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US agencies may mandate OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

Mandated OA for publicly-funded medical research in the US Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) introduced a bill into the U.S. Senate yesterday that would mandate OA to publicly-funded medical research within four months of its publication. Officially titled the American Center for Cures Act of 2005, the bill is informally known as the CURES Act. It would create a new agency within the NIH, the American Center for Cures (ACC), whose primary mission would be to translate fundamental research into therapies. The bill is very large and covers a lot of territory, but for our purposes the critical part is Section 499H. Like the existing NIH policy, the CURES Act would apply only to the author's final peer-reviewed manuscript, although copyright holders would have the option to replace it with the final published text. Public access would be provided by PubMed Central. The bill goes beyond the NIH policy in several important ways. It requires free online access and does not merely request it. It shortens the permissible delay to four months. It extends the OA policy beyond the NIH to research funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Healthcare Research. Finally, it explicitly says that non-compliance may be a ground for the funding agency to refuse future funding. The bill is co-sponsored by Thad Cochran (R-MS). See the summary of the bill (discussing all its important provisions except the OA mandate), the section-by-section breakdown (the OA mandate is in Section 499H), and some quotations from supporters. (PS: This is a major step. It would effectively mandate OA to all medical research funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, making it more effective and wider in scope than the NIH public-access policy. More later, I promise.) Update. First a correction. The bill was introduced December 7, not December 8. Now some more links: * Press release from Senator Lieberman's office * Press release from the Alliance for Taxpayer Access. Excerpt: The Cures Bill is exactly the medicine thats needed, said Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and a leader of the ATA. It goes right to the heart of the case for unfettered access to publicly funded research. Senators Lieberman and Cochran took a close look at how best to speed development of treatments for diseases. Among their conclusions is that its time we ensure the research were already conducting is available to all potential users. Pat Furlong, executive director of Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy and an ATA member, was also pleased with the bill. It recognizes how important the sharing of information is to speeding research and translating new knowledge into cures, said Furlong. In the age of the Internet, it makes no sense for the results of taxpayer-funded research to be hidden away.

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Indian Science Academies support OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

What do the Indian science academies know that the Royal Society doesn't know? Subbiah Arunachalam, Indian science academies support open access, SciDev.net, December 8, 2005. A letter to the editor. Excerpt: I read Barbara Kirsop's letter...on the appalling stand taken by the UK Royal Society on open access. Thankfully, the science academies in India are supporting open access. In fact, all the journals published by the Indian National Science Academy, currently presided over by a fellow of the UK Royal Society, are open access journals and one can search and download articles from volume 1, number 1. All 11 journals published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, also presided over by a fellow of the UK Royal Society, are also open access journals, and there are currently efforts underway to make all previous volumes open access. What is more, unlike the Public Library of Science and BioMed Central, these two academies do not charge authors (or their institutions) a fee for publishing their papers. They do charge for subscriptions to the print versions as opposed to online versions of their journals.

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Free report on pollutants
by Subbiah Arunachalam 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

Don't cut back on OA info about toxic pollutants The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) currently sends out annual OA reports on toxic pollutants as part of its Toxic Release Inventory program. It is proposing to cut back the reports to every other year. I urge US citizens to submit a comment before January 13 asking the EPA to continue the annual reports. The easiest way is to submit a comment is to use the action alert from OMB Watch, which will send copies of your message to Congress as well as the EPA.

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[LIS-Forum] Version 60, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Version 60 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,560 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, by the same author, provides much more in-depth coverage of the open access movement and related topics (e.g., disciplinary archives, e-prints, institutional repositories, open access journals, and the Open Archives Initiative) than SEPB does. http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm The Open Access Webliography (with Ho) complements the OAB, providing access to a number of Websites related to open access topics. http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works 2.3 Library Issues* 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 5.3 Other Legal Issues 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies* Appendix B. About the Author* Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* Digital Libraries* Electronic Books and Texts* Electronic Serials* General Electronic Publishing* Images Legal* Preservation* Publishers Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* SGML and Related Standards Further Information about SEPB The HTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be can be searched using Boolean operators. The HTML document includes three sections not found in the Acrobat file: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of new resources; also available by mailing list--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepwlist.htm http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm The Acrobat file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 210 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 560 KB. Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston Libraries Home: http://www.escholarlypub.com/ DigitalKoans: http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/ Open Access Bibliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm Open Access Webliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm

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Foreign Languages Lab - advice and caution requested from all
by Parinita Samant 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Dear All, I plan to start off with a Foreign Languages Lab in my organization. Have anyone of you any experiences regarding the establishment and the drive required for a succesful and valuable usage of the same. I would love to hear your personal experiences, your successes and pitfall ... the tears and the trails. I would like to learn from your experiences..... I hope this drive is successful.......I would really appreciate your advice and words of caution while I take this forward. Thanks and Regards, Parinita

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Mails from Mr. Rajesh
by asim kumar 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Dear all, I,ve been a passive member of this forum, still I read all the mails sent by other members. I have the feeling that the relationship we maintain is very much professional and at times personal also, but I,ve never seen the kind of language used by Mr. Rajesh. This forum is about exchanging views, news and experiences. There is no harm in asking for even small piece of information. The feeling of fraternity is the only thing that makes us asking for help from anybody on this forum. We dont maintain Mentor-Mentee relationship over here. I request the moderators to look into the matter and maintain the sanctity of the forum. Thanks and regards, Asim Kumar, Jain Group of Institutions. --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Dear all, I,ve been a passive member of this forum, still I read all the mails sent by other members. I have the feeling that the relationship we maintain is very much professional and at times personal also, but I,ve never seen the kind of language used by Mr. Rajesh. This forum is about exchanging views, news and experiences. There is no harm in asking for even small piece of information. The feeling of fraternity is the only thing that makes us asking for help from anybody on this forum. We dont maintain Mentor-Mentee relationship over here. I request the moderators to look into the matter and maintain the sanctity of the forum. Thanks and regards, Asim Kumar, Jain Group of Institutions. http://yahoo.shaadi.com Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your partner now.

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OA and the Royal Society
by Mailing List Manager 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:15:45 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> More on the FRS letter to the Royal Society Donald MacLeod, Royal Society attacked for 'negative' open access stance, The Guardian, December 7, 2005. A group of 46 distinguished scientists, including Nobel laureate James Watson, today strongly criticised the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, for its "negative" attitude to new online methods of publishing research. The row has erupted over so-called "open access" agreements, under which scientists agree to make their findings freely available on the internet as well as, or instead of, publishing them in academic journals. This is being strongly promoted by the UK's research councils, as well as bodies like the Wellcome Trust, as the most efficient way of disseminating scientific results from the research they fund but has been bitterly opposed by publishers and learned societies which produce their own journals. Last month the Royal Society, founded in 1660, called for caution in what it called "the biggest change in the way that knowledge is exchanged since the invention of the peer-reviewed scientific journal 340 years ago". The society warned that "the exchange of knowledge could be severely disrupted, and researchers and wider society will suffer the resulting consequences." This statement sparked a flurry of heated online exchanges between scientists around the world, including the elite membership of the Royal Society, and today culminated in an open letter signed by 46 of its fellows expressing disappointment with the society's attempt to delay implementation of the research councils' policy and accusing the society of putting its own interests above those of science. The signatories, including James Watson who discovered the structure of DNA, and Sir John Sulston, who headed the British end of the human genome project, state: "As working scientists who support open access to published research, we believe that the society should support Research Councils UK's (RCUK) proposal, rather than oppose it. "The proposed RCUK policy will ensure that the results of research funded by the research councils are made freely and rapidly available, maximising their utility not only to the scholarly community in the United Kingdom and around the world, but also to practitioners (including doctors and nurses) and to the British public whose taxes largely support the research. "In seeking to delay or even to block the proposed RCUK policy, the Royal Society appears to be putting the concerns of existing publishers (including the society itself) ahead of the needs of science. The position statement ignores considerable evidence demonstrating the viability of open access, instead warning ominously of 'disastrous' consequences for science publishing. We believe that these concerns are mistaken."

