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Self-archiving does not take much time!
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

How much work is self-archiving? Leslie Carr and Stevan Harnad, Keystroke Economy: A Study of the Time and Effort Involved in Self-Archiving, a preprint. Abstract: 'A common objection to self-archiving is that it is an extra task that puts an unnecessary burden on each researcher. In particular, the need to enter the extra bibliographic metadata demanded by repositories for accurate searching and identification is presumed to be a particularly onerous task. This paper describes a preliminary study on two months of submissions for a mature repository and concludes that the amount of time spent entering metadata would be as little as 40 minutes per year for a highly active researcher.' How much work is self-archiving? [A] Leslie Carr and Stevan Harnad, http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10688/ Keystroke Economy: A Study of the Time and Effort Involved in Self-Archiving , a preprint. Abstract: 'A common objection to self-archiving is that it is an extra task that puts an unnecessary burden on each researcher. In particular, the need to enter the extra bibliographic metadata demanded by repositories for accurate searching and identification is presumed to be a particularly onerous task. This paper describes a preliminary study on two months of submissions for a mature repository and concludes that the amount of time spent entering metadata would be as little as 40 minutes per year for a highly active researcher.'

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Why does the Wellcome Trust favour open access archiving?
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Friends: Here is a short news story on why the Wellcome Trust favours open access archiving. It is time for us in India (and other developing countries) to insist that all publicly-funded research be made available on open access archives - such as the Eprints archive at the Indian Institute of Science. As Robert Terry says, there are two roads to open access: Open Access Journals (OAJ) and Open Access Archiving. In India many important journals - those published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, INSA, MedKnow Publications, etc. - are available on open access, although the Academy journals can improve their web presence. The MedKnow journals are technically as good as the best OA journals in the world. But we are rather poor in OAA. The IISc archive and the library and information science repository put together by Dr A R D Prasad at ISI, Bangalore, come to mind readily. In a country with more than 250 universities and several hundred publicly-funded research labs, there are only half a dozen archives as of today. It is a mystery why the other institutions are not having archives of their own. A recent survey by Alma Swan reveals that many researchers are ignorant and there is a need for creating awareness. She also points out that most researchers are ready to deposit their papers in an open access archive if they are told to do so by the head of the institution or the funding agency! May be we should try that - Vice chancellors of universities and Directors of research labs and heads of funding agencies may demand that all researchers place their papers in a publicly accessible archive, preferably one set up at their own institution. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------------- The Wellcome Trust's commitment to OA Robert Terry, Funding the Way to Open Access, PLoS Biology, March 2005. Excerpt: 'Imagine this scenario. You're the director of one of the world's largest medical research charities, and you receive notification from one of your funded investigators in Africa reporting some exciting progress toward the development of a vaccine for malaria. The work has just been published, so you log onto the Web to do a quick keyword search, and a link to the article is brought up on your screen. Then imagine the frustration when you click on the link to read the message, "Access Denied --access to this journal is restricted to registered institutional and individual subscribers." And there's the rub: this actually happened to the Director of the Wellcome Trust....I now believe it is the funders of research --charities, governments, and other publicly funded bodies such as national research agencies-- who hold the purse strings that can untie scientific discoveries from a publishing market that is no longer serving the community as well as it could. That is why today the Trust is a leading advocate for enabling free access to research literature through support for new publishing models, such as that of the Public Library of Science, and the establishment of publicly accessible repositories, working in partnership with the United States National Institutes of Health-funded PubMed Central....The first Trust-commissioned study described how scientific research publishing has traditionally worked and why it can be described, in economic terms, as a failing market....This then begs the question of what alternatives there are to this traditional system, now that the Internet has become the researcher's tool of choice for searching and accessing the literature. The second piece of research commissioned by the Trust looked at different business models for research publishing, in order to address this question....This study convinced the Trust that the best way forward to improve access to research findings would be through open access to scientific research articles. This essentially means two things: first, that the copyright holder or holders must grant to the public a free, irrevocable, perpetual license to use, copy, distribute, and make derivative works of their research article, in any medium for any purpose (excepting those that constitute plagiarism or other dishonest acts, of course); and second, that a digital copy must be deposited in an open public archival repository (for example, the US National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central)....For a medical charity like the Trust, I believe it is our duty to actively encourage the most efficient processes available to maximise the likelihood that the research we fund will have the greatest possible health benefit.' Robert Terry is Senior Policy Adviser at the Wellcome Trust. Friends: Here is a short news story on why the Wellcome Trust favours open access archiving. It is time for us in India (and other developing countries) to insist that all publicly-funded research be made available on open access archives - such as the Eprints archive at the Indian Institute of Science. As Robert Terry says, there are two roads to open access: Open Access Journals (OAJ) and Open Access Archiving. In India many important journals - those published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, INSA, MedKnow Publications, etc. - are available on open access, although the Academy journals can improve their web presence. The MedKnow journals are technically as good as the best OA journals in the world. But we are rather poor in OAA. The IISc archive and the library and information science repository put together by Dr A R D Prasad at ISI, Bangalore, come to mind readily. In a country with more than 250 universities and several hundred publicly-funded research labs, there are only half a dozen archives as of today. It is a mystery why the other institutions are not having archives of their own. A recent survey by Alma Swan reveals that many researchers are ignorant and there is a need for creating awareness. She also points out that most researchers are ready to deposit their papers in an open access archive if they are told to do so by the head of the institution or the funding agency! May be we should try that - Vice chancellors of universities and Directors of research labs and heads of funding agencies may demand that all researchers place their papers in a publicly accessible archive, preferably one set up at their own institution. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------------- The Wellcome Trust's commitment to OA [A] Robert Terry, http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/… Funding the Way to Open Access , PLoS Biology , March 2005. Excerpt: 'Imagine this scenario. You're the director of one of the world's largest medical research charities, and you receive notification from one of your funded investigators in Africa reporting some exciting progress toward the development of a vaccine for malaria. The work has just been published, so you log onto the Web to do a quick keyword search, and a link to the article is brought up on your screen. Then imagine the frustration when you click on the link to read the message, "Access Denied --access to this journal is restricted to registered institutional and individual subscribers." And there's the rub: this actually happened to the Director of the Wellcome Trust....I now believe it is the funders of research --charities, governments, and other publicly funded bodies such as national research agencies-- who hold the purse strings that can untie scientific discoveries from a publishing market that is no longer serving the community as well as it could. That is why today the Trust is a leading advocate for enabling free access to research literature through support for new publishing models, such as that of the Public Library of Science, and the establishment of publicly accessible repositories, working in partnership with the United States National Institutes of Healthfunded PubMed Central....The first Trust-commissioned study described how scientific research publishing has traditionally worked and why it can be described, in economic terms, as a failing market....This then begs the question of what alternatives there are to this traditional system, now that the Internet has become the researcher's tool of choice for searching and accessing the literature. The second piece of research commissioned by the Trust looked at different business models for research publishing, in order to address this question....This study convinced the Trust that the best way forward to improve access to research findings would be through open access to scientific research articles. This essentially means two things: first, that the copyright holder or holders must grant to the public a free, irrevocable, perpetual license to use, copy, distribute, and make derivative works of their research article, in any medium for any purpose (excepting those that constitute plagiarism or other dishonest acts, of course); and second, that a digital copy must be deposited in an open public archival repository (for example, the US National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central)....For a medical charity like the Trust, I believe it is our duty to actively encourage the most efficient processes available to maximise the likelihood that the research we fund will have the greatest possible health benefit.' Robert Terry is Senior Policy Adviser at the Wellcome Trust.

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Open access archives and web citation index
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Friends: Here is a news story on Thomson ISI's interest in open access archives. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------- More on the ISI-Citeseer Web Citation Index James Pringle, Partnering helps institutional repositories thrive, Thomson Customer News, February 2005. Excerpt: 'Open access (OA) publishing is growing in importance, and, in parallel, the role of institutional repositories (IRs) has come to the forefront of discussion within the library community. The two are intertwined but not synonymous, and different motivations are driving the growth of each. The Thomson Scientific role in promoting institutional repositories' growth was highlighted recently in three workshops held in London, Boston, and Sydney....Our approach to IRs has been different [from our approach to journals]. Repositories represent new ways of organizing research and are taking shape in a variety of experimental forms. They vary in the types of content, the purposes of their creators, and their relationship to researchers. Increasingly, publishers are allowing researchers to archive their own content, and IRs can play a role in aiding researchers in this endeavor. We estimate that publishers now allow over half of all scholarly articles to be archived by their authors, based on average articles published in the journals of the 2003 Journal Citation Report and publishers listed as Project Romeo. But far less than half of all scholarly articles are actually posted to IRs today, often because of lack of awareness and incentive for researchers to do so. Overcoming this barrier is a critical need for IR developers. As one administrator remarked in a planning session: "The key issue is turning now on the willingness of faculty to automatically put stuff into their repository."...Seven institutions joined with us in a Web Citation Index pilot project to explore the proper relationship between ISI Web of Knowledge, Web of Science, and the world of IRs. A collaboration with NEC on the basis of its CiteSeer environment provided the technology partnership to support this new undertaking....The project has run for the past 10 months, and will continue as we move toward release of the full-scale environment for use by researchers over the next several months....At a Thomson Scientific workshop during ALA Midwinter in January 2005, Jean Poland of Cornell University and Katie Clark of the University of Rochester outlined the state of IR development at their institutions, and the potential role of the Web Citation Index in encouraging the growth of IRs. Ms. Clark emphasized the challenge of gaining faculty buy-in, noting that for researchers: "it is all about me and my research", and faculties need to be shown how the IR can help their everyday activities. Ms. Poland pointed out that citation-based tools such as the Web Citation Index can have a positive influence on user awareness and reputation of IRs.' Friends: Here is a news story on Thomson ISI's interest in open access archives. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------- More on the ISI-Citeseer Web Citation Index [A] James Pringle, http://scientific.thomson.com/news/newsletter/2005-02/8264025/ Partnering helps institutional repositories thrive , Thomson Customer News , February 2005. Excerpt: 'Open access (OA) publishing is growing in importance, and, in parallel, the role of institutional repositories (IRs) has come to the forefront of discussion within the library community. The two are intertwined but not synonymous, and different motivations are driving the growth of each. The Thomson Scientific role in promoting institutional repositories' growth was highlighted recently in three workshops held in London, Boston, and Sydney....Our approach to IRs has been different [from our approach to journals]. Repositories represent new ways of organizing research and are taking shape in a variety of experimental forms. They vary in the types of content, the purposes of their creators, and their relationship to researchers. Increasingly, publishers are allowing researchers to archive their own content, and IRs can play a role in aiding researchers in this endeavor. We estimate that publishers now allow over half of all scholarly articles to be archived by their authors, based on average articles published in the journals of the 2003 Journal Citation Report and publishers listed as http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php Project Romeo . But far less than half of all scholarly articles are actually posted to IRs today, often because of lack of awareness and incentive for researchers to do so. Overcoming this barrier is a critical need for IR developers. As one administrator remarked in a planning session: "The key issue is turning now on the willingness of faculty to automatically put stuff into their repository."...Seven institutions joined with us in a Web Citation Index pilot project to explore the proper relationship between ISI Web of Knowledge, Web of Science, and the world of IRs. A collaboration with NEC on the basis of its CiteSeer environment provided the technology partnership to support this new undertaking....The project has run for the past 10 months, and will continue as we move toward release of the full-scale environment for use by researchers over the next several months....At a Thomson Scientific workshop during ALA Midwinter in January 2005, Jean Poland of Cornell University and Katie Clark of the University of Rochester outlined the state of IR development at their institutions, and the potential role of the Web Citation Index in encouraging the growth of IRs. Ms. Clark emphasized the challenge of gaining faculty buy-in, noting that for researchers: "it is all about me and my research", and faculties need to be shown how the IR can help their everyday activities. Ms. Poland pointed out that citation-based tools such as the Web Citation Index can have a positive influence on user awareness and reputation of IRs.'

