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Websites of UGC Infonet
by JK Vijayakumar 26 Mar '04

26 Mar '04

Dear All, Details of University Grants Commission's new initiative -UGC Infonet and E-Journal Consortia are available at the following websites. http://www.ugcinfonet.ernet.in http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/econsortia/index.htm http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/info/ugcinfonet/ugcinfonet.jsp -INFLIBNET __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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Re: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants
by Mailing List Manager 25 Mar '04

25 Mar '04

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 03:44:43 -0800 (PST) From: JK Vijayakumar <vjkjk(a)yahoo.com> George Soros is founder and chairman of the Open Society Institute and the Soros foundations network (http://www.soros.org/)Soros foundations are autonomous institutions established in particular countries or regions to initiate and support open society activities. The priorities and specific activities of each Soros foundation are determined by a local board of directors and staff in consultation with George Soros and OSI boards and advisors. As per the guidelines the fundings will go to the countries where Soros Network is active.Unfortunately India is not covered under this catagory (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/grants.shtml) I hope Shri Arun can utilise his international relations in open access initiative to activate Soros network in India, and then ask for fundings. > India is again excluded as was done earlier > with HINARI and AGORA! > > Arun

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[DIGLIB] New and Old Articles About Innovative Information Systems
by Mailing List Manager 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:47:47 -0600 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> I am pleased to announce the publication and availability of self-archived copies of two of my SCI-5 columns devoted to Innovative Information Systems: "New Age E-Journals, Indexes, and Services," Science & Technology Libraries, Vol. 21, No. 3/4, 2001 [2003], pp. 223-233. [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/EJIS.pdf] "Scholar-Based Initiatives in Publishing," Science & Technology Libraries, Vol. 22, No. 3/4, 2002 [2003], pp. 181-191 [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/SBI.pdf ] **************************************************************************** I am also pleased to announce the availability of self-archived copies of previously published articles that profile other Innovative Information Systems, etc: "eCONF: The SLAC Electronic Conference Proceedings Archive," Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 18 No. 5, 2001, pp. 16-23. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/eCONF.pdf ABSTRACT To promote the publication and expedite the availability of conference proceedings, an experimental archive titled eConf has been established under the auspices of the SLAC Technical Information Services department. At this time, the eConf archive is limited to proceedings in high-energy physics and related fields. The archive presently contains the conference papers of two proceedings: the 19th International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies (LP 99) and 20th International Linac Conference. http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/ **************************************************************************** "EnergyFiles: The Virtual Library of Energy Science and Technology," Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 20, No. 1, January/February 2003, 30-36. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/EnergyFiles.pdf ABSTRACT The targeted audience for EnergyFiles is end users and organizations having a need for energy-related scientific and technical information. Anticipated primary users include researchers, scientists, project managers, program, managers, academic (educators and students), and associated information professionals. NOTE: Review of previous version of interface and system http://www.osti.gov/EnergyFiles/ ************************************************************************** "Library Database Advisors - Emerging Innovative Augmented Digital Library Services," Library Hi Tech News Vol. 19, No. 4, May 2002, pp. 27-33. "Why should we make our users hunt down the best resource for a given information need and learn how to use its particular options for searching? Why not provide them with a simple way to get started?" || Roy Tennant || http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/LDBA.pdf **************************************************************************** "Web-based Journal Manuscript Management and Peer-Review Systems and Services," Library Hi Tech News Vol. 19, No. 7, August 2002, pp. 31-43. "* [A] paperless system would significantly reduce delays in all aspects of the dissemination cycle. The composition process itself should be speeded up and so should the whole interaction among writers, publishers, and referees." || F. W. Lancaster || [Lancaster, F.W., Toward Paperless Information Systems ( Academic Press: New York, NY, 1978), 127.] http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/PeerSoft.pdf **************************************************************************** And BTW: For the Irish amongst us, as well as those who wish they were [:-)]: Happy St. Patrick's Day! Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan New and Old Irish Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants
by Mailing List Manager 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:47:01 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> India is again excluded as was done earlier with HINARI and AGORA! Arun For immediate release � Contact: Melissa Hageman, Open Society Institute: (212) 548-0142 MHagemann@sorosny.org� Helen Doyle, Public Library of Science: (415) 624-1217 hdoyle @plos.org � Academic publishing made more accessible for scientists in developing world New Open Society Institute Grants Program Will Promote Open Access Publishing March 22, 2004 New York, NY & San Francisco, CA� The Open Society Institute (OSI) and Public Library of Science (PLoS) today announced a new grants program to support open access publishing in developing and transition countries. The grants will make it much easier for scientists based in developing and transition countries to submit articles to the premiere peer-reviewed research journals published by PLoS. "Scientists in poorer countries have been virtually excluded from the journal publishing world," said Darius Cuplinskas, director of OSI's Information Program. "Open access journals will remove barriers and make these scientists full members of the international scientific community. PLoS is a non-profit advocacy organization and a publisher of open-access journals, which are available free of charge online and are subsidized largely by author-side charges for publication. While this pay-to-publish system allows PLoS to make scientific and medical literature immediately accessible to anyone in the world with an Internet connection, many authors from developing countries cannot afford the fees. Now, scientists affiliated with the OSI-funded member institutions will be entitled to a waiver of publication charges for their articles in PLoS journals. OSI's Information Program has been a strong supporter of the open access movement. Its Budapest Open Access Initiative, launched in 2002, advocates for the support of two parallel strategies for the adoption of open access:� self-archiving and open access journals. The OSI/PLoS Institutional Membership grants will target developing and transition countries.� Authors from the least developed countries will receive a waiver of publication charge upon request, a policy PLoS has had in place since the launch of its first journal, PLoS Biology, in October 2003.� To ensure that ability to pay publication charges does not influence the review process, PLoS has a firewall in place to shield requests from all editors and reviewers. The debate about open access has shifted recently, said Dr. Helen Doyle, PLoS director of development and strategic alliances. Doubts about its value have been replaced with doubts about its viability. This commitment from OSI answers the question of how scientists in developing countries will be able to publish in our journals on a large scale. The complete list of countries and regions where institutions are eligible for the new memberships is as follows: Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Bulgaria Cameroon Cote d'Ivoire Croatia Czech Republic Estonia Georgia Ghana Guatemala Hungary Indonesia Kazakhstan Kosovo Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia� Lithuania Macedonia Moldova Mongolia Namibia Nigeria Peru Poland Romania Russia Serbia and Montenegro Slovakia South Africa Swaziland Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Ukraine Uzbekistan Vietnam Zimbabwe�� More information about the grants is available at http://www.soros.org/openaccess/grants.shtml . The joint OSI-PLoS announcement follows the January launch of the PLoS Institutional Membership program. More information about the PLoS Membership Program is available at http://www.plos.org/support.

