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Radio Talk on 23rd April 2004
by Mailing List Manager 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 11:14:07 +0530 From: Srels <srels(a)blr.vsnl.net.in> A Radio Talk on World Book and Copy Right Day by Dr. K.N. Prasad, Executive Officer, Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore will be broadcast on 23rd (Friday) April 2004 at 9.16 p.m. by the All-India Radio, Bangalore Centre. Dr. K.N. Prasad SRELS, Bangalore

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webometric - books or articls
by Mailing List Manager 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:57:52 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Thajudin S" <thaj60(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Sir I would like to know more about webometric methodology. I request that available literature may please send to me. Thanking you THAJUDIN CPCRI REGIONAL STATION KRISNAPURAM PO KAYANKULAM - 690533 KERALA

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Forwarded mail....
by Mailing List Manager 19 Apr '04

19 Apr '04

Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 10:14:13 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Hanamanthraya Biradar" <biradar_76(a)yahoo.co.in> dear friends, i am in need of a patent numbers regarding US patent number so &so in the subject field of chemistry, pharmacy, & health sciences. please inform me the specific websites in this concern as soon as possible & how to down load those articles also. thanking you Hanamanthraya Biradar

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Free Book Cable an autobiography (Digital format only)
by Mailing List Manager 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:22:52 +0530 From: Satish Hulyalkar <satish(a)vsnl.com> Dear Friends, "Cable An Autobiography" booklet written by Mr. V M Gogte is now available for reading on line/download for those interested. We all know cable (TV, Telephone, Electric, Fiber etc) plays an important role in our day to day life. Mr. V. M. Gogte who has spent his life in telecommunications has written this book to explain some plain and simple facts about cable in this book for lay man. He has granted me rights to be made available for reading free of cost, specially to school and college students interested in telecommunications. Those interested will find this at http://www.SatishHulyalkar.com/downloads/cable.pdf with regards Satish Hulyalkar Consultant Telecom & Knowledge Management Enhancing Office Productivity through Training and Coaching Pune/India Phone: +91 (20) 567 4343 Mobile: +91 98223-41468 http://www.SatishHulyalkar.com _________________________________________________________________

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Google experiments with Fulltext eprint archives retrieval (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:44:02 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> >From Chronicle of Hugher EDucation: April 9, 2004 Website:http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php?id=uqhyv7n4hnlw9ke78oapjlpbflewz 7dm (The URL given above is a temporary URL valid for a few days as free source for fulltext for everyone, but the fulltext is available to subscribers permanantly at some other URL. URL given here only to show the source) Google, the popular search-engine company, has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 16 other universities around the world to provide a way to search the institutions' collections of scholarly papers, according to university officials. A pilot test of the project is just getting under way. If all goes as planned, the search feature could appear on Google in a few months, said MacKenzie Smith, associate director of technology for MIT's libraries. She said the search would probably be an option on Google's advanced-search page. <http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en> "A lot of times the richest scholarly literature is buried" in search-engine results, said Ms. Smith. "As more and more content is on the Web, it's harder and harder to find the high-quality stuff that you need." Google has long indexed university Web pages, but the new project will allow users to direct their searches to on-campus repositories of scholarly materials, sometimes known as superarchives. Those archives contain copies of academic papers, technical reports, drafts of articles, and other work by a university's professors. Scholars can choose whether their works will be available to all Internet users or only to others on their own campuses. The participating universities have tagged all the materials in their superarchives with "metadata tags" -- hidden codes that contain catalog information and summaries -- that can help a search engine like Google's sort through the material. MIT has developed free software, called DSpace, <http://www.dspace.org/> that colleges and universities can use to set up superarchives. About 125 universities have done so, but no one had created a tool that searches across the archives, said Ms. Smith. So far, each of the 17 participating institutions has, on average, about 1,000 papers in its archive, said Ms. Smith. But she said the collections are growing rapidly. "It's going to scale up pretty fast over the next few years," she said. Ms. Smith said the universities also plan to work with providers of other search engines. "It's not like we're working on an exclusive arrangement with Google," she said, adding that the universities are neither being paid nor paying for the arrangement. "We may even do our own thing over time" to search across the archives, she said. In the pilot test, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc., a nonprofit library organization, has set up a search process that will serve as an interface between Google and the universities. "This will make it a lot easier to find a particular article," said Thomas Hickey, a chief scientist for OCLC. Ms. Smith said that she hopes to include all 125 DSpace users in the search tool in the future. Officials at Google could not be reached for comment. Besides MIT's, <https://dspace.mit.edu/> the institutional archives that will be included in the pilot test are at: * Australian National University <http://dspace.anu.edu.au/> * Cornell University <http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/> * Cranfield University <http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk> * European University Institute <http://cadmus.iue.it/dspace/> * Hong Kong University of Science and Technology <http://repository.ust.hk/index.jsp> * Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis <https://dspace.iupui.edu/> * Minho University <https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/> * Ohio State University <https://dspace.lib.ohio-state.edu/index.jsp/> * Parma University <http://dspace-unipr.cilea.it:8080/> * University of Arizona <https://dlearn.arizona.edu/> * University of Calgary <https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/> * University of Oregon <https://ir.uoregon.edu:8443/dspace/> * University of Rochester <https://dspace.lib.rochester.edu/> * University of Toronto <https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/> * University of Washington <https://digital.lib.washington.edu/dspace/> * University of Wisconsin <http://dspace.library.wisc.edu/dspace/> Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, Turkapally Village, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residece: +91(40)27846631

