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Science Research Portal
by Shyam Prasad pujar 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

Dear Members, It is a free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases. Search can be made by selecting scientific disciplines. It can be accessed at: http://scienceresearch.com/search/index.php Regards, S.M. Pujar ********************************************************************** 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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Fwd: Call for Papers
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

IRMJ <irmj(a)idea-group.com> wrote: Subject: Call for Papers Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:03:08 -0400 ****** CALL FOR PAPERS ****** ****** SUBMISSION DUE DATE: JULY 13, 2005 ****** INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT JOURNAL (IRMJ) Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association http://www.idea-group.com/irmj Editor-in-Chief: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. Information Resources Management Association Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) International Editorial Review Board http://www.idea-group.com/irmj MISSION OF IRMJ: Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ). The Journal publishes original material concerned with all aspects of information resources management, managerial and organizational applications, as well as implications of information technology. The primary mission of IRMJ is to be instrumental in the improvement and development of the theory and practice of information resources management, appealing to both practicing managers and academics. It is our further aim to educate organizations on how they can benefit from their information resources and all the tools utilized to gather, process, disseminate, and manage these valuable resources. Coverage of IRMJ: Topics should be drawn from, but not limited to, the following areas, with major emphasis on the managerial and organizational aspects of information resource and technology management: * Application of IT to Operation * Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems Technologies and Issues * Business Process Management and Modeling * Data Warehousing and Mining * Database Management Technologies and Issues * Decision Support and Group Decision Support Systems * Distance Learning Technologies and Issues * Distributed Software Development * E-collaboration * Electronic Commerce Technologies and Issues * Electronic Government * Emerging Technologies Management * End User Computing Issues * Enterprise Resource Planning * Executive Information Systems * Global Information Technology Management * Healthcare Information Technology * Human and Societal Issues in IT Management * Information Technology Education and Training Issues * Information Technology Security and Ethics * IS/IT Education * IT Governance Issues * IT Innovation and Diffusion * IT Management in Public Organizations * IT Management Research and Practice * IT Outsourcing * IT/E-business in Small Businesses * Knowledge Management * MIS Re-engineering Management * Mobile Commerce * Multimedia Computing Technologies and Issues * Object Oriented Technologies and Issues * Project Management * Software Process Improvement * Standards and Standardization Issues * Strategic IT Management * Supply Chain Management * Systems Development and CASE * Telecommunications and Networking Technologies * Virtual Organizations * Virtual Teams * Web Services and Technologies SUBMITTING TO IRMJ: Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNALS GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at www.idea-group.com/irmj. All manuscript submissions will be forwarded to at least five members of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal for a double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to irmj(a)idea-group.com by ****** NO LATER THAN JULY 13, 2005. ****** All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. Editor-in-Chief Information Resources Management Journal E-mail: irmj(a)idea-group.com www.idea-group.com/irmj Sent to: naglaxman(a)yahoo.com Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PCcalling worldwide with voicemail IRMJ <irmj(a)idea-group.com> wrote: Subject: Call for Papers Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:03:08 -0400 ****** CALL FOR PAPERS ****** ****** SUBMISSION DUE DATE: JULY 13, 2005 ****** INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT JOURNAL (IRMJ) Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association http://www.idea-group.com/irmj Editor-in-Chief: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. Information Resources Management Association Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) International Editorial Review Board http://www.idea-group.com/irmj MISSION OF IRMJ: Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ). The Journal publishes original material concerned with all aspects of information resources management, managerial and organizational applications, as well as implications of information technology. The primary mission of IRMJ is to be instrumental in the improvement and development of the theory and practice of information resources management, appealing to both practicing managers and academics. It is our further aim to educate organizations on how they can benefit from their information resources and all the tools utilized to gather, process, disseminate, and manage these valuable resources. Coverage of IRMJ: Topics should be drawn from, but not limited to, the following areas, with major emphasis on the managerial and organizational aspects of information resource and technology management: * Application of IT to Operation * Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems Technologies and Issues * Business Process Management and Modeling * Data Warehousing and Mining * Database Management Technologies and Issues * Decision Support and Group Decision Support Systems * Distance Learning Technologies and Issues * Distributed Software Development * E-collaboration * Electronic Commerce Technologies and Issues * Electronic Government * Emerging Technologies Management * End User Computing Issues * Enterprise Resource Planning * Executive Information Systems * Global Information Technology Management * Healthcare Information Technology * Human and Societal Issues in IT Management * Information Technology Education and Training Issues * Information Technology Security and Ethics * IS/IT Education * IT Governance Issues * IT Innovation and Diffusion * IT Management in Public Organizations * IT Management Research and Practice * IT Outsourcing * IT/E-business in Small Businesses * Knowledge Management * MIS Re-engineering Management * Mobile Commerce * Multimedia Computing Technologies and Issues * Object Oriented Technologies and Issues * Project Management * Software Process Improvement * Standards and Standardization Issues * Strategic IT Management * Supply Chain Management * Systems Development and CASE * Telecommunications and Networking Technologies * Virtual Organizations * Virtual Teams * Web Services and Technologies SUBMITTING TO IRMJ: Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNALS GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at www.idea-group.com/irmj. All manuscript submissions will be forwarded to at least five members of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal for a double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to irmj(a)idea-group.com by ****** NO LATER THAN JULY 13, 2005. ****** All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. Editor-in-Chief Information Resources Management Journal E-mail: irmj(a)idea-group.com www.idea-group.com/irmj Sent to: naglaxman(a)yahoo.com Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/messenger/*http://uk.messen… Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PC http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/messenger/*http://uk.beta.m… calling worldwide with voicemail

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Fw: TB Rajashekar
by Subbiah Arunachalam 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

----- Original Message ----- From: "Uhlir, Paul" <PUhlir(a)nas.edu> To: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 1:35 AM Subject: RE: TB Rajashekar > Dear Arun, > > Thank you for sharing the background about Raja in memory of his > untimely, tragic death. I had the privilege of meeting him in Paris two > years ago at a Symposium I co-organized with UNESCO and CODATA on Open > Access and the Public Domain. I had very high regard for him and am > saddened by his departure from our midst. I know he will be greatly > missed. > > Best wishes, > > Paul

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[BOAI] T.B. Rajashekar, Indian Open Access Pioneer: 1954-2005 (fwd)
by Lohrii Kaini Mahemei 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

