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Researchers Crack Biometric Security with Play-Doh
by rahul kumar 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Dear all A Professor at Clarkson University in New York has proved that biometric security systems can be easily "spoofed" with fake fingerprints. Read must at http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Biometrics-Cracked-with-Play-Doh/story.x… Regards Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology(Deemed University) A-10 , Sec-62, Noida(UP) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping Dear all A Professor at Clarkson University in New York has proved that biometric security systems can be easily "spoofed" with fake fingerprints. Read must at http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Biometrics-Cracked-with-Play-Doh/story.x… http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Biometrics-Cracked-with-Play-Doh/story.x… Regards Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology(Deemed University) A-10 , Sec-62, Noida(UP) Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/footer/shopping/*http://shopping.yahoo.com/;… Yahoo! Shopping

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AOL Tests Remote Access Service
by rahul kumar 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Dear all America Online has begun testing a new service that lets users access their PC remotely from any computer that has a browser and is connected to the Internet. The new service, called LinktoPC, became available on Friday to AOL subscribers interested in trying it out, an AOL spokesperson said Monday. "We haven't offered this type of service before," he said. The technology behind LinktoPC comes from WebEx Communications, a company that specializes in online meetings and Web conferencing. get more at: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123911,00.asp Regards Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology(Deemed University) A-10 , Sec-62, Noida(UP) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping Dear all America Online has begun testing a new service that lets users access their PC remotely from any computer that has a browser and is connected to the Internet. The new service, called LinktoPC, became available on Friday to AOL subscribers interested in trying it out, an AOL spokesperson said Monday. "We haven't offered this type of service before," he said. The technology behind LinktoPC comes from WebEx Communications, a company that specializes in online meetings and Web conferencing. get more at: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123911,00.asp http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123911,00.asp Regards Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology(Deemed University) A-10 , Sec-62, Noida(UP) Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/footer/shopping/*http://shopping.yahoo.com/;… Yahoo! Shopping

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Microsoft, MCI announce PC-to-phone calling partnership
by rahul kumar 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Dear all SEATTLE Microsoft and MCI said Monday they'll soon offer a service that lets customers place calls from their personal computers to regular phones. But the service will permit only outbound calls at first, even as rivals Yahoo and America Online allow instant messaging users to receive calls from conventional phones as well as to call out. Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, and MCI, the telecommunications provider being acquired by Verizon Communications, said they will begin a test run of the service in the United States this week. Broader availability is set for the first half of next year. Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology(Deemed University) A-10 , Sec-62, Noida(UP) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping Dear all SEATTLE Microsoft and MCI said Monday they'll soon offer a service that lets customers place calls from their personal computers to regular phones. But the service will permit only outbound calls at first, even as rivals Yahoo and America Online allow instant messaging users to receive calls from conventional phones as well as to call out. Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, and MCI, the telecommunications provider being acquired by Verizon Communications, said they will begin a test run of the service in the United States this week. Broader availability is set for the first half of next year. Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology(Deemed University) A-10 , Sec-62, Noida(UP) Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/footer/shopping/*http://shopping.yahoo.com/;… Yahoo! Shopping

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Microsoft is expanding the reach of its mobile e-mail and IM services in India.
by rahul kumar 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Dear information Sc. and Library Patrons. The software giant's MSN division and messaging company Mobile 365 announced Tuesday that they've reached deals with five Indian mobile service providers. Under the deals, subscribers will be able to use text messaging on their cell phones to receive and reply to e-mail sent to their Hotmail accounts. They will also be able to use the MSN Messenger service from their phones. read in detail at http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-5993520.html Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology(Deemed University) A-10 , Sec-62, Noida(UP) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping Dear information Sc. and Library Patrons. The software giant's MSN division and messaging company Mobile 365 announced Tuesday that they've reached deals with five Indian mobile service providers. Under the deals, subscribers will be able to use text messaging on their cell phones to receive and reply to e-mail sent to their Hotmail accounts. They will also be able to http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5992141.html?tag=nl use the MSN Messenger service from their phones. read in detail at http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-5993520.html http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-5993520.html Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology(Deemed University) A-10 , Sec-62, Noida(UP) Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/footer/shopping/*http://shopping.yahoo.com/;… Yahoo! Shopping

