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MetaGlossary
by sandeep bhavsar 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

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 Hence, it surpasses traditional dictionaries, which grow more out of date with each passing day.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 Hence, it surpasses traditional dictionaries, which grow more out of date with each passing day.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

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

01 Dec '06

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

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

01 Dec '06

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

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

01 Dec '06

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

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

01 Dec '06

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

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

01 Dec '06

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

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

01 Dec '06

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

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

01 Dec '06

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

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Koha 2.2.7 released
by vimal kumar 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

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

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

01 Dec '06

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

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

01 Dec '06

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

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A new report on OAI interoperability
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

>From Peter Suber's blog Major report on OAI interoperability Martha Brogan, Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library, Digital Library Federation, November 22, 2006. A major study (282 pp) of OAI interoperability from the DLF, one of the organizations, with CNI and NSF, that originally sponsored the development of the OAI-PMH. Excerpt: This report updates and expands on "A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services," originally commissioned by the DLF as an internal report in summer 2003, and released to the public later that year. It highlights major developments affecting the ecosystem of scholarly communications and digital libraries since the last survey and provides an analysis of "OAI implementation demographics," based on a comparative review of repository registries and cross-archive search services. Secondly, it reviews the state-of-practice for a cohort of digital library aggregation services, grouping them in the context of the "problem space" to which they most closely adhere. Based in part on online survey responses collected in fall 2005 from an online survey distributed to the original core services, the report investigates the purpose, function and challenges of next-generation aggregation services. On a case-by-case basis, the advances in each service are of interest in isolation from each other, but the report also attempts to situate these services in a larger context and to understand how they fit into a multi-dimensional and interdependent ecosystem supporting the worldwide community of scholars. Finally, the report summarizes the contributions of these services thus far and identifies obstacles requiring further attention to realize the goal of an open, distributed digital library system. The new report aims to inform DLF's continuing efforts "to foster better teaching and scholarship through easier, more relevant discovery of digital resources, and a much greater ability for libraries to build more responsive local services on top of a distributed metadata platform," as articulated in its successful IMLS National Leadership Grant, "The Distributed Library: OAI for Digital Library Aggregation." Extending over a two-year period from October 2004 through September 2006, the grant enables DLF to prototype a "second generation" OAI finding system. Concurrently, it affords DLF the opportunity to address challenges identified in the 2003 survey and voiced by early OAI adopters. In particular, DLF is building a comprehensive OAI registry, establishing best practices for shareable metadata, improving communication between data and service providers, and developing curricular materials and training sessions to introduce OAI best practices to a widening circle of institutions (Shreeves et al. 2005). Using the 2003 survey as a point of departure, this companion report takes a fresh look at the evolution of interoperability and federating heterogeneous content, especially as realized through implementation of the OAI protocol. It re-examines the original set of digital library aggregation services as well as representative new initiatives in an effort to identify trends - progress, needs, and challenges. How are they evolving over time? What have they achieved? What is impeding their progress? How do they envision their future? An online survey conducted in fall 2005 gathered baseline information from more than forty aggregators.... See especially these sections: * 2.2, Open Access Ascendant - Growth of OAI-compliant Repositories * 4.1, Points of Reference: Open Access and the Open Archives Initiative * 4.2, Links in the Scholarly Communication Value Chain Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Open access and higher education and research
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