********************************************************* Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come - Rabindranath Tagore. Lohrii Kaini Mahemei NCSI,IISc, Bangalore - 560012. Ph# +91-080-22932511,23600271. ********************************************************* Subject: [BOAI] T.B. Rajashekar, Indian Open Access Pioneer: 1954-2005 [Forwarding from Subbiah Arunachalam and N. Balakrishnan. --Peter.] Dr T B Rajashekar - A Tribute Dr Tarikere Basappa Rajashekar, who was the Associate Chairman of the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, was killed in a road accident near Bangalore on 3 June 2005. Raja, as he was known to his close friends, was an achiever. When many others were talking about digital libraries, he started working on building one. He was clear in what he wanted to do and he went about it with dedication and commitment and what is more he knew his limitations and never attempted to do anything in which he did not have the required expertise. He was serious about his work and never would waste his time or energy in fruitless pursuits. When new technologies came in quick succession and transformed the way we handle information, Raja was quick to learn those technologies and apply them intelligently in the areas of database management and information dissemination. Raja's role in the creation of the Nation's first computerized current awareness service in the early 1980s at NCSI is commendable. He was one of the earliest in India to use COBOL and database, in both of which he had a rich experience and knowledge, in library applications. He had an exemplary skill in programming and an innate ability to understand, apply and disseminate newer programming paradigms to stay current all the time. Right from the early days of NCSI, Raja not only led the young team from the front with his insistence on discipline and timely delivery of quality services but also played a key role in capacity building. He was largely responsible for the content and curriculum of the 18-month training programme on information and knowledge management at NCSI, which is unlike any other programme taught anywhere else in India. The curriculum always reflected the most recent developments. Not only did he teach the key courses (information and knowledge organization, digital library and information services in enterprises, internet information resources and services) but also helped his younger colleagues to acquire the skills to teach state-of-the-art courses. Many of the professionals trained by him occupy important positions across the country and elsewhere and have been contributing immensely to the growth of information science. The fact that they stayed in touch with him and continue to hold him in reverence, vindicates the fact that Raja was not only a great and inspiring guru but also a fine gentleman. Raja had become synonymous with NCSI. Raja set up India's first interoperable institutional open access archive, but was dismayed at the rather slow pace at which it was filling. When it was pointed out that he should be more proactive and meet with faculty and talk to them about the archive, he took the suggestion in the right spirit and at the time of his tragic death there were more than 2,000 papers in the archive. He had conducted many training programmes on setting up open access archives. Raja was also largely responsible for marrying the Greenstone digital library software with an earlier version of the Eprints software (when the latter did not support full-text searching), and a few months before his death he and his colleague Francis Jayakanth, in collaboration with researchers at the Old Dominican University, developed two approaches to make CDS-ISIS databases OAI compliant. Raja was also the first in India to set up an e-mail based electronic discussion forum for the library and information science (LIS) professionals. Since its inception in 1994, he moderated the LIS-Forum democratically. Born on 2 November 1954, Raja took his bachelor's degree in library science from the Mysore University and the postgraduate Associateship in documentation and information science from the Documentation Research and Training Centre, Bangalore. After a few years at the National Informatics Centre, New Delhi, he had a brief stint at the British Council Library in New Delhi, where he impressed everyone with his technical savvy. It is then he moved to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and worked quietly and earned a reputation as a performer. Along the way he also took a doctoral degree from the Poona University. A very shy person, Raja would keep himself away from the limelight. Deeply committed to his family, when he took a sabbatical in 2000 he did not move out of Bangalore. He worked for Informatics (India) Ltd, a Bangalore-based company, and developed an excellent multidisciplinary current awareness tool, an e-journal portal and gateway called J-Gate, to aggregate thousands of journals. He also wrote a series of essays on digital libraries. Raja was on many committees, including the CODATA, and had contributed to the development of INFLIBNET and INDEST. He was also elected Fellow of the Society of Information Science (India). When he was on course to achieve much more, fate has snatched him away from us. The large number of condolence messages received from within the country and elsewhere is an indication of the regard he had earned. Once he remarked to his students, what mattered in life was what one left behind for others to remember and continue. By that yardstick he has done extremely well. The best tribute the LIS professionals in this country could pay to Raja is to set up institutional open access archives as soon as possible and fill them with papers, modernize their curricula and teach their students the values practiced by him. Subbiah Arunachalam & N Balakrishnan ----------------------------- Subbiah Arunachalam is Distinguished Fellow, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai 600 113, India N Balakrishnan is Chairman, Information Sciences Division, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India

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Articles Request
by Arvind Bhadrashetty 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Dear Professionals, One of our user wants to have the following articles. 1. Stollery J L & Ehwany A A M ;A note on the use of boundary layer model for correlating film cooling data,International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer, Vol8. No 1, 1965, pp55-65. 1. Stollery J L & Ehwany A A M ;On the use of boundary layer model for correlating film cooling data,International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer, Vol l0. 1967, pp101-105. Anybody having access to the above articles may please send us the copy. Regards Arvind M Bhadrashetty BrahMos Aerospace Adj To DRDL Rear Gate Kanchanbagh Hyderabad - 500 058 Andhra Pradesh bmkchyd(a)brahmos.com Arvind Bhadrashetty Dear Professionals, One of our user wants to have the following articles. 1. Stollery J L & Ehwany A A M ;A note on the use of boundary layer model for correlating film cooling data,International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer, Vol8. No 1, 1965, pp55-65. 1. Stollery J L & Ehwany A A M ;On the use of boundary layer model for correlating film cooling data,International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer, Vol l0. 1967, pp101-105. Anybody having access to the above articles may please send us the copy. Regards Arvind M Bhadrashetty BrahMos Aerospace Adj To DRDL Rear Gate Kanchanbagh Hyderabad - 500 058 Andhra Pradesh bmkchyd(a)brahmos.com Arvind Bhadrashetty http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo…

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Lib Trainees wanted: Mumbai+Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education
by Mailing List Manager 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 01:43:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Puttaraj Choukimath <puttuc(a)yahoo.com> Dear All, GREETINGS. HOMI BHABHA CENTRE FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH National Cetre of the Government of Indlafor Nuclear Science and Mathematics V. N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd, Mumbai - 400 088. Fax: +9 t -22-2556 6803 EmaD: hbcadm(a)hbcse.tifr.res.in Ref.: HBC/EST/Scientific/ 530 tr : + 9 t -22-2558 0036, 2555 47 t 2, 2556 77 t t, 2555 5242 June 7, 2005 NOTICE No. 2/05 LIBRARY TRAINEES Applications are hereby invited from fresh B. Lib.lM. Lib degree holders for induction as Library Trainees in the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education which is a constituent unit of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, an autonomous body ofthe Govt. of India, Department of Atomic Energy. The HBCSE Library houses over 15, 000 books and journals catering to wide range of subjects. The Trainees appointed will thus have hands on experience with the library procedures and exposure to modern techniques of maintaining large scientific libraries. Educational qualifications: Fresh B. Lib / M. Lib., Age: Below 30 years. The tenure of the training will be one year. At the end of which the candidates will be given a certificate of experience. .. The selected candidates will be paid a consolidated honorarium of Rs.5,OOO/-p.m. They may be required to work in shifts and on Saturdays, Sundays and other public holidays. Applications giving full details with the copies of relevant certificates should reach the Sr. Administrative Officer, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, T.I.F.R, V.N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd, Mumbai- 400 088, on or before June 22, 2005 positively. regards, Puttaraj.

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MyDLIS 40-Inagugral -Seminar-Invite
by Shalini R Urs 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

