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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

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! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. 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.

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Web based Catalogue
by Krishnamurthy M 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

Dear Moderator , Kindly arrange to announce the following information to the benefit of the LIS forum members. We are happy to announce that Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore Centre Library (ISIBC) has introduced the Web Opace service. ISIBC Library has rich collection in the field of Mathematics, statistics, Economics , Library and Information Science. Users may access library catalogue through web searach http://www.isibang.ac.in/library/index.htm Regards, M.Krishnamurthy -- Dr.M.Krishnamurthy Librarian Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road R.V.C.E. Post Bangalore 560059 Ph:91-80-8483002/3/4/4 Fax: 91-80-8484265

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INFN ON PEST CONTROL MEASURES IN LIBRARUES
by K A. Sardesai 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

Dear Vijay, These are some procedures which we are following in our Library and getting best results.I wish you these are simple and you might have tried. * First Library should be broomed daily and floor dusting with funnel and little soap should be applied twice in a week. * If more rats are destroying your clloection you may keep Mortin cake at the weekend and careul in searching the books on Monday that is start of the week.Mostly they eat this cake and die not immediately but in one or two days and they generally come in open space.But be attentive. * A personnel care is must for a Library. * Use napthalene balls at each corners, racks, cupboards and shelves. * Good light and ventelation if possible. * Harble Vekhand powder or stick may be kept to avoid germs. * To remove dust either use euroclean twice in a week or outsource some good worker once in a month for physical cleaning Kshipra

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Special Proceedings Issue of the 1st International Conference on Universal Digital Library (ICUDL2005)
by Puna Das 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

