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Fwd: [Asis-l] First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference CFP
by J. K. Vijayakumar 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

FYI. Rick Kopak <rkopak(a)interchange.ubc.ca> wrote: Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:57:13 -0800 From: Rick Kopak <rkopak(a)interchange.ubc.ca> To: asis-l(a)asis.org Subject: [Asis-l] First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference CFP First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference Vancouver, July 11-13, 2007 WEBSITE: http://pkp.sfu.ca/node/493 The Public Knowledge Project at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University is pleased to announce that the first international PKP conference will be held from July 1113, 2007 in Vancouver. The conference will provide opportunities for those involved in the organization, promotion, and study of scholarly communication to share and discuss innovative work in scholarly publishing, with a focus on the contribution that open source publishing technologies (such as Open Journal Systems) can make to improving access to research and scholarship on a global and public scale. The conference will appeal to all those with an interest in the future of scholarly publishing community: software developers and technical support specialists; journal publishers, editors, and staff; librarians; and researchers in scholarly publishing. CALL FOR PAPERS Abstract Deadline (required): January 15, 2007 Paper and PowerPoint Submission (desired but not required for public posting): July 1, 2007 This conference, which uses Open Conference Systems developed by the Public Knowledge Project, enables participants to submit abstracts online at http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/submit.php . Presentations can include: Single papers (abstract max of 500 words) Multiple paper sessions (overview max of 500 words) Call for Papers Announcement The conference stream for those involved in the practices and study of journal publishing will focus on the following themes and topics: * Scholarly publishing in developing countries; * Open access and the academy: reforming and opening the peer review process, implications for academic freedom; * New journals, new models: the how and why of starting a new journal, new economic models for old journals, encouraging open data and related practices; * Promotion and growth: building readership, authorship, and reviewership; open access is public access - challenges and benefits; * Improving the features and design of publishing software The conference stream for librarians and information specialists will focus on the following themes and topics: * The role of libraries in supporting and developing emerging or alternate forms of scholarly communication, e.g., the library as publisher, implications for collections budgets and policies; * Incorporating and supporting open access publications as part of current collections and related services; * Using PKP software and related open source tools in libraries, e.g., best practices or case studies. The conference stream for open source software developers and other technical experts working with PKP software will address the following: * Understanding and working with PKP software and its plug-in architecture; * Building a PKP developers community including software contributions and collaborative projects; * PKP software development priorities and plans. ____ ________________________________________ Asis-l mailing list Asis-l(a)asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com FYI. Rick Kopak <rkopak(a)interchange.ubc.ca> wrote: Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:57:13 -0800 From: Rick Kopak <rkopak(a)interchange.ubc.ca> To: asis-l(a)asis.org Subject: [Asis-l] First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference CFP First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference Vancouver, July 11-13, 2007 WEBSITE: http://pkp.sfu.ca/node/493 The Public Knowledge Project at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University is pleased to announce that the first international PKP conference will be held from July 1113, 2007 in Vancouver. The conference will provide opportunities for those involved in the organization, promotion, and study of scholarly communication to share and discuss innovative work in scholarly publishing, with a focus on the contribution that open source publishing technologies (such as Open Journal Systems) can make to improving access to research and scholarship on a global and public scale. The conference will appeal to all those with an interest in the future of scholarly publishing community: software developers and technical support specialists; journal publishers, editors, and staff; librarians; and researchers in scholarly publishing. CALL FOR PAPERS Abstract Deadline (required): January 15, 2007 Paper and PowerPoint Submission (desired but not required for public posting): July 1, 2007 This conference, which uses Open Conference Systems developed by the Public Knowledge Project, enables participants to submit abstracts online at http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/submit.php . Presentations can include: Single papers (abstract max of 500 words) Multiple paper sessions (overview max of 500 words) Call for Papers Announcement The conference stream for those involved in the practices and study of journal publishing will focus on the following themes and topics: * Scholarly publishing in developing countries; * Open access and the academy: reforming and opening the peer review process, implications for academic freedom; * New journals, new models: the how and why of starting a new journal, new economic models for old journals, encouraging open data and related practices; * Promotion and growth: building readership, authorship, and reviewership; open access is public access - challenges and benefits; * Improving the features and design of publishing software The conference stream for librarians and information specialists will focus on the following themes and topics: * The role of libraries in supporting and developing emerging or alternate forms of scholarly communication, e.g., the library as publisher, implications for collections budgets and policies; * Incorporating and supporting open access publications as part of current collections and related services; * Using PKP software and related open source tools in libraries, e.g., best practices or case studies. The conference stream for open source software developers and other technical experts working with PKP software will address the following: * Understanding and working with PKP software and its plug-in architecture; * Building a PKP developers community including software contributions and collaborative projects; * PKP software development priorities and plans. ____ ________________________________________ Asis-l mailing list Asis-l(a)asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Invitation for seminar on Semantic Web
by anand pandey 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTER 8th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College Post Bangalore-560059 SEMINAR On Semantic Web and its role in meaningful information retrieval Currently, the resources available on the Web are mainly meant for human. The machine has only limited possibilities in using these resources. Search engines, instead of giving precise record in reply to a query, produce results with high recall. The Semantic Web is an innovative concept, to make data interpretable for computers. It gives the possibility of representing the data of the Web in a meaningful way. The focus of this seminar will be on Semantic Web and its related technologies as well its role in a meaningful information retrieval. Speaker : Anand Kumar Pandey Junior Research Fellow Date & Time : 11th December 2006, 2:00 PM Venue : DRTC Classroom All are cordially invited Professor and Head DRTC INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTER 8th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College Post Bangalore-560059 SEMINAR On Semantic Web and its role in meaningful information retrieval Currently, the resources available on the Web are mainly meant for human. The machine has only limited possibilities in using these resources. Search engines, instead of giving precise record in reply to a query, produce results with high recall. The Semantic Web is an innovative concept, to make data interpretable for computers. It gives the possibility of representing the data of the Web in a meaningful way. The focus of this seminar will be on Semantic Web and its related technologies as well its role in a meaningful information retrieval. Speaker : Anand Kumar Pandey Junior Research Fellow Date & Time : 11th December 2006, 2:00 PM Venue : DRTC Classroom All are cordially invited Professor and Head DRTC 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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Alliance for Taxpayer Access in India
by Subbiah Arunachalam 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

