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Position open at Dubai
by SCKumaresan 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Dear Friends, One reputed University in dubai requires a Librarin, with First Class in Masters degree and good command in English and relatively good in Arabic. Any one who has these qualifications please forward your resume to me. Thank u Best Regards S.C.Kumaresan S.C.Kumaresan SeniorLibrarian, BITS - Pilani, Dubai Campus, P.O. Box No.500022. Block 11, Knowledge Village, Dubai, UAE Tele(009714)3664575/76, Fax(009714)3664580 Mobile. 0097158829462 http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo… Dear Friends, One reputed University in dubai requires a Librarin, with First Class in Masters degree and good command in English and relatively good in Arabic. Any one who has these qualifications please forward your resume to me. Thank u Best Regards S.C.Kumaresan S.C.Kumaresan SeniorLibrarian, BITS - Pilani, Dubai Campus, P.O. Box No.500022. Block 11, Knowledge Village, Dubai, UAE Tele(009714)3664575/76, Fax(009714)3664580 Mobile. 0097158829462

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List of Lisc schools in India
by vasanth raj 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Dear sir/madam/friends One of my friend is doing project on" Creating a database of Lisc schools in India. Therefore we required the list of Lisc schools and the name of the Head of the Institution, URL of the Institution, Address etc. if u find these detials please forward to the following Mail. gooche_1981(a)yahoo.co.in Regards Vasantha Raju N Dept of Library and Information science University of Mysore Mysore Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear sir/madam/friends One of my friend is doing project on" Creating a database of Lisc schools in India. Therefore we required the list of Lisc schools and the name of the Head of the Institution, URL of the Institution, Address etc. if u find these detials please forward to the following Mail. mailto:gooche_1981@yahoo.co.in gooche_1981(a)yahoo.co.in Regards Vasantha Raju N Dept of Library and Information science University of Mysore Mysore 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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RE: [LIS-Forum] List of Lisc schools in India
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Dear Mr Pujar Kindly send me a list of websites developed by IGIDR trainees under the guidance of Dr Manjunath. They promise to be of high value and saving time. Kudos to your trainees for their useful work. Vyasamoorthy, P -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Shyam Prasad pujar Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 6:45 PM To: vasanth raj Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] List of Lisc schools in India Mr Vasant Raj, As a part of training, one of our past trainee developed a website on LIS Schools in India. You may go through it at: http://snow.prohosting.com/prk79/ bye S.M. Pujar Asst Librarian IGIDR, Mumbai > --- vasanth raj <gooche_1981(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: > > > Dear sir/madam/friends > > > > One of my friend is doing project on" Creating > > a database of Lisc schools in India. Therefore > > we required the list of Lisc schools and the > > name of the Head of the Institution, URL of the > > Institution, Address etc. if u find these > > detials please forward to the following Mail. > > gooche_1981(a)yahoo.co.in > > > > Regards > > > > > > Vasantha Raju N > > Dept of Library and Information science > > University of Mysore > > Mysore > > > > Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life > partneronline.> > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Y! Messenger - Communicate in real time. Download now. > http://messenger.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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PGDHL Course @ RGUHS
by hemanthrao bharadwaj 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

For Information to LIS-Forum members... Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka is conducting one year PGDHL course. (Post Graduate Diploma in Health Science Librarianship). The Notification for Admissions for the year 2005 is hosted on University website http://www.rguhs.ac.in http://www.rguhs.ac.in . This course has been introduced by the University to meet the need and demand for the high quality manpower in health science libraries. ---------------------------------------------------------- Hemanth Rao Asst. Course Coordinator (PGDHL course) Library and Information Centre RGUHS, Bangalore Sell your old furniture. http://g.msn.com/8HMBENIN/2734??PS=47575 Electronics,books or even your car.

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Library Furniture
by I N Nargund 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Dear friends, I am in need of addresses of Library furniture manufacturers and dealers. I will be highly obliged if you kindly give details. Thanking you, I N Nargund Scientific Officer (LIB) RMP, BARC, MYSORE On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 JK Vijayakumar wrote : >The training on Capacity Building Training >Programme in E-content Development is being >organized from 16th November to 25th November, >2004 at CEC(IUC of UGC),New Delhi. CEC invites >nomination from the Vice-Chancellors, Director >Academic Staff Colleges & Director Multimedia >Research Center of UGC for one teacher in one >subject area and one producer from the Multimedia >Research Center for this training. Visit the site >at http://www.cec-ugc.org/capacity.htm > > > >_______________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! >http://vote.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo… Dear friends, I am in need of addresses of Library furniture manufacturers and dealers. I will be highly obliged if you kindly give details. Thanking you, I N Nargund Scientific Officer (LIB) RMP, BARC, MYSORE On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 JK Vijayakumar wrote : >The training on Capacity Building Training >Programme in E-content Development is being >organized from 16th November to 25th November, >2004 at CEC(IUC of UGC),New Delhi. CEC invites >nomination from the Vice-Chancellors, Director >Academic Staff Colleges & Director Multimedia >Research Center of UGC for one teacher in one >subject area and one producer from the Multimedia >Research Center for this training. Visit the site >at http://www.cec-ugc.org/capacity.htm > > > >_______________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! >http://vote.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Science Web Sites
by Satish Munnolli 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Every week, Science's NetWatch scours the Internet, reader email, and other sources for interesting science Web sites. Here you can look up reviews of the hundreds of sites highlighted since April 1998 with direct links. Achieves of these sites are available at below URL and you can browse and search for the sites with options. http://www.sciencemag.org/netwatch/ Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer A Grant-in-aid Centre of the DAE, Govt. of India. Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410208 Ph: 2740 5026; Fax: 2741 2894 Email: smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in Every week, Science's NetWatch scours the Internet, reader email, and other sources for interesting science Web sites. Here you can look up reviews of the hundreds of sites highlighted since April 1998 with direct links. Achieves of these sites are available at below URL and you can browse and search for the sites with options. http://www.sciencemag.org/netwatch/ http://www.sciencemag.org/netwatch/ Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer A Grant-in-aid Centre of the DAE, Govt. of India. Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410208 Ph: 2740 5026; Fax: 2741 2894 Email: mailto:smunnolli@actrec.res.in smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in

