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WinISIS 1.5
by Indira K. 13 May '06

13 May '06

Dear Professionals, One can use WinISIS 1.5 to create a multilingual library as an open space of knowledge. want to know how? follow the paths given. http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=21935&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… 060406-kas amman mission books-e-gs.pdf Indira -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mrs. Indira Koneru Faculty Associate Department of Library Science ICFAI University 25, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabd- 500 082. India. E-mail: indk68(a)hotmail.com Dear Professionals, One can use WinISIS 1.5 to create a multilingual library as an open space of knowledge. want to know how? follow the paths given. http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=21935&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=21935&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/21935/11461237089060406-kas_amman_miss… 060406-kas amman mission books-e-gs.pdf Indira Mrs. Indira Koneru Faculty Associate Department of Library Science ICFAI University 25, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabd- 500 082. India. E-mail: mailto:indk68@hotmail.com indk68(a)hotmail.com

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The RRI Digital Repository
by Library 13 May '06

13 May '06

Dear all, We are happy to inform you that we have set up the RRI Digital Repository using DSpace open software. (http://dspace.rri.res.in/) Content of our Digital Repository: * Preprints * Published papers in journals/conference proceedings * Annual Reports of RRI * Newspaper clippings from the Raman archives With best wishes, Y.M. Patil Librarian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raman Research Institute Library, Tel: +91 80 2361 0122 Extn 250 C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Fax: +91 80 2361 0492 Bangalore 560 080, India. Email: library(a)rri.res.in

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Free online access to nearly 200 years of medical research
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 May '06

12 May '06

Free online access to nearly 200 years of medical research 11 May 2006 Complete back issues covering nearly 200 years of historically significant biomedical journals are being made freely available online as a result of a landmark project launched today at the Wellcome Trust. On completion, the back files project will deliver over three million pages of medical journals free to anyone through standard search tools such as PubMed and Google. The initiative was developed through a partnership between the Wellcome Trust, JISC, the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) and a number of medical journal publishers. The archive, will contain a number of discoveries which have changed the face of medicine, including: a.. Sir Alexander Fleming's discovery of the use of penicillin to fight bacterial infections. British Journal of Experimental Pathology, 1929 (continued as the International Journal of Experimental Pathology) b.. Sir Richard Doll's groundbreaking study that confirmed that smoking was a "major cause" of lung cancer. BMJ, 1954 c.. Walter Reed's paper that proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes. Journal of Hygiene, 1902 (continued as Epidemiology and Infection) d.. Kenneth Burton's classic and highly cited "methods" paper that provided a standard way of assaying DNA concentration in a solution using diphenylamine. Biochemical Journal, 1956 (online now) e.. Hodgkin's and Huxley's Nobel-prize winning paper on ionic theory of the nerve impulse. This work was the foundation for thousands of subsequent studies of electrical signalling in the brain and has been useful for understanding the origins of many disorders - such as multiple sclerosis, muscle myotonias, and heart arrhythmias - that result from defects in electrical signalling. Journal of Physiology, 1952 (online now) f.. Frederick Treves 1888 paper in which he described the first operation on an inflamed appendix. On publication, the paper was not initially well received as surgical intervention was discouraged in such cases. Seven years later this became the accepted practice. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, 1888, (continued as the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine) g.. Arunlakshana and Schild's 1959 paper on the characteristics of drug binding to receptor sites. Using the approach articulated in this paper the authors showed, for example, that the histamine receptors in various guinea pig and human tissues were the same. British Journal of Pharmacology, 1959 h.. Participating publishers have also agreed to continue to deposit current content of their journals into this archive. They will be freely available after an embargo period - a maximum of one year for all research papers. In addition to the faithful replication of every published page, the archive provides a number of innovative, value-added functions, including links from references to full text, high resolution images, full text searching across the entire archive, and links from the original article to corrections and retractions and vice-versa. Director of the Wellcome Trust, Dr Mark Walport, said: "This growing collection will be of lasting benefit to researchers, practitioners and medical historians worldwide. It will provide access to important scientific literature from the past, free of charge, to anyone in the world with internet access." JISC's Executive Secretary, Dr Malcolm Read, said: "This archive and its commitment to free and open access to the outputs of scientific research demonstrates the value of collaboration between funding bodies, publishers and the academic and research communities. JISC is delighted to have worked closely with the Wellcome Trust and the National Library of Medicine on what is an impressive and important resource." Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg, Director of the National Library of Medicine said: "The importance of this archive is realized every day - our studies show that researchers and authors whose articles appear in PubMed Central are read and cited hundreds of times more than they were in their original print format. PubMed Central has greatly benefited from the journal content and funding contributions made possible by the Wellcome Library and JISC." The backfiles archive can be accessed free of charge through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), full-text, life sciences repository PubMed Central (PMC). Journals will be added to the archive assoon as they are digitised. PubMed citations are added to that database when the archive is complete. Further information about this project can be found at: Medical Journals Backile Project This project is one of six digitisation projects being managed by JISC with funding from HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England). The JISC programme represents a total investment of some £10m in the digitisation of high-quality online content, including sound, moving pictures, newspapers, census data, journals and parliamentary papers for use by the UK further and higher education communities. Further information about the JISC digitisation programme can be found at: Digitisation Media enquiries: Philip Pothen (JISC) - 020 7848 2935 or 07887 564 006 Vivien Goldsmith (Wellcome Trust) - 020 7611 8364 or 8866 Notes for editors 1. The full list of participating journals*: Anesthesia Progress - 1954 Annals of Surgery - 1885 Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England - 1947 Biochemical Journal - 1906 BMJ - British Medical Journal - 1853 British Journal of Cancer - 1947 British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology - 1974 British Journal of General Practice - 1952 British Journal of Pharmacology - 1946 Clinical & Experimental Immunology - 1966 Epidemiology and Infection - 1901 Immunology - 1958 International Journal of Experimental Pathology - 1920 Journal of Anatomy - 1866 Journal of Physiology - 1878 Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine - 1809 Medical History - 1957 * Current journal name - some journals have had several name changes In addition to the journals being digitized under this project, the NLM is also digitising additional journals, including the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the EMBO Journal 2. JISC - the Joint Information Systems Committee - is a joint committee of the UK further and higher education funding bodies and is responsible for supporting the innovative use of information and communication technology (ICT) to support learning, teaching, and research. It is best known for providing the JANET network, a range of support, content and advisory services, and a portfolio of high-quality resources. 3. The Wellcome Trust is the most diverse biomedical research charity in the world, spending about £450 million every year both in the UK and internationally to support and promote research that will improve the health of humans and animals. The Trust was established under the will of Sir Henry Wellcome, and is funded from a private endowment, which is managed with long-term stability and growth in mind. The Wellcome Library is one of the world's greatest collections for the study of the history of medicine. The print, manuscript audio, film, pictorial and digital collections are a national treasure and an unrivalled intellectual resource. See: Wellcome Library The Wellcome Trust was awarded the first SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications by SPARC Europe (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), for its work on open access. SPARC Europe represents over 100 European research-led university libraries from 14 European countries. 4. National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials in all areas of biomedicine and health care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences. The collections stand at more than 8 million items--books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs and images. Housed within the Library is one of the world's finest medical history collections of old and rare medical works. The Library's collection may be consulted in the reading room or requested on interlibrary loan. For 125 years, the Library published the Index Medicus®, a monthly subject/author guide to articles in 4000 journals. This information, and much more, is today available in PubMed®, freely accessible via the World Wide Web. PubMed has more than 16 million MEDLINE journal article references and abstracts going back to the mid-1960s with another 1.5 million references back to the early 1950s. Additional citations are being added from the back files of journals scanned for PubMed Central. Free online access to nearly 200 years of medical research http://www.jisc.ac.uk/images/spacer.gif 11 May 2006 Complete back issues covering nearly 200 years of historically significant biomedical journals are being made freely available online as a result of a landmark project launched today at the Wellcome Trust. On completion, the back files project will deliver over three million pages of medical journals free to anyone through standard search tools such as PubMed and Google. The initiative was developed through a partnership between the http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/ Wellcome Trust , JISC, the US http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ National Library of Medicine (NLM) and a number of medical journal publishers. The http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/ archive , will contain a number of discoveries which have changed the face of medicine, including: Sir Alexander Flemings discovery of the use of penicillin to fight bacterial infections. British Journal of Experimental Pathology , 1929 (continued as the International Journal of Experimental Pathology ) Sir Richard Dolls groundbreaking study that confirmed that smoking was a major cause of lung cancer. BMJ , 1954 Walter Reeds paper that proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes. Journal of Hygiene , 1902 (continued as Epidemiology and Infection) Kenneth Burtons classic and highly cited methods paper that provided a standard way of assaying DNA concentration in a solution using diphenylamine. Biochemical Journal , 1956 (online now) Hodgkin's and Huxley's Nobel-prize winning paper on ionic theory of the nerve impulse. This work was the foundation for thousands of subsequent studies of electrical signalling in the brain and has been useful for understanding the origins of many disorders - such as multiple sclerosis, muscle myotonias, and heart arrhythmias - that result from defects in electrical signalling. Journal of Physiology , 1952 (online now) Frederick Treves 1888 paper in which he described the first operation on an inflamed appendix. On publication, the paper was not initially well received as surgical intervention was discouraged in such cases. Seven years later this became the accepted practice. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions , 1888, (continued as the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine ) Arunlakshana and Schilds 1959 paper on the characteristics of drug binding to receptor sites. Using the approach articulated in this paper the authors showed, for example, that the histamine receptors in various guinea pig and human tissues were the same. British Journal of Pharmacology , 1959 Participating publishers have also agreed to continue to deposit current content of their journals into this archive. They will be freely available after an embargo period a maximum of one year for all research papers. In addition to the faithful replication of every published page, the archive provides a number of innovative, value-added functions, including links from references to full text, high resolution images, full text searching across the entire archive, and links from the original article to corrections and retractions and vice-versa. Director of the Wellcome Trust, Dr Mark Walport, said: This growing collection will be of lasting benefit to researchers, practitioners and medical historians worldwide. It will provide access to important scientific literature from the past, free of charge, to anyone in the world with internet access. JISC's Executive Secretary, Dr Malcolm Read, said: This archive and its commitment to free and open access to the outputs of scientific research demonstrates the value of collaboration between funding bodies, publishers and the academic and research communities. JISC is delighted to have worked closely with the Wellcome Trust and the National Library of Medicine on what is an impressive and important resource. Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg, Director of the National Library of Medicine said: "The importance of this archive is realized every day - our studies show that researchers and authors whose articles appear in PubMed Central are read and cited hundreds of times more than they were in their original print format. PubMed Central has greatly benefited from the journal content and funding contributions made possible by the Wellcome Library and JISC." The backfiles archive can be accessed free of charge through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), full-text, life sciences repository http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/ PubMed Central (PMC). Journals will be added to the archive as soon as they are digitised. PubMed citations are added to that database when the archive is complete. Further information about this project can be found at: http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/backfiles Medical Journals Backile Project This project is one of six digitisation projects being managed by JISC with funding from HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England ). The JISC programme represents a total investment of some £10m in the digitisation of high-quality online content, including sound, moving pictures, newspapers, census data, journals and parliamentary papers for use by the UK further and higher education communities. Further information about the JISC digitisation programme can be found at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation_home.html Digitisation Media enquiries: Philip Pothen (JISC) - 020 7848 2935 or 07887 564 006 Vivien Goldsmith ( Wellcome Trust) - 020 7611 8364 or 8866 Notes for editors 1. The full list of participating journals*: Anesthesia Progress - 1954 Annals of Surgery - 1885 Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England - 1947 Biochemical Journal - 1906 BMJ - British Medical Journal - 1853 British Journal of Cancer - 1947 British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology - 1974 British Journal of General Practice - 1952 British Journal of Pharmacology - 1946 Clinical & Experimental Immunology - 1966 Epidemiology and Infection - 1901 Immunology - 1958 International Journal of Experimental Pathology - 1920 Journal of Anatomy - 1866 Journal of Physiology - 1878 Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine - 1809 Medical History - 1957 * Current journal name some journals have had several name changes In addition to the journals being digitized under this project, the NLM is also digitising additional journals, including the Journal of Clinical Investigation , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the EMBO Journal 2. JISC the Joint Information Systems Committee is a joint committee of the UK further and higher education funding bodies and is responsible for supporting the innovative use of information and communication technology (ICT) to support learning, teaching, and research. It is best known for providing the JANET network, a range of support, content and advisory services, and a portfolio of high-quality resources. 3. The Wellcome Trust is the most diverse biomedical research charity in the world, spending about £450 million every year both in the UK and internationally to support and promote research that will improve the health of humans and animals. The Trust was established under the will of Sir Henry Wellcome, and is funded from a private endowment, which is managed with long-term stability and growth in mind. The Wellcome Library is one of the world's greatest collections for the study of the history of medicine. The print, manuscript audio, film, pictorial and digital collections are a national treasure and an unrivalled intellectual resource. See: http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/ Wellcome Library The Wellcome Trust was awarded the first SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications by SPARC Europe (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), for its work on open access. SPARC Europe represents over 100 European research-led university libraries from 14 European countries. 4. National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda , Maryland , is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials in all areas of biomedicine and health care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences. The collections stand at more than 8 million items--books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs and images. Housed within the Library is one of the world's finest medical history collections of old and rare medical works. The Library's collection may be consulted in the reading room or requested on interlibrary loan. For 125 years, the Library published the Index Medicus®, a monthly subject/author guide to articles in 4000 journals. This information, and much more, is today available in PubMed®, freely accessible via the World Wide Web. PubMed has more than 16 million MEDLINE journal article references and abstracts going back to the mid-1960s with another 1.5 million references back to the early 1950s. Additional citations are being added from the back files of journals scanned for PubMed Central.