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Vacancy at Corporation Bank, Mangalore
by rupesh kumar 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Dear All, Corporation Bank has called for the posts of Librarians and Library Assistants for one of its branches in Mangalore for setting up a library and numismatic museum. Application form and details can be found at http://www.corpbank.com Regards, RUPESH KUMAR.A. DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE BANGALORE UNIVERSITY --------------------------------- Yahoo! Personals Let fate take it's course directly to your email. See who's waiting for you Yahoo! Personals Dear All, Corporation Bank has called for the posts of Librarians and Library Assistants for one of its branches in Mangalore for setting up a library and numismatic museum. Application form and details can be found at http://www.corpbank.com Regards, http://www.bub.ac.in/buLogo.jpg RUPESH KUMAR.A. DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE BANGALORE UNIVERSITY Yahoo! Personals Let fate take it's course directly to your email. See who's waiting for you http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=36106/*http://personals.yahoo.com Yahoo! Personals

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Google Services Guide
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Google Services Guide is a Blogspot-hosted a list of Google services with a summary. Good night -- this list is huge! ore than hundred items are listed -- many many you would not know. For instance try http://base.google.com The complete guide is available at: http://googleservicesguide.blogspot.com/ -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, SENIORS (Society for Enriched Information of Relevance to Seniors), 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500018 Phone 27846631

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Re: Thanks from infolibrarian.com team
by Sukhdev Singh 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

To be very frank, Infolibrarian team has been doing a wonderful job since last few years. Not only me, others professionals were also strongly in Infolibrarian favour and were ready to provide any help. Please KEEP up the wonderful work. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. On 12/8/05, infolibrarian <infolibr(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: > Dear Mr Rakesh/Mr Sukhadev, > > Many thanks for taking initiatives in helping to > restore our site on time. Unfortunately, we could not > notice it immediately. > We feel proud that there are professionals like you, > who are very much concerned about infolibrarian. Now > the site is up. > > We are in touch with our host for taking necessary > security measures, which will prevent future hacking > of their servers. > > Regards, > > infolibrarian.com team > ====================== > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com >

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The Hollywood Librarian
by sandeep bhavsar 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

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infolibrarian
by KR Yeri Librarian 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

I agree with Puttraja and Praful Chandra. We should appreciate the infolibrarian team is boon to LIS professionals. Krishna Krishna R Yeri Librarian Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) Post Box No. 60, Anand 388 001 Gujarat India Phone: +91 02692 260391/263260 Fax: +91 02692 260188 http://www.irma.ac.in

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Using free 'open course ware' in DCs
by Subbiah Arunachalam 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Friends: Teachers in Indian (or other developing country) universities, colleges and at least some schools can benefit from the rich course ware offered free by institutions such as MIT, Cambridge, and many others around the world. I read somewhere that thousands of Indians and Chinese are using MIT course ware. Please read the following news story from Peter Suber's blog. --- Teaching teachers to use open courseware JISC reports that the Exchange for Learning (X4L) program has developed resources to help teachers create, use, and share online courseware. >From the announcement: The X4L programme has been developing online teaching materials and exploring the many issues involved in promoting the sharing of such resources. Susan Eales, Programme Manager of the X4L Programme, said: Ensuring staff have the skills to repurpose learning materials was a main aim of the X4L Programme. All projects took this very seriously and have developed some excellent resources to support the staff involved. We have made this special site available in the belief that others may find these materials useful too. The site is a testament to all the dedication and hard work of all those involved in X4L. The materials cover many different kinds of resources, some of which could be used immediately for staff development; others could be used as a basis to create your own staff development materials. The resources have been categorised based on topic, intended user and type of resource. The resources also come with additional information including descriptions of how the resource might be used in a staff development context. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Re: Infolibrarian Site - HACKED
by Ravi Nandhan 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Dear All, Especially Infolibrarian Lovers...... It is very bad that someone hacked our life line, the Infolibrarian site but still it is accessible if you go directly to http://www.infolibrarian.com/index.htm or any other links like http://www.infolibrarian.com/jobs.htm and click the home Icon to go to the main page. The hacher is too clever to communicate through Infolibrarian.com as he seems to be aware of the power and importance of librarians. Happy Browsing. Ravi --------------------------------------------------------- V. Ravi Nandhan Project Assistant National Centre for Science Info. Indian Institute of Science Bangalore - 560 012 e-mail:ravinandan@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ravinandhan(a)gmail.com Mobile : 94486 08533 Ph.Off.: +91 80 22933273 (Direct) +91 80 23600271-Ext.:23 & 24 --------------------------------------------------------- > Message: 3 > Date: 8 Dec 2005 06:26:30 -0000 > From: "Geetha" <vgitha(a)rediffmail.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Infolibrarian > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: <20051208062630.14764.qmail(a)webmail47.rediffmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > Hello All, > > What happend to Infolibrarian website? > > regards > Geetha > > *************************************** > Geetha > Project Assistant > Indian Institute of Science > Bangalore-12 > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 01:10:45 -0800 (PST) > From: Puttaraj Choukimath <puttuc(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: [nmlis] Infolibrarian Site - HACKED > To: Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev(a)gmail.com>, lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, > nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com > Message-ID: <20051208091045.18226.qmail(a)web32211.mail.mud.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear Professional Friends, > Greetings. > > This should not have happened. > "Infolibrarian" is a award winning LIS site in INDIA and a selfless service by the People associated with it. > It is almost a 'one-stop' window to several informational needs of the information professionals. > If necessary, we shall be unitedly support the 'team' by all possible means. > > For now, let us hope it will be back soon as usual. > > "HATE the HACKER" > Puttaraj. >

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Sun to offer core software products for free as open-source
by Roopa E 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Sun Microsystems Inc., has decided to offer all of its core software products as open-source, making all of its iddleware, management and Java development tools free to use. But companies that want service and support will still have to pay. For more news on this vist to http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/168970/1343215/3470/0/ Regards Roopa

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Infolibrarian
by Geetha 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

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RE: [nmlis] Re: Infolibrarian Site - HACKED- restored
by Appasaheb Naikal 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Dear All, Here is a good news www.infolibrarian.com <http://www.infolibrarian.com/> site is restored!!! With Regards Appasaheb Naikal Librarian MBT Mumbai Library Tel: 022-56792000 Ext. 7438/7444 -----Original Message----- From: nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com [mailto:nmlis@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Sukhdev Singh Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 2:44 PM To: nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com Subject: [nmlis] Re: Infolibrarian Site - HACKED It seems somebody has broken into their service providers site. It appears that Infolibrarian was using http://www.portland.co.uk/ as their host. The service provider might be careless about the security of sites hosted on their server. Following are the contacts of their service provider. Let someone should make a ISD call to their service provider. It may night over there, so otherwise they may not come to know about it. UNITED KINGDOM - LONDON Portland Communications, Ltd. P.O. Box 357 New Malden Surrey KT3 6WN E -mail: sales(a)portlandx.co.uk Phone: +44 (0) 870 1995 108 UNITED STATES - FLORIDA Portland Communications, Inc. 4051 Barrancas Avenue Suite G-211 Pensacola, FL 32507 E -mail: sales(a)portlandx.com Phone: +1 850-308-1122 Fax: +1 850-308-1123 On 12/8/05, Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Oh!!! > A good site , Infolibrarian Site http://www.infolibrarian.com has been > hacked!! by someone. > > > Apart from others things, It has been defaced with "Kiss goodbye M$ > Windows, put your money back into your pocket and install a Linux|BSD > " remarks. > > I hope the team behind the Infolibrarian site will bring it back. > > --Sukhdev > > -------Original Message------ > Posted at LIS-FORUM > > >Hello All, > > >What happend to Infolibrarian website? > > >regards > >Geetha > > *************************************** > >Geetha > >Project Assistant > >Indian Institute of Science > >Bangalore-12 > ------------------------ Yahoo! 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The views expressed in this E-mail message (including the enclosure(s) or attachment(s) if any) are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of MBT. This e-mail message including attachment/(s), if any, is believed to be free of any virus. However, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and MBT is not responsible for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use ********************************************************  Dear All, Here is a good news http://www.infolibrarian.com/ www.infolibrarian.com site is restored!!! With Regards Appasaheb Naikal Librarian MBT Mumbai Library Tel: 022-56792000 Ext. 7438/7444 -----Original Message----- From: nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com [mailto:nmlis@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Sukhdev Singh Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 2:44 PM To: nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com Subject: [nmlis] Re: Infolibrarian Site - HACKED It seems somebody has broken into their service providers site. It appears that Infolibrarian was using http://www.portland.co.uk/ as their host. The service provider might be careless about the security of sites hosted on their server. Following are the contacts of their service provider. Let someone should make a ISD call to their service provider. It may night over there, so otherwise they may not come to know about it. UNITED KINGDOM - LONDON Portland Communications, Ltd. P.O. Box 357 New Malden Surrey KT3 6WN E -mail: sales(a)portlandx.co.uk Phone: +44 (0) 870 1995 108 UNITED STATES - FLORIDA Portland Communications, Inc. 4051 Barrancas Avenue Suite G-211 Pensacola , FL 32507 E -mail: sales(a)portlandx.com Phone: +1 850-308-1122 Fax: +1 850-308-1123 On 12/8/05, Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Oh!!! > A good site , Infolibrarian Site http://www.infolibrarian.com has been > hacked!! by someone. > > > Apart from others things, It has been defaced with "Kiss goodbye M$ > Windows, put your money back into your pocket and install a Linux|BSD > " remarks. > > I hope the team behind the Infolibrarian site will bring it back. > > --Sukhdev > > -------Original Message------ > Posted at LIS-FORUM > > >Hello All, > > >What happend to Infolibrarian website? > > >regards > >Geetha > > *************************************** > >Geetha > >Project Assistant > >Indian Institute of Science > >Bangalore-12 > ------------------------ Yahoo! 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The views expressed in this E-mail message (including the enclosure(s) or attachment(s) if any) are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of MBT. This e-mail message including attachment/(s), if any, is believed to be free of any virus. However, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and MBT is not responsible for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use ********************************************************

