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Open-source science
by Mailing List Manager 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 07:48:11 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Here is a news story from Peter Suber's blog on open source science (scientists in far off places collaborating using open source software). The Internet and the web provide new opportunities and we must take advantage of them. Arun ------ More on open-source science Sarah Everts, Open-Source Science, Chemical & Engineering News, July 24, 2006. Excerpt: Scientists from Sydney to San Francisco have created an online research collaboration to develop cures for tropical diseases, using the "open source" programming model that produced freeware like Linux and Firefox, the award-winning Web browser. The motivation is straightforward: Tropical diseases are low priority for big pharma because the return on drug development is so small. Patients in developing nations just don't have the financial ability to pay for patented drugs. The structure is radical: Online discussions will prioritize a list of experiments that anyone can take on. Raw data will be posted online and discussed. Members of the consortium will solicit further ideas and expertise, hoping the greater research community steps up to the plate. The group, which operates under an umbrella website called Synaptic Leap [blogged here 6/3/06], hopes that volunteered time, computer power, and reagents will eventually result in a portfolio of drug leads that will be made freely available for development. Currently, members of Synaptic Leap are describing projects online and asking others for help and advice. Participants in open-source collaborations give up their ability to patent discoveries by definition, because their data are public as soon as they are posted. But some argue that when it comes to neglected diseases, there's nothing to lose, because there was never any income to gain.... If the group publishes raw data online in the pursuit of virtuous science, does this negate the ability to publish in a peer-reviewed journal? Will scientists put their raw data, and possibly their reputations, online? These and other issues were raised by University of Sydney chemist Matthew H. Todd and his Synaptic Leap colleagues in a recent essay entitled "Open-Source Research - The Power of Us" (Aust. J. Chem. 2006, 59, 291).... When it comes to the issue of publishing, [Jean-Claude] Bradley [who blogs his research data] argues that open-source discussions are similar to conferences, where people openly discuss unpublished research and do not fear being denied the right to publish in a journal, assuming the science is good. Todd says the biggest misconception is that proponents of open source are antagonists of peer review. "I think the value of peer review is clear, and I would want to publish whatever work came out of the open-source research. The question is whether the journals will allow it."

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Free access to journals help Brazil do better in science
by Mailing List Manager 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 07:35:08 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Brazilian scientists in 180 institutions get FREE ACCESS to more than 10,000 journals and 16 databases. That has helped Brazil do better in science. Please read the news item appended below and download the full article as well. Every developing country should find a way to provide such access to a very large number of journals and databases to its scientists and research students. In many developing countries people talk endlessly about digital libraries but in Brazil there was some action. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] -------------------------------- CAPES Journal Portal and the growth of Brazilian science The Brazilian scientific research growth by 19% in 2005, and by about 50% in the past five, was celebrated by the President of CAPES, Jorge Guimar�es, in a collective interview given in the SBPC annual meeting. Measured by the number of publications indexed in the Thomsom-ISI database, the Brazilian scientific production in 2005 represented 1.8% of the world production and ranks 17th in the list of countries. Access to scientific information is one of the main lines of action promoted by CAPES to support the development of graduate courses and scientific research in Brazil. The CAPES Journal Portal has been in continuous operation since its launching in 2000; it provides, to over 180 academic institutions, free access to more than 10 thousand titles of scientific journals and to a selection of 16 major international referential databases. Roughly 5.5 million articles were downloaded in the first 5 months in 2006. The crucial role played by the portal to promote democratic access to scientific information is publicly acknowledged by the UNIFESP and BIREME read the full article

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One laptop per child - India has reservations
by Mailing List Manager 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:03:50 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> One laptop per kid not feasible for India! 20 July 2006 India's Education secretary Sudeep Banerjee's letter to his counterpart in the Planning Commission , Rajiv Ratna Shah, strongly disapproving of the 'One Laptop Per Child' idea USD100 each, cost to be borne by government for one million pieces floated by MIT, had instead asked the plan panel to invest similar money for universalisation of secondary education. Complete with technical problems pointed out by IIT, Madras, pedagogical suspicions raised by NCERT and first-hand experience of a senior HRD official, who found that the laptops have not even crossed the prototype stage, Banerjee had said OLPC may actually be detrimental to the growth of creative and analytical abilities of the child. The education secretary had said, if the Planning Commission has the kind of money that would be required for this scheme, it would be appropriate to utilise it for universalisation of secondary education, for which a concept paper has been lying with the PC for approval since November 2005, and on which, he also made a presentation in the Planning Commission, presided over by the deputy chairman. A detailed report by a senior HRD official, who attended the OLPC workshop in Massachusetts in May, found a series of faults with the concept and strongly recommended against accepting it. Since the laptops are in the prototype stage, the official found that hardware and functionality testing, using open-source Linux software, is still to begin. He also found out that due to the price of the battery and other hidden costs, the laptops might actually cost USD200. It also needs to be checked and certified in real time whether the connectivity distance between the local server and these laptops would be 0.5 km or 3 km as claimed. Another functional problem is that these laptops cannot be upgraded without changing the motherboard , which would entail an expenditure of nearly 40% of the total cost. The maintenance of these laptops will also require a substantial investment and reserve stocks. Source: Economic Times Why not examine the feasibility of using Simputers instead of the Negroponte computers?

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Researcher attitudes to open access
by Subbiah Arunachalam 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

Friends: Please spread the word. Pass this on to publishing scientists - professors, research associates, Ph D students, laboratory scientists and so on. The world should know that Indian (and developing country) researchers are overwhelmingly in favour of open access and free and unfettered flow of knowledge! Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----------------------------------- Online survey of researcher attitudes toward OA A research team from University of Arkansas and the University of Munich has launched an online survey on Open Access & Science Publishing. You can take it, in English or German, until August 11. (Thanks to Yong Liu.) From the background page: Our research interest is with the attitudes toward and perceptions of Open Access of scientists in their double role as readers and authors of scientific publications.... Following a pragmatic as well as a theoretical approach, we are interested in identifying underlying barriers to the adoption of Open Access publications by individuals and in finding ways to overcome these barriers. At the same time we want to be alert to emerging business models for publishers and institutions in the future. More specifically, we are exploring: [1] Scientists' attitudes toward and current practices of Open Access, [2] Identification of the barriers that are mostly responsible for the relatively low diffusion and adoption of Open Access publications, [3] Identification of opportunities and ways to overcome these barriers, and [4] Research of country/subject specific-differences. Friends: Please spread the word. Pass this on to publishing scientists - professors, research associates, Ph D students, laboratory scientists and so on. The world should know that Indian (and developing country) researchers are overwhelmingly in favour of open access and free and unfettered flow of knowledge! Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----------------------------------- Online survey of researcher attitudes toward OA A http://openaccess-study.com/en_authors.html research team from University of Arkansas and the University of Munich has launched an online survey on http://openaccess-study.com/ Open Access & Science Publishing . You can take it, in English or German, until August 11. (Thanks to Yong Liu.) From the http://openaccess-study.com/en_project.html background page : Our research interest is with the attitudes toward and perceptions of Open Access of scientists in their double role as readers and authors of scientific publications.... Following a pragmatic as well as a theoretical approach, we are interested in identifying underlying barriers to the adoption of Open Access publications by individuals and in finding ways to overcome these barriers. At the same time we want to be alert to emerging business models for publishers and institutions in the future. More specifically, we are exploring: [1] Scientists' attitudes toward and current practices of Open Access, [2] Identification of the barriers that are mostly responsible for the relatively low diffusion and adoption of Open Access publications, [3] Identification of opportunities and ways to overcome these barriers, and [4] Research of country/subject specific-differences.

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One laptop per child - India has reservations
by Subbiah Arunachalam 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

One laptop per kid not feasible for India! 20 July 2006 India's Education secretary Sudeep Banerjee's letter to his counterpart in the Planning Commission , Rajiv Ratna Shah, strongly disapproving of the 'One Laptop Per Child' idea USD100 each, cost to be borne by government for one million pieces floated by MIT, had instead asked the plan panel to invest similar money for universalisation of secondary education. Complete with technical problems pointed out by IIT, Madras, pedagogical suspicions raised by NCERT and first-hand experience of a senior HRD official, who found that the laptops have not even crossed the prototype stage, Banerjee had said OLPC may actually be detrimental to the growth of creative and analytical abilities of the child. The education secretary had said, if the Planning Commission has the kind of money that would be required for this scheme, it would be appropriate to utilise it for universalisation of secondary education, for which a concept paper has been lying with the PC for approval since November 2005, and on which, he also made a presentation in the Planning Commission, presided over by the deputy chairman. A detailed report by a senior HRD official, who attended the OLPC workshop in Massachusetts in May, found a series of faults with the concept and strongly recommended against accepting it. Since the laptops are in the prototype stage, the official found that hardware and functionality testing, using open-source Linux software, is still to begin. He also found out that due to the price of the battery and other hidden costs, the laptops might actually cost USD200. It also needs to be checked and certified in real time whether the connectivity distance between the local server and these laptops would be 0.5 km or 3 km as claimed. Another functional problem is that these laptops cannot be upgraded without changing the motherboard , which would entail an expenditure of nearly 40% of the total cost. The maintenance of these laptops will also require a substantial investment and reserve stocks. Source: Economic Times Why not examine the feasibility of using Simputers instead of the Negroponte computers? One laptop per kid not feasible for India! 20 July 2006 India's Education secretary Sudeep Banerjee's letter to his counterpart in the Planning Commission , Rajiv Ratna Shah, strongly disapproving of the 'One Laptop Per Child' idea USD100 each, cost to be borne by government for one million pieces floated by MIT, had instead asked the plan panel to invest similar money for universalisation of secondary education. Complete with technical problems pointed out by IIT, Madras, pedagogical suspicions raised by NCERT and first-hand experience of a senior HRD official, who found that the laptops have not even crossed the prototype stage, Banerjee had said OLPC may actually be detrimental to the growth of creative and analytical abilities of the child. The education secretary had said, if the Planning Commission has the kind of money that would be required for this scheme, it would be appropriate to utilise it for universalisation of secondary education, for which a concept paper has been lying with the PC for approval since November 2005, and on which, he also made a presentation in the Planning Commission, presided over by the deputy chairman. A detailed report by a senior HRD official, who attended the OLPC workshop in Massachusetts in May, found a series of faults with the concept and strongly recommended against accepting it. Since the laptops are in the prototype stage, the official found that hardware and functionality testing, using open-source Linux software, is still to begin. He also found out that due to the price of the battery and other hidden costs, the laptops might actually cost USD200. It also needs to be checked and certified in real time whether the connectivity distance between the local server and these laptops would be 0.5 km or 3 km as claimed. Another functional problem is that these laptops cannot be upgraded without changing the motherboard , which would entail an expenditure of nearly 40% of the total cost. The maintenance of these laptops will also require a substantial investment and reserve stocks. Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshowcnews/1779354.cms Economic Times Why not examine the feasibility of using Simputers instead of the Negroponte computers?

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St Agnes College (Mangalore) Information Centre: Website hosted
by Gopakumar Velayudhanpillai 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

As requested by the Librarian of St Agnes College, Mangalore I am providing the following information, which was published in English daily for information of Lis-forum members. Please visit the website and inform your suggestions to the Librarian. St Agnes College Information Centre: Website hosted. St Agnes College Library, Mangalore has provided a benchmark for undergraduate libraries by hosting its own Information Centre Website. The features of the library webpage includes the listing of books,110 journals, 140 CDS and regular intake of magazines, and news paper clippings on various subjects can now be accessed on the World Wide Web. St.Agnes College is the first in Karnataka among undergraduate Information Centres to develop their own Website providing not only the list of the library holdings but a catalogue and book database on a Website. So for St. Agnes College having its own library website has a dual function; its catalogues are available internally, but outsiders can access the Website and can become at a later stage on line members if the modalities are worked out. The purpose of this is to keep in step with the staggering possibilities of internet and Web connectivity, so that when digitization becomes economically feasible, the library can take advantage of it. A right direction is what this recent advance means. You are most welcome to visit the site on the following URL. http://www.stagnescollege.org/library/heading.htm For any query regarding the website please contact me through bk.vishala(a)gmail.com. VISHALA.B.K. Sr.Librarian, St.Agnes College Mangalore-575002 DK Karnataka Gopakumar.V Research Scholar Department of Library & Information Science Mangalore University Mangalagangotri gopakumar.v(a)rediffmail.com Mobile No: 09447056713 As requested by the Librarian of St Agnes College, Mangalore I am providing the following information, which was published in English daily for information of Lis-forum members. Please visit the website and inform your suggestions to the Librarian. St Agnes College Information Centre: Website hosted. St Agnes College Library, Mangalore has provided a benchmark for undergraduate libraries by hosting its own Information Centre Website. The features of the library webpage includes the listing of books,110 journals, 140 CDS and regular intake of magazines, and news paper clippings on various subjects can now be accessed on the World Wide Web. St.Agnes College is the first in Karnataka among undergraduate Information Centres to develop their own Website providing not only the list of the library holdings but a catalogue and book database on a Website. So for St. Agnes College having its own library website has a dual function; its catalogues are available internally, but outsiders can access the Website and can become at a later stage on line members if the modalities are worked out. The purpose of this is to keep in step with the staggering possibilities of internet and Web connectivity, so that when digitization becomes economically feasible, the library can take advantage of it. A right direction is what this recent advance means. You are most welcome to visit the site on the following URL. http://www.stagnescollege.org/library/heading.htm For any query regarding the website please contact me through bk.vishala(a)gmail.com. VISHALA.B.K. Sr.Librarian, St.Agnes College Mangalore-575002 DK Karnataka Gopakumar.V Research Scholar Department of Library & Information Science Mangalore University Mangalagangotri gopakumar.v(a)rediffmail.com Mobile No: 09447056713 http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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Manipur University Recruitments
by rupesh kumar 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

Dear All, Manipur University calls for various faculty positions (Professors, Readers, Lecturers) in various subjects including Library and Information Science. The Last Date for submission of applications extended till 10th August 2006. Further Details on the University website: http://www.manipuruniv.ac.in/recruitment/recruitment.htm Regards, Rupesh Kumar A Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University a_rupeshkumar(a)yahoo.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta. Manipur University calls for various faculty positions (Professors, Readers, Lecturers) in various subjects including Library and Information Science. The Last Date for submission of applications extended till 10th August 2006. Further Details on the University website: http://www.manipuruniv.ac.in/recruitment/recruitment.htm http://www.manipuruniv.ac.in/recruitment/recruitment.htm Regards, Rupesh Kumar A Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University mailto:a_rupeshkumar@yahoo.com a_rupeshkumar(a)yahoo.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=40791/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/handr… You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta.