>From Peter Suber's blog The OA workshop at Online Educa Berlin Online Educa tackles lifelong learning and open access, a press release from JISC, November 30, 2006. Excerpt: Delegates have been gathering for the world's largest e-learning conference which began in Berlin yesterday. The Online Educa conference on Technology and Supported Learning, now in its twelfth year, has attracted nearly 2,000 delegates from education, research, Government and commercial sectors from around the world.... Joint activities by JISC and SURF began in the afternoon with a workshop on open access. JISC Scholarly Communications consultant Fred Friend introduced the topic, saying that there were considerable economic, social and educational benefits to making research and other outputs available without financial, legal and technical barriers to access. It was also, he suggested, a question of giving more power to authors. He outlined the two complementary routes to open access. Self-archiving or the deposit of a pre-print or post-print in an institutional or subject repository is one route, he said, while the other is publication through an open access journal....Both routes, suggested Fred Friend, will enable the opportunities provided by technological developments, such as data mining and text mining, to be realised....There are significant economic benefits to open access too, he continued, through the sharing of developments in medical research, for example, and through the value for money gains of publicly funded research being more freely available.... Amber Thomas, JISC programme manager spoke about JISC's work to encourage the establishment and development of repositories in the UK.... Erik Saaman of SURF spoke about open access initiatives in the Netherlands, such as DAREnet (research), LOREnet (higher education), Edurep (non-HE) and Driver (European), and the common technical architectures which underpin them.... Ryan Hargreaves gave an overview of Jorum, the free online repository for learning and teaching resources which is aiming to create a culture of sharing of learning and teaching resources.... John May of the SURF Foundation spoke about LOREnet which is aiming to create a similar 'community of sharing' in the use of online teaching materials in the Netherlands.... ___________________________________________________________ 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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accept my condolences
by mythili` krishnamurthy 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Dear Sir, I am really shocked about the sudden and sad demise of Prof.DR. Veena saraf, my contact with her was only through mail and mobile phone just for 2 months June and July of this year when I contacted for my research work she spontaneously responded to help me in my research. She has sent some articles regarding my work. I could really believe that she is no more. My Hear felt condolences for her bereaved Family Mythili.k M.L.I.S, M.phil, ( Ph.d ) Librarian Seshadripuram Evening Degree College Bangalore-560 020 Mobile 91-9886379299 I am really shocked about the sudden and sad demise of Prof.DR. Veena saraf, my contact with her was only through mail and mobile phone just for 2 months June and July of this year when I contacted for my research work she spontaneously responded to help me in my research. She has sent some articles regarding my work. I could really believe that she is no more. My Hear felt condolences for her bereaved Family Mythili.k M.L.I.S, M.phil, ( Ph.d ) Librarian Seshadripuram Evening Degree College Bangalore-560 020 Mobile 91-9886379299

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Brief Report of PLANNER-06
by Suresh Chauhan 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Dear All, The 4th annual convention PLANNER-2006 (Promotion of Library Automation and Networking in North Eastern Region - 2006) was held 9-10 November 2006 in Mizoram University, Aizawl. It was organized by the Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre, Ahmedabad as parent body in collaboration with Department of Library and Information Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl. PLANNER - 2006 got overwhelming response from the professionals. 220 registered participants from 19 states of the country and few pioneer professionals were attended it as special invitees. In two days deliberations, six technical sessions, with pre-convention tutorial on Dspace with panel discussion and interactive discussions among participants and experts were major highlights of the convention. The convention was devoted to "Digital preservation, management and access to information in the Twenty First Century" with various key sub-themes. Shri Prem Chand, Scientist - C, INFLIBNET Centre was the convener of the convention. The other dignitaries were present there, as: Convener Shri Prem Chand, Scientist - C, INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad Organising Secretary Prof. Pravakar Rath, Head, DLIS, Mizoram University, Aizawl Convention Director Dr. R K Chadha, Director of Parliament Library, New Delhi Moderator of Panel Discussion Dr. Jagdish Arora, IIT Delhi, New Delhi Rapporteur General Dr. Preeti Mahajan, DLIS, Panjab University, Chandigarh Chairpersons of technical sessions: Shri Manoj Kumar K, Acting Director of INFLIBNET Centre Dr. Usha Manju Munshi, ISI, Kolkatta Dr. Ramesh Gaur, IGNCA, New Delhi Prof. A K Baradol, Professor, DLIS, Mangalore University, Mangalore Ch. Radheyshyam Singh, Librarian, Manipur University, Imphal Dr. R P Singh, Librarian, AIIMS, New Delhi Overall 35 technical papers were present by the authors and convention was ended with happy note. The full report of the convention is hosted at INFLIBNET's official website (http://www.inflibnet.ac.in) or directly at http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/planner06.htm . With kind regards Suresh K Chauhan ************************************************* Suresh K Chauhan Project Scientist (LS) INFLIBNET Centre, An Inter University Centre of University Grants Commission, Opp. Gujarat University Guest House, Post Box No. 4116, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380009. Gujarat, INDIA. Phone: 79 26308528, 26304695, 26305971 (Extn. 43) Fax: 79 26300990 Email: chauhan(a)inflibnet.ac.in ; sureshbabal(a)yahoo.com Dear All, The 4 th annual convention PLANNER-2006 ( P romotion of L ibrary A utomation and N etworking in N orth E astern R egion 2006) was held 9-10 November 2006 in Mizoram University, Aizawl. It was organized by the Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre, Ahmedabad as parent body in collaboration with Department of Library and Information Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl. PLANNER 2006 got overwhelming response from the professionals. 220 registered participants from 19 states of the country and few pioneer professionals were attended it as special invitees. In two days deliberations, six technical sessions, with pre-convention tutorial on Dspace with panel discussion and interactive discussions among participants and experts were major highlights of the convention. The convention was devoted to Digital preservation, management and access to information in the Twenty First Century with various key sub-themes. Shri Prem Chand, Scientist C, INFLIBNET Centre was the convener of the convention. The other dignitaries were present there, as: Convener Shri Prem Chand, Scientist C, INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad Organising Secretary Prof. Pravakar Rath, Head, DLIS, Mizoram University, Aizawl Convention Director Dr. R K Chadha, Director of Parliament Library, New Delhi Moderator of Panel Discussion Dr. Jagdish Arora, IIT Delhi, New Delhi Rapporteur General Dr. Preeti Mahajan, DLIS, Panjab University, Chandigarh Chairpersons of technical sessions: Shri Manoj Kumar K, Acting Director of INFLIBNET Centre Dr. Usha Manju Munshi, ISI, Kolkatta Dr. Ramesh Gaur, IGNCA, New Delhi Prof. A K Baradol, Professor, DLIS, Mangalore University, Mangalore Ch. Radheyshyam Singh, Librarian, Manipur University, Imphal Dr. R P Singh, Librarian, AIIMS, New Delhi Overall 35 technical papers were present by the authors and convention was ended with happy note. The full report of the convention is hosted at INFLIBNETs official website ( http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ http://www.inflibnet.ac.in ) or directly at http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/planner06.htm http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/planner06.htm . With kind regards Suresh K Chauhan ************************************************* Suresh K Chauhan Project Scientist (LS) INFLIBNET Centre, An Inter University Centre of University Grants Commission, Opp. Gujarat University Guest House, Post Box No. 4116, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380009. Gujarat, INDIA. Phone: 79 26308528, 26304695, 26305971 (Extn. 43) Fax: 79 26300990 Email: mailto:chauhan@inflibnet.ac.in chauhan(a)inflibnet.ac.in ; mailto:sureshbabal@yahoo.com sureshbabal(a)yahoo.com