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Infolibrarian Site - HACKED
by Sukhdev Singh 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Oh!!! A good site , Infolibrarian Site http://www.infolibrarian.com has been hacked!! by someone. Apart from others things, It has been defaced with "Kiss goodbye M$ Windows, put your money back into your pocket and install a Linux|BSD " remarks. I hope the team behind the Infolibrarian site will bring it back. --Sukhdev -------Original Message------ Posted at LIS-FORUM >Hello All, >What happend to Infolibrarian website? >regards >Geetha *************************************** >Geetha >Project Assistant >Indian Institute of Science >Bangalore-12

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Needs list of web resources for Parliamentarians and legislators
by pku＠nic.in 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Dear LIS Professionals, I need any articles or listing of "Web/Internet resources useful for Parliamentarians and legislators" for my assignment in hand. Requirement is little bit urgent. I have compliled some of these but need more precise aricle/resources. regards P K Upadhyay Officer Incharge, NIC Library http://mcitconsortium.nic.in

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Yahoo launches Q&A Service
by Farooque Shaheen 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Yahoo was set to launch on Thursday a free beta service, Yahoo Answers, that will allow people to ask questions online on any topic and get answers from anyone who wants to answer them. The questions and answers will be archived and searchable. Users also will be able to get questions and answers on their favorite topics on their My Yahoo page or any other RSS (really simple syndication) reader. Source: http://news.com.com/Yahoo+launches+Q38A+service/2110-1038_3-5986483.html?ta… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 Yahoo was set to launch on Thursday a free beta service, Yahoo Answers, that will allow people to ask questions online on any topic and get answers from anyone who wants to answer them. The questions and answers will be archived and searchable. Users also will be able to get questions and answers on their favorite topics on their My Yahoo page or any other RSS (really simple syndication) reader. Source: http://news.com.com/Yahoo+launches+Q38A+service/2110-1038_3-5986483.html?ta… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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The need for OA emphasised
by Subbiah Arunachalam 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Friends: Please look up http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/essay.php?id=2 for an article by Prof. Roy Rosenzweig of George mason University. Friends in C3Net, my postings on OA may look a bit far from our day-to-day work and interests, but OA is very important for developing countries. And we need to play a role in OA advocacy, as we at MSSRF point out often the knowledge centres in our villages facilitate two-way communication between experts and scientists on the one hand and farmers and the rural poor on the other. Knowledge flows both ways. The rural poor have indigenous knowledge. Besides, the scientists in the labs should be sensitised to the real needs of the poor so they can reorient their research to be relevant to the needs of the poor. And scientists themselves should keep abreast of developments worldwide and that is where OA becomes tremendously important. Arun Friends: Please look up http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/essay.php?id=2 http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/essay.php?id=2 for an article by Prof. Roy Rosenzweig of George mason University. Friends in C3Net, my postings on OA may look a bit far from our day-to-day work and interests, but OA is very important for developing countries. And we need to play a role in OA advocacy, as we at MSSRF point out often the knowledge centres in our villages facilitate two-way communication between experts and scientists on the one hand and farmers and the rural poor on the other. Knowledge flows both ways. The rural poor have indigenous knowledge. Besides, the scientists in the labs should be sensitised to the real needs of the poor so they can reorient their research to be relevant to the needs of the poor. And scientists themselves should keep abreast of developments worldwide and that is where OA becomes tremendously important. Arun

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A new Firefox browser for scholars on the anvil
by Subbiah Arunachalam 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

>From Peter Suber's blog: More on Firefox Scholar Jeffrey Young, Browser-Based Software Will Help Scholars Organize Information Found Online, Researchers Say, Chronicle of Higher Education, December 6, 2005 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt: The Web browser has become an essential tool for many academics, a versatile window into books, journal articles, blogs, and other research materials. Why not create a customized browser with professors' needs in mind? That is the logic behind Firefox Scholar, a software package under development by researchers at George Mason University that will help users organize and cite materials they have found online. The open-source software, which developers plan to release free sometime next year, will plug into the popular Firefox browser, which is also open source. "A good way of thinking about it is incredibly smart bookmarking," says Daniel J. Cohen, an assistant professor of history at George Mason who is working on the project. "You're not just bookmarking the page, but you're automatically [capturing] author, title, all that info that scholars want to save."...For the browser-based software to work fully, however, digital archives must format their books and articles in a way that lets it sort out where elements like title, author, and other bibliographic information reside. Some digital collections already do that, and others could make minor adjustments to comply, says Mr. Cohen. Roy Rosenzweig, a professor of history and new media at the university, says the new browser would also allow researchers to automatically save a copy of an online article or Web page and make annotations on those saved pages. That's better than a shoebox full of notecards and photocopied articles, says Mr. Rosenzweig....A beta version of the software is expected by summer or later next year through the center's Web site.

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Identify quotation on librarianship?
by MichaelMay.10726764＠bloglines.com 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Dear colleagues, A U.S. researcher is trying to identify the following quotation on librarianship: "In my writings, which largely deal with my profession, I have tried to broaden the scholarly dimensions of librarianship and to show the contributions that science can make to the field without losing its humanistic basis." I suspect this might be S.R. Ranganathan, but I cannot confirm. Is anyone familiar with this quote? Thank you very much. Michael May Dubuque, Iowa, US

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President for removing the burden of school bags through Tablet PCs
by noufal palliparamban 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Dear All, Another Excellent vision of our Hon. President AP J Abdul Kalam....... President AP J Abdul Kalam today stressed the need for finding a solution to heavy school bags carried by students through a cost effective hand held computer which can be loaded with text books as e-books, note books as e-notebooks and e-workbooks and become a self learning tool for children..... More http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=184154&cat=Business Regards Noufal.P.P IIT Kanpur --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Dear All, Another Excellent vision of our Hon. President AP J Abdul Kalam....... President AP J Abdul Kalam today stressed the need for finding a solution to heavy school bags carried by students through a cost effective hand held computer which can be loaded with text books as e-books, note books as e-notebooks and e-workbooks and become a self learning tool for children..... More http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=184154&cat=Business http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=184154&cat=Business Regards Noufal.P.P IIT Kanpur http://yahoo.shaadi.com Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your partner now.

