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Hyperlinking to Copyrighted Material is illegal: Australia
by Farooque Shaheen 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

The Federal Court of Australia has upheld last year's ruling against Stephen Cooper who ran MP3s4free.net, and the ISP who hosted the site, for copyright infringement. Cooper's site didn't host any copyrighted material. Instead, it linked directly to recordings hosted on other servers, many of which were copyrighted. Experts say Australian copyright ruling has international implications could spell serious trouble for Search Engines and Bloggers. Some experts have different opinion, they draw a distinction between general-purpose sites and more narrowly-focused operations such as mp3s4free.net. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8219/53/ Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 The Federal Court of Australia has upheld last year's ruling against Stephen Cooper who ran MP3s4free.net, and the ISP who hosted the site, for copyright infringement. Cooper's site didn't host any copyrighted material. Instead, it linked directly to recordings hosted on other servers, many of which were copyrighted. Experts say Australian copyright ruling has international implications could spell serious trouble for Search Engines and Bloggers. Some experts have different opinion, they draw a distinction between general-purpose sites and more narrowly-focused operations such as mp3s4free.net. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8219/53/ Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105

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Elsevier Awards India's Young Scientists
by Mailing List Manager 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:36:59 +0800 From: "Muralidharan, Padma (ELS-DEL)" <P.Muralidharan(a)elsevier.com> Dear Reader, New Delhi - At a glittering award ceremony, the "SCOPUS - Young India Scientist Awards" for 2006 were given away to nine young brilliant scientists. These awards were instituted by Elsevier - the world's largest publisher in STM - Science, Technology & Medicine to honour and propel India's young research minds towards furthering Indian Science. The selection process involved senior academicians, subject experts and scientometricians from the eight subject areas in which the awards were given away. The evaluation criteria were both qualitative and quantitative criteria. For the former, the recently popular bibliometric tool - the Hirsch Index, published papers and citation data and the impact factors - another measurement tool for the quality of a journal were considered. Qualitative analysis was used to see if the research paper was path breaking and if it helped develop new insights into the field. The winners were : Dr. Sunil Kumar Manna from Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad and Dr. Rajesh S Gokhale from National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi for Biological Sciences Dr. Kumar Biradha from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur for Chemistry Dr. Shankar Doraiswamy from National Institute of Oceanography, Goa in Earth Sciences Dr. Giridhar Madras from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in Engineering, Dr. Abhay Gopal Bhatt from Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi in Mathematics Dr. G Venkatasubramanian from National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences, Bangalore in Medicine Dr. C P Safvan from Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi and Dr. Tarun Souradeep from Inter University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune for their work in Physics. We would like to thank all the applicants for participating in this. We hope to continue with this endeavour in the future years too. Kind regards, Padma Muralidharan Account Development Manager, Elsevier India (Science & Technology) Phone : 011-42890202

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Failed experiment of online knowledge sharing
by Aman Jha 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Dear Friends The quote below is self explanatory. Shows the future of online knowledge sharing culture. "Nature has given up on an effort to take peer review to the people. For several months beginning this past summer, Nature has invited scientists whose articles were short-listed for publication in the journal to first post their work online for public review. Normally, a handful of scientists review such submissions anonymously. But Nature, which is published by a unit of Macmillan Publishers Ltd., said in an editorial in today's issue that it was ending the experiment due to lack of participation. The journal found that in the competitive world of scientific publishing, the vast majority of authors were unwilling to post their papers and few scientists were willing to criticize their peers' work publicly by posting comments on Nature's Web site." Source: The Wall Street Journal, 21 December 2006 Regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon - 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-4014060-67 aman.jha(a)ciionline.org http://www.ciionline.org DISCLAIMER:The information in this message may be privileged. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete the message from your system. Any unauthorised use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Any information in this message that does not relate to official business shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by the Confederation of Indian Industry. Reach us via our unique Membership Helpline: 00-91-11-435 46244 / 00-99104 46244 (Monday-Saturday: 0900-1700 hrs)