Special Proceedings Issue of the 1st International Conference on Universal Digital Library (ICUDL2005), Oct. 31−Nov. 2, 2005, Hangzhou, P. R. China <Fulltext Contents available at: http://www.zju.edu.cn/jzus/2005/A0511/index.htm> Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE (ISSN 1009-3095, Monthly) 2005 Vol. 6A No. 11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Editor: Wu Xiu-fang On-line Editor: Lin Chang-dong CONTENTS Keynotes and Invited Speech on Digital Library The qualitative advantages of quantities of information: bigger is better/ LESK Michael Machines as readers: A solution to the copyright problem/ SHAMOS Michael I Towards a multilingual, multimedia and multimodal digital library platform/ HUANG Tie-jun, TIAN Yong-hong, WANG Chun-li, SHI Xiao-dong, GAO Wen Towards universal access to all knowledgeInternet Archive/ KAHLE Brewster Million Book Project vs Google Print/ ST. CLAIR Gloriana Digital libraries: A testbed for multimedia technology/ ZHUANG Yue-ting Universal Digital LibraryFuture research directions/ BALAKRISHNAN N. New mode of universal access and Global Memory Net/ CHEN Ching-chih Digital Library Technology Global Memory Net and the development of digital image information management system: Experience and practice/ ZHANG Sheng-qiang, CHEN Ching-chih Towards a self healing information system for digital libraries/ AMBATI Vamshi, REDDY Raj A text to speech interface for Universal Digital Library/ PRAHALLAD Kishore, BLACK Alan Spatial/temporal indexing and information visualization genre for environmental digital libraries/ CHEN Su-shing, GRUNWALD Sabine Technical features in the Portal to CADAL/ WU Jiang-qin, ZHUANG Yue-ting, PAN Yun-he Constructing a taxonomy to support multi-document summarization of dissertation/ OU Shi-yan, KHOO Christopher S.G., GOH Dion H. Exploiting multi-context analysis in semantic image classification/ TIAN Yong-hong, HUANG Tie-jun, GAO Wen Relighting multiple color textures/ DIAO Chang-yu, LU Dong-ming, LIU Gang Enhancing the usage pattern mining performance with temporal segmentation of QPop Increment in digital libraries/ CAO San-xing, KLEIN R. Rody, LIU Jian-bo Optical Character Recognition for printed Tamil text using Unicode/ SEETHALAKSHMI R., SREERANJANI T.R., BALACHANDAR T., Abnikant Singh, Markandey Singh, Ritwaj Ratan, Sarvesh Kumar Digital Library Service and Management Resource discovery in distributed digital libraries through visual knowledge navigation/ GU Qian-yi, AHMAD Faisal, SUMNER Tamara A sustainable development OCR system in CADAL application/ HUANG Chen, ZHAO Ji-hai, HU Xiao An integrated framework for discovering digital library collections/ CALHOUN Karen The Million Book Project at Bibliotheca Alexandrina/ ELDAKAR Youssef, EL-GAZZAR Khalid, ADLY Noha, NAGI Magdy Preserving the literary past, looking to the future: the first Hong Kong Literature Database/ MA Leo F.H., WONG Rita, LAU Paul Om: One tool for many (Indian) languages/ GANAPATHIRAJU Madhavi, BALAKRISHNAN Mini, BALAKRISHNAN N., REDDY Raj A simple approach for building transliteration editors for Indian languages/ PRAHALLAD Lavanya, PRAHALLAD Kishore, GANAPATHIRAJU Madhavi An experiment on digital library based on the method of TQM system/ YANG Ling-yun, ZHU Hai-kang <Fulltext Contents available at: http://www.zju.edu.cn/jzus/2005/A0511/index.htm> ___________________________________________________ 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. Special Proceedings Issue of the 1st International Conference on Universal Digital Library (ICUDL2005), Oct. 31−Nov. 2, 2005, Hangzhou, P. R. China <Fulltext Contents available at: http://www.zju.edu.cn/jzus/2005/A0511/index.htm http://www.zju.edu.cn/jzus/2005/A0511/index.htm > Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE (ISSN 1009-3095, Monthly) 2005 Vol. 6A No. 11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Editor: Wu Xiu-fang On-line Editor: Lin Chang-dong CONTENTS Keynotes and Invited Speech on Digital Library The qualitative advantages of quantities of information: bigger is better/ LESK Michael Machines as readers: A solution to the copyright problem/ SHAMOS Michael I Towards a multilingual, multimedia and multimodal digital library platform/ HUANG Tie-jun, TIAN Yong-hong, WANG Chun-li, SHI Xiao-dong, GAO Wen Towards universal access to all knowledgeInternet Archive/ KAHLE Brewster Million Book Project vs Google Print/ ST. CLAIR Gloriana Digital libraries: A testbed for multimedia technology/ ZHUANG Yue-ting Universal Digital LibraryFuture research directions/ BALAKRISHNAN N. New mode of universal access and Global Memory Net/ CHEN Ching-chih Digital Library Technology Global Memory Net and the development of digital image information management system: Experience and practice/ ZHANG Sheng-qiang, CHEN Ching-chih Towards a self healing information system for digital libraries/ AMBATI Vamshi, REDDY Raj A text to speech interface for Universal Digital Library/ PRAHALLAD Kishore, BLACK Alan Spatial/temporal indexing and information visualization genre for environmental digital libraries/ CHEN Su-shing, GRUNWALD Sabine Technical features in the Portal to CADAL/ WU Jiang-qin, ZHUANG Yue-ting, PAN Yun-he Constructing a taxonomy to support multi-document summarization of dissertation/ OU Shi-yan, KHOO Christopher S.G., GOH Dion H. Exploiting multi-context analysis in semantic image classification/ TIAN Yong-hong, HUANG Tie-jun, GAO Wen Relighting multiple color textures/ DIAO Chang-yu, LU Dong-ming, LIU Gang Enhancing the usage pattern mining performance with temporal segmentation of QPop Increment in digital libraries/ CAO San-xing, KLEIN R. Rody, LIU Jian-bo Optical Character Recognition for printed Tamil text using Unicode/ SEETHALAKSHMI R., SREERANJANI T.R., BALACHANDAR T., Abnikant Singh, Markandey Singh, Ritwaj Ratan, Sarvesh Kumar Digital Library Service and Management Resource discovery in distributed digital libraries through visual knowledge navigation/ GU Qian-yi, AHMAD Faisal, SUMNER Tamara A sustainable development OCR system in CADAL application/ HUANG Chen, ZHAO Ji-hai, HU Xiao An integrated framework for discovering digital library collections/ CALHOUN Karen The Million Book Project at Bibliotheca Alexandrina/ ELDAKAR Youssef, EL-GAZZAR Khalid, ADLY Noha, NAGI Magdy Preserving the literary past, looking to the future: the first Hong Kong Literature Database/ MA Leo F.H., WONG Rita, LAU Paul Om: One tool for many (Indian) languages/ GANAPATHIRAJU Madhavi, BALAKRISHNAN Mini, BALAKRISHNAN N., REDDY Raj A simple approach for building transliteration editors for Indian languages/ PRAHALLAD Lavanya, PRAHALLAD Kishore, GANAPATHIRAJU Madhavi An experiment on digital library based on the method of TQM system/ YANG Ling-yun, ZHU Hai-kang <Fulltext Contents available at: http://www.zju.edu.cn/jzus/2005/A0511/index.htm http://www.zju.edu.cn/jzus/2005/A0511/index.htm > ___________________________________________________ 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! 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National Seminar on E-Publications - Directions to the Venue
by Dimple Patel 19 Mar '06