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ALISE Discussion Forum on LIS Teaching Practices
by sandeep bhavsar 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

FOR ALL THE RESPECTED FACULTIES OF LIS How do teaching practices in LIS help students develop the intellectual base, practical skills, and ethical perspective needed for professional service to information users and to society? The ALISE Task Force on Best Teaching Practices in LIS Education invites you join a discussion forum on the three apprenticeships in professional education described by William M. Sullivan, keynote speaker for the 2007 ALISE conference and author of Work and Integrity: The Crisis and Promise of Professionalism in America (Jossey-Bass, 2005). The forum can now be accessed at http://attila.coe.ecu.edu/talk/COE/ALISE <https://www.exchange.iu.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://attila.coe.ecu…> To login use: ID: alise and Password: alise Sullivan's work introduces a series of studies by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching that will examine and compare the professional education of lawyers, physicians, nurses, engineers, and clergy. With a mission to educate for professional judgment and performance, Sullivan argues, professional programs seek to enable their students to integrate specialized knowledge and specific skills within the profession's commitment to clients and society. (Work and Integrity, p. 207) Join us to discuss how Sullivan's model applies to graduate professional education in library and information science and to share examples of teaching practices that characterize each of the apprenticeships: The first apprenticeship is intellectual, focused on the knowledge base of the field, and characterized by reasoning, argument, and research. The second is practical, the body of skills needed to be a competent practitioner. The third is ethical, including the skills, traits, responsibilities that characterize a professional. In keeping with the 2007 ALISE conference theme, "Habits of Mind and Practice: Preparing Reflective Professionals," we encourage you to reflect on how our teaching practices shape the professional skills and attitudes of our graduates. We welcome your participation. Stephen Bajjaly Jim Elmborg Sanda Erdelez Jami Jones Jean Preer, chair ALISE Task Force on Best Teaching Practices in LIS Education Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com FOR ALL THE RESPECTED FACULTIES OF LIS How do teaching practices in LIS help students develop the intellectual base, practical skills, and ethical perspective needed for professional service to information users and to society? The ALISE Task Force on Best Teaching Practices in LIS Education invites you join a discussion forum on the three apprenticeships in professional education described by William M. Sullivan, keynote speaker for the 2007 ALISE conference and author of Work and Integrity: The Crisis and Promise of Professionalism in America (Jossey-Bass, 2005). The forum can now be accessed at http://attila.coe.ecu.edu/talk/COE/ALISE http://attila.coe.ecu.edu/talk/COE/ALISE < https://www.exchange.iu.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://attila.coe.ecu… https://www.exchange.iu.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://attila.coe.ecu… > To login use: ID: alise and Password: alise Sullivan's work introduces a series of studies by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching that will examine and compare the professional education of lawyers, physicians, nurses, engineers, and clergy. With a mission to educate for professional judgment and performance, Sullivan argues, professional programs seek to enable their students to integrate specialized knowledge and specific skills within the profession's commitment to clients and society. (Work and Integrity, p. 207) Join us to discuss how Sullivan's model applies to graduate professional education in library and information science and to share examples of teaching practices that characterize each of the apprenticeships: The first apprenticeship is intellectual, focused on the knowledge base of the field, and characterized by reasoning, argument, and research. The second is practical, the body of skills needed to be a competent practitioner. The third is ethical, including the skills, traits, responsibilities that characterize a professional. In keeping with the 2007 ALISE conference theme, "Habits of Mind and Practice: Preparing Reflective Professionals," we encourage you to reflect on how our teaching practices shape the professional skills and attitudes of our graduates. We welcome your participation. Stephen Bajjaly Jim Elmborg Sanda Erdelez Jami Jones Jean Preer, chair ALISE Task Force on Best Teaching Practices in LIS Education Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : mailto:sandeep.bhavsar@gmail.com sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Prof ( Dr) Veena is no more- condolences from the professionals of hyderabad
by Mailing List Manager 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:01:29 -0800 (PST) From: amudhavalli alagusundaram <amudha75(a)yahoo.com> Dear Dr Rao and friends, Very sad to hear of the sad news of Dr Veena. MALA shares the grief and convey our heart felt feelings for the bereved family amudha Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:39:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. dear friends Prof ( Dr) Mrs Veena shroff, Head, Dept of Library and Information science, NEHU was suffering from Cancer for last few months. I am extremely sorry and feel very bad to inform u that she left all the professionals on 28 nov at abt 9-30 PM. [truncated]