University of Mysore Department of Library and Information Science 40th Anniversary Celebrations June 24, 2005 Seminar On Repositioning the Information Profession in the Market place Inauguration by Prof. K S Deshpande Keynote address by Dr. Madanmohan Rao Editor, 'The Knowledge Management Chronicles' Adjunct Faculty, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore Presided by Prof. J Shashidhara Prasad Hon'ble Vice Chancellor University of Mysore You are cordially invited Venue : Bahadur Institute of Management Sciences Auditorium. --- THE PROGRAM SCHEDULE Session 1 9.30a m-11.00 a m The inaugural session Session 2 11.30 a m -1.00 p m Repositioning the information profession: why and how (invited talks) 1. K.S.Raghavan, DRTC, ISI, Bangalore 2. N.V.Sathyanaryana, CMD, Informatics India, Bangalore 3. M.S.Sridhar, ISRO, Bangalore (Chair: V. G. Talawar) Session 3 2.00 p m-3.30 p m Curriculum transformations : contemporary vs. conventional : a debate 1. M.K.Jagadish, AIRC, Chennai 2. B.P.Prakash, TCS, Mumbai 3. G.K.Manjunath, IGIDR, Mumbai (Moderator : Shalini R Urs) Session 4 4.00 p m-6.00p m Round Table on 'Oaks from Acorns - reflections of the alumni' 1. P.Y.Rajendra Kumar, Director, Public Libraries, Karnataka 2. B.S.Maheshwarappa, Professor, Gulbarga University 3. B. G. Sunder Singh, Scientist, DSIR, GOI 4. T.D.Kemparaju, Professor, Bangalore University 5. Lalitha Aswath, Professor, Bangalore University 6. Ramesh Babu. B, Professor, University of Madras 7. Chikkammallaih, IIM, Bangalore 8. T. Vijaykumar, Novell, Bangalore 9. Ratnakar Aspari, consultant, New Delhi 10. K.S.Chudamani, JRD Tata memorial Library, IISc, Bangalore (Moderator: M Puttannaiah) Session 5 6.0-6.30 pm Felicitations to retired DLIS faculty 7.30p m- 9.30 pm Dinner Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm  University of Mysore Department of Library and Information Science � 40th Anniversary Celebrations June 24, 2005 � Seminar On Repositioning the Information Profession in the Market place � Inauguration by Prof. K S Deshpande Keynote address by Dr. Madanmohan Rao Editor, ‘The Knowledge Management Chronicles’ Adjunct Faculty, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore � Presided by Prof. J Shashidhara Prasad Hon’ble Vice Chancellor University of Mysore You are cordially invited Venue : Bahadur Institute of Management Sciences Auditorium. --- � THE � PROGRAM SCHEDULE Session 1 �� 9.30a m-11.00 a m � The inaugural session �� Session 2 �� 11.30 a m -1.00 p m Repositioning the information profession: why and how (invited talks) K.S.Raghavan, DRTC, ISI, Bangalore N.V.Sathyanaryana, CMD, Informatics India, Bangalore M.S.Sridhar, ISRO, Bangalore �� (Chair: V. G. Talawar) Session 3 �� 2.00 p m-3.30 p m Curriculum transformations�: contemporary vs. conventional : a debate M.K.Jagadish, AIRC, Chennai B.P.Prakash, TCS, Mumbai G.K.Manjunath, IGIDR, Mumbai ( Moderator : Shalini R Urs ) Session 4 �� 4.00 p m-6.00p m Round Table on ‘Oaks from Acorns - reflections of the alumni’ P.Y.Rajendra Kumar, Director, Public Libraries, Karnataka B.S.Maheshwarappa, Professor, Gulbarga University B. G. Sunder Singh, Scientist, DSIR, GOI T.D.Kemparaju, Professor, Bangalore University Lalitha Aswath, Professor, Bangalore University Ramesh Babu. B, Professor, University of Madras Chikkammallaih, IIM, Bangalore T. Vijaykumar, Novell, Bangalore � Ratnakar Aspari , � consultant, New Delhi � K.S.Chudamani, JRD Tata memorial Library, IISc, Bangalore � (Moderator: M Puttannaiah) Session 5 �� 6.0-6.30 pm Felicitations to � retired DLIS faculty �� 7.30p m- 9.30 � pm �� Dinner � � Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www. vidya nidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm �

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Elsevier?s Scirus Opens Repository Search Service
by Mailing List Manager 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:40:49 +0530 From: Farooque Shaheen <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> Institutional repositories of digital data at universities and other =0D research institutions may now receive deeper, more thorough indexing and = =0D full-text delivery through Elsevier?s free, sci-tech search engine, Scirus (http://www.scirus.com) The Scirus engine already reaches content at many institutional repositories, but those joining the new Scirus Repository Search service will receive more extensive and sophisticated indexing of a wider range of content. The repositories will also have access to additional search capabilities on their own Web sites at no cost. The first university to join the Scirus Repository Search service is the University of Toronto?s T-Space collection ( http://tspace.library.utoronto.ca) All of T-Space?s digital files and data are available to the open Web.=0D The new alternative formats for data will stretch beyond Scirus? current non-HTML/XML formats, e.g., PDF, Postscript, PowerPoint, etc. However, for now, Scirus will not offer special handling of images, programs, or data sets beyond better metadata. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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More on ACS vs PubChem
by Subbiah Arunachalam 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Friends: Here are two news stories on the ACS vs PubChem tussle. They appeared in Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News". Scientists around the world, especially those living in the United States should mobilise support for PubChem. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----------------------------------------- More on ACS v. PubChem 1. Stephanie Wright, Dueling Databases, TechnoBiblio, June 13, 2005. Excerpt: 'The dialog this issue has generated has been hot and heavy with PubChem supporters explaining that PubChem is complementary to CAS, not duplicative. CAS supporters are complaining of "unfair, improper competition from the government". Aside from the fact that I'm a librarian and believe that information should be free, I think I'm even more rankled as a taxpayer. ACS Chief Executive Officer, Madeleine Jacobs, wrote in a recent letter to Nobel Laureate Richard Roberts: "The fact that the data collected into PubChem is "public domain" is completely irrelevant. Assembling information and publishing it in a variety of forms is what the private sector does. We believe that taxpayers should not fund the entry of NIH into the information industry more broadly than is necessary to disseminate the information whose creation it funds." What this basically says to me is that as a taxpayer, I can pay for the research but if I want access to it, I have to pay the private sector....The logic in this escapes me. Of course, ACS was perfectly happy with government funding of information products when it accepted NSF funds for the development of the CAS Registry System. This issue is about so much more than NIH vs. ACS. It is yet another example of a dangerous trend. Just look at the Department of Energy's now defunct database, PubScience, shut down by the Software and Information Industry Association. If we let a valuable resource like PubChem (as well as other freely accessible databases: ERIC, Agricola, PubMed) get shut down, we might as well give up on the whole open-access venture and we'll only have ourselves as librarians, and taxpayers, to blame.' 2. Aliya Sternstein, Publishers make appeal to lawmakers in NIH dispute, Federal Computer Week, June 13, 2005. Excerpt: 'American Chemical Society officials are asking lawmakers to rein in those responsible for a federal database of molecular structures because they say it will cut into the society's income from the sale of similar information. The National Institutes of Health created PubChem in 2004 as part of NIH's Roadmap for Medical Research initiative to speed the discovery of new medical treatments....Brian Dougherty, senior adviser to the chief strategy officer at ACS, said the society suggested forming a technical working group to set parameters for PubChem. "NIH has been unwilling to put anything in writing," Dougherty said. "We think this is going to put us out of business if it keeps growing and no parameters are set." NIH officials said they are confused about why ACS insists that PubChem will harm the society's business interests. "What is in common is a relatively small number of compound structures and names," said Christopher Austin, senior adviser to the translational research director at the NIH Chemical Genomics Center at the National Human Genome Research Institute. "ACS has gotten hung up on this," he said. "CAS has 25 million structures. PubChem has about 850,000. PubChem is a subset. Not everything that is in CAS is relevant to biomedical research." NIH officials said narrowing PubChem's focus could slow medical progress. "It would have profoundly negative effects on this new paradigm of making medical discoveries," Austin said.' Friends: Here are two news stories on the ACS vs PubChem tussle. They appeared in Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News". Scientists around the world, especially those living in the United States should mobilise support for PubChem. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----------------------------------------- More on ACS v. PubChem [A] 1. Stephanie Wright, http://www.technobiblio.com/archives/2005/06/dueling_databases.php Dueling Databases , TechnoBiblio , June 13, 2005. Excerpt: 'The http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/acs_pubchem.html dialog this issue has generated has been hot and heavy with PubChem supporters explaining that PubChem is complementary to CAS, not duplicative. CAS supporters are complaining of "unfair, improper competition from the government". Aside from the fact that I'm a librarian and believe that information should be free, I think I'm even more rankled as a taxpayer. ACS Chief Executive Officer, Madeleine Jacobs, wrote in a recent letter to Nobel Laureate Richard Roberts: "The fact that the data collected into PubChem is "public domain" is completely irrelevant. Assembling information and publishing it in a variety of forms is what the private sector does. We believe that taxpayers should not fund the entry of NIH into the information industry more broadly than is necessary to disseminate the information whose creation it funds." What this basically says to me is that as a taxpayer, I can pay for the research but if I want access to it, I have to pay the private sector....The logic in this escapes me. Of course, ACS was perfectly happy with government funding of information products when it accepted NSF funds for the development of the CAS Registry System. This issue is about so much more than NIH vs. ACS. It is yet another example of a dangerous trend. Just look at the Department of Energy's now defunct database, http://www.fcw.com/article78138-11-13-02-Web PubScience, shut down by the Software and Information Industry Association. If we let a valuable resource like PubChem (as well as other freely accessible databases: ERIC, Agricola, PubMed) get shut down, we might as well give up on the whole open-access venture and we'll only have ourselves as librarians, and taxpayers, to blame.' 2. Aliya Sternstein, http://www.fcw.com/article89163-06-13-05-Print Publishers make appeal to lawmakers in NIH dispute , Federal Computer Week , June 13, 2005. Excerpt: 'American Chemical Society officials are asking lawmakers to rein in those responsible for a federal database of molecular structures because they say it will cut into the society's income from the sale of similar information. The National Institutes of Health created PubChem in 2004 as part of NIH's Roadmap for Medical Research initiative to speed the discovery of new medical treatments....Brian Dougherty, senior adviser to the chief strategy officer at ACS, said the society suggested forming a technical working group to set parameters for PubChem. "NIH has been unwilling to put anything in writing," Dougherty said. "We think this is going to put us out of business if it keeps growing and no parameters are set." NIH officials said they are confused about why ACS insists that PubChem will harm the society's business interests. "What is in common is a relatively small number of compound structures and names," said Christopher Austin, senior adviser to the translational research director at the NIH Chemical Genomics Center at the National Human Genome Research Institute. "ACS has gotten hung up on this," he said. "CAS has 25 million structures. PubChem has about 850,000. PubChem is a subset. Not everything that is in CAS is relevant to biomedical research." NIH officials said narrowing PubChem's focus could slow medical progress. "It would have profoundly negative effects on this new paradigm of making medical discoveries," Austin said.'

