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INASP and OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 20 Mar '05

20 Mar '05

Friends: Here is an article that appeared recently in PLoS Biology, a well-known open access journal. The author Ms Pippa Smart works for INASP. Prof. N Mukunda of CTS, IISc, Bangalore, is the chairman of the Advisory Board of INASP. I wish INASP promotes interoperable open access archiving around the world with the same zeal it is trying to promote free or subsidised access to key journals for scientists in the developing world. Best wishes. Arun ---------- PLoS Biology Volume 2 | Issue 11 | NOVEMBER 2004 International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications: Facilitating Scientific Publishing in Developing Countries Pippa Smart Pippa Smart is head of publishing and publishing initiatives for the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, Oxford, United Kingdom. E-mail: psmart(a)inasp.info Published: November 16, 2004 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020326 Copyright: © 2004 Pippa Smart. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abbreviations: AJOL, African Journals OnLine; INASP, International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications Citation: Smart P (2004) International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications: Facilitating Scientific Publishing in Developing Countries. PLoS Biol 2(11): e326. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'The most important element that restricts our researchers is access to information.'-Subbiah Arunachalam, India, 2003 The International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) was established by the International Council for Science in 1992 to provide support for networking between information providers and users, particularly to bridge the information divide between the developed and developing world. Since 1992 INASP has worked, in response to requests, to develop its activities for capacity building in information production, access, and use, with an overarching vision that all people are able to access and contribute information, ideas, and knowledge necessary for sustainable and equitable development. To ensure that INASP activities are appropriate for the communities and cultures of the countries in which INASP works, local partners are used to build networks and to provide advice and support. Enhancing capacities is central to all activities, and local ownership and sensitivity to local conditions and opinions are of paramount importance. Here I highlight two aspects of our work: increasing access to information and supporting the visibility of regional journals within the global research community. Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information The growth and acceptability of the internet during the 1990s opened up tremendous possibilities for the dissemination of research information, providing many nations with access to information that had previously been out of their reach. Although internet connectivity remains problematic in many countries, it still offers great potential for bridging the information gap. Arising from discussions with librarians and researchers in 1999 and 2000, the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information was formally launched in 2002 after a two-year pilot programme. The Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information works in a two-phase manner: (1) providing and supporting access to international research information and (2) supporting and promoting access to nationally published research. To support access to international information, INASP negotiates for heavily discounted or free access to online information from publishers and information providers in developed countries. Enabling access, however, does not guarantee that resources are used; both training and promotion are needed so that researchers and downstream information providers know how to make the best use of what is available. With this in mind, INASP has set up four series of training workshops, which have trained over 1,000 people from over 200 institutions in over 17 countries during the last two years. Although some of the training is undertaken by INASP staff, most is facilitated by in-country trainers. Planning for long-term sustainability, INASP aims to hand over the tasks of negotiation, purchasing, and training to local consortia, associations, or networks. African Journals OnLine Although much needed, access to international resources can discriminate against nationally published scholarly information. This may be due to one of the following: a perception that local publications are lower quality, distribution problems and irregular publishing, or lack of online visibility. However, national publications provide vital access to potential collaborators and information about research on topics of local relevance-since 1998, INASP has provided support to indigenous research publications to enable them to survive and coexist with international information. One specific project that exemplifies these aims is known as African Journals OnLine (AJOL). AJOL launched in 1998 in response to requests from African journals. Starting with only ten titles, it now includes 189 from 21 African countries. Access to the site, which includes tables of contents, article abstracts, and a homepage for each journal with information about editorial boards, guidelines for authors, and more, is entirely free. Participating journals report increased international submissions and increasing contact with international researchers. Researchers make wide use of this service, and over 8,000 people have registered to use AJOL since it launched. Registration is optional and until March this year did not provide the user any benefit-it simply provided an indication of the number of people visiting and from which countries. However, since March 2004 anyone who registers can sign up to receive a free E-mail table of contents alert. Over 500 people have chosen to receive E-mail alerts from an average of four journals each, and the effect of these alerts is felt through the increase in document delivery requests. AJOL does not currently host full text, but can provide full-text articles through a document delivery service (there are plans to load full-text articles on AJOL in the future). This service is provided to researchers from developing countries for free and to researchers elsewhere at a minimal charge (to cover costs, plus a small payment to the journal). In the first six months of 2004, over 700 articles were ordered and sent out. Most journals publishing out of Africa are not run by commercial publishers, and most of them operate at a loss, subsidised by universities, associations, funding agencies, or a mixture of all three. Paid subscriptions to print journals are frequently a vital part of their economics, and the financial viability of many journals is constantly under threat. Originally, it was hoped that AJOL would increase subscriptions, thereby providing greater financial security to the journals. This has not been achieved and is unlikely to occur in the future. However, with increasing visibility, the value of the journals increases along with, hopefully, their importance to the supporting agencies and long-term sustainability. Since AJOL is set up to provide support for the participating journals, the journals' opinions are constantly sought before any developments are undertaken, meaning AJOL is effectively "owned" by them. Although the service is not actively run by the journals themselves, all participating journals are considered to be part of a community, receiving regular E-mail contact and skills support. Many journal editors (who frequently undertake all the publishing activities) feel isolated and unskilled, and even though AJOL does not operate as an association for the journals, it encourages communication between the editors, and a sharing of experience. The AJOL website was relaunched in March 2004 using open-source software called Open Journal System, originally developed in Canada by the Public Knowledge Project at the University of British Columbia and further developed for AJOL at Bristol University, United Kingdom. This software was written to enable a single journal to manage the entire publishing process online from submission to publishing. Being open source, the software can also easily be adapted and modified. The Public Knowledge Project set up the system with the developing world in mind: it operates efficiently at low bandwidths and is easy to use, with many guides and help functions built in. For the users, this software offers sophisticated searching, E-mail alerts, and a space for each journal within AJOL for journal-specific information. It also now provides a range of management tools, which makes the service more efficient and enables it to grow. Another important consideration for choosing this system was that individual journals can take over the responsibility for maintaining their own journal areas within AJOL via the Internet. Over 50 journals have expressed an interest in taking this on, and one publisher is already successfully maintaining its material. To support this, training workshops are currently in preparation. This development will assist the long-term sustainability of AJOL and also give the participating journals experience in managing and publishing content online. In the near future, INASP will be including full text on AJOL and hopes to move the management of AJOL to an African organisation so that it will truly become an African gateway for published research. In addition, INASP continues to work with journals to strengthen their quality and sustainability, providing advice, training workshops, study tours, and a coordinating point for discussion and collaboration. Outside Africa, INASP is working on similar developments in Nepal and the Caribbean and has received expressions of interest from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. The Future of Journal Access It is vital that researchers everywhere in the world have access to reliable, relevant information. At the same time, providing access to international literature needs to be balanced with supporting local publications to ensure that indigenous knowledge is not lost, but can take its place in the research community and contribute to the continuing development of science. Worldwide access to information is central to all INASP activities, and INASP supports policies and activities that work towards this. Where to Find Out More INASP: http://www.inasp.info AJOL: http://www.ajol.info Public Knowledge Project: http://pkp.ubc.ca Friends: Here is an article that appeared recently in PLoS Biology, a well-known open access journal. The author Ms Pippa Smart works for INASP. Prof. N Mukunda of CTS, IISc, Bangalore, is the chairman of the Advisory Board of INASP. I wish INASP promotes interoperable open access archiving around the world with the same zeal it is trying to promote free or subsidised access to key journals for scientists in the developing world. Best wishes. Arun ---------- PLoS Biology http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-toc&issn=1545-7885&vo… Volume 2 | Issue 11 | NOVEMBER 2004 International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications: Facilitating Scientific Publishing in Developing Countries Pippa Smart [A] Pippa Smart is head of publishing and publishing initiatives for the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, Oxford, United Kingdom. E-mail: mailto:psmart@inasp.info psmart(a)inasp.info Published: November 16, 2004 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020326 Copyright: © 2004 Pippa Smart. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. [A] Abbreviations: AJOL, African Journals OnLine; INASP, International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications Citation: Smart P (2004) International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications: Facilitating Scientific Publishing in Developing Countries. PLoS Biol 2(11): e326. The most important element that restricts our researchers is access to information.Subbiah Arunachalam, India, 2003 The International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) was established by the International Council for Science in 1992 to provide support for networking between information providers and users, particularly to bridge the information divide between the developed and developing world. Since 1992 INASP has worked, in response to requests, to develop its activities for capacity building in information production, access, and use, with an overarching vision that all people are able to access and contribute information, ideas, and knowledge necessary for sustainable and equitable development. http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371%… [A] http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=slideshow&type=figure&doi… To ensure that INASP activities are appropriate for the communities and cultures of the countries in which INASP works, local partners are used to build networks and to provide advice and support. Enhancing capacities is central to all activities, and local ownership and sensitivity to local conditions and opinions are of paramount importance. Here I highlight two aspects of our work: increasing access to information and supporting the visibility of regional journals within the global research community. Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information The growth and acceptability of the internet during the 1990s opened up tremendous possibilities for the dissemination of research information, providing many nations with access to information that had previously been out of their reach. Although internet connectivity remains problematic in many countries, it still offers great potential for bridging the information gap. Arising from discussions with librarians and researchers in 1999 and 2000, the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information was formally launched in 2002 after a two-year pilot programme. The Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information works in a two-phase manner: (1) providing and supporting access to international research information and (2) supporting and promoting access to nationally published research. To support access to international information, INASP negotiates for heavily discounted or free access to online information from publishers and information providers in developed countries. Enabling access, however, does not guarantee that resources are used; both training and promotion are needed so that researchers and downstream information providers know how to make the best use of what is available. With this in mind, INASP has set up four series of training workshops, which have trained over 1,000 people from over 200 institutions in over 17 countries during the last two years. Although some of the training is undertaken by INASP staff, most is facilitated by in-country trainers. Planning for long-term sustainability, INASP aims to hand over the tasks of negotiation, purchasing, and training to local consortia, associations, or networks. African Journals OnLine Although much needed, access to international resources can discriminate against nationally published scholarly information. This may be due to one of the following: a perception that local publications are lower quality, distribution problems and irregular publishing, or lack of online visibility. However, national publications provide vital access to potential collaborators and information about research on topics of local relevancesince 1998, INASP has provided support to indigenous research publications to enable them to survive and coexist with international information. One specific project that exemplifies these aims is known as African Journals OnLine (AJOL). AJOL launched in 1998 in response to requests from African journals. Starting with only ten titles, it now includes 189 from 21 African countries. Access to the site, which includes tables of contents, article abstracts, and a homepage for each journal with information about editorial boards, guidelines for authors, and more, is entirely free. Participating journals report increased international submissions and increasing contact with international researchers. Researchers make wide use of this service, and over 8,000 people have registered to use AJOL since it launched. Registration is optional and until March this year did not provide the user any benefitit simply provided an indication of the number of people visiting and from which countries. However, since March 2004 anyone who registers can sign up to receive a free E-mail table of contents alert. Over 500 people have chosen to receive E-mail alerts from an average of four journals each, and the effect of these alerts is felt through the increase in document delivery requests. AJOL does not currently host full text, but can provide full-text articles through a document delivery service (there are plans to load full-text articles on AJOL in the future). This service is provided to researchers from developing countries for free and to researchers elsewhere at a minimal charge (to cover costs, plus a small payment to the journal). In the first six months of 2004, over 700 articles were ordered and sent out. Most journals publishing out of Africa are not run by commercial publishers, and most of them operate at a loss, subsidised by universities, associations, funding agencies, or a mixture of all three. Paid subscriptions to print journals are frequently a vital part of their economics, and the financial viability of many journals is constantly under threat. Originally, it was hoped that AJOL would increase subscriptions, thereby providing greater financial security to the journals. This has not been achieved and is unlikely to occur in the future. However, with increasing visibility, the value of the journals increases along with, hopefully, their importance to the supporting agencies and long-term sustainability. Since AJOL is set up to provide support for the participating journals, the journals' opinions are constantly sought before any developments are undertaken, meaning AJOL is effectively owned by them. Although the service is not actively run by the journals themselves, all participating journals are considered to be part of a community, receiving regular E-mail contact and skills support. Many journal editors (who frequently undertake all the publishing activities) feel isolated and unskilled, and even though AJOL does not operate as an association for the journals, it encourages communication between the editors, and a sharing of experience. The AJOL website was relaunched in March 2004 using open-source software called Open Journal System, originally developed in Canada by the Public Knowledge Project at the University of British Columbia and further developed for AJOL at Bristol University, United Kingdom. This software was written to enable a single journal to manage the entire publishing process online from submission to publishing. Being open source, the software can also easily be adapted and modified. The Public Knowledge Project set up the system with the developing world in mind: it operates efficiently at low bandwidths and is easy to use, with many guides and help functions built in. For the users, this software offers sophisticated searching, E-mail alerts, and a space for each journal within AJOL for journal-specific information. It also now provides a range of management tools, which makes the service more efficient and enables it to grow. Another important consideration for choosing this system was that individual journals can take over the responsibility for maintaining their own journal areas within AJOL via the Internet. Over 50 journals have expressed an interest in taking this on, and one publisher is already successfully maintaining its material. To support this, training workshops are currently in preparation. This development will assist the long-term sustainability of AJOL and also give the participating journals experience in managing and publishing content online. In the near future, INASP will be including full text on AJOL and hopes to move the management of AJOL to an African organisation so that it will truly become an African gateway for published research. In addition, INASP continues to work with journals to strengthen their quality and sustainability, providing advice, training workshops, study tours, and a coordinating point for discussion and collaboration. Outside Africa, INASP is working on similar developments in Nepal and the Caribbean and has received expressions of interest from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. The Future of Journal Access It is vital that researchers everywhere in the world have access to reliable, relevant information. At the same time, providing access to international literature needs to be balanced with supporting local publications to ensure that indigenous knowledge is not lost, but can take its place in the research community and contribute to the continuing development of science. Worldwide access to information is central to all INASP activities, and INASP supports policies and activities that work towards this. Where to Find Out More INASP: http://www.inasp.info/ http://www.inasp.info AJOL: http://www.ajol.info/ http://www.ajol.info Public Knowledge Project: http://pkp.ubc.ca http://pkp.ubc.ca