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On scientific research in India
by Subbiah Arunachalam 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Friends: Here is an article from Central Chronicle, Bhopal, 16 December 2006. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Promote scientific research Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has always been a votary of spreading scientific knowledge and pointed to the need for giving more attention to this sector. Not only have financial allocations for science teaching in India increased but he has also committed to boost up the annual expenditure on science and technology from less than one per cent of GDP to two per cent in the next five years. Over the years lot of concern has been expressed by various sections of academicians and also by our Prime Minister and President, all of whom have expressed the need to concentrate on research and translate the benefits to the field and factory. The PM regretted recently that research standards have declined in Indian universities and warned about a "disconnect between research and teaching in the sciences". Moreover the type of research being conducted was concentrated in specialized institutes and generally did not have a direct bearing on society. The universities also had difficulty in mobilizing adequate financial and intellectual resources which, in turn, hampered research. Delving into some bare facts, one finds that R&D expenditure has remained static at 0.8 per cent of the GDP during 1985 to 2005 though China increased it from 0.5 per cent to 1.3 per cent during the same period. Japan and South Korea spend 3 and 2 per cent respectively on R&D. Moreover China increased its number of scientific publications to 104 times during the two decades while India could do it only 2.3 times, according ta a study by R. N. Kostoff of the US Office of Naval Research. Eugene Garfield, the American pioneer in mapping scientific information, has corroborated the decline in Indian standards. According to him, in 1973 Indian scientists accounted for about half of the developing world's quality science papers. In the 70s, his benchmark Science Citation Index places India in the 8th place behind the US, UK, USSR, France, Japan and Canada. By 2000, India had slid to the 15th place. Though one may argue that citations need not be the only benchmark, India's agricultural research has also not been very successful to develop ground-breaking techniques for the rain-dependent farmers, as result of which production and productivity is very low in drought prone areas. Regarding defence research, the Defence Research & Development Organization's (DRDO's) ambitious plans to achieve 70 per cent weapons indigenisation by 2005 has been abysmal failure and may not be accomplished even by 2010. According to a 1999 CAG audit, the development of the Pinaka, a multi-barrel rocket launcher, was compromised by non-availability of qualified manpower. The DRDO's scientists are grossly outnumbered by up to four times the auxiliary staff than found in similar private sector establishments. As regards the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is concerned, India's success stories are far behind that of global competitors. For example, China has launched 24 foreign satellites so far, sent two manned missions into space, is believed to be planning a human mission to Mars in 2017 and a satellite navigation system akin to the European Galileo. India has only just begun to consider sending a man into space and would still take another 6-7 years to launch manned space aircraft. Moreover, the GSLV crash is indeed a big setback to the country's entry into the $ 2 billion commercial satellite launch market. In pharmaceuticals though, India is a leader in the Third World, it has done no better when it comes to discovering new molecules to treat diseases. "No new molecules are being discovered", observed Dr. C. M. Gulati, a drug expert, adding that what is happening is just "peripheral research where the industry is developing new formulations of existing drugs or new routes of drug delivery and getting patents for these". With this kind of research, experts believe that India cannot capture even 0.5 per cent of the drug R&D market. In fact, the country's medical research has no productive link with the rising pharma industry. Apart from these sectoral developments, interest in science education is also on the decline. Students opting for pure science for graduation in India dropped from 32 per cent in 1950 to 15 per cent in 2000. Scientists per million population in the country is a mere 157 compared to 545 in China and 2319 in South Korea. Obviously this is because on R&D expenditure per capita is a mere $ 5.5 compared to $11.7 of China and $ 241 of South Korea. It is true that India produces some finest scientists and has some very good laboratories but they are like proverbial islands of excellence surrounded by a vast ocean of mediocrity. Although our science and technology policy has advocated pubic-private partnership in research, industry's contribution remains just about 20 per cent as compared to around 70-80 per cent in advanced countries and 40 per cent in China. It is indeed intriguing why the Indian private sector has been unable to contribute to R&D compared to their counterparts in South Korea and Singapore not to speak of the Western nations. Except for the Tata group and another one or two in the pharmaceutical sector, the contribution of even the market leaders in industry towards research has been quite poor. Even industry-wise, R&D expenditure has not been encouraging except, of course, for the pharma and IT sectors. Realizing the imperative need to give a boost to science education and attract more students in this field, the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister decided to set up the National Science & Engineering Foundation and two new institutes of science. The proposals come with some hefty price tags: Rs 500 crores for each of the two institutes and Rs 1000 crores for the Foundation to fund basic research in the universities. The obvious goal is to inject more money into science and create more centres of excellence and basic research. The Government's concern at this juncture cannot be doubted and quite justifiably, so as the country aims at achieving international standards and become globally competitive in the coming years. The warning of 'acting now' has been rightly sounded by Prof. C. N. Rao, the PM's Scientific Advisor, and this has resulted in evolving an action plan at the highest level with the following objectives: Selected few to be handsomely funded so that they attain international standards; demand performance from individuals and institutions after providing necessary funds; create an autonomous research foundation to take care of all aspect of scientific research; initiate a massive programme of rejuvenation of state and central universities; encourage top talent from all corners of the country to enter the field of pure science and also encourage young scientists in research work in all possible ways; and provide freedom of operation to scientists, universities and scientific institutions. Scientific innovations in key areas such as power (atomic power), defence, biotechnology, pharma, IT and mining sectors are imperative for the country at this juncture. To emerge as a world leader in the true sense, there is need for sustained research in the above areas, responsibility for which has to be shared jointly by the government and the private sector. For a country to emerge big and strong R&D has to be given priority and more funds allocated for this purpose under different heads so that the benefits of research reach society, both rural and urban and industrial and agricultural. Dhurjati Mukherjee, INFA ___________________________________________________________ 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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Australian govt funds OA repositories
by Subbiah Arunachalam 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

Friends: The Australian Government has allocated a huge sum for Australian universities to build their own institutional open access archives (similar to the EPrints archive of IISc, B'lore). Please see the report appended below. When will we in India do such a thing and mandate setting up of OA archives at all major research-performing universities and laboratories? Four or five years ago Current Science carried a short (less than 2 pages) article that clearly showed that China was racing ahead of India in number of papers published as seen not only from the Web of Science but also from MatsciNet and Chemical Abstracts. Many Indian science managers either didn't take note of it or ignored it. A few months ago the Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister made a big case on the very same point and the Indian press covered it for several days. I hope in the case of open access archiving such a thing will not happen. And the science managers will look at what is said and if it is valid rather than who keeps saying it! Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----------------------- >From Peter Suber's blog Australian govt funds OA repositories Julie Bishop, Australia's Minister for Education, Science and Training, has allocated $25.5 million to build OA repositories at Australian universities as part of the country's new Research Quality Framework (RQF). Here's the key part of today's press release: $25.5 million - Australian Scheme for Higher Education Repositories programme - to assist with the establishment of university digital data storage systems that will allow research outputs to be submitted for RQF assessment. This programme builds on the Australian Governments $35 million investment in the research and development of data repository technology, funded as part of Backing Australias Ability. ___________________________________________________________ Now you can scan emails quickly with a reading pane. Get the new Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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For admission in Mphil
by ab verma 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

Respected all I Abhishek Verma, wants to pursue Mphil in Library and Information Science from Alagappa University, as Distance Education Mode, but recently Tamil nadu government has suspended(Mphil & Phd.) the course from 2007-08 session and further.I am from Varanasi and there is Algappa University's study center in our city which is going to start Mphil from 15th,January 2007and the session as i informed by the study centre will be Jan-Dec,2007 session. Please Suggest me whether i can pursue this course and after completion of this course my degree would be recognized by the govt. or not. Also suggest universities from where i can take admission in Mphil (library Science) Truly Yours Abhishek Verma Deputy Librarian School of Management Science Varanasi, 221005 Uttar Pradesh Email: abhishekverma81(a)gmail.com and abhishekwrverma(a)yahoo.co.in Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php Respected all I Abhishek Verma, wants to pursue Mphil in Library and Information Science from Alagappa University, as Distance Education Mode, but recently Tamil nadu government has suspended(Mphil & Phd.) the course from 2007-08 session and further.I am from Varanasi and there is Algappa University's study center in our city which is going to start Mphil from 15th,January 2007and the session as i informed by the study centre will be Jan-Dec,2007 session. Please Suggest me whether i can pursue this course and after completion of this course my degree would be recognized by the govt. or not. Also suggest universities from where i can take admission in Mphil (library Science) Truly Yours Abhishek Verma Deputy Librarian School of Management Science Varanasi, 221005 Uttar Pradesh Email: mailto:abhishekverma81@gmail.com abhishekverma81(a)gmail.com and mailto:abhishekwrverma@yahoo.co.in abhishekwrverma(a)yahoo.co.in Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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ICSD-2007: Early Bird Registration
by Dr. A.R.D. Prasad 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

