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by mohammed shafi 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

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Ph.D. Aspirants in Library & Information Science
by ACHAR S 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Dear Professional Collegues, This is to inform for the research aspirants in this profession that, we are planning to form a group and to open Research centre in Bangalore for the benefit of doing Ph.D. Those who wish to do Ph.D are hereby inform to send their CVs and try to contact over phone if possible. This will help to get the study centre from the UGC recognised university(other than Bangalore University). Hope this will be of use to the working professionals. For further details, Contact:Shanmukhachar, M.L.I.Sc., M.Phil. Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College of Engineering Bangalore Cell No:9449340789 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Fw: Job Announcment: Publications and Library Coordinator
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

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Citation Machine
by Indira K. 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Dear Professionals, here is an interactive 'citation machine' to assist in citing resources both print and electronic, either in MLA or ALA style. The primary goal of this tool is to make the proper crediting of information property so easy that it becomes a habit, not a laborious task. I think as an integral part of 'Information Literacy' instructions to users, we can add this URL in library's portal. http://citationmachine.net/index.php Indira -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mrs. Indira Koneru Faculty Associate Department of Library Science ICFAI University 25, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabd- 500 082. India. E-mail: indk68(a)hotmail.com Dear Professionals, here is an interactive 'citation machine' to assist in citing resources both print and electronic, either in MLA or ALA style. The primary goal of this tool is to make the proper crediting of information property so easy that it becomes a habit, not a laborious task. I think as an integral part of 'Information Literacy' instructions to users, we can add this URL in library's portal. http://citationmachine.net/index.php http://citationmachine.net/index.php Indira Mrs. Indira Koneru Faculty Associate Department of Library Science ICFAI University 25, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabd- 500 082. India. E-mail: mailto:indk68@hotmail.com indk68(a)hotmail.com

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NII, Japan, promotes cyber science infrastructure
by Subbiah Arunachalam 26 Mar '06

26 Mar '06

Dear Dr Lahiri/ Dr Vijayaditya: In Japan, NII is proactively promoting open archiving in universities. That is an example we may follow with great benefit. Regards. Arun ---- National Institute of Informatics Initiative for Development and Dissemination of Scholarly Contents, National Institute of Informatics Outline National Institute of Informatics (NII) promotes cyber science infrastructure (CSI) in both the aspects of network and of digital contents for scholarly communication in academic community, collaborating with universities and research institutions. NII's content-related services (NII-REO, NII-ELS, and metadata database project) are now to be integrated into a general framework to facilitate dissemination of scholarly information. Prospective systems to share scholarly information should have an archival layer of digital content repositories as well as a portal layer of user interface. Universities and research institutions are therefore expected to establish their own institutional repositories so as to enhance their visibility and social accountability at the same time to strengthen the research environment for their academic members. In academic year 2005, NII initiated an experimental program to support 19 universities to launch institutional repositories. * Hokkaido University: HUSCAP * Tohoku University * University of Tsukuba * University of Tokyo * Tokyo Institute of Technology * Tokyo Gakugei University * Chiba University: CURATOR * Nagoya University Nagoya Repository/ Academic Knowledge Factory * Kanazawa University * Kyoto University * Osaka University * Okayama University: OU-DIR * Hiroshima University: Hiroshima University Repository * Yamaguchi University * Kyushu University * Nagasaki University * Kumamoto University * Keio University * Waseda University: DSpace at Waseda University ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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by Subbiah Arunachalam 26 Mar '06

26 Mar '06

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National Workshop on Building Digital Libraries to be organised by DELNET from Apr 22-25, 2006 at DELNET, New Delhi
by Sangeeta Kaul, Network Manager, DELNET 25 Mar '06

25 Mar '06

Dear Sir/Madam We would like to inform you that DELNET is organising a National Workshop on Building Digital Libraries : Application of Dspace from April 22-25, 2006 at New Delhi. The details of the workshop along with the registration information are being enclosed. We look forward to your kind participation. Thanking you Yours faithfully Sangeeta Kaul "Be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader ) _______________________________________________________________________________ Sangeeta Kaul Network Manager DELNET JNU Campus Nelson Mandela Road Vasant Kunj New Delhi-110070 Tel: 91-11-32471010, 32471002, 32471011 Web : www.delnet.nic.in ________________________________________________________________________________

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How to find email ids of sent mail in mass mailing by Pine mailing software
by indubhushan 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

Dear friends I had sent mail to many member through pine software using its mass mailing facility at a time . Now i unable to find the ids of person in sent mail box whom i sent the mail. Anybody can help me in how to know the mail id. Example: >From : indubhushan <indu(a)cat.ernet.in> To : indu(a)cat.ernet.in Cc : Bcc : Newsgrps: Fcc : sent-mail Lcc :indu@cat.ernet.in,library@barc.ernet.in, dkp(a)cat.ernet.in Attchmnt: Subject : ----- Message Text ----- Regards ******************************************************* Indu Bhushan Tamrakar Library Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (Deptt. of Atomic Eneregy), Indore MP Mob. 9425032642, email: indubhushan(a)gmail.com ********************************************************

