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Submission of new nomination proposals for inscription on the Memory of the World Register
by Mailing List Manager 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:57:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Puna Das <puna_05(a)yahoo.co.in> the World Register Submission of new nomination proposals for inscription on the Memory of the World Register: Last date for Submission: 31 March 2008 For details, visit, Memory of the World Programme Website http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1538&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTI… Information Society Division Communication and Information Sector UNESCO House B 5/29 Safdarjung Enclave New Delhi 110 029, INDIA Email: d.anup-kumar(a)unesco.org Tel : 91-11-26713000 Fax : 91-11-26713001/02

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IndianJournals.Com becomes only website in India having largest collection of multidisciplinary Indian Publications
by Mailing List Manager 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:21:16 +0530 From: Chandrima Roy <croy(a)docdelserv.com> Hello Everybody! We are proud to announce that IndianJournals.com becomes the only website in India hosting largest number of Indian Publications in different subject areas. We are aiming at making this a common platform for all Indian Publications so that it becomes a readily available source for all Indian Publications and hence a source guide for all the users of Indian Journals. We thank you all for the continuous support provided in terms of suggesting and introducing journals, without which we would not have reached so far in such a short span of time. Statistics as on 31st October 2006 (since 30th May 2005 - date of inception): No. of Publications: 50 Societies Associated: 41 Issues Archival: 697 Subject Areas Covered so far: 9 Visitors So far as on 31st October, 2006: 120543 We look forward for your similar patronage in future also. Thanks & Regards :-) Chandrima Roy Divan Enterprises B-9, Basement, "A" Block, Local Shopping Complex Naraina Vihar, Ring Road New Delhi - 110028 Tel: +91-11-25770411 Fax: +91-11-25778876

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Re:Who is using Koha in India
by Mailing List Manager 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:36:19 +0530 From: Eldho Joy <eldhoj(a)gmail.com> Sub: Koha users Dear Mr. Murari College of Engineering,Barton Hill, Trivandrum,Kerala is successfully using Koha.You will get more details from The New Indian Express dated,12/10/2006. Eldho Joy Librarian www.lbsitw.ac.in > > Dear Colleagues, > Can someone indicate who is using Koha (Library Management Software) in > India and their experiences. > > With warm regards, > > Murari P Tapaswi > National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, India > Phone: 91-(0)832-2450275; Fax: 91-(0)832-2450602 > www.nio.org, www.coastalhazards.info, www.mangroveindia.org >

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OA journals can be profitable for the publishers
by Subbiah Arunachalam 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Friends: Peter Suber's blog carries this item today. Dr D K Sahu of MedKnow Publications, Bombay, has 40 OA titles and his experience is similar to that of Hindwani's. Arun ------- Viable business models for OA journals Victoria Rae and Fytton Rowland, "Is there a viable business model for commercial OA publishing?" Forthcoming in Serials. Thanks to William Walsh for the alert as well as for this abstract: The study reported here investigated the potential viability of open access (OA) models for commercial scholarly journal publishers by means of interviews with knowledgeable professionals in the business. The conclusion was that it is as yet unproven whether or not a viable OA business model exists. There are likely to be widely different approaches between different disciplines in the future, with OA unlikely to find acceptance in the humanities and social sciences. However, if any viable OA models do exist, they are likely to be more sophisticated than those tried hitherto, and some suggestions are made regarding possible variables that might be tested in future experiments. On the particular issue of "free riders", it is suggested that the use of a Creative Commons Deed may enable publishers to continue to receive additional non-subscription revenue from industrial users. PS: On June 21, 2006, Hindawi reported that its OA journal collection was already profitable. It's possible that this article was finished and in press before that date. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Fwd: Library Exchange Service
by J. K. Vijayakumar 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

FYI. Sorry for cross-postings. Cass Foster <Cass_Foster(a)centralaz.edu> wrote: Subject: Library Exchange Service Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:55:52 -0700 From: "Cass Foster" <Cass_Foster(a)centralaz.edu> To: Dear Librarians, Please excuse my intrusion. My name is Cass Foster. I am a theatre professor in Arizona that started an international service for librarians, professors and administrators. Networking is provided to help bring about temporary exchanges of homes and positions. Could be within the same country or with other countries. There are currently particpants from over 30 countries. Registration is free if you sign up before 15 September 2006. Please visit www.LibrarianExchange.NET to submit your registration at your early convenience. Regards, --cass Forwarded by J. K. Vijayakumar MLIS PhD Assistant Director - Library American University of Antigua Jasmine Court, Post Box W-1451 St. Johns, ANTIGUA, West Indies HQ: 501 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1600 New York, NY 10017, USA --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta. FYI. Sorry for cross-postings. Cass Foster <Cass_Foster(a)centralaz.edu> wrote: Subject: Library Exchange Service Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:55:52 -0700 From: "Cass Foster" <Cass_Foster(a)centralaz.edu> To: Dear Librarians, Please excuse my intrusion. My name is Cass Foster. I am a theatre professor in Arizona that started an international service for librarians, professors and administrators. Networking is provided to help bring about temporary exchanges of homes and positions. Could be within the same country or with other countries. There are currently particpants from over 30 countries. Registration is free if you sign up before 15 September 2006. Please visit www.LibrarianExchange.NET to submit your registration at your early convenience. Regards, --cass Forwarded by J. K. Vijayakumar MLIS PhD Assistant Director - Library American University of Antigua Jasmine Court, Post Box W-1451 St. Johns, ANTIGUA, West Indies HQ: 501 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1600 New York, NY 10017, USA Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=40791/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/handr… You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta.

