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On OAA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community Volume 18, Number 1, 30 - 34 / March 2005 http://www.uksg.org/ A mandate to self archive? The role of open access institutional repositories Stephen Pinfield Information Services Hallward Library, University Park, University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD UK +44?(0)?115?951?5109 Stephen.Pinfield(a)Nottingham.ac.uk http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~uazsjp/ Abstract: Based on a paper presented at the UKSG seminar 'Scientific Publications: Free for all?', The Geological Society, London, Tuesday 23 November 2004 This paper argues that the best way to achieve major improvements in scholarly communication in the short and medium term is to make it mandatory to deposit research papers in open access institutional repositories. This is what the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report of 20041 on scientific publishing recommended. The paper defines what open access repositories are and explains why they should be institutional. It also deals with the question of what should be deposited in institutional repositories and why these improve scholarly communication. It then deals with the issue of mandating deposition: why deposition should be mandatory, who should mandate deposition and who should carry out deposition. The paper concludes with an analysis of the wider implications of mandating deposition in institutional repositories and a summary of the existing situation in the UK and elsewhere. It discusses the Select Committee report and the UK Government response in relation to institutional repositories. Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community Volume 18, Number 1, 30 - 34 / March 2005 http://www.uksg.org/ http://www.uksg.org/ A mandate to self archive? The role of open access institutional repositories Stephen Pinfield Information Services Hallward Library, University Park, University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD UK +44?(0)?115?951?5109 http://uk.f304.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=Stephen.Pinfield@Nottingham.ac.… Stephen.Pinfield(a)Nottingham.ac.uk http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~uazsjp/ http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~uazsjp/ Abstract: Based on a paper presented at the UKSG seminar 'Scientific Publications: Free for all?', The Geological Society, London, Tuesday 23 November 2004 This paper argues that the best way to achieve major improvements in scholarly communication in the short and medium term is to make it mandatory to deposit research papers in open access institutional repositories. This is what the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report of 20041 on scientific publishing recommended. The paper defines what open access repositories are and explains why they should be institutional. It also deals with the question of what should be deposited in institutional repositories and why these improve scholarly communication. It then deals with the issue of mandating deposition: why deposition should be mandatory, who should mandate deposition and who should carry out deposition. The paper concludes with an analysis of the wider implications of mandating deposition in institutional repositories and a summary of the existing situation in the UK and elsewhere. It discusses the Select Committee report and the UK Government response in relation to institutional repositories.

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fulbright announced ....
by Puttaraj Choukimath 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Dear All: Hope all of you are enjoying the spring season! I am happy to inform you that USEFI has announced the competition for the 2006-2007 Fulbright fellowships for Indian academics, school teachers and professionals for graduate study, research, teaching and professional development in the United States. These fellowships cover a wide range of disciplines including art/culture management, conflict resolution, education, the humanities and social sciences, law, management, museum studies and public administration. New additions this year include the Fulbright Master�s Fellowships for Leadership Development, designed for outstanding Indians, preferably in the age group of 25-30 years, to pursue a master�s degree program at select U.S. colleges and universities in the areas of Public Administration, Economics, Communication Studies and Environment. These fellowships will be specially targeted at highly motivated individuals who demonstrate leadership qualities, have completed the equivalent of a U.S. Bachelor�s degree, have at least three years professional or work experience, and are committed to return and contribute to their communities. For application details and forms, visit http://www.fulbright-india.org. Application material can also be collected in person from any of the USEFI offices, after March 20, 2005. Request you to bring this to the notice of interested applicants. Best wishes, Yours sincerely Puttaraj. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! Dear All: Hope all of you are enjoying the spring season! I am happy to inform you that USEFI has announced the competition for the 2006-2007 Fulbright fellowships for Indian academics, school teachers and professionals for graduate study, research, teaching and professional development in the United States.� These fellowships cover a wide range of disciplines including art/culture management, conflict resolution, education, the humanities and social sciences, law, management, museum studies and public administration.� New additions this year include the Fulbright Master�s Fellowships for Leadership Development, designed for outstanding Indians, preferably in the age group of 25-30 years, to pursue a master�s degree program at select U.S. colleges and universities in the areas of Public Administration, Economics, Communication Studies and Environment. These fellowships will be specially targeted at highly motivated individuals who demonstrate leadership qualities, have completed the equivalent of a U.S. Bachelor�s degree, have at least three years professional or work experience, and are committed to return and contribute to their communities. For application details and forms, visit http://www.fulbright-india.org/ http://www.fulbright-india.org . Application material can also be collected in person from any of the USEFI offices, after March 20, 2005. Request you to bring this to the notice of interested applicants. Best wishes, Yours sincerely Puttaraj. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=31637/*http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ Try our new resources site!