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"Ownership and Access in Scholarly Publishing" web cast April 6
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Dear Professionals, The University of Maryland (UMB) Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL) and the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Libraries are co-hosting a web cast on "Ownership and Access in Scholarly Publishing" Wednesday, April 6, 2005 UMB School of Nursing Auditorium 655 West Lombard Street Baltimore, MD 21201 ** From your own desktop <http://www.openaccess.umaryland.edu/webcast.html> (Web cast) The web cast will inform you on publishing trends and explain new models likely to affect their professional communication and research and feature information on Emerging Issues in Scientific Publishing. Keynote Speaker: David Lipman, M.D., Director, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health. Panelists: Kenneth R. Fulton, Publisher, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. John Wilbanks, Executive Director, Science Commons. Valuing New Models of Scholarship in Promotion and Tenure Keynote Speaker: Chi V. Dang, M.D., Ph.D., Vice Dean of Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Professor of Medicine, Oncology, Pathology and Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Panelists Sharon, Krag, Ph.D., Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Associate Dean, Graduate Education and Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Marian Jackson, Ph.D., Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs, UMBI, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute. Additional information, including instructions on how to access the web cast and a conference program, are available at <http://www.openaccess.umaryland.edu/> or email oasp(a)hshsl.umaryland.edu C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Professionals, The University of Maryland (UMB) Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL) and the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Libraries are co-hosting a web cast on " Ownership and Access in Scholarly Publishing" Wednesday, April 6, 2005 UMB School of Nursing Auditorium 655 West Lombard Street Baltimore, MD 21201 ** From your own desktop < http://www.openaccess.umaryland.edu/webcast.html http://www.openaccess.umaryland.edu/webcast.html > (Web cast) The web cast will inform you on publishing trends and explain new models likely to affect their professional communication and research and feature information on Emerging Issues in Scientific Publishing. Keynote Speaker: David Lipman, M.D., Director, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health. Panelists: Kenneth R. Fulton, Publisher, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. John Wilbanks, Executive Director, Science Commons. Valuing New Models of Scholarship in Promotion and Tenure Keynote Speaker: Chi V. Dang, M.D., Ph.D., Vice Dean of Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Professor of Medicine, Oncology, Pathology and Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Panelists Sharon, Krag, Ph.D., Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Associate Dean, Graduate Education and Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Marian Jackson, Ph.D., Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs, UMBI, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute. Additional information, including instructions on how to access the web cast and a conference program, are available at < http://www.openaccess.umaryland.edu/ http://www.openaccess.umaryland.edu/ > or email http://in.f85.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=oasp@hshsl.umaryland.edu&YY=6963… oasp(a)hshsl.umaryland.edu C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Indian books on OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Friends: There is a culture war brewing in Europe! The French are mobilizing Europeans to bring all their books on open access, as they feel the Google project is favouring English language books. We have a rich heritage of literature and scholarly work in many Indian languages such as Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam. And we have abundant computing and software talent. Should we in India not mount a similar initiative to provide open access to all that is graet and wonderful in ALL Indian languages? Will Balki at IISc, Ramki at C-DAC, and Badri and Satya at Kizhakku Pathipagam and many others from different parts of India take up the challenge? Will the Ministry of HRD, Sahitya Akademi and similar other organizations come forward to support such a projet. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----- French response to Google library project When we left off, Jean-Noël Jeanneney, former French secretary of state for communications and the current President of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF), had criticized the Google library project for Anglo-American bias and called on France to launch a comparable program. His words are having an effect. Reuters reports that French President Jacques Chirac has asked the BNF to draw up plans for a similar digitization program. Quoting Reuters: 'Chirac asked Jeanneney and France's culture minister to look at ways "in which the collections of the great libraries in France and Europe could be made more widely and more quickly accessible by Internet," Chirac's office said in a statement. Chirac would seek support among other European countries in the coming weeks for a bigger, coordinated push to get Europe's literary works online....Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres said the French move was not a direct challenge to Google's project. "It is simply the wish for a diversity of influence," he said.' The BBC is reporting the same news. Quoting the BBC: '[Chirac] held a meeting in Paris with Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres and Mr Jeanneney on Wednesday to discuss the project...."Because of France and Europe's exceptional cultural heritage, they must play a key role" in the development of the internet, Mr Chirac said.' More coverage. (PS: Google's library project was already admirable. If it starts a new code war, sending files across the globe and developing digital arsenals ready for launch at a moment's notice, then it will be even more admirable. France is right to fight bits with bits, to recognize a digitization gap, and to escalate its cultural scan. Who's next?)ct? Friends: There is a culture war brewing in Europe! The French are mobilizing Europeans to bring all their books on open access, as they feel the Google project is favouring English language books. We have a rich heritage of literature and scholarly work in many Indian languages such as Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam. And we have abundant computing and software talent. Should we in India not mount a similar initiative to provide open access to all that is graet and wonderful in ALL Indian languages? Will Balki at IISc, Ramki at C-DAC, and Badri and Satya at Kizhakku Pathipagam and many others from different parts of India take up the challenge? Will the Ministry of HRD, Sahitya Akademi and similar other organizations come forward to support such a projet. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----- French response to Google library project [A] When we http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/03-02-05.htm#jeanneney left off , Jean-Noël Jeanneney, former French secretary of state for communications and the current President of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF), had https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/1675.html criticized the http://print.google.com/googleprint/library.html Google library project for Anglo-American bias and called on France to launch a comparable program. His words are having an effect. Reuters http://news.com.com/Paris+match+for+Googles+library+plan/2100-1025_3-562285… reports that French President Jacques Chirac has asked the BNF to draw up plans for a similar digitization program. Quoting Reuters: 'Chirac asked Jeanneney and France's culture minister to look at ways "in which the collections of the great libraries in France and Europe could be made more widely and more quickly accessible by Internet," Chirac's office said in a statement. Chirac would seek support among other European countries in the coming weeks for a bigger, coordinated push to get Europe's literary works online....Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres said the French move was not a direct challenge to Google's project. "It is simply the wish for a diversity of influence," he said.' The BBC is http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4358871.stm reporting the same news. Quoting the BBC: '[Chirac] held a meeting in Paris with Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres and Mr Jeanneney on Wednesday to discuss the project...."Because of France and Europe's exceptional cultural heritage, they must play a key role" in the development of the internet, Mr Chirac said.' http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004… More coverage . (PS: Google's library project was already admirable. If it starts a new code war, sending files across the globe and developing digital arsenals ready for launch at a moment's notice, then it will be even more admirable. France is right to fight bits with bits, to recognize a digitization gap, and to escalate its cultural scan. Who's next?) ct?

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Scholar Monitor
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Scholar Monitor Are you looking for research papers? Go http://scholar.google.com. Have you ever wanted to monitor research papers of particular authors, research groups, or research areas? If you have, Scholar Monitor is what you want. The program was inspired by and reused source code from Persistent Searches to Gmail. Scholar Monitor allows a user to set particular keywords, and monitors the result counts of keywords. If there are new papers, it shows a new! mark with counts. For example if a user is interested in monitoring a Jim's paper about WebDAV, she can add a keywors, "author: jim WebDAV" for Scholar Monitor. How to install (reused from Persistent Searches to Gmail.) a.. If you are not using Firefox yet, download and install one from Firefox homepage. b.. If you haven't already, install the excellent greasemonkey Firefox extension. c.. Open up this Scholar Monitor user script in Firefox . You can exam the source code. d.. From the "Tools" menu, select "Install User Script .." and confirm all of the various prompts. e.. Go to http://scholar.google.com (some refreshing may be necessary). f.. There should now be a "Scholar Monitor" box in the middle of the page and the result page. g.. Clicking on a search executes the saved query. To refresh result counts, click on the refresh icon in the upper right corner. h.. Use the "Edit monitor item" link to customize your Scholar Monitor. i.. Enjoy! We welcome any participation to improve Scholar Monitor such as adding Bibtex import button. Please send me a patch or join our project group. If you want to know how this works, read the script code or visit the Persistent Searches to Gmail page. The source code is distributed under a Creative Commons license. I have no affiliation with Google. This script is hijacking the whole HTML from Google Scholar and adds a monitor box. This program is not endorsed by Google. If you have any problems with Scholar Monitor, please contact Sung Kim, hunkim(a)gmail.com. Scholar Monitor A re you looking for research papers? Go http://scholar.google.com/ http://scholar.google.com . H ave you ever wanted to monitor research papers of particular authors, research groups, or research areas? If you have, Scholar Monitor is what you want. The program was inspired by and reused source code from http://persistent.info/archives/2005/03/01/gmail-searches Persistent Searches to Gmail . S cholar Monitor allows a user to set particular keywords, and monitors the result counts of keywords. If there are new papers, it shows a new! mark with counts. For example if a user is interested in monitoring a Jim's paper about WebDAV, she can add a keywors, "author: jim WebDAV" for Scholar Monitor. H ow to install (reused from http://persistent.info/archives/2005/03/01/gmail-searches Persistent Searches to Gmail .) If you are not using Firefox yet, download and install one from http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Firefox homepage . If you haven't already, install the excellent http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ greasemonkey Firefox extension. Open up this http://scholar.dforge.cse.ucsc.edu/scholar.user.js Scholar Monitor user script in Firefox . You can exam the source code. >From the "Tools" menu, select "Install User Script .." and confirm all of the various prompts. Go to http://scholar.google.com/ http://scholar.google.com (some refreshing may be necessary). There should now be a "Scholar Monitor" box in the middle of the page and the result page. Clicking on a search executes the saved query. To refresh result counts, click on the refresh icon in the upper right corner. Use the "Edit monitor item" link to customize your Scholar Monitor. Enjoy! W e welcome any participation to improve Scholar Monitor such as adding Bibtex import button. Please send me a patch or join http://dforge.cse.ucsc.edu/projects/scholar/ our project group . If you want to know how this works, read the script code or visit the http://persistent.info/archives/2005/03/01/gmail-searches Persistent Searches to Gmail page. The source code is distributed under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Creative Commons license . I have no affiliation with Google. This script is hijacking the whole HTML from Google Scholar and adds a monitor box. This program is not endorsed by Google. If you have any problems with Scholar Monitor, please contact Sung Kim, hunkim(a)gmail.com.

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MIT Backs Open Source in Brazil Computers for Poor (fwd)
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Open Source in Brazil Computers for Poor (fwd) > From Reuters..... -ac > > MIT Backs Open Source in Brazil Computers for Poor > > The director of MIT's Media Lab has recommended that Brazil install > open-source software on thousands of computers that will be sold to the > poor, saying proprietary software programs like ones offered by Microsoft > Corp. may be less attractive. > > "We advocate using high-quality free software as opposed to scaled-down > versions of more costly proprietary software," Walter Bender, director of > the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in a > letter to the Brazilian government obtained by Reuters on Thursday. "Free > software is far better on the dimensions of cost, power and quality." > > President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and several ministers may decide as > early as this week whether free software or a simplified version of > Microsoft Windows will be installed on computers for a new effort called > PC Conectado, or the Connected PC. The effort aims to sell up to 1 million > computers, with costs partially subsidized by the government, to lower > middle income Brazilians this year. > > <snip> > > http://www.reuters.com/audi/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=7… >

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Scotland favours open access
by Subbiah Arunachalam 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

Scottish universities sign open access deal Polly Curtis, education correspondent (The Guardian, UK) Monday March 14, 2005 Scottish university heads have agreed to make their academic research more freely available to one another in a bid to bypass the costly fees for publishing in journals. The new Scottish Declaration on Open Access is the latest in a series of challenges by universities to break the stranglehold of the major academic publishers which costs taxpayers millions of pounds a year. Publicly funded universities have to pay to have their academics' work assessed for publication, then again to read the journals. The declaration commits each of its 16 university signatories to setting up online libraries of research findings and doctorate papers which all academics can access. Universities will also look into developing a joint repository for academic work and some will make it mandatory for academics to publish their work on an open access basis. Funders of research are also considering how they can encourage recipients of their grants to publish their work on an open access basis. Timothy O'Shea, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, said: "The University of Edinburgh wants to ensure that its research is as visible as possible within Scotland, the UK and the world. This open access initiative provides an important route to deliver this." Sheila Cannell, the director of library services at the university, added: "We would like to see publicly funded research being publicly available rather than locked up in academic journals." Derek Law, university librarian at the University of Strathclyde said: "There is now clear evidence that open access articles are more frequently cited. If Scottish-based research is made available through open access it will be cited more, which means it will by definition be read more. "The hope is that this will in turn lead both to a positive cycle of increased research funding and also to increased inward investment as business recognises the added value of a powerful research base." Last year MPs on the Commons science and technology committee select committee condemned the rising costs to the taxpayer of publishing and accessing research. They backed new methods whereby the author pays a one-off fee and access is free. But the government rejected this method after what was believed to be a concerted lobby effort by journal publishers. Scottish Declaration on Open Access signatories: Glasgow Caledonian University Heriot-Watt University Napier University National Library of Scotland Open University Queen Margaret University College Robert Gordon University Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Scottish Agricultural College Scottish Crop Research Institute Scottish Library and Information Council University of Aberdeen University of Abertay Dundee University of Dundee University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow University of Paisley University of St Andrews University of Stirling University of Strathclyde Scottish universities sign open access deal Polly Curtis, education correspondent (The Guardian, UK) Monday March 14, 2005 Scottish university heads have agreed to make their academic research more freely available to one another in a bid to bypass the costly fees for publishing in journals. The new Scottish Declaration on Open Access is the latest in a series of challenges by universities to break the stranglehold of the major academic publishers which costs taxpayers millions of pounds a year. Publicly funded universities have to pay to have their academics' work assessed for publication, then again to read the journals. The declaration commits each of its 16 university signatories to setting up online libraries of research findings and doctorate papers which all academics can access. Universities will also look into developing a joint repository for academic work and some will make it mandatory for academics to publish their work on an open access basis. Funders of research are also considering how they can encourage recipients of their grants to publish their work on an open access basis. Timothy O'Shea, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, said: "The University of Edinburgh wants to ensure that its research is as visible as possible within Scotland, the UK and the world. This open access initiative provides an important route to deliver this." Sheila Cannell, the director of library services at the university, added: "We would like to see publicly funded research being publicly available rather than locked up in academic journals." Derek Law, university librarian at the University of Strathclyde said: "There is now clear evidence that open access articles are more frequently cited. If Scottish-based research is made available through open access it will be cited more, which means it will by definition be read more. "The hope is that this will in turn lead both to a positive cycle of increased research funding and also to increased inward investment as business recognises the added value of a powerful research base." Last year MPs on the Commons science and technology committee select committee condemned the rising costs to the taxpayer of publishing and accessing research. They backed new methods whereby the author pays a one-off fee and access is free. But the government rejected this method after what was believed to be a concerted lobby effort by journal publishers. Scottish Declaration on Open Access signatories: Glasgow Caledonian University Heriot-Watt University Napier University National Library of Scotland Open University Queen Margaret University College Robert Gordon University Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Scottish Agricultural College Scottish Crop Research Institute Scottish Library and Information Council University of Aberdeen University of Abertay Dundee University of Dundee University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow University of Paisley University of St Andrews University of Stirling University of Strathclyde