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Postal addresses of journal publishers
by Suvarsha Walters 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Hello members, We need the postal addresses of Indian journal publishers. Many journals are published by associations or institutes, but I am unable to find postal addresses of these. Can you kindly give me the addresses for the ones you subscribe to in your library. thanks and regards, Suvarsha *********************************************************************** Suvarsha Walters, Project Assistant, National Centre for Science Information Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012 INDIA Ph (Off): 080-23600271 / 22932511 Ph (Mobile): 98458 33694 E-mail: suvarsha_w(a)yahoo.com suvarsha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ************************************************************************

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"Humanscape" journal closed down for publication...
by Puttaraj Choukimath 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Dear friends, Greetings. This is for your kind attention and information: As you may be knowing our Library had been subscribing to the Journal - "Humanscape" published by Foundation for Humanisation, Mumbai. As the 'Letter from the Publisher' in the issue of the same for Oct 2005 (Vol.XII, No.X) decalares it is closing down for publication. Please visit: http://www.humanscape.org/Humanscape/2005/Oct/letter.php And, as we enquired with the publisher, we learnt that, the journal will be available once again as ONLINE/DIGITAL copy from January 2006 onwards. So, our subscription as well as its print copy availability closed down with this issue Oct 2005 (Vol.XII, No.X). Best regards, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: puttuc(a)yahoo.com, choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: www.tiss.edu --------------------------------- Yahoo! Personals Single? There's someone we'd like you to meet. Lots of someones, actually. Try Yahoo! Personals Dear friends, Greetings. This is for your kind attention and information: As you may be knowing our Library had been subscribing to the Journal - "Humanscape" published by Foundation for Humanisation, Mumbai. As the 'Letter from the Publisher' in the issue of the same for Oct 2005 (Vol.XII, No.X) decalares it is closing down for publication. Please visit: http://www.humanscape.org/Humanscape/2005/Oct/letter.php http://www.humanscape.org/Humanscape/2005/Oct/letter.php And, as we enquired with the publisher, we learnt that, the journal will be available once again as ONLINE/DIGITAL copy from January 2006 onwards. So, our subscription as well as its print copy availability closed down with this issue Oct 2005 (Vol.XII, No.X). Best regards, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: mailto:puttuc@yahoo.com puttuc(a)yahoo.com , mailto:choukimath@tiss.edu choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: http://www.tiss.edu www.tiss.edu Yahoo! Personals Single? There's someone we'd like you to meet. Lots of someones, actually. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=36108/*http://personals.yahoo.com Try Yahoo! Personals

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Khuda Baksh Library-Patna
by Aman Jha 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Dear all Khuda Baksh Library is well known for its rare collection in India. Library has emerged as an outstanding research Library embracing a large number of rare manuscripts. Those interested to know more about it may visit website http://kblibrary.bih.nic.in/. 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 aman.jha(a)ciionline.org http://www.ciionline.org

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OCLC Survey Report - Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources
by Sukhdev Singh 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

OCLC has come up with a 290 pages report on findings and responses from an online survey. "Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005)" http://www.oclc.org/reports/2005perceptions.htm Contents of the Report are: * Introduction http://www.oclc.org/reports/pdfs/Percept_intro.pdf * Part 1: Libraries and Information Sources--Use, Familiarity and Favorability http://www.oclc.org/reports/pdfs/Percept_pt1.pdf * Part 2: Using the Library--In Person and Online http://www.oclc.org/reports/pdfs/Percept_pt2.pdf * Part 3: The Library Brand http://www.oclc.org/reports/pdfs/Percept_pt3.pdf * Part 4: Respondents' Advice to Libraries http://www.oclc.org/reports/pdfs/Percept_pt4.pdf * Part 5: Libraries--A "Universal" Brand? http://www.oclc.org/reports/pdfs/Percept_pt5.pdf * Conclusion http://www.oclc.org/reports/pdfs/percept_concl.pdf * Appendix A: Supporting Data Tables http://www.oclc.org/reports/pdfs/percept_appa.pdf * Appendix B: Sample Verbatim Comments http://www.oclc.org/reports/pdfs/percept_appb.pdf * About OCLC http://www.oclc.org/reports/pdfs/percept_about.pdf The findings indicate that information consumers view libraries as places to borrow print books, but they are unaware of the rich electronic content they can access through libraries. Even though information consumers make limited use of these resources, they continue to trust libraries as reliable sources of information. I hope, this report would be useful for librarians in better planning their services and activities. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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Fw: [DDN] ::> Registration now open - Doors to Diplomacy 2006Competition for Middle School and High School Students Worldwide
by Subbiah Arunachalam 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

----- Original Message ----- From: "Yvonne Marie Andres" <yvonne(a)gsn.org> To: "Digitaldivide" <digitaldivide(a)milhouse.edc.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 12:29 AM Subject: [DDN] ::> Registration now open - Doors to Diplomacy 2006Competition for Middle School and High School Students Worldwide > *Please help us get the word out by sharing this announcement with your > friends and colleagues. > > State Department Announces "Doors to Diplomacy" 2006 Web Project > Competition > > for Middle School and High School Students Worldwide > > => Register NOW to receive important project updates > => Projects due March 17, 2006 > => Winners announced May 2006 > > Engage students in a performance-based collaborative, project-design > competition which: > > *Supports standards-based coursework > *Connects students to their local communities > *Increases students' global perspective > *Increases real world, transferable skills > *Involves students in the assessment > *Teaches students 21st century, information-age skills (research, > teamwork, > project-management, publishing, digital media, audio, video) > > The U.S. Department of State along with the Global SchoolNet Foundation is > pleased to announce the 2006 "Doors to Diplomacy" award competition. This > educational award program recognizes the student-created Global SchoolNet > Web projects that best teach others about the importance of international > affairs and diplomacy. Students work in small teams with teacher-coaches. > Projects must be completed by March 17, 2006. Winners will be announced in > May 2006. Every team that completes a final entry receives a special Doors > to Diplomacy certificate to recognize their achievement. Each student > member > of the team who wins the "Doors to Diplomacy" receives a $2,000 > scholarship, > and the winning coaches' schools each receive a $500 cash award. > > For a complete description and information about eligibility and judging > criteria, visit http://globalschoolhouse.org/doors/ > > For more information, contact: > > Dr. Yvonne Marie Andres, Global SchoolNet > Telephone: 760-635-0001 Email: diplomacy(a)globalschoolnet.org > > or Janice Clark, U.S. Department of State > Telephone: 703-875-5086 Email: clarkje4(a)state.gov > > .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.: > > > Global SchoolNet: Linking Kids Around the World to Benefit Humanity > Communicate, Collaborate & Celebrate Learning! > > Global SchoolNet is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, member supported, > education > organization. Global SchoolNet combines smart teaching ideas with web > publishing, video conferencing and other online tools that bridge > geographic > gaps, allowing young people around the world to learn together. Global > SchoolNet is an international network of 90,000+ online educators, who > engage in online project-based learning activities. Global SchoolNet > reaches > more than a million students from 45,000 schools across 194 countries. > > For more information about the services and programs provided by Global > SchoolNet, please visit www.globalschoolnet.org > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE(a)mailman.edc.org > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-request(a)mailman.edc.org > with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.