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News on Web science
by ryerna＠iitk.ac.in 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

Dear Frineds, kindly share the following information http://ia.rediff.com/money/2006/nov/03web.htm?q=tp&file=.htm Or Text version Now 'Web science' to help improve the Internet Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, the British scientist who invented the World Wide Web, wants to turn the Internet into a science: Web science. In keeping with this, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Southampton on Thursday announced the launch of the Web Science Research Initiative, a panel that will understand the scientific, technical and social challenges underlying the growth of the Internet reported news.com The WSRI will have its headquarters at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT and at the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. The two collaborating universities will raise funds from the corporate world and set up a research centre 'that will sponsor Ph.D. students and ultimately create undergraduate curricula in Web science,' news.com reported. In a recent article, Berners-Lee had said that the Web has changed the ways people communicate, collaborate, and educate. But with the Net evolving rapidly, it is necessary to understand its potential impact in the future too. He said that since humans are the creators of Web pages and links between them, their interactions form emergent patterns in the Web at a macroscopic scale. These human interactions are, in turn, governed by social conventions and laws. Web science, therefore, must be inherently interdisciplinary; its goal is to both understand the growth of the Web and to create approaches that allow new powerful and more beneficial patterns to occur. The WSRI will have four directors: Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium; Wendy Hall, professor of computer science at University of Southampton; Nigel Shadbolt, professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Southampton; and Daniel J. Weitzner, principal research scientist at MIT. The father of the World Wide Web said that the social aspect of the Web demands that a field separate from computer science be explored. The WSRI members say that these social scientists and life sciences gurus can help study online communities and help 'Web scientists' understand how the Web operates and how it can be more responsive to the existing relationships people actually have online. The initiative will lead to better understanding of the Internet and will help improve the way people communicate, learn and work on the Internet. "We really must have a science of understanding this. We must be able to look at whether it's going to continue to serve us well, or whether we'll end up with some things which suddenly appear overnight and which in fact are very bad," Berners-Lee said in an interview with BBC.

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Journal on Knowledge Management
by librarymahad 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

Dear all, Request you to send me a list of Journals on Knowledge Management or on Learning organisation. If possible the publication details. Awaiting for your favourable response. Regards, Pradip Das ================================================= Pradip Das. Sr. Librarian & Training Co-ordinator, Pidilite Industries Limited, A/21, MIDC, Mahad, Maharashtra - 402309. India. Ph. : 02145- 31444(R), 02145 - 232043 to 46 (Off.) Extn. : 226 Fax. : 01245 - 232048 E-mail : librarymahad(a)pidilite.co.in or, pradipbhadreswardas(a)gmail.com Web : www.pidilite.com ================================================ Dear all, Request you to send me a list of Journals on Knowledge Management or on Learning organisation. If possible the publication details. Awaiting for your favourable response. Regards, Pradip Das ================================================= Pradip Das. Sr. Librarian & Training Co-ordinator, Pidilite Industries Limited, A/21, MIDC, Mahad, Maharashtra - 402309. India. Ph. : 02145- 31444(R), 02145 - 232043 to 46 (Off.) Extn. : 226 Fax. : 01245 - 232048 E-mail : librarymahad(a)pidilite.co.in or, pradipbhadreswardas(a)gmail.com Web : www.pidilite.com ================================================

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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Changes
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

I have resigned my position as Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development at the University of Houston Libraries effective 1/31/07. Effective immediately, there are several important changes to the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB), Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (SEPR), and the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (SEPW) that users should be aware of: 1. These publications have been moved to my domain: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/ SEPB http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepb.html SEPR http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepr.htm SEPW http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepw.htm 2. While the UH Libraries will archive SEPB versions up to version 64, no new versions will be published on their Website. If you maintain a catalog record for SEPB, I would ask that you update it with the new address. Next Monday's SEPW will be published at the new site. 3. A transition version of SEPB (65) has been published at the new site. There are no content changes. This version simply makes a number of HTML coding adjustments needed for the new location. A Google Custom Search Engine replaces the prior search capability. Once Google starts indexing the new site, search results will be from that site. 4. The SEPW mailing list will be discontinued at the end work today. You can continue to get an e-mail version from FeedBurner. I'm sorry for the inconvenience of your having to sign up again; all that is required is your e-mail address. http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756 5. The SEPW RSS feed remains the same: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss 6. You can continue to follow my digital publishing activities at my domain and at DigitalKoans: http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/ Thanks for your patience during this transition. -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. E-Mail: cwbailey(a)digital-scholarship.com Publications: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/ (Provides access to DigitalKoans, Open Access Bibliography, Open Access Webliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog, and others.)

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onscreen key board
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Useful information in case your keyboard stops functioning for some reason and you need to use your computer in an emergency. In case you did not know this already ================== An On-Screen Keyboard in Windows. In case your keyboard or some keys stop working, Microsoft provides you with an alternative way to type-in using the mouse. To work this tool, Go to: 'Start menu' Select: 'Run' Type in: 'OSK' Press: 'OK' A keyboard will be displayed on your monitor, which you can use with your mouse -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors (Formerly SENIORS) 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500018 Phone 27846631