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digital library manual
by sandeep bhavsar 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

Eric Lease Morgan Wrote : I am happy and proud to announce the availability of a digital library manual called Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Digital Library Services and Collections with MyLibrary. See: http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/manual/ About the book and who should read it The book is a manual, and its purpose is to outline the principles and processes necessary to implement digital library collections and services. It uses MyLibrary as an example but the principles and processes can be applied to just about any digital library system or application. The manual is intended to be read by administrators who need to know what and how many resources to allocate to a digital library. It is intended to be read by librarians who are responsible for collecting and organizing content as well as ensuring the library's usability. The manual is intended to be read by systems administrators who are in charge of providing the technical infrastructure for the system. Last but not least, it is intended for programers who will use the underlying Perl API to provide services against the collection. What the book contains and who helped write it The book's 200+ pages is distributed in two volumes and freely available in HTML and PDF formats. Co-written by seventeen excellent authors, the book elaborates upon digital library topics including information architecture, content standards, user-centered design, fundamental computer technologies, techniques for initial implementation & ongoing maintenance, and of course the MyLibrary Perl application programmer's interface. Here is an outline of the book's contents: * Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Digital Library Services and Collections with MyLibrary by Eric Lease Morgan (University of Notre Dame) * Pioneering Portals: A History Of MyLibrary@NCState by Keith Morgan (North Carolina State University) * Information architecture o First Principles of Information Architecture: "On your Mark. Get set. Go!" not "Fire, and then Aim." by Eric Lease Morgan (University of Notre Dame) o Facets and Terms in MyLibrary by Tom Lehman (University of Notre Dame) * The Importance of Content Standards in Digital Libraries by Leslie Johnston (University of Virginia Library) * User-centered design o Usability Testing: a Key to User-centered Designs by Terry Huttenlock (Wheaton College) o Surveys by Tom Lehman (University of Notre Dame) o Focus Group Interviews by Megan Johnson (Appalachian State University) o Attracting Users by Michael Yunkin (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) o Card Sorting by Terry Nikkel and Shelley McKibbon (Dalhousie University Libraries) o Paper Prototyping by Nora Dimmock (University of Rochester) o Low-cost Recording of Usability Tests by Martin Courtois (Kansas State University) o Communicating Usability Results by Brenda Reeb (University of Rochester) o Case Studies by Hal Kirkwood (Purdue University), Leslie Johnston (University of Virginia Library), and Alison Aldrich & Vishwam Annam (Wright State University Libraries) * Underlying technologies o What is XML, and Why Should I Care? by Tod Olson (University of Chicago) o What are Relational Databases, and Why Should I Care? by Vishwam Annam (Wright State University Libraries) o What are Indexers and Why Should I Care? by Peter Karman * Implementation and Maintenance by Eric Lease Morgan (University of Notre Dame) * MyLibrary Tutorial by Eric Lease Morgan (University of Notre Dame) * The MyLibrary Perl API by Robert Fox (University of Notre Dame) Colophon The book is licensed under the GNU Public License and is an example of open access publishing. Author's have retained copyrights to the things they have written. The manuscript was marked up in DocBook XML and transformed into HTML and PDF files using XSLT stylesheets, xsltproc, and fop. Questions, comments, corrections, criticisms, and clarifications are more than welcome. Send them to mylib-doc(a)dewey.library.nd.edu. -- Eric Lease Morgan and Team MyLibrary Manual Thanks and Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.BRIMS Thane (w) 400601 ------------------------------- Phone (Off) 25364492 25446554 Mobile 9870484626 email sandeep(a)vpmthane.org Website www.vpmthane.org ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Photos NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 8p a photo http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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KG IJTC Vol 1 Issue 1 is now available
by editorinchief＠knowgenesis.org 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to share that KnowGenesis IJTC has just published its latest issue at www.knowgenesis.net/journal. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. To access the journal online, you'll need your login ID and password. As we have migrated to the new database, some of you may require to register again with the new system. Should you have any difficulty accessing the Journal content, mail me at editorinchief(a)knowgenesis.org We are looking forward for your visit to our website and contribution to the Journal. Wishes Saurabh Kudesia Co-founder, Editor-in-chief, KnowGenesis IJTC ----------------- Table of Contents Editorial Knowledge - from origin to eternity Details PDF by Saurabh Kudesia pp 3-5 Rendezvous with KnowGenesis Mark H. Clifford, Senior STC Member Managing Director Clifford Sells Limited Bedford, UK, and Grenoble, France Abstract PDF by Saurabh Kudesia pp 7-10 Book review Coherence, Continuity, and Cohesion: Theoretical Foundations for Document Design by Kim Sydrow Campbell Details PDF by Mukta Kirloskar pp 11-12 Product Review AcosHelp: Context sensitive online help with PDF files Abstract PDF by Saurabh Kudesia pp 13-15 Regular Imparting values to the peer review process Abstract PDF by Ramesh Aiyyangar 17-21 Automation techniques in documentation Abstract PDF by Vikas Wadwa pp 23-25 -----------------