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Royal Society Fellows supporting OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Friends: Here is a letter sent by many Fellows of the Royal Society who support open access to Lord Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society. More Fellows (FRS) are expected to sign. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] -------------------------------- Lord Martin Rees President Royal Society 6-9 Carlton Terrace London SW1Y 5AG 7th December 2005 Dear Lord Rees As Fellows of the Royal Society, we would like to express our disappointment with the Society's recent position statement1 on open access to published research. The society's statement, which takes a largely negative stance on open access, appears to be aimed at delaying implementation of the Research Councils UK's proposed policy2 on access to research outputs. As working scientists who support open access to published research, we believe that the Society should support RCUK's proposal, rather than oppose it. The proposed RCUK policy will ensure that the results of research funded by the Research Councils are made freely and rapidly available, maximizing their utility not only to the scholarly community in the United Kingdom and around the world, but also to practitioners (including doctors and nurses) and to the British public whose taxes largely support the research. The RCUK policy has strong backing from librarians and academics, and has received official support3 from Universities UK, the organization that represents UK university vice-chancellors and principals. In seeking to delay or even to block the proposed RCUK policy, the Royal Society appears to be putting the concerns of existing publishers (including the Society itself) ahead of the needs of science. The position statement ignores considerable evidence demonstrating the viability of open access, instead warning ominously of 'disastrous' consequences for science publishing. We believe that these concerns are mistaken. The move towards open access to research literature builds on the tradition of making research data openly available, a standard that is well established within the scientific community. For example, free availability of genetic data, such as the genome sequences of humans, mice, pathogens and plants, has greatly accelerated the pace of research in both academic and commercial settings In adopting a pro-open access policy, RCUK will be joining an increasing number of funding agencies striving for open access to research results. In the UK, the Wellcome Trust has already taken a lead by requiring that articles be placed in an openly accessible archive. In the US, funders such as the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Institutes of Health have adopted policies to increase access to research. And across Europe and the rest of the world funding agencies are recognizing that public access to the fruits of the research they fund will ensure that this work is effective in fostering the global sharing of knowledge and the creativity that is essential to scientific endeavour. As Fellows, we urge the Royal Society not to delay the proposed RCUK policy, but to support it so as to foster professional and public access to research information, and to enable British research to achieve its maximum potential. Sincerely, Professor Michael Ashburner FRS, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK Professor Jonathan Ashmore FRS, University College London, UK Professor Allan Bradley FRS, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK Professor Adrian Bird FRS, University of Edinburgh, UK Professor Martin Bobrow FRS, University of Cambridge, UK Professor Mark S Bretcher FRS, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK Professor Jeremy Brockes FRS, University College London, UK Professor Ian Butterworth FRS, Imperial College, London, UK Professor George Cross FRS, Rockefeller University, New York City, NY, USA Professor Kay E Davies FRS, MRC Functional Genetics Unit, Oxford, UK Dr Richard Durbin FRS, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK Professor Douglas T Fearon FRS, University of Cambridge, UK Professor Mike Gale FRS, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK Dr Michel Goedert FRS, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK Professor Peter Goodfellow FRS, UK Professor Michael B. Green FRS, University of Cambridge, UK *Professor Brian Greenwood FRS, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Professor Norman N Greenwood, FRS, University of Leeds, UK Professor Frank Grosveld FRS, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands *Professor Paul Harvey FRS, University of Oxford, UK Professor Nick Hastie FRS, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, UK Professor Brigid Hogan FRS, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Professor Jonathan C Howard FRS, University of Cologne, Germany Professor Thomas Jessell FRS, Columbia University, New York, USA Professor Marc Kirschner ForMemRS, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA Professor Donald Knuth ForMemRS, Stanford University, CA, USA Professor Arthur Kornberg FRS and Nobel Laureate, Stanford University, CA, USA Dr Robin Lovell-Badge FRS, National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK Professor Andrew Lumsden FRS, Kings College, London, UK Professor Philippa Marrack FRS, National Jewish Medical and Research Centre, Denver, CO, USA Professor David Q Mayne FRS, Imperial College, London, UK *Professor Michael E McIntyre MAE FRS, University of Cambridge, UK Professor Hugh Pelham FRS, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK Professor Martin Raff FRS, University College, London, UK Professor Richard Roberts FRS and Nobel Laureate, New England Biolabs, USA *Dr Elizabeth Robertson FRS, University of Oxford, UK Professor Nancy Rothwell FRS, Univerity of Manchester, UK Professor Geoffrey Raisman FRS, University College, London, UK Professor Charles R. Scriver FRS, McGill University, Quebec, Canada Professor David J. Sherratt FRS, University of Oxford, UK *Professor Peter Somogyi, FRS, Director MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, Oxford, UK Dr John Sulston FRS and Nobel Laureate, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK Professor Janet Thornton FRS, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK Professor James Till FRS, University of Toronto, Canada Professor Harold Varmus ForMemRS and Nobel Laureate, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA Professor James D Watson ForMemRS and Nobel Laureate, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA * Asterisks denote signatories who have added their name to the letter since it was initially sent. Links 1.. Royal Society position statement on 'open access' http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3882 2.. RCUK Position Statement on Access to Research Outputs, June 2005 http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/statement.pdf 3.. Universities UK supports calls for web access to research results http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/mediareleases/show.asp?MR=431 If you are a Fellow of the Royal Society and would like to add your name as a signatory to this letter, send an email to frsopenletter(a)googlemail.com Friends: Here is a letter sent by many Fellows of the Royal Society who support open access to Lord Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society. More Fellows (FRS) are expected to sign. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] -------------------------------- Lord Martin Rees President Royal Society 6-9 Carlton Terrace London SW1Y 5AG 7 th December 2005 Dear Lord Rees As Fellows of the Royal Society, we would like to express our disappointment with the Society's http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3882 recent position statement 1 on open access to published research. The society's statement, which takes a largely negative stance on open access, appears to be aimed at delaying implementation of the Research Councils UK's http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/statement.pdf proposed policy 2 on access to research outputs. As working scientists who support open access to published research, we believe that the Society should support RCUK's proposal, rather than oppose it. The proposed RCUK policy will ensure that the results of research funded by the Research Councils are made freely and rapidly available, maximizing their utility not only to the scholarly community in the United Kingdom and around the world, but also to practitioners (including doctors and nurses) and to the British public whose taxes largely support the research. The RCUK policy has strong backing from librarians and academics, and has received http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/mediareleases/show.asp?MR=431 official support 3 from Universities UK, the organization that represents UK university vice-chancellors and principals. In seeking to delay or even to block the proposed RCUK policy, the Royal Society appears to be putting the concerns of existing publishers (including the Society itself) ahead of the needs of science. The position statement ignores considerable evidence demonstrating the viability of open access, instead warning ominously of 'disastrous' consequences for science publishing. We believe that these concerns are mistaken. The move towards open access to research literature builds on the tradition of making research data openly available, a standard that is well established within the scientific community. For example, free availability of genetic data, such as the genome sequences of humans, mice, pathogens and plants, has greatly accelerated the pace of research in both academic and commercial settings In adopting a pro-open access policy, RCUK will be joining an increasing number of funding agencies striving for open access to research results. In the UK, the Wellcome Trust has already taken a lead by requiring that articles be placed in an openly accessible archive. In the US, funders such as the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Institutes of Health have adopted policies to increase access to research. And across Europe and the rest of the world funding agencies are recognizing that public access to the fruits of the research they fund will ensure that this work is effective in fostering the global sharing of knowledge and the creativity that is essential to scientific endeavour. As Fellows, we urge the Royal Society not to delay the proposed RCUK policy, but to support it so as to foster professional and public access to research information, and to enable British research to achieve its maximum potential. Sincerely, Professor Michael Ashburner FRS, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK Professor Jonathan Ashmore FRS, University College London, UK Professor Allan Bradley FRS, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK Professor Adrian Bird FRS, University of Edinburgh, UK Professor Martin Bobrow FRS, University of Cambridge, UK Professor Mark S Bretcher FRS, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK Professor Jeremy Brockes FRS, University College London, UK Professor Ian Butterworth FRS, Imperial College, London, UK Professor George Cross FRS, Rockefeller University, New York City, NY, USA Professor Kay E Davies FRS, MRC Functional Genetics Unit, Oxford, UK Dr Richard Durbin FRS, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK Professor Douglas T Fearon FRS, University of Cambridge, UK Professor Mike Gale FRS, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK Dr Michel Goedert FRS, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK Professor Peter Goodfellow FRS, UK Professor Michael B. Green FRS, University of Cambridge, UK * Professor Brian Greenwood FRS, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Professor Norman N Greenwood, FRS, University of Leeds, UK Professor Frank Grosveld FRS, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands * Professor Paul Harvey FRS, University of Oxford, UK Professor Nick Hastie FRS, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, UK Professor Brigid Hogan FRS, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Professor Jonathan C Howard FRS, University of Cologne, Germany Professor Thomas Jessell FRS, Columbia University, New York, USA Professor Marc Kirschner ForMemRS, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA Professor Donald Knuth ForMemRS, Stanford University, CA, USA Professor Arthur Kornberg FRS and Nobel Laureate, Stanford University, CA, USA Dr Robin Lovell-Badge FRS, National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK Professor Andrew Lumsden FRS, Kings College, London, UK Professor Philippa Marrack FRS, National Jewish Medical and Research Centre, Denver, CO, USA Professor David Q Mayne FRS, Imperial College, London, UK * Professor Michael E McIntyre MAE FRS, University of Cambridge, UK Professor Hugh Pelham FRS, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK Professor Martin Raff FRS, University College, London, UK Professor Richard Roberts FRS and Nobel Laureate, New England Biolabs, USA * Dr Elizabeth Robertson FRS, University of Oxford, UK Professor Nancy Rothwell FRS, Univerity of Manchester, UK Professor Geoffrey Raisman FRS, University College, London, UK Professor Charles R. Scriver FRS, McGill University, Quebec, Canada Professor David J. Sherratt FRS, University of Oxford, UK * Professor Peter Somogyi, FRS, Director MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, Oxford, UK Dr John Sulston FRS and Nobel Laureate, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK Professor Janet Thornton FRS, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK Professor James Till FRS, University of Toronto, Canada Professor Harold Varmus ForMemRS and Nobel Laureate, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA Professor James D Watson ForMemRS and Nobel Laureate, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA * Asterisks denote signatories who have added their name to the letter since it was initially sent. Links Royal Society position statement on open access http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3882 http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3882 RCUK Position Statement on Access to Research Outputs, June 2005 http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/statement.pdf http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/statement.pdf Universities UK supports calls for web access to research results http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/mediareleases/show.asp?MR=431 http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/mediareleases/show.asp?MR=431 If you are a Fellow of the Royal Society and would like to add your name as a signatory to this letter, send an email to mailto:frsopenletter@googlemail.com frsopenletter(a)googlemail.co mailto:frsopenletter@googlemail.com m

