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by SRELS 24 May '03

24 May '03

Dear Sir/Madam : Please arrange to announce the following special lecture programme to the lis-forum members. Sincerely, K.N. Prasad Office of the Public Affairs U.S. Consulate General for South India in association with Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science and National Center for Science Information Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Cordially invite you to a Seminar On Creating Web-based LibraryResources in Women's Studies by Dr. Phyllis Holman Weisbard Women's Studies Librarian, University of Wisconsin System, Madison, USA. and Dr. R. Poornima Editor, Udayavani, Bangalore On Tuesday, May 27, 2003 from 10:30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Venue: National Center for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012 RSVP: Tel: 3305109 Email: srels(a)vsnl.com LUNCH: 12.45 PM

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invitation
by SRELS 24 May '03

24 May '03

Dear Sir/Madam : Please arrange to announce the following special lecture programme to the lis-forum members. Sincerely, K.N. Prasad ________ Office of the Public Affairs U.S. Consulate General for South India in association with Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science and The Mythic Society, Bangalore Cordially invites you to attend a Special Lecture on DEVELOPMENT & GROWTH OF WOMEN'S STUDIES RESOURCE SERVICE by Dr. Phyllis Holmon Weisbard Women's Studies Librarian, University of Wiscosin System, Madison, USA. on May 27, 2003 at 6.00 pm at The Mythic Society, Opp. Reserve Bank of India, Nrupathunga Road, Bangalore 560 001. Tea at 5.30 pm

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Internet search tool with advanced management features
by ramshirish mamidala 23 May '03

23 May '03

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impact factor
by afsar bukhari 22 May '03

22 May '03

Dear friends, It is an interesting feature published in Nature magazine. Scientific papers that are not widely read and that lack any great influence can end up being classed as high-impact, claim researchers in California the full text is as follows Copied citations give impact factors a boost TOM CLARKE Scientific papers that are not widely read and that lack any great influence can end up being classed as high-impact, claim researchers in California. The mistake occurs because citations are often just copied from the reference list of one paper to another. A largely unremarkable or unread paper can therefore end up becoming highly cited, the researchers suggest. "Simple mathematical probability, not genius, can explain why some papers are cited a lot more than others," says Vwani Roychowdhury, an electrical engineer at the University of California, Los Angeles. The assertion hinges on a previous analysis by Roychowdhury and his colleague Mikhail Simkin. Last year, they tracked identical errors in reference lists citing a seminal 1973 paper and concluded that almost 80% of authors had not read the paper in question before citing it (see Nature 420, 594; 2002). The pair have now built on that finding to generate a mathematical model to predict citation levels. They tested their prediction in an analysis of about 24,000 articles from the journal Physical Review D stored on SPIRES, a database of high-energy physics papers. The database sorts papers into six categories according to the number of citations that they receive those receiving 500 or more are classed as 'renowned'. Roychowdhury and Simkin's model closely matched the real distribution of citations. In results posted on the arXiv preprint server, they predicted that 40 papers would be cited 500 times or more. In reality, 44 articles in Physical Review D are renowned. "If people cite randomly, the citation distribution would be the same as in reality," says Roychowdhury. Given that citation patterns are similar in other sciences besides physics, the outcome of the model should be similar for biology or engineering papers, he argues. The idea is "fascinating, unorthodox and inspiring", says bibliometrics expert Anthony van Raan of Leiden University in the Netherlands. But although van Raan's research also suggests that copying is rife, he believes that citations levels generally reflect a paper's true impact. Researchers tend to copy references rationally, rather than randomly, and do so from papers that they have read, he says. Ben Martin, director of the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, points out that the new model is important, even if it only partially reflects reality. "Citations are a surrogate for quality," he says. "Some departments look at these when making decisions in recruitment or tenure. Even if this is just a quirk, it's one that is worth airing." http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0305150 Happy reading warm regards Bukhari Librarian Shantha Biotechnics Pvt Ltd Medchal, Hyderabad. email:- bukhari_786(a)rediffmail.com quickinfo(a)rediffmail.com ___________________________________________________ Impress your clients! Send mail from me @ mycompany.com . Just Rs.1499/year. Click http://www.rediffmailpro.com to know more.

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Article request...:
by Nirupama Bawdekar 22 May '03

22 May '03

Dear Colleagues, One of our scientists is in need of the following reference not available with us. Article by S. Molau entitled : The AKM Video Meteor Network, page 315-318. which has been published in: Meteoroids 2001 : Proceedings of an international conference, Kiruna, --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sweden, August 6-10, 2001, European Space Agency- Special publication --------------------------------------------------------------------- edited by B. Warmbein. --------------------- I shall appreciate receiving a photocopy of the article. Please send the same on the following address: Mrs Nirupama Bawdekar S/T Officer-Library Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics Post Bag No. 4, Ganeshkhind Pune 411 007 India Sincerely, Mrs Nirupama Bawdekar S/T Officer-C, Library

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EinsteinEinsteinEinstein - Caltech Press Release
by Library 22 May '03