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More on Berlin and Scottish Declarations
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Friends: Here is someting from Peter Suber's blog. Arun -------------- Academics take the initiative in open access debate, CORDIS News, March 16, 2005. An unsigned news story. Excerpt: 'The Southampton meeting concluded that: '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.' Stevan Harnad, a professor at Southampton University and leading proponent of open access, said after the meeting: 'Everybody will benefit from it - researchers will be able to access what they could not before and the impact of their research will go up. At last those who agree open access is a good thing know how to provide it.' He also argued that open access to research papers would not undermine sales of those scientific journals in which they were originally published, but would in fact increase their impact in terms of the number of times they are cited. The most recent example of just such an initiative came on 14 March, when 16 university heads in Scotland concluded a Scottish declaration on open access, committing their institutions to setting up online libraries of research papers that all academics can access. They will also examine the possibility of setting up a joint repository, and some will even make it mandatory for their researchers to publish their work on an open access basis. Derek Law, librarian at the University of Strathclyde, said: 'There is now clear evidence that open access articles are more frequently cited. If Scottish-based research is made available through open access it will be cited more, which means it will, by definition, be read more. The hope is that this will in turn lead both to a positive cycle of increased research funding and also to increased inward investment as business recognises the added value of a powerful research base.' ' Friends: Here is someting from Peter Suber's blog. Arun -------------- [A] http://dbs.cordis.lu/cgi-bin/srchidadb?CALLER=NHP_EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=… Academics take the initiative in open access debate , CORDIS News , March 16, 2005. An unsigned news story. Excerpt: 'The http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/ Southampton meeting concluded that: 'In order to implement the http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html 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.' Stevan Harnad, a professor at Southampton University and leading proponent of open access, said after the meeting: 'Everybody will benefit from it - researchers will be able to access what they could not before and the impact of their research will go up. At last those who agree open access is a good thing know how to provide it.' He also argued that open access to research papers would not undermine sales of those scientific journals in which they were originally published, but would in fact increase their impact in terms of the number of times they are cited. The most recent example of just such an initiative came on 14 March, when 16 university heads in Scotland concluded a http://scurl.ac.uk/WG/OATS/declaration.htm Scottish declaration on open access , committing their institutions to setting up online libraries of research papers that all academics can access. They will also examine the possibility of setting up a joint repository, and some will even make it mandatory for their researchers to publish their work on an open access basis. Derek Law, librarian at the University of Strathclyde, said: 'There is now clear evidence that open access articles are more frequently cited. If Scottish-based research is made available through open access it will be cited more, which means it will, by definition, be read more. The hope is that this will in turn lead both to a positive cycle of increased research funding and also to increased inward investment as business recognises the added value of a powerful research base.' '