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First publisher to implement 'cited-by' links using crossRef's forward linking
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

"First publisher(IOP) to implement 'cited-by' links using crossRef's forward linking" " In September 2003, we announced that papers in our Electronic Journals had been enhanced by links to citing articles from The American Physical Society and NASA's Astrophysical Data System. I'm pleased to report that our 'Articles citing this article' tool has now been developed further. In keeping with our tradition of innovation, we have become the first publisher to implement 'cited-by' links using CrossRef's Forward Linking service. We have made 'cited-by' links available for papers published in the last 10 years. Over the coming months, we will be working our way through our entire journal archive, back to 1874. To take a look at forward linking in action, go to the following paper from New Journal of Physics and select the 'Articles citing this article link' on the right hand side: http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1367-2630/1/1/006 New Journal of Physics is our open-access electronic-only title (co-owned by the Institute of Physics and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft) so the 'cited-by' links are available to all. For our other journals, this facility is limited to subscribers." Ed Pentz, CrossRef's Executive Director C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. "First publisher(IOP) to implement 'cited-by' links using crossRef's forward linking" " In September 2003, we announced that papers in our Electronic Journals had been enhanced by links to citing articles from The American Physical Society and NASA's Astrophysical Data System. I'm pleased to report that our 'Articles citing this article' tool has now been developed further. In keeping with our tradition of innovation, we have become the first publisher to implement 'cited-by' links using CrossRef's Forward Linking service. We have made 'cited-by' links available for papers published in the last 10 years. Over the coming months, we will be working our way through our entire journal archive, back to 1874. To take a look at forward linking in action, go to the following paper from New Journal of Physics and select the 'Articles citing this article link' on the right hand side: http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1367-2630/1/1/006 http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1367-2630/1/1/006 New Journal of Physics is our open-access electronic-only title (co-owned by the Institute of Physics and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft) so the 'cited-by' links are available to all. For our other journals, this facility is limited to subscribers." Ed Pentz, CrossRef's Executive Director C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Unesco Training in Information Management- Asia- Pacific- at ISIM@IIITB- five fellowships available
by Mailing List Manager 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:59:37 +0530 From: Shalini R Urs <shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in> UN4IM- UNESCO Training Program in Information Management is being organised at ISIM@IIITB This Programme is supported by UNESCO and other organisations. There are five fellowships available for information workers from India. Those interested may apply for the same. The last date for receiving applications is March 30,2005 Details of the Programme available at the website- <http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/un4im> www.vidyanidhi.org.in/un4im Details below- ----- UN4IM -The UNESCO Training Programme for Information Management is envisioned to be a training programme with a difference- * Blending onsite ( face to face) with distance education mode. A unique six-month training programme based on a 1-4-1 month model- the first (May-June) and final month (November-December) face-to-face and the in-between four months distance mode. * Course Content- focused on ICT tools and technologies for Information Management. * Adopting/adapting different learning modes-lecture based theory, practice oriented hands on. Achieving a balance between discourse and demonstration; teaching and training, perception and performance * This programme is scheduled from May 9 to December 2, 2005. The first phase of the one-month face-to-face training is scheduled from May 9- June 3, 2005. The final face-to-face training programme is scheduled from November 7- December 2, 2005. o The Training Programme will have 20 participants from different parts of Asia-pacific. This will be held at the International School for Information Management @ Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India ( ISIM@IIITB) * The participants are required to be attending the UN4IM at the ISIM@IIITB during period of May-June and November-December. The intervening four months, they will go back to their workplace and work on the projects through the distance mode. ----- Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm

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GeoScienceWorld Full-Text Collection Now Available online
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

GeoScienceWorld's GSW Millennium Collection and GSW Literature Archives are now available through CSA.These collections offer a comprehensive Internet-based resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals. (Complete list available at http://info.csa.com/gsw/factsheet.shtml) The journals will be delivered through HighWire Press's Internet platform. One to five years of backfiles will be available for journals in the GSW Millennium Collection; complete backfiles will be available for journals in the GSW Literature Archives. Additional information about the Collection and GeoScienceWorld is available at the site- http://info.csa.com/gsw C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. GeoScienceWorld's GSW Millennium Collection and GSW Literature Archives are now available through CSA. These collections offer a comprehensive Internet-based resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals. (Complete list available at http://info.csa.com/gsw/factsheet.shtml http://info.csa.com/gsw/factsheet.shtml ) The journals will be delivered through HighWire Press's Internet p latform. One to five years of backfiles will be available for journals in the GSW Millennium Collection; complete backfiles will be available for journals in the GSW Literature Archives. Additional information about the Collection and GeoScienceWorld is available at the site- http://info.csa.com/gsw http://info.csa.com/gsw C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Datastream by Thomson Financials
by Anagha Agharkar 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Dear Friends, I am looking for the vendor/representative of the Datastream service by Thomson Financials. If anyone knows the details, please mail across the same. With regards, Anagha Agharkar Librarian/Associate ICICI Securities Ltd. Mumbai Tel #: 022-56377438 Regards, Anagha P Agharkar Librarian ICICI Securities Ltd. Mumbai Tel: 91-22-56377438 Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Friends, I am looking for the vendor/representative of the Datastream service by Thomson Financials. If anyone knows the details, please mail across the same. With regards, Anagha Agharkar Librarian/Associate ICICI Securities Ltd. Mumbai Tel #: 022-56377438 Regards, Anagha P Agharkar Librarian ICICI Securities Ltd. Mumbai Tel: 91-22-56377438 http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Sad loss of Library
by venky 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

I was saddened to read that "One million books, 10 million documents and 14,000 archaeological artifacts have been lost in the US-led invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq - the biggest cultural disaster since the descendants of Genghis Khan destroyed Baghdad in 1258, Venezuelan writer Fernando Baez told Inter Press Service (IPS)." http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB17Ak01.html S. Venkadesan I was saddened to read that "One million books, 10 million documents and 14,000 archaeological artifacts have been lost in the US-led invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq - the biggest cultural disaster since the descendants of Genghis Khan destroyed Baghdad in 1258, Venezuelan writer Fernando Baez told Inter Press Service (IPS)." http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB17Ak01.html http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB17Ak01.html S. Venkadesan

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Congrats to Ms Vijaya C Menon, International Travel Grant Winner - SLA DAM
by JK Vijayakumar 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

----- Original Message ----- From: <gvillamora(a)brightresearch.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:35 AM Subject: [sla-kiie] International Travel Grant Winner - SLA DAM > Please excuse the cross-posting -- > > The Advertising and Marketing Division (DAM) of SLA is pleased to announce > the winner of our International Travel Grant for SLA Toronto conference this > year. > > Vijaya C. Menon is the first recipient of our International Travel Grant. > She is Head of Knowledge Management at Grey Worldwide India. Vijaya manages > information services and dissemination to all ten offices in India, > including Srilanka and Bangladesh. She provides liaison work on information > queries with Grey Europe and the Americas. Vijaya has over 15 years of > library management work at Grey, J. Walter Thompson India, Accenture and the > Reserve Bank of India. > > Initiated at the Nashville June 2004 conference, the Travel Grant is open to > international SLA and DAM members. Application requirements were announced > in our 2004 Fall Bulletin and posted in various SLA discussion lists. The > Grant consists of $1,500 (US) plus conference registration fee and ticketed > DAM-sponsored events. > > Jo-Ann McQuillan, DAM chair and Director of Information at the Institute of > Communications and Advertising/Canada, will present the Grant to Vijaya at > the division�s business meeting on June 6, 2005. > > �I appreciate the overwhelming support and look forward to developing > global networking initiatives at SLA,� said Vijaya to the International > Relations Chair. > > We are happy and privileged to have her onboard. See you in Toronto. Grace > > > Grace Avellana Villamora > Advertising and Marketing Division (DAM) > International Relations Chair > Special Libraries Association (SLA) > > Information Strategist, Principal > brightresearch llc > Chicago, IL USA > Phone 773.973.4260 > Fax 773.761.7135 -------------- JK Vijayakumar INFLIBNET __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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SERIALS is now freely available on the Web
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Dear Professional, The UK Serials Group (UKSG) exists to encourage the exchange of ideas on printed and electronic serials and the process of scholarly communication. In a dynamic environment, the UKSG works to: 1) promote discussion and the free flow of information on serials matters and associated technology 2) develop links between all parties in the serials information chain 3) encourage professional awareness, stimulate research and provide a programme of training and education The UKSG is a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee. It is the only organisation spanning the wide range of interest and activity between serials producers and readers. With a membership of nearly 600 organisations, a third of them based outside the UK, the UKSG engages a broad cross-section of people concerned with the publication, distribution and use of serials. Members pay an annual corporate subscription which offers everyone in their organisation a range of valuable benefits. including papers from the United Kingdom's Serials Group (UKSG) Open Access seminar, November 2005. SERIALS is now freely available on the Web. SERIALS is the international journal for the serials community, published three times a year by the UK Serials Group and is available in print and online. It contains topical articles written by librarians, publishers, aggregators and other experts within the global serials industry, as well as conference reports, editorial comment and people in the news. C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Professional, The UK Serials Group (UKSG) exists to encourage the exchange of ideas on printed and electronic serials and the process of scholarly communication. In a dynamic environment, the UKSG works to: 1) promote discussion and the free flow of information on serials matters and associated technology 2) develop links between all parties in the serials information chain 3) encourage professional awareness, stimulate research and provide a programme of training and education The UKSG is a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee. It is the only organisation spanning the wide range of interest and activity between serials producers and readers. With a membership of nearly 600 organisations, a third of them based outside the UK, the UKSG engages a broad cross-section of people concerned with the publication, distribution and use of serials. Members pay an annual corporate subscription which offers everyone in their organisation a range of valuable benefits. including papers from the United Kingdom's Serials Group (UKSG) Open Access seminar, November 2005. SERIALS is now freely available on the Web. SERIALS is the international journal for the serials community, published three times a year by the UK Serials Group and is available in print and online. It contains topical articles written by librarians, publishers, aggregators and other experts within the global serials industry, as well as conference reports, editorial comment and people in the news. C.MALLIKARJUNA, BANGALORE hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile:9343757228 http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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NCSI-Net Meeting on 19th March 2005
by Madhuresh 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Dear All, You are cordially invited for next NCSI-NET meeting, which is going to be held on Saturday 19th of March 2005 by 11:00 AM at NCSI. The speaker will be Mr. Francis Jayakanth from NCSI. Tea/Coffee will be served at 10.45 AM. Title: My experiences as a Fulbrighter Through this informal talk-cum-demo, he will share his recent experience as a Fulbrighter in the US in general and at the Old Dominion University (ODU) in particular. The talk-cum-demo will mainly revolve around the work he did at the ODU. Title of his Fulbright proposal: Approaches to make CDS/ISIS Databases OAI-Compliant. Abstract -------- One of the biggest obstacles for information dissemination to a user community is that many Digital Libraries or bibliographic databases use heterogeneous technologies that inhibit interoperability. The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) addresses interoperability by using a framework to facilitate the discovery of content stored in distributed archives or bibliographic databases through the use of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Though the Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is becoming the de facto standard for digital libraries, some of the old bibliographic databases, for a variety of reasons, are still not OAI compliant. One such system is CDS/ISIS, which was designed specifically for handling bibliographic/textual information efficiently. CDS/ISIS is quite widely used by the LIS community. There is a need for making CDS/ISIS databases OAI-compliant to enable sharing of metadata and thus leading to better federated discovery services for the end users. In this talk-cum-demo, I'll describe two approaches for making CDS/ISIS databases OAI compliant: Static and Dynamic. In the static approach, CDS/ISIS records are exported and converted into an OAI static repository format. The static repository file is made OAI-compliant either by importing it into the Kepler archivelet, a light-weight, easy-to-install OAI compliant archive for the individuals or static repository file becomes OAI-compliant through the intermediation of static repository gateway. This approach has certain limitations. These limitations are overcome in the dynamic approach. In the dynamic approach, an OAI layer makes CDS-ISIS databases OAI-compliant in the real time. During the demo, a federated search on a few sample CDS/ISIS databases will be shown. Please confirm your presence to me (madhuresh_s(a)aurigene.com) or Prasanna (t.s.prasanna(a)intel.com). Regards NCSI-Net Coordinator Team Note: NCSI-NET is a network of National Center for Science Information (NCSI) employees and alumni and organizes presentations/talks every month for its members.

