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Asian Conference on Digital Commons, Bangkok, Thailand, 18 - 19 April 2006
by Puttaraj Choukimath 07 Mar '06

07 Mar '06

Dear All, Greetings. FYI: Asian Conference on Digital Commons, Bangkok, Thailand, 18 - 19 April 2006 Location: Bangkok, Thailand Date: 18 - 19 April 2006 Organised by: Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (India), Bellanet International Secretariat (Canada), and South Asia Partnership International (Nepal) with support from IDRC, Canada and APDIP/UNDP, Thailand Description The conference aims to bring together participants from Asia, the Pacific and around the world to discuss, explore and collaborate around 3 key themes: access to knowledge and culture in Asia; models for collaborative knowledge and culture;and towards a healthy Asia Commons. Please Visit: http://www.asia-commons.net/ Best Regards, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: puttuc(a)yahoo.com, choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: www.tiss.edu --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. Dear All, Greetings. FYI: Asian Conference on Digital Commons, Bangkok, Thailand, 18 - 19 April 2006 Location: Bangkok, Thailand Date: 18 - 19 April 2006 Organised by: Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (India), Bellanet International Secretariat (Canada), and South Asia Partnership International (Nepal) with support from IDRC, Canada and APDIP/UNDP, Thailand Description The conference aims to bring together participants from Asia, the Pacific and around the world to discuss, explore and collaborate around 3 key themes: access to knowledge and culture in Asia; models for collaborative knowledge and culture;and towards a healthy Asia Commons. Please Visit: http://www.asia-commons.net/ http://www.asia-commons.net/ Best Regards, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: mailto:puttuc@yahoo.com puttuc(a)yahoo.com , mailto:choukimath@tiss.edu choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: http://www.tiss.edu www.tiss.edu 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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china's plan to boost science
by Mailing List Manager 07 Mar '06

07 Mar '06

Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 04:05:02 +0530 (IST) From: arun(a)mssrf.res.in China announces 58-point plan to boost science The policies are aimed at boosting China's scientific prowess Hepeng Jia 1 March 2006 Source: SciDev.Net [BEIJING] China has announced a broad set of policies intended to boost its scientific and technological development over the next 15 years. The 58 policies, released by China's cabinet on Sunday (26 February), include one stating that central and local government investment in science and technology should increase faster than China's economic growth rate. Duan Yibing, a senior researcher at the Institute of Policy and Management of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, points out that most of the policies can only take effect after relevant legislation is passed. They include policies to ensure that laws protecting intellectual property rights are not violated, and to encourage private sector involvement in research and development (R&D). Insurance companies and investment banks will, for instance, be able to supply venture capital to assist new companies doing research and development. Businesses will also be given new tax breaks to offset research costs. Previously, only high-tech companies were eligible for tax cuts, but now all research activities will be, says Duan. Although the plans focus on developing China's high-tech sector, they also include increases in state funding to popularise science, and to improve scientific training in rural areas. The announcement follows last month's release of China's national policy for medium and long-term scientific development (see China unveils plans for science-based development). These identified priority areas including energy, life sciences, environment and new materials, and pledged to increase China's investment in research and development to 900 billion yuan (US$112 billion) by 2020.

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Article Request - Urgently Required
by Mailing List Manager 07 Mar '06

07 Mar '06

Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 10:43:36 +0530 From: m.nandeesha(a)tcs.com Dear All, We are in need of the following paper -- A. B. Slimane Rahmouni, N. Ellouze, "Pitch tracking based on adaptive mathematical morphology transformation and cepstral estimation", Proc. Journes Scientifiques Franco-Tunisiennes JSFT '2000, Monastir, Tunisie, 25-26 Octobre 2000. If any of you can get this pls send it to me at the earliest. Thanks in advance. Regards, M Nandeesha Tata Consultancy Services Limited Abhilash Software Development Centre, Plot No. 96, EPIP Industrial Area, Whitefield, Bangalore - 560066,Karnataka India Mailto: m.nandeesha(a)tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com

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Necessity of Accession Register in Digital Era
by veena bhat 07 Mar '06

07 Mar '06

Dear Sir/ Madam, In this Digital Era, is there any necessity of the Accession Register. Because, if the Library is fully computerized, then we can get all the information in a fraction of second. Now my doubt is- Is there any necessity of Accession Register for the computerized Library OR Is it waste of time and energy to write all the information in the Accession Register? With Regards, Veena Bhat Asst. Librarian-Documentation Services International Institute of Information Technology Hinjawadi Pune --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments. Dear Sir/ Madam, In this Digital Era, is there any necessity of the Accession Register. Because, if the Library is fully computerized, then we can get all the information in a fraction of second. Now my doubt is- Is there any necessity of Accession Register for the computerized Library OR Is it waste of time and energy to write all the information in the Accession Register? With Regards, Veena Bhat Asst. Librarian-Documentation Services International Institute of Information Technology Hinjawadi Pune Yahoo! Mail http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=38867/*http://photomail.mai… Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments.

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Necessity of Accession Register in Digital Era
by Benny M D 07 Mar '06