22 May '03

Dear everyone, This may interest you. Use updated versions of netscape or IE. Girija Srinivasan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raman Research Institute Library, Tel: +91 80 361 0122 C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Fax: +91 80 361 0492 Bangalore 560 080, India. Email: library(a)rri.res.in ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 09:16:46 -0500 From: Robert Michaelson <rmichael(a)northwestern.edu> To: PAMnet Discussion List <slapam-l(a)lists.yale.edu> Subject: Re: FYI: EinsteinEinsteinEinstein - Caltech Press Release / AMNH Symposium Just as an update to Jane's message, the Einstein Archive online is now up at <http://www.alberteinstein.info/> and it is beautifully done. There is an article in today's NY Times: <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/20/science/20EINS.html?ex=1054430676&ei=1&en…>. Bob Michaelson Northwestern University Library Evanston, Illinois 60208 USA rmichael(a)northwestern.edu At 06:53 PM 5/14/2003 -0400, Jane E Holmquist wrote: >For Immediate Release >May 14, 2003 > >Einstein Archives to Be Available Online > >PASADENA, Calif. -More than 900 scientific and nonscientific >documents of one of the most influential intellects in the modern >era, Albert Einstein, will soon be available online for the first >time. > >The Einstein Archives Online website, at >http://www.alberteinstein.info, will also be accompanied by an >extensive database of archival information. It will be launched on >May 19 during a daylong symposium on his life and work, to be held at >the American Museum of Natural History in New York. > >The new website is the result of an ambitious cooperative effort >between the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of >Jerusalem and the Einstein Papers Project at the California Institute >of Technology. It will enable access to some 3,000 high-quality >digitized images. Thirty-nine documents will also be provided (in PDF >format) as they appear in The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, >published in German by Princeton University Press, with historical >and scientific annotations in English; some of the documents are >accompanied by English translations. > >An extensive archival database and finding aid will allow for the >direct searching and browsing of more than 40,000 records of Einstein >and Einstein-related documents. These concern his scientific and >nonscientific writings, his professional and personal correspondence, >notebooks, travel diaries, personal documents, and third-party items. > >The website was developed in collaboration with the Information >Technology and Photo-Reprography Departments of the Hebrew >University's Jewish National & University Library (JNUL), the David >and Fela Shapell Digitization Project at the JNUL, and with Princeton >University Press. The archival database will present records for all >items that have been edited and annotated by scholars, and that have >appeared since 1987 in The Collected Papers. These will include some >500 items that were not part of the original collection, but that >were uncovered during the past 25 years. The eight volumes that are >available so far contain Einstein's writings and correspondence from >his youth to age 40. They include his major papers on the theory of >special relativity, general relativity, the quantum theory of light >and matter, as well as a wealth of lesser-known contributions to many >aspects of science, education, international reconciliation, Zionism, >and pacifism. > >Einstein's personal papers were bequeathed to the Hebrew University >in his last will and testament of 1950. The Albert Einstein Archives >has been housed at the Hebrew University's JNUL since 1982. > >The Einstein Papers Project at Caltech is a multidisciplinary >research and editorial team engaged in the collection, selection, and >scholarly annotation of The Collected Papers, an edition of 25 >planned volumes of Einstein's writings and correspondence. > >The Hebrew University of Jerusalem was envisaged by its founders as a >"university of the Jewish people." Its foundation stone was laid in >1918, and its doors opened in 1925. Today, its student body totals >around 23,000 and its tenured academic faculty numbers 1,200. The >university is Israel's leading academic center for research and >postgraduate study. > >Founded in 1891, Caltech has an enrollment of some 2,000 students, >and a faculty of about 280 professorial members, 65 research members, >and some 560 postdoctoral scholars. Over the years, 30 Nobel Prizes >and four Crafoord Prizes have been awarded to faculty members and >alumni. > >The Jewish National & University Library is the central library of >the Hebrew University and the national library of the Jewish people >and the State of Israel. Founded in 1892 as a world center for the >preservation of books relating to Jewish thought and culture, it >assumed the additional functions of a general university library in >1920. > > >Contact: Mark Wheeler > (626) 395-8733 > wheel(a)caltech.edu > >Visit the Caltech Media Relations Website at http://pr.caltech.edu/media >

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SCO attempts to kill Linux
by Saiful Amin 21 May '03

21 May '03

Could SCO Be the Death of Linux? Unix vendor SCO is suing IBM, claiming Linux stole its Unix, then gave it away to the world. The Open Source Initiative just fired back with a stinging rebuke, claiming that the suit could kill Linux off just as it's starting to gain traction. Anticipating a huge legal mess, the other big enterprise OS player, Microsoft, just licensed source code and software patents from SCO. So now Big Green's in Happyland, while IBM and Linux are in the doghouse -- at least according to SCO. What will the judge say? If you use Linux or open source anywhere in your organization, this may be the most important story of the year! Read the story at: http://eletters.wnn.ziffdavis.com/zd/cts?d=75-11-1-1-692598-307-1 Regards, Saiful Amin Learning Resource Centre Indian School of Business Gachibowli Hyderabad - 500 019 Ph. +91-40-2318-7963/7999 http://purl.org/net/saiful Catch all the cricket action. Download Yahoo! Score tracker

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XLRI on strategies for e-library
by Nivedita.Sharma＠fluor.com 21 May '03

