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by Thapar, Amit 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

OA Librarian: Open Access Resources for and by Librarians http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/ This collaborative blog also offers links to OA LIS resources, OA bibliographies, blogs, wikis, and advocacy tools. amit@niper Cell: 9855701060 e-mail: amit_thapar(a)yahoo.com URL: http://www.niper.ac.in/ "Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive." OA Librarian: Open Access Resources for and by Librarians http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/ http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/ This collaborative blog also offers links to OA LIS resources, OA bibliographies, blogs, wikis, and advocacy tools. mailto:amit@niper amit@niper Cell: 9855701060 e-mail: mailto:amit_thapar@yahoo.com amit_thapar(a)yahoo.com URL: http://www.niper.ac.in/ http://www.niper.ac.in/ "Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive."

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KALA LECTURE: INVITATION -Reminder
by I.R.N.Goudar 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

REMINDER KARNATAKA STATE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AND SARADA RANGANATHAN ENDOWMENT FOR LIBRARY SCIENCE Cordially invite you for the following lecture: TOPIC: Adaptive Developments of Information Professionals in Digital Era SPEAKER: Prof. MA Gopinath Visiting Professor North Carolina University, USA DATE & TIME: Friday, 13th January 2006 at 6.30 pm VENUE: Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Floor, Rajajainagar, Bangalore-10 Phone No.23305109 e-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com I request personally all of you to convey this invitation to all your professional colleagues and friends. I.R.N. Goudar Dr. K.N. Prasad President, KALA Director, SRELS

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US Libraries have Books bound using human skin
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Tales of the macabre Some U.S. libraries have books bound in human skin >From The Hindu 12th January 2006 PROVIDENCE: Brown University's library boasts an anatomy book thatcombines form and function in macabre fashion. Its cover — tanned andpolished to a smooth golden brown, like fine leather — is made ofhuman skin. In fact, a number of the finest libraries in the U.S.,including Harvard's, have such books. The practice of binding books in human skin was not uncommon incenturies past, even if it was not always discussed in polite society.At the time, the best libraries belonged to private collectors. Somewere doctors who had access to skin from amputated parts and patientswhose bodies had gone unclaimed. In other cases, wealthy bibliophilesacquired skin from executed criminals, medical school cadavers andpeople who died in the poor house. Nowadays, libraries keep such volumes in their rare book collectionsand do not allow them to circulate. Brown's John Hay Library has threebooks bound in human skin: the 1568 anatomy text by the Belgiansurgeon Andreas Vesalius, and two 19th-century editions of The Danceof Death, a medieval morality tale. One copy of The Dance of Death wasre-bound in 1893 by Joseph Zaehnsdorf, a master-binder in London. Anote to his client reports that he did not have enough skin and had tosplit it. The front cover, bound in the outer layer of skin, has abumpy texture, like soft sandpaper. The spine and back cover, madefrom the inner layer, feel like suede. The Dance of Death is about how death prevails over all, rich or poor.As with many other skin-bound volumes, "there was some tie-in with thecontent," said Sam Streit of the John Hay Library. Medical books Many of the volumes are medical books. The College of Physicians ofPhiladelphia has some bound by Dr. John Stockton Hough, who diagnosedthe city's first case of trichinosis. He used that patient's skin tobind three of the volumes. "The hypothesis is that these physicians did this to honour the peoplewho furthered medical research," said Laura Hartman, a rare-bookcataloguer. It is not clear if some of the patients knew what would happen totheir bodies. In most cases, the skin appears to have come from thosewho had no one to claim their remains. In any case, the practicepre-dated the age of consent forms. While human leather may be repulsive to contemporary society,libraries can ethically have the books if they are used with respectfor academic research and not displayed as objects of curiosity, saidPaul Wolpe of the University of Pennsylvania. "There is a certaindistancing that history gives us from certain kinds of artefacts," hesaid, noting that museums often have bones from archaeological sites.The Boston Athenaeum, a private library, has an 1837 copy of GeorgeWalton's memoirs bound in his own skin. Walton was a highwayman andleft the volume to one of his victims. Decades ago, the Harvard Law School Library bought a 1605 manual forSpanish lawyers for $42.50 from an antiquarian books dealer. It sat ona shelf unnoticed until the early 1990s, when curator David Ferris wasgoing through the library catalogue and found a note saying it wasbound in a man's skin. DNA tests to find the type of skin wereinconclusive — the genetic material having been destroyed by thetanning process — but the library now keeps it on a special shelf. "Wefelt we couldn't set it just next to someone else's law books," Mr.Ferris said. — AP==============http://www.hindu.com/2006/01/12/stories/2006011204052400.htm --Dr P Vyasamoorthy,SENIORS(Society for Enriched Information of Relevance to Seniors),30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500018Phone 27846631

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KnowGenesis - Online Library for Technical Communication
by editorinchief＠knowgenesis.org 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

Hell list, We are happy to launch KnowGenesis, Online library for technical communication (http://www.knowgenesis.org/tc/). The freely available repository is developed with an aim to make accessible the wide range of information-related disciplines under Technical Communication. KnowGenesis is open to all Technical Communicator across the globe irrespective of their position, experience levels and geographical location. You are free to add your presentations, files, hyperlinks, tips even templates, tutorials and workflows. In short, anything you think that can help you and your colleagues. You can search for files uploaded in different categories and are free to download them and use for your purpose. If you are unable to locate any information, let the KnowGenesis community know and somewhere, somebody will be happy to share the file with you through the repository. You can also participate in our regular polls and can share your perspective about the topic. On behalf of the technical writing community, I invite you to share your knowledge, wisdom and valuable experience with the KnowGenesis community and help us make this initiative a success. Regards Admin- KnowGenesis Online Knowledge Repository

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KnowGenesis International Journal for Technical Communicaion
by editorinchief＠knowgenesis.org 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

Hello List, I am taking this opportunity to share with you the launch of KnowGenesis International Journal for Technical Communication. KnowGenesis is a freely available, international, scholarly Journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines under Technical Communication. KnowGenesis publishes both referred papers and working papers in the fields of technical communication, documentation, information science, information and technology management, information systems and information policy. You are invited to submit manuscripts that present original unpublished research in all areas of technical communication, including the development of experimental or commercial systems. Work focusing on emerging technologies is especially welcome. Submitted papers may NOT have appeared in, nor be under consideration for, another conference or workshop, nor for a journal. Please feel free to visit the Journal website (www.knowgenesis.org/journal) and mail me any query that you may have regarding submission or supporting our initiative. We are looking forward for your contribution in making this initiative a success. Also, feel free to share the information with your colleagues who may be interested in submitting their work. I am looking forward for your valuable contribution to KnowGenesis Journal. Warm Regards Saurabh Kudesia Editorinchief KnowGenesis International Journal for Technical Communication editorinchief(a)knowgenesis.org

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OpenMED@NIC - An Example of "Branding"
by Sukhdev Singh 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Dear Friends, It is just to inform you that OpenMED@NIC - http://openmed.nic.in - isbeing showcased as an example by EPrints Site under "Branding"Category. Check out the following link - http://www.eprints.org/software/examples/ This makes us proud. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC.http://openmed.nic.in

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DRTC Colloquium on "Economics and Marketing of Information Products and Services"
by ananya sarkar 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

*INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE* *DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE* 8th Mile Mysore Road, Bangalore – 560059 *Colloquium on* *"ECONOMICS AND MARKETING OF INFORMATION PRODUCTS AND SERVICES"* *ABSTRACT* The notion of marketing in the context of libraries / information services and products is a fairly recent development. Marketing of information products involves a number of activities and procedures: Conducting market research, Coordinating the elements of the marketing mix, segmenting promotion efforts to specific groups, preparing a strategic plan, preparing a marketing plan, and conducting a marketing audit, etc. Many librarians also consider marketing as a viable tool to promote new technology in libraries for meeting users' need more efficiently and effectively. Marketing tools and techniques offer library / information professionals an opportunity to '*reach out*' to their customers more effectively. *Topics * * Speakers* 1. Concept of marketing Ananya Sarkar 2. Marketing in the context of Sukla Chakraborty not-for-profit organizations 3. Components of Marketing Protiti Majumdar Neha Singh Randhir Kumar 4. Costing of Information products and services:Pricing policies / strategies in Information Industry Sucheta Lahiri 5. Marketing in the Digital Age Md Ehtesham 6. Conclusion Samiksha Yadav Venue: DRTC Classroom Date: 17th Jan 2006 Time: 2.00 p.m. *All are cordially invited* *Dr. K. S. Raghavan* (Colloquium Coordinator) INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE 8 th Mile Mysore Road, Bangalore – 560059 Colloquium on "ECONOMICS AND MARKETING OF INFORMATION PRODUCTS AND SERVICES" ABSTRACT The notion of marketing in the context of libraries / information services and products is a fairly recent development. Marketing of information products involves a number of activities and procedures: Conducting market research, Coordinating the elements of the marketing mix, segmenting promotion efforts to specific groups, preparing a strategic plan, preparing a marketing plan, and conducting a marketing audit, etc. Many librarians also consider marketing as a viable tool to promote new technology in libraries for meeting users' need more efficiently and effectively. Marketing tools and techniques offer library / information professionals an opportunity to ' reach out ' to their customers more effectively. Topics Speakers 1. Concept of marketing Ananya Sarkar 2. Marketing in the context of Sukla Chakraborty not-for-profit organizations 3. Components of Marketing Protiti Majumdar Neha Singh Randhir Kumar 4. Costing of Information products and services: Pricing policies / strategies in Information Industry Sucheta Lahiri 5. Marketing in the Digital Age Md Ehtesham 6. Conclusion Samiksha Yadav Venue: DRTC Classroom Date: 17 th Jan 2006 Time: 2.00 p.m. All are cordially invited Dr. K. S. Raghavan (Colloquium Coordinator)

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NEED GRADUATE TRAINEES/DIPLOMA TRAINEES
by I.R.N.Goudar 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

URGENT Dear Professionals, The Information Centre of NAL is in need of 10 Graduate Trainees to work for its on going Digital Library activities. Persons with BLIS/MLIS/DLIS/MCA degree are requested to send their resume immediately to the address given below, preferably as an e-mail attatchment. STIPEND: Rs. 3500 for MLIS/MCA Rs. 2500 for DLIS/BLIS The tenure is strictly for 365 days. The selected candidates will be given exposure to work in different sections of the Information Centre. Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html

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AICTE
by anjrao 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

To Dr. Vijaya kumar While filling the AICTE - MBA Programme: Hand book for Approval process, we have been asked to fill the 1. Anual library budget [ % of annual student fee collected] So let me know, is there any standards for the same Every year 10% of the Tution Fee must spent for Books, Journals & Periodicals and Database in the library. We (Librarians) have to know What is Declard Tution fee form the management on the basis of that library budget has to be prepared for more Information www.aicte.nic.in 2. Annual student fee means ? Annual student fee means Declared tution fee for AICTE Thanking you Janardana rao M S Ramaiah Institute of Management

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Current Issue Allert of Vishwabharat@TDIL
by Puna Das 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Current Issue Allert of Vishwabharat@TDIL Vishwabharat@TDIL (Journal of Language Technology) published by The Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) programme Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Govt. of India (http://tdil.mit.gov.in/apr_2005.htm) (http://tdil.mit.gov.in/April_issue%202005/april%202005.zip) April 2005 Contents 1.Calendar of Events 2005 2.Release of Software Tools & Fonts in public Domain 3.TDIL@Elitex 2005 4.Multilingul Downloads @ UNESCO 5.Indian Language: Font Designing and Font Tech. 6.Smart Fonts 7.LaTex Tools 8.Digital Library of India 9.Digital Library@Allahabad 10.Digital Library@CDAC Kolkata 11.Digital Library@IGNCA 12.Digital Library@IIIT Hyderabad 13.Traditional Knowledge Digital Library 14.Collection Development in Digital Information Repositories in India 15.Greenstone Digital Library Software 16.Abbyy FineReader 7.0 17.OmniScan 7000 Zeutschel Scanner 18.Minolta PS 7000 Scanner _________________________________________________________ Anup Kumar Das Information and Communication Society of India, New Delhi _________________________________________________________ Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com Current Issue Allert of Vishwabharat@TDIL Vishwabharat@TDIL (Journal of Language Technology) published by The Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) programme Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Govt. of India ( http://tdil.mit.gov.in/apr_2005.htm http://tdil.mit.gov.in/apr_2005.htm ) ( http://tdil.mit.gov.in/April_issue%202005/april%202005.zip http://tdil.mit.gov.in/April_issue%202005/april%202005.zip ) April 2005 Contents 1.Calendar of Events 2005 2.Release of Software Tools & Fonts in public Domain 3.TDIL@Elitex 2005 4.Multilingul Downloads @ UNESCO 5.Indian Language: Font Designing and Font Tech. 6.Smart Fonts 7.LaTex Tools 8.Digital Library of India 9.Digital Library@Allahabad 10.Digital Library@CDAC Kolkata 11.Digital Library@IGNCA 12.Digital Library@IIIT Hyderabad 13.Traditional Knowledge Digital Library 14.Collection Development in Digital Information Repositories in India 15.Greenstone Digital Library Software 16.Abbyy FineReader 7.0 17.OmniScan 7000 Zeutschel Scanner 18.Minolta PS 7000 Scanner _________________________________________________________ Anup Kumar Das Information and Communication Society of India, New Delhi _________________________________________________________ Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com