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medIND now Includes 32 Full Text Journals
by Sukhdev Singh 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

The Following Journals have been added to medIND Project [http://medind.nic.in] 1. Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2. Journal of Family Welfare With addition of these two journals, medIND site now provides FREE ACCESS to FULL TEXT of Following 32 Indian Biomedical Journals indexed in IndMED [http://indmed.nic.in] * Endodontology * Health Administrator * Indian Journal of Aerospace Medicine * Indian Journal of Allergy Asthma and Immunology * Indian Journal of Anaesthesia * Indian Journal of Chest Diseases and Allied Sciences * Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry * Indian Journal of Community Medicine * Indian Journal of Gastroenterology * Indian Journal of Medical & Paediatric Oncology * Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology * Indian Journal of Medical Research * Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine * Indian Journal of Occupational and Enviornmental medicine * Indian Journal of Occupational Therapy * Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery * Indian Journal of Pharmacology * Indian Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine * Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases * Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery * Indian Journal of Tuberculosis * Indian Pediatrics * J.K. Practitioner * Journal, Indian Academy of Clinical Medicine * Journal of Family Welfare * Journal of Indian Rheumatology Association * Journal of The Anatomical Society of India * Journal of Indian Association of Pediatrics Surgeons * Journal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry * Medical Journal Armed Forces India * NTI Bulletin * Trends in Biomaterials and Artificial Organs In next few weeks one more Journal i.e. Indian Journal of Nephrology would become the 33rd Journal under medIND. --Thanks Sukhdev Singh, Principal Systems Analyst, Webmaster : http://indmed.nic.in & http://medind.nic.in National Informatics Centre, New Delhi.

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Request for the vendor
by Yashwant G Kanade 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Respected Members, I would request you to provide me the list of vendors or persons who provides the articles/papers from some journals either soft or hard copy even on payment basis. Thank you very much with Regards Yashwant G Kanade Library and Information Centre CES, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore-12

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WIPO Manifesto for Transparency, Participation, Balance and
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