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Scirus and Google index institution archives
by Subbiah Arunachalam 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Friends: All Indian institutinal and central archives may register with both Google and Scirus and reap the benefits. The Unversity of Toronto librarian Marshall (Peter) Clinton, whom I met a few weeks ago at his office, finds linking his university archive with these two search services beneficial. Please read the brief news story appended below. Prof. Balki & Francis (at IISc), Dr Krishnan at NCL, and Ms Naina Pandita at NIC might wish to register their archives with both Scirus and Google, if they have not done so already. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ More on the Elsevier/Scirus repository search service Barbara Quint, Elsevier's Scirus Opens Repository Search Service, Information Today NewsBreaks, June 13, 2005. Excerpt: 'Institutional repositories of digital data at universities and other research institutions may now receive deeper, more thorough indexing and full-text delivery through Elsevier's free, sci-tech search engine, Scirus. The Scirus engine already reaches content at many institutional repositories, but those joining the new Scirus Repository Search service will receive more extensive and sophisticated indexing of a wider range of content. The repositories will also have access to additional search capabilities on their own Web sites at no cost. The first university to join the Scirus Repository Search service is the University of Toronto's T-Space collection. All of T-Space's digital files and data are available to the open Web. Marshall (Peter) Clinton, director of information technology services at the University of Toronto Libraries, said that a similar arrangement with Google preceded Scirus' arrangement by several months. He estimates that both Scirus and Google's improved service has improved access for both on-campus and off-campus users of the T-Space site. Ammy Vogtlander, Scirus' general manager, attributes the development of the Scirus Repository Search service to the fact that "Elsevier understands that an increasing amount of valuable content is currently held in academic repositories." She indicated that working directly with institutional repositories would allow Scirus to reach unique metadata and full-text material. It will also allow Scirus to reach content in alternative formats to journal articles or reports....According to Vogtlander, "We already had full indexing of various sites and institutional repositories, but now, for participating repositories, we will target key reports, have higher quality indexing, better display of results, and more accurate metadata." She found it odd that some institutional repositories, for all their important content, "offer no full text, only metadata."...Google Scholar has introduced linking to "appropriate copy" or restricted access content. (See Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free.) When asked about Google Scholar's clustering and linking, Vogtlander said that Scirus is considering clustering. For now, however, Scirus users will see multiple results ranked on frequency of terms and date. Scirus also can't handle Open URL linking to library-licensed content....Vogtlander seems to see the world in different terms from traditional Elsevier. In reference to the policy of not charging for Scirus' services, even the new Repository Search service, she stated: "We must understand the free service business. There are different business models now, and Web searching is seen as free."' (PS: I like this: Elsevier and Google competing to offer superior indexing of OA repository content. --- Peter Suber in Open Access News, 13 June 2005) Friends: All Indian institutinal and central archives may register with both Google and Scirus and reap the benefits. The Unversity of Toronto librarian Marshall (Peter) Clinton, whom I met a few weeks ago at his office, finds linking his university archive with these two search services beneficial. Please read the brief news story appended below. Prof. Balki & Francis (at IISc), Dr Krishnan at NCL, and Ms Naina Pandita at NIC might wish to register their archives with both Scirus and Google, if they have not done so already. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ More on the Elsevier/Scirus repository search service [A] Barbara Quint, http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb050613-2.shtml Elsevier's Scirus Opens Repository Search Service , Information Today NewsBreaks , June 13, 2005. Excerpt: 'Institutional repositories of digital data at universities and other research institutions may now receive deeper, more thorough indexing and full-text delivery through Elseviers free, sci-tech search engine, http://www.scirus.com/ Scirus . The Scirus engine already reaches content at many institutional repositories, but those joining the new Scirus Repository Search service will receive more extensive and sophisticated indexing of a wider range of content. The repositories will also have access to additional search capabilities on their own Web sites at no cost. The first university to join the Scirus Repository Search service is the University of Toronto's http://tspace.library.utoronto.ca T-Space collection. All of T-Space's digital files and data are available to the open Web. Marshall (Peter) Clinton, director of information technology services at the University of Toronto Libraries, said that a similar arrangement with Google preceded Scirus' arrangement by several months. He estimates that both Scirus and Google's improved service has improved access for both on-campus and off-campus users of the T-Space site. Ammy Vogtlander, Scirus' general manager, attributes the development of the Scirus Repository Search service to the fact that "Elsevier understands that an increasing amount of valuable content is currently held in academic repositories." She indicated that working directly with institutional repositories would allow Scirus to reach unique metadata and full-text material. It will also allow Scirus to reach content in alternative formats to journal articles or reports....According to Vogtlander, "We already had full indexing of various sites and institutional repositories, but now, for participating repositories, we will target key reports, have higher quality indexing, better display of results, and more accurate metadata." She found it odd that some institutional repositories, for all their important content, "offer no full text, only metadata."...Google Scholar has introduced linking to "appropriate copy" or restricted access content. (See http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb050516-1.shtml Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free .) When asked about Google Scholar's clustering and linking, Vogtlander said that Scirus is considering clustering. For now, however, Scirus users will see multiple results ranked on frequency of terms and date. Scirus also can't handle Open URL linking to library-licensed content....Vogtlander seems to see the world in different terms from traditional Elsevier. In reference to the policy of not charging for Scirus' services, even the new Repository Search service, she stated: "We must understand the free service business. There are different business models now, and Web searching is seen as free."' (PS: I like this: Elsevier and Google competing to offer superior indexing of OA repository content. --- Peter Suber in Open Access News , 13 June 2005)