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New Center of Digital Knowledge for Public Health Brings Latest Research to Practitioners
by Mailing List Manager 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:06:03 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: I received this in the mail from a discussion list I belong to. You may find it useful. Arun New Center of Digital Knowledge for Public Health Brings Latest Research to Practitioners April 13, 2004 SLU Receives $400K Donation From Sun Microsystems ST. LOUIS -- Do patients always benefit from the latest scientific research and medical discoveries? The alarming answer is "no," says the dean of Saint Louis University School of Public Health. "It takes an average of 17 years to introduce newly discovered, effective clinical interventions in routine patient care, " said Dr. E. Andrew Balas. "The latest research results and medical discoveries are released so rapidly that health practitioners cannot learn and implement the new information fast enough." As a solution to this problem, the Saint Louis University School of Public Health will establish a new Center of Digital Knowledge for Public Health. This center will provide computer resources to assist key people in health care concerned about public health issues. It also will assist in disease surveillance, and provide access to a public health digital library and interactive digital resources for public health practitioners. The center will offer training opportunities in public health informatics, a science concerned with the gathering, manipulation, and storage of recorded health knowledge. Future public health leaders as well as current professionals will be able to take advantage of these opportunities. Read more: http://www.slu.edu/readstory/newsinfo/4175 <http://www.slu.edu/readstory/newsinfo/4175> Thanks, Bob

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FW: [DIGITALDIVIDE] EBSCO Provides Databases for Iraqi Universiti es (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:43:43 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is a news story I received in my mail through another discussion list I belong to. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] EBSCO Provides Databases for Iraqi Universities Wednesday, April 14, 2004 Ipswich Chronicle <http://www.townonline.com/ipswich/news/local_regional/ ips_newicebscoje04142004.htm> A shorter URL for the link above: <http://snipurl.com/5q51> As part of the Al Sharaka Program for Higher Education in Iraq, an important initiative undertaken by USAID and universities making up the Oklahoma Higher Education Partners, all non-commercial institutions in Iraq have instant access to a wealth of information through participation by EBSCO Publishing, based in Ipswich. Al Sharaka has partnered with EBSCO such that Iraqi universities, schools and public libraries gain unlimited online access to complete articles from thousands of journals, magazines, reference books, country reports and other information sources covering virtually every subject area. This critical information is available in specific databases through the Web-based research system, EBSCOhost. >From business and financial information to psychological and sociological literature, to the hard sciences of chemistry, physics, medicine, engineering and much more, EBSCOhost provides access to the world's most valued information sources for any university, school or public library researcher. Databases available to institutions in Iraq include: Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, MasterFILE Premier and MEDLINE. ----------------------------------------------------- The full article may be read at the URL above. For more information, visit: http://www.ebsco.com Sincerely, David Dillard Temple University (215) 204 - 4584 jwne(a)astro.temple.edu <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NetGold/> <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html> <http://www.kovacs.com/medref-l/medref-l.html>

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Interesting article on Google
by Mailing List Manager 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 23:12:58 +0530 From: Vasumathi Sriganesh <vasu(a)qmedin.com> Dear colleagues, Trust this sounds good to all library & information professionals! http://www.masshightech.com/displayarticledetail.asp?art_id=64126&cat_ id=172 Regards Vasumathi Sriganesh Director, QMed Services Pvt. Ltd. A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India Ph: 91-22-28229223 Fax: 91-22-28224358 Email: vasu(a)qmedin.com, Web: www.qmedin.com

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**OAI Data Providers: General**
by Mailing List Manager 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:27:55 -0500 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> **OAI Data Providers: General** I am pleased to announce the publication and availability of my latest eProfile column from _Library Hi Tech News_: Gerry McKiernan. "Open Archives Initiative Data Providers. Part I. General," _Library Hi Tech News_ 21 no. 3 (April 2004): 11-19. A copy of the article has been self-archived at http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-DP-I.pdf In this first of a planned three part series on OAI Data Providers I profile: Digital Library of the Commons [ http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/ ] E-LIS: Eprints in Library and Information Science [ http://eprints.rclis.org/ ] INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collection [ http://infomine.ucr.edu/ ] Open Video Project [ http://www.open-video.org/ ] . Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan PDB Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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NCSI's IKM Course Advertisement
by Francis Jayakanth 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Dear Member: The advertisement for the next batch of training programme on "Information and Knowledge Management (IKM)", offered by the National Centre for Science information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, has already appeared in the leading national and local news papers, and also in the English/Hindi/Urdu editions of employment news. A copy of the advertisement is furnished below with a request to provide a wide publicity for the training programme. Thanks & Regards, - Francis NCSI, IISc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advertisement ------------- NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENCE INFORMATION (NCSI) INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE BANGALORE- 560012 REQUIRES TRAINEES for the "Information and Knowledge Management (IKM)" training programme of NCSI Advt. No.R(IB)008-3/2004. No. of positions: 08 [GEN-03, OBC-01, SC-1 and Sponsored Candidates-03] Minimum Qualifications: 1. Ist Class Bachelor's Degree in Science (B.Sc) with Master's Degree in Library/Information Science or Associateship in Documentation/Information Science awarded by DRTC or INSDOC with a minimum of IInd Class. One or two years of experience in a Library/Information Centre and basic knowledge of computers is desirable. OR Ist Class B.E., M.B.B.S., or M.Sc with a minimum of one year experience in information handling. 2. SC candidates with pass class will also be considered. 3. The sponsored candidates should forward their application through the proper channel. No stipend will be paid to the sponsored candidates. Training is for a period of 18 months w.e.f. 01.08.2004 on a stipend of Rs.5,000/- per month (Fixed). Please visit our website at http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/training/ for more details. [Please note that the above website address is meant only for IKM training programme of NCSI - item # II in the advertisement. Also, Applications sent by email attachments and/or by emails *WILL NOT* be entertained]. GENERAL CONDITIONS Those who have completed their qualifying examination and awarded the degree only need apply. The Institute will have no obligation to absorb them on completion of the training. No accommodation will be available on the Institute campus during the training programme. Candidates who are willing to be considered strictly on the aforesaid conditions may send their application in plain paper with details of their (I) Name, (ii) Date of Birth, (iii) Address, (iv) Educational Qualifications (indicating examinations passed, year, percentage and class obtained since SSLC/Matriculation), (v) Caste(SC/ST/OBC/GEN) (vi) Copy of the medical certificate in the prescribed form issued by the Competent Medical Authority for the purpose of employment in the case of PH candidates, together with xerox copies of Marks Card, Certificates to THE ASSISTANT REGISTRAR, UNIT-lB, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, BANGALORE - 560 012 on or before 30.04.2004. ----------------------- Dated: 01.04.2004 REGISTRAR