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Self-archiving does not take much time!
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

How much work is self-archiving? Leslie Carr and Stevan Harnad, Keystroke Economy: A Study of the Time and Effort Involved in Self-Archiving, a preprint. Abstract: 'A common objection to self-archiving is that it is an extra task that puts an unnecessary burden on each researcher. In particular, the need to enter the extra bibliographic metadata demanded by repositories for accurate searching and identification is presumed to be a particularly onerous task. This paper describes a preliminary study on two months of submissions for a mature repository and concludes that the amount of time spent entering metadata would be as little as 40 minutes per year for a highly active researcher.' How much work is self-archiving? [A] Leslie Carr and Stevan Harnad, http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10688/ Keystroke Economy: A Study of the Time and Effort Involved in Self-Archiving , a preprint. Abstract: 'A common objection to self-archiving is that it is an extra task that puts an unnecessary burden on each researcher. In particular, the need to enter the extra bibliographic metadata demanded by repositories for accurate searching and identification is presumed to be a particularly onerous task. This paper describes a preliminary study on two months of submissions for a mature repository and concludes that the amount of time spent entering metadata would be as little as 40 minutes per year for a highly active researcher.'

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Why does the Wellcome Trust favour open access archiving?
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Friends: Here is a short news story on why the Wellcome Trust favours open access archiving. It is time for us in India (and other developing countries) to insist that all publicly-funded research be made available on open access archives - such as the Eprints archive at the Indian Institute of Science. As Robert Terry says, there are two roads to open access: Open Access Journals (OAJ) and Open Access Archiving. In India many important journals - those published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, INSA, MedKnow Publications, etc. - are available on open access, although the Academy journals can improve their web presence. The MedKnow journals are technically as good as the best OA journals in the world. But we are rather poor in OAA. The IISc archive and the library and information science repository put together by Dr A R D Prasad at ISI, Bangalore, come to mind readily. In a country with more than 250 universities and several hundred publicly-funded research labs, there are only half a dozen archives as of today. It is a mystery why the other institutions are not having archives of their own. A recent survey by Alma Swan reveals that many researchers are ignorant and there is a need for creating awareness. She also points out that most researchers are ready to deposit their papers in an open access archive if they are told to do so by the head of the institution or the funding agency! May be we should try that - Vice chancellors of universities and Directors of research labs and heads of funding agencies may demand that all researchers place their papers in a publicly accessible archive, preferably one set up at their own institution. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------------- The Wellcome Trust's commitment to OA Robert Terry, Funding the Way to Open Access, PLoS Biology, March 2005. Excerpt: 'Imagine this scenario. You're the director of one of the world's largest medical research charities, and you receive notification from one of your funded investigators in Africa reporting some exciting progress toward the development of a vaccine for malaria. The work has just been published, so you log onto the Web to do a quick keyword search, and a link to the article is brought up on your screen. Then imagine the frustration when you click on the link to read the message, "Access Denied --access to this journal is restricted to registered institutional and individual subscribers." And there's the rub: this actually happened to the Director of the Wellcome Trust....I now believe it is the funders of research --charities, governments, and other publicly funded bodies such as national research agencies-- who hold the purse strings that can untie scientific discoveries from a publishing market that is no longer serving the community as well as it could. That is why today the Trust is a leading advocate for enabling free access to research literature through support for new publishing models, such as that of the Public Library of Science, and the establishment of publicly accessible repositories, working in partnership with the United States National Institutes of Health-funded PubMed Central....The first Trust-commissioned study described how scientific research publishing has traditionally worked and why it can be described, in economic terms, as a failing market....This then begs the question of what alternatives there are to this traditional system, now that the Internet has become the researcher's tool of choice for searching and accessing the literature. The second piece of research commissioned by the Trust looked at different business models for research publishing, in order to address this question....This study convinced the Trust that the best way forward to improve access to research findings would be through open access to scientific research articles. This essentially means two things: first, that the copyright holder or holders must grant to the public a free, irrevocable, perpetual license to use, copy, distribute, and make derivative works of their research article, in any medium for any purpose (excepting those that constitute plagiarism or other dishonest acts, of course); and second, that a digital copy must be deposited in an open public archival repository (for example, the US National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central)....For a medical charity like the Trust, I believe it is our duty to actively encourage the most efficient processes available to maximise the likelihood that the research we fund will have the greatest possible health benefit.' Robert Terry is Senior Policy Adviser at the Wellcome Trust. Friends: Here is a short news story on why the Wellcome Trust favours open access archiving. It is time for us in India (and other developing countries) to insist that all publicly-funded research be made available on open access archives - such as the Eprints archive at the Indian Institute of Science. As Robert Terry says, there are two roads to open access: Open Access Journals (OAJ) and Open Access Archiving. In India many important journals - those published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, INSA, MedKnow Publications, etc. - are available on open access, although the Academy journals can improve their web presence. The MedKnow journals are technically as good as the best OA journals in the world. But we are rather poor in OAA. The IISc archive and the library and information science repository put together by Dr A R D Prasad at ISI, Bangalore, come to mind readily. In a country with more than 250 universities and several hundred publicly-funded research labs, there are only half a dozen archives as of today. It is a mystery why the other institutions are not having archives of their own. A recent survey by Alma Swan reveals that many researchers are ignorant and there is a need for creating awareness. She also points out that most researchers are ready to deposit their papers in an open access archive if they are told to do so by the head of the institution or the funding agency! May be we should try that - Vice chancellors of universities and Directors of research labs and heads of funding agencies may demand that all researchers place their papers in a publicly accessible archive, preferably one set up at their own institution. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------------- The Wellcome Trust's commitment to OA [A] Robert Terry, http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/… Funding the Way to Open Access , PLoS Biology , March 2005. Excerpt: 'Imagine this scenario. You're the director of one of the world's largest medical research charities, and you receive notification from one of your funded investigators in Africa reporting some exciting progress toward the development of a vaccine for malaria. The work has just been published, so you log onto the Web to do a quick keyword search, and a link to the article is brought up on your screen. Then imagine the frustration when you click on the link to read the message, "Access Denied --access to this journal is restricted to registered institutional and individual subscribers." And there's the rub: this actually happened to the Director of the Wellcome Trust....I now believe it is the funders of research --charities, governments, and other publicly funded bodies such as national research agencies-- who hold the purse strings that can untie scientific discoveries from a publishing market that is no longer serving the community as well as it could. That is why today the Trust is a leading advocate for enabling free access to research literature through support for new publishing models, such as that of the Public Library of Science, and the establishment of publicly accessible repositories, working in partnership with the United States National Institutes of Healthfunded PubMed Central....The first Trust-commissioned study described how scientific research publishing has traditionally worked and why it can be described, in economic terms, as a failing market....This then begs the question of what alternatives there are to this traditional system, now that the Internet has become the researcher's tool of choice for searching and accessing the literature. The second piece of research commissioned by the Trust looked at different business models for research publishing, in order to address this question....This study convinced the Trust that the best way forward to improve access to research findings would be through open access to scientific research articles. This essentially means two things: first, that the copyright holder or holders must grant to the public a free, irrevocable, perpetual license to use, copy, distribute, and make derivative works of their research article, in any medium for any purpose (excepting those that constitute plagiarism or other dishonest acts, of course); and second, that a digital copy must be deposited in an open public archival repository (for example, the US National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central)....For a medical charity like the Trust, I believe it is our duty to actively encourage the most efficient processes available to maximise the likelihood that the research we fund will have the greatest possible health benefit.' Robert Terry is Senior Policy Adviser at the Wellcome Trust.

