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KALA LECTURE: INVITATION
by I.R.N.Goudar 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

KARNATAKA STATE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AND SARADA RANGANATHAN ENDOWMENT FOR LIBRARY SCIENCE Cordially invite you for the following lecture: TOPIC: Adaptive Developments of Information Professionals in Digital Era SPEAKER: Prof. MA Gopinath Visiting Professor North Carolina University, USA DATE & TIME: Friday, 13th January 2006 at 6.30 pm VENUE: Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Floor, Rajajainagar, Bangalore-10 Phone No.23305109 e-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com I request personally all of you to convey this invitation to all your professional colleagues and friends. I.R.N. Goudar Dr. K.N. Prasad President, KALA Director, SRELS

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E-Content Development and Management
by jyoti shreeram bhabal 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

SHPT School of Library Science SNDT Womens University Offers an Innovative part time Certificate Course In collaboration with DSIR, GoI On E-Content Development and Management Bill Gates once called the Internet as a marketplace of ideas, experiences, and products - a marketplace of content. In todays digital environment Content is King. There is a continuing need to develop relevant, useful and authentic content. As more Indians use the Internet and as worldwide more people use the Internet to know about India, there is a growing need for the development of a critical mass of localized content both in English and Indian languages. The definition of "content" is very wide and includes all categories of popular content - not just software and news, but also games, entertainment, sports programming, directories, classified advertising, and on-line communities devoted to major interests. Content development and management lies at the base of Web, Intranet and CD-Rom publishing; it also underlies e-commerce and e-learning two growing trends, world wide. You can be part of the rapidly growing employment market in this area. You can use your subject knowledge (and also your experience, hobbies, passions, or pastimes) and learn to create high-value content, which ranks well at the Search Engines. You may become a self-employed Infopreneur or work as a team member of a web product and service provider. SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT Womens University has a long tradition of continuing professional education. It has, in collaboration with the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India developed an 8-credit (4 month part time) course to provide conceptual and practical inputs in the area of content development and management. The first course, which began on September 21, 2005, has been completed. We now announce the Second Course. Objectives At the end of the course the participant will be able to: · Plan content and use various information sources for collecting information · Write and edit content for the Web in English and Indian languages · Create/structure digital documents using HTML, XML, Photoshop, Flash, etc. · Create a plan for a website Scope: The course will cover: · Content Management and its Context · Planning Content · Collection of Information · Writing for the Internet · Developing Digital Content · Information Architecture · Website Development and hosting Basic issues Methodology Lectures, discussions, case study, demonstrations, practical exercises and Self Learning. Resource Persons Experts from industry, consultants and academic faculty. Evaluation Class exercises, Tests and Project to constitute a portfolio for evaluation Participants Limited to 15 participants on a first come first served basis. Post graduates in any subject with basic skills in computer and Internet use are eligible Course Schedule: Second course: January to April 2006 (Beginning January 24, 2006) Every Tuesday and Thursday: 4.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. Every Saturday: 10.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Fees Application Fee: Rs.100/- (with application form) Course Fee: Rs.4000/- (Includes Computer practicals, course materials, and examination fees) Last Date of Registration for 2nd course January 16, 2006 For More Information Contact : Dr. Ms Perin Marolia / Ms Jyoti Bhabal / Ms Sarika Sawant, SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT Womens University, Patkar Hall, New Marine Lines, Mumbai 400 020 Tel. 2207 2792; 2208 5439 Email: sndtulib(a)bom3.vsnl.net.in ***** S.H.P.T. SCHOOL OF LIBRARY SCIENCE, S.N.D.T. WOMENS UNIVERSITY MUMBAI 400 020 ************************************* Course on e-Content Development and Management September December 2005 ************************************** APPLICATION FORM *** Name: ____________________________________ Address: ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Phone Number:____________________________________ e-mail Address:____________________________________ Date of Birth: ____________________________________ Educational Qualifications: Degree Subject Year of passing Percentage Work Experience: I agree to abide by the rules set down for this course by the SHPT School of Library Science ______________________ Signature of Applicant Date: Note: Forms should be submitted to the office of the SHPT School of Library Science, before September 16, 2005, with the Application fee of Rs 100. SHPT School of Library Science SNDT Womens University Offers an Innovative part time Certificate Course In collaboration with DSIR, GoI On E-Content Development and Management Bill Gates once called the Internet as a marketplace of ideas, experiences, and products - a marketplace of content. In todays digital environment Content is King. There is a continuing need to develop relevant, useful and authentic content. As more Indians use the Internet and as worldwide more people use the Internet to know about India, there is a growing need for the development of a critical mass of localized content both in English and Indian languages. The definition of "content" is very wide and includes all categories of popular content - not just software and news, but also games, entertainment, sports programming, directories, classified advertising, and on-line communities devoted to major interests. Content development and management lies at the base of Web, Intranet and CD-Rom publishing; it also underlies e-commerce and e-learning two growing trends, world wide. You can be part of the rapidly growing employment market in this area. You can use your subject knowledge (and also your experience, hobbies, passions, or pastimes) and learn to create high-value content, which ranks well at the Search Engines. You may become a self-employed Infopreneur or work as a team member of a web product and service provider. SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT Womens University has a long tradition of continuing professional education. It has, in collaboration with the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India developed an 8-credit (4 month part time) course to provide conceptual and practical inputs in the area of content development and management. The first course, which began on September 21, 2005, has been completed. We now announce the Second Course. Objectives At the end of the course the participant will be able to: · Plan content and use various information sources for collecting information · Write and edit content for the Web in English and Indian languages · Create/structure digital documents using HTML, XML, Photoshop, Flash, etc. · Create a plan for a website Scope: The course will cover: · Content Management and its Context · Planning Content · Collection of Information · Writing for the Internet · Developing Digital Content · Information Architecture · Website Development and hosting Basic issues Methodology Lectures, discussions, case study, demonstrations, practical exercises and Self Learning. Resource Persons Experts from industry, consultants and academic faculty. Evaluation Class exercises, Tests and Project to constitute a portfolio for evaluation Participants Limited to 15 participants on a first come first served basis. Post graduates in any subject with basic skills in computer and Internet use are eligible Course Schedule: Second course: January to April 2006 (Beginning January 24, 2006) Every Tuesday and Thursday: 4.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. Every Saturday: 10.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Fees Application Fee: Rs.100/- (with application form) Course Fee: Rs.4000/- (Includes Computer practicals, course materials, and examination fees) Last Date of Registration for 2nd course January 16, 2006 For More Information Contact : Dr. Ms Perin Marolia / Ms Jyoti Bhabal / Ms Sarika Sawant, SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT Womens University, Patkar Hall, New Marine Lines, Mumbai 400 020 Tel. 2207 2792; 2208 5439 Email: sndtulib(a)bom3.vsnl.net.in ***** S.H.P.T. SCHOOL OF LIBRARY SCIENCE, S.N.D.T. WOMENS UNIVERSITY MUMBAI 400 020 ************************************* Course on e-Content Development and Management September December 2005 ************************************** APPLICATION FORM *** Name: ____________________________________ Address: ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Phone Number:____________________________________ e-mail Address:____________________________________ Date of Birth: ____________________________________ Educational Qualifications: Degree Subject Year of passing Percentage Work Experience: I agree to abide by the rules set down for this course by the SHPT School of Library Science ______________________ Signature of Applicant Date: Note: Forms should be submitted to the office of the SHPT School of Library Science, before September 16, 2005, with the Application fee of Rs 100. 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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Submission : -Open Access and Self Archiving - A Boon in disguise
by Mailing List Manager 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 15:13:05 +0530 From: AGouri(a)wockhardtin.com Open Access and Self Archiving - A Boon in disguise Dear All, I have joined this group recently and it is my pleasure to join a group of like-minded people working towards the betterment of the Information Society. I work in the Medical Information department of Wockhardt, Ltd in Mumbai. We are a small team of two at the corporate office, Dr Rucha - Senior Manager, Medical Information and myself - Ms Anahita Gouri, Executive, Medical Information. We are a support function for the clinical research, medico marketing, regulatory, strategic planning and international marketing divisions. We ourselves are very interested in the concept of knowledge management and in our efforts towards improvising the current situation have merged with our in-house IT team to develop a database with the help of Lotus Notes. We strongly believe that "In today's environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something very important, the way to get power is by actually sharing It." - by Joseph Badaracco. Recently I attended the Biomedical Information Retrieval Training at National Informatics Centre - New Delhi, where we were exposed to the concept of Open Access and Self Archival. I must confess, the very first thought that came to my mind was " Yes - This is it". This is where I could submit my research work and share it with people working in the same research area. I wish something like this would have developed earlier when I was working on my project, it would be so much easier to know about Indian data and research work done in my area. Not only does the Open Access initiative at NIC fulfill the desire to share scientific work done by an individual but also fulfills the desire to build a quality virtual asset for ourselves and the generations to come. Earlier, it was extremely disheartening to realize that good conferences and universities in India still do not have any virtual presence or existence. The thesis submitted to these universities and presentations and posters delivered to national level conferences have no virtual archival systems and eventually the work done by students is forgotten. Open Access initiative at the NIC is reviving our dreams of seeing our work being cited and referred too by individuals world over. This helps us slowly build a global presence for ourselves. I personally feel, in some way it contributes to the improvement in research work been done and reduces redundancy of the same work being done again and again. I request all students and other researchers to use the OpenMed at NIC to the fullest and be grateful and proud of the initiative taken by National Informatics Centre. Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision-making, it is a burden, not a benefit. The future is moving so quickly that we can’t anticipate it. People at NIC have done the right thing by putting tremendous emphasis on quick response and being sensitive to the requirement of the Indian research / student society. I am extremely grateful to them for the same. Looking forward to sharing and learning through dynamic exchange of thoughts and ideas that this group is known for. Ms Anahita Gouri Executive - Medical Information Wockhardt Ltd