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Fwd: Re: UK Select Committee Inquiry into Scientific Publication
by Mailing List Manager 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:38:52 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Of potential interest to the readers of this list: > > Press Release > > 22 March 2004 > > BioMed Central explodes Open Access myths > > Open Access is good news for UK research funding > > "A switch to Open Access would not negatively impact research funding," > BioMed Central declared today. The Open Access publisher issued a strong > rebuttal of arguments that have been submitted by opponents of Open > Access to the ongoing UK House of Commons Select Committee inquiry into > scientific publishing. > > In Open Access Myths, a statement released today, BioMed Central > counters claims that Open Access publishing would cut into research > funding, asserting: > > "The vastly increased access to research that is delivered by Open > Access will greatly increase the effectiveness of the research money > that is spent." > > The statement continues: > > "Open Access publishers are leading the way in using web technology to > reduce costs further, so the cost of Open Access publishing to the > scientific community will be significantly less than the cost of the > system that it replaces." > > Open Access publishing, which makes all original research articles > freely available to anyone, has been a major focus of the Government > inquiry. > > Today's statement from BioMed Central responds to each of the major > "anti-Open Access" arguments made during the course of the inquiry so > far. > > "We felt it was important, at this stage when many people are hearing > about Open Access for the first time, to dispel some of these myths," > says Jan Velterop, BioMed Central's Publisher. > > Other myths dispelled in the document include: "transferring copyright > to a publisher protects scientific integrity"; "UK researchers already > have all the access they need"; "industry will benefit from Open Access > at the expense of research institutes"; and "the public would be > confused if they had access to medical research". > > The BioMed Central statement appears on a new web page, also launched > today, which brings together links to all the publicly accessible > evidence that has been submitted to the Select Committee, together with > the uncorrected transcripts of the oral evidence sessions. This web page > will be continually updated as the inquiry proceeds, providing a central > resource for information relating to the inquiry. > > The site includes links to evidence from both Open Access's supporters > and its detractors. "We want people to read all of the arguments about > Open Access - both for and against," says BioMed Central Publisher Jan > Velterop. "We firmly believe that we have convincing arguments to > counter the objections to Open Access. We want to have an open debate." > > END > > The BioMed Central statement is available at: > > http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/inquiry/myths.pdf > > The BioMed Central inquiry website is available at: > > http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/inquiry/ > > For more information, please contact Grace Baynes. > press(a)biomedcentral.com > Tel: +44 (0) 20 7631 9988 > > About BioMed Central: > > BioMed Central (www.biomedcentral.com) is an independent online > publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to the > peer-reviewed biological and medical research it publishes. This > commitment is based on the view that open access to research is > essential to the rapid and efficient communication of science. In > addition to open-access original research, BioMed Central also publishes > reviews and other subscription-based content.

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Fwd: Manlibnet 6th National Convention
by Mailing List Manager 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:56:12 +0530 From: Jitender Sharma <jsharma(a)niilm.com> 6th MANLIBNET NATIONAL CONVENTION ON Information Services in Management and Business Libraries : Recent Trends May 12-14 2004 Mumbai In Collaboration with Indian Council of Social Science Research Western Regional Centre J P Naik Bhavan, Vidyanagari Kalina, Mumbai 400098 6th National MANLIBNET Convention is to be held at Western Regional Centre, Indian Council of Social Science Research, ICSSR, Mumbai from May 12-14, 2004. The main theme will be Information Services in Management and Business Libraries : Recent Trends. The sub-themes of the convention are : - Databases for Management and Business Libraries : Users view point. - Internet Based Resources for the Librarians - Information Services : Case Studies - Networking and Consortia Approach : Plans and Programmes. Submission of Papers Participants are welcome to submit original unpublished papers preferably based on practical experience or research for presentation at the convention. The length of the paper should not exceed 4000 words. Two copies of the paper should be submitted in A4 size with a soft copy in 1.44MB floppy using MS Word latest by 15th April 2004. Articles can also be submitted by email at: manlibnet2004(a)yahoo.co.in Title page of the paper should contain the name of the author, title of the paper, designation and official address of the author (including telephone number and E-mail address); and an abstract of the paper in about 200 words. Authors are requested to prepare a power point or Over Head Projector presentation for the convention. The authors will be communicated about the acceptance of the paper by the Organising Secretary. Authors are expected to come well prepared to present the paper. Papers are to be sent to : The General Secretary, MANLIBNET, B-2/B-223, Janakpuri, New Delhi-110058 Registration / Delegation Fee Without Accommodation Rs.1000 With Accommodation Rs.1750 Accommodation will be provided in the guest house and the hostel of Western Regional Centre of the ICSSR. Since the number of rooms in the guest house / hostel is limited, it may not be possible to provide accommodation to all the outstation participants. As such, prospective delegates are requested to send their registration fee well in advance so that accommodation can be reserved for them. Completed Registration Forms with all necessary details should be sent to the General Secretary, MANLIBNET, B-2/B-223, Janakpuri, New Delhi-110058 alongwith a demand draft for Rs.1000 or Rs.1750 in favour of Management Libraries Network, payable at Delhi / New Delhi Jitender Sharma Librarian NIILM CMS & UNIVERSITY B-II/66, MCIE, Sher Shah Suri Marg Badarpur, New Delhi - 110044 Tel: 91-011-29891529/39, 29893143 (Dir.) Fax: 91-011-29894212 E-mail: jsharma(a)niilm.com, jitendersharma(a)hotmail.com

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Forwarded mail....
by Mailing List Manager 22 Mar '04

