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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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Tools: LIbrary Reference Services: Live Digital Reference Tools
by Mallikarjuna, H.B 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Tools: LIbrary Reference Services: Live Digital Reference Tools LiveRef(sm) is compiled and maintained by Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Science and Technology Services Department, Iowa State University Library.Ames, IA LiveRef(sm): A Registry of Real-Time Digital Reference Services is a categorized listing of libraries that offer real-time Library reference or information services using chat software, live interactive communications utilities, call center management software, customer interaction management software, Web contact center software, bulletin board services, interactive customer assistance system, or related Internet technologies. Use of the listed services may be restricted or limited to affiliated students, faculty, staff, or members. REAL-TIME DIGITAL REFERENCE TECHNOLOGIES * 24/7 Reference- * Anexa.com * AOL Instant Messenger(sm) (America Online) * Camden * ConferenceRoom(r) (WebMaster) * DesktopStreaming (tm) (Expertcity) * DigiChat (Digi-Net Technologies) * eGain Live (eGain) * eGain Voice (eGain) * eshare NetAgent(tm) 4.0 (eshare Communications, Inc. * eshare Re: sponse(tm) (eshare Communications, Inc.) * Groopz(tm) (Digi-Net Technologies) * GroupBoard (User Data Connections) * HumanClick(sm) (LivePerson(r)) * LiveAssistance (International Business Systems, Inc.) * Livehelper(sm) * LivePerson Chat (LivePerson(r)) * NetMeeting (Microsoft) * Netscape IRC * OnDemand(tm) (Convey Systems) * QuestionPoint(sm) (OCLC/Library of Congress) * Rakim * RightNow Live(tm) (RightNow Technologies) * Virtual Reference Software (Library Systems & Services, L.L.C. (LSSI)) * Virtual Reference Librarian (Docutek) * Volano * WebLine(r) (Cisco Systems) Source: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/LiveRef.htm Regards H.B Mallikarjuna, Indegene Bangalore. -- 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: LIbrary Reference Services: Live Digital Reference Tools LiveRef(sm) is compiled and maintained by Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Science and Technology Services Department, Iowa State University Library.Ames, IA LiveRef(sm): A Registry of Real-Time Digital Reference Services is a categorized listing of libraries that offer real-time Library reference or information services using chat software, live interactive communications utilities, call center management software, customer interaction management software, Web contact center software, bulletin board services, interactive customer assistance system, or related Internet technologies. Use of the listed services may be restricted or limited to affiliated students, faculty, staff, or members. REAL-TIME DIGITAL REFERENCE TECHNOLOGIES * 24/7 Reference- * Anexa.com * AOL Instant Messenger(sm) (America Online) * Camden * ConferenceRoom(r) (WebMaster) * DesktopStreaming (tm) (Expertcity) * DigiChat (Digi-Net Technologies) * eGain Live (eGain) * eGain Voice (eGain) * eshare NetAgent(tm) 4.0 (eshare Communications, Inc. * eshare Re: sponse(tm) (eshare Communications, Inc.) * Groopz(tm) (Digi-Net Technologies) * GroupBoard (User Data Connections) * HumanClick(sm) (LivePerson(r)) * LiveAssistance (International Business Systems, Inc.) * Livehelper(sm) * LivePerson Chat (LivePerson(r)) * NetMeeting (Microsoft) * Netscape IRC * OnDemand(tm) (Convey Systems) * QuestionPoint(sm) (OCLC/Library of Congress) * Rakim * RightNow Live(tm) (RightNow Technologies) * Virtual Reference Software (Library Systems & Services, L.L.C. (LSSI)) * Virtual Reference Librarian (Docutek) * Volano * WebLine(r) (Cisco Systems) Source: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/LiveRef.htm http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/LiveRef.htm Regards H.B Mallikarjuna, Indegene Bangalore. 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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Need an article URGENTLY...............