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Reminder NCSI-NET Meeting
by Nandhan Ravi 12 May '06

12 May '06

Dear All , The next NCSI-NET meeting will be held on Saturday, May 13th 2006. The meeting will commence with a talk. All are cordially invited for the talk. About the talk - Speaker: Dr. Sudhakar Varanasi, Senior Vice President, Satyam Computer Services Topic: Putting head and heart together: Technology in the service of Society: A case study of emergency services in Andhra Pradesh Time: 10-30 AM. Venue: Seminar Hall, NCSI, IISc, Bangalore Abstract: In India, about two lakh people face medical emergencies every day. Accidents at homes, workplaces and on roads happen quite frequently along with other medical, police and fire-related emergencies. The support systems required to deal with these emergencies in the society virtually do not exist in India. When an emergency occurs, we need a rapid action support system to come into force to bail the victims out of the imminent threat of loss of life or property. A systematic approach to providing total support to the victims of emergencies requires the integration of three phases (Sense, Reach and Care). A comprehensive emergency response system on the lines of 9.1.1 in the US and 112 in the EU was developed in the state of Andhra Pradesh by EMRI, a non-profit society that works on the PPP (public private partnership) model. Technology used in this project includes Computer Telephony Integration, Voice Loggers, GIS / Maps, GPS / AVLT, Mobile communications, e-learning etc. The EMRI project went live on Aug 15, 2005 and is now operational in 18 cities/towns in AP, covering about 13 million people, with an excellent support from the Government. The number of lives saved in exceeded 2000 during the past 9 months. The lessons learnt, the confidence gained and the future plans in this project will be shared during this presentation. Kindly confirm your attendance by sending a mail to: ravi.nandhan(a)capco.com or anitha_m(a)aurigene.com V. Ravi Nandhan. & Anitha M.K NCSI-NET Coordinators. With warm regards, 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 ************************************************************************ LEARN MORE - Capco is a consultant, managed services provider and thought leader. We are experts in the financial services industry. You can access our thinking and learn more about us at 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/ ************************************************************************ Reminder NCSI-NET Meeting Dear All , The next NCSI-NET meeting will be held on Saturday, May 13th 2006. The meeting will commence with a talk.� All are cordially invited for the talk. About the talk - Speaker:� Dr. Sudhakar Varanasi, �� Senior Vice President, �� Satyam Computer Services Topic: Putting head and heart together: Technology in the service of Society: �� A case study of emergency services in Andhra Pradesh Time: 10-30 AM. Venue: Seminar Hall, NCSI, IISc, Bangalore Abstract: In India, about two lakh people face medical emergencies every day. Accidents at homes, workplaces and on roads happen quite frequently along with other medical, police and fire-related emergencies.� The support systems required to deal with these emergencies in the society virtually do not exist in India. When an emergency occurs, we need a rapid action support system to come into force to bail the victims out of the imminent threat of loss of life or property. A systematic approach to providing total support to the victims of emergencies requires the integration of three phases (Sense, Reach and Care). A comprehensive emergency response system on the lines of 9.1.1 in the US and 112 in the EU was developed in the state of Andhra Pradesh by EMRI, a non-profit society that works on the PPP (public private partnership) model.� Technology used in this project includes Computer Telephony Integration, Voice Loggers, GIS / Maps, GPS / AVLT, Mobile communications, e-learning etc. The EMRI project went live on Aug 15, 2005 and is now operational in 18 cities/towns in AP, covering about 13 million people, with an excellent support from the Government.� The number of lives saved in exceeded 2000 during the past 9 months.� The lessons learnt, the confidence gained and the future plans in this project will be shared during this presentation. Kindly confirm your attendance by sending a mail to: ravi.nandhan(a)capco.com or anitha_m(a)aurigene.com V. Ravi Nandhan. & Anitha M.K NCSI-NET Coordinators. With warm regards, 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 ************************************************************************ LEARN MORE - Capco is a consultant, managed services provider and thought leader. We are experts in the financial services industry. You can access our thinking and learn more about us at 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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So Is Internet evolving into a Digital Library?
by Sukhdev Singh 12 May '06

12 May '06

[ A hyperlinked version of is post is available from the following link: http://sukhdev.blogspot.com/2006/05/is-internet-evolving-into-digital.html ] Terry Kuny and Gary Cleveland in their article "The Digital Library: Myths and Challenges" IFLA journal 1998 24 (2)7347 had rejected Internet as Digital Library. They regarded it a myth to consider it digital library. As a bookstore cannot be called a Library in the same manner Internet providing access to huge information resources cannot considered as a Library. "Finding information is difficult, the quality of the information is quite variable, and reliable, professional assistance for the confused and lost is lacking". I have been keenly observing in past few years the emergence of a trend to organize the Internet (WEB) resources so that these are useful to the potential users. Yahoo was probably the first popular tool to hand pick and organize information resources into categories. Then came the voluntary efforts to create an Open Directory (Open Directory Project). Yet another landmark I consider is the emergence of social tagging platforms like Del.icio.us for bookmaking and Flickr to share Photos. Interestingly Nature Publishing Group produced Open Source Software – Connotea and a free site to "help researchers and clinicians manage and share information". It handles academic references far better than Del.icio.us. Now only days back Goggle launched Google Co-op. Here you can categorize the URLs in way you know better and people can subscribe to your categorization. This means that now you as a librarian can categorize and organization the web resources in a manner that could be useful for your patrons!! Well it is expected that they subscribe to your categories while searching. And this has started happening - Just noted that [US] National Library of Medicine is a major contributor. So Is Internet evolving into a Digital Library? --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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on plagiarism
by nrusingh dash 11 May '06