22 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:45:57 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: [The following has been posted by the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development on March 19, 2004, to the Health Information Forum sponsored by the WHO (HIF-net)] Recent messages have shown that the concept of Open Access is now beginning to be more widely understood and earlier misconceptions dispelled. We have responded individually to correspondents, but feel it would be helpful to provide further information to the general list. For some time, the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development has been promoting the importance of the open access movement for the strengthening of the science base in developing countries. The EPT web site (http://www.epublishingtrust.org) now contains much information on open access, particularly as it relates to developing countries. Additionally the Bioline International web site (http://www.bioline.org.br) contains the full text of some 28 journals published in developing countries, free to all. These journals contain much research of medical significance and so are of interest to this list. In order that developing countries are also part of the open access evolution, Bioline International has set up an Open Access Archive (bioline.utsc.utoronto.ca) specifically for developing country publishers. Much of the material on the main Bioline International site is now also archived in a way that is compatible with the open access search engines and so interoperable with the increasing numbers of Archives being established around the world. Institutional archiving was one of two routes recommended by the Soros-supported Budapest Open Access Initiative (1). As well as freeing research literature from the crippling toll-access situation, it also promotes the research output of all contributing institutes. The establishment of institutional archives in the developing countries ensures that their national research becomes mainstream and contributes on an equal footing to the global knowledge pool. It is important to understand that open access Institutional Archives contain already reviewed and published research papers. Quality is unaffected. Scientists can continue to publish in their preferred refereed journals, merely archiving the already published papers in their institutional archives, simultaneously or subsequently. Approaching 60% of publishers (including Nature publisher and Elsevier) allow simultaneous archiving to take place. The remainder seem likely to follow, or accept institutional archiving a few months after the primary publication. Publishers now recognise that this will not affect their sales - as has been clearly demonstrated by the physics communities' archive, http://arxiv.org, which has existed side by side with prestigious physics journals for more than 10 years now. >From the point of view of authors, it is already shown that the visibility and impact of open access published papers is greatly increased (2). This is the ultimate aim of scientific publishing and leads to the establishment of important research partnerships with fellow scientists in their field. The professional isolation felt by many scientists in developing countries is overcome. Open access archives can be established at almost no cost, or institutes may use an already-established archive. All software is free of charge and there is much technical help available to institutes (see below). This is therefore a highly appropriate route for developing country institutes to follow, and great strides are already being made. India is planning its second OA workshop and has a series of institute meetings planned (3); OA workshops are also planned this summer in Brasil and China to raise awareness and transfer technical support. The alternative BOAI route to open access is via the establishment of OA journals, the route followed by BioMedCentral, PubMedCentral and others. This route is likely to take longer to accomplish, but is making an important contribution to the freeing of research literature from unaffordable subscription charges. Again, quality of publications is firmly maintained. Attached, below, is a list of sites showing a) papers on OA developments, b) the growing international support for this endeavour, c) activities already underway in the developing world and technical information, such as access to the free software for the establishment of interoperable archives and a FAQ answering many common misunderstandings. The connectivity problem is gradually being overcome, as shown by the message from Najeeb Al-Shorbaji (shorbajin(a)emro.who.int) and it is important that developing countries are part of the information evolution now underway. The message from Dr.Vinod Scaria (drvinod(a)hotpop.com) shows how fast things are beginning to move and how the impact of OA publications is encouraging publishers, authors and their institutes. The problem of language (upieks(a)fetp.org) remains and should be the main focus of development once access problems are resolved. We hope the following links are of value to list readers. If further information or help is required, please contact us. Barbara Kirsop, EPT Secretariat, UK, barbara(a)biostrat.demon.co.uk Leslie Chan, Trustee EPT, Bioline International, Canada, chan(a)utsc.utoronto.ca Subbiah Arunachalam, Trustee EPT, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, India arun(a)mssrf.res.in (1). Soros Budapest Open Access Initiative http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ (2). S. Lawrence paper in Nature, 411(6387):521, 2002 'Free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact' http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/papers/online-nature01/ (3) 'India's march towards open access', Subbiah Arunachalam, recent SciDevNet paper http://www.scidev.net/Opinions/index.cfm?fuseaction=readOpinions&itemid=243& language=1 a) SOME INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS TO THE OPEN ACCESS MOVEMENT World Summit for the Information Society Declaration of Principles 3,28 and Plan of Action C3i and 22d http://www.wsis.org Wellcome Trust Statement of Support for OA http://www.wellcome.ac.uk Berlin Declaration (signed by many research institutes in Germany, France and other EU countries) http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html American Research Libraries, SPARC statement and guidelines http://www.arl.org/sparc/ b) DEVELOPING COUNTRY OA INITIATIVES AND PAPERS Bioline International main web site (Brazil/Canada non-profit initiative in support of developing country publishers) http://www.bioline.org.br Indian Institute of Science OA server http://www.iisc.ernet.in/ Bangalore OA workshop 2003 http://www.ias.ac.in/epubworkshop/curriculum.html L Chan, B Kirsop, 'Impact of OA on developing country science', Ariadne, 30, 2001 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue30/oai-chan Open Access Now Interview of Subbiah Arunachalam http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/archive/?page=features&issue=11 c) FREE OA DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE AND SUPPORT SERVICES OA archives information and support http://www.eprints.org Frequently Asked Question on OA http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ Handbook for setting up eprints servers http://www.eprints.org/handbook/ OAIster search service http://www.oaister.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.curl.ac.uk/about/isca.html

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RE: [BOAI] Workshop on Open Access
by Mailing List Manager 22 Mar '04

22 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:24:34 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Thanks very much Peter. I do not know how many subscribers are there in India for BOAI Forum. I request them to spread the word. We are keen to get participants from higher educational institutions (general universities, especially central universities and the larger state universities; agricultural universities; larger medical institutions; IITs) and government research institutions (CSIR, ICAR, ICMR, DAE, DST, Dept of Space, DRDO, etc.). In particular institutions publishing more than a few hundred papers a year are most welcome to nominate candidates. Regards. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] -----Original Message----- From: Peter Suber [mailto:peters@earlham.edu] Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 11:01 PM To: boai-forum(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk Subject: [BOAI] Workshop on Open Access M S SWAMINATHAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION Third Cross Street, Taramani Instituional Area, Chennai 600 113 Tel: 044 2254 1229, 2254 2791 Fax: 044 2254 1319 Workshop on Open Access Overview All scientists need to publish their findings. Indeed, research is incomplete as long as it remains unpublished. The last few years have witnessed the unprecedented rise in the subscription costs of journals and even well-endowed institutions in rich countries find it difficult to retain journal subscriptions. The situation in developing countries like India is even worse. Besides, others in the rest of the world do not really read much of the work that we do in India. What is more, if our scientists publish their papers in expensive journals, then even other Indian scientists do not read them, as not many Indian institutions may subscribe to those journals. It is for this reason that the open access (OA) movement is gaining ground around the world - both in the advanced countries and in the developing countries. Indeed, OA will be of much greater advantage to India than to the western countries. Physicists have been placing their preprints and postprints for well over 13 years in a centralized archive called arXiv, which has more than 15 mirror sites including one located in India (Matscience, Chennai). There are several other centralized archives such as Cogprints (for cognitive sciences), CiteSeer (for computer science) and RePEc (for economics). Currently, institutional archives are favoured, as they work to satisfy the felt needs of both individual scientists and their institutions. There are at least three sets of software available, all of them free, to set up such interoperable institutional archives. This workshop aims to help Indian scientists (representing general and agricultural universities and government laboratories under the various councils and departments) to acquire the skills necessary to be able to set up and maintain institutional open archives. This workshop will provide training in Eprints software developed at the University of Southampton and the Open Archives Interoperability protocol. There is great interest in open access around the world. In the USA, Congressman Martin Sabo has introduced a bill suggesting that findings of all publicly funded research must be made freely available to all. In the UK, the Parliament has appointed a committee to inquire current and potentially useful practices in science publishing. Several discussion lists are actively promoting exchange of views on open access. The Budapest Open Access Initiative is providing funds to promote open access initiatives. In India, INSA devoted a whole day for a seminar on open access at its annual meeting held at NCL, Pune, in late December 2003. Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, held two workshops on open access journals in March 2002. The Workshop On a suggestion from Prof. M S Valiathan, President of the Indian National Science Academy, the Bioinformatics Centre of the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation will be holding two identical three-day workshops with a view to developing a cadre of open access experts in Indian higher educational institutions and government laboratories. We expect that before the end of the year at least a dozen institutions will have their own institutional archives up and running. There will be 20-24 participants in each workshop. Each participant and the faculty will have an Internet-connected computer on his/her desk. Dates: 2-4 May 2004 and 6-8 May 2004 Venue: M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Sambasivan Auditorium The Faculty: The workshop will be conducted by the following four experts, known for their commitment to promoting this technology worldwide: Prof. Leslie Chan of the University of Toronto and Bioline International, Dr Leslie Carr of the University of Southampton, Dr D K Sahu of MedKnow Publications, Mumbai, and Dr T B Rajashekar of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. All of them have considerable hands-on experience in open access. Participants: Higher educational institutions and government research laboratories (under the different Councils and Departments) may nominate candidates in the prescribed form. [Heads of these institutions may kindly ensure that an institutional archive is set up within three months after the conclusion of the workshop]. 4048 candidates will be selected. Participants will either be scientists or be librarians. The important thing is they should be computer savvy and committed to the cause of open access and be able to persuade scientists (faculty and students) in their respective institutions to place their research papers in the archives. Guest speakers: We are inviting Prof. M S Swaminathan, Prof. M S Valiathan, Dr R A Mashelkar and Prof. P Balaram to give guest lectures (on how they, as working scientists, view open access). Two of them will address the participants of the first workshop and the other two the second workshop. Workshop Coordinator: Subbiah Arunachalam, Distinguished Fellow, MSSRF, Chennai. His email address is <arun(a)mssrf.res.in>. Mr S Senthilkumaran and colleagues from the Informatics Division and Ms R V Bhavani of MSSRF will provide technical and managerial support for the event. Nominations of participants may please be sent to Mr S Senthilkumaran, Associate Director, Informatics, MSSRF, Chennai 600 113, India. His email address is <senthil(a)mssrf.res.in>. All participants will be provided guesthouse accommodation and all meals. A few travel grants (First class or Second A/C class by Express train) will be made available, depending on funds available. Some Relevant Documents The Bethesda Statement http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm> Wellcome Trust, "Scientific Publishing: A Position Statement by the Wellcome Trust in Support of Open Access Publishing," http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/awtvispolpub.html <http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/awtvispolpub.html> Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html <http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html> Subbiah Arunachalam: India's march towards open access http://www.scidev.net/Opinions/index.cfm?fuseaction=readOpinions <http://www.scidev.net/Opinions/index.cfm?fuseaction=readOpinions&itemid=243 &language=1> &itemid=243&language=1 M S SWAMINATHAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION Third Cross Street, Taramani Instituional Area, Chennai 600 113 Tel: 044 2254 1229, 2254 2791 Fax: 044 2254 1319 Workshop on Open Access Nomination Institution Name and Address: No. of papers from the Institution annually: Name of the candidate: Designation Date of birth: Qualification: Familiarity with Computers and Internet: Membership in Discussion Groups: Past experience in Electronic Publishing: Familiarity with Open Access: Preferred dates: 2-4 May (Workshop 1) / 6-8 May (Workshop 2) Travel grant: Needed / Not needed Date: Signature of the recommending authority: Signature of the candidate:

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Eprints software milestones and OA workshop
by Mailing List Manager 22 Mar '04

22 Mar '04

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:49:14 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here are the main Eprints milestones listed by Stevan Harnad in another list I subscribe to. Many lis-forum members may find this useful. Incidentally, participants of the three-day workshop on Open Access to be held at MSSRF, Chennai, in the first week of May will get trained in the use of Eprints software. For more information on the workshop, please contact Mr S Senthilkumaran, Associate Director of Informatics, MSSRF, Chennai 600 113 <senthil(a)mssrf.res.in>. Arun --------- The GNU Eprints software itself, with Chris Gutteridge's continuous upgrades incorporating features requested by the user community <http://software.eprints.org/> Eprints runs an Institutional Archives Registry (not just for Eprints Archives) <http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php> It currently lists 143 archives (11 of them Dspace, 123 of them Eprints) Please come and register your Archives too! Eprints has also created an Eprints Handbook (funded by the Open Society Institute) to help universities create OAI Archives and to develop procedures and policies for filling them: <http://software.eprints.org/handbook/> Eprints also created and hosts the BOAI self-archiving FAQ: <http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/> as well as the BOAI Forum <http://www.eprints.org/boaiforum.php> Eprints's Steve Hitchcock and other Eprints staff and students have generated the many OpCit projects and papers on citation linking and analysis, self-archiving users surveys, etc. <http://opcit.eprints.org/> Eprints' Tim Brody's citebase <http://citebase.eprints.org/> is a citation-link-based "google" for the OA literature, ranking papers and authors by citation impact or download impact. The download/citation correlator/predictor can also predict eventual citations from today's downloads: <http://citebase.eprints.org/analysis/correlation.php> Eprints deposited in Eprints accordingly focus on the article's reference lists and citation linking. Mike Jewell has created paracite which seeks the full-text of cited articles on the web. <http://paracite.eprints.org/> Eprints has also developed models for university self-archiving policy that universities can consider adopting along with the Eprints software: <http://software.eprints.org/handbook/departments.php> as well as the model Tardis project <http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19prog.html> Eprints's Mike Jewell has also created a standardized OAI CV that universities and research funders can use in research evaluation and performance assessment: <http://paracite.eprints.org/cgi-bin/rae_front.cgi> <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/harnad/> Eprints's Tim Brody has also created Celestial, a software that harvests metadata from OAI-compliant repositories and re-exposes that metadata to other services <http://celestial.eprints.org/> as well as an oai-perl library <http://oai-perl.sourceforge.net/> Eprints staff have contributed to many conferences and workshops to promote self-archiving in general (and Eprints in particular), e.g.: <http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19prog.html> Eprints runs three mailing lists for users: EP-General, EP-Tech and EP-Underground <http://software.eprints.org/maillist.php> as well as a demonstration server in which potential adopters can try out the features of Eprints: <http://software.eprints.org/demo.php> Eprints provides powerpoints to be used for the promotion of self-archiving and Open Access Provision: <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/openaccess.ppt> Eprints is conducting an extensive series of digitometric studies to measure and document the dramatic degree to which open access enhances research impact: <http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/brody-impact.pdf> Eprints is also one of the cornerstones of the ePrints-UK Project: <http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/> as well as a contributor to the JISC Romeo Project (on publishers' policies on author self-archiving) <http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/> Stevan Harnad

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Opening for Aditya Birla Group
by Mailing List Manager 22 Mar '04

22 Mar '04

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 12:42:55 +0530 From: Shivanand <Shivu_murgod(a)hotmail.com> sorry for cross posting- Dear friends, Their is an opening in Aditya Birla Group as Research Information Specialist for Birla Management Corp. Ltd, Mumbai. They are looking for candidates who must be having science (physics/chemistry) or engineering background and proficient in . a.. Create and maintain Technical and Scientific Knowledge Bass for the Corporate Technology Strategy and Services Cell of the Aditya Birla Group. b.. Conduct specialized searches for technical and scientific information c.. Create special reports for Senior Management and select customers d.. Scientific searching on the internet and with specialized services e.. Documentation management f.. Patent searches g.. Good proficiency with computers for search and document management. Experience with following computer applications - Word, Excel, Power Point and Internet tools must posses 3 year hands-on in related field. for more details: visit: http://impact-in.jobstreet.com/Jobs/jobdesc.asp?eid=6211569&jid=186776&did=… Shivanand Gyanodaya Aditya Birla Group

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FW: From Madhan: Eldis document abstract
by Mailing List Manager 19 Mar '04

19 Mar '04

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:13:23 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: For those of you interested in building national agricultural information systems, here is an interesting report. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] FERTILE GROUND : OPPORTUNITIES FOR GREATER COHERENCE IN AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS Besemer, H.; Addison, C.; Ferguson, J. International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) (2003) This study examines the current landscape of Internet-based agricultural information services, to identify gaps and inconsistancies, and to suggest avenues for bringing greater coherence to the system as a whole. As the number of ICT-enabled information services increases, the intended user risks being swamped with possibilities to address his or her information needs. The challenge faced by donor-supported agricultural information services is to make it easier for those who need information to find what they are looking for by working together to build a more coherent total system. This report looks at the issue of coherence among agricultural information services from three perspectives: * Service providers: institutions providing development- oriented information services in the agriculture sector * Agriculture stakeholders in the South: information workers addressing the needs of the main clients for the services provided, such as extension workers, researchers and policymakers * Donors: providing financial support to many of the major agricultural information services and systems. <P>What emerges is a picture of an overall system in which there are striking gaps, areas of inefficiency, and duplications, as well as a certain mismatch between the information needs of the South and what is being provided by the current donor-supported services. To address these issues, the authors suggest both practical and policy-oriented actions that all three stakeholder groups can take to ensure a more coherent approach to matching supply and demand. Technical options for ensuring greater flexibility in mixing and matching information from different sources are explored in some detail. The survey and analysis as well as the recommendations presented in this report were verified in a stakeholder workshop hosted by the United Kingdom Department for International Development in London, June 2003. [author] TO SEE THIS DOCUMENT, PLEASE GO TO: http://www.ftpiicd.org/files/research/reports/report19.pdf