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Red Hat Releases Newest Fedora
by Farooque Shaheen 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Red Hat has released Fedora Core 4, a free version of Linux the company is using to advance virtualization, programming tools and other software at the frontier of open-source development. Among other features, Fedora Core 4--released Monday--comes with the Xen virtualization software, which lets multiple operating systems run on the same computer. Xen competes with software from EMC's VMware and with Microsoft virtual machine products. Fedora Core 4 uses version 2.10 of Gnome or version 3.4 of the KDE graphical desktop software. It includes the Evince software for reading Portable Document Format (PDF) documents, and OpenOffice.org 2.0. It also includes the Global File System (GFS) software for distributing files across a group of computers. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 Red Hat has released Fedora Core 4, a free version of Linux the company is using to advance virtualization, programming tools and other software at the frontier of open-source development. Among other features, Fedora Core 4--released Monday--comes with the Xen virtualization software, which lets multiple operating systems run on the same computer. Xen competes with software from EMC's VMware and with Microsoft virtual machine products. Fedora Core 4 uses version 2.10 of Gnome or version 3.4 of the KDE graphical desktop software. It includes the Evince software for reading Portable Document Format (PDF) documents, and OpenOffice.org 2.0. It also includes the Global File System (GFS) software for distributing files across a group of computers. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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[LIS-Forum] Version 58, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Version 58 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,420 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.arl.org/pubscat/pubs/openaccess/ 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* 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 about 200 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 470 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, Library Administration, 114 University Libraries, Houston, TX 77204-2000. E-mail: cbailey(a)uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. DigitalKoans: http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/ Open Access Bibliography: http://www.arl.org/pubscat/pubs/openaccess/ 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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workshop announcement
by Mailing List Manager 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:41:00 -0400 From: anjrao <anjrao(a)indiatimes.com> Dear sir kindly announce the following workshop events yours sincerely Janardhana Rao A N Librarian M S Ramiah institute of Management Bangalore-54 Email:msriml@rediff.com National Workshop on �Library and Information Services (LIS) for Quality Higher Education A one-day national workshop on �LIS for Quality Higher Education� was jointly organized by the NAAC and the M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Management (MSRIM), Bangalore on May 21, 2005. The MSRIM was the venue. Welcoming the participants to the workshop, Prof. Balachander of MSRIM underlined the need for good academic libraries in the higher education context. During his inaugural address, Prof. V.S. Prasad, Director, NAAC used the occasion to recall his association with the good libraries and librarians in the past and said that for a �learner�, librarian can be the best friend on an educational campus. In any field, limitations were always there but so were opportunities, he felt. The objective of the librarian should always be �total user satisfaction�. Prof. L. M. Patnaik, I.I.Sc, Bangalore, in his Presidential address, said that unlike in past when information sources were scarce, after the advent of internet, the present is characterized by information abundance; one of the key roles of the librarian was to pin-point the user to the appropriate information source and help conserve time and energy of the user. The workshop consisted of five sessions, including the last session earmarked for discussion and feedback. Mr. Anil Gowda of MSRIM made a presentation on �Accreditation and Certification: An Overview of NAAC, NBA and ISO Processes�. Explaining the PDCA (Plan, Do, Check and Act upon) Model for quality, he said that identifying problems correctly is the first step towards quality improvement. During his session on �ISO Certification and Academic Libraries�, Dr. Harish Chandra, Chief Librarian, IIT, Chennai emphasized that library functioning ought to be user-focused. He said that librarian was not just a custodian of books, as may have been the case till recently, but had evolved as an interpreter of thought contents. Pointing out that the IIT, Chennai had a separate website for e-books, he stressed the need for academic libraries to have a vision. Conceding that the �hybrid libraries� will always remain, as only then would the LIS be truly satisfactory, he said �customer satisfaction� and �customer confidence� should continue to guide the library agenda. After mentioning the impressive fact that the consultancy services of his Institute had touched the Rs.30 crore mark, he elaborated on the benefits of ISO Certification for academic libraries and explained the effect measures like �users writing the librarian�s CR�, and �ISO Certification� have had on their library system. Dr. C.R. Karisiddappa, Karnataka University, Dharwad, dealing with �Quality Indicators for LIS: Parameters of NAAC� said that no quality higher education was possible without quality LIS. Dr. Pichappan, Annamalai University explained �e-Learning and Digital Library Practices in enhancing the quality of LIS�. He asserted that quality of research and quality of higher education were inseparably linked. Explaining the technology developments in the library field, he hoped that e-learning would possibly neutralize brain-drain. During the course of the day, Balani Infotech and SSG Systems Ltd. made presentations on �e-Resources� and �Integrated Digital Library and Library Management� respectively. In her valedictory address, Dr. Mariamma Verghese, Senior Education Consultant, NAAC expressed the need for enhancing the use of library as the most crucial learning resource and the need to be in step with the technology of the times for providing good library service. The workshop was hugely attended. About 60 senior library professionals from all over the country and the academic staff of MSRIM and the NAAC participated. The event was coordinated by Mr. Janardhan Rao of MSRIM and Dr. Srinivasa Raghavan of NAAC.

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Fwd: [LISDWD] Karnatak University needs University Librarian
by Dr. R M Vatnal 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Note: forwarded message attached. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. R M VATNAL Head, Computer Section, University Library, Karnatak University, Dharwad - 580 003 INDIA Ph: 0836-2747121 Ext: 313(O) 2770907(R) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Get on-the-go sports scores, stock quotes, news and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/mobile.html

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SHRADDANJALI MEETING
by Mailing List Manager 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:54:54 +0000 from: I.R.N. Goudar <goudar#css.nal.res.in> Friends, A reminder about this evening's SHRADDANJALI MEETING. - Goudar SHRADDANJALI MEETING (Request: Please inform about this to friends, colleagues and students personally/through telephone, etc) As you are aware Dr. T.B. Rajashekar, a distinct star of our profession met a tragic accident and passed away on 3rd June 2005. He was given a tearful farewell the next day in the presence good number of his relatives, friends, colleagues and student community. We request you to join us in the CONDOLENCE MEETING arranged to pay homage to the departed soul. Date and Time: Monday, 13th June 2005 at 6.00 pm Venue: "Granthangana" Nagara Kendra Granthalaya West Zone, Hampinagar (RPC Layout) Vijayanagar, Bangalore -560040 (Very near to last RPC Layout Bus Stop Contact No. 23209691 (Chief Librarian, NKG) Meeting Organised by: Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) Department of Public Libraries, Karnataka Sharada Ranganathan Endowment for LIS Society for Information Science (SIS), Bangalore Chapter Students/Friends/Colleagues of Dr. TBR -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@fcss.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html

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Refresher course in LIS
by Dr. Nabi Hasan 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Dear Friends The Sambalpur University is organizing a Refresher course in LIS from 11th July to 31st July 2005. Further information may be obtained from ascsu(a)rediffmail.com Dr. Nabi Hasan Library System Administrator University Library, CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University Palampur (H.P.)- 176 062 (India) Phone: 01894-283184 (Direct), 01894-230361 (O) Cell- 9418149447, 01894-234571 (R) E-Mail: nabihasan(a)rediffmail.com nabihasan(a)gmail.com Web: http://hillagric.ernet.in --------------------------------- How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends n family photos for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. http://in.photos.yahoo.com Dear Friends The Sambalpur University is organizing a Refresher course in LIS from 11th July to 31st July 2005. Further information may be obtained from mailto:ascsu@rediffmail.com ascsu(a)rediffmail.com Dr. Nabi Hasan Library System Administrator University Library, CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University Palampur (H.P.)- 176 062 (India) Phone: 01894-283184 (Direct), 01894-230361 (O) Cell- 9418149447, 01894-234571 (R) E-Mail: mailto:nabihasan@rediffmail.com nabihasan(a)rediffmail.com mailto:nabihasan@gmail.com nabihasan(a)gmail.com Web: http:// hillagric.ernet.in How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends n family photos for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. http://in.photos.yahoo.com