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Free Books for Libraries
by Mailing List Manager 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:44:57 +0530 From: Monitor Information Services <emonitor(a)sancharnet.in> 16 April 2004 Dear Friends Continuing with our last year effort, this year we are once again offering Free Books on various subjects to deserving institutional libraries. Kindly provide us your area of interest thus enabling us to send appropriate books to you Free of Cost. Even the freight/post/courier charges will be paid by us. Please note that we are unable to provide List of Titles available in this lot and your subjects/areas , information will be useful in selecting free books for you byour trained staff. Best Wishes Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing Monitor Information Services library suppliers of books n cd-rom's 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda , Hyderabad 500 029 T: 040 - 55787065 : 040 - 27552390 F: +91-40-27569299 http://www.monitorinfo.com

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Invitation to National Mission for Manuscripts Forumfor Library scientists to stand
by rama.budihal＠wipro.com 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Dear Shafi, The idea is to join the National Mss Mission forum and to contribute for standardization of Meta data, classfication, cataloging in machine readable etc., along with other set of subject experts, scholars and manuscriptologists that is most suited for Indian Mss. Hope this clarifies. Best regards, Rama -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Mailing List Manager Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 12:10 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Invitation to National Mission for Manuscripts Forumfor Library scientists to stand Date: 13 Apr 2004 09:16:23 -0000 From: Dr. S M.SHAFI <shafi_sm(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Rama We could not understand the mail whether u are interested in developing metadata set for manuscripts databases or to help natioanl Mission of manuscripts in designing digital library etc or organise a different forum . It seems confusing . please clarify as we are concerned and interested in preservation , digitization and delivery of mss here as well Thanks s m shafi >You are welcome to participate in a National Forum for preservation, >conservation and Digitization of Manuscripts of India located in India >and abroad. On Feb 7th 2003, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Honorable Prime >Minister of India launched the National Mission for Manuscripts [truncated] _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Confidentiality Notice The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender at Wipro or Mailadmin(a)wipro.com immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments.

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Japan Ponders Starting a Global Journal
by Mailing List Manager 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:45:05 +0530 From: Krishnan <krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in> Interesting news item from Science =96 12th March 2004 issue TOKYO--Does a country need to publish its own internationally recognized journals to be a scientific power? Last month a group of Japanese scientists debated that question at a symposium and wound up offering a tentative "yes." Supporters argued = that publishing a top-tier international journal in English would benefit = efforts to disseminate the country's scientific achievements and strengthen = Japanese scientists' ability to evaluate and communicate research results. But = they readily admit that they have yet to address sizable logistical and = financial hurdles that such an endeavor would entail. The meeting, sponsored by an ad hoc group and held at the high-level = Science Council of Japan (SCJ), reflects growing concern about the health of the country's scientific publications. Japanese researchers and officials = are proud of the growing number of Japanese papers in top journals overseas, = and they note that the quality of an individual's publication record has = become an important element in promotion and grant decisions. Shun-Ichi Murahashi, a professor emeritus of chemistry at Okayama = University of Science and a member of an SCJ committee studying the issue, says = that the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), for example, has = grown in the last decade in part by boosting the number of papers by = Japan-based researchers. According to ACS, their share rose from 8.7% in 1997 to = 11.6% last year. "Overseas journals seem to be expanding by including more Japanese papers," Murahashi says. Over the same period, the number of Japanese authors on research papers in Science has grown by roughly = half, although the overall number of published papers has held steady. But some scientists believe that those developments mask an alarming = decline in the health of Japan's own scientific publications. The = English-language Journal of the Physical Society of Japan lost one-third of its = subscribers during the 1990s, Murahashi says, and experienced a comparable decline = in the number of papers published and their impact factor. Similar trends = are occurring at most Japanese journals. Murahashi welcomes the growing number of Japanese scientists on review boards and in editorial positions at foreign journals. But the decline = of domestic journals, he warns, shrinks the country's pool of research "assets." "It's quite clear that we need to start our own international journals," he says. Some speakers believe that a Japan-based international journal would = also result in a fairer shake for Japanese and Asian researchers. Ryoji = Noyori, a 2001 Nobel laureate in chemistry who leads the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), says that "the review process at foreign = journals is a black box" for many Japanese scientists, and he and others say they still hear occasional complaints about reviewers poaching research = results before the paper has been published.=20 Kiyoshi Kurokawa, a professor of medicine at Tokai University and = current SCJ president, is wary of such claims. He suspects that they date from decades ago and no longer reflect current practice. Instead of = complaining, he urged those interested in starting a new journal to first understand = "why Nature and Science have survived and have readers willing to pay for = their subscriptions." Both journals, he says, have earned a reputation for fairness and excellence.=20 If Japan decides to start such a journal, he suggested that it be electronic. He pointed to the popularity of J-STAGE (for Japan Science = and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic; www.jstage.jst.go.jp), a portal that provides access to the publications and news of more than = 140 Japanese societies. Each society determines what content will be = available through J-STAGE, which is operated by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), an affiliate of the Ministry of Education, and whether any restrictions should apply. In addition to making the material more accessible domestically, J-STAGE has greatly increased the foreign readership of Japanese journals. The print version of Cell Structure and Function, published by the Japan Society for Cell Biology, had a 97% Japanese readership, he notes, whereas 92% of the readers of the online version--with free and full access--are from overseas.=20 Whether electronic or print, a new journal will be expensive. Koichi Kitazawa, executive director of JST, shocked the audience by estimating = that an $18 million annual subsidy would be needed to create an interdisciplinary, international journal. His estimate, which includes = some sort of incentive plan to support successful research teams, is intended = to send a message "to people who think that it is possible to launch such a journal easily." And whereas RIKEN's Noyori believes that "strengthening = the dissemination of scientific information" should be a government = priority, Tokai's Kurokawa would prefer to see the journal pay its own way. Supporters of the idea haven't yet asked the government for money. But = one of the science community's best friends in the diet (legislature) has already signaled his support for the idea. "I recognize the need to strengthen Japan's efforts to broadcast Japanese research results to the world," Koji Omi told participants. As an added boost, Omi also proposed that granting agencies give greater weight to domestic publications when deciding which scientists to fund. Dr. S. Krishnan Head, Information Division=20 National Chemical Lab, PUNE 411008, INDIA e-mail: HYPERLINK "mailto:krish@ems.ncl.res.in"krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in HYPERLINK "http://www.ncl-india.org"http://www.ncl-india.org Tel: 020-25893457; Fax: 020-25893973 ---