21 May '03

Hello, May some of you would be interested to participate in this programme: Nivedita Sharma Sr. Technical Librarian Fluor Daniel India Pvt. Ltd. Gurgaon ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Management Development Programme at XLRI Jamshedpur-July 2003 Topic Strategies for Electronic Libraries Dates July 28-Aug 1, 2003 Venue XLRI Jamshedpur Programme Dr. Sangayya S. Sirumath Coordinator Website http://www.xlri.ac.in/mdp For details Email at mdp(a)xlri.ac.in Some more information............................... Introduction and Objectives The electronic library is delivering information, whenever required, to the user's desktop, wherever that may be. Librarians therefore, will increasingly need to provide their services in some electronic form rather than face-to-face contact with their users. As academics become more willing and more accustomed to using electronic information on a regular basis, they will become increasingly dependent on technology for digital information access. In networked environment, information providers can supply their information directly to the end-user. Thus the move to an electronic information environment will radically alter the way in which a library operates and interacts with its users, and library professionals will need to consider their own future role as intermediaries. The electronic library will form a crucial part of an institution's information service provision and is likely to leave a much wider remit than that of the traditional library. This Programme addresses the Strategies for Electronic Libraries and library professionals who will undergo changes because of different ways which will be found to bring information from the creator to the end users. Methodology Experienced professors from library and information science area will conduct the sessions. The main instrument of learning will be case studies, exercises, presentations, discussions and practicals in computer lab. Expected Participants Professionals of Library and Information Science, working in corporate firms, Academic, Special and Public Library, will immensely benefit from this Programme. Programme Contents Electronic Library Environment Electronic Library Programme Planning for e-Library BDBMS; OPAC; e-Journals ; e-Resources; Virtual Services IT Products & Information Services Network Information System Computer Network Internet and Intranet Consortia and Resource sharing Library Web Site Design & Development Trends in Web Based Services Internet as Information Source Information Marketing Knowledge Management in e-Environment Nivedita Sharma Sr. Technical Librarian Fluor Daniel India Pvt. Ltd ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Offline web pages in IE
by VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD 16 May '03

16 May '03

Dear Friends: You may be aware that Internet Explorer Version 5 and above provide for Offline web pages. If you would like to preserve a copy of a web page on your hard disk and want to view it without visiting (going online) the page again, you can use this facility. There are many other ways of achieving this). It is under favorites - make this page available offline. While making a Page available offline, you can schedule a job such that the page is visited automatically at desired intervals and your local file remains updated. There is also a provision to get yourself a mail message to tell that a certain Offline Page has been revised/updated! Now my question is: Can this Offline Viewing facility be used for dynamic web pages. I have found it works well for static web pages that are changed infrequently, manually. This does not seem to work for dynamic web pages coming as a result of, say, a search query. Is there a way to utilize "Make this favorite for offline Viewing' facility for dynamic web pages? If we can, then we have a very powerful tool for running SDI services. I hope all of you get what I mean! Any comments? regards Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Turkapalli Village, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 (Website: www.vic-ikp.info ) Ph: 2348 0053; Fax: 2348 0007; Ph. Res: 2784 6631

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Research essays about net 6
by Shyam Prasad pujar 16 May '03

16 May '03

Dear Members, Following site has a good compilation of around 4200 research essays about the net (Internet studies and Network Research). Most research essays listed here are from 2003 down to 1999. It could be useful for some of you. http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/sem/pool.htm Regards, S.M. Pujar ********************************************************************** Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * Phone: (022) 28400919-21 Extn: 514 * * Fax: (022) 28402752 * * E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in * * URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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by Subbiah Arunachalam 16 May '03

16 May '03

Friends: Do we really value information seeking skills? Do our organizations - academic, corporate, government, non-governmental - really encourage people to develop skills for searching and sharing information? Do we recognise gatekeepers and information evangelists? Here is something an outstanding development information specialist has said in another list. Read and I am sure he will set you thinking. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] -------- Here is a URL for a paper I wrote on "The Practical Reality of Knowledge Management within Development Initiatives" - http://www.telecommons.com/reports.cfm?itemid=219 - click on the Microsoft Word icon to download the paper. The paper touches on some of the organizational requirements necessary for staff - such as extension workers - to feel comfortable seeking, sharing and using information/knowledge. The simple task of searching the Internet for information requires some skill, but more importantly, staff require an organizational mandate and clear support from management so that they can spend time accessing information, and have management encouragement to use the tools they need to do so. If an extension worker wants to spend two hours at a local cybercafe to search for information on the carabao industry, for example, do their managers actively encourage them to do so? Do their job descriptions include this task? Has the organization developed simple procedures - staff meetings, lunch seminars, internal and external newsletters, etc. - to help staff share what they have learned? Is there a performance appraisal procedure that acknowledges and rewards time spent searching for and sharing information? Are their extension outreach mechanisms that allow extension workers to help farmers make use of what the extension worker has learned? Does the organization spend time developing staff skills to insure that information it produces is clear, valuable to audiences, and of high quality? Internal organizational structures and procedures are critically important. I find, however, that extension and research organizations do not often spend a great deal of time planning how to integrate knowledge management into day to day work so that concrete improvements in agricultural systems can be realized. Organizations that are serious about knowledge management, involve staff members and managers in participatory planning exercises to design the processes, policies and procedures to make it work. And they set measurable goals and objectives to monitor and improve processes, policies and procedures as they move along. Good, participatory planning leads can address some of the questions Ajit asks: - identification of skills that need improvement, and ways to improve those skills - identification of institutional and infrastructural constraints, and ways to transcend those constraints, remove them, or create new incentives - identification of possible local, regional, national and international communities of practice that managers and staff wish to associate with for knowledge sharing - and practical ways to take advantage of those communities of practice Finally, staff incentives are critically important - perhaps the most important component of knowledge management. People tend to work on tasks that are rewarding - personally, organizationally, financially, etc. This is also true for senior managers who seek to implement knowledge management activities - they require high level organizational mandates and incentives tied to knowledge management performance outcomes for the staff they supervise. All the best, Don Richardson Director TeleCommons Development Group ESG International Guelph, Ontario, Canada Email: don(a)telecommons.com

