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Re: Royal Soc of London jrnls (backfile) (fwd)
by Library 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Dear all, The fulltext of many of the older volumes of Royal Society journals (years 1665 - 1934) are available online from Gallica at http://gallica.bnf.fr/. Choose Recherche and then Periodique from the list in the lower right corner to see a complete list of titles. This has been available for several years now and we have even added this information to our online journals page. Girija ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raman Research Institute Library, Tel: +91 80 2361 0122 Extn 250 C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Fax: +91 80 2361 0492 Bangalore 560 080, India. Email: library(a)rri.res.in

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Back issues of Royal Society journals on open access
by Subbiah Arunachalam 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

>From Prof. Peter Suber Temporary free access to Royal Society journals back to 1665 The Royal Society has finished digitizing all the back issues of all its journals back to 1665. To celebrate, it's offering free online access to the lot until December. See the RS announcement or The Register's news story. (Thanks to Matt Cockerill.) Normally I don't blog trial offers of free online access but I'm making an exception for this one. This window onto the history of science is extraordinary. ---- When will CSIR and other Indian journals digitize their back issues and give free access to them? Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust (and other Foundations) may support a programme of digitizing all back issues of scientific journals of the developing world and making them available via open access. Subbiah Arunachalam ___________________________________________________________ Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail. "The New Version is radically easier to use" The Wall Street Journal http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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Just Published: World Education Indicators 2006
by Puna Das 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Just Published: World Education Indicators 2006 Education Counts: Benchmarking Progress in 19 WEI Countries World Education Indicators World Education Indicators 2006/ Unesco Institute for Statistics, Montreal, 2006. http://www.uis.unesco.org/template/publications/wei2006/WEI2006-FINALwc.pdf --------------------------------- 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 Just Published: World Education Indicators 2006 Education Counts: Benchmarking Progress in 19 WEI Countries World Education Indicators World Education Indicators 2006/ Unesco Institute for Statistics, Montreal, 2006. http://www.uis.unesco.org/template/publications/wei2006/WEI2006-FINALwc.pdf http://www.uis.unesco.org/template/publications/wei2006/WEI2006-FINALwc.pdf 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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Promise of Science
by Subbiah Arunachalam 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Friends: The Dutch are indeed very progressive when it comes to sharing knowledge. The Dutch universities are doing well in terms of making available their refereed research papers through archives. Now they have come up with a repository for theses and dissertations, and on the day the repository was announced it already had 10,000 theses! This is an area we in India and other countries in the South could (shamelessly) imitate the Netherlands! Arun >From Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News" Dutch ETD repository launched The Dutch DARE project has launched Promise of Science, an an OA repository called for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in the Netherlands. Promise of Science covers all Dutch universities and on launch day (yesterday) already contained 10,000 Dutch ETDs. The site supports searching by keyword, author, institution, or year. For more details see the announcement. ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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PLANNER-06
by Prem Chand 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Call for participation for PLANNER 2006 at Mizoram Univesity , Aizawl INFLIBNET in collaboration with Mizoram University is organizing (PLANNER -06) Promotion of Library Automation and Networking in North East Region. The theme of Conference is Digital Preservation Management and Access to information in the twenty first century. The earlier three PLANNER were held at NEHU, Shilong, Manipur University , Imphal and Assam University, Silchar. We have received overwhelming response from various authors. Library Professionals are invited to attend and register for the conference . We are pleased to inform that leading experts from the country will deliver talk on theme and Sub theme. Dr. Jagdish Arora, Librarian, IIT Delhi and Coordinator INDEST will present theme paper on Digital Preservation and Prof. Gautam Barua, Director IIT Guwahati and Governing Board member of INFLIBNET will deliver keynote address. A tutorial on building digital library using open source software ( Dspace, Eprint) has also been arranged for the benefit of the delegates. For registration information, please visit our site at: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/planner2006/index.jsp Or Contact Dr. Prabhaker Rath, Organizing Secretary PLANNER 06 Email: pkrath_99(a)hotmail.com Mobile: 09436154563 Prem Chand Scientist- C INFLIBNET(Information and Library Network) Centre An IUC of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Navrangpura, PB No.4116 AHMEDABAD-380009 India __________________________________________ Tel. 91-079-26305971 / 26304695; 26918368 (Res.) Mobile: 09427001489 ___________________________________________ Email: prem65_chand(a)yahoo.co.in http://www.inflibnet.ac.in Call for participation for PLANNER 2006 at Mizoram Univesity , Aizawl INFLIBNET in collaboration with Mizoram University is organizing (PLANNER 06) Promotion of Library Automation and Networking in North East Region. The theme of Conference is Digital Preservation Management and Access to information in the twenty first century. The earlier three PLANNER were held at NEHU, Shilong, Manipur University , Imphal and Assam University, Silchar. We have received overwhelming response from various authors. Library Professionals are invited to attend and register for the conference . We are pleased to inform that leading experts from the country will deliver talk on theme and Sub theme. Dr. Jagdish Arora, Librarian, IIT Delhi and Coordinator INDEST will present theme paper on Digital Preservation and Prof. Gautam Barua, Director IIT Guwahati and Governing Board member of INFLIBNET will deliver keynote address. A tutorial on building digital library using open source software ( Dspace, Eprint) has also been arranged for the benefit of the delegates. For registration information, please visit our site at: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/planner2006/index.jsp http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/planner2006/index.jsp Or Contact Dr. Prabhaker Rath, Organizing Secretary PLANNER 06 Email: mailto:pkrath_99@hotmail.com pkrath_99(a)hotmail.com Mobile: 09436154563 Prem Chand Scientist- C INFLIBNET(Information and Library Network) Centre An IUC of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Navrangpura, PB No.4116 AHMEDABAD-380009 India __________________________________________ Tel. 91-079-26305971 / 26304695; 26918368 (Res.) Mobile: 09427001489 ___________________________________________ Email: mailto:prem65_chand@yahoo.co.in prem65_chand(a)yahoo.co.in http://www.inflibnet.ac.in http://www.inflibnet.ac.in