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OAA in Namibia
by Subbiah Arunachalam 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Friends: "The University of Namibia Institutional Repository site has been set up and can be viewed at: <https://dspace.unam.na:8443/dspace>. Following UNAM page, you can read more about the activities of the University." A university in Africa has set up its own institutional archive. And in spite of so much talk and so many training programmes, not a single Indian university (other than Indian Institute of Science) has set up an interoperable institutional archive so far. Economists and social scientists keep comparing India with China. Now the time has come for us to benchmark India against African countries. Some progress. Arun OAA in Namibia Friends: " The University of Namibia Institutional Repository site has been set up and can be viewed at: < https://dspace.unam.na:8443/dspace https://dspace.unam.na:8443/dspace > . Following UNAM page, you can read more about the activities of the University." A university in Africa has set up its own institutional archive. And in spite of so much talk and so many training programmes, not a single Indian university (other than Indian Institute of Science) has set up an interoperable institutional archive so far. Economists and social scientists keep comparing India with China. Now the time has come for us to benchmark India against African countries. Some progress. Arun

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OA in India
by Subbiah Arunachalam 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

RE: OA in IndiaFriends: Here is a short article on open access by Helen Frankish in a recent issue of The Lancet. Unfortunately Helen considers only open access publishing and leaves out the open access archiving. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Publishing wars Open-access movements are winning increasing support, aided in no small part by souring relations between librarians and traditional publishers. But can open-access advocates win over the academic societies that depend on publishing revenue to survive? Helen Frankish reports. The idea that scientific and medical research should be freely available to all is no longer new. Publishing houses dedicated to this new model of information provision are up and running, and advocates have won widespread support for the movement among scientists. But the debate about whether open access can replace traditional publishing models has become no less heated with time. And recent pledges of support by the US Congress and the UK Science and Technology Committee have only served to fan the flames. Last month, the US House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee decreed that an electronic copy of any manuscript arising from National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research should be deposited in PubMed Central-the free digital archive maintained by the National Library of Medicine. The NIH has until the end of the year to submit a plan to Congress describing how the proposal can be implemented. This announcement came hot on the heels of a report by the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, which recommended that every UK higher education institution should set up institutional repositories to allow researchers to self-archive their publications (so the work can be freely accessed via the internet), and that storage of government-funded research papers should be mandatory. Above-inflation price hikes by traditional publishers such as Elsevier (which publishes The Lancet), Kluwer, and Wiley, have inadvertently helped boost support for open access. The Association of Research Libraries estimates that the cost of journal subscriptions increased by 227% from 1986-2002, while the Consumer Price Index increased by just 64% during the same period-a comparison that has caused consternation among librarians, who are the main source of publishers' subscriptions revenues. Harold Varmus, former director of NIH and founder of open-access publisher the Public Library of Science (PLoS), believes high prices are forcing libraries to cancel subscriptions. He says commercial publishers have "manipulated their monopolies" by demanding that authors sign over copyright for their work, giving publishers free rein to charge extortionate prices for their products. "We are in a situation that is untenable in the long run and we've got to find a way to fix it", he says. Varmus' solution was to set up a publishing house dedicated to open access, along with co-founders Pat Brown from Stanford University and Mike Eisen from the University of California, which on Oct 19 will launch its second open-access journal PLoS Medicine. Like its sister journal PLoS Biology, launched in 2003, all content will be immediately and freely available "to read, download, redistribute, include in databases, and otherwise use". To cover publication costs, authors will be charged a US$1500 fee; however, this will be waived, with no questions asked, for authors who cannot afford to pay. Not surprisingly, the open-access movement is facing stiff opposition from commercial publishers, who argue that online access and new pricing models are enabling them to reach more readers than ever before. "We would expect libraries to cancel some subscriptions", says Robert Campbell, president of Blackwell Publishing, "but despite the claims that libraries are in crisis they have access to many more titles than 10 years ago and with much greater functionality." However, he is interested to see if open-access initiatives such as PLoS will succeed. "Let the market decide the way forward", he adds. PLoS Medicine plans "to compete with the very best general medical journals", but practical difficulties, such as persuading researchers to submit their best articles to a new medical journal, will need to be overcome. "I suspect it's going to be quite difficult to attract very high-profile papers initially", says Rory Collins, from the Clinical Trial Service Unit at Oxford University, UK, and a member of PLoS Medicine's editorial board. "People submit what they hope will be high-impact papers to high-impact journals. And it's difficult for any journal-whether it's open access or not-to become a high-impact journal rapidly." Virginia Barbour, senior editor at PLoS Medicine, who left The Lancet to join Varmus' organisation, understands why people are nervous about open access. "It's a change in practice", she says. But Barbour believes that if funders get behind the open-access movement, things will change. "They have to say: 'You will not lose out on tenure in 5 years' time'", she explains. Indeed, the UK Wellcome Trust and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the USA, two of the largest funders of medical research, have already given their strong support for open-access publishing by