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InfoWatch- March 2004
by M.R Lalitha 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Dear LIS-Forum member, The March 2004 issue of InfoWatch is now online, bringing you details of new Internet sites related to Science and Engineering. You can access the complete issue on the NCSI Web server at the URL : http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/infowatch/iw.php You will also find earlier issues of InfoWatch here. For your convenience, the table of contents is given below. If you wish to be on the mailing list of InfoWatch to receive the complete issue by e-mail, let us know. Also mention your format preference - html or text. Regards -Lalitha M.R lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ------------------------------------------------------------------------ InfoWatch Tracking Networked Scientific Information Sources and Services (An electronic update service brought to you by NCSI) Mar 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue: 1. Amethyst galleries - Mineral gallery 2. Aqua Data Studio - Database query tool 3. Crystal structure database 4. Earth Observing System (EOS) Aura [NASA mission to study the Earth's ozone, air quality and climate] 5. Electronics zone [A source of reference to engineers] 6. FOLDOC - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing 7. GeneTests [Medical genetics information resource] 8. Handbook of User-Centred Design 9. ITPRC.COM - The Information Technology Professional's Resource Center 10. KillerInfo - A meta search engine with clustering 11. libquantum - The C library for quantum computing 12. NetRexx programming language 13. PEERS - Physics Encyclopedia of Email Records 14. ProTherm - Thermodynamic database for proteins and mutants 15. Sedna [A new planet in the solar system discovered by astronomers from Caltech, Gemini Observatory and Yale University] 16. Silent PC Review.Com 17. SIMBAD Astronomical database 18. TOP500 Supercomputer sites 19. Topix.net - Pick your topic, get the news 20. VNC - Virtual Network Computing software ------------------------------------------------------------------------ About InfoWatch : InfoWatch is a monthly electronic newsletter, brought out by the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, INDIA. Information in the newsletter is collected and verified by NCSI staff.The newsletter aims to raise awareness of new sources of information on the Internet, particularly those which are relevant for higher education and research. Some items may be of relevance only to the IISc community.Resources reported here have been taken from various discussion lists and other network tools and no special claims are made for accuracy or originality. Most of the sources cited in the newsletter were checked at the time of publication, however it is possible that some of the resources are no longer available. We welcome comments about the newsletter and suggestions for resources to be featured. Please e-mail your comments to Infowatch editors: Ms. K. Thulasi (thulasi(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) & Ms. M. R. Lalitha (lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Invitation to National Mission for Manuscripts Forum for Library scientists to stand
by Mailing List Manager 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Date: 13 Apr 2004 09:16:23 -0000 From: Dr. S M.SHAFI <shafi_sm(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Rama We could not understand the mail whether u are interested in developing metadata set for manuscripts databases or to help natioanl Mission of manuscripts in designing digital library etc or organise a different forum . It seems confusing . please clarify as we are concerned and interested in preservation , digitization and delivery of mss here as well Thanks s m shafi >You are welcome to participate in a National Forum for preservation, >conservation and Digitization of Manuscripts of India located in India >and abroad. >On Feb 7th 2003, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Honorable Prime Minister of >India launched the National Mission for Manuscripts [truncated]

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FW: Invitation to National Mission for Manuscripts Forum for Library scientists to standardise on Meta Data
by Mailing List Manager 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:52:08 +0530 From: rama.budihal(a)wipro.com I think the link for people to join did not appear in the mail sent by the mailing list. So as a follow-up here it is. Welcome aboard!!! Click on the link below if you have a HTML view else kindly paste this address to you browser to subscribe http://groups.yahoo.com/group/namami_forum/join <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/namami_forum/join> Click to subscribe to namami_forum