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Open access archives and web citation index
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Friends: Here is a news story on Thomson ISI's interest in open access archives. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------- More on the ISI-Citeseer Web Citation Index James Pringle, Partnering helps institutional repositories thrive, Thomson Customer News, February 2005. Excerpt: 'Open access (OA) publishing is growing in importance, and, in parallel, the role of institutional repositories (IRs) has come to the forefront of discussion within the library community. The two are intertwined but not synonymous, and different motivations are driving the growth of each. The Thomson Scientific role in promoting institutional repositories' growth was highlighted recently in three workshops held in London, Boston, and Sydney....Our approach to IRs has been different [from our approach to journals]. Repositories represent new ways of organizing research and are taking shape in a variety of experimental forms. They vary in the types of content, the purposes of their creators, and their relationship to researchers. Increasingly, publishers are allowing researchers to archive their own content, and IRs can play a role in aiding researchers in this endeavor. We estimate that publishers now allow over half of all scholarly articles to be archived by their authors, based on average articles published in the journals of the 2003 Journal Citation Report and publishers listed as Project Romeo. But far less than half of all scholarly articles are actually posted to IRs today, often because of lack of awareness and incentive for researchers to do so. Overcoming this barrier is a critical need for IR developers. As one administrator remarked in a planning session: "The key issue is turning now on the willingness of faculty to automatically put stuff into their repository."...Seven institutions joined with us in a Web Citation Index pilot project to explore the proper relationship between ISI Web of Knowledge, Web of Science, and the world of IRs. A collaboration with NEC on the basis of its CiteSeer environment provided the technology partnership to support this new undertaking....The project has run for the past 10 months, and will continue as we move toward release of the full-scale environment for use by researchers over the next several months....At a Thomson Scientific workshop during ALA Midwinter in January 2005, Jean Poland of Cornell University and Katie Clark of the University of Rochester outlined the state of IR development at their institutions, and the potential role of the Web Citation Index in encouraging the growth of IRs. Ms. Clark emphasized the challenge of gaining faculty buy-in, noting that for researchers: "it is all about me and my research", and faculties need to be shown how the IR can help their everyday activities. Ms. Poland pointed out that citation-based tools such as the Web Citation Index can have a positive influence on user awareness and reputation of IRs.' Friends: Here is a news story on Thomson ISI's interest in open access archives. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------- More on the ISI-Citeseer Web Citation Index [A] James Pringle, http://scientific.thomson.com/news/newsletter/2005-02/8264025/ Partnering helps institutional repositories thrive , Thomson Customer News , February 2005. Excerpt: 'Open access (OA) publishing is growing in importance, and, in parallel, the role of institutional repositories (IRs) has come to the forefront of discussion within the library community. The two are intertwined but not synonymous, and different motivations are driving the growth of each. The Thomson Scientific role in promoting institutional repositories' growth was highlighted recently in three workshops held in London, Boston, and Sydney....Our approach to IRs has been different [from our approach to journals]. Repositories represent new ways of organizing research and are taking shape in a variety of experimental forms. They vary in the types of content, the purposes of their creators, and their relationship to researchers. Increasingly, publishers are allowing researchers to archive their own content, and IRs can play a role in aiding researchers in this endeavor. We estimate that publishers now allow over half of all scholarly articles to be archived by their authors, based on average articles published in the journals of the 2003 Journal Citation Report and publishers listed as http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php Project Romeo . But far less than half of all scholarly articles are actually posted to IRs today, often because of lack of awareness and incentive for researchers to do so. Overcoming this barrier is a critical need for IR developers. As one administrator remarked in a planning session: "The key issue is turning now on the willingness of faculty to automatically put stuff into their repository."...Seven institutions joined with us in a Web Citation Index pilot project to explore the proper relationship between ISI Web of Knowledge, Web of Science, and the world of IRs. A collaboration with NEC on the basis of its CiteSeer environment provided the technology partnership to support this new undertaking....The project has run for the past 10 months, and will continue as we move toward release of the full-scale environment for use by researchers over the next several months....At a Thomson Scientific workshop during ALA Midwinter in January 2005, Jean Poland of Cornell University and Katie Clark of the University of Rochester outlined the state of IR development at their institutions, and the potential role of the Web Citation Index in encouraging the growth of IRs. Ms. Clark emphasized the challenge of gaining faculty buy-in, noting that for researchers: "it is all about me and my research", and faculties need to be shown how the IR can help their everyday activities. Ms. Poland pointed out that citation-based tools such as the Web Citation Index can have a positive influence on user awareness and reputation of IRs.'

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"Ownership and Access in Scholarly Publishing" web cast April 6
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Dear Professionals, The University of Maryland (UMB) Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL) and the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Libraries are co-hosting a web cast on "Ownership and Access in Scholarly Publishing" Wednesday, April 6, 2005 UMB School of Nursing Auditorium 655 West Lombard Street Baltimore, MD 21201 ** From your own desktop <http://www.openaccess.umaryland.edu/webcast.html> (Web cast) The web cast will inform you on publishing trends and explain new models likely to affect their professional communication and research and feature information on Emerging Issues in Scientific Publishing. Keynote Speaker: David Lipman, M.D., Director, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health. Panelists: Kenneth R. Fulton, Publisher, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. John Wilbanks, Executive Director, Science Commons. Valuing New Models of Scholarship in Promotion and Tenure Keynote Speaker: Chi V. Dang, M.D., Ph.D., Vice Dean of Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Professor of Medicine, Oncology, Pathology and Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Panelists Sharon, Krag, Ph.D., Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Associate Dean, Graduate Education and Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Marian Jackson, Ph.D., Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs, UMBI, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute. Additional information, including instructions on how to access the web cast and a conference program, are available at <http://www.openaccess.umaryland.edu/> or email oasp(a)hshsl.umaryland.edu C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Professionals, The University of Maryland (UMB) Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL) and the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Libraries are co-hosting a web cast on " Ownership and Access in Scholarly Publishing" Wednesday, April 6, 2005 UMB School of Nursing Auditorium 655 West Lombard Street Baltimore, MD 21201 ** From your own desktop < http://www.openaccess.umaryland.edu/webcast.html http://www.openaccess.umaryland.edu/webcast.html > (Web cast) The web cast will inform you on publishing trends and explain new models likely to affect their professional communication and research and feature information on Emerging Issues in Scientific Publishing. Keynote Speaker: David Lipman, M.D., Director, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health. Panelists: Kenneth R. Fulton, Publisher, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. John Wilbanks, Executive Director, Science Commons. Valuing New Models of Scholarship in Promotion and Tenure Keynote Speaker: Chi V. Dang, M.D., Ph.D., Vice Dean of Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Professor of Medicine, Oncology, Pathology and Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Panelists Sharon, Krag, Ph.D., Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Associate Dean, Graduate Education and Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Marian Jackson, Ph.D., Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs, UMBI, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute. Additional information, including instructions on how to access the web cast and a conference program, are available at < http://www.openaccess.umaryland.edu/ http://www.openaccess.umaryland.edu/ > or email http://in.f85.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=oasp@hshsl.umaryland.edu&YY=6963… oasp(a)hshsl.umaryland.edu C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 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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Indian books on OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Friends: There is a culture war brewing in Europe! The French are mobilizing Europeans to bring all their books on open access, as they feel the Google project is favouring English language books. We have a rich heritage of literature and scholarly work in many Indian languages such as Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam. And we have abundant computing and software talent. Should we in India not mount a similar initiative to provide open access to all that is graet and wonderful in ALL Indian languages? Will Balki at IISc, Ramki at C-DAC, and Badri and Satya at Kizhakku Pathipagam and many others from different parts of India take up the challenge? Will the Ministry of HRD, Sahitya Akademi and similar other organizations come forward to support such a projet. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----- French response to Google library project When we left off, Jean-Noël Jeanneney, former French secretary of state for communications and the current President of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF), had criticized the Google library project for Anglo-American bias and called on France to launch a comparable program. His words are having an effect. Reuters reports that French President Jacques Chirac has asked the BNF to draw up plans for a similar digitization program. Quoting Reuters: 'Chirac asked Jeanneney and France's culture minister to look at ways "in which the collections of the great libraries in France and Europe could be made more widely and more quickly accessible by Internet," Chirac's office said in a statement. Chirac would seek support among other European countries in the coming weeks for a bigger, coordinated push to get Europe's literary works online....Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres said the French move was not a direct challenge to Google's project. "It is simply the wish for a diversity of influence," he said.' The BBC is reporting the same news. Quoting the BBC: '[Chirac] held a meeting in Paris with Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres and Mr Jeanneney on Wednesday to discuss the project...."Because of France and Europe's exceptional cultural heritage, they must play a key role" in the development of the internet, Mr Chirac said.' More coverage. (PS: Google's library project was already admirable. If it starts a new code war, sending files across the globe and developing digital arsenals ready for launch at a moment's notice, then it will be even more admirable. France is right to fight bits with bits, to recognize a digitization gap, and to escalate its cultural scan. Who's next?)ct? Friends: There is a culture war brewing in Europe! The French are mobilizing Europeans to bring all their books on open access, as they feel the Google project is favouring English language books. We have a rich heritage of literature and scholarly work in many Indian languages such as Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam. And we have abundant computing and software talent. Should we in India not mount a similar initiative to provide open access to all that is graet and wonderful in ALL Indian languages? Will Balki at IISc, Ramki at C-DAC, and Badri and Satya at Kizhakku Pathipagam and many others from different parts of India take up the challenge? Will the Ministry of HRD, Sahitya Akademi and similar other organizations come forward to support such a projet. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----- French response to Google library project [A] When we http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/03-02-05.htm#jeanneney left off , Jean-Noël Jeanneney, former French secretary of state for communications and the current President of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF), had https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/1675.html criticized the http://print.google.com/googleprint/library.html Google library project for Anglo-American bias and called on France to launch a comparable program. His words are having an effect. Reuters http://news.com.com/Paris+match+for+Googles+library+plan/2100-1025_3-562285… reports that French President Jacques Chirac has asked the BNF to draw up plans for a similar digitization program. Quoting Reuters: 'Chirac asked Jeanneney and France's culture minister to look at ways "in which the collections of the great libraries in France and Europe could be made more widely and more quickly accessible by Internet," Chirac's office said in a statement. Chirac would seek support among other European countries in the coming weeks for a bigger, coordinated push to get Europe's literary works online....Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres said the French move was not a direct challenge to Google's project. "It is simply the wish for a diversity of influence," he said.' The BBC is http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4358871.stm reporting the same news. Quoting the BBC: '[Chirac] held a meeting in Paris with Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres and Mr Jeanneney on Wednesday to discuss the project...."Because of France and Europe's exceptional cultural heritage, they must play a key role" in the development of the internet, Mr Chirac said.' http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004… More coverage . (PS: Google's library project was already admirable. If it starts a new code war, sending files across the globe and developing digital arsenals ready for launch at a moment's notice, then it will be even more admirable. France is right to fight bits with bits, to recognize a digitization gap, and to escalate its cultural scan. Who's next?) ct?