approving the use of their grants to cover publication charges. But winning over scientists and funders is just part of the battle. Some of the most vocal criticism of open access has come from the non-profit society publishers who depend on revenues from their journals to fund activities such as conferences, educational outreach programmes, and provision of scholarships and grants. Varmus says that some academic societies are being inattentive to their members' needs by sticking with the established business model. He suggests societies can raise funds in other ways "such as increases in membership fees and increased rates for meetings and other activities". But William Rosner, professor of medicine at Columbia University, New York, and member of the Endocrine Society Council, counters that it would be "an enormous mistake" to prevent societies from supporting their other non-profit activities through publishing. He is particularly concerned about the consequences of rushing into open-access publishing before all the potential problems have been considered, and all the necessary safeguards put in place. One "very real and very frightening" possible consequence, Rosner says, is that funding agencies who pay publication charges for open-access journals could influence what does or does not get published. "They could say: 'Hey, we're not going to pay to publish this. We don't like what you're saying'", Rosner explains. "By anyone's standards, that is a major conflict of interest." While the increasingly heated debate about open-access publishing is taking place among people in industrialised countries, its potential impact is perhaps most obvious for those in developing countries. Programmes such as the Health InterNetwork Access Initiative (HINARI), which provides free or low-cost online access to journals in countries with a per-capita GNP of less than $3000, have gone some way towards bridging the information gap. But in reality HINARI is not as good as it sounds, as publishers have opted out for some larger developing countries, such as Brazil, China, and India, where they already have a fairly large subscription base. The open-access movement has the potential to transform access to health information, says Neil Pakenham-Walsh from the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, a non-governmental organisation that aims to improve access to information for health professionals in developing countries. The lack of copyright is the "crucially important" feature of open-access journals, he says. The freedom to circulate information, not just the freedom to access it, means that information is far more likely to be seen and used by many people. It also means that information can be used for multiple audiences. "If you are, say, a local publisher in a developing country and part of your target audience is, say, nurses in that country, then the fact that the text is open-access means that you can select exactly what you want and reproduce it as it is, or adapt it as needed", he explains. But Pakenham-Walsh is concerned by the focus on open access to research published in scientific journals, which has important limitations for health-care providers. The "big challenge" is whether the open-access model can be expanded to include other types of publication, for example text books and databases of systematic reviews. "For a health-care provider in a rural area, access to a whole load of medical journals would not be much help for figuring out what to do", Pakenham-Walsh explains. "Any single research article has got limited application to health care in its own right; it needs to be seen within the context of other available evidence." There are easier and quicker ways, however, to bridge the information divide, argues Subbiah Arunachalam, an information scientist at the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation in Chennai, India. "Rather than frittering away our energies setting up new open-access journals or trying to persuade existing journals to go the open-access way, one can make the playing field very nearly level if all researchers in the world self-archive their papers in institutional archives. Then everyone with internet access can access everyone else's papers." Helen Frankish RE: OA in India Friends: Here is a short article on open access by Helen Frankish in a recent issue of The Lancet. Unfortunately Helen considers only open access publishing and leaves out the open access archiving. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Publishing wars Open-access movements are winning increasing support, aided in no small part by souring relations between librarians and traditional publishers. But can open-access advocates win over the academic societies that depend on publishing revenue to survive? Helen Frankish reports. The idea that scientific and medical research should be freely available to all is no longer new. Publishing houses dedicated to this new model of information provision are up and running, and advocates have won widespread support for the movement among scientists. But the debate about whether open access can replace traditional publishing models has become no less heated with time. And recent pledges of support by the US Congress and the UK Science and Technology Committee have only served to fan the flames. Last month, the US House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee decreed that an electronic copy of any manuscript arising from National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research should be deposited in PubMed Central-the free digital archive maintained by the National Library of Medicine. The NIH has until the end of the year to submit a plan to Congress describing how the proposal can be implemented. This announcement came hot on the heels of a report by the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, which recommended that every UK higher education institution should set up institutional repositories to allow researchers to self-archive their publications (so the work can be freely accessed via the internet), and that storage of government-funded research papers should be mandatory. Above-inflation price hikes by traditional publishers such as Elsevier (which publishes The Lancet), Kluwer, and Wiley, have inadvertently helped boost support for open access. The Association of Research Libraries estimates that the cost of journal subscriptions increased by 227% from 1986-2002, while the Consumer Price Index increased by just 64% during the same period-a comparison that has caused consternation among librarians, who are the main source of publishers' subscriptions revenues. Harold Varmus, former director of NIH and founder of open-access publisher the Public Library of Science (PLoS), believes high prices are forcing libraries to cancel subscriptions. He says commercial publishers have "manipulated their monopolies" by