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DEPUTY LIBRARIAN
by Rajesh Singh 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

All Professional collegues This gives me immence plasure to inform you that I have joined Delhi University Library System, University of Delhi, Delhi as Deputy Librarian (Professional Senior). All are requested to make further contacts at the address given below. with regards With All Regards Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian (Professional Senior) Delhi University Library System University of Delhi Delhi- 110 007 Tele: (R), (O) Fax NO: Mobile: 098118436551 www.du.ac.in --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. All Professional collegues This gives me immence plasure to inform you that I have joined Delhi University Library System, University of Delhi, Delhi as Deputy Librarian (Professional Senior). All are requested to make further contacts at the address given below. with regards With All Regards http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/40.gif Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian (Professional Senior) Delhi University Library System University of Delhi Delhi- 110 007 Tele: (R), (O) Fax NO: Mobile: 098118436551 http://www.du.ac.in www.du.ac.in Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman1/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.

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Vacancy Announcement
by venkatarama reddy 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

Dear Moderater, Rush with your resume for the post of Asst. Librarian, Preferably male candidate. Qualification MLISc or BLISC for evening shift. Interview will be on Monday the 27th March 2006 at 10:00 am onwards. Good Remuneration for right candidate. Address: CMR Institute of Technology, #132, AECS Layout, IT Park Road, Kundalahalli, BANGALORE-560037. Contact No: 9845976966 With regards, Venkatarama Reddy, CMRIT. --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. Dear Moderater, Rush with your resume for the post of Asst. Librarian, Preferably male candidate. Qualification MLISc or BLISC for evening shift. Interview will be on Monday the 27 th March 2006 at 10:00 am onwards. Good Remuneration for right candidate. Address: CMR Institute of Technology, #132, AECS Layout, IT Park Road , Kundalahalli, BANGALORE-560037. Contact No: 9845976966 With regards, Venkatarama Reddy, CMRIT. Jiyo cricket on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailcricket/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cric… Yahoo! India cricket http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailmobilemessenger/*http://in.mobile.yahoo.… Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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OA at MIT
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

Two steps to support OA at MIT At its March 15 faculty meeting, the MIT faculty discussed two OA-related topics: complying with the NIH public access policy and using an MIT amendment to modify standard publishing contracts and let authors retain key rights. Details in today's report from the MIT News Office: Concerned that taxpayer-funded research is not accessible to the general public because of the tightly controlled, proprietary system enforced by some journal publishers, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is asking every NIH-funded scientist who publishes results in a peer-reviewed journal to deposit a digital copy of the article in PubMed Central (PMC), the online digital library maintained by the NIH. Not later than 12 months after the journal article appears, PMC will then provide free online access to the public. Director of Libraries Anne J. Wolpert and Vice President for Research Alice Gast discussed with the faculty MIT's response to this issue, which has been to support NIH researchers in complying with the policy, and also to enable any MIT researcher to use a more author-friendly copyright agreement when submitting articles for publication. "The overwhelming majority of work produced by you is licensed back to you, and you can't always use your own work in the way you want to use it," Wolpert told the faculty. Copyright exemptions that were carefully crafted to allow the academy to teach and do research are steadily being superseded by intellectual property regimes that were developed for the benefit of the entertainment industry. "What Disney wants, the academy gets, whether it suits your interests or not," Wolpert said. Among the reasons for universities to support open access is the high cost associated with renting access to journals, which for MIT alone has grown in the past decade from $2.6 million to more than $6 million a year.... An amendment that can be attached to any publication's copyright agreement was disseminated to principal investigators in February. "We have to wait and see how this plays out and see what feedback we get from publishers," Gast said. The goal is for MIT as an institution to work out agreements with publishers rather than make individual researchers fight their own battles. More information, as well as the amendment, which would override the publisher's copyright agreement, is available online [here] and other MIT web sites. "There is a distinct feeling among our counterparts at large private and public institutions that if MIT takes a reasonable and principled position on this issue, other institutions will be encouraged to do likewise," Wolpert said. The MIT contract amendment is closely related to the SPARC Author's Addendum drafted for the same purpose. The MIT amendment gives authors (among other things) the non-exclusive right to copy and distribute their own article, to make derivative works from it, and to deposit the final published version in an OA repository. MIT is the first university I know to present its faculty with a lawyer-drafted contract amendment for the purpose of retaining the rights needed to provide OA to their own work. Kudos to all involved. MIT faculty could change the default for faculty with less bargaining power. Posted by Peter Suber at 3/21/2006 10:41:00 PM.