11 May '06

Here is a wonderful mathematician's song about plagiarism by Tom Lehrer ---------------------------- Tom Lehrer on Plagiarism Who made me the genius I am today, The mathematician that others all quote? Who's the professor that made me that way, The greatest that ever got chalk on his coat? One man deserves the credit, One man deserves the blame, and Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy! Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache... I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize! Plagiarize, Let no one else's work evade your eyes, Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, So don't shade your eyes, But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize... Only be sure always to call it please, "research". And ever since I meet this man my life is not the same, And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy! Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache... I am never forget the day I am given first original paper to write. It was on Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrization of Infinitely Differentiable Riemannian Manifold. Bozhe moi! This I know from nothing.2 But I think of great Lobachevsky and I get idea - haha! I have a friend in Minsk, Who has a friend in Pinsk, Whose friend in Omsk Has friend in Tomsk With friend in Akmolinsk. His friend in Alexandrovsk Has friend in Petropavlovsk, Whose friend somehow Is solving now The problem in Dnepropetrovsk. And when his work is done - Haha! - begins the fun. >From Dnepropetrovsk To Petropavlovsk, By way of Iliysk, And Novorossiysk, To Alexandrovsk to Akmolinsk To Tomsk to Omsk To Pinsk to Minsk To me the news will run, Yes, to me the news will run! And then I write By morning, night, And afternoon, And pretty soon My name in Dnepropetrovsk is cursed, When he finds out I published first! And who made me a big success And brought me wealth and fame? Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy! Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache... I am never forget the day my first book is published. Every chapter I stole from somewhere else. Index I copy from old Vladivostok telephone directory. This book, this book was sensational!3 Pravda - ah, Pravda - Pravda said: "Zhil byl korol' kogda-to, Pri njom blokha zhila" ("It stinks"). 4 But Izvestia! Izvestia said: "Ya idu kuda sam tzar' peshkom hodil" ("It stinks"). 5 Metro-Goldwyn-Moskva bought the movie rights for six million rubles, Changing title to 'The Eternal Triangle', With Brigitte Bardot playing part of hypotenuse.6 And who deserves the credit? And who deserves the blame? Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy! ------------------------------- Did you enjoy reading this ? lots more can be read just visit the site http://www.casualhacker.net/tom.lehrer/revisited.html N K Dash Librarian Silicon Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Orissa __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Usefulness and usability of web based systems
by Imma Subirats 10 May '06

10 May '06

Dears, You are kindly invited to participate to an online questionnaire that aims to investigate the usefulness and usability of web based systems. The online questionnaire serves research aims of the Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing, Department of Archive and Library Sciences, Ionian University, Greece. More specific it aims to gather data (opinions) for the evaluation of web based information systems (in this case of e-print archive E-LIS, E-prints in Library and Information Science<http://eprints.rclis.org/>) through the aspects of usefulness and usability. You can access the questionnaire at:<http://www.wcl2.ee.upatras.gr/survey_en/> Please fill in the questionnaire by responding to several statements and provide your rate of agreement. The scale employed runs from one (1) to five (5), directed from negative to positive. The conductors of this research guarantee the safekeeping and anonymity of the gathered data. For any enquiries, please contact us through mail either at john(a)lis.upatras.gr or at gtsak(a)ionio.gr. Thank you very much for your interest and your participation. Giannis Tsakonas - - - - - - - - - - - Giannis Tsakonas E-LIS editor for Greece mail: john(a)lis.upatras.gr National E-LIS website: http://elisdocs.rclis.org/greek/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Imma Subirats Coordinator E-LIS, E-prints in Library and Information Science URL: http://eprints.rclis.org/ URL: http://openlib.org/home/subirats/ E-mail: imma.subirats(a)gmail.com

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Whose Copyright
by Jeetender Chandna 10 May '06

10 May '06

Dear Friends We all know that a war is on --> publishers vs producers. The first thing that comes to my mind - when speaking of copyright - public funded agencies should NOT be permitted to hold any copyright. The movement of Creative Commons Licenses <http://creativecommons.org> is a great move forward towards liberating information for the common good. The Conference call for papers <http://www.icdim.org/submission.asp> seems to be a Case-in-point for the above statements. By what right does a publisher, even if they sponsor, become copyright holders of infornation produced in the public domain. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM) December 06-08, 2006 Christ College, Bangalore, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The copyright document by IEEE states: "4. In the case of a Work performed under a U.S. Government contract or grant, the IEEE recognizes that the U.S. Government has royalty-free permission to reproduce all or portions of the Work, and to authorize others to do so, for official U.S. Government purposes only, if the contract/grant so requires." NOW, this is for a conference to be held in INDIA. A word from the organisers would be very much welcome in this regard. To be impertinent, I would frankly say that by and large our group of librarians and library leaders are largely a group of voyeurs and reporters. What INDIA needs is : ACTIVISTS Secondly, in this age of video-conferencing and the all powerful internet, it seems such a waste of National Resources, that is to conduct in-person conferences. If we have to say something, we should organise local video-conf units, thereby eliminating expensive travel etc. Fringe benefits could be obtained by live streaming of the speaker which could be accessed by many more people. Yes, another fringe would be the feasibiity of attending only sessions of interest to oneself. Of late, most of us have, I presume, come to believe that the digital road is the path of the future. So why are we so tardy in its implementation. -- Regards Granthpal ---------------------------------------- Jeetender Chandna aka Vicky aka Granthpal Esha News Monitoring Services Pvt Ltd 10th Floor, Krushal Commercial Complex Chembur (W) Mumbai 400089 Tel: (91-22) 3245 2861 Email: granthpal(a)gmail.com

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IASLIC Website
by Aman Jha 10 May '06

10 May '06

Dear friends IASLIC website has disappeared from its original domain/website. Its original domain name <http://www.iaslic.org/> www.iaslic.org is now available for sale. However, I saw this website (last updated 2002) on Indian Statistical Institute's website with DRTC. Earlier the ILA website disappeared in a samilar way. And now IASLIC website. Whatever be the reasons, but this trend clearly shows how poor are our premier associations. Rgds, Aman Jha Librarian CII DISCLAIMER:The information in this message may be privileged. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete the message from your system. Any unauthorised use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Any information in this message that does not relate to official business shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by the Confederation of Indian Industry. Dear friends IASLIC website has disappeared from its original domain/website. Its original domain name http://www.iaslic.org/ www.iaslic.org is now available for sale. However, I saw this website (last updated 2002) on Indian Statistical Institute's website with DRTC. Earlier the ILA website disappeared in a samilar way. And now IASLIC website. Whatever be the reasons, but this trend clearly shows how poor are our premier associations. Rgds, Aman Jha Librarian CII DISCLAIMER: Sample Disclaimer added in a VBScript.

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enquiry EM Tattle tapes of 3M
by Mailing List Manager 10 May '06

10 May '06

Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 23:32:05 -0700 (PDT) From: veena dusane <veenadusane2003(a)yahoo.com> Dear All Anybody provide me the information about EM Tattle tapes of 3M . Who is the Vendor, What is the cost estimate etc Regards, Veena D.

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Locate book
by Mailing List Manager 10 May '06

10 May '06

Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 23:01:27 +0530 From: annapurna T.S <annapurnats(a)gmail.com> Dear Information providers, Could anybody locate the following publication in telugu ? Title : Pillala Bommala Bharathamu Author : Maganti Bapineedu. Publisher is not known, was published during 1950s. The book in question is required in connection with bringing out a commemorative volume in the name of Smt. HY.Saraswathamma, on her birth centinary who was instrumental in setting up 'Makkala Kootas' in Mysore later in Bangalore for children. Incidentally she was the mother of Sri HY.Sharada Prasad, Information (Press) Secretary to Mrs. Indira Gandhi when she was the PM. The volume in question was referred extensively by Smt.Saraswathamm aduring her service to the above cause. Thanks and Regards, Annapurna TS My affiliation is as follows : I was Sr.Tech Inf. Officer with M/s. Mecon Ltd. - a Govt.of India Enterprise under Min. of Steel in Bangalore. Later, I was associated with Shankara Rotary Children's Library (Ref : Mrs. Seethalakshmi Chinnappa, Ex Director, National Informatics Centre).