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South African language innovators bridge digital divide
by Swapan Patra 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

http://Translate.org.za an open source-a cyber project meant for translation from one African language to other, has won African ICT Achiever 2006 Award. The project is meant for bridging the *digital divide* in the African continent by removing the language barrier. http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/communication/stories/nsl,162724.html#top *Swapan Kumar Patra* *Deaprtment of Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology* *Indian Institute of Technology Delhi* *New Delhi-110016* http://Translate.org.za http://Translate.org.za an open source-a cyber project meant for translation from one African language to other, has won African ICT Achiever 2006 Award. The project is meant for bridging the digital divide in the African continent by removing the language barrier. http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/communication/stories/nsl,162724.html#top http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/communication/stories/nsl,162724.html#top Swapan Kumar Patra Deaprtment of Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology Indian Institute of Technology Delhi New Delhi-110016

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Barbara Kirsop on Open access and developing countries
by Subbiah Arunachalam 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

>From Peter Suber's blog: Background on the Bangalore model national OA policy Barbara Kirsop, Creating a National Open Access Policy for Developing Countries, Open and Shut, November 29, 2006. Excerpt: Meeting in the idyllic surroundings of the Indian Institute of Science campus, in Bangalore, the 44 participants of the [Workshop on electronic publishing and open access, November 2-3, 2006] included scientists and OA experts from India, China, Brazil and South Africa, along with colleagues and OA advocates from a number of other countries.... [W]hy was it felt necessary to hold a workshop on OA so soon after the Salvador Declaration on Open Access for Developing Countries, held in September 2005? The Bangalore workshop was not intended to be a venue simply for confirming acceptance of the principles of OA, but was convened to bring some of the most scientifically advanced developing countries together to report on progress, and consider a model National Open Access Policy that could be offered to governments, and their funding organisations, as a practical tool for driving OA forward. The aim, therefore, was to take the next step towards ensuring the implementation of earlier OA declarations, not just to talk about OA.... [S]ince the cost of academic journals is prohibitive for many developing countries, scholarly communication is for them severely restricted. This is a huge problem: A survey conducted by the WHO in 2003, for instance, found that in 75 of the poorest countries, 56% of the medical institutions had been unable to access any journals over the previous five years.... Furthermore, the cost of printing and distributing local journals means that much developing world research is 'invisible' to the rest of the world....As a consequence, the incorporation of regional knowledge into international programmes remains minimal. Yet with the growth of global problems think only of HIV/AIDS, avian 'flu, environmental disasters, climate change or crop failure it is essential that the countries in which these problems are most commonly experienced have access to research findings, and can contribute their crucial experience to finding global solutions. Without both improved access and regional visibility, the science base of poorer countries will not be strengthened, and it is well documented that without a strong science base economies remain weak and dependent on others.... It is clear...that wherever researchers have embraced OA, the visibility, quality and the impact of local research has flourished, and subscriptions to OA journals have even increased a clear indication that researchers were previously information-starved.... One Indian institute...is 'gently persuading' its scholars to deposit their articles by refusing travel support to those that do not archive their publications!... It was agreed...that progress could be significantly speeded up if a model National OA Policy could be drawn up, and developing countries encouraged to adopt it. It was also felt that this would be particularly effective if it was formally accepted by a group of local experts of which there was no shortage at the workshop who know and understand the problems faced by developing countries on the ground. While there was vigorous debate on how to encourage adoption of such a policy, there was no dissent over the need for it, or of its basic form. Specifically, the draft Policy document urges governments to require all publicly funded research published in peer-reviewed journals to be deposited in an institutional repository as soon as publication is accepted. This should be a condition for research funding for any papers partly or fully funded by the government.... All presentations, lists of participants and the draft model National OA Policy document are available on the workshop web site. <www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/OAworkshop2006>. ___________________________________________________________ Win tickets to the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany with Yahoo! Messenger. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/fifaworldcup_uk/