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HarperCollins to create digital warehouse of books
by rahul kumar 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Dear all , NEW YORK U.S. publisher HarperCollins said Monday it plans to convert some 20,000 books in its catalogue into digital form in a bid to rein in potential copyright violations on the Internet. The move comes as the U.S. publishing industry is bringing lawsuits against Web search leader Google over its effort to scan copyrighted books in libraries a move the industry fears would set a dangerous copyright precedent. get the detail information from the link below http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-12-12-harpercollins-digital-books_x.… Regards Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology A-10, Sec-62, Noida(UP) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping Dear all , NEW YORK U.S. publisher HarperCollins said Monday it plans to convert some 20,000 books in its catalogue into digital form in a bid to rein in potential copyright violations on the Internet. The move comes as the U.S. publishing industry is bringing lawsuits against Web search leader Google over its effort to scan copyrighted books in libraries a move the industry fears would set a dangerous copyright precedent. get the detail information from the link below http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-12-12-harpercollins-digital-books_x.… http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-12-12-harpercollins-digital-books_x.… Regards Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology A-10, Sec-62, Noida(UP) Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/footer/shopping/*http://shopping.yahoo.com/;… Yahoo! Shopping

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LIS policy at National level
by Saji S. Nair 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Dear All, We have a plethora of policies in various disciplines and sub-disciplines at the national level. In our field, the National Policy on Library & Information System (NAPLIS) submitted in 1986 to the Government of India wasn't adopted. Eventhough an LIS policy is not a panacea, it could safeguard our professional interests to a large extent. In this era of Information & Communication Technologies, can we moot another one or restructure the NAPLIS? Bye Saji S. Nair Regional Cancer Centre Library Trivandrum Kerala _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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Traditional Knowledge encyclopedia
by Saji S. Nair 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Dear All, Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) project of NISCAIR is planning for a free electronic encycopedia, as an effort to tackle 'biopiracy'. The encylopedia comprising of 30 million pages will be made available at the public domain next year. See the news at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4506382.stm India hits back in 'bio-piracy' battle Bye Saji S. Nair Regional Cancer Centre Library Trivandrum Kerala _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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Life sciences in semantic web
by Subbiah Arunachalam 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

>From Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News" More on NeuroCommons Paul Krill, Semantic Web eyed for life sciences data, InfoWorld, December 9, 2005. Excerpt: The Semantic Web is getting a boost in the life sciences arena. The Semantic Web involves a concept in which data from multiple sources and ontologies can be integrated into a single information space. Experiment design automation (XDA) software vendor Teranode, which focuses on software for life sciences, plans to collaborate with Science Commons to build a neurology repository for the Semantic Web. Called Neurocommons.org, the project will provide a free repository of neurology-related data, tools and pathway knowledge for use by public and private researchers. Science Commons is an effort launched to promote the free flow of scientific information....Science Commons will use the Teranode XDA infrastructure for Neurocommons.org. All content will be available in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) format, allowing for participating foundations to use a shared repository of research.

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OA in China - the debate has begun
by Subbiah Arunachalam 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