by Vandana.Karande＠ril.com 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

hello Need following article urgently. Article Title: Assessment of Fire Damage to Pressure Vessels in a Refinery Unit Journal Title: Corrosion; May 1993 Thanks & Regards, Vandana Karande Information Specialist Corporate Development Group Reliance Industries Ltd Mumbai Tel No. 30327139 hello Need following article urgently. Article Title: Assessment of Fire Damage to Pressure Vessels in a Refinery Unit Journal Title: Corrosion; May 1993 Thanks & Regards, Vandana Karande Information Specialist Corporate Development Group Reliance Industries Ltd Mumbai Tel No. 30327139

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Journal editors unhappy with Elsevier's pricing policy (
by Mailing List Manager 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:28:05 +0100 (BST) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> A journal declaration of independence hits the mainstream press Gary Shapiro, A Rebellion Erupts Over Journals Of Academia, New York Sun, October 26, 2006. Excerpt: There's been a rebellion, not with pitchforks but pocket calculators. The nine members of the editorial board of the Oxford University-based mathematics journal Topology have signed a letter expressing their intention to resign on December 31. They cited the price of the journal as well as the general pricing policies of their publisher, Elsevier, as having "a significant and damaging effect on Topology's reputation in the mathematical research community." The subscription cost of journals can be difficult to determine, since institutions often subscribe to many periodicals in a single bundle. But according to Elsevier's Web site, in 2007 the cost of a single year (six issues) of Topology, in all countries except Europe and Japan, will be $100 for individuals and $1,665 for institutions. Founded through the vision of the Oxford topologist J.H.C. Whitehead in mid-century, Topology has an "illustrious history" with "some of the greatest names of 20th century mathematics" among its editorial and honorary advisory editorial board members, the editors wrote in their resignation letter, dated August 10. " Elsevier's policies towards the publication of mathematics research have undermined this legacy." A company spokesman, David Ruth, replied, "Elsevier regrets the decision taken by the editorial board of Topology, but we believe it doesn't fully reflect the changes we have made over the past decade, and continue to make, which have moderated price increases and provided considerably more value for customers, in terms of both cost per article and research efficiency." Board resignations have occurred at other Elsevier publications, such as the Journal of Logic Programming and the Journal of Algorithms, and also at a variety of other publishers such as Kluwer and Taylor and Francis. Of the Topology resignations, Mr. Ruth said, "Considering that Elsevier publishes more than 1800 journals, this still constitutes a pretty rare occurrence." ... One editor of Topology, John Roe, whose specialty is the relation between geometry and differential equations, said the rising cost of journals has concerned academics, not just mathematicians, for a long time. To those who favor free online access to scholarship, mass resignations of editors are "declarations of independence," a research professor of philosophy at Earlham College, Peter Suber, said. Usually, he said, an editorial board "has a long track record of failed negotiations with their publisher. The typical scenario is the editors resign, form a new journal at a lower price, and the old journal hires new editors." A Lehigh University mathematics professor, Donald Davis, who moderates an online algebraic topology discussion list, said, "University library budgets are no longer adequate to subscribe to all the journals they used to." The Head Librarian of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Library at New York University, Carol Hutchins, said, "The degree of choice is shrinking" and cited reasons such as the consolidation of publishing firms. "Elsevier's prices are very high," said an emerita mathematics professor at Barnard College, Joan Birman, who resigned a few years ago from the board of an Elsevier journal, Topology and Its Applications. She said her feeling was, "We do the work, we check each other, we referee the articles, edit and typeset them and send them to the publisher, which slaps them between two covers and charges a huge amount."... PS: Thanks to Gary Shapiro. This is the longest and most detailed article I've seen on a journal declaration of independence in the mainstream press. For background, see my blog post from August 11, 2006. I promise (as I've been saying since August...) to add this rebellion to my list of declarations of independence. Posted by Peter Suber at 10/26/2006 08:31:15 AM. ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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scientific paper of the future
by Subbiah Arunachalam 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Friends: You may like this presentation on the scientific paper of the future: http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/061014_eScience_Hannay.pdf Prof. Peter Suber alerted me to this paper. Regards. Arun Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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OCA makes good progress
