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Softpedia
by sandeep bhavsar 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

Respected All Please have a look at this site ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FREE SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS http://www.softpedia.com/ Waiting for your feedback Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr. V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 elibrary : http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Please have a look at this site ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FREE SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS http://www.softpedia.com/ Waiting for your feedback Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr. V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 elibrary : http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Lecture invitation
by srels＠vsnl.com 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

Dear Moderator : Please announce the following invitation to a lecture organized by the SRELS, Bangalore. Thanking you, Sincerely, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, 3rd Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Ph: (080) 23305109 Email: srels(a)vsnl.com ** *** ** Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS), Bangalore Cordially invites you to a Special Lecture on VIRTUAL REFERENCE SERVICES by Prof. Achim Osswald Professor, Institute of Information Science, University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany on Wednesday, 6th December 2006 at 6.00 p.m. at SRELS, 702, 42nd Cross, 3rd Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Prof. I.K. Ravichandra Rao Head, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore presides RSVP: K.N. Prasad - Ph: (080) 23305109 Email: srels(a)vsnl.com Dear Moderator : Please announce the following invitation to a lecture organized by the SRELS, Bangalore. Thanking you, Sincerely, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, 3rd Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Ph: (080) 23305109 Email: mailto:srels@vsnl.com srels(a)vsnl.com ** *** ** Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS), Bangalore Cordially invites you to a Special Lecture on VIRTUAL REFERENCE SERVICES by Prof. Achim Osswald Professor, Institute of Information Science, University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany on Wednesday, 6th December 2006 at 6.00 p.m. at SRELS, 702, 42nd Cross, 3rd Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Prof. I.K. Ravichandra Rao Head, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore presides RSVP: K.N. Prasad - Ph: (080) 23305109 Email: mailto:srels@vsnl.com srels(a)vsnl.com

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DRTC Colloquium (1) 2006-08
by Ehtesham 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE 8th Mile Mysore Road, Bangalore-560059 DRTC Colloquium - 1 (2006-08) KNOWLEDGE ORGANISATION IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT ABSTRACT Library professionals have developed many knowledge organisation tools, which can be grouped under term lists, classification and categories; and relationship lists. Since the concept of modern library was introduced, these tools have been used to enhance retrieval. But the scenario has changed a lot in the context of digital information resources. Problems in organising digital content differ from those in the traditional environment. While the issues like unidimensional arrangement of books on the shelves are not there in the digital environment, new issues (e.g. the volume of resources, problems of directionless hypertext navigation, etc) have emerged. How far the traditional tools can help us to handle these new problems? What are the new and innovative tools being developed to handle these problems? In this colloquium, we propose to discuss some of these. TOPICS SPEAKERS 1. Introduction Mithun Raj M. 2. Knowledge Organisation Systems : An Overview Mita Sarkar 3. Evolution of Knowledge Organisation Systems Ayesha Khatoon 4. Emerging Digital Environment and Knowledge Organisation Syed Raiyan Ghani 5. Traditional Knowledge Organisation Tools in the Digital Environment Radha Rani Rit 6. Newer Knowledge Organisation Technologies Sanjeev Kumar Sunny 7. Conclusion Anila S. Venue :DRTC Classroom Date : 7th of December Time : 2:00 pm All are cordially invited Dr.K.S. Raghavan (Colloquium Coordinator) MD EHTESHAM H-11,ISI HOSTELS ADIS 1st year (DRTC) INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE 8TH MILE, MYSORE ROAD, BANGALORE - 560059 MOB - 09886687105 INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE 8th Mile Mysore Road, Bangalore-560059 DRTC Colloquium - 1 (2006-08) KNOWLEDGE ORGANISATION IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT ABSTRACT Library professionals have developed many knowledge organisation tools, which can be grouped under term lists, classification and categories; and relationship lists. Since the concept of modern library was introduced, these tools have been used to enhance retrieval. But the scenario has changed a lot in the context of digital information resources. Problems in organising digital content differ from those in the traditional environment. While the issues like unidimensional arrangement of books on the shelves are not there in the digital environment, new issues (e.g. the volume of resources, problems of directionless hypertext navigation, etc) have emerged. How far the traditional tools can help us to handle these new problems? What are the new and innovative tools being developed to handle these problems? In this colloquium, we propose to discuss some of these. TOPICS SPEAKERS 1. Introduction Mithun Raj M. 2. Knowledge Organisation Systems : An Overview Mita Sarkar 3. Evolution of Knowledge Organisation Systems Ayesha Khatoon 4. Emerging Digital Environment and Knowledge Organisation Syed Raiyan Ghani 5. Traditional Knowledge Organisation Tools in the Digital Environment Radha Rani Rit 6. Newer Knowledge Organisation Technologies Sanjeev Kumar Sunny 7. Conclusion Anila S. Venue :DRTC Classroom Date : 7th of December Time : 2:00 pm All are cordially invited Dr.K.S. Raghavan (Colloquium Coordinator) MD EHTESHAM H-11,ISI HOSTELS ADIS 1st year (DRTC) INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE 8TH MILE, MYSORE ROAD, BANGALORE - 560059 MOB - 09886687105 http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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SALIS-DCU-UNESCO one day Sensitization Workshop on Information Literacy (IL) at Delhi
by Arunachalam Hariharan 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

Dear friends and professional colleagues I am pleased to inform that One Day Sensitization Workshop on Information Literacy (IL) is jointly being organized by Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) Delhi NCR Chapter and the Central Library of Delhi College of Engineering and supported by UNESCO on December 23, 2006. Eminent experts from reputed organizations will deliver lectures and tutorials. The contents of the workshop are: Information Literacy Overview Components of IL Information Literacy Models Information Literacy Competency Standards UNESCO/IFLA School/Public Library Manifesto ICT Literacy and ICT Technologies Objectives of Workshop To raise awareness about Information Literacy, its needs and uses To give an overview of Information Literacy, Information Literacy models and standards to LIS professionals To give an overview of ICT to the participants To facilitate LIS professionals to provide better information services to the end users Methodology: Lectures/Presentations Tutorials Discussions Resource Persons: Experts from reputed academic institutions, Govt. and IT field. Target Participants: LIS professional working in Delhi and near by regions. Preference will be given to young LIS professionals and students. No. of Participants: The number of participants is limited to 60. Mode of selection: The participants will be selected on the basis of age, qualification, nature of work, profile of the institutions etc. Registration Fee: NIL Traveling Allowance (TA): No TA/DA will be paid to the participants Last date for registration: December 18, 2006. Note: Brochure of the workshop is available on http://www.dce.edu/library/ or sends your request us via email by December 15, 2006. http://autolib-india.net/salis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Salis_info R. K. Shukla Organizing Secretary Delhi College of Engineering New Campus, Bawana Road Delhi - Pin Code: 110042 rkshukla(a)dce.edu , ramakant.shukla(a)gmail.com Phone: 9312359521 Sanjay Kataria Secretary, SALIS Delhi NCR Chapter Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University (Established Under section 3 of UGC Act, Vide Notification No. F9-27/2000-U 3 dated 1st November, 2004 Govt of India) A-10, Sector-62, Noida (UP)-201307 E-mail: salis.delhi(a)gmail.com , sanjay.kataria(a)jiit.ac.in Phone: 9810503341, 9213650818 ------------------------------------------------- A.Hariharan SALIS ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com