OA to publicly-funded journals coming in China Jia Hepeng, China launches campaign to boost local journals, SciDev.Net, December 7, 2005. Excerpt: The Chinese government has launched a campaign to encourage Chinese researchers to publish their results in domestic rather than international journals, and to place their results in free archives. "We will gradually make scientists publish research that is funded by the government agencies in leading domestic journals," said Wu Bo'er, director of the Department of Facilities and Financial Support of the Ministry of Science and Technology, at a meeting last week (30 November). At the heart of the campaign is a new fund that will provide financial support to between 300 and 500 of the country's 5,000 scientific journals. The money, whose total amount has yet to be announced, is intended to help the journals improve their editorial and print quality. Some journals will be encouraged to publish in English....At present, papers published by Chinese researchers in journals quoted in the Science Citation Index can bring substantial rewards, such as professorships, research grants and even housing. This has encouraged Chinese scientists to publish their results in foreign journals. To reverse the trend, Wu told SciDev.Net that Chinese scientists may eventually be required to publish their work domestically....Yu Zailin of Peking University disagrees with a ban on publishing in international journals, saying it would impede academic progress. He suggests that instead, Chinese scientists could be asked to write a Chinese paper to be published simultaneously or shortly after their foreign publication....Wang Li, chief editor of Changchun-based Journal of Jilin University, raises another concern. While he accepts that the government's campaign may help to strengthen the country's leading journals, he warns that it could have a less beneficial impact on other scientific publications. "If all Chinese researchers are encouraged to submit their papers to the leading journals, the middle and small-level domestic ones could suffer," says Wang....The government will also fund an online database of the full text of all papers published in journals selected to receive financial support. Both researchers and the public will have access to the database. Comment. I applaud the Chinese plan to improve many of its journals and provide OA to publicly-funded research and publicly-funded journals. However, I also support the concerns of Yu Zailin. One solution is to let researchers publish in the journals of their choice but expect them to deposit copies of their work in OA repositories. This is the approach taken by the NIH, Wellcome Trust, and RCUK. Researchers will still have an incentive to publish in the improved Chinese journals because of their new quality and new access policies.

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NewGednLib Version 2 - comments requested
by Jai Haravu 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