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OA in India vs. OA in the world
by Subbiah Arunachalam 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

Friends: I am reproducing below a short but very important news item from Peter Suber's blog. It talks about the rapid growth of open access archiving. In less than three weeks one million records were added to the OAISter collection. Currently there are more than 8.75 million records from 668 institutions. But what is the share of India? Less than 20,000 papers, may be [Can someone at OAIster give me the right figure please?]. We keep cribbing about our papers not being read or cited, but we do not take the simple step of making our papers widely known. Both Dr D K Sahu and Dr Murari Tapaswi have shown that making papers - papers by Indian authors - available via open access leads to a manifold increase in the numbers of their downloads and viewing. Dr Sahu has also shown that Indian papers on OA are cited far more often than those which are available only via toll-access journals. Others like Alma Swan and Stevan harnad and his colleagues at Southampton and elsewhere have shown that OA papers are read and cited far more often than non-OA papers. And yet Indian scientists and librarians are reluctant to set up open access archives. Of course there are exceptions. Matscience set up a mirror site for the well-known arXiv (the central archive for many areas of physics, astrophysics, mathematical biology, etc.) many years ago. IISc in Bangalore was the first institution in India to set up an institutional archive. Three CSIR labs (NCL, NAL and NIO) have their own archives, as do RRL, IIA, IIMK, NIT-R, and a few others. Incidentally, NIT-R has a mandate on open access archiving. But for a country of more than a billion people and hundreds of universities and research labs what we have done so far is miniscule compare to what we should have done. Subbiah Arunachalam -------------------------------- Rapid new growth at OAIster Heather Morrison, Dramatic Growth: July 20th Brief Update, Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, July 21, 2006. Excerpt: On June 30th, I reported that OAIster had grown by more than half a million records in the previous quarter, for a total of 7.6 million records, and predicted that OAIster would exceed a billion records sometime in 2007. The pace of growth in the past few weeks has been dramatic indeed - OAIster now lists 8,754,367 records from 668 institutions - growth of more than a million records in less than 3 weeks. At this rate, an OAIster search will pass the billion mark much, much sooner than expected, likely in 2006. The list of new institutions harvested recently is long, and impressive. Friends: I am reproducing below a short but very important news item from Peter Suber's blog. It talks about the rapid growth of open access archiving. In less than three weeks one million records were added to the OAISter collection. Currently there are more than 8.75 million records from 668 institutions. But what is the share of India? Less than 20,000 papers, may be [Can someone at OAIster give me the right figure please?]. We keep cribbing about our papers not being read or cited, but we do not take the simple step of making our papers widely known. Both Dr D K Sahu and Dr Murari Tapaswi have shown that making papers - papers by Indian authors - available via open access leads to a manifold increase in the numbers of their downloads and viewing. Dr Sahu has also shown that Indian papers on OA are cited far more often than those which are available only via toll-access journals. Others like Alma Swan and Stevan harnad and his colleagues at Southampton and elsewhere have shown that OA papers are read and cited far more often than non-OA papers. And yet Indian scientists and librarians are reluctant to set up open access archives. Of course there are exceptions. Matscience set up a mirror site for the well-known arXiv (the central archive for many areas of physics, astrophysics, mathematical biology, etc.) many years ago. IISc in Bangalore was the first institution in India to set up an institutional archive. Three CSIR labs (NCL, NAL and NIO) have their own archives, as do RRL, IIA, IIMK, NIT-R, and a few others. Incidentally, NIT-R has a mandate on open access archiving. But for a country of more than a billion people and hundreds of universities and research labs what we have done so far is miniscule compare to what we should have done. Subbiah Arunachalam -------------------------------- Rapid new growth at OAIster Heather Morrison, http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2006/07/dramatic-growth-july-20th-brief… Dramatic Growth: July 20th Brief Update , Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics , July 21, 2006. Excerpt: On June 30th, I reported that http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/ OAIster had grown by more than half a million records in the previous quarter, for a total of 7.6 million records, and predicted that OAIster would exceed a billion records sometime in 2007. The pace of growth in the past few weeks has been dramatic indeed - OAIster now lists 8,754,367 records from 668 institutions - growth of more than a million records in less than 3 weeks. At this rate, an OAIster search will pass the billion mark much, much sooner than expected, likely in 2006. The list of new institutions harvested recently is long, and impressive.

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Library associations back open access
by Subbiah Arunachalam 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

Eight major North American Library Associations representing a vast majority of American and Canadian librarians are supporting open access. When will the Indian librarians lend their support to open access? When will they persuade the government - UGC, DST, DBT, CSIR, and other funding agencies and apex bodies - to mandate open access self-archiving of all publicly funded research? Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ---------------------------------- From Peter Suber's blog Library groups support FRPAA Eight major North American library associations have released their July 12 letter to Sen. Susan Collins in support of FRPAA. The letter will soon be online here and here. Meantime I'm quoting from a copy that John Ober sent as an attachment to the ScholComm list. Excerpt: We write in strong support of the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 (S. 2695)....S. 2695 would promote widespread, affordable, and effective dissemination of scientific and scholarly research results. For this reason, we encourage the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs to conduct hearings on S. 2695. Federally funded research is a public resource collected at public expense. Importantly, increased access to this research accelerates the pace of discovery and innovation and fosters economic growth. It is critical that this new research be readily available to physicians, researchers, and members of the public, including those who are unaffiliated with or working in locations remote from libraries that subscribe to in increasingly expensive journals and databases developed from federally funded research. Indeed, results of a recent Harris Interactive poll show that the majority of U.S. adults believe that federally funded research findings should be available for free to doctors and the general public.... [T]he Internet offers an unprecedented and cost-effective means to accelerate scientific advancement. S. 2695 recognizes this potential and helps to facilitate its realization. Its key beneficiaries include: a.. Scientists and scholars, whose research will be more broadly read and who will have fewer barriers to obtaining the research they need. b.. Funders, who will gain from accelerated discovery, facilitation of interdisciplinary research methodologies, preservation of vital research findings, and an improved capacity to manage their research portfolios. c.. Taxpayers, who will obtain economic and social benefits from the leveraging of their investment in scientific research through effects such as enhanced technology transfer, broader application of research to health care provision, and more informed policy development.... This legislation is not a threat to journals and the peer review process. The Federal Research Public Access Act contains two key provisions that protect journals and the peer review process: a.. A delay of up to six months in providing access to articles via the public archive (versus immediate access for journal readers). b.. Inclusion in the public archive of the author's final manuscript rather than the publisher's formatted, paginated version preferred for citation purposes. In some disciplines, freely accessible online archives have proven to supplement journal readership, not replace it. In physics, for example.... If Congress were to pass S. 2695, the most significant day-to-day effect on investigators would be improved access to research and increased impact for their own work. A growing number of studies demonstrate that research is cited more often when it is openly accessible on the Web. The process by which investigators deposit their work is expected to be relatively simple. NIH, for example, estimates that submitting a manuscript to their archive usually takes an investigator just 3-10 minutes. This legislation will not take funding away from research to any material extent. The NIH, for example, estimates that the cost of its public access program would be $3.5 million if 100% of the 65,000 eligible manuscripts were deposited annually. That is a tiny fraction (about 0.01%) of the agency's $28 billion budget. It is also a small fraction of the $30 million per year the agency spends on page charges and other subsidies to subscription-based journals.... The organizations signing the letter are the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), American Library Association (ALA), Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL), Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Medical Library Association (MLA), and the Special Libraries Association (SLA), and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). Eight major North American Library Associations representing a vast majority of American and Canadian librarians are supporting open access. When will the Indian librarians lend their support to open access? When will they persuade the government - UGC, DST, DBT, CSIR, and other funding agencies and apex bodies - to mandate open access self-archiving of all publicly funded research? Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ---------------------------------- From Peter Suber's blog Library groups support FRPAA Eight major North American library associations have released their July 12 letter to Sen. Susan Collins in support of http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:s.02695: FRPAA . The letter will soon be online http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/scholarlycomm/action.htm here and http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/washingtonwatch/washingtonwatch.htm#… here . Meantime I'm quoting from a copy that John Ober sent as an attachment to the http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/scholarlycomm/scholcommdiscussion.htm ScholComm list. Excerpt: We write in strong support of the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 (S. 2695)....S. 2695 would promote widespread, affordable, and effective dissemination of scientific and scholarly research results. For this reason, we encourage the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs to conduct hearings on S. 2695. Federally funded research is a public resource collected at public expense. Importantly, increased access to this research accelerates the pace of discovery and innovation and fosters economic growth. It is critical that this new research be readily available to physicians, researchers, and members of the public, including those who are unaffiliated with or working in locations remote from libraries that subscribe to in increasingly expensive journals and databases developed from federally funded research. Indeed, results of a recent Harris Interactive poll show that the majority of U.S. adults believe that federally funded research findings should be available for free to doctors and the general public.... [T]he Internet offers an unprecedented and cost-effective means to accelerate scientific advancement. S. 2695 recognizes this potential and helps to facilitate its realization. Its key beneficiaries include: Scientists and scholars, whose research will be more broadly read and who will have fewer barriers to obtaining the research they need. Funders, who will gain from accelerated discovery, facilitation of interdisciplinary research methodologies, preservation of vital research findings, and an improved capacity to manage their research portfolios. Taxpayers, who will obtain economic and social benefits from the leveraging of their investment in scientific research through effects such as enhanced technology transfer, broader application of research to health care provision, and more informed policy development.... This legislation is not a threat to journals and the peer review process. The Federal Research Public Access Act contains two key provisions that protect journals and the peer review process: A delay of up to six months in providing access to articles via the public archive (versus immediate access for journal readers). Inclusion in the public archive of the authors final manuscript rather than the publishers formatted, paginated version preferred for citation purposes. In some disciplines, freely accessible online archives have proven to supplement journal readership, not replace it. In physics, for example.... If Congress were to pass S. 2695, the most significant day-to-day effect on investigators would be improved access to research and increased impact for their own work. A growing number of studies demonstrate that research is cited more often when it is openly accessible on the Web. The process by which investigators deposit their work is expected to be relatively simple. NIH, for example, estimates that submitting a manuscript to their archive usually takes an investigator just 310 minutes. This legislation will not take funding away from research to any material extent. The NIH, for example, estimates that the cost of its public access program would be $3.5 million if 100% of the 65,000 eligible manuscripts were deposited annually. That is a tiny fraction (about 0.01%) of the agency's $28 billion budget. It is also a small fraction of the $30 million per year the agency spends on page charges and other subsidies to subscription-based journals.... The organizations signing the letter are the American Association of Law Libraries ( http://www.aallnet.org/ AALL ), American Library Association ( http://www.ala.org/ ALA ), Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries ( http://www.aahsl.org/ AAHSL ), Association of College & Research Libraries ( http://www.ala.org/acrl/ ACRL ), Association of Research Libraries ( http://www.arl.org/ ARL ), Medical Library Association ( http://www.mlanet.org/ MLA ), and the Special Libraries Association ( http://www.sla.org/ SLA ), and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition ( http://www.arl.org/sparc/ SPARC ).

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Congrats to Stevan harnad
by Subbiah Arunachalam 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

Friends: Stevan Harnad has won an award for the best poem in English in a competition (for poems on science and technology) held at the recently held Euroscience Oen Forum, Munich. Here is the poem. Publish or Perish As Science is mere structured common sense (http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CAA38.htm) her means but trial-and-error made intense, the only virtue setting her apart, and raising her above (some think) mere Art, Is her convergence ever on consensus: collective, self-corrective her defenses. A flagellant, she boldly does defy Reality her schemes to falsify. And yet this noble jousting were in vain, and all this pain would yield no grain of gain if Science were content, a shrinking violet, her works from all the world 'ere to keep private. Instead, performance public and artistic, restraining all propensities autistic, perhaps less out of error-making dread, than banal need to earn her daily bread. For showbiz being what it is today, work's not enough, you've got to make it pay. What ratings, sweeps and polls count for our actors, no less than our elected benefactors, for Science the commensurate equation is not just publication but citation. The more your work is accessed, read and used, the higher then is reckoned its just dues. Sounds crass, but there may be some consolation, where there's still some residual motivation to make a difference, not just make a fee (http://openaccess.eprints.org/) the World Wide Web at last can make Science free. Stevan donated the 300 Euro he won to the Alliance for Taxpayer Access in the US so that, in his words "in a small way Euroscience (thanks to the Andrea von Braun Foundation) can lend a hand to promoting the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) in the United States. Subbiah Arunachalam Friends: Stevan Harnad has won an award for the best poem in English in a competition (for poems on science and technology) held at the recently held Euroscience Oen Forum, Munich. Here is the poem. Publish or Perish As Science is mere structured common sense ( http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CAA38.htm http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CAA38.htm ), her means but trial-and-error made intense, the only virtue setting her apart, and raising her above (some think) mere Art, Is her convergence ever on consensus: collective, self-corrective her defenses. A flagellant, she boldly does defy Reality her schemes to falsify. And yet this noble jousting were in vain, and all this pain would yield no grain of gain if Science were content, a shrinking violet, her works from all the world 'ere to keep private. Instead, performance public and artistic, restraining all propensities autistic, perhaps less out of error-making dread, than banal need to earn her daily bread. For showbiz being what it is today, work's not enough, you've got to make it pay. What ratings, sweeps and polls count for our actors, no less than our elected benefactors, for Science the commensurate equation is not just publication but citation. The more your work is accessed, read and used, the higher then is reckoned its just dues. Sounds crass, but there may be some consolation, where there's still some residual motivation to make a difference, not just make a fee ( http://openaccess.eprints.org/ http://openaccess.eprints.org/ ): the World Wide Web at last can make Science free. Stevan donated the 300 Euro he won to the Alliance for Taxpayer Access in the US so that, in his words "in a small way Euroscience (thanks to the Andrea von Braun Foundation) can lend a hand to promoting the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) in the United States. Subbiah Arunachalam