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2020 computing: Everything, everywhere
by Sukhdev Singh 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

The current issue of Nature includes some Free Access content on the future of scientific computing. < http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/futurecomputing/index.html > This is interesting - "... computers would take the form of networks of sensors with data-processing and transmission facilities built in. Millions or billions of tiny computers — called 'motes', 'nodes' or 'pods' — would be embedded into the fabric of the real world. They would act in concert, sharing the data that each of them gathers so as to process them into meaningful digital representations of the world. Researchers could tap into these 'sensor webs' to ask new questions or test hypotheses. Even when the scientists were busy elsewhere, the webs would go on analysing events autonomously, modifying their behaviour to suit their changing experience of the world..." by Declan Butler. Nature. Published online: 22 March 2006; | doi:10.1038/440402a http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7083/full/440402a.html --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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Exclusive & unlimited FREE access to Inorganic Chemistry journals
by Dabas Bharat K 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

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HTML Version of the Open Access Bibliography
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

An HTML version of the Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals (OAB) is now available. http://www.digital-scholarship.com/oab/oab.htm The HTML version of the book was created from the final draft using a complex set of digital transformations. Consequently, there may be minor variations between it and the print and Acrobat versions, which are the definitive versions of the book. The OAB provides an overview of open access concepts, and it presents over 1,300 selected English-language books, conference papers (including some digital video presentations), debates, editorials, e-prints, journal and magazine articles, news articles, technical reports, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding the open access movement's efforts to provide free access to and unfettered use of scholarly literature. Most sources have been published between 1999 and August 31, 2004; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1999 are also included. Where possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet (approximately 78 percent of the bibliography's references have such links). -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston Libraries E-Mail: cbailey(a)digital-scholarship.com Publications: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/ (Provides access to DigitalKoans, Open Access Bibliography, Open Access Webliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog, and others)

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Chemistry in India
by Mailing List Manager 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:24:35 +0530 (IST) From: arun(a)mssrf.res.in ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- From: eugene.garfield(a)thomson.com Date: Wed, March 22, 2006 11:27 am To: arun(a)mssrf.res.in -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor's Page March 20, 2006 Volume 84, Number 12 p. 5 Indian Science Rising Rudy Baum, Editor-in-chief <http://pubs.acs.org/cen/staff/biorb.html> This week's cover story <http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/84/8412India.html> -actually, five related stories-is on the dynamic chemical enterprise that is emerging in India. The stories present a fascinating portrait of advanced chemistry that in some cases is thriving and in other cases is struggling in this vast and complex Asian nation. C&EN Deputy Assistant Managing Editor Amanda Yarnell spent more than a month earlier this year traveling throughout India. She attended the two-part conference focused on organic chemistry and chemical biology sponsored by the American Chemical Society and India's Council on Scientific & Industrial Research in Pune and Hyderabad (C&EN, Jan. 16, page 7 <http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/84/i03/8403notw6.html> ). She visited more than 20 university chemistry departments and government and industry laboratories, and she talked to dozens of Indian scientists. In the general media's coverage of high technology in India, the emphasis is often on software engineering and the outsourcing of such engineering jobs from the U.S. to India. Other areas of science and technology, including chemistry, are also highly advanced in India, and C&EN's Business Department editors have written numerous stories on India's vibrant fine and custom chemical and pharmaceutical industries in the past several years. Yarnell echoes the themes of those stories in the introduction to the cover stories: "Fueled by a highly trained workforce of synthetic chemists, India is seriously challenging the U.S. and Europe for supremacy in producing active pharmaceutical ingredients, advanced intermediates, and other fine chemicals. It now hopes to do the same in innovation-intensive sectors, including drug discovery, biotechnology, and materials science." However, Yarnell also found that, while "India's academic scientists are finding it easier than ever to fund their research ... creative, groundbreaking science continues to be hindered by feudalism, bureaucracy, and a scientific culture that encourages submission and discourages risk-taking." Yarnell examines a number of trends in the Indian chemical enterprise. In the story on "Building R&D For Drug Discovery <http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/84/8412India1.html> ," she looks at efforts by Indian pharmaceutical companies to lure top expatriate chemists back to India to fuel their drug discovery efforts. She talked to a number of such chemists who have returned home, among them Pradip K. Bhatnagar, who had spent more than 35 years in the U.S. before leaving GlaxoSmithKline last summer to head up new drug discovery at Ranbaxy, India's largest drug company. "Indian pharma is on the cusp of exponential growth," Bhatnagar told Yarnell. "The facilities offered here are excellent, and the opportunities are unparalleled." On the other hand, many Indian academic institutions struggle to remain at the cutting edge of research. Yarnell reports that significant barriers to effective interdisciplinary research exist in Indian institutions. "India's scientists are forever worried that people will steal their ideas," says M. N. Gupta, a chemist at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology. "We need people who will take chances," says Gautam Desiraju, a chemist at the University of Hyderabad, who adds, "The Indian system is strangled by fear and mediocrity." Other problems facing the Indian chemical enterprise that Yarnell examines include the difficulty in attracting first-rate postdocs to Indian academic labs, archaic laboratory facilities in many institutions, and a divergence of undergraduate education and scientific research in most Indian universities. "The symbiosis between teaching and research sadly has been lost here in India," physicist Sushanta Dattagupta of Calcutta's Bose Center told Yarnell. "We've deprived our young students of access to our brightest scientists." Despite these problems, the sense one gets reading these stories is of a chemical enterprise that, like China's, is determined to become a force on the world stage. I think you will be impressed by the energy and enthusiasm expressed by the Indian chemists, chemical engineers, and other scientists who talked to Yarnell. DISCLAIMER: The series of five stories on the chemical enterprise in India is illustrated with numerous photographs taken by Yarnell on her visits to a variety of chemical laboratories. In many of the photographs, the chemists pictured are not wearing protective eyewear that would be required in the U.S. C&EN does not condone this inattention to appropriate safety standards. However, C&EN, as a newsmagazine, has a responsibility to portray situations as they exist, not as we wish they might be. Thanks for reading. Chemical & Engineering News ISSN 0009-2347 Copyright (c) 2006 American Chemical Society