ends I am happy to announce the Beta testing of version 2.0 of NewGenLib. Both the librarian's Applet interface and the OPAC are under test and I welcome the comments and suggestions from professionals. I have provided two URLs which can be used in order to explore the version 2.0 OPAC. New features in The Applet Interface It will now be possible to import authority file records from the Library of Congress Authorities site. Authority records thus imported will become part of the local authority file and during cataloguing data entry the authority records can be seen. It is hoped that this will improve consistency and accuracy of catalogue records. Version 2.0 will allow a library to build an open archive of an Institution's pre-prints, post-prints, internal reports, slides, etc. This feature has become possible because version 2.0 supports the OAI-PMH protocol. Resources which are to be open-archived are identified specifically in the interface and only these records will be able to be harvested by others. The new version has also built functionality to connect to existing open archives compliant with OAI-PMH. The librarian can then selectively harvest records from the site. All such records then become an integral part of the local database and hence become searchable apart from the fact that they will point to the digital content attached to the harvested metadata record. Based on requests that we received from existing customers we have added a Simple template for cataloguing data entry. This template has the most widely used fields and will be adequate for most monograph records. Records created with this template will still be stored as MARC-21 records. For more complete cataloguing one would still need to use the General and/or MARC-21 templates. It will now be possible for a library to configure to receive news feeds from one or more Remote Site Summary (RSS) feeds. The news feeds can be viewed from the OPAC. The new version will allow a degree of customization of patron records. New features in the OPAC Two new search options have been provided: A Google-like search option using the Lucene search engine. names, single terms, or phrases can be entered in this and all fields of the metadata database are searched; and An Expert search interface that will allow a librarian/information specialist to enter complex search queries using the most important features of the Common Query Language (CQL). The possibility to choose between tabular and citation displays in the search output. The possibility to sort search output by different keys. The possibility for the search output to be exported (in addition to text and MARC-21 and MARC-XML) to the more recent MODS metadata standard and also to the AGRIS-Application Profile format in XML. The possibility for a user to define his/her SDI profile and constraints (time and type) and save it to the server. Once this is done, the software automatically pushes content to the user's email at intervals defined by the user. The possibility for viewing news feeds from one or more RSS sites already configured by the library. The viewing of statistics including OPAC usage. Kindly see the following OPACs and give us your comments/suggestions. ICRISAT, Patancheru OPAC at http://220.227.242.217:8080/newgenlibctxt/jsp/aportal/cataloguing/index1.jsp http://220.227.242.217:8080/newgenlibctxt/jsp/aportal/cataloguing/index1.jsp and An experimental digital library OPAC for the visually impaired at London at http://217.34.8.235:8080/newgenlibctxt/jsp/aportal/cataloguing/index1.jsp http://217.34.8.235:8080/newgenlibctxt/jsp/aportal/cataloguing/index1.jsp . The second OPAC has only a few records and is primarily to demonstrate how large font full text, audio and video can be accessed by visually impaired users. To test out this site please enter % in the opening page's text box and click Begin Search. You will see all the records in the database. Each of these has a digital attachment which can then be viewed by clicking the E-Resources icon and entering 1 and abc in the user id and password dialogue. I welcome comments and suggestions from professionals. L J Haravu Trustee Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management Dear friends I am happy to announce the Beta testing of version 2.0 of NewGenLib. Both the librarian's Applet interface and the OPAC are under test and I welcome the comments and suggestions from professionals. I have provided two URLs which can be used in order to explore the version 2.0 OPAC. New features in The Applet Interface It will now be possible to import authority file records from the Library of Congress Authorities site. Authority records thus imported will become part of the local authority file and during cataloguing data entry the authority records can be seen. It is hoped that this will improve consistency and accuracy of catalogue records. Version 2.0 will allow a library to build an open archive of an Institution's pre-prints, post-prints, internal reports, slides, etc. This feature has become possible because version 2.0 supports the OAI-PMH protocol. Resources which are to be open-archived are identified specifically in the interface and only these records will be able to be harvested by others. The new version has also built functionality to connect to existing open archives compliant with OAI-PMH. The librarian can then selectively harvest records from the site. All such records then become an integral part of the local database and hence become searchable apart from the fact that they will point to the digital content attached to the harvested metadata record. Based on requests that we received from existing customers we have added a Simple template for cataloguing data entry. This template has the most widely used fields and will be adequate for most monograph records. Records created with this template will still be stored as MARC-21 records. For more complete cataloguing one would still need to use the General and/or MARC-21 templates. It will now be possible for a library to configure to receive news feeds from one or more Remote Site Summary (RSS) feeds. The news feeds can be viewed from the OPAC. The new version will allow a degree of customization of patron records. New features in the OPAC Two new search options have been provided: A Google-like search option using the Lucene search engine. names, single terms, or phrases can be entered in this and all fields of the metadata database are searched; and An Expert search interface that will allow a librarian/information specialist to enter complex search queries using the most important features of the Common Query Language (CQL). The possibility to choose between tabular and citation displays in the search output. The possibility to sort search output by different keys. The possibility for the search output to be exported (in addition to text and MARC-21 and MARC-XML) to the more recent MODS metadata standard and also to the AGRIS-Application Profile format in XML. The possibility for a user to define his/her SDI profile and constraints (time and type) and save it to the server. Once this is done, the software automatically pushes content to the user's email at intervals defined by the user. The possibility for viewing news feeds from one or more RSS sites already configured by the library. The viewing of statistics including OPAC usage. Kindly see the following OPACs and give us your comments/suggestions. ICRISAT, Patancheru OPAC at http://220.227.242.217:8080/newgenlibctxt/jsp/aportal/cataloguing/index1.jsp and An experimental digital library OPAC for the visually impaired at London at http://217.34.8.235:8080/newgenlibctxt/jsp/aportal/cataloguing/index1.jsp. The second OPAC has only a few records and is primarily to demonstrate how large font full text, audio and video can be accessed by visually impaired users. To test out this site please enter % in the opening page's text box and click Begin Search. You will see all the records in the database. Each of these has a digital attachment which can then be viewed by clicking the E-Resources icon and entering 1 and abc in the user id and password dialogue. I welcome comments and suggestions from professionals. L J Haravu Trustee Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management

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International Library & Information Science Associations ( manjax4u )
by Manju manju 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

Dear All National & International Library & Information Science Associations http://my.execpc.com/~himmel/natassoc.html Your sincerely MANJUNATHA P.S SDM - IMD LIBRARY MYSORE

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OA policy of RCUK
by Subbiah Arunachalam 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