by Subbiah Arunachalam 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Friends: Here is a statement from Brewster Kahle, founder of the Open Content Alliance. After its first year, OCA has now scanned and cataloged over 30,000 books, available on its site. Today, OCA scans about 500 books a day and expects output to increase tenfold by the end of 2007. OCA partners include Yahoo!, the University of California, the British Library, Smithsonian Institution, University of Illinois, Boston Library Consortium, European Archive, O'Reilly Media, Research Library Group, as well as many other academic, technological, non-profit, and government organizations. Perhaps most importantly, Kahle said the OCA discussions honed in on the "open" in the Open Content Alliance. For OCA, the effort is more than a race to scan library book content for a commercial index, but extends to the use of that content. With OCA, "public domain means public domain," Kahle noted. "That was one of the 'aha' moments, that open as we know it may not be open enough and that the digitized public domain must be public domain. Libraries understand this; so does Yahoo." That means, Kahle says, once public domain books are scanned, there are "no restrictions at all on users, and anyone can build any service on top of it." --- Which libraries in India and other countries in the global Soth would like to join the Open Content Allince? In a knowledge-based world initiatives such as OCA and institutional repositoriers play a very important role. Regards. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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ProQuest supports ETDs
by Subbiah Arunachalam 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Friends: Even commercial firms have started supporting open access. Oracle has plans to go the whole hog with Linux and is expected to buy a major Linux company very soon. Now ProQuest is supporting open access to electronic theses and dissertatations. Read Peter Suber's blog entry reproduced below. Best wishes. Arun ---------- ProQuest offers OA option for ETDs ProQuest has launched UMI Open Access Publishing. >From the site: Open Access is a term used to describe content that a reader can access free of charge. With the new UMI® Open Access publishing service, graduate students can now publish their dissertations and theses with ProQuest on an open access basis. Those graduate student authors that choose to publish their graduate works on an open access basis will be significantly increasing the reach of their research.... The primary benefit of Open Access publishing is that it guarantees the widest possible exposure of your graduate research. It can also help ensure that the officially published version of your dissertation or thesis is the most widely available version in the primary literature.... In addition to the standard features of our Traditional publishing service - rigorous quality assurance, assignment of an ISBN, permanent storage in our microfilm vault, and so on - the Open Access publishing service includes the following: * Free, public access to your graduate work in PQDT Open, our online repository of Open Access graduate works (launching in late fall 2006). * Free access to your graduate work for all institutional subscribers to ProQuest® Dissertations & Theses (PQDT), the database of record for graduate research. * Explicit author permission for the degree-granting institution to make the full text of your graduate work available to the world through their institutional repository. How does Open Access publishing compare with ProQuest's Traditional publishing service? Read more here about the details and see a comparison chart showing the benefits of our Open Access and Traditional Publishing services.... Learn more about how Open Access publishing works in our downloadable Overview, and check out our Open Access Publishing FAQ. Posted by Peter Suber at 10/28/2006 03:46:00 PM. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Google:Google Co-op - Custom Search Engine for Indian Libraries and Librarians
by Mallikarjuna, H.B 28 Oct '06

28 Oct '06

Dear Professionals, Specialized Custom Search Engine for Indian libraries and librarians I have been working on my Google custom search engine for Indian Libraries and Librarians. I am working on finding a way to include Indian libraries and librarians web pages. If you have other websites or even individual web pages that should be added, please send me the URL. My goals for this search engine are: Provide a searchable interface to selected resources, Show how useful Google Custom Search can be. And also, please give me your feedback on how useful this search engine is to you. I would be incredibly grateful if someone is willing to help me with this. I can be reached at my email: hbmallikarjuna(a)gmail.com. Once again, thank you for all of your help and dedication. I need your comments or suggestions on how to improve the search engine and make it more useful, When leaving comments, please let us know who you are and what you do, as this will help us put the feedback in context. If you ever have any problems, questions, comments, or suggestions, please contact. hbmallikarjuna(a)gmail.com. Available at: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=008216745263207366915%3As-dzhkvvpxk Small URL: http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb It is available at : http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Home page: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=008216745263207366915%3As-dzhkvvpxk -- Regards H.B Mallikarjuna Indegene, Bangalore-38. Mobile: 9980998157 -- 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 Dear Professionals, Specialized Custom