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[Fwd: Jcom - new March issue]
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

Dear all, we announce that the March 2006 issue of JCOM - Journal of science communication - (issue 1, volume 5) http://jcom.sissa.it/ is online. Comments, remarks and papers by you are kindly requested. Next issue will be online on the 21st June 2006. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Contents ........ EDITORIAL New scandals - time to rethink the rules? Pietro Greco http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/E0501-en/ http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/E0501/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ FOCUS Blind track Yurij Castelfranchi, Giancarlo Sturloni The people of Val di Susa (Italy) blocked the construction of the new high-speed railway line that should connect Turin with Lyons (France). This project is regarded as a strategic achievement for the economic development of the European Union, but local communities have a different concept of development and are asserting their rights through ad hoc experts' reports and the production "from the bottom" of new specialised knowledge. We shall describe these events as a case study to put ecological democracy to the test of facts, also through a comparison with the experimental actions taken in some Southern countries of the world. From Europe to Brazil, the debate on health and environmental risks resulting from modernisation is upsetting democratic societies and urging new forms of participation in the decision-making process. There is a clash between different "concepts of the world", in which communication strategies play a crucial role and from whose outcome the society in which we wish to live in will emerge. http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/F050101-en/ http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/F050101/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ARTICLES Berliner Ensemble 1957 - Piccolo Teatro 1963. Science in the reception of Brecht's "Galileo" as from the press reviews on both stagings Francesco Cuomo http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/A050101-en/ http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/A050101/ Contemporary aesthetic forms and scientific museology Alessandra Drioli http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/A050102-en/ http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/A050102/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ JCOM is completed by contribution only in the original language of the authors COMMENTS Cui prodest Michel Foucault? Yurij Castelfranchi, Nico Pitrelli Do we have to drag in the thought of Michel Foucault to show the political (and not neutral), partial and local (and not universal and non-historic), active (and not merely transmissive) face of science communication? Do we need the work of the controversial French intellectual to dispute the anxious search - almost a quest like that for the Holy Grail - for the "best practices" in the dissemination of scientific culture? If we read over the pages that Foucault dedicated to words and things, to the archaeology and genealogy of knowledge, to biopolitics, we have few doubts. Two elements, on the one hand the central nature of discourse and "regimes of truth", on the other the concept of biopower (a "power over bodies"), enable us to reflect both on the important specific features of modern science in comparison with other forms of production and organisation of knowledge, and on the central role of its communication. http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/C010101-en/ http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/C050101/ ............................................... Medicalisation Mario Colucci http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/C050102-en/ http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/C050102/ "For Your Own Good". Biopolitics told by J.G. Ballard Pierangelo Di Vittorio http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/C050103-en/ http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/C050103/ Convergent discourses: neoliberalism, technoscience and journalism Flavia Natércia da Silva Medeiros http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/C050104-en/ http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/C050104/ ------------------------------------------------------------------

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Lecture Presentation of Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur of IGNCA, New Delhi at Frankfurt, Germany
by Puna Das 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