07 Mar '06

Dear all Computerisation has its advantages and disadvantages. For example , if you have the administrative privileges it is possible to delete a certain entry in the database or edit it. You may be able to mislead the management by entering a different title against a lost or missing title by editing all data except the Accession Number. Accession Register on the other hand will give you complete record of an accessioned item and any editing is easily visible. Thus it is a tool in the hands of the librarian as well as the management to see that no maltreatment has happened to the accessioned records. Best wishes Benny M.D. Librarian www.tisb.org ________________________________ From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in on behalf of veena bhat Sent: Mon 3/6/2006 3:09 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Necessity of Accession Register in Digital Era Dear Sir/ Madam, In this Digital Era, is there any necessity of the Accession Register. Because, if the Library is fully computerized, then we can get all the information in a fraction of second. Now my doubt is- Is there any necessity of Accession Register for the computerized Library OR Is it waste of time and energy to write all the information in the Accession Register? With Regards, Veena Bhat Asst. Librarian-Documentation Services International Institute of Information Technology Hinjawadi Pune --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments. [LIS-Forum] Necessity of Accession Register in Digital Era Dear all Computerisation has its advantages and disadvantages. For example , if you have the administrative privileges it is possible to delete a certain entry in the database or edit it. You may be able to mislead the management by entering a different title against a lost or missing title by editing all data except the Accession Number. Accession Register on the other hand will give you complete record of an accessioned item and any editing is easily visible. Thus it is a tool in the hands of the librarian as well as the management to see that no maltreatment has happened to the accessioned records. Best wishes Benny M.D. Librarian http://www.tisb.org www.tisb.org From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in on behalf of veena bhat Sent: Mon 3/6/2006 3:09 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Necessity of Accession Register in Digital Era Dear Sir/ Madam, In this Digital Era, is there any necessity of the Accession Register. Because, if the Library is fully computerized, then we can get all the information in a fraction of second. Now my doubt is- Is there any necessity of Accession Register for the computerized Library OR Is it waste of time and energy to write all the information in the Accession Register? With Regards, Veena Bhat Asst. Librarian-Documentation Services International Institute of Information Technology Hinjawadi Pune --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments.

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Confusion in putting the Seal, Lable, Book Card and Book Pocket
by veena bhat 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

Dear Sir/ Madam, As I have seen, each and every library is having its own method to put the seal, lables, Book Card and Book Pocket. Some professionals put the seal on the first page of the book and within the seal they will write the date. Some professinals put on the title page they won't write the date. Some other put it on a back of the title page and out side the seal they write the date. Some professionals write the call no. by using pen; some others use pencil. Some professionals maintain 2 secret pages; Some professionals only one. The same thing is for Pocket and Book Card also. Which is the correct method? Or there is no rules at all? Looking for your response. Best Regards, Veena Bhat --------------------------------- Brings words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail. Dear Sir/ Madam, As I have seen, each and every library is having its own method to put the seal, lables, Book Card and Book Pocket. Some professionals put the seal on the first page of the book and within the seal they will write the date. Some professinals put on the title page they won't write the date. Some other put it on a back of the title page and out side the seal they write the date. Some professionals write the call no. by using pen; some others use pencil. Some professionals maintain 2 secret pages; Some professionals only one. The same thing is for Pocket and Book Card also. Which is the correct method? Or there is no rules at all? Looking for your response. Best Regards, Veena Bhat Brings words and photos together (easily) with http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/PMall/*http://photomail.mail.yahoo.… PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail.

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Re: Why can't Google Scholar be like Open J-Gate / OAIster
by Sukhdev Singh 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

Thank you friends for responding to my post on "Why can't GoogleScholar be like Open J-Gate / OAIster "< http://sukhdev.blogspot.com/2006/03/why-cant-google-scholar-be-like-open-j.…>to various Groups as well as on my blog < http://sukhdev.blogspot.com>. Some of the issues highlighted by you are presented towards theend of this message. My posted was purely from an end user's point of view. Who is notinterested what all Google Scholar, can offer and whether it helps incitation analysis [1]. The requirement was plain and simple "Resultset should be restricted to Free / Open Full Text ScholarlyLiterature". The purpose is to save unproductive "clicks" to paid /locked literature. Dr. S N Sarbadhikari [4] is quite near when hesuggests adding "open access full text" words to the query as such.However, it will remove many useful hits where these words are notpart of the text. Better would have been that an option is provided torestrict to free / open literature in the advanced search interface. Ihave written to Anurag Acharya of Google Scholar to provide such anoption< http://sukhdev.blogspot.com/2006/03/suggestion-for-google-scholar.html >.It up to him -- to ignore the suggestion or profit from it. I am myself a fan of Google Scholar. Who knows ? - in future it couldeven beat Web of Science.< http://sukhdev.blogspot.com/2006/02/will-google-scholar-beat-web-of.html >. The way it is negotiating with Journal Publishers for their content[2] as well as entering into agreements with libraries to provide fulltexts [3] -- the future could be near. Integration with OpenURLresolvers is also an interesting trend to watch [5]. References: [1] Sh. Jitendra N. Dash< http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/medlib/message/263 > "I found the following write-up by Mr. Singh is interesting but heavoided the strong point of Google Scholar(GS), free citationretrieval search engine." [2] JK Vijayakumar< http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/medlib/message/264 > "Google Scholar is negotiating with Journal Publishers for gettinginto their server, and harvest their ToC, Abstract and reference partsof each article. When GS comes out with its full version, any one cansearch for Scholarly literature, from the vast array of Free and Paidjournals, at the same time and at single place. The beauty of itsCitation search adds GS's expected acceptance among Academia." [3] He further refers to the following News Item:< http://www.bl.uk/news/2006/pressrelease20060302.html > "The internet's search engine and the world's greatest researchlibrary are joining forces to offer researchers, students andacademics desktop delivery of millions of full text scholarly researcharticles. >From today, searches on Google Scholar (http://www.scholar.google.com)will include links to the British Library's document delivery service.Search results will be matched against the Library's holdings andwhere a match is made, users will have the option to obtain articlesheld via the British Library's online document ordering interface,British Library Direct (http://direct.bl.uk) " [4] Dr. S N Sarbadhikari< http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/indmedtraining/message/678 > " I tried to test Scholar.Google with the search phrase: "benchmarkingorganizations open access full text" and could get access to many freefull text articles from the very first result page. " [5] Saiful Amin < http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2006-March/003642.html >Highlights out how Google Scholar can be integrated with OpenURL resolvers. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC.http://openmed.nic.in

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Google Scholar will be MORE THAN Open J-Gate / OAIster etc
by JK Vijayakumar 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