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Announcement of 5th International Convention CALIBER-2007
by K Prakash 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

5th International Convention CALIBER-2007 "Information and Knowledge Management in Networked World" Call for Papers --------------- One decade into its expansion, the World-Wide Web is reaching ever-broader circles of society, transforming how people learn about our rapidly changing world. Knowledge Management is the methodology for systematically gathering, organizing, and disseminating knowledge. It essentially consists of processes and tools to effectively capture and share knowledge as well as use the knowledge of individuals within an organization. Knowledge management is certainly attracting attention, across business organizations and as well as in academic area also. The adoption of knowledge management as a concept or implementation as tool has yet to be demonstrated in academic environment. On the other hand, there is a conformity that the knowledge-based society has arrived, and that those organizations that will succeed in the global information society are those that can identify, value, create and evolve their knowledge assets. Many argue that knowledge has become the main competitive tool for many businesses. Exploiting knowledge can be a major competitive advantage for libraries, which can translate into better service to users. The knowledge management can help transform the library into a more efficient, knowledge sharing organization. Therefore, the fifth international conference CALIBER-2007 is to provide a communication platform for focus attention on knowledge management and revolving issues relevant to the higher education, institutions, organisations and academic libraries area. Programme committee solicits high quality technical papers related to the theme and sub-themes but are not limited to the following areas listed below Theme of the Conference ==================== "Information and Knowledge Management in Networked World" International CALIBER 2007 invites contributed papers and case studies on various aspects of the conference theme, as listed below as sub-themes of the conference: Sub-Theme of the Conference ======================= 1. Digital Libraries -------------------------- Digital Library architectures, models, integrated access interface Digital archiving, preservation and Sustainability: methodological, technical and legal issues Access to distributed and heterogeneous digital collections including Multilingual information Access and Multimedia Information Handling Digital library security and information protection Digital Library Applications: Trends & Future Digital library performance, resources, usefulness, usability and evaluation 2. Information and Knowledge Management ------------------------------------------------------------ KM Architecture, System Design, Applications and Practices Knowledge Assets, Barriers to knowledge Knowledge audits, benchmarks, maturity measures Knowledge discovery: databases and portals Knowledge Generation and Transfer Knowledge-based IT infrastructures and its role Challenges and Opportunities in KM 3. Innovations in Information Communication Technologies ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Distributed and heterogeneous digital collections: interoperability, scalability, relevant information discovery Indexing and Information Retrieval Security techniques Storage Models and Architecture Web technology and Evolving Search Engines Standards and Protocols 4. Towards Virtual Library ------------------------------------ The Roles of e-journals, e-books, and open access publishing in libraries E-publishing, open source movement, open access initiatives Institutional repositories and electronic resource sharing Digital divide, Digital Library Network and Information Sharing Human factors in Information Systems Integration User studies and system evaluation Editorial Policy (Part I) ================= CALIBER provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences among library communities throughout the world. The editors will receive contributions from all parts of the world. Criteria for acceptance will be appropriateness and its relevance to the Theme and sub-themes. Only papers not previously published will be accepted. Acceptance or otherwise will be at the discretion of the Editorial Committee. Completed papers will be required and information regarding these will be forwarded with the acceptance letter from the Convener of the CALIBER-2007 to the authors. However editors are requested to intimate to the authors about the receipt of the papers. In case of the paper is not up to the standard, only abstract can be included in the proceedings. Paper Submission ============== Editor-in-Chief, CALIBER 2007 Director, INFLIBNET Centre (An IUC of UGC) Gujarat University Campus PB 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad-380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone : +91-79-26304695 / 8528 / 5971 / 0002 Fax : +91-79-26300990/26307816 E-mail : director(a)inflibnet.ac.in OR caliber2007(a)inflibnet.ac.in Registration & Accommodation ======================== Registration ----------------- The conference registration fee is Rs. 1000/-. The delegates will be provided with convention kit, proceedings volume, lunch and tea (on two convention days only). TA/DA and accommodation charges will have to be borne by sponsoring organizations/participants. Please send your completed registration form along with the registration fee through Demand Draft drawn in favour of Organizing Secretary, CALIBER-2007, payable at Chandigarh to Dr. V. K. Anand, Organizing Secretary, CALIBER-2007 not later than January 15, 2007. DD should be drawn on nationalized banks only. Please note that delegate registration fee of Rs.1000/- for the CALIBER, does not include accommodation fee. Extra fees of Rs.100/- will be charged for spot registration Accommodation ----------------------- Accommodation can be arranged to the participants in the university campus and other sister institutions on first cum first basis provided intimation and advance booking charges are sent to the Organizing Secretary, CALIBER-2007, Panjab University, Chandigarh along with registration fee. If any participant intends to stay in a hotel, it may be arranged on actual payment basis provided intimation and advance booking charges. The details of the hotels and their tariffs will be announced soon. Registration Fees: please visit website http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2007/registration.htm Registration & Accommodation Dr. V. K. Anand Organizing Secretary, CALIBER-2007 Librarian , A.C. Joshi Library Panjab University, Chandigarh, Punjab - INDIA. Phone: +91-172-2548159, 2534551 E-mail: pulib(a)pu.ac.in Mr. Manoj Kumar K. Convener, CALIBER-2007 Scientist - D (CS), INFLIBNET Centre (An IUC of UGC) Gujarat University Campus PB 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad-380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone : +91-79-26304695 / 8528 / 5971/ 0002 Fax : +91-79-26300990 / 26307816 E-mail : manoj(a)inflibnet.ac.in OR caliber2007(a)inflibnet.ac.in For more details please visit website http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2007/ With best regards. Bye. ________________________________________________ K Prakash Scientific/Technical Officer-I Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre An Inter-University Centre of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Post Box No.4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad - 380 009 India Phone: 91-079-2630 5971/2630 4695 Extn: 38(Off); 2676 3724(Res) Fax: 91-079-2630 0990/ 2630 7816 Mobile: 94270 00758 Email: prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in; prakash_k(a)yahoo.com URL: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/