Lecture Presentation of Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur of IGNCA, New Delhi at Frankfurt, Germany on 15th February 2006 Digital Libraries in India with special reference to experiences at IGNCA, New Delhi, India http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2006/2445/ PDF-Format: http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2006/2445/pdf/germany_fi… (3,647 KB) ___________________________________________________ Swapan Kumar Patra/ Anup Kumar Das/ Bidyarthi Dutta Information and Communication Society of India New Delhi ____________________________________________________ --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. Lecture Presentation of Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur of IGNCA, New Delhi at Frankfurt, Germany on 15th February 2006 Digital Libraries in India with special reference to experiences at IGNCA, New Delhi, India http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2006/2445/ http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2006/2445/ PDF-Format: http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2006/2445/pdf/germany_fi… http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2006/2445/pdf/germany_fi… (3,647 KB) ___________________________________________________ Swapan Kumar Patra/ Anup Kumar Das/ Bidyarthi Dutta Information and Communication Society of India New Delhi ____________________________________________________ Jiyo cricket on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailcricket/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cric… Yahoo! India cricket http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailmobilemessenger/*http://in.mobile.yahoo.… Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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Workshop on Digtial Libraries - Last Date (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:37:20 -0800 (PST) From: SUNIL M.V. <libra_sunil(a)yahoo.com> Friends, The last date of registration for the Workshop on Digital Libraries is 31st March 2006. Since we will not entertain spot registrations we request you to send in your registration form along with the payments by the said date. Further details on the workshop please visit www.sdmimd.net/workshop Regards, MyLISA team Information Services, HCL - Capital Market Services ayesha.taranum(a)hcl.in

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Appeal for Help
by prafulla tv 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

Dear Library Lovers, 1. GLIC We are happy to inform you that a village library titled GUNDRAMPALLY LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTRE (GLIC) is being started in Gundrampally Village (Chityal Mandal, Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh) in the first fortnight of April 2006. This initiative is being supported by the Organisation for the Protection of Libraries, (OPLib), a library advocacy group based in Hyderabad as part of its 100 Village/School Libraries Within a Year project. Already 500+ books have been received as donation from various places throughout Andhra Pradesh and several individuals had sponsored annual subscriptions for daily newspapers and magazines. The local panchayat had offered to provide free accommodation to the library and a school teacher had come forward to serve as its honorary librarian. He promised to keep the library open for a couple of hours both in the morning and evenings. A group of educated youth led by Mr Srinivas of Gemini Television are working very hard to place GLIC on a firm foundation. GLIC urgently requires two glass paned steel almirahs for keeping its book collection. The cost is likely to be about Rs.15000. OPLib appeals to all library lovers to help GLIC in the purchase of steel almirahs. GLIC also plans to provide ICT-based information services to the villagers and train them on Internet searching and on text/image transmission for getting answers to their local problems. A computer system along with a digital camera, speakers, modem, etc., is also required for this proposed library. OPLib solicits donations from you for the purchase of a new computer system and the cost is likely to be Rs.35,000. If you have any old computer systems to spare, they are also welcome. These systems would be utilized to provide hands-on experience to the villagers. We hope that the LIS professional fraternity, library associations and library lovers would respond to this appeal positively and lend their helping hand in the form of cash donations/books/magazines, etc. 2. KANAKAVALLI MEMORIAL LIBRARY We are pleased to inform you that a School Library is being started by OPLib at Balakarmika Vikasa Kendram, Residential Bridge Centre (Indian Red Cross Society), Yadagirigutta, Nalgonda district in April 2006. This School provides education and hostel facility to 68 street children (Classes 1 to 5, mother tongue Telugu) who are below the poverty line and children of local sex workers. The main objective is to prevent these children of sex workers from taking up their parents profession. Already we have received a donation of Rs.5000 from Ms. Geetha of NISC and a small book rack and 70 childrens books have been purchased with this amount. This library is being named in memory of her mother Late Smt. Penmetsa Kanakavalli Tayaru. Smt. Kanakavalli is daughter of Sri Bhupati Raju Tirupati Raju, founder of Kumudavalli Library (West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh.) regarded as one of the greatest heritage libraries. Shri Tirupati Raju is revered as the Bhishmacharya of public library movement in Andhra Pradesh. It is a matter of immense joy that grace from this selfless library stalwart continues to flow through his children. OPLib appeals for donations to Kanakavalli Memorial Library in the form of cash/childrens books/ work tables/chairs, computer system, etc. Computer Systems for OPLib Finally, OPLib needs three computer systems , one for Andhra (Visakhapatnam), Rayalaseema (Tirupati) and Telangana (Hyderabad) region of Andhra Pradesh, to manage its operations effectively and efficiently. Any help (either new or old systems) in this regard would be greatly appreciated. Address for communication: Dr A Kishore Honorary President Organization for the Protection of Libraries (Registered under the Andhra Pradesh Societies Registration Act, 2001 vide no.1502 of 2005) c/o Parma Reddi Building, 9-1-34/30/16/A, Bapu Nagar, Langar House, Hyderabad 500 008 Email: saikishoresvu(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile 92474 28778 Cheques/DDs to be drawn in favour of Organization for the Protection of Libraries (OPLib) and payable at Hyderabad. Thank you very much in advance for your kind support and cooperation to our School/Village Libraries Project. Please mark a copy of your email to Dr Kishore to me as well. That helps in better coordination. Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor NISC Email: tallurivpc(a)yahoo.com OPLibempowering the masses through better library services at the grassroots level. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Where the self is, there is no love. Where there is love, there is no self. --J Krishnamurti __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Mass digitization projects
by Mailing List Manager 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:32:54 +0530 (IST) From: arun(a)mssrf.res.in Mass digitization conference The presentations and webcasts from the conference, Scholarship and Libraries in Transition: A Dialogue about the Impacts of Mass Digitization Projects (Ann Arbor, March 10-11, 2006), are now online. (Thanks to Elizabeth Winter.) http://www.lib.umich.edu/mdp/symposium/ Arun