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Google Banned Books Search
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

http://books.google.com/googlebooks/banned/ See the link above. read those books that are normally banned. -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, SENIORS (Society for Enriched Information of Relevance to Seniors), 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500018 Phone 27846631 http://books.google.com/googlebooks/banned/ See the link above. read those books that are normally banned. -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, SENIORS (Society for Enriched Information of Relevance to Seniors), 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500018 Phone 27846631

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DSIR-TERI announces four-day Workshop on Digital Libraries
by N Deepa 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Workshop on Digital Libraries, New Delhi 31 October ? 3 November 2006 The Workshop on Digital Libraries is being organized by TERI with support from Technology Information Facilitation Programme of Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India. The aim of the Workshop is to equip participants with adequate practical knowledge so as to enable them to efficiently carry out digital library projects using open-source software. The workshop will be held at TERI, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi. For more details about the workshop, please visit the website http://www.teriin.org/events/dlworkshop Workshop Objectives: * Familiarize participants with the concepts of digital library and institutional repository * Facilitate understanding of digitization and practical knowledge on the digitization process * Offer hands-on experience to develop digital libraries and use of open-source software such as DSpace and GSDL (Greenstone Digital Library) * Help participants develop practical skills in the installation of open source software for creation and implementation of digital libraries Programme: The workshop programme will include tutorial-type presentations, demonstrations, practical sessions, and will cover the following topics: * Issues and challenges of developing digital libraries * Role of institutional repositories in open access movement * Understanding the digitization process: scanning, OCR (optical character recognition), and conversion * DSpace: overview, installation, and administration * GSDL: overview, installation, and administration * Converting CDS/ISIS databases to GSDL * Dublin Core metadata standards * OAI?PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) The faculty will comprise of digital library experts from TERI and other institutes. Participants: The workshop is intended for library and information professionals, knowledge managers, information entrepreneurs, and e-content developers, who have an interest or are involved in setting up digital repositories in their organizations. To allow rich and useful interactions, the number of participants is being limited to 25. Registration: The registration fee is Rs 4000/ per participant. Additional registration from the same organization qualifies for 10% discount. Please note that registration closes on 25 October 2006. Registration can be done online at http://www.teriin.org/events/dlworkshop . Alternatively, please download registration form from workshop website and fax or mail it to: DL Workshop Secretariat Library and Information Centre, TERI, Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110 003 Fax: 91-11-24682144, 24682145 E-mail: DLWorkshop(a)teri.res.in ************************************ About Library and Information Centre, TERI ************************************ The LIC (Library and Information Centre) at TERI maintains a pioneering research library?South Asia?s finest repository of readings on energy, environment, and sustainable development. The LIC has undertaken digital library initiatives and has developed a comprehensive electronic library that provides rich and structured content through online, remote, and continuous access to resources. It is a common gateway that provides free facility to browse and search various forms of digital publications. The Centre regularly organizes seminar, workshops, and conferences with an objective to create a forum for interaction among library and information professionals to keep abreast of the latest developments in the fields of information science and related IT applications. **** Contact: DL Workshop Secretariat Library and Information Centre TERI Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110 003 Tel: 91-11-24682141, 24682100 or 41504900 Fax: 91-11-24682144, 24682145 E-mail: DLWorkshop(a)teri.res.in Web: www.teriin.org/events/dlworkshop Workshop on Digital Libraries, New Delhi 31 October – 3 November 2006 The Workshop on Digital Libraries is being organized by TERI with support from Technology Information Facilitation Programme of Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India. The aim of the Workshop is to equip participants with adequate practical knowledge so as to enable them to efficiently carry out digital library projects using open-source software. The workshop will be held at TERI, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi. For more details about the workshop, please visit the website http://www.teriin.org/events/dlworkshop Workshop Objectives: * Familiarize participants with the concepts of digital library and institutional repository * Facilitate understanding of digitization and practical knowledge on the digitization process * Offer hands-on experience to develop digital libraries and use of open-source software such as DSpace and GSDL (Greenstone Digital Library) * Help participants develop practical skills in the installation of open source software for creation and implementation of digital libraries Programme: The workshop programme will include tutorial-type presentations, demonstrations, practical sessions, and will cover the following topics: * Issues and challenges of developing digital libraries * Role of institutional repositories in open access movement * Understanding the digitization process: scanning, OCR (optical character recognition), and conversion * DSpace: overview, installation, and administration * GSDL: overview, installation, and administration * Converting CDS/ISIS databases to GSDL * Dublin Core metadata standards * OAI–PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) The faculty will comprise of digital library experts from TERI and other institutes. Participants: The workshop is intended for library and information professionals, knowledge managers, information entrepreneurs, and e-content developers, who have an interest or are involved in setting up digital repositories in their organizations. To allow rich and useful interactions, the number of participants is being limited to 25. Registration: The registration fee is Rs 4000/ per participant. Additional registration from the same organization qualifies for 10% discount. Please note that registration closes on 25 October 2006. Registration can be done online at http://www.teriin.org/events/dlworkshop . Alternatively, please download registration form from workshop website and fax or mail it to: DL Workshop Secretariat Library and Information Centre, TERI, Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110 003 Fax: 91-11-24682144, 24682145 E-mail: DLWorkshop(a)teri.res.in ************************************ About Library and Information Centre, TERI ************************************ The LIC (Library and Information Centre) at TERI maintains a pioneering research library—South Asia’s finest repository of readings on energy, environment, and sustainable development. The LIC has undertaken digital library initiatives and has developed a comprehensive electronic library that provides rich and structured content through online, remote, and continuous access to resources. It is a common gateway that provides free facility to browse and search various forms of digital publications. The Centre regularly organizes seminar, workshops, and conferences with an objective to create a forum for interaction among library and information professionals to keep abreast of the latest developments in the fields of information science and related IT applications. **** Contact: DL Workshop Secretariat Library and Information Centre TERI Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110 003 Tel: 91-11-24682141, 24682100 or 41504900 Fax: 91-11-24682144, 24682145 E-mail: DLWorkshop(a)teri.res.in Web: www.teriin.org/events/dlworkshop