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Promoting OA among teachers and students
by Subbiah Arunachalam 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Friends: In an earlier mail I said that it is important to alert scientists and research students to the papers available for free from the hundreds of OA archives around the world. A friend of mine, Prof. Ganapathy Baskaran of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai (Bhatnagar Award winner for physics), spends about two hours in every workshop he conducts for university and college teachers and research students telling the participants about how to get the best out of the Internet. He actually demonstrates using an Internet connected PC in the classroom how one can learn a great deal from variety of sources and actually download the full text of key papers. We should encourage many others who conduct summer/winter schools and refresher courses to do the same. Clearly many researchers are not aware of important developments like open access and all they need is a little push. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Friends: In an earlier mail I said that it is important to alert scientists and research students to the papers available for free from the hundreds of OA archives around the world. A friend of mine, Prof. Ganapathy Baskaran of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai (Bhatnagar Award winner for physics), spends about two hours in every workshop he conducts for university and college teachers and research students telling the participants about how to get the best out of the Internet. He actually demonstrates using an Internet connected PC in the classroom how one can learn a great deal from variety of sources and actually download the full text of key papers. We should encourage many others who conduct summer/winter schools and refresher courses to do the same. Clearly many researchers are not aware of important developments like open access and all they need is a little push. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Article requested
by Yashwant G Kanade 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Respected Sir/Madam Could you kindly help to get this article? A galling aphid furnishes its home with a built in pipeline to the host food supply by Wool,A.; Aloni,R.; Ben-Zvi,A.; Wollberg,M. (1999) Entomological Experimentalist et Applicata 91(1) 183-186 With Regards Mahua Graduate Student CES, IISc, Bangalore-12 mahua(a)ces.iisc.ernet.in

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Library profile for the souvenir
by gayathri sen 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Dear members, PLEASE TREAT THIS AS PERSONAL REQUEST I request all the Heads/Librairans/Information Officers of major and unique libraries in Bangalore to send a one page profile giving their collections and special services they extend to their users to be published in the NACLIN 2005 souvenir. The libraries may be Research (IISc, NCSI, NAL, CMTI,ISRO,NIMHANS,IIAP, RRI, Kidwai Cancer Research,Forest Research Lab.,ISEC etc.etc) Academic Libraries (Bangalore University, Rajiv Gandhi Institue of Health Scie. IISc etc) Public Libraries (British Library, City Central Library) Corporate libraries (WIPRO, Infosys, Accenture Astra Zenica etc. etc.) This should be submitted on A4 size paper along with the electronic copy sent through e mail, so as to reach the following address before 15th July 2005 The Organising secretary, NACLIN 2005, PES Institute of Technology, 100 Feet Ring Road,BSK III stage, Bangalore -560085 INDIA Tel: 91-80-30918985/26721983 Fax: 91-80-26720886 Mobile: 9341713094 E-mail: librarian_pesit(a)yahoo.co.in Regards, Gayathri Sen Librarian & Head, Central Library PESIT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear members, PLEASE TREAT THIS AS PERSONAL REQUEST I request all the Heads/Librairans/Information Officers of major and unique libraries in Bangalore to send a one page profile giving their collections and special services they extend to their users to be published in the NACLIN 2005 souvenir. The libraries may be Research (IISc, NCSI, NAL, CMTI,ISRO,NIMHANS,IIAP, RRI, Kidwai Cancer Research,Forest Research Lab.,ISEC etc.etc) Academic Libraries (Bangalore University, Rajiv Gandhi Institue of Health Scie. IISc etc) Public Libraries (British Library, City Central Library) Corporate libraries (WIPRO, Infosys, Accenture Astra Zenica etc. etc.) This should be submitted on A4 size paper along with the electronic copy sent through e mail, so as to reach the following address before 15th July 2005 The Organising secretary, NACLIN 2005, PES Institute of Technology, 100 Feet Ring Road,BSK III stage, Bangalore -560085 INDIA Tel: 91-80-30918985/26721983 Fax: 91-80-26720886 Mobile: 9341713094 E-mail: mailto:librarian_pesit@yahoo.co.in librarian_pesit(a)yahoo.co.in Regards, Gayathri Sen Librarian & Head, Central Library PESIT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: Pubchem vs ACS + CAS. Taxpayers support Pubchem
by Subbiah Arunachalam 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Friends: The Alliance of Taxpayers in the USA have come out with support for Pubchem. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ATA broadening its mission to support OA The Alliance for Taxpayer Access was formed in August 2004 to support the NIH policy. Now that the NIH policy has been adopted, the ATA is broadening its mission. Originally the ATA rested on three principles calling for OA to publicly-funded medical research through the NIH. Now it rests on four principles calling for OA to publicly-funded scientific research of all kinds. The change will allow the ATA to defend PubChem against the ACS and to push for OA to research funded by other US agencies, such as the NSF. The member-organizations of the ATA are a wide range of US universities, libraries, and public-interest non-profits. If your US-based organization is not a member, please urge it consider joining. Friends: The Alliance of Taxpayers in the USA have come out with support for Pubchem. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ATA broadening its mission to support OA [A] The http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/ Alliance for Taxpayer Access was formed in August 2004 to support the NIH policy. Now that the NIH policy has been adopted, the ATA is broadening its mission. Originally the ATA rested on three principles calling for OA to publicly-funded medical research through the NIH. Now it rests on four principles calling for OA to publicly-funded scientific research of all kinds. The change will allow the ATA to defend PubChem against the ACS and to push for OA to research funded by other US agencies, such as the NSF. The member-organizations of the ATA are a wide range of US universities, libraries, and public-interest non-profits. If your US-based organization is not a member, please urge it consider joining.

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Pubchem vs ACS + CAS
by Subbiah Arunachalam 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Friends: There is a tussle going on in the United States between the bosses of the Chemical Abstracts Service (a part of the American Chemical Society) and Pubchem, a new service supported by NIH. Now a number of health-related academic libraries have come out openly in support of Pubchem. Chemists and life scientists and librarians around the world should come out openly in support of Pubchem and also write to the members of the American Chemical Society requesting the office bearers of ACS and CAS not to sabotage Pubchem, which provides valuable technical information at no cost. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] AAHSL supports PubChem The Association of Academic and Health Science Libraries has publicly released its June 7 letter in support of PubChem. Excerpt: 'I am writing on behalf of the Association of Academic and Health Science Libraries (AAHSL). AAHSL represents 128 libraries located at the nation's academic health centers responsible for training physicians andother health care professionals, providing clinical care, and conducting NIH-funded and other research. We want to express our enthusiastic support fo continuation of PubChem, a chemical database of immense importance to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). PubChem represents a vital next step for NIH in leveraging its investment in the Human Genome Project, integrating output from the Molecular Libraries Screening Center Netwowrk (MLSCN) and other publicly available data sources, such as NIH's protein structure resources and records of biomedical literature within PubMed and available full-text in the PubMed Central digital archive. PubChem is a powerful tool...that will...lead to medical breakthroughs for clinical treatment of diseases....We believe that [the ACS] concern is unfounded and that the American public is well served by continued development and maintenance of PubChem. By ensuring that publicly financed knowledge is broadly accessible, NIH is enhancing the return on public investment in research and stimulating further innovation by public and private scientific enterprises....It is a mistake to endanger the promise of the [NIH] Roadmap by imposing restrictions on Pubchem that fundamentally undermine its utility. There is simply too much at stake.' Friends: There is a tussle going on in the United States between the bosses of the Chemical Abstracts Service (a part of the American Chemical Society) and Pubchem, a new service supported by NIH. Now a number of health-related academic libraries have come out openly in support of Pubchem. Chemists and life scientists and librarians around the world should come out openly in support of Pubchem and also write to the members of the American Chemical Society requesting the office bearers of ACS and CAS not to sabotage Pubchem, which provides valuable technical information at no cost. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] AAHSL supports PubChem [A] The http://www.aahsl.org/ Association of Academic and Health Science Libraries has publicly released its June 7 http://www.aahsl.org/document/AAHSL_PubChemLetter_June_2005.pdf letter in support of PubChem . Excerpt: 'I am writing on behalf of the Association of Academic and Health Science Libraries (AAHSL). AAHSL represents 128 libraries located at the nation's academic health centers responsible for training physicians andother health care professionals, providing clinical care, and conducting NIH-funded and other research. We want to express our enthusiastic support fo continuation of PubChem, a chemical database of immense importance to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). PubChem represents a vital next step for NIH in leveraging its investment in the Human Genome Project, integrating output from the Molecular Libraries Screening Center Netwowrk (MLSCN) and other publicly available data sources, such as NIH's protein structure resources and records of biomedical literature within PubMed and available full-text in the PubMed Central digital archive. PubChem is a powerful tool...that will...lead to medical breakthroughs for clinical treatment of diseases....We believe that [the ACS] concern is unfounded and that the American public is well served by continued development and maintenance of PubChem. By ensuring that publicly financed knowledge is broadly accessible, NIH is enhancing the return on public investment in research and stimulating further innovation by public and private scientific enterprises....It is a mistake to endanger the promise of the [NIH] Roadmap by imposing restrictions on Pubchem that fundamentally undermine its utility. There is simply too much at stake.'