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Fred Noronha on the B'lore workshop
by Mailing List Manager 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 13:36:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Friends: Here is what Fred Noronha, Goa-based journalist and open source software champion, has written about the Bangalore workshop on electronic publishing and open access in SciDev.net. Arun [Subbiah arunachalam] ----- Scientists push open access for developing nations Scientists in developing countries hope to promote open access for scholarly articles Frederick Noronha 29 November 2006 Source: SciDev.Net Scientists from Brazil, China, Ethiopia, India and South Africa have set guidelines for developing countries to freely access publicly funded research. The success of their draft national policy will depend on whether the relevant governments, funders and research institutes adopt its recommendations. The guidelines were agreed at a workshop in Bangalore, India earlier this month (2-3 November) where 44 international participants including scientists and policymakers discussed ways to promote open access. Open access is the free online availability of digital content, especially of peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly journal articles. Scientists in the developing world have long complained that their work is invisible to scientists in North America and Europe, said Alma Swan, co-director of Key Perspectives Ltd, a UK consultancy company for scholarly information. "Now the developing world has the opportunity to create the level playing field it has so long cried out for," she told SciDev.Net. While participants agreed on the policy, there was lively debate on how to make governments adopt it, Barbara Kirsop, secretary of the UK-based Electronic Publishing Trust, told SciDev.Net. The participants said financial barriers prevented researchers in developing countries from accessing the research information they need. Their policy urges governments to require all publicly funded research published in peer-reviewed journals be deposited in an institutional digital database as soon as publication is accepted. This should be a condition for research funding for any papers partly or fully funded by the government. Eve Gray, a fellow at the Open Society Institute in South Africa said that policymakers in governments and institutions have the power to determine the reach of scientific research. "They can make [the research] instantly visible, or they can fail their staff," she told SciDev.Net. Large research funders in rich countries such as the Wellcome Trust and Research Councils United Kingdom, she argued, have recognised this and shown the way. The workshop revealed that Bioline, an online publisher for developing countries, saw a huge increase in requests for scholarly papers when it became open access. This shows "how much information was unused, unknown, un-accessed before open access", says Kirsop. She added that developing nations should lead the way towards promoting open access as "they have so much to gain and so much to contribute". The workshop was funded by the Open Society Institute and organised by the Indian Academy of Sciences, the Indian Institute of Science and the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation. * Related SciDev.Net articles: Universities urged: 'share benefits of health research' Scientists get free access to environment journals China unveils plans to boost scientific data sharing

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500+ Records in NIO?s Institutional Repository
by Mailing List Manager 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 16:51:41 +0530 (IST) From: MP Tapaswi <murari(a)nio.org> 500+ Records in NIO?s Institutional Repository The Institutional Repository of the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) Goa, India - http://drs.nio.org - crossed 500 full-text records (Journal articles, conference articles, book chapters, theses, etc) on 1 December 2006 since it?s launching during end March 2006. Within a short span of eight months, there are over 35,000 downloads from over 100 countries. How was this achieved?: 124 articles published by NIO?s authors during the year 2006 are up. Thanks to the authors who resourced these. Many of them have learnt the art of self-archiving (uploading on DRS) and few sought help of the library. Other articles range for the period 2000-2005. NIO library obtained permissions from Indian publishers to upload these. These have been uploaded after scan and OCR. This has helped increasing the size of DRS. Very little portion of this does include grey literature (theses, reports, etc.). DRS is one among the very few institutional repositories in the field of Marine Sciences all over the world. The contents of DRS is harvested by: OAIster (Global harvester for archives), Google Scholar, Avano (Marine and aquatic science harvester from France) and CASSIR (Indian archives harvester at IISc, India). Visit DRS! - Murari P Tapaswi, National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, India Phone: 91-0832-2450 275, Fax: 01-0832-2450 602, URL: http://www.nio.org -------------------------------------------- www.nio.org www.indian-ocean.org www.reefindia.org www.coastalhazards.info www.coastalhazards.in www.mangroveindia.org

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KALA Lecture: OCLC & Net Library
by I.R.N.Goudar 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Dear Professionals, Karnataka State Library Association has organised the following two lectures in collaboration with NCSI, IISc 1. Speaker 1: Mr Arthur Smith, Director, OCLC Topic: OCLC and WORLD CAT 2.Speaker 2: Mr Scott Wasinger, CEO, Net Library Topic: E-books and Net Library Date: 7th Dec 2006 at 4.00 PM Venue: Conference Hall, NCSI, IISc, Bangalore YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED. PLEASE INFORM YOUR COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS TOO. Goudar Prof. N.V. Joshi President, KALA Chairman, NCSI, IISc EC Members & Office Bearers, KALA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Sci F & Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html

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OA in India
by Subbiah Arunachalam 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Friends: Here is a report from Peter Suber's "Open Access News". It shows what a few committed people can achieve. I understand that there is a move at IISc, Bangalore, to place as many papers of faculty and students as possible in the next two years before the Institute celebrates its centenary. IISc must have published several tens of thousands of papers in the past 98 years. It will indeed be great if all of them are readily available in full text and are searchable using metadata. When will the other leading research institutions in India follow suit? Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ---------------------- Nebraska IR growing fast Zak Pluhacek, UNL online information database ranks 4th in U.S., Daily Nebraskan, December 3, 2006. (Thanks to tdaxp.) Excerpt: It took just 18 months for University of Nebraska-Lincoln archivists to create the Digital Commons, a now internationally ranked online database of more than 15,000 papers, essays and articles. The archive was recently bumped to the fourth largest in the U.S. and is in the top 15 worldwide in terms of size, ac-cording to grading by the Registry of Open Access Repositories, or ROAR. The directories of the University of Michigan, Ohio State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are the only three in the nation with more materials than the UNL commons. Each has been available for more than five years. The University of California's archive, which UNL surpassed to gain ROAR's fourth-place ranking, is more than 10 years old. "We've been working very hard to populate (the UNL data-base) with content. We're probably the fastest growing digital archive in the United States at this point," said Paul Royster, UNL's Digital Commons director. Royster began uploading around 10,000 doctorial dissertations written by UNL faculty members to the database in 2005. Since then, he and his staff of five students have added more than 5,000 other materials, and continue to add to the service piece by piece. "There's been a movement for the past two or three years, and Nebraska Libraries is in the front rank because we're interested in electronic access," Royster said.... "(It) showcases our faculty and student research, increasing the visibility of their work and providing an easy way for potential students to see the breadth and depth of the work done at UNL," said Joan Giesecke, dean of libraries for UNL, in a press release Tuesday. The Digital Commons aver-ages around 2,000 hits, or view or searches of content, per day. More than 800 documents are downloaded on average each day.... Amidst the recent popularity of open source systems, registries like ROAR have become more common as well. ROAR has existed in its current form for two years, said the registry's director Tim Brody....ROAR tracks archives based on size, type and growth. "We want to encourage both the setting up, but more importantly, the filling of repositories," [Brody] said. "In order to encourage the filling of repositories we need to know how much stuff there is in them." Peter Suber's Comment. This is an OA success story. Kudos to UNL for wanting to make it happen. Special credit goes to Paul Royster and Jean Giesecke for delivering. Another part of the campus OA culture not mentioned in the article is that UNL provost Barbara Couture signed the July 2006 GWLA Provost Letter endorsing FRPAA. ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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Open Courseware
by Subbiah Arunachalam 02 Dec '06