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RE: [LIS-Forum] DDC--choice of main class
by Mailing List Manager 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:07:46 +0530 From: manish mankad <Manish.Mankad(a)unilever.com> As the central theme is on poverty alleviation ( social aspect, strategies, problems,etc.) and NOT on NGOs (i.e what they are, case studies, management thereof etc.), i would prefer the said book to be classified under Poverty. One need to ask a question: which principal group of readers will be interested in this book based on the central theme? In our case, is the book covering NGOs exhaustively enough to be the claimant for the main class or is it the poverty that gets discussed all the time ? The DDC has the principle of classifying under the respective discipline and not under subject. Hence the povery alleviation will come under the discipline of social sector/welfare (362.5) and welfare facilities will get under (362.583). This is as per DDC 20. -Manish Mankad Information Services Ext: 208/460 Tel: 022 28276208 Hindustan Lever research Centre B.D. Sawant Marg Andheri (E), Mumbai 400099 INDIA -----Original Message----- From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 5:01 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] DDC--choice of main class Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:40:06 +0530 From: prafulla(a)nisc.co.in Dear All: Here's a book title: Poverty alleviation strategies of NGOs. Should we classify this book under "poverty alleviation" or under "NGOs"? Do we have any guidelines in DDC similar to Dr Ranganathan's wall-picture, cow-calf, etc. principles which we use in CC? Please note this issue pertains not just facet sequence, but in which class should we classify a book. Any help on the above would be appreciated. Thank you Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Invitation to National Mission for Manuscripts Forum for Library scientists to standardise on Meta Data
by Mailing List Manager 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:22:07 +0530 From: rama.budihal(a)wipro.com Greetings, You are welcome to participate in a National Forum for preservation, conservation and Digitization of Manuscripts of India located in India and abroad. On Feb 7th 2003, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Honorable Prime Minister of India launched the National Mission for Manuscripts As most of you are already aware that India has a largest collection of manuscripts in the world. Composed in different Indian languages and scripts, they cover religion, philosophy, systems of science, arts and literature. Preserved in materials such as birch bark, palm leaf, cloth, wood, stone and paper, they are spread all over the country and abroad in libraries, academic institutions, museums, temples, monasteries and with individuals. Some of this wealth has disappeared, while a large portion is in a state of damage and decay. India's manuscripts wealth has to be preserved and redeemed. This forum invites active professionals from various forms of learning to help the Mission. So if you are any one of the following and want to contribute meaningfully for a National Cause please join the forum by clicking on the link below. Management Professional/consultant Library Science specialist Scholar on Indology Quality professional (such as ISO, CMM, Six-sigma etc.,) Scientist S/W professional Economist/ Financial Expert Manuscriptologist Epigraphist Archivist Linguist Archeologist/Conversationalist Social Entrepreneur Etc., Etc., Also if you feel that you can give your time for the Forum's activity such as making presentations, generating leads on where Manuscripts are available etc., you should definitely enroll into the forum. It is imperative that a necessity to establish a Digital Library of Manuscripts that are located in Mutts, Institutions, private collections etc., are need of hour for all Indians. We need more volunteers to locate and also actively participate in digitization, cataloging, conservation and anti-fumigation of the manuscripts, Mission also need volunteers from US/Europe especially in London, Germany etc., to get in touch with Universities and Libraries to collect information on Indian Manuscripts, old books etc., this magnanimous project will definitely benefit all Indians World-wide to preserve the cultural heritage of the works of our ancestors.

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Lecture invitation
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12 Apr '04

Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 13:16:39 +0530 From: Srels <srels(a)blr.vsnl.net.in> Executive Committee Prof. M.R. Kumbhar Memorial Lectures, Bangalore Cordially invites you to the Prof. M.R. Kumbhar Memorial Lectures(10) (2004) on LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION IN INDIA: SOME ISSUES by Dr. V.G. Talawar Professor, Dept. of Studies in Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Mysore Dr. T.D. Kemparaju Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science, Bangalore University Library, Bangalore presides on 16th April 2004 at 6.00 pm at Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, Upstairs, 42nd Cross, (near Syndicate Bank) III Block, Rajajinagar, BANGALORE 560 010 RSVP: 23305109

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DDC--choice of main class
by Mailing List Manager 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:40:06 +0530 From: prafulla(a)nisc.co.in Dear All: Here's a book title: Poverty alleviation strategies of NGOs. Should we classify this book under "poverty alleviation" or under "NGOs"? Do we have any guidelines in DDC similar to Dr Ranganathan's wall-picture, cow-calf, etc. principles which we use in CC? Please note this issue pertains not just facet sequence, but in which class should we classify a book. Any help on the above would be appreciated. Thank you Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Supreme court cases online-Free
by Mailing List Manager 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:44:09 +0530 From: Jayadev Kadli <jhkadli(a)hotmail.com> Dear Friends Some of you know the following website. This mail is to those who dont know about the following site. The website http://www.supremecourtonline.com/ brings the latest Cases decided by the Supreme Court of India totally FREE, with no obligations to buy or subscribe to any service. The Management and law schools, Colleges and higher studies can make use of this site for their studies. Jayadev H Kadli Librarian Lala Lajpat Rai College of Comm & Eco Opp. Haji Ali, Mahalaxmi Mumbai - 400034 ph. 24905187

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Google Webalerts
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12 Apr '04

Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:16:07 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Dear Friends: Google is experimenting with a new facility called Google Webalerts. It is at www.google.com/webalerts Like news alerts introduced some months ago, this is for monitoring new content on all websites visited by Google based on search words specified by you. Librarians can provide custom-made SDI service to customers without much efforts. Best wishes Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, Turkapally Village, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residece: +91(40)27846631

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RE: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants
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12 Apr '04

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 2:15:34 -0500 From: Atanu Garai <atanu(a)takingitglobal.org> I am not particularly aware of the incorporations of information literacy related modules in course instructions of school/undergraduate or graduate levels in S.Africa or SE Asian countries,but as you know information literacy as a precursor for making young citizens fit for the knowledge society has been promoted in US for a long time since past two decades by the LIS schools,LIS associations and even the government.Information literacy has been taught as part of curriculum even at the school level;students are encouraged to learn how to search and retreive information in very nascent stages.Whereas,lack of this skill prevents us to produce quality information literate people,even doctoral candidates lack basic information search skills. I wonder how many of our LIS schools have incoporated "information literacy" in thier course curriculum.I have gone through an LIS syllabi bank recently and have not traced a single one. It is indeed imperative to start from the LIS itself then intoducing the information literacy into other disciplines. ~Atanu -- Atanu Garai|atanu(a)takingitglobal.org http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/atanu http://www.dgroups.org/groups/education --------- Original Message -------- From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants (fwd) Date: 07/04/04 13:07 > Sir, > > Is there anything that can be done to market the OA initiative among > institutions in India ? Is it possible that we are wrong in our approach > each time ? I am talking here about the "Information literacy" competency > of our elite (the educated, of course). [truncated]