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A website which helps you manage your references online
by Shahab 10 May '06

10 May '06

Dear All: This may be a useful site for you. Its called Connotea, which helps you organise your references, share with others in your field of interest and discover new leads. Connotea is a place to keep links to the articles you read and the websites you use, and a place to find them again. It is also a place where you can discover new articles and websites through sharing your links with other users. By saving your links and references to Connotea they are instantly on the web, which means that they are available to you from any computer and that you can point your friends and colleagues to them. In Connotea, every user's links are visible both to visitors and to every other user, and different users' libraries are linked together through the use of common tags or common bookmarks. Please try and find out yourself at http://www.connotea.org S M Shahabuddin Librarian National AIDS Research Institute Pune 411 026 Phone 020 2712 1280/1343 Fax 020 2712 1071 Dear All: This may be a useful site for you. Its called Connotea, which helps you organise your references, share with others in your field of interest and discover new leads. Connotea is a place to keep links to the articles you read and the websites you use, and a place to find them again. It is also a place where you can discover new articles and websites through sharing your links with other users. By saving your links and references to Connotea they are instantly on the web, which means that they are available to you from any computer and that you can point your friends and colleagues to them. In Connotea, every user's links are visible both to visitors and to every other user, and different users' libraries are linked together through the use of common tags or common bookmarks. Please try and find out yourself at http://www.connotea.org S M Shahabuddin Librarian National AIDS Research Institute Pune 411 026 Phone 020 2712 1280/1343 Fax 020 2712 1071 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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First Call for Participation: Platinum Jubilee of the Indian Statistical Institute
by Puna Das 10 May '06

10 May '06

Platinum Jubilee of the Indian Statistical Institute International Conference on Computing: Theory and Applications March 5 - 7, 2007 Venue: Kolkata First Call for Participation Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), an institute of national importance, was founded in 1931 by the visionary Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis. The Institute has earned international laurels in a wide spectrum of disciplines spanning Statistics, Mathematics, Computer and Communication Sciences, Biological Sciences, Physical and Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, and Statistical Quality Control and Operations Research. A year-long celebration of the Platinum Jubilee of the Institute during 2006-07 will comprise a series of events. The Computer and Communication Sciences Division of the Institute is organizing an international conference in the areas of the topics listed below. The program of this event includes tutorials and invited talks by eminent scientists, and contributed papers by researchers from academia and industry all over the world. Original contributions are solicited in each of the following conference tracks. The main topics covered under each track are listed below. Paper submission is not limited to the topics listed under each track. Any paper following the theme of the track will be considered. Track I: Algorithms and Architectures Track II: Pattern Recognition and Soft Computing Track III: Document, Language and Signal Processing Including Digital libraries, web applications, ontology, information extraction and retrieval, text summarization and abstracting, etc. Track IV: Image Processing, Computer Vision and Graphics Conference proceedings will be published by a renowned international publisher in the area of Computer Science. Important Dates Paper submission: August 18, 2006 Paper acceptance: November 3, 2006 Camera-ready submission and Registration: December 1, 2006 Contact Address: Platinum Jubilee Conference Secretariat, CVPR Unit, 8th Floor, Library Building, 203, B.T. Road, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 700108. e-mail: ccsd_platinum(a)isical.ac.in Website: http://www.isical.ac.in/~ccsd_platinum/ ___________________________________________________ Anup Kumar Das/ Bidyarthi Dutta/ Swapan Kumar Patra Information and Communication Society of India, New Delhi ___________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new. http://in.answers.yahoo.com

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Wanted ISO IEC 9000-3 document
by vimal kumar 10 May '06

10 May '06

Dear Professionals, I need a soft copy of ISO IEC 9000-3 standard. I assure that this article is for educational purpose.Kindly send me if youhave this in your collection. Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Blab-away for as little as 1¢/min. Make PC-to-Phone Calls using Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. I need a soft copy of ISO IEC 9000-3 standard. I assure that this article is for educational purpose.Kindly send me if youhave this in your collection. Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com Blab-away for as little as 1¢/min. Make http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman2/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… PC-to-Phone Calls using Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.

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Appointment of Mrs. Hema Veranna Cholin
by K Prakash 10 May '06

10 May '06

Hello, Mrs. Hema Veeranna Cholin joined as Scientific/Technical Assistant-II at INFLIBNET Centre,Ahmedabad on 28th April, 2006. I hope all of you will join me wishing her a good luck and all the best in her career. And we should alsoexpress our heartfelt appreciation to Dr T A V Murthy,Director and higher authorities for their kind measures. Thanks. With best regards. With best regards. Bye. ________________________________________________ K Prakash Scientific/Technical Officer-I Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre An Inter-University Centre of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Post Box No.4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad - 380 009 India Phone: 91-079-2630 5971/2630 4695 Extn: 38(Off); 2676 3724(Res) Fax: 91-079-2630 0990/ 2630 7816 Mobile: 9427 000 758 Email: prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in; prakash_k(a)yahoo.com URL: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ ; http://www.prakashk.netfirms.com/

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Vacancies for Asst. librarian & Librarian Asst.
by amar mane 09 May '06

09 May '06

Dear all, There is a vacancy for the post of Assistant librarian in Ecole Mondiale World School, Mumbai on permanent basis & three vacancies for the post of Library Assistant for school as well as Russell Square international college, Mumbai on contract basis for the period of one year which may be extendable. For Asst. librarian 2-3 years of experience is required. For library Asst. Freshers are preferred. Interested candidates send their CVs to the following mail id librarian(a)rsicollege.org With Regards Amar Mane Librarian Russell Square International College Gulmohar Cross Road NO.9, J. V. P. D. Juhu, Mumbai-49 --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new. Click here Send instant messages to your online friends - NOW Dear all, There is a vacancy for the post of Assistant librarian in Ecole Mondiale World School , Mumbai on permanent basis & three vacancies for the post of Library Assistant for school as well as Russell Square international college, Mumbai on contract basis for the period of one year which may be extendable. For Asst. librarian 2-3 years of experience is required. For library Asst. Freshers are preferred. Interested candidates send their CVs to the following mail id librarian(a)rsicollege.org With Regards Amar Mane Librarian Russell Square International College Gulmohar Cross Road NO.9, J. V. P. D. Juhu, Mumbai-49 Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailcricket/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com Click here Send instant messages to your online friends - http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php;_ylt=Ah5_.LTcbbJtYrNKnfM5e6xwMMIF NOW

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NCSI-Net Meeting
by Nandhan Ravi 09 May '06

09 May '06

Dear All , The next NCSI-NET meeting will be held on Saturday, May 13th 2006. The meeting will commence with a talk. All are cordially invited for the talk. Speaker: Dr. Sudhakar Varanasi, Senior Vice President, Satyam Computer Services Topic: Putting head and heart together: Technology in the service of Society: A case study of emergency services in Andhra Pradesh Time: 10-30 AM. Venue: Seminar Hall, NCSI, IISc, Bangalore Abstract: In India, about two lakh people face medical emergencies every day. Accidents at homes, workplaces and on roads happen quite frequently along with other medical, police and fire-related emergencies. The support systems required to deal with these emergencies in the society virtually do not exist in India. When an emergency occurs, we need a rapid action support system to come into force to bail the victims out of the imminent threat of loss of life or property. A systematic approach to providing total support to the victims of emergencies requires the integration of three phases (Sense, Reach and Care). A comprehensive emergency response system on the lines of 9.1.1 in the US and 112 in the EU was developed in the state of Andhra Pradesh by EMRI, a non-profit society that works on the PPP (public private partnership) model. Technology used in this project includes Computer Telephony Integration, Voice Loggers, GIS / Maps, GPS / AVLT, Mobile communications, e-learning etc. The EMRI project went live on Aug 15, 2005 and is now operational in 18 cities/towns in AP, covering about 13 million people, with an excellent support from the Government. The number of lives saved in exceeded 2000 during the past 9 months. The lessons learnt, the confidence gained and the future plans in this project will be shared during this presentation. Kindly confirm your attendance by sending a mail to: ravi.nandhan(a)capco.com or anitha_m(a)aurigene.com V. Ravi Nandhan. & Anitha M.K NCSI-NET Coordinators. With warm regards, 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 ************************************************************************ LEARN MORE - Capco is a consultant, managed services provider and thought leader. We are experts in the financial services industry. You can access our thinking and learn more about us at 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/ ************************************************************************ NCSI-Net Meeting Dear All , The next NCSI-NET meeting will be held on Saturday, May 13th 2006. The meeting will commence with a talk. All are cordially invited for the talk. Speaker: Dr. Sudhakar Varanasi, Senior Vice President, Satyam Computer Services Topic: Putting head and heart together: Technology in the service of Society: A case study of emergency services in Andhra Pradesh Time: 10-30 AM. Venue: Seminar Hall, NCSI, IISc, Bangalore Abstract: In India, about two lakh people face medical emergencies every day. Accidents at homes, workplaces and on roads happen quite frequently along with other medical, police and fire-related emergencies. The support systems required to deal with these emergencies in the society virtually do not exist in India. When an emergency occurs, we need a rapid action support system to come into force to bail the victims out of the imminent threat of loss of life or property. A systematic approach to providing total support to the victims of emergencies requires the integration of three phases (Sense, Reach and Care). A comprehensive emergency response system on the lines of 9.1.1 in the US and 112 in the EU was developed in the state of Andhra Pradesh by EMRI, a non-profit society that works on the PPP (public private partnership) model. Technology used in this project includes Computer Telephony Integration, Voice Loggers, GIS / Maps, GPS / AVLT, Mobile communications, e-learning etc. The EMRI project went live on Aug 15, 2005 and is now operational in 18 cities/towns in AP, covering about 13 million people, with an excellent support from the Government. The number of lives saved in exceeded 2000 during the past 9 months. The lessons learnt, the confidence gained and the future plans in this project will be shared during this presentation. Kindly confirm your attendance by sending a mail to: mailto:ravi.nandhan@capco.com ravi.nandhan(a)capco.com or mailto:anitha_m@aurigene.com anitha_m(a)aurigene.com V. Ravi Nandhan. & Anitha M.K NCSI-NET Coordinators. With warm regards, 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 ************************************************************************ LEARN MORE - Capco is a consultant, managed services provider and thought leader. We are experts in the financial services industry. 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Ur(Iraq) may have been the world's first city and the location of the first libraries.
by Gangadharesha.A.S 09 May '06

09 May '06

Dear Professionals, Ur (A city in Iraq) may be the world's first city and where writing as we know it began to develop. Humanity's first literary text, "The Epic of Gilgamesh," may have been composed here, too. For more details please visit. http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0508/p09s01-coop.html Thanks n Regards, Gangadharesha.A.S E&R Library, Infosys Technologies Ltd, Mysore-18, Cell#:09980087275 **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses. Infosys has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk, but is not liable for any damage you may sustain as a result of any virus in this e-mail. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. Infosys reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to or from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the Infosys e-mail system. ***INFOSYS******** End of Disclaimer ********INFOSYS***  Dear Professionals, � Ur (A city in Iraq ) may be the world's first city and where writing as we know it began to develop. Humanity's first literary text, "The Epic of Gilgamesh," may have been composed here, too. For more details please visit. http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0508/p09s01-coop.html http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0508/p09s01-coop.html � Thanks n Regards , Gangadharesha.A.S E&R Library, Infosys Technologies Ltd, Mysore - 18, Cell#:09980087275 � **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses. Infosys has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk, but is not liable for any damage you may sustain as a result of any virus in this e-mail. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. Infosys reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to or from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the Infosys e-mail system. ***INFOSYS******** End of Disclaimer ********INFOSYS***