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Tools:Digital library tools: Digital Preservation Recorder(DPR)
by Mallikarjuna, H.B 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Tools:Digital Library Tools: Digital Preservation Recorder(DPR) Digital Preservation Recorder (DPR) has been developed by the National Archives of Australia to manage a digital preservation workflow. Features of the DPR * Cross platform uses a Java Runtime Environment. * Metadata recording. * User authentication and profiling. * Multiple concurrent users. * Detailed reporting. Preservation The carrying device is connected to the Preservation network and the individual data files are converted to XML via the open source application Xena. The XML files created by Xena are recorded on a second carrying device for transfer to the Digital Repository. Downloading DPR http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=116934&package_id=127… How to start DPR: There are two ways to start DPR. Either may be effective depending on the Java Runtime Environment installation on a particular computer. The simplest way is to open a file manager via Windows Explorer or My Computer and navigate to the dprclient.jar file. Double click the jar file and wait a few moments for the Java Virtual Machine to start up and the DPR login to display. On some computers, it may be necessary to start DPR manually. Open a command prompt (Start, Run, cmd, OK) and navigate to the directory containing the dprclient.jar file Type: java -jar dprclient.jar The Java Virtual Machine should start in a few moments and the command prompt window may display some startup messages. The DPR user interface will follow and DPR is ready for use. Technical contact: digipres(a)naa.gov.au Source:http:http://sourceforge.net/projects/dpr Regards H.B Mallikarjuna -- Regards H.B.Mallikarjuna Email: hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjuna.blogspot.com http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/libtech/ --"All power is within you, you can do anything and everything.Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... You can do anything and everything, without even the guidance of any one. All power is there......"--Swamy Vivekananda --------------------------------- 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 Tools:Digital Library Tools: Digital Preservation Recorder(DPR) Digital Preservation Recorder (DPR) has been developed by the National Archives of Australia to manage a digital preservation workflow. Features of the DPR * Cross platform uses a Java Runtime Environment. * Metadata recording. * User authentication and profiling. * Multiple concurrent users. * Detailed reporting. Preservation The carrying device is connected to the Preservation network and the individual data files are converted to XML via the open source application Xena. The XML files created by Xena are recorded on a second carrying device for transfer to the Digital Repository. Downloading DPR http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=116934&package_id=127… http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=116934&package_id=127… How to start DPR: There are two ways to start DPR. Either may be effective depending on the Java Runtime Environment installation on a particular computer. The simplest way is to open a file manager via Windows Explorer or My Computer and navigate to the dprclient.jar file. Double click the jar file and wait a few moments for the Java Virtual Machine to start up and the DPR login to display. On some computers, it may be necessary to start DPR manually. Open a command prompt (Start, Run, cmd, OK) and navigate to the directory containing the dprclient.jar file Type: java -jar dprclient.jar The Java Virtual Machine should start in a few moments and the command prompt window may display some startup messages. The DPR user interface will follow and DPR is ready for use. Technical contact: mailto:digipres@naa.gov.au digipres(a)naa.gov.au Source:http:http://sourceforge.net/projects/dpr Regards H.B Mallikarjuna http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com/ -- Regards H.B.Mallikarjuna Email: hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjuna.blogspot.com http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/libtech/ --"All power is within you, you can do anything and everything.Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... You can do anything and everything, without even the guidance of any one. All power is there......"--Swamy Vivekananda 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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Online Access to Research in the Environment
by Sanjo Jose 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers, enables developing countries to gain free access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science literature. Over one thousand scientific journal titles owned and published by over 200 prestigious publishing houses, scholarly societies, and scientific associations are now available in 70 low income countries. Another 36 countries will be added by 2008. Research is provided in a wide range of disciplines, including biotechnology, botany, climate change, ecology, energy, environmental chemistry, environmental economics, environmental engineering and planning, environmental law and policy, environmental toxicology and pollution, geography, geology, hydrology, meteorology, oceanography, urban planning, zoology, and many others. http://www.oaresciences.org/en/ Also read http://www.hindu.com/2006/11/03/stories/2006110301211300.htm Sanjo Jose, from Benda Kaal Ooru, "the town of boiled beans" IKM Trainee, National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bengalooru - 560 012 sanjo(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in sanjojose(a)gmail.com 09986635883 --------------------------------- 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 Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers, enables developing countries to gain free access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science literature. Over one thousand scientific journal titles owned and published by over 200 prestigious publishing houses, scholarly societies, and scientific associations are now available in 70 low income countries. Another 36 countries will be added by 2008. Research is provided in a wide range of disciplines, including biotechnology, botany, climate change, ecology, energy, environmental chemistry, environmental economics, environmental engineering and planning, environmental law and policy, environmental toxicology and pollution, geography, geology, hydrology, meteorology, oceanography, urban planning, zoology, and many others. http://www.oaresciences.org/en/ http://www.oaresciences.org/en/ Also read http://www.hindu.com/2006/11/03/stories/2006110301211300.htm http://www.hindu.com/2006/11/03/stories/2006110301211300.htm Sanjo Jose, from Benda Kaal Ooru, "the town of boiled beans" IKM Trainee, National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bengalooru - 560 012 sanjo(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in sanjojose(a)gmail.com 09986635883 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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Amazing GoogleDuel !
by sarika sawant 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Dear All, A very interesting site http://www.googleduel.com/original.php Enter two words, names, or phrases, and find out which one occurs on more pages on the web. For example, try cat vs dog. So try out... All the Best......... Ms. Sarika Sawant Lecturer, SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT Women's University, 1 # N.T. Road, Marine Lines, Mumbai 400 020 INDIA http://www.shpt-econtent.in/ Dear All, A very interesting site http://www.googleduel.com/original.php Enter two words, names, or phrases, and find out which one occurs on more pages on the web. For example, try cat vs dog. So try out... All the Best......... Ms. Sarika Sawant Lecturer, SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT Women's University, 1 # N.T. Road, Marine Lines, Mumbai 400 020 INDIA http://www.shpt-econtent.in/ 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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New Indian Oxford Journals office to open
by MUKHERJEE, Mithu 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Apologies for cross posting Please find below news which may be of interest to list members. For further information, please contact: Mithu Mukherjee Assistant Communications Manager Oxford Journals +44 (0) 1865 354471 mithu.mukherjee(a)oxfordjournals.org Oxford Journals strengthens position in South Asia with new Indian office Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), is pleased to announce the opening of a new sales office in India. Based in Kolkata, this will be managed by Kaushik Ghosh, recently appointed Library Sales Manager for India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. OUP has a strong presence in India, with offices in Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, and its headquarters in Delhi. The new appointment for the Journals division marks an increased commitment to providing a fast, effective sales service to customers in this emerging market. Oxford Journals is an international publisher of scholarly journals, with over 180 publications across a broad range of subject areas, from the humanities and social sciences, to the sciences, and medicine. It reaches customers from over 190 countries worldwide, with offices based in the UK, USA, China, Japan, and now India. Oxford Journals has built strong relationships within the Indian market for several years, working with major library consortia across India and South Asia, including INFLIBNET (Information and Library Network), and CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research). As a market where growth in investment for science and scholarly research is the second largest in the world, Oxford Journals hopes to expand on these existing relationships to ensure widespread access to its content. "We're delighted to have a permanent member of the team now based in India," commented Richard Gedye, Sales Director, Oxford Journals. He continued, "Kaushik brings a wealth of experience to the role, having worked for Globe Publication Pvt Ltd for nine years, where he sold content to libraries and library consortia. Kaushik will be based in India, but will be managing sales of our print and electronic journals, digital archives, and consortia sales across South Asia." Kaushik can be contacted at the Oxford Journals India office from 4 November. Oxford Journals, India Office Plot No. A1-5 Block GP, Sector V Salt Lake Electronics Complex Kolkata 700 091 India Tel: +91 (33) 2357 3739/40/41, 2357 3947/8 Fax: +91 (33) 2357 3738 kaushik.ghosh(a)oxfordjournals.org END For further information please contact: Mithu Mukherjee Assistant Communications Manager Oxford Journals +44 (0) 1865 354471 Mithu.mukherjee(a)oxfordjournals.org Notes to editors: Oxford University Press (OUP) <http://www.oup.co.uk>, a department of the University of Oxford, is the world's largest and most international university press. Founded in 1478, it currently publishes more than 4,500 new books a year, has a presence in over fifty countries, and employs some 3,700 people worldwide. It has become familiar to millions through a diverse publishing programme that includes scholarly works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music, school and college textbooks, children's books, materials for teaching English as a foreign language, business books, dictionaries and reference books, and journals. Read more about OUP <http://www.oup.com/about/> Oxford Journals <http://www.oxfordjournals.org>, a Division of OUP, publishes over 180 journals covering a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations. The collection contains some of the world's most prestigious titles, including Nucleic Acids Research, JNCI (Journal of the National Cancer Institute), Brain, Human Reproduction, English Historical Review, and the Review of Financial Studies. Read more about Oxford Journals <http://www.oxfordjournals.org/about_us.html>