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New-age library set to protect age-old yoga knowledge
by Rajeev Sharma 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Business Standard: New-age library set to protect age-old yoga knowledge Gaurie Mishra / New Delhi January 10, 2006 In response to more than 1,000 patents of yoga postures and Ayurvedic medicines in the US and Europe, the health ministry is preparing a 30-million-page digital library documenting the country's traditional knowledge. "The 30-million-page digital library is being made to ensure that Ayurvedic medicines, yoga asanas, Unani and Sidha are not patented anywhere else in the world," an official said. The traditional knowledge digital library (TKDL), which will be ready by December 2006, is being prepared at an estimated cost of Rs 10 crore. The government is also finalising non-disclosure agreements with patents offices in the US, Europe and Japan to ensure that through access to the digital library, patenting of such traditional knowledge will be avoided in other countries. "Patents offices in the US and the EU will have access to the TKDL which will help patents examiners cross-check whether an application for a patent is an original innovation or a copy of what already exists in other parts of the world, in this case India," an official said. The National Institute for Science Communication and Information Resources is preparing the document, based on ancient transcripts in Sanskrit and Persian. The issue of data protection and enforceability of patents based on traditional knowledge is currently being addressed by the ministry of health in consultation with the commerce ministry. "The biggest challenge for the digital library will be enforcement and data protection to ensure that similar molecules or postures are not patented," the official added. Of the 30 million pages, 10 million have already been digitised and 54,000 formulations of Ayurveda and 45,000 formulations of Unani have been placed in the library. Next on the agenda is digitisation of 10,000 formulations of Sidha and 1,500 yoga postures. The e-document will be available in six languages - English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Japanese. URL: http://www.business-standard.com/bsonline/storypage.php?&autono=211202 Regards Rajeev TCI Ltd. Gurgaon Business Standard: New-age library set to protect age-old yoga knowledge Gaurie Mishra / New Delhi January 10, 2006 In response to more than 1,000 patents of yoga postures and Ayurvedic medicines in the US and Europe, the health ministry is preparing a 30-million-page digital library documenting the countrys traditional knowledge. The 30-million-page digital library is being made to ensure that Ayurvedic medicines, yoga asanas, Unani and Sidha are not patented anywhere else in the world, an official said. The traditional knowledge digital library (TKDL), which will be ready by December 2006, is being prepared at an estimated cost of Rs 10 crore. The government is also finalising non-disclosure agreements with patents offices in the US, Europe and Japan to ensure that through access to the digital library, patenting of such traditional knowledge will be avoided in other countries. Patents offices in the US and the EU will have access to the TKDL which will help patents examiners cross-check whether an application for a patent is an original innovation or a copy of what already exists in other parts of the world, in this case India, an official said. The National Institute for Science Communication and Information Resources is preparing the document, based on ancient transcripts in Sanskrit and Persian. The issue of data protection and enforceability of patents based on traditional knowledge is currently being addressed by the ministry of health in consultation with the commerce ministry. The biggest challenge for the digital library will be enforcement and data protection to ensure that similar molecules or postures are not patented, the official added. Of the 30 million pages, 10 million have already been digitised and 54,000 formulations of Ayurveda and 45,000 formulations of Unani have been placed in the library. Next on the agenda is digitisation of 10,000 formulations of Sidha and 1,500 yoga postures. The e-document will be available in six languages English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Japanese. URL: http://www.business-standard.com/bsonline/storypage.php?&autono=211202 http://www.business-standard.com/bsonline/storypage.php?&autono=211202 Regards Rajeev TCI Ltd. Gurgaon

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revised dates COL regional workshop on E-learning
by Indira K. 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Dear professionals, here are the COL e-learning workshop revised dates Feb 7th - 11th, 2006 Workshop fee : INR 10,000 Venue :Hyderabad Organizers :The Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) Topics to be covered in the workshop: a.. e-Learning: attributes, opportunities and challenges. b.. e-Learning Management Systems (LMS) and related technologies. c.. Designing for e-Learning environments. d.. Designing collaborative e-Learning environments. e.. Developing e-Learning environments including virtual mentoring. f.. Creating web documents g.. Information and interface design. h.. Digital audio and video production. i.. Assessing learning outcomes in e-Learning. j.. Evaluating e-Learning environments. k.. Offline & online Individualized self-paced e-learning. l.. Group-based e-learning synchronously and asynchronously. For further information contact : Dr. Usha V. Reddi, Director Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia 52, Tughlakabad Institutional Area NEW DELHI 110 062, INDIA Tel: +91-11-2995-5730, 2905-1562 Fax: +91-11-2995-5208 E-Mail: cemca(a)nda.vsnl.net.in Web Address : http://www.cemca.org. or capture the information from the following link. http://cemca.org/announcement.htm? http://cemca.org/announcements/elearningworkshop.doc Indira Koneru Dear professionals, here are the COL e-learning workshop revised dates Feb 7th - 11th, 2006 Workshop fee : INR 10,000 Venue : Hyderabad Organizers : The Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) Topics to be covered in the workshop: e-Learning: attributes, opportunities and challenges. e-Learning Management Systems (LMS) and related technologies. Designing for e-Learning environments. Designing collaborative e-Learning environments. Developing e- Learning environments including virtual mentoring. Creating web documents Information and interface design. Digital audio and video production. Assessing learning outcomes in e-Learning. Evaluating e-Learning environments. Offline & online Individualized self-paced e-learning. Group-based e-learning synchronously and asynchronously. For further information contact : Dr. Usha V. Reddi, Director Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia 52, Tughlakabad Institutional Area NEW DELHI 110 062, INDIA Tel: +91-11-2995-5730, 2905-1562 Fax: +91-11-2995-5208 E-Mail: mailto:cemca@nda.vsnl.net.in cemca(a)nda.vsnl.net.in Web Address : http://www.cemca.org/ http://www.cemca.org . or capture the information from the following link. http://cemca.org/announcement.htm http://cemca.org/announcement.htm ? http://cemca.org/announcements/elearningworkshop.doc http://cemca.org/announcements/elearningworkshop.doc Indira Koneru

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RE: Library Trainee at CII-Central Library (Gurgaon)
by Aman Jha 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Dear applicants Thanks for your overwhelming response for library trainee at CII. We are in the process of screening of your applications received and the candidates being considered further will be contacted via email/phone for interview in due course of time. Sorry for those who missed out the opportunity, as we are not accepting any more applications from today onwards. Thanks and regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon - 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-5014060-67 <http://www.ciionline.org/> http://www.ciionline.org Dear applicants Thanks for your overwhelming response for library trainee at CII. We are in the process of screening of your application s received and the candidates being considered further will be contacted via email/phone for interview in due course of time. Sorry for those who missed out the opportunity, as we are not accepting any more applications from today onwards. Thanks and regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon - 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-5014060-67 http://www.ciionline.org/ http:// www.ciionline.org

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Fwd: ALPSP library survey
by Smita Chandra 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

(Apologies for cross-posting) Respected Colleagues : Here is a survey on the subject of open access and its benefits, that I found most interesting. I hope you can being it to the best of your usage and as a means to stress upon the importance of self-archiving and open access publishing, among faculty/researchers in your organization ! Regards, Smita-- Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai-410 218 MAHARASHTRA. INDIA Ph.: 91-022-2748-4137 91-022-2748-0000 (extn.no. 4137) Fax: 91-022-27480762 mark(a)markwareconsulting.com> wrote: Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 09:18:14 -0000 From: Mark Ware <mark(a)markwareconsulting.com> Subject: ALPSP library survey To: PAMNET(a)listserv.nd.edu **cross-posted** Dear Librarian ALPSP (the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, www.alpsp.org) would like your kind assistance with a survey addressing the possible impact of pre-print archives on journals. As you may be aware, some publishers are becoming concerned that if self-archiving of postprints, or even preprints, of journal articles becomes sufficiently widespread, this may lead to a decline in usage at journals' own websites, and that this in turn may lead to cancellations. In order to understand whether or not our fears are well-founded, we would like to understand more about the process by which you make the decision to cancel journals, what the crucial factors are, and how you would rank them in importance, both now and in the future. We would be extremely grateful if you could spare a little time to complete this survey to help us reach a better understanding of the situation. We shall make the aggregated results of the survey publicly available as a contribution to this debate. (Individual responses will of course remain anonymous.) To complete the survey, please click on this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=960811615855 Thank you in advance for your help with this. Regards -Mark Ware (on behalf of ALPSP) ------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Ware Consulting Ltd T: +44 (0)117 959 3726 E: mark(a)markwareconsulting.com W: www.markwareconsulting.com ************************************************** To send an email to PAMnet: pamnet(a)listserv.nd.edu To view PAMnet Archives: http://listserv.nd.edu/archives/pamnet.html To unsubscribe to PAMnet: http://listserv.nd.edu/archives/pamnet.html then click on Join or leave the list (or change settings) To modify subscription settings: http://listserv.nd.edu/archives/pamnet.html then click on Join or leave the list (or change settings) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever. (Apologies for cross-posting) Respected Colleagues : Here is a survey on the subject of open access and its benefits, that I found most interesting. I hope you can being it to the best of your usage and as a means to stress upon the importance of self-archiving and open access publishing, among faculty/researchers in your organization ! Regards, Smita-- Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai-410 218 MAHARASHTRA. INDIA Ph.: 91-022-2748-4137 91-022-2748-0000 (extn.no. 4137) Fax: 91-022-27480762 mark(a)markwareconsulting.com> wrote: Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 09:18:14 -0000 From: Mark Ware <mark(a)markwareconsulting.com> Subject: ALPSP library survey To: PAMNET(a)listserv.nd.edu **cross-posted** Dear Librarian ALPSP (the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, www.alpsp.org) would like your kind assistance with a survey addressing the possible impact of pre-print archives on journals. As you may be aware, some publishers are becoming concerned that if self-archiving of postprints, or even preprints, of journal articles becomes sufficiently widespread, this may lead to a decline in usage at journals' own websites, and that this in turn may lead to cancellations. In order to understand whether or not our fears are well-founded, we would like to understand more about the process by which you make the decision to cancel journals, what the crucial factors are, and how you would rank them in importance, both now and in the future. We would be extremely grateful if you could spare a little time to complete this survey to help us reach a better understanding of the situation. We shall make the aggregated results of the survey publicly available as a contribution to this debate. (Individual responses will of course remain anonymous.) To complete the survey, please click on this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=960811615855 Thank you in advance for your help with this. Regards -Mark Ware (on behalf of ALPSP) ------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Ware Consulting Ltd T: +44 (0)117 959 3726 E: mark(a)markwareconsulting.com W: www.markwareconsulting.com ************************************************** To send an email to PAMnet: pamnet(a)listserv.nd.edu To view PAMnet Archives: http://listserv.nd.edu/archives/pamnet.html To unsubscribe to PAMnet: http://listserv.nd.edu/archives/pamnet.html then click on Join or leave the list (or change settings) To modify subscription settings: http://listserv.nd.edu/archives/pamnet.html then click on Join or leave the list (or change settings) Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/photos/*http://pa.yahoo.com/*http:/… Photo Calendars . Add photos, events, holidays, whatever.