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job opportunity at DRTC
by DRTC General 09 May '06

09 May '06

Indian Statistical Institute 203 B.T Road, Kolkata 108 No.PU/507/ADV/C149 Date:28 April 2006 ADVERTISEMENT Applications are invited for one (01) purely temporary Project Linked Technical Assistant in DRTC at Bangalore Centre of the Institute to work in the project entitled "Digitization of Seminar Volumes". Qualifications : Essential: BLISc or equivalent in Library & Inf. Science from the reccognised University/Institute. : Desirable: ADIS / MLISc or equivalent in Library & Information Science. Pay : Rs.7000/- (Rupees seven thousand only) per month (Consolidated pay with no other allowances). Tenure of appointment : The maximum duration of the appointment is till 31st March 2007. Age : 35 years as on 01 April 2006. Age may be relaxed for SC/ST/OBC candidates. Typed applications stating (1) Name (In block letters), (2) Father's/Husband's Name, (3) Address, (4) E-mail, (5) Phone No., (6) Date of birth, (7) Educational Qualifications, (8) Work experience, if any, accompanied by attested copies of relevant documents /testimonials addressed to the Director, Indian Statistical Institute, should reach the Professor and Head, Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, RVCE (Post), Bangalore 560059, on or before 26th May 2006. The Institute reserves the right not to appoint Project Linked Technical Assistant. s/d Sankar K. Pal Director

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Need an article
by uma.vaithy＠wipro.com 09 May '06

09 May '06

Dear all I'm in need of these two articles (softcopy) , Kindly send me if you have this in your collection S. Park, Y. Kim, S. Kim, and Y. Seo, "Multi-Layer Bit-Sliced Bit-Rate Scalable Audio Coding," in 103rd AES Convention, New York, 1997, preprint 4520. Thanks and Regards Uma Vaithy The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. WARNING: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.wipro.com

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Neuroscience Gateway
by Mailing List Manager 08 May '06

08 May '06

Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 18:01:10 +0530 (IST) From: arun(a)mssrf.res.in OA neuroscience resource from Nature and Allen Institute The Nature Publishing Group and the Allen Institute for Brain Science are partners in the OA Neuroscience Gateway. From yesterday's announcement: Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the Allen Institute for Brain Science are delighted to announce the launch of the Neuroscience Gateway, a free online resource for cutting-edge neuroscience and genomics research. The first update of the Neuroscience Gateway, which has been developed as a close collaboration between NPG and the Allen Institute, will be available on May 4th 2006 at www.brainatlas.org, and twice a month thereafter. The Neuroscience Gateway will provide a library of the latest papers, up-to-the-minute neuroscience news, and free access to highlights of key articles.

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IEEE First International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2006)
by Mailing List Manager 08 May '06

08 May '06

Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 12:25:11 +0100 (BST) From: Puna Das <puna_05(a)yahoo.co.in> Call For Papers IEEE First International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2006) December 06-08, 2006 Sponsored by IEEE visit http://www.icdim.org for more etails.

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A Free Library of Computer Science Knowledge (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 08 May '06

08 May '06

Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 03:23:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Dabas Bharat K <dabasbk(a)yahoo.com> A Free Library of Computer Science Knowledge The Springer Computer Science Reading Room offers you free access to books and journals in your area of interest. Each month, new content is added to the Reading Room in: Artificial Intelligence Graphics, Vision, and Imaging Database Management Foundations of Computing Information Security and Cryptology Software Engineering and Programming Human-Computer Interaction. In addition, all Springer Computer Science Readers are entitled to a 20% discount on all springeronline.com book purchases The Springer Computer Science Reading Room Inside the Computer Science Reading Room you will find free content from the highly respected Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series and a wide array of Springer journals. Each month, seven LNCS volumes and a number of journal issues are added to the Reading Room, creating an ever-growing personal library. Best of all, you never have to return the content of this library. Using the functionality offered by SpringerLink, the content is accessible via PDF or HTML files, which you can download and print. Read for Free: Become a Computer Science Reader 1) Visit www.springer.com/readingroom (Click on the link below) 2) Create your user account Click on CONTINUE under the I am a new customer section. On the following registration page, please enter a password and user name of your choice together with your e-mail address (for our e-mail confirmation to you). 3) Enter or copy and paste the SpringerToken: 2Q6x5N4GGPZbnp3 and click SUBMIT and you will be taken directly to the Reading Room If you already have an account with springeronline.com, please log in with your user name and password. At the bottom of the registration page, click on CHANGE. Then enter the above SpringerToken and click on SUBMIT. 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

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Laura Bush announces grants for libraries
by Mailing List Manager 08 May '06

08 May '06

Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 15:58:15 +0100 (BST) From: vasanth raj <gooche_1981(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear all Bush, a former librarian and public school teacher, announced the grants at Chalmette High School in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, where every building -- including 15 schools -- was flooded..... http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/05/04/first.lady.libraries.ap/ Your Sincerely ------------------------- Plz re-direct Your mail to vasanthrz(a)gmail.com Vasantha Raju N --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new. Click here

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Lecture Notice
by Krishnamurthy M 08 May '06

08 May '06

ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH SCHOLARS ( Karnataka Chapter) and BRITISH LIBRARY Cordially invite you to the specical lecture on " INFORMATION INDUSTRY- A Global Perspective" by Shri N.V.Satyanarayana Chairman & Managing Director Informatics (India ) Ltd., Bangalore 560003 at British Library on Friday, 12th May 2006 at 4.30 p.m Prof.I.K.Ravichandra Rao Mr.K.T.Rajan Mr .R.Dhandapani I.H.Jahagirdar President Secretary Treasurer Manager -- Dr.M.Krishnamurthy Librarian Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road R.V.C.E. Post Bangalore 560059 Ph:91-80-28483002/3/4/4 Fax: 91-80-28484265

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60th LIS journal in DOAJ!
by Sukhdev Singh 08 May '06

08 May '06

Forwarded Message! Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 11:01:12 -0400 From: Heather Morrison <heatherm(a)eln.bc.ca> Subject: 60th LIS journal in DOAJ! There are now 60 Library and Information Science journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals - an impressive list of journals to read, or to publish in! The list of LIS journals can be found at: http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=129 Welcome to new DOAJ listed journal, the Chinese / English Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences - perhaps an appropriate symbol of this global phenomenon that is open access? Journal of Education Media & Library Sciences can be found at: http://research.dils.tku.edu.tw/joemls/ Heather G. Morrison E-LIS Editor, Canada http://eprints.rclis.org/ postscript: intriguing new title in E-LIS that may interest list readers: House of Horrors: Exorcising Electronic Resources, by U.S. E-LIS Editor Norm Medeiros, at: http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00006168/

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Free access to bioloogical databases
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 07 May '06

07 May '06

>From Peter Suber's blog FELICS will offer OA to major biological databases Lautaro Vargas, EBI gives database boost to biotechs, Business Weekly, May 6, 2006. Excerpt: The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Cambridge is heading a £11.4 million infrastructure project to provide the scientific community with free and unrestricted access to some of the worlds most important biological databases. Titled FELICS Free European Life-science Information and Computational Services this unique electronic infrastructure project is designed to develop, enhance and interlink many of the most important data resources in Europe and widen their accessibility to the international research community. It will be funded under the Research Infrastructures action of the sixth Framework Programme (FP6) with the largest ever European award for computational infrastructures needed to support biological research....FELICS technical coordinator at the EBI, Phil Gardner, said: Our databases are accessed by many tens or even hundreds of thousands of scientists and are recognised as crucial resources by researchers worldwide....FELICS encompasses many of the EBIs familiar databases, but will also feature some crucial new activities and the group has been set several tasks and deliverables within three main areas: Networking activities; joint research activities; and transnational access activities....Graham Cameron, associate director of the EBI and coordinator of FELICS, said: Bioinformatics now pervades biology. Bioinformatics experts no longer sit between biologist and database. Researchers expect to directly access the databases and do real work. FELICS gives scientists the electronic right to roam the biological knowledge space.