19 Mar '06

Dear All, This is to inform you that the venue for the National Seminar on Electronic Publications organized by Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action (MGNIRSA), Hyderabad is: JNTU Conference Hall, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kukatpally, HYDERABAD - 500 072. How to reach the Venue? FROM AIRPORT: If you are travelling by air, you will arrive at the Rajiv Gandhi airport, Begumpet. The airport is centrally located, being within easy reach of both Hyderabad and Secunderabad. At the airport, you can hire prepaid taxis, private cars or auto-rickshaws (there are no 4-wheeler taxis in Hyderabad). FROM RAILWAY STATIONS AND BUS STATIONS: If you are traveling by train, you will alight at one of the following railway stations: Secunderabad, Hyderabad (at Nampally), Begumpet or Kachiguda. If you arrive by long distance bus, you will alight at the Jubilee Bus Station, Secunderabad, or at the Hyderabad Bus Terminal at Gowliguda. Buses are actually pretty flexible, and stop at quite a few places along the way. PUBLIC TRANSPORT: The State Transport Corporation (APSRTC) buses are inexpensive. But, this is not the best option if you have a large amount of luggage on you, of course. There are two types of city bus services; ordinary Road Transport Corporation buses and the Metro Liners, operated by the APSRTC between 0500-2300 daily. RTC buses are crowded during rush hour. Metro Liners are comfortable but seats are limited. Metro Liners arent available everywhere, so its a good idea to check the route chart before you set out to see if there is service available. Buses you can take to reach JNTU Campus: From Secunderabad: 10K, 226 From Nampally: 225 From Kachiguda: 83K From Jubilee Bus Station: 226 There are many more buses going to Kukatpally from these points. You can enquire at the Enquiry counters available at the Bus stations. Telephone No.s of Bus Stations: Secunderabad : 23443399 Nampally : 23435162 Kachiguda : 27568624 Jubilee Bus Station: 27802203 Imlibun Bus Station: 24614406 LOCAL TRANSPORT: The auto rickshaws are metered, so make sure that the meter is showing the minimum fare (Rs. 10 now) when you get in, and that he's set the meter after you've engaged him. Pay what the meter shows when you get off, but if the minimum fare in the meter is still being shown as Rs. 8, the driver has to produce a card to show the actual amount. You will have to pay one and a half return amount if you are hiring an auto rickshaw between 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. Taxis are not widely used in Hyderabad although prepaid taxis are available at the airport, Secunderabad and Nampally railway stations. These are generally expensive. URLs about Hyderabad you can use: http://www.fullhyderabad.com/htdocs/visiting_the_city/home.phtml http://www.fullhyderabad.com/htdocs/visiting_the_city/hotels.phtml http://www.hitex.co.in/html/cityinform.htm For your accommodation enquiries on your arrival at Hyderabad please contact Mr. Murahari at 9848845841. Dr. C.K. Ramaiah, Director, Centre for Information Science, Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action [MGNIRSA], Street No.17, Gaganmahal Road, Domalguda, Hyderabad 500 029, Andhra Pradesh. Telephone: 040-27672492; Facsimile: 091-40-27664920 Email: cis.dsrf(a)gmail.com or chennupati_kramaiah(a)yahoo.com Dimple Patel, Assistant Librarian, MGNIRSA, Hyderabad. INDIA. --------------------------------------- 1. Contribute to LDL: Librarians' Digital Library https://drtc.isibang.ac.in 2. Join today Digital Library Discussion Forum http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg ------------------------------------------------- "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library" Jorge Luis BORGES (1899-1986) __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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OPEN Genomics
by Subbiah Arunachalam 18 Mar '06