Friends: Here is a report from Peter Suber's blog written by Judea Franck of the Colorado State University. Please read it carefully and tell me should we delay formation of an Alliance for Taxpayer Access in India and fight for people's rights for open access to the results of taxpayer-funded research. Should we not persuade our parlimentarians to legislate open access to all publicly-funded research? Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --------------------------------- The public interest in OA and FRPAA Judea Franck, Who should have access to federally funded research? Inside the 2006 Federal Research Public Access Act, Library Connection (from Colorado State University), Fall 2006. (Thanks to Jennifer McLennan.) Excerpt: Who should have access to federally funded research? Researchers? Professors? Students? Taxpayers? Should research findings be freely available on the Internet? What would be the impact if colleagues in all fields could exchange information with the click of a mouse and without the barriers of membership, subscriptions, or dues? These questions have recently been brought to the forefront by the introduction of the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA).... After his experiences on the battlefields of World War I, Alexander Fleming made a shocking discovery-bacteria could be an even deadlier force than enemy artillery. In the startling conditions of trench warfare, infection caused 15 percent of war-related fatalities, or roughly 5.5 million out of 37 million total deaths. Fleming returned to his London laboratory driven to find some way to prevent these deaths. His pursuit eventually led to the discovery that mold, specifically penicillin, could kill bacteria....[W]hen Fleming published his findings in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology in 1928, his work raised little interest and was nearly lost to scientific obscurity. It was not until 1938, ten years later, that British scientist Ernst Chain and Australian scientist Howard Florey rediscovered Fleming's article.... [I]n today's world, with information increasingly at one's fingertips, it is amazing to note that some of the very same barriers that resulted in the ten-year delay of penicillin research and countless other discoveries still exist.... Just imagine if Fleming could have sat down at a computer and told colleagues in England and beyond about the miracle mold that could knock out staph bacteria. In fact, the number of visitors to digital content on Web sites so far outnumbers traditional journal circulations that the potential to broadly, widely, and immediately impact the scientific community via publishing online is nearly limitless. Take, for example, the journal Science. Science is one of the most commonly cited journals and boasts 130,000 print subscriptions. Yet its Web site, which contains a mix of free and subscription-required portions, receives 1.8 million weekly visits.... [There] is a growing movement to grant taxpayers access to research that is funded with taxpayer dollars. Led largely by the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, an organization in which CSU is a founding member, the movement insists on developing open, online access to federally funded research. Its main advocates include universities, libraries, consumer groups, and perhaps most notably a long list of patient advocate groups including the Genetic Alliance, a coalition of 600 disease-specific organizations that advocates for better healthcare treatments. Sharon Terry became the coalition's president after she and her husband encountered astounding barriers to research literature that would help them understand the debilitating genetic disorder from which both of their children suffered. The Terrys worked around those barriers by volunteering at a hospital and gaining access to the hospital's library. Armed with the research that they were first denied, the Terrys became experts on their children's disorders and, working with a network of scientists, became co-discoverers of the gene responsible for the disorder. Although it is uncommon for lay individuals to make such a significant impact in the research community, 80 percent of taxpayers, according to a recent Harris interactive poll, support a right to "open access" and have a strong desire not necessarily to view research findings themselves, but rather to feel the real-world benefits reflected when their own doctors, pharmacists, and other practitioners have better access to cutting-edge discoveries.... Peter Suber's comment: This is one of the best articles I've seen on the public interest (as opposed to the self-interest of researchers as authors and readers) in OA and FRPAA. Friends: Here is a report from Peter Suber's blog written by Judea Franck of the Colorado State University. Please read it carefully and tell me should we delay formation of an Alliance for Taxpayer Access in India and fight for people's rights for open access to the results of taxpayer-funded research. Should we not persuade our parlimentarians to legislate open access to all publicly-funded research? Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --------------------------------- The public interest in OA and FRPAA Judea Franck, http://lib.colostate.edu/about/news/library_connection/fall06.pdf Who should have access to federally funded research? Inside the 2006 Federal Research Public Access Act , Library Connection (from Colorado State University), Fall 2006. (Thanks to Jennifer McLennan.) Excerpt: Who should have access to federally funded research? Researchers? Professors? Students? Taxpayers? Should research findings be freely available on the Internet? What would be the impact if colleagues in all fields could exchange information with the click of a mouse and without the barriers of membership, subscriptions, or dues? These questions have recently been brought to the forefront by the introduction of the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA).... After his experiences on the battlefields of World War I, Alexander Fleming made a shocking discoverybacteria could be an even deadlier force than enemy artillery. In the startling conditions of trench warfare, infection caused 15 percent of war-related fatalities, or roughly 5.5 million out of 37 million total deaths. Fleming returned to his London laboratory driven to find some way to prevent these deaths. His pursuit eventually led to the discovery that mold, specifically penicillin, could kill bacteria....[W]hen Fleming published his findings in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology in 1928, his work raised little interest and was nearly lost to scientific obscurity. It was not until 1938, ten years later, that British scientist Ernst Chain and Australian scientist Howard Florey rediscovered Flemings article.... [I]n todays world, with information increasingly at ones fingertips, it is amazing to note that some of the very same barriers that resulted in the ten-year delay of penicillin research and countless other discoveries still exist.... Just imagine if Fleming could have sat down at a computer and told colleagues in England and beyond about the miracle mold that could knock out staph bacteria. In fact, the number of visitors to digital content on Web sites so far outnumbers traditional journal circulations that the potential to broadly, widely, and immediately impact the scientific community via publishing online is nearly limitless. Take, for example, the journal Science . Science is one of the most commonly cited journals and boasts 130,000 print subscriptions. Yet its Web site, which contains a mix of free and subscription-required portions, receives 1.8 million weekly visits.... [There] is a growing movement to grant taxpayers access to research that is funded with taxpayer dollars. Led largely by the http://www.taxpayeraccess.org Alliance for Taxpayer Access , an organization in which CSU is a founding member, the movement insists on developing open, online access to federally funded research. Its main advocates include universities, libraries, consumer groups, and perhaps most notably a long list of patient advocate groups including the http://www.geneticalliance.org Genetic Alliance , a coalition of 600 disease-specific organizations that advocates for better healthcare treatments. Sharon Terry became the coalitions president after she and her husband encountered astounding barriers to research literature that would help them understand the debilitating genetic disorder from which both of their children suffered. The Terrys worked around those barriers by volunteering at a hospital and gaining access to the hospitals library. Armed with the research that they were first denied, the Terrys became experts on their childrens disorders and, working with a network of scientists, became co-discoverers of the gene responsible for the disorder. Although it is uncommon for lay individuals to make such a significant impact in the research community, 80 percent of taxpayers, according to a recent Harris interactive poll, support a right to open access and have a strong desire not necessarily to view research findings themselves, but rather to feel the real-world benefits reflected when their own doctors, pharmacists, and other practitioners have better access to cutting-edge discoveries.... Peter Suber's comment: This is one of the best articles I've seen on the public interest (as opposed to the self-interest of researchers as authors and readers) in OA and FRPAA.