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Postponement of ASSIST National Seminar
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12 Apr '04

Date: 8 Apr 2004 04:13:33 -0000 From: Drbalabhim Shankarappa Biradar <bsbiradar53(a)rediffmail.com> � Dear Sir /Madam For Kind attention to all Library and Information Science Professionals 4th ASSIST National Seminar on "Digital Resources and Services in Libraries" which was scheduled to be held on 12-13th April 2004 has been postponed to 30th April and 1st May 2004 due to general election for Assembly and Parliament. I also request to convey this message to all professional friends Dr. B.S. Biradar Organising Secretary 4th ASSIST National Seminar and Chairman, Dept. of Library and Information Science Kuvempu University

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Online database for Indian Journals
by Mailing List Manager 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

Date: 7 Apr 2004 12:59:46 -0000 From: Subbiah Gunasekaran <gunasekaran_subbiah(a)rediffmail.com> � Dear Members: Can anyone tell me if there is any online database available for Indian Scientific journals? Thanks S. Gunasekaran

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RE: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants
by Mailing List Manager 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:24:00 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Dear Ms Chandra: Good question! We at MSSRF are holding two workshops on OA with four truly top class experts as resource persons and am insisting that each participant should set up an institutional archive after the workshop. We will provide all the software on a CD. All they need is a Linux server and a decent Internet connection. A number of institutions have sent in nominations. And more nominations are coming in every day. I am talking to key people having a big say in making science policy both here and abroad [e.g. Dr Mashelkar, Prof. Valiathan, Prof. Bruce Alberts, the Open Source Institute, the US National Academy of Sciences, InterAcademy Panel] about the need to proactively promote open access in both forms [OA journals and more importantly OA archives]. I write about OA in international media. I provide important leads to others who want to write about OA. I keep writing to librarians, heads of institutions and government officials. I am not sure if information literacy is a problem. Anyone surfing the Net or reading journals like Nature and Science will come to know of OA. Even if it were a problem, that can be set right with a little effort. Members of this list should talk about it to publishing scientists and research students, write about it and organise small group seminars in their own institutions and library associations. A few weeks ago FRONTLINE carried a detailed article on OA by one of India's best science writers. I am also not sure if open access has picked up in other countries of Asia. I am trying to organise a trination conference (Brazil, China and India) where a number of leading scientists and policymakers from these three countries will look at open access and how it can make the fie;d level playing (as far as access to information is concerned). I work with some very committed people in the UK, Canada and Europe. All of us work with hope. Eventually, many people including a majority of Indian scientists will recognise the value and usefulness of OA. Best wishes. Arun -----Original Message----- From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 1:28 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants (fwd) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 22:02:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Smita Chandra <smitac_in(a)yahoo.com> Is there anything that can be done to market the OA initiative among institutions in India ? [truncated]

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Fw: [sla-kiie] 2004 International Paper Contest
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07 Apr '04

Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 21:22:25 -0700 (PDT) From: JK Vijayakumar <vjkjk(a)yahoo.com> Appologies for cross-postings ----------------------------- 2004 International Paper Contest on International Digital Libraries and Information Science & Technology Advances in Developing Countries The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST), International Information Issues Special Interest Group (SIG-III), is pleased to announce its fifth competition for papers to be submitted for the 2004 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Providence, Rhode Island, November 13 - 18, 2004. The theme of the paper is: "Managing and Enhancing Information: Cultures and Conflicts - the developing world perspective." The paper topic could be at the country or regional level. Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on specific aspects of this theme, such as, but not limited to, the following: *Social, ethical, political, legal, and economic 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. *Information management, organization and access. *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. There will be six winners. Winners will be selected by a panel of judges, which will include Suzie Allard, University of Tennessee; Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto; Nathalie Leroy, United Nations; Duncan Omole, The World Bank; Liwen Vaughan, University of Western Ontario; and Hong Xu, University of Pittsburgh. The contest chairs are Yunfei Du, Wayne State University; Nathalie Leroy, United Nations; and Sue O'Neill Johnson, SIG-III Immediate Past Chair. 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, thanks to the continued generous support from Elsevier, 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 Providence, Rhode Island, November 13 - 18, 2004. 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, or 2003 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, 2004. Authors are encouraged to submit papers electronically. For more information or to submit manuscripts, please contact Yunfei Du, International Paper Contest Co-Chair, by e-mail at the following address: yunfei(a)wayne.edu Please check the SIG III website (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/) for a list of previous winners, sample papers, and success stories of some previous winners! ------------- J K Vijayakumar INFLIBNET

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Free Week for 24 databases
by Mailing List Manager 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 12:38:42 +0530 From: Jeetender "Vicky" Chandna <vicky(a)irft.org> Dear friends A free week of 24 databases. http://www.gale.com/nlw/-------- Coming April 18! Celebrate information with integrity - the resources in your library Thomson Gale, known around the world for information integrity, honors the nation's libraries by hosting a free-for-all - free, unlimited access to 24 diverse databases during National Library Week, April 18-24. Visit www.gale.com Regards Jeetender "Vicky" Chandna Coordinator Information Systems ------------------------------------------ INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES FOR FAIRER TRADE Sona Udyog Industrial Estate Unit No.7, Parsi Panchayat Road Andheri (E), Mumbai 400069 INDIA ------------------------------------------ Tel: (91-22) 2835 2811 / 2823 5246 Fax: (91-22) 2823 5245 Email: vicky(a)irft.org Website: http://www.irft.org ------------------------------------------