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Scholar Monitor
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Scholar Monitor Are you looking for research papers? Go http://scholar.google.com. Have you ever wanted to monitor research papers of particular authors, research groups, or research areas? If you have, Scholar Monitor is what you want. The program was inspired by and reused source code from Persistent Searches to Gmail. Scholar Monitor allows a user to set particular keywords, and monitors the result counts of keywords. If there are new papers, it shows a new! mark with counts. For example if a user is interested in monitoring a Jim's paper about WebDAV, she can add a keywors, "author: jim WebDAV" for Scholar Monitor. How to install (reused from Persistent Searches to Gmail.) a.. If you are not using Firefox yet, download and install one from Firefox homepage. b.. If you haven't already, install the excellent greasemonkey Firefox extension. c.. Open up this Scholar Monitor user script in Firefox . You can exam the source code. d.. From the "Tools" menu, select "Install User Script .." and confirm all of the various prompts. e.. Go to http://scholar.google.com (some refreshing may be necessary). f.. There should now be a "Scholar Monitor" box in the middle of the page and the result page. g.. Clicking on a search executes the saved query. To refresh result counts, click on the refresh icon in the upper right corner. h.. Use the "Edit monitor item" link to customize your Scholar Monitor. i.. Enjoy! We welcome any participation to improve Scholar Monitor such as adding Bibtex import button. Please send me a patch or join our project group. If you want to know how this works, read the script code or visit the Persistent Searches to Gmail page. The source code is distributed under a Creative Commons license. I have no affiliation with Google. This script is hijacking the whole HTML from Google Scholar and adds a monitor box. This program is not endorsed by Google. If you have any problems with Scholar Monitor, please contact Sung Kim, hunkim(a)gmail.com. Scholar Monitor A re you looking for research papers? Go http://scholar.google.com/ http://scholar.google.com . H ave you ever wanted to monitor research papers of particular authors, research groups, or research areas? If you have, Scholar Monitor is what you want. The program was inspired by and reused source code from http://persistent.info/archives/2005/03/01/gmail-searches Persistent Searches to Gmail . S cholar Monitor allows a user to set particular keywords, and monitors the result counts of keywords. If there are new papers, it shows a new! mark with counts. For example if a user is interested in monitoring a Jim's paper about WebDAV, she can add a keywors, "author: jim WebDAV" for Scholar Monitor. H ow to install (reused from http://persistent.info/archives/2005/03/01/gmail-searches Persistent Searches to Gmail .) If you are not using Firefox yet, download and install one from http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Firefox homepage . If you haven't already, install the excellent http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ greasemonkey Firefox extension. Open up this http://scholar.dforge.cse.ucsc.edu/scholar.user.js Scholar Monitor user script in Firefox . You can exam the source code. >From the "Tools" menu, select "Install User Script .." and confirm all of the various prompts. Go to http://scholar.google.com/ http://scholar.google.com (some refreshing may be necessary). There should now be a "Scholar Monitor" box in the middle of the page and the result page. Clicking on a search executes the saved query. To refresh result counts, click on the refresh icon in the upper right corner. Use the "Edit monitor item" link to customize your Scholar Monitor. Enjoy! W e welcome any participation to improve Scholar Monitor such as adding Bibtex import button. Please send me a patch or join http://dforge.cse.ucsc.edu/projects/scholar/ our project group . If you want to know how this works, read the script code or visit the http://persistent.info/archives/2005/03/01/gmail-searches Persistent Searches to Gmail page. The source code is distributed under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Creative Commons license . I have no affiliation with Google. This script is hijacking the whole HTML from Google Scholar and adds a monitor box. This program is not endorsed by Google. If you have any problems with Scholar Monitor, please contact Sung Kim, hunkim(a)gmail.com.

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MIT Backs Open Source in Brazil Computers for Poor (fwd)
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Open Source in Brazil Computers for Poor (fwd) > From Reuters..... -ac > > MIT Backs Open Source in Brazil Computers for Poor > > The director of MIT's Media Lab has recommended that Brazil install > open-source software on thousands of computers that will be sold to the > poor, saying proprietary software programs like ones offered by Microsoft > Corp. may be less attractive. > > "We advocate using high-quality free software as opposed to scaled-down > versions of more costly proprietary software," Walter Bender, director of > the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in a > letter to the Brazilian government obtained by Reuters on Thursday. "Free > software is far better on the dimensions of cost, power and quality." > > President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and several ministers may decide as > early as this week whether free software or a simplified version of > Microsoft Windows will be installed on computers for a new effort called > PC Conectado, or the Connected PC. The effort aims to sell up to 1 million > computers, with costs partially subsidized by the government, to lower > middle income Brazilians this year. > > <snip> > > http://www.reuters.com/audi/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=7… >

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Scotland favours open access
by Subbiah Arunachalam 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