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Information Required
by sandeep bhavsar 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Respected Professionals Please help me in getting this article TITLE : The aryan Theory of Race by Joan leopold INDIAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY REVIEW Vol.07 pp.271-297. Awaiting for your reply Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 9870484626 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Please help me in getting this article TITLE : The aryan Theory of Race by Joan leopold INDIAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY REVIEW Vol.07 pp.271-297. Awaiting for your reply Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 9870484626 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Fwd: Free Training on - "Biomedical Information Retrieval".
by Sukhdev Singh 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Following is a Training Programme Announcement. Please contact the Course Coordinator directly. -------------- National Informatics Centre, New Delhi is conducting a four day-training programme on "Biomedical Information Retrieval" from 14th to 17th November, 2006. This programme would cover searching of Internet biomedical resources including NLM Gateway and PubMED. In addition this would also include searching NIC's databases - IndMED, medIND, Uncat and OpenMED Archive. There is no course fee. Lunch, tea, and Internet access during practise sessions would be provided. However, participants would have to arrange for their accommodation at Delhi and local commuting to reach NIC. Medical Librarians, Doctors, Health Administrators, Clinicians, Biomedical Academicians/Researchers are welcome to participate in this programme. Information regarding this is also available at http://indmed.nic.in For sending nominations please send an email to Mrs Rekha Gupta, Course-Coordinator. ONLY CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS WOULD BE ALLOWED TO ATTEND THE TRAINING. Ph: 011-24362359/011-24305533 email: g.rekha <at> nic.in --------------------