Apologies if you received multiple copies of this message. ============================================= ========== ICSD-2007 Call For Participation Early Bird Registration Deadline January 01, 2007 ========== ============================================= INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMANTIC WEB & DIGITAL LIBRARIES February 21-23, 2007 (http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/icsd) Bangalore, India Documentation Research & Training Centre invites international researchers, information professionals, Librarians, business leaders and academics to sign up for three days of stimulating discussions on the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web Technologies and digital libraries. Sessions include keynote lectures, workshops and tutorials that focus on innovative research areas and applications such as Knowledge Organization and Ontologies, Semantic Web Services, Tools and Techniques for managing digital repositories, Digital Resource Management strategies, and many more. The conference is going to be held at Bangalore, the IT city of India. ==== | INVITED SPEAKERS and TUTORIAL RESOURCE PERSONS (Confirmed so far) ==== # Dr. Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead # Prof. Fausto Giunchiglia, Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento, Italy # Prof. Peter Schirmbacher, Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft, University of Humboldt, Berlin, Germany # Dr. Anupriya Ankolekar, Research Associate, AIFB Institute, University of Karlsruhe, Germany # Prof. Frederick Friend, JISC Scholarly Communication Consultant, Honorary Director Scholarly Communication UCL, England ==== | REGISTRATION ==== Participants who register on or before January 01, 2007 can benefit from early bird special prices. * Early Bird registration: Till January 01, 2007. * Early Bird registration fees: Rs. 4000 (Indian & SAARC Delegates) $US 150 (Foreign Delegates other than SAARC) * Late Registration: January 02, 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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Difference between Library Classification & Yahoo's Classification
by Satish MV 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Dear Professionals, Could anybody plz explain the difference between classification we do in the library and yahoo's classification (yahoo.com) apart from its directory based classification ? And I will be waiting for your precious reply. With Regards. Satish MV Project Assistant NCSI, IISc. Bangalore Email: satish.ncsi(a)gmail.com Dear Professionals, Could anybody plz explain the difference between classification we do in the library and yahoo's classification ( http://yahoo.com yahoo.com ) apart from its directory based classification ? And I will be waiting for your precious reply. With Regards. Satish MV Project Assistant NCSI, IISc. Bangalore Email: mailto:satish.ncsi@gmail.com satish.ncsi(a)gmail.com

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Google offers to digitise back issues (and volumes) of scientific and scholarly journals
by Mailing List Manager 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:54:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Friends: Here is an interesting development. Google offers to digitise back issues (and volumes) of scientific and scholarly journals at NO COST to journal publishers. [Many Indian societies publishing their own journals might wish to take advantage of this programme, as and when Google makes this programme public.] Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------------------------ >From Peter Suber's blog Google's offer to digitize journal back runs for OA Google is offering to digitize and provide OA to the back runs of scholarly journals. The terms of the offer are not online, as far as I can tell, but here's an excerpt from Google's Overview and FAQ, generously shared with me by the Canadian Association of Learned Journals (CALJ), which is passing the offer on to its members for their consideration. While many publishers and organizations are working on bringing journal collections online, a substantial fraction of scholarly journals are currently offline and may remain offline for the foreseeable future. Google is offering publishers an archival journal digitization program to bring these archival collections online and to make them more accessible. Highlights: * Publishers maintain copyright and ownership of their content. Publishers select the journal volumes to be digitized. * This service is free and will make articles from the selected issues fully [and freely] accessible to all users. * Hosted pages that display journal articles will include publisher co-branding/logo and a link back to the publishers website. * This program is non-exclusive. There is no restriction on redigitization of this material or on working with other partners. Additional Details: * The digitized journal articles will be included in Google search indices including Google Web Search and Google Scholar. * Publishers can create a table of contents on their website and link to their digitized articles in Google, allowing users to browse their archives from their website.... * Publishers have the option to include Google's ads on the hosted pages that display the journal articles. This is setup as a revenue share between the publisher and Google. Frequently Asked Questions Q. Does this mean all my journals have to be offered openly accessible? A. No, you can choose the journal volumes to be included. The goal of this program is to bring archival journal collections online. Q. Can you provide us with the digital files? A: We are unable to provide the digital files unless we terminate the service or the agreement. We would like to point out that this is a non-exclusive program.... Q: Will Google provide us with reporting tools so I know how many users are reading my digitized content? A: Yes, we will provide tools for publishers to view the usage of their content. Q: What will users see when they find my digitized articles? A: Users will see the full digitized article and will have an option to download PDFs for reading or printing. The pages that display the article will also include the publisher's logo and url.... Peter Suber's Comments. I've been hoping to see this development ever since Google started digitizing books two years ago. 1. The offer could be better, but it's definitely worth taking. I'd like to see open access to cut-and-pasteable text, not just to images. (I've said the same about Google-scanned books.) I'd also like to see journals get their own copies of the files so that Google wouldn't be the only host. But then, of course, the files would be indexed by Yahoo, Microsoft, and Scirus as well. While Google naturally wants some return on its investment, and a period of exclusivity, this provision of the contract shows the effect of a profit motive. If the OCA gets into journal digitization, and I hope it will, I suspect that it would be delighted if the resulting files were indexed by every search engine on the planet. Meantime, free online access through Google alone is much better, for authors, readers, and journals, than no free online access at all. 2. I don't see a downside for journal that doesn't already have a digitized back run. Google will charge nothing to do the job, the contract is non-exclusive, and it needn't include current issues. The only journals that might hesitate are those already selling online access to their back runs and happy with the revenue. 3. Because the offer targets non-OA issues, it could bring about OA to virtually the whole corpus of journal literature that isn't already OA. And it could do this without compelling non-OA journals to convert to OA for their newer issues. 4. The offer is new I don't yet know of any journals taking Google up on it. If you hear any, please let me know. Meantime, if an important journal in your field hasn't yet digitized its back run, tell it about this offer.