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Re: [LIS-Forum] DDC Schedule
by vishal verma 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Dear Ms Veena, The DDC schedules are now available online. To use the DDC schedules online you can subscribe to OCLC's product WebDewey, which is a part of the OCLC suite of cataloging and metadata services that OCLC offers through OCLC's Connexion service. If you do not have a very large collection base and do not classify in depth, you can consider subscribing Abridged WebDewey. Here I am listing some of the features of WebDewey: 1. An easy-to-use, browser-based interface that allows you to search the DDC (and related terminology) efficiently and navigate intuitively 2. Thousands of Relative Index terms and built numbers not available in the print DDC 3. Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) that have been intellectually mapped to Dewey headings by DDC editors 4. Selected LCSH mappings from the Forest Press publication, People, Places & Things 5. LCSH that have been statistically mapped to Dewey numbers from records in WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) 6. Links from mapped LCSH to the LCSH authority records 7. Quarterly updates, incorporating the latest changes to the Classification and new LCSH mappings, index terms and built numbers 8. An annotation capability, which allows you to add your own notes into WebDewey to reflect local classification practices For more information and subscription options, please follow the following link: http://www.oclc.org/dewey/versions/webdewey/ I hope this information would be of some use to you. Regards Vishal Verma Information Specialist Edutech India Pvt Ltd #8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 28330999 Fax: +91 44 28331777 GSM: +91 98409 97846 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 veena bhat wrote : >Dear Sir/ Madam, > >Can I have the access of DDC Schedule (Main Class including Subclasses) on the internet? I have gone through many websites. But, I couldn't find the particular information, which I want. Could you please furnish the details. I will be greatful to you. > >Thanking You, > >Yours faithfully, >Veena Bhat >Asst. Librarian-Documentation Services >International Institute of Information Technology, >P-14, Pune Infotech Park, >Hinjawadi, Pune 411 057 >Maharashtra State >India > >Yahoo! Mail >Bring photos to life! http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39174/*http://photomail.mai… New PhotoMail >makes sharing a breeze. >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Information Specialist Edutech India Pvt Ltd #8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai, India Tel: +91 44 28330999 Fax: +91 44 28331777 GSM: 00 91 98409 97846 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." Dear Ms Veena, The DDC schedules are now available online. To use the DDC schedules online you can subscribe to OCLC's product WebDewey, which is a part of the OCLC suite of cataloging and metadata services that OCLC offers through OCLC's Connexion service. If you do not have a very large collection base and do not classify in depth, you can consider subscribing Abridged WebDewey. Here I am listing some of the features of WebDewey: 1. An easy-to-use, browser-based interface that allows you to search the DDC (and related terminology) efficiently and navigate intuitively 2. Thousands of Relative Index terms and built numbers not available in the print DDC 3. Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) that have been intellectually mapped to Dewey headings by DDC editors 4. Selected LCSH mappings from the Forest Press publication, People, Places & Things 5. LCSH that have been statistically mapped to Dewey numbers from records in WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) 6. Links from mapped LCSH to the LCSH authority records 7. Quarterly updates, incorporating the latest changes to the Classification and new LCSH mappings, index terms and built numbers 8. An annotation capability, which allows you to add your own notes into WebDewey to reflect local classification practices For more information and subscription options, please follow the following link: http://www.oclc.org/dewey/versions/webdewey/ I hope this information would be of some use to you. Regards Vishal Verma Information Specialist Edutech India Pvt Ltd #8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 28330999 Fax: +91 44 28331777 GSM: +91 98409 97846 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 veena bhat wrote : >Dear Sir/ Madam, > >Can I have the access of DDC Schedule (Main Class including Subclasses) on the internet? I have gone through many websites. But, I couldn't find the particular information, which I want. Could you please furnish the details. I will be greatful to you. > >Thanking You, > >Yours faithfully, >Veena Bhat >Asst. Librarian-Documentation Services >International Institute of Information Technology, >P-14, Pune Infotech Park, >Hinjawadi, Pune 411 057 >Maharashtra State >India > >Yahoo! Mail >Bring photos to life! http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39174/*http://photomail.mai… New PhotoMail >makes sharing a breeze. >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Information Specialist Edutech India Pvt Ltd #8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai, India Tel: +91 44 28330999 Fax: +91 44 28331777 GSM: 00 91 98409 97846 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." 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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A very interesting article