Scottish universities sign open access deal Polly Curtis, education correspondent (The Guardian, UK) Monday March 14, 2005 Scottish university heads have agreed to make their academic research more freely available to one another in a bid to bypass the costly fees for publishing in journals. The new Scottish Declaration on Open Access is the latest in a series of challenges by universities to break the stranglehold of the major academic publishers which costs taxpayers millions of pounds a year. Publicly funded universities have to pay to have their academics' work assessed for publication, then again to read the journals. The declaration commits each of its 16 university signatories to setting up online libraries of research findings and doctorate papers which all academics can access. Universities will also look into developing a joint repository for academic work and some will make it mandatory for academics to publish their work on an open access basis. Funders of research are also considering how they can encourage recipients of their grants to publish their work on an open access basis. Timothy O'Shea, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, said: "The University of Edinburgh wants to ensure that its research is as visible as possible within Scotland, the UK and the world. This open access initiative provides an important route to deliver this." Sheila Cannell, the director of library services at the university, added: "We would like to see publicly funded research being publicly available rather than locked up in academic journals." Derek Law, university librarian at the University of Strathclyde said: "There is now clear evidence that open access articles are more frequently cited. If Scottish-based research is made available through open access it will be cited more, which means it will by definition be read more. "The hope is that this will in turn lead both to a positive cycle of increased research funding and also to increased inward investment as business recognises the added value of a powerful research base." Last year MPs on the Commons science and technology committee select committee condemned the rising costs to the taxpayer of publishing and accessing research. They backed new methods whereby the author pays a one-off fee and access is free. But the government rejected this method after what was believed to be a concerted lobby effort by journal publishers. Scottish Declaration on Open Access signatories: Glasgow Caledonian University Heriot-Watt University Napier University National Library of Scotland Open University Queen Margaret University College Robert Gordon University Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Scottish Agricultural College Scottish Crop Research Institute Scottish Library and Information Council University of Aberdeen University of Abertay Dundee University of Dundee University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow University of Paisley University of St Andrews University of Stirling University of Strathclyde Scottish universities sign open access deal Polly Curtis, education correspondent (The Guardian, UK) Monday March 14, 2005 Scottish university heads have agreed to make their academic research more freely available to one another in a bid to bypass the costly fees for publishing in journals. The new Scottish Declaration on Open Access is the latest in a series of challenges by universities to break the stranglehold of the major academic publishers which costs taxpayers millions of pounds a year. Publicly funded universities have to pay to have their academics' work assessed for publication, then again to read the journals. The declaration commits each of its 16 university signatories to setting up online libraries of research findings and doctorate papers which all academics can access. Universities will also look into developing a joint repository for academic work and some will make it mandatory for academics to publish their work on an open access basis. Funders of research are also considering how they can encourage recipients of their grants to publish their work on an open access basis. Timothy O'Shea, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, said: "The University of Edinburgh wants to ensure that its research is as visible as possible within Scotland, the UK and the world. This open access initiative provides an important route to deliver this." Sheila Cannell, the director of library services at the university, added: "We would like to see publicly funded research being publicly available rather than locked up in academic journals." Derek Law, university librarian at the University of Strathclyde said: "There is now clear evidence that open access articles are more frequently cited. If Scottish-based research is made available through open access it will be cited more, which means it will by definition be read more. "The hope is that this will in turn lead both to a positive cycle of increased research funding and also to increased inward investment as business recognises the added value of a powerful research base." Last year MPs on the Commons science and technology committee select committee condemned the rising costs to the taxpayer of publishing and accessing research. They backed new methods whereby the author pays a one-off fee and access is free. But the government rejected this method after what was believed to be a concerted lobby effort by journal publishers. Scottish Declaration on Open Access signatories: Glasgow Caledonian University Heriot-Watt University Napier University National Library of Scotland Open University Queen Margaret University College Robert Gordon University Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Scottish Agricultural College Scottish Crop Research Institute Scottish Library and Information Council University of Aberdeen University of Abertay Dundee University of Dundee University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow University of Paisley University of St Andrews University of Stirling University of Strathclyde

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First publisher to implement 'cited-by' links using crossRef's forward linking
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

"First publisher(IOP) to implement 'cited-by' links using crossRef's forward linking" " In September 2003, we announced that papers in our Electronic Journals had been enhanced by links to citing articles from The American Physical Society and NASA's Astrophysical Data System. I'm pleased to report that our 'Articles citing this article' tool has now been developed further. In keeping with our tradition of innovation, we have become the first publisher to implement 'cited-by' links using CrossRef's Forward Linking service. We have made 'cited-by' links available for papers published in the last 10 years. Over the coming months, we will be working our way through our entire journal archive, back to 1874. To take a look at forward linking in action, go to the following paper from New Journal of Physics and select the 'Articles citing this article link' on the right hand side: http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1367-2630/1/1/006 New Journal of Physics is our open-access electronic-only title (co-owned by the Institute of Physics and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft) so the 'cited-by' links are available to all. For our other journals, this facility is limited to subscribers." Ed Pentz, CrossRef's Executive Director C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. "First publisher(IOP) to implement 'cited-by' links using crossRef's forward linking" " In September 2003, we announced that papers in our Electronic Journals had been enhanced by links to citing articles from The American Physical Society and NASA's Astrophysical Data System. I'm pleased to report that our 'Articles citing this article' tool has now been developed further. In keeping with our tradition of innovation, we have become the first publisher to implement 'cited-by' links using CrossRef's Forward Linking service. We have made 'cited-by' links available for papers published in the last 10 years. Over the coming months, we will be working our way through our entire journal archive, back to 1874. To take a look at forward linking in action, go to the following paper from New Journal of Physics and select the 'Articles citing this article link' on the right hand side: http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1367-2630/1/1/006 http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1367-2630/1/1/006 New Journal of Physics is our open-access electronic-only title (co-owned by the Institute of Physics and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft) so the 'cited-by' links are available to all. For our other journals, this facility is limited to subscribers." Ed Pentz, CrossRef's Executive Director C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 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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Unesco Training in Information Management- Asia- Pacific- at ISIM@IIITB- five fellowships available
by Mailing List Manager 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:59:37 +0530 From: Shalini R Urs <shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in> UN4IM- UNESCO Training Program in Information Management is being organised at ISIM@IIITB This Programme is supported by UNESCO and other organisations. There are five fellowships available for information workers from India. Those interested may apply for the same. The last date for receiving applications is March 30,2005 Details of the Programme available at the website- <http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/un4im> www.vidyanidhi.org.in/un4im Details below- ----- UN4IM -The UNESCO Training Programme for Information Management is envisioned to be a training programme with a difference- * Blending onsite ( face to face) with distance education mode. A unique six-month training programme based on a 1-4-1 month model- the first (May-June) and final month (November-December) face-to-face and the in-between four months distance mode. * Course Content- focused on ICT tools and technologies for Information Management. * Adopting/adapting different learning modes-lecture based theory, practice oriented hands on. Achieving a balance between discourse and demonstration; teaching and training, perception and performance * This programme is scheduled from May 9 to December 2, 2005. The first phase of the one-month face-to-face training is scheduled from May 9- June 3, 2005. The final face-to-face training programme is scheduled from November 7- December 2, 2005. o The Training Programme will have 20 participants from different parts of Asia-pacific. This will be held at the International School for Information Management @ Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India ( ISIM@IIITB) * The participants are required to be attending the UN4IM at the ISIM@IIITB during period of May-June and November-December. The intervening four months, they will go back to their workplace and work on the projects through the distance mode. ----- 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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GeoScienceWorld Full-Text Collection Now Available online
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

GeoScienceWorld's GSW Millennium Collection and GSW Literature Archives are now available through CSA.These collections offer a comprehensive Internet-based resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals. (Complete list available at http://info.csa.com/gsw/factsheet.shtml) The journals will be delivered through HighWire Press's Internet platform. One to five years of backfiles will be available for journals in the GSW Millennium Collection; complete backfiles will be available for journals in the GSW Literature Archives. Additional information about the Collection and GeoScienceWorld is available at the site- http://info.csa.com/gsw C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. GeoScienceWorld's GSW Millennium Collection and GSW Literature Archives are now available through CSA. These collections offer a comprehensive Internet-based resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals. (Complete list available at http://info.csa.com/gsw/factsheet.shtml http://info.csa.com/gsw/factsheet.shtml ) The journals will be delivered through HighWire Press's Internet p latform. One to five years of backfiles will be available for journals in the GSW Millennium Collection; complete backfiles will be available for journals in the GSW Literature Archives. Additional information about the Collection and GeoScienceWorld is available at the site- http://info.csa.com/gsw http://info.csa.com/gsw C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 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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Datastream by Thomson Financials
by Anagha Agharkar 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Dear Friends, I am looking for the vendor/representative of the Datastream service by Thomson Financials. If anyone knows the details, please mail across the same. With regards, Anagha Agharkar Librarian/Associate ICICI Securities Ltd. Mumbai Tel #: 022-56377438 Regards, Anagha P Agharkar Librarian ICICI Securities Ltd. Mumbai Tel: 91-22-56377438 Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Friends, I am looking for the vendor/representative of the Datastream service by Thomson Financials. If anyone knows the details, please mail across the same. With regards, Anagha Agharkar Librarian/Associate ICICI Securities Ltd. Mumbai Tel #: 022-56377438 Regards, Anagha P Agharkar Librarian ICICI Securities Ltd. Mumbai Tel: 91-22-56377438 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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Sad loss of Library
by venky 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