Search Engine for Indian libraries and librarians I have been working on my Google custom search engine for Indian Libraries and Librarians. I am working on finding a way to include Indian libraries and librarians web pages. If you have other websites or even individual web pages that should be added, please send me the URL. My goals for this search engine are: Provide a searchable interface to selected resources, Show how useful Google Custom Search can be. And also, please give me your feedback on how useful this search engine is to you. I would be incredibly grateful if someone is willing to help me with this. I can be reached at my email: mailto:hbmallikarjuna@gmail.com hbmallikarjuna(a)gmail.com . Once again, thank you for all of your help and dedication. I need your comments or suggestions on how to improve the search engine and make it more useful, When leaving comments, please let us know who you are and what you do, as this will help us put the feedback in context. If you ever have any problems, questions, comments, or suggestions , please contact. mailto:hbmallikarjuna@gmail.com hbmallikarjuna(a)gmail.com . Available at: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=008216745263207366915%3As-dzhkvvpxk http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=008216745263207366915%3As-dzhkvvpxk Small URL: http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb It is available at : http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com/ http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Home page: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=008216745263207366915%3As-dzhkvvpxk http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=008216745263207366915%3As-dzhkvvpxk -- Regards H.B Mallikarjuna Indegene, Bangalore-38. Mobile: 9980998157 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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Who is using Koha in India
by Murari 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

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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Firefox 2.0 Released
by Sukhdev Singh 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Friends Firefox 2.0 has been released. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ The best new feature it has is the automatic spelling checking mechanism. I wish it could also include a Grammar checking tool as well. Anyway I am a satisfied Firefox user of its earlier version ( almost forgotten IE). I like the modular structure of the Browser. I put on lot of add-ons to Firefox [for example - a tool to rapidly post items to my blog - http://sukhdev.blogspot.com ]. --Sukhdev Singh. http://openmed.nic.in

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Kindly help find an article!!
by Chitra P Rao 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Hello: Happy Diwali to one and all. I was trying to get this article rather urgently, need your help. If anyone can locate kindly email it to me or FAX NITIE FAX number is 022-28573251 ( Kindly mark it Kind Attn to Chitra Rao) Tabucanon: Project Planning and Controlling maintenance Overhaul of Power Generating units. (International Journal of Physical distribution and Logistics Management: Oct 1989 Vol 19 (10)) Hoping for a Quick Response Sr Librarian and Head LIS NITIE Mumbai 400 087 ph: 28573371 extn 337

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List of Journals in Library & Information Sc. published in India
by Seema Vasishta 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Dear Friends, Please provide me the list of all the journals in the field of Library & Information Sc. being published in India. Thanking you in anticipation. Regards Seema Vasishta Sr. Librarian PEC(DU) Chandigarh --------------------------------- 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 Dear Friends, Please provide me the list of all the journals in the field of Library & Information Sc. being published in India. Thanking you in anticipation. Regards Seema Vasishta Sr. Librarian PEC(DU) Chandigarh 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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PMB 3.0.2 version
by vimal kumar 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Dear Friends, PMB 3.0.2 now available for download. This new version is web 2.0 compliant. PMB is a powerful open source Library Management system. This ILS written in PHP and installation is easy. One draw back of this software is some documentation parts still in French. Library professionals from English speaking countries have to cooperate with this ILS project for English documentation. Click this link for PMB download page http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sigb.net%2Fdownloa… Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in --------------------------------- Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. Dear Friends, PMB 3.0.2 now available for download. This new version is web 2.0 compliant. PMB is a powerful open source Library Management system. This ILS written in PHP and installation is easy. One draw back of this software is some documentation parts still in French. Library professionals from English speaking countries have to cooperate with this ILS project for English documentation. Click this link for PMB download page http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sigb.net%2Fdownloa… http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sigb.net%2Fdownloa… Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42974/*http://www.yahoo.com/preview Check it out.