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RE: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 22:02:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Smita Chandra <smitac_in(a)yahoo.com> Sir, Is there anything that can be done to market the OA initiative among institutions in India ? Is it possible that we are wrong in our approach each time ? I am talking here about the "Information literacy" competency of our elite (the educated, of course). Information literacy has to be inherit in our information policy, which is so different that the IT policy that is often/always represented, even at forums like the WSIS. Maybe we can learn a few lessons from the way South Africa and other south east Asian countries have been doing it. Thanking you and with regards, Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 18:14:40 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam Dear Vijayakumar: We are talking to the Open Society Institute about the status of India. For the first time they may make an exception and are likely to provide partial support to our OA workshops in May. [truncated]

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RE: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants
by Mailing List Manager 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 18:14:40 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Dear Vijayakumar: We are talking to the Open Society Institute about the status of India. For the first time they may make an exception and are likely to provide partial support to our OA workshops in May. I am also talking to the National Academy of Sciences, USA, to make available PNAS free on the Internet to Indian researchers immediately on publication. Often one is confronted with the question: Have we done whatever WE COULD before seeking help from others? Often the answer is no. For example, it does not take much effort or money to set up interoperable institutional open access archives, and yet I do not know of any Indian institutional archive other than the one at IISc, B'lore. It does not take much money to make our journals open access, and yet only a small number of our journals have gone open access. I must congratulate Dr D K Sahu of Bombay who has done an excellent job in making the electronic versions of more than a dozen Indian medical journals freely accessible on the Internet. At a meeting of INDEST held on 7 October, a decision was taken to set up institutional archives in the major INDEST institutions (following the model of IISc), but so far no archive has been set up. I wrote to key persons in those institutions more than once, but I have received no reply from all but one of them (my friend Jeevan from IITKh). Incidentally, international connections do not play much of a role in getting things done; persistence does. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] -----Original Message----- From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 10:20 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 03:44:43 -0800 (PST) From: JK Vijayakumar <vjkjk(a)yahoo.com> George Soros is founder and chairman of the Open Society Institute and the Soros foundations network (http://www.soros.org/)Soros foundations are autonomous institutions established in particular countries or regions to initiate and support open society activities. The priorities and specific activities of each Soros foundation are determined by a local board of directors and staff in consultation with George Soros and OSI boards and advisors. As per the guidelines the fundings will go to the countries where Soros Network is active.Unfortunately India is not covered under this catagory (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/grants.shtml) I hope Shri Arun can utilise his international relations in open access initiative to activate Soros network in India, and then ask for fundings. > India is again excluded as was done earlier > with HINARI and AGORA! > > Arun _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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website of the Indian Journal of Pediatrics
by Mailing List Manager 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 18:55:37 +0530 From: Bala G Subramanian <balagsub(a)in.ibm.com> pleased to announce the launch of a new version of the website of the Indian Journal of Pediatrics. The site address would remain same [ http://www.ijppediatricsindia.org/>]. The features of the new site include: Free full text availability of articles accessible without login (Registration required only to access PDF; registration is free) Search across multiple journals [Journal of Postgraduate Medicine ( www.jpgmonline.com), Neurology India (www.neurologyindia.com), Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology ( www.ijdvl.com), Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine ( www.ijccm.org) and Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery (www.ijps.org). Direct link to abstracts and full text from the cited references Facility to submit comments on articles Email notifications on new issue release Statistics of articles download and visits Better user interface and structure based on OpenURL, DC Metadata and other international standards As a registered user with the old site you get the priviledge to continue the free and unrestricted usage of the scientific content of the journal. To confirm your re-registration, please click on the link below: http://www.ijppediatricsindia.org/verify.asp?id=145029-203.199.114.103 Thanks and Regards G.Balasubramanian Librarian, COC, India Learning Centre, IBM India Pvt Ltd., #99, Residency Road, Bangalore - 25. Ph: 91-080-2073504 ID:balagsub@in.ibm.com