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Call for Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards 2006
by Puna Das 06 May '06

06 May '06

Call for Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards 2006 The 2nd Annual Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards 2006 Emerald Group Publishing Limited, publisher of the largest collection of international business and management journals, and the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), a global membership organisation with more than 500 institutional members from academia, business and public services, seek to celebrate excellence in research by sponsoring the Annual Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards. Award-winning entries will receive a cash prize of €1,500 (or other currency equivalent), a certificate and the prospect of an offer of publication in the sponsoring journal, as a full paper, or as an executive summary/research note, at the discretion of the Editor. Prize categories Two Prizes will be awarded to the winners of the following categories: Subject Area : Sponsoring Journal 1. Library studies : Library Hi Tech 2. Information science : Journal of Documentation For Details Visit: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/researchers/funding/doctoralawards/2006a… http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/researchers/funding/doctoralawards/2005w… _______________________________________________________ Anup Kumar Das/ Bidyarthi Dutta/ Swapan Kumar Patra Information and Communication Society of India, New Delhi _______________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new. http://in.answers.yahoo.com

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Fwd: BMC in LJ Academic NewsWire
by Mallikarjuna, C 06 May '06

06 May '06

From: Ann Okerson <ann.okerson(a)yale.edu> Subject: BMC in LJ Academic NewsWire Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 18:35:55 EDT Excerpted from LJN, thursday, 4 May: Growing Pain: Editors Voice Complaints About Open Access Pioneer BioMed Central Is trouble brewing at open access pioneer BioMed Central (BMC)? This week the BMC-owned magazine The Scientist published a lengthy article suggesting that a number of editors at some of BMC's 93 independent journals are unhappy with the publisher's efforts, and several were said to be considering leaving the company altogether. BMC, a for-profit open access publisher founded in 2000, has been touted as an alternative to the commercial subscription model, which is plagued by rampant inflation. Now, as the company makes changes to its business, it is beginning to hear some familiar complaints, including over price inflation. According to The Scientist, BMC editors, who are not paid, are upset with recent increases in BMC's author processing charge (APC), and the granting of fewer APC waivers for papers whose authors cannot afford to pay the full APC. Also, last year the new BMC contract required editors to transfer journal ownership over to BMC. BMC publisher Matthew Cockerill defended the changes, including the swelling APC. In January 2002, the APC was $500. Today it is 750 pounds, about $1340. "Having published many thousands of articles since then, we now have a much better idea of what we need to charge to cover our costs and ensure financial sustainability," Cockerill told the LJ Academic Newswire. Cockerill replaced founding publisher Jan Velterop last year, after Velterop left BMC to pursue other open access-related projects. Velterop later joined Springer. Cockerill noted that the new APC was still "well within the range regarded as reasonable by funders, and compares very favorably with the charges of other publishers offering open access." APC costs aside, editors' other major complaint, according The Scientist, appears to be with BMC management, described as "uncompromising" on a range of issues facing the company. Kuan-Teh Jeang, editor-in-chief of the BMC journal Retrovirology, echoed most editors in supporting open access, but questioned BMC's execution. "We all feel open access is where we want to donate our time, energy, and reputations," Jeang told The Scientist. "What we want from BMC is a sense that they value us as equal team members." Richard Feinman, co-editor-in-chief of Nutrition and Metabolism, was more blunt in his assessment, telling The Scientist that "open access is going to move forward and if the BMC management can meet this challenge, fine, if not, they should be replaced." Cockerill seemed unfazed by the criticism saying he valued the input of editors. "As with every challenging endeavor, there will occasionally be problems along the way," he told the LJ Academic Newswire. "The editors of new open access journals have taken on an important and challenging task. We are working hard with them, to make their journals a success." As for BMC's success? Cockerill said the company was "doing well." Although BMC is still not yet profitable, he said, "Support from authors for BioMed Central has never been stronger. Submissions are at record levels. Wider support for open access, too, continues to grow each day." Copyright 2006, Library Journal -- Regards HB Mallikarjuna World Language Lab Bangalore hbmallikarjuna(a)gmail.com Mobile:09343757228 --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new. Click here From: Ann Okerson <ann.okerson(a)yale.edu> Subject: BMC in LJ Academic NewsWire Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 18:35:55 EDT Excerpted from LJN, thursday, 4 May: Growing Pain: Editors Voice Complaints About Open Access Pioneer BioMed Central Is trouble brewing at open access pioneer BioMed Central (BMC)? This week the BMC-owned magazine The Scientist published a lengthy article suggesting that a number of editors at some of BMC's 93 independent journals are unhappy with the publisher's efforts, and several were said to be considering leaving the company altogether. BMC, a for-profit open access publisher founded in 2000, has been touted as an alternative to the commercial subscription model, which is plagued by rampant inflation. Now, as the company makes changes to its business, it is beginning to hear some familiar complaints, including over price inflation. According to The Scientist, BMC editors, who are not paid, are upset with recent increases in BMC's author processing charge (APC), and the granting of fewer APC waivers for papers whose authors cannot afford to pay the full APC. Also, last year the new BMC contract required editors to transfer journal ownership over to BMC. BMC publisher Matthew Cockerill defended the changes, including the swelling APC. In January 2002, the APC was $500. Today it is 750 pounds, about $1340. "Having published many thousands of articles since then, we now have a much better idea of what we need to charge to cover our costs and ensure financial sustainability," Cockerill told the LJ Academic Newswire. Cockerill replaced founding publisher Jan Velterop last year, after Velterop left BMC to pursue other open access-related projects. Velterop later joined Springer. Cockerill noted that the new APC was still "well within the range regarded as reasonable by funders, and compares very favorably with the charges of other publishers offering open access." APC costs aside, editors' other major complaint, according The Scientist, appears to be with BMC management, described as "uncompromising" on a range of issues facing the company. Kuan-Teh Jeang, editor-in-chief of the BMC journal Retrovirology, echoed most editors in supporting open access, but questioned BMC's execution. "We all feel open access is where we want to donate our time, energy, and reputations," Jeang told The Scientist. "What we want from BMC is a sense that they value us as equal team members." Richard Feinman, co-editor-in-chief of Nutrition and Metabolism, was more blunt in his assessment, telling The Scientist that "open access is going to move forward and if the BMC management can meet this challenge, fine, if not, they should be replaced." Cockerill seemed unfazed by the criticism saying he valued the input of editors. "As with every challenging endeavor, there will occasionally be problems along the way," he told the LJ Academic Newswire. "The editors of new open access journals have taken on an important and challenging task. We are working hard with them, to make their journals a success." As for BMC's success? Cockerill said the company was "doing well." Although BMC is still not yet profitable, he said, "Support from authors for BioMed Central has never been stronger. Submissions are at record levels. Wider support for open access, too, continues to grow each day." Copyright 2006, Library Journal -- Regards HB Mallikarjuna World Language Lab Bangalore mailto:hbmallikarjuna@gmail.com hbmallikarjuna(a)gmail.com Mobile:09343757228 Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com Click here

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"Strong Copyright + DRM + Weak Net Neutrality = Digital Dystopia?" Preprint
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 05 May '06

05 May '06

A preprint of my "Strong Copyright + DRM + Weak Net Neutrality = Digital Dystopia?" paper is now available. http://www.digital-scholarship.com/cwb/DigitalDystopia.pdf It will appear in Information Technology and Libraries 25, no. 3 (2006). This quote from the paper's conclusion sums it up: What this paper has said is simply this: three issues--a dramatic expansion of the scope, duration, and punitive nature of copyright laws; the ability of DRM to lock-down content in an unprecedented fashion; and the erosion of Net neutrality--bear careful scrutiny by those who believe that the Internet has fostered (and will continue to foster) a digital revolution that has resulted in an extraordinary explosion of innovation, creativity, and information dissemination. These issues may well determine whether the much-touted "information superhighway" lives up to its promise or simply becomes the "information toll road" of the future, ironically resembling the pre-Internet online services of the past. For those who want a longer preview of the paper, here's the introduction: Blogs. Digital photo and video sharing. Podcasts. Rip/Mix/Burn. Tagging. Vlogs. Wikis. These buzzwords point to a fundamental social change fueled by cheap PCs and servers, the Internet and its local wired/wireless feeder networks, and powerful, low-cost software: citizens have morphed from passive media consumers to digital media producers and publishers. Libraries and scholars have their own set of buzz words: digital libraries, digital presses, e-prints, institutional repositories, and open access journals to name a few. They connote the same kind of change: a democratization of publishing and media production using digital technology. It appears that we are on the brink of an exciting new era of Internet innovation: a kind of digital utopia. Dr. Gary Flake of Microsoft has provided one striking vision of what could be (with a commercial twist) in a presentation entitled "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Imminent Internet Singularity," and there are many other visions of possible future Internet advances. When did this metamorphosis begin? It depends on who you ask. Let's say the late 1980's, when the Internet began to get serious traction and an early flowering of noncommercial digital publishing occurred. In the subsequent twenty-odd years, publishing and media production went from being highly centralized, capital-intensive analog activities with limited and well-defined distribution channels to being diffuse, relatively low-cost digital activities with the global Internet as their distribution medium. Not to say that print and conventional media are dead, of course, but it is clear that their era of dominance is waning. The future is digital. Nor is it to say that entertainment companies (e.g., film, music, radio, and television companies) and information companies (e.g., book, database, and serial publishers) have ceded the digital content battlefield to the upstarts. Quite the contrary. High-quality thousand-page-per-volume scientific journals and Hollywood blockbusters cannot be produced for pennies, even with digital wizardry. Information and entertainment companies still have an important role to play, and, even if they didn't, they hold the copyrights to a significant chunk of our cultural heritage. Entertainment and information companies have understood for some time that they must adopt to the digital environment or die, but this change has not always been easy, especially when it involves concocting and embracing new business models. Nonetheless, they intend to thrive and prosper--and to do whatever it takes to succeed. As they should, since they have an obligation to their shareholders to do so. The thing about the future is that it is rooted in the past. Culture, even digital culture, builds on what has gone before. Unconstrained access to past works helps determine the richness of future works. Inversely, when past works are inaccessible except to a privileged minority, it impoverishes future works. This brings us to a second trend that stands in opposition to the first. Put simply, it is the view that intellectual works are "property"; that this property should be protected with the full force of civil and criminal law; that creators have perpetual, transferable property rights; and that contracts, rather than copyright law, should govern the use of intellectual works. A third trend is also at play: the growing use of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies. When intellectual works were in paper form (or other tangible forms), they could only be controlled at the object-ownership or object-access levels (a library controlling the circulation of a copy of a book is an example of the second case). Physical possession of a work, such as a book, meant that the user had full use of it (e.g., the user could read the entire book and photocopy pages from it). When works are in digital form and they are protected by some types of DRM, this may no longer true. For example, a user may only be able to view a single chapter from a DRM-protected e-book and may not be able to print it. The fourth and final trend deals with how the Internet functions at its most fundamental level. The Internet was designed to be content, application, and hardware "neutral." As long as certain standards were met, the network did not discriminate. One type of content was not given preferential delivery speed over another. One type of content was not charged for delivery while another wasn't. One type of content was not blocked (at least by the network) while another wasn't. In recent years, "network neutrality" has come under attack. The collision of these trends has begun in courts, legislatures, and the marketplace. It is far from over. As we shall see, it's outcome will determine what the future of digital culture looks like. -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston Libraries E-Mail: cbailey(a)digital-scholarship.com Publications: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/ (Provides access to DigitalKoans, Open Access Bibliography, Open Access Webliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog, and others)