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'Digital black hole' threatens your documents
by Mailing List Manager 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:49:24 +0530 From: praveen kumar veeramalla <praveenkumarveeramalla(a)gmail.com> *The European Union is funding a project involving national libraries and digital preservation groups aimed at fighting off a looming "digital black hole."* The black hole in question is the potential future loss of data as file formats become obsolete and inaccessible. The planets consortium will develop a "sustainable framework" to maintain access to digital content after its original storage format has disappeared. ("Planets" is short for "preservation and long-term access project through networked services.) It is estimated that 5 billion documents are produced every year within the EU, of which 2 percent--100 million--are seen as worth archiving. Two million of these documents are on formats at risk from disappearing into the digital black hole. The consortium includes national libraries, archives, research institutes and technology specialists across Europe. The organizations taking part include the British Library; Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England; IBM Netherlands; the Austrian National Library; the Swiss Federal Archives; and Freiburg and Cologne universities in Germany. The EU's Information Society Technologies R&D program is providing 8.6million euros ($11.3 million) of the 14 million euros ($18.5 million) required to fund the project. Adam Farquhar, head of e-architecture at the British Library, said that as computer hardware and software become obsolete,digital information reliant on this technology becomes increasingly hard to find, view, search and reuse. "There is a growing consensus on the need to act now to avoid a gaping hole in our cultural and scientific record," he said. LynneeBrindley ,chief executive of the British Library, said European libraries and archives are uniquely positioned to lead this digital-preservation initiative, as they have the legal responsibility and the legislative framework to safeguard digital information. *Source:* *Tim Ferguson of silicon.com reported from London* *CNet news* ** ************************************************** praveen kumar veeramalla

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Biomicrofluidics
by vimal kumar 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Dear Professionals, Biomicrofluidics is an online open-access journal published by the American Institute of Physics to rapidly disseminate novel microfluidic techniques with diagnostic, medical, biological, pharmaceutical, environmental, and chemical applications. http://bmf.aip.org/ 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 Biomicrofluidics is an online open-access journal published by the American Institute of Physics to rapidly disseminate novel microfluidic techniques with diagnostic, medical, biological, pharmaceutical, environmental, and chemical applications. http://bmf.aip.org/ 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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Linking Up Bibliographies: DOI Harvesting Tool Launched by CrossRef
by vimal kumar 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Dear Friends, Authors, editors, publishers, and librarians all have a vested interest in supporting the widest dissemination of digital scholarship, particularly authoritative and "authorized" copies of scholarly publications. CrossRef, the reference-linking network of the Publishers International Linking Association (PILA), has officially launched a free DOI look-up feature called Simple-Text Query. Users can enter whole bibliographies with citations in almost any bibliographic format and receive back the matching Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for these references to insert into their final bibliographies. From: Infotoday Newsbreaks. Read more http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb061106-1.shtml 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 Dear Friends, Authors, editors, publishers, and librarians all have a vested interest in supporting the widest dissemination of digital scholarship, particularly authoritative and "authorized" copies of scholarly publications. CrossRef, the reference-linking network of the Publishers International Linking Association (PILA), has officially launched a free DOI look-up feature called Simple-Text Query. Users can enter whole bibliographies with citations in almost any bibliographic format and receive back the matching Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for these references to insert into their final bibliographies. From: Infotoday Newsbreaks. Read more http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb061106-1.shtml http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb061106-1.shtml 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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Second Call for Papers and Invited Sessions Proposals (fwd)
by K.S. Chudamani 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Dear professionals, I would like to organize a session on risk management in libraries for the following international event. Kindly send your papers before 10th January to my email at kschudamani(a)rediffmail.com Chudamani ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:52:47 -0400 From: rmci2007(a)iiis-info-cyber.org To: KSC(a)LIBRARY.IISC.ERNET.IN Subject: Second Call for Papers and Invited Sessions Proposals Second Call for Papers and Invited Sessions Proposals As a response to the many requests we have received, the Organizing Committee of the 4th International Symposium on Risk Management and Cyber-Informatics: RMCI 2007 (Orlando, Florida, USA. July 8-11, 2007), has decided to extend the deadline for papers/abstracts submissions, as well as for Invited Sessions proposals. New deadlines: Abstract/paper draft submissions and Invited Session Proposals: January 10th, 2007 Authors Notification: February 10th, 2007 Camera ready, full papers: March 1st, 2007 The registration fee of effective invited sessions organizers will be waived and they will receive at the registration desk, for free, a package of 4 DVDs and one CD containing the 6-hour tutorial "Fundamentals and History of Cybernetics: Development of the Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems". The market price of this package is US $ 295. Twelve more benefits for invited session organizers are listed at RMCI 2007 web page. For submissions or Invited Sessions Proposals, please go to the web site: http://www.iiis-cyber.org/rmci2007 Authors of the best 10%-20% of the papers presented at the conference will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. Best regards, RMCI 2007 Secretariat If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please send an email to rmci.remove(a)iiis-sci.org with REMOVE MLRMCI in the subject line. Address: Torre Profesional La California, Av. Francisco de Miranda, Caracas, Venezuela.

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National Seminar on Information Literacy and Higher Education
by Gowri Ravindranth 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