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Recruitment over at ICICI Knowledge Park
by aparajita＠icicikp.com 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Dear Members, We are not receiving any more CVs for the post of Information Officer at ICICI Knowledge Park from today on. The CVs are being screened, interview letter will be sent to eligible candidates in due course. Thanks for your responses, Best regards, Aparajita ----- Aparajita Suman Information Officer Virtual Information Centre ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500 078 INDIA < mailto:aparajita@icicikp.com> Phone - Office: +91(40)2348 0054 Fax: +91(40)2348 0007 Dear Members, We are not receiving any more CVs for the post of Information Officer at ICICI Knowledge Park from today on. The CVs are being screened, interview letter will be sent to eligible candidates in due course. Thanks for your responses, Best regards, Aparajita ----- Aparajita Suman Information Officer Virtual Information Centre ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500 078 INDIA < mailto:aparajita@icicikp.com mailto:aparajita@icicikp.com > Phone - Office: +91(40)2348 0054 Fax: +91(40)2348 0007

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Articles on RFID
by Saiful Amin 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Dear Professionals, There are three relevant articles on RFID published by Haworth Press: - Radio frequency identification systems for libraries and archives: an introduction [by Diane Ward] - Radio frequency identification for security and media circulation in libraries [by Emmett Erwin and Christian Kern] - What's next for the radio frequency library? [by Toni Scire] All the three articles are available in a single file in the following location: http://www.haworthpress.com/store/SampleText/J114.pdf Regards, Saiful -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." There are three relevant articles on RFID published by Haworth Press: Radio frequency identification systems for libraries and archives: an introduction [by Diane Ward] Radio frequency identification for security and media circulation in libraries [by Emmett Erwin and Christian Kern] What's next for the radio frequency library? [by Toni Scire] All the three articles are available in a single file in the following location: http://www.haworthpress.com/store/SampleText/J114.pdf http://www.haworthpress.com/store/SampleText/J114.pdf Regards, Saiful -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 http://www.edutechindia.com www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong."