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Open access to data
by Mailing List Manager 05 May '06

05 May '06

Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 15:05:45 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> >From Peter Suber's blog More on OA to publicly-funded data in the UK Charles Arthur, Should government charge ... and how much? The Guardian, May 4, 2006. Excerpt: A week is a long time in politics. But six years, it seems, is not quite enough time in the civil service to carry out a study into the economic benefits of free data. In the Treasury's Spending Review in 2000, an interesting part discussed the knowledge economy - in particular whether public organisations should charge for their data, and if so, how much. [The report concludes that] some of the data generated is surplus to the running of government; it's simply there to generate profits, to offset the running costs of various departments. "As a result," the authors add, "the government is able, without abusing the dominant position it has in particular markets, to use pricing strategies which enable it to recoup at least some of the fixed costs of production." But that begs an important question that the Free Our Data campaign - which argues that government agencies should provide their data to the public for free - would like to see resolved.... But the authors then admit it's unclear how government-generated data should be priced. After discussing pricing models, they note the suggestion "that demand would grow rapidly in response to lower prices ... and as basic information is repackaged in innovative ways. The issue needs further empirical work." That is, an economist should see whether cheaper data boosts the economy. So, six years on, has the Treasury followed up its own recommendation and done a study on the effect of data pricing? No, the Treasury told us....Perhaps they'll be interested by a new paper produced by the OECD this week examining public sector content, which notes huge disparities in market size and access between the UK, Europe and other countries.

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ISO OKs Open Document Format as Standard
by Farooque Shaheen 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hi all, The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has given its ?sweeping approval? to the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as an international standard for retaining and exchanging digital office documents, according to a press release from the ODF Alliance, a group of entities dedicated to improving the management of electronic government documents. Approval of the OpenDocument Format by ISO marks an important milestone in the effort to help governments solve the very real problem of finding a better way to preserve, access and control their documents now and in the future,? Marcich, said in the release. ?There?s no doubt that this broad vote of support will serve as a springboard for adoption and use of the ODF around the world.? http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=20823 Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Hi all, The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has given its “sweeping approval” to the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as an international standard for retaining and exchanging digital office documents, according to a press release from the ODF Alliance, a group of entities dedicated to improving the management of electronic government documents. Approval of the OpenDocument Format by ISO marks an important milestone in the effort to help governments solve the very real problem of finding a better way to preserve, access and control their documents now and in the future,” Marcich, said in the release. “There’s no doubt that this broad vote of support will serve as a springboard for adoption and use of the ODF around the world.” http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=20823 Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105

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Workshop on E-Resources and IPR issues 14-16 June 2006
by D Jotwani 05 May '06

05 May '06

Dear All The Central Library, IIT Bombay has planned to organize a 3-days Training Workshop on e-Resources and IPR Issues on 14-16 June 2006. The main objective of the workshop is to expose participants to the relevance of IPR issues vis-a-vis usage of e-resources. Thanks to the success of the Consortia model of acquisition, libraries have been able to provide access to several thousands e-books and journals to their users without the constraints of space and time. While applications of Information and Communication Technologies and Consortia approach have benefited large number of libraries and their users, it has added responsibilities to ensure that the usage is made within the framework of Intellectual Property Rights and the interests of the creators of information/knowledge are protected. Library and information professionals providing e-resources-based information services have important role to play in this area and this workshop will provide them with a broader view of the implications of IPR while discharging their responsibilities and serving their users. The important topics to be covered in the workshop include : Overview of the state of art information communication technologies in the libraries, e-journals, e-books, e-databases Intellectual Property rights vis-a-vis e-resources Vendors presentations RFID Only 30-35 participants, on first-come-first-served basis, will be taken for the course from IITs, IISc, NITs, other engineering colleges, scientific and technical institutions. Preference will be given to those from INDEST/AICTE Consortium participating institutions. Two participants from the consortium participating institutes will be provided free registration. Other participants will be charged Rs 1000-/ as registration fee which includes workshop kit, hostel accommodation, working lunch, and tea/coffee during sessions. TA/DA will have to be borne by the participants or their sponsoring organizations. Participants desiring registration fee concession may kindly submit their application thru parent organization. For more details please visit : http://www.library.iitb.ac.in/news/workshop.pdf D. Jotwani Librarian Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Powai, Mumbai 400076 Phone 91-22-25768920, 91-22-25720227

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Excerpt on India from: The 2006 e-readiness rankings: A white paper from the Economist Intelligence Unit
by Mailing List Manager 05 May '06

05 May '06

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 10:20:23 +0530 From: Debashish_Ghosh_-_Hindalco_Kolkata_Library/KOL_JD/Hindalco/ABG(a)adityabirla.c om India's heated growth attracts investments from home and abroad Source: http://graphics.eiu.com/files/ad_pdfs/2006Ereadiness_Ranking_WP.pdf India's IT and business process outsourcing industries are among the world's most analysed in recent years. Now, the potential of its local telecoms market is beginning to attract attention. Nearly 50m fixed subscribers and 75m mobile users have created opportunity, and with a population of over 1bn there is enormous potential for growth. The government seems to agree, and it sees the virtue of investment in developing services: a telecoms consultancy, Gartner, estimates that over US$16bn will be invested in 2006, a year-on-year increase of 27%, and it projects this figure to reach US$32bn by 2009. The Department of Telecommunications has set a target of 250m fixed and mobile users by 2007. Such growth potential, combined with its competitiveness in low-cost manufacturing, is attracting foreign investment. If planned handset ventures by such firms as Nokia (Finland) and Elcoteq (Estonia) pan out, foreign direct investment in telecoms equipment manufacturing should reach US$1bn in 2006, according to India's communications minister.

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dlisamu.org
by Mailing List Manager 05 May '06

05 May '06

Date: 5 May 2006 03:50:00 -0000 From: ali raza naqvi <raza10(a)rediffmail.com> Dear colleagues It gives me great pleasure to inform all of you that an independant website of the deptt. of Library and Information Science, AMU was launched on 01.05.2006 by Hon'ble Mr. Naseem Ahmad, Vice-Chancellor, AMU. In his speech as the chief guest of the occasion he appreciated the efforts on the part of the deptt. in recent years and called it as "A FLAGSHIP". He advised the students to indulge in "constructive thinking". The function was presided over by Mr. S.M. Ashraf, Income Tax Commissioner, while Prof. Hamida Ahmad, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, was the guest of honour. To see the photographs and more details, please visit us on- www.dlisamu.org (the site is still under construction) Prof. Shabahat Husain Chairman Deptt. of Library and Information Science, AMU, Aligarh-202002 (U.P.) INDIA

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Deppt.of Libray & Information Science, AMU Launched websites
by Mailing List Manager 05 May '06

05 May '06

Date: 4 May 2006 13:03:34 -0000 From: akhtar hussain <ahussain2(a)rediffmail.com> Deppt.of Libray & Information Science, AMU, Aligarh Launched departmental website: www.dlisamu.org. For information regarding admission, B Lib,Mlib,M.Phil and PhD programms and other activities about department, please access it. Akhtar Hussain Research Scholar DLIS,AMU,Aligarh-2002002 (U P)

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NCSI Advt for 2006 Batch Trainees
by Nagaraj Vaidya 04 May '06

04 May '06

Dear Members, NCSI REQUIRES Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) TRAINEES No. of positions: 11 [GEN-4, OBC-2, SC-1, ST-1, and Sponsored Candidates-03] Advt. No.R(IB)008-4/2006. Minimum Qualifications: 1. A Bachelor's Degree with at least First Class in any subject followed by a 2 year Post-Graduate degree or recognized equivalent qualification with First class in Education or Management or Library andInformation Science or Journalism or Communication. 2. SC/ST candidates with pass class will also be considered. 3.The sponsored candidates should forward their applications through proper channel. No stipend will be paid to sponsored candidates. Training is for a period of 18 months w.e.f. 01.08.2006 on a stipend of Rs.5,000/- per month (Fixed). Visit our web site at http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/training/ for details about the training programme and registration of applications ONLINE. The Online Registration form will be accessible from Wednesday, 3rd May 2006 with regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nagaraj N. Vaidya Project Assistant, National Center for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore -560 012 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Vacancy for the post of Technical Assistant
by T R B Sarma 04 May '06

04 May '06

Dear Friends, There is a vacancy for the post of Technical Assistant in Institute for Social and Economic Change ( ISEC) Library for a period of six months. The salalry would be Rs. 6000/- per month. Those who have some computer exposure with M.L.I.Sc degree, may come and meet to the undersigned immediately. TRB SARMA Librarian, ISEC Nagarabhavi, Bangalore. 560 072. E-mail : trbsarma(a)isec.ac.in Telephone: 080-23215468 Extn. 302 Dear Friends, There is a vacancy for the post of Technical Assistant in Institute for Social and Economic Change ( ISEC) Library for a period of six months. The salalry would be Rs. 6000/- per month. Those who have some computer exposure with M.L.I.Sc degree, may come and meet to the undersigned immediately. TRB SARMA Librarian, ISEC Nagarabhavi, Bangalore. 560 072. E-mail : mailto:trbsarma@isec.ac.in trbsarma(a)isec.ac.in Telephone: 080-23215468 Extn. 302