WIPO Manifesto for Transparency, Participation, Balance and Access Dear Professionals: The following open letter will be sent to WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, calling for TRANSPARENCY, PARTICIPATION, BALANCE and ACCESS in its work. Prior to a large and ambitious publicity campaign, your sign-on to this letter is essential. WIPO is locking NGOs out of its negotiations, using tactics to isolate those governments who stand up for you, and hiding the evidence by deleting it from their website. The mentioned letter goes into great detail on this. If you are a computer programmer or polititian; if you are ill, if you have an audio/visual or motor impairment, if you are a student, academic, information or knowledge worker, librarian, or citizen concerned about access to information and knowledge and the absence of balance between rightsholders and the public interest within developed countries and mainly in developing/least developed countries, please take a moment to read this and consider signing into it. Things you can do: 1. sign onto the open letter (now available in English and Portuguese) by visiting this link: <http://www.petitiononline.com/wipo/petition.html>, and 2. spread it all over the world by sending e-mails and putting in your webpage a link to the online petition. Gandhi said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you WIN." This is the fighting part, and your help is essential. Pedro de Paranaguá Moniz Brazilian citizen Post-graduate student at Queen Mary, University of London lc04013(a)qmul.ac.uk MALLIKARJUNA, C Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. WIPO Manifesto for Transparency, Participation, Balance and Access Dear Professionals: The following open letter will be sent to WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, calling for TRANSPARENCY, PARTICIPATION, BALANCE and ACCESS in its work. Prior to a large and ambitious publicity campaign, your sign-on to this letter is essential. WIPO is locking NGOs out of its negotiations, using tactics to isolate those governments who stand up for you, and hiding the evidence by deleting it from their website. The mentioned letter goes into great detail on this. If you are a computer programmer or polititian; if you are ill, if you have an audio/visual or motor impairment, if you are a student, academic, information or knowledge worker, librarian, or citizen concerned about access to information and knowledge and the absence of balance between rightsholders and the public interest within developed countries and mainly in developing/least developed countries, please take a moment to read this and consider signing into it. Things you can do: 1. sign onto the open letter (now available in English and Portuguese) by visiting this link: < http://www.petitiononline.com/wipo/petition.html http://www.petitiononline.com/wipo/petition.html >, and 2. spread it all over the world by sending e-mails and putting in your webpage a link to the online petition. Gandhi said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you WIN." This is the fighting part, and your help is essential. Pedro de Paranaguá Moniz Brazilian citizen Post-graduate student at Queen Mary, University of London mailto:lc04013@qmul.ac.uk lc04013(a)qmul.ac.uk MALLIKARJUNA, C http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Economics of scientific and biomedical journals: Where do scholars ........libraries...publishers
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Good artcle in the new issue of FirstMonday: Economics of scientific and biomedical journals: Where do scholars stand in the debate of online journal pricing and site license ownership between libraries and publishers? for more detials go through this link http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/jeon/ MALLIKARJUNA,C Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Good artcle in the new issue of FirstMonday: Economics of scientific and biomedical journals: Where do scholars stand in the debate of online journal pricing and site license ownership between libraries and publishers? for more detials go through this link http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/jeon/ http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/jeon/ MALLIKARJUNA,C http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Opn Access Archiving
by Subbiah Arunachalam 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Friends: I just visited the Bytesforall.net portal and found the following two interesting items. -------- UN opens its Official Document System to the general public The United Nations has launched its Official Document System (ODS), a full-text web resource for official UN documentation. INDIA * The 'virus' of Free Software is spreading... This is a list of the useful user groups that help in spreading Free/Libre and Open Source Software. Most are from around India, and could play a useful role in spreading the ideals of sharing and freedom in the FLOSS movement. Would really appreciate any help in updating and correcting this list and keeping it current. Thanks for helping to update this list and keeping it relevant. -- FN (Frederick Noronha in Goa) fred at bytesforall.org. ------- A number of the readers of this portal are keen to promote open source software. There is an equally important and useful goal to be achieved. I am talking about making the world's scientific and scholarly journal literature accessible to everyone free of cost and instantly on publication. The portal is happy to report that the UN has opened up its official documents. Should we not work towards opening up the scientific and schoalrly research literature? Some may ask why is that important. Let me explain. Knowledge is important at all levels. We at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation know from our experience with the knowledge centres in Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu in southern India over the past decade how very useful access to knowledge is for the rural poor. The role played by these centres both during and after the recent tsunami attack on our coasts has been written about and discussed in intenational fora. The orderly fashion in which relief measures were delivered in these villages was in stark contrast to what had happened elsewhere. Andy Carvin and others who attended the recent Baramati Conference were full of praise for Prof. Swaminathan's talk on our kowledge centres. If access to relevant and useful information makes a difference in the lives of the rural poor, it is even more crucial for those in the business of generating new knowledge that can form the basis of development. That is why scientists and scholars need to have immediate access to the newly emerging kowledge, irrespective of where it comes from. Unfortunately, the scholarly journals which mediate this process have become unaffordable; there are too many of them and most of them are very expensive. But developments in technology, especially ICTs, have made it possible for us now to have such access at a ridiculously low cost. Taking advantage of the web technology, physicists of the world started exchanging their research findings through an archive called arXiv about 15 years ago. Today most physicists worth the name use arXiv to let others know of therir new papers and to learn what other physicists are up to. arXiv is a centralised archive, originally located at Los Alamos National Laboratory and now at Cornell University, and it has more than 15 mirror sites, several of them in Asia including one at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai (Madras). People who have thought about archiving research papers have thought of interoperable institutional archives as another possibility and today there are about 400 such institutional open access archives around the world. The one at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has about 1,700 papers stored in it and the number is increasing every day. It is in the interest of developing country scientists and scholars to promote the culture of institutional archiving. Imagine a world where every institution performing and publishing research has an archive and every scientist deposits his/her papers in these archives. Now anyone can access any paper if he/she has an Internet connection. Knowledge will flow freely and science will advance much faster than in a regime where knowledge is locked up and kept inaccessible to all the users through cost barriers. There is another and possibly more important benefit for developing country scientists. Right now papers by scientists from DCs are rarely noticed, read and quoted by others. The journals produced in DCs are rarely subscribed by libraries in advanced countries. Often