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OARE Project
by Shyam Prasad pujar 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Of possible interest. __________________________ December 2005 Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) for Developing Nations. http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/05-12-22-04.all.html For immediate release: Grants to Enable Developing World to Access Leading Scientific Research New Haven, Conn.-Two grants totaling $500,000 will support Yale University's participation in an international consortium to make prestigious scientific journals in the environmental sciences available online, at little or no cost, to the developing world The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation each have given $250,000 to Yale to help establish Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE). OARE, a digital internet library for developing countries, will provide access to the peer-reviewed scientific literature of leading international publishing houses. Organizations eligible to use OARE will include approximately 1,000 public, non-profit institutions in more than 100 underdeveloped nations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. Literature in environmental chemistry, economics, law and policy, and other environmental subjects such as botany, conservation biology, ecology and zoology will be available through a portal presented in several world languages, including Arabic, English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. Yale's OARE activities will be directed by Oswald Schmitz, professor of population and community ecology and associate dean of academic affairs at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Ann Okerson, associate university librarian for collections and international programs. James Gustav Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, stated, "Thanks to advances in information and communication technologies and the great generosity of many leading scientific publishers and foundations, we now have an unprecedented opportunity to provide environmental institutions in 110 less-developed countries intellectual resources that we in the developed world take for granted." Alice Prochaska, University Librarian added: "We are eager to work together to increase the ability of leading scientists in developing countries to conduct their own high-quality research and develop their own educational programs in the environmental sciences. Helping the world benefit from Yale's wealth of expertise by extending access to information and resources is central to the library's mission." Published in the United States and Europe under copyright and with annual subscription fees averaging $1,000, the prestigious journals in which a majority of scientific research is published are too costly for most developing nations to purchase. OARE will enable countries to build their own higher education programs in the environmental sciences, educate their own leaders, conduct their own research, publish their own scientific findings and disseminate information to policy makers and the public. Next year, OARE will be offered to users in 70 developing nations with a per capita gross national product (GNP) of $1,000 or less in the first phase of the project's implementation. In the project's second phase, approximately 45 more countries with GNP per capita between $1,000 and $3,000 will be enrolled. Yale will develop OARE in cooperation with the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, Cornell University and leading scientific publishers around the world. Yale will create software for OARE's secure internet portal, organize and updates its database of scientific literature, attract new publishers to the consortium, and develop partnerships between the consortium and American and European institutions to expand internet connectivity and offer training. Paul Bendiks Walberg, a recent graduate of the School of Management and School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and Kimberly Parker, head of the university library's electronic collections, conceived the OARE project over the course of the last three years. The project is inspired by Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI), a World Heath Organization program in which Yale played a leading role, that has strengthened public health services in developing countries by providing access to research in the medical sciences. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, based in Menlo Park, Calif., supports activities in education, the environment, global development, the performing arts and population. The MacArthur Foundation, which has offices around the world, is dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition. ## ********************************************************************** Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * Phone: (022) 28400919-21 Extn: 514 * * Fax: (022) 28402752 * * E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in * * URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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How to Reinvent Ourselves in 2006
by Sukhdev Singh 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Will wishing Happy New Year make us happy 2006? We are seeing revolutionary changes around us in service sector.Do we bank the same way now?Do we talk over the same old plain telephone? Will our users' expectations remain the same?Do we need to reinvent ourselves? HOW? , WHEN? WISH YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR. --Sukhdev Singh.

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LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD presented to Dr. Harish Chandra
by Arunachalam Hariharan 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Dear friends, I am very happy to inform you all that Dr. Harish Chandra, Librarian, IIT Madras, Chennai, has been awarded "LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD" for his Outstanding Contributions & Services to the Library Profession by the Society for the Advancement and Library and Information Science (SALIS) during the 25th All India IASLIC Conference held at IIT Madras on 29th December 2005. The Gold Medal Award was presented by Hon'ble Chief Guest of the Valedictory Function Dr. G. Viswanathan, former Minister and Chancellor, Vellore Institute of Technology(Deemed University), Vellore. The citation was presented to Dr. Harish Chandra by Prof. S.Narayanan, Dean, Academic Reasearch & Chairman, LAC. IIT Madras. A.Hariharan __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com

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DD Interview of Ex-KALA President
by I.R.N.Goudar 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Dear Professionals, I am happy to learn about the following DD Interview, being telecast " BELAGU programme in Chandana DD-9" Topic: Visibility of Libraries in Digital Era (Mahiti and Manassu) By Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah, Ph.D. Principal Library and Information Officer, NIMHANS-Deemed University Bangalore-560029 Date & Time: Jan 5, 2006 (Thursday) between 7,00 - 7.40 am Please watch, enjoy and give your feed back. Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html

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Story of the OA repository at India's National Informatics Centre
by Sukhdev Singh 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

In November 2005, one of our article [ http://openmed.nic.in/1108/ ]on OpenMED@NIC has been highlighted in Prof Peter Suber's Blog dated :*Saturday, November 12, 2005 under the heading of "Story of the OArepository at India's National Informatics Centre". *http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2005_11_06_fosblogarchive.html Story of the OA repository at India's National Informatics Centre * Sukhdev Singh, and Naina Pandita, Building the open accessself-archiving repository for the bio-medical sciences at NationalInformatics Centre http://openmed.nic.in/1108/, in: NationalConvention of Medical Library Association of India, November 7-9m2005, Bangalore, India. Abstract: Self-Archiving is an important model of the Open Access movement. National Informatics Centre has been providing various services and products to the biomedical community. Building up a Self-archiving repository for Bio-medical and Allied sciences was a natural extension of these activities. To make this repository interoperable with other such repositories Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) was adopted. The selection of suitable software for the archive was done from OAI-PMH compatible softwares. GNU EPrints was finally selected. A prototype was build for planning of activities, demonstration and checking security aspects. To provide subject-wise browse view to the archive a MeSH based categorization was adopted. A dedicated server was procured and installed in the NIC Network Domain under RedHat Advanced Server Version 3.0. EPrints software was then installed and customized. Making scientists and authors aware of Open Access and its benefits remains a major challenge for any such attempt. However efforts are bearing fruits in the form of Open Self-archiving repository for Bio-medical and Allied Sciences i.e. OpenMED@NIC http://openmed.nic.in. ThanksSukhdev Singh, NIC.http://openmed.nic.in

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Position Announcement--Indexers & Abstractors
by T.V. Prafulla Chandra 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Position Announcement INDEXERS and ABSTRACTORS NISC Export Services (NES) Private Limited invites applications for positions of INDEXERS and ABSTRACTORS in its Content Department. NES and its affiliates together comprise one of the foremost database access, production and publishing companies in the world. NESs 100+ database products, published online (BiblioLine) or on CD-ROM (NISC DISCover), cover most areas of the universe of know-ledgearts & humanities, earth sciences, environment, social sciences, life sciences and technology. NES is looking for candidates who have at least ONE of the following degrees: M.L.I.Sc., M.C.J., M.A. (in English or any Social Science subject), M.Com., or M.B.A. In addition, the candidates should have the following skills: --Good typing skills are required as the working environment involves online computer use for access to offices worldwide. --Familiarity with Internet browsing. --Ability to communicate in a formal, clear, empathetic and pleasant style, with excellent command of written and spoken English. If you are not a resident of Hyderabad and are willing to relocate, please indicate that at the top of your resume. NES would shortly move into its own building coming up at Cherlapally (about 15 kms from Secunderabad Railway Station) and the selected candidates would be based there. Apart from on- job training inputs, NES provides a comfortable, pleasant and enjoyable work environment with bright career prospects and exciting opportunities to realize ones potentialities. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. NES considers applications from candidates who had appeared for examinations and awaiting announcement of results. Please submit a letter of application, resume, and names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of three references to: The Managing Director NISC Export Services Co. Pvt. Ltd. 3rd Floor, Ballad Estates, St. Anns Road, Tarnaka Hyderabad 500 017 Email: hrd(a)nisc.co.in Phone: +91 40 27001517 Fax: +91 40 27002538 Applications are accepted until the positions are filled. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Happy new year to all LIS Professionals
by Hemant Bhoot 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