demanding that authors sign over copyright for their work, giving publishers free rein to charge extortionate prices for their products. "We are in a situation that is untenable in the long run and we've got to find a way to fix it", he says. Varmus' solution was to set up a publishing house dedicated to open access, along with co-founders Pat Brown from Stanford University and Mike Eisen from the University of California, which on Oct 19 will launch its second open-access journal PLoS Medicine. Like its sister journal PLoS Biology, launched in 2003, all content will be immediately and freely available "to read, download, redistribute, include in databases, and otherwise use". To cover publication costs, authors will be charged a US$1500 fee; however, this will be waived, with no questions asked, for authors who cannot afford to pay. Not surprisingly, the open-access movement is facing stiff opposition from commercial publishers, who argue that online access and new pricing models are enabling them to reach more readers than ever before. "We would expect libraries to cancel some subscriptions", says Robert Campbell, president of Blackwell Publishing, "but despite the claims that libraries are in crisis they have access to many more titles than 10 years ago and with much greater functionality." However, he is interested to see if open-access initiatives such as PLoS will succeed. "Let the market decide the way forward", he adds. PLoS Medicine plans "to compete with the very best general medical journals", but practical difficulties, such as persuading researchers to submit their best articles to a new medical journal, will need to be overcome. "I suspect it's going to be quite difficult to attract very high-profile papers initially", says Rory Collins, from the Clinical Trial Service Unit at Oxford University, UK, and a member of PLoS Medicine's editorial board. "People submit what they hope will be high-impact papers to high-impact journals. And it's difficult for any journal-whether it's open access or not-to become a high-impact journal rapidly." Virginia Barbour, senior editor at PLoS Medicine, who left The Lancet to join Varmus' organisation, understands why people are nervous about open access. "It's a change in practice", she says. But Barbour believes that if funders get behind the open-access movement, things will change. "They have to say: 'You will not lose out on tenure in 5 years' time'", she explains. Indeed, the UK Wellcome Trust and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the USA, two of the largest funders of medical research, have already given their strong support for open-access publishing by approving the use of their grants to cover publication charges. But winning over scientists and funders is just part of the battle. Some of the most vocal criticism of open access has come from the non-profit society publishers who depend on revenues from their journals to fund activities such as conferences, educational outreach programmes, and provision of scholarships and grants. Varmus says that some academic societies are being inattentive to their members' needs by sticking with the established business model. He suggests societies can raise funds in other ways "such as increases in membership fees and increased rates for meetings and other activities". But William Rosner, professor of medicine at Columbia University, New York, and member of the Endocrine Society Council, counters that it would be "an enormous mistake" to prevent societies from supporting their other non-profit activities through publishing. He is particularly concerned about the consequences of rushing into open-access publishing before all the potential problems have been considered, and all the necessary safeguards put in place. One "very real and very frightening" possible consequence, Rosner says, is that funding agencies who pay publication charges for open-access journals could influence what does or does not get published. "They could say: 'Hey, we're not going to pay to publish this. We don't like what you're saying'", Rosner explains. "By anyone's standards, that is a major conflict of interest." While the increasingly heated debate about open-access publishing is taking place among people in industrialised countries, its potential impact is perhaps most obvious for those in developing countries. Programmes such as the Health InterNetwork Access Initiative (HINARI), which provides free or low-cost online access to journals in countries with a per-capita GNP of less than $3000, have gone some way towards bridging the information gap. But in reality HINARI is not as good as it sounds, as publishers have opted out for some larger developing countries, such as Brazil, China, and India, where they already have a fairly large subscription base. The open-access movement has the potential to transform access to health information, says Neil Pakenham-Walsh from the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, a non-governmental organisation that aims to improve access to information for health professionals in developing countries. The lack of copyright is the "crucially important" feature of open-access journals, he says. The freedom to circulate information, not just the freedom to access it, means that information is far more likely to be seen and used by many people. It also means that information can be used for multiple audiences. "If you are, say, a local publisher in a developing country and part of your target audience is, say, nurses in that country, then the fact that the text is open-access means that you can select exactly what you want and reproduce it as it is, or adapt it as needed", he explains. But Pakenham-Walsh is concerned by the focus on open access to research published in scientific journals, which has important limitations for health-care providers. The "big challenge" is whether the open-access model can be expanded to include other types of publication, for example text books and databases of systematic reviews. "For a health-care provider in a rural area, access to a whole load of medical journals would not be much help for figuring out what to do", Pakenham-Walsh explains. "Any single research article has got limited application to health care in its own right; it needs to be seen within the context of other available evidence." There are easier and quicker ways, however, to bridge the information divide, argues Subbiah Arunachalam, an information scientist at the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation in Chennai, India. "Rather than frittering away our energies setting up new open-access journals or trying to persuade existing journals to go the open-access way, one can make the playing field very nearly level if all researchers in the world self-archive their papers in institutional archives. Then everyone with internet access can access everyone else's papers." Helen Frankish