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Fwd: IFLA Knowledge Management Section newsletter now available!
by Bhojaraju G 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Karen Muller <kmuller(a)ala.org> Date: Jul 18, 2006 10:57 PM Subject: [KMDG-L] IFLA Knowledge Management Section newsletter now available! Colleagues-- The latest copy of the IFLA Knowledge Management Section newsletter, Issue no. 2, July 2006, is now available in PDF format from the IFLA website at the following location: http://www.ifla.org/VII/s47/pub/KM-Newsletter2.pdf For more information about the work of the IFLA Knowledge Management Section, please visit the IFLA website: http://www.ifla.org/VII/s47/index.htm Please accept my apologies for the cross-posting of this message. -- Karen Muller, MLS Librarian and Knowledge Management Specialist American Library Association 50 East Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 USA kmuller(a)ala.org Toll free: 1-800-545-2433 x 5031 Direct: 312-280-5031 Fax: 312-280-3255 http://www.ala.org/library A "Gathering at the Waters" Joint Conference of Librarians of Color (JCLC) October 11-15, 2006 in Dallas, TX. www.ala.org/jclc Regards Bhojaraju G Knowledge Management-Lead *********************************************************************************************************************************************************** Cognizant Technology Solutions | Techno Complex | 5/535, Old Mahabalipuram Road | Okkiyam | Thoraipakkam | Chennai – 600 096. Tel: +91 44 4209 6000 X: 8270 | VNET: 448279 | www.cognizant.com *********************************************************************************************************************************************************** KM Cyberary: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.html KM-Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhojarajug ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Karen Muller < mailto:kmuller@ala.org kmuller(a)ala.org > Date: Jul 18, 2006 10:57 PM Subject: [KMDG-L] IFLA Knowledge Management Section newsletter now available! Colleagues-- The latest copy of the IFLA Knowledge Management Section newsletter, Issue no. 2, July 2006, is now available in PDF format from the IFLA website at the following location: http://www.ifla.org/VII/s47/pub/KM-Newsletter2.pdf http://www.ifla.org/VII/s47/pub/KM-Newsletter2.pdf For more information about the work of the IFLA Knowledge Management Section, please visit the IFLA website: http://www.ifla.org/VII/s47/index.htm http://www.ifla.org/VII/s47/index.htm Please accept my apologies for the cross-posting of this message. -- Karen Muller, MLS Librarian and Knowledge Management Specialist American Library Association 50 East Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 USA mailto:kmuller@ala.org kmuller(a)ala.org Toll free: 1-800-545-2433 x 5031 Direct: 312-280-5031 Fax: 312-280-3255 http://www.ala.org/library http://www.ala.org/library A "Gathering at the Waters" Joint Conference of Librarians of Color (JCLC) October 11-15, 2006 in Dallas, TX. http://www.ala.org/jclc www.ala.org/jclc Regards Bhojaraju G Knowledge Management-Lead *********************************************************************************************************************************************************** Cognizant Technology Solutions | Techno Complex | 5/535, Old Mahabalipuram Road | Okkiyam | Thoraipakkam | Chennai – 600 096. Tel: +91 44 4209 6000 X: 8270 | VNET: 448279 | http://www.cognizant.com www.cognizant.com *********************************************************************************************************************************************************** KM Cyberary: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.html http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.html KM-Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhojarajug https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhojarajug

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Publications
by SRELS 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Dear Moderator : Kindly arrange to announce the publication of the following books by the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science for the benefit of Lis-Forum Members. Yours sincerely, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajianagar, Bangalore 560 054 1.. Natural Language Processing : An Information Access perspective by Dr. Kavi Narayana Murthy (xiv+371,HB; ISBN: 81-7000-485-3; Rs.850/-) This is an introductory book on Natural Language Processing, also known as Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering. This is a highly multi-disciplinary field, borrowing as it does, from such varied disciplines as Linguistics, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence. Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics and Engineering. This book is aimed at beginners in any of the related subjects. The book is written in simple, easy-reading, almost conversational style. No background is assumed. It is hoped that this book will be useful for all those interested in human language computing. The book covers foundations of natural language processing as also applications such as Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Text Categorization, Automatic Summarization and Machine Translation. Linguistic as well as statistical view points are included. Examples and illustrations are drawn from Indian Languages. Current state and future directions are indicated. There is enough material in the book to be used as a text book for a first course on the topic within library and information sciences, linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence and other related disciplines. Parts of the book should also be useful for more advanced courses. 2.. Computer Based Library Information Systems Designing Techniques Revised Edition by Prof. Madan Mohan Kashyap (xiii+521, HB; ISBN : 81-7000-484-5; Rs. 1175.00) The Purpose of this book - Computer Based Library Information Systems Designing Techniques (Revised Edition) is to give accounts of systems theory to help one to understand the process of systems analysis and design as well as design better information technology based systems in libraries: to describe the methodology for conducting systems study and to explain the use and application of systems analysis and design tools and techniques. This book is written, keeping in mind the practicising librarians who are faced with the responsibility of evaluating library programs and procedures to identify the problem areas, that is, the situations where there are gaps or deviations between what is expected, what could or should be and find means to bridge the gaps. The second audience to whom this book is addressed is the library and information science students who may join a course in Computer Application in Libraries. Library Systems Analysis and Design or Library Systems Study and re-engineering Technique and Library Database Design and Development Approach. For Copies, please contact : Ess Ess Publications 4837/24, Ansari Road Darya ganj NEW DELHI 110 002 tEL: 011) 23260807 ; Fax : (011) 23274173 E-mail : info2essessreference.com url: http://www.essessreference.com Dear Moderator : Kindly arrange to announce the publication of the following books by the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science for the benefit of Lis-Forum Members. Yours sincerely, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42 nd Cross, III Block, Rajajianagar, Bangalore 560 054 Natural Language Processing : An Information Access perspective by Dr. Kavi Narayana Murthy (xiv+371,HB; ISBN: 81-7000-485-3; Rs.850/-) This is an introductory book on Natural Language Processing, also known as Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering. This is a highly multi-disciplinary field, borrowing as it does, from such varied disciplines as Linguistics, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence. Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics and Engineering. This book is aimed at beginners in any of the related subjects. The book is written in simple, easy-reading, almost conversational style. No background is assumed. It is hoped that this book will be useful for all those interested in human language computing. The book covers foundations of natural language processing as also applications such as Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Text Categorization, Automatic Summarization and Machine Translation. Linguistic as well as statistical view points are included. Examples and illustrations are drawn from Indian Languages. Current state and future directions are indicated. There is enough material in the book to be used as a text book for a first course on the topic within library and information sciences, linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence and other related disciplines. Parts of the book should also be useful for more advanced courses. Computer Based Library Information Systems Designing Techniques Revised Edition by Prof. Madan Mohan Kashyap (xiii+521, HB; ISBN : 81-7000-484-5; Rs. 1175.00) The Purpose of this book Computer Based Library Information Systems Designing Techniques (Revised Edition) is to give accounts of systems theory to help one to understand the process of systems analysis and design as well as design better information technology based systems in libraries: to describe the methodology for conducting systems study and to explain the use and application of systems analysis and design tools and techniques. This book is written, keeping in mind the practicising librarians who are faced with the responsibility of evaluating library programs and procedures to identify the problem areas, that is, the situations where there are gaps or deviations between what is expected, what could or should be and find means to bridge the gaps. The second audience to whom this book is addressed is the library and information science students who may join a course in Computer Application in Libraries. Library Systems Analysis and Design or Library Systems Study and re-engineering Technique and Library Database Design and Development Approach. For Copies, please contact : Ess Ess Publications 4837/24, Ansari Road Darya ganj NEW DELHI 110 002 tEL: 011) 23260807 ; Fax : (011) 23274173 E-mail : info2essessreference.com url: http://www.essessreference.com http://www.essessreference.com

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ALA 2006 and Google
by Sukhdev Singh 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Some of you would like to know How Google is interested in libraries and librarians? They had just participated in American Library Association's annual conference in New Orleans. Check out some of the Movies at http://www.google.com/librariancenter/librarian_movies.html and well as at Google Video. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-894250368419059367&hl=en Enjoy Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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Open access to research papers gets a boost - The Hindu
by Sanjo Jose 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Please have a look on The Hindu about "Open access to research papers gets a boost" at http://www.hindu.com/seta/2006/07/20/stories/2006072000031400.htm Also have info on Blu-ray media in "Hands-on with high definition". at http://www.hindu.com/seta/2006/07/20/stories/2006072000041400.htm\ Sanjo Jose --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on Yahoo! Answers India. http://www.hindu.com/seta/2006/07/20/stories/2006072000031400.htm Also have info on Blu-ray media in "Hands-on with high definition". at http://www.hindu.com/seta/2006/07/20/stories/2006072000041400.htm\ Sanjo Jose Find out what India is talking about on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswersshare/*http://in.answers.yahoo.co… Yahoo! Answers India.

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Fwd: World Online Book Fair
by Bhojaraju G 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Dear All, Good news for book lovers. World's first Online Book Fair has started on 4 th July 06. This book fair will be for a month. E-books will be available for free access / download. Do not miss this opportunity! *http://worldebookfair.com/ * <http://worldebookfair.com/ > One can download the books from this site till Aug 4th, 2006. The World eBook Library Consortia Collection shelves more than 330,000 PDF eBooks in 100+ languages contained in 112 of the finest eBook and eDocument collections published on the Internet today. All the collections: http://worldebookfair.com/Collections.htm Technical E-Books: *http://worldebookfair.com/Technical_eBook_Colleciton.htm *<https://xnet.infosys.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://worldebookfair.co…> . Enjoy Reading.......... Thanks and Regards Bhojaraju G Knowledge Management-Lead ******************************************************************************************* KM Cyberary: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.html KM-Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhojarajug Skype Me: bhojarajug Dear All, Good news for book lovers. World's first Online Book Fair has started on 4 th July 06. This book fair will be for a month. E-books will be available for free access / download. Do not miss this opportunity ! http://worldebookfair.com/ http://worldebookfair.com/ One can download the books from this site till Aug 4 th , 2006. The World eBook Library Consortia Collection shelves more than 330,000 PDF eBooks in 100+ languages contained in 112 of the finest eBook and eDocument collections published on the Internet today. All the collections: http://worldebookfair.com/Collections.htm http://worldebookfair.com/Collections.htm Technical E-Books : https://xnet.infosys.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://worldebookfair.co… http://worldebookfair.com/Technical_eBook_Colleciton.htm . Enjoy Reading.......... Thanks and Regards Bhojaraju G Knowledge Management-Lead ******************************************************************************************* KM Cyberary: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.html http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.html KM-Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhojarajug https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhojarajug Skype Me: bhojarajug

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InfoNation: Choose a Career in Libraries
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:01:44 +0530 From: "Thapar, Amit" <amitt(a)niper.ac.in> http://www.cla.ca/infonation/welcome.htm Here's how the Canadians are recruiting people for the profession. Along with job descriptions and the skills for success, it offers real librarians ("trust us, you can't make this stuff up") talking about their work life, and a sampling of librarian blogs so people can see what issues librarians are talking about online. amit@urservice Cell: 9855701060 e-mail: amit_thapar(a)yahoo.com

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Prof. C N R Rao on the status of science in India (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:07:18 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> >From The Indian Express, New Delhi. [Prof. C N R Rao is the President of TWAS, a Fellow of the Royal society and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. He is the Chairman of the Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India.] 'The best of us in government consider science as a budget item, possibly a non-productive expenditure' [Posted online: Thursday, July 20, 2006 at 0000 hrs] The past few months have seen science and technology, in various forms and at various levels, under threat from government action and policy. It prompted a letter from Prof CNR Rao, chairman of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, to Manmohan Singh expressing his concerns on the situation and suggestions for improvement. We publish extracts from the letter: For full story, visit http://www.indianexpress.com/story/8817.html