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Microsoft is going to release book search tool , a rival to google's book search
by Mailing List Manager 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 22:28:36 +0530 From: praveen kumar veeramalla <praveenkumarveeramalla(a)gmail.com> *Microsoft debuts book search tool* *Anyone wanting to view an obscure tome from the vaults of the British Library will be able to look for it online from Thursday. * Microsoft is releasing its Live Search Books, a rival to Google's Book Search, in test, or beta, version in the US. The digital archive will include books from the collections of the British Library, the University of California and the University of Toronto. Books from three other institutions will be added in January 2007. *Search full text * All the books currently included in the project will be non-copyrighted but later it will also add copyrighted work that publishers have given permission to include in the project. "We feel very strongly about copyright. We don't do any mass scanning of in-copyright works," said Danielle Tiedt, the general manager of Live Search Selection for Microsoft. Initially the database of available books will be searchable from the book search engine's home page or as a category on the main Windows Live Search page. Later Microsoft plans to integrate all the books scanned into its general search engine. "What we are focusing more of our efforts on for live searching is integrating all of those content types together to give you the most relevant results. If, for example, it's a search on historical content, chance are the most authoritative content may be found in a books search," said Ms Tiedt. The system has a feature called "search inside a book" which will allow users to search the full text of books. "We've focused on making the search experience really impactful...People will have full access to all of the text," said Ms Tiedt. A separate global digital library plan by Google is also under way. The search giant is spending $200m (�110m) to create a digital archive of millions of books from four top US libraries. It is also digitising out-of-copyright books from the UK's Oxford University. In contrast to Microsoft Google's plans include adding both copyright and non-copyright books from participating institutions. Although only copyrighted books will be available to view in full text, its project has come under fire from the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild Source:BBC News 06/12/2006 ************************************************** praveen kumar veeramalla , Library,National Remote Sensing Agency. Hyderabad