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Training Programme on Development of E-content
by JK Vijayakumar 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

The training on �Capacity Building Training Programme in E-content Development� is being organized from 16th November to 25th November, 2004 at CEC(IUC of UGC),New Delhi. CEC invites nomination from the Vice-Chancellors, Director Academic Staff Colleges & Director Multimedia Research Center of UGC for one teacher in one subject area and one producer from the Multimedia Research Center for this training. Visit the site at http://www.cec-ugc.org/capacity.htm _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

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_Science and Technology Wikis?_
by Gerry Mckiernan 24 Oct '04

24 Oct '04

_Science and Technology Wikis?_ Colleagues/ For my next SCI-5 column for _Science & Technology Libraries_ (Haworth), I plan to profile five significant Science and/or Technology wikis. As defined by The Wikipedia [ http://en.wikipedia.org/ ], a "Wiki or wiki (pronounced 'wicky' or 'weekee') is a Website (or other hypertext document collection) that allows any user to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows that content to be edited by any other user" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki ]. The SciTech wikis I've identified through Google include: · AVC Science Wiki (NSDL) [ http://avc.comm.nsdlib.org/cgi-bin/sciencewiki.pl ] · Science Fair Project Encyclopedia [ http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia… ] · SEEK: Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge [ http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/ ] · Simple Science Wiki [ http://www.renaissoft.com/April/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Simple_Science_Wiki ] · Virtual Math Teams Project [ http://mathforum.org/wiki/VMT/VMT?HomePage ] In addition to these potential candidates for the Sci-5 Treatment (e.g., Ecological and Environmental Data [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/EcoData.pdf ]), I am interested in learning of Any and All Science and/or Technology Wikis for potential consideration and review [and for inclusion in a possible CyberStacks(sm) registry [:-)]. Of particular interest are the use of wikis by Science and/or Technology Libraries. TIA! Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Simple Science Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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Fw: An Invitation to the 2005 ALISE Conference in Boston
by Subbiah Arunachalam 24 Oct '04

24 Oct '04

> Colleagues: > > The Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) is > holding its annual meeting in Boston from January 11-14, 2005. The theme > of this year's conference is "Boundary Crossings: Library and Information > Science Education in a Global Context." The conference organizers would > like to extend a special invitation to all our international colleagues and > hope that many of you will be able to attend. You can learn more about the > conference at > http://www.alise.org/conferences/2005_conference/index.html. We would > welcome your attendance at the conference and hope to see you there. We > would appreciate it if you would tell any colleagues that you think might > be interested about the conference. > > If you need a specific letter of invitation in order to secure a visa, > please let us know by emailing <contact(a)alise.org>. > > Best wishes from the 2005 Conference Co-Chairs, > Toni Carbo University of Pittsburgh, > Barbara B. Moran UNC-Chapel Hill > > > Louise S. Robbins > Professor and Director > School of Library and Information Studies > University of Wisconsin-Madison > 600 North Park Street > Madison, WI 53706 > > PHONE: 608-263-2908 > FAX: 608-263-4849 > > email: lsrobbin(a)wisc.edu

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New display
by Subbiah Arunachalam 24 Oct '04

24 Oct '04

New display 'as clear as a glossy magazine' Hewlett Packard has developed a revolutionary liquid-crystal display technology which it hopes will ultimately lead to ultra high-resolution flat screens ranging in size from a magazine page to an advertising billboard. Moreover, the screens will use far less power than ordinary LCD screens, and can be made using cheap technology. Conventional computer screens can only manage 1600 by 1200 pixels, and even high-definition TV displays create their images with an array of 1920 by 1080 pixels at best. Now, HP reckons it can make an A4-sized screen with 7000 by 5000 pixels - matching the quality of a glossy magazine. HP says it will be able to replicate this quality on screens all the way up to large electronic posters and billboards. HP calls the new system a post aligned bistable nematic (PABN) LCD. This week, HP demonstrated two 4 by 3-centimetre prototypes. The images on the prototypes were undeniably coarse, with visible blemishes and faulty pixels. But HP stressed that PABN will not be ready for market any time soon. Rather, the demonstration is proof that the technology works. New Scientist, October 20, 2004 [A] New display 'as clear as a glossy magazine' Hewlett Packard has developed a revolutionary liquid-crystal display technology which it hopes will ultimately lead to ultra high-resolution flat screens ranging in size from a magazine page to an advertising billboard. Moreover, the screens will use far less power than ordinary LCD screens, and can be made using cheap technology. Conventional computer screens can only manage 1600 by 1200 pixels, and even high-definition TV displays create their images with an array of 1920 by 1080 pixels at best. Now, HP reckons it can make an A4-sized screen with 7000 by 5000 pixels - matching the quality of a glossy magazine. HP says it will be able to replicate this quality on screens all the way up to large electronic posters and billboards. HP calls the new system a post aligned bistable nematic (PABN) LCD. This week, HP demonstrated two 4 by 3-centimetre prototypes. The images on the prototypes were undeniably coarse, with visible blemishes and faulty pixels. But HP stressed that PABN will not be ready for market any time soon. Rather, the demonstration is proof that the technology works. http://infonomics.nl/ref.php?nid=1961 New Scientist , October 20, 2004