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Google Earth gets free premium content
by Farooque Shaheen 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Users will initially be able to access information overlays from the U.S. National Park Service, Discovery Networks, the United Nations Environmental Program, the Jane Goodall Institute and Turn Here, an online city guide service. Users can access the new features by clicking on the "Featured Content" check box in the Google Earth sidebar after downloading and installing the free Google Earth application. Current Google Earth users will be able to access the new features without having to update their application. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&art… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 Users will initially be able to access information overlays from the U.S. National Park Service, Discovery Networks, the United Nations Environmental Program, the Jane Goodall Institute and Turn Here, an online city guide service. Users can access the new features by clicking on the "Featured Content" check box in the Google Earth sidebar after downloading and installing the free Google Earth application. Current Google Earth users will be able to access the new features without having to update their application. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&art… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105

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Fred Noronha on OA in India
by Subbiah Arunachalam 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Please look up http://blog.apc.org/en/index.shtml?x=5039925 for Fred Noronha's article on open access in India. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ___________________________________________________________ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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RFID survey
by Hamidul Islam 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Sir/Madam, I am a student of MLISc in University of Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal, India. I am going to compile a dissertation project on RFID APPLICATION IN LIBRARIES of our MLISc course curriculum. I shall be highly obliged if you kindly sent the following questionnaire to your members and request to all members of lis-forum to sent this as early as possible. Thanks. Your faithfully, Hamidul Islam University of Kalyani West Bengal E-mail : hamid_lis(a)hotmail.com Note: Here there are two web addresses which shows the questionnaire. Please click on these two web addresses to see the complete questionnaire. The two addresses are : http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=818492515084 & http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=183832547001 _________________________________________________________________ All-in-one security and maintenance for your PC. Get a free 90-day trial! http://www.windowsonecare.com/trial.aspx?sc_cid=msn_hotmail

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Request for Article
by Mailing List Manager 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:02:11 +0530 From: "Danappa Pattar (Associate)" <danappa_pattar(a)mindtree.com> Dear All, Could you please send the below mentioned article either in soft copy or hard copy, it is very urgent for one of our user. Article: How Management Innovation Happens Author : Julian Birkinshaw and Michael Mol Source: MIT Sloan Management Review Summer 2006, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 81-88 Thanks in Advance, Danappa Pattar MindTree Consulting Bangalore.

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[LIS-Forum] Sad demise Dr. R. Srinivasan, Officer-in-charge, CECRI, Karaikudi
by Arunachalam Hariharan 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Dear Professional colleagues and friends, I am very sad to inform you about the sudden and sad demise of our beloved friend Dr. R. Srinivasan, Officer-in-charge, Library, Central Electro Chemical Research Institute, Kariakudi yesterday evening at Madurai. The funeral ceremony will take place at Karaikudi, to-day at 12 noon. Dr. Srinivasan did his PG degree in Econometrics, Library Science at Madurai Kamaraj University. He also did DRTC course at Bangalore. He was awarded Ph.D from Annamalai UNivesity in 2004. An expert in the field of Scientometrics, Bibliometrics, Technical Writing, etc, he contributed many articles in National and International journals . He did a few projects for DST. He is a simple and a good person. He used to help others always. He helped many people both professionally and personally. He is a founded member of SALIS and delivered many lecturers I pray the Almighty to give strength and courage to his family members to bear the great loss. His daughter is in Eleventh Standard and his son just joined M.B.B.S. We convey our condolence to his wife and his children. A.Hariharan SALIS __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Message for New Members of the INDEST-AICTE Consortium
by Jagdish Arora 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to inform that access to selected e-resources through the INDEST-AICTE Consortium for around 300 institutions who had applied in response to the advertisement released by the AICTE in Feb., 2006 has commenced from Sept. 2006 onwards. The publishers of e-resources have sent messages directly to the subscribing institutions as well as to the Consortium regarding access to e-resources. The subscribed e-resource are IP enabled on the IP addresses communicated to us. In cases, where institutions do not have static IP addresses, login ID and password have been communicated to institutions directly by the publishers / their agents. We have however, found that several institutions have either not given their email addresses or the emails addresses are incorrect. The INDEST website has a searchable interface for all its members including 300 new members who have joined the Consortium under the new INDEST-AICTE Scheme. All members are requested to search the membership database and ascertain their contact addresses including emails. This will enable us to communicate with our members effectively. Thanks & Regards, Dr. Jagdish Arora Librarian & National Coordinator, INDEST-AICTE Consortium Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 E-Mail: jarora(a)library.iitd.ac.in, jarora42(a)hotmail.com Ph.: 011-26591451, 011-26596759 Web: http://indest.iitd.ac.in/ http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indeshttp://indest.iitd.ac.in/ http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/ Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to inform that access to selected e-resources through the INDEST-AICTE Consortium for around 300 institutions who had applied in response to the advertisement released by the AICTE in Feb., 2006 has commenced from Sept. 2006 onwards. The publishers of e-resources have sent messages directly to the subscribing institutions as well as to the Consortium regarding access to e-resources. The subscribed e-resource are IP enabled on the IP addresses communicated to us. In cases, where institutions do not have static IP addresses, login ID and password have been communicated to institutions directly by the publishers / their agents. We have however, found that several institutions have either not given their email addresses or the emails addresses are incorrect. The INDEST website has a searchable interface for all its members including 300 new members who have joined the Consortium under the new INDEST-AICTE Scheme. All members are requested to search the membership database and ascertain their contact addresses including emails. This will enable us to communicate with our members effectively. Thanks & Regards, Dr. Jagdish Arora Librarian & National Coordinator, INDEST-AICTE Consortium Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 E-Mail: jarora(a)library.iitd.ac.in, jarora42(a)hotmail.com Ph.: 011-26591451, 011-26596759 Web: http://indest.iitd.ac.in/ http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indeshttp://indest.iitd.ac.in/ http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/ Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to inform that access to selected e-resources through the INDEST-AICTE Consortium for around 300 institutions who had applied in response to the advertisement released by the AICTE in Feb., 2006 has commenced from Sept. 2006 onwards. The publishers of e-resources have sent messages directly to the subscribing institutions as well as to the Consortium regarding access to e-resources. The subscribed e-resource are IP enabled on the IP addresses communicated to us. In cases, where institutions do not have static IP addresses, login ID and password have been communicated to institutions directly by the publishers / their agents. We have however, found that several institutions have either not given their email addresses or the emails addresses are incorrect. The INDEST website has a searchable interface for all its members including 300 new members who have joined the Consortium under the new INDEST-AICTE Scheme. All members are requested to search the membership database and ascertain their contact addresses including emails. This will enable us to communicate with our members effectively. Thanks & Regards, Dr. Jagdish Arora Librarian & National Coordinator, INDEST-AICTE Consortium Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 E-Mail: jarora(a)library.iitd.ac.in, jarora42(a)hotmail.com Ph.: 011-26591451, 011-26596759 Web: http://indest.iitd.ac.in/ http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indeshttp://indest.iitd.ac.in/ http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/