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Indian Science output- a report -In-Cites
by Mailing List Manager 14 May '03

14 May '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 10:09:17 +0530 (IST) From: Shalini R.Urs <shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in> We have been hearing (sometimes) conflicting reports about India's Science Output. Here is a recent report that you might find interesting.India's number of papers and average citations per paper are steadily increasing! The ISI Research Services Group has prepared this data and has made it available through the Science Watch publication and corresponding on-line version called In-Cites. You can find the report at the URL below. http://www.in-cites.com/countries/india.html -- Shalini ------------- Prof.Shalini R.Urs Project Director Vidyanidhi-Indian Digital Library of Electronic Theses Department of library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore.570006. India Ph:91-821-514699 Fax:91-821-519209 Website:http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Classification on Ayurveda (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 13 May '03

13 May '03

Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 17:19:42 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Dear Friends: Niscom Project on Traditional Knowledge Dihital Library also looks into Classification aspects. Here is a news item: ======== TKDL- A safeguard for Indian traditional knowledge by Nirupa Sen Excerpted from: Current Science 82 (9): 1070-71. India has woken up to the task of protecting her traditional knowledge from patent bio-piracy. The trigger was the successful revoking by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) of patents filed on turmeric, neem and basmati. This success set the tarmac from which the new initiative called the 'Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL)' is getting ready for flight. The first phase of TKDL on ayurveda is marked for completion in October this year. For bringing out a TKDL on ayurveda, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed on 6 June 2001 between the National Institute of Science Communication (NISCOM), New Delhi and the Department of Indian Systems of Medicine and Homeopathy (ISM&H), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. When compiled, TKDL would have documented the traditional knowledge available in the public domain in a digitized format. Starting with the existing literature in ayurveda, it would later cover unani, siddha, naturopathy, homeopathy and folklore medicine. In the first phase, a 'Traditional Knowledge Resource Classification (TKRC)' is being prepared for 2147 medicinal plants. The content of TKDL would initially consist of about 35,000 'slokas' (verses) from ayurveda. These slokas gleaned from 14 ancient texts and recognized books would be digitally transcribed into a readable form and made available both in Indian and foreign languages. The methodology adopted in setting up TKDL is explained below. TKDL would help patent examiners the world over to have a ready reference to Indian traditional knowledge, while granting patents in such domains. The project cost for TKDL is about Rs.1.18 crore. TKDL is an effort that brings together the Department of ISM&H, CSIR and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. : At the inauguration of TKDL in New-Delhi on 26 March 2002, the Minister of Health and Family Welfare, C. P. Thakur emphasized that TKDL would play 'a crucial role not only in documenting our precious heritage in the area of traditional health-care systems, but also in preventing bio-piracy and un- - scrupulous patenting of indigenous herbal medicinal formulations'. He stated that in the prevailing era of globalization, only the efficient would survive. Therefore we need to protect ourselves from theft of traditional knowledge. The TKDL, he added, could also serve as a useful reference point for research workers. The awareness that such a library would create might help the cause of preventing extinction of rare species. Awareness generated could be helpful in the propagation of such species in conjunction with farmers, Thakur felt. R. A. Mashelkar, Director General of CSIR, while speaking on this occasion pointed out that the global market for herbal/traditional medicines is US $ 60 billion, with an annual growth rate of 5- 15%. In this, China's share is about US $ 7-8 billion and India's US $ 400- 500 million. He also referred to a TKDL Task Force study of the US Patent and Trade Mark Office (USPTO) database conducted in March 2000. The study showed that out of 4896 references on 90 medicinal plants mentioned in the USPTO database, 80% of these references was on seven medicinal plants of Indian origin: Kumari, 'Mustaka, Tamraparna, Garjara, Atasi, Jambira, Kharbuja. The findings revealed that out of the 762 patents on medicinal plants studied, 360 of them could be characterized as traditional. There has been international acceptance of TKDL, Recently, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) constituted a group of members from USPTO, China, Japan, European Patent Office and India for discussing the findings of the TKDL Task Force. The group presented their views at the International Patent Classification (IPC) Union meeting in February this year. The outcome is to create a new sub-class for TKRC in IPC and link TKRC with ayurveda. India's TKDL database has also been selected for a pilot study by 170 member states of WIPO. India presently is not a member of the IPC Union. When completed, TKDL would help patent examiners for easy retrieval of traditional knowledge-related information, thus avoiding the possibility of granting patents to unoriginal inventions. Further, a review process of patents already granted in light of the TKDL database would help in cancellation of some patents. Methodology used for TKDL Slokas from ayurvedic texts are first identified. Each sloka is read and converted into structured language using Traditional Knowledge Resource Classification (TKRC). TKRC is innovative in itself. The TKRC classification has been evolved for about 5000 subgroups as against one group in file International Patent Classification (IPC) for traditional knowledge. The TKDL portal would be based on XML standards and would be platform-independent. The codes for each sloka are fed into a data entry screen and also saved on the database. Computer-savvy ayurveda experts carry out the data entry. These are then decoded in different languages. The ayurvedic formulations can be presently decoded in English, French, German, Hindi, Japanese and Spanish. In future, it would be available in 20 foreign languages and all Indian languages. The decoded format of the formulation is easy to read and understand, even by the layman. The web version of TKDL would include a web-based search interface. This would provide for a full text search and retrieval of traditional knowledge information on IPC and keywords in multiple languages. TKRC would be an integral part of TKDL, and would provide a background on ayurvedic concepts, definitions and scientific basis of Indian systems of medicine. In addition, it would carry information on practitioners, hospitals and dispensaries. There are several search features incorporated in the format. According to V. K. Gupta, Director of National Institute of Science Communication, the TKDL software developed in-house does not do transliteration but it does smart translation. Once abstracted, data from the slokas are converted into several languages using Unicode meta data methodology. The software developed can perform smart translation of botanical names and ayurvedic descriptions from traditional terminology into modern terminology. Examples of this are 'Kumari' to 'Aloe Vera', or 'Mussorika' to 'small pox', etc. Nirupa Sen, 1333 Poorvanchal Complex, I.N.U. New Campus, New Delhi 110067, India (e-mail: nirupasen(a)vsnl.net) ================== Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Turkapalli Village, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 (Website: www.vic-ikp.info ) Ph: 2348 0053; Fax: 2348 0007; Ph. Res: 2784 6631