National Seminar on Information Literacy and Higher Education 29 - 30 January 2007 Call for Papers Organized by Department of Information Science University of Madras Chennai 600 005 Information Literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to `recognise when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate and use effectively the needed information'. It forms the basis for lifelong learning. It is common to all disciplines, to environments, and to all levels of education. It enables learners to master content and investigations, becomes more self-directed and assures greater control over their own learning process. Developing lifelong learning is central to the mission of higher education institutions ensuring that individuals have the intellectual abilities of reasoning and critical through helping them construct a framework for learning how to learn. Higher education institutions provide the foundation for the students towards lifelong personal and professional growth. Since information literacy augments student's competency with accessing evaluating, managing, and using information, it is now considered by several regional and national accredited associations as a key outcome for students and scholars. Seminar Objectives The Seminar is directed towards enabling an individual to: Determine the extent of information required; Access the needed information effectively; Evaluate information and its sources critically; Incorporate selected information into one's knowledge base; Use information to accomplish a specific purpose; Understand the economic, legal and social issues surrounding the use of information. Seminar Participants Faculty members and Researchers in Library and Information Science Librarians working in varied institutions/corporate sectors Managers in any information centres All researchers in all other disciplines Call for Papers Papers are invited on the theme and any of sub-themes. The Sub-themes are: Information Literacy - Means and Methods Information Literacy Models Information Literacy Standards Information Literacy and Libraries Information Literacy - Case Studies The paper should not exceed 3000 words inA4 size word document. The paper should include name of the author, affiliation, mailing address, telephone and e-mail address, submitted in CD-ROM along with the printed version. The paper can be sent to under mentioned address.The electronic version of text can also be sent to http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/emala/post?postID=t7Ot8JvaCUd55YSLAREi… mu_dis(a)yahoo.co.in The last date for submission of paper is 10th January 2007 Registration Fees Registration fee is Rs. 300/- per delegate.The Registration fee includes conference kit, tea and working lunch on the days of conference. The filled-in Registration Form along with Demand Draft / Local Cheque in favour of can be sent to the following address on or before the 15th January 2007. Prof. A. Amudhavalli Professor & Head Dept. of Information Science University of Madras Chepauk, Chennai 600 005 Phone No.: 25368778 Ext 278 E-mail: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/emala/post?postID=3f0mAbnGAYuV3EJpw8_z… amudha75(a)yahoo.com On request accommodation can be facilitated Registration Form National Seminar on Information Literacy and Higher Education 29 - 30 January 2007 Name (in Block Letters): Designation: Parent body: Contact Address: Phone No.: Mobile: E-mail: Payment Details Amount.: DD / Cheque No.: Name of the Bank & Branch: Signature Date: Note: The registration closes on 15th January 2007. Catch all the cricketing action right here. http://g.msn.com/8HMBENIN/2755??PS=47575 Live score, match reports, photos et al.

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Openings for NCIS-trained MLIS Professionals
by guhamba 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

We at Informatics india Ltd, a 26-year old Public limited company located in Jayanagar, Bangalore are in need of around five NCIS trained post-graduates in MLIS for our electronic products and information processing departments. The applicants should have good oral and written communication skills, with 0-1 year experience and should be based in Bangalore. Remuneration will be the range of Rs.10,000-11,500 depending on the capabilities. Those interested may respond with CV at email: resumes.info(a)yahoo.co.in within 5 days, indicating the grades right from SSLC and also their expertise in handling electronic products, usage of Internet, familiarity with MS-Access, VB etc. Regards, Guhamba

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Invitation from DLISC Thane
by sandeep bhavsar 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Respected All Department of Library and Information Science, Joshi Bedekar College Thane. Invite you to a talk on How to use Internet and evaluation of websites By Ms. Wendy Zaman* Information Resource Officer, American Embassy, New Delhi Venue : Thorale Bajirao Peshve Hall 'Janadweep'VPM' S Thane College Campus Chendani Bundar Road Thane West Date: Wednesday,the 20th December, at 11.00 AM ======================================================= *Wendy Zaman joined the Foreign Service as an Information Resource Officer in February 2003. She arrived in India in December 2004. She works as the consultant for the seven American Information Resource Centers (AIRCs), also known as American Libraries in New Delhi, Chennai, Calcutta and Mumbai in India as well as Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Wendy worked as a university librarian in Florida for three years. Before that, she lived throughout Asia and Africa for over twenty years and worked in a variety of libraries, ranging from universities to international schools to NGOs and consulting firms. Wendy has a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature from American University in Washington, DC and a Master's degree in Library and Information Sciences from Long Island University in New York. ============================================================= Best Regards Prof. Narayan Barse Librarian and Coordinator DLIS VPM's Joshi Bedekar College Thane Cell 9963051287 --------------------------------- All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine Department of Library and Information Science, Joshi Bedekar College Thane. Invite you to a talk on How to use Internet and evaluation of websites By Ms. Wendy Zaman* Information Resource Officer, American Embassy, New Delhi Venue : Thorale Bajirao Peshve Hall 'Janadweep'VPM' S Thane College Campus Chendani Bundar Road Thane West Date: Wednesday,the 20th December, at 11.00 AM ======================================================= *Wendy Zaman joined the Foreign Service as an Information Resource Officer in February 2003. She arrived in India in December 2004. She works as the consultant for the seven American Information Resource Centers (AIRCs), also known as American Libraries in New Delhi, Chennai, Calcutta and Mumbai in India as well as Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Wendy worked as a university librarian in Florida for three years. Before that, she lived throughout Asia and Africa for over twenty years and worked in a variety of libraries, ranging from universities to international schools to NGOs and consulting firms. Wendy has a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature from American University in Washington, DC and a Master's degree in Library and Information Sciences from Long Island University in New York. ============================================================= Best Regards Prof. Narayan Barse Librarian and Coordinator DLIS VPM's Joshi Bedekar College Thane Cell 9963051287 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/nowyoucan/pc_mag/*http://us… All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine

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Open Access and Digital Libraries Wiki - http://oadl.pbwiki.com/
by Sukhdev Singh 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Open Access and Digital Libraries Group <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oadl/> has set up a Wiki at http://oadl.pbwiki.com/ to facilitate working on a "Guide to Develop Openly Accessible Digital Libraries". This is the "TARGET - I" of the group and being done a collaborative manner. The WIKI presently lists a broad structure of the proposed guide. Suggestions are most welcomed. Thanks Sukhdev Singh. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oadl/

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11th Five year plan (2007-2012) and Libraries
by K A. Sardesai 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Dear Manju, I agree with your opinion.In Maharashatra the number of Libraries and that of Librarian's ratio is un favourable.This is because the package the Librarians are supposed to get is based with very very less comparative to teachers/professors and others. we try to impress the profiles of librarianship on the management who are typical and burocrat mentalities except the emerging corporate fileds.These corporates are interested in IT areas expert than Library professionals to manage their collection / knowledge/documents etc.They do not think the professionaly and technicalyy expert Librarian, as the attitudes are dominatings. Instead of thinking Government to do something for us the Corporates Like INFOSYS, WIPROS, Banking and Financial Institutions where knowledge hubs and research are in progress. Our forum may take initiative not only to a particular part of the country but it should be in all states. At the same time we must make our profesionals to move towards skills of new developed IT and always upgrade ourselves with creative mind for offering services.We didnot get the experts/enthu library workers where they are needed.This is because the salary/benefits/educational qualifications etc are the hurdeles.As emerging corporates are tying educational institutes for their work forces library professionals should also get such opportunities.Recently ET / TO I dated 18/ 12/06 have annouced such type of picking up work forces or making their own organisations as educational base for future job opportunities in the company itself. Government otherwise is busy with politics and many issues but the thing may be possible if we approach our President who loves education and research and that of creative minds. I request our great forum expert to do something bright for librarians all over the country. Kshipra Sardesai