Hi Colleagues, I agree with Mr. Dash. Scholars are looking for a "Search Place", where they can search for all information. Google Scholar is negotiating with Journal Publishers for getting into their server, and harvest their ToC, Abstract and reference parts of each article. When GS comes out with its full version, any one can search for Scholarly literature, from the vast array of Free and Paid journals, at the same time and at single place. The beauty of its Citation search adds GS's expected acceptance among Academia. Still it in its Beta. Remember that, we do not have a free service sofar, to do so. After retrieving the bibliographic Results, next step is to look for fulltext. If it is an Open Access journal, we can freely download them. What will happen to Paid articles. Here again, Google Scholar is started Document Delivery, and they already made arrangements with british library. See the press release at http://www.bl.uk/news/2006/pressrelease20060302.html. They will be collaborating with other Doc Delivery systems in near future. What will be its effect on Libraries? We will be getting a new free service, to which we used to pay huge amounts to Online Database providers. In near future these people will be forced to collaborate with GS, and Libraries will be benefited in great deal. We should understand that, the world wide resistance to Google from librarians are coming down, after their major projects like Google Scholar. As long as it is FREE, we will be benfitted. As librarians, our job is to support it, and lobby for its "FREE" status for ever. GS will be more than, what we have today. Vijayakumar J. K "Sh. Jitendra N. Dash" <jn_dash(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: Dear Colleagues, I found the following write-up by Mr. Singh is intersting but he avoided the strong point of Google Scholar(GS), free citation retrieval search engine. Presently there is no search engine which provides citation(s) to scholarly papers freely. I found our scientists group is interested with GS,also I found citations are reliable.GS provides link to PubMed, free/open access journal, pay-based journals, books etc. Its features are discussed in peer reviewed journals like Nature.So,if GS will provide link only to free/open access journals papers then how users will come to know there citations in the journals which are subscribed in our libraries. Proper search technique retrieves relevant results. But one of the nagative points is GS was updated first time after six month of its initial launch (Nov, 2004) which is discussed. We may hope its present beta version may be evolved to a relevant search engine for scholars, specially in the areas where scholars are struggling for resources. Regards, JN Dash NII, New Delhi Sukhdev Singh wrote: This morning was frustating with Google Scholar. I just wanted to get hold of some scholary literature on "Methods for Benchmarking Organisations". So, opened up Google Scholar and fired the first term - "benchmarking". Good - 149,000 hits to good quality looking literature. So, started clicking by one by one to see the hits. But, what is this?!! Almost every click was asking me to pay somewhere 20 to 40 Dollars to have the access to full text. Obiously - this is the locked up knowledge for me. What is the use of these wonderful hits to high quality literature when I can not view them. Next I opened up Open J-Gate and fired the same term "benchmarking". Had to wait for the results. Ultimately got the result - 216 hits. This served my purpose. Not that these pointed to high quality papers. But I got what I wanted in return for what I could afford to pay for. No wasting of time in clicking and waiting to learn that I can't afford to buy the stuff. Later found that OAIster gave 1674 hits for the same term. But then, all Open/Free Access literature may not be OAI compliant. Why can't Google creates a service for just Open/Free Access Scholary Literature and name it as OpenScholar?. Its better technology can help small mortals like me. Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in --------------------------------- YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "medlib" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: medlib-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/medlib/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: medlib-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. Hi Colleagues, I agree with Mr. Dash. Scholars are looking for a "Search Place", where they can search for all information. Google Scholar is negotiating with Journal Publishers for getting into their server, and harvest their ToC, Abstract and reference parts of each article. When GS comes out with its full version, any one can search for Scholarly literature, from the vast array of Free and Paid journals, at the same time and at single place. The beauty of its Citation search adds GS's expected acceptance among Academia. Still it in its Beta. Remember that, we do not have a free service sofar, to do so. After retrieving the bibliographic Results, next step is to look for fulltext. If it is an Open Access journal, we can freely download them. What will happen to Paid articles. Here again, Google Scholar is started Document Delivery, and they already made arrangements with british library. See the press release at http://www.bl.uk/news/2006/pressrelease20060302.html http://www.bl.uk/news/2006/pressrelease20060302.html . They will be collaborating with other Doc Delivery systems in near future. What will be its effect on Libraries? We will be getting a new free service, to which we used to pay huge amounts to Online Database providers. In near future these people will be forced to collaborate with GS, and Libraries will be benefited in great deal. We should understand that, the world wide resistance to Google from librarians are coming down, after their major projects like Google Scholar. As long as it is FREE, we will be benfitted. As librarians, our job is to support it, and lobby for its "FREE" status for ever. GS will be more than, what we have today. Vijayakumar J. K "Sh. Jitendra N. Dash" <jn_dash(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: Dear Colleagues, I found the following write-up by Mr. Singh is intersting but he avoided the strong point of Google Scholar(GS), free citation retrieval search engine. Presently there is no search engine which provides citation(s) to scholarly papers freely. I found our scientists group is interested with GS,also I found citations are reliable.GS provides link to PubMed, free/open access journal, pay-based journals, books etc. Its features are discussed in peer reviewed journals like Nature.So,if GS will provide link only to free/open access journals papers then how users will come to know there citations in the journals which are subscribed in our libraries. Proper search technique retrieves relevant results. But one of the nagative points is GS was updated first time after six month of its initial launch (Nov, 2004) which is discussed. We may hope its present beta version may be evolved to a relevant search engine for scholars, specially in the areas where scholars are struggling for resources. Regards, JN Dash NII, New Delhi Sukhdev Singh wrote: This morning was frustating with Google Scholar. I just wanted to get hold of some scholary literature on "Methods for Benchmarking Organisations". So, opened up Google Scholar and fired the first term - "benchmarking". Good - 149,000 hits to good quality looking literature. So, started clicking by one by one to see the hits. But, what is this?!! Almost every click was asking me to pay somewhere 20 to 40 Dollars to have the access to full text. Obiously - this is the locked up knowledge for me. What is the use of these wonderful hits to high quality literature when I can not view them. Next I opened up Open J-Gate and fired the same term "benchmarking". Had to wait for the results. Ultimately got the result - 216 hits. This served my purpose. Not that these pointed to high quality papers. But I got what I wanted in return for what I could afford to pay for. No wasting of time in clicking and waiting to learn that I can't afford to buy the stuff. Later found that OAIster gave 1674 hits for the same term. But then, all Open/Free Access literature may not be OAI compliant. Why can't Google creates a service for just Open/Free Access Scholary Literature and name it as OpenScholar?. Its better technology can help small mortals like me. Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in --------------------------------- YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "medlib" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: medlib-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/medlib/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: medlib-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ 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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Discrimination to LIS subject in SLET, karnataka
by yekanath kamble 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