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34th Five Laws Lecture
by DRTC General 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Kindly announce this in Lis Forum. I.K. Ravichandra Rao Head, DRTC =========================================================== DRTC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE and SARADA RANGANATHAN ENDOWMENT FOR LIBRARY SCIENCE CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO THE 34th FIVE LAWS LECTURE (2006) on "Relevance of Knowledge Management in IT and Engineering Sectors" by Shri A. Kottai Head, Knowledge Management Honeywell Technology Solution Lab Pvt. Bangalore 560076 on Wednesday, 27th September 2006 at 6.30 pm. at Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, (Upstairs), 42nd Cross, 3rd Block, Rajajinagar Bangalore 560 010 Presided by Dr. Devika P Madalli Documentation Research and Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore-560059

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SOSIG changes URL
by arun kishore 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Dear all, The famous Social Science Gateway 'SOSIG' has merged with 'INTUTE', a consortium led service in UK. Their database contains 113528 records including Science and Technology, Arts and Health Sciences. The new URL is : http://www.intute.ac.uk/ Regards, Arun Kishore DCSMAT Kerala

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The PLoS editorial on OA journals
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Friends: I am appending below a recent editorial from the open access journal PLoS. This editorial suggests that authors of research papers should retain copyright to their papers and not givi it awy to journal publishers. While this editorial talks about the great advantages of 'open access journals', there is another way by which authors can make their papers freely accessible via open access. And it is called 'open access archiving'. Each research institution and higher educational institution can set up its own interoperable institutional open access archive and mandate that all faculty and student reserach papers be placed in the archive (as full texts), irrespective of the journals in which these papers are published. There are more than 700 such archives today, but only less than a dozen have mandated OA to all faculty and student research papers. More than 92% of about 9,000 journals surveyed allow institutional archiving of papers published in them. To know the latest happenings in the open access movement I recommend Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News". Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ---------------------- The Impact of Open Access upon Public Health The PLoS Medicine Editors E-mail: medicine_editors(a)plos.org Published: May 30, 2006 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030252 Copyright: © 2006 The PLoS Medicine Editors. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation: The PLoS Medicine Editors (2006) The Impact of Open Access upon Public Health. PLoS Med 3(5): e252 This Editorial is co-published in The Bulletin of the World Health Organization as part of a theme issue on intellectual property and public health. DOI: 10.2471/BLT.06.032409 Arthur Amman, President of Global Strategies for HIV Prevention (http://www.globalstrategies.org) tells this story: I recently met a physician from southern Africa, engaged in perinatal HIV prevention, whose primary access to information was abstracts posted on the Internet. Based on a single abstract, they had altered their perinatal HIV prevention program from an effective therapy to one with lesser efficacy. Had they read the full text article they would have undoubtedly realized that the study results were based on short-term follow-up, a small pivotal group, incomplete data, and unlikely to be applicable to their country situation. Their decision to alter treatment based solely on the abstract's conclusions may have resulted in increased perinatal HIV transmission. Amman's story shows the potentially deadly gap between the information-rich and the information-poor. This gap is not the result of lack of technology or of money, but of a failure of imagination. We live in the most information-rich era of history, when the Internet allows immediate global dissemination of crucial health information, and the interlinking of online information creates an integrated, living body of informationthe ultimate vision of which is the semantic Web (http://www.w3.org) What is preventing such a living Web? For scientific and medical information, two obstacles are vested interests and traditions. The role of copyright, which was developed when the dissemination of work was on paper, is crucial. Initially, applying copyright to medical articles protected both the intellectual investment of authors and the commercial investment of publishers. Authors of scientific articles handed over their copyright to publishers to prevent unauthorized print copying. Thus, the prevention of unauthorized copying helped to disseminate information by providing a valid business model for publishers. But the proliferation of subscription-based medical and scientific journals led to readers having to pay more and more to publishers in order to keep up with current knowledge, and also led to an increasing fragmentation of knowledge between different publishers. The Internet provides the means to revolutionize publishing in two crucial ways. First, it makes it possible to disseminate health information at no charge to anyone in the world with online access. Although it costs money to peer review, edit, produce, and host an online article, this is a onetime, fixed cost. If research funders are willing to pay this cost, then the published work can be made freely available to all readers worldwide, and there would be no need for journal subscriptions. This is one way of financing an open-access model of publishing (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm) Second, because the internet allows not just ease of access but ease of reuse, an article's usefulness is limited only by a user's imagination. To allow this, the traditional role of copyright has to change. Instead of publishers using copyright to restrict use, authors