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Bill Gates puts an OA condition on AIDS research grants
by Subbiah Arunachalam 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Friends: Bill Gates supports open access once again! But details are awaited. Arun ------ From Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News" Bill Gates puts an OA condition on AIDS research grants >From yesterday's press release from the Gates Foundation on a new funding program for an HIV/AIDS vaccine. Five central facilities will be established, including three laboratory networks for measuring the immune responses elicited by vaccine candidates, a research specimen repository, and a data and statistical management center. As a condition for receiving funding, the newly-funded vaccine discovery consortia have agreed to use the central facilities to test vaccine candidates, share information with other investigators, and compare results using standardized benchmarks....In addition, the grantees are developing global access plans to help ensure that their discoveries will be accessible and affordable for developing countries, where the vast majority of new HIV infections occur. Also see Marilyn Chase, Gates Won't Fund AIDS Researchers Unless They Pool Data, Wall Street Journal, July 20, 2006 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt: Frustrated that over two decades of research have failed to produce an AIDS vaccine, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates is tying his foundation's latest, biggest AIDS-vaccine grants to a radical concept: Those who get the money must first agree to share the results of their work in short order.... So far, attempts to come up with a vaccine that produces protective antibodies to block infection by the wily and shape-shifting AIDS virus have been a "miserable failure," says Nick Hellmann, interim director of HIV projects at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Now, Mr. Gates's family foundation is putting $287 million new, five-year grants behind the notion that pooling results can surmount the massive technical hurdles that have hindered individual, sometimes-competing efforts....Through such data sharing, Dr. Hellmann says, rival teams can build on successes, avoid pitfalls and eliminate redundancy. Even so, he says that a vaccine is "at least 10 years away."... Grant recipients and outside observers were unsure whether data-sharing requirements of the grants could pose potential legal or patent conflicts with Mr. Gates's vow to respect intellectual property. Foundation officials said this week researchers would still be free to commercialize their discoveries, but they must develop access plans for people in the developing world. The foundation declined to make its attorney available to address these concerns.... Enforced data sharing, Dr. [Steve] Self predicted, "increases the pace of discovery enormously rather than waiting for the process of writing formal journal articles, waiting for them to be published, and [confirmed] by other labs."... Peter Suber's Comment. Kudos to the Gates Foundation. This is a big step forward, recognizing the truth that OA accelerates research and applying the principle that the more knowledge matters, the more OA to that knowledge matters. I have some questions about the program, but I expect that answers will emerge shortly. It's pretty clear that the Gates Foundation will host its own OA repository and require grantees to deposit their data in it. It appears that the requirement will apply only to data, not to articles published in peer-reviewed journals. I'd welcome clarification on that. I can't tell what steps the foundation will take, if any, to insure data interoperability. I can't tell whether the free online access will be universal, limited to developing countries, or some of each for different kinds of information. I'll blog more as I learn more. Friends: Bill Gates supports open access once again! But details are awaited. Arun ------ From Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News" Bill Gates puts an OA condition on AIDS research grants >From yesterday's http://www.gatesfoundation.org/GlobalHealth/Pri_Diseases/HIVAIDS/Announceme… press release from the http://www.gatesfoundation.org/ Gates Foundation on a new funding program for an HIV/AIDS vaccine. Five central facilities will be established, including three laboratory networks for measuring the immune responses elicited by vaccine candidates, a research specimen repository, and a data and statistical management center. As a condition for receiving funding, the newly-funded vaccine discovery consortia have agreed to use the central facilities to test vaccine candidates, share information with other investigators, and compare results using standardized benchmarks....In addition, the grantees are developing global access plans to help ensure that their discoveries will be accessible and affordable for developing countries, where the vast majority of new HIV infections occur. Also see Marilyn Chase, http://online.wsj.com/google_login.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Fa… Gates Won't Fund AIDS Researchers Unless They Pool Data , Wall Street Journal , July 20, 2006 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt: Frustrated that over two decades of research have failed to produce an AIDS vaccine, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates is tying his foundation's latest, biggest AIDS-vaccine grants to a radical concept: Those who get the money must first agree to share the results of their work in short order.... So far, attempts to come up with a vaccine that produces protective antibodies to block infection by the wily and shape-shifting AIDS virus have been a "miserable failure," says Nick Hellmann, interim director of HIV projects at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Now, Mr. Gates's family foundation is putting $287 million new, five-year grants behind the notion that pooling results can surmount the massive technical hurdles that have hindered individual, sometimes-competing efforts....Through such data sharing, Dr. Hellmann says, rival teams can build on successes, avoid pitfalls and eliminate redundancy. Even so, he says that a vaccine is "at least 10 years away."... Grant recipients and outside observers were unsure whether data-sharing requirements of the grants could pose potential legal or patent conflicts with Mr. Gates's vow to respect intellectual property. Foundation officials said this week researchers would still be free to commercialize their discoveries, but they must develop access plans for people in the developing world. The foundation declined to make its attorney available to address these concerns.... Enforced data sharing, Dr. [Steve] Self predicted, "increases the pace of discovery enormously rather than waiting for the process of writing formal journal articles, waiting for them to be published, and [confirmed] by other labs."... Peter Suber's Comment . Kudos to the Gates Foundation. This is a big step forward, recognizing the truth that OA accelerates research and applying the principle that the more knowledge matters, the more OA to that knowledge matters . I have some questions about the program, but I expect that answers will emerge shortly. It's pretty clear that the Gates Foundation will host its own OA repository and require grantees to deposit their data in it. It appears that the requirement will apply only to data, not to articles published in peer-reviewed journals. I'd welcome clarification on that. I can't tell what steps the foundation will take, if any, to insure data interoperability. I can't tell whether the free online access will be universal, limited to developing countries, or some of each for different kinds of information. I'll blog more as I learn more.

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Re: Alma Swan elected to Euroscience governing board
by Subbiah Arunachalam 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Congratulations Alma! You now have one more forum through which to advance the cause of open access. Arun ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stevan Harnad" <harnad(a)ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> To: <JISC-REPOSITORIES(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 1:23 AM Subject: Alma Swan elected to Euroscience governing board > Reproduced from Peter Suber's Open Access News > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_07_16_fosblogarchive.html#115341867… > > Alma Swan elected to Euroscience governing board > > Alma Swan has been elected to the Governing Board of Euroscience (the > European Association for the Promotion of Science & Technology). > http://www.euroscience.org/ > > Her election was announced at the Euroscience Open Forum 2006, which > concluded in Munich yesterday. > http://www.esof2006.org/ > > (BTW, the meeting had an important session on OA, organized by > Hélène Bosc.) > http://www.esof2006.org/scientific_session_detail.php4?ID=146 > > Alma is a biologist-turned-consultant on scholarly > communication with a commitment to the advance of science and its > communication. Her studies of open access for Key Perspectives are > among the most important empirical studies of OA to date. > http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/openaccessarchive/reports.html > > Alma is also a member of Euroscience Working Group on Science > Publishing (convened by Hélène Bosc). > http://www.euroscience.org/WGROUPS/SC_PUBLISHING/index.htm > > Congratulations, Alma! > > Permanent link to this post Posted by Peter Suber at 7/20/2006 01:48:00 > PM. > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_07_16_fosblogarchive.html#115341867…

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What is the 1% rule?
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Dear Professionals You may find it interesting ! The Guardianhttp://www.guardian.co.uk What is the 1% rule? It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it. Consider, too, some statistics from that other community content generation project, Wikipedia: 50% of all Wikipedia article edits are done by 0.7% of users, and more than 70% of all articles have been written by just 1.8% of all users, according to the Church of the Customer blog (http://customerevangelists.typepad.com/blog/) Bradley Horowitz of Yahoo points out that much the same applies at Yahoo: in Yahoo Groups, the discussion lists, "1% of the user population might start a group; 10% of the user population might participate actively, and actually author content, whether starting a thread or responding to a thread-in-progress; 100% of the user population benefits from the activities of the above groups," So what's the conclusion? Only that you shouldn't expect too much online. Certainly, to echo Field of Dreams, if you build it, they will come. The trouble, as in real life, is finding the builders. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1823959,00.html?gusrc=rss ++ Mukesh ++ - - Mukesh Anand Monitor Information Services http://monitorlinks.typepad.com Dear Professionals You may find it interesting ! The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk What is the 1% rule? It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it. Consider, too, some statistics from that other community content generation project, Wikipedia: 50% of all Wikipedia article edits are done by 0.7% of users, and more than 70% of all articles have been written by just 1.8% of all users, according to the Church of the Customer blog ( http://customerevangelists.typepad.com/blog/ http://customerevangelists.typepad.com/blog/ ). Bradley Horowitz of Yahoo points out that much the same applies at Yahoo: in Yahoo Groups, the discussion lists, "1% of the user population might start a group; 10% of the user population might participate actively, and actually author content, whether starting a thread or responding to a thread-in-progress; 100% of the user population benefits from the activities of the above groups," So what's the conclusion? Only that you shouldn't expect too much online. Certainly, to echo Field of Dreams, if you build it, they will come. The trouble, as in real life, is finding the builders. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1823959,00.html?gusrc=rss http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1823959,00.html?gusrc=rss ++ Mukesh ++ - - Mukesh Anand Monitor Information Services http://monitorlinks.typepad.com http://monitorlinks.typepad.com

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New Journal: "Journal of 9/11 Studies" (Jun 2006+
by Puttaraj Choukimath 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Dear Friends, Greetings! New Journal Title : Journal of 9/11 Studies, Vol.1. Jun 2006. Editors : Prof. Steven E. Jones & Prof. Judy D. Wood. Availability : The Journal of 9/11 Studies is a peer-reviewed, open-access, electronic-only journal covering the whole of research related to 9/11/2001. All content is freely available online. Please Visit : http://www.journalof911studies.com/ Best Regards, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: puttuc(a)yahoo.com, choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: www.tiss.edu --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Next-gen email? Have it all with the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. Dear Friends, Greetings! New Journal Title : Journal of 9/11 Studies, Vol.1. Jun 2006. Editors : Prof. Steven E. Jones & Prof. Judy D. Wood. Availability : The Journal of 9/11 Studies is a peer-reviewed, open-access, electronic-only journal covering the whole of research related to 9/11/2001 . All content is freely available online. Please Visit : http://www.journalof911studies.com/ http://www.journalof911studies.com/ Best Regards, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: mailto:puttuc@yahoo.com puttuc(a)yahoo.com , mailto:choukimath@tiss.edu choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: http://www.tiss.edu www.tiss.edu Do you Yahoo!? Next-gen email? Have it all with the http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42241/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/handr… all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.

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Position Announcement for Library & Website Management Specialist
by Maruthu Pandian 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Dear Friends Position Announcement for Library & Website Management Specialist The Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC) is committed to address the needs of the urban poor by working with key partners to raise awareness and mobilizing resources for improving health of the urban poor. UHRC has been institutionalized from the USAID-supported Environmental Health Project (EHP India) and continues the program activities of EHP India with ongoing USAID support. The goal of UHRC is to bring about sustainable improvements in Maternal and Child Health conditions among the Urban Poor through a consultative and knowledge sharing approach in partnership with Government and Civil Society. A major component of UHRCs activity is to enhance attention on health of the urban poor among government and non-government agencies and academic institutions through increased dissemination of urban poor specific health information. Position - 1 : Library & Website Management Specialist UHRC is looking for a dynamic individual to manage its Library & Information Centre and website. UHRC Library has a growing collection of urban health related literature. UHRC website available at www.uhrc.in is a favored location of researchers and program planners related to various aspects of urban health. Key Responsibility: Ø The incumbent will be managing the library, Ø Providing information services to UHRC staff, Ø Assisting in publication of UHRC reports, Ø Disseminating UHRC publications widely through print and electronic media, Ø Periodically update and maintain the website, prepare e-newsletters, etc. Essential Qualification & Skills The right candidate should be a post-graduate, preferably in Public Health/Social Science, with a degree in Library and Information Science or AIS from NISCAIR. He/she should have basic understanding of content management systems and open source software. He/she should be a team player with good verbal and written communication skills. Experience 2 year+ experience working in library/information management/website management, preferably in development sector Compensation: Gross cost to the organization ranging from Rs.18,000/-pm to Rs.21,000/-pm based on qualification and experience. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Applications can be sent by email to jobs(a)uhrc.in or by post to Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC), F 9/4 Vasant Vihar, New Delhi 110057 latest by July 30,2006. With Regards, Maruthu Pandian, B Urban Health Resource Centre F-9/4, Vasant Vihar New Delhi-57 Ph:011-4101 0920,4101 0921(Ext.245) Fax:011-4166 9281 --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on Yahoo! Answers India. Position Announcement for Library & Website Management Specialist The Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC) is committed to address the needs of the urban poor by working with key partners to raise awareness and mobilizing resources for improving health of the urban poor. UHRC has been institutionalized from the USAID-supported Environmental Health Project (EHP India) and continues the program activities of EHP India with ongoing USAID support. The goal of UHRC is to bring about sustainable improvements in Maternal and Child Health conditions among the Urban Poor through a consultative and knowledge sharing approach in partnership with Government and Civil Society. A major component of UHRCs activity is to enhance attention on health of the urban poor among government and non-government agencies and academic institutions through increased dissemination of urban poor specific health information. Position - 1 : Library & Website Management Specialist UHRC is looking for a dynamic individual to manage its Library & Information Centre and website. UHRC Library has a growing collection of urban health related literature. UHRC website available at www.uhrc.in is a favored location of researchers and program planners related to various aspects of urban health. Key Responsibility: Ø The incumbent will be managing the library, Ø Providing information services to UHRC staff, Ø Assisting in publication of UHRC reports, Ø Disseminating UHRC publications widely through print and electronic media, Ø Periodically update and maintain the website, prepare e-newsletters, etc. Essential Qualification & Skills The right candidate should be a post-graduate, preferably in Public Health/Social Science, with a degree in Library and Information Science or AIS from NISCAIR. He/she should have basic understanding of content management systems and open source software. He/she should be a team player with good verbal and written communication skills. Experience 2 year+ experience working in library/information management/website management, preferably in development sector Compensation: Gross cost to the organization ranging from Rs.18,000/-pm to Rs.21,000/-pm based on qualification and experience. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Applications can be sent by email to jobs(a)uhrc.in or by post to Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC), F 9/4 Vasant Vihar, New Delhi 110057 latest by July 30,2006. With Regards, Maruthu Pandian, B Urban Health Resource Centre F-9/4, Vasant Vihar New Delhi-57 Ph:011-4101 0920,4101 0921(Ext.245) Fax:011-4166 9281 Find out what India is talking about on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswersshare/*http://in.answers.yahoo.co… Yahoo! Answers India.