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Facilitating citywide access to the Internet
by Subbiah Arunachalam 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Here is a news story from Yahoo News. Arizona Town Will Go Wall-To-Wall Wireless Call it a municipal status symbol in the digital age: a city blanketed by a wireless Internet network, accessible at competitive prices throughout the town's homes, cafes, offices and parks. Tempe, the Phoenix suburb that is home to Arizona State University, is due to have wireless Internet available for all of its 160,000 residents in February, becoming the first city of its size in the United States to have Wi-Fi throughout. Tempe officials hope that by making high-speed Internet as accessible as water or electricity across its 40 square miles, it will attract more technology and biotech companies and the young, upwardly mobile employees they bring. An increasing number of the nation's cities are looking at using Internet access as an economic development tool. Few cities have gotten as far as installing systems, "but most cities are realizing that it may be something that they want to do," said Cheryl Leanza, legislative counsel for the National League of Cities. <snip> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051211/ap_on_hi_te/wireless_city -- Is it possible to provide such widespread WiFi access in at least a few developing country cities - if not entire cities, at least the academic and business districts? What will be the cost? Arun

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Philosphy & Social Action (Q): free on the Web...
by Puttaraj Choukimath 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Dear all, Greetings. Philosphy & Social Action (Q) is now avaialble on its Web - free for all- full text in pdf w.e.f. Vol.31(1), Jan 2005. PSA encourages philosophical discussion of scientific, socio-economic, political and legal problems. You may visit: http://www.psaindia.org/ P.N.: Our Library will stop its subscription to PSA in print from 2006 onwards. Best Wishes, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: puttuc(a)yahoo.com, choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: www.tiss.edu --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever. Dear all, Greetings. Philosphy & Social Action (Q) is now avaialble on its Web - free for all- full text in pdf w.e.f. Vol.31(1), Jan 2005. PSA encourages philosophical discussion of scientific, socio-economic, political and legal problems. You may visit: http://www.psaindia.org/ http://www.psaindia.org/ P.N.: Our Library will stop its subscription to PSA in print from 2006 onwards. Best Wishes, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: mailto:puttuc@yahoo.com puttuc(a)yahoo.com , mailto:choukimath@tiss.edu choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: http://www.tiss.edu www.tiss.edu Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/photos/*http://pa.yahoo.com/*http:/… Photo Calendars . Add photos, events, holidays, whatever.

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BMC gets digital library
by noufal palliparamban 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Dear friends, There is an intresting news in the development of digital library The Alumnis of the prestigious Bangalore Medical College (BMC) will be presenting Rs Three Crore worth Digital Library on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of the College, Principal Dr T Rajeshwari said. Talking to newsmen here, she said that BMC established in 1955 will be completing 50 years of meritorious service this year and 7000 students of the college working through out the world have come forward to present a Digital Library to mark the occasion. Full details: http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/dec252005/update11135320051225.asp Regards Noufal.P.P Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com Dear friends, There is an intresting news in the development of digital library The Alumnis of the prestigious Bangalore Medical College (BMC) will be presenting Rs Three Crore worth Digital Library on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of the College, Principal Dr T Rajeshwari said. Talking to newsmen here, she said that BMC established in 1955 will be completing 50 years of meritorious service this year and 7000 students of the college working through out the world have come forward to present a Digital Library to mark the occasion. Full details: http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/dec252005/update11135320051225.asp http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/dec252005/update11135320051225.asp Regards Noufal.P.P Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com

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Information Literacy saved 100 lives in Phuket, Tailand
by Indira Koneru 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Dear Professionals, A ten-year old girl on holiday saved over 100 lives in Phuket, Thailand, when the tsunami hit in December 2004 because she was information literate. Want to know how! take the following path and promote information literacy to redress the disadvantage groups and empower people in all walks of life. http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=20891&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… Regards, Indira Mrs. Indira Koneru Faculty Associate Dept. of Library Science ICFAI University 25, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabad - 500 082 E-mail: indk68(a)hotmail.com indk68(a)yahoo.com Dear Professionals, A ten-year old girl on holiday saved over 100 lives in Phuket, Thailand, when the tsunami hit in December 2004 because she was information literate. Want to know how! take the following path and promote information literacy to redress the disadvantage groups and empower people in all walks of life. http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=20891&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=20891&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… Regards, Indira Mrs. Indira Koneru Faculty Associate Dept. of Library Science ICFAI University 25, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabad - 500 082 E-mail: mailto:indk68@hotmail.com indk68(a)hotmail.com mailto:indk68@yahoo.com indk68(a)yahoo.com

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Ranganathan's Monologue on Melvil Dewey
by Sukhdev Singh 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Want to listen Dr. Ranganathan? Visit http://www.miskatonic.org/library/ranganathan-audio.html --Sukhdev Singh, NIC.

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Re:CD Network System
by Lata Suresh 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

Dear members !! Wish you all a happy and prosperous new year !! This year we would like to install a CD Net system in our library. Could anybody from the forum provide the detials of the vendors !! Looking forward for an early reply. regards and best wishes Lata Suresh Librarian Institute of Health Management Research 1, Prabhu Dayal Marg Sanganer Airport Jaipur 302033 RAJASTHAN, INDIA Tel : 91-0141-2791431-34 Fax: 91-0141-2792138 Email : lata(a)iihmr.org

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Article indexing for Indian Publications
by Chitra P Rao 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

I would like to pose a cooperative venture for all Librarians who are interested in Article Indexing of Indian Journals in Science and Technology, Mediacl or Social Sciences or other. Project is vcery simple: each librray will identify 2-3 journals which will be indexted and posted by them in a common Database ( we can identify this collectively). Once all participating Libraries identify which journals they will Index we can have a list of Indian journals in the Above mentioned subject Categories or more.. Once this is identified we next Identify where we can index.. Ernet and NCST used to do this I vaguely remember.. We can put our minds together ..Each and every Library will commit to index the current year and 2 years backdated journal .. Within no time we can have a national database of Indexted articles in Indian Journals.. This can be next converted into a CD format for every participating Library and we can upload it onto as many open access sites as possible.. I invite comments legalities etc on this and hope to start on a positive note on this.. Chitra Rao Sr Librarian and Head LIS NITIE Mumbai 400 087 ph: 28573371 extn 337

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An Interesting Search Engine
by Sukhdev Singh 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

Just came to know PreviewSeek Search Engine.http://beta.previewseek.com/ It appears interesting the way it shows the "Preview" of the sites retrieved. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC.http://openmed.nic.in

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KALA LECTURE: INVITATION
by I.R.N.Goudar 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

KARNATAKA STATE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AND SARADA RANGANATHAN ENDOWMENT FOR LIBRARY SCIENCE Cordially invite you for the following lecture: TOPIC: Adaptive Developments of Information Professionals in Digital Era SPEAKER: Prof. MA Gopinath Visiting Professor North Carolina University, USA DATE & TIME: Friday, 13th January 2006 at 6.30 pm VENUE: Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Floor, Rajajainagar, Bangalore-10 Phone No.23305109 e-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com I request personally all of you to convey this invitation to all your professional colleagues and friends. I.R.N. Goudar Dr. K.N. Prasad President, KALA Director, SRELS

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E-Content Development and Management
by jyoti shreeram bhabal 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

SHPT School of Library Science SNDT Womens University Offers an Innovative part time Certificate Course In collaboration with DSIR, GoI On E-Content Development and Management Bill Gates once called the Internet as a marketplace of ideas, experiences, and products - a marketplace of content. In todays digital environment Content is King. There is a continuing need to develop relevant, useful and authentic content. As more Indians use the Internet and as worldwide more people use the Internet to know about India, there is a growing need for the development of a critical mass of localized content both in English and Indian languages. The definition of "content" is very wide and includes all categories of popular content - not just software and news, but also games, entertainment, sports programming, directories, classified advertising, and on-line communities devoted to major interests. Content development and management lies at the base of Web, Intranet and CD-Rom publishing; it also underlies e-commerce and e-learning two growing trends, world wide. You can be part of the rapidly growing employment market in this area. You can use your subject knowledge (and also your experience, hobbies, passions, or pastimes) and learn to create high-value content, which ranks well at the Search Engines. You may become a self-employed Infopreneur or work as a team member of a web product and service provider. SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT Womens University has a long tradition of continuing professional education. It has, in collaboration with the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India developed an 8-credit (4 month part time) course to provide conceptual and practical inputs in the area of content development and management. The first course, which began on September 21, 2005, has been completed. We now announce the Second Course. Objectives At the end of the course the participant will be able to: · Plan content and use various information sources for collecting information · Write and edit content for the Web in English and Indian languages · Create/structure digital documents using HTML, XML, Photoshop, Flash, etc. · Create a plan for a website Scope: The course will cover: · Content Management and its Context · Planning Content · Collection of Information · Writing for the Internet · Developing Digital Content · Information Architecture · Website Development and hosting Basic issues Methodology Lectures, discussions, case study, demonstrations, practical exercises and Self Learning. Resource Persons Experts from industry, consultants and academic faculty. Evaluation Class exercises, Tests and Project to constitute a portfolio for evaluation Participants Limited to 15 participants on a first come first served basis. Post graduates in any subject with basic skills in computer and Internet use are eligible Course Schedule: Second course: January to April 2006 (Beginning January 24, 2006) Every Tuesday and Thursday: 4.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. Every Saturday: 10.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Fees Application Fee: Rs.100/- (with application form) Course Fee: Rs.4000/- (Includes Computer practicals, course materials, and examination fees) Last Date of Registration for 2nd course January 16, 2006 For More Information Contact : Dr. Ms Perin Marolia / Ms Jyoti Bhabal / Ms Sarika Sawant, SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT Womens University, Patkar Hall, New Marine Lines, Mumbai 400 020 Tel. 2207 2792; 2208 5439 Email: sndtulib(a)bom3.vsnl.net.in ***** S.H.P.T. SCHOOL OF LIBRARY SCIENCE, S.N.D.T. WOMENS UNIVERSITY MUMBAI 400 020 ************************************* Course on e-Content Development and Management September December 2005 ************************************** APPLICATION FORM *** Name: ____________________________________ Address: ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Phone Number:____________________________________ e-mail Address:____________________________________ Date of Birth: ____________________________________ Educational Qualifications: Degree Subject Year of passing Percentage Work Experience: I agree to abide by the rules set down for this course by the SHPT School of Library Science ______________________ Signature of Applicant Date: Note: Forms should be submitted to the office of the SHPT School of Library Science, before September 16, 2005, with the Application fee of Rs 100. SHPT School of Library Science SNDT Womens University Offers an Innovative part time Certificate Course In collaboration with DSIR, GoI On E-Content Development and Management Bill Gates once called the Internet as a marketplace of ideas, experiences, and products - a marketplace of content. In todays digital environment Content is King. There is a continuing need to develop relevant, useful and authentic content. As more Indians use the Internet and as worldwide more people use the Internet to know about India, there is a growing need for the development of a critical mass of localized content both in English and Indian languages. The definition of "content" is very wide and includes all categories of popular content - not just software and news, but also games, entertainment, sports programming, directories, classified advertising, and on-line communities devoted to major interests. Content development and management lies at the base of Web, Intranet and CD-Rom publishing; it also underlies e-commerce and e-learning two growing trends, world wide. You can be part of the rapidly growing employment market in this area. You can use your subject knowledge (and also your experience, hobbies, passions, or pastimes) and learn to create high-value content, which ranks well at the Search Engines. You may become a self-employed Infopreneur or work as a team member of a web product and service provider. SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT Womens University has a long tradition of continuing professional education. It has, in collaboration with the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India developed an 8-credit (4 month part time) course to provide conceptual and practical inputs in the area of content development and management. The first course, which began on September 21, 2005, has been completed. We now announce the Second Course. Objectives At the end of the course the participant will be able to: · Plan content and use various information sources for collecting information · Write and edit content for the Web in English and Indian languages · Create/structure digital documents using HTML, XML, Photoshop, Flash, etc. · Create a plan for a website Scope: The course will cover: · Content Management and its Context · Planning Content · Collection of Information · Writing for the Internet · Developing Digital Content · Information Architecture · Website Development and hosting Basic issues Methodology Lectures, discussions, case study, demonstrations, practical exercises and Self Learning. Resource Persons Experts from industry, consultants and academic faculty. Evaluation Class exercises, Tests and Project to constitute a portfolio for evaluation Participants Limited to 15 participants on a first come first served basis. Post graduates in any subject with basic skills in computer and Internet use are eligible Course Schedule: Second course: January to April 2006 (Beginning January 24, 2006) Every Tuesday and Thursday: 4.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. Every Saturday: 10.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Fees Application Fee: Rs.100/- (with application form) Course Fee: Rs.4000/- (Includes Computer practicals, course materials, and examination fees) Last Date of Registration for 2nd course January 16, 2006 For More Information Contact : Dr. Ms Perin Marolia / Ms Jyoti Bhabal / Ms Sarika Sawant, SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT Womens University, Patkar Hall, New Marine Lines, Mumbai 400 020 Tel. 2207 2792; 2208 5439 Email: sndtulib(a)bom3.vsnl.net.in ***** S.H.P.T. SCHOOL OF LIBRARY SCIENCE, S.N.D.T. WOMENS UNIVERSITY MUMBAI 400 020 ************************************* Course on e-Content Development and Management September December 2005 ************************************** APPLICATION FORM *** Name: ____________________________________ Address: ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Phone Number:____________________________________ e-mail Address:____________________________________ Date of Birth: ____________________________________ Educational Qualifications: Degree Subject Year of passing Percentage Work Experience: I agree to abide by the rules set down for this course by the SHPT School of Library Science ______________________ Signature of Applicant Date: Note: Forms should be submitted to the office of the SHPT School of Library Science, before September 16, 2005, with the Application fee of Rs 100. 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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Submission : -Open Access and Self Archiving - A Boon in disguise
by Mailing List Manager 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 15:13:05 +0530 From: AGouri(a)wockhardtin.com Open Access and Self Archiving - A Boon in disguise Dear All, I have joined this group recently and it is my pleasure to join a group of like-minded people working towards the betterment of the Information Society. I work in the Medical Information department of Wockhardt, Ltd in Mumbai. We are a small team of two at the corporate office, Dr Rucha - Senior Manager, Medical Information and myself - Ms Anahita Gouri, Executive, Medical Information. We are a support function for the clinical research, medico marketing, regulatory, strategic planning and international marketing divisions. We ourselves are very interested in the concept of knowledge management and in our efforts towards improvising the current situation have merged with our in-house IT team to develop a database with the help of Lotus Notes. We strongly believe that "In today's environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something very important, the way to get power is by actually sharing It." - by Joseph Badaracco. Recently I attended the Biomedical Information Retrieval Training at National Informatics Centre - New Delhi, where we were exposed to the concept of Open Access and Self Archival. I must confess, the very first thought that came to my mind was " Yes - This is it". This is where I could submit my research work and share it with people working in the same research area. I wish something like this would have developed earlier when I was working on my project, it would be so much easier to know about Indian data and research work done in my area. Not only does the Open Access initiative at NIC fulfill the desire to share scientific work done by an individual but also fulfills the desire to build a quality virtual asset for ourselves and the generations to come. Earlier, it was extremely disheartening to realize that good conferences and universities in India still do not have any virtual presence or existence. The thesis submitted to these universities and presentations and posters delivered to national level conferences have no virtual archival systems and eventually the work done by students is forgotten. Open Access initiative at the NIC is reviving our dreams of seeing our work being cited and referred too by individuals world over. This helps us slowly build a global presence for ourselves. I personally feel, in some way it contributes to the improvement in research work been done and reduces redundancy of the same work being done again and again. I request all students and other researchers to use the OpenMed at NIC to the fullest and be grateful and proud of the initiative taken by National Informatics Centre. Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision-making, it is a burden, not a benefit. The future is moving so quickly that we can’t anticipate it. People at NIC have done the right thing by putting tremendous emphasis on quick response and being sensitive to the requirement of the Indian research / student society. I am extremely grateful to them for the same. Looking forward to sharing and learning through dynamic exchange of thoughts and ideas that this group is known for. Ms Anahita Gouri Executive - Medical Information Wockhardt Ltd