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Manifesto for Critical Information Studies Siva Vaidhyanathan, Critical Information Studies: A bibliographic manifesto, Critical Studies, March/May 2006. Excerpt: This paper takes measure of an emerging scholarly field that sits at the intersection of many important areas of study. Critical Information Studies (CIS) considers the ways in which culture and information are regulated by their relationship to commerce, creativity, and other human affairs. CIS captures the variety of approaches and bodies of knowledge needed to make sense of important phenomena such as copyright policy, electronic voting, encryption, the state of libraries, the preservation of ancient cultural traditions, and markets for cultural production. It necessarily stretches to a wide array of scholarly subjects, employs multiple complementary methodologies, and influences conversations far beyond the gates of the university. Economists, sociologists, linguists, anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, communication scholars, lawyers, computer scientists, philosophers, and librarians have all contributed to this field, and thus it can serve as a model for how engaged, relevant scholarship might be carried out. CIS interrogates the structures, functions, habits, norms, and practices that guide global flows of information and cultural elements. Instead of being concerned merely with one's right to speak (or sing or publish), CIS asks questions about access, costs, and chilling effects on, within, and among audiences, citizens, emerging cultural creators, indigenous cultural groups, teachers, and students. Central to these issues is the idea of semiotic democracy, or the ability of citizens to employ the signs and symbols ubiquitous in their environments in manners that they determine.... [C]ontroversies over copyright, technology, corporate control over information, and access to knowledge easily flow across newspaper pages, generating widespread curiosity about these issues. As a result, even the most high-level, advanced work within CIS can find its way into surprising and exciting places....[M]any CIS scholars have reached beyond spheres of scholarly discourse to influence both general public perceptions and specific policy matters. Public interest organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, and Creative Commons employ CIS scholarship when pursuing their agendas in courts, legislatures, international governing bodies, and the public sphere....By all indications, CIS has succeeded in changing the terms of the conversation about issues such as copyright, cultural policy, and the relationships among democracy, culture, and technology. More practically, CIS has helped generate the open content and open journals movement, which allows authors and artists to retain more control over the ways that publishers exploit their work and enables authors to lock content open. CIS not only has made its arguments, it has lived its arguments....Beyond the text of the scholarship, the commitment to positive liberty comes through most clearly in the projects and experiments that facilitate access to and use of scholarship and information: chiefly the development and proliferation of open access journals, open courseware, open curricula, and open archives.... Too often, academic leaders forget their ethical duty to the community of scholars and world citizens at large. They rabidly protect their intellectual property to the detriment of the scholarly world (and the species) as a whole, and as such many suffer from what I call the Content Provider Paradox (Vaidhyanathan 2002a). In addition, scholars themselves often overreact to perceived threats that someone is teaching their course or relying too heavily on their data. This is an unhealthy and anti-intellectual disposition magnified by the general tenor of the times. Foolishly, however, scholars continue to sign away all their rights to their scholarly work to commercial publishers, who then sell their work back to their libraries at great cost. Recognizing this absurdity, some scholars have insisted on publishing their work with Creative Commons licenses, ensuring that the general public and not just patrons of expensive research libraries may read, quote, and improve on their work. And the Open Journals movement, led by the Public Library of Science and the Science Commons, also promises to let scholars contribute to the greater good while ensuring effective peer review and distribution of work (Harnad 2004). Still, many tenure committees outside of the sciences have yet to learn that open journals are better and that the commercial journal publishing process as it now stands is unethical. Indeed, it will take many years to wake scholars from the false consciousness of the academic-publishing industrial complex. Meanwhile, every scholar committed to CIS should insist on retaining some of her or his rights to publications and making them available as widely and cheaply as possible. Demanding that a publisher allow the use of a Creative Commons license is a start. If a few senior scholars withhold publication from unethical journals, then the publishing world will have to negotiate and concede that Creative Commons offers no threat to their business but greater opportunity to attract consumers. And if they do not, then scholars should found their own open journals through scholarly associations and sever ties with commercial publishers. In this way, CIS scholars can change more than the conversation about culture, control, commerce, and copyright. They can affect the workings of an industry in flux and better serve their mission to educate and illuminate the remarkable times in which we live.

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DDC Schedule
by veena bhat 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

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