18 Mar '06

From Peter Suber's blog OA to genome sequences for 11 more mammals Glyn Moody, The Power of Open Genomics, Open..., March 16, 2006. Excerpt: The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has announced the latest round of mega genome sequencing projects - effectively the follow-ons to the Human Genome Project. These are designed to provide a sense of genomic context, and to allow all the interesting hidden structures within the human genome to be teased out bioinformatically by comparing them with other genomes that diverged from our ancestors at various distant times. Three more primates are getting the NHGRI treatment: the rhesus macacque, the marmoset and the orangutan. But alongside these fairly obvious choices, eight more mammals will be sequenced too....If you are not quite sure whom to vote for, you might want to peruse a great page listing all the genomes currently being sequenced for the NHGRI, which provides links to a document...explaining why each is important (there are pix, too). More seriously, it is worth noting that this growing list makes ever more plain the power of open genomics. Since all of the genomes will be available in public databases as soon as they are completed (and often before), this means that bioinformaticians can start crunching away with them, comparing species with species in various ways. Already, people have done the obvious things like comparing humans with chimpanzees, or mice with rats, but the possibilities are rapidly becoming extremely intriguing....And beyond the simple pairing of genomes, which yields a standard square-law richness, there are even more inventive combinations involving the comparison of multiple genomes that may reveal particular aspects of the Great Digital Tree of Life, since everything may be compared with everything, without restriction. Now imagine trying to do this if genomes had been patented, and groups of them belonged to different companies, all squabbling over their "IP". The case for open genomics is proved, I think. From Peter Suber's blog OA to genome sequences for 11 more mammals Glyn Moody, http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2006/03/power-of-open-genomics.html The Power of Open Genomics , Open... , March 16, 2006. Excerpt: The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/mar2006/nhgri-15.htm announced the latest round of mega genome sequencing projects - effectively the follow-ons to the Human Genome Project. These are designed to provide a sense of genomic context, and to allow all the interesting hidden structures within the human genome to be teased out bioinformatically by comparing them with other genomes that diverged from our ancestors at various distant times. Three more primates are getting the NHGRI treatment: the rhesus macacque, the marmoset and the orangutan. But alongside these fairly obvious choices, eight more mammals will be sequenced too....If you are not quite sure whom to vote for, you might want to peruse a great http://www.genome.gov/10002154 page listing all the genomes currently being sequenced for the NHGRI, which provides links to a http://www.genome.gov/Pages/Research/Sequencing/SeqProposals/Lowcoveragemam… document ...explaining why each is important (there are http://www.genome.gov/17516871 pix , too). More seriously, it is worth noting that this growing list makes ever more plain the power of open genomics. Since all of the genomes will be available in public databases as soon as they are completed (and often before), this means that bioinformaticians can start crunching away with them, comparing species with species in various ways. Already, people have done the obvious things like comparing humans with chimpanzees, or mice with rats, but the possibilities are rapidly becoming extremely intriguing....And beyond the simple pairing of genomes, which yields a standard square-law richness, there are even more inventive combinations involving the comparison of multiple genomes that may reveal particular aspects of the Great Digital Tree of Life, since everything may be compared with everything, without restriction. Now imagine trying to do this if genomes had been patented, and groups of them belonged to different companies, all squabbling over their "IP". The case for open genomics is proved, I think.