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China invests heavily in scientific R&D
by Subbiah Arunachalam 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

>From Businessweek China: A Rising R&D Power By the end of 2006, China will be the second-highest investor in research and development, according to OECD figures by Candace Lombardi By the end of 2006, China will be the second-highest investor in research and development, according to figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The burgeoning economic powerhouse has rapidly increased the money and manpower being invested in R &D, and spending by government and businesses will reach more than US$136 billion in 2006, the OECD said Monday. For comparison, Japan, formerly the nation with the second-highest investment in research and development, will dole out US$130 billion this year, and the EU nations (including France, Germany and the U.K.) together will allocate US$230 billion. "The rapid rise of China in both money spent and researchers employed is stunning. To keep up, OECD countries need to make their research and innovation systems more efficient and find new ways to stimulate innovation in today's increasingly competitive global economy," Dirk Pilat, the head of the OECD's Science and Technology Policy division, said in a statement. The U.S. maintains a strong lead as the No. 1 spender on innovation at US$330 billion, but not as large a lead when it comes to personnel. China saw an increase in the number of researchers of 77 percent between 1995 and 2004. The country now has 926,000 researchers, compared with 1.3 million in the U.S., according to the OECD report, "Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2006." As China has grown in leaps and bounds economically, it has also been gaining in outsourcing, patent portfolio evaluation, chip manufacturing, and even Internet usage, the report noted. The calculations on R&D were based on spending trends observed between 2000 and 2005, the OECD said. What is most notable, according to the report's authors, is the rate at which China's numbers are growing. Its R&D went from 0.6 percent of its GDP (gross domestic product) in 1995 to more than 1.2 percent in 2004. That doubling growth rate is faster than the rate of growth for China's entire economy. The OECD includes members from 30 democratic nations, including the U.S. Provided by ZDNet AsiaWhere Technology Means Business ___________________________________________________________ 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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Learning Commons launches 'Copyright, copyleft and everything in between'
by vimal kumar 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