02 Dec '06

Open Courseware is a worldwide movement Jeffrey Thomas, Online Materials Broadening Global Access to Education, US Info (from the US Department of State), December 1, 2006. Excerpt: When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced in 2001 that it was planning to offer free online access to educational materials from hundreds of its course offerings, the university in Cambridge said it hoped its OpenCourseWare (OCW) Web site would inspire other educational institutions to help create a worldwide web of knowledge that will benefit humanity. Judging by the enthusiastic worldwide response to MITs gesture, the university appears five years later to be leading an international movement that is affecting education on every continent. Twelve U.S. educational institutions currently are participating in what has become an international consortium comprising more than 50 institutions in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America.... Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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IFLA/Unesco Internet Manifesto Guidelines
by Subbiah Arunachalam 02 Dec '06

02 Dec '06

Friends: The IFLA/Unesco Internet Manifesto Guidelines are just released. Please visit <http://www.ifla.org/faife/policy/iflastat/Internet-ManifestoGuidelines.pdf>. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Fwd: you may like this
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 02 Dec '06

02 Dec '06

Dear Friends The link given below was brought to my attention by Justice TNC Rangarajan. "Library flow" is a site For librarians, by librarians! Where do you get your library news?... Read, recommend, and comment on articles. Blog search included. One pace to stay updated. http://www.personalbee.com/1084 Regards Vyasamoorthy ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Macinfo <tncrangarajan(a)macinfo.net> Date: Dec 2, 2006 8:05 AM Subject: you may like this To: You! <tncrangarajan(a)macinfo.net> http://www.personalbee.com/1084 -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors (Formerly SENIORS) 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631

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World Digital Library project
by vimal kumar 02 Dec '06

02 Dec '06

Dear Friends, UNESCO and the Library of Congress will host today at UNESCO Paris Headquarters a meeting to pave the way for the launch of a World Digital Library, an internet-based repository of knowledge from all cultures and in all languages. To read more visit the link, http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=23521&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in --------------------------------- Check out the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. UNESCO and the Library of Congress will host today at UNESCO Paris Headquarters a meeting to pave the way for the launch of a World Digital Library, an internet-based repository of knowledge from all cultures and in all languages. To read more visit the link, http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=23521&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in Check out http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=43257/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailb… the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster.

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Open Access and health in developing countries
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