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e-Library in Braille rolls on ......
by noufal palliparamban 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Dear friends, Visually challenged children can have the computer read out stories and listen to radio programmes when the mobile library comes to their doorstep. More: http://www.hindu.com/2005/11/22/stories/2005112218240200.htm Regards Noufal Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur --------------------------------- Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India Click here Dear friends, Visually challenged children can have the computer read out stories and listen to radio programmes when the mobile library comes to their doorstep. More: http://www.hindu.com/2005/11/22/stories/2005112218240200.htm http://www.hindu.com/2005/11/22/stories/2005112218240200.htm Regards Noufal Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India http://in.promos.yahoo.com/fabmall/index.html Click here

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World Book Fair - 2006
by Mailing List Manager 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 17:21:55 +0530 From: Manju manju <manjax4u(a)gmail.com> Dear All 17th NewDelhi Worldbook Fair to be organized 27th Jan'2006 to 4th Feb 2006 http://www.nbtindia.org.in/world_bookfair.shtml your Sincerely manjunatha p.s Mysore

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mailing address of a publisher
by Mailing List Manager 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 05:53:48 +0000 (GMT) From: suresh kumar <nsureshfcri(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear members, Please let me know the new mail address of the publishers of elektor india electronics magazine . thanking you, sureshkumar, librarian, FCRI-(DHI-Govt. of India) palakkad.678623

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Modern Tools to Unlock Ancient Texts
by Mailing List Manager 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 13:55:49 +0530 From: Rupak Chakravarty <rupak2811(a)gmail.com> Dear All, Tools for ancient texts have been successfully created that will open up rare texts and manuscripts locked away in museums, libraries and archives, and promote new kinds of scholarship while also preserving large swathes of history and culture for the future. *Brussels, Belgium & London, UK, December 3, 2005 -- *The CHLT project also unified several important digital library collections � such as Isaac Newton's manuscripts - and early modern scientific texts, as well as creating new digital library collections of Old Norse sagas. It's a vast achievement. Read More..................... : http://www.chlt.org/ -- Rupak Chakravarty Assistant Librarian Panjab University Library Chandigarh 160014 INDIA [attachment part deleted]

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OA and the Royal Society
by Subbiah Arunachalam 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Friends: Here is a thoughtful letter from Dr Barbara Kirsop of the Electronic Publishing Trust. Very well written and what she says makes sense. All of us should write to both the Royal Society and SciDevNet about the great need to adopt open access self-archiving. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --------------------------------- http://www.scidev.net/editorletters/index.cfm?fuseaction=readeditorletter&i… Royal Society must embrace open archiving Author: Barbara Kirsop Affiliation: Electronic Publishing Trust for Development http://www.epublishingtrust.org Date: 25 November 2005 I am appalled at the recent statement made by the Royal Society regarding access to research publications (see Open access deemed 'dangerous' by Royal Society). Apart from misunderstanding the proposals made by the UK research councils, the Royal Society's statement indicates a total lack of understanding of the world's research needs. "A young post-doctoral researcher in mathematics at an Ethiopian university has different needs and different means compared with an established senior research fellow in pharmacology [at] a UK company's laboratory." Just what are these "different needs"? Researchers everywhere need access to the world's research information - those that are less privileged need it most. The advent of open access archiving policies, now widely accepted by visionary academics, solves the problem and greatly strengthens the international scientific community and its ability to solve global problems (think only of bird flu, HIV/AIDS, environmental disasters, climate change). Institutional repositories require the continuance of journals so that author's versions of published, refereed articles can be archived electronically. Indeed, 93 per cent of the 9,000 journals surveyed by the Joint Information Systems Committee (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/) have accepted this, including enlightened science and technology publishers such as Elsevier (see http://romeo.eprints.org/publishers.html). The aim of such repositories is not the demise of journals, but quite the contrary. It is shameful that one of the most senior scientific bodies misinterprets the present open access situation and dismisses the needs of poorer nations. Thankfully, this is not the case with organisations such as UNESCO, the International Council for Science (ICSU) and its Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA), the International Federation of Library Associations, France's National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS) and the French national institutes for health and medical research (INSERM), agricultural research (INRA) and computer science (INRIA), as well as all universities in the Netherlands and Scotland, and many in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and United States. All of these support the concept of institutional repositories for publicly-funded published research. The Royal Society should join with the international scientific community in embracing new technology, which has such huge potential for science and the economies of poorer countries. This is an edited version of comments made to the American Scientist Open Access Forum. Link to SciDev.Net's special feature 'Opening doors with open access' Related SciDev.Net articles: Open access deemed 'dangerous' by Royal Society Friends: Here is a thoughtful letter from Dr Barbara Kirsop of the Electronic Publishing Trust. Very well written and what she says makes sense. All of us should write to both the Royal Society and SciDevNet about the great need to adopt open access self-archiving. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --------------------------------- http://www.scidev.net/editorletters/index.cfm?fuseaction=readeditorletter&i… http://www.scidev.net/editorletters/index.cfm?fuseaction=readeditorletter&i… Royal Society must embrace open archiving http://www.scidev.net/siteimages/spacer.gif Author: Barbara Kirsop Affiliation: Electronic Publishing Trust for Development http://www.epublishingtrust.org http://www.epublishingtrust.org Date: 25 November 2005 I am appalled at the recent statement made by the Royal Society regarding access to research publications (see http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=2498&langua… Open access deemed 'dangerous' by Royal Society ). Apart from misunderstanding the proposals made by the UK research councils, the Royal Society's statement indicates a total lack of understanding of the world's research needs. "A young post-doctoral researcher in mathematics at an Ethiopian university has different needs and different means compared with an established senior research fellow in pharmacology [at] a UK company's laboratory." Just what are these "different needs"? Researchers everywhere need access to the world's research information those that are less privileged need it most. The advent of open access archiving policies, now widely accepted by visionary academics, solves the problem and greatly strengthens the international scientific community and its ability to solve global problems (think only of bird flu, HIV/AIDS, environmental disasters, climate change). Institutional repositories require the continuance of journals so that author's versions of published, refereed articles can be archived electronically. Indeed, 93 per cent of the 9,000 journals surveyed by the Joint Information Systems Committee ( http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ ) have accepted this, including enlightened science and technology publishers such as Elsevier (see http://romeo.eprints.org/publishers.html http://romeo.eprints.org/publishers.html ). The aim of such repositories is not the demise of journals, but quite the contrary. It is shameful that one of the most senior scientific bodies misinterprets the present open access situation and dismisses the needs of poorer nations. Thankfully, this is not the case with organisations such as UNESCO, the International Council for Science (ICSU) and its Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA), the International Federation of Library Associations, France's National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS) and the French national institutes for health and medical research (INSERM), agricultural research (INRA) and computer science (INRIA), as well as all universities in the Netherlands and Scotland, and many in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and United States. All of these support the concept of institutional repositories for publicly-funded published research. The Royal Society should join with the international scientific community in embracing new technology, which has such huge potential for science and the economies of poorer countries. This is an edited version of comments made to the http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.… American Scientist Open Access Forum. Link to SciDev.Net's special feature http://www.scidev.net/ms/openaccess/ 'Opening doors with open access' Related SciDev.Net articles: http://www.scidev.net/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=2498&language=1 Open access deemed 'dangerous' by Royal Society

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Websites for sending mail with up to 1 GB attachment file.
by indubhushan 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Dear Member These are sites that enable u to send data up 1 GB that other mail providers do not allow. http://www.yousendit.com/ http://www.transferbigfiles.com/ http://www.dropload.com/ http://www.sendthisfile.com/ http://www.megaupload.com/ Sincerely Yours, ******************************************************* Indu Bhushan Tamrakar Library Centre for Advanced Technology (DAE) Indore MP www.cat.ernet.in ********************************************************