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Recruitment over at ICICI Knowledge Park
by aparajita＠icicikp.com 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Dear Members, We are not receiving any more CVs for the post of Information Officer at ICICI Knowledge Park from today on. The CVs are being screened, interview letter will be sent to eligible candidates in due course. Thanks for your responses, Best regards, Aparajita ----- Aparajita Suman Information Officer Virtual Information Centre ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500 078 INDIA < mailto:aparajita@icicikp.com> Phone - Office: +91(40)2348 0054 Fax: +91(40)2348 0007 Dear Members, We are not receiving any more CVs for the post of Information Officer at ICICI Knowledge Park from today on. The CVs are being screened, interview letter will be sent to eligible candidates in due course. Thanks for your responses, Best regards, Aparajita ----- Aparajita Suman Information Officer Virtual Information Centre ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500 078 INDIA < mailto:aparajita@icicikp.com mailto:aparajita@icicikp.com > Phone - Office: +91(40)2348 0054 Fax: +91(40)2348 0007

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Articles on RFID
by Saiful Amin 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Dear Professionals, There are three relevant articles on RFID published by Haworth Press: - Radio frequency identification systems for libraries and archives: an introduction [by Diane Ward] - Radio frequency identification for security and media circulation in libraries [by Emmett Erwin and Christian Kern] - What's next for the radio frequency library? [by Toni Scire] All the three articles are available in a single file in the following location: http://www.haworthpress.com/store/SampleText/J114.pdf Regards, Saiful -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." There are three relevant articles on RFID published by Haworth Press: Radio frequency identification systems for libraries and archives: an introduction [by Diane Ward] Radio frequency identification for security and media circulation in libraries [by Emmett Erwin and Christian Kern] What's next for the radio frequency library? [by Toni Scire] All the three articles are available in a single file in the following location: http://www.haworthpress.com/store/SampleText/J114.pdf http://www.haworthpress.com/store/SampleText/J114.pdf Regards, Saiful -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 http://www.edutechindia.com www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong."

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OARE Project
by Shyam Prasad pujar 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Of possible interest. __________________________ December 2005 Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) for Developing Nations. http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/05-12-22-04.all.html For immediate release: Grants to Enable Developing World to Access Leading Scientific Research New Haven, Conn.-Two grants totaling $500,000 will support Yale University's participation in an international consortium to make prestigious scientific journals in the environmental sciences available online, at little or no cost, to the developing world The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation each have given $250,000 to Yale to help establish Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE). OARE, a digital internet library for developing countries, will provide access to the peer-reviewed scientific literature of leading international publishing houses. Organizations eligible to use OARE will include approximately 1,000 public, non-profit institutions in more than 100 underdeveloped nations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. Literature in environmental chemistry, economics, law and policy, and other environmental subjects such as botany, conservation biology, ecology and zoology will be available through a portal presented in several world languages, including Arabic, English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. Yale's OARE activities will be directed by Oswald Schmitz, professor of population and community ecology and associate dean of academic affairs at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Ann Okerson, associate university librarian for collections and international programs. James Gustav Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, stated, "Thanks to advances in information and communication technologies and the great generosity of many leading scientific publishers and foundations, we now have an unprecedented opportunity to provide environmental institutions in 110 less-developed countries intellectual resources that we in the developed world take for granted." Alice Prochaska, University Librarian added: "We are eager to work together to increase the ability of leading scientists in developing countries to conduct their own high-quality research and develop their own educational programs in the environmental sciences. Helping the world benefit from Yale's wealth of expertise by extending access to information and resources is central to the library's mission." Published in the United States and Europe under copyright and with annual subscription fees averaging $1,000, the prestigious journals in which a majority of scientific research is published are too costly for most developing nations to purchase. OARE will enable countries to build their own higher education programs in the environmental sciences, educate their own leaders, conduct their own research, publish their own scientific findings and disseminate information to policy makers and the public. Next year, OARE will be offered to users in 70 developing nations with a per capita gross national product (GNP) of $1,000 or less in the first phase of the project's implementation. In the project's second phase, approximately 45 more countries with GNP per capita between $1,000 and $3,000 will be enrolled. Yale will develop OARE in cooperation with the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, Cornell University and leading scientific publishers around the world. Yale will create software for OARE's secure internet portal, organize and updates its database of scientific literature, attract new publishers to the consortium, and develop partnerships between the consortium and American and European institutions to expand internet connectivity and offer training. Paul Bendiks Walberg, a recent graduate of the School of Management and School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and Kimberly Parker, head of the university library's electronic collections, conceived the OARE project over the course of the last three years. The project is inspired by Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI), a World Heath Organization program in which Yale played a leading role, that has strengthened public health services in developing countries by providing access to research in the medical sciences. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, based in Menlo Park, Calif., supports activities in education, the environment, global development, the performing arts and population. The MacArthur Foundation, which has offices around the world, is dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition. ## ********************************************************************** Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * Phone: (022) 28400919-21 Extn: 514 * * Fax: (022) 28402752 * * E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in * * URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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How to Reinvent Ourselves in 2006
by Sukhdev Singh 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Will wishing Happy New Year make us happy 2006? We are seeing revolutionary changes around us in service sector.Do we bank the same way now?Do we talk over the same old plain telephone? Will our users' expectations remain the same?Do we need to reinvent ourselves? HOW? , WHEN? WISH YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR. --Sukhdev Singh.

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LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD presented to Dr. Harish Chandra
by Arunachalam Hariharan 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Dear friends, I am very happy to inform you all that Dr. Harish Chandra, Librarian, IIT Madras, Chennai, has been awarded "LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD" for his Outstanding Contributions & Services to the Library Profession by the Society for the Advancement and Library and Information Science (SALIS) during the 25th All India IASLIC Conference held at IIT Madras on 29th December 2005. The Gold Medal Award was presented by Hon'ble Chief Guest of the Valedictory Function Dr. G. Viswanathan, former Minister and Chancellor, Vellore Institute of Technology(Deemed University), Vellore. The citation was presented to Dr. Harish Chandra by Prof. S.Narayanan, Dean, Academic Reasearch & Chairman, LAC. IIT Madras. A.Hariharan __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com

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DD Interview of Ex-KALA President
by I.R.N.Goudar 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Dear Professionals, I am happy to learn about the following DD Interview, being telecast " BELAGU programme in Chandana DD-9" Topic: Visibility of Libraries in Digital Era (Mahiti and Manassu) By Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah, Ph.D. Principal Library and Information Officer, NIMHANS-Deemed University Bangalore-560029 Date & Time: Jan 5, 2006 (Thursday) between 7,00 - 7.40 am Please watch, enjoy and give your feed back. Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html

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Story of the OA repository at India's National Informatics Centre
by Sukhdev Singh 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

In November 2005, one of our article [ http://openmed.nic.in/1108/ ]on OpenMED@NIC has been highlighted in Prof Peter Suber's Blog dated :*Saturday, November 12, 2005 under the heading of "Story of the OArepository at India's National Informatics Centre". *http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2005_11_06_fosblogarchive.html Story of the OA repository at India's National Informatics Centre * Sukhdev Singh, and Naina Pandita, Building the open accessself-archiving repository for the bio-medical sciences at NationalInformatics Centre http://openmed.nic.in/1108/, in: NationalConvention of Medical Library Association of India, November 7-9m2005, Bangalore, India. Abstract: Self-Archiving is an important model of the Open Access movement. National Informatics Centre has been providing various services and products to the biomedical community. Building up a Self-archiving repository for Bio-medical and Allied sciences was a natural extension of these activities. To make this repository interoperable with other such repositories Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) was adopted. The selection of suitable software for the archive was done from OAI-PMH compatible softwares. GNU EPrints was finally selected. A prototype was build for planning of activities, demonstration and checking security aspects. To provide subject-wise browse view to the archive a MeSH based categorization was adopted. A dedicated server was procured and installed in the NIC Network Domain under RedHat Advanced Server Version 3.0. EPrints software was then installed and customized. Making scientists and authors aware of Open Access and its benefits remains a major challenge for any such attempt. However efforts are bearing fruits in the form of Open Self-archiving repository for Bio-medical and Allied Sciences i.e. OpenMED@NIC http://openmed.nic.in. ThanksSukhdev Singh, NIC.http://openmed.nic.in