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E-LIS Introduces Usage Statistics for Authors
by Imma Subirats 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Dear all, * Apologies for cross-posting * We are glad to announce that has been implemented a new Statistics module in E-LIS, E-prints in Library and Information Science. The purpose of the statistics is to promote E-LIS repository and authors self-archiving as well, by demonstrating the accessibility and usage of deposited documents by access and downloads . Usage statistics (abstracts, downloads) are now available by the following elements: • Most viewed eprints in the last four weeks • Most viewed eprints in this year • Most viewed eprints in the last year • Most viewed eprints in all years • Repository-wide statistics by year/month • Repository-wide statistics by country You can see the implementation of the Statistics at http://eprints.rclis.org/. <http://eprints.rclis.org/.+>The use of statistics is basic for the development of Open Acess Model and for the achieve of our first objective: to encourage authors . Some examples are the following: • Prosser, David C. ( 2003) Scholarly communication in the 21st century : the impact of new technologies and models. *Serials : the journal for the serials community *16(2):pp. 163-167<http://eprints.rclis.org/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint&id=1180> . • Suber, Peter<http://eprints.rclis.org/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint&id=6671> (2006) *Open Access in the United States*, in Jacobs, Neil, Eds. *Open Access : Key strategic, technical and economic aspects*. Chandos Publishing <http://eprints.rclis.org/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint&id=6671>. • Estivill Rius, Assumpció and Abadal Falgueras, Ernest and Franganillo, Jorge and Gascón García, Jesús and Rodríguez i Gairín, Josep Manuel (2005) Uso de metadatos Dublin Core en la descripción y recuperación de artículos de revista digitales = Use of Dublin Core metadata for describing and retrieving digital journals . In *Proceedings DC-2005 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications*, Madrid (Spain). <http://eprints.rclis.org/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint&id=4792>• Parmar, Arvind Singh and Kumar, Sanghmitra A. and Prakash, Thushara (2004) Bibliometric analysis of information seeking behaviour related literature <http://eprints.rclis.org/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint&id=2332> We encourage other repositories to implement statistics for each archived document, In the case of E-LIS is used EPrints Software, but also DSpace has developed an Add-On for Statistics too. Some comments to the use of the statistics in E-LIS: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • "All authors crave impact - we hope that what we write will affect readers and will make a difference. However, often it is difficult to tell if our work has even been read. Now we have a clue. The newly implemented download statistics in E-LIS tell me fascinating stories about the usage of my work - papers that I thought 'old news' are still being downloaded, the geographical distribution of readers is greater than I would have guessed. This is a wonderful tool for both authors and readers and shows, once again, the power of self-archiving. Now all I need to know is what the readers thought of my work!" David Prosser SPARC Europe "Having statistics for each article posted in E-LIS can be a valuable tool for the study of the development of the intellectual production in librarianship and information science. This and the use of bibliometric techniques would help us assess library development around the world…" Julio Santillan Aldana Responsible of the open access journal Biblios E-LIS Editor for Peru "The Eprint Statistics feature is an impressive new addition to E-LIS. It presents clear and immediate data on use of documents in the repository, something every author wants to see. I've found myself checking the statistics on my documents regularly and have also discovered that it's a very effective recruitment feature for E-LIS; colleagues who have never deposited in E-LIS have done so very soon after seeing the Eprints Statistics function in action". Andrew Waller Author and E-LIS Editor for Canada • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • For any information about the implementation do not hesitate to contact us. Best Regards, E-LIS Team <http://eprints.rclis.org/staff.html> -- Imma Subirats Coordinator E-LIS, E-prints in Library and Information Science Dear all, * Apologies for cross-posting * We are glad to announce that has been implemented a new Statistics module in E-LIS, E-prints in Library and Information Science. The purpose of the statistics is to promote E-LIS repository and authors self-archiving as well, by demonstrating the accessibility and usage of deposited documents by access and downloads . Usage statistics (abstracts, downloads) are now available by the following elements: • Most viewed eprints in the last four weeks • Most viewed eprints in this year • Most viewed eprints in the last year • Most viewed eprints in all years • Repository-wide statistics by year/month • Repository-wide statistics by country You can see the implementation of the Statistics at http://eprints.rclis.org/.