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OA in physics and chemistry
by Subbiah Arunachalam 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

>From Peter Suber's blog OA in physics and chemistry Heather Morrison, Open Access in Physics and Chemistry, or, A Tale of Two Disciplines, a presentation at the McGill Library School, November 27, 2006. Excerpt: There are disciplinary differences in awareness of, and approaches to, open access and other types of "openness". It is likely that there are no great differences than the differences between physics and chemistry. Physics, as a discipline, has long been the leader in open access archiving, beginning in 1991 with the establishment of arXiv, and continuing with the CERN Documents Server. In physics, open access is mainstream, with open access archiving peacefully coexisting with traditional publishing. Physics is currently leading a push towards full open access publishing. Chemistry, in contrast, has had very low rates of self-archiving of peer-reviewed journal articles, and traditional publishers, until recently, were fighting open access. However, a slightly different picture emerges when we consider the broader concept of "openness", as chemistry appears to be emerging as a leader in open data and open source science. ___________________________________________________________ Win tickets to the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany with Yahoo! Messenger. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/fifaworldcup_uk/

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Prof ( Dr) Veena is no more- condolences from the professionals of hyderabad
by Mailing List Manager 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:39:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> dear friends Prof ( Dr) Mrs Veena shroff, Head, Dept of Library and Information science, NEHU was suffering from Cancer for last few months. I am extremely sorry and feel very bad to inform u that she left all the professionals on 28 nov at abt 9-30 PM. after knowing this information, the 54 participants of 15 th refresher course in library and information science organised at osmania university joined by the students and faculty of the dept of library and information science, osmania university have conducted a condolence meeting at academic staff college in the after noon and condoled the untimely death of prof veena. people spoke about her and every one felt for the sad demise of prof veena. the meeting resolved " to convey their heart felt condolences to the family and prayed for resting of her soul in peace. they remembered her and prayed God almighty to give strength to the family' laxman rao

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Video capture
by Kumar N 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