Dear professionals, I bring to your kind notice that, recently Kuvempu University, Shimoga has called for state Eligibility Test (SET) for several subjects, but our LIS subject is not called for. As we know last time in the year 2000 it was there but now it is discriminated why? day by day librarian/ asst.librarian are not required for the college and universites?. Recent fast some states have called for the same exams and there was our LIS subject but why not in karanata SET?. Hence, I request you all that, please discuss the issue with professionals and find the soulution faster. With regards, Yekanath N K YEKANATH N KAMBLE ASST.LIBRARIAN R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING,MYSORE ROAD, BANGALORE-59 (INDIA) PH.91-80-28600351/28604705/28600184 FAX : 91 - 80 - 2860 0337 MOBILE.9448585358 --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. Dear professionals, I bring to your kind notice that, recently Kuvempu University, Shimoga has called for state Eligibility Test (SET) for several subjects, but our LIS subject is not called for. As we know last time in the year 2000 it was there but now it is discriminated why? day by day librarian/ asst.librarian are not required for the college and universites?. Recent fast some states have called for the same exams and there was our LIS subject but why not in karanata SET?. Hence, I request you all that, please discuss the issue with professionals and find the soulution faster. With regards, Yekanath N K YEKANATH N KAMBLE ASST.LIBRARIAN R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING,MYSORE ROAD, BANGALORE-59 (INDIA) PH.91-80-28600351/28604705/28600184 FAX : 91 - 80 - 2860 0337 MOBILE.9448585358 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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Re: [LIS-Forum] Infringment of copyright - DO IT RIGHT IN FIRST PLACE
by Sukhdev Singh 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

Friends,I would like further deviate from the topic. Why not to DO IT RIGHT IN THE FIRST PLACE? Why not to support and promote Open Access? Academic World would be much better. No fear of infringment of copyrights. Ranganathan's country-men must remember - "BOOKS ARE FOR USE". So workfor barrier - free access to scholarly information. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC.http://openmed.nic.in On 3/4/06, Murari <murari(a)nio.org> wrote:> Dear Moderator,> I would like to take some deviation from main issue and share my experience> on document requests. The most important thing that keeps Librarians> together is the resource sharing. Libraries help each other in supplying the> requested documents. I am a member on another discussion list of> International Association of Marine Science Library and Information Centres> (Iamslic). On this, at one time, large number of mails were for the document> requests. One day the association thought of making a union catalogue and> that is now being used extensively. The catalogue is based on Z39.50> protocol (http://library.csumb.edu/cyamus/ill/search.php)> Why not the like minded Librarians in India take up such kind of activity> and the NCSI take lead in providing facility and infrastructure? I receive> requested documents within 24 hours of my request from US or Europe on this.> With this facility, my users are extremely happy. They believe that I can> get the required document almost next day!>> With warm regards,>> Murari P Tapaswi, NICMAS, National Inst Oceanography, Dona Paula 403 004> Goa, India> Phone: 91-(0)832-2450 275; Fax: 91-(0)832-2450 602/03> URL: www.nio.org; www.mangroveindia.org; www.coastalhazards.info;> www.indian-ocean.org>> _______________________________________________> LIS-Forum mailing list> LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum>

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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON OFFERS ONLINE ACCESS TO DISSOCIATION BY Dspace
by noufal palliparamban 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

Dear friends, The University of Oregon Libraries, in collaboration with the university's psychology department, has created an online archive of Dissociation, a seminal psychology journal. Dissociation was published in ten volumes between 1988 and 1997 by Dissociative Disorders Research Publications, Ltd., as the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD). ISSD is a nonprofit, professional association organized to develop and promote comprehensive, clinically effective, and empirically-based resources and responses to dissociation and to address its relevance to other theoretical constructs. Jennifer Freyd, professor of psychology and editor of ISSD's new journal, The Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, together with Frank Putnam of Cincinnati's Children's Hospital Medical Center, proposed the digitization project to ISSD, the university libraries, and the journal's original copyright holder, Richard Kluft, M.D. Visit:https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/dspace/handle/1794/1129 Regards Noufal.P.P Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. Dear friends, The University of Oregon Libraries, in collaboration with the university's psychology department, has created an online archive of Dissociation, a seminal psychology journal. Dissociation was published in ten volumes between 1988 and 1997 by Dissociative Disorders Research Publications, Ltd., as the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD). ISSD is a nonprofit, professional association organized to develop and promote comprehensive, clinically effective, and empirically-based resources and responses to dissociation and to address its relevance to other theoretical constructs. Jennifer Freyd, professor of psychology and editor of ISSD's new journal, The Journal of Trauma & Dissociation , together with Frank Putnam of Cincinnati's Children's Hospital Medical Center, proposed the digitization project to ISSD, the university libraries, and the journal's original copyright holder, Richard Kluft, M.D. Visit: https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/dspace/handle/1794/1129 https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/dspace/handle/1794/1129 Regards Noufal.P.P Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur 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 law project
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 05 Mar '06