can retain copyright and grant the public the right to creatively reuse their work. Licenses such as those developed by Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org) which facilitate rather than prohibit reuse, are used by the open-access publishers PLoS (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020228) and BioMed Central (BMC). The result as Jan Velterop, Director of Open Access at Springer, says is that copyright can be used for what it is meant to in science, not to make the articles artificially scarce and in the process restrict their distribution, but instead, to ensure that their potential for maximum possible dissemination can be realised (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/scholarly_guide.shtml) The potential benefits of such a change are vast. No longer will physicians have to base their practice on half truths. Instead, everyone from patients to policymakers can read for themselves the evidence on which crucial science and health policy decisions are made. One example of a paper with potentially profound public health implications is the first randomized trial of male circumcision to prevent HIV infection (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020298)having this paper and all related discussions freely available has allowed a lively, informed debate to flourish. Will poorly funded researchers be excluded from publishing in open-access journals? This concern is addressed by publishers such as PLoS and BMC, who waive fees for authors who cannot pay, and who strictly separate decisions on publication from ability to pay. This is not a radical departure into subsidies, but an accepted part of distributing publishing costs across the scientific community. Increasingly, funders of research also realize the benefit of an open-access model of publishing. The United Kingdom's Wellcome Trust (http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD002766.html) mandates its funded authors to make their work publicly available; the United States National Institutes of Health are encouraging it (http://publicaccess.nih.gov) and governments and funding bodies are signing up to declarations on open access (http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html) By regaining control of copyright, the medical and scientific communities could ensure that publishing is no longer driven by the interests of publishers, but rather by the needs of society. ___________________________________________________________ Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail. "The New Version is radically easier to use" The Wall Street Journal http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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UNESCO-DSIR-IIMK 6-Day International Workshop on Greenstone at IIMK
by mgsree＠iimk.ac.in 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

Dear Colleagues: I am happy to inform you that IIMK, with support from the UNESCO and TIFP (DSIR), is organizing a six-day International Workshop on Greenstone Digital Library Software at IIM Kozhikode during November 27 - December 02, 2006. A total of 35 participants (27 from India and 8 from South Asian countries) are expected to take part in the Workshop. Prof. Ian Witten of the Greenstone team will be leading the workshop. The details of the programme is available at http://www.iimk.ac.in/FDPBrochures/UIIWGSnov27.htm. Soft copy of the brochure is available at http://www.iimk.ac.in/FDPBrochures/PDF/UIIWGSnov27.pdf for downloading. For any further information please feel free to contact me or our FDP Office (E-Mail : fdp(a)iimk.ac.in) With regards, M.G. Sreekumar Co-ordinator UNESCO-DSIR-IIMK International Workshop on Greenstone -- Dr. M. G. Sreekumar Librarian & Head, Center for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL) Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode IIMK Campus P.O. Kozhikode, Kerala, India-673 570 ------------------------------------------------ Phone : +91 495 2809140 Mobile : 09447654066 Fax : +91 495 2803010/11 Email : mgsree(a)iimk.ac.in Web : http://www.iimk.ac.in; : http://iimk.ac.in/mgsree.htm ================================================ -- Dr. M. G. Sreekumar Librarian & Head, Center for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL) Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode IIMK Campus P.O. Kozhikode, Kerala, India-673 570 ------------------------------------------------ Phone : +91 495 2809140 Mobile : 09447654066 Fax : +91 495 2803010/11 Email : mgsree(a)iimk.ac.in Web : http://www.iimk.ac.in; : http://iimk.ac.in/mgsree.htm ================================================

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Ulrich 2006, Bangalore
by girish kumar 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

Dear All, I am very thank full for your responses to my query regarding Ulrich 2006. I am restricting my query now, so please let me know, which library has latest version of Ulrich (2006) with in Bangalore. I need your valuable responses as same as my old query.I am awaiting your helpful reply. With Regards N. Girish Kumar -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- N.Girish Kumar IKM Trainee, National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Banglore-560 012. Mobile No:9980876586 E-mail:girish@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ngirik(a)yahoo.co.in --------------------------------- Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. I am very thank full for your responses to my query regarding Ulrich 2006. I am restricting my query now, so please let me know, which library has latest version of Ulrich (2006) with in Bangalore . I need your valuable responses as same as my old query.I am awaiting your helpful reply. With Regards N. Girish Kumar -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- N.Girish Kumar IKM Trainee, National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Banglore-560 012. Mobile No:9980876586 E-mail:girish@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ngirik(a)yahoo.co.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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Dr. Dakshaben Surati is no more
by Lavji N. Zala 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