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ASIST 2005 International Paper Contest
by Shyam Prasad pujar 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Apologies for cross posting. Liwen Vaughan, PhD Professor Faculty of Information and Media Studies University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada 2005 INTERNATIONAL PAPER CONTEST on International Digital Libraries and Information Science & Technology Advances in Developing Countries More information is available from the Paper Contest page at http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/papercontest.htm The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST), International Information Issues Special Interest Group (SIG-III), is pleased to announce its sixth competition for papers to be submitted for the 2005 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Charlotte, North Carolina, October 28-November 2, 2005. The theme of the paper is: "Bringing Research and Practice Together - the Developing World Perspective." The paper topic may address either the country or regional level issues. Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on specific aspects of this theme, such as, but not limited to, the following: a.. Social, ethical, political, legal, and economic and cultural issues: issues related to the role of information in society, such as information policy, access, security, privacy, and intellectual property, as well as the social uses and abuses of information technologies such as the Internet and World Wide Web in bridging or separating diverse communities. b.. Information organization, management, access, and retrieval. c.. Information seeking and use: the role of information in professional and daily lives, use of various types of information technology, and social contexts of information seeking. d.. Information technology, social equity and development: IT and governance, IT & and the new economy, including the future of work and implications of technological hardware and software developments; the role of ICTs in conflict management, etc. There will be six winners. Winners will be selected by a panel of judges including Liwen Vaughan (chair), Yunfei Du, Yin Zhang, Duncan Omole, Merlyna Lim, Julian Warner, and Nathalie Leroy. The prize for each winner is a two-year individual membership in ASIST. In the case of multiple authors, the principal author will be awarded the ASIST membership. In addition, depending on SIG III fundraising this year, the first place winner will be rewarded a minimum of $1,000 toward travel, conference registration, and accommodations while attending the ASIST Annual Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, October 28-November 2, 2005. Publishing opportunities Submitted papers will be considered for posting on the SIG III web site as pre-publications. In addition, they will also be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the International Information and Library Review, subject to the usual peer refereeing process. Information for authors Only papers by a principal author who is a citizen of, and resides in a developing country are eligible. Winners in the 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 or 2004 contests are not eligible. The papers should be original, unpublished, and in English. We encourage submissions from librarians, information and network specialists, and educators involved in the creation, representation, maintenance, exchange, discovery, delivery, and use of digital information. ASIST Copyright Policy ASIST will have the non-exclusive right to publish any of the papers submitted on its web site or in print, with ownership and all other rights remaining with the author. Deadline for submission of full papers Authors are invited to submit manuscripts, not to exceed 5000 words, by June 30, 2005, to Duncan Omole at domole(a)worldbank.org . Please check the SIG III website (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/) for more information about the SIG III International Paper Contest, including Frequently Asked Questions, past CFPs, previous winners and winning papers, and successful stories from previous winners.

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Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry - an open access journal
by Krishnan 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

------- Launch of Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry announced ------- San Diego, CA.: The prestigious Beilstein-Institut today announced the launch of the first major Open Access journal for organic chemistry. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry will be published by the Beilstein-Institut in co-operation with BioMed Central, the Open Access publisher. The peer-reviewed online journal will begin publication during 2005, and a call for papers, providing full information for authors, will be issued in May. Director of the Beilstein-Institut Martin Hicks made the announcement at the American Chemical Society 229th Annual Meeting in San Diego, California. Professor Jonathan Clayden, of the University of Manchester, has been confirmed as the Editor-in-Chief, and an international editorial advisory board is also being appointed. The Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry will publish outstanding original research on all aspects of organic chemistry and related disciplines. Areas covered in the journal will include: organic synthesis, organic reactions and mechanisms, natural products chemistry and chemical biology, organic materials and macro- and supramolecular organic chemistry. As an Open Access journal, the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry will offer the international community of organic chemists the opportunity to make their research results freely available immediately on publication, and permanently available in the public archives of science. The journal will publish full research articles and short communications, as well as occasional reviews and commentary articles. Supplementary data will also be published. There will be particular emphasis on speed of publication and on presentation of the articles in a chemically intelligent way. The journal will be made freely available online, while an annual print archival edition will be available for purchase at cost. The Beilstein-Institut is committed to improving communication among chemists and will support the journal financially, including the publishing costs, to enable the journal to be open access without charge to authors. Just as Beilstein has been synonymous with high quality scientific publishing for over two centuries, so BioMed Central has become synonymous with high-quality, online Open Access publishing in the biomedical disciplines, and is now making its publishing expertise available to new fields. BioMed Central now publishes over 130 Open Access journals, and will provide the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry with a complete publishing system, maintain and host the journal. Together these two organizations will ensure that the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry offers authors, readers and libraries the highest quality service. For more information: For Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry http://www.beilstein-journals.org/ For the Beilstein-Institut bjoc(a)beilstein-institut.de or Tel: +49 (0) 69-716732-0 For BioMed Central Grace Baynes Tel: +44 (0)20 7631 9988 E-mail: press(a)biomedcentral.com About the Beilstein-Institut The Beilstein-Institut zur Förderung der Chemischen Wissenschaften (Beilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences) is a non-profit foundation located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The Beilstein-Institut pursues its purpose in particular in chemistry and its related areas and disciplines, especially information and communication. About BioMed Central BioMed Central is an independent online publishing house committed to providing open access to peer-reviewed research. This commitment is based on the view that immediate free access to research and the ability to freely archive and reuse published information is essential to the rapid and efficient communication of science.

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Prof. Ghosh becomes SC Member of IFLA Secion
by Dinesh K. Gupta 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Dear Professional collegaues, I have just come to know that Prof. S. B. Ghosh, IGNOU, New Delhi, becomes Member of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Section on Asia and Oceania for the term 2005-2009. I whole heartedly congratulate Prof. Ghosh and wish for a very successful tenure at this very important Section of IFLA. With kind regards, Dinesh K. Gupta (Member, Standing Committe, Management & Marketing Section, IFLA) Associate Professor, Dept. of Lib. & Inf. Sc. V M Open Univ. Kota Ph. 0744-2471412 M. 9828131412 Dear Professional collegaues, I have just come to know that Prof. S. B. Ghosh, IGNOU, New Delhi, becomes Member of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Section on Asia and Oceania for the term 2005-2009. I whole heartedly congratulate Prof. Ghosh and wish for a very successful tenure at this very important Section of IFLA. With kind regards, Dinesh K. Gupta (Member, Standing Committe, Management & Marketing Section, IFLA) Associate Professor, Dept. of Lib. & Inf. Sc. V M Open Univ. Kota Ph. 0744-2471412 M. 9828131412

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Vendor Details
by basu mudakappa pujar 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Dear Friends, Good Morning! The below mentioned book is out of print but it is available with the vendors in USA. We are in need this book very much. So if you know any vendor in USA who deals with the Technical books please let me know his address. One of Colleague is coming back from USA. I will purchase this book through him to my library. J2EE Performance Testing with BEA WebLogic Server./ by Peter Zadrozny, Philip Aston, Ted Osborne Thanking in advance. Basavaraj.M.Pujar CGI Dear Friends, Good Morning! The below mentioned book is out of print but it is available with the vendors in USA. We are in need this book very much. So if you know any vendor in USA who deals with the Technical books please let me know his address. One of Colleague is coming back from USA. I will purchase this book through him to my library. J2EE Performance Testing with BEA WebLogic Server./ by Peter Zadrozny, Philip Aston, Ted Osborne Thanking in advance. Basavaraj.M.Pujar CGI http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo…

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Documentation Research Center/Information Centers or Special libraries
by Mailing List Manager 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:44:06 +0530 From: Seshu Sripada <seshu.sripada(a)softprosys.com> Dear colleagues Please provide Url link of Documentation Research Center/Information Centers or Special libraries list in the world. Seshu

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Newsletter for Publishers and Booksellers from the Max Mueller Bhavan, Regional Information Centre
by Seth, Renu 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Dear Colleagues and Friends, The Max Mueller Bhavan Regional Information Centre (MMB RIC), New Delhi welcomes you to the first issue of its newsletter aimed at Publishers and Booksellers. This will apprise you of the latest happenings in the field of books and publishing in Germany as well as in the other parts of Europe. To access the newsletter please click on the following link: http://www.goethe.de/su/ned/bib/newsletters/publ/march_05/news.htm If you would like to continue receiving the next issues of this newsletter please subscribe by clicking on the following link: mailto:info.manager.mmb@delhi.goethe.org?subject=subscribe-Publnews Yours sincerely, Renu Seth Librarian In-Charge Max Mueller Bhavan Regional Information Centre & Library 3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg New Delhi 110001 Telephone +91-11-23329506 librarian.mmb(a)delhi.goethe.org www.goethe.de/newdelhi

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Re : Russian Patent
by Lakshmi Ravishankar 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Dear Ms. Jayalaxmi, Following are the websites for purchasing Russian Patents. http://PatentsFromRU.com - Russian patent and trademark search services http://www.iliac.org/production/patent.html http://www.delphion.com (subscription required) http://www.mospatent.ru/ (Moscow Patent Bureau) This site is in Russian Language. You can contact at info(a)mospatent.ru Hope this info is helpful to you. Regards Lakshmi Ravishankar Manager - Information & Knowledge Services Jubilant Biosys Limited 450, 12th Cross, 4-D Cross Mahalakshmipuram, Bangalore - 560 086 Ph : +91 80 2349 5461 - 65 (O) 98458-31382 (M) Fax : +91 80 23449 4118 E-mail : Lakshmi_Ravishankar(a)jubilantbiosys.com www.jubilantbiosys.com ================================================== Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 04:40:03 +0000 (GMT) From: jayalaxmi m <jayalaxmim(a)yahoo.co.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Procurement of Russian Patent To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20050311044003.77577.qmail(a)web8510.mail.in.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sir, We are looking for one Russian Patent, it will highly appreciated if you can suggest us the source from where it can procured. Please guide at your earliest. Details of the Patent: V.A. Smirnov, I.E. Crasnitscaya, Patent of Russia, 2066892.6.09 1993 Regards, Jayalaxmi. M MTRDC,DRDO Bangalore Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Query
by Mailing List Manager 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:02:34 -0800 (PST) From: vani rao <vanimysore(a)yahoo.com> Dear Mrs. Vishnav, The Psychometric testing evolved trough time and experience used by Ma-Foi HR Consultancy company (http://www.mafoi.com/)is by far the industry accepted norm and method. Vani P Rao Librarian St.Joseph's college of Education Mysore --- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:03:51 +0530 > From: Mrs. Vaishnav <ytv(a)godrej.com> > > Dear All, > > A guidance needed -Has there been standardized norms > for psychological > Testing in Indian industries? Please guide at your > earliest, With > regards & thanks, > > Mrs. Y.T.Vaishnav=0D > (Consulting Librarian-Godrej-Mumbai)

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Bibliometric theory/Biblio metric laws and Cybermetrics.
by Mailing List Manager 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:45:08 +0530 From: Seshu Sripada <seshu.sripada(a)softprosys.com> I would like to know complete tutorial of "Bibliometric Introduction to Bibliometric laws and also Cybermetrics', could you please provide information or url link for getting that information. Thanks Seshu

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NCSI: Talk on DSpace@Cambridge by Jim Downing (16th March 2005 11.30 AM)
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Cordially invites you to a talk on "DSpace@Cambridge: Digital Repository Project at University of Cambridge, U.K." By Mr. Jim Downing DSpace@Cambridge Project Group Cambridge University Library University of Cambridge Cambridge, U.K. On 16th March 2005 (Wednesday) Time: 11.30 A.M. Venue: NCSI Lecture Hall, NCSI, IISc Coffee: 11.00 11.30 A.M. Note: DSpace@Cambridge Project - http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/ DSpace@Cambridge Repository - http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/ ------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Associate Chairman Tel: +91-80-23600271, 23601427 National Centre for Science Fax: +91-80-23601426, 23600683 Information (NCSI) E-Mail: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Indian Institute of Science URL: http://144.16.72.189/raja/ BANGALORE-560012 (India) ------------------------------------------------------------- SciGate: http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/ The IISc Science Information Portal

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NET clearence compulsory for Librarian posts in Academic Libraries
by Dr.P.V.Konnur 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

Dear Friends, It is because the Academic Librarians always claim themselves equivalent to the Teaches and demand the academic status. If you claime the equivalent status and salary you should also possess the similar qualification. I think it is a right expectation. thanks, Konnur. --- Aman Jha <aman.jha(a)ciionline.org> wrote: > Friends, > > I want to know: > > 1. The logic of having NET qualification for the > recruitment of Librarian/Deputy Librarian/Assistant > Librarian. > 2. Whether NET qualification for Librarian (not for > library teachers) really add any value to their > profession? > > 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 * Fax: 0124-5014080 > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > Dr.P.V.Konnur, University Librarian, Goa University Library, Taleigao Plateau, Goa - 403 206. Phone: 0832-2456031 (O) 0832-2451008 (R) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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Fw: Re: Science Commons, a new project of Creative Commons (fwd)
by Subbiah Arunachalam 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