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Position Announcement--Indexers & Abstractors
by T.V. Prafulla Chandra 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Position Announcement INDEXERS and ABSTRACTORS NISC Export Services (NES) Private Limited invites applications for positions of INDEXERS and ABSTRACTORS in its Content Department. NES and its affiliates together comprise one of the foremost database access, production and publishing companies in the world. NESs 100+ database products, published online (BiblioLine) or on CD-ROM (NISC DISCover), cover most areas of the universe of know-ledgearts & humanities, earth sciences, environment, social sciences, life sciences and technology. NES is looking for candidates who have at least ONE of the following degrees: M.L.I.Sc., M.C.J., M.A. (in English or any Social Science subject), M.Com., or M.B.A. In addition, the candidates should have the following skills: --Good typing skills are required as the working environment involves online computer use for access to offices worldwide. --Familiarity with Internet browsing. --Ability to communicate in a formal, clear, empathetic and pleasant style, with excellent command of written and spoken English. If you are not a resident of Hyderabad and are willing to relocate, please indicate that at the top of your resume. NES would shortly move into its own building coming up at Cherlapally (about 15 kms from Secunderabad Railway Station) and the selected candidates would be based there. Apart from on- job training inputs, NES provides a comfortable, pleasant and enjoyable work environment with bright career prospects and exciting opportunities to realize ones potentialities. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. NES considers applications from candidates who had appeared for examinations and awaiting announcement of results. Please submit a letter of application, resume, and names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of three references to: The Managing Director NISC Export Services Co. Pvt. Ltd. 3rd Floor, Ballad Estates, St. Anns Road, Tarnaka Hyderabad 500 017 Email: hrd(a)nisc.co.in Phone: +91 40 27001517 Fax: +91 40 27002538 Applications are accepted until the positions are filled. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Happy new year to all LIS Professionals
by Hemant Bhoot 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

To, Dear All Friends, Wish u happy and prosperous 2006. May god fullfill all your professional desire in coming year. All the best to u all. Thanks Hemant Bhoot Librarian Institute of Professional Education & Research, Bhojpur Road, Bhopal. email: hb_iper(a)rediffmail.com To, Dear All Friends, Wish u happy and prosperous 2006. May god fullfill all your professional desire in coming year. All the best to u all. Thanks Hemant Bhoot Librarian Institute of Professional Education & Research, Bhojpur Road, Bhopal. email: hb_iper(a)rediffmail.com 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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LECTURE ON OPEN ACCESS- BY DR ALMA SWAN on 5 jan 2006. invitation
by Mailing List Manager 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:53:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE OSMANIA UNIVERSITY In collaboration with ICSSR SOUTHERN REGIONAL CENTRE Invite you for a lecture by DR. ALMA SWAN (Director, Key Perspectives Ltd, UK) on PERSPECTIVES ON OPEN ACCESS on Thursday, the 5th January, 2006 at 11.00 a.m. at ICSSR Conference Hall PROF. P. JAYA PRAKASH RAO (Vice-Chairman, A.P. State Council for Higher Education) will preside over the Function --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. N. Laxman Rao Dr. V. Vishwa Mohan Dr. Masood Ali Khan Chairman Head, DLIS Director Board of Studies in LIS ICSSR Southern Regional Centre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Open Access is The Open Access research literature is composed of free, online copies of peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers as well as technical reports, theses and working papers. In most cases there are no licensing restrictions on their use by readers. They can therefore be used freely for research, teaching and other purposes. What Open Access is not There are various misunderstandings about Open Access. It is not self-publishing, nor a way to bypass peer-review and publication, nor is it a kind of second-class, cut-price publishing route. It is simply a means to make research results freely available online to the whole research community. How is Open Access provided? Open Access can be provided by various means. A researcher can place a copy of each article in an Open Access archive or repository or can publish articles in Open Access journals. In addition, a researcher may place a copy of each article on a personal or departmental website. Whilst all three routes to Open Access ensure that far more users can access such articles than if they were hidden away in subscription-based journals, the first two constitute much more systematic and organised approaches than the third and maximise the chance of other researchers locating and reading articles. Open Access archives or repositories are digital collections of research articles that have been placed there by their authors. In the case of journal articles this may be done either before (preprints) or after publication (postprints). This is known as �self-archiving�. These repositories expose the metadata of each article (the title, authors, and other bibliographic details) in a format compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAIPMH). To access the contents of these archives, you can use Google or one of the specialised search engines for a more focused and efficient search. The latter systematically harvest the contents of the archives worldwide, forming a database of current global research. Open Access repositories may be multidisciplinary and located in universities or other research-based institutions, or they may be centralised and subject-based, such as the one covering certain areas of physics and related disciplines, called arXiv. By the beginning of 2005, there were almost 40 Open Access archives in the UK, and more universities and research institutes are planning to launch their own. A list of Open Access archives in the UK is maintained by the Eprints.org site at Southampton University. If your institution does not have an archive, extensive information on how to set one up can be found on that website. Self-archiving is an international movement that is developing fast, and some grant funders are also now planning central archives to house the articles of their grant-holders. If you are concerned that your journal�s publisher may have copyright restrictions that would prevent you from selfarchiving your articles, this will in most instances not be the case. Current publisher policies on self-archiving and copyright are detailed on the SHERPA project website at Nottingham University. Open Access journals are peer-reviewed journals whose articles may be accessed online by anyone without charge. In many cases they may also be published in print. Some, mainly those published from a university department or with substantial subsidy, make no author or page charges. Others levy a charge for publishing an article, turning on its head the traditional model where a library pays for access to the contents of a journal through a subscription. This charge may be paid by the author(s) but in most cases it is financed by a research grant or institutional funds. Your institution may already have taken the decision to pay for Open Access articles to be published, or your grant-awarding body may have adopted this as one of its policies. A list of grant awarding bodies that explicitly permit funds to be used for this purpose is maintained on the BioMed Central website. BioMed Central is a well-known Open Access publisher with over 100 journals in its portfolio. Other examples are the journals from the Public Library of Science, such as PLoS Medicine, PLoS Biology. In the case of an author�s financial hardship, BioMed Central, PLoS and other Open Access journal publishers will waive the publication fee. Fees levied by Open Access journals vary quite markedly but, as a guideline, BioMed Central charges �330 per article for most of its journals, and PLoS charges US$1,500 (approx. �800). In 2003 JISC secured a deal with BioMed Central on behalf of UK institutions to waive author fees for over 90 biomedical journals. A comprehensive list of Open Access journals in all subject areas is maintained by the University of Lund. In early 2005 this list contained over 1,400 journals. Many of these Open Access journals have impact factors and are indexed by the Institute for Scientific Information for its Web of Knowledge/ Web of Science service. At June 2004, 239 Open Access journals were in this category. Another form of Open Access is found in �hybrid� journals: these are publications that will make an article accessible to everyone online without charge if the author opts to pay for publication. An example of a hybrid journal is the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which will make an article Open Access for a fee of US$1,000. Why should authors provide Open Access to their work? There is accumulating evidence that shows that research articles that have been self-archived are cited more often than those that have not. Across most subject areas there is at least a twofold increase in citation rate. In some subject areas it is even higher. This form of Open Access means that research has much more impact than before. Moreover, the research cycle � where work is published, read, cited and then built upon by other researchers � is enhanced and accelerated when results are available on an Open Access basis. Would you not prefer to be able to access all the articles you need to read and use for your research, easily and without restriction? This paper has been written by Alma Swan of Key Perspectives Ltd on behalf of JISC and produced and edited by Sara Hassen and the JISC Communications Team. Alternative formats of the briefing paper can be found at: Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, Chairman, Board of Studies, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) Vice President, Association of British Scholars(AP Chapter) Vice-President, Faculty Club, Osmania University Ph:+91-40-27171565(res): +91-40-27682290(off) 9246547599(Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! CarsNEW - sell your car and browse thousands of new and used cars online search now ---------------------------------

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Need Suggestion or Discussion
by librarymahad 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Dear All, First of all wish you all a very happy, prosperous and peaceful new year 2006!!! I am a librarian in a Medium Scale Industry. I do also have experience in another three of such industries. Most of the Employers treat "LIBRARIAN" as a "C" grade staff. That's what I have experienced. My intention is to get information : 1. How we should change their mentality? 2. What are the actions to be taken? 3. Mostly they are treating Library as unwanted department, therefore giving less important. I tried all types of strategies to make Library "a temple of Knowledge" but failed. Please let me know what should we do? 4. Why academic libraries are not considering us to give a chance to serve them? 5. What Library professionals' Movement can be done against these injustices? There are many more. Regards, Pradip Das Librarian, Vinyl Chemicals (I) Ltd., A/21, MIDC, Maharashtra - 402309 India. Tel : 02145 - 232043 to 46 Extn. : 226 E-mail : librarymahad(a)pidilite.co.in or, pradip_das_55(a)rediffmail.com Dear All, First of all wish you all a very happy, prosperous and peaceful new year 2006!!! I am a librarian in a Medium Scale Industry. I do also have experience in another three of such industries. Most of the Employers treat " LIBRARIAN" as a "C" grade staff. That's what I have experienced. My intention is to get information : 1. How we should change their mentality? 2. What are the actions to be taken? 3. Mostly they are treating Library as unwanted department, therefore giving less important. I tried all types of strategies to make Library "a temple of Knowledge" but failed. Please let me know what should we do? 4. Why academic libraries are not considering us to give a chance to serve them? 5. What Library professionals' Movement can be done against these injustices? There are many more. Regards, Pradip Das Librarian, Vinyl Chemicals (I) Ltd., A/21, MIDC, Maharashtra - 402309 India. Tel : 02145 - 232043 to 46 Extn. : 226 E-mail : mailto:librarymahad@pidilite.co.in librarymahad(a)pidilite.co.in or, mailto:pradip_das_55@rediffmail.com pradip_das_55(a)rediffmail.com

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Article indexing
by Prabhash.Rath 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Dear all It is really good to see the topic article indexing is the focus of discussion in LIS forum for some time. I fully agree with the comments made by Mr C U Navalgund that this is a value added service mostly for in-house members and should be taken up by professionals if time and manpower permit. In GIPE Library, we have been bringing out 'Fortnightly List of articles on India' since 1967 which has been continuing uninterruptedly till date. We do index all articles on India that appear in all Indian and foreign journals and four financial newspapers which have been subscribed by our Library. In fact, four years back, in our Institute itself, some discussion was going on about the viability of this service when we started computerisation of the library. However, after examining several such services and databases of articles, we have decided to continue with our service. The service has been well-appreciated by our faculty and also outside members. Even there are non-members who subscribe to our articles list in hard copy format. Thus, from my own experience, I strongly feel the need of such service at least in libraries attached to such research institutions who do research pertaining to socio-economic problems of India. With regards Prabhash N. Rath, Ph. D. Documentation Officer Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics B M C C Road Pune - 411004 (India) Tel: +91-20-25650287 (O), +91-20-25678311 (R.) E-mail: prabhash(a)gipe.ernet.in, prabhashrath(a)yahoo.com

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Hey, I blog too!
by Sukhdev Singh 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Dear friends, Just to share with you! I blog too!! Following are some items I posted on my blog i.e. http://sukhdev.blogspot.com * Whiteboard * Pharmpedia * Top 11 Trends for Organizational Learning * OPAC as a tool for user tagging? * Emerging Technology - Web 2.0 Arrives * 2005 - Best of WEB 2.0 * MedLib * How Google is changing medicine * Viruses from your email address * What is Library 2.0? - Discussion Sukhdev Singh.http://sukhdev.blogspot.com

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GREETINGS-KLA
by gopikuttan gopikuttan 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

DEAR PROFESSIONALS WISH U ALL A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR. Dr.A.Gopikuttan General Secretary Kerala Library Association Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com

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Happy New Year to all of You
by Raj Kumar 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

Dear LIS Professionals I wish you a very very HAPPY NEW YEAR 2006. May God Bless all of us to Scale LIS prfession to New and Great Hights. Best Regards Raj Kumar RAJ KUMAR,M.Sc.(Chem.),M.L.I.Sc.,PGDLAN Incahrge cum Assistant Librarian Institute of Technology and Management HUDA Sector-23A, Gurgaon,Haryana-122017 E-mail address: rjkyadav(a)gmail.com rjk78(a)rediffmail.com CELL NO.9899-478-343 Office:91-124-2365811 --------------------------------- Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less Dear LIS Professionals I wish you a very very HAPPY NEW YEAR 2006. May God Bless all of us to Scale LIS prfession to New and Great Hights. Best Regards Raj Kumar RAJ KUMAR,M.Sc.(Chem.),M.L.I.Sc.,PGDLAN Incahrge cum Assistant Librarian Institute of Technology and Management HUDA Sector-23A, Gurgaon,Haryana-122017 E-mail address: rjkyadav(a)gmail.com rjk78(a)rediffmail.com CELL NO.9899-478-343 Office:91-124-2365811 http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=37474/*http://promo.yahoo.c… Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less