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Fwd: K-Community hosted by FirstSource (formerly ICICI OneSource)
by Mailing List Manager 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:00:28 +0530 From: Manju manju <manjax4u(a)gmail.com> Dear Friends, The Knowledge Management Community of Bangalore will meet on the 3rd Wednesday of this month: December 20th. The agenda for our gathering is as follows: 6:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.: Networking/Introductions 6:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.: Welcome Address by Host: FirstSource 6:30 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.: Talk and facilitated discussion by PPR Rao, President of Bizworth, 'Bringing Innovation to the Workplace' 7:45 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.: Next Steps and Conclusion Outline of Talk and Discussion: First we shall explore the current business context and talk of the ICT, its impact on the information society, the rising importance of Knowledge assets, the networked society and the emergence of Innovation as the key competitive element for organisations. Then we shall quickly establish a common understanding on few operating words like 'Knowledge Management', 'Intellectual Capital', and 'Innovation'. We shall then examine the sequence of steps to put KM on a sound footing in business organisations. This will bring about the role of Innovation too. Then we shall examine in some detail about Innovation as a 'process' and a few practical steps that can be taken to make it happen in our day to day work while still fighting out all that goes in a day to keep the transactions going. Here, we shall try to demystify Innovation and put it into some simple Do's and Don'ts as well as the leadership / Management philosophies that are essential for the promotion and health of Innovation process in our organisations. At the end, we shall summarise a few guide lines that will help us in structuring our work in such a way that Innovation gets deployed into the day to day working and not an esoteric, stand alone operation. Speaker Background: PPR Rao is President and co-founder of Bizworth, and Management Consultant focusing on Intellectual Capital Management, Process Management, Business Excellence and Manufacturing Management. An engineer by qualification, his professional career spanning 38years has been spent in Public and Private Sectors, Engineering, Auto electrical and IT industries covering the functions of Manufacturing, Services and Business leadership. He served reputed companies like BHEL, English Electric, Nippon Denso, Wipro, Digital Equipment and WeP peripherals. He held various positions in the IT industry like Chief Executive, Customer Services for Wipro, Director Services for Digital, COO for WeP. He served in the national executive of MAIT for more than six years and during that period he also chaired their Business Excellence Committee. He has been associated with CII Southern Region and served their Manufacturing as well as IT panels. Address of Hosting Organization: Firstsource Solutions Ltd. (formerly ICICI One Source) 1 - 3, RMZ Ecospace Tower - 3A, Sarjapur Outer Ring Road Bangalore 560 037 Phone: 080 66208000 RMZ Ecospace is located in Marathahalli - Sarjapur Outer Ring Road, it is six kms from the Bangalore Airport and 12 kms from the Central Business District. Ecospace is flanked on one side by a six lane Ring Road and on the other side by untouched greenery.Accenture is the prominent building while you enter.The third building is FirstSource (formerly ICICI One Source). The venue is at 2 flr conference room. Sincere Regards, P.S. MANJUNATHA (manjax4u) LIBRARIAN B.N.M.I.T.SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES Knowledge Management Community of Bangalore URL: www.k-community.org Bangalore, India

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Re: Socio political unrest in Peoples' Republic of China after 1980
by veena bhat 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Dear Sir/ Madam, Can you please provide the appropriate sources for "Socio political unrest in Peoples' Republic of China after 1980" and let me have some worthwhile reading material on the topic. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Veena Bhat IIIT, Pune __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Sir/ Madam, Can you please provide the appropriate sources for "Socio political unrest in Peoples' Republic of China after 1980" and let me have some worthwhile reading material on the topic. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Veena Bhat IIIT, Pune __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Fw: 2007 Bonnie Hilditch International Science-Technology & Engineering Divisions Librarian Award
by Farooque Shaheen 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Dear Professionals, FYI. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 ----- Forwarded by Farooque Shaheen/IN/CTR on 12/19/2006 10:23 AM ----- "Cheryl Hansen" <cahansen(a)esi-il.com> Sent by: owner-sla-st(a)welles.library.northwestern.edu 12/19/2006 02:37 AM To <sla-st(a)welles.library.northwestern.edu> cc Subject 2007 Bonnie Hilditch International Science-Technology & Engineering Divisions Librarian Award It is time to nominate yourself or a colleague for the 2007 Bonnie Hilditch International Science-Technology & Engineering Divisions Librarian Award. The Engineering Division is now co-sponsoring the Award with Sci-Tech and the monetary amount has gone up to US $2,000. This award is presented to a librarian from outside of the United States and Canada. The purpose of the award is to provide an opportunity for a librarian from outside the U.S. and Canada to attend the annual SLA Conference. The award will consist of conference registration, lodging and airfare, not to exceed US$2000. The 2007 Conference will be held June 3-6 in Denver, CO. Qualifications are : Be a current member of SLA, preference given to members of the SLA Science-Technology and Engineering Divisions. Reside and work outside of the U.S. and Canada, be working currently in a library, information center, library school or other information capacity, preferably in the science, technology and engineering areas. The nomination forms can be found on the Sci-Tech Division Website http://units.sla.org/division/dst/Award/BonnieHilditchInternationalAward.ht… or you can contact the Sci-Tech Division Awards Chair Sheila Rosenthal Manager, Library Services Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute Pittsburgh, PA 412/268-7846 ph 412/268-5758 fax slr(a)sei.cmu.edu Dear Professionals, � � � � � � � � � � � � FYI. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 ----- Forwarded by Farooque Shaheen/IN/CTR on 12/19/2006 10:23 AM ----- "Cheryl Hansen" <cahansen(a)esi-il.com> Sent by: owner-sla-st(a)welles.library.northwestern.edu 12/19/2006 02:37 AM To <sla-st(a)welles.library.northwestern.edu> cc Subject 2007 Bonnie Hilditch International Science-Technology & Engineering Divisions Librarian Award It is time to nominate yourself or a colleague for the 2007 Bonnie Hilditch International Science-Technology & Engineering Divisions Librarian Award. � The Engineering Division is now co-sponsoring the Award with Sci-Tech and the monetary amount has gone up to US $2,000. � This award is presented to a librarian from outside of the United States and Canada. �The purpose of the award is to provide an opportunity for a librarian from outside the U.S. and Canada to attend the annual SLA Conference. �The award will consist of conference registration, lodging and airfare, not to exceed US$2000. �The 2007 Conference will be held June 3-6 in Denver, CO. Qualifications are : Be a current member of SLA, preference given to members of the SLA Science-Technology and Engineering Divisions. �Reside and work outside of the U.S. and Canada, be working currently in a library, information center, library school or other information capacity, preferably in the science, technology and engineering areas. � The nomination forms can be found on the Sci-Tech Division Website http://units.sla.org/division/dst/Award/BonnieHilditchInternationalAward.ht… http://units.sla.org/division/dst/Award/BonnieHilditchInternationalAward.ht… � or you can contact the Sci-Tech Division Awards Chair Sheila Rosenthal Manager, Library Services Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute Pittsburgh, PA 412/268-7846 ph 412/268-5758 fax mailto:slr@sei.cmu.edu slr(a)sei.cmu.edu