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300-Year-Old Plant Treatise Bears New Fruit (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 13 May '03

13 May '03

Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 22:42:53 +0530 From: Atanu Garai <atanu_garai(a)hotmail.com> A 325-year-old treatise on the medicinal plants of the southern Indian state of Kerala, just translated into English, promises to raise a storm in the world of traditional plant-based remedies and biopirates. NEW DELHI, May 08, 2003-- Fully 325 years after its publication in Amsterdam, the 132-volume Hortus Malabaricus ("Garden of Malabar"), a treatise on the medicinal plants of the southern Indian state of Kerala, has finally been translated from Latin into English - and it has unlocked a wealth of information for historians, botanists and medical researchers. Its original author, Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede, the Dutch governor of the former princely state of Cochin between 1670 and 1677, would have approved of the effort taken by the Kerala University in bringing out an English version after it defied translation for centuries. More:http://www.gvnews.net/html/DailyNews/alert4336.html Source of News:http://www.propoor.org ******************************************** Atanu Garai MLIS Student 2001-03 Department of Library and Information Science University of Calcutta College St.Campus Kolkata 700 073 India Email:atanu_garai@hotmail.com OR atanu_garai(a)indiatimes.com http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/atanu_garai ********************************************

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FW: [BOAI] Launch of Directory of Open Access Journals
by Mailing List Manager 13 May '03

13 May '03

Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 09:06:57 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> LUND UNIVERSITY LAUNCHES DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS May 12, 2003 Lund, Sweden - Lund University Libraries today launches the Directory of Open Access Journals ( DOAJ, http://www.doaj.org ), supported by the Information Program of the Open Society Institute ( http://www.osi.hu/infoprogram/ ), along with SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, ( http://www.arl.org/sparc ). The directory contains information about 350 open access journals, i.e. quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web. The service will continue to grow as new journals are identified. The goal of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and accessibility of open access scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The directory aims to comprehensively cover all open access scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system. Journals in all languages and subject areas will be included in the DOAJ. The database records will be freely available for reuse in other services and can be harvested by using the OAI-PMH ( http://www.openarchives.org/ ), thus further increasing the visibility of the journals. The further development of DOAJ will continue with version 2, which will offer the enhanced feature of allowing the journals to be searched at the article level, and is expected to be available in late fall 2003. "For the researcher DOAJ will mean simplified access to relevant information said Lars Bjrnshauge, Director, Lund University Libraries. The directory will give open-access journals a simple method to register their existence, and a means to dramatically enhance their visibility. Moreover, level, the next stage of DOAJ development will save research time and increase readership of articles." If you know a journal that should be included in the directory, use this form to report it to the directory: http://www.doaj.org/suggest. Information about how to obtain DOAJ records for use in a library catalog or other service you will find at: http://www.doaj.org/articles/questions/#metadata.

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Subscription information for PLoS Biology (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 13 May '03

13 May '03

Dear List members, It could be of interest to few of you. Regards, S.M. Pujar Assistant Librarian IGIDR, Mumbai ----------- Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 16:42:45 -0700 From: Rebecca Kennison <rkennison(a)plos.org> Subject: Subscription information for PLoS Biology Apologies for cross-posting. Please circulate widely. The Public Library of Science (PLoS), a nonprofit organization of scientists committed to making scientific and medical literature a public resource, is pleased to announce that we have established a nonprofit scientific publishing venture and that we will be publishing our first open-access journal, PLoS Biology, in October 2003. The PLoS journals will be governed and operated by scientists, and these publications will retain all of the important features of scientific journals, including rigorous peer review and high editorial and production standards. The journals will employ a new publishing model that will allow PLoS to make all published works immediately available online, with no charges for access and no restrictions on subsequent redistribution or use. PLoS has already assembled an outstanding academic editorial board and a first-class professional editorial team. We began accepting manuscript submissions for PLoS Biology on May 1, 2003. As an open-access journal publisher, we will provide the online versions of all our journals free of charge to anyone with Internet access, but we also intend to offer a paper version for those who wish to pay for that. Distribution of the paper copy will follow a traditional subscription model, although the price for subscription will be as close to cost for printing and mailing as possible. We have set the subscription price for 2004 at $160/year, which includes shipping. This is the subscription price for both the United States and the rest of the world. The subscription comprises all 12 issues published in 2004 as well as the three issues (October, November, and December) that will appear in 2003. If you would like a sample copy of PLoS Biology or if you wish to subscribe to the print version of the journal, please either contact us directly at subscriptions(a)plos.org to add your names to our database or complete our subscription form, found at http://www.plos.org/journals/biology/pbio_subscribe.pdf. Additional information about the Public Library of Science, as well as copies of the Call for Papers for PLoS Biology, may be found at our website, www.plos.org <http://www.plos.org/> .