Friends: Here is a message I received from Stevan Harnad in response to my three-line note alerting him about the Science Commons. Arun ------------------------------- > Dear Arun (and colleagues): > > Science Commons is a wonderful, important project, but *please* don't > mix it up (or in) with Open Access! Here is the understanding that we > have (I think) reached with Larry Lessig on this topic: > > (1) OA is first and foremost about published journal articles. > > (2) A CC License is *always* desirable and beneficial if it can be > successfully negotiated with the journal publishers. > > (3) A CC License, however, is not *necessary* for OA via > self-archiving. (92% of journals already endorse self-archiving, > and there are ways to self-archive the remaining 8% without either > first having to seek permission or to successfully renegotiate a > copyright agreement with the publisher). > > (4) On the contrary, as authors are still not providing OA via > self-archiving in anywhere near sufficient numbers (only 10-20%) > it would be a great mistake to ask or imply that they first try > to negotiate a CC license with their publishers: They should just > self-archive. No need for CC. > > So the CC license is a blessing -- and should be strongly supported -- > wherever it is readily feasible; but seeking it is an unwelcome extra > handicap where it is unnecessary and where even without being burdened > with having to try to renegotiate copyright, authors are already far too > sluggish about self-archiving (partly because they are afraid it is too > burdensome and time-consuming, which it is not, partly because they think > it might somehow jeoparize their chances of being published in their > journal of choice, which it does not -- *except* if they negotiating a > CC license is erroneously recommended as a prerequisite for it!). > > What is needed to facilitate Green OA is further information > and incentives (about impact advantages), sytematic institutional > self-archiving policy (based on record keeping for institutional research > output and reseearcher performance evaluation) and clear reassurances > (about the absence of any problem with peer review or copyright or > preservation) -- *not* unnecessary further burdens such as CC. > > The CC License (or something equivalent to it) is intrinsic to the Golden > road to OA but *not* to the Green road. We have already had 3 years of > needless delay in OA because of one-sided preoccupation with the far > narrower, slower and more uncertain Golden road. Please let us not now > let the CC license provide a similar distraction and deterrent! > > See: > > Re: Free Access vs. Open Access > "On the Deep Disanalogy Between Text and Software and Between Text > and Data Insofar as Free/Open Access is Concerned" > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2967.html > > "Apercus of WOS Meeting: Making Ends Meet in the Creative Commons" > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3797.html > > Re: Open Access vs Copyleft? > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4377.html > > "Cloture on public-domain solution" (2001) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1713.html > > "Copyleft" article in New Scientist (2002) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1818.html > > Open Access vs Open Source/Software (2003) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2967.html > > "Public Access to Science Act (Sabo Bill, H.R. 2613)" (2003) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2977.html > > "Open Access Does Not require Republishing and Reprinting Rights" > (2004) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3444.html > > Best wishes, > > Stevan Harnad

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free softwarefrom Egypt for building repositories
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

Library of Alexandria releases FreeScience software The Biblioteca d'Alessandria (BdA) has released FreeScience v. 1.1.0, free software for building OAI-compliant repositories and accessing OAI-compliant content elsewhere online. FreeScience also creates a P2P network of participating scientists and supports direct communication among them through instant messaging and text conferencing. Although FreeScience is free software, it is not apparently open source. Library of Alexandria releases FreeScience software [A] The http://www.bdaweb.net/ Biblioteca d'Alessandria (BdA) has released http://www.bdaweb.net/freescience_learnmore_it.php FreeScience v. 1.1.0, free software for building OAI-compliant repositories and accessing OAI-compliant content elsewhere online. FreeScience also creates a P2P network of participating scientists and supports direct communication among them through instant messaging and text conferencing. Although FreeScience is free software, it is not apparently open source.

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Science Commons, a new project of Creative Commons
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

Friends: Are you all aware of the "Science Commons"? I got to know about it through a message I received from Dave Pentecost in today's mail and I thought I must alert you all immediately. Arun http://science.creativecommons.org/ Welcome to Science Commons Science Commons is a new project of Creative Commons and will launch early 2005. The mission of Science Commons is to encourage scientific innovation by making it easier for scientists, universities, and industries to use literature, data, and other scientific intellectual property and to share their knowledge with others. Science Commons works within current copyright and patent law to promote legal and technical mechanisms that remove barriers to sharing. Background The sciences depend on access to and use of factual data. Powered by developments in electronic storage and computational capability, scientific inquiry is becoming more data-intensive in almost every discipline. Whether the field is meteorology, genomics, medicine, or high-energy physics, research depends on the availability of multiple databases, from multiple public and private sources, and their openness to easy recombination, search and processing. The American Traditions In the United States, this process has traditionally been supported by a series of policies, laws, and practices that were largely invisible even to those who worked in the sciences themselves. First, American intellectual property law (and, until recently, the law of most developed countries) did not allow for intellectual property protection of "raw facts." One could patent the mousetrap, not the data on the behavior of mice, or the tensile strength of steel. A scientific article could be copyrighted. The data on which it rested could not be. Commercial proprietary ownership was to be limited to a stage close to the point where a finished product entered the marketplace. The data upstream remained for all the world to use. Second, US law mandated that even those federal government works that could be copyrighted, fell immediately into the public domain - a provision of great importance given massive governmental involvement in scientific research. More broadly, the practice in federally funded scientific research was to encourage the widespread dissemination of data at or below cost in the belief that, like the interstate system, this provision of a public good would yield incalculable economic benefits. Third, in the sciences themselves, and particularly in the universities, a strong sociological tradition - sometimes called the Mertonian tradition of open science - discouraged the proprietary exploitation of data (as opposed to inventions derived from data) and required as a condition of publication the availability of the datasets on which the work was based. Innovation in Technology and Legal Friction Each of these three central tenets evolved from concepts that existed even before the Industrial Revolution--at the innately slow rate of change of the legal system. Similarly, scientific publication has a long-standing tradition. Modern technologies, especially the evolving use of the World Wide Web as a library, have forever changed the mechanisms for delivery and replication of documents. In many fields, results are published nearly as quickly as they are found. But copyright law has evolved at a different rate. Progress in modern technology combined with a legal system designed for a different technology-based environment is now leading to some unintended consequences. One of these is a kind of legal "friction" that hinders reuse of scientific discoveries and could lead to discouraging innovation. To counterbalance, a large and vibrant community has joined together in support of the concept of Open Access for scientific literature - "digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions". The U.S. National Institutes of Health have proposed mandated Open Access to all NIH-funded research starting six months after the print date, and there is support for the initiative in the U.S. Congress. Most major journals have granted authors the right to self-publish versions of their peer-reviewed papers. But the legal questions - how can an author make her work available to the public, while taking comfort that she retains some rights to it - have yet to be answered. The different rates of change between modern technology and the law create friction in other places as well. For example, in the genetic realm, patent law has moved perilously close to being an intellectual property right over raw facts - the C's, G's A's and T's of a particular gene sequence. In other areas, complex contracts of adhesion create de facto intellectual property rights over databases, complete with "reach through agreements" and multiple limitations on use. Legislatively, the US is considering and the EU has adopted a "database right" which actually does accord intellectual property protection to facts - changing one of the most fundamental premises of intellectual property: that one could never own facts, or ideas, only the inventions or expressions yielded by their intersection. The Federal government's role is also changing. Under the important and admirable Bayh-Dole statute, federally funded researchers are encouraged to look for potential commercial use of their research. Universities have become partners in developing and reaping the fruits of research. This process has yielded amazing results in many cases by converting raw, basic science into useful products in many industries. But as a consequence, the quest to commercialize has moved upstream in some cases, to the fundamental levels of research and data, and that has created complex legal requirements. While the details can get complex when the intellectual property at hand is a novel "method" for assaying biological activity, there are even more questions about patents covering the genes, proteins and their inferred functions. The sheer cost in terms of time and money of such complex, multi-party legal work can take intellectual property "out of play" - it is simply more expensive to do the lawyer work than the product might reap on the open markets after the legal work is done. This hinders scientific innovation, as the value of scientific information increases exponentially in connection with other scientific information, and is of the least possible value when segregated by law. The Search for a Solution These facts have not gone unnoticed. Numerous scientists have pointed out the irony that, at the historical moment when we have the technologies to permit worldwide availability and distributed processing of scientific data, legal restrictions on transfer make it harder to connect the dots. Learned societies including the National Academies of Sciences, federal granting agencies such as the National Science Foundation, and other groups have all expressed concern about the trends that are developing. Any solution will be need to be as complex as the problem it seeks to solve, which is to say it will be interdisciplinary, multinational, and involve both public and private initiatives. Enter Science Commons Science Commons is an exploratory project to apply the philosophies and activities of Creative Commons in the realm of science. 1) Science Publishing /Open Access Journals & Archives Here Science Commons continues the traditional Creative Commons role as public interest lawyer. Existing Creative Commons licenses have immediate relevance in the field of scientific publishing. We cite as an example the Public Library of Science (PLoS) which has agreed to adopt CC attribution license as its standard license - enabling anyone to make and distribute translations, as long as they give credit to the original authors. But there are many more issues; the legal side has been slow to evolve, creating unnecessary pain, expense and barriers to innovation. We believe that, in addition to the CC licenses already created, scientific publication creates other areas for licenses, such as: a.. Licenses in other journals b.. Licenses on pre/postprints c.. Licenses for author self-archiving d.. Mechanisms for author self-archiving e.. Legal implications of Open Access business models f.. Application of machine-readable licenses to documents 2) Licensing and Technology Transfer Some barriers to the flow of scientific data or scientific discoveries are necessary; used the right way, patents, for example, can give the incentives necessary to fund future research. The question is whether there are unnecessary barriers to the flow of scientific data and discovery that Science Commons can help solve. This effort is exploratory. It contemplates the traditional role of public interest legal group, but extends beyond copyright into the realms of patents, technology transfer and intellectual property licensing. We are interested in exploring questions such as: a.. How to use collective action to keep upsream data flowing? b.. Would standard, open licenses reduce transaction costs in intellectual property licensing? c.. What value would standard, open licensing bring for orphan diseases and diseases of the global poor? d.. What would a realistic "technology trust" require in terms of standard licenses? e.. How can funding organizations and universities utilize standard, open licenses? f.. How to preserve the traditional public domain nature of databases? 3) Inefficient Data Economy Another trend in the sciences is towards the parallelization of data generation - more simply, machines are taking over the role of creating the data points, while humans remain the primary interpreters of data. Under Bayh-Dole, it is precisely these interpretations that are typically of the highest value: the mechanisms of action by which cancer operates, or the inferred function of a gene. Only a small percentage of the raw data is actually used to support such interpretations. The innovators also utilize only a small portion of the raw data, with the first step in analysis being a statistical reduction of data. After all, what scientist can store and interrogate a mental model of over 25,000 genes? This represents a massively wasteful data economy, in which valuable information about the state changes and contextual behavior of biology, chemistry, physics and other sciences simply spills onto the floor. Signigicant efforts to archive such sets online exist, but there are many legal and technical issues to consider. Science Commons is exploring both the legal mechanisms that govern raw datasets online and technological approaches to publishing those datasets that make them more useful. The World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web for Life Sciences effort is a key part of this exploration, as is the MIT DSpace project in digital archiving. We intend to ask such questions as: a.. How many combinations have been tested just because they were implicit on the design of the experiment as a massively parallel array? b.. How many of those hypotheses were actually contemplated by the creators of the experiment? c.. How have these 50 genes been observed to behave in a given tissue, across all public experiments? d.. What are the contractual terms that could govern such datasets? Links Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture BIOS Alliance for Taxpayer Access Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain Public Library of Science BioMedCentral NIH Open Access Resource Peter Suber's NIH Open Access FAQ Open Archives Initiative Budapest Open Access Initiative SPARC Institute for One World Health Friends: Are you all aware of the "Science Commons"? I got to know about it through a message I received from Dave Pentecost in today's mail and I thought I must alert you all immediately. Arun http://science.creativecommons.org/ http://science.creativecommons.org/ Welcome to Science Commons Science Commons is a new project of http://www.creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons and will launch early 2005. The mission of Science Commons is to encourage scientific innovation by making it easier for scientists, universities, and industries to use literature, data, and other scientific intellectual property and to share their knowledge with others. Science Commons works within current copyright and patent law to promote legal and technical mechanisms that remove barriers to sharing. Background The sciences depend on access to and use of factual data. Powered by developments in electronic storage and computational capability, scientific inquiry is becoming more data-intensive in almost every discipline. Whether the field is meteorology, genomics, medicine, or high-energy physics, research depends on the availability of multiple databases, from multiple public and private sources, and their openness to easy recombination, search and processing. The American Traditions In the United States, this process has traditionally been supported by a series of policies, laws, and practices that were largely invisible even to those who worked in the sciences themselves. First, American intellectual property law (and, until recently, the law of most developed countries) did not allow for intellectual property protection of "raw facts." One could patent the mousetrap, not the data on the behavior of mice, or the tensile strength of steel. A scientific article could be copyrighted. The data on which it rested could not be. Commercial proprietary ownership was to be limited to a stage close to the point where a finished product entered the marketplace. The data upstream remained for all the world to use. Second, US law mandated that even those federal government works that could be copyrighted, fell immediately into the public domain - a provision of great importance given massive governmental involvement in scientific research. More broadly, the practice in federally funded scientific research was to encourage the widespread dissemination of data at or below cost in the belief that, like the interstate system, this provision of a public good would yield incalculable economic benefits. Third, in the sciences themselves, and particularly in the universities, a strong sociological tradition - sometimes called the Mertonian tradition of open science - discouraged the proprietary exploitation of data (as opposed to inventions derived from data) and required as a condition of publication the availability of the datasets on which the work was based. Innovation in Technology and Legal Friction Each of these three central tenets evolved from concepts that existed even before the Industrial Revolution--at the innately slow rate of change of the legal system. Similarly, scientific publication has a long-standing tradition. Modern technologies, especially the evolving use of the World Wide Web as a library, have forever changed the mechanisms for delivery and replication of documents. In many fields, results are published nearly as quickly as they are found. But copyright law has evolved at a different rate. Progress in modern technology combined with a legal system designed for a different technology-based environment is now leading to some unintended consequences. One of these is a kind of legal "friction" that hinders reuse of scientific discoveries and could lead to discouraging innovation. To counterbalance, a large and vibrant community has joined together in support of the concept of Open Access for scientific literature - " http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions ". The U.S. National Institutes of Health have http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-04-064.html proposed mandated Open Access to all NIH-funded research starting six months after the print date, and there is support for the initiative in the U.S. Congress. Most major journals have granted authors the right to self-publish versions of their peer-reviewed papers. But the legal questions - how can an author make her work available to the public, while taking comfort that she retains some rights to it - have yet to be answered. The different rates of change between modern technology and the law create friction in other places as well. For example, in the genetic realm, patent law has moved perilously close to being an intellectual property right over raw facts - the C's, G's A's and T's of a particular gene sequence. In other areas, complex contracts of adhesion create de facto intellectual property rights over databases, complete with "reach through agreements" and multiple limitations on use. Legislatively, the US is considering and the EU has adopted a "database right" which actually does accord intellectual property protection to facts - changing one of the most fundamental premises of intellectual property: that one could never own facts, or ideas, only the inventions or expressions yielded by their intersection. The Federal government's role is also changing. Under the important and admirable http://www.cogr.edu/docs/Bayh_Dole.pdf Bayh-Dole statute , federally funded researchers are encouraged to look for potential commercial use of their research. Universities have become partners in developing and reaping the fruits of research. This process has yielded amazing results in many cases by converting raw, basic science into useful products in many industries. But as a consequence, the quest to commercialize has moved upstream in some cases, to the fundamental levels of research and data, and that has created complex legal requirements. While the details can get complex when the intellectual property at hand is http://www.signalsmag.com/signalsmag.nsf/0/8F89A41E7971F90888256EA9006A99DE a novel "method" for assaying biological activity, there are even more questions about http://www.forbes.com/2004/02/17/cx_mh_0217pfe_print.html patents covering the genes, proteins and their inferred functions . The sheer cost in terms of time and money of such complex, multi-party legal work can take intellectual property "out of play" - it is simply more expensive to do the lawyer work than the product might reap on the open markets after the legal work is done. This hinders scientific innovation, as the value of scientific information increases exponentially in connection with other scientific information, and is of the least possible value when segregated by law. The Search for a Solution These facts have not gone unnoticed. Numerous scientists have pointed out the irony that, at the historical moment when we have the technologies to permit worldwide availability and distributed processing of scientific data, legal restrictions on transfer make it harder to connect the dots. Learned societies including the National Academies of Sciences, federal granting agencies such as the National Science Foundation, and other groups have all expressed concern about the trends that are developing. Any solution will be need to be as complex as the problem it seeks to solve, which is to say it will be interdisciplinary, multinational, and involve both public and private initiatives. Enter Science Commons Science Commons is an exploratory project to apply the philosophies and activities of http://www.creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons in the realm of science. 1) Science Publishing /Open Access Journals & Archives Here Science Commons continues the traditional Creative Commons role as public interest lawyer. Existing Creative Commons licenses have immediate relevance in the field of scientific publishing. We cite as an example the http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/ Public Library of Science (PLoS) which has agreed to adopt CC attribution license as its standard license - enabling anyone to make and distribute translations, as long as they give credit to the original authors. But there are many more issues; the legal side has been slow to evolve, creating unnecessary pain, expense and barriers to innovation. We believe that, in addition to the CC licenses already created, scientific publication creates other areas for licenses, such as: Licenses in other journals Licenses on pre/postprints Licenses for author self-archiving Mechanisms for author self-archiving Legal implications of Open Access business models Application of machine-readable licenses to documents 2) Licensing and Technology Transfer Some barriers to the flow of scientific data or scientific discoveries are necessary; used the right way, patents, for example, can give the incentives necessary to fund future research. The question is whether there are unnecessary barriers to the flow of scientific data and discovery that Science Commons can help solve. This effort is exploratory. It contemplates the traditional role of public interest legal group, but extends beyond copyright into the realms of patents, technology transfer and intellectual property licensing. We are interested in exploring questions such as: How to use collective action to keep upsream data flowing? Would standard, open licenses reduce transaction costs in intellectual property licensing? What value would standard, open licensing bring for orphan diseases and diseases of the global poor? What would a realistic "technology trust" require in terms of standard licenses? How can funding organizations and universities utilize standard, open licenses? How to preserve the traditional public domain nature of databases? 3) Inefficient Data Economy Another trend in the sciences is towards the parallelization of data generation - more simply, machines are taking over the role of creating the data points, while humans remain the primary interpreters of data. Under Bayh-Dole, it is precisely these interpretations that are typically of the highest value: the mechanisms of action by which cancer operates, or the inferred function of a gene. Only a small percentage of the raw data is actually used to support such interpretations. The innovators also utilize only a small portion of the raw data, with the first step in analysis being a statistical reduction of data. After all, what scientist can store and interrogate a mental model of over 25,000 genes? This represents a massively wasteful data economy, in which valuable information about the state changes and contextual behavior of biology, chemistry, physics and other sciences simply spills onto the floor. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/ Signigicant efforts to archive such sets online exist , but there are many legal and technical issues to consider. Science Commons is exploring both the legal mechanisms that govern raw datasets online and technological approaches to publishing those datasets that make them more useful. The http://www.w3.org/ World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web for Life Sciences effort is a key part of this exploration, as is the MIT http://www.dspace.org/ DSpace project in digital archiving. We intend to ask such questions as: How many combinations have been tested just because they were implicit on the design of the experiment as a massively parallel array? How many of those hypotheses were actually contemplated by the creators of the experiment? How have these 50 genes been observed to behave in a given tissue, across all public experiments? What are the contractual terms that could govern such datasets? Links http://www.pipra.org/ Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture http://www.bios.net/ BIOS http://www.arl.org/ata/ Alliance for Taxpayer Access http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/ Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/ http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/ Public Library of Science http://www.biomedcentral.com/ BioMedCentral http://www.nih.gov/about/publicaccess/index.htm NIH Open Access Resource http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm Peter Suber's NIH Open Access FAQ http://www.openarchives.org/ Open Archives Initiative http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ Budapest Open Access Initiative http://www.arl.org/sparc/ SPARC http://www.oneworldhealth.org/ Institute for One World Health