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Training Workshop in Digital Libraries-April 5-7-University of Mysore 2004
by Mailing List Manager 18 Mar '04

18 Mar '04

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:24:30 +0530 From: Shalini .R .Urs <shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in> Vidyanidhi Training Workshop in Digital Libraries and E-publishing, April 5-7, 2004, University of Mysore, Mysore The Vidyanidhi Digital Library Initiative, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, is organizing a three day Training Workshop on Digital Libraries and E-Publishing from April 5-7, 2004 This Program is intended to train LIS professionals in the basics of digital library technologies and building digital libraries with an emphasis on imparting hands on experience. This Program is limited to 20 participants only. The selection will be on first come - first serve basis. The selected candidates would be paid second class Train fare and accommodation is arranged by the organizers. Those interested may contact the undersigned: Dr. Shalini R. Urs Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Mysore- 570006 Phone: 0821-2514699 FAX: 0821-2519209 Email : shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in

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Temporary staffing statistics
by Mailing List Manager 18 Mar '04

18 Mar '04

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:46:36 +0530 From: Aman Jha <aman.jha(a)ciionline.org> Dear friends Any information about any reports/books on temporary staffing statistics = in India??? Thanks and regards, Aman Jha CII

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Indian Journal of Medical Research
by Mailing List Manager 18 Mar '04

18 Mar '04

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:56:22 +0530 From: Ratnakar Aspari <aspari_r(a)hotmail.com> Starting from January 2004 issue the Indian Journal of Medical Research (published by the Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi) is available FULL TEXT ONLINE FREE. It can be accessed at http://icmr.nic.in/ijmr/ijmr.htm A. Ratnakar New Delhi

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New and Old Articles About Innovative Information Systems
by Mailing List Manager 18 Mar '04

18 Mar '04

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:47:47 -0600 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> _New and Old Articles About Innovative Information Systems_ I am pleased to announce the publication and availability of self-archived copies of two of my SCI-5 columns devoted to Innovative Information Systems: "New Age E-Journals, Indexes, and Services," Science & Technology Libraries, Vol. 21, No. 3/4, 2001 [2003], pp. 223-233. [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/EJIS.pdf] "Scholar-Based Initiatives in Publishing," Science & Technology Libraries, Vol. 22, No. 3/4, 2002 [2003], pp. 181-191 [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/SBI.pdf ] **************************************************************************** I am also pleased to announce the availability of self-archived copies of previously published articles that profile other Innovative Information Systems, etc: "eCONF: The SLAC Electronic Conference Proceedings Archive," Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 18 No. 5, 2001, pp. 16-23. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/eCONF.pdf ABSTRACT To promote the publication and expedite the availability of conference proceedings, an experimental archive titled eConf has been established under the auspices of the SLAC Technical Information Services department. At this time, the eConf archive is limited to proceedings in high-energy physics and related fields. The archive presently contains the conference papers of two proceedings: the 19th International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies (LP 99) and 20th International Linac Conference. http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/ **************************************************************************** "EnergyFiles: The Virtual Library of Energy Science and Technology," Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 20, No. 1, January/February 2003, 30-36. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/EnergyFiles.pdf ABSTRACT The targeted audience for EnergyFiles is end users and organizations having a need for energy-related scientific and technical information. Anticipated primary users include researchers, scientists, project managers, program, managers, academic (educators and students), and associated information professionals. NOTE: Review of previous version of interface and system http://www.osti.gov/EnergyFiles/ ************************************************************************** "Library Database Advisors - Emerging Innovative Augmented Digital Library Services," Library Hi Tech News Vol. 19, No. 4, May 2002, pp. 27-33. "Why should we make our users hunt down the best resource for a given information need and learn how to use its particular options for searching? Why not provide them with a simple way to get started?" || Roy Tennant || http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/LDBA.pdf **************************************************************************** "Web-based Journal Manuscript Management and Peer-Review Systems and Services," Library Hi Tech News Vol. 19, No. 7, August 2002, pp. 31-43. "* [A] paperless system would significantly reduce delays in all aspects of the dissemination cycle. The composition process itself should be speeded up and so should the whole interaction among writers, publishers, and referees." || F. W. Lancaster || [Lancaster, F.W., Toward Paperless Information Systems ( Academic Press: New York, NY, 1978), 127.] http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/PeerSoft.pdf **************************************************************************** And BTW: For the Irish amongst us, as well as those who wish they were [:-)]: Happy St. Patrick's Day! Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan New and Old Irish Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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NATIONAL SEMINAR ON LIBRARY CONSORTIA- INAGURAL & VALEDICTORY INVITATION
by Mailing List Manager 17 Mar '04

17 Mar '04

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:46:22 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> THE DEPT. OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE, OSMANIA UNIVERSITY, HYDERABAD-500 007 and INDIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, DELHI Cordially invite you to attend the Inaugural Function of the NATIONAL SEMINAR ON LIBRARY CONSORTIA on Monday, the 22nd March, 2004 at 10.00 a.m. at ICSSR Conference Hall, OU Library Building, Hyderabad Mr. PAWAN AGARWAL, IAS (Financial Advisor, UGC, New Delhi) has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest and will inaugurate the Seminar PROF. J. ANANTHA SWAMY (Vice-Chancellor, Osmania University) has kindly consented to Preside over the function and release the Conference Volume Mr. N. V. SATYANARAYANA (Chairman & MD, Informatics India Ltd., Bangalore) has kindly agreed to deliver the Keynote Address Dr. E. RAMA REDDY (University Librarian, University of Hyderabad) has agreed to act as the Seminar Director PROF.N.LAXMAN RAO DR.J.YADAGIRI REDDY Dr.S.SUDARSHAN RAO Chairman, Organizing Secretary Joint Organizing Organizing Committee & Head, DLIS, OU Secretary ----------------------------------------------------------- THE DEPT. OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE, OSMANIA UNIVERSITY, HYDERABAD- 500 007 and INDIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, DELHI Cordially invite you to attend the Valedictory Function of the NATIONAL SEMINAR ON LIBRARY CONSORTIA on Tuesday, the 23rd March, 2004 at 3.00 p.m. at ICSSR Conference Hall, OU Library Building, Hyderabad PROF. M. MUTHA REDDY (Registrar, Osmania University) has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest PROF. M. VENKATESHWAR (Principal, Univ. College of Arts & Social Sciences & Member, Executive Council, O.U.) has kindly agreed to preside over the function PROF. C. R. KARISIDDAPPA (Chairman, DLIS, Karnataka University, Dharwad President, Indian Library Association) has agreed to deliver the Valedictory Address PROF.N.LAXMAN RAO DR.J.YADAGIRI REDDY DR.S.SUDARSHAN RAO Chairman, Organizing Secretary Joint Organizing Committee & Head,DLIS,OU Organizing Secretary ===== Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 040-56547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com ___________________________________________________________ How much mail storage do you get for free? Yahoo! Mail gives you 6MB! Get Yahoo! Mail http://uk.mail.yahoo.com