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WSIS Related Publications from UNESCO
by Puna Das 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)Related Publications from UNESCO (Full-Text available from the link) Towards knowledge societies: UNESCO world report http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001418/141843e.pdf UNESCO’s basic texts on the information society http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001355/135527e.pdf Measuring and monitoring the information and knowledge societies: a statistical challenge http://www.uis.unesco.org/TEMPLATE/pdf/cscl/WSIS%20Statistical%20Report.pdf Measuring linguistic diversity on the internet/ by John Paolillo, Daniel Pimienta and Daniel Prado (2005) http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001421/142186e.pdf Education in and for the information society/ by Cynthia Guttman (2003) http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001355/135528e.pdf Status of research on the information society (2003) http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001355/135509e.pdf Cultural and linguistic diversity in the information society/ edited by Milagros del Corral (2003) http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001329/132965e.pdf Science in the information society (2003) http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001330/133021e.pdf Gender issues in the information society (2003) http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001329/132967e.pdf Brazil(a)digitaldivide.com – Confronting inequality in the information society / by Bernardo Sorj (2003) http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001318/131870e.pdf Social Transformation in the Information Society: Rethinking Access to You and the World/ by William Dutton (2004). http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/12848/11065568745corpus-1-144.pdf/corp… Memory of the Information Society/ by Jean-Michel Rodes, Geneviève Piejut and Emmanuèle Plas (2003). http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/12531/10942043935memory_en.pdf/memory_… Building knowledge societies (2002) http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001256/125647e.pdf Politics of the information society: the bordering and restraining of global data flows/ by Gus Hosein (2004) http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001375/137516e.pdf Planetary sustainability in the age of the information and knowledge society: handbook for understanding and action (2003) http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001318/131837eo.pdf Freedom of information: a comparative legal survey/ by Toby Mendel (2004) http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/19697/11232335331freedom_info_en.pdf/f… Information policies in Asia: a review of information and communication policies in the Asian region (2005) http://www2.unescobkk.org/elib/publications/076/Inf_policy.pdf Digital Community Services: Pacific Libraries And Archives: Future Prospects and Responsibilities – A Report/ by Esther Batiri Williams http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/6607/10395389010williams.pdf/williams.… Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Governmental Public Domain Information / prepared by Paul F. Uhlir. - Paris: UNESCO, 2004. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001373/137363eo.pdf Strong foundations: early childhood care and education - Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2007 http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001477/147794e.pdf Libraries and the WSIS Action Lines/ by IFLA http://www.ifla.org/III/wsis/WSIS-Action-Lines.pdf __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Availability of book
by K A. Sardesai 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Dear Friends, I shall be glad to know how to get the under noted book in Mumbai? If any Library is having in their collection kindly let me know.On the net it is showing a second hand old book. One of my user is badly asked for reference and we want to purchase the same. Capital output relations in Indian manufacturing 1946- 1964 / Hashim, S R and Dadi M M. : M S University, Baroda;1973 Thanks and regards Kshipra Sardesai

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Information About Leave Policy
by Prachi Bagad 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Hi All, I am working in an AICTE approved Engineering college as a Librarian. I want to know about the Maternity Leave Rules for such institutes. Can anyone suggest me the right source of information? I have tried AICTE website but couldn't get any specific information. Please help! regards, Prachi Bagad Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Hi All, I am working in an AICTE approved Engineering college as a Librarian. I want to know about the Maternity Leave Rules for such institutes. Can anyone suggest me the right source of information? I have tried AICTE website but couldn't get any specific information. Please help! regards, Prachi Bagad Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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JOB : Documentation Assistants for Environment Resource Centre (Library) at CSE, New Delhi [Last Date: Nov 10, 2006]
by kiran＠cseindia.org 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi invites applications for the post of Documentation Assistant, to work in the centres Knowledge Resource Centre (Library) which documents books, journals, news clippings and audio-video on environment and also compiles various information products on science and environment. Place of work: New Delhi Eligibility: Graduates or Post Graduates preferably in science/ecology/environment with familiarity in environment and conservation issues. A background in Library and Information Science is desirable. Prior experience of working in news clippings, audiovisual section of NGOs/ developmental organisations would be an added advantage. Must possess good communication skills in English and Hindi, both written and verbal. Must possess working knowledge of MS- Word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint etc. Candidates interested in the audiovisual section must have a basic knowledge of electronic photo and film documentation, film production, etc. Should be comfortable in using software like Photoshop and Quark Express. JOB DESCRIPTION: 1.Scanning, marking, abstracting news clippings on environment and other developmental issues in print and electronic/digital editions of newspapers. 2.Electronic cataloguing of news clippings, books, photos, films, journals etc. 3.Independently handle, print and electronic/digital information services and products of the Knowledge resource centre. 4.Use of Internet to search for information on environment and other developmental issues. {E-mail your application with your resume to kiran(a)cseindia.org Last Date: Nov 10, 2006 Ms. Kiran Pandey **************************************************************** CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT ( CSE ) 41, TUGHLAKABAD INSTITUTIONAL AREA, NEW DELHI- 110 062 TELE: 29955124 29956110, 29956394,29956399 FAX : 91-11-29955879 VISIT US AT: http://www.cseindia.org Email: kiran(a)cseindia.org ext:233 **************************************************************** Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi invites applications for the post of Documentation Assistant, to work in the centres Knowledge Resource Centre (Library) which documents books, journals, news clippings and audio-video on environment and also compiles various information products on science and environment. Place of work: New Delhi Eligibility: Graduates or Post Graduates preferably in science/ecology/environment with familiarity in environment and conservation issues. A background in Library and Information Science is desirable. Prior experience of working in news clippings, audiovisual section of NGOs/ developmental organisations would be an added advantage. Must possess good communication skills in English and Hindi, both written and verbal. Must possess working knowledge of MS- Word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint etc. Candidates interested in the audiovisual section must have a basic knowledge of electronic photo and film documentation, film production, etc. Should be comfortable in using software like Photoshop and Quark Express. JOB DESCRIPTION: 1.Scanning, marking, abstracting news clippings on environment and other developmental issues in print and electronic/digital editions of newspapers. 2.Electronic cataloguing of news clippings, books, photos, films, journals etc. 3.Independently handle, print and electronic/digital information services and products of the Knowledge resource centre. 4.Use of Internet to search for information on environment and other developmental issues. {E-mail your application with your resume to kiran(a)cseindia.org Last Date: Nov 10, 2006 Ms. Kiran Pandey **************************************************************** CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT ( CSE ) 41, TUGHLAKABAD INSTITUTIONAL AREA, NEW DELHI- 110 062 TELE: 29955124 29956110, 29956394,29956399 FAX : 91-11-29955879 VISIT US AT: http://www.cseindia.org Email: kiran(a)cseindia.org ext:233 ****************************************************************