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INFN ON PEST CONTROL MEASURES IN LIBRARUES
by vijaykumar nayak 18 Mar '06

18 Mar '06

----------It is requested to post the following message---------- Dear Professionals, What are the measures required for controlling the pests at library. 1. For preventing the rats, 2. For book worms/ Dust etc. It is requested to give your valuable suggestions for preventing the pests . Thanking you Vijay Nayak VTU-Library Belgaum-590 014 --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. ----------It is requested to post the following message---------- Dear Professionals, What are the measures required for controlling the pests at library. 1. For preventing the rats, 2. For book worms/ Dust etc. It is requested to give your valuable suggestions for preventing the pests . Thanking you Vijay Nayak VTU-Library Belgaum-590 014 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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Seminar notice
by Krishnamurthy M 18 Mar '06

18 Mar '06

Dear Moderator, Kindly arrange to announce the following lecture invitation to the benefit of the LIS- forum members. Association of British Scholars Karnataka Chapter (Regd : 461/98-99) And British Library Cordially invite you to the special lecture on "Granad Challenges in Information Retrieval" by Michael Shepherd Professor Deparartment of Computers Science Dalhousie University, Canada at The British Lirbary on Saturday, 25th March 2006 at 4.30 PM. Prof.I.K.Ravichandra Rao Mr.K.T.Rajan Mr.R.Dhandapani Mr.I.H.Jagirdar (President) ( Secretary) (Treasurer) (Manager) -- Dr.M.Krishnamurthy Librarian Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road R.V.C.E. Post Bangalore 560059 Ph:91-80-8483002/3/4/4 Fax: 91-80-8484265

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Stockholm Challenge 2006 award Finalist - OpenMED@NIC
by Sukhdev Singh 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

Dear Friends, Our OpenMED@NIC < http://openmed.nic.in > has been nominated as a finalist in the Health Category of the Stockholm Challenge 2006 award. List of finalists can be viewed at http://event.stockholmchallenge.se/finalists.php OpenMED@NIC is an Open Access Repository in Medical and Allied Sciences. Thanks --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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Patents & Standarda
by ACHAR S 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

Dear Professional collegues, Can anybody give some tips on how to maintain patents & standards in a manufacturing firm Where the library has to preserve this type of documents. Thanks Achar SBMJCE Bangalore __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [oa-india] OpenMED as Stockholm Challenge 2006 Award Finalist
by Subbiah Arunachalam 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

Congrats to the NIC team! We hope they win the award. About five years ago MSSRF won the Stockholm Challenge Award for their Information Village research project. Arun ----- Original Message ----- From: "Naina Pandita" <naina(a)nic.in> To: "Discussion Group for Open Access Workshop India" <oa-india(a)dgroups.org> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 2:39 PM Subject: [oa-india] OpenMED as Stockholm Challenge 2006 Award Finalist > > We are happy to inform all that the OpenMED@NIC (http://openmed.nic.in) > has been nominated as a finalist in the Health Category of the Stockholm > Challenge 2006 award. List finalists can be viewed at > http://event.stockholmchallenge.se/finalists.php > > Naina Pandita > > > Dgroups is a joint initiative of Bellanet, DFID, Hivos, ICA, ICCO, IICD, > OneWorld, UNAIDS and World Bank > --- You are currently subscribed to oa-india as: arun(a)mssrf.res.in > To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-oa-india-137598Y(a)dgroups.org