05 Mar '06

QUT launches OA law project Queensland University of Technology (QUT), the first university anywhere to adopt an OA mandate, has launched an Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law project. >From the site: In todays ever-changing world, open access to knowledge is increasingly important, as both an economic and social force. This project aims to ensure that people can legally and efficiently share knowledge across domains and across the world. This will be of significance to the every day citizen through to top-end researchers. The project will develop legal protocols for managing copyright issues in an open access environment and investigate provision and implementation of a rights expression language for implementing such protocols at a technical level. At both levels, legal and technical, the project will integrate with existing open access repositories. The significance of the project is that it will provide a vital infrastructure to the open access landscape that does not adequately exist at the moment. Quoting Tom Cochran, QUT's Deputy Vice-Chancellor: It is often observed that the law and law making lags behind technology. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the maze of rights management and rights assertion surrounding access to content which is increasingly in digital form, often exclusively. Queensland University of Technology is pleased to be the supporting institution for this project, to systematically develop more assured processes, understandings and protocols to assist the smooth flow of knowledge and information for a variety of communities in future years. In doing so it particularly recognizes the public policy imperative of freeing up access to publicly funded research and its outputs. Also see the press release announcing the project (February 21, 2006): A new "open access to knowledge" project hosted by the Queensland University of Technology aims to ensure that anyone can legally share knowledge across the world, whether they be an every day citizen or a top end researcher. The QUT team, led by School of Law head, Professor Brian Fitzgerald is embarking on a $1.3 million, two year project to develop legal protocols for managing copyright issues in an open access environment. The Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project, when complete, would provide legal protocols that would free up the national and international research environment and remove barriers to reusing and remixing information, Professor Fitzgerald said...."If researchers know they can safeguard their work with OAK Law protocols they will be more comfortable with making it available online and thus increase the stock of knowledge available to everyone," Prof Fitzgerald said. "The OAK Law protocols will benefit everyone from school students to Nobel Prize winners who can go online, do a Google search, find relevant research and use it without fear of being sued for copyright infringements. The project will work with cutting edge research repositories in marine science and medical research to ensure that all Australians have the right to access and, where permitted, reuse high quality research data in their daily lives."

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OpenDocument format for Govt documents in India
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 05 Mar '06

05 Mar '06

Friends: We should campaign for adopting OpenDocument format for government documents. Arun ------ >From Peter Suber's blog New alliance promotes OpenDocument Format worldwide The mission of the new ODF Alliance is to promote the use of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) worldwide, especially for government documents. >From yesterday's press release: As documents and services are increasingly transformed from paper to electronic form, there is growing recognition that governments and their constituents may not be able to access, retrieve and use critical records, information and documents in the future. A broad cross-section of associations, academic institutions, industry and related groups today joined together to form the OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), an organization dedicated to promoting open solutions to this problem. As technologies rapidly evolve, documents are created by public sector agencies using different applications that may not be compatible with one another today, let alone into the future. Through the use of a truly open standard file format that can be implemented by numerous and varied applications, the Alliance seeks to enable governments and their constituents to use, access and store critical documents, records and information both today and in the future, independent of the applications or enterprise platforms used for their creation or future access. Specifically, the ODF Alliance supports the use of the OpenDocument Format (ODF), an open XML-based collection of office document formats, including text, presentation and spreadsheet formats. ODF, the only established open standard document format, enables the retrieval of information and exchange of documents between different applications, agencies and/or business partners in a platform and application independent way. "With a broad cross section of support, the ODF Alliance will work to enable governments around the world to have greater control over and direct management of their documents, now and forever," said Ken Wasch, President of the Software & Information Industry Association, a leading member of the Alliance and the principal trade association of the software and digital content industry. "There's no doubt that the momentum of ODF is gaining traction worldwide as more people every day are discovering that it's a better way to preserve and access documents."...The Alliance is building support globally for use and recognition of ODF, and all organizations that share its goals are welcomed to join the effort. Organizations can join [here]....In recent months, jurisdictions such as the State of Massachusetts in the United States and others around the world are leading the way, by embracing open document formats. According to recent press reports, 13 nations globally are considering adoption of the OpenDocument format.

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A public domain registry for India
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 05 Mar '06

05 Mar '06

Friends: Canada is setting up a public domain registry for publications available through open access. We in India shoud do so too. Best wishes. Arun ---- >From Peter Suber's blog Canadian public domain registry Canada will soon have an OA Public Domain Registry. >From yesterday's press release: Access Copyright, The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency and Creative Commons Canada, in partnership with Creative Commons Corporation in the US, today announced the development of a Canadian public domain registry. The ground-breaking project the most comprehensive of its kind in Canada will create an online, globally searchable [and OA] catalogue of published works that are in the Canadian public domain. Canada has a rich cultural heritage of literature, music and fine art that is in the public domain just waiting to be freely enjoyed, said Marcus Bornfreund of Creative Commons Canada, a non-profit organization that works in collaboration with Creative Commons US. The problem until now was that there was no easy way to identify whether or not works are in the public domain. This registry will change that. There is currently no one place where information about the public domain is collected. The registry will make published works in the Canadian public domain easily identifiable and accessible in an online catalogue. The project will develop in two stages first, a comprehensive registry of works by Canadian creators that are in the public domain will be established. Eventually, the reach of the registry will expand to include the published works of creators from other countries. The public domain registry will be a non-profit project and freely accessible to the public online....The Wikimedia Foundation, developers of the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, will supply software that will allow the public to contribute information to the registry. "The public domain is our shared cultural heritage, and the best ground for the great new ideas of the future," said Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. "Without access to the public domain, we are cut off from our past, and therefore cut ourselves off from our future."...Individuals will be able to use the registry to determine whether a published work is in the public domain. The registry will also link to digital versions of the work, and provide information about where a paper copy of the work can be purchased. Quick and easy access to legally available content is vital as we move further into the digital age, said Roanie Levy, Access Copyrights Director of Legal and External Affairs. The public domain registry has limitless possibilities and will place Canadian cultural content at the leading edge of the public domain. Comment. Because legislators (in Canada and elsewhere) have frequently extended the term of copyright, it's non-trivial to figure out when a work is in the public domain. If the new registry is comprehensive, it will be useful for lifting this burden from ordinary users who don't want to risk liability, err on the side of non-use, or spend time and money tracking down copyright holders when it's no longer necessary. By adding links to OA versions of PD works, it will be even more useful. It should bring about one other consequence of great importance: heightened public awareness of the value of the public domain and the urgency of protecting it from further encroachments.