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fw: ICIM2005 at Mumbai February 21-25, 2005
by JK Vijayakumar 16 Mar '04

16 Mar '04

Sorry for cross postings! More details available at conference Website http://www.icim2005.org/ Indian Association of Special Libraries and Inform ation Centres (IASLIC) will be hosting International Conference on Information Management in a Knowledge Society (ICIM-2005) to commemorate its GOLDEN JUBILEE celebrations at Grand Hyatt, Mumbai (Bombay), February 21-25, 2005 Website http://www.icim2005.org/ Objectives The objective of the conference is to juxtapose knowledge construction and development through various information management processes and then associated technologies. The conference will provide a platform for bringing to the fore local and global initiatives in this area encompassing research as well as practical applications. This interaction is expected to create understanding of the needs of the various players in the creation of knowledge. Call for Papers Theme : Information Management in a Knowledge Society ICIM 2005 invites original papers and case studies on various facets of the conference theme, as listed here. Knowledge Society � Leveraging Information for Knowledge � Characteristics of Knowledge Society - e-governance, e-learning, etc. � Virtual Communities � Digital Divide � Triangle of Knowledge Society: Freedom, Censorship and Security � IPR and Cyber Laws � Policy Support : National, Regional and Institutional Levels � Technological Support : NII (National Information Infrastructure) Internet, www, etc. � Institutional Infrastructure : Information Centres and Depositories including HRD. Information Management � Organization of Traditional and Electronic Resources Cataloguing, Metadata, XML, Dublin Core, Web Cataloguing, etc. Architecture, Ontologies, Natural Language Processing, Intelligent Mediators, etc. � Resource Discovery Tools - Search Engines, Directories, Semantic Web, Intelligent Retrieval, Multi and Cross Lingual Retrieval, Information Audit, etc. Knowledge Management � Knowledge Assets � Knowledge Sharing in Organizations : Models and Mechanisms � Organizational Learning � Knowledge Initiatives in Corporate, Govt, Academic & Voluntary Sectors. � Information Mapping : Data Mining, Data Warehousing, etc. � Technological Tools : Intranets, Extranets, CSCW, etc. Digital Libraries: Design & Usability � New Technologies and Adaptability � Digital Library Development: Technical Issues � Content Management and Structuring � Web Design and Interfaces � Digital Preservation � Digital Resource Sharing & Networking: Consortia, Open Archives, etc. Guidelines for Paper Submission Abstract of not more than 300 words to be submitted by June 30, 2004. Acceptance will be confirmed by July 31, 2004. Full paper to be submitted by October 31, 2004. Submission has to be in MS Word format, Times New Roman 12 points font. Subheadings should be bold, not underlined. Bibliographic references should be given at the end of the article under the heading Reference. All papers must be original and after acceptance IASLIC will hold the copyright. A committee of experts will review all contributions and their choice will be final. On the recommendation of the expert committee some papers will be chosen for presentation at the Conference. The remaining selected papers will be displayed during the Poster Sessions. All accepted papers will be presented in the Conference Proceedings which will be distributed at the Conference. Registration The registration fee covers the conference kit, conference proceedings, lunches, inaugural dinner and teas. It does not include the other meals and accommodation. Registration Fee Delegates Tutorial Conference Conference & Tutorial India & SAARC Countries Rs. 1500 Rs. 6000 Rs. 7500 Concessional Charges** Rs. 1500 Rs. 5000 Rs. 6500 Foreign US$ 100 US$ 300 US$ 400 An early bird incentive of US$ 50 will be allowed for registration made before June 30, 2004 for foreign delegates and for Indian and SAARC countries delegates 10% on the conference fee for registration made upto October 31, 2004. ** For students, Retired Library Science Professionals and IASLIC Members. Registration Confirmation Confirmation of registration will be sent upon receipt of the completed registration form and payment. Cancellation & Substitution Policy No cancellation or refund will be possible after a firm registration has been made. However, substitutions may be made. Please indicate the name & other necessary details, of the delegate who will replace the original registrant by December 31, 2004 Important Dates June 30, 2004 Last day for early bird incentive of $50 to foreign delegates. Last day for abstract submission October 31, 2004 Last day for 10% concession to Indian and SAARC country delegates Last day for full paper submission. Organising Committee Chairman Dr. D Kamalavijayan General Manager & Chief Librarian Reserve Bank of India Central Office Mumbai - 400 001 Tel.: 022 - 2265 5127 Fax : 022 - 2265 4993 E-mail : kamalavijayan(a)hotmail.com Convener Mr. Dharmendra Sachan Chief Learning Officer Bank of Baroda Baroda Corporate Centre C-26, G-Block, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra (E), Mumbai - 400 051. Tel.: 022 - 5698 5202 E-mail : clo.bcc(a)bankofbaroda.com Members Prof. Harsha Parekh Prof. Vijaya Rajhansa Dr. Bharati Sen Dr. Vijai Kumar Dr. D Jotwani Dr. Ramesh Gaur Mr. M B Meshram Dr. S K Savanur Mr. Girish Kunkur Ms. Usha Sunil Mr. D D Mistry Dr. Medha Joshi Prof. N R Satya Narayana Dr. A R D Prasad Prof. S B Ghosh Mr. Deepak Kumar Nag Dr. J N Satpathi Mr. T Ashok Babu International Programme Committee Prof. Marcia Bates (USA) Mr. Thomas H. Davenport (USA) Dr. Stephen Denning (World Bank) Dr. Foy Durrant (West Indies) Prof. Schubert Foo (Singapore) Dr. G.E. Gorman (New Zealand) Mr. Daniel Greenstein (USA) Prof. Susan Hockey (UK) Dr. Sjoerd Koopman (IFLA) Dr. Gail Macmillan (USA) Prof. Donald Marchand (Switzerland) Prof. Gary Marchionini (USA) Dr. Alan D. Marwick (USA) Mr. Danny O'Hare (USA) Mr. Axel Plathe (France) Mr. Larry Prusak (USA) Prof. Raj Reddy (USA) Ms. Pamela Samuelson (USA) Dr. Hussain Suleman (South Africa) Dr. Bob Usherhood (UK) Mr. Stuart L. Weibel (USA) National Programme Committee Prof. N. Balakrishnan (IISc) Mr. Ganesh Natarajan (Zensar/CII) Dr. Ramesh Gaur (TIFR) Dr. S. B. Ghosh (IGNOU) (Co-Convr.) Dr. D. Kamalavijayan (RBI) Dr. Mohinder Singh (DESIDOC) Dr. T.A. V. Murthy (INFLIBNET) Mr. Deepak K. Nag (IASLIC) Prof. Harsha Parekh (SNDT) Dr. A. R. D. Prasad (DRTC) Dr. K. S. Raghavan(MU) Dr. T. B. Rajasekhar (IISc) Prof. V. P. Rajhansa(MU) Dr. S. Sadagopan (IIITB) Mr. B. P. Sanjay (IIMC) Prof. N. L. Sarda ( IITB ) Dr. N. R. Satyanarayana (LU) Dr. S. K. Savanur (WRIC) Dr. Bharati Sen (SNDT) (Convr.) Dr. Aditya Sood (CKSB) Mrs. M.Thenmozhi (IITC) More details available at conference Website http://www.icim2005.org/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com

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Urgent requirement of Lib. professionals
by Mailing List Manager 16 Mar '04