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Need some info....
by Parinita Samant 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Dear All, Here's a question I would like to have an answer to: Say, you are on a short (2 hrs) or a long (20 hrs) flight / train / car etc journey. How would you like to, or how would you spend your time? I am planning to build a separate section for our frequent travelers, and need ideas for building this collection. Could you help? Thanks & Regards Parinita Samant *************************************************************************************************************************** This e-mail communication and any attachments may be privileged and confidential to Hexaware and are intended only for the use of the recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not review, disclose, disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and attachments. If you have received this email in error, please delete the same alongwith all attachments thereto and notify us immediately at mailadmin(a)hexaware.com . *************************************************************************************************************************** Need some info.... Dear All, Here’s a question I would like to have an answer to : Say, y ou are on a short (2 hrs) or a long (20 hrs) f light / train / car etc journey. How would you like to , or how would you spend your time? I am planning to build a separate section for our frequent travelers , and need ideas for building this collection. Could you help? [A] Thanks &� Regards � Parinita Samant *************************************************************************************************************************** This e-mail communication and any attachments may be privileged and confidential to Hexaware and are intended only for the use of the recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not review, disclose, disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and attachments. If you have received this email in error, please delete the same alongwith all attachments thereto and notify us immediately at mailadmin(a)hexaware.com . ***************************************************************************************************************************

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Request for MBA (E-commerce) Syllabus
by Dabas Bharat K 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Dear Sir/Madam, Good Morning! Our university is planning to start MBA (E-commerce). If any of the institute is presently running the course is requested to send a soft copy of the syllabus to help us in framing a competitive and up-to-date syllabus. With great thanks and regards! Bharat Kumar Librarian Mody Institute of Technology & Science Lakshmangarh â 332311, Disst â Sikar, Rajasthan Phone no - 01573-225001-12 (12 Lines) Ext 283 (M) +91-9414390757 Bharat Kumar Librarian Mody Institute of Technology & Science (A Deemed University u/s 3 of the UGC Act 1956) Lakshmangarh - 332311. Disst - Sikar. Rajasthan. India. Phone No - (O) +91-1573-225001-12 Ext-283 (M) +91-9414390757 --------------------------------- Groups are talking. We´re listening. Check out the handy changes to Yahoo! Groups. Dear Sir/Madam, Good Morning! Our university is planning to start MBA (E-commerce). If any of the institute is presently running the course is requested to send a soft copy of the syllabus to help us in framing a competitive and up-to-date syllabus. With great thanks and regards! Bharat Kumar Librarian Mody Institute of Technology & Science Lakshmangarh â 332311, Disst â Sikar, Rajasthan Phone no - 01573-225001-12 (12 Lines) Ext 283 (M) +91-9414390757 B harat Kumar Librarian Mody Institute of Technology & Science (A Deemed University u/s 3 of the UGC Act 1956) Lakshmangarh - 332311. Disst - Sikar. Rajasthan. India. Phone No - (O) +91-1573-225001-12 Ext-283 (M) +91-9414390757 Groups are talking. We´re listening. Check out the http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=41144/*http://groups.yahoo.… handy changes to Yahoo! Groups.

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Refresher Course
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:39:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Pijushkanti Panigrahi <panigrahipk(a)yahoo.com> Department of Library and Information Science, University of Calcutta UGC-Academic Staff College, University of Calcutta is going to organize a refresher course on Academic Library Services : Today and Tomorrow during September 01-21, 2006 at the Department of Library & Information Science, 3rd Floor Asutosh Building, University of Calcutta, 87/1 College Street, Kolkata. All eligible and interested Librarians/ Asstt Librarians/ Lecturers are advised to apply directly on prescribed Application form (downloadable from http://www.geocities.com/ugc_asc_cu/selected.htm) to: The Director Academic Staff College, University of Calcutta, Rajabazar science College, 92 A P C Road, Kolkata immediately. Prof Arjun Dasgupta Dr Pijushkanti Panigrahi Co ordinators, DLISc, Cacutta University Dr Pijushkanti Panigrahi, Reader, Dept of Lib and Inf Science, University of Calcutta, 87/1 College Street,Kolkata - 700 073, West Bengal, India, email : panigrahipk(a)yahoo.com, Res : Qtr No. C1/78 IIT Campus, Kharagpur - 721 302, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India, Ph : +91 (03222) 278852 (M) : +91 94342 43522.

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Open access
by Thapar, Amit 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Dear friends, An article with title: " open access to research papers gets a boost" published today in The Hindu, 20th July, 2006 at Pg. 17. amit@urservice Cell: 9855701060 e-mail: amit_thapar(a)yahoo.com Dear friends, An article with title: " open access to research papers gets a boost" published today in The Hindu, 20th July, 2006 at Pg. 17. mailto:amit@urservice amit@urservice Cell: 9855701060 e-mail: mailto:amit_thapar@yahoo.com amit_thapar(a)yahoo.com

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LIBRARY OF THE FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PONDICHERRY
by saravanan 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Hi all, LIBRARY OF THE FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PONDICHERRY Among the resources that the French Institute of Pondicherry (FIP) offers to the researcher or visitor is an extensive collection of documents consisting of: · 55 000 books · 800 journals of which over 300 are received currently · 320 microfilms · 160 videocassettes · 8 600 manuscripts on palm-leaf · 1 144 transcripts of manuscripts on paper relating to three specialized domains: Indology, Social Sciences and Ecology, within the context of South Asia and more particularly of India. Contacting the library Address: Library, French Institute of Pondicherry, 11, St. Louis Street, P.B. 33, Pondicherry-605 001. Phone: (91)-413-2334168/2331307. Fax: (91)-413-2339534. E-mail: library(a)ifpindia.org, Web : www.ifpindia.org Timings: Mondays to Fridays 8.30 am to 12.30 am and 2 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. The library is closed on holidays as fixed by the French Institute of Pondicherry as well as during the Institute's month-long annual vacations, usually in May. Thanking you, Yours sincerely, G. Saravanan Librarian French Institute of Pondicherry 11, Saint Louis Street, P.B. 33 PONDICHERRY - 605 001 South India, INDIA Ph: 0091 - 413 - 2334168 Extn. 126/139 Fax: 0091 - 413 2339534 Mail : saravanan.g(a)ifpindia.org Web : www.ifpindia.org Hi all, LIBRARY OF THE FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PONDICHERRY Among the resources that the French Institute of Pondicherry (FIP) offers to the researcher or visitor is an extensive collection of documents consisting of: · 55 000 books · 800 journals of which over 300 are received currently · 320 microfilms · 160 videocassettes · 8 600 manuscripts on palm-leaf · 1 144 transcripts of manuscripts on paper relating to three specialized domains: Indology, Social Sciences and Ecology, within the context of South Asia and more particularly of India. Contacting the library Address : Library, French Institute of Pondicherry, 11, St. Louis Street, P.B. 33, Pondicherry-605 001. Phone: (91)-413-2334168/2331307. Fax: (91)-413-2339534. E-mail: mailto:library@ifpindia.org library(a)ifpindia.org , Web : http://www.ifpindia.org www.ifpindia.org Timings : Mondays to Fridays 8.30 am to 12.30 am and 2 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. The library is closed on holidays as fixed by the French Institute of Pondicherry as well as during the Institute's month-long annual vacations, usually in May. Thanking you, Yours sincerely, G. Saravanan Librarian French Institute of Pondicherry 11, Saint Louis Street, P.B. 33 PONDICHERRY - 605 001 South India, INDIA Ph: 0091 - 413 - 2334168 Extn. 126/139 Fax: 0091 - 413 2339534 Mail : mailto:saravanan.g@ifpindia.org saravanan.g(a)ifpindia.org Web : http://www.ifpindia.org www.ifpindia.org

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help to find address of EA Ramaswamy
by Manjunath K 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

Hello professionals, Our director needs to contact Prof. EA Ramaswamy, expert in labour and trade unions written many books on labour. I could not able to trace his address and email id. Please help me if you know his address and email id. Manjunath ______________________________________ Dr. Manjunatha K Librarian T.A. Pai Management Institute Manipal - 576 104, Udupi Dist, Karnataka,India Ph: 91-0820-2573551(off), 2575161(res) manjunath(a)mail.tapmi.org; manju_tapmi(a)yahoo.com ______________________________________  Hello professionals, � Our director needs to contact Prof. EA Ramaswamy, expert in labour and trade unions written many books on labour. I could not able to trace his address and email id. � Please help me if you know his address and email id. � � Manjunath ______________________________________ Dr. Manjunatha K Librarian T.A. Pai Management Institute Manipal - 576 104, Udupi Dist, Karnataka , India Ph: 91-0820-2573551(off), 2575161(res) mailto:manjunath@mail.tapmi.org manjunath(a)mail.tapmi.org ; mailto:manju_tapmi@yahoo.com manju_tapmi(a)yahoo.com ______________________________________ � �

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fyi: World Affairs (Q) ... now on the Web...
by Puttaraj Choukimath 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

Dear Friends, Greetings! World Affairs (Q) published by Mr.JC Kapoor from New Delhi is now available on the Web (fulltext content only to the subscribers). Please visit: http://www.worldaffairsjournal.com/index.htm Best regards, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: puttuc(a)yahoo.com, choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: www.tiss.edu --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. Dear Friends, Greetings! World Affairs (Q) published by Mr.JC Kapoor from New Delhi is now available on the Web (fulltext content only to the subscribers). Please visit: http://www.worldaffairsjournal.com/index.htm http://www.worldaffairsjournal.com/index.htm Best regards, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: mailto:puttuc@yahoo.com puttuc(a)yahoo.com , mailto:choukimath@tiss.edu choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: http://www.tiss.edu www.tiss.edu Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman1/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.

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Free Access of Information Science Journals
by madhuresh.singhal 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

Dear All, Sage publication - official publisher of the IFLA journal - is offering FREE ACCESS to the IFLA Journal and our other Information Science journals until 30th September 2006. The journals, for which all contents are accessible, are The IFLA Journal Journal of Information Science Journal of Librarianship and Information Science Business Information Review Information Development You may like to use this oppurtunity. Go to the website https://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register?registration=FT6636 and register there. Regards Madhuresh Singhal Assoc. Res. Scientist - Inf. Sc. Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. 21 & 22, Phase 2, Peenya Industrial Area, Bangalore - 560058 Mobile 098861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/ ************************************************************************************************ This email and its attachments are confidential and proprietary to Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. and are meant for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient, do not take any actions based on the contents of this message, except to permanently delete the message and its attachments and inform the sender immediately. ************************************************************************************************ Dear All, Sage publication - official publisher of the IFLA journal - is offering FREE ACCESS to the IFLA Journal and our other Information Science journals until 30th September 2006. The journals, for which all contents are accessible, are The IFLA Journal Journal of Information Science Journal of Librarianship and Information Science Business Information Review Information Development You may like to use this oppurtunity. Go to the website https://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register?registration=FT6636 https://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register?registration=FT6636 and register there. Regards Madhuresh Singhal Assoc. Res. Scientist - Inf. Sc. Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. 21 & 22, Phase 2, Peenya Industrial Area, Bangalore - 560058 Mobile 098861 82822 E-mail: mailto:madhureshsinghal@yahoo.com madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/ http://nettalk2.tripod.com/ ************************************************************************************************ This email and its attachments are confidential and proprietary to Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. and are meant for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient, do not take any actions based on the contents of this message, except to permanently delete the message and its attachments and inform the sender immediately. ************************************************************************************************

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Theses on Benchmarking
by Chitra P Rao 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

Hello All: I would greatly apprecite your help if you could let me know where I can get Theses on Benchmarking, In Library field or any other. If such a these exits in your library I request you to kindly send me the contents page by post. My address is Chitra P rao NITIE Vihar Lake Road Mumbai 400 087. Hope to get a quick and positive response. Sr Librarian and Head LIS NITIE Mumbai 400 087 ph: 28573371 extn 337

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Scale of college library professionals & other query.
by Vandana Khandelwal 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

Hello friends I would like to introduce my self I am Vandana Khandelwal working as a librarian in Maharashtra Academy of Engineering, Alandi. I have a few queries for which I need your help there as follows : - 1. I need information regarding scale (scale with yearly increment) of college library professionals like : assistant librarian, library assistant, library clerk, book lifter. 2. Website for low price editions and Indian publishers. 3. I need a list of Indian journals only (not magazine/periodical) from the field of Electronics, Computer, Chemical, Electronics & Telecommunication, Mechanical, Civil engineering as well as Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry. 4. I want to purchase a portrait of Dr. Ranganathan and other scientist related to the field of science and technology. 5. Good quotations (good saying). Thanks & regards Mrs. Vandana Khandelwal Librarian __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Seminar on E-Publishing & Global Promotion of Indian Publications - Proceedings
by Mailing List Manager 18 Jul '06

18 Jul '06

Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:40:42 +0530 From: Chandrima Roy <croy(a)docdelserv.com> Dear All, We are pleased to inform you that the proceedings of our recent Seminar on "E-Publishing & Global Promotion of Indian Publications"(held on 1st July, 2006 at NITIE, Powai, Mumbai) have been uploaded on our Website www.indianjournals.com <http://www.indianjournals.com/> . Kindly click on the link below to view the proceedings: http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=event_1july2006 We appreciate the overwhelming response towards e-publishing and extend our thanks to all the participants for making the event a success. With Regards :-) Chandrima Roy Divan Enterprises B-9, Basement, "A" Block, Local Shopping Complex Naraina Vihar, Ring Road New Delhi - 110028 Tel: +91-11-25770411 Fax: +91-11-25778876 Email: croy(a)docdelserv.com croy(a)indianjournals.com Website: http://www.docdelserv.com http://www.indianjournals.com

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Lecture Notice
by Ratnakar Aspari 18 Jul '06

18 Jul '06

Kindly circulate the following lecture invitation among lis-forum members. A. Ratnakar New Delhi LECTURE PROGRAMME Speaker : Ms. Nobuko Miyairi Senior Information Analyst Thomson Scientific, Japan Topic : Importance of Citation Indexing and Citation Data Venue : Conference Hall (II Floor) Indian Council of Medical Research Ramalingaswami Bhavan Ansari Nagar New Delhi Date : 24 th July 2006 Time : 3.00 PM ALL ARE WELCOME RSVP : Dr. K. Satyanarayana Telephone: (011) 26589258 __________________________ About the Speaker : Ms. Miyairi is a post graduate in Library & Information Science from University of Hawaii at Manoa. After serving as Librarian, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Library, Tokyo between 1991-1999 and as Asst. Librarian for Electronic Resources Management, Hamilton Library, University of Hawaii at Manoa, she joined Thomson Scientific as Information Analyst in 2003. Her research interests are : Bibliometric analysis for research performance evaluation, Science and Technology indicators and forecasting programmes by governments, Information architecture of bibliographic databases, Information Processing and dissemination in scholarly communication, and Information seeking behaviours in human-machine interaction.