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Google Librarian Newsletter
by dibya pradhan 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Dear Professional Due to exciting developments relevant to the library community, Google(http://www.google.com/librariancenter/newsletter/)dedicating its newsletter to sharing them with others. In this issue, you'll find updates on a wide variety of tools to help your patrons track down the information they're looking for both on the web and in libraries. You'll also find new downloads a poster, flyer and quiz you can use as educational resources. With Regards. Yours faithfully, Dibya Kishor Pradhan(LIA) NIT, Rourkela Dear Professional Due to exciting developments relevant to the library community, Google(http://www.google.com/librariancenter/newsletter/)dedicating its newsletter to sharing them with others. In this issue, you'll find updates on a wide variety of tools to help your patrons track down the information they're looking for both on the web and in libraries. You'll also find new downloads a poster, flyer and quiz you can use as educational resources. With Regards. Yours faithfully, Dibya Kishor Pradhan(LIA) NIT, Rourkela 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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The Future of Science is Open
by Subbiah Arunachalam 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

>From Peter Suber's blog: "The whole damn point of publishing research in the first place..." Bill Hooker, The Future of Science is Open, Part 1: Open Access, 3 Quarks Daily, October 30, 2006. Excerpt: I've never had an idea that couldn't be improved by sharing it with as many people as possible -- and I don't think anyone else has, either. That's why I have become interested in the various "Open" movements making increasing inroads into the practice of modern science. Here I will try to give a brief introduction to Open Access to research literature; in the second instalment I will look at ways in which the same concept of "openness" is being extended to encompass data as well as publications, and beyond that, what a fully Open practice of science might look like.... By analogy with Open Source, Open Access to the research literature entails the freedom to read, use and redistribute the published results of scholarly research and derivative works based on those publications. What follows is a version of Peter Suber's very brief introduction to OA; for more details, see his full Open Access Overview and Timeline of the OA Movement. The bottom line is this: Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder.... [After summarizing OA journals and repositories] A personal example...I have yet to publish any data here in the US, but I published a dozen or so articles while I was at the University of Queensland. More than half of these are not freely available from the journals in which they were published (J Clin Virol, Virology, Biochim Biophys Acta, Mol Biochem Parasitol, Acta Tropica -- all Elsevier journals, pfui! -- and Rev Med Virol from Wiley InterScience). I couldn't find any full-text copies online using Google Scholar or PubMed, either. You cannot read these seven papers of mine without paying a fee (usually around $30) or physically going to a library which carries (and has therefore paid for) the journal and issue in question. Neither can my professional colleagues, unless their institution happens to subscribe to the journal or some package which includes it; these subscription fees are commonly extortionate (Elsevier being a particularly egregious offender). For you as a taxpayer, this means that you are denied access to information you've already paid for (since I've always been funded by government grants). For me as a scientist, it means that more than half of my life's work to date is, while not useless, certainly of much less use to the world than it might be. Given that a large part of why I do what I do is that I want to leave the world a better place than I found it, that is simply not acceptable to me. Fortunately, according to RoMEO, all of the journals concerned allow postprint archiving by authors, so I might be able to rescue it....Why would I go to all this trouble? Because OA offers significant benefits and advantages to a variety of stakeholders.... Benefits of Open Access 1. Maximal research efficiency. The usual version of Linus' Law says that given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow -- meaning that with enough people co-operating on a development process, nearly every problem will be rapidly discovered and solved. The same is clearly true of complex research problems. and OA provides a powerful framework for co-operation. For instance, Brody et al. showed that, for articles in the high-energy physics section of arXiv (one of the oldest archives available for such study), the time between deposit and citation has been decreasing steadily since 1991, and dropped by about half between 1999 and 2003. Alma Swan explains: "the research cycle in high energy physics is approaching maximum efficiency as a result of the early and free availability of articles that scientists in the field can use and build upon rapidly". Moreover, the machine readability of a properly formatted body of open access literature opens up immense new possibilities. Paul Ginsparg, founder of arXiv, observes: True open access permits any third party to aggregate and data mine the articles, themselves treated as computable objects, linkable and interoperable with associated databases. We are still just scratching the surface of what can be done with large and comprehensive full-text aggregations.... 2. Maximal return on public investment. Just as OA is, at least for now, primarily (though not exclusively) aimed at literature for which the authors are not paid any kind of royalty, so one obvious focus of attention is government-funded research. Why should taxpayers pay twice, once to support the research and then again when the scientists they are funding need access to the literature? More importantly, open access to a body of knowledge makes that knowledge more available and useful to researchers, physicians, manufacturers, inventors and others who make of it the various socially desirable outcomes, such as advances in health care, that government funding of research is intended to produce. Peter Suber has gone over this intuitive position in some detail here. 3. Advantages for authors. There are well over 20,000 scholarly journals, and even the best-funded libraries can afford subscriptions to only a fraction of them. OA offers authors a virtually unlimited, worldwide audience: the only access barrier is internet access (which is, of course, cheaper to provide in poorer nations than comprehensive libraries of print journals would be!). There is a large and steadily growing body of evidence showing that OA measurably increases citation indices (that is, the number of times other papers refer to a given article). For instance, of the papers published in the Astrophysical Journal in 2003, 75% are also available in the OA arXiv database; the latter papers account for 90% of the citations to any 2003 Astrophysical Journal article, a 250% citation advantage for OA. Repeating the exercise with other journals returns similar results. Not only is this of vital importance to academics when it comes to applying for funding or competing for tenure, it's more or less the whole damn point of publishing research in the first place: so that other people can read and use it! 4. Advantages for publishers: the benefits that accrue to authors of OA works also work to the advantage of publishers: more widely read, used and cited articles translates to more submissions and a wider audience for advertising, paid editorials and other value-add schemes. 5. Advantages for administrators.... 6. Scalability. Peter Suber has pointed out that, because it reduces production, distribution, storage and access costs so dramatically, OA "accommodates growth on a gigantic scale and, best of all, supports more effective tools for searching, sorting, indexing, filtering, mining, and alerting --the tools for coping with information overload." Online distribution is necessary but not sufficient for scalability, because subscribers to paid-access journals do not have unlimited budgets even if they are enormous institutional libraries. For end users to keep pace with the explosive growth of available information, the cost of access has to be kept down to the cost of getting online.... Posted by Peter Suber at 10/30/2006 12:37:23 PM. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Open Source Tools: E-Publishing : Digital Publishing System (DPubS)
by Mallikarjuna, H.B 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