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Reg.: Accomodation -- National Seminar on Electronic Publications
by Dimple Patel 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

Dear Participants and Paper Presenters, This is to inform you that we have reserved a few single rooms with double occupancy at JNTU Guest House, Kukatpally, Hyderabad. The price for these rooms at JNTU guest house is Rs. 250/- per room per day. In case the rooms reserved by us at JNTU guest house get filled we have alternatively blocked few rooms at NISIET, Guest House, Yousufguda, where the cost of single room with double occupancy is Rs. 600/- per room per day. Kindly let us know quickly if you would like us to book rooms for you (on payment basis) and for the no. of persons booking is required. We can book accommodation at the guest house only on first come first serve basis. Sincerely, Dr. Chennupati K. Ramaiah Seminar Organizing Secretary, National Seminar on Electronic Publications ************************************************************************ Dr. Chennupati K. Ramaiah Professor & Director, Centre for Information Science, Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action [MGNIRSA], Street No.17,Gaganmahal Road, Domalguda, Hyderabad 500 029. Telephone: 040-27672492; Fax: 091-40-27664920 Email: < cis.dsrf(a)gmail.com> or <chennupati_kramaiah(a)yahoo.com> ************************************************************************ __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Infringment of copyright
by Murari 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

Dear Moderator, I would like to take some deviation from main issue and share my experience on document requests. The most important thing that keeps Librarians together is the resource sharing. Libraries help each other in supplying the requested documents. I am a member on another discussion list of International Association of Marine Science Library and Information Centres (Iamslic). On this, at one time, large number of mails were for the document requests. One day the association thought of making a union catalogue and that is now being used extensively. The catalogue is based on Z39.50 protocol (http://library.csumb.edu/cyamus/ill/search.php) Why not the like minded Librarians in India take up such kind of activity and the NCSI take lead in providing facility and infrastructure? I receive requested documents within 24 hours of my request from US or Europe on this. With this facility, my users are extremely happy. They believe that I can get the required document almost next day! With warm regards, Murari P Tapaswi, NICMAS, National Inst Oceanography, Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, India Phone: 91-(0)832-2450 275; Fax: 91-(0)832-2450 602/03 URL: www.nio.org; www.mangroveindia.org; www.coastalhazards.info; www.indian-ocean.org

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Qualifications/Experience for University Librarians
by Aloor Thomas Francis 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

Dear Professionals, UGC has to ammend rules to strenghten the Library System of the Universities in India. Now, the UGC and the Govt. is totally neglecting this sector. The first example for this is that in majority of the Universities in India, the post of University Librarian is laying vacant. Out of seven universities in Kerala, only two have University Librarians. All others are running on "In-Charge" for several years. There are several reasons for this. Some of them are listed below: 1. No sufficient number of qualified candidates are available ( As per UGC norms). College Librarians / Asst. University Librarans with 18 years experience in the UGC cadre or Dy. Librarians are exinct species in Kerala. At present no candidates are available in Kerala. 2. The reason for this is that College Librarians appointed after 1990 are not getting UGC Pay Scales. 3. Since the College Librarians/Asst. Uty. Librarians are filled by promotion (3/4 posts), no candidate will get 18 years service in the UGC cadre. 4. If a person appointed at the age of 28 as College Librarian/Asst. Uty. Libraian in UGC scale only will qualify 4. This reduces the interest and pressure of librarians to aspire for this post and hence they try to hold the post as In-Charge. 5. University authorities also not taking active interest in this regard. Suggestions:- 1. Revise the Qualifications and Experience as follows: - MLISC + PhD in Library and Information Science - Total 18 years of professional experience in libraries, of which atleast 8 years should be in the UGC Cadre of Dy./Asst.Librarian or College Librarian. 2. In future, library professionals should be recruited to universities and colleges only in the UGC Cadre as in the case of teachers. 3. The ideal situation is the redesignation of the post of librarians as Lecturers/ Readers/ Professors. The designation of librarians in DRDO, CSIR, ISRO, etc. is "Scientists". With regards A.T. Francis Assistant Librarian Kerala Agricultural University From: Veerankutty Chelatayakkot <veerankutty(a)cusat.ac.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Dear Professionals, I invite your attention to the discrimination to Assistant University librarians in the qualification prescribed by the UGC to the post of University Librarian. Minimum qualification to University Librarian : (i) Master's degree in Library Science / Information Science / Documentation with at least 55% of the marks or its equivalent grade of B in the UGC Seven point scale and consistently good academic record; (ii) At least thirteen years as a Deputy Librarian in a University Library or eighteen years as experience as a college librarian (iii) Evidence of innovative library service and organization of published work. As per this qualification, 18 years experienced College librarian can become a University Librarian. At the same time, an Assistant University Librarian with same experience cant apply to the post of University Librarian. Assistant University Librarian is equivalent to the College librarian. This can be easily understood by comparing the qualification prescribed to Deputy Librarian. Qualification to Deputy Librarian: (i) Master's degree in Library Science / Information Science / Documentation with at least 55% of the marks or its equivalent grade of B in the UGC Seven point scale and Consistently good academic record; (ii) At least five years as a Assistant University Librarian / College Librarian (iii) Evidence of innovative library service and organization of published work If five years experienced Assistant University Librarians/ College librarians can apply to the post of Deputy librarian, why 18 years experienced Assistant University Librarian cant apply to the post of University Librarian. This is the discrimination. Veerankutty Chelatayakkot __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Carolyn Watters Lecture at DLIS Mysore - MULISSA Lecture Series
by N.S. Harinarayana 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

Prof. Carolyn Watters, faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Canada addressed the students and staff of Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore on the topic �Design considerations for web access on PDAs� on the Friday, March 3, 2006. Summary of the Lecture: Personal digital assistant (also called PDA) is a small handheld device that could be used as mobile phones, web browsers or media players. It was initially developed as personal organizers. Today, is being used for varieties of purposes including Internet access. Prof. Watters discussed the issues involved in display and input in a small screen devices. Browsing, Reading, Finding, and Comparison activities needs to be handled differently in a small screen devices. She demonstrated various methods available for these activities. The four common approaches to displaying web pages on small screen devices: Direct Migration, Linear, Overview and Overview were explained with examples. Overview method and the Gateway use the user�s familiarity of a web page to allow us to reduce a web page to fit within one screen on the PDA with a zooming capacity to expand sections of the page. She gave the details of some of the user study results about the effectiveness of these approaches. The lecture was attended by students, faculty members and researchers. Prof. Michael Shepherd of Dalhousie University was also present during the lecture. The program was organised as a part of MULISSA (Mysore University Library and Information Science Students Association) activity. -- N.S.Harinarayana Ph.D Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri, Mysore 570 006 Ph: 2419393 !DSPAM:44092f6b137171673113986!