16 Mar '04

> From: "Pravakar Rath" <pkrath_99(a)hotmail.com> > Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 15:08:33 +0530 > > > All those who are interested to apply may contact Rajender Singh Aswal > immediately. > Requirement: 1 Project co-ordinator for National Library and 20 Lib. Professional in different languages ie Arabic, Sanskrit, Punjabi and Hindi etc. Qualification: Master Degree in Library and information Science (MLIS),Knowledge of Cataloging in AACR II(Rev.), Classification in DDC 21st edition and Library of Congress Subject Heading in latest edition. Period of Project: 2 years, it may be extended. Location of Project: Anywhere in India but at present we need for National Library, Kolkatta and Central Institute of Indian Languages, Maysore. Salary: Minimum 4,000/- Others: 2 days training will be provided in MARC 21 Cataloguing format. Co. will provide only lodging for outside candidates. For Project coordinator at least 20 years experience. Retired librarian may be considered. Salary may be negotiable. ------------------------------------- For VTLS Software Private Ltd. B-219, Sector- 26, Noida Rajendra Singh Aswal Asst. Manager (Lib & Inf. Services) Tel. Office: +91-120-254 4235, 253 2689 Mobile: 9811295261 E-Mail: rs_aswal(a)hotmail.com ------------------------------------

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FW: Health CD-ROM Exhibition in Senegal
by Mailing List Manager 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:32:50 +0000 From: Tomas Allen <tomasallen(a)hotmail.com> Please forgive any cross postings, Tomas Dear partner, The Senegalese Chapter of the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA, http://www.ahila.org ) is organising a Health CD-ROM Exhibition at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Dakar, on April 29th this year. We invite you to provide copies of your health CD-ROMs for this occasion. Why are we holding a CD-ROM Exhibition? Internet connectivity is a problem for medical teachers, students and healthcare workers in our country, and we feel that health-related CD-ROMs should be available in all health resource centres to help respond to relevant health information needs. INASP-Health recently held an international health CD-ROM exhibition in London (see http://www.inasp.info/health/workshop32/cdroms.html) and this inspired us to do something similar in Senegal. The exhibition will help to share what we already have in Senegal, and to raise awareness about other international CD-ROMs that health stakeholders can access. This day will be an opportunity to know who has got what and where in our network, and help us really identify the resources we have all together. All represented resource centres will have a stand to display their resources, a computer and LCD for demonstrations. To make the day attractive, we intend to distribute to participants and visitors free copies of health CD-ROMs and other products that health information producers and those involved in health information can give us. On receiving your donations of CD-ROMs, we will credit your organisation generously and acknowledge your support to health in the developing world. If you would like to donate or need more information please contact: Ibrahima Bob (organiser of the day) AHILA President BP 5270, Dakar-Fann Dakar, Senegal Tel: 221 824 83 38 Mob 221 653 83 96 Fax : 221 824 07 41 Email: bobibrahim(a)yahoo.com or ibrahima.bob(a)oneworld.net URL: http://www.ahila.org Yours sincerely Ibrahima Bob ===== Ibrahima Bob, Office and Information Manager Africa Consultants International (ACI) B.P. 5270, Dakar-Fann, SENEGAL Tel.:B +221 824.83.38 Mob.: +221 653.83.96 Fax: B +221 824.07.41 // eFax : + 801 740-9578 Web: http://www.acibaobab.org E-mail : bobibrahim(a)yahoo.com

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Forwarded mail....
by Mailing List Manager 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:58:45 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Two news items of interest. Particularly the second one. Till we set up our own interoperable institutional open archives in India, Indian researchers may use the Bioline archive. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Posted in Open Access news by Peter Suber Saturday 13 March http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_03_07_fosblogarchive.html#a107919034 278577568 <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_03_07_fosblogarchive.html> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_03_07_fosblogarchive.html#a107919603 009393812 <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_03_07_fosblogarchive.html> (1) More written testimony for the UK inquiry The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT) <http://www.epublishingtrust.org/> has put its written testimony for the UK inquiry online. <http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/bioline/STC.htm> (2) New Bioline eprint archive for developing country bioscience Bioline International <http://www.bioline.org.br/> has launched the Bioline International EPrints Repository <http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2004/March/13/local/stories/08loca l.htm> an open-access, OAI-compliant archive for bioscience, especially from developing countries.

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Maximising visibility of OA journal articles
by Mailing List Manager 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:53:52 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: How can we best alert would be readers to research papers published in journals and are free to access? Please read what a concerned American librarian has to say. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ---- When scholarly peer reviewed open access articles are imbedded in random issues or are random journal issues, there must be a means of systematically identifying them. If it is approaching 60% in some journals as Dr. Walker notes in his post, to the American Scientist Open Access Forum of yesterday, then the need for a standardized systems becomes critical. OPEN URL resolvers are a standard for navigation in many academic libraries-can we use them to send users to these articles-? Scientific World maintains a list of its open access articles. <http://www.thescientificworld.com/TSWPubs/Journal/openaccessarticles.asp> <<http://www.thescientificworld.com/TSWPubs/Journal/openaccessarticles.asp>> The free access 2004 issue of Nucleic Acids Research-annual database issue from OUP is noted on the journal's splash page at Highwire. The 2004 issues says free at each article, the 2003 issue which is also free, does not. The Entomological Society states "free pdf" on individual articles American Society of Limnology and Oceanography has an "unlocked" padlock icon. BMC has an icon on individual articles that says "free" . If author paid open access becomes standard, it can happen rapidly in fields that already have page charge and reprint traditions, then identification also must be standardized. OAI harvesters aren't currently sufficient. Some suggestions from talking with Dr. Herbert Van De Sompel of LANL: Publishers could expose these articles, with their data, to OAI harvesters which could feed the data to linking servers. He also suggested information could be included in a metadata tag, ie access=open (which could be used on an open URL) Other issues: Are these articles and issues also being deposited in OAI archives by publishers? Shouldn't they be? Is there some other unique identifying system that can be computed, reduced to a formula to be plugged into open url resolvers? I am not aware of a standard identifier for permanently free content in traditional journals? I assume individual publishers using unique marking systems internally-can those be used to configure resolvers? They will have something in their systems that says "free" How does that get guaranteed over time? What if publishers for a title change? Isn't that another reason to deposit these also in OAI systems? If users can't systematically identify which articles are free (my library bias) they will be underutilized, won't be identified as open access in standard sources (ISI or Compendex for instance) and could become orphaned. One of the 5 basic principles of librarianship from Ranganathan is: "Save the Time of the Reader." That is imperative. Free and easy and organized-predictable access all have to come together to guarantee that! Chuck Hamaker Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services Atkins Library University of North Carolina Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223 phone 704 687-2825