Open Source Tools: E-Publishing : Digital Publishing System (DPubS) Digital Publishing System (DPubS) is electronic publishing software for organizing, presenting, and delivering both open access and subscription-controlled scholarly communications in multiple formats (journals, books, conference proceedings, etc.). DPubS are in the Dienst system, developed within Cornell's Computer Science department DPubS is a full-featured, extensible publishing application designed on an open services model. The software enables publishers to organize, present, and deliver both open access and subscription controlled scholarly communications. Document formats currently supported are journals, monographs, and conference proceedings. The DPubS interface is based on a flexible XML/XSLT design, allowing rich and easy customization of a publication's web presence. Other features include full-text searching, OAI compliance, flexible access controls, and e-commerce capabilities. If desired, DPubS can utilize Fedora as an underlying repository. Similar support for DSpace will be added in early 2007. The system currently has administrative interfaces for basic tasks, such as submitting content, loading content, and setting user privileges. Development work is continuing on additional administrative functions and on editorial support tools. This functionality will likely be added beginning in early 2007 For download:http://dpubs.org/ DPubS has the following minimum requirements: * Hardware o Tested DPubS on Solaris 9 (sparc) Solaris 10 (sparc) and Linux (Red Hat FC4 for x86). o DPubS should work fine anywhere you can run Apache/mod_perl. * Perl 5.8+ * * Recommend perl 5.8+ because of the unicode support that was adding with 5.8. * Apache/mod_perl o Apache (1.3.x) and mod_perl (1.x) or Apache (2.x) and mod_perl (2.x). * Java o If Lucene search engine is used, Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4.2 or greater is required. * Storage Space o The disk space needed for DPubS will depend primarily on the amount and type of content that you are going to publish. o The DPubS source code itself requires less than 10 MB of space. * RAM o A minimum of 256MB of memory is recommended for DPubS. Administrator Guide http://wiki.library.cornell.edu/wiki/display/dpubs/AdminFunctions Presentation DPubS: This presentation will provide information about DPubS, the Digital Publishing System project that Penn State is working on with Cornell University. http://wiki.library.cornell.edu/wiki/display/dpubs/Home Download the presentation (2.7 MB PPT file) http://http//transcoder.usablenet.com:8080/tt/tlt.its.psu.edu/fmc/itsforum/… -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/libtech/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/libschool/ ################################################################## "All power is within you, you can do anything and everything.Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... You can do anything and everything, without even the guidance of any one. All power is there......"--Swamy Vivekananda ################################################################## --------------------------------- 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 Open Source Tools: E-Publishing : Digital Publishing System (DPubS) Digital Publishing System (DPubS) is electronic publishing software for organizing, presenting, and delivering both open access and subscription-controlled scholarly communications in multiple formats (journals, books, conference proceedings, etc.). DPubS are in the Dienst system, developed within Cornell's Computer Science department DPubS is a full-featured, extensible publishing application designed on an open services model. The software enables publishers to organize, present, and deliver both open access and subscription controlled scholarly communications. Document formats currently supported are journals, monographs, and conference proceedings. The DPubS interface is based on a flexible XML/XSLT design, allowing rich and easy customization of a publication's web presence. Other features include full-text searching, OAI compliance, flexible access controls, and e-commerce capabilities. If desired, DPubS can utilize Fedora as an underlying repository. Similar support for DSpace will be added in early 2007. The system currently has administrative interfaces for basic tasks, such as submitting content, loading content, and setting user privileges. Development work is continuing on additional administrative functions and on editorial support tools. This functionality will likely be added beginning in early 2007 For download:http://dpubs.org/ DPubS has the following minimum requirements: * Hardware o Tested DPubS on Solaris 9 (sparc) Solaris 10 (sparc) and Linux (Red Hat FC4 for x86). o DPubS should work fine anywhere you can run Apache/mod_perl. * Perl 5.8+ * * Recommend perl 5.8+ because of the unicode support that was adding with 5.8. * Apache/mod_perl o Apache (1.3.x) and mod_perl (1.x) or Apache (2.x) and mod_perl (2.x). * Java o If Lucene search engine is used, Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4.2 or greater is required. * Storage Space o The disk space needed for DPubS will depend primarily on the amount and type of content that you are going to publish. o The DPubS source code itself requires less than 10 MB of space. * RAM o A minimum of 256MB of memory is recommended for DPubS. Administrator Guide http://wiki.library.cornell.edu/wiki/display/dpubs/AdminFunctions http://wiki.library.cornell.edu/wiki/display/dpubs/AdminFunctions Presentation DPubS: This presentation will provide information about DPubS, the Digital Publishing System project that Penn State is working on with Cornell University . http://wiki.library.cornell.edu/wiki/display/dpubs/Home http://wiki.library.cornell.edu/wiki/display/dpubs/Home Download the presentation (2.7 MB PPT file) http://http/transcoder.usablenet.com:8080/tt/tlt.its.psu.edu/fmc/itsforum/1… http://http//transcoder.usablenet.com:8080/tt/tlt.its.psu.edu/fmc/itsforum/… -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com/ http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/libtech/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/libtech/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/libschool/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/libschool/ ################################################################## "All power is within you, you can do anything and everything.Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... You can do anything and everything, without even the guidance of any one. All power is there......"--Swamy Vivekananda ################################################################## 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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Track your library - manjax4u
by Manju manju 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Dear All *As you read the books, RFID tags read the movement of books in the library* ** More<http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2006/10/30/stories/2006103000120200.…> http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2006/10/30/stories/2006103000120200.… MANJUINATHA P.S Dear All As you read the books, RFID tags read the movement of books in the library http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2006/10/30/stories/2006103000120200.… More http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2006/10/30/stories/2006103000120200.… http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2006/10/30/stories/2006103000120200.… MANJUINATHA P.S