Dear Friends, Learning Commons launches 'Copyright, copyleft and everything in between'. This excellent project is a multimedia curriculum for youth on copyright alternatives in South Africa. It covers the social and economic impact of technology from an African perspective, focusing specifically on the origins of copyright and the impact of open source software and open content on African development. The materials have been released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike South Africa licence which enables you to freely copy and share the files, make derivatives (including translations) - even for commercial use. http://www.learningcommons.co.za/index.htm Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in --------------------------------- Have a burning question? Go to Yahoo! Answers and get answers from real people who know. Learning Commons launches 'Copyright, copyleft and everything in between'. This excellent project is a multimedia curriculum for youth on copyright alternatives in South Africa. It covers the social and economic impact of technology from an African perspective, focusing specifically on the origins of copyright and the impact of open source software and open content on African development. The materials have been released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike South Africa licence which enables you to freely copy and share the files, make derivatives (including translations) - even for commercial use. http://www.learningcommons.co.za/index.htm Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in Have a burning question? Go to http://answers.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTFvbGNhMGE3BF9TAzM5NjU0NTEwOARfcwMzOTY1… Yahoo! Answers and get answers from real people who know.

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KALA Lectures
by M Krishnamurthy 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

Dear Professional Colleague, I remind you that KALA 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 M.Krishnamurthy *************************************** Dr.M.Krishnamurthy,M.A.,M.L.I.Sc.,Ph.D Fulbright Scholar (University of Illinois, USA) Librarian Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore 560059 www.isibang.ac.in/library Ph:91-80-8483002/3 Fax :91-80-28484265

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Digit Supplement on Google
by Farooque Shaheen 06 Dec '06

06 Dec '06

Dear Professional, This month Digit magazine has come up with a supplement on Google. It'll help you to use google services more effectively. You may also find some books on the same topic in the market. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India (P) Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 Dear Professional, � � � � � � � � � � � � � �This month Digit magazine has come up with a supplement on Google. It'll help you to use google services more effectively. You may also find some books on the same topic in the market. � � � � � � � � Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India (P) Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366

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Higher education in India
by Subbiah Arunachalam 06 Dec '06

06 Dec '06

Friends: Here is an article from the International Herald Tribune on collegiate and university education in India. It says quoting a NASSCOM report, that only 10% of college graduates (and 25% of engineering graduates) are employable. I fully agree with that statement. Even century-old universities are in doldrums. Urgent refoerms are needed in the higher education sector. Let us hope the nowledge Commission comes up with some good and implementable ideas. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----------------------- For many Indians, higher education does more harm than good By Anand Giridharadas / International Herald Tribune Published: November 26, 2006 MUMBAI - It would seem a good time to be Kinjal Bhuptani. She is a college student studying business in the financial capital of one of hottest economies on earth. But she has no illusions of sharing in India's newfound prosperity when she graduates from Hinduja College this spring. While others land $100,000-a- year jobs at Goldman Sachs and Microsoft, she is more likely to make $4 a day selling credit cards door to door. Bhuptani's mistake, if you can call it that, was not getting into one of India's most elite universities, like the Indian Institutes of Management or Indian Institutes of Technology. Those who are admitted go on to enjoy big paychecks on Wall Street and to manage some of the world's largest companies. In the shadow of those elite institutions, most of the 11 million students in the 18,000 Indian colleges and universities receive starkly inferior training, heavy on obeisance and light on marketable skills, students, educators and business leaders say. All but a tiny handful of graduates are considered unemployable by top global and local companies. "We might as well not have studied," Bhuptani said. The Indian educational system is locking millions of students in the bottom berth of a two-tier economy, critics argue, depriving the country of the fullest expression of their talents and denying students a chance to share in the fruits of reform. The problem, experts say, is in a classroom environment that infantilizes students well into their mid-20s, emphasizing silent note-taking and discipline at the expense of analysis, debate and persuasion. Students at second- and third-tier colleges suffer not because of a dearth of technical ability or intelligence, critics note. Most simply lack the "soft skills" sought by a new generation of employers but still not taught by change-resistant colleges: the ability to speak crisp English with a placeless accent, to design and give PowerPoint presentations, to write in logically ordered paragraphs, to work collegially in teams, to grasp the nuances of leadership. "It's almost literally a matter of life and death for them," said Kiran Karnik, president of the National Association of Software and Services Companies, an influential trade body that represents many of India's leading employers. A study that the group published last year concluded that just 10 percent of Indian graduates with generalist degrees were considered employable by major companies, compared with 25 percent of engineers. "The university has become a placeholder," said Pratap Bhanu Mehta, a former Harvard professor who recently resigned in frustration from the National Knowledge Commission, a panel advising the Indian government on overhauling its education system. India is one of those rare countries where you become less able to find a job the more educated you get. College graduates suffer from higher jobless rates - 17 percent in the 2001 census - than high school graduates. But even as graduates complain of the paucity of jobs, companies across India lament a lack of skilled talent. The paradox is explained, experts say, by the poor quality of the undergraduate experience. India's thousands of colleges are swallowing millions of new students every year, only to spit out degree holders that no one wants to hire. The differences between elite colleges and those attended by the majority can be striking. St. Stephens College in New Delhi, one of the country's best-known colleges, counts among its alumni a well-known novelist (Amitav Ghosh), a top United Nations official (Shashi Tharoor), and a former president of Pakistan (General Muhammad Zia-ul- Haq), and offers an illustration, through contrast, of what lesser institutions lack. P. Jacob Cherian, the acting principal, said the essential difference was a focus on leadership and communication skills, neglected at most other institutions. As on leading Western campuses, the students have frequent chances to meet and attend speeches by prominent leaders. "It's when you practice the skills that you actually learn them," Cherian said. But outside elite enclaves like St. Stephens, tertiary education is an exercise in drudgery. Take, for example, Hinduja College in Mumbai. It is in one of India's richest enclaves, but it is a second-tier, no-name school, exemplifying a middling college experience. Between lectures, dozens of students swarmed around a reporter to complain about their education. "What the market wants and what the school provides are totally different," said Sohail Kutchi, a commerce student. The students said they were not learning to communicate effectively, even as mainstay activities in the Indian economy evolve from pushing papers to answering phones and making presentations. There were few chances to work in groups or hold discussions. And in this purportedly English-language college, the professors used bad grammar and spoke in thick accents. Education experts argue that students are also graduating without the ability to assess problems and find creative solutions, in large part because their professors encourage them to be meek and obsequious. "Out! Out! Close the door! Close the door!" a management professor barked at a student who entered his classroom at Hinduja two minutes late. A second student, caught whispering, was asked to stand up for the duration of class. At Hinduja, the mode of instruction is often more evocative of a communist re- education camp than a modern campus. That is bad news for Indian companies, which are on a hiring binge. Infosys, a leading outsourcing company, will take on 25,000 new people this year, from a pool of 1.5 million applicants. The rejected are likely to include many smart graduates who merely lack skills like communication, poise and global exposure, said Mohandas Pai, director of human resources at Infosys. "You might be very bright," he said, "but since you are studying in the vernacular you cannot speak good English. You are not taught presentation skills in your college, so you lose out." Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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collection of the papers of Harold Varmus, Nobel Laureate
by Mailing List Manager 06 Dec '06