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GREETINGS
by Lalitha Aswath 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

Dear Professionals, Wish you all a very happy , prosperous and peaceful new year 2006. Dr.Lalitha Aswath, Prof. & chairperson, Dept. of Lib. & Inform. Science, Bangalore University, Bangalore-560 056

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KALA-New Year Greetings
by I.R.N.Goudar 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

Dear Professionals, Karnataka State Library Association wish you and your family "HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2006" Let us work sincerely for Professional cause during 2006 and serve the academic and research community more effectively and cordially. Pl Note: Once again I request you all to respond to the mail I sent earlier in connection with the proposed 'Veteran's Day' during February 2006. If you are the one as mentioned earlier, please send your resume with postal address, phone number, e-mail, etc. PLEASE INFORM ABOUT VETERANS IF ANY OF YOUR FRIENDS/COLLEAGUES COME UNDER THESE CATEGORIES. Goudar President, KALA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html

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Fw: JPGM crosses 100 thousand article downloads in a month
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

Friends: People often ask about the benefits of OA. Here is a case in point from India. The Journal of Postgraduate Medicine (Bombay) has become very popular ever since it became an OA journal, says Dr D K Sahu, a champion of OA in India. I wish the journals published by government agencies such as CSIR go OA! Incidentally Dr Sahu may kindly clarify if the downloads refer to full artcles or pages. Best wishes. Arun JPGM registers over 100 thousand article downloads in a month The number of article downloads per month has crossed the figure of 100,000. Ninety thousand three hundred twenty five unique visitors downloaded 110,218 article pages in the month of November. These downloads are from the journal's primary website (i.e. www.jpgmonline.com). Apart from this website, the full text of the journal is also available from Bioline International, OAI-complaint repository at the University of Toronto and from a number of secondary aggregating agencies such as Thomson Gale, EBSCO Publishing and ProQuest. Thus, the actual downloads per month are much higher. Open access sources, DOAJ, PubMed and Wikipedia were amongst the top five referrers (except search engines) for the journal's website. Over 270 institutions utilize the LinkOut facilities from PubMed to access the journal. Regards, DK Sahu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subbiah Arunachalam [mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in] Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 4:25 PM To: peters(a)earlham.edu; dksahu(a)vsnl.com Subject: Fw: JPGM crosses 100 thousand article downloads in a month Dear Sahu: Please send a slightly more detailed note to Prof. Peter Suber. the one you have sent is too cryptic. Arun ----- Original Message ----- From: DK Sahu To: 'Peter Suber' Cc: 'Subbiah Arunachalam' Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 2:55 PM Subject: JPGM crosses 100 thousand article downloads in a month Sir You may like to add this in OAN. "The number of article downloads per month crosses the figure of 100,000. Ninety thousand three hundred twenty five visitors downloaded/read 110,218 article pages in the month of November. Open access sources, DOAJ, PubMed and Wikipedia were amongst the top five referrers (except search engines) for the journal." From the website - http://www.jpgmonline.com/whatsnew.asp Regards, DK Sahu  Friends: People often ask about the benefits of OA. Here is a case in point from India. The Journal of Postgraduate Medicine (Bombay) has become very popular ever since it became an OA journal, says Dr D K Sahu, a champion of OA in India. I wish the journals published by government agencies such as CSIR go OA! Incidentally Dr Sahu may kindly clarify if the downloads refer to full artcles or pages. Best wishes. Arun JPGM registers over 100 thousand article downloads in a month The number of article downloads per month has crossed the figure of 100,000. Ninety thousand three hundred twenty five unique visitors downloaded 110,218 article pages in the month of November. These downloads are from the journal's primary website (i.e. http://www.jpgmonline.com www.jpgmonline.com ). Apart from this website, the full text of the journal is also available from http://www.bioline.org.br/jp Bioline International , http://bioline.utsc.utoronto.ca/ OAI-complaint repository at the University of Toronto and from a number of secondary aggregating agencies such as http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/browse_JJ_J028 Thomson Gale , EBSCO Publishing and ProQuest. Thus, the actual downloads per month are much higher. Open access sources, http://www.doaj.org/openurl?genre=journal&issn=00223859 DOAJ , http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?dopt=DocSum&cmd=Search&db=Pub… PubMed and Wikipedia were amongst the top five referrers (except search engines) for the journal's website. Over 270 institutions utilize the http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&list_u… LinkOut facilities from PubMed to access the journal. Regards, DK Sahu From: Subbiah Arunachalam [mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in] Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 4:25 PM To: peters(a)earlham.edu; dksahu(a)vsnl.com Subject: Fw: JPGM crosses 100 thousand article downloads in a month Dear Sahu: Please send a slightly more detailed note to Prof. Peter Suber. the one you have sent is too cryptic. Arun ----- Original Message ----- From: mailto:dksahu@medknow.com DK Sahu To: mailto:peters@earlham.edu 'Peter Suber' Cc: mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in 'Subbiah Arunachalam' Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 2:55 PM Subject: JPGM crosses 100 thousand article downloads in a month Sir You may like to add this in OAN. The number of article downloads per month crosses the figure of 100,000. Ninety thousand three hundred twenty five visitors downloaded/read 110,218 article pages in the month of November. Open access sources, DOAJ, PubMed and Wikipedia were amongst the top five referrers (except search engines) for the journal. From the website - http://www.jpgmonline.com/whatsnew.asp http://www.jpgmonline.com/whatsnew.asp Regards, DK Sahu