+ http://eprints.rclis.org/. The use of statistics is basic for the development of Open Acess Model and for the achieve of our first objective: to encourage authors . Some examples are the following: http://eprints.rclis.org/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint&id=1180 • Prosser, David C. ( 2003) Scholarly communication in the 21st century : the impact of new technologies and models. Serials : the journal for the serials community 16(2):pp. 163-167 . • http://eprints.rclis.org/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint&id=6671 Suber, Peter http://eprints.rclis.org/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint&id=6671 (2006) Open Access in the United States , in Jacobs, Neil, Eds. Open Access : Key strategic, technical and economic aspects . Chandos Publishing . • http://eprints.rclis.org/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint&id=4792 Estivill Rius, Assumpció and Abadal Falgueras, Ernest and Franganillo, Jorge and Gascón García, Jesús and Rodríguez i Gairín, Josep Manuel (2005) Uso de metadatos Dublin Core en la descripción y recuperación de artículos de revista digitales = Use of Dublin Core metadata for describing and retrieving digital journals . In Proceedings DC-2005 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications , Madrid (Spain). • http://eprints.rclis.org/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint&id=2332 Parmar, Arvind Singh and Kumar, Sanghmitra A. and Prakash, Thushara (2004) Bibliometric analysis of information seeking behaviour related literature We encourage other repositories to implement statistics for each archived document, In the case of E-LIS is used EPrints Software, but also DSpace has developed an Add-On for Statistics too. Some comments to the use of the statistics in E-LIS: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • "All authors crave impact - we hope that what we write will affect readers and will make a difference. However, often it is difficult to tell if our work has even been read. Now we have a clue. The newly implemented download statistics in E-LIS tell me fascinating stories about the usage of my work - papers that I thought 'old news' are still being downloaded, the geographical distribution of readers is greater than I would have guessed. This is a wonderful tool for both authors and readers and shows, once again, the power of self-archiving. Now all I need to know is what the readers thought of my work!" David Prosser SPARC Europe "Having statistics for each article posted in E-LIS can be a valuable tool for the study of the development of the intellectual production in librarianship and information science. This and the use of bibliometric techniques would help us assess library development around the world…" Julio Santillan Aldana Responsible of the open access journal Biblios E-LIS Editor for Peru "The Eprint Statistics feature is an impressive new addition to E-LIS. It presents clear and immediate data on use of documents in the repository, something every author wants to see. I've found myself checking the statistics on my documents regularly and have also discovered that it's a very effective recruitment feature for E-LIS; colleagues who have never deposited in E-LIS have done so very soon after seeing the Eprints Statistics function in action". Andrew Waller Author and E-LIS Editor for Canada • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • For any information about the implementation do not hesitate to contact us. Best Regards, http://eprints.rclis.org/staff.html E-LIS Team -- Imma Subirats Coordinator E-LIS, E-prints in Library and Information Science

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Resources on Resources and Knowledge Generation
by Mailing List Manager 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:59:20 +0530 From: Rajankila <rajankila(a)hotmail.com> Dear All, Can anyone please suggest any good information material/internet resource/presentation that would help me prepare my presentation for a three hour session on "Resources and Knowledge Generation" in a UGC refresher course for the young teachers of the university month.. The focus should be on library utilization ,sources of information, Internet for information acess, collecting and managing notes,references etc. that would enable a teacher to build up his knowledge base. Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration Mulagunnathu Kavu P O Thrissur - 680 581 India ---------------------------------------------------- Ph 91- 487-2204097(O) , 2201428 (R)

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