someone in Bangalore may not know what another scientist living in Kanpur has published! But if all these papers are available free on the Net, then their visibility and citability will increase manifold. And that is precisely what every scientist would want. Setting up interoperable institutional open access archives is pretty easy. The software is free and can be downloaded from the Net. There are experts who are willing to provide training (if needed). There are many international organizations actively promoting the culture if OA archiving. Those of us who are trying to promote the use of free and open source software could in addition promote OAA as well. A recent study has shown that we need to create an awareness among scientists and policymakers of the tremendous advantages of such archives. We need to mount many advocacy programmes. The recent meeting (Berlin-3) held at the Southampton University came up with the following recommendation: "In order to implement the Berlin Declaration institutions should 1) Implement a policy to require their researchers to deposit a copy of all their published articles in an open access repository. and 2) Encourage their researchers to publish their research articles in open access journals where a suitable journal exists and provide the support to enable that to happen." I would urge all of you friends to persuade institutions (your own and others) to adopt and implement these recommendations. Thanks and best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Friends: I just visited the Bytesforall.net portal and found the following two interesting items. -------- UN opens its Official Document System to the general public The United Nations has launched its Official Document System (ODS), a full-text web resource for official UN documentation. INDIA * The 'virus' of Free Software is spreading... This is a list of the useful user groups that help in spreading Free/Libre and Open Source Software. Most are from around India, and could play a useful role in spreading the ideals of sharing and freedom in the FLOSS movement. Would really appreciate any help in updating and correcting this list and keeping it current. Thanks for helping to update this list and keeping it relevant. -- FN (Frederick Noronha in Goa) fred at bytesforall.org. ------- A number of the readers of this portal are keen to promote open source software. There is an equally important and useful goal to be achieved. I am talking about making the world's scientific and scholarly journal literature accessible to everyone free of cost and instantly on publication. The portal is happy to report that the UN has opened up its official documents. Should we not work towards opening up the scientific and schoalrly research literature? Some may ask why is that important. Let me explain. Knowledge is important at all levels. We at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation know from our experience with the knowledge centres in Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu in southern India over the past decade how very useful access to knowledge is for the rural poor. The role played by these centres both during and after the recent tsunami attack on our coasts has been written about and discussed in intenational fora. The orderly fashion in which relief measures were delivered in these villages was in stark contrast to what had happened elsewhere. Andy Carvin and others who attended the recent Baramati Conference were full of praise for Prof. Swaminathan's talk on our kowledge centres. If access to relevant and useful information makes a difference in the lives of the rural poor, it is even more crucial for those in the business of generating new knowledge that can form the basis of development. That is why scientists and scholars need to have immediate access to the newly emerging kowledge, irrespective of where it comes from. Unfortunately, the scholarly journals which mediate this process have become unaffordable; there are too many of them and most of them are very expensive. But developments in technology, especially ICTs, have made it possible for us now to have such access at a ridiculously low cost. Taking advantage of the web technology, physicists of the world started exchanging their research findings through an archive called arXiv about 15 years ago. Today most physicists worth the name use arXiv to let others know of therir new papers and to learn what other physicists are up to. arXiv is a centralised archive, originally located at Los Alamos National Laboratory and now at Cornell University, and it has more than 15 mirror sites, several of them in Asia including one at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai (Madras). People who have thought about archiving research papers have thought of interoperable institutional archives as another possibility and today there are about 400 such institutional open access archives around the world. The one at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has about 1,700 papers stored in it and the number is increasing every day. It is in the interest of developing country scientists and scholars to promote the culture of institutional archiving. Imagine a world where every institution performing and publishing research has an archive and every scientist deposits his/her papers in these archives. Now anyone can access any paper if he/she has an Internet connection. Knowledge will flow freely and science will advance much faster than in a regime where knowledge is locked up and kept inaccessible to all the users through cost barriers. There is another and possibly more important benefit for developing country scientists. Right now papers by scientists from DCs are rarely noticed, read and quoted by others. The journals produced in DCs are rarely subscribed by libraries in advanced countries. Often someone in Bangalore may not know what another scientist living in Kanpur has published! But if all these papers are available free on the Net, then their visibility and citability will increase manifold. And that is precisely what every scientist would want. Setting up interoperable institutional open access archives is pretty easy. The software is free and can be downloaded from the Net. There are experts who are willing to provide training (if needed). There are many international organizations actively promoting the culture if OA archiving. Those of us who are trying to promote the use of free and open source software could in addition promote OAA as well. A recent study has shown that we need to create an awareness among scientists and policymakers of the tremendous advantages of such archives. We need to mount many advocacy programmes. The recent meeting (Berlin-3) held at the Southampton University came up with the following recommendation: " In order to implement the Berlin Declaration institutions should 1) Implement a policy to require their researchers to deposit a copy of all their published articles in an open access repository. and 2) Encourage their researchers to publish their research articles in open access journals where a suitable journal exists and provide the support to enable that to happen." I would urge all of you friends to persuade institutions (your own and others) to adopt and implement these recommendations. Thanks and best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Query on Pschycological testing
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Dear Ms Vaishnav, I refer to your query in Lis-forum quoted below. I think Dr Ms Amuliya Khurana may be the right person to help you as she has recently developed an instrument (Questionnaire) for assessing the mental health of industrial workers. I read about her project in IITD-Fitt website. Please contact her. A copy of this reply is marked to her as well. Best Wishes Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 ================================ [LIS-Forum] Query Mailing List Manager mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Thu Mar 10 16:26:07 IST 2005 Previous message: [LIS-Forum] Re: qualifications of Asst. Librarian Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:03:51 +0530 From: Mrs. Vaishnav <ytv at godrej.com> Dear All, A guidance needed -Has there been standardized norms for psychological Testing in Indian industries? Please guide at your earliest, With regards & thanks, Mrs. Y.T.Vaishnav=0D (Consulting Librarian-Godrej-Mumbai) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Previous message: [LIS-Forum] Re: qualifications of Asst. Librarian Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More information about the LIS-Forum mailing list Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Hyderabad I blog at: http://vyasamoorthy.blogspot.com