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NewPR Wiki
by raja ram 04 May '06

04 May '06

Dear all, Here is a wiki on PR NewPR Wiki http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php This wiki is: a repository of relevant information about how the PR practice is changing a collaboration tool for PR professionals and people interested in the practice of public relations an open space where anyone can ask questions, post ideas, or start a project. Regards raj --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new. Click here Dear all, Here is a wiki on PR NewPR Wiki http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php This wiki is: a repository of relevant information about how the PR practice is changing a collaboration tool for PR professionals and people interested in the practice of public relations an open space where anyone can ask questions, post ideas, or start a project. Regards raj Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com Click here

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Subscription details of Journal of Financial Management & Analysi s
by hemaa＠ingvysyabank.com 04 May '06

04 May '06

Dear all, The Journal of Financial Management & Analysis is a bi-annual brought out by the Om Sai Centre for Financial Management Research & Training. Could anybody provide me with the subscription details including postal address, email id (if possible) and contact nos? Thanks in advance. Thanks & Regards Hema Amble Librarian, ING Vysya Bank CDC Bangalore Message Dear all, The Journal of Financial Management & Analysis is a bi-annual brought out by the Om Sai Centre for Financial Management Research & Training. Could anybody provide me with the subscription details including postal address, email id (if possible) and contact nos? Thanks in advance. Thanks & Regards Hema Amble Librarian, ING Vysya Bank CDC Bangalore

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Discussion list for queries related to setting up of Institutional Repositories in India.
by Filbert S Minj 04 May '06

04 May '06

Dear Members, As part of ongoing project, Development of OAI-based Institutional Research Repository Services in India, sponsored by DSIR, Govt of India, at the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, NCSI has been helping several Institutions/Organizations in the country to setup their Institutional Repositories (IRs). We have also planned for conducting at least two workshops during the project duration to impart practical training to the participants in setting up and maintaining their IRs. The exact dates for the workshops will be announced on this and other lists shortly. In order to provide sustained help to setup and maintain IRs, we have started an exclusive discussion list called, Institutional Repositories of India Forum (IRI-Forum). Members of this forum can post queries related to IR software choices, Hardware requirements, installation of IR software, configuration, customization,administration, backup or any other problems related to IR. Based on our experiences and the experiences of the participating members this forum can be of mutual help to all the participants. You are welcome to join this mailing list if your Institution/Organization has already has an IR or is planning to have one in the near future. You can subscribe to this mailing list by visiting the site http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/iri-forum. Once you subscribe, you can pose the queries by sending an email to iri-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in. Looking forward to your active participation to make this forum a useful one. -- Filbert and Francis Dear Members, As part of ongoing project, Development of OAI-based Institutional Research Repository Services in India, sponsored by DSIR, Govt of India, at the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, NCSI has been helping several Institutions/Organizations in the country to setup their Institutional Repositories (IRs). We have also planned for conducting at least two workshops during the project duration to impart practical training to the participants in setting up and maintaining their IRs. The exact dates for the workshops will be announced on this and other lists shortly. In order to provide sustained help to setup and maintain IRs, we have started an exclusive discussion list called, Institutional Repositories of India Forum (IRI-Forum). Members of this forum can post queries related to IR software choices, Hardware requirements, installation of IR software, configuration, customization,administration, backup or any other problems related to IR. Based on our experiences and the experiences of the participating members this forum can be of mutual help to all the participants. You are welcome to join this mailing list if your Institution/Organization has already has an IR or is planning to have one in the near future. You can subscribe to this mailing list by visiting the site http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/iri-forum . Once you subscribe, you can pose the queries by sending an email to iri-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in . Looking forward to your active participation to make this forum a useful one. -- Filbert and Francis

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Regarding Weeding of books
by Mailing List Manager 04 May '06

04 May '06

Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 12:00:54 +0530 From: pramod babu <pramodhbabu(a)gmail.com> Dear all Could anyone inform regarding UGC norms for weeding old and out dated books from library or any other information related to weeding of books. Thanks & regards Pramod Library Assistant M.S.Ramaiah Medical College Bangalore e-mail:pramodhbabu@gmail.com

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Fw: digital repositories roadmap: looking forward
by Mailing List Manager 04 May '06

04 May '06

Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 07:42:24 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> ----- Original Message ----- From: Amber Thomas To: JISC-REPOSITORIES(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK Colleagues, You may be interested in this new document discussing the future of UK academic repositories. Digital Repositories Roadmap: Looking Forward JISC has funded a Digital Repositories Roadmap document to present a vision for 2010. This has been undertaken by Rachel Heery from UKOLN and Andy Powell from the Eduserve Foundation. This is a discussion document that provides context for project and programme work. It is available from: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/rep-roadmap-v15.doc The vision is one where there is a rich scholarly communications and learning environment that is supported by an extensive network of repositories, where content is widely available and re-used. The repositories will allow sharing, collaboration, a record of activity and so on and will be enhanced by value added services that support manipulation, interlinking and personalisation among other things. The Digital Repositories Roadmap concludes that it is cultural and policy issues that lie at the heart of achieving success for a digital repository network for learning and research.

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BLISc & MLISc admission
by Mailing List Manager 04 May '06

04 May '06

Date: 3 May 2006 11:15:40 -0000 From: jyoti shreeram bhabal <jyotibhabal(a)rediffmail.com> � Dear All BLISc and MLISc admission forms are available at SHPT School of Library Science. Duration of course: 1 year Medium: English only Eligibility: Female graduate candidate from any discipline(candidate awaiting for their result may also apply.) Admission Procedure: as per merit, based on Entrance Test form fee: Rs. 50/- (form & prospectus) Address: SHPT School of Library Science SNDT Women's University New Marine Lines Mumbai 400020 Tel: 22072792 email: shptsndt(a)gmail.com Mrs.Jyoti Bhabal Lecturer SHPT School of Library Science SNDT Women's University 1 Nathibai Thackersey Road New Marine Lines Mumbai 400 020. Tel: 22072792 22081879 ext.274 or 263

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Alumni Association of Dept. of LIS, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar
by Mailing List Manager 04 May '06

04 May '06

Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 02:36:40 -0700 From: Samarendra Dash <samardash(a)gmail.com> Dear All, An Alumni Association of the P.G.Dept. of Lib.& Inf. Sc, Utkal University was formed on 28.04.2006 to create a platform for interaction among the students, faculty & professionals who are associated with the Dept. of LIS, Utkal University. The office bearers for the first term i.e. 2006-07 were unanimously elected as follows 1. Dr. P.Padhi President 2. Dr. B.D.Panda Vice President 3. Sri Byomajit Mohanty Secretary 4. Sri M.Biswal, Treasurer All Alumnae of the Dept. of Lib.& Inf.Sc are requested to contact Head of Department LIS, UU or Sri Samarendra Dash for further details. Regards Samarendra Dash 09437558100

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Reaction to "Everybody has a librarian inside." blogged.
by Sukhdev Singh 04 May '06

04 May '06

Atleast someone liked my thought - "Everybody has a librarian inside." Check out - http://libtechbytes.blogspot.com/2006/05/i-like-this-thought.html Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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Why OA makes sense
by Mailing List Manager 03 May '06

03 May '06

Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 03:23:15 +0530 (IST) From: arun(a)mssrf.res.in >From Peter Suber's blog EURASIP President on OA Sergios Theodoridis, Presidents Message, EURASIP, March 2006. Theodoridis is the President of European Association for Signal, Speech, and Image Processing (EURASIP), which publishes four OA journals through Hindawi Publishing. Excerpt: Since EURASIPs major decision to adopt the Open Access (OA) model for all its new journals, I have developed an interest in trying to keep up with related publications and adopted policies and actions by various scientific organizations and bodies concerning the OA philosophy....In a world of an unprecedented complexity, information and knowledge access models that transcend professional classifications, national boundaries, and social barriers are timely and necessary. The OA philosophy affects not only the publication of scientific research, but also the way large databases, such as the genomes of animals and plants, can be accessed. Recently, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) released version 5.0 of the NSFs Cyberinfrastructure Vision for the 21st century. The report states that 30 nations, including the United States, declared their commitment to work together towards the establishment of common access regimes for research data generated through public funding. Currently Germanys Max-Planck Society, the UK Wellcome Trust, the French CNRS, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute all encourage their funded researchers to make their peer-reviewed articles publicly available. It is worth pointing out that the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee considered the OA issue and the report was in favor of open access.... Concerning publications, there are two major motivations in favor of open access. The first refers to ethics. Research funded by the public should be available to the public. The second motivation refers to the research impact. Internet technology and powerful search engines make it possible to mine any publications of interest that reside in an open access repository. This will no doubt increase the impact and the citation of published articles. Furthermore, the OA model complies with the above-mentioned synergy and cooperation rationale, since it is a way of minimizing the gap between scientists living and working in the developed countries and those who are working in less developed countries and have very limited accessibility to published results....

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Indianjournals.com - Statistics
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03 May '06

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Intel to provide low-cost Internet access
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03 May '06

Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 17:27:52 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> The New York Times Intel to Offer Its Own Plan for Global Internet Access By JOHN MARKOFF Published: May 2, 2006 SAN FRANCISCO, May 1 - Aiming to help close the so-called digital divide, the Intel Corporation plans to announce a design for a sub-$400 educational laptop and a five-year, $1 billion program to train teachers and to extend wireless digital Internet access worldwide. Visit http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/02/technology/02chip.html for full story

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