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OA and impact factor
by Mailing List Manager 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:42:44 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is Stevan Harnad's clear exposition of impact factor in the era of open access. Hope you find it interesting. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Rick Anderson asked: [I]sn't open access simply making the impact-factor data less meaningful? ...given two articles of equal merit and potential influence, one of which is freely available to the public and the other of which is only available to those who pay, wouldn't we expect that the impact of the former would be higher than that of the latter? And if so, how is the difference between those two impact factors meaningful or useful? Stevan Harnad's reply: The reason researchers publish their research ("publish or perish") rather than just putting it into a desk-drawer and moving on to do the next piece of research is so that it will be used, so that it makes a contribution to knowledge, so it makes a difference. This is research impact, of which citation counts are one correlate, hence predictor. Findings that cannot be accessed by all their would-be users are findings that cannot have their full potential research impact. The purpose of open access is to maximise the visibility, usage and hence the impact of research. To maximise the visibility, usage and impact of one's own research by providing open access to it is not to make the impact factor less meaningful or more meaningful. It is to maximize the impact of one's own research, just as publishing it at all was done in order to make it visible and usable, so the work can have its impact rather than remaining still-born, done in vain. Today, most journal articles are toll-access (TA), hence impact-limited, rather open-access (OA). How do we get there (universal OA) from here (restricted access)? By providing OA to one's own articles. Yes, of course, in the unlikely event that two articles are of exactly equal merit, and one is TA and the other OA, the OA article will have more users. That's the point! And the remedy for this momentary imbalance is that the OA should be provided for the other article too, and then access to both will be be maximized, and merit alone will again rule. The race is to the swift. Once all articles are OA, their impacts will all be rescaled upward, because all articles will have maximized impact. Until then, the OA article will have an extra edge over the TA article. Let that serve as another incentive to provide OA as swiftly as possible! A word about "journal impact factors," though: As David Goodman and Jean-Claude Guedon pointed out, these are merely average citation counts for the articles in a journal. That's a blunt instrument. The sharper instrument is the article's own citation count (and the author's, and the download count, which is an early-days measure, and highly correlated with, hence predictive of, later citation counts). <http://citebase.eprints.org/> <http://citebase.eprints.org/analysis/correlation.php> OA will not only give us a far richer array of impact indicators, but it will put the focus on the individual article's merit, rather than only on the average merit of the articles in the journal it was published in. (Do not, however, underestimate the predictive value of the journal name itself, for the journal is the peer-review service-provider, and its track record for the average quality of its articles is also an indicator of its acceptance standards. There are 24,000 journals, differing not only in field, but in peer-review standards and selectivity; there is usually a journal hierarchy of merit within each field. This filter is not to be sneezed at either.) Harnad, S., Carr, L., Brody, T. & Oppenheim, C. (2003) Mandated online RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives: Improving the UK Research Assessment Exercise whilst making it cheaper and easier. Ariadne 35 (April 2003). <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/harnad/> Harnad, Stevan (2003) Measuring and Maximising UK Research Impact. Times Higher Education Supplement. Friday, June 6 2003. <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/thes.html> Harnad, Stevan (2003) Maximising Research Impact Through Self-Archiving. <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/che.htm> Stevan Harnad NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004) is available at the American Scientist Open Access Forum: To join the Forum: <http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum. html> Post discussion to: american-scientist-open-access-forum(a)amsci.org </ym/Compose?To=american-scientist-open-access-forum(a)amsci.org&YY=77206&orde r=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b> Hypermail Archive: <http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html> Unified Dual Open-Access-Provision Policy: BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm> BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it. <http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/> <http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml> <http://www.eprints.org/signup/>

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RE: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 12, Issue 10
by Mailing List Manager 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:17:28 +0530 From: Jeetender "Vicky" Chandna <vicky(a)irft.org> Dr Krishnan Could you please return the hyperlink (in plain text)to the article sent in by you. Dear Friends In relation to fairness and giving us a chance to visit the originating, I sincerely hope that links to articles be posted on the discussion group rather than whole copying of the articles. Senders may make a critique on the topic and add a link to it, otherwise it does seem from the signature at the bottom of the article, that the sender has written the article. This is standard practice at most discussion groups around the world. Now, as an advocate of Open Source Policies, I personally believe that much has to be discussed and done in relation to open source in this corner of the world. Principally, I do not consider the moment to be a myth as indicated by the article. The amount of $1500 does seem to be inordinately high. Whatever amount is paid to the peer reviewers can be pooled by a common fund created by the whole world. Each nation paying a Open Source Tax (OST) with correlates to the GDP of that nation. Not only will such a revolution benefit mankind at large, but will also render information free from all fetters. Regards Jeetender "Vicky" Chandna Coordinator Information Systems ------------------------------------------ INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES FOR FAIRER TRADE Sona Udyog Industrial Estate Unit No.7, Parsi Panchayat Road Andheri (E), Mumbai 400069 INDIA ------------------------------------------ Tel: (91-22) 2835 2811 / 2823 5246 Fax: (91-22) 2823 5245 Email: vicky(a)irft.org Website: http://www.irft.org ------------------------------------------

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NewGenLib report in Hindu
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15 Mar '04

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:35:30 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> Dear professional friends, please look at new library management software namely NEW GENLIB. Mr Haravu is assoicated with this project and it is a product of Keshavan Institute (a social organisation). u may see the details of the software at www.newgenlib.com Even a report on NewGenLib appeared in 9 Mar 2004 The Hindu and the same report is also on the web. The url is: http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/03/09/stories/2004030916150300.htm Best regards. laxman rao ===== Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 040-56547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com

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Forwarded mail....
by Mailing List Manager 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 14:48:06 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Yahoo! is helping the cause of Open Access. Please read what Yahoo! and the University of Michigan are doing. I received this through another discussion list. Arun A repository of information that provides links to previously difficult-to-locate electronic scholarly resources is widely available under a new agreement between the University of Michigan and Yahoo! Inc. The repository -- developed through Michigan's University Library OAIster Project -- is now available through Yahoo!'s Content Acquisition Program (CAP) and accessible through Yahoo! Search. OAIster offers information that links to hidden digital resources such as the complete contents of books and articles, technical reports, preprints (unpublished works that have not yet been peer reviewed), white papers, images of paintings, movies and audio files of speeches. OAIster retrieves these elusive resources by tapping directly into the collections of a variety of institutions using harvesting technology based on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. The U-M's OAIster service provides access to over 3 million harvested records describing and pointing to these resources. Currently, the resources are created and hosted by 267 research libraries and institutions from around the world. Many of the scholarly collections included in OAIster were not previously indexed in popular Web search services and remained hidden from those who need the resources for their research. By enabling access through Yahoo!'s CAP program, these materials will be widely available to an international audience of scholars, students, researchers and enthusiasts. OAIster provides a direct link to an actual digital object-an image, book, document-not just a catalog or descriptive information. Examples of some of the collections currently available through OAIster include: the arXiv.org Eprint Archive (an archive of physics research); Carnegie Mellon University Informedia Public Domain Video Archive; Ethnologue: Languages of the World; Library of Congress American Memory Project; and Caltech Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory Technical Reports. CAP enables Yahoo! Search to expand the breadth and depth of content users can access. In addition to the OAIster project, other participants in CAP include National Public Radio, Northwestern University, the Library of Congress, The New York Public Library, Project Gutenberg, UCLA and the National Science Digital Library. For more information about Michigan's OAIster Project, visit <http://www.oaister.org>, or contact Katrina Hagedorn at khage(a)umich.edu. For more information about Yahoo! Search or the Content Acquisitions Program, contact Sumir Meghani of Yahoo! Inc. at sumir(a)yahoo-inc.com .You can view the press release at: <http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2004/Mar04/r031004> ------------------- Kat Hagedorn OAIster/Metadata Harvesting Librarian DLXS Bibliographic Class Coordinator DLXS Text Class Co-coordinator Digital Library Production Service University of Michigan <http://www.oaister.org/> <http://www.dlxs.org/> email: khage(a)umich.edu

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