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Request for article from Dr. Prasad, SRELS
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

-----Original Message----- From: SRELS [mailto:srels@vsnl.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 1:18 PM To: Listforum Cc: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Article Dear Dr. Rajashekar : Can you please make arrangements to announce the following in LIS-FORUM ? Sincerely, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer, SRELS " If any one has a copy of the article on "Kaiser-Subject Heading" (title may not be fully in order or complete) by Prof. G. Bhattacharyya in mimeographed format, we would feel obliged to have a copy of it sent to us at the following address". Dr. K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, Upstairs, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010. Ph: 080 23305109 ; E-mail : srels(a)vsnl.com ;

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EDC- DL prototype for dot-EDU India Instructional Materials@Vidyanidhi
by Shalini R Urs 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

EDC- DL prototype for dot-EDU India Instructional Materials@Vidyanidhi A prototype digital library has been built for the dot-EDU India Interactive audio-video Instructional Materials using the Greenstone Digital Library Software. A demo version of the same is hosted on the website- www.vidyanidhi.org.in/edcdl The prototype with the current collection of 125 Interactive Radio Instructional materials is made available as EDC- DL- in a box. Dot-EDU Technology Tools for Teaching and Training (T4) is a project sponsored by USAID and implemented by Education Development Center (EDC) and its 39 dot-EDU NGO and government partners. Dot-EDU T4 was created to improve the quality of education in selected states in India. Education Development Center (EDC) and its 39 dot-EDU NGO and government partners believe that educational quality and equitable access are intrinsically connected. They aim to improve the mass delivery of educational quality in order to have an impact on what is learned and who is learning it. EDC and its partners are making great strides towards achieving these goals in the target states of Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand. This project seeks to accomplish its goals through carefully planned, locally-developed applications of digital technologies, coupled with workshops and interaction with the communities. For more info- www.ies.sdc.org <http://www.ies.sdc.org/> The EDC-DL project is a consultancy assignment to the Vidyanidhi Digital Library @University of Mysore. The project involved, the study of metadata standards and vocabularies and developing an appropriate metadata set for the collection. Dublin Core (DC), Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) and IMS Global were considered. The Dublin Core application profile for educational materials with 19 elements has been developed and deployed. Three controlled vocabularies- The Australian Council for Educational Research www.acer.edu.au <http://www.acer.edu.au/> ; The Eurydice Information network on Education in Europe: www.eurydice.org <http://www.eurydice.org/> ; Education Information Resources Center -ERIC www.eric.ed.gov <http://www.eric.ed.gov/> were studied and finally ERIC vocabulary was chosen. The collection comprised of three series - the Chukki Chinna series for Karnataka and the English is Fun series for the states of Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand.Chattisgharn and Jharkhand. The Chukki Chinna interactive radio instruction series is a project-based, active learning approach to teaching and learning emerging from identified hard spots for science, social studies (or environmental studies) and mathematics in the 4th and 5th standard curriculum. English is Fun series comprises of interactive radio instruction (IRI) programmes on introductory English for 1st and 2nd grades. The EDC- DL collection may be browsed and searched in three languages- English, Kannada, and Hindi. Interfaces are also available in these three languages. 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  EDC- DL prototype for dot-EDU India Instructional Materials@Vidyanidhi � � A prototype digital library has been built for the dot-EDU India Interactive audio-video Instructional Materials using the Greenstone Digital Library Software. A demo version of the same is hosted on the website- http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/edcdl www.vidyanidhi.org.in/edcdl The prototype with the current collection of 125 Interactive Radio Instructional materials is made available as EDC- DL- in a box. � Dot-EDU Technology Tools for Teaching and Training (T4) is a project sponsored by USAID and implemented by Education Development Center (EDC) and its 39 dot-EDU NGO and government partners. � Dot-EDU T4 was created to improve the quality of education in selected states in India . � Education Development Center (EDC) and its 39 dot-EDU NGO and government partners believe that educational quality and equitable access are intrinsically connected. � They aim to improve the mass delivery of educational quality in order to have an impact on what is learned and who is learning it. � EDC and its partners are making great strides towards achieving these goals in the target states of Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand. This project seeks to accomplish its goals through carefully planned, locally-developed applications of digital technologies, coupled with workshops and interaction with the communities. For more info- http://www.ies.sdc.org/ www.ies.sdc.org � The EDC-DL project is a consultancy assignment to the Vidyanidhi Digital Library @ University of Mysore . The project involved, the study of metadata standards and vocabularies and developing an appropriate metadata set for the collection. Dublin Core (DC), Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) and IMS Global were considered. The Dublin Core application profile for educational materials with 19 elements has been developed and deployed. Three controlled vocabularies- The Australian Council for Educational Research http://www.acer.edu.au/ www.acer.edu.au ; The Eurydice Information network on Education in Europe : � http://www.eurydice.org/ www.eurydice.org ; Education Information Resources Center – ERIC � http://www.eric.ed.gov/ www.eric.ed.gov were studied � and finally ERIC vocabulary was chosen. � The collection comprised of three series – the Chukki Chinna series for Karnataka and the English is Fun series for the states of Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand.Chattisgharn and Jharkhand. The Chukki Chinna interactive radio instruction series is a project-based, active learning approach to teaching and learning emerging from identified hard spots for science, social studies (or environmental studies) and mathematics in the 4 th and 5 th standard curriculum. English is Fun series comprises of interactive radio instruction (IRI) programmes on introductory English for 1 st and 2 nd grades. � The EDC- DL � collection may be browsed and searched in three languages- English, Kannada, and Hindi. Interfaces are also available in these three languages. � � � 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 �

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Procurement of Russian Patent
by jayalaxmi m 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Sir, We are looking for one Russian Patent, it will highly appreciated if you can suggest us the source from where it can procured. Please guide at your earliest. Details of the Patent: V.A. Smirnov, I.E. Crasnitscaya, Patent of Russia, 2066892.6.09 1993 Regards, Jayalaxmi. M MTRDC,DRDO Bangalore ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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ACS opened for open Access
by Madhuresh 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Dear Friends, At last ACS (American Chemical society) opened its door for open access. ACS was considered as a toughest publisher for Open access. Now ACS announced its compliance with Public Access Guidelines released by the NIH i.e. free availability of articles after one year of publication with some conditions for its 33 scholarly journals. Here is the press release: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------- American Chemical Society broadens access to its articles Conditions set for free availability one year after publication http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/article_access.html http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/article_access.pdf The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, is broadening access to research articles published in its 33 scholarly journals. The Society is introducing two new experimental policies that define how readers can view free digital versions of ACS articles beginning one year after publication. First, in response to public access guidelines recently released by the NIH1, the ACS will post, for public accessibility 12 months after publication, the peer-reviewed version of authors' manuscripts on the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central during 2005. The NIH policy encourages authors whose work it funds to submit their peer-reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central, the agency's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Commenting on this new service, ACS Publications Senior Vice President Brian Crawford said, "We understand that NIH-funded authors will wish to comply voluntarily with the NIH's policy request. By introducing this service, the ACS will take on the administrative burden of compliance and at the same time will ensure the integrity of the scientific literature by depositing the appropriate author version of the manuscript after peer-review." Second, as a value-added service to ACS authors and a method of further opening access to its content, the full-text version of all research articles published in ACS journals will be made available at no charge via an author-directed Web link 12 months after final publication. Allowing unrestricted access to articles 12 months after publication is an expansion of the Society's current practice of permitting 50 downloads of authors' articles free of charge during the first year of publication. This initiative will go into effect during 2005. "We are very pleased to expand access in this way to research published in ACS journals," said Crawford. "It is fundamental to the ACS mission to support and promote the research enterprise and to foster communication among its scientists. Providing unrestricted access via author-directed links 12 months after publication - in addition to the 50 free e-prints currently allowed during the first year of publication - reinforces that mission." Robert Bovenschulte, president of the ACS Publications Division, said "These experimental policies balance the important goal of expanding dissemination of research with the need to preserve the integrity of the scientific record as well as the viability of our journals program." The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization, chartered by the U.S. Congress, with a multidisciplinary membership of more than 158,000 chemists and chemical engineers. It publishes numerous scientific journals and databases, convenes major research conferences and provides educational, science policy and career programs in chemistry. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio. 1(Notice Number NOT-OD-05-022/ http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-022.html) Released: March 7, 2005 #13859 Related Press Releases: * American Chemical Society broadens author-directed article access: http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/e_prints.html * American Chemical Society policy will offer service to authors of NIH-funded research articles: http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/nih.html Regards Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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Query
by Mailing List Manager 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:03:51 +0530 From: Mrs. Vaishnav <ytv(a)godrej.com> Dear All, A guidance needed -Has there been standardized norms for psychological Testing in Indian industries? Please guide at your earliest, With regards & thanks, Mrs. Y.T.Vaishnav=0D (Consulting Librarian-Godrej-Mumbai)

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NET for to be Librarian???
by Aman Jha 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Friends, I want to know: 1. The logic of having NET qualification for the recruitment of Librarian/Deputy Librarian/Assistant Librarian. 2. Whether NET qualification for Librarian (not for library teachers) really add any value to their profession? Thanks and regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-5014060-67 * Fax: 0124-5014080

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Re: qualifications of Asst. Librarian
by Mailing List Manager 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:50:04 +0530 From: anjrao <anjrao(a)indiatimes.com> dear sir Minimum Qualification for Asst.librarian in Degree level Technical Institutions 1. Qualifying in tghe national-level test conductd for the purpose by the UGC or any otheragency approved by UGC. 2. Master Degree inLibraryscience/ information science/ Documentation or Equivalent professional degree with 55% of the marks or its equivalentCGPA. and consistently good academic record, computeristion of library. regards janardhana rao librarian m s ramaiah Inst. of management

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Why English is so Difficult to Learn
by Mailing List Manager 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:05:53 +0530 From: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ <mukesh(a)monitorinfo.com> Dear All Hope the following will take some heat off the topical discussion among the forum members: Why English is so Difficult to Learn: The 500 most commonly used words in the English Language have over 14,000 meanings! Please ponder over some examples: 1. The bandage was wound around the wound 2. The farm was used to produce produce. 3. The dump was so full that she had to refuse more refuse. 4. He could lead if would get the lead out 5. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. 6. I did not object to the object lying on floor. 7. The insurance was invalid for the invalid. 8. They were too close to the door to close it. 9. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend. 10. When shot at, the dove dove into bushes. 11. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests. 12. He saw a saw, which could not saw. No wonder, English Language is so Difficult to Learn Best Wishes - - Mukesh Anand Hyderabad - India