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Classification on Ayurveda
by Mailing List Manager 13 May '03

13 May '03

Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 14:28:02 +0530 From: manish mankad <Manish.Mankad(a)unilever.com> Dear all, I wish to know if there is a separate classfication on Ayurveda.. DDC gives only one number and that is just not sufficient..or will it be sensible to create a new classification based on Allopathic class numbers after mapping the equivalents? although 100 percent mapping may not be possible. Regards. -Manish Mankad Information Executive Hindustan Lever Research Centre, Andheri (E), Mumbai, 400 099 INDIA ext. 208/330 (022) 28276 208 28276 330

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What is a library anymore, anyway?
by Mailing List Manager 12 May '03

12 May '03

From: "[iso-8859-1] Saiful Amin" <saifulamin(a)yahoo.com>Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 19:50:25 +0100 (BST) What is a library anymore, anyway? by Michael A. Keller, Victoria A. Reich, and Andrew C. Herkovic Libraries in the future will undertake local control, especially for long-term preservation and accessibility of digital as well as analog collections. Failure to embrace that role would cause libraries and librarians rapidly to lose relevance and value as Internet and other digital resources develop. Local control of collections is critical both to assure permanence and to provide a key degree of selectivity, which ^ contrary to the irrational exuberance of making everything available to everybody ^ is vital to providing service to communities of readers. Librarians need new tools, such as the LOCKSS system, to enable both persistence and selection of electronic information. Read this interesting article at: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_5/keller/ Regards, Learning Resource Centre Indian School of Business Gachibowli Hyderabad - 500 019 Ph. +91-40-2318-7963/7999 http://purl.org/net/saiful

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Can India go all alone in applying ICT to Rural Development?
by Mailing List Manager 12 May '03

12 May '03

Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 09:39:48 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends at lis-forum: I got this mail in another list. Found it extremely interesting and worth sharing with you all. Arun Dear Colleagues: The recent episode of Media Lab Asia raises an important issue. Can India go all alone in applying Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to Rural Development? The first question to be answered is, Does the Indian Government believe that applying ICT is essential for rural development? On paper there is evidence that it does. On the ground, it looks as if it is driven by personalities and not purpose. Many of the Government schemes and projects in this area have not been evaluated rigorously or lessons learned from them. Applying ICT for rural development is not just opening an information kiosk but developing the services and content necessary for supporting activities in rural development. This needs significant transformation in its Institutions and Organizations. There is strong evidence that India missed the opportunities offered by the personal computer and local and wide area networking to improve its Institutions and Organizations engaged in rural development and is now missing the opportunities from use of the Internet to improve governance, health, food security, agriculture, education and trade etc. for rural areas. The second question is what are the strengths of India in going all alone? A country that can launch Geo-Stationary Satellites does certainly have the technological skills. There are several initiatives in ICT application for rural areas that have drawn attention for their innovativeness and it is said in many International circles that if an "IT cannot work in India, it will not work elsewhere in developing countries". India is a leading test bed of ICT application for rural areas of developing countries and others use it for testing their ideas. India can certainly do it and if it needs collaboration, it is more South-South so that costs of innovating the needed technologies can be spread around developing countries. The third question is, what are its weaknesses? To answer this question, India should look at how other ICTs such as radio, television and telephones penetrated into rural areas. Radio receivers in the 1960's and 70's were made cheaply, batteries became available, the All India Radio established a strong network of local radio stations using medium wave band providing context specific rural information. In 1980's television black and white television sets became cheaper, low power transmitters and regional and state level television services were established. This led to the second generation Cable TV use largely supported in peri-urban and rural areas by small private entrepreneurs. Telephones became more ubiquitous, at least on major rural roadsides, through another public-private partnership of PCOs. The lessons India should learn are, let the government create the infrastructure for rural areas and let there be public-private partnership for the network and content. In case of new ICT, such as for access to the Internet, India would need public-private-community partnerships. The weaknesses, as I see it, is not of technology. The type of technology India needs for providing cheaper access to ICT services in rural area is already there. What India does not really have is a policy for ICT use across sectors in rural development. India has a telecomm policy, an education policy, an agricultural policy, livestock policy etc. but it has not integrated ICT either in these policies or integrated these sectoral policies into an ICT policy for development. Until India does this, It will not be able to decide how to lower access costs to ICT based services or create opportunities for partnerships. The fourth question is what are the opportunities? ICT and information access is becoming more a basic necessity just as electricity and water. The experience of Spain and Portugal of providing Automatic Teller Machines in rural areas that enabled farmers to access financial credit which in turn enabled these countries to become the vegetable and fruit baskets of Europe should be a lesson for India and is the type of direction needed from the Government to support ICT application in rural development. If India can prove success in ICT application in rural areas in the next few years, it can be a leader in ICT trade and services for Asia and Africa. The fifth question is of threats? The threats, as I see them, are more from not applying ICT in rural areas than in going alone. Indian software skills are world renown. With a billion people, the domestic market for intellectual capital (information and because the core issue will be context specific content in health, agriculture, education etc. which the North does not have for developing countries and not the hardware. IMHO India can go alone or with more South-South collaboration in this area of applying ICT to rural development. In the revamped Media Lab Asia, let its main mission be to apply ICT successfully in rural development and enable India to be a leader in trade and providing ICT services to rural areas in developing countries. Can Mr. Shourie do this? Warm regards, Ajit