06 Dec '06

Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 18:00:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Friends: Here is a news item I read and in a way it made me a bit sad. --- Papers of Harold Varmus The National Library of Medicine has released an OA collection of the papers of Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, former director of the NIH, president and director of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and co-founder of the Public Library of Science. Sloan-Kettering has its own collection. (Thanks to Klaus Graf.) --- Why am I sad? It is very good that whoever wants to read the papers of Prof. Varmus can read all of them in full text. That makes me happy. But what about the papers of the great scientists of India? For example, when are we going to digitize and make available through open access repositories the collected works of Srinivasa Ramanujan, C V Raman, Meghnad Saha, Satyen Bose, J C Bose, G N Ramachandran, C R Rao, C N R Rao and several others? Years ago, CSIR brought out the collected papers of Meghnad Saha in print. Indeed, INSA and IASc should join hands and digitize the collected works of all their Fellows - both current and past - and make them available through an interoperable repository. Also, Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ___________________________________________________________ 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: [LIS-Forum] Announcement of 5th International Convention CALIBER-2007
by K Prakash 06 Dec '06

06 Dec '06

Hello, Ok, thanks. Here is the required information. Theme: Information and Knowledge Management in Networked World Dates: 8-10th February, 2007 Venue: Panjab University, Chandigarh With best regards. Bye. ________________________________________________ K Prakash ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mankad, Manish" <Manish.Mankad(a)unilever.com> To: "K Prakash" <prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in>; <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 9:11 AM Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Announcement of 5th International ConventionCALIBER-2007 > I have a suggestion. > > Please provide, the Location and dates of such events in the first line > itself. > The detailed email below does not indicate this obvious information. > > Regards. > > -MANISH MANKAD > Information services > > Tel: 080 39830958 > > Hindustan Lever Research Centre > 64, Main Road, > Whitefield > Bangalore, 560066 > INDIA

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Softpedia
by sandeep bhavsar 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

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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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