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Fw: [digilib_india] Training program on INFORMATION: 8 places free for STIMULATE6
by K Prakash 18 Jul '06

18 Jul '06

----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Nieuwenhuysen" <pnieuwen(a)vub.ac.be> To: <stimulate(a)vub.ac.be> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 3:46 PM Subject: [digilib_india] Training program on INFORMATION: 8 places free for STIMULATE6 > > > An International Training Program on "INFORMATION": > > > STIMULATE > = Scientific and Technological Information Management in Universities and > Libraries: > an Active Training Environment > (Edition 6) > > > Announcement > > > Information about this training program can be found on the WWW starting from: > http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/itp/ > The program is planned to take place mainly in Brussels, Belgium, > from Monday morning October 2 to Thursday evening December 21, 2006. > Language used is English. > > > > > > Context and evolution of the program: > > The initiative has been approved by the Flemish Interuniversity Council > (VLIR) and is sponsored by the Belgian Government (the directorate named > DGOS since December 2002). This fits in a series of similar international > training activities that have been organized since 1991, named MIST 1, 2, > 3, KNOW-HOW, and STIMULATE 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. > This initiative is aimed primarily at persons with a university degree > (Bachelor or Master), who work in universities, information and > documentation centers, and libraries, including of course university > libraries, and who have a few years of practical experience. > The term Active Training Environment in the title of the training program > reflects our wish to create an environment in which each participant is > stimulated to get involved actively, supported by the lecturers and the > infrastructure provided by the training program. This fits well into the > general, worldwide trend away from "teaching" to "learning management". > > > > > > Aim / goal of the training program: > > The main aim and goal of this International Training Program is to offer a > stimulating learning environment to the participants. These are young > scientists and professionals who have a function as information > intermediary in the area of science and technology, so as to sharpen their > skills in collecting, storing, retrieving, presenting and managing > information. This can be of great benefit to the teaching and research > activities going on in their institute and to the further development of > their organisation and region. > This initiative corresponds well with the basic, general aim of all VLIR > the International Training Programs: to train young scientists and > professionals from developing countries in a domain that is relevant for > the further development of the country, and to stimulate the participants > to transfer their increased knowledge and skills to their colleagues and > other stakeholders in their home country. > > > > > > More specific objectives of the training program: > > -- to provide participants with a clearer view on the importance of > information in general and for their environment in particular, and on how > to manage information: > summarised: "Management in libraries and information centers" > -- to learn the participants to cope with modern technology, in view of the > increasing importance of ICT; > summarised: "Information and communication technology for libraries and > information centers" > -- to guide them in retrieving information that is publicly accessible on > an international scale: > summarised: "Information retrieval/searching" > and > -- to learn them to store, organise, present, manage, publish information > resources at personal, institutional, regional or national level: > summarised: "Information architecture" > > After being actively involved in this International Training Program, every > participant will have improved the ability > -- to appreciate and explain the importance of access to information for > their organisation > -- to present information to users and potential users, using appropriate > information technology > -- to train interested persons in the use and management of information, > using appropriate presentation techniques > -- to contribute to the planning of the (further) development of an > information service > -- to communicate through the Internet with users of information, > information providers, colleagues,. > -- to apply quantitative methods in decision making related to information > systems and services > -- to retrieve information from the Internet > -- to store information for later retrieval and access by potential users, > using information technology > > > > > > Contents of the program: > > The sessions are organised in such a way that > --the first month = introduction level, > --the second month = intermediate level, and > --the third month = more advanced level. > Thanks to this approach and organisation, it may make sense to participate > exceptionally during only one or two of the three months, depending on > expertise. However, the available scholarships are granted only to persons > who will participate for the full three months. > To start with, the participants are offered an orientation tour of the > University and the Library. Then some of the following subjects are > covered. Of course, due to the limited available time, not all the > mentioned subjects can be discussed in each training program, but a > SELECTION will be made by the organisers. The concrete content of each > training program depends on the availability of suitable expert lecturers > from Belgium and from abroad during the period of the training program. As > soon as possible, the concrete schedule is made available through the WWW > site of the program. > > > > > > 1. Management in libraries and information centers: > > Statistics to support decision making for information science and for > library management. > Business plans for libraries and information centers. > Using spreadsheets in the management of libraries and information centers. > Collection development. > Consortia of libraries for the acquisition of electronic journals and > databases. > Scientific writing methods. > ISBD = International Standard Bibliographic Description. > Formats for computer-based cataloguing; MARC formats. > National libraries and national bibliographies. > Knowledge organisation: subject classification schemes; thesaurus systems, > ontologies. > Citation analysis. > Assessing the influence of scientific journals; citations and impact factors. > The bibliometric laws. > Scientometrics. > Architecture of libraries and information centers. > Orientation of information users; relations with information users. > Interlibrary lending and co-operation; document delivery. > Development of a national or regional information network. > The information society. > Cultural aspects of the information society and information technology > transfer. > Copyright; information security; trans-border data flow. > Writing a project proposal (for instance related to the establishment of an > information network). > Conservation/preservation of printed documents. > Conservation/preservation of digital documents. > Informetric aspects of the Internet. > Artificial intelligence and knowledge representation in information science. > Electronic journals: implementation in a library. > Integration of e-learning environments and library services. > Libraries involvement in scientific publishing. > International co-operation projects. > > > > > > 2. Information and communication technology for libraries and information > centers: > > Microcomputer systems: evolution of hardware. > Disks for computers. > CD-ROM. > CD-ROM in a local area network. > CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW. > Microcomputer operating systems. > Microcomputer systems: applications software. > Text editing; word processing; desktop publishing. > Presentation of data, using a microcomputer. > Creating charts to present information. > Image processing; graphics file formats; photo/image editing. > Multimedia / Hypermedia. > Data communication; computer networks; Internet. > Internet services. > Client-server systems. > Electronic mail. > World-Wide Web; hypertext and hypermedia. > Data-communications networks and librarians. > Selecting and procuring a computer system; writing a proposal for a > computer implementation. > Providing access to information through public Internet workstations. > Methods for access to databases through Internet: telnet, http/WWW, Z39.50 > and ISO239.50, Open Archives Initiative - Metadata Harvesting Protocol. > > > > > > 3. Information retrieval/searching: > > Introductory concepts about information. > Internet-based information resources: introduction. > Bibliographic databases. > The information industry and the information market. > Online information retrieval and database searching; search tactics and > strategies. > Internet search engines. > Information available free of charge; open access. > Online access databases about journal articles. > Electronic newsletters and journals. > Computer-network based interest groups. > Patent information. > Online systems versus CD-ROM. > Citation searching. > Theoretical and quantitative aspects of information retrieval. > Evaluating the quality of information sources. > Evaluation of information retrieval strategies and systems. > > > > > > 4. Information architecture: > > Basic, fundamental, theoretical concepts. > Software packages for local storage and retrieval of bibliographic information. > Introduction to the ISIS software package family for information storage > and retrieval. > The application of ISIS: searching, editing data in a database, output of > selected data to file or printer; developing a database structure; indexing > data for fast retrieval; ISIS for Windows; WINISIS; history and future of > ISIS; programming in ISIS. > Formats: MARC; application of MARC in ISIS. > Databases (and ISIS in particular) through the WWW. > Downloading of information and record format conversion. > Relational databases. > Library automation. > Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs). > Archives and records management. > Archives in the domain of science and technology. > Geographic Information Systems (GIS): an introduction. > Developing a web site; HTML, CSS, XML, XSL; intranets; developing an intranet. > Evaluating web sites. > Dynamic web pages. > Developing co-operative community WWW sites; Web contents management systems. > Setting up an electronic newsletter. > Extensions of the classical WWW. (Client-based and server-based). > > > > > > Study visits: > > In addition to the courses taking place at the university campus, study > visits are organised. > A selection from the following possible visits is made: > --to the Royal (National) Library, in Brussels, Belgium > --to the European Patent Office in Brussels, Belgium > --to the Information Service of the Geology Department of the Royal Museum > on Africa, in Tervuren near Brussels, Belgium > --to the inter-university postgraduate school on information and library > science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium > --to the library of the University of Antwerp, Belgium > --to the human sciences library of the University of Antwerp in old Antwerp > city, Belgium > --to the old central library and to the modern science and technology > library of the KUL (university) in Leuven, Belgium > --to the VLIZ marine science information and documentation centre near the > sea coast in Oostende / Ostend, Belgium > --to the library of the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerpen > / Antwerp, Belgium > --to the central library of the University of Gent / Ghent, Belgium > --to the Documentation Department of the KIT (the Royal Tropical > Institute), and to the high school on libraries, documentation and > information, both in Amsterdam, Nederland / The Netherlands > --to the headquarters of IFLA and to the National, Royal Library in Den > Haag / The Hague, in Nederland / The Netherlands > --to the Institute for Social Studies (ISS) in Den Haag / The Hague, in > Nederland / The Netherlands > More culturally oriented guided visits are also organised; these may > include trips to the old cities of Brussels, Antwerp, Bruges, Amsterdam, > Paris, and to the North Sea coast. > Short after the start of the program, each participant presents to the > other participants and to interested lecturers his/her interests, working > environment, planning, tasks, experience. This is organised with printed > posters in a small poster exhibition with time allotted for stimulating and > ice-breaking discussions. > At the end of the course, each participant completes a presentation > supported by slides managed on computer, with constructive comments on the > training program experienced and with concrete recommendations to the > organisers of this training program and to the director of their own > organisation. > > About half of the time, the participants are guided by experts who are > invited to the university. They use the other half time to solve problems, > to make exercises, to use microcomputers and the Internet, to prepare > discussions, for self study... > Besides the formal, guided course activities, the participants have access > like any regular student at our university > --to several rooms equipped with microcomputers connected to the Internet, > --to the university library which offers printed material, CD-ROMs and PCs > with Internet access, > --to the university restaurant and to sport facilities at low student prices. > > At the end of the program all participants obtain a certificate stating > that they have indeed participated, with a reference to the full detailed > overview of the program contents on the WWW site of the program. > Several substantial parts of the program are followed by an evaluation by > the responsible expert of the knowledge and skills acquired by each > participant; this can lead to a certificate of active and successful > participation. > > Participants should of course bring a notebook or laptop computer, if they > have one available. > Ideally they should buy or rent a personal notebook computer as soon as > they arrive, assisted by the program organisers. > > > > > > Poster session by participants: > > Each participant is expected to create a poster about ongoing activities in > their home institution. This poster is presented in a poster session early > in the program. In this way, participants and professors get to know each > other efficiently and the participants learn to present information in the > format of a scientific poster. Therefore, participants are encouraged to > bring supporting materials like folders, leaflets, photos, maps, etc. for > inclusion in their poster. > > > > > > Scientific tutorial presentations by participants: > > Each participant is expected to present a tutorial of maximum half an hour > to the other participants, about one aspect of their expertise, during the > program. The aims are that participants improve their presentation and > teaching skills, that they share their knowledge with the other > participants, that participants get to know each other better, that they > form a basis for possible later co-operation etc. > > > > > > Social activities planned: > > -- Welcome reception with drinks and appetizers (on the first evening of > the program) > -- Evening with the possibility to taste some of the world famous Belgian > beers and some Belgian food. > -- Farewell gathering with drinks and snacks (on the final evening of the > program) > > > > > > Participation and registration; tuition fee and costs: > > The cost of living in Belgium is not exceptional. > > > > > > Normal registration: > > Besides the persons who receive a grant from the Belgian Government through > VLIR, 8 persons can participate after paying a tuition fee that is small in > comparison with similar programs. > The costs mentioned do NOT include air travel, meals and accommodation, but > do include transport from the airport upon arrival, course materials, study > visits and social activities. > -To participate during the full period: 2400 Euro > -Exceptionally, persons who cannot participate for the whole period can > nevertheless participate during 2 months only (1800 Euro) or during 1 month > only (1000 Euro). It makes sense to attend for instance the first month or > the first two months only. It makes less sense to participate only during > the second or the third month, as introductions to some activities or > topics may be missed. > -To participate to particular items selected from the program: 30 Euro per > half day. > To register and pay the tuition fee, send the form (see below) by classical > mail together with an international bank transfer / bank cheque / bank > draft, payable to > University Library V.U.B., Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 BRUSSEL, Belgium, > with no need for any bank account numbers. > If however this simple procedure is NOT suitable for you, then you can > transfer the required sum of money to the following bank account of the V.U.B.: > Fortis Bank located at Warandeberg 3 in B-1000 Brussel, Belgium, > account number 001-0686459-66 or IBAN = BE07 0010 6864 5966 > and do not forget (!) to mention as a remark: for WD006240 BIBL WER3 > The money received by the VUB must be transferred internally to this account. > (Without your remark, the money may be not retraceable and lost.) > > There is no formal deadline. However, we recommend you to register as early > as possible, because "first come, first served": the arrival of your > participation fee determines who can participate. > > There is NO need to "apply" prior to the registration, to request > permission to participate from the organizers of the program or from their > universities. The decision if the program is suitable and appropriate for > an interested person is to be made by that person and not by the organizers. > > It is a waste of time to ask the organisers of the program about sponsors > besides VLIR mentioned above. > > > > > Medical insurance: > > It is recommended that participants are covered during their stay by a full > medical insurance. > This costs 40 euro per month, if you want that the program organisers take > care of this; in that case this should be arranged as soon as possible > after arrival in Belgium, with the secretariat of the program. > > > > > > Accommodation: > > The organisers of this program normally book in advance a single, cheap, > basic room with access to a shared kitchen, as accommodation for each > participant, unless a participant writes us that he/she wants to take care > of accommodation personally, for instance by staying with a friend or by > renting a room that offers more luxury. > Participants pay for their accommodation directly to the person or > organisation providing accommodation in Brussels, as soon as they arrive in > Belgium. If we can book many weeks in advance, then we can normally find > basic accommodation for about 300 euro per month, meals not included; > however, a late receipt of the tuition fee forces us probably to book a > more expensive room. > > > > > > How to contact the organizers? > > E-mail (Internet): stimulate at vub.ac.be (or in case that this does not > seem to work, to Paul.Nieuwenhuysen at vub.ac.be) > (change at in @ when you want to use an address) > Fax 32 2 629 2693 (or 2282) > Tel. 32 2 629 2629 or 32 2 629 2429 or 32 2 629 2609 > Telex 61051 vubco-b > Classical mail: > STIMULATE-ITP (or Paul NIEUWENHUYSEN), University Library, Vrije > Universiteit Brussel, > Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, BELGIUM > > > > > > Location: > > The training is mainly organized at the University Library of the Vrije > Universiteit Brussel (V.U.B). The campus is located south of the older > centre of the city of Brussels, and can easily be reached by Metro > (subway), tram and bus. > Information about Brussels (and Belgium) can be found through the WWW; see > for instance: > http://wikitravel.org/en/Brussels > http://www.agenda.be/ about events going on in Brussels (in French and in > Dutch) > http://www.disgruntled.ca/writings/brussels/ offers information on Brussels > and some photos, based on the experience of living there for some time > http://www.eupedia.com/belgium/brussels.shtml > http://www.ilotsacre.be/site/en/default_en.htm offers an interactive map > and photos of Brussels > http://www.interknowledge.com/belgium/ > http://www.jack-travel.com/ > http://www.sievers.nl/visitbrussels/ shows some photos made in Brussels > http://www.timeout.com/brussels/ > http://www.trabel.com/brussel/brussels-touristattractions.htm > http://www.virtourist.com/europe/brussels/index.html > http://www.visitbelgium.com/ > > Trips are perhaps organised to places in neighbouring countries like The > Netherlands and France. Therefore, participants should try to obtain also a > visa for those countries (a so called Schengen-visa). > > > > > > Program and Steering Committee: > > The course director is Dr. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, professor at the Vrije > Universiteit Brussel and guest professor at Universiteit Antwerpen, Science > and technology librarian of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. > http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/nieuwenhuysen/professional/index.html > An official, formal Steering Committee is composed of members from the > co-operating universities in Flanders, > -Vrije Universiteit Brussel, > -Universiteit Antwerpen > -Katholieke Universiteit Leuven > This Steering Committee supervises the organisation, the program and the > budget; this committee reports formally to VLIR. > > Feel free to distribute this document; this version is dated July 14, 2006. > > > ____________________REGISTRATION FORM_______________________ > to STIMULATE, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (V.U.B.), > Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 BRUSSEL, Belgium > I want to participate. Therefore I send this as a letter AND I pay the > registration fee as described in the announcement of the International > Training Program on INFORMATION. > (So the following is NOT the form to apply for a grant. > Use this form only when you pay the registration fee.) > a. Family name (surname): ............................... > (married female participants please fill in maiden-name as well as name of > husband) > b. First or given names (according to your official passport): .............. > Personal address: ................................... > ..................................................... > Country:............................................. > Electronic mail address > Telephone, fax, telex: > > Date of birth: Place of birth: > Nationality: Sex: male / female > > Present employment: > a. Name and address of employer: ................. > ............................................... > ............................................... > b. Since: ../../.. > c. Position - function - specialization > d. Telephone, fax, telex and/or e-mail of the employer: > > Education - studies: > Name of institute Degree Date > > > > > > Knowledge of English: writing: ........ speaking: ........ reading: ....... > Have you been abroad earlier? Please specify: > > > Duties that you will carry out after returning to your country: > ................................................................. > ................................................................. > > Please book a room for me OR > Do NOT book a room for me; I will take care myself of accommodation > > I take care of a medical insurance myself OR > Please see that I am covered by a medical insurance for my stay in Belgium, > which costs 40 euro/month, to be paid upon arrival. > > Date and signature:................. > > Please include a recent photograph, as this will simplify identifying you > upon arrival. > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digilib_india/ > > <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > digilib_india-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com > > <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > >

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University of California - a model to follow
by Subbiah Arunachalam 18 Jul '06

18 Jul '06

From Peter Suber'sblog Innovations at the U of California The University of California is the SPARC Innovator for July 2006. From the SPARC announcement: The University of California Office of the President (UCOP) launched the UC Office of Scholarly Communication in 2004 to support and coordinate a plethora of diverse, cutting-edge initiatives that help scholars and researchers regain control of their work, while exploring innovative means of scholarly communication. This simple organizational act represented the culmination of work conducted over a ten-year period by UC administrators, faculty, and librarians who took a focused, activist stance to change the status quo. In the late 1990s, for example, UC initiated the California Digital Library and as part of it, the eScholarship repository. Since then it has moved from strength to strength. For example, it has developed groundbreaking contracts with publishers which have helped to curtail hyperinflation in the price of online journal subscriptions; developed guidance for faculty on ways to manage intellectual property and retain copyright; developed, through the academic faculty senate, a series of white papers advocating shifts in scholarly communication; established innovative new scholarly publishing programs and forged an electronic publishing alliance between the CDL and the University of California Press; and created a Scholarly Communication Officers group comprising senior librarians at each of the 10 UC branches to harmonize local and system-wide planning and action. For its extraordinarily effective institution-wide vision and efforts to move scholarly communication forward for the benefit of its faculty, students, and the public, SPARC has named UC a SPARC Innovator.... According to John Ober, Director of Policy, Planning, and Outreach co-director - with Catherine Candee - of UC's Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC), the [California Digital Library or CDL] "was built from a set of principles that explicitly included the need to influence the marketplace for scholarly content to become more sustainable."... UC's faculty have taken an even stronger position with regard to copyright management. In 2006, the Faculty Senate endorsed a proposal recommending to the President that the University's copyright policy be amended to enable open access to UC research.... Friends: Should not Indian universities (and research labs) follow the example of the University of California and embrace open access wholeheartedly? Should not our academics work towards changing the copyright law to protect their own interests? Why do we have to continue to give away copyright to work done by us (and knowledge that we create) with taxpayers' money to companies publishing professional journals? Why do we continue to sign on the dotted line of the printed copyright agreement form provided by journals andwhy cannot we negotiate with the journal publishers to reword the copyright agreement to suit our needs? Best wishes. Arun [Subbuiah Arunachalam] From Peter Suber'sblog Innovations at the U of California The http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/ University of California is the http://www.arl.org/sparc/innovator/ SPARC Innovator for July 2006. From the SPARC http://www.arl.org/sparc/innovator/uc.html announcement : The University of California Office of the President (UCOP) launched the UC Office of Scholarly Communication in 2004 to support and coordinate a plethora of diverse, cutting-edge initiatives that help scholars and researchers regain control of their work, while exploring innovative means of scholarly communication. This simple organizational act represented the culmination of work conducted over a ten-year period by UC administrators, faculty, and librarians who took a focused, activist stance to change the status quo. In the late 1990s, for example, UC initiated the California Digital Library and as part of it, the eScholarship repository. Since then it has moved from strength to strength. For example, it has developed groundbreaking contracts with publishers which have helped to curtail hyperinflation in the price of online journal subscriptions; developed guidance for faculty on ways to manage intellectual property and retain copyright; developed, through the academic faculty senate, a series of white papers advocating shifts in scholarly communication; established innovative new scholarly publishing programs and forged an electronic publishing alliance between the CDL and the University of California Press; and created a Scholarly Communication Officers group comprising senior librarians at each of the 10 UC branches to harmonize local and system-wide planning and action. For its extraordinarily effective institution-wide vision and efforts to move scholarly communication forward for the benefit of its faculty, students, and the public, SPARC has named UC a SPARC Innovator.... According to John Ober, Director of Policy, Planning, and Outreach co-director with Catherine Candee of UCs Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC), the [California Digital Library or CDL] was built from a set of principles that explicitly included the need to influence the marketplace for scholarly content to become more sustainable.... UCs faculty have taken an even stronger position with regard to copyright management. In 2006, the Faculty Senate endorsed a proposal recommending to the President that the Universitys copyright policy be amended to enable open access to UC research.... Friends: Should not Indian universities (and research labs) follow the example of the University of California and embrace open access wholeheartedly? Should not our academics work towards changing the copyright law to protect their own interests? Why do we have to continue to give away copyright to work done by us (and knowledge that we create) with taxpayers' money to companies publishing professional journals? Why do we continue to sign on the dotted line of the printed copyright agreement form provided by journals andwhy cannot we negotiate with the journal publishers to reword the copyright agreement to suit our needs? Best wishes. Arun [Subbuiah Arunachalam]

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Arun's paper at Aachen
by Subbiah Arunachalam 18 Jul '06

18 Jul '06

Dear Ashok / Dr Vijay Kumar: Here is the paper I presentd at the Aachen colloquium [Click - A split word] last year. Mine was the only paper in English and all the other speakers spoke in German. This is the author's final version. It has appeared in a book [Gespaltene Welt? Technikzugange in der Wissensgesellschaft, edited by Max Kerner and Thomas Muller, and published by Bohlau Verlag, Koln, 2006]. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah arunachalam] Dear Ashok / Dr Vijay Kumar: Here is the paper I presentd at the Aachen colloquium [Click - A split word] last year. Mine was the only paper in English and all the other speakers spoke in German. This is the author's final version. It has appeared in a book [Gespaltene Welt? Technikzugange in der Wissensgesellschaft, edited by Max Kerner and Thomas Muller, and published by Bohlau Verlag, Koln, 2006]. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah arunachalam]

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Peer reviewed Indian Journals in Computer Science
by J. K. Vijayakumar 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

Dear Forum Members, Since there is an ongoing discussion about Computer Science "Journals" from India, I would like to share a peace of information with you all. According to the latest DST project study, there are only two Indian Journals qualified as "peer-reviewed journals" in Computer Science. They are 1. Journal of the Computer Society of India http://www.csi-india.org 2. Journal of Digital Information Management www.dirf.org/jdim (Source: Indian S &T Productivity- Report Submitted to DST/NSTMIS division 2006). A news item about this study will appear this month ISTE newsletter at http://www.isteonline.in. I have seen lists of Computer Science "Magazines" posted in the forums. They are Magazines, not Journals. Our Libraries should have these peer-reviewed Journals in their collection. Thanks. J. K. Vijayakumar MLIS, PhD http://libinfospace.blogspot.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Next-gen email? Have it all with the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. Dear Forum Members, Since there is an ongoing discussion about Computer Science "Journals" from India, I would like to share a peace of information with you all. According to the latest DST project study, there are only two Indian Journals qualified as "peer-reviewed journals" in Computer Science. They are 1. Journal of the Computer Society of India http://www.csi-india.org/ http://www.csi-india.org 2. Journal of Digital Information Management http://www.dirf.org/jdim www.dirf.org/jdim (Source: Indian S &T Productivity- Report Submitted to DST/NSTMIS division 2006). A news item about this study will appear this month ISTE newsletter at http://www.isteonline.in http://www.isteonline.in . I have seen lists of Computer Science "Magazines" posted in the forums. They are Magazines, not Journals. Our Libraries should have these peer-reviewed Journals in their collection. Thanks. J. K. Vijayakumar MLIS, PhD http://libinfospace.blogspot.com http://libinfospace.blogspot.com Do you Yahoo!? Next-gen email? Have it all with the http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42241/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/handr… all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.

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Managing_information_resources_in_the_digital_age:_A__CSE_training_programme_on_information_management_and_documentation and oureach
by Mailing List Manager 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 12:56:11 +0530 From: kiran(a)cseindia.org Centre for Science and Environment, a premier organisation recognised for its knowledge based activism has announced its short course Managing information resources in the digital age: A training programme on information management, documentation and outreach, to be conducted at CSEs office in New Delhi from August 23-26, 2006. We request you to give space to our announcement on your website and any other career supplements brought out by you. Thanking you. Kiran Pandey Coordinator, Environment Resources Unit, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi. COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT CSE's short course on Managing information resources in the digital age: A training programme on Information management, documentation and outreach, Aug 22-25, 2006, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi. Managing information today requires special skills and calls for investments in strengthening the information infrastructure and skills of the organisation. Here is an opportunity for you to participate in a specially-designed short training programme on 'Managing information resources in the digital age (August 22-25, 2006). The training is brought to you by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi. Workshops will be led by CSE's professional staff of documentalists, webmasters and members of various outreach units. The training is being organised by CSE's Environment Resource Unit, among South Asia's premier research and documentation centres. This unique course will teach participants on how to manage all aspects and types of information, at an institutional level. The programme is broad in scope, and covers a gamut of information types, management strategies, tools, and dissemination strategies. Course modules - Sourcing information (information acquisition & research) - Classification & indexing (including digitised resources) - Developing & managing audio-visual resources (films, photos, CDs, etc.) - Electronic Documentation: Library automation, building simple databases - Digital library fundamentals (IT for information management) - Web-based tools for information outreach - Information outreach: Product planning, services & marketing Course Fee South Asian NGOs, Government & Corporate bodies: Rs. 8800/- (USD 190/- ) per participant NGOs, students: Rs. 4,400/- (USD 95/-) per participant. Course Schedule Coursecommences on: Aug 22, 2006 Coursetimings: 9.30 am to 5.30 pm Courseconcludes on: Aug 26, 2006 For applications forms and enquiries , please contact: Kiran Pandey, Coordinator,Environment Resources Unit E-mail: kiran(a)cseindia.org Ph: 91-011-29955124/5125/6110/6394/6399, Fax: 91-11-29955879 For online registration visit http://www.cseindia.org/misc/library_form.htm Last date for receiving completed applications Applications must reach CSE on or before August 5, 2006 Please note: The course offers only a limited number of seats. Applications will be accepted on a first come-first served basis. The course fee does not cover travel or accommodation expenses. Thanking you Kiran Pandey Coordinator Environment Resources Unit Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi. Ms. Kiran Pandey **************************************************************** CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT ( CSE ) 41, TUGHLAKABAD INSTITUTIONAL AREA, NEW DELHI- 110 062 TELE: 29955124 29956110, 29956394,29956399 FAX : 91-11-29955879 VISIT US AT: http://www.cseindia.org Email: kiran(a)cseindia.org ext:233 ****************************************************************

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New Journals Online
by Mailing List Manager 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