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Bibliotheca Alexandrina
by Jayadev P Hiremath 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Bibliotheca Alexandrina http://www.bibalex.org/English/index.aspx The ancient library at Alexandria was rightfully one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and its spirit and commitment to the pursuit of learning is embodied in the modern Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt. As their mission statement notes, the library is to be "a center for dialogue between peoples and civilizations". This is no easy feat, and the web-browsing public can learn about their laudable efforts on this website. Visitors may first want to learn about the remarkable structure that houses the library, along with a variety of facts about this building's construction. While visitors who may be planning a visit to Egypt may wish to learn about tours of the building and the ways in which they may utilize their research collections, others may want to peruse the "Initiatives" area. Here they will find links to some of their digital projects, which include "Eternal Egypt", which offers an extremely media-rich site that allows visitors to explore over 5000 years of Egyptian civilization through timelines, objects, and interactive maps. Bibliotheca Alexandrina [A] http://www.bibalex.org/English/index.aspx The ancient library at Alexandria was rightfully one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and its spirit and commitment to the pursuit of learning is embodied in the modern Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt. As their mission statement notes, the library is to be "a center for dialogue between peoples and civilizations". This is no easy feat, and the web-browsing public can learn about their laudable efforts on this website. Visitors may first want to learn about the remarkable structure that houses the library, along with a variety of facts about this building's construction. While visitors who may be planning a visit to Egypt may wish to learn about tours of the building and the ways in which they may utilize their research collections, others may want to peruse the "Initiatives" area. Here they will find links to some of their digital projects, which include "Eternal Egypt", which offers an extremely media-rich site that allows visitors to explore over 5000 years of Egyptian civilization through timelines, objects, and interactive maps.

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DU library all set to go digital
by noufal palliparamban 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Dear friends, The Delhi University's Library System (DULS) is all set to go digital. Besides launching a separate library website, which will help in getting all electronic resources available in the public domain, the library resources, including the books which are out of the Copyright Act, will also be digitised soon. details: http://www.dailypioneer.com/displayit1.asp?pathit=/archives2/nov905/city/ci… Regards Noufal Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur --------------------------------- Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India Click here Dear friends, The Delhi University's Library System (DULS) is all set to go digital. Besides launching a separate library website, which will help in getting all electronic resources available in the public domain, the library resources, including the books which are out of the Copyright Act, will also be digitised soon. details: http://www.dailypioneer.com/displayit1.asp?pathit=/archives2/nov905/city/ci… http://www.dailypioneer.com/displayit1.asp?pathit=/archives2/nov905/city/ci… Regards Noufal Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India http://in.promos.yahoo.com/fabmall/index.html Click here

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Missing out books (K A. Sardesai)
by Mailing List Manager 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 14:08:07 +0530 From: K A. Sardesai <kshipras(a)rbi.org.in> Dear Library professionals, Here i have found some information from General Financial Rules,2005 para 194(i) & (ii)related to physical verification of Library books. I am still concerned for Librarian's guidelines from UGC or parallel organization. kshipra

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Oogling for Chemists - Chmoogle
by Mailing List Manager 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 15:29:53 +0530 (IST) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Spread the word among chemists. It is a boon to chemists. Arun ---- More on Chmoogle David Bradley, Oogling for Chemists, Reactive Reports, Issue #50. Excerpt: San Diego based eMolecules Inc has launched what one might consider to be the chemical equivalent of the Google search engine - "Chmoogle". The company describes Chmoogle as the world's leading free open-access chemistry search engine and its mission is to discover, curate, and index all of the public chemical information in the world, and make it available to the public. "The world's knowledge in chemistry is an invaluable resource", said Klaus Gubernator, eMolecule's Chief Executive Officer. "It lies dormant until it becomes searchable by every chemist. The language of chemistry is chemical structures. Chmoogle makes the world's chemistry searchable by structure. Just draw a molecule using your favorite structure drawing tool and hit Go!" "Currently, there are any number of excellent text search engines," Craig James, Chmoogle's Chief Technology Officer told us. "If you want to know everything about 'Alexander Fleming' (inventor of penicillin), they can help you," he adds. However, if you draw the penicillin molecule with your favorite chemical editor, can you search for it, James asks, "With Chmoogle you can." Before Chmoogle, there was no free Internet resource of this nature. It provides a genuine cheminformatics system that anyone could use to find information using a substructure search. A number of academic institutions have searchable databases, but they're usually focused on their particular field of science, and their search systems are often primarily for organizing only their data. Chmoogle's goal is to be the search system to index all of the world's publicly available chemical information....Chmoogle goes deeper than a superficial search of the latent chemical Web, as one would hope. It allows users to send queries, results and individual structures as links to their colleagues using email. This, the company says, will create an unparalleled collaborative environment for chemists worldwide. Chmoogle also provides "Chmoogle Free" code that users can embed into their own Web sites for direct access to Chmoogle, as well as hosted cheminformatics systems and full Web sites for chemical suppliers, pharmaceutical and other chemical industries. James does not see a conflict between Chmoogle and efforts to use the InChI. "Since Chmoogle will be crawling the Web looking for information, it may provide a valuable adjunct to their service: High-performance searches, combined with cross references to other places that Chmoogle has found the same molecule (for example, commercial vendors who have the molecule for sale, or other academic sites such as Zinc or PubChem)."

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Microfilm reader_lakshmi murthy
by Mailing List Manager 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Dear Member: There is request for using a microfilm reader and printer (request appended). The intended user is from Bangalore and would prefer if the gadgets are available in any of the libraries in and around Bg. If any of your library/organization have these gadgets, and permit non-members to make use of them on whatever terms and conditions, may I request you to write to Pramila Lochan <lochanp(a)yahoo.com> directly. Many thanks in advance. - Moderator [Original message follows] Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 20:53:59 -0800 (PST) From: Pramila Lochan <lochanp(a)yahoo.com> To: franc(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Microfilm reader_lakshmi murthy I am looking for a microfilm reader and printer. Since I am from Bangalore she thought it might be appropriate to conatct you. I am a researcher working at the IGNCA SRC and the microfilm reader and printer I am looking for is to help me decipher a manuscript that is recorded on a microfilm. I do hope there could be some solution for this in Bangalore itself regards Dr.Pramila Lochan

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New Koha Documentation available
by vimal kumar 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

User guide of Koha (ver. 2.2) now available in Koha documentation web site (www.kohadocs.org/userguide/) . This user guide will clear many doubts meet while administration and use of Koha ILS. It included the Setting Bibliographic Data Parameters, users can customize MARC tag according their purpose. This is not a full one, certain areas (circulation, reports, OPAC, routine maintenance, Acquiring MARC Bibliographic Records) to be completed. Vimal kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum vimal0212(a)yahoo.com __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com

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FW: [DIGLIB] article: "A Risky Gamble With Google"
by Vara Lakshmi Rudrabhatla 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

-- Dr. RSR Varalakshmi Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science., Andhra University. Visakhapatnam. >From: Glen Newton - NRC/CNRC CISTI/ICIST Research ><glen.newton(a)nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> >Reply-To: glen.newton(a)nrc-cnrc.gc.ca >To: diglib(a)infoserv.inist.fr >Subject: [DIGLIB] article: "A Risky Gamble With Google" >Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 20:56:48 -0500 > >"A Risky Gamble With Google" >Chronicle of Higher Education (12/02/05) Vol. 52, No. 15, P. B7 >Vaidhyanathan, Siva > > > "Though Google's effort to digitize and offer free online access to > > millions of books from major English-language libraries is an > > exciting prospect, New York University professor Siva Vaidhyanathan > > contends that the initiative could compromise much of the freedom > > and integrity that libraries and other reference resources embody > > for scholars, researchers, and the general public. Google's > > reputation as an egalitarian information resource can only be > > sustained through expansion, and its mission statement to index the > > world's data raises issues of propriety while also implying that > > libraries, universities, and other traditional disseminators of > > information can no longer perform such duties adequately, according > > to Vaidhyanathan. The author warns that the Google Library Project > > increases the risk of privacy infringement, as Google's privacy > > policy makes no promise that the company will keep patrons' > > individual reading records from the FBI or local law > > enforcement. Privatization of information resource maintenance is > > another area of concern because of the inherent instability of > > businesses, and Google is essentially a business. Vaidhyanathan > > argues that stable public institutions should oversee a project such > > as Google Library. The project's most dire implication is the burden > > it adds to an already unbalanced copyright system, which creates > > even more uncertainty for librarians, students, researchers, and > > other innocent copyright users. "The presumption that Google's > > powers of indexing and access come close to working as a library > > ignores all that libraries mean to the lives of their users," > > Vaidhyanathan concludes. "All the proprietary algorithms in the > > world are not going to replace them." " >From: http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2005-7/1202f.html#item18 > >-- >Glen Newton | glen.newton(a)nrc-cnrc.gc.ca >Group Leader (Acting), CISTI Research >Chef de groupe (par intérim), Recherche de l'ICIST >tel/tél: 613-990-9163 | facsimile/télécopieur 613-952-8246 >Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) >National Research Council Canada (NRC)| M-55, 1200 Montreal Road >http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ >Institut canadien de l'information scientifique et technique (ICIST) >Conseil national de recherches Canada | M-55, 1200 chemin Montréal >Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6 >Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada >-- > > >