To, Dear All Friends, Wish u happy and prosperous 2006. May god fullfill all your professional desire in coming year. All the best to u all. Thanks Hemant Bhoot Librarian Institute of Professional Education & Research, Bhojpur Road, Bhopal. email: hb_iper(a)rediffmail.com To, Dear All Friends, Wish u happy and prosperous 2006. May god fullfill all your professional desire in coming year. All the best to u all. Thanks Hemant Bhoot Librarian Institute of Professional Education & Research, Bhojpur Road, Bhopal. email: hb_iper(a)rediffmail.com 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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LECTURE ON OPEN ACCESS- BY DR ALMA SWAN on 5 jan 2006. invitation
by Mailing List Manager 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:53:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE OSMANIA UNIVERSITY In collaboration with ICSSR SOUTHERN REGIONAL CENTRE Invite you for a lecture by DR. ALMA SWAN (Director, Key Perspectives Ltd, UK) on PERSPECTIVES ON OPEN ACCESS on Thursday, the 5th January, 2006 at 11.00 a.m. at ICSSR Conference Hall PROF. P. JAYA PRAKASH RAO (Vice-Chairman, A.P. State Council for Higher Education) will preside over the Function --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. N. Laxman Rao Dr. V. Vishwa Mohan Dr. Masood Ali Khan Chairman Head, DLIS Director Board of Studies in LIS ICSSR Southern Regional Centre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Open Access is The Open Access research literature is composed of free, online copies of peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers as well as technical reports, theses and working papers. In most cases there are no licensing restrictions on their use by readers. They can therefore be used freely for research, teaching and other purposes. What Open Access is not There are various misunderstandings about Open Access. It is not self-publishing, nor a way to bypass peer-review and publication, nor is it a kind of second-class, cut-price publishing route. It is simply a means to make research results freely available online to the whole research community. How is Open Access provided? Open Access can be provided by various means. A researcher can place a copy of each article in an Open Access archive or repository or can publish articles in Open Access journals. In addition, a researcher may place a copy of each article on a personal or departmental website. Whilst all three routes to Open Access ensure that far more users can access such articles than if they were hidden away in subscription-based journals, the first two constitute much more systematic and organised approaches than the third and maximise the chance of other researchers locating and reading articles. Open Access archives or repositories are digital collections of research articles that have been placed there by their authors. In the case of journal articles this may be done either before (preprints) or after publication (postprints). This is known as �self-archiving�. These repositories expose the metadata of each article (the title, authors, and other bibliographic details) in a format compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAIPMH). To access the contents of these archives, you can use Google or one of the specialised search engines for a more focused and efficient search. The latter systematically harvest the contents of the archives worldwide, forming a database of current global research. Open Access repositories may be multidisciplinary and located in universities or other research-based institutions, or they may be centralised and subject-based, such as the one covering certain areas of physics and related disciplines, called arXiv. By the beginning of 2005, there were almost 40 Open Access archives in the UK, and more universities and research institutes are planning to launch their own. A list of Open Access archives in the UK is maintained by the Eprints.org site at Southampton University. If your institution does not have an archive, extensive information on how to set one up can be found on that website. Self-archiving is an international movement that is developing fast, and some grant funders are also now planning central archives to house the articles of their grant-holders. If you are concerned that your journal�s publisher may have copyright restrictions that would prevent you from selfarchiving your articles, this will in most instances not be the case. Current publisher policies on self-archiving and copyright are detailed on the SHERPA project website at Nottingham University. Open Access journals are peer-reviewed journals whose articles may be accessed online by anyone without charge. In many cases they may also be published in print. Some, mainly those published from a university department or with substantial subsidy, make no author or page charges. Others levy a charge for publishing an article, turning on its head the traditional model where a library pays for access to the contents of a journal through a subscription. This charge may be paid by the author(s) but in most cases it is financed by a research grant or institutional funds. Your institution may already have taken the decision to pay for Open Access articles to be published, or your grant-awarding body may have adopted this as one of its policies. A list of grant awarding bodies that explicitly permit funds to be used for this purpose is maintained on the BioMed Central website. BioMed Central is a well-known Open Access publisher with over 100 journals in its portfolio. Other examples are the journals from the Public Library of Science, such as PLoS Medicine, PLoS Biology. In the case of an author�s financial hardship, BioMed Central, PLoS and other Open Access journal publishers will waive the publication fee. Fees levied by Open Access journals vary quite markedly but, as a guideline, BioMed Central charges �330 per article for most of its journals, and PLoS charges US$1,500 (approx. �800). In 2003 JISC secured a deal with BioMed Central on behalf of UK institutions to waive author fees for over 90 biomedical journals. A comprehensive list of Open Access journals in all subject areas is maintained by the University of Lund. In early 2005 this list contained over 1,400 journals. Many of these Open Access journals have impact factors and are indexed by the Institute for Scientific Information for its Web of Knowledge/ Web of Science service. At June 2004, 239 Open Access journals were in this category. Another form of Open Access is found in �hybrid� journals: these are publications that will make an article accessible to everyone online without charge if the author opts to pay for publication. An example of a hybrid journal is the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which will make an article Open Access for a fee of US$1,000. Why should authors provide Open Access to their work? There is accumulating evidence that shows that research articles that have been self-archived are cited more often than those that have not. Across most subject areas there is at least a twofold increase in citation rate. In some subject areas it is even higher. This form of Open Access means that research has much more impact than before. Moreover, the research cycle � where work is published, read, cited and then built upon by other researchers � is enhanced and accelerated when results are available on an Open Access basis. Would you not prefer to be able to access all the articles you need to read and use for your research, easily and without restriction? This paper has been written by Alma Swan of Key Perspectives Ltd on behalf of JISC and produced and edited by Sara Hassen and the JISC Communications Team. Alternative formats of the briefing paper can be found at: Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, Chairman, Board of Studies, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) Vice President, Association of British Scholars(AP Chapter) Vice-President, Faculty Club, Osmania University Ph:+91-40-27171565(res): +91-40-27682290(off) 9246547599(Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! CarsNEW - sell your car and browse thousands of new and used cars online search now ---------------------------------