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Document Imaging and Document Management-course
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

3 day schedule starting Friday, July 15, 2005 (Summer 2005) in Los Angeles. Please see the website for the course description, location, and nearby hotels. The class description is at http://www.archivebuilders.com/abcourses.html All of the printed class materials are available free on the Internet for those who cannot attend the class: http://www.archivebuilders.com/whitepapers/index.html] Also available as a customized, on-site course. All of the materials can be downloaded with a single click and then printed with a single click. The materials are in a full text searchable PDF file. All acronyms are spelled out. You can also download the materials as native Microsoft Office files so that you can incorporate these materials in your presentations, publications, or papers. --- This course is for managers who have been assigned to manage a document imaging system, and must start immediately, This course is designed to assist managers to be more effective in bringing the immediate and long term benefits of document imaging and document management to their organizations and to their organizations' clients, customers, and constituents. Students will gain an understanding of how document imaging can be used and managed in both small and large-scale organizations. Document imaging is the process of scanning paper or microfilm documents. Document imaging moves the documents from their hard-copy format on shelves and in file cabinets to a digital format stored in computer based document repositories. Document management organizes scanned documents, paper documents, and born-digital documents in their native-format, for compliance with records retention requirements, including permanent preservation. The course content is intended to be useful to students in their professional work for twenty years into the future and is also intended to be useful for planning to preserve digital documents forever. The course may be too broad for those students seeking to learn a specific software application. Students will learn about the technology of scanning, importing, transmitting, organizing, indexing, storing, protecting, searching, retrieving, viewing, printing, preserving, and authenticating documents for document imaging systems, and archives. Image and document formats, metadata, XML (eXtensible Markup Language), multimedia, rich text, PDF (Portable Document Format), GIS (Geographic Information Systems), CAD (Computer Aided Design), VR (Virtual Reality) and GPS (Global Positioning System) indices, image enabled databases, data visualization, finite element analysis models, animations, molecular models, RAM (Random Access Memory) based SQL (Structured Query Language) databases, knowledge management, data warehousing, records inventories, retention schedules, black and white, grayscale, and color scanning, OCR (Optical Character Recognition), multispectral imaging, audio and video digitizing, destructive (lossy) and non-destructive (lossless) compression, digital signatures and seals, encryption, the three components of vision: resolution, color, and motion, the imaging technology of continuous tone, halftoning, dithering, and pixels, RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) fault tolerance, ECCs (Error Correcting Codes for RAID, CD, and DVD), and mirrored site disaster planning will be discussed. System design issues in hardware, software, networking, ergonomics, and workflow will be covered. Emerging technologies such as the DVD Digital Video Disc, HDTV (High Definition TV), and very high speed Internet, intranet, and extranet links, Internet protocol stacks, and Internet 2 will be presented. The course will include the DVD's role in completing the convergence of the PC and television, the convergence of telephony, cable, and the Internet, the merging of home and office, the merging of business and entertainment, and the management of the resulting document types. this couse very useful for records managers, librarians, and archivists work with document management issues every day. [http://www.archivebuilders.com/abcourses.html] Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. 3 day schedule starting Friday, July 15, 2005 (Summer 2005) in Los Angeles. Please see the website for the course description, location, and nearby hotels. The class description is at http://www.archivebuilders.com/abcourses.html http://www.archivebuilders.com/abcourses.html All of the printed class materials are available free on the Internet for those who cannot attend the class: http://www.archivebuilders.com/whitepapers/index.html http://www.archivebuilders.com/whitepapers/index.html ] Also available as a customized, on-site course. All of the materials can be downloaded with a single click and then printed with a single click. The materials are in a full text searchable PDF file. All acronyms are spelled out. 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Information Security
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

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On OAA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community Volume 18, Number 1, 30 - 34 / March 2005 http://www.uksg.org/ A mandate to self archive? The role of open access institutional repositories Stephen Pinfield Information Services Hallward Library, University Park, University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD UK +44?(0)?115?951?5109 Stephen.Pinfield(a)Nottingham.ac.uk http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~uazsjp/ Abstract: Based on a paper presented at the UKSG seminar 'Scientific Publications: Free for all?', The Geological Society, London, Tuesday 23 November 2004 This paper argues that the best way to achieve major improvements in scholarly communication in the short and medium term is to make it mandatory to deposit research papers in open access institutional repositories. This is what the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report of 20041 on scientific publishing recommended. The paper defines what open access repositories are and explains why they should be institutional. It also deals with the question of what should be deposited in institutional repositories and why these improve scholarly communication. It then deals with the issue of mandating deposition: why deposition should be mandatory, who should mandate deposition and who should carry out deposition. The paper concludes with an analysis of the wider implications of mandating deposition in institutional repositories and a summary of the existing situation in the UK and elsewhere. It discusses the Select Committee report and the UK Government response in relation to institutional repositories. Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community Volume 18, Number 1, 30 - 34 / March 2005 http://www.uksg.org/ http://www.uksg.org/ A mandate to self archive? The role of open access institutional repositories Stephen Pinfield Information Services Hallward Library, University Park, University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD UK +44?(0)?115?951?5109 http://uk.f304.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=Stephen.Pinfield@Nottingham.ac.… Stephen.Pinfield(a)Nottingham.ac.uk http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~uazsjp/ http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~uazsjp/ Abstract: Based on a paper presented at the UKSG seminar 'Scientific Publications: Free for all?', The Geological Society, London, Tuesday 23 November 2004 This paper argues that the best way to achieve major improvements in scholarly communication in the short and medium term is to make it mandatory to deposit research papers in open access institutional repositories. This is what the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report of 20041 on scientific publishing recommended. The paper defines what open access repositories are and explains why they should be institutional. It also deals with the question of what should be deposited in institutional repositories and why these improve scholarly communication. It then deals with the issue of mandating deposition: why deposition should be mandatory, who should mandate deposition and who should carry out deposition. The paper concludes with an analysis of the wider implications of mandating deposition in institutional repositories and a summary of the existing situation in the UK and elsewhere. It discusses the Select Committee report and the UK Government response in relation to institutional repositories.

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fulbright announced ....
by Puttaraj Choukimath 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Dear All: Hope all of you are enjoying the spring season! I am happy to inform you that USEFI has announced the competition for the 2006-2007 Fulbright fellowships for Indian academics, school teachers and professionals for graduate study, research, teaching and professional development in the United States. These fellowships cover a wide range of disciplines including art/culture management, conflict resolution, education, the humanities and social sciences, law, management, museum studies and public administration. New additions this year include the Fulbright Master�s Fellowships for Leadership Development, designed for outstanding Indians, preferably in the age group of 25-30 years, to pursue a master�s degree program at select U.S. colleges and universities in the areas of Public Administration, Economics, Communication Studies and Environment. These fellowships will be specially targeted at highly motivated individuals who demonstrate leadership qualities, have completed the equivalent of a U.S. Bachelor�s degree, have at least three years professional or work experience, and are committed to return and contribute to their communities. For application details and forms, visit http://www.fulbright-india.org. Application material can also be collected in person from any of the USEFI offices, after March 20, 2005. Request you to bring this to the notice of interested applicants. Best wishes, Yours sincerely Puttaraj. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! Dear All: Hope all of you are enjoying the spring season! I am happy to inform you that USEFI has announced the competition for the 2006-2007 Fulbright fellowships for Indian academics, school teachers and professionals for graduate study, research, teaching and professional development in the United States.� These fellowships cover a wide range of disciplines including art/culture management, conflict resolution, education, the humanities and social sciences, law, management, museum studies and public administration.� New additions this year include the Fulbright Master�s Fellowships for Leadership Development, designed for outstanding Indians, preferably in the age group of 25-30 years, to pursue a master�s degree program at select U.S. colleges and universities in the areas of Public Administration, Economics, Communication Studies and Environment. These fellowships will be specially targeted at highly motivated individuals who demonstrate leadership qualities, have completed the equivalent of a U.S. Bachelor�s degree, have at least three years professional or work experience, and are committed to return and contribute to their communities. For application details and forms, visit http://www.fulbright-india.org/ http://www.fulbright-india.org . Application material can also be collected in person from any of the USEFI offices, after March 20, 2005. Request you to bring this to the notice of interested applicants. Best wishes, Yours sincerely Puttaraj. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=31637/*http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ Try our new resources site!