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Seize The Feed: Web Feeds for Enhanced Governmental Information Services
by Gerry Mckiernan 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

Seize The Feed: Web Feeds for Enhanced Governmental Information Services Colleagues/ Four Your Dining and Dancing Pleasure * I am pleased to inform you of my latest creative effort: "Seize The Feed: Web Feeds for Enhanced Governmental Information Services" [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/SeizeTheFeed.ppt ] This is revised and corrected version of the PowerPoint presentation prepared and presented at the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC), Content Management Working Group, Brown Bag Series at the Library of Congress, Madison Building, this past Monday, October 18, 2004, Noon - 3 PM. **Menu** Why a Feed? What's a Feed? Where's the Feed? How a Feed? Who a Feed? When a Feed? RSS in Government FLICC / Applications Resources I am most grateful to Jan Herd, Business Reference Librarian, Science, Technology & Business Division, The Library of Congress, and member of the FLICC Content Management Working Group, for her kind invitation to present, and to Anna Kristin Bohlin, Program Specialist, Federal Library and Information Center Committee, The Library of Congress, for her assistance. Enjoy! And BON APPÉTIT ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Web Fed Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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Scientific Publications: Free for all?
by Subbiah Gunasekaran 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

Dear Members: The report may be useful. Scientific Publications: Free for all? Tenth report from the Science and Technology Committee, UK. can be viewed at :http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmsctech.htm Thanks Guna http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo… Dear Members: The report may be useful. Scientific Publications: Free for all? Tenth report from the Science and Technology Committee, UK. can be viewed at :http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmsctech.htm Thanks Guna

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New site devoted to Dublin Core and automatic metadata extraction (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:50:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Ernesto Giralt <egh_cu(a)yahoo.es> This is the announcement of the publication of the first version (1,0 beta) of DescribeThis (http://www.describethis.com) a service designed for the automatic extraction of metadata from online resources. The site offers an easy to use interface where you can indicate the resource to analyze and how to download the results as XML, XHTML or RDF files. In the current version (1.0 BETA), the site's engine is able to find the resources to process using keywords, full URLs or more complex queries with operators, like "ISBN", used to collect the bibliographic data for published documents (see http://www.describethis.com/help/search.html) In the first case it works as a metasearch engine using other search engines to locate the best sites where the resource can be found. The results returned back contains all the recognized and generated Dublin Core elements for the requested resource and can be downloaded as RDF, XML or XHTML collections. DescribeThis's main fields of applications : - To support and extend the application and development of the Dublin Core format as one of most appropriate metadata standards to describe or catalog resources, digitals or not. - To use the site as a tool to support the cataloguing of online resources, oriented to information specialists and Internet users in general. - To deliver services of automatic metadata management, designed for managers of bibliographic and content databases. - To create an efficient way for administrators and website authors to dynamically provide metadata information about their sites to page crawlers, bots, spiders, agents, worms and other automatic indexing and site classification systems, with the aim of contributing to the improvement of the whole Internet content organization. In the describethis.com front page you can find several samples to illustrate the normal operation of the service. About Dublin Core Services ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DescribeThis is a gateway to the functions of analysis, automatic conversion and filtration of digital resources and formats, included as part of a group of web services and tools called Sand Dublin Core Services (DCS). DCS provides support and software infrastructure to develop metadata management applications and services In this version, DCS can automatically analyze and to generate metadata registers for the following formats: - HTML and XHTML Documents - Dublin Core/RDF - Dublin Core/XML - Dublin Core/HTML (META tags) - GIF, JPG (EXIF) and other image formats - RSS - bibTex - proprietary Formats XML (ex.: Amazon XML Web Services) Support for other well-known formats like PDF, MARC , stream formats (MP3, MPEG, etc), OAI directories, FOAF networks and others will be added in the near future. A more complete information about available features of DescribeThis and DCS will be added on the Sand corporate website as soon as possible. --

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free access
by vasanth raj 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

Dear Sir/Madam/friends The Sage publishers are providing free aceess to thier journal via online till october 31st. You can access freely various journals like Journal of Librarianship and information science, youth and socity and science, technology and Human values etc.Its realy great oppertunities for us to make use of this.The URL of Sage publisher is http://online.sagepub.com by visiting this site u will realy come across thousands of article. Regards Vasantha Raju N Department of Library and Information science University of Mysore Mysore E-mail: gooche_1981(a)yahoo.co.in Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Sir/Madam/friends The Sage publishers are providing free aceess to thier journal via online till october 31st. You can access freely various journals like Journal of Librarianship and information science, youth and socity and science, technology and Human values etc.Its realy great oppertunities for us to make use of this.The URL of Sage publisher is http://online.sagepub.com http://online.sagepub.com by visiting this site u will realy come across thousands of article. Regards Vasantha Raju N Department of Library and Information science University of Mysore Mysore E-mail: mailto:gooche_1981@yahoo.co.in gooche_1981(a)yahoo.co.in 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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Google Expands Search Empire with Life Search
by Saiful Amin 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

Innovative humour on an innovative company! A very interesting read. -Saiful Monday, October 18 12:00 AM ET Google Expands Search Empire with Life Search By Jeremy Mikesell Mountain View, CA - Following quickly after the beta release of it new Desktop Search technology. Google unveiled the latest product in their ever-growing line of search utilities, Google Life Search. Read on ... http://www.bbspot.com/News/2004/10/google_life_search.html -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong."