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Seminar Announcement
by Dimple Patel 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Dear Moderator, Kindly post the following national Seminar announcement. Regards, Dimple Patel, MGNIRSA, Hyderabad. *******Call for papers****** NATIONAL SEMINAR ON E-PUBLICATIONS March 23-24, 2006 MGNIRSA, Hyderabad. The Centre for Information Science (CIS), Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action (MGNIRSA), Hyderabad is organizing a two-day national seminar on E-Publications during March 23-24, 2006 in Hyderabad. The seminar will deal with different aspects of E-publications however, the main focus will be on E-books and E-journals. Seminar Theme: Print publications like books and journals in particular have now manifested into electronic formats, E-books and E-journals. While E-publications provide many advantages they also present some issues which need to be addressed. This seminar tries to provide a platform for representatives from different groups like the authors, e-publishers and booksellers and librarians to discuss and address key issues in the publishing, usage and management of e-publications. Scope of the Seminar: The seminar will deal with various themes dealing with different aspects of E-publications, with the main focus being on E-books and E-journals. The themes for the seminar are: General issues related to E-publications * Issues in design, development and types of e-books and e-journals * E-books and e-journals in teaching and learning * Trends and Future of e-publications * Problems related to E-publications Emerging Technologies in e-publishing * New developments in e-publications * Media usage in e-publications * File formats * Software and Hardware technologies in e-publications * Issues related to e-book readers * Compatibility issues Standards in E-publications * Standards for: content packaging & formatting; content encapsulation & decapsulation; content dissemination; content storage * Standards for e-book readers * Standards for e-books software * Proprietary standards vs. open standards Content authoring and E-publishing * E-publishing Authoring tools * Content authoring in e-publications * Issues in e-publishing and e-publications * Changing roles of authors, agents and publishers in e-publishing era * Conversion from print to electronic publications E-Books and E-journals Applications * Higher Education & Research * Distance learning * E-learning * Enterprise applications Users and Usage of e-books and e-journals * Users perceptions, inhibitions, attitude, expectations, problems * Use and usability issues * Accessibility issues * Usage of e-books & e-journals in schools, colleges & universities E-publications in different types of Libraries * Implementation and policy issues * Collection development issues * Licensing issues * Lending issues (user authentication, data encryption, etc) * Cataloging of e-publications * Preservation and Archival issues * Obsolescence issues E-publishing in India * Case studies of Indian e-publishers, authors and suppliers * E-publication in India * E-publishing industry in India Library Consortia * Consortia models * Case studies of consortium initiatives in India * Issues related to Consortia approach Digital Rights Management * Rights Transfer * Copyright issues * Plagiarism and piracy issues * Digital Content Rights management Business Models for e-publications * Pricing models for e-books and e-journals * Subscription models for e-journals * E-content delivery models * Marketing trends/opportunities for e-publications * Licensing issues * Issues related to publishers, aggregators and booksellers Who can attend this seminar? * Library & Information Science Professionals and Educators * E-Publishers and suppliers of e-books and e-journals * Academics, research students and teachers with an interest in e-publications, e-learning, etc. * Academics in the fields of publishing, education and training. * IT professionals with an interest in e-publishing. * General users of e-publications * Educators with an interest in e-publishing and e-learning. Submission of papers: The seminar organisers are looking for high quality research papers in the areas related to e-books. Paper may be submitted in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), or MS Word (.doc) format. The last date to receive papers is 15 February, 2006. Receipt of the paper will be confirmed through email. Notification of acceptance will be sent by the seminar coordinator through email by 25 February, 2006. All papers submitted to National Seminar on E-publications must be written in English, using appropriate grammar and syntax. Final camera-ready version of full paper is due by 06 March, 2006. Registration and final payment are due by 15 March, 2006. Late registration fee payments or paper submissions will result in the papers being excluded from the seminar proceedings. The page limit for final papers is eight single-spaced pages in 10 point Times New Roman font. Paper will be included in the seminar proceedings only after payment of the registration fee. Important dates: 23-24 March, 2006 Seminar Dates 15 February, 2006 Deadline for paper submissions 25 February, 2006 Notification for acceptance 06 March, 2006 Deadline for submitting camera-ready version of full papers 15 March, 2006 Deadline for (early) registration Registration Fee: The registration fee for general participants is Rs.650.00 and a student participant is Rs. 300. All the authorised students/research scholars are allowed to use this facility but they need to provide a letter from their Department/university certifying that he/she is the bonafied student of their department/university. The registration fee covers a set of pre-conference papers volume, two days lunch, tea and refreshments. Register early by 15th March 2006 to receive Rs.50.00 off on the seminar registration fee. Late applicants and day visitors can pay on arrival. Advance payments may be made by bank demand draft or cheque payable at Hyderabad. Participants registering on arrival must pay in cash. Location: The conference is going to be held at Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action [MGNIRSA], Street No.17, Gagan Mahal Raod, Domal Guda, Hyderabad 500 029. Accommodation: A wide range of accommodation is available in Hyderabad. Within 10 minutes walking distance is the Hotel Dwaraka (Rs.500.00 per single room, Rs.600.00 per double room, Rs.650 deluxe room, Rs.800 double room with AC). Charges for other hotels in Hyderabad range from Rs.500.00 to Rs.5000.00 per day. Those who want accommodation may write to the Seminar Coordinator for booking their accommodation in advance clearly mentioning the type of room they want, price range, number of days of stay and for how many persons so that necessary arrangements will be made for them. For more information about this seminar or to include your address in our mailing list, please contact: Dr. Chennupati K. Ramaiah, Director, Centre for Information Science, Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action [MGNIRSA], Street No.17, Gaganmahal Road, Domalguda, Hyderabad 500 029, Andhra Pradesh. Telephone: 040-27672492; Facsimile: 091-40-27664920 Email: cis.dsrf(a)gmail.com or chennupati_kramaiah(a)yahoo.com REGISTRATION FORM Family name: First name: Position: Institution: Address: City/State: PIN Code: Tel. No.: (Landline): (Hand phone): Fax: Email id: Please let us know: I will attend and present a paper in the technical session I will attend the conference Please book my accommodation on payment basis Payment Details: (DD/Cheque/MO/Others) Place Date Signature Dimple Patel, Assistant Librarian, MGNIRSA, Hyderabad. INDIA. --------------------------------------- 1. Contribute to LDL: Librarians' Digital Library https://drtc.isibang.ac.in 2. Join today Digital Library Discussion Forum http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg ------------------------------------------------- "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library" Jorge Luis BORGES (1899-1986) Dear Moderator, Kindly post the following national Seminar announcement. Regards, Dimple Patel, MGNIRSA, Hyderabad. *******Call for papers****** NATIONAL SEMINAR ON E-PUBLICATIONS March 23-24, 2006 MGNIRSA, Hyderabad. The Centre for Information Science (CIS), Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action (MGNIRSA), Hyderabad is organizing a two-day national seminar on E-Publications during March 23-24, 2006 in Hyderabad. The seminar will deal with different aspects of E-publications however, the main focus will be on E-books and E-journals. Seminar Theme: Print publications like books and journals in particular have now manifested into electronic formats, E-books and E-journals. While E-publications provide many advantages they also present some issues which need to be addressed. This seminar tries to provide a platform for representatives from different groups like the authors, e-publishers and booksellers and librarians to discuss and address key issues in the publishing, usage and management of e-publications. Scope of the Seminar: The seminar will deal with various themes dealing with different aspects of E-publications, with the main focus being on E-books and E-journals. The themes for the seminar are: General issues related to E-publications * Issues in design, development and types of e-books and e-journals * E-books and e-journals in teaching and learning * Trends and Future of e-publications * Problems related to E-publications Emerging Technologies in e-publishing * New developments in e-publications * Media usage in e-publications * File formats * Software and Hardware technologies in e-publications * Issues related to e-book readers * Compatibility issues Standards in E-publications * Standards for: content packaging & formatting; content encapsulation & decapsulation; content dissemination; content storage * Standards for e-book readers * Standards for e-books software * Proprietary standards vs. open standards Content authoring and E-publishing * E-publishing Authoring tools * Content authoring in e-publications * Issues in e-publishing and e-publications * Changing roles of authors, agents and publishers in e-publishing era * Conversion from print to electronic publications E-Books and E-journals Applications * Higher Education & Research * Distance learning * E-learning * Enterprise applications Users and Usage of e-books and e-journals * Users perceptions, inhibitions, attitude, expectations, problems * Use and usability issues * Accessibility issues * Usage of e-books & e-journals in schools, colleges & universities E-publications in different types of Libraries * Implementation and policy issues * Collection development issues * Licensing issues * Lending issues (user authentication, data encryption, etc) * Cataloging of e-publications * Preservation and Archival issues * Obsolescence issues E-publishing in India * Case studies of Indian e-publishers, authors and suppliers * E-publication in India * E-publishing industry in India Library Consortia * Consortia models * Case studies of consortium initiatives in India * Issues related to Consortia approach Digital Rights Management * Rights Transfer * Copyright issues * Plagiarism and piracy issues * Digital Content Rights management Business Models for e-publications * Pricing models for e-books and e-journals * Subscription models for e-journals * E-content delivery models * Marketing trends/opportunities for e-publications * Licensing issues * Issues related to publishers, aggregators and booksellers Who can attend this seminar? * Library & Information Science Professionals and Educators * E-Publishers and suppliers of e-books and e-journals * Academics, research students and teachers with an interest in e-publications, e-learning, etc. * Academics in the fields of publishing, education and training. * IT professionals with an interest in e-publishing. * General users of e-publications * Educators with an interest in e-publishing and e-learning. Submission of papers: The seminar organisers are looking for high quality research papers in the areas related to e-books. Paper may be submitted in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), or MS Word (.doc) format. The last date to receive papers is 15 February, 2006. Receipt of the paper will be confirmed through email. Notification of acceptance will be sent by the seminar coordinator through email by 25 February, 2006. All papers submitted to National Seminar on E-publications must be written in English, using appropriate grammar and syntax. Final camera-ready version of full paper is due by 06 March, 2006. Registration and final payment are due by 15 March, 2006. Late registration fee payments or paper submissions will result in the papers being excluded from the seminar proceedings. The page limit for final papers is eight single-spaced pages in 10 point Times New Roman font. Paper will be included in the seminar proceedings only after payment of the registration fee. Important dates: 23-24 March, 2006 Seminar Dates 15 February, 2006 Deadline for paper submissions 25 February, 2006 Notification for acceptance 06 March, 2006 Deadline for submitting camera-ready version of full papers 15 March, 2006 Deadline for (early) registration Registration Fee: The registration fee for general participants is Rs.650.00 and a student participant is Rs. 300. All the authorised students/research scholars are allowed to use this facility but they need to provide a letter from their Department/university certifying that he/she is the bonafied student of their department/university. The registration fee covers a set of pre-conference papers volume, two days lunch, tea and refreshments. Register early by 15th March 2006 to receive Rs.50.00 off on the seminar registration fee. Late applicants and day visitors can pay on arrival. Advance payments may be made by bank demand draft or cheque payable at Hyderabad. Participants registering on arrival must pay in cash. Location: The conference is going to be held at Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action [MGNIRSA], Street No.17, Gagan Mahal Raod, Domal Guda, Hyderabad 500 029. Accommodation: A wide range of accommodation is available in Hyderabad. Within 10 minutes walking distance is the Hotel Dwaraka (Rs.500.00 per single room, Rs.600.00 per double room, Rs.650 deluxe room, Rs.800 double room with AC). Charges for other hotels in Hyderabad range from Rs.500.00 to Rs.5000.00 per day. Those who want accommodation may write to the Seminar Coordinator for booking their accommodation in advance clearly mentioning the type of room they want, price range, number of days of stay and for how many persons so that necessary arrangements will be made for them. For more information about this seminar or to include your address in our mailing list, please contact: Dr. Chennupati K. 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Fwd: [LIS-Forum] article indexing
by Saiful Amin 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: M Koteswara Rao <mkrao(a)iitm.ac.in> Date: Dec 31, 2005 1:27 PM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] article indexing To: Saiful Amin <mail2saiful(a)gmail.com> Dear Saiful, The idea sounds good but I am sorry to say 'nay'- not feasible. The reasons are many. Many libraries do not even have their entire collection in electronic form with all the necessary fields. Even the large libraries do not have time nor the resources needed to undertake such collosal work (if someone says so, then it must be only a sample and not in full). Perhaps it may be possible in specialized libraries devoted to a narrow subject area (I have seen this at SERC in Chennai being done by Dr. Chitra Hariharan). Secondly, I think that there is no need to duplicate the work of database providers who do it in a better (standard) way than we can, and many libraries have access to them. So lets not worry to re-invent-the wheel. Perhaps, what we can do is to create guidelines to do such work, train people, offer consultancy, and offer the manpower support to database producers in India. Koteswara Rao > It would be interesting to debate here if article indexing by > librarians/libraries is a viable option. Can we discuss on the following points: > - Do the libraries have resources, time, and expertise to carry out such work? > - Is it really cost-effective, even taking in view cheap labour costs in India? > - Is it worth duplicating the effort of commercial vendors > (full-text/bibliographic databases) providing similar services? > - Can such effort be sustainable in the long run? > Footwear & Leather Abstracts (used to be published by CLRI, Chennai) was a > prime example of indexing effort of library, which was in high demand internationally being a unique product. Unfortunately, it could not be sustained. It would be encouraging to know if any other indexing effort by > libraries being successful anywhere in the world, especially, India. Best regards, > Saiful > -- > Saiful Amin > Information Specialist > Edutech India > 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road > Chennai 600006, India > Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 > GSM: +91 98407 76214 > Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 > http://www.edutechindia.com www.edutechindia.com > "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." > On 12/28/05, > Anuranjana Bharti > < mailto:anuchopra@cat.ernet.in anuchopra(a)cat.ernet.in >> wrote: > Hello all, > I would appreciate if you tell me about the scientific libraries using Libsys for journal article indexing. > Thanks, > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Anuranjana Bharti > Library > Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology > Deptt. of Atomic Energy > Indore - 452 001 > India > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: M Koteswara Rao < mailto:mkrao@iitm.ac.in mkrao(a)iitm.ac.in > Date: Dec 31, 2005 1:27 PM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] article indexing To: Saiful Amin < mailto:mail2saiful@gmail.com mail2saiful(a)gmail.com > Dear Saiful, The idea sounds good but I am sorry to say 'nay'- not feasible. The reasons are many. Many libraries do not even have their entire collection in electronic form with all the necessary fields. Even the large libraries do not have time nor the resources needed to undertake such collosal work (if someone says so, then it must be only a sample and not in full). Perhaps it may be possible in specialized libraries devoted to a narrow subject area (I have seen this at SERC in Chennai being done by Dr. Chitra Hariharan). Secondly, I think that there is no need to duplicate the work of database providers who do it in a better (standard) way than we can, and many libraries have access to them. So lets not worry to re-invent-the wheel. Perhaps, what we can do is to create guidelines to do such work, train people, offer consultancy, and offer the manpower support to database producers in India. Koteswara Rao > It would be interesting to debate here if article indexing by > librarians/libraries is a viable option. Can we discuss on the following points: > - Do the libraries have resources, time, and expertise to carry out such work? > - Is it really cost-effective, even taking in view cheap labour costs in India? > - Is it worth duplicating the effort of commercial vendors > (full-text/bibliographic databases) providing similar services? > - Can such effort be sustainable in the long run? > Footwear & Leather Abstracts (used to be published by CLRI, Chennai) was a > prime example of indexing effort of library, which was in high demand internationally being a unique product. Unfortunately, it could not be sustained. It would be encouraging to know if any other indexing effort by > libraries being successful anywhere in the world, especially, India. Best regards, > Saiful > -- > Saiful Amin > Information Specialist > Edutech India > 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road > Chennai 600006, India > Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 > GSM: +91 98407 76214 > Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 > http://www.edutechindia.com http://www.edutechindia.com http://www.edutechindia.com www.edutechindia.com > "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." > On 12/28/05, > Anuranjana Bharti > < mailto: mailto:anuchopra@cat.ernet.in anuchopra(a)cat.ernet.in mailto:anuchopra@cat.ernet.in anuchopra(a)cat.ernet.in >> wrote: > Hello all, > I would appreciate if you tell me about the scientific libraries using Libsys for journal article indexing. > Thanks, > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Anuranjana Bharti > Library > Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology > Deptt. of Atomic Energy > Indore - 452 001 > India > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > mailto:LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 http://www.edutechindia.com www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong."

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Free Live Presentation of LiBSUITE RFID system in Trivendrum
by Pranaykumar Dhiwar 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Dear Sir/ Madam, We are pleased to inform you that we have recently introduced our LiBSUITE-RFID System for the Library Application. In this regards we are arranging a live demonstration of our products at mentioned venue between 10am to 6pm on 6th January 2006. Event : Free Live Presentation of LiBSUITE® RFID system. Event Date: 6th January 2006. (Trivendrum) Event Time: 10AM to 6PM (On confirmation) Booking opening dates till 5th January 2006 Booking Numbers: M/s Vanishree. SoftAid Computers Pvt. Ltd. 080- 23464717 / 23444860 Email now on: kumard(a)softaid.co.in. Venue Address: Hotel Horizon , Helley's Hall Aristo Road, Tampanoor Thiruvananthapuram. 695014 Kerala. Thanking you and we would appreciate, if you could kindly confirm your arrival for resolving all related queries. Get the best Digital RFID based Library Automation System at an affordable and best price. Pranaykumar Cell: 09844278564 Dear Sir/ Madam, W e are pleased to inform you that we have recently introduced our LiBSUITE-RFID System for the Library Application. In this regards we are arranging a live demonstration of our products at mentioned venue between 10am to 6pm on 6th January 2006. Event : Free Live Presentation of LiBSUITE ® RFID system. Event Date: 6th January 2006. (Trivendrum) Event Time: 10AM to 6PM (On confirmation) Booking opening dates till 5th January 2006 Booking Numbers: M/s Vanishree. SoftAid Computers Pvt. Ltd. 080 - 23464717 / 23444860 Email now on: kumard(a)softaid.co.in . Venue Address: Hotel Horizon , Helley's Hall Aristo Road, Tampanoor Thiruvananthapuram. 695014 Kerala. Thanking you and we would appreciate, if you could kindly confirm your arrival for resolving all related queries. Get the best Digital RFID based Library Automation System at an affordable and best price. Pranaykumar Cell: 09844278564

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Fw: [LIS-Forum] article indexing
by Mailing List Manager 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:07:44 +0530 From: M.P.Tapaswi <murari(a)nio.org> Shri Saiful's topic is interesting. Indexing of articles though expensive individually, is essential especially for the developing countries as this data is hardly covered by the reputed indexing services. The 'value' of the service is known only when somebody is searching something that is not available on other databases and you possess it. This goes with sustained efforts of adding latest info and making it known to a larger user community. The cooperative solutions should come forward to make this activity more competent. We participate in the ASFA (Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts) and have been benefited much by way of returns, learning and adhering to international quality and international links that benefit in other activities such as resource sharing, etc. Participate in global activities like this and also parallaly develop your own databases with similar standards with something that the international database does not possess (archival references, indexing of grey literature, etc.). With warm regards, Murari P Tapaswi, NICMAS, National Inst Oceanography, Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, India Phone: 91-(0)832-2450 275 (Direct), -2450 450(EPBX); Fax: 91-(0)832-2450 602/03 URL: www.nio.org; www.mangroveindia.org; www.coastalhazards.info; www.indian-ocean.org