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[LIS-Forum] Version 66, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Version 66 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,830 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. The SEPB URL has changed: http://sepb.digital-scholarship.org/ or http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html There is a mirror site at: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepb.html The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog URL has also changed: http://sepw.digital-scholarship.org/ or http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm There is a mirror site at: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm The SEPW RSS feed is unaffected. Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues* 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management* 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies Appendix B. About the Author* Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata Digital Libraries* Electronic Books and Texts* Electronic Serials General Electronic Publishing Images Legal Preservation Publishers Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* SGML and Related Standards Further Information about SEPB The HTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be searched using a Google Search Engine. Whether the search results are current depends on Google's indexing frequency. In addition to the bibliography, the HTML document includes: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of new resources; also available by e-mail--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://sepw.digital-scholarship.org/ http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756 http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://sepr.digital-scholarship.org/ (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm The 2005 annual PDF file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 210 pages long. The PDF file is over 560 KB. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/60/sepb.pdf Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. E-Mail: cwbailey(a)digital-scholarship.com Publications: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ (Provides access to DigitalKoans, Open Access Bibliography, Open Access Webliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog, and others.)

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FW: [Sigiii-l] asist sig iii international paper contest 2007
by J. K. Vijayakumar 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

-----Original Message----- From: sigiii-l-bounces(a)asis.org [mailto:sigiii-l-bounces@asis.org] On Behalf Of Dr Julian Warner Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 9:04 AM To: sigiii-l(a)asis.org Subject: [Sigiii-l] asist sig iii international paper contest 2007 INTERNATIONAL PAPER CONTEST The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), International Information Issues Special Interest Group (SIG-III), is pleased to announce its eighth competition for papers to be submitted for the 2007 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 18-25, 2007. The theme of this paper contest is: "Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing and Information Science" The theme may be addressed at either the country or regional level issues. Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on specific aspects of the theme, such as, but not limited to the following: Egovernance in developing countries, Factors, issues, case studies etc pertaining to rural/urban digital divide and the information infrastructure (connectivity, access, hardware, cost implications, emerging trends etc) in developing countries. Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and digital libraries Collecting, preserving and disseminating IK. Social, ethical, political, legal, and economic and cultural issues: issues related to the role of information in society, such as information policy, access, security, privacy, and intellectual property, as well as the social uses and abuses of information technologies such as the Internet and World Wide Web in bridging or separating diverse communities. Information organization, management, access, and retrieval. Information seeking and use: the role of information in professional and daily lives, use of various types of information technology, and social contexts of information seeking. Information technology, social equity and development: IT and governance, IT and the new economy, including the future of work and implications of technological hardware and software developments; the role of ICTs in conflict management, etc. There will be six winners who will be selected by a panel of judges including Julian Warner (Chair), Judy Jeng (Co-Chair), Yunfei Du, Nathalie Leroy, Sue O'Neill Johnson, Yin Zhang, and Liwen Vaughn. Selection Criteria Papers will be selected through a peer review process. The judging criteria will be based on: Originality of paper in the developing world environment (originality of the project described, etc.) Relevance to the Paper contest. Presentation and organization. Style. The international paper contest committee requires that submissions follow the International Information and Library Review instructions to authors. Detailed information is available under the heading, Guide for Authors at: http://authors.elsevier.com/GuideForAuthors.html?PubID=622845&dc=GF The prize for each winner is a two-year individual membership in ASIST. In the case of multiple authors, the principal author will be awarded the ASIST membership. In addition, depending on SIG III fundraising for this competition, the first place winner will be rewarded a minimum of $1,000 toward travel, conference registration, and accommodations while attending the ASIST Annual Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 18-25, 2007. Publishing opportunities Submitted papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the International Information and Library Review, subject to the usual peer refereeing process, for that journal. Information for authors Only papers by a principal author who is a citizen of, and resides in a developing country are eligible. Winners in the 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, or 2006 contests are not eligible. The papers should be original, unpublished, and ONLY in English. We encourage submissions from librarians, information and network specialists, and educators involved in the creation, representation, maintenance, exchange, discovery, delivery, and use of digital information. ASIST Copyright Policy ASIST will have the non-exclusive right to publish any of the papers submitted on its web site or in print, with ownership and all other rights remaining with the author. Deadline for submission of full papers Authors are invited to submit manuscripts, not to exceed 5000 words, by March 31, 2007, to j.warner(a)qub.ac.uk, preferably as Microsoft Word attachments. Please check the SIG III website (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/index.htm) for more information about the SIG III International Paper Contest, including Frequently Asked Questions, past CFPs, previous winners and winning papers, and stories from previous winners. A copy of this call for papers can be found at http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/paper_contest/2007/CFP2007.htm Julian Warner School of Management and Economics The Queen's University of Belfast Belfast BT7 1NN Northern Ireland email j.warner(a)qub.ac.uk home page http://www.qub-efrg.com/staff/jwarner/ _______________________________________________ Sigiii-l mailing list Sigiii-l(a)asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigiii-l ---------------------------------- J. K. Vijayakumar MLIS PhD Assistant Director - Library American University of Antigua Post Box W-1451, St. Johns ANTIGUA, West Indies http://students.auamed.net/library http://libinfospace.blogspot.com ---------------------------------- Head Quarters: #2 Wall Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10005, USA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -----Original Message----- From: sigiii-l-bounces(a)asis.org [mailto:sigiii-l-bounces@asis.org] On Behalf Of Dr Julian Warner Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 9:04 AM To: sigiii-l(a)asis.org Subject: [Sigiii-l] asist sig iii international paper contest 2007 INTERNATIONAL PAPER CONTEST The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), International Information Issues Special Interest Group (SIG-III), is pleased to announce its eighth competition for papers to be submitted for the 2007 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 18-25, 2007. The theme of this paper contest is: "Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing and Information Science" The theme may be addressed at either the country or regional level issues. Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on specific aspects of the theme, such as, but not limited to the following: Egovernance in developing countries, Factors, issues, case studies etc pertaining to rural/urban digital divide and the information infrastructure (connectivity, access, hardware, cost implications, emerging trends etc) in developing countries. Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and digital libraries Collecting, preserving and disseminating IK. Social, ethical, political, legal, and economic and cultural issues: issues related to the role of information in society, such as information policy, access, security, privacy, and intellectual property, as well as the social uses and abuses of information technologies such as the Internet and World Wide Web in bridging or separating diverse communities. Information organization, management, access, and retrieval. Information seeking and use: the role of information in professional and daily lives, use of various types of information technology, and social contexts of information seeking. Information technology, social equity and development: IT and governance, IT and the new economy, including the future of work and implications of technological hardware and software developments; the role of ICTs in conflict management, etc. There will be six winners who will be selected by a panel of judges including Julian Warner (Chair), Judy Jeng (Co-Chair), Yunfei Du, Nathalie Leroy, Sue O'Neill Johnson, Yin Zhang, and Liwen Vaughn. Selection Criteria Papers will be selected through a peer review process. The judging criteria will be based on: Originality of paper in the developing world environment (originality of the project described, etc.) Relevance to the Paper contest. Presentation and organization. Style. The international paper contest committee requires that submissions follow the International Information and Library Review instructions to authors. Detailed information is available under the heading, Guide for Authors at: http://authors.elsevier.com/GuideForAuthors.html?PubID=622845&dc=GF http://authors.elsevier.com/GuideForAuthors.html?PubID=622845&dc=GF The prize for each winner is a two-year individual membership in ASIST. In the case of multiple authors, the principal author will be awarded the ASIST membership. In addition, depending on SIG III fundraising for this competition, the first place winner will be rewarded a minimum of $1,000 toward travel, conference registration, and accommodations while attending the ASIST Annual Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 18-25, 2007. Publishing opportunities Submitted papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the International Information and Library Review, subject to the usual peer refereeing process, for that journal. Information for authors Only papers by a principal author who is a citizen of, and resides in a developing country are eligible. Winners in the 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, or 2006 contests are not eligible. The papers should be original, unpublished, and ONLY in English. We encourage submissions from librarians, information and network specialists, and educators involved in the creation, representation, maintenance, exchange, discovery, delivery, and use of digital information. ASIST Copyright Policy ASIST will have the non-exclusive right to publish any of the papers submitted on its web site or in print, with ownership and all other rights remaining with the author. Deadline for submission of full papers Authors are invited to submit manuscripts, not to exceed 5000 words, by March 31, 2007, to j.warner(a)qub.ac.uk, preferably as Microsoft Word attachments. Please check the SIG III website (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/index.htm) for more information about the SIG III International Paper Contest, including Frequently Asked Questions, past CFPs, previous winners and winning papers, and stories from previous winners. A copy of this call for papers can be found at http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/paper_contest/2007/CFP2007.htm http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/paper_contest/2007/CFP2007.htm Julian Warner School of Management and Economics The Queen's University of Belfast Belfast BT7 1NN Northern Ireland email j.warner(a)qub.ac.uk home page http://www.qub-efrg.com/staff/jwarner/ _______________________________________________ Sigiii-l mailing list Sigiii-l(a)asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigiii-l ---------------------------------- J. K. Vijayakumar MLIS PhD Assistant Director - Library American University of Antigua Post Box W-1451, St. Johns ANTIGUA, West Indies http://students.auamed.net/library http://students.auamed.net/library http://libinfospace.blogspot.com http://libinfospace.blogspot.com ---------------------------------- Head Quarters: #2 Wall Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10005, USA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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DRTC Colloquium (2) 2006-08
by Mailing List Manager 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Date: 17 Dec 2006 07:04:54 -0000 From: Ehtesham <ehte786(a)rediffmail.com> INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE 8th Mile Mysore Road, Bangalore-560059 DRTC Colloquium - 2 (2006-08) �LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SOFTWARES: THE INDIAN SCENARIO� ABSTRACT The availability of hardware and Library Management Softwares (LMSs) at affordable price has resulted in a fairly wide adoption and use of LMSs in India. Almost all special libraries in India have either adopted a computer-based system or planning actively to go for library automation. LMSs are being used both in library management and for providing user support services. In this colloquium, we will concentrate on generations, features and some advantages of some selected LMSs available in India. TOPICS SPEAKERS 1.Introduction Radha Rani Rit 2.Generations of LMSs Mita Sarkar 3.LMSs of foreign origin used in India Mithun Raj M 4.LMSs developed over LMSs of foreign origin Syed Raiyan Ghani 5.LMSs of Indian origin Ayesha Khatoon Anila S. 6.Conclusion Sanjeev Kumar Sunny Venue :DRTC Classroom Date : 20th of December Time : 2:00 pm All are cordially invited Dr.K.S. Raghavan (Colloquium Coordinator)

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Darwin online
by Mailing List Manager 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 16:14:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Friends: The Complete Works of Darwin are now available at <http://darwin-online.org.uk/>. When are we going to get the complete works of India's great scientists online at one place? Will DST, DSIR or DBT undertake such a programme or fund some agency to undertake such a project? [The Raman research Library is working on bringing out the collected works of Sir C V Raman. The University of Arizona is trying to build a repository of all the writings of Prof. S R Ranganathan.] Regards. Subbiah Arunachalam

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