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Re-Launch of Theoretical Librarian Blog
by Gerry Mckiernan 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Colleagues/ I am pleased to announce the re-launch of the Theoretical Librarian blog (TLB) at [ http://theoretical-librarian.blogspot.com/ ] As stated, "Theoretical Librarian is the blog of Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer at Iowa State University Library, Ames, IA 50011. Theoretical Librarian, in general, will include announcements of past, present, and future personal publications and presentations as well as postings on current and emerging technologies and their actual and potential application for enhanced information and library services." Recent postings to TLB include iPod® U: Duke iPod® First-Year Experience This Just In: Web Feeds for Enhanced Library Services NPR: Library Marks the Evolution of British English International Symposium on Wikis (October 17-18, 2005) Wired News: Library Shuffles Its Collection Compendex Now Offers RSS Feeds NYTimes: NYPL Digital Gallery Numa Numa A-Book Revolution? NPR: 'A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe' In addition to an Atom feed [ http://theoretical-librarian.blogspot.com/atom.xml ], TLB now has an RSS FeedBurner feed on the blog [ http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheoreticalLibrarian ] For All The News That You Can Use, Subscribe to TLB [:-) Joy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Theoretical Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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a new biodiversity website
by M P Tapaswi 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Dear Colleagues, We have revised a our biodiversity website for Mangroves of India (http://www.mangroveindia.org) Your comments to further improve upon would be very valuable. With warm regards, Murari P Tapaswi National Info Centre for Marine Sciences (NICMAS) National Institute of Oceanography Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, India Phone: 91-(0)832-2450275 (Direct); 91-(0)832-2450450 (EPBX) Fax: 91-(0)832-2450605/603 URL: www.nio.org

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The Tech Museum Awards: for who use technology to benefit humanity in the categories of Education, Equality, Environment, Economic Development, and Health
by Puttaraj Choukimath 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Dear friends, Greetings. http://techawards.thetech.org/index.cfm?id=talink The Tech Museum Awards, presented by Applied Materials, Inc., is a unique and prestigious program that honors and awards innovators from around the world who use technology to benefit humanity in the categories of Education, Equality, Environment, Economic Development, and Health. 25 Laureates will be honored at a black-tie celebration, invited to participate in press and media coverage, and introduced to a network of influential advisors. One Laureate in each category will be awarded a $50,000 cash prize. Reward those making a difference and nominate today. Nomination Deadline: April 4, 2005 GOOD LUCK Puttaraj, A.C. --------------------------------- Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web Dear friends, Greetings. � http://techawards.thetech.org/index.cfm?id=talink http://techawards.thetech.org/index.cfm?id=talink � The Tech Museum Awards, presented by Applied Materials, Inc., is a unique and prestigious program that honors and awards innovators from around the world who use technology to benefit humanity in the categories of Education, Equality, Environment, Economic Development, and Health. 25 Laureates will be honored at a black-tie celebration, invited to participate in press and media coverage, and introduced to a network of influential advisors. One Laureate in each category will be awarded a $50,000 cash prize. Reward those making a difference and nominate today. Nomination Deadline: April 4, 2005 � GOOD LUCK � Puttaraj, A.C. Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web

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Librarian's Friend
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

News Bit that might interest you: Mr Luis Sanchez, Mayor of Nezahualcoyoti in Mexico has ordered that all 1000 plus Police officers under his control shall read minimum one book per month; A list of books has been given. Those who do not comply, stand to loose their promotions whenever they are due! (The Hindu 9/3/2005) Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Hyderabad I blog at: http://vyasamoorthy.blogspot.com

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New user
by chitrarao＠nitie.edu 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Hello Librarian I have registered recentlyas a new user to this good forum..Please give me an introduction on thescope and how to use this forum Thank U. Scanning the mail has given me an idea obout the diversity but to use/contribute effectively I need some input. Thank U chitra Rao NITIE Mumbai

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A newbie is speaking...
by Subbiah Arunachalam 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Friends: Please spare eight minutes to watch this very perceptive look at the future. I got to know about it from Michael Keany, Director, Long Island School Leadership Center. http://oak.psych.gatech.edu/~epic/ Regards. Arun

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Libraries in Phone Directory
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Dear Friends, I did a telephone directory search using BSNL's website: http://www.ap.bsnl.com/enquiry/search.asp When I tried the search string 'library' in "name - anywhere" I got 14 results. Out of this only 8 were real libraries. Then I did a search for the same string (library) in "address - anywhere", and I got 220 results. Twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad do have a few hundred libraries - big and small, public and private, academic & special -- all put together. Only very few of them (just 8) have phone numbers listed against their own identification as a library. The larger number of results in the second search shows that people use library to identify their addresses / location by saying near 'so and so library'. While librarians are failing to use telephone directory as a means to publicity or as a tool for communication, unintended publicity comes from the public -- of course non-library users! At least that way they find libraries useful! Any comments? Vyasamoorthy, P ================== Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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Fwd: [FAIFE-L] International Women's Day - Reporters Without Borders pays tribute
by Smita Chandra 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