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National Seminar on Knowledge Representation & Information Retrieval
by Mailing List Manager 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Apologies for cross-postings ----------------------------- National Seminar on Knowledge Representation & Information Retrieval Dates: March 22-24, 2006 Venue: DRTC, Bangalore, India Organized by Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Bangalore 560059 The digital medium including the World Wide Web is increasingly being used for scholarly information repositories and for scholarly communication. It is important in this context to advance conceptual work in knowledge organization for all purposes, including databases, digital libraries, and the Internet, and to develop effective mechanisms for information organization and retrieval. Research in this area has adopted several new approaches that include: enhancing the structure and content of digital resources, improving the capabilities of search engines, adapting traditional knowledge organizational tools for the digital environment, developing new tools for knowledge organization, etc. This seminar will focus on these aspects. Call for Papers: Papers addressing the above aspects of Knowledge Organization research and practice are welcome. The themes identified include (but are not limited to) the following: 1. Traditional systems of knowledge organization in the digital environment 2. New forms of knowledge organization: Ontologies and knowledge ordering; Transforming traditional systems to newer forms 3. Multilingual problems of information retrieval 4. Knowledge Organization in corporate information systems 5. Standards; Metadata sets, Markup Languages, Knowledge Organization for Multimedia Information 6. Semantic Web 7. Case studies showcasing research, experiments and ongoing projects in the area Participants: 1. Library & Information Community-teachers, researchers and practitioners 2. Representatives from the information industry, specially those involved in digital content creation for the Web 3. Researchers from Computer Science, particularly those involved in R & D work related to search engines, ontologies, etc Those who intend to present papers are requested to send the papers as attachments in OpenOffice or MS-Word format via E-mail to Dr. K.S Raghavan at the following E-mail IDs. raghavan(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in with cc to ksragav(a)hotmail.com. The last date for submission of papers is 31st January 2006. Registration fee: The registration fee of Rs.1000/- (Rupees One Thousand only) per participant should be sent in the form of a Demand Draft drawn in favour of "Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore", payable at Bangalore along with the registration form The Registration Fee covers the cost of Seminar Kit Working Lunch and Tea Last Date for Registration 28th February 2006 Accommodation: Accommodation for a limited number of participants can be arranged at the ISI Guesthouse at a nominal cost (charges as per the rules of the Institute) on a first-come-first-served basis. The filled in Registration form may please be mailed to: Dr. K.S Raghavan Convener DRTC Seminar on Knowledge Representation & Information Retrieval Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College Post Bangalore 560 059 Phone: 080-28483002 / 03 / 04 / 05 Ext: 492 Fax: 91 80 28484265 Email: raghavan(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in ksragav(a)hotmail.com Registration Form 1) Name: 2) Designation: 3) Address: 4) Telephone Number: Office: _____________Res: _______________ Mobile: _______________________________ E-mail: ________________________________ 5) Accommodation required: Yes / No Arrival Information: 6) Demand Draft No: Bank: Amount: Date: Signature of the Signature of the Sponsoring Authority Participant Date: Date: Place: Place:

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RE:Articles index database
by chandrashekhar navalgund 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Dear All, This is in relation to the discussion about indexing by the Librarians / Libraries by Mr. Saiful Amin and Mr. Manjunath. I would like to share my observations and experiences on this topic as mentioned below: First of all we should be aware that what is available in our house ( our library ) then, start searching what is available in others house ( other libraries as well as commercial databases etc. ) so that our readers would be happy and appreciate us that we are true professionals and we are able to know with a push of a button we are able to tell them as to what is available in our library instantly for their research / browsing. In this connection, I would like to share a recent experience of mine. One of our Prof. called me over tel. and informed me that he has to make a presentation in a prestigious seminar on a topic migrant labours and he had the time of two ( 2 ) days hence he would like to know all the articles pertaining to this topic published in EPW in about four-five years period. Fortunately, we started indexing service from 2000 onwards and I just took out the print out of list of articles on that topic and sent to him in about fifteen minutes time. The Prof. was so happy , appreciated and thanked to the library staff for having this service is made available immediately. If we had not done indexing then I might have to depend on the Guide to Periodical Index print version or some other sources but, that would have taken lot of time. Again, the advantage here is not only EPW index of articles but all other journals articles ( for the journals which we are subscribing in our library) which can be traced and referred immediately in our library itself provided if you have made such an index. This service according to me is the first and foremost advantage of ones own librarys indexing. We are professionals and our job is to add value to the services being provided to our readers. If we start depending every thing on others databases and others resources then, we do not have the job to do excepting the traditional way of procuring and processing of books, issuing / returning of materials etc. Moreover, the present generation readers are computer savy (at least in our place) they know how to search information on their own not depending much on the library staff. If we have to get appreciation and respect from our readers as we are professionals then, we have to initiate several such things which some times, one may feel silly but in a longer period which would definitely benefit. By using the commercial indexing services which contains several of foreign journals and out of those thousands of journals we might be subscribing to 50 100 journals. Even if the required articles are available in the list but, those journals are not available in our library then, what is the use of it? another thing is that most of the Indian journals especially, the social science journals are not indexed in many of the commercial databases. So, given the above observations, it is my personal view that one should try to index the journals of their own library for quick retrieval of information and usage of it and which can also be shared with other library indexes or to create a central database of articles index like the good work being done by IGIDR Library. I would like to congratulate and appreciate the work being done by IGIDR Library team. Regards C U Navalgund Dy. Librarian N L S I U, Bangalore Tel : 080-22729259 Email : cun(a)nls.ac.in

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Open Access - Talk by Dr.Alma Swan (4th Jan-Jawaharlal Nehru Conference Hall, Mumbai Univeristy, Kalina)
by Smita Chandra 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Talk on "Open Access: What it can do for science and scholarship in India" by Dr.Alma Swan (Director, Key Perspectives, UK) at Conference Hall, Jawaharlal Nehru Library University of Mumbai, Kalina, Santacruz (E), Mumbai 400 096 On 4th of January from 03.30 PM to 05.30 PM (Free for all. Lecture followed by discussions) Contact : Mrs.Rajhans, LIS Department, University of Mumbai. Ph. 022-26526679 (989232042) (rajhansa(a)yahoo.com) Ms.Ravija Srivastava, LIS Department, University of Mumbai. Ph.:981932070 (ravija_srivastava(a)yahoo.com) Ms.Vasumati Sriganesh, Director, QMed Services Pvt.Ltd.,Mumbai. Ph.022-28229223 & 9867292230 (vasu(a)qmedin.com) Dr.D.K.Sahu, Director, Medknow Publications, Mumbai . Ph. 022-5649181 Summary of the Talk Open access to research findings is the most effective means to enhance the communication, discussion and use of the outputs of scholarly endeavor. Scholars' findings have traditionally been largely locked away from all but the lucky few whose libraries were able to purchase expensive journals. Now the World Wide Web has made it possible for scholars to share their results, ideas and inspirations on a truly worldwide basis, whilst still preserving the best of the traditional way of publishing their results - high-quality peer review and editing procedures. Open Access is the great equalizer when it comes to scholarly communication. Dr. Alma Swan shall describe the ways to achieve Open Access, what advantages it brings to scholars and scientists in all parts of the world and what it can do for India's own scholarship and science now and in the foreseeable future. About the Speaker Dr. Alma Swan obtained a first class honours degree in zoology in 1974 and a PhD in cell biology in 1978 from Southampton University. After research fellowships funded by the Cancer Research Campaign at Southampton General Hospital and St. George's Hospital Medical School (London), she took a position as Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Leicester. Her research was in medical cell biology and she taught a range of courses from vertebrate biology to the biology of cancer. In 1985, she moved into science publishing as managing editor of a Pergamon Press (later Elsevier Science) biomedical research indexing service, published both in print and online. In 1996 she jointly founded Key Perspectives. Though she has worked in the commercial sphere for 20 years, Alma retains links with academic life: for four years she was tutor and consultant for the Open University Business School's MBA programme and since 1991 has been tutor for two business strategy courses on Warwick Business School's MBA programme. She holds honorary roles as business mentor and teacher for the Institute for Entrepreneurship (part of the School of Management) at Southampton University. Alma has an MBA from Warwick Business School and is a Member of the Institute of Biology. She is currently an independent consultant on scholarly communication issues and has been working on projects concerned with Open Access to the research literature for several years now, carrying out original research, writing reports and articles and giving many presentation. All her publicly available work can be found in the Open Access Archive on her organization's website at www.keyperspectives.co.uk. ************************************************************************** ********************************************************************************** Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian Library, Information & Documentation Division Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218 Maharashtra, INDIA Ph.: 91-022-27484137 Mobile: 9820404583 Fax: 91-022-27480763 Email : smitac_in(a)yahoo.com ********************************************************************************** __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Talk on " Open Access: What it can do for science and scholarship in India " by Dr.Alma Swan ( Director, Key Perspectives, UK ) at Conference Hall, Jawaharlal Nehru Library University of Mumbai , Kalina, Santacruz (E), Mumbai 400 096 On 4 th of January from 03.30 PM to 05.30 PM (Free for all. Lecture followed by discussions) Contact : Mrs.Rajhans, LIS Department, University of Mumbai . Ph. 022-26526679 (989232042) ( http://us.f361.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=rajhansa@yahoo.com rajhansa(a)yahoo.com ) Ms.Ravija Srivastava, LIS Department, University of Mumbai . Ph.:981932070 ( http://us.f361.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=ravija_srivastava@yahoo.com ravija_srivastava(a)yahoo.com ) Ms.Vasumati Sriganesh, Director, http://www.qmedin.com/ QMed Services Pvt.Ltd .,Mumbai. Ph.022-28229223 & 9867292230 ( http://us.f361.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=vasu@qmedin.com vasu(a)qmedin.com ) Dr.D.K.Sahu, Director, http://www.medknow.com/ Medknow Publications , Mumbai . Ph. 022-5649181 Summary of the Talk Open access to research findings is the most effective means to enhance the communication, discussion and use of the outputs of scholarly endeavor. Scholars' findings have traditionally been largely locked away from all but the lucky few whose libraries were able to purchase expensive journals. Now the World Wide Web has made it possible for scholars to share their results, ideas and inspirations on a truly worldwide basis, whilst still preserving the best of the traditional way of publishing their results - high-quality peer review and editing procedures. Open Access is the great equalizer when it comes to scholarly communication. Dr. Alma Swan shall describe the ways to achieve Open Access, what advantages it brings to scholars and scientists in all parts of the world and what it can do for India 's own scholarship and science now and in the foreseeable future. About the Speaker Dr. Alma Swan obtained a first class honours degree in zoology in 1974 and a PhD in cell biology in 1978 from Southampton University . After research fellowships funded by the Cancer Research Campaign at Southampton General Hospital and St. George's Hospital Medical School (London), she took a position as Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Leicester. Her research was in medical cell biology and she taught a range of courses from vertebrate biology to the biology of cancer. In 1985, she moved into science publishing as managing editor of a Pergamon Press (later Elsevier Science) biomedical research indexing service, published both in print and online. In 1996 she jointly founded Key Perspectives. Though she has worked in the commercial sphere for 20 years, Alma retains links with academic life: for four years she was tutor and consultant for the Open University Business School's MBA programme and since 1991 has been tutor for two business strategy courses on Warwick Business School 's MBA programme. She holds honorary roles as business mentor and teacher for the Institute for Entrepreneurship (part of the School of Management ) at Southampton University . Alma has an MBA from Warwick Business School and is a Member of the Institute of Biology . She is currently an independent consultant on scholarly communication issues and has been working on projects concerned with Open Access to the research literature for several years now, carrying out original research, writing reports and articles and giving many presentation. All her publicly available work can be found in the Open Access Archive on her organization's website at http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/ www.keyperspectives.co.uk . ************************************************************************** ********************************************************************************** Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian Library, Information & Documentation Division Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218 Maharashtra, INDIA Ph .: 91-022-27484137 Mobile : 9820404583 Fax : 91-022-27480763 Email : mailto:smitac_in@yahoo.com smitac_in(a)yahoo.com ********************************************************************************** __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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