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Need Suggestion or Discussion
by librarymahad 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Dear All, First of all wish you all a very happy, prosperous and peaceful new year 2006!!! I am a librarian in a Medium Scale Industry. I do also have experience in another three of such industries. Most of the Employers treat "LIBRARIAN" as a "C" grade staff. That's what I have experienced. My intention is to get information : 1. How we should change their mentality? 2. What are the actions to be taken? 3. Mostly they are treating Library as unwanted department, therefore giving less important. I tried all types of strategies to make Library "a temple of Knowledge" but failed. Please let me know what should we do? 4. Why academic libraries are not considering us to give a chance to serve them? 5. What Library professionals' Movement can be done against these injustices? There are many more. Regards, Pradip Das Librarian, Vinyl Chemicals (I) Ltd., A/21, MIDC, Maharashtra - 402309 India. Tel : 02145 - 232043 to 46 Extn. : 226 E-mail : librarymahad(a)pidilite.co.in or, pradip_das_55(a)rediffmail.com Dear All, First of all wish you all a very happy, prosperous and peaceful new year 2006!!! I am a librarian in a Medium Scale Industry. I do also have experience in another three of such industries. Most of the Employers treat " LIBRARIAN" as a "C" grade staff. That's what I have experienced. My intention is to get information : 1. How we should change their mentality? 2. What are the actions to be taken? 3. Mostly they are treating Library as unwanted department, therefore giving less important. I tried all types of strategies to make Library "a temple of Knowledge" but failed. Please let me know what should we do? 4. Why academic libraries are not considering us to give a chance to serve them? 5. What Library professionals' Movement can be done against these injustices? There are many more. Regards, Pradip Das Librarian, Vinyl Chemicals (I) Ltd., A/21, MIDC, Maharashtra - 402309 India. Tel : 02145 - 232043 to 46 Extn. : 226 E-mail : mailto:librarymahad@pidilite.co.in librarymahad(a)pidilite.co.in or, mailto:pradip_das_55@rediffmail.com pradip_das_55(a)rediffmail.com

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Article indexing
by Prabhash.Rath 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Dear all It is really good to see the topic article indexing is the focus of discussion in LIS forum for some time. I fully agree with the comments made by Mr C U Navalgund that this is a value added service mostly for in-house members and should be taken up by professionals if time and manpower permit. In GIPE Library, we have been bringing out 'Fortnightly List of articles on India' since 1967 which has been continuing uninterruptedly till date. We do index all articles on India that appear in all Indian and foreign journals and four financial newspapers which have been subscribed by our Library. In fact, four years back, in our Institute itself, some discussion was going on about the viability of this service when we started computerisation of the library. However, after examining several such services and databases of articles, we have decided to continue with our service. The service has been well-appreciated by our faculty and also outside members. Even there are non-members who subscribe to our articles list in hard copy format. Thus, from my own experience, I strongly feel the need of such service at least in libraries attached to such research institutions who do research pertaining to socio-economic problems of India. With regards Prabhash N. Rath, Ph. D. Documentation Officer Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics B M C C Road Pune - 411004 (India) Tel: +91-20-25650287 (O), +91-20-25678311 (R.) E-mail: prabhash(a)gipe.ernet.in, prabhashrath(a)yahoo.com

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Hey, I blog too!
by Sukhdev Singh 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Dear friends, Just to share with you! I blog too!! Following are some items I posted on my blog i.e. http://sukhdev.blogspot.com * Whiteboard * Pharmpedia * Top 11 Trends for Organizational Learning * OPAC as a tool for user tagging? * Emerging Technology - Web 2.0 Arrives * 2005 - Best of WEB 2.0 * MedLib * How Google is changing medicine * Viruses from your email address * What is Library 2.0? - Discussion Sukhdev Singh.http://sukhdev.blogspot.com

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GREETINGS-KLA
by gopikuttan gopikuttan 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

DEAR PROFESSIONALS WISH U ALL A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR. Dr.A.Gopikuttan General Secretary Kerala Library Association Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com

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Happy New Year to all of You
by Raj Kumar 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

Dear LIS Professionals I wish you a very very HAPPY NEW YEAR 2006. May God Bless all of us to Scale LIS prfession to New and Great Hights. Best Regards Raj Kumar RAJ KUMAR,M.Sc.(Chem.),M.L.I.Sc.,PGDLAN Incahrge cum Assistant Librarian Institute of Technology and Management HUDA Sector-23A, Gurgaon,Haryana-122017 E-mail address: rjkyadav(a)gmail.com rjk78(a)rediffmail.com CELL NO.9899-478-343 Office:91-124-2365811 --------------------------------- Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less Dear LIS Professionals I wish you a very very HAPPY NEW YEAR 2006. May God Bless all of us to Scale LIS prfession to New and Great Hights. Best Regards Raj Kumar RAJ KUMAR,M.Sc.(Chem.),M.L.I.Sc.,PGDLAN Incahrge cum Assistant Librarian Institute of Technology and Management HUDA Sector-23A, Gurgaon,Haryana-122017 E-mail address: rjkyadav(a)gmail.com rjk78(a)rediffmail.com CELL NO.9899-478-343 Office:91-124-2365811 http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=37474/*http://promo.yahoo.c… Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less

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GREETINGS
by Lalitha Aswath 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

Dear Professionals, Wish you all a very happy , prosperous and peaceful new year 2006. Dr.Lalitha Aswath, Prof. & chairperson, Dept. of Lib. & Inform. Science, Bangalore University, Bangalore-560 056

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KALA-New Year Greetings
by I.R.N.Goudar 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

Dear Professionals, Karnataka State Library Association wish you and your family "HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2006" Let us work sincerely for Professional cause during 2006 and serve the academic and research community more effectively and cordially. Pl Note: Once again I request you all to respond to the mail I sent earlier in connection with the proposed 'Veteran's Day' during February 2006. If you are the one as mentioned earlier, please send your resume with postal address, phone number, e-mail, etc. PLEASE INFORM ABOUT VETERANS IF ANY OF YOUR FRIENDS/COLLEAGUES COME UNDER THESE CATEGORIES. Goudar President, KALA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html

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Fw: JPGM crosses 100 thousand article downloads in a month
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

