journals use the OpenURL standard, making it easy for libraries to link users as directly as possible from citation to the full text of the article. I shall appreciate on behalf of all Library professionals if you could circulate this mail for the benefit of your users. Thanking you With regards Ajay Kumar Sharma Project Associate, INDEST-AICTE Consortium Central Library, IIT Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016 011-26591467 (O) 09899339808 (M) Web: http://www.geocities.com/ajaysharma_lib/ Dear Library Professionals Medknow is the largest publisher in India for academic and scientific biomedical journals. Medknow Publications publishes high quality peer-reviewed scholarly journals. All of these journals provide immediate free access to the full text of articles. The open access policy of the journals aims at increasing the visibility and accessibility of the published content. Most of these journals are indexed with important bibliographic databases including Index Medicus and EMBASE. The unique feature of these journals is immediate full text access without the author/author institution pay model. These journals are searchable from DOAJ ( http://www.doaj.org/ www.doaj.org ) and are part of HINARI ( http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/browse_journal_publisher.php?pub=95 http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/browse_journal_publisher.php?pub=95 ). The complete list of journals is available from http://www.medknow.com/journals.asp www.medknow.com/journals.asp . All the journals use the OpenURL standard, making it easy for libraries to link users as directly as possible from citation to the full text of the article. I shall appreciate on behalf of all Library professionals if you could circulate this mail for the benefit of your users. Thanking you With regards Ajay Kumar Sharma Project Associate, INDEST-AICTE Consortium Central Library, IIT Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016 011-26591467 (O) 09899339808 (M) Web: http://www.geocities.com/ajaysharma_lib/ http://www.geocities.com/ajaysharma_lib/

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How to go to M.I.T. for free
by Subbiah Arunachalam 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