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Announcement : Our stall in Exhibition in Nehru Sc. centre, Mumbai
by sumita panse 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

Dear Friends, There is going to be a exhibition of science at Nehru Centre, Mumbai from 21st to 25th Oct'04. We are representing our stall DIMDIMA a children's monthly magazine for promotion as well as we are distributing the educational CD-ROM free of cost on the subscription of DIMDIMA magazine. I invite you to visit our stall for more information. Thank you sumita panse Content researcher Bharatiya vidya bhavan Amrita bharati Get head-hunted by 10,500 recruiters. http://g.msn.com/8HMAENIN/2728??PS=47575 Post your CV on naukri.com today.

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Just not another Search Engine
by B Sreeharsha 19 Oct '04

19 Oct '04

Hello, Google, the World's leading search engine has proved that it just not provides information, but also saves life of victims. An Australian Journalist who got kidnaped in Iraq was set free after the militants GOOGLED him. More news can be read @ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3755154.stm Sreeharsha BG Sreeharsha BG Novell Software Development India Pvt. Ltd AM Industrial Area #49/1 & 49/3, 7th Mile, Hosur Road, Garvebhavi paly Road, Bangalore - 560 068 INDIA Phone: 91-80-25731856 E 2000 Visit us @ www.novell.com Hello, Google, the World's leading search engine has proved that it just not provides information, but also saves life of victims. An Australian Journalist who got kidnaped in Iraq was set free after the militants GOOGLED him. More news can be read @ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3755154.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3755154.stm Sreeharsha BG Sreeharsha BG Novell Software Development India Pvt. Ltd AM Industrial Area #49/1 & 49/3, 7th Mile, Hosur Road, Garvebhavi paly Road, Bangalore - 560 068 INDIA Phone: 91-80-25731856 E 2000 Visit us @ http://www.novell.com www.novell.com

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Information commodity
by shashi kumar 19 Oct '04

19 Oct '04

Dear Sir/Madam/Friends, In the context of "Information marketing" Information is considerd as a commodity. I want to know exactly how information as a commodity and how it applicable to Library and Information Science field. If you have any information about this issue please mail me. Thanking you, Shashikumar Dept. of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore mysore. Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Sir/Madam/Friends, In the context of "Information marketing" Information is considerd as a commodity. I want to know exactly how information as a commodity and how it applicable to Library and Information Science field. If you have any information about this issue please mail me. Thanking you, Shashikumar Dept. of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore mysore. 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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Agriculture Gateway to India (AGI)
by JK Vijayakumar 19 Oct '04

19 Oct '04

Agriculture Gateway to India (AGI) The Agricultural Gateway to India is a website designed to satisfy the information needs for agriculture in India. Our target users include scientists, researchers, extension personnel, students, farmers, policy-makers, media, consumer groups, and agribusiness professionals. This site is managed by Dr N. Sandhya Shenoy, Senior Scientist, National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM) in Hyderabad, India. Site contents: What's New; Animal Sci; Audio Files; Crop Sciences; Economics; Engineering; Extension; Fisheries; Gender Issues; General Ag; Home Science; Horticulture; Human Res; InfoTech; Issues; Libraries; Maps; Natural Res; Organisations; Programmes; Publications; Sustainable Ag; Weather; Search; Tools; The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR); DAC; FAO; CGIAR, other portals to Indian Agriculture. URL http://web.aces.uiuc.edu/aim/diglib/india/ -------------- J.K.Vijayakumar INFLIBNET _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

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Metadata Leadership
by Rajesh Chandrakar 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