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JRF and ADIS result of DRTC
by Rashid Hussain 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

DRTC (Documentation Reaserch and Training Center),ISI (Indian Statistical Institute) Result for the Academic year 2005-2006 for the JRF and ADIS courses has come out. For the JRF result you can check the following link http://www.isical.ac.in/~deanweb/jrflibraryintlist05.html And for the ADIS results you can check the following link http://www.isical.ac.in/~deanweb/jrfadisintlist05.html Thanks & Regards = = = = = = = = = = = Rashid Hussain Siddiqui Project Assistant Digital Library, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science Jayanagar, Bangalore : 560041 Phone No. : 080-26540930 e-mail : ras.botlib(a)gmail.com Homepage : http://www.drtc.isibang.ac.in/~hussain = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. Samuel NIGER (1883-1956) --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel & more fun for the weekend. Check it out! DRTC (Documentation Reaserch and Training Center),ISI (Indian Statistical Institute) Result for the Academic year 2005-2006 for the JRF and ADIS courses has come out. For the JRF result you can check the following link http://www.isical.ac.in/~deanweb/jrflibraryintlist05.html http://www.isical.ac.in/~deanweb/jrflibraryintlist05.html And for the ADIS results you can check the following link http://www.isical.ac.in/~deanweb/jrfadisintlist05.html http://www.isical.ac.in/~deanweb/jrfadisintlist05.html Thanks & Regards = = = = = = = = = = = Rashid Hussain Siddiqui Project Assistant Digital Library, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science Jayanagar, Bangalore : 560041 Phone No. : 080-26540930 e-mail : ras.botlib(a)gmail.com Homepage : http://www.drtc.isibang.ac.in/~hussain = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. Samuel NIGER (1883-1956) Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel & more fun for the weekend. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=32658/*http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html Check it out!