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Kuvempu Univeristy LIS Dept. Alumni Home page
by library＠beamseducation.ae 10 May '03

10 May '03

Dear professionals, Dept. of PG Studies and Research in Library & Information Science, Kuvempu University, Shimoga, Karnataka, is completing it's 10 year on December 1st, 2003, In this view LIS Dept. has inuagarated its, LIS Dept. Alumni, in this view, the Dept. is hosting it's Alumni Home page, in this view, I would like to have ur views on the upcoming our Dept. alumni site. The URL is http://www.kuvlib.cjb.net/ And it's Happy to inform you all that, I am one of the first batch student of the same LIS Dept. Kuvempu University, who is presently working in Learning Resource Centre, Dubai. With Kind regards Vijayakumar M ************************************************************** Vijayakumar M Learning Resource Centre Beams International Education Institute Post Box. 31199, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Phone : 009714-3342929 or 009714-3342928 Mobile : 0097150-4734077 Fax : 009714-3342922 e-mail : vijayakumar71(a)yahoo.co.in Home Page : http://www20.brinkster.com/vinija/

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[Fwd: library management summer school courses]
by Mailing List Manager 09 May '03

09 May '03

Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 07:42:00 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> FYI Three library management courses, as part of the International > Summer School on the Digital Library, will be held at Tilburg > University, the Netherlands, in August 2003. The courses focus on: > > - Library vision and strategy (2 days, 11-12 August) > - Change management (3 days, 13-15 August) > - Management of electronic resources and e-publishing (3 days, 25- > 27 August) > > The full programme of all three courses is now available via the > course website at http://www.ticer.nl/summer03/. > > Registration should take place preferably before 1 June.

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NCSI Workshop on Greenstone Digital Library Software (GSDL)
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 08 May '03

08 May '03

Dear All We are pleased to announce: Workshop on Developing Digital Libraries using Greenstone Digital Library Software (GSDL) 2.6.2003 to 4.6.2003 Organized by: National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Venue: NCSI, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Number of participants: 20 About the Workshop: Affordable software is a key requirement for successful development and deployment of digital libraries. Though it is possible today to create simple digital libraries using prevailing Web and database technologies, it would take lot more effort to develop software that integrates functions such as metadata, full text search and retrieval, multilingual support, access management, and support for multiple document formats. Greenstone (GSDL) is a suite of software for building and distributing such digital library collections. It provides a new way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM. Greenstone is produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project (http://www.nzdl.org/) at the University of Waikato, and developed and distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and the Human Info NGO (http://humaninfo.org/) It is open-source software, issued under the terms of the GNU General Public License. The aim of the software is to empower users, particularly in universities, libraries, and other public service institutions, to build their own digital libraries. More details of the software and example digital libraries built using the software is available at http://www.greenstone.org/ The goal of this Workshop is to enable individuals and organisations to initiate building their digital libraries. The specific objective of the workshop is to impart practical training to participants in using GSDL for creation and maintenance of digital libraries. Focus is on installing, configuring, application and administration of this package. At the end of the Workshop, you should have acquired the knowledge and skill sets required to build your own digital libraries using GSDL. The workshop covers both introductory and advanced use of GSDL. Apart from experienced and knowledgeable resource persons who will lead the workshop, NCSI has excellent infrastructure, including a switch-based LAN, servers, laboratory, lecture hall and Internet connectivity. Each participant will have a dedicated workstation to work with. Latest version of GSDL software package (version 2.39) will be distributed to the participants on CD-ROM. The workshop is limited to twenty (20) participants on first-come-first-served basis. Last date for receiving registrations is 25th May 2003. More details of the workshop, including workshop content, fees, and registration form can be downloaded from the following URL: http://144.16.72.189/gsdl-ncsi-workshop.doc If you are unable to download this document, let me know. A text-based registration form is given below for your convenience. Do contact us for any more information you may need. Regards - Rajashekar ------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Associate Chairman Tel: +91-80-3600271, 3601427 National Centre for Science Fax: +91-80-3601426, 3600683 Information (NCSI) E-Mail: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Indian Institute of Science URL: http://144.16.72.189/raja/ BANGALORE-560012 (India) ------------------------------------------------------------- SciGate: http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/ The IISc Science Information Portal ---------------------------------------- NCSI Workshop on DEVELOPING DIGITAL LIBRARIES USING GREENSTONE DIGITAL LIBRARY SOFTWARE (GSDL) 2.6.2003 to 4.6.2003) Registration Form ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Participant's Name: (Ms./ Mr./ Dr./ Prof.) Position: Organization: Address: City: Pin: Telephone: Fax: Email: Registration details: First participant (Rs. 6,000/-) Additional participant from the same organization (Rs. 4,000/-) (Note: Additional participant and main participant share the same workstation) (Pl. use copy of this form and provide details separately) I need accommodation in IISc campus: YES / NO (Accommodation cost is included in the registration fee for the dates 1-5 June 2003) Dates of accommodation requirement: From: To: Payment details: DD No. & date: Bank drawn on: Amount: (Note: DD to be drawn in favour of "The Registrar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore", payable at Bangalore) Date: Signature: Please fill this form and send it to the coordinator, along with the registration fee, on or before 25th May 2003. Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Associate Chairman National Centre for Science Information(NCSI) Indian Institute of Science Bangalore - 560 012(India) E-Mail: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Phone : 080-3601427, 3600271 Fax : 080-3601426, 3600683