Friends: Please visit <http://open-access.web.cern.ch/Open-Access/docs/20051207_LEMASURIER.pdf> to know about the stand taken by RCUK on OA. Regards. Arun

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US agencies may mandate OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

Mandated OA for publicly-funded medical research in the US Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) introduced a bill into the U.S. Senate yesterday that would mandate OA to publicly-funded medical research within four months of its publication. Officially titled the American Center for Cures Act of 2005, the bill is informally known as the CURES Act. It would create a new agency within the NIH, the American Center for Cures (ACC), whose primary mission would be to translate fundamental research into therapies. The bill is very large and covers a lot of territory, but for our purposes the critical part is Section 499H. Like the existing NIH policy, the CURES Act would apply only to the author's final peer-reviewed manuscript, although copyright holders would have the option to replace it with the final published text. Public access would be provided by PubMed Central. The bill goes beyond the NIH policy in several important ways. It requires free online access and does not merely request it. It shortens the permissible delay to four months. It extends the OA policy beyond the NIH to research funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Healthcare Research. Finally, it explicitly says that non-compliance may be a ground for the funding agency to refuse future funding. The bill is co-sponsored by Thad Cochran (R-MS). See the summary of the bill (discussing all its important provisions except the OA mandate), the section-by-section breakdown (the OA mandate is in Section 499H), and some quotations from supporters. (PS: This is a major step. It would effectively mandate OA to all medical research funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, making it more effective and wider in scope than the NIH public-access policy. More later, I promise.) Update. First a correction. The bill was introduced December 7, not December 8. Now some more links: * Press release from Senator Lieberman's office * Press release from the Alliance for Taxpayer Access. Excerpt: The Cures Bill is exactly the medicine thats needed, said Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and a leader of the ATA. It goes right to the heart of the case for unfettered access to publicly funded research. Senators Lieberman and Cochran took a close look at how best to speed development of treatments for diseases. Among their conclusions is that its time we ensure the research were already conducting is available to all potential users. Pat Furlong, executive director of Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy and an ATA member, was also pleased with the bill. It recognizes how important the sharing of information is to speeding research and translating new knowledge into cures, said Furlong. In the age of the Internet, it makes no sense for the results of taxpayer-funded research to be hidden away.

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Indian Science Academies support OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

What do the Indian science academies know that the Royal Society doesn't know? Subbiah Arunachalam, Indian science academies support open access, SciDev.net, December 8, 2005. A letter to the editor. Excerpt: I read Barbara Kirsop's letter...on the appalling stand taken by the UK Royal Society on open access. Thankfully, the science academies in India are supporting open access. In fact, all the journals published by the Indian National Science Academy, currently presided over by a fellow of the UK Royal Society, are open access journals and one can search and download articles from volume 1, number 1. All 11 journals published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, also presided over by a fellow of the UK Royal Society, are also open access journals, and there are currently efforts underway to make all previous volumes open access. What is more, unlike the Public Library of Science and BioMed Central, these two academies do not charge authors (or their institutions) a fee for publishing their papers. They do charge for subscriptions to the print versions as opposed to online versions of their journals.

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Free report on pollutants
by Subbiah Arunachalam 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

Don't cut back on OA info about toxic pollutants The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) currently sends out annual OA reports on toxic pollutants as part of its Toxic Release Inventory program. It is proposing to cut back the reports to every other year. I urge US citizens to submit a comment before January 13 asking the EPA to continue the annual reports. The easiest way is to submit a comment is to use the action alert from OMB Watch, which will send copies of your message to Congress as well as the EPA.