>From Christian Science Monitor, 4 January 2007 How to go to M.I.T. for free Online 'intellectual philanthropy' attracts students from every nation on earth. By Gregory M. Lamb | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor By the end of this year, the contents of all 1,800 courses taught at one of the world's most prestigious universities will be available online to anyone in the world, anywhere in the world. Learners won't have to register for the classes, and everyone is accepted. The cost? It's all free of charge. The OpenCourseWare movement, begun at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2002 and now spread to some 120 other universities worldwide, aims to disperse knowledge far beyond the ivy-clad walls of elite campuses to anyone who has an Internet connection and a desire to learn. Intended as an act of "intellectual philanthropy," OpenCourseWare (OCW) provides free access to course materials such as syllabi, video or audio lectures, notes, homework assignments, illustrations, and so on. So far, by giving away their content, the universities aren't discouraging students from enrolling as students. Instead, the online materials appear to be only whetting appetites for more. "We believe strongly that education can be best advanced when knowledge is shared openly and freely," says Anne Margulies, executive director of the OCW program at MIT. "MIT is using the power of the Internet to give away all of the educational materials created here." The MIT site (ocw.mit.edu) along with companion sites that translate the material into other languages, now average about 1.4 million visits per month from learners "in every single country on the planet," Ms. Margulies says. Those include Iraq, Darfur, "even Antarctica," she says. "We hear from [the online students] all the time with inspirational stories about how they are using these materials to change their lives. They're really, really motivated." So-called "distance learning" over the Internet isn't new. Students have been able to pay for online courses at many institutions, either to receive credit or simply as a noncredit adult-learning experience. Many universities also offer free podcasts (audio or sometimes video material delivered via the Internet). But the sheer volume and variety of the educational materials being released by MIT and its OCW collaborators is nothing less than stunning. For example, each of the 29 courses that Tufts University in Medford, Mass., has put online so far is "literally the size of a textbook," says Mary Lee, associate provost and point person for the OCW effort there. The material provides much more than "a skeleton of a course," she says. Visitors to Tufts' OCW course on "Wildlife Medicine" call it is the most comprehensive website on that topic in the world, Dr. Lee says. What OCW is not, its supporters agree, is a substitute for attending a university. For one thing, OCW learners aren't able to receive feedback from a professor - or to discuss the course with fellow students. A college education is "really the total package of students interacting with other students, forming networks, interacting with faculty, and that whole environment of being associated with the school," says James Yager, a senior associate dean at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He oversees the OCW program there. His school of public health now offers nearly 40 of its most popular courses for free via OCW. The school's goal is to put 90 to 100 of its 200 or so core courses online within the next year or so. In November, learners from places such as Taiwan, Britain, Australia, Singapore, Germany, Japan, and the Netherlands logged some 80,000 page views of OCW course material, Dr. Yager says. MIT's initiative began with the idea of giving faculty at other universities access to how professors at MIT approached teaching a subject. But after the OCW project went online, the school quickly realized it had two other huge constituencies: students at other colleges, who wanted to augment what they were learning, and "self learners," those not pursuing a formal education but interested in increasing their knowledge. Along with course content, MIT also wanted to showcase its teaching methods. Many schools follow a traditional model, teaching the theory first, then allowing students to practice what they've learned. MIT has a "practice, theory, practice" way of teaching, Margulies says, that aims to get students engaged and energized immediately - before delving much into theory. Younes Attaourti, a physics professor in Marrakesh, Morocco, stumbled upon MIT's OCW site while surfing the Net. He's used the materials as the basis for courses he's taught on statistical physics and quantum theory of fields. And for his own learning, he's downloaded theoretical physics courses and one on ultrafast optics. "I don't think there is another university elsewhere in the world that is more generous," he writes in an e-mail: "[T]his is the first time that many people around the world are able to have access to top-quality courses." Phillipa Williams is an adult (40-something) student at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, studying mathematics ("don't groan, I love it!" she writes in an e-mail). She's worked her way through many of the OCW undergraduate mathematics courses, she says, because they provide "a different viewpoint, another explanation of material," as well as different practice questions. MIT's OCW website features even more glowing feedback from learners. "[B]ecause of money, many good students with great talent and [who are] diligent do not have the chance to learn the newest knowledge and understanding of the universe," says Chen Zhiying, a student in the People's Republic of China. "But now, due to the OCW, the knowledge will spread to more and more people, and it will benefit the whole [world of] human-beings." "The MIT OCW program is a generous and far-sighted initiative that will do more to change the world for the better than a thousand Iraq-style invasions," the MIT site quotes Leigh Pascoe, a self-learner in Paris, as saying. "It does much to restore my faith in the enlightenment of the American people and their great experiment in democracy. This program should be emulated by every university worthy of the name." Besides MIT, Tufts, and Johns Hopkins, the OCW consortium (ocwconsor tium.org) in the United States includes among its members Michigan State, Michigan, Notre Dame, and Utah State. Internationally, members include groups of universities in China, Japan, and Spain. So far MIT has published 1,550 of its courses for OCW and plans to get the rest online by the end of this year. The materials for each course vary. Full videos of lectures, one of the most popular features, are available for only 26 courses, about 1,000 hours of video in all. "We'd like to do more video because it's really quite popular and our users love it," Marguiles says. "But it's quite expensive." The program relies on "generous support" from foundations, individuals, and MIT itself for funding, she says. Schools like Tufts and Johns Hopkins were able to jump-start their OCW programs quickly because the schools had already committed themselves for many years to putting all their classroom materials online for use by their own students. The biggest job has been to vet the materials for copyright issues, so-called "copyright scrubbing," Lee and Yager say. If permission cannot be obtained for a specific photo or chart, it must be left out of the OCW version or a substitute found. The OCW effort is part of a wide range of dynamic educational content emerging on the Internet, says Dan Colman, associate dean and director of Stanford University's continuing studies program and host of the website oculture.com, which highlights what's happening in Web-based education, with an emphasis on podcasts. Full-fledged online courses "might eventually offer a viable alternative to the classroom, but right now we have a ways to go," he writes via e-mail. Podcasts, for example, let learners hear a lecture, but they don't require that the listener write a critical essay or take part in a classroom discussion - activities that are a key element of the learning process, Mr. Colman says. And technology still needs to advance a bit more too. "We'll need a very fast fiber network and communication tools that give courses a greater degree of immediacy and sociability before this [online] model will become a real option educationally and economically," he says. "In the meantime, the traditional classroom is fairly safe." For example, lab work, which usually requires close hands-on collaboration between an instructor and students, remains problematic online, Yager points out. The losers in putting free content online aren't likely to be universities, which will continue to attract young students, Colman says. But free podcasts and OCW courses may pull adult learners away from other leisure activities, he says, such as reading books, watching educational television shows, or buying recordings of books or lectures. "All of these entities could suffer as users find free high-quality information on the Web," Colman says. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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library software - e-granthalaya
by Wendessa Thakur 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Please provide feedback of personal experience using e-granthalaya software for library automation. If any medical / special libraries in Mumbai have installed this software, I would be interested to take a look at the functioning. Thanks. Wendessa Thakur Librarian Asian Heart Institute Bandra-Kurla Complex Bandra (E) Mumbai 400051

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One day workshop on IPR Awareness
by vimal kumar 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