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Request for Journal subscription Lists
by Mailing List Manager 07 May '03

07 May '03

Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 12:48:34 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Dear Friends: I am happy to say that the response for my "Request for current list of subscriptions" has been good. I wish to thank the following persons who have sent me their lists, pointers, URLs etc Mr SM Pujar of IGDIR, Mumbai Mr Mank Nand lal of Dabur, Munbai Mr Arunachalam of MSSRF Mr S Siva Chidambaram of NCAER, delhi Mr Sainful Abideen of IIITM-Kerala Mr Manish Mankand of HLRC, Mumbai Mr Ratnakar Apsari of Informatics Lis-forum has about 250 individual subscribers coming from more than a hundred libraries in India. I hope many more of you would take the pains to provide data relating to your library. Thanks. Vyasamoorthy, P

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FW: [bytesforall_readers] NEWS-US: eBooks are flying off the libr
by Mailing List Manager 07 May '03

07 May '03

Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 16:49:14 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> This may be of interest to emala members and lis-forum members. Arun Subject: eBooks Are Flying Off the Library Shelves Dear friends, The success of the Cleveland Public Library's Digital Connection has been phenomenal with hundreds of best-selling eBooks being checked out within the first days of opening. OverDrive is issuing the following press release on Monday, May 5 which we have sent to you as a courtesy. If you have any questions, please contact me or Loree Potash at lpotash(a)overdrive.com. Best regards, Jennifer Jackson OverDrive, Inc. jjackson(a)overdrive.com ******************************************************* eBooks Are Flying Off the Library Shelves Library website offers self-service checkout and return of eBooks for reading on PCs and PDAs CLEVELAND -- May 5, 2003) All day and night an automated service is sending out email notices to patrons that their library eBook is now available for check-out. With the click of a mouse, card holders of the CLEVNET online lending library at http://dlc.clevnet.org can download digital versions of Prey, Lovely Bones, Cliff's Notes, or copies of hundreds of other popular fiction, travel, business, study guides, IT, or other titles from leading authors and publishers. The eBook titles are available in both Adobe Acrobat and Palm Reader formats that allow patrons to read eBooks using their own PC, notebook, Tablet PC or PDA devices. Since the opening of Digital Library Connection on April 8 the vast majority of the opening collection of 1,000 eBook titles was checked out from the virtual shelves in a matter of days. Now every time an eBook's lending period expires or a patron returns an eBook early, a programmed email notice is instantly sent to the patron next on a waiting list for the title. The waiting patron can click on the link in the email notice and immediately download the title. The website manages the circulation of the eBook collection based upon the rules established by the librarians at the Cleveland Public Library. "We are exceptionally pleased with both the ease of use and patron acceptance of the circulating eBook system," stated Cindy Orr, Head of Collection Management for Cleveland Public Library. "To keep up with the unexpected demand for eBook titles we have already re-ordered and added hundreds of new eBook titles to the collection. The CLEVNET Digital Library Connection provides 24/7 access to a growing digital collection to serve our patrons from the convenience of their homes, offices or schools," Ms. Orr added. The success of the Cleveland Public Library system has gained international attention for both Cleveland Public Library and OverDrive, Inc. the eBook technology vendor providing the services and titles for the system. "We are installing similar digital library systems in several US and UK libraries. The service automates access for both librarians to develop and manage their digital collection, and self-service access to the collection for their patrons," stated Pamela Turner, OverDrive's Director of Content. "We have added new categories of eBooks for libraries to circulate. These include reference, scientific, and educational materials to support school and library learning initiatives," according to Ms. Turner. Media Contact: Loree Potash (216) 573-6886 ext. 202 - lpotash(a)overdrive.com ******************************************** Jennifer A. Jackson OverDrive, Inc. (216) 573-6886, ext. 207 jjackson(a)overdrive.com

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Free Document Library from CoL
by Mailing List Manager 07 May '03

07 May '03

Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 14:47:56 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> --Original Message----- From: Paul West [mailto:pwest@col.org] Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 6:44 AM I'd like to bring to your attention the availability of a document library. You can perform full text searches for documents using concept, pattern and Boolean searches (see search tips for combining techniques). Library access pages are customised for different audiences so you could try one of these: Open and Distance Learning: http://colfinder.org/odl Development: http://colfinder.org/dev Health: http://colfinder.org/health Food Security: http://colfinder.org/food Business Management: http://colfinder.org/manage Governance: http://colfinder.org/gov SchoolNet: http://colfinder.org/sn Resources are full-text and you will be directed to the original copy of the document via the Internet. PDFs can be rendered in plain text to allow fast downloads, even with slower Internet lines. On the results page, click the title of the document for the quick, plain-text version, or the link below it for the original document. Use of this digital library service is free. While the material is available via the Internet without security restrictions, all normal referencing conventions (to the original source of the material) should be followed when using content. Please feel free to add any of the above links to your websites. Regards Paul --- Paul G. West Education Specialist: Knowledge Management The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) Suite 600, 1285 West Broadway, Vancouver, BC V6H 3X8, CANADA PH: +1(604)775-8200 (Switchboard) / FAX: +1(604)775-8210 / DIR: +1(604)775-8236 WEB: http://www.col.org / E-MAIL: pwest(a)col.org COL knowledge finder: http://www.colfinder.org/odl

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