"Metadata Leadership" Library Journal (08/15/04) P. 27; Tennant, Roy Libraries will have to embrace bibliographic records encoded with different standards and emerging specs such as Dublin Core, the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS), and VRA Core, or become even more marginalized. The number of useful items online without MARC cataloging now reaches into the millions, and may never be catalogued in MARC. Catalogers can plan a key role in accommodating records not catalogued in MARC or AACR2 because they understand that the important metadata issues of granularity, accuracy, authority control, and controlled vocabularies remain the same. Rebecca Guenther at the Library of Congress has helped lead the way by being involved in the Dublin Core effort, and also by helping to pioneer the MODS. And some library schools are updating their curricula and creating new classes to address all forms of biographical metadata. However, libraries need to stress the importance of metadata expertise so that catalogers long out of school will be motivated to revamp their skills. The National Information Standards Organization offers the superb paper "Understanding Metadata," which should help get library staff up to speed. (www.libraryjournal.com) Rajesh "Metadata Leadership" Library Journal (08/15/04) P. 27; Tennant, Roy Libraries will have to embrace bibliographic records encoded with different standards and emerging specs such as Dublin Core, the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS), and VRA Core, or become even more marginalized. The number of useful items online without MARC cataloging now reaches into the millions, and may never be catalogued in MARC. Catalogers can plan a key role in accommodating records not catalogued in MARC or AACR2 because they understand that the important metadata issues of granularity, accuracy, authority control, and controlled vocabularies remain the same. Rebecca Guenther at the Library of Congress has helped lead the way by being involved in the Dublin Core effort, and also by helping to pioneer the MODS. And some library schools are updating their curricula and creating new classes to address all forms of biographical metadata. However, libraries need to stress the importance of metadata expertise so that catalogers long out of school will be motivated to revamp their skills. The National Information Standards Organization offers the superb paper "Understanding Metadata," which should help get library staff up to speed. ( http://www.libraryjournal.com/ www.libraryjournal.com ). Rajesh

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Google Desktop
by Farooque Shaheen 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

Find your email, files, web history and chats instantly, view web pages you've seen, even when you're not online. Google's new Desktop Search (http://desktop.google.com) is a small file that Windows users can download to their computers . Once installed, it adds a "Desktop" link to the Google home page, allowing users to conduct hard-drive searches with a Web browser in the same way as an Internet search. The software can search the content of most common file types, including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and Outlook e-mail messages. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Sr. Executive- Information Services Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd. Bangalore, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-080-34007449 �Find your email, files, web history and chats instantly, view web pages you've seen, even when you're not online. Google's new Desktop Search ( http://desktop.google.com ) is a small file that Windows users can download to their computers . Once installed, it adds a "Desktop" link to the Google home page, allowing users to conduct hard-drive searches with a Web browser in the same way as an Internet search. The software can search the content of most common file types, including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and Outlook e-mail messages . Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Sr. Executive- Information Services Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd. Bangalore, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-080-34007449

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Number of public libraria books per capita in India
by Tomas Allen 15 Oct '04

15 Oct '04

Dear Colleagues, I have perhaps a rather unusual request for the list serv, but I am trying to locate some figure that indicates the number of books in Indian Public libraries (or volumes) per inhabitant for India. I have used the UNESCO Institue for Statistics but neither the print nor the online show any figures for India. See http://stats.uis.unesco.org/eng/ReportFolders/Rfview/explorerp.asp I am using the baseline year 1995, but will accept figures from other years. For example the United States figure is approx 2.9 books/volumes per inhabitant. I would expect for India that number might be slightly lower. Any assistance is greatly appreciated and all the best for the weekend. Tomas Allen _________________________________________________________________ Highlight Viewer - heben Sie von Ihnen gesuchte Wörter auf Webseiten hervor. http://toolbar.msn.ch?&DI=165&XAPID=2170

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Position at Honeywell, Bangalore
by Satish, Mariyappagoudar (IE10) 15 Oct '04

15 Oct '04

Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab (HTSL), Bangalore has an opening for the position of an Information Assistant on contract basis. Salary to commensurate with qualification and experience. Qualification / Job Requirements: B.Sc with M.L.I.Sc in Library & Information Science, 6 months - 2 years work experience, a passion for customers/library users, resourceful abilities, teamwork and good communication skills. Preference be given to persons with IT and global exposure. The job will require: -- Book procurement, cataloging, circulation -- Managing magazines and online databases resources -- Providing Document Delivery Service (DDS) -- Provide Reference & Referral Service -- Computer Skills: Scanning, OCR, MS Office Tools, Web based searches, Web & Associated technologies Interested candidates may send their updated CV to me by Wednesday, October 20, 2004. Regards, Satish K M Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab, 151/1, Doraisanipalya, Bannerghatta Road, Opp: IIMB Post Office, Bangalore - 560076 INDIA Phone : +91-80-26588360 ext: 4001 Fax: +91-80-51109907 E-mail: satish.mariyappagoudar(a)honeywell.com <mailto:satish.mariyappagoudar@honeywell.com> Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab (HTSL), Bangalore has an opening for the position of an Information Assistant on contract basis. Salary to commensurate with qualification and experience. Qualification / Job Requirements: B.Sc with M.L.I.Sc in Library & Information Science, 6 months - 2 years work experience, a passion for customers /library users , resourceful abilities, teamwork and good communication skills. Preference be given to persons with IT and global exposure. The job will require: -- Book procurement, cataloging, circulation -- Managing magazines and online databases resources -- Providing Document Delivery Service (DDS) -- Provide Reference & Referral Service -- Computer Skills: Scanning, OCR, MS Office Tools, Web based searches, Web & Associated technologies Interested candidates may send their updated CV to me by Wednesday , October 20 , 2004 . Regards, Satish K M Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab, 151/1, Doraisanipalya, Bannerghatta Road, Opp: IIMB Post Office, Bangalore - 560076 INDIA Ph one : +91-80-26588360 ext: 4001 Fax: +91-80-51109907 E-mail: mailto:satish.mariyappagoudar@honeywell.com satish.mariyappagoudar(a)honeywell.com

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