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[LIS-Forum] Version 60, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Version 60 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,560 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, by the same author, provides much more in-depth coverage of the open access movement and related topics (e.g., disciplinary archives, e-prints, institutional repositories, open access journals, and the Open Archives Initiative) than SEPB does. http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm The Open Access Webliography (with Ho) complements the OAB, providing access to a number of Websites related to open access topics. http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works 2.3 Library Issues* 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 5.3 Other Legal Issues 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies* Appendix B. About the Author* Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* Digital Libraries* Electronic Books and Texts* Electronic Serials* General Electronic Publishing* Images Legal* Preservation* Publishers Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* SGML and Related Standards Further Information about SEPB The HTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be can be searched using Boolean operators. The HTML document includes three sections not found in the Acrobat file: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of new resources; also available by mailing list--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepwlist.htm http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm The Acrobat file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 210 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 560 KB. Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston Libraries Home: http://www.escholarlypub.com/ DigitalKoans: http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/ Open Access Bibliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm Open Access Webliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm

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Foreign Languages Lab - advice and caution requested from all
by Parinita Samant 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Dear All, I plan to start off with a Foreign Languages Lab in my organization. Have anyone of you any experiences regarding the establishment and the drive required for a succesful and valuable usage of the same. I would love to hear your personal experiences, your successes and pitfall ... the tears and the trails. I would like to learn from your experiences..... I hope this drive is successful.......I would really appreciate your advice and words of caution while I take this forward. Thanks and Regards, Parinita

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Mails from Mr. Rajesh
by asim kumar 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Dear all, I,ve been a passive member of this forum, still I read all the mails sent by other members. I have the feeling that the relationship we maintain is very much professional and at times personal also, but I,ve never seen the kind of language used by Mr. Rajesh. This forum is about exchanging views, news and experiences. There is no harm in asking for even small piece of information. The feeling of fraternity is the only thing that makes us asking for help from anybody on this forum. We dont maintain Mentor-Mentee relationship over here. I request the moderators to look into the matter and maintain the sanctity of the forum. Thanks and regards, Asim Kumar, Jain Group of Institutions. --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Dear all, I,ve been a passive member of this forum, still I read all the mails sent by other members. I have the feeling that the relationship we maintain is very much professional and at times personal also, but I,ve never seen the kind of language used by Mr. Rajesh. This forum is about exchanging views, news and experiences. There is no harm in asking for even small piece of information. The feeling of fraternity is the only thing that makes us asking for help from anybody on this forum. We dont maintain Mentor-Mentee relationship over here. I request the moderators to look into the matter and maintain the sanctity of the forum. Thanks and regards, Asim Kumar, Jain Group of Institutions. http://yahoo.shaadi.com Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your partner now.

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OA and the Royal Society
by Mailing List Manager 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:15:45 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> More on the FRS letter to the Royal Society Donald MacLeod, Royal Society attacked for 'negative' open access stance, The Guardian, December 7, 2005. A group of 46 distinguished scientists, including Nobel laureate James Watson, today strongly criticised the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, for its "negative" attitude to new online methods of publishing research. The row has erupted over so-called "open access" agreements, under which scientists agree to make their findings freely available on the internet as well as, or instead of, publishing them in academic journals. This is being strongly promoted by the UK's research councils, as well as bodies like the Wellcome Trust, as the most efficient way of disseminating scientific results from the research they fund but has been bitterly opposed by publishers and learned societies which produce their own journals. Last month the Royal Society, founded in 1660, called for caution in what it called "the biggest change in the way that knowledge is exchanged since the invention of the peer-reviewed scientific journal 340 years ago". The society warned that "the exchange of knowledge could be severely disrupted, and researchers and wider society will suffer the resulting consequences." This statement sparked a flurry of heated online exchanges between scientists around the world, including the elite membership of the Royal Society, and today culminated in an open letter signed by 46 of its fellows expressing disappointment with the society's attempt to delay implementation of the research councils' policy and accusing the society of putting its own interests above those of science. The signatories, including James Watson who discovered the structure of DNA, and Sir John Sulston, who headed the British end of the human genome project, state: "As working scientists who support open access to published research, we believe that the society should support Research Councils UK's (RCUK) proposal, rather than oppose it. "The proposed RCUK policy will ensure that the results of research funded by the research councils are made freely and rapidly available, maximising their utility not only to the scholarly community in the United Kingdom and around the world, but also to practitioners (including doctors and nurses) and to the British public whose taxes largely support the research. "In seeking to delay or even to block the proposed RCUK policy, the Royal Society appears to be putting the concerns of existing publishers (including the society itself) ahead of the needs of science. The position statement ignores considerable evidence demonstrating the viability of open access, instead warning ominously of 'disastrous' consequences for science publishing. We believe that these concerns are mistaken."