I was saddened to read that "One million books, 10 million documents and 14,000 archaeological artifacts have been lost in the US-led invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq - the biggest cultural disaster since the descendants of Genghis Khan destroyed Baghdad in 1258, Venezuelan writer Fernando Baez told Inter Press Service (IPS)." http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB17Ak01.html S. Venkadesan I was saddened to read that "One million books, 10 million documents and 14,000 archaeological artifacts have been lost in the US-led invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq - the biggest cultural disaster since the descendants of Genghis Khan destroyed Baghdad in 1258, Venezuelan writer Fernando Baez told Inter Press Service (IPS)." http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB17Ak01.html http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB17Ak01.html S. Venkadesan

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Congrats to Ms Vijaya C Menon, International Travel Grant Winner - SLA DAM
by JK Vijayakumar 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

----- Original Message ----- From: <gvillamora(a)brightresearch.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:35 AM Subject: [sla-kiie] International Travel Grant Winner - SLA DAM > Please excuse the cross-posting -- > > The Advertising and Marketing Division (DAM) of SLA is pleased to announce > the winner of our International Travel Grant for SLA Toronto conference this > year. > > Vijaya C. Menon is the first recipient of our International Travel Grant. > She is Head of Knowledge Management at Grey Worldwide India. Vijaya manages > information services and dissemination to all ten offices in India, > including Srilanka and Bangladesh. She provides liaison work on information > queries with Grey Europe and the Americas. Vijaya has over 15 years of > library management work at Grey, J. Walter Thompson India, Accenture and the > Reserve Bank of India. > > Initiated at the Nashville June 2004 conference, the Travel Grant is open to > international SLA and DAM members. Application requirements were announced > in our 2004 Fall Bulletin and posted in various SLA discussion lists. The > Grant consists of $1,500 (US) plus conference registration fee and ticketed > DAM-sponsored events. > > Jo-Ann McQuillan, DAM chair and Director of Information at the Institute of > Communications and Advertising/Canada, will present the Grant to Vijaya at > the division�s business meeting on June 6, 2005. > > �I appreciate the overwhelming support and look forward to developing > global networking initiatives at SLA,� said Vijaya to the International > Relations Chair. > > We are happy and privileged to have her onboard. See you in Toronto. Grace > > > Grace Avellana Villamora > Advertising and Marketing Division (DAM) > International Relations Chair > Special Libraries Association (SLA) > > Information Strategist, Principal > brightresearch llc > Chicago, IL USA > Phone 773.973.4260 > Fax 773.761.7135 -------------- JK Vijayakumar INFLIBNET __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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SERIALS is now freely available on the Web
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Dear Professional, The UK Serials Group (UKSG) exists to encourage the exchange of ideas on printed and electronic serials and the process of scholarly communication. In a dynamic environment, the UKSG works to: 1) promote discussion and the free flow of information on serials matters and associated technology 2) develop links between all parties in the serials information chain 3) encourage professional awareness, stimulate research and provide a programme of training and education The UKSG is a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee. It is the only organisation spanning the wide range of interest and activity between serials producers and readers. With a membership of nearly 600 organisations, a third of them based outside the UK, the UKSG engages a broad cross-section of people concerned with the publication, distribution and use of serials. Members pay an annual corporate subscription which offers everyone in their organisation a range of valuable benefits. including papers from the United Kingdom's Serials Group (UKSG) Open Access seminar, November 2005. SERIALS is now freely available on the Web. SERIALS is the international journal for the serials community, published three times a year by the UK Serials Group and is available in print and online. It contains topical articles written by librarians, publishers, aggregators and other experts within the global serials industry, as well as conference reports, editorial comment and people in the news. C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Professional, The UK Serials Group (UKSG) exists to encourage the exchange of ideas on printed and electronic serials and the process of scholarly communication. In a dynamic environment, the UKSG works to: 1) promote discussion and the free flow of information on serials matters and associated technology 2) develop links between all parties in the serials information chain 3) encourage professional awareness, stimulate research and provide a programme of training and education The UKSG is a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee. It is the only organisation spanning the wide range of interest and activity between serials producers and readers. With a membership of nearly 600 organisations, a third of them based outside the UK, the UKSG engages a broad cross-section of people concerned with the publication, distribution and use of serials. Members pay an annual corporate subscription which offers everyone in their organisation a range of valuable benefits. including papers from the United Kingdom's Serials Group (UKSG) Open Access seminar, November 2005. SERIALS is now freely available on the Web. SERIALS is the international journal for the serials community, published three times a year by the UK Serials Group and is available in print and online. It contains topical articles written by librarians, publishers, aggregators and other experts within the global serials industry, as well as conference reports, editorial comment and people in the news. C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 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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NCSI-Net Meeting on 19th March 2005
by Madhuresh 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Dear All, You are cordially invited for next NCSI-NET meeting, which is going to be held on Saturday 19th of March 2005 by 11:00 AM at NCSI. The speaker will be Mr. Francis Jayakanth from NCSI. Tea/Coffee will be served at 10.45 AM. Title: My experiences as a Fulbrighter Through this informal talk-cum-demo, he will share his recent experience as a Fulbrighter in the US in general and at the Old Dominion University (ODU) in particular. The talk-cum-demo will mainly revolve around the work he did at the ODU. Title of his Fulbright proposal: Approaches to make CDS/ISIS Databases OAI-Compliant. Abstract -------- One of the biggest obstacles for information dissemination to a user community is that many Digital Libraries or bibliographic databases use heterogeneous technologies that inhibit interoperability. The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) addresses interoperability by using a framework to facilitate the discovery of content stored in distributed archives or bibliographic databases through the use of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Though the Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is becoming the de facto standard for digital libraries, some of the old bibliographic databases, for a variety of reasons, are still not OAI compliant. One such system is CDS/ISIS, which was designed specifically for handling bibliographic/textual information efficiently. CDS/ISIS is quite widely used by the LIS community. There is a need for making CDS/ISIS databases OAI-compliant to enable sharing of metadata and thus leading to better federated discovery services for the end users. In this talk-cum-demo, I'll describe two approaches for making CDS/ISIS databases OAI compliant: Static and Dynamic. In the static approach, CDS/ISIS records are exported and converted into an OAI static repository format. The static repository file is made OAI-compliant either by importing it into the Kepler archivelet, a light-weight, easy-to-install OAI compliant archive for the individuals or static repository file becomes OAI-compliant through the intermediation of static repository gateway. This approach has certain limitations. These limitations are overcome in the dynamic approach. In the dynamic approach, an OAI layer makes CDS-ISIS databases OAI-compliant in the real time. During the demo, a federated search on a few sample CDS/ISIS databases will be shown. Please confirm your presence to me (madhuresh_s(a)aurigene.com) or Prasanna (t.s.prasanna(a)intel.com) Regards NCSI-Net Coordinator Team Note: NCSI-NET is a network of National Center for Science Information (NCSI) employees and alumni and organizes presentations/talks every month for its members.

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ASIST 2005 International Paper Contest
by Shyam Prasad pujar 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Apologies for cross posting. Liwen Vaughan, PhD Professor Faculty of Information and Media Studies University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada 2005 INTERNATIONAL PAPER CONTEST on International Digital Libraries and Information Science & Technology Advances in Developing Countries More information is available from the Paper Contest page at http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/papercontest.htm The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST), International Information Issues Special Interest Group (SIG-III), is pleased to announce its sixth competition for papers to be submitted for the 2005 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Charlotte, North Carolina, October 28-November 2, 2005. The theme of the paper is: "Bringing Research and Practice Together - the Developing World Perspective." The paper topic may address either the country or regional level issues. Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on specific aspects of this theme, such as, but not limited to, the following: a.. Social, ethical, political, legal, and economic and cultural issues: issues related to the role of information in society, such as information policy, access, security, privacy, and intellectual property, as well as the social uses and abuses of information technologies such as the Internet and World Wide Web in bridging or separating diverse communities. b.. Information organization, management, access, and retrieval. c.. Information seeking and use: the role of information in professional and daily lives, use of various types of information technology, and social contexts of information seeking. d.. Information technology, social equity and development: IT and governance, IT & and the new economy, including the future of work and implications of technological hardware and software developments; the role of ICTs in conflict management, etc. There will be six winners. Winners will be selected by a panel of judges including Liwen Vaughan (chair), Yunfei Du, Yin Zhang, Duncan Omole, Merlyna Lim, Julian Warner, and Nathalie Leroy. The prize for each winner is a two-year individual membership in ASIST. In the case of multiple authors, the principal author will be awarded the ASIST membership. In addition, depending on SIG III fundraising this year, the first place winner will be rewarded a minimum of $1,000 toward travel, conference registration, and accommodations while attending the ASIST Annual Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, October 28-November 2, 2005. Publishing opportunities Submitted papers will be considered for posting on the SIG III web site as pre-publications. In addition, they will also be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the International Information and Library Review, subject to the usual peer refereeing process. Information for authors Only papers by a principal author who is a citizen of, and resides in a developing country are eligible. Winners in the 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 or 2004 contests are not eligible. The papers should be original, unpublished, and in English. We encourage submissions from librarians, information and network specialists, and educators involved in the creation, representation, maintenance, exchange, discovery, delivery, and use of digital information. ASIST Copyright Policy ASIST will have the non-exclusive right to publish any of the papers submitted on its web site or in print, with ownership and all other rights remaining with the author. Deadline for submission of full papers Authors are invited to submit manuscripts, not to exceed 5000 words, by June 30, 2005, to Duncan Omole at domole(a)worldbank.org . Please check the SIG III website (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/) for more information about the SIG III International Paper Contest, including Frequently Asked Questions, past CFPs, previous winners and winning papers, and successful stories from previous winners.