>From Peter Suber's "Open Access News" OA for human welfare Gavin Yamey and Calestous Juma, Improving Human Welfare: The Crucial Role of Open Access, Science Editor 29, 5 (2006) pp. 163-165. Self-archived November 30, 2006. Abstract: Developing countries are increasingly improving their capacity to use scientific and technical knowledge to solve local problems. They are investing in communication infrastructure and improving technology policies. For such measures to be effective, those countries also need greater access to the worlds pool of knowledge. Restrictions on access to scientific and health information are hindering progress, particularly in the worlds least-developed countries, and are impeding efforts toward global development. Essential information is locked away behind such barriers as journal subscription charges or individual article download fees. Journal articles are typically subject to restrictive copyright licenses that prevent reproduction, distribution, translation, or the creation of derivative works, all of which would help published work to be used for innovation. These restrictions are compounded by infrastructure inadequacies and lack of incentives for increasing the use of scientific and technologic knowledge in solving challenges in developing countries. ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Photos NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 7p a photo http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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MetaGlossary
by sandeep bhavsar 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Respected All MetaGlossary http://www.metaglossary.com/ Meta means beyond, more comprehensive, or more highly organized, and with respect to other dictionaries and glossaries, MetaGlossary is all these things. MetaGlossary harvests definitions from the entire web, the world's largest, constantly-updated repository of information. Hence, it surpasses traditional dictionaries, which grow more out of date with each passing day. MetaGlossary is as dynamic as the web, offering the most current information out there on the most contemporary topics. However, unlike other search engines, MetaGlossary is able to precisely extract the meanings of terms and phrases from the often frustratingly unmanageable mass of information on the web. It provides you with concise, direct explanations for terms and phrases, not just endless links to sift through in search of a comprehensive definition. What's more, MetaGlossary organizes these meanings based on topic and usage, so you'll find the one you're looking for quickly and easily. Since MetaGlossary spans the expanse of the web, even your most field-specific requests for terms, phrases, acronyms, technical jargon, and slang, will be successfully met Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 elibrary : http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Respected All MetaGlossary http://www.metaglossary.com/ http://www.metaglossary.com/ Meta means beyond, more comprehensive, or more highly organized, and with respect to other dictionaries and glossaries, MetaGlossary is all these things. MetaGlossary harvests definitions from the entire web, the world's largest, constantly-updated repository of information. Hence, it surpasses traditional dictionaries, which grow more out of date with each passing day. MetaGlossary is as dynamic as the web, offering the most current information out there on the most contemporary topics. However, unlike other search engines, MetaGlossary is able to precisely extract the meanings of terms and phrases from the often frustratingly unmanageable mass of information on the web. It provides you with concise, direct explanations for terms and phrases, not just endless links to sift through in search of a comprehensive definition. What's more, MetaGlossary organizes these meanings based on topic and usage, so you'll find the one you're looking for quickly and easily. Since MetaGlossary spans the expanse of the web, even your most field-specific requests for terms, phrases, acronyms, technical jargon, and slang, will be successfully met Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 elibrary : http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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How can a declaration be implemented without involving policy makers from the government?
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Friends: While welcoming the policy statement that emerged from the Bangalore workshop on electronic publishing and open access and which developing countries and their funding agencies could adopt, someone commented that "we should work jointly to ensure that policy makers from the government should be involved in the movement if any declaration has to be implemented in a developing country", and "how can a declaration be implemented without involving policy makers from the government." I am sure people who want to bring about a major transformation would know this. It would be naive to expect policy makers such as Prof. C N R Rao, Dr R Chidambaram or Dr R A Mashelkar to attend a two-day workshop on open access. We did invite senior officials of DST, DSIR, DBT, etc. but they could not attend (for valid reasons). But policy makers - members of the Science Advisory Council, for example - attended and spoke at the workshop. What is relevant is that policy makers have been involved for a very long time. Pardon me for confining myself to what I have been doing. I have been speaking to key people in the Ministry of Science, Office of the Prinicipal Scientific Adviser, the Science Advisory Council and the Academies ever since I took interest in promoting the culture of open access. To give a few examples, I have had many conversations (mostly by email and occasionally face-to-face) with Professor M S Valiathan, then President of INSA. He signed the Berlin Declaration on behalf of INSA, he convened a one-day meet on open access at the Annual Meeting of INSA held at NCL, Pune, and invited me to speak as well as to suggest names of other potential speakers, and made all INSA journals open access. I have been talking to Prof. N Balakrishnan, who is not only the Associate Director of IISc but also an important person in Indian science and higher education policy circles. He set up India's first super computer centre and India's first institutional archive and is heading the internationally known Million Books Digital Library programme. I have been talking to Prof. N Mukunda, Editor of publications of the Indian Academy of Sciences and a former chiar of the INASP advisory board. We even attended a open access conference at Unesco together a few years ago where I introduced him to Abel Packer, the key person behind SciELO and BIREME. It was then we extended an invitation to Abel to come to India, and it took four years for him to actually visit us! The Indian Academy made all its 11 journals open access. I have been talking to the members and advisors of the National Knowledge Commission and the NKC is likely to recommend adoption of OA for publicly funded research. I have spoken to the secretaries and senior officials of DST and DSIR many times about the need for mandating open access. I have addressed a meeting attended by many members of the SAC-PM and the PSA to the GoI and argued in favour of open access. I have been alerting DBT and the coordinators of the Bioinformatics Centres for the past five years about the need for adopting OA. I have spoken to NAAS and the top brass of ICAR about the need for adopting OA. I am also in touch with policy makers in other developing countries, international organizations and funding agencies. The B'lore meeting was held at IISc with the cooperation of IASc and was attended among others by Prof. Balakrishnan and Prof. Gadagkar and several other Fellows of the Academies. I am talking to people at all levels - from the level of technical assistants and officers who actually set up and maintain OA archives to Directors of institutions and Secretaries to the Government of India and Presidents of Academies. I am not the only one who is trying to promote OA in India and the developing world. There are many others and all of us recognise the importance of working together. In fact I have coauthored papers with Peter Suber, Barbara Kirsop, and Leslie Chan. As the governments happen to be the major providers of funds for research in all developing countries, we need to persuade them to mandate. How can we neglect or ignore them? Besides we believe in sharing knowledge (that is why we are ready to hold workshops and spend so much time and energy in disseminating news on current developments) and building multi stakeholder partnerships. [Incidentally, for an earlier workshop (held at Hyderabad as part of the Science Congress) we even sought some funds from DSIR and NIC, but did not get any. (Our application to DSIR was filed rather late.) We were very hopeful of getting some funds from NIC, as they were actively engaged in open access initiatives, but did not get any. Then we approached OSI and a Bombay-based good samaritan, and both of them agreed very readily to support the travel of three speakers, and ICRISAT provided free accommodation.] . This time around, but for the timely intervention of a DSIR officer the Chinese participants would not have made it to the Bangalore workshop. To conclude, rest assured we have been working with policy makers both within and outside the government and we will continue to do so. I wonder how anyone could have got the impression that we are not involving policy makers from the government. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Friends: While welcoming the policy statement that emerged from the Bangalore workshop on electronic publishing and open access and which developing countries and their funding agencies could adopt, someone commented that "we should work jointly to ensure that policy makers from the government should be involved in the movement if any declaration has to be implemented in a developing country", and "how can a declaration be implemented without involving policy makers from the government." I am sure people who want to bring about a major transformation would know this. It would be naive to expect policy makers such as Prof. C N R Rao, Dr R Chidambaram or Dr R A Mashelkar to attend a two-day workshop on open access. We did invite senior officials of DST, DSIR, DBT, etc. but they could not attend (for valid reasons). But p olicy makers - members of the Science Advisory Council, for example - attended and spoke at the workshop. What is relevant is that policy makers have been involved for a very long time. Pardon me for confining myself to what I have been doing. I have been speaking to key people in the Ministry of Science, Office of the Prinicipal Scientific Adviser, the Science Advisory Council and the Academies ever since I took interest in promoting the culture of open access. To give a few examples, I have had many conversations (mostly by email and occasionally face-to-face) with Professor M S Valiathan, then President of INSA. He signed the Berlin Declaration on behalf of INSA, he convened a one-day meet on open access at the Annual Meeting of INSA held at NCL, Pune, and invited me to speak as well as to suggest names of other potential speakers, and made all INSA journals open access. I have been talking to Prof. N Balakrishnan, who is not only the Associate Director of IISc but also an important person in Indian science and higher education policy circles. He set up India's first super computer centre and India's first institutional archive and is heading the internationally known Million Books Digital Library programme. I have been talking to Prof. N Mukunda, Editor of publications of the Indian Academy of Sciences and a former chiar of the INASP advisory board. We even attended a open access conference at Unesco together a few years ago where I introduced him to Abel Packer, the key person behind SciELO and BIREME. It was then we extended an invitation to Abel to come to India, and it took four years for him to actually visit us! The Indian Academy made all its 11 journals open access. I have been talking to the members and advisors of the National Knowledge Commission and the NKC is likely to recommend adoption of OA for publicly funded research. I have spoken to the secretaries and senior officials of DST and DSIR many times about the need for mandating open access. I have addressed a meeting attended by many members of the SAC-PM and the PSA to the GoI and argued in favour of open access. I have been alerting DBT and the coordinators of the Bioinformatics Centres for the past five years about the need for adopting OA. I have spoken to NAAS and the top brass of ICAR about the need for adopting OA. I am also in touch with policy makers in other developing countries, international organizations and funding agencies. The B'lore meeting was held at IISc with the cooperation of IASc and was attended among others by Prof. Balakrishnan and Prof. Gadagkar and several other Fellows of the Academies. I am talking to people at all levels - from the level of technical assistants and officers who actually set up and maintain OA archives to Directors of institutions and Secretaries to the Government of India and Presidents of Academies. I am not the only one who is trying to promote OA in India and the developing world. There are many others and all of us recognise the importance of working together. In fact I have coauthored papers with Peter Suber, Barbara Kirsop, and Leslie Chan. As the governments happen to be the major providers of funds for research in all developing countries, we need to persuade them to mandate. How can we neglect or ignore them? Besides we believe in sharing knowledge (that is why we are ready to hold workshops and spend so much time and energy in disseminating news on current developments) and building multi stakeholder partnerships. [Incidentally, for an earlier workshop (held at Hyderabad as part of the Science Congress) we even sought some funds from DSIR and NIC, but did not get any. (Our application to DSIR was filed rather late.) We were very hopeful of getting some funds from NIC, as they were actively engaged in open access initiatives, but did not get any. Then we approached OSI and a Bombay-based good samaritan, and both of them agreed very readily to support the travel of three speakers, and ICRISAT provided free accommodation.] . This time around, but for the timely intervention of a DSIR officer the Chinese participants would not have made it to the Bangalore workshop. To conclude, rest assured we have been working with policy makers both within and outside the government and we will continue to do so. I wonder how anyone could have got the impression that we are not involving policy makers from the government. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Dr. Eugene Garfield ( Father of Scientometrics and Bibliometrics) wins the Online Information Lifetime Achievement Award
by Mallikarjuna, H.B 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Dr. Eugene Garfield Wins The Online Information Lifetime Achievement Award " Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, today announced that Dr. Eugene Garfield is the 2006 recipient of the Online Information Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of more than 50 years of dedication, leadership and innovation in the information industry. The 2006 International Information Industry Awards were held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London, UK on Wednesday, November 29th. Often dubbed the Father of Scientometrics and Bibliometrics, Dr. Garfield is founder & chairman emeritus of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI®)now Thomson Scientific. Garfields career in scientific communication and information science began in 1951 when he joined the Welch Medical Indexing Project at Johns Hopkins University, USA. The project planted the seeds for several major advances in scientific communication and information science that have distinguished Dr. Garfields career. In 1958, Garfield was contacted by Joshua Lederberg, who was interested in knowing what happened to the citation index Garfield proposed in 1955 in the journal, Science. This, eventually led to a meeting with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to produce and distribute a Genetics Citation Index, including a multi-disciplinary index to the science literature of 1961. Undaunted by the NIH and National Science Foundations (NSF) disinterest in publishing the latter index, Garfield began regularly publishing the Science Citation Index® (SCI®) in 1964 through the Institute for Scientific Information. The SCI® soon istinguished itself from other literature indexes and was recognized as a basic and fundamental innovation in scientific communication and information science. >From 1961 on, Garfields career is marked by the constant enhancement of existing resources combined with the extraordinary development of new information tools for researchers, including Current Contents®, plus citation indexes for the social sciences (SSCI®) and arts and humanities (A&HCI®). During the past decades, as the volume of literature has been growing exponentially, Garfields innovations have made it possible for researchers to cope with and keep up with articles directly relevant to their interests. Current Contents has become a vital and basic component of clinical research and the research laboratory. The SCI has become an important tool for navigating the scientific literature. With the advent of the Internet the SCI, SSCI, and A&HCI were integrated into the online information solutionWeb of Science®. Web of Science is the leading resource that provides seamless access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from the most prestigious, high-impact research journals in the world. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. With it, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans (back to 1900) to uncover all the information relevant to their research. Today, Web of Science is a key component of ISI Web of Knowledge(SM)the ground-breaking, integrated research platform that facilitates discovery by offering seamless navigation to high-quality, multidisciplinary journal, patent, and web content; evaluation tools; and bibliographic management products. At age 81, Dr. Garfield maintains a heavy schedule of invited speeches and presentations before high-level medical, scientific, and information symposia and conferences. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions. He has published over 1,000 weekly essays in Current Contents and has also published and edited commentaries by the authors of over 5,000 Citation Classics. Dr Garfield continues to be active in scientific communication and information science. In 1986, he founded The Scientist, a bi-weekly newspaper for research professionals. It reports on news and developments relevant to the professional and practical interests of scientists, providing a unique forum for the discussion of issues important both to the research community and society. Accepting the award, Dr. Garfield expressed his gratitude to Online Information, colleagues, the research and information communities, employees, and friends around the world who supported him throughout his career and inspired his significant contributions to the information industry. He saved his most important thanks for last to his family." Eugene Garfield, Ph.D. Interviews: http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/interviews.html -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW Dr. Eugene Garfield Wins The Online Information Lifetime Achievement Award " Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, today announced that Dr. Eugene Garfield is the 2006 recipient of the Online Information Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of more than 50 years of dedication, leadership and innovation in the information industry. The 2006 International Information Industry Awards were held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London, UK on Wednesday, November 29th. Often dubbed the Father of Scientometrics and Bibliometrics, Dr. Garfield is founder & chairman emeritus of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI®)now Thomson Scientific. Garfields career in scientific communication and information science began in 1951 when he joined the Welch Medical Indexing Project at Johns Hopkins University, USA. The project planted the seeds for several major advances in scientific communication and information science that have distinguished Dr. Garfields career. In 1958, Garfield was contacted by Joshua Lederberg, who was interested in knowing what happened to the citation index Garfield proposed in 1955 in the journal, Science. This, eventually led to a meeting with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to produce and distribute a Genetics Citation Index, including a multi-disciplinary index to the science literature of 1961. Undaunted by the NIH and National Science Foundations (NSF) disinterest in publishing the latter index, Garfield began regularly publishing the Science Citation Index® (SCI®) in 1964 through the Institute for Scientific Information. The SCI® soon istinguished itself from other literature indexes and was recognized as a basic and fundamental innovation in scientific communication and information science. >From 1961 on, Garfields career is marked by the constant enhancement of existing resources combined with the extraordinary development of new information tools for researchers, including Current Contents®, plus citation indexes for the social sciences (SSCI®) and arts and humanities (A&HCI®). During the past decades, as the volume of literature has been growing exponentially, Garfields innovations have made it possible for researchers to cope with and keep up with articles directly relevant to their interests. Current Contents has become a vital and basic component of clinical research and the research laboratory. The SCI has become an important tool for navigating the scientific literature. With the advent of the Internet the SCI, SSCI, and A&HCI were integrated into the online information solutionWeb of Science®. Web of Science is the leading resource that provides seamless access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from the most prestigious, high-impact research journals in the world. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. With it, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans (back to 1900) to uncover all the information relevant to their research. Today, Web of Science is a key component of ISI Web of Knowledge(SM)the ground-breaking, integrated research platform that facilitates discovery by offering seamless navigation to high-quality, multidisciplinary journal, patent, and web content; evaluation tools; and bibliographic management products. At age 81, Dr. Garfield maintains a heavy schedule of invited speeches and presentations before high-level medical, scientific, and information symposia and conferences. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions. He has published over 1,000 weekly essays in Current Contents and has also published and edited commentaries by the authors of over 5,000 Citation Classics. Dr Garfield continues to be active in scientific communication and information science. In 1986, he founded The Scientist, a bi-weekly newspaper for research professionals. It reports on news and developments relevant to the professional and practical interests of scientists, providing a unique forum for the discussion of issues important both to the research community and society. Accepting the award, Dr. Garfield expressed his gratitude to Online Information, colleagues, the research and information communities, employees, and friends around the world who supported him throughout his career and inspired his significant contributions to the information industry. He saved his most important thanks for last to his family." Eugene Garfield, Ph.D. Interviews: http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/interviews.html -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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EMPI Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre Launches its Official Website
by PARSAI KAMAL L. 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Dr. Shailendra Kumar , Department of Library & Information Science, Delhi University & National Advisory Board Member, EMPI Digital Library National Convention 2007 launched the Convention¢s Official Website http://www.empidlnc.org. on Wednesday, 29th November, 2006 , at the premises of the EMPI Business School ¢s Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre. Mr. Gurnam Saran, President, EMPI Group of Institutions, Mrs. Rumma Sharma, Deputy Director (Library), CME, AIMA, New Delhi & Members of the Organizing Board were the prominent dignitaries at the inaugural function. Later, Dr. Shailendra Kumar read, at the EMPIs R&D Conference Room No. 2, his paper on " Dynamics of Information from the Village to the Research Laboratory ." The paper was illuminating and thought provoking for all who are interested in reducing 'the Digital Divide' between the Rural and Urban populations, the Illiterate and the Academicians. The prime objectives of launching the website http://www.empidlnc.org are 1. EMPI Knowledge and Resource Center 's continuing efforts of promoting & shaping the Digital Library concepts and practices in India , 2. To share and contribute the best expertise about implementing, governing and regulating Digital Library processes and practices, and make a platform to announce various EMPI training and educational activities on developing Modern Knowledge & Learning Resource Centres. 3. To provide students, faculty and other practitioners a knowledge base to download and share presentations (PPT), abstracts, and extended abstracts of the papers presented at various conventions. 4. Disseminate information relating to the EMPIDLNC-2007, including on line facilities for Registration, Booking Accommodation, Programmes and Schedules of the Convention etc. etc. It may be recalled, that recently, Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre, Central Library, EMPI Business School, announced its first initiative - the EMPI Digital Library National Convention (EMPI DLNC) - 2007 for promoting digital libraries and associated Technical, Management, Social Processes and emerging issues. The Convention will be held on 18th March to 20th March 2007 at India International Centre under the venerable leadership of Dr. Muttayya Koganuramath, President, Indian Library Association . The EMPIDLNC-2007 is proposed with a view to provide a unique platform to the eminent Knowledge and Learning Resource Centers professionals and practitioners in search of and to share the innovative ideas, work space problems and their solutions (case studies), modern library technical and management processes and practices, opportunities and challenges in managing people and digital resources, and servicing aspects of the upgraded Knowledge and Learning Resource Centers Dr. Shailendra Kumar, Department of Library & Information Science, Delhi University & National Advisory Board Member, EMPI Digital Library National Convention 2007 launched the Convention¢s Official Website http://www.empidlnc.org. on Wednesday, 29th November, 2006, at the premises of the EMPI Business School¢s Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre. Mr. Gurnam Saran, President, EMPI Group of Institutions, Mrs. Rumma Sharma, Deputy Director (Library), CME, AIMA, New Delhi & Members of the Organizing Board were the prominent dignitaries at the inaugural function. Later, Dr. Shailendra Kumar read, at the EMPIs R&D Conference Room No. 2, his paper on "Dynamics of Information from the Village to the Research Laboratory." The paper was illuminating and thought provoking for all who are interested in reducing 'the Digital Divide' between the Rural and Urban populations, the Illiterate and the Academicians. The prime objectives of launching the website http://www.empidlnc.org are 1. EMPI Knowledge and Resource Center's continuing efforts of promoting & shaping the Digital Library concepts and practices in India, 2. To share and contribute the best expertise about implementing, governing and regulating Digital Library processes and practices, and make a platform to announce various EMPI training and educational activities on developing Modern Knowledge & Learning Resource Centres. 3. To provide students, faculty and other practitioners a knowledge base to download and share presentations (PPT), abstracts, and extended abstracts of the papers presented at various conventions. 4. Disseminate information relating to the EMPIDLNC-2007, including on line facilities for Registration, Booking Accommodation, Programmes and Schedules of the Convention etc. etc. It may be recalled, that recently, Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre, Central Library, EMPI Business School, announced its first initiative - the EMPI Digital Library National Convention (EMPI DLNC) - 2007 for promoting digital libraries and associated Technical, Management, Social Processes and emerging issues. The Convention will be held on 18th March to 20th March 2007 at India International Centre under the venerable leadership of Dr. Muttayya Koganuramath, President, Indian Library Association. The EMPIDLNC-2007 is proposed with a view to provide a unique platform to the eminent Knowledge and Learning Resource Centers professionals and practitioners in search of and to share the innovative ideas, work space problems and their solutions (case studies), modern library technical and management processes and practices, opportunities and challenges in managing people and digital resources, and servicing aspects of the upgraded Knowledge and Learning Resource Centers