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Vacancy at Corporation Bank, Mangalore
by rupesh kumar 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Dear All, Corporation Bank has called for the posts of Librarians and Library Assistants for one of its branches in Mangalore for setting up a library and numismatic museum. Application form and details can be found at http://www.corpbank.com Regards, RUPESH KUMAR.A. DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE BANGALORE UNIVERSITY --------------------------------- Yahoo! Personals Let fate take it's course directly to your email. See who's waiting for you Yahoo! Personals Dear All, Corporation Bank has called for the posts of Librarians and Library Assistants for one of its branches in Mangalore for setting up a library and numismatic museum. Application form and details can be found at http://www.corpbank.com Regards, http://www.bub.ac.in/buLogo.jpg RUPESH KUMAR.A. DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE BANGALORE UNIVERSITY Yahoo! Personals Let fate take it's course directly to your email. See who's waiting for you http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=36106/*http://personals.yahoo.com Yahoo! Personals

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Google Services Guide
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Google Services Guide is a Blogspot-hosted a list of Google services with a summary. Good night -- this list is huge! ore than hundred items are listed -- many many you would not know. For instance try http://base.google.com The complete guide is available at: http://googleservicesguide.blogspot.com/ -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, SENIORS (Society for Enriched Information of Relevance to Seniors), 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500018 Phone 27846631

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Re: Thanks from infolibrarian.com team
by Sukhdev Singh 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

To be very frank, Infolibrarian team has been doing a wonderful job since last few years. Not only me, others professionals were also strongly in Infolibrarian favour and were ready to provide any help. Please KEEP up the wonderful work. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. On 12/8/05, infolibrarian <infolibr(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: > Dear Mr Rakesh/Mr Sukhadev, > > Many thanks for taking initiatives in helping to > restore our site on time. Unfortunately, we could not > notice it immediately. > We feel proud that there are professionals like you, > who are very much concerned about infolibrarian. Now > the site is up. > > We are in touch with our host for taking necessary > security measures, which will prevent future hacking > of their servers. > > Regards, > > infolibrarian.com team > ====================== > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com >

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The Hollywood Librarian
by sandeep bhavsar 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

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infolibrarian
by KR Yeri Librarian 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

I agree with Puttraja and Praful Chandra. We should appreciate the infolibrarian team is boon to LIS professionals. Krishna Krishna R Yeri Librarian Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) Post Box No. 60, Anand 388 001 Gujarat India Phone: +91 02692 260391/263260 Fax: +91 02692 260188 http://www.irma.ac.in

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Using free 'open course ware' in DCs
by Subbiah Arunachalam 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Friends: Teachers in Indian (or other developing country) universities, colleges and at least some schools can benefit from the rich course ware offered free by institutions such as MIT, Cambridge, and many others around the world. I read somewhere that thousands of Indians and Chinese are using MIT course ware. Please read the following news story from Peter Suber's blog. --- Teaching teachers to use open courseware JISC reports that the Exchange for Learning (X4L) program has developed resources to help teachers create, use, and share online courseware. >From the announcement: The X4L programme has been developing online teaching materials and exploring the many issues involved in promoting the sharing of such resources. Susan Eales, Programme Manager of the X4L Programme, said: Ensuring staff have the skills to repurpose learning materials was a main aim of the X4L Programme. All projects took this very seriously and have developed some excellent resources to support the staff involved. We have made this special site available in the belief that others may find these materials useful too. The site is a testament to all the dedication and hard work of all those involved in X4L. The materials cover many different kinds of resources, some of which could be used immediately for staff development; others could be used as a basis to create your own staff development materials. The resources have been categorised based on topic, intended user and type of resource. The resources also come with additional information including descriptions of how the resource might be used in a staff development context. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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