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DRTC Seminar
by pradyot bharatkar 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Dear Professionals, On behalf of DRTC-ISI, I cordially invite you for the Seminar on 'Text Mining: an emerging scenario' ************************************************************* Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research and Training Centre. 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Banglore-560059 Seminar on Text Mining: an emerging scenario ABSTRACT Text mining, also known as intelligent text analysis, text data mining or knowledge discovery in text (KDT), refers generally to the process of extracting interesting and non-trivial information and knowledge from unstructured text. Text mining is a young interdisciplinary field that draws on information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, statistics and computational linguistics. As most of the information in the world (over 80%) is stored as text, text mining is believed to have a high commercial potential value. It has many applications, especially in information service sector, bio-informatics, humanities, intelligence communities and in other fields also. Recently, text mining is receiving much attention, several research groups around the world, as well as R&D departments of big companies, are doing research on text mining. This seminar will focus on several issues of text mining including: Themes: 1.Basic function of text mining 2.Text mining process 3.Architecture of text mining system 4.Techniques used in text mining 5.Application areas 6. Challenges in text mining All are cordially invited. Venue: DRTC Classroom Date: 9thDec,2005 Time: 2.00 p.m. Dr. A. R.D. Prasad (Seminar Co-ordinator) Pradyot S. Bharatkar Associateship in Documentation & Information Science (ADIS IInd year) DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile Mysore Road, RV College PO, Bangalore- 560059. Email & web site: pradyot(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/~pradyot (/wwwisis) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Model Search - Could you be the next catwalk superstar? Check out the competition now Dear Professionals, On behalf of DRTC-ISI, I cordially invite you for the Seminar on ' Text Mining: an emerging scenario ' ************************************************************* Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research and Training Centre. 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Banglore-560059 Seminar on Text Mining: an emerging scenario ABSTRACT Text mining, also known as intelligent text analysis, text data mining or knowledge discovery in text (KDT), refers generally to the process of extracting interesting and non-trivial information and knowledge from unstructured text. Text mining is a young interdisciplinary field that draws on information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, statistics and computational linguistics. As most of the information in the world (over 80%) is stored as text, text mining is believed to have a high commercial potential value. It has many applications, especially in information service sector, bio-informatics, humanities, intelligence communities and in other fields also. Recently, text mining is receiving much attention, several research groups around the world, as well as R&D departments of big companies, are doing research on text mining. This seminar will focus on several issues of text mining including: Themes: 1.Basic function of text mining 2.Text mining process 3.Architecture of text mining system 4.Techniques used in text mining 5.Application areas 6. Challenges in text mining All are cordially invited. Venue: DRTC Classroom Date: 9 th Dec,2005 Time: 2.00 p.m. Dr. A. R.D. Prasad (Seminar Co-ordinator) Pradyot S. Bharatkar http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/40.gif http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/40.gif http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/40.gif http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/40.gif Associateship in Documentation & Information Science (ADIS IInd year) DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile Mysore Road, RV College PO, Bangalore- 560059. Email & web site: pradyot(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/~pradyot http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/~pradyot (/wwwisis) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/modelsearch/*http://uk.news… Yahoo! Model Search - Could you be the next catwalk superstar? Check out the http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/modelsearch/*http://uk.news… competition now

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Book Piracy
by anand ulaya 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Dear Professionals The publishers and authors are now taking up arms against book piracy, but they'll follow the beaten path through the courts and wind up trying to swat down every showoff kid, ISP, and Internet file trader who might have any involvement in the creation, transfer, or storage of illegal copies of paper books. More about this article http://www.prajavani.net/dec042005/36572200501204.php Your Sincerely Anand Ulaya SDM Institute for Management Library No.1 Chamundi Hill Road Siddarthanagar Post Mysore 570 011 Anand U __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Professionals The publishers and authors are now taking up arms against book piracy, but they'll follow the beaten path through the courts and wind up trying to swat down every showoff kid, ISP, and Internet file trader who might have any involvement in the creation, transfer, or storage of illegal copies of paper books. More about this article http://www.prajavani.net/dec042005/36572200501204.php http://www.prajavani.net/dec042005/36572200501204.php Your Sincerely Anand Ulaya SDM Institute for Management Library No.1 Chamundi Hill Road Siddarthanagar Post Mysore 570 011 Anand U __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Invitation to join NCSI-KM-Forum
by P. Arumugam 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Hi, This is a discussion forum maintained by Information and Knowledge Management Trainees of National Center for Science Information (http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in), which is part of Indian Institute of Science (http://www.iisc.ernet.in), Bangalore, India. This is an attempt to create an interactive group for Knowledge Management. This group is a place for knowledge manager to meet all related professionals and share their knowledge. Objectives: 1. To share the knowledge within KM professionals. 2. Search and find the KM jobs. 3. Personal interaction among Knowledge Managers. 4. To assist KM implementation in organizations. Forum URL: http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/NCSI-KM-Forum http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/NCSI-KM-Forum Come and Join with us!!! Information and Knowledge Management Trainees, National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-12, India.

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explanation about auto data capturing machine-reg:-
by librarian＠gitam.edu 03 Dec '05

03 Dec '05

Dear Colleagues, > It is device which can be used for stock verification. For using this > device library should be Computerised and all the books are to be > barcoded. The device will be taken to the racks and the barcode on the > books will be scanned by the stock taking machine. After scanning a good > number books the data will be dumped on to the computer. This will save > time in the process of stock-verification and also assures accuracy. The > approximate cost is around 60 to 70 thousands. We have acuired thios > device two years back. > With regards, > DR.K.Satyanarayana, > Dy.LIbrarian, > GITAM Central Library, > Visakhapatnam-45

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SIST project information bulletin
by Mailing List Manager 03 Dec '05

03 Dec '05

Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 10:14:57 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> ----- Original Message ----- From: Augustin Gaschignard To: agaschignard(a)fara-africa.org Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 8:32 PM Any contribution to the next issues will be welcome. SIST project information bulletin is downloadable from the SIST project website www.sist-sciencesdev.net. Enjoy reading, My best regards, Augustin Gaschignard SIST Project coordinator

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ASIS&T AM 06 CFP -- Austin, TX, Nov 3-9, 2006
by Satish Munnolli 03 Dec '05

03 Dec '05

-- * Apologies for cross posting * -- ASIS&T 2006 - Call for Papers "Information Realities: Shaping the Digital Future for All" November 3-9, 2006 Hilton Austin, Austin, Texas http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM06/am06call.html ASIS&T 2006 challenges us to explore this moment in the history of information science as people seamlessly move between their physical and digital worlds to create information realities for themselves and others. Submissions by researchers and practitioners are solicited on a wide range of topics. TYPE OF SUBMISSIONS Contributed papers Contributed posters/short papers Practitioner/Industry track Symposia and panels Pre-conference sessions Deadlines February 13, 2006 Proposals due for contributed papers, technical sessions and panels, and pre-conference sessions February 25, 2006 Proposals due for contributed posters/short papers April 28, 2006 Acceptance notices issued May 27, 2006 Final versions due for conference proceedings WHERE AND HOW TO SUBMIT Full Call for Papers is at http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM06/am06call.html All submissions are made electronically via a link from the ASIS&T Web site (http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM06/AM06submit.html). Richard B. Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Fax: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 208 India Ph : +91 22 2740 5026 Fax : +91 22 2740 5085 Email : smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in

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Free access to Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community
by Shyam Prasad pujar 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

** Sorry for cross postings, if any ** Dear Members, The UKSG, an association encompassing all members of the serials community, and publishers of "Serials: for the international serials community" pleased to announce that entire archive from Volume 8 through Volume 17 is available as Open Access. You may view the articles at: http://serials.uksg.org/openurl.asp?genre=3Djournal&issn=3D0953-0460 Regards, S.M. Pujar ********************************************************************** Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * Phone: (022) 28400919-21 Extn: 514 * * Fax: (022) 28402752 * * E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in * * URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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