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Open access archives in Indian institutions
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Friends: This is especially meant for those who attended the Open Access Workshops at MSSRF held in May last year in which Prof. T B Rajashekar was a facilitator (in the first workshop). Eight days ago Prof. Rajashekar was killed in a road accident a few miles from Bangalore while he was returning to his office after attending a wedding. May his soul rest in peace. A very large number of people, including many who attended the workshops at Chennai, have sent condolence messages. But the best tribute we could pay a great man like Rajashekar is to follow his example and keep our promise to him. Rajashekar had conducted many other workshops too. In particular, he conducted one on OA especially for INDEST librarians. I would also urge them to set up institutional archives as soon as possible. I know that archives have been set up at NCL, IIMK, NIC-Indian Medlars Centre, etc. Here is the report by Les Carr of the University of Southampton, another facilitator at our workshops, on the two workshops on Open Access held at MSSRF, Chennai in 2004. Virtually every one who attended the workshop promised that s/he will set up an archive within a few months at his/her institution. Now more than a year later, let us take stock. How many archives have been set up and how many papers have been deposited inthem so far? How many of those who attended the MSSRF workshops have not set up an archive so far and what are the reasons? Is there anything that I can do to help. Best wishes. Subbiah Arunachalam ------- Workshop on Open Access http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3650.html Executive Summary: (a) Indian Open Access Workshops a Great Success (b) Open Source Development Company offers pPrints Support for Very Modest Fee (c) Further plans to promote Eprints across India, China and Brazil. The Open Access workshops in Chennai, India 2-4 May 2004 and 6-8 May 2004 were conceived and organised by Subbiah Arunachalam, on a suggestion from Prof. M S Valiathan, President of the Indian National Science Academyand held at the Bioinformatics Centre of the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation The workshops were attended by 50 scientists, research managers and librarians from a wide range of research institutions from India (below). The aim of the workshops was to enable each organisation to set up an institutional EPrints archive; we confidently expect to see at least a dozen sustainable, populated archives to appear within the next three months. More than 150 people applied for the available places which were limited by the requirement to provide hands-on access to computers for instruction in the practical aspects maintaining an EPrints archive. The workshops covered essential background (Open Access philosophy, the theory of the Open Archiving Metadata Protocols, issues of document and metadata formats) but majored on the practical aspects of using, installing and configuring EPrint archives, with a particular focus on the budgetary and management resources required for setting up a pilot project within each organistaion to establish an institutional archive. The participants were all highly motivated and technically very competent. Indian researchers and institutions are particularly keen not only to obtain more access to high quality research, but also to provide access to high quality Indian research which they feel is under-represented in international journals. Many of the participants have Linux servers, excellent network infrastructure and a large number of publications to hand, and consequently anticipate no difficulty in setting up an EPrints server themselves, or in arranging institutional support for doing so. One of the participants was the head of an Open Source Software company operating in the not-for-profit and NGO sector with whom we are in discussion about a service for installing, configuring, maintaining and upgrading EPrints archives. The organiser of the workshop, Professor Subbiah Arunachalam from the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, is next organising a meeting of government officials representing India, China and Brazil to discuss national and international policies for promoting Open Access and Research Archiving. I have been invited to the annual ICCC Electronic Publishing conference in Brazil to give a keynote, to meet Brazilian government officials and to run a workshop on EPrints Archiving. Research Institutes attending Workshops ================================ Bose Institute, Calcutta Central Electro Chemical Research Institute, Karaikudi Central Institute of Psychiatry, Kanke Central Leather Research Institute Central Potato Research Institute Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture Entomology Research Institute Indian Agricultural Research Institute Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute Indian Institute of Technology (reps from each of 5 cities) Indian National Science Association Indian Institute of Astrophysics Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode International Crops research Institute for the semi-Arid Tropics M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation National Academy of Agricultural Sciences National Brain Research Centre, Nainwal National Chemical Laboratory National Informatics Centre National Institute of Nutrition Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology Tuberculosis Research Centre Universities ------------ Anna University Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai Deemed University Govind Ballabh Pant University Of Agriculture and Technology Kerala Agricultural University Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University Shivaji University Tamil Nadu Agricultural University University Of Madras University of Delhi University of Kalyani Other Organisations ---- Mahiti (software developer for civil sector http://www.mahiti.org/) National Agricultural Technology Project (NATP, National Co-ordinator of 104 partners), Sir Ganga Ram Hospital --- Les Carr Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia (IAM) group Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lac/ Friends: This is especially meant for those who attended the Open Access Workshops at MSSRF held in May last year in which Prof. T B Rajashekar was a facilitator (in the first workshop). Eight days ago Prof. Rajashekar was killed in a road accident a few miles from Bangalore while he was returning to his office after attending a wedding. May his soul rest in peace. A very large number of people, including many who attended the workshops at Chennai, have sent condolence messages. But the best tribute we could pay a great man like Rajashekar is to follow his example and keep our promise to him. Rajashekar had conducted many other workshops too. In particular, he conducted one on OA especially for INDEST librarians. I would also urge them to set up institutional archives as soon as possible. I know that archives have been set up at NCL, IIMK, NIC-Indian Medlars Centre, etc. Here is the report by Les Carr of the University of Southampton, another facilitator at our workshops, on the two workshops on Open Access held at MSSRF, Chennai in 2004. Virtually every one who attended the workshop promised that s/he will set up an archive within a few months at his/her institution. Now more than a year later, let us take stock. How many archives have been set up and how many papers have been deposited inthem so far? How many of those who attended the MSSRF workshops have not set up an archive so far and what are the reasons? Is there anything that I can do to help. Best wishes. Subbiah Arunachalam ------- Workshop on Open Access https://mx2.arl.org/Redirect/www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/36… http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3650.html Executive Summary : (a) Indian Open Access Workshops a Great Success (b) Open Source Development Company offers pPrints Support for Very Modest Fee (c) Further plans to promote Eprints across India, China and Brazil. The Open Access workshops in Chennai, India 2-4 May 2004 and 6-8 May 2004 were conceived and organised by Subbiah Arunachalam, on a suggestion from Prof. M S Valiathan, President of the Indian National Science Academyand held at the Bioinformatics Centre of the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation The workshops were attended by 50 scientists, research managers and librarians from a wide range of research institutions from India (below). The aim of the workshops was to enable each organisation to set up an institutional EPrints archive; we confidently expect to see at least a dozen sustainable, populated archives to appear within the next three months. More than 150 people applied for the available places which were limited by the requirement to provide hands-on access to computers for instruction in the practical aspects maintaining an EPrints archive. The workshops covered essential background (Open Access philosophy, the theory of the Open Archiving Metadata Protocols, issues of document and metadata formats) but majored on the practical aspects of using, installing and configuring EPrint archives, with a particular focus on the budgetary and management resources required for setting up a pilot project within each organistaion to establish an institutional archive. The participants were all highly motivated and technically very competent. Indian researchers and institutions are particularly keen not only to obtain more access to high quality research, but also to provide access to high quality Indian research which they feel is under-represented in international journals. Many of the participants have Linux servers, excellent network infrastructure and a large number of publications to hand, and consequently anticipate no difficulty in setting up an EPrints server themselves, or in arranging institutional support for doing so. One of the participants was the head of an Open Source Software company operating in the not-for-profit and NGO sector with whom we are in discussion about a service for installing, configuring, maintaining and upgrading EPrints archives. The organiser of the workshop, Professor Subbiah Arunachalam from the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, is next organising a meeting of government officials representing India, China and Brazil to discuss national and international policies for promoting Open Access and Research Archiving. I have been invited to the annual ICCC Electronic Publishing conference in Brazil to give a keynote, to meet Brazilian government officials and to run a workshop on EPrints Archiving. Research Institutes attending Workshops ================================ Bose Institute, Calcutta Central Electro Chemical Research Institute, Karaikudi Central Institute of Psychiatry, Kanke Central Leather Research Institute Central Potato Research Institute Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture Entomology Research Institute Indian Agricultural Research Institute Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute Indian Institute of Technology (reps from each of 5 cities) Indian National Science Association Indian Institute of Astrophysics Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode International Crops research Institute for the semi-Arid Tropics M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation National Academy of Agricultural Sciences National Brain Research Centre, Nainwal National Chemical Laboratory National Informatics Centre National Institute of Nutrition Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology Tuberculosis Research Centre Universities ------------ Anna University Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai Deemed University Govind Ballabh Pant University Of Agriculture and Technology Kerala Agricultural University Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University Shivaji University Tamil Nadu Agricultural University University Of Madras University of Delhi University of Kalyani Other Organisations ---- Mahiti (software developer for civil sector https://mx2.arl.org/Redirect/www.mahiti.org/ http://www.mahiti.org/ ) National Agricultural Technology Project (NATP, National Co-ordinator of 104 partners), Sir Ganga Ram Hospital --- Les Carr Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia (IAM) group Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton https://mx2.arl.org/Redirect/www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lac/ http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lac/

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Refresher Course in AMU, Aligarh
by ali raza naqvi 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Dear collegue, I am glad to inform you that the department of Library and Infomration Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh is going to organize UGC sponsored subject refresher courses as per the details given in the attachment The last date of receiving the applications is 30th of June 2005 Thanks Prof. Shabahat Husain Chairman department of Library and Infomration Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh Refreser Course Ist Theme Library and Information Management in Electronic age Schedule 13 July to 2nd Aug. 2005 Course Coordinator Dr. Naushad Ali, PM Refresher Course IInd Theme Organizing Knowledge in Automated Library Schedule 8th to 28th Dec. 2005 Course Coordinator Prof. Shabahat Husain Dear collegue, I am glad to inform you that the department of Library and Infomration Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh is going to organize UGC sponsored subject refresher courses as per the details given in the attachment The last date of receiving the applications is 30th of June 2005 Thanks Prof. Shabahat Husain Chairman department of Library and Infomration Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh Refreser Course Ist Theme Library and Information Management in Electronic age Schedule 13 July to 2nd Aug. 2005 Course Coordinator Dr. Naushad Ali, PM Refresher Course IInd Theme Organizing Knowledge in Automated Library Schedule 8th to 28th Dec. 2005 Course Coordinator Prof. Shabahat Husain http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo…

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Sad demise of our Raja...
by ts kumbar 11 Jun '05

11 Jun '05

Dear Friends, It is exactly a week back on this day ( Saturday) morning, the shocking news about the tragic death of Dr. Rajashekhar shook all of us. Many of us, who are closely known him for long and interacted with him on professional matters, find it hard to take in this news.The fact that, he is physically no more amongst us is not simply sinking in yet in our mind and heart. We have lost in him a thorough and a dedicated professional, a serious researcher, organisation builder, a teacher, a best friend and above all a good human being. It is a great loss to the profession and friends like us. He was one of those very few people, who worked tirelessly to train and prepare the young professionals with expertise in IT application to LIS. The best way to remember and respect this departed soul is to dedicate our efforts towards constantly improving our services by effectively using IT, for which he worked all through his career. Me and all my colleagues at DA-IICT, pray to God Almighty to rest his soul in peace and give a strength to the bereaved family and colleagues at NCSI. Kumbar & Colleagues Resource Centre DA-IICT Gandhinagar Dear Friends, It is exactly a week back on this day ( Saturday) morning, the shocking news about the tragic death of Dr. Rajashekhar shook all of us. Many of us, who are closely known him for long and interacted with him on professional matters, find it hard to take in this news. The fact that, he is physically no more amongst us is not simply sinking in yet in our mind and heart. We have lost in him a thorough and a dedicated professional, a serious researcher, organisation builder, a teacher, a best friend and above all a good human being. It is a great loss to the profession and friends like us. He was one of those very few people, who worked tirelessly to train and prepare the young professionals with expertise in IT application to LIS. The best way to remember and respect this departed soul is to dedicate our efforts towards constantly improving our services by effectively using IT, for which he worked all through his career. Me and all my colleagues at DA-IICT, pray to God Almighty to rest his soul in peace and give a strength to the bereaved family and colleagues at NCSI. Kumbar & Colleagues Resource Centre DA-IICT Gandhinagar

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