Friends: People often ask about the benefits of OA. Here is a case in point from India. The Journal of Postgraduate Medicine (Bombay) has become very popular ever since it became an OA journal, says Dr D K Sahu, a champion of OA in India. I wish the journals published by government agencies such as CSIR go OA! Incidentally Dr Sahu may kindly clarify if the downloads refer to full artcles or pages. Best wishes. Arun JPGM registers over 100 thousand article downloads in a month The number of article downloads per month has crossed the figure of 100,000. Ninety thousand three hundred twenty five unique visitors downloaded 110,218 article pages in the month of November. These downloads are from the journal's primary website (i.e. www.jpgmonline.com) Apart from this website, the full text of the journal is also available from Bioline International, OAI-complaint repository at the University of Toronto and from a number of secondary aggregating agencies such as Thomson Gale, EBSCO Publishing and ProQuest. Thus, the actual downloads per month are much higher. Open access sources, DOAJ, PubMed and Wikipedia were amongst the top five referrers (except search engines) for the journal's website. Over 270 institutions utilize the LinkOut facilities from PubMed to access the journal. Regards, DK Sahu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subbiah Arunachalam [mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in] Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 4:25 PM To: peters(a)earlham.edu; dksahu(a)vsnl.com Subject: Fw: JPGM crosses 100 thousand article downloads in a month Dear Sahu: Please send a slightly more detailed note to Prof. Peter Suber. the one you have sent is too cryptic. Arun ----- Original Message ----- From: DK Sahu To: 'Peter Suber' Cc: 'Subbiah Arunachalam' Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 2:55 PM Subject: JPGM crosses 100 thousand article downloads in a month Sir You may like to add this in OAN. "The number of article downloads per month crosses the figure of 100,000. Ninety thousand three hundred twenty five visitors downloaded/read 110,218 article pages in the month of November. Open access sources, DOAJ, PubMed and Wikipedia were amongst the top five referrers (except search engines) for the journal." From the website - http://www.jpgmonline.com/whatsnew.asp Regards, DK Sahu  Friends: People often ask about the benefits of OA. Here is a case in point from India. The Journal of Postgraduate Medicine (Bombay) has become very popular ever since it became an OA journal, says Dr D K Sahu, a champion of OA in India. I wish the journals published by government agencies such as CSIR go OA! Incidentally Dr Sahu may kindly clarify if the downloads refer to full artcles or pages. Best wishes. Arun JPGM registers over 100 thousand article downloads in a month The number of article downloads per month has crossed the figure of 100,000. Ninety thousand three hundred twenty five unique visitors downloaded 110,218 article pages in the month of November. These downloads are from the journal's primary website (i.e. http://www.jpgmonline.com www.jpgmonline.com ). Apart from this website, the full text of the journal is also available from http://www.bioline.org.br/jp Bioline International , http://bioline.utsc.utoronto.ca/ OAI-complaint repository at the University of Toronto and from a number of secondary aggregating agencies such as http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/browse_JJ_J028 Thomson Gale , EBSCO Publishing and ProQuest. Thus, the actual downloads per month are much higher. Open access sources, http://www.doaj.org/openurl?genre=journal&issn=00223859 DOAJ , http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?dopt=DocSum&cmd=Search&db=Pub… PubMed and Wikipedia were amongst the top five referrers (except search engines) for the journal's website. Over 270 institutions utilize the http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&list_u… LinkOut facilities from PubMed to access the journal. Regards, DK Sahu From: Subbiah Arunachalam [mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in] Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 4:25 PM To: peters(a)earlham.edu; dksahu(a)vsnl.com Subject: Fw: JPGM crosses 100 thousand article downloads in a month Dear Sahu: Please send a slightly more detailed note to Prof. Peter Suber. the one you have sent is too cryptic. Arun ----- Original Message ----- From: mailto:dksahu@medknow.com DK Sahu To: mailto:peters@earlham.edu 'Peter Suber' Cc: mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in 'Subbiah Arunachalam' Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 2:55 PM Subject: JPGM crosses 100 thousand article downloads in a month Sir You may like to add this in OAN. The number of article downloads per month crosses the figure of 100,000. Ninety thousand three hundred twenty five visitors downloaded/read 110,218 article pages in the month of November. Open access sources, DOAJ, PubMed and Wikipedia were amongst the top five referrers (except search engines) for the journal. From the website - http://www.jpgmonline.com/whatsnew.asp http://www.jpgmonline.com/whatsnew.asp Regards, DK Sahu