Dear Colleagues, Once again the Library and Information profession has been shocked by hearing the sad news of sudden and ultimate demise of the great personality, Dr. Dakshaben Surati, the coordinator and the faculty of the Department of Library and Information Science at Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. She passed away on 04th September 2006 due to ill health. The SNDT University, Mumbai granted her the PhD degree in year 2000. She also produced number of articles in journals and books chapters. It is the great loss for the LIS profession that can not be filled anyway. Teachers Never Die hence Dr. Dakshaben Surati is always within us, though her physical body is not, We, the library personnel always have her path, which she shown in her life. May almighty provide eternal peace for departed soul of Dr. Dakshaben Surati and pray to offer our condolences to her family members. From: Lavji N. Zala & Niraj R. Patel Knowledge Exchange & Information Centre (KEIC) Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) Shela Ahmedabad - 380058 ----------------------------------------- (on mail) Email Disclaimer: Information contained and transmitted by this e-mail is confidential, proprietary, and legally privileged data of Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad (MICA), that is intended for use only by the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. You are requested to delete this e-mail immediately and notify the originator. Any views expressed by an individual do not necessarily reflect the views of MICA. While this e-mail has been checked for all known viruses, the addressee should also scan for viruses. Internet communications can not be guaranteed to be timely, secure, error or virus-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete. MICA does not accept liability for any errors or omissions. ---------------------------------------------------------

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The Hindu and Business Line e-paper PDF format) from Sunday September 10, 2006
by Appasaheb Naikal 09 Sep '06

09 Sep '06

Dear all,  The Hindu and Business Line will be launched in digital form, that is, as an e-paper on the Internet, on Sunday, September 10, 2006. The web address is http://epaper.thehindu.com/login.php and http://epaper.thehindubusinessline.com. The Hindu Three digital editions of the newspaper - Chennai, Hyderabad, and Delhi - will be available at this first stage. Business line The Chennai edition of the newspaper will be available at this first stage. Both digital editions will be available for viewing at 6 a.m., Indian Standard Time (IST) every day from September 10, 2006. Access will be free for now but users will be required to register online. What does the e-paper offer the online reader? The newspaper itself, nothing less. You can see each page as it appears in each of the three print editions. This means all the reports, articles, photographs, and other graphics have been organised, laid out, and presented according to their importance, with the appropriate typography and design elements. You can also see the advertisements as they appear on the page. The e-paper has been developed for Business Line by Nine Stars Information Technology and IBM using state-of-the-art technology and offering high resolution and versatile features. Whole pages, articles, photographs and other images can be viewed in .pdf and .jpg format, and articles can also be read as text. You can make use of the Internet\'s powerful feature - search. The e-paper offers you search in several forms: You can look for something specific using the search engine. You can also track stories in your areas of interest by setting your preferences for \"My News,\" a news tracking feature. You can clip articles and photos for future reference and can email them to a friend. A week\'s back issues of the digital editions of The Hindu and Business Line will be available in the archive. With regardsAppasaheb NaikalSPJCM-Singapore Dear all, The Hindu and Business Line will be launched in digital form, that is, as an e-paper on the Internet, on Sunday, September 10, 2006. The web address is http://epaper.thehindu.com/login.php http://epaper.thehindu.com/login.php and http://epaper.thehindubusinessline.com/ http://epaper.thehindubusinessline.com . The Hindu Three digital editions of the newspaper - Chennai, Hyderabad , and Delhi - will be available at this first stage . Business line The Chennai edition of the newspaper will be available at this first stage. Both digital editions will be available for viewing at 6 a.m., Indian Standard Time (IST) every day from September 10, 2006. Access will be free for now but users will be required to register online. What does the e-paper offer the online reader? The newspaper itself, nothing less. You can see each page as it appears in each of the three print editions. This means all the reports, articles, photographs, and other graphics have been organised, laid out, and presented according to their importance, with the appropriate typography and design elements. You can also see the advertisements as they appear on the page. The e-paper has been developed for Business Line by Nine Stars Information Technology and IBM using state-of-the-art technology and offering high resolution and versatile features. Whole pages, articles, photographs and other images can be viewed in .pdf and .jpg format, and articles can also be read as text. You can make use of the Internet's powerful feature - search. The e-paper offers you search in several forms: You can look for something specific using the search engine. You can also track stories in your areas of interest by setting your preferences for "My News," a news tracking feature. You can clip articles and photos for future reference and can email them to a friend. A week's back issues of the digital editions of The Hindu and Business Line will be available in the archive. With regards Appasaheb Naikal SPJCM-Singapore 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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OA and poverty alleviation
by Subbiah Arunachalam 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

OA in the war against poverty Gavin Yamey, What did you do in the war against poverty, granddad? PLoS Medicine blog, September 6, 2006. Excerpt: Is it folly to believe that a medical or scientific journal can have any measurable impact upon global poverty? I dont think so, and nor does the Task Force on Science Journals, Poverty, and Human Development, of which Im a member.... As you can imagine, I feel passionately that the most effective way that journals can help to lift people out of the extremes of poverty is to champion open access to the worlds treasury of medical, scientific, and technical knowledge. Im not alone in my conviction --the United Nations, for example, has repeatedly championed open access as a development tool. If youre unconvinced that open access has anything to do with human development, I urge you to read the UN Millennium Project report Innovation: applying knowledge in development. The lead author is Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development at Harvard's John F Kennedy School of Government and another member of the PLoS Board of Directors. The report includes an extremely compelling description, with some fantastic case studies, of how developing countries are improving their capacity to harness scientific and technical knowledge to solve local problems themselves. But they can only do this if they have an adequate pool of public domain knowledge in the first place. And this is where editors can step in. As the PLoS Medicine editors say in our editorial this month, expanding the amount of essential information placed in the public domain would give developing countries the scientific and technical information needed to solve fundamental challenges, promote public health, manage the environment, and participate in international trade. How can we not do it? ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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Info Vision 2006 The Knowledge Summit
by Lata Suresh 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