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medIND now Includes 32 Full Text Journals
by Sukhdev Singh 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

The Following Journals have been added to medIND Project [http://medind.nic.in]. 1. Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2. Journal of Family Welfare With addition of these two journals, medIND site now provides FREE ACCESS to FULL TEXT of Following 32 Indian Biomedical Journals indexed in IndMED [http://indmed.nic.in]. * Endodontology * Health Administrator * Indian Journal of Aerospace Medicine * Indian Journal of Allergy Asthma and Immunology * Indian Journal of Anaesthesia * Indian Journal of Chest Diseases and Allied Sciences * Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry * Indian Journal of Community Medicine * Indian Journal of Gastroenterology * Indian Journal of Medical & Paediatric Oncology * Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology * Indian Journal of Medical Research * Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine * Indian Journal of Occupational and Enviornmental medicine * Indian Journal of Occupational Therapy * Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery * Indian Journal of Pharmacology * Indian Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine * Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases * Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery * Indian Journal of Tuberculosis * Indian Pediatrics * J.K. Practitioner * Journal, Indian Academy of Clinical Medicine * Journal of Family Welfare * Journal of Indian Rheumatology Association * Journal of The Anatomical Society of India * Journal of Indian Association of Pediatrics Surgeons * Journal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry * Medical Journal Armed Forces India * NTI Bulletin * Trends in Biomaterials and Artificial Organs In next few weeks one more Journal i.e. Indian Journal of Nephrology would become the 33rd Journal under medIND. --Thanks Sukhdev Singh, Principal Systems Analyst, Webmaster : http://indmed.nic.in & http://medind.nic.in National Informatics Centre, New Delhi.

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Request for the vendor
by Yashwant G Kanade 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Respected Members, I would request you to provide me the list of vendors or persons who provides the articles/papers from some journals either soft or hard copy even on payment basis. Thank you very much with Regards Yashwant G Kanade Library and Information Centre CES, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore-12

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WIPO Manifesto for Transparency, Participation, Balance and
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

WIPO Manifesto for Transparency, Participation, Balance and Access Dear Professionals: The following open letter will be sent to WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, calling for TRANSPARENCY, PARTICIPATION, BALANCE and ACCESS in its work. Prior to a large and ambitious publicity campaign, your sign-on to this letter is essential. WIPO is locking NGOs out of its negotiations, using tactics to isolate those governments who stand up for you, and hiding the evidence by deleting it from their website. The mentioned letter goes into great detail on this. If you are a computer programmer or polititian; if you are ill, if you have an audio/visual or motor impairment, if you are a student, academic, information or knowledge worker, librarian, or citizen concerned about access to information and knowledge and the absence of balance between rightsholders and the public interest within developed countries and mainly in developing/least developed countries, please take a moment to read this and consider signing into it. Things you can do: 1. sign onto the open letter (now available in English and Portuguese) by visiting this link: <http://www.petitiononline.com/wipo/petition.html>, and 2. spread it all over the world by sending e-mails and putting in your webpage a link to the online petition. Gandhi said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you WIN." This is the fighting part, and your help is essential. Pedro de Paranaguá Moniz Brazilian citizen Post-graduate student at Queen Mary, University of London lc04013(a)qmul.ac.uk MALLIKARJUNA, C Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. WIPO Manifesto for Transparency, Participation, Balance and Access Dear Professionals: The following open letter will be sent to WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, calling for TRANSPARENCY, PARTICIPATION, BALANCE and ACCESS in its work. Prior to a large and ambitious publicity campaign, your sign-on to this letter is essential. WIPO is locking NGOs out of its negotiations, using tactics to isolate those governments who stand up for you, and hiding the evidence by deleting it from their website. The mentioned letter goes into great detail on this. If you are a computer programmer or polititian; if you are ill, if you have an audio/visual or motor impairment, if you are a student, academic, information or knowledge worker, librarian, or citizen concerned about access to information and knowledge and the absence of balance between rightsholders and the public interest within developed countries and mainly in developing/least developed countries, please take a moment to read this and consider signing into it. Things you can do: 1. sign onto the open letter (now available in English and Portuguese) by visiting this link: < http://www.petitiononline.com/wipo/petition.html http://www.petitiononline.com/wipo/petition.html >, and 2. spread it all over the world by sending e-mails and putting in your webpage a link to the online petition. Gandhi said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you WIN." This is the fighting part, and your help is essential. Pedro de Paranaguá Moniz Brazilian citizen Post-graduate student at Queen Mary, University of London mailto:lc04013@qmul.ac.uk lc04013(a)qmul.ac.uk MALLIKARJUNA, C http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Economics of scientific and biomedical journals: Where do scholars ........libraries...publishers
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Good artcle in the new issue of FirstMonday: Economics of scientific and biomedical journals: Where do scholars stand in the debate of online journal pricing and site license ownership between libraries and publishers? for more detials go through this link http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/jeon/ MALLIKARJUNA,C Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Good artcle in the new issue of FirstMonday: Economics of scientific and biomedical journals: Where do scholars stand in the debate of online journal pricing and site license ownership between libraries and publishers? for more detials go through this link http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/jeon/ http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/jeon/ MALLIKARJUNA,C http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Opn Access Archiving
by Subbiah Arunachalam 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Friends: I just visited the Bytesforall.net portal and found the following two interesting items. -------- UN opens its Official Document System to the general public The United Nations has launched its Official Document System (ODS), a full-text web resource for official UN documentation. INDIA * The 'virus' of Free Software is spreading... This is a list of the useful user groups that help in spreading Free/Libre and Open Source Software. Most are from around India, and could play a useful role in spreading the ideals of sharing and freedom in the FLOSS movement. Would really appreciate any help in updating and correcting this list and keeping it current. Thanks for helping to update this list and keeping it relevant. -- FN (Frederick Noronha in Goa) fred at bytesforall.org. ------- A number of the readers of this portal are keen to promote open source software. There is an equally important and useful goal to be achieved. I am talking about making the world's scientific and scholarly journal literature accessible to everyone free of cost and instantly on publication. The portal is happy to report that the UN has opened up its official documents. Should we not work towards opening up the scientific and schoalrly research literature? Some may ask why is that important. Let me explain. Knowledge is important at all levels. We at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation know from our experience with the knowledge centres in Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu in southern India over the past decade how very useful access to knowledge is for the rural poor. The role played by these centres both during and after the recent tsunami attack on our coasts has been written about and discussed in intenational fora. The orderly fashion in which relief measures were delivered in these villages was in stark contrast to what had happened elsewhere. Andy Carvin and others who attended the recent Baramati Conference were full of praise for Prof. Swaminathan's talk on our kowledge centres. If access to relevant and useful information makes a difference in the lives of the rural poor, it is even more crucial for those in the business of generating new knowledge that can form the basis of development. That is why scientists and scholars need to have immediate access to the newly emerging kowledge, irrespective of where it comes from. Unfortunately, the scholarly journals which mediate this process have become unaffordable; there are too many of them and most of them are very expensive. But developments in technology, especially ICTs, have made it possible for us now to have such access at a ridiculously low cost. Taking advantage of the web technology, physicists of the world started exchanging their research findings through an archive called arXiv about 15 years ago. Today most physicists worth the name use arXiv to let others know of therir new papers and to learn what other physicists are up to. arXiv is a centralised archive, originally located at Los Alamos National Laboratory and now at Cornell University, and it has more than 15 mirror sites, several of them in Asia including one at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai (Madras). People who have thought about archiving research papers have thought of interoperable institutional archives as another possibility and today there are about 400 such institutional open access archives around the world. The one at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has about 1,700 papers stored in it and the number is increasing every day. It is in the interest of developing country scientists and scholars to promote the culture of institutional archiving. Imagine a world where every institution performing and publishing research has an archive and every scientist deposits his/her papers in these archives. Now anyone can access any paper if he/she has an Internet connection. Knowledge will flow freely and science will advance much faster than in a regime where knowledge is locked up and kept inaccessible to all the users through cost barriers. There is another and possibly more important benefit for developing country scientists. Right now papers by scientists from DCs are rarely noticed, read and quoted by others. The journals produced in DCs are rarely subscribed by libraries in advanced countries. Often someone in Bangalore may not know what another scientist living in Kanpur has published! But if all these papers are available free on the Net, then their visibility and citability will increase manifold. And that is precisely what every scientist would want. Setting up interoperable institutional open access archives is pretty easy. The software is free and can be downloaded from the Net. There are experts who are willing to provide training (if needed). There are many international organizations actively promoting the culture if OA archiving. Those of us who are trying to promote the use of free and open source software could in addition promote OAA as well. A recent study has shown that we need to create an awareness among scientists and policymakers of the tremendous advantages of such archives. We need to mount many advocacy programmes. The recent meeting (Berlin-3) held at the Southampton University came up with the following recommendation: "In order to implement the Berlin Declaration institutions should 1) Implement a policy to require their researchers to deposit a copy of all their published articles in an open access repository. and 2) Encourage their researchers to publish their research articles in open access journals where a suitable journal exists and provide the support to enable that to happen." I would urge all of you friends to persuade institutions (your own and others) to adopt and implement these recommendations. Thanks and best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Friends: I just visited the Bytesforall.net portal and found the following two interesting items. -------- UN opens its Official Document System to the general public The United Nations has launched its Official Document System (ODS), a full-text web resource for official UN documentation. INDIA * The 'virus' of Free Software is spreading... This is a list of the useful user groups that help in spreading Free/Libre and Open Source Software. Most are from around India, and could play a useful role in spreading the ideals of sharing and freedom in the FLOSS movement. Would really appreciate any help in updating and correcting this list and keeping it current. Thanks for helping to update this list and keeping it relevant. -- FN (Frederick Noronha in Goa) fred at bytesforall.org. ------- A number of the readers of this portal are keen to promote open source software. There is an equally important and useful goal to be achieved. I am talking about making the world's scientific and scholarly journal literature accessible to everyone free of cost and instantly on publication. The portal is happy to report that the UN has opened up its official documents. Should we not work towards opening up the scientific and schoalrly research literature? Some may ask why is that important. Let me explain. Knowledge is important at all levels. We at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation know from our experience with the knowledge centres in Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu in southern India over the past decade how very useful access to knowledge is for the rural poor. The role played by these centres both during and after the recent tsunami attack on our coasts has been written about and discussed in intenational fora. The orderly fashion in which relief measures were delivered in these villages was in stark contrast to what had happened elsewhere. Andy Carvin and others who attended the recent Baramati Conference were full of praise for Prof. Swaminathan's talk on our kowledge centres. If access to relevant and useful information makes a difference in the lives of the rural poor, it is even more crucial for those in the business of generating new knowledge that can form the basis of development. That is why scientists and scholars need to have immediate access to the newly emerging kowledge, irrespective of where it comes from. Unfortunately, the scholarly journals which mediate this process have become unaffordable; there are too many of them and most of them are very expensive. But developments in technology, especially ICTs, have made it possible for us now to have such access at a ridiculously low cost. Taking advantage of the web technology, physicists of the world started exchanging their research findings through an archive called arXiv about 15 years ago. Today most physicists worth the name use arXiv to let others know of therir new papers and to learn what other physicists are up to. arXiv is a centralised archive, originally located at Los Alamos National Laboratory and now at Cornell University, and it has more than 15 mirror sites, several of them in Asia including one at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai (Madras). People who have thought about archiving research papers have thought of interoperable institutional archives as another possibility and today there are about 400 such institutional open access archives around the world. The one at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has about 1,700 papers stored in it and the number is increasing every day. It is in the interest of developing country scientists and scholars to promote the culture of institutional archiving. Imagine a world where every institution performing and publishing research has an archive and every scientist deposits his/her papers in these archives. Now anyone can access any paper if he/she has an Internet connection. Knowledge will flow freely and science will advance much faster than in a regime where knowledge is locked up and kept inaccessible to all the users through cost barriers. There is another and possibly more important benefit for developing country scientists. Right now papers by scientists from DCs are rarely noticed, read and quoted by others. The journals produced in DCs are rarely subscribed by libraries in advanced countries. Often someone in Bangalore may not know what another scientist living in Kanpur has published! But if all these papers are available free on the Net, then their visibility and citability will increase manifold. And that is precisely what every scientist would want. Setting up interoperable institutional open access archives is pretty easy. The software is free and can be downloaded from the Net. There are experts who are willing to provide training (if needed). There are many international organizations actively promoting the culture if OA archiving. Those of us who are trying to promote the use of free and open source software could in addition promote OAA as well. A recent study has shown that we need to create an awareness among scientists and policymakers of the tremendous advantages of such archives. We need to mount many advocacy programmes. The recent meeting (Berlin-3) held at the Southampton University came up with the following recommendation: " In order to implement the Berlin Declaration institutions should 1) Implement a policy to require their researchers to deposit a copy of all their published articles in an open access repository. and 2) Encourage their researchers to publish their research articles in open access journals where a suitable journal exists and provide the support to enable that to happen." I would urge all of you friends to persuade institutions (your own and others) to adopt and implement these recommendations. Thanks and best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Query on Pschycological testing
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Dear Ms Vaishnav, I refer to your query in Lis-forum quoted below. I think Dr Ms Amuliya Khurana may be the right person to help you as she has recently developed an instrument (Questionnaire) for assessing the mental health of industrial workers. I read about her project in IITD-Fitt website. Please contact her. A copy of this reply is marked to her as well. Best Wishes Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 ================================ [LIS-Forum] Query Mailing List Manager mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Thu Mar 10 16:26:07 IST 2005 Previous message: [LIS-Forum] Re: qualifications of Asst. Librarian Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:03:51 +0530 From: Mrs. Vaishnav <ytv at godrej.com> Dear All, A guidance needed -Has there been standardized norms for psychological Testing in Indian industries? Please guide at your earliest, With regards & thanks, Mrs. Y.T.Vaishnav=0D (Consulting Librarian-Godrej-Mumbai) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Previous message: [LIS-Forum] Re: qualifications of Asst. Librarian Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More information about the LIS-Forum mailing list Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Hyderabad I blog at: http://vyasamoorthy.blogspot.com