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Condolences from the INFLIBNET Staff
by Suresh Chauhan 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Dear All, It is really very shocking to know about the demise of Prof. Veena Saraf. She was one of the brilliant LIS professionals of this country. She was well associated with the INFLIBNET and its activities since very beginning. Her sad demise has created a vacuum which can not be filled up in future. The condolences from the INFLIBNET Staff for her bereaved Family and pray for resting her soul in peace. Suresh Dear All, It is really very shocking to know about the demise of Prof. Veena Saraf. She was one of the brilliant LIS professionals of this country. She was well associated with the INFLIBNET and its activities since very beginning. Her sad demise has created a vacuum which can not be filled up in future. The condolences from the INFLIBNET Staff for her bereaved Family and pray for resting her soul in peace. Suresh

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An alliance for taxpayer access in India
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

>From Biobytes, Vol. 1, 18 December 2006 [http://biobytes.bicmku.in/] A Perspective on Open Access Publishing Subbiah Arunachalam Email: arun(a)mssrf.res.in Much of research in India in the fields of science, technology, agriculture, medicine, social sciences, economics, etc. is funded out of taxpayers' money. A few years ago, a DST report quoted a figure of about 75% for the share of publicly funded scientific research. However, the findings of these research programmes, usually in the form of research papers published in refereed journals, are not easily accessible even to Indian scientists at large let alone the public, for the simple reason scientists publish their research papers in a wide variety of journals published from many countries and no library in India or for that matter anywhere in the world can afford to subscribe to all these journals. Also, some journal publishers fix their subscription prices at astronomical levels. As a consequence research published by scientists at the Tuberculosis Research Centre in Chennai, which would be of great relevance to researchers say in a university in Maharashtra, may not be even noticed by the university scientists. Both groups receive funds from the same source, viz. the Indian Government, and yet what one does is not easily accessible to the other. What is more it need not be. The authors at the Tuberculosis research Institute may publish their papers in any journal they want to. But if, at the same time, they also place the papers in an interoperable institutional open access archive (or repository) anyone with an Internet connection can access it. This is precisely why enlightened institutions such as the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian Institute of Science are subscribing to the idea of open access. All eleven Academy journals are open access. Anyone anywhere in the world can access any paper published in these journals - full text and not just abstracts - through the Internet. The Indian Institute of Science is maintaining an open access repository of full text papers and they are on their way to placing every paper published by the IISc faculty and students in this repository. Currently they have more than 5,000 papers. CERN, the Centre for Nuclear research in Geneva has placed more than 75,000 papers in its repository. Many Indian physicists have been placing their research papers - both preprints and postprints - in an international repository called arXiv. But a vast majority of Indian scientists are not making their papers available via open access. What can we the common people, the taxpaying public, do? Well in the USA they have an organization called the Alliance for Taxpayer Access; please see http://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:5584.334940148/rid:24ef8cfe5… for details. They have over 75 institutional members and they are fighting for open access to all publicly funded research. Through their advocacy, the Alliance members hope to change not only the US policy but also the attitude and behaviour of individual scientists. Enlightened Indians in all walks of life could form a national organization similar to the US Alliance for Taxpayer Access and persuade the government to mandate open access all research publications resulting from public funding. The Alliance could write to major funding agencies and apex bodies (such as DST, DSIR, ICAR, ICMR, DAE, DRDO, Dept of Space, Department of Ocean Development, UGC, etc.), the Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister and the science academies and professional societies urging them to adopt a comprehensive open access policy in India. In the US a bill is at an advanced stage of discussion in the Congress and in the UK six of the eight Research Councils have already announced their support to open access. The Wellcome Trust, one of the largest funders of life science research, has mandated OA for all papers resulting from their support. Surely we in India can open up the scientific and scholarly literature. Subbiah Arunachalam ---------------------- The presentations made at the workshop on electronic publishing and open access: developing country perspectives, Bangalore, 2-3 November 2006, are now available at <www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/OAworkshop2006/>. ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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Re: Re: [LIS-Forum] Prof ( Dr) Veena is no more- condolences from the professionals of hyderabad
by Mailing List Manager 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Date: 1 Dec 2006 05:12:31 -0000 From: Dr. S M.SHAFI <shafi_sm(a)rediffmail.com> Dear prof Rao and Colleagues, We were shocked to know about sad demise of prof. veena Saraf. The Department of Liberay and information Science and senior colleagues from Kashmir university Library System held a condolence meeting in the departent. The participants prayed for her eternal peace and prayed Almighty to have courage to her parents and daughter to bear the loss. DR saraf was adauhter of Kashmir and had her professional bebinning from the Departmnet and later worked for about one year innthe university LIB system S M SHAFI > >Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:39:47 +0000 (GMT) > From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. > >dear friends > >Prof ( Dr) Mrs Veena shroff, Head, Dept of Library and Information >science, NEHU was suffering from Cancer for last few months. I am >extremely sorry and feel very bad to inform u that she left all the >professionals on 28 nov at abt 9-30 PM. > >[truncated]

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Prof ( Dr) Veena is no more- condolences fromtheprofessionals of hyderabad
by Mailing List Manager 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:59:21 +0530 From: "srels(a)vsnl.com" <srels(a)blr.vsnl.net.in> Dear Dr.Laxman Rao: It saddened us to hear the news of the untimely demise of Dr. Veena Shroff. Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science condoles the death of Dr. Shroff. May her soul rest in peace. K.N.Prasad, SRELS, Bangalore ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mailing List Manager" <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 11:33 AM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Prof ( Dr) Veena is no more- condolences fromtheprofessionals of hyderabad > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:39:47 +0000 (GMT) > From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> [truncated]

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Koha 2.2.7 released
by vimal kumar 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Dear Friends, Koha 2.2.7 just released. It is a stable version of 2.2.6. The main feature of this version is Z39.50 client based of Zoom. Koha has more than 100 registered users and at least 300 libraries use the software. Koha is the first Open-Source Integrated Library System. Koha is a full-featured open-source ILS. Developed initially in New Zealand by Katipo Communications Ltd and first deployed in January of 2000 for Horowhenua Library Trust, it is currently maintained by a team of software providers and library technology staff from around the globe. Visit Koha home page for more details, http://www.koha.org/ Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in --------------------------------- Cheap Talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. Dear Friends, Koha 2.2.7 just released. It is a stable version of 2.2.6. The main feature of this version is Z39.50 client based of Zoom. Koha has more than 100 registered users and at least 300 libraries use the software. Koha is the first Open-Source Integrated Library System. Koha is a full-featured open-source ILS. Developed initially in New Zealand by Katipo Communications Ltd and first deployed in January of 2000 for Horowhenua Library Trust, it is currently maintained by a team of software providers and library technology staff from around the globe. Visit Koha home page for more details, http://www.koha.org/ Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in Cheap Talk? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman8/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates.

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Communication of the ACM - Backvolume - July, 2006- Required.
by Mailing List Manager 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:44:00 +0530 (IST) From: Vasanthakumar N <vasanthakumar(a)tsm.ac.in> Hello Mentors, sirs, If you anyone have the "COMMUNICATION OF THE ACM" JULY-2006 back volume. Please inform anyone have this. I need two pages of the article. Regards, Vasanthakumar.N

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NET Exemption to M.Phil/Ph.D holders
by rupesh kumar 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Dear All, UGC has officially approved exemption from NET to M.Phil. and Ph.D. Degree holders for appointment to the posts of Assistant Librarians and Assistant Director of Physical Education. The Official Notification is available at http://www.ugc.ac.in/notices/exemption_net06.pdf on the UGC Website Regards, Rupesh Kumar A Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University a_rupeshkumar(a)yahoo.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com UGC has officially approved exemption from NET to M.Phil. and Ph.D. Degree holders for appointment to the posts of Assistant Librarians and Assistant Director of Physical Education. The Official Notification is available at http://www.ugc.ac.in/notices/exemption_net06.pdf http://www.ugc.ac.in/notices/exemption_net06.pdf on the UGC Website Regards, Rupesh Kumar A Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University mailto:a_rupeshkumar@yahoo.com a_rupeshkumar(a)yahoo.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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