Dear friends, Sorry for Cross posting. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: K-Community of Bangalore <coordinator(a)k-community.org> Date: Sep 7, 2006 9:08 PM Subject: InfoVision2006 - The Knowledge Summit on September 28th & 29th, Bangalore - India To: coordinator(a)k-community.org Dear K-Community Blr Member, We would like to inform you of the Knowledge Summit taking place here in Bangalore with many globally admired speakers. We are also pleased to inform you that all K-Community members can avail a 10% discount if you register before September 15. Please find the details below. InfoVision2006 - The Knowledge Summit on September 28th & 29th, Bangalore - India Dates: 28 September 2006 - 29 September 2006 Place: Le Meridien Hotel, Bangalore InfoVision is a premier annual global Summit in India for the Knowledge Industry and Society. The Summit focuses on a chosen theme each year and congregates leaders and professionals across the `Information and Knowledge Spectrum' to come together and analyze the transformational trends and deliberate on the challenges. Experts from the industry and the academia join the debate and share their views. Best practices and success stories are showcased. InfoVision is an intellectual confederation of all stakeholders - academia, industry, government and the user groups, to meet as partners and to develop a unified framework for and formulate strategies for capitalizing knowledge for performance. InfoVision Summit Sessions: On September 28th and 29th, InfoVision 2006 brings the following sessions and speakers to help organizations to transit towards a Knowledge Enterprise. Innovation and Intellectual Property Management │ Enterprise Content Management │ Harnessing Business and Competitive Intelligence │News and Media: Convergence and Disconnect │Digital Libraries and Archiving Knowledge│ New Cyber Genres: Wikis, Blogs, collaborative tools and models │ Managing Intellectual Capital There will be over 30 speakers at the Summit including the following luminaries: 1. Leif Edvinsson - Professor of Intellectual Capital, at Lund University, Sweden, Edvinsson is inspirator and CEO of Universal Networking Intellectual Capital, Winner of the prestigious Brain of the Year award for 1998. A key contributor to the theory of IC and recognized with awards from the American Productivity and Quality Centre, USA and Business Intelligence, UK, he is the author of the books - Corporate Longitude and Intellectual Capital for Communities ( with Ahmed Bounfour ) 2. Rory L. Chase - Founder of Teleos - the company that conducts the internationally recognized Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE) program. Advisor, author and researcher in the development and implementation of knowledge management strategies and approaches, he is the Founding Editor of the Journal of Knowledge Management and the Journal of Intellectual Capital. Chase has also authored the `Creating a Knowledge Management Business Strategy' 3. Jimmy Wales - named one of the Time magazine's 100 most influential eople in the world in the year 2006, Wales has translated the utopian concept of universal access to knowledge a reality through his Wikipedia the largest freely available online encyclopedia . Wikipedia is also available in more than 100 languages. Wales is the fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School and member of the Board of Directors of Socialtext, a provider of wiki technology to businesses. 4. Sam Pitroda -- chairman of India's National Knowledge Commission, he is also largely considered to have been responsible for India's communications revolution. He is the Chairman and CEO of World-Tel Limited, an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) initiative. He holds many key technology patents, has been involved in several startups, and lectures extensively around the world on the implications of communications and information technology. He is also the founder and CEO of C-SAM, Inc, Inc, and serves as a director on the board of Jet Airways. He has served as an advisor to the United Nations and in 1992, his biography was published, and became a bestseller. And many many more thought leaders and speakers...... 2006 Indian MAKE Award Ceremony and panel discussion For the first time in India, an Indian MAKE ceremony will be conducted to recognize those Indian organizations that stand out in building their knowledge and intellectual capital. There will be an interactive panel discussion with the award winners during a gala dinner event. This will cover best practices, do's and don'ts on KM from the very best in India. For registration and contact information, please visit the website: www.infovision.org.in Summit Chair:Mr. Ashok Soota, Chairman and Managing Director, MindTree Consulting Pvt. Ltd., Chair, CII Mission on Knowledge and Skills Programme Co-Chairs: Prof. S. Sadagopan, Director, IIIT-B Prof. Shalini R. Urs, Executive Director, iSIM, University of Mysore Mr. Raj Datta, General Manager, KM, MindTree Consulting Pvt. Ltd. regards ======================== Lata Suresh Librarian Institute of Health Management Research 1, Prabhu Dayal Marg, Sanganer Airport Jaipur 302033, RAJASTHAN, INDIA Tel : 91-0141-2791431-34 Fax: 91-0141-2792138 Email : lata(a)iihmr.org

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Assistant Librarian vacancy at MDI Gurgaon
by Antony Jose 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