Hi All, Kindly check out the following Journals recently uploaded on the IndianJournals.com: 1) Agricultural Economics Research Review http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:aerr <http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:aerr&type=home> &type=home For Archives, please click on the link below: http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:aerr <http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:aerr&type=archive> &type=archive For Open Access Issue: Year 2005, Volume-18, Issue-1 (January-June), please click here: http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:aerr <http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:aerr&volume=18&issu e=1&type=toc> &volume=18&issue=1&type=toc 2) Allelopathy Journal http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:aj <http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:aj&type=home> &type=home For Archives (Since 1994), please click on the link below: http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:aj <http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:aj&type=archive> &type=archive Hope, many of you will find the same according to your interest. We are awaiting your comments/suggestions, if any in this regards. Thanks & Regards :-) Chandrima Roy Divan Enterprises B-9, Basement, "A" Block, Local Shopping Complex Naraina Vihar, Ring Road New Delhi - 110028 Tel: +91-11-25770411 Fax: +91-11-25778876 Email: croy(a)docdelserv.com croy(a)indianjournals.com Website: http://www.docdelserv.com http://www.indianjournals.com

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122nd Monthly Meeting of RRC will be held on 22nd July, 2006 (4th Saturday) at 10.00 hrs.
by Swapan Patra 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

To the modarator, Please host the following anouncement on the LIS Forum. Thanks & Regards Swapan kumar Patra The 122nd Monthly Meeting of Ranganathan Research Circle (RRC) will be held on 22nd July, 2006 (4th Saturday) at 10.00 hrs. Venue : NASSDOC, 35 Firoze Shah Road (near Mandi house) New Delhi-110001 Topic : Libraries in 21st Century Speaker : Prof. Krishan Kumar Former Professor and Head, Deptt. of Library Science Delhi University To the modarator, Please host the following anouncement on the LIS Forum. Thanks & Regards Swapan kumar Patra The 122nd Monthly Meeting of Ranganathan Research Circle (RRC) will be held on 22nd July, 2006 (4th Saturday) at 10.00 hrs. Venue : NASSDOC, 35 Firoze Shah Road (near Mandi house) New Delhi-110001 Topic : Libraries in 21st Century Speaker : Prof. Krishan Kumar Former Professor and Head, Deptt. of Library Science Delhi University

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OCW from Milton Keynes, UK
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 14 Jul '06

14 Jul '06

>From Peter Suber's blog More on the Open U's open courseware project >From today's press release: The Milton Keynes Open University in UK today announced a GBP £5.65 million (US $9.9 million) project to make a selection of its learning materials available free of charge to educators and learners around the world. Supported by a grant of US $4.45 million from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation the University will launch the website in October 2006. The provision on the internet of 'Open Educational Resources', free at point of use and available to everyone, reflects The Open University's mission of promoting fair access for all....There will be one site that is primarily for learners, where material with suggested learning pathways will be offered. A second site will be primarily for other course creators; it will foster the concept of sharing and re-use of materials. Through the development of both sites the University plans to take open content delivery on to a new level.... The Open University will be the first in the UK to offer Open Content materials under a Creative Commons licence....

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Invitation for an inaugural function at NCRA, Pune on 24th July 2006, 9.30 am
by Sunita Barve 14 Jul '06

14 Jul '06

Dear All, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), is a division of India's premier research Centre, the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). NCRA has setup world's largest radio telescope Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) at metre wavelengths at Khodad, Narayangaon. NCRA is organising a 3-day workshop titled "Creating Digital Libraries using DSpace Open Source Software" during 24-26 July 2006 at its premises in the Pune University Campus. Noted speakers, such as ARD Prasad of DRTC, Bangalore, Devika Madalli of DRTC, Bangalore and Aditya Tripathi of Banaras Hindu University, will be conducting the workshop sessions. NCRA has set up an excellent computer laboratory for this purpose. We take this opportunity to invite you to attend the workshop inaugural ceremony followed by a talk Topic : Open Acess to Information Speaker : Dr. ARD Prasad, DRTC, Bangalore Date, Time and Venue : 24 July 2006, 9.30 am, NCRA Auditorium, Pune Abstract of the talk : The escalating cost of scientific journals rendered many institutional libraries to cut down the number of journals being subscribed. This is more apparent in the case of developing countries. The Consortia approach to journal subscription is a deceptive device introduced by journal publishing industry on their own terms. The journal publishing industry is heavily protected by copyright laws and they own the copyright of the articles published. The basic questions are: 1)Does the journal publishing industry sponsor scientific research? 2)Can you think of product in the market where the producer does not get a penny? 3)When much of the research is funded by public (government) funds, how come neither the funding agency nor the individual scientist own the copyright? 4)When journals are heavily priced, can they have wider audience and consequently cited by other research colleagues? Similar questions resulted in many scientific and research communities to championize "Open Access to Information Movement". The objective of the movement is to allow universal / free access to scientific / research publications. Presently, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) lists more than 2300 journals in various disciplines. Just as universal education is aimed at overall development of the society, universal access to information would result faster scientific development. All are cordially invited to attend this inaugural ceremony. Please confirm your participation by email/phone at the earliest to make necessary arrangements. library(a)ncra.tifr.res.in, sunitab(a)ncra.tifr.res.in or telephone (25697107, 25691384/85 Xtn:211). Looking forward to seeing you. with regards, sincerely, Sunita Barve Library-In-Charge National Centre for Radio Astrophysics Post Bag No. 3, Pune Univ. Campus Pune 411 007, INDIA Phone : 91-20-25697107, 25691384, 25691385 Ext. 211 FAX : 91-20-25697257 Email :sunitab@ncra.tifr.res.in ; library(a)ncra.tifr.res.in

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KALA-NAL LECTURE on E-GOVERNANCE
by I.R.N.Goudar 14 Jul '06

14 Jul '06

LECTURE NOTICE KARNATAKA STATE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION and NATIONAL AEROSPACE LABORATORIES Cordially invite you for the following lecture: TOPIC : From E-GOVERNANCE TO E-GOVERNANCE SPEAKER : Dr. Vinay K Dharmadhikari Director, E-Governance Ministry of Communication Technology Govt of India, New Delhi DATE & TIME : Tuesday, 18th July 2006 at 11.00 AM Tea: 10.45 AM VENUE : TS Conference Hall, National; Aerospace Laboratories, Aerport Road, Bangalore - 560017 RSVP: 25086081, 6080 ALL ARE CORDIALLY WELCOME Dr. IRN Goudar President, KALA Head, ICAST, NAL

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Job opportunity in Pune
by Vandana Khandelwal 14 Jul '06

14 Jul '06

Dear all friends Hello Maharashtra Academy of Engineering, a well-established institute in the field of technical education in Pune, has gained a status of an institute dedicated for the research in the field of engineering. Nevertheless, the institute has been producing world-class graduates, competent to face the challenges of the corporate world. The institute is located on the banks of river Indrayani. There is a vacancy of a library assistant required only for the evening shift and for Saturday & sunday. Educational qualification required is as follows : Library science graduates or post graduates, with sound knowledge of computers, good communication skills and typing speed which is a must, and having 2 to 3 years experience. Interested candidates must apply before 26th July 2006 and send their resume on following email address : vbkhandelwal(a)mitpune.com, or vanu_kh(a)yahoo.com Librarian __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Management and Biotechnology Journals
by nandeesh nandu 14 Jul '06

14 Jul '06

Dear Professionals, we are require Management and Biotechnology Journals vendors lists at bangalore. Please kindly inform any of us knew. with regards, Nandeesha. B Senior Librarian, TIMS, Bangalore. Dear Professionals, we are require Management and Biotechnology Journals vendors lists at bangalore. Please kindly inform any of us knew. with regards, Nandeesha. B Senior Librarian, TIMS, Bangalore. http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Computer Sc. periodicals
by Vijay Raghav Tiwari 14 Jul '06

14 Jul '06

Dear Moumita Please few more. 1. Sys Administration. 2. Dr. Dobb's Journal. These two are also good journals. regards vrt On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 moumita dey wrote : > >Here are a few popular computer Sc. Periodicals >National >1.Chip >2.Data Quest >3.Developer IQ >4.Digit >5.Information Technology >6.Journal of Institute of Engineers:computer engineering >7.Linux for you >8.Living Digital >9.PC Quest >10.Pitch >Foreign >11.IEEE:computer >12.Dr.Dobbs >Hope this will help you. >Moumita Dey >Asst. Librarian >Bengal College of Engineering & Technology >Durgapur, W.B. >http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig… >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Dr. Vijay Raghav Tiwari Librarian Harish Chandra Research Institute (Department of Atomic Energy, Govt of India) Chhatnag Road,Jhunsi,Allahabad -211 019. Phone.91-532-2668302(O), 0532-2274325 (O), 0532-2274064 (R) <vrtiwari(a)mri.ernet.in> Dear Moumita Please few more. 1. Sys Administration. 2. Dr. Dobb's Journal. These two are also good journals. regards vrt On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 moumita dey wrote : > >Here are a few popular computer Sc. Periodicals >National >1.Chip >2.Data Quest >3.Developer IQ >4.Digit >5.Information Technology >6.Journal of Institute of Engineers:computer engineering >7.Linux for you >8.Living Digital >9.PC Quest >10.Pitch >Foreign >11.IEEE:computer >12.Dr.Dobbs >Hope this will help you. >Moumita Dey >Asst. Librarian >Bengal College of Engineering & Technology >Durgapur, W.B. >http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig… >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Dr. Vijay Raghav Tiwari Librarian Harish Chandra Research Institute (Department of Atomic Energy, Govt of India) Chhatnag Road,Jhunsi,Allahabad -211 019. Phone.91-532-2668302(O), 0532-2274325 (O), 0532-2274064 (R) <vrtiwari(a)mri.ernet.in> http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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On the Verge of Revolution - Open-access Publishing
by vimal kumar 14 Jul '06

14 Jul '06

Dear Professionals, An interesting article about Open Access written by Christine Hamilton-Pennell appeared in current issue of Freepint newsletter. Read this article. http://www.freepint.com/issues/130706.htm#tips Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. An interesting article about Open Access written by Christine Hamilton-Pennell appeared in current issue of Freepint newsletter. Read this article. http://www.freepint.com/issues/130706.htm#tips Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42297/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/handr… all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.

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Minutes of NCSI NET Talk - Meeting
by Nandhan Ravi 14 Jul '06

14 Jul '06

Dear All, Minutes of NCSI NET talk - meeting held on 8th June 2006, NCSI, IISc: Topic: IP Asset Management Speaker: Mr. Adarsh Nigam. Vice President, Vans Information Limited, Mumbai Total Attendees - 28 (NCSI NET and outsiders) The meeting began with the introduction of the speaker Mr. Adarsh Nigam and he started with his talk. He gave a very good talk on IP and related issues. The presentation was divided into three parts. In the first part the speaker presented on IP, issues, importance etc. Second part was on case studies of GE, Intel, Microsoft and other companies with reference to Patents and IP issues. In the third part the speaker used some tools such as 'Micro Patent's', 'Patweb' and 'Aureka' Databases which is mainly used for Research and Analysis, he also highlighted the importance of Aureka 8.0. The speaker addressed the queries put by audience and showed an analysis of "WIFI Technology". He then demonstrated the search method and the research and analysis of the topic. The speaker explained different membership models and limitations of access to the databases such as Gold, Silver and Bronze membership. Reference Sites: 1. http://www.micropatent.com 2. http://www.aurekaontap.com/7w/html/7w_default.asp 3. http://www.micropat.com/0/pdf/aureka_onesheet_final_032504.pdf With warm regards, V. Ravi Nandhan and Anitha MK NCSI NET Coordinators. V. Ravi Nandhan. Knowledge Coordinator Capco t: +91 80 41997351 f: +91 80 41997201 v: 6-7351 e: ravi.nandhan(a)capco.com w: www.capco.com ************************************************************************ The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender of this email immediately. You should not copy, use or disseminate the information contained in the email. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Capco. http://www.capco.com/ ************************************************************************ Minutes of NCSI NET Talk - Meeting Dear All, Minutes of NCSI NET talk - meeting held on 8th June 2006, NCSI, IISc: Topic: IP Asset Management Speaker: Mr. Adarsh Nigam. Vice President, Vans Information Limited, Mumbai Total Attendees - 28 (NCSI NET and outsiders) The meeting began with the introduction of the speaker Mr. Adarsh Nigam and he started with his talk. He gave a very good talk on IP and related issues. The presentation was divided into three parts. In the first part the speaker presented on IP, issues, importance etc. Second part was on case studies of GE, Intel, Microsoft and other companies with reference to Patents and IP issues. In the third part the speaker used some tools such as 'Micro Patent’s', 'Patweb' and 'Aureka' Databases which is mainly used for Research and Analysis, he also highlighted the importance of Aureka 8.0. The speaker addressed the queries put by audience and showed an analysis of “WIFI Technology”. He then demonstrated the search method and the research and analysis of the topic. The speaker explained different membership models and limitations of access to the databases such as Gold, Silver and Bronze membership. Reference Sites: 1. http://www.micropatent.com http://www.micropatent.com 2. http://www.aurekaontap.com/7w/html/7w_default.asp http://www.aurekaontap.com/7w/html/7w_default.asp 3. http://www.micropat.com/0/pdf/aureka_onesheet_final_032504.pdf http://www.micropat.com/0/pdf/aureka_onesheet_final_032504.pdf With warm regards, V. Ravi Nandhan and Anitha MK NCSI NET Coordinators. V. Ravi Nandhan. Knowledge Coordinator Capco t: +91 80 41997351 f: +91 80 41997201 v: 6-7351 e: ravi.nandhan(a)capco.com w: file://www.capco.com www.capco.com ************************************************************************ The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender of this email immediately. You should not copy, use or disseminate the information contained in the email. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Capco. http://www.capco.com/ ************************************************************************

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This is regarding M.Phil and Phd .
by jasbir singh 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

You can do ur course from Private university or from Deemed university that is www.vmrfdu.ac.in you can to web site. Jasbir Singh Librarian Cum System administrator ICFAI National College 18 Arya Nagar Ghaziabad U.P PH-91-9313092360 E-mail - jassimlib(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. You can do ur course from Private university or from Deemed university that is http://www.vmrfdu.ac.in/ www.vmrfdu.ac.in you can to web site. Jasbir Singh Librarian Cum System administrator ICFAI National College 18 Arya Nagar Ghaziabad U.P PH-91-9313092360 E-mail - jassimlib(a)yahoo.com Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman1/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.

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