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LIBRI: CALL FOR BEST STUDENT PAPER, 2006
by Shyam Prasad pujar 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

** Sorry for cross postings, if any ** > Announces the 2006 annual award for > > Best Libri Student Paper > > Since 1950, through 56 volumes, Libri: International Journal of > Libraries and Information Services has been a leader among scholarly > journals in the international library world. As part of its strategy > to remain one of the premier library journals, Libri is issuing a call > for "Best Student Paper of 2006." This competition supports Libri's > goal of publishing the best articles from the next generation of > library and information science professionals. We are proud once again > to recognize the very best article with this special award. > > Students at all levels* are invited to submit articles with clarity > and authority. There is no stated theme. Research papers should > address one of the significant issues facing today's librarians and > information professionals. Case studies, best practices, and pure > research papers are all welcome. > > Length: approx. 5,000-7,000 words > Language: English > Deadline: May 31, 2006 > > The best paper will be selected by an independent panel consisting of > selected members of the Editorial Board, the Advisory Board and other > international experts. Submissions will be judged on the basis of > > * originality of thought and observation > * depth of research and scholarship > * topicality of problems addressed > * the international readership of the journal > > The article will be published in the 2006:3 issue. The author of the > winning article will be honoured with an award of 500.00 USD and with > a complementary subscription to Libri for 2007. If the quality of > competition warrants, some papers may be designated as honourable > mention and the authors will receive complementary subscriptions to > Libri for 2007. The normal provision to the author of 10 offprints and > one complete issue applies to all winners. > > Manuscripts should be sent to the LIBRI Editorial Office, > Statsbiblioteket, Universitetsparken, DK 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. > Electronic submissions are encouraged and may be submitted to > libri(a)statsbiblioteket.dk. Author instructions and further indications > of the scope of papers suitable for publication in Libri are available > at the LIBRI site at http://www.librijournal.org/authorinst.html. > > All submissions should include a cover sheet confirming: > * the name of the institution where the student is or was enrolled > > * the dates when the student is or was enrolled > * the date when the paper was written and the course for which it > was prepared if no longer a student > > > * Exception: Senior information scholars returning to school for > additional degrees outside the field of library and information > science are not eligible for this award. > ********************************************************************** Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Santosh Nagar, Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * Phone: +91-22-2841 6514 * * Fax: +91-22-2840 2752 * * E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in * * URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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Reading Behavior in the digital enviornment
by Dr. N.J.Deshpande(Reader＠Jaykar Library) 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Reading Behavior in the digital enviornment The advent of digital media & the growing collection of digital documents have had profound impact on reading.with the growing amount of digital information available &increasing amount spend reading electronic media,the digiatl environment has begun to affect reading behivior. Digital media contribute to a transformative shift in reading. they introduce number of advantages, such asinterreactivity,non-linearity,immediacy of accessing information...etc

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postponement of national conference
by Mailing List Manager 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 13:57:50 +0530 From: Aditya Tripathi <aditya.tripath(a)gmail.com> This is to inform that due to some unavoidable circumstances the proposed "National Conference on Community Information Service: Challenges & Opportunities for Libraries", 2nd � 4th March 2006, jointly organized by Department of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, United States Educational Foundation in India (USEFI) and Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) has been rescheduled and now will be held from 20th � 22nd March 2006. -- Dr. Aditya Tripathi Lecturer and Co-ordinator Department of Library & Information Science Banaras Hindu University Varanasi-221005 ---------------------------------------------------- 1. Contribute to DRTC LIS Open Digital Library https://drtc.isibang.ac.in 2. Join today Digital Library Discussion Forum http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg

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Discrimination to Asst. Librarians
by Mailing List Manager 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

From: Veerankutty Chelatayakkot <veerankutty(a)cusat.ac.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Dear Professionals, I invite your attention to the discrimination to Assistant University librarians in the qualification prescribed by the UGC to the post of University Librarian. Minimum qualification to University Librarian : (i) Master's degree in Library Science / Information Science / Documentation with at least 55% of the marks or its equivalent grade of B in the UGC Seven point scale and consistently good academic record; (ii) At least thirteen years as a Deputy Librarian in a University Library or eighteen years as experience as a college librarian (iii) Evidence of innovative library service and organization of published work. As per this qualification, 18 years experienced College librarian can become a University Librarian. At the same time, an Assistant University Librarian with same experience cant apply to the post of University Librarian. Assistant University Librarian is equivalent to the College librarian. This can be easily understood by comparing the qualification prescribed to Deputy Librarian. Qualification to Deputy Librarian: (i) Master's degree in Library Science / Information Science / Documentation with at least 55% of the marks or its equivalent grade of B in the UGC Seven point scale and Consistently good academic record; (ii) At least five years as a Assistant University Librarian / College Librarian (iii) Evidence of innovative library service and organization of published work If five years experienced Assistant University Librarians/ College librarians can apply to the post of Deputy librarian, why 18 years experienced Assistant University Librarian cant apply to the post of University Librarian. This is the discrimination. Veerankutty Chelatayakkot