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RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE MEETING
by Puna Das 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE (An organ of Ranganathan Research Trust, Regd.:25953, 1995) J8/123, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi Date : 10th March, 2006 We have the pleasure to announce the 120th Monthly Meeting of RRC on 24th March, 2006 (4th Saturday) at 10.00 hrs. Venue : National Foundation For India Core IV A , Upper Ground Floor India Habitat Centre, New Delhi - 110003 Topic : Latest trends in Digital Libraries Speaker : Ms. Tulika Pandey, Additional Director,Department of Information Technology, New Delhi Kindly make it convenient to attend the meeting and participate to benefit the group by discussions. Thanking you, Yours sincerely, SUBHASH DESHMUKH Manager Program Committee F-46 A, MIG Flats, Hari Kunj, Hari Nagar NEW DELHI- 110 064 Ph. 25496916 ____________________________________________________ Swapan Kumar Patra Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) New Delhi - 110016 ____________________________________________________ --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE (An organ of Ranganathan Research Trust, Regd.:25953, 1995) J8/123, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi Date : 10th March, 2006 We have the pleasure to announce the 120th Monthly Meeting of RRC on 24th March, 2006 (4th Saturday) at 10.00 hrs. Venue : National Foundation For India Core IV A , Upper Ground Floor India Habitat Centre, New Delhi - 110003 Topic : Latest trends in Digital Libraries Speaker : Ms. Tulika Pandey, Additional Director,Department of Information Technology, New Delhi Kindly make it convenient to attend the meeting and participate to benefit the group by discussions. Thanking you, Yours sincerely, SUBHASH DESHMUKH Manager Program Committee F-46 A, MIG Flats, Hari Kunj, Hari Nagar NEW DELHI- 110 064 Ph. 25496916 ____________________________________________________ Swapan Kumar Patra Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) New Delhi - 110016 ____________________________________________________ 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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Panel Discussion on Library Budgeting
by SUNIL M.V. 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (R) (MyLISA), Mysore Cordially invites you to the Panel Discussion on LIBRARY BUDGETING Date and Time March 18, 2006 : 3.30pm to 4.30pm VENUE Vidyanidhi Seminar Hall Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangothri, Mysore 570 004 PANEL MEMBERS Sri. M. Puttanaiah Librarian (Retd.), Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE) Project Manager, JSS Consultants, SJCE Mysore Sri. H.Y. Mahakuteshwar Head, FOSTIS (CFTRI Library) Central Food Technological Research Institute Mysore Dr. N.S. Harinarayana Senior Lecture Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (R) (MyLISA), Mysore Cordially invites you to the Panel Discussion on LIBRARY BUDGETING Date and Time March 18, 2006 : 3.30pm to 4.30pm VENUE Vidyanidhi Seminar Hall Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangothri, Mysore 570 004 PANEL MEMBERS Sri. M. Puttanaiah Librarian (Retd.), Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE) Project Manager, JSS Consultants, SJCE Mysore Sri. H.Y. Mahakuteshwar Head, FOSTIS (CFTRI Library) Central Food Technological Research Institute Mysore Dr. N.S. Harinarayana Senior Lecture Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore 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.

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Wireless Networking in the Developing World
by Subbiah Arunachalam 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

I received this in the mail this morning. The book may of interest to some of you. Best wishes. Arun > The new book Wireless Networking in the Developing World had five or > six case studies. It is publisned under the Creative Commons > Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license. You can get individual parts of > the book by going to: > > http://wndw.net/index.html > > Bob Babione

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New OA LIS journal
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

>From Peter Suber's blog New OA journal in LIS Evidence Based Library and Information Practice is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by the University of Alberta Learning Services. The inagural issue is now online. (Thanks to the Creative Librarian.) From the site: The purpose of the journal is to provide a forum for librarians and other information professionals to discover research that may contribute to decision making in professional practice. EBLIP publishes original research and commentary on the topic of evidence based library and information practice, as well as reviews of previously published research (evidence summaries) on a wide number of topics.

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Rare collections in digital form
by Saji S. Nair 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

Dear All, Around three lakh pages of 700 rare books could now be accessed in digital form, as Trivandrum Public library has recently completed its first phase of digitization project. Most of the documents are 200 years old and the digital form has been prepared without losing the originality of the text. This digital archiving project using ‘Nitya’ software was designed by the Centre for Informatics Research and Development, Trivandrum and supervised by a team of LIS professionals. Trivandrum public library is one of the oldest libraries in India and the first in Kerala. The library was set up during the reign of Swathi Tirunal, ruler of erstwhile Travancore, in 1829 A.D., a few years before the Imperial Library of Calcutta and the National Library were established. The library is ranked among the best in south India. In 1958, it was declared the `State Central Library'. Now, the institution functions under the Department of Higher Education, Government of Kerala. The digitization project is the first of its kind in the state with full text retrieval of rare collections in English and Malayalam languages and will continue with some ambitious plans. Bye for now Saji S. Nair Regional Cancer Centre Library Thiruvananthapuram Kerala _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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