Dear colleagues : Please go through this heart rendering report, posted at one of the IFLA forums, on the ocassion of International Women's Day today ! I apologize for cross-postings. Best, Smita-- Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism INDIA. Note: forwarded message attached. --------------------------------- Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web Dear colleagues : � Please go through this heart rendering report, posted at one of the IFLA forums, on the ocassion of International Women's Day today !� � I apologize for cross-postings. � Best, Smita-- Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism INDIA. Note: forwarded message attached. Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web

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Fw: [IAMSLIC:4929] Fwd: [CHMINF-L] American Chemical Society broadens access to its articles
by M P Tapaswi 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

Should be interest to the lis-forum members list Murari P Tapaswi National Info Centre for Marine Sciences (NICMAS) National Institute of Oceanography Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, India Phone: 91-(0)832-2450275 (Direct); 91-(0)832-2450450 (EPBX) Fax: 91-(0)832-2450605/603 URL: www.nio.org > >X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 > >X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) > >Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 13:34:03 -0500 > >Reply-To: CHEMICAL INFORMATION SOURCES > >DISCUSSION LIST > ><CHMINF-L(a)LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU> > >Sender: CHEMICAL INFORMATION SOURCES DISCUSSION > >LIST <CHMINF-L(a)LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU> > >From: Adam Chesler <a_chesler(a)ACS.ORG> > >Subject: [CHMINF-L] American Chemical Society broadens access to its articles > >To: CHMINF-L(a)LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU > > > >I believe the following will be of interest to readers of this list. Links > >to further information are at the bottom of the press release; you may feel > >free to contact me directly if you have any questions. > > > >American Chemical Society broadens access to its articles > >Conditions set for free availability one year after publication > > > >http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/article_access.html > >http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/article_access.pdf > > > > > >The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, is > >broadening access to research articles published in its 33 scholarly > >journals. The Society is introducing two new experimental policies that > >define how readers can view free digital versions of ACS articles beginning > >one year after publication. > > > >First, in response to public access guidelines recently released by the > >NIH(1), the ACS will post, for public accessibility 12 months after > >publication, the peer-reviewed version of authors' manuscripts on the > >National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central during 2005. The NIH policy > >encourages authors whose work it funds to submit their peer-reviewed > >manuscripts to PubMed Central, the agency's free digital archive of > >biomedical and life sciences journal literature. > > > >Commenting on this new service, ACS Publications Senior Vice President Brian > >Crawford said, "We understand that NIH-funded authors will wish to comply > >voluntarily with the NIH's policy request. By introducing this service, the > >ACS will take on the administrative burden of compliance and at the same > >time will ensure the integrity of the scientific literature by depositing > >the appropriate author version of the manuscript after peer-review." > > > >Second, as a value-added service to ACS authors and a method of further > >opening access to its content, the full-text version of all research > >articles published in ACS journals will be made available at no charge via > >an author-directed Web link 12 months after final publication. Allowing > >unrestricted access to articles 12 months after publication is an expansion > >of the Society's current practice of permitting 50 downloads of authors' > >articles free of charge during the first year of publication. This > >initiative will go into effect during 2005. > > > >"We are very pleased to expand access in this way to research published in > >ACS journals," said Crawford. "It is fundamental to the ACS mission to > >support and promote the research enterprise and to foster communication > >among its scientists. Providing unrestricted access via author-directed > >links 12 months after publication - in addition to the 50 free e-prints > >currently allowed during the first year of publication - reinforces that > >mission." > > > >Robert Bovenschulte, president of the ACS Publications Division, said "These > >experimental policies balance the important goal of expanding dissemination > >of research with the need to preserve the integrity of the scientific record > >as well as the viability of our journals program." > > > >The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization, chartered by the > >U.S. Congress, with a multidisciplinary membership of more than 158,000 > >chemists and chemical engineers. It publishes numerous scientific journals > >and databases, convenes major research conferences and provides educational, > >science policy and career programs in chemistry. Its main offices are in > >Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio. > > > >(1) Notice Number NOT-OD-05-022/ > >http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-022.html > > > >Released: March 7, 2005 > > > >#13859 > > > >Related Press Releases: > > > >· American Chemical Society broadens author-directed article access: > >http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/e_prints.html > > > >· American Chemical Society policy will offer service to authors of > >NIH-funded research articles: http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/nih.html > > > > > >*********************************************** > >Adam Chesler > >Assistant Director, Sales and Library Relations > >American Chemical Society > >1155 16th Street NW > >Washington, DC 20036 > > > >Office Telephone/FAX: (781) 381-2814 > >Cell Phone: (617) 230-3201 > >E-Mail: a_chesler(a)acs.org > > > >Web Site: pubs.acs.org > > > >CHMINF-L Archives (also to join or leave CHMINF-L, etc.) > >http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/chminf-l.html > >Search the CHMINF-L archives at: > >https://listserv.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/wa-iub.exe?S1=chminf-l > >Sponsors of CHMINF-L: > >http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/chminf-l_support.html

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