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Re: [LIS-Forum] request for an article
by Mailing List Manager 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Dear Member: I would like to thank the members who have expressed their views/comments on the subject "whether requests for full text articles coming from members working for commercial organizations should be entertained on this list or not". I have consolidated the replies received till 03 Mar, 2.30 pm and have appended it to this message. Let's wait for couple of more days before we take a final decision on the matter. Meanwhile, I would like to stress the point that this forum should be used only as a last resort to seek help from fellow members. Many a times the members just shoot off their queries to the forum without doing any homework themselves. I return at lease one or two mails every other day because the expectations of such mails is that the fellow members have to refer to the resources to answer the queries, which very well could have been done by the requesters themselves. Please ensure that you append full signature to your messages, especially when you are seeking help/response from fellow members. Thanks for your cooperation With warm regards, - moderator ------------------------------- I. I think there is no harm in providing reference service - availability related information or referral information - if tracking of full text article is really a problem for a member working for a commercial organisation. Let the requstee then collect the orginal article from the referrals. Many a times even an expert searcher experience lack of information regarding availability of articles, etc. Think about those who really need our help. Completely ignoring or not entertaining the request will be a negative approach for the profession. It also does not match to our ethical standards. Regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry ------------------ II. I agree with you. Krishna Yeri Librarian,IRMA, Anand ------------- III. I beg to offer a slightly different view. As far as copyright infringement is concerned, supplying one copy for personal use of a researcher is OK. It is immaterial whether the end user or his organisation is carrying out research in academic institution or is attached to an industrial research unit, whether fully commercial (say ranbaxy) or industrial research establishment funded by public funds (CDRI, for example). Research is research and the benefits of research go to all. Copyright laws pose no threat either, as per my understanding. However, if a company say Ranbaxy in private sector or IDPL in public sector wants to use the information for commercial purposes (marketing, publicity, beating down competition etc) then copyright fee or licensing fee for each copy must be paid for. Librarians who are a party to this kind of infringement must be aware of their limitations. The best thing would be to avoid ALL requests for photocopies being distributed via Lis-forum. Let us encourage large libraries and library networks funded by govt funds to be more responsive and co-operative in this matter. Regards Dr P vyasamoorthy ---------------------- 1V. I agree. We are an organization that procures and supplies articles to BOTH non-profit/academic, as well as commercial organizations. For the latter, we procure copyright fee paid copies and provide it to them. We have even procured from local libraries and then paid the copyright fee to the US Copyright Clearance Centre, and charged commercial clients for the same. (We discontinued this, because very often we got poor quality copies and the client was unhappy about that, specially after paying a high fee) Our experience has been that many Indian commercial companies are "conveniently unaware" of copyright fee for articles, and many libraries still do provide articles to commercial organizations, charging only a membership fee for services. The libraries do not take care of paying the copyright fee to the publisher/CCC So these commercial organizations take advantage and take copies from the libraries. They come to us if they cannot procure from a library, or if there is an urgency. I would urge that libraries either take on the onus of paying copyright fee on behalf of commercial organizations, or request such organizations to approach us, or any other agency that does similar work. Just as an additional information........We have been a Private Limited company, but are now running as a non-profit organization. Our legal status is in the process of change (taking much longer than I hoped it would), but we have been operating as a not for profit entity since Apr 2005 Vasumathi Sriganesh Director, QMed Services

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Why can't Google Scholar be like Open J-Gate / OAIster
by Sukhdev Singh 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

This morning was frustating with Google Scholar. I just wanted to get hold of some scholary literature on "Methods forBenchmarking Organisations". So, opened up Google Scholar<http://scholar.google.com> and fired the first term - "benchmarking".Good - 149,000 hits to good quality looking literature. So, startedclicking by one by one to see the hits. But, what is this?!! Almostevery click was asking me to pay somewhere 20 to 40 Dollars to havethe access to full text. Obiously - this is the locked up knowledgefor me. What is the use of these wonderful hits to high qualityliterature when I can not view them. Next I opened up Open J-Gate <http://www.openj-gate.com/> and firedthe same term "benchmarking". Had to wait for the results. Ultimatelygot the result - 216 hits. This served my purpose. Not that thesepointed to high quality papers. But I got what I wanted in return forwhat I could afford to pay for. No wasting of time in clicking andwaiting to learn that I can't afford to buy the stuff. Later found that OAIster <http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/>gave 1674 hits for the same term. But then, all Open/Free Accessliterature may not be OAI compliant. Why can't Google creates a service for just Open/Free Access ScholaryLiterature and name it as OpenScholar?. Its better technology can helpsmall mortals like me. Sukhdev Singh, NIC.http://openmed.nic.in

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Message for Circulation on lis-forum
by ratnakar 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Will be thankful if you kindly circulate the following important information on lis-forum A. Ratnakar New Delhi __________________________________________________________________________ World’s largest Open Access e-journals portal launched The placid and lackadaisical information infrastructure scenario of the country saw a momentous action on Monday the 27th of Feb, when world’s first e-journals portal Open J-Gate (www.openj-gate.com <http://www.openj-gate.com/> ) was launched by Bangalore based Informatics (India) Ltd as a free service for everyone across the globe. Informatics called the launch as India's contribution to the global research and the promotion of open access movement. Open Access to journals is what Open Source is for software. As the name suggests access to open j-gate is free for any one to access across the world. It has enhanced the information access of researchers not only in India but all over the world. The occasion for this historic launch was the 12th Annual Lecture on Informatics at Indian National Academy of Sciences (INSA), where over 200 senior professors, scientists, librarians and researchers from most of the top research and academic establishments of the country had gathered. Dr Jean-Claude Guedon, a global expert of open access movement and founder of Internet Society of Canada launched the Open J-Gate who was sent by the Open Society Institute (OSI), New York for this launch. There are hundreds of journals, which are available from various publishers and societies from across the globe free on the Internet. But all of them are widely scattered and searching the articles and getting to them is a very cumbersome job for researchers. Open J-Gate is the first portal in the world to index over 3000+ open access e-journals on one single searchable platform in the form of a standard database bridging the access gap. The nearest comparable initiative by Lund University, Sweden, covers less than 600 open access e-journals. UGC Vice Chairman Prof V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai shared his ideas on open access issues that affect the most to the global scientific fraternity and lauded the efforts of Informatics immensely for launching open J-Gate; a portal direly needed by the resource starved Indian scientific community in particular. Dr. Guedon dwelled on the history of the open access movement and emphasized on the need of expanding the open access movement across the globe. He congratulated the CMD of Informatics Mr. N V sathyanaryana for his philanthropic venture and hailed Open J-Gate as a revolutionary step for the global scientific community at large. Open J-Gate has over a million articles published in 2,000 plus peer reviewed research journals in addition to articles from over 1,000 trade and professional journals. The data base can be accessed at the URL www.openj-gate.com <http://www.openj-gate.com/>

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