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Article Title: Assessment of Fire Damage to Pressure Vessels in a Refinery Unit
by Vandana.Karande＠ril.com 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

This is with reference to an article which was urgently needed......I had posted it in Lisforum....Mr.C. Jayakumar of Scientific Information Resource Division (SIRD),Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR)has helped us by providing a softcopy of the article. This is to request you all that the search is over. Please do not to work on the query. Thanks & Regards, Vandana Karande Information Specialist Corporate Development Group Reliance Centre Tel No. 30327139 This is with reference to an article which was urgently needed......I had posted it in Lisforum....Mr. C. Jayakumar of Scientific Information Resource Division (SIRD),Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR)has helped us by providing a softcopy of the article. This is to request you all that the search is over. Please do not to work on the query. Thanks & Regards, Vandana Karande Information Specialist Corporate Development Group Reliance Centre Tel No. 30327139

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M. Phil & Ph. D holder have more scope then UGC / NET qualified personnel
by badan barman 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

M. Phil & Ph. D holder have more scope then UGC / NET qualified personnel Respected all, I want to draw your kind attention to the fact that is happening Regarding employment opportunity, the M. Phil & Ph. D. holder have more scope in comparison to UGC / NET qualified personnel. As In the selection for different post the M. Phil and Ph. D holders where given 5 and 10 marks extra for their degree respectively. Whereas the NET qualified personnel does not eligible for such marks. So they are bound to lose when they come face to face with other M. Phil and Ph D candidate. This is happening in Assam, I don't know what the situation in other states of India is. Let me frank, Qualifying in the NET is a difficult task. It demands the exclusive subject knowledge from the candidate whereas the M. Phil and Ph D demand the time and money. (I apologies from the true research scholar) I personally know many candidates who are appearing for NET exam again and again but still they are unable to qualify. Now after the announcement of UGC regarding the exemption of M. Phil and Ph D holders from appearing NET they are joining the M. Phil programme under some mushrooming correspondent school, whose quality is doubtful. And after one year they are bound to challenge the NET qualified personnel and win the same. So, I personally feel that UGC by exempting M. Phil and Ph D holders from appearing NET without any clause, make another great mistake. It like the same of its previous announcement regarding the last date of submission of Ph. D thesis (December 2002 and revised date of December 2003) which degrades the quality of Research. Yours faithfully Badan Barman Research Assistant ICSSR Project "Rural Libraries of North East India: A machine readable database" Department of Library and Information Science Gauhati University, Assam (India). M. Phil & Ph. D holder have more scope then UGC / NET qualified personnel � � Respected all, � I want to draw your kind attention to the fact that is happening � Regarding employment opportunity, the M. Phil & Ph. D. holder have more scope in comparison to UGC / NET qualified personnel. As In the selection for different post the M. Phil and Ph. D holders where given 5 and 10 marks extra for their degree respectively. Whereas the NET qualified personnel does not eligible for such marks. So they are bound to lose when they come face to face with other M. Phil and Ph D candidate. This is happening in Assam, I don't know what the situation in other states of India is. � Let me frank, Qualifying in the NET is a difficult task. It demands the exclusive subject knowledge from the candidate whereas the M. Phil and Ph D demand the time and money. (I apologies from the true research scholar) � I personally know many candidates who are appearing for NET exam again and again but still they are unable to qualify. Now after the announcement of UGC regarding the exemption of M. Phil and Ph D holders from appearing NET they are joining the M. Phil programme under some mushrooming correspondent school, whose quality is doubtful. And after one year they are bound to challenge the NET qualified personnel and win the same. � So, I personally feel that UGC by exempting M. Phil and Ph D holders from appearing NET without any clause, make another great mistake. It like the same of its previous announcement regarding the last date of submission of Ph. D thesis (December 2002 and revised date of December 2003) which degrades the quality of Research. � � � Yours faithfully Badan Barman Research Assistant ICSSR Project "Rural Libraries of North East India: A machine readable database" Department of Library and Information Science Gauhati University, Assam (India).

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