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Seminar Announcement
by Dimple Patel 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Dear Moderator, Kindly post the following national Seminar announcement. Regards, Dimple Patel, MGNIRSA, Hyderabad. *******Call for papers****** NATIONAL SEMINAR ON E-PUBLICATIONS March 23-24, 2006 MGNIRSA, Hyderabad. The Centre for Information Science (CIS), Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action (MGNIRSA), Hyderabad is organizing a two-day national seminar on E-Publications during March 23-24, 2006 in Hyderabad. The seminar will deal with different aspects of E-publications however, the main focus will be on E-books and E-journals. Seminar Theme: Print publications like books and journals in particular have now manifested into electronic formats, E-books and E-journals. While E-publications provide many advantages they also present some issues which need to be addressed. This seminar tries to provide a platform for representatives from different groups like the authors, e-publishers and booksellers and librarians to discuss and address key issues in the publishing, usage and management of e-publications. Scope of the Seminar: The seminar will deal with various themes dealing with different aspects of E-publications, with the main focus being on E-books and E-journals. The themes for the seminar are: General issues related to E-publications * Issues in design, development and types of e-books and e-journals * E-books and e-journals in teaching and learning * Trends and Future of e-publications * Problems related to E-publications Emerging Technologies in e-publishing * New developments in e-publications * Media usage in e-publications * File formats * Software and Hardware technologies in e-publications * Issues related to e-book readers * Compatibility issues Standards in E-publications * Standards for: content packaging & formatting; content encapsulation & decapsulation; content dissemination; content storage * Standards for e-book readers * Standards for e-books software * Proprietary standards vs. open standards Content authoring and E-publishing * E-publishing Authoring tools * Content authoring in e-publications * Issues in e-publishing and e-publications * Changing roles of authors, agents and publishers in e-publishing era * Conversion from print to electronic publications E-Books and E-journals Applications * Higher Education & Research * Distance learning * E-learning * Enterprise applications Users and Usage of e-books and e-journals * Users perceptions, inhibitions, attitude, expectations, problems * Use and usability issues * Accessibility issues * Usage of e-books & e-journals in schools, colleges & universities E-publications in different types of Libraries * Implementation and policy issues * Collection development issues * Licensing issues * Lending issues (user authentication, data encryption, etc) * Cataloging of e-publications * Preservation and Archival issues * Obsolescence issues E-publishing in India * Case studies of Indian e-publishers, authors and suppliers * E-publication in India * E-publishing industry in India Library Consortia * Consortia models * Case studies of consortium initiatives in India * Issues related to Consortia approach Digital Rights Management * Rights Transfer * Copyright issues * Plagiarism and piracy issues * Digital Content Rights management Business Models for e-publications * Pricing models for e-books and e-journals * Subscription models for e-journals * E-content delivery models * Marketing trends/opportunities for e-publications * Licensing issues * Issues related to publishers, aggregators and booksellers Who can attend this seminar? * Library & Information Science Professionals and Educators * E-Publishers and suppliers of e-books and e-journals * Academics, research students and teachers with an interest in e-publications, e-learning, etc. * Academics in the fields of publishing, education and training. * IT professionals with an interest in e-publishing. * General users of e-publications * Educators with an interest in e-publishing and e-learning. Submission of papers: The seminar organisers are looking for high quality research papers in the areas related to e-books. Paper may be submitted in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), or MS Word (.doc) format. The last date to receive papers is 15 February, 2006. Receipt of the paper will be confirmed through email. Notification of acceptance will be sent by the seminar coordinator through email by 25 February, 2006. All papers submitted to National Seminar on E-publications must be written in English, using appropriate grammar and syntax. Final camera-ready version of full paper is due by 06 March, 2006. Registration and final payment are due by 15 March, 2006. Late registration fee payments or paper submissions will result in the papers being excluded from the seminar proceedings. The page limit for final papers is eight single-spaced pages in 10 point Times New Roman font. Paper will be included in the seminar proceedings only after payment of the registration fee. Important dates: 23-24 March, 2006 Seminar Dates 15 February, 2006 Deadline for paper submissions 25 February, 2006 Notification for acceptance 06 March, 2006 Deadline for submitting camera-ready version of full papers 15 March, 2006 Deadline for (early) registration Registration Fee: The registration fee for general participants is Rs.650.00 and a student participant is Rs. 300. All the authorised students/research scholars are allowed to use this facility but they need to provide a letter from their Department/university certifying that he/she is the bonafied student of their department/university. The registration fee covers a set of pre-conference papers volume, two days lunch, tea and refreshments. Register early by 15th March 2006 to receive Rs.50.00 off on the seminar registration fee. Late applicants and day visitors can pay on arrival. Advance payments may be made by bank demand draft or cheque payable at Hyderabad. Participants registering on arrival must pay in cash. Location: The conference is going to be held at Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action [MGNIRSA], Street No.17, Gagan Mahal Raod, Domal Guda, Hyderabad 500 029. Accommodation: A wide range of accommodation is available in Hyderabad. Within 10 minutes walking distance is the Hotel Dwaraka (Rs.500.00 per single room, Rs.600.00 per double room, Rs.650 deluxe room, Rs.800 double room with AC). Charges for other hotels in Hyderabad range from Rs.500.00 to Rs.5000.00 per day. Those who want accommodation may write to the Seminar Coordinator for booking their accommodation in advance clearly mentioning the type of room they want, price range, number of days of stay and for how many persons so that necessary arrangements will be made for them. For more information about this seminar or to include your address in our mailing list, please contact: Dr. Chennupati 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 REGISTRATION FORM Family name: First name: Position: Institution: Address: City/State: PIN Code: Tel. No.: (Landline): (Hand phone): Fax: Email id: Please let us know: I will attend and present a paper in the technical session I will attend the conference Please book my accommodation on payment basis Payment Details: (DD/Cheque/MO/Others) Place Date Signature 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) Dear Moderator, Kindly post the following national Seminar announcement. Regards, Dimple Patel, MGNIRSA, Hyderabad. *******Call for papers****** NATIONAL SEMINAR ON E-PUBLICATIONS March 23-24, 2006 MGNIRSA, Hyderabad. The Centre for Information Science (CIS), Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action (MGNIRSA), Hyderabad is organizing a two-day national seminar on E-Publications during March 23-24, 2006 in Hyderabad. The seminar will deal with different aspects of E-publications however, the main focus will be on E-books and E-journals. Seminar Theme: Print publications like books and journals in particular have now manifested into electronic formats, E-books and E-journals. While E-publications provide many advantages they also present some issues which need to be addressed. This seminar tries to provide a platform for representatives from different groups like the authors, e-publishers and booksellers and librarians to discuss and address key issues in the publishing, usage and management of e-publications. Scope of the Seminar: The seminar will deal with various themes dealing with different aspects of E-publications, with the main focus being on E-books and E-journals. The themes for the seminar are: General issues related to E-publications * Issues in design, development and types of e-books and e-journals * E-books and e-journals in teaching and learning * Trends and Future of e-publications * Problems related to E-publications Emerging Technologies in e-publishing * New developments in e-publications * Media usage in e-publications * File formats * Software and Hardware technologies in e-publications * Issues related to e-book readers * Compatibility issues Standards in E-publications * Standards for: content packaging & formatting; content encapsulation & decapsulation; content dissemination; content storage * Standards for e-book readers * Standards for e-books software * Proprietary standards vs. open standards Content authoring and E-publishing * E-publishing Authoring tools * Content authoring in e-publications * Issues in e-publishing and e-publications * Changing roles of authors, agents and publishers in e-publishing era * Conversion from print to electronic publications E-Books and E-journals Applications * Higher Education & Research * Distance learning * E-learning * Enterprise applications Users and Usage of e-books and e-journals * Users perceptions, inhibitions, attitude, expectations, problems * Use and usability issues * Accessibility issues * Usage of e-books & e-journals in schools, colleges & universities E-publications in different types of Libraries * Implementation and policy issues * Collection development issues * Licensing issues * Lending issues (user authentication, data encryption, etc) * Cataloging of e-publications * Preservation and Archival issues * Obsolescence issues E-publishing in India * Case studies of Indian e-publishers, authors and suppliers * E-publication in India * E-publishing industry in India Library Consortia * Consortia models * Case studies of consortium initiatives in India * Issues related to Consortia approach Digital Rights Management * Rights Transfer * Copyright issues * Plagiarism and piracy issues * Digital Content Rights management Business Models for e-publications * Pricing models for e-books and e-journals * Subscription models for e-journals * E-content delivery models * Marketing trends/opportunities for e-publications * Licensing issues * Issues related to publishers, aggregators and booksellers Who can attend this seminar? * Library & Information Science Professionals and Educators * E-Publishers and suppliers of e-books and e-journals * Academics, research students and teachers with an interest in e-publications, e-learning, etc. * Academics in the fields of publishing, education and training. * IT professionals with an interest in e-publishing. * General