Dear Eldho Joy, There is a software called "SnagIt 8.1". It will do what you have asked. It will catch video images from your desktop as well as the internet. You can download the software and documentation from http://www.download.com/SnagIt/3000-2192_4-10004813.html Thanks & Regards, N.Kumar, INCOIS Library, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India, "Ocean Valley", P.B. No.:21, IDA Jeedimetla P.O., Hyderabad - 500 055. A P, India. kumar(a)incois.gov.in kumar_dglin(a)rediffmail.com Mobile No.: (0) 9866093396 -------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:09:53 +0530 From: "Eldho Joy" <eldhoj(a)gmail.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Video capture To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <bcea28f70611280039m4b2cab04p5520cafcdce1f7e6(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Colleagues I would like to know if any systems/technology /personnel available to capture video images from the internet. Eldho Joy Librarian LBS Institute of Technology for Women Poojappura,Trivandrum-695012. http://www.lbsitw.ac.in N.Kumar, INCOIS Library, Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), (Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India), "Ocean Valley", Post Bag No.:21, IDA Jeedimetla P.O., Hyderabad -500 055. E-mail : kumar_dglin(a)yahoo.co.in kumar(a)incois.gov.in Mobile No. : +91 9866093396 Dear Eldho Joy, There is a software called "SnagIt 8.1". It will do what you have asked. It will catch video images from your desktop as well as the internet. You can download the software and documentation from http://www.download.com/SnagIt/3000-2192_4-10004813.html Thanks & Regards, N.Kumar, INCOIS Library, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India, "Ocean Valley", P.B. No.:21, IDA Jeedimetla P.O., Hyderabad - 500 055. A P, India. kumar(a)incois.gov.in kumar_dglin(a)rediffmail.com Mobile No.: (0) 9866093396 -------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:09:53 +0530 From: "Eldho Joy" <eldhoj(a)gmail.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Video capture To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <bcea28f70611280039m4b2cab04p5520cafcdce1f7e6(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Colleagues I would like to know if any systems/technology /personnel available to capture video images from the internet. Eldho Joy Librarian LBS Institute of Technology for Women Poojappura,Trivandrum-695012. http://www.lbsitw.ac.in N.Kumar, INCOIS Library, Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), (Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India), "Ocean Valley", Post Bag No.:21, IDA Jeedimetla P.O., Hyderabad -500 055. E-mail : kumar_dglin(a)yahoo.co.in kumar(a)incois.gov.in Mobile No. : +91 9866093396 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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KPSC Notification for posts of Lecturers & Librarians in First Gr. Colleges Karnataka
by rupesh kumar 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

Dear All, Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) has issued a notification for the recruitment of Lecturers in various disciplines in First Grade Colleges of Karnataka. The notification includes 73 POSTS OF LIBRARIANS. The notification is available at http://kpsc.kar.nic.in/notifications.htm Regards, Rupesh Kumar A Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University a_rupeshkumar(a)yahoo.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com --------------------------------- Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited. Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) has issued a notification for the recruitment of Lecturers in various disciplines in First Grade Colleges of Karnataka. The notification includes 73 POSTS OF LIBRARIANS. The notification is available at http://kpsc.kar.nic.in/notifications.htm http://kpsc.kar.nic.in/notifications.htm Regards, Rupesh Kumar A Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University mailto:a_rupeshkumar@yahoo.com a_rupeshkumar(a)yahoo.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com Access over 1 million songs - http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=36035/*http://music.yahoo.c… Yahoo! Music Unlimited.

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Loss of books
by Balesh Kumar 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

As per General Financial rules 2005 Govt. of India, loss of books up to 5 books per thousnd books issued/consulted can be considred reasonable. Balesh Kumar Librarian HCTM, Kaithal --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW As per General Financial rules 2005 Govt. of India, loss of books up to 5 books per thousnd books issued/consulted can be considred reasonable. Balesh Kumar Librarian HCTM, Kaithal Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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SATKAL Awardees
by Venkat R Pokuri 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

The following LIS professionals have been awarded the SATKAL Awards for the year 2006. The Awards were given away by the Hon'ble Minister of State for Finance, Govt. of India, Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal, at a function organised by the Panjab University Library on 18th November 2006. > Punjab National Librarian Award Dr R P Kumar Chief Librarian, AIl India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. > Woman Librarian Award Dr (Mrs) S P Singh Chairperson, DLIS, UNiversity of Delhi, Delhi > Young Librarian Award Mr P Venkata Rao Librarian M G State Institute of Public Administration, Punjab Chandigarh >School Librarian Award Ms Preeti Kathpalia Librarian St. John's High School Chandigarh Submitted by: P V Rao Librarian M G State Institute of Public Administration, Punjab Institutional Area, Sector 26 Chandigarh 160019 Email: pvrao(a)mgsipap.org --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW The following LIS professionals have been awarded the SATKAL Awards for the year 2006. The Awards were given away by the Hon'ble Minister of State for Finance, Govt. of India, Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal, at a function organised by the Panjab University Library on 18th November 2006. > Punjab National Librarian Award Dr R P Kumar Chief Librarian, AIl India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. > Woman Librarian Award Dr (Mrs) S P Singh Chairperson, DLIS, UNiversity of Delhi, Delhi > Young Librarian Award Mr P Venkata Rao Librarian M G State Institute of Public Administration, Punjab Chandigarh >School Librarian Award Ms Preeti Kathpalia Librarian St. John's High School Chandigarh Submitted by: P V Rao Librarian M G State Institute of Public Administration, Punjab Institutional Area, Sector 26 Chandigarh 160019 Email: pvrao(a)mgsipap.org Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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