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Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry - an open access journal
by Krishnan 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

------- Launch of Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry announced ------- San Diego, CA.: The prestigious Beilstein-Institut today announced the launch of the first major Open Access journal for organic chemistry. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry will be published by the Beilstein-Institut in co-operation with BioMed Central, the Open Access publisher. The peer-reviewed online journal will begin publication during 2005, and a call for papers, providing full information for authors, will be issued in May. Director of the Beilstein-Institut Martin Hicks made the announcement at the American Chemical Society 229th Annual Meeting in San Diego, California. Professor Jonathan Clayden, of the University of Manchester, has been confirmed as the Editor-in-Chief, and an international editorial advisory board is also being appointed. The Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry will publish outstanding original research on all aspects of organic chemistry and related disciplines. Areas covered in the journal will include: organic synthesis, organic reactions and mechanisms, natural products chemistry and chemical biology, organic materials and macro- and supramolecular organic chemistry. As an Open Access journal, the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry will offer the international community of organic chemists the opportunity to make their research results freely available immediately on publication, and permanently available in the public archives of science. The journal will publish full research articles and short communications, as well as occasional reviews and commentary articles. Supplementary data will also be published. There will be particular emphasis on speed of publication and on presentation of the articles in a chemically intelligent way. The journal will be made freely available online, while an annual print archival edition will be available for purchase at cost. The Beilstein-Institut is committed to improving communication among chemists and will support the journal financially, including the publishing costs, to enable the journal to be open access without charge to authors. Just as Beilstein has been synonymous with high quality scientific publishing for over two centuries, so BioMed Central has become synonymous with high-quality, online Open Access publishing in the biomedical disciplines, and is now making its publishing expertise available to new fields. BioMed Central now publishes over 130 Open Access journals, and will provide the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry with a complete publishing system, maintain and host the journal. Together these two organizations will ensure that the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry offers authors, readers and libraries the highest quality service. For more information: For Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry http://www.beilstein-journals.org/ For the Beilstein-Institut bjoc(a)beilstein-institut.de or Tel: +49 (0) 69-716732-0 For BioMed Central Grace Baynes Tel: +44 (0)20 7631 9988 E-mail: press(a)biomedcentral.com About the Beilstein-Institut The Beilstein-Institut zur Förderung der Chemischen Wissenschaften (Beilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences) is a non-profit foundation located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The Beilstein-Institut pursues its purpose in particular in chemistry and its related areas and disciplines, especially information and communication. About BioMed Central BioMed Central is an independent online publishing house committed to providing open access to peer-reviewed research. This commitment is based on the view that immediate free access to research and the ability to freely archive and reuse published information is essential to the rapid and efficient communication of science.

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Prof. Ghosh becomes SC Member of IFLA Secion
by Dinesh K. Gupta 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Dear Professional collegaues, I have just come to know that Prof. S. B. Ghosh, IGNOU, New Delhi, becomes Member of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Section on Asia and Oceania for the term 2005-2009. I whole heartedly congratulate Prof. Ghosh and wish for a very successful tenure at this very important Section of IFLA. With kind regards, Dinesh K. Gupta (Member, Standing Committe, Management & Marketing Section, IFLA) Associate Professor, Dept. of Lib. & Inf. Sc. V M Open Univ. Kota Ph. 0744-2471412 M. 9828131412 Dear Professional collegaues, I have just come to know that Prof. S. B. Ghosh, IGNOU, New Delhi, becomes Member of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Section on Asia and Oceania for the term 2005-2009. I whole heartedly congratulate Prof. Ghosh and wish for a very successful tenure at this very important Section of IFLA. With kind regards, Dinesh K. Gupta (Member, Standing Committe, Management & Marketing Section, IFLA) Associate Professor, Dept. of Lib. & Inf. Sc. V M Open Univ. Kota Ph. 0744-2471412 M. 9828131412

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Vendor Details
by basu mudakappa pujar 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Dear Friends, Good Morning! The below mentioned book is out of print but it is available with the vendors in USA. We are in need this book very much. So if you know any vendor in USA who deals with the Technical books please let me know his address. One of Colleague is coming back from USA. I will purchase this book through him to my library. J2EE Performance Testing with BEA WebLogic Server./ by Peter Zadrozny, Philip Aston, Ted Osborne Thanking in advance. Basavaraj.M.Pujar CGI Dear Friends, Good Morning! The below mentioned book is out of print but it is available with the vendors in USA. We are in need this book very much. So if you know any vendor in USA who deals with the Technical books please let me know his address. One of Colleague is coming back from USA. I will purchase this book through him to my library. J2EE Performance Testing with BEA WebLogic Server./ by Peter Zadrozny, Philip Aston, Ted Osborne Thanking in advance. Basavaraj.M.Pujar CGI 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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Documentation Research Center/Information Centers or Special libraries
by Mailing List Manager 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:44:06 +0530 From: Seshu Sripada <seshu.sripada(a)softprosys.com> Dear colleagues Please provide Url link of Documentation Research Center/Information Centers or Special libraries list in the world. Seshu

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Newsletter for Publishers and Booksellers from the Max Mueller Bhavan, Regional Information Centre
by Seth, Renu 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Dear Colleagues and Friends, The Max Mueller Bhavan Regional Information Centre (MMB RIC), New Delhi welcomes you to the first issue of its newsletter aimed at Publishers and Booksellers. This will apprise you of the latest happenings in the field of books and publishing in Germany as well as in the other parts of Europe. To access the newsletter please click on the following link: http://www.goethe.de/su/ned/bib/newsletters/publ/march_05/news.htm If you would like to continue receiving the next issues of this newsletter please subscribe by clicking on the following link: mailto:info.manager.mmb@delhi.goethe.org?subject=subscribe-Publnews Yours sincerely, Renu Seth Librarian In-Charge Max Mueller Bhavan Regional Information Centre & Library 3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg New Delhi 110001 Telephone +91-11-23329506 librarian.mmb(a)delhi.goethe.org www.goethe.de/newdelhi

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Re : Russian Patent
by Lakshmi Ravishankar 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Dear Ms. Jayalaxmi, Following are the websites for purchasing Russian Patents. http://PatentsFromRU.com - Russian patent and trademark search services http://www.iliac.org/production/patent.html http://www.delphion.com (subscription required) http://www.mospatent.ru/ (Moscow Patent Bureau) This site is in Russian Language. You can contact at info(a)mospatent.ru Hope this info is helpful to you. Regards Lakshmi Ravishankar Manager - Information & Knowledge Services Jubilant Biosys Limited 450, 12th Cross, 4-D Cross Mahalakshmipuram, Bangalore - 560 086 Ph : +91 80 2349 5461 - 65 (O) 98458-31382 (M) Fax : +91 80 23449 4118 E-mail : Lakshmi_Ravishankar(a)jubilantbiosys.com www.jubilantbiosys.com ================================================== Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 04:40:03 +0000 (GMT) From: jayalaxmi m <jayalaxmim(a)yahoo.co.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Procurement of Russian Patent To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20050311044003.77577.qmail(a)web8510.mail.in.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 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 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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