ONE DAY WORKSHOP ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AWARENESS Sophisticated Test and Instrumentation Centre, Cochin University of Science and Technology will organise a one day workshop on Intellectual Property Rights Awareness on 16 January 2007. The workshop will begin at 9.00 a.m. and will go on till 5.00 p.m. The workshop is completely sponsored by the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment. Scientists, Engineers, Technologists, teachers, entrepreneurs, students etc. who are interested in Intellectual Property Rights are welcome to participate in the workshop. There are no restrictions on qualification, age or affiliation. The workshop will comprise of presentations on Intellectual Property Rights, including procedures to file patents. There is no registration fee for participation in the workshop. Working lunch and tea will be provided to participants. However, no TA/DA can be paid. Interested participants may apply in the enclosed format so as to reach the co-ordinator on or before 6th January 2007. Applications can be sent by e-mail or fax as well. The number of participants will be limited to 100 on a first come first served basis. Co-ordinator: Dr. Jacob Philip, Director, Sophisticated Test and Instrumentation Centre, Cochin 682 022 Telephone :0484-2575908,2576697,2575975 Fax :0484-2576699 E-mail :jp@cusat.ac.in Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AWARENESS Sophisticated Test and Instrumentation Centre, Cochin University of Science and Technology will organise a one day workshop on Intellectual Property Rights Awareness on 16 January 2007. The workshop will begin at 9.00 a.m. and will go on till 5.00 p.m. The workshop is completely sponsored by the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment. Scientists, Engineers, Technologists, teachers, entrepreneurs, students etc. who are interested in Intellectual Property Rights are welcome to participate in the workshop. There are no restrictions on qualification, age or affiliation. The workshop will comprise of presentations on Intellectual Property Rights, including procedures to file patents. There is no registration fee for participation in the workshop. Working lunch and tea will be provided to participants. However, no TA/DA can be paid. Interested participants may apply in the enclosed format so as to reach the co-ordinator on or before 6th January 2007. Applications can be sent by e-mail or fax as well. The number of participants will be limited to 100 on a first come first served basis. Co-ordinator: Dr. Jacob Philip, Director, Sophisticated Test and Instrumentation Centre, Cochin 682 022 Telephone :0484-2575908,2576697,2575975 Fax :0484-2576699 E-mail :jp@cusat.ac.in Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Librarians' Internet Index
by Sanjeev Kumar Jain 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hello Library and Information Professionals Librarians' Internet Index ( http://www.lii.org) Librarians' Internet Index (LII) is a publicly-funded website and weekly newsletter serving California, Washington state, the nation, and the world. Every Thursday morning we send out our free newsletter, New This Week, which features dozens of high-quality websites carefully selected, described, and organized by our team of librarians. Topics include current events and issues, holidays and seasons, helpful tools for information users, human interest, and more. You can subscribe to our newsletter by email or RSS, or read us on the Web. We have close to 40,000 subscribers, many from our funding states of California and Washington. You can also search and browse our website for the best of the Web. We have over 20,000 entries, also maintained by our librarians and organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics. .......................................... Sanjeev Kumar Jain Central Library Indian Institute Technolgy, Kharagpur-721302 (M) 09732695328 *sanjeevmlis(a)gmail.com * Hello Library and Information Professionals Librarians' Internet Index ( http://www.lii.org http://www.lii.org ) Librarians' Internet Index (LII) is a publicly-funded website and weekly newsletter serving California, Washington state, the nation, and the world. Every Thursday morning we send out our free newsletter, New This Week, which features dozens of high-quality websites carefully selected, described, and organized by our team of librarians. Topics include current events and issues, holidays and seasons, helpful tools for information users, human interest, and more. You can subscribe to our newsletter by email or RSS, or read us on the Web. We have close to 40,000 subscribers, many from our funding states of California and Washington. You can also search and browse our website for the best of the Web. We have over 20,000 entries, also maintained by our librarians and organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics. .......................................... Sanjeev Kumar Jain Central Library Indian Institute Technolgy, Kharagpur-721302 (M) 09732695328 mailto:sanjeevmlis@gmail.com sanjeevmlis(a)gmail.com

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[LIS-Forum] Information and Knowledge Audit - ISiM One-Day Workshop, Jan 11, 2007 - Early Bird Offer Closes on 5th Jan, 2007
by Angrosh 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Dear All, Announcement One-Day Workshop on Information and Knowledge Audit A Practical Introduction, January 11, 2007, Hotel Atria, Bangalore Topics Covered: Information audit basics definitions, reasons for conducting information audit, problems it can solve, introducing the model. Different approaches to information audits and knowledge audits. Information audit to knowledge management user needs analysis Project management of an audit; focus groups involvement, management support, communications, resourcing, scope. Workout sessions on information and knowledge audit tools and methods Programme: Introduction and hands-on training on KM tools (pre-lunch) Workout sessions and case studies (post lunch) Takeaways: Knowledge of practical ways of assessing strategic information and knowledge assets Hands-on knowledge about KM tools Facilitators: Ms. Waltraut Ritter, Research Director, Knowledge Enterprises, Hong Kong Mr. Ritendra Banerjee, General Manager, Satyam Computers Ltd., Hyderabad Dr. Shalini R. Urs, Executive Director, ISiM, University of Mysore Workshop Fees: Workshop Fee: Rs. 3,000/- per participant Registration before 5th January 2007: Rs. 2,500/- per participant Registration: Registration forms can be downloaded from http://www.isim.ac.in/ikaseminar/ For enquiries contact: Angrosh Tel: 821-2514699 or Mobile: 9886970411 For more details visit http://www.isim.ac.in/ikaseminar ************************************************** Angrosh M. A. Project Manager International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006 Tel: +91-821-2514699; Fax: +91-821-2519209 Email: angrosh(a)isim.ac.in Website: www.isim.ac.in ***************************************************

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