Moderators, may kindly post the following on your forums Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon invites applications for the post of an Assistant Librarian in the pay-scale of Rs. 8,000 - 275 - 13,500 along with usual allowances and benefits as per rules of the Institute. MDI, an integrated business school, has been consistently ranked within the top five b-schools in India. It is the first and the only institute in India to be accredited by the "Association of MBAs" (AMBA), UK. MDI is a leader among Indian b-schools in terms of faculty, number of programmes, international linkages, etc. MDI's library is considered to be one of the best management libraries in the country. Essential Qualifications and Skills * Should be M.Lib / ADIS (DRTC) / AIS (INSDOC / NISCAIR) with atleast 55% marks * Should be capable of independently managing various operations in the library like Acquisitions, Cataloguing and Classification. * Should have very good communication skills * Should be well versed with library management systems (LMS) like Libsys * Should be comfortable with working in a highly computerized environment * Should have a flair for learning and updating oneself with latest technologies, etc. Desirable Qualifications and Skills * Degree / Diploma in IT Applications * Expertise in using Digital library software systems like DSpace, Greenstone, Eprints, etc. * Experience in a business school library The person should be willing to work on late shifts and on week-ends, if required. Age Limit: Below 35 years Experience: Around 5-6 years at Officer level position in a reputed library. How to Apply: Interested candidates may send their detailed curriculum vitae with a recent photograph in a sealed envelop super scribing the name of the post applied for, addressed to: Librarian Management Development Institute (MDI) Mehrauli Road, Sukhrali Gurgaon - 122 001 You may also email your curriculum vitae to: ajose(a)mdi.ac.in Last date for submission of application: 30th September 2006.  Moderators, may kindly post the following on your forums � � Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon invites applications for the post of an Assistant Librarian in the pay-scale of Rs . 8,000 – 275 – 13,500 along with usual allowances and benefits as per rules of the Institute. � MDI, an integrated business school, has been consistently ranked within the top five b-schools in India . � It is the first and the only institute in India to be accredited by the “Association of MBAs” (AMBA), UK . MDI is a leader among Indian b-schools in terms of faculty, number of programmes , international linkages, etc. � MDI’s library is considered to be one of the best management libraries in the country. � Essential Qualifications and Skills � Should be M.Lib / ADIS (DRTC) / AIS (INSDOC / NISCAIR) with atleast 55% marks Should be capable of independently managing various operations in the library like Acquisitions, Cataloguing and Classification. Should have very good communication skills Should be well versed with library management systems (LMS) like Libsys Should be comfortable with working in a highly computerized environment Should have a flair for learning and updating oneself with latest technologies, etc. � Desirable Qualifications and Skills � Degree / Diploma in IT Applications Expertise in using Digital library software systems like DSpace , Greenstone, Eprints , etc. Experience in a business school library � The person should be willing to work on late shifts and on week-ends, if required. � Age Limit : Below 35 years � Experience: Around 5-6 years at Officer level position in a reputed library. � How to Apply: Interested candidates may send their detailed curriculum vitae with a recent photograph in a sealed envelop super scribing the name of the post applied for, addressed to: � Librarian Management Development Institute (MDI) Mehrauli Road , Sukhrali Gurgaon – 122 001 � You may also email your curriculum vitae to: mailto:ajose@mdi.ac.in ajose(a)mdi.ac.in �� Last date for submission of application : � 30 th September 2006 . �

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Make library books - full texts - free on the web!
by Subbiah Arunachalam 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

"Google has changed its policy and will now allow users to download full-image files of public domain books in its Google Book Search collection. Until now, Google had insisted that readers remain connected to Google while they read any public domain books online. Why the change in policy? According to Adam M. Smith, product manager for Google Book Search, It stemmed from listening to users and our library partners. Competition may have had some influence, however, both from the downloading policies of the Open Content Alliance and, now, from Googles own library partners. For example, the University of Michiganone of Google Book Searchs most generous and activist library partnershas begun releasing MBooks to the open Web, as well as to its campus users. The MBooks collection currently includes hundreds of thousands of books Google has digitized from the University of Michigans library collection. The MBooks offer different features than the versions Google Book Search supplies directly. It also includes in-copyright books, though only to produce individual book indexing...." - From Peter Suber's blog. Friends: Indian and other developing university libraries may follow the Michigan University Library and digitize all the books in their collections and make them available free on the web. Subbiah Arunachalam ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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Fwd: 115 US university presidents and provosts endorse FRPAA self-archiving mandate proposal
by Subbiah Arunachalam 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

Here is a message from Prof. Stevan Harnad about the growing demand from US universities for adopting open access institutional archiving. Stevan recommends Immediate Deposit/ Optional Access. Which means authors deposit all their published papers IMMEDIATELY on publication (even if he/she has surrendered the copyright to the journal). If there are no copyright problems the deposited paper could be made available for universal viewing, downloading, etc. immediately. If the journal has an embargo policy, the paper could be released fr universal viewing at the end of the embargo period. Universities and research institutions in the developing countries will do well to follow this practice. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --- Stevan Harnad <harnad(a)ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote: > Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 00:37:58 +0100 > From: Stevan Harnad <harnad(a)ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> > Subject: 115 US university presidents and provosts > endorse FRPAA self-archiving mandate proposal > More US university presidents and provosts are > signing to support the > proposed FRPAA self-archiving mandate. Let us hope > that they will not now > sit waiting for the Act to pass, but will sign a > self-archiving mandate > for their own university (the > Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access [IDOA] > mandate is the optimal one, *infinitely* preferable > to Optional Delayed > Deposit mandates) > > > http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html > > and then register it in ROARMAP for other > universities to emulate: > > http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php > > (UK vice-chancellors and pro-vice-chancellors should > hasten to adopt > IDOA too, now that half the RCUK research councils > and the Wellcome > Trust have already mandated self-archiving! The > European Commission > is next...) > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > [From Peter Suber's Open Access News] > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_09_03_fosblogarchive.html#115765784… > > 115 presidents and provosts endorse FRPAA The > SPARC list > > http://www.arl.org/sparc/advocacy/frpaa/institutions.html > of presidents and provosts who have publicly > endorsed FRPAA > > http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:s.02695: > > now includes the 53 liberal arts college > presidents > who signed the September 5 Oberlin Group letter. > http://www.oberlingroup.org/about/frpaa.pdf > The total is now a very impressive 115. > > Posted by Peter Suber in OA News at 9/07/2006 > 03:33:00 PM. > ___________________________________________________________ Copy addresses and emails from any email account to Yahoo! Mail - quick, easy and free. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/trueswitch2.html

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