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Request for article from Dr. Prasad, SRELS
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

-----Original Message----- From: SRELS [mailto:srels@vsnl.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 1:18 PM To: Listforum Cc: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Article Dear Dr. Rajashekar : Can you please make arrangements to announce the following in LIS-FORUM ? Sincerely, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer, SRELS " If any one has a copy of the article on "Kaiser-Subject Heading" (title may not be fully in order or complete) by Prof. G. Bhattacharyya in mimeographed format, we would feel obliged to have a copy of it sent to us at the following address". Dr. K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, Upstairs, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010. Ph: 080 23305109 ; E-mail : srels(a)vsnl.com ;

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EDC- DL prototype for dot-EDU India Instructional Materials@Vidyanidhi
by Shalini R Urs 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

EDC- DL prototype for dot-EDU India Instructional Materials@Vidyanidhi A prototype digital library has been built for the dot-EDU India Interactive audio-video Instructional Materials using the Greenstone Digital Library Software. A demo version of the same is hosted on the website- www.vidyanidhi.org.in/edcdl The prototype with the current collection of 125 Interactive Radio Instructional materials is made available as EDC- DL- in a box. Dot-EDU Technology Tools for Teaching and Training (T4) is a project sponsored by USAID and implemented by Education Development Center (EDC) and its 39 dot-EDU NGO and government partners. Dot-EDU T4 was created to improve the quality of education in selected states in India. Education Development Center (EDC) and its 39 dot-EDU NGO and government partners believe that educational quality and equitable access are intrinsically connected. They aim to improve the mass delivery of educational quality in order to have an impact on what is learned and who is learning it. EDC and its partners are making great strides towards achieving these goals in the target states of Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand. This project seeks to accomplish its goals through carefully planned, locally-developed applications of digital technologies, coupled with workshops and interaction with the communities. For more info- www.ies.sdc.org <http://www.ies.sdc.org/> The EDC-DL project is a consultancy assignment to the Vidyanidhi Digital Library @University of Mysore. The project involved, the study of metadata standards and vocabularies and developing an appropriate metadata set for the collection. Dublin Core (DC), Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) and IMS Global were considered. The Dublin Core application profile for educational materials with 19 elements has been developed and deployed. Three controlled vocabularies- The Australian Council for Educational Research www.acer.edu.au <http://www.acer.edu.au/> ; The Eurydice Information network on Education in Europe: www.eurydice.org <http://www.eurydice.org/> ; Education Information Resources Center -ERIC www.eric.ed.gov <http://www.eric.ed.gov/> were studied and finally ERIC vocabulary was chosen. The collection comprised of three series - the Chukki Chinna series for Karnataka and the English is Fun series for the states of Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand.Chattisgharn and Jharkhand. The Chukki Chinna interactive radio instruction series is a project-based, active learning approach to teaching and learning emerging from identified hard spots for science, social studies (or environmental studies) and mathematics in the 4th and 5th standard curriculum. English is Fun series comprises of interactive radio instruction (IRI) programmes on introductory English for 1st and 2nd grades. The EDC- DL collection may be browsed and searched in three languages- English, Kannada, and Hindi. Interfaces are also available in these three languages. Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm  EDC- DL prototype for dot-EDU India Instructional Materials@Vidyanidhi � � A prototype digital library has been built for the dot-EDU India Interactive audio-video Instructional Materials using the Greenstone Digital Library Software. A demo version of the same is hosted on the website- http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/edcdl www.vidyanidhi.org.in/edcdl The prototype with the current collection of 125 Interactive Radio Instructional materials is made available as EDC- DL- in a box. � Dot-EDU Technology Tools for Teaching and Training (T4) is a project sponsored by USAID and implemented by Education Development Center (EDC) and its 39 dot-EDU NGO and government partners. � Dot-EDU T4 was created to improve the quality of education in selected states in India . � Education Development Center (EDC) and its 39 dot-EDU NGO and government partners believe that educational quality and equitable access are intrinsically connected. � They aim to improve the mass delivery of educational quality in order to have an impact on what is learned and who is learning it. � EDC and its partners are making great strides towards achieving these goals in the target states of Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand. This project seeks to accomplish its goals through carefully planned, locally-developed applications of digital technologies, coupled with workshops and interaction with the communities. For more info- http://www.ies.sdc.org/ www.ies.sdc.org � The EDC-DL project is a consultancy assignment to the Vidyanidhi Digital Library @ University of Mysore . The project involved, the study of metadata standards and vocabularies and developing an appropriate metadata set for the collection. Dublin Core (DC), Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) and IMS Global were considered. The Dublin Core application profile for educational materials with 19 elements has been developed and deployed. Three controlled vocabularies- The Australian Council for Educational Research http://www.acer.edu.au/ www.acer.edu.au ; The Eurydice Information network on Education in Europe : � http://www.eurydice.org/ www.eurydice.org ; Education Information Resources Center – ERIC � http://www.eric.ed.gov/ www.eric.ed.gov were studied � and finally ERIC vocabulary was chosen. � The collection comprised of three series – the Chukki Chinna series for Karnataka and the English is Fun series for the states of Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand.Chattisgharn and Jharkhand. The Chukki Chinna interactive radio instruction series is a project-based, active learning approach to teaching and learning emerging from identified hard spots for science, social studies (or environmental studies) and mathematics in the 4 th and 5 th standard curriculum. English is Fun series comprises of interactive radio instruction (IRI) programmes on introductory English for 1 st and 2 nd grades. � The EDC- DL � collection may be browsed and searched in three languages- English, Kannada, and Hindi. Interfaces are also available in these three languages. � � � Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm �

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Procurement of Russian Patent
by jayalaxmi m 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Sir, We are looking for one Russian Patent, it will highly appreciated if you can suggest us the source from where it can procured. Please guide at your earliest. Details of the Patent: V.A. Smirnov, I.E. Crasnitscaya, Patent of Russia, 2066892.6.09 1993 Regards, Jayalaxmi. M MTRDC,DRDO Bangalore ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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ACS opened for open Access
by Madhuresh 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Dear Friends, At last ACS (American Chemical society) opened its door for open access. ACS was considered as a toughest publisher for Open access. Now ACS announced its compliance with Public Access Guidelines released by the NIH i.e. free availability of articles after one year of publication with some conditions for its 33 scholarly journals. Here is the press release: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------- American Chemical Society broadens access to its articles Conditions set for free availability one year after publication http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/article_access.html http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/article_access.pdf The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, is broadening access to research articles published in its 33 scholarly journals. The Society is introducing two new experimental policies that define how readers can view free digital versions of ACS articles beginning one year after publication. First, in response to public access guidelines recently released by the NIH1, the ACS will post, for public accessibility 12 months after publication, the peer-reviewed version of authors' manuscripts on the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central during 2005. The NIH policy encourages authors whose work it funds to submit their peer-reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central, the agency's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Commenting on this new service, ACS Publications Senior Vice President Brian Crawford said, "We understand that NIH-funded authors will wish to comply voluntarily with the NIH's policy request. By introducing this service, the ACS will take on the administrative burden of compliance and at the same time will ensure the integrity of the scientific literature by depositing the appropriate author version of the manuscript after peer-review." Second, as a value-added service to ACS authors and a method of further opening access to its content, the full-text version of all research articles published in ACS journals will be made available at no charge via an author-directed Web link 12 months after final publication. Allowing unrestricted access to articles 12 months after publication is an expansion of the Society's current practice of permitting 50 downloads of authors' articles free of charge during the first year of publication. This initiative will go into effect during 2005. "We are very pleased to expand access in this way to research published in ACS journals," said Crawford. "It is fundamental to the ACS mission to support and promote the research enterprise and to foster communication among its scientists. Providing unrestricted access via author-directed links 12 months after publication - in addition to the 50 free e-prints currently allowed during the first year of publication - reinforces that mission." Robert Bovenschulte, president of the ACS Publications Division, said "These experimental policies balance the important goal of expanding dissemination of research with the need to preserve the integrity of the scientific record as well as the viability of our journals program." The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization, chartered by the U.S. Congress, with a multidisciplinary membership of more than 158,000 chemists and chemical engineers. It publishes numerous scientific journals and databases, convenes major research conferences and provides educational, science policy and career programs in chemistry. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio. 1(Notice Number NOT-OD-05-022/ http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-022.html) Released: March 7, 2005 #13859 Related Press Releases: * American Chemical Society broadens author-directed article access: http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/e_prints.html * American Chemical Society policy will offer service to authors of NIH-funded research articles: http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/nih.html Regards Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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Query
by Mailing List Manager 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:03:51 +0530 From: Mrs. Vaishnav <ytv(a)godrej.com> Dear All, A guidance needed -Has there been standardized norms for psychological Testing in Indian industries? Please guide at your earliest, With regards & thanks, Mrs. Y.T.Vaishnav=0D (Consulting Librarian-Godrej-Mumbai)

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NET for to be Librarian???
by Aman Jha 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Friends, I want to know: 1. The logic of having NET qualification for the recruitment of Librarian/Deputy Librarian/Assistant Librarian. 2. Whether NET qualification for Librarian (not for library teachers) really add any value to their profession? 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 * Fax: 0124-5014080

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Re: qualifications of Asst. Librarian
by Mailing List Manager 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:50:04 +0530 From: anjrao <anjrao(a)indiatimes.com> dear sir Minimum Qualification for Asst.librarian in Degree level Technical Institutions 1. Qualifying in tghe national-level test conductd for the purpose by the UGC or any otheragency approved by UGC. 2. Master Degree inLibraryscience/ information science/ Documentation or Equivalent professional degree with 55% of the marks or its equivalentCGPA. and consistently good academic record, computeristion of library. regards janardhana rao librarian m s ramaiah Inst. of management

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Why English is so Difficult to Learn
by Mailing List Manager 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:05:53 +0530 From: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ <mukesh(a)monitorinfo.com> Dear All Hope the following will take some heat off the topical discussion among the forum members: Why English is so Difficult to Learn: The 500 most commonly used words in the English Language have over 14,000 meanings! Please ponder over some examples: 1. The bandage was wound around the wound 2. The farm was used to produce produce. 3. The dump was so full that she had to refuse more refuse. 4. He could lead if would get the lead out 5. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. 6. I did not object to the object lying on floor. 7. The insurance was invalid for the invalid. 8. They were too close to the door to close it. 9. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend. 10. When shot at, the dove dove into bushes. 11. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests. 12. He saw a saw, which could not saw. No wonder, English Language is so Difficult to Learn Best Wishes - - Mukesh Anand Hyderabad - India

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Re-Launch of Theoretical Librarian Blog
by Gerry Mckiernan 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Colleagues/ I am pleased to announce the re-launch of the Theoretical Librarian blog (TLB) at [ http://theoretical-librarian.blogspot.com/ ] As stated, "Theoretical Librarian is the blog of Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer at Iowa State University Library, Ames, IA 50011. Theoretical Librarian, in general, will include announcements of past, present, and future personal publications and presentations as well as postings on current and emerging technologies and their actual and potential application for enhanced information and library services." Recent postings to TLB include iPod® U: Duke iPod® First-Year Experience This Just In: Web Feeds for Enhanced Library Services NPR: Library Marks the Evolution of British English International Symposium on Wikis (October 17-18, 2005) Wired News: Library Shuffles Its Collection Compendex Now Offers RSS Feeds NYTimes: NYPL Digital Gallery Numa Numa A-Book Revolution? NPR: 'A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe' In addition to an Atom feed [ http://theoretical-librarian.blogspot.com/atom.xml ], TLB now has an RSS FeedBurner feed on the blog [ http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheoreticalLibrarian ] For All The News That You Can Use, Subscribe to TLB [:-) Joy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Theoretical Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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a new biodiversity website
by M P Tapaswi 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Dear Colleagues, We have revised a our biodiversity website for Mangroves of India (http://www.mangroveindia.org). Your comments to further improve upon would be very valuable. With warm regards, Murari P Tapaswi National Info Centre for Marine Sciences (NICMAS) National Institute of Oceanography Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, India Phone: 91-(0)832-2450275 (Direct); 91-(0)832-2450450 (EPBX) Fax: 91-(0)832-2450605/603 URL: www.nio.org

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