users of e-publications * Educators with an interest in e-publishing and e-learning. Submission of papers: The seminar organisers are looking for high quality research papers in the areas related to e-books. Paper may be submitted in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), or MS Word (.doc) format. The last date to receive papers is 15 February, 2006. Receipt of the paper will be confirmed through email. Notification of acceptance will be sent by the seminar coordinator through email by 25 February, 2006. All papers submitted to National Seminar on E-publications must be written in English, using appropriate grammar and syntax. Final camera-ready version of full paper is due by 06 March, 2006. Registration and final payment are due by 15 March, 2006. Late registration fee payments or paper submissions will result in the papers being excluded from the seminar proceedings. The page limit for final papers is eight single-spaced pages in 10 point Times New Roman font. Paper will be included in the seminar proceedings only after payment of the registration fee. Important dates: 23-24 March, 2006 Seminar Dates 15 February, 2006 Deadline for paper submissions 25 February, 2006 Notification for acceptance 06 March, 2006 Deadline for submitting camera-ready version of full papers 15 March, 2006 Deadline for (early) registration Registration Fee: The registration fee for general participants is Rs.650.00 and a student participant is Rs. 300. All the authorised students/research scholars are allowed to use this facility but they need to provide a letter from their Department/university certifying that he/she is the bonafied student of their department/university. The registration fee covers a set of pre-conference papers volume, two days lunch, tea and refreshments. Register early by 15th March 2006 to receive Rs.50.00 off on the seminar registration fee. Late applicants and day visitors can pay on arrival. Advance payments may be made by bank demand draft or cheque payable at Hyderabad. Participants registering on arrival must pay in cash. Location: The conference is going to be held at Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action [MGNIRSA], Street No.17, Gagan Mahal Raod, Domal Guda, Hyderabad 500 029. Accommodation: A wide range of accommodation is available in Hyderabad. Within 10 minutes walking distance is the Hotel Dwaraka (Rs.500.00 per single room, Rs.600.00 per double room, Rs.650 deluxe room, Rs.800 double room with AC). Charges for other hotels in Hyderabad range from Rs.500.00 to Rs.5000.00 per day. Those who want accommodation may write to the Seminar Coordinator for booking their accommodation in advance clearly mentioning the type of room they want, price range, number of days of stay and for how many persons so that necessary arrangements will be made for them. For more information about this seminar or to include your address in our mailing list, please contact: Dr. Chennupati 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 REGISTRATION FORM Family name: First name: Position: Institution: Address: City/State: PIN Code: Tel. No.: (Landline): (Hand phone): Fax: Email id: Please let us know: I will attend and present a paper in the technical session I will attend the conference Please book my accommodation on payment basis Payment Details: (DD/Cheque/MO/Others) Place Date Signature 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) 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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Fwd: [LIS-Forum] article indexing
by Saiful Amin 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: M Koteswara Rao <mkrao(a)iitm.ac.in> Date: Dec 31, 2005 1:27 PM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] article indexing To: Saiful Amin <mail2saiful(a)gmail.com> Dear Saiful, The idea sounds good but I am sorry to say 'nay'- not feasible. The reasons are many. Many libraries do not even have their entire collection in electronic form with all the necessary fields. Even the large libraries do not have time nor the resources needed to undertake such collosal work (if someone says so, then it must be only a sample and not in full). Perhaps it may be possible in specialized libraries devoted to a narrow subject area (I have seen this at SERC in Chennai being done by Dr. Chitra Hariharan). Secondly, I think that there is no need to duplicate the work of database providers who do it in a better (standard) way than we can, and many libraries have access to them. So lets not worry to re-invent-the wheel. Perhaps, what we can do is to create guidelines to do such work, train people, offer consultancy, and offer the manpower support to database producers in India. Koteswara Rao > It would be interesting to debate here if article indexing by > librarians/libraries is a viable option. Can we discuss on the following points: > - Do the libraries have resources, time, and expertise to carry out such work? > - Is it really cost-effective, even taking in view cheap labour costs in India? > - Is it worth duplicating the effort of commercial vendors > (full-text/bibliographic databases) providing similar services? > - Can such effort be sustainable in the long run? > Footwear & Leather Abstracts (used to be published by CLRI, Chennai) was a > prime example of indexing effort of library, which was in high demand internationally being a unique product. Unfortunately, it could not be sustained. It would be encouraging to know if any other indexing effort by > libraries being successful anywhere in the world, especially, India. Best regards, > Saiful > -- > Saiful Amin > Information Specialist > Edutech India > 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road > Chennai 600006, India > Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 > GSM: +91 98407 76214 > Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 > http://www.edutechindia.com www.edutechindia.com > "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." > On 12/28/05, > Anuranjana Bharti > < mailto:anuchopra@cat.ernet.in anuchopra(a)cat.ernet.in >> wrote: > Hello all, > I would appreciate if you tell me about the scientific libraries using Libsys for journal article indexing. > Thanks, > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Anuranjana Bharti > Library > Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology > Deptt. of Atomic Energy > Indore - 452 001 > India > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: M Koteswara Rao < mailto:mkrao@iitm.ac.in mkrao(a)iitm.ac.in > Date: Dec 31, 2005 1:27 PM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] article indexing To: Saiful Amin < mailto:mail2saiful@gmail.com mail2saiful(a)gmail.com > Dear Saiful, The idea sounds good but I am sorry to say 'nay'- not feasible. The reasons are many. Many libraries do not even have their entire collection in electronic form with all the necessary fields. Even the large libraries do not have time nor the resources needed to undertake such collosal work (if someone says so, then it must be only a sample and not in full). Perhaps it may be possible in specialized libraries devoted to a narrow subject area (I have seen this at SERC in Chennai being done by Dr. Chitra Hariharan). Secondly, I think that there is no need to duplicate the work of database providers who do it in a better (standard) way than we can, and many libraries have access to them. So lets not worry to re-invent-the wheel. Perhaps, what we can do is to create guidelines to do such work, train people, offer consultancy, and offer the manpower support to database producers in India. Koteswara Rao > It would be interesting to debate here if article indexing by > librarians/libraries is a viable option. Can we discuss on the following points: > - Do the libraries have resources, time, and expertise to carry out such work? > - Is it really cost-effective, even taking in view cheap labour costs in India? > - Is it worth duplicating the effort of commercial vendors > (full-text/bibliographic databases) providing similar services? > - Can such effort be sustainable in the long run? > Footwear & Leather Abstracts (used to be published by CLRI, Chennai) was a > prime example of indexing effort of library, which was in high demand internationally being a unique product. Unfortunately, it could not be sustained. It would be encouraging to know if any other indexing effort by > libraries being successful anywhere in the world, especially, India. Best regards, > Saiful > -- > Saiful Amin > Information Specialist > Edutech India > 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road > Chennai 600006, India > Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 > GSM: +91 98407 76214 > Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 > http://www.edutechindia.com http://www.edutechindia.com http://www.edutechindia.com www.edutechindia.com > "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." > On 12/28/05, > Anuranjana Bharti > < mailto: mailto:anuchopra@cat.ernet.in anuchopra(a)cat.ernet.in mailto:anuchopra@cat.ernet.in anuchopra(a)cat.ernet.in >> wrote: > Hello all, > I would appreciate if you tell me about the scientific libraries using Libsys for journal article indexing. > Thanks, > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Anuranjana Bharti > Library > Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology > Deptt. of Atomic Energy > Indore - 452 001 > India > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > mailto:LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 http://www.edutechindia.com www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong."

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Free Live Presentation of LiBSUITE RFID system in Trivendrum
by Pranaykumar Dhiwar 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

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Fw: [LIS-Forum] article indexing
by Mailing List Manager 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:07:44 +0530 From: M.P.Tapaswi <murari(a)nio.org> Shri Saiful's topic is interesting. Indexing of articles though expensive individually, is essential especially for the developing countries as this data is hardly covered by the reputed indexing services. The 'value' of the service is known only when somebody is searching something that is not available on other databases and you possess it. This goes with sustained efforts of adding latest info and making it known to a larger user community. The cooperative solutions should come forward to make this activity more competent. We participate in the ASFA (Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts) and have been benefited much by way of returns, learning and adhering to international quality and international links that benefit in other activities such as resource sharing, etc. Participate in global activities like this and also parallaly develop your own databases with similar standards with something that the international database does not possess (archival references, indexing of grey literature, etc.). With warm regards, Murari P Tapaswi, NICMAS, National Inst Oceanography, Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, India Phone: 91-(0)832-2450 275 (Direct), -2450 450(EPBX); 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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