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FW: Current Cites, March 2004
by Mailing List Manager 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 07:33:44 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is something most lis-forum members would find useful. Best wishes and happy reading. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Current Cites Volume 15, no. 3, March 2004 Edited by [2]Roy Tennant The Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720 ISSN: 1060-2356 - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2004/cc04.15.3.html Contributors: [3]Charles W. Bailey, Jr., [4]Terry Huwe, [5]Shirl Kennedy, [6]Leo Robert Klein, [7]Roy Tennant [8]Nature Web Focus: Access to the Literature: The Debate Continues (2004) - Nature is offering a new series of freely available commissioned papers by noted authors on open access and other innovative publishing business models. Current contributions include "[9]Open Access and Learned Societies"; "[10]Open Access and Not-for-Profit Publishers"; "[11]Open Access: Yes, No, Maybe"; "[12]Universities' Own Electronic Repositories Yet to Impact on Open Access"; "[13]Why Electronic Publishing Means People Will Pay Different Prices"; and other papers. There are also useful links to related articles and resources. Like prior Nature debates on electronic publishing issues, this one is lively and very interesting. - [14]CB [15]Computers in Libraries 2004 Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2004. (http://www.infotoday.com/cil2004/presentations/). - Many of the presentations from this conference, held March 10-12, 2004 in Washington DC are available in either PowerPoint or Adobe Acrobat format, or both. Handouts are also often available, as well as the occasional Perl script. The topics range widely from strategies for keeping up to blogs to dead and emerging technologies. There is, in other words, something here for just about anyone. - [16]RT [17]Museums and the Web 2004 Toronto, ON: Archives and Museums Informatics, 2004. (http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/sessions/). - A number of the presentations at this conference are online in HTML as contributed papers. Although many of the topics are perhaps of interest mostly to museums or archives, there are other topics (e.g., building accessible web sites) that cross those boundaries. - [18]RT [19]Thinking Beyond Digital Libraries - Designing the Information Strategy for the Next Decade: Proceedings of the 7th International Bielefeld Conference Bielefeld, Germany: Bielefeld University Library, February 2004. (http://conference.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/proceedings/). - The presentations from this conference are available in PowerPoint format. A few also have the speakers remarks available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. Speakers include university professors, academic library directors, and high-level managers of library-related non-profits and commercial companies (e.g., Jay Jordan, President and CEO of OCLC). - [20]RT [21]METS Opening Day Washington, DC: Library of Congress, October 2003. (http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/od1_ppts.html). - A number of the PowerPoint presentations from the first "METS Opening Day" for the emerging standard Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) are available. Topics include an introduction to METS, building METS by hand, METS profiles, METS repositories, and METS case studies. A second METS Opening Day will be occuring on April 8 and 9 at Stanford University, with those presentations likely to be available shortly thereafter at the [22]METS web site. - [23]RT Christiansen, Donald. "[24]Ephemera for Engineers and Scientists" [25]Today's Engineer (IEEE) (February 2004) (http://www.todaysengineer.org/feb04/backscatter.asp). - It's not news to those of us in the information profession -- the fact that when it comes to Web-based resources, it's too often a case of here today, gone tomorrow. How many times have you spotted an interesting article while out surfing and, when you wanted to go back to it later on, you could no longer find it? Even if you saved the link, the link no longer works. While this is an annoyance when it comes to our everyday web browsing, it can be a disaster for resarch and scholarship. "Many technical articles now include references to Internet addresses, as opposed to hard-copy resources," the author correctly points out. But when authors or readers attempt to access these URLs at a later time, they have effectively vanished into cyberspace. The author cites a [26]study done at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in which researchers checked articles that appeared in Science, the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine. They found "that 3.8 percent of Internet references were inactive three months after journal publication, 10 percent after 15 months and 13 percent after 27 months." While there are ways of tracking these things down after the fact -- the author gives some suggestions, most would agree that this is a tremendous waste of time and energy. A solution, he says, may come in the form of "Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), the Uniform Resource Name (URN) syntax or the Persistent Uniform Resource Locator (PURL)." - [27]SK Dilevko, Juris, and Lisa Gottlieb. "Selection and Cataloging of Adult Pornography Web Sites for Academic Libraries" [28]Journal of Academic Librarianship 30(1) (January 2004): 36-50. - The authors argue that as interest in adult porn studies proliferates on campus, librarians are challenged to provide support material. The authors delineate various criteria for selecting subject-specific Web sites, reminding us that while the sites themselves may not be scholarly, they may still "represent a type of cultural artifact worthy of (and currently the subject of) scholarly inquiry." Catalogers will appreciate the extensive discussion on subject access in this area. The inclusion of material like this in the academic library's catalog would, we are told, "facilitate scholarly research in this area and fill a prominent gap in the library's collection." (Available through ScienceDirect.) - [29]LRK Ebare, Sean. "[30]Digital Music and Subculture: Sharing Files, Sharing Styles" [31]First Monday 9(2) (2 February 2004) (http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_2/ebare/index.html). - The author takes a fresh look at online music sharing communities, applying theories from popular music studies and cyberethnography. He explores how identity and difference, subculture and genre lifespans, and the political economy of technology and music production combine to influence the use of music on the Internet. Identity is more fluid, and anonymity more prevalent, making the music sharing community somewhat unique. He argues that the subculture of music sharing user-driven and that the ability to forecast how this community behaves will be invaluable for both music publishers and social scientists. He offers his own forecast on the future marketplace for music sharing, arguing that it will depend upon an understanding of the diversity of the members, their need for self-determination, and the mandate to allow these communities to exercise a substantial degree of independence within their online experience. - [32]TH Feldman, Susan. "[33]The High Cost of Not Finding Information" [34]KMWorld Magazine 13(3) (March 2004) (http://www.kmworld.com/publications/magazine/index.cfm?action=read article&Article_ID=1725&Publication_ID=108). - "There are all kinds of information disasters. Some are caused by wrong information. Some are caused by outdated information.... Missing or incomplete information plagues many projects..... Finally, there is the increasing problem of too much in formation." Some interesting statistics here: -- "(R)oughly 50% of most Web searches are abandoned." -- "Knowledge workers spend from 15% to 35% of their time searching for information." -- "Searchers are successful in finding what they seek 50% of the time or less...." -- "40% of corporate users reported that they can not find the information they need to do their jobs on their intranets." -- "Not locating and retrieving information has an opportunity cost of more than $15 million annually." -- "Some studies suggest that 90% of the time that knowledge workers spend in creating new reports or other products is spent in recreating information that already exists." - [35]SK Fiehn, Barbara. "[36]Federated Searching: A Viable Alternative to Web Surfing" [37]TechNewsWorld (21 March 2004) (http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/33160.html). - You'll be hearing lots more about federated search. Simple definition -- searching a variety of resources (databases, OPACs, the Web) from a single interface. This article (which originally appeared in the April 2004 issue of [38]MultiMedia & Internet@Schools but is not online there) focuses on school library media centers and the products available for that market. But it is worth reading by all information professionals since it presents a good overview of the topic and explains some of the pros and cons. The biggest advantage is the most obvious -- no need for the end user to hop from resource to resource in order to access all that an institution has available online. Some vendors' products will group results by source which, in essence, can show the user which resources are likely to be most useful for his/her particular information need. And the user only has to learn one search interface. But single-interface searching also has some downsides. Federated search technology is not quite "there" yet as far as relevance and de-duping are concerned. Also, the single interface may not permit the end user to take advantage of whatever sophisticated search features are offered by the individual resources. And this relatively new technology may prove challenging for librarians and IT people alike. If you don't have adequate in-house resources, hosting solutions may be available. - [39]SK Kurlantzick, Joshua. "[40]Dictatorship.com: The Web Won't Topple Tyranny" [41]The New Republic (25 March 2004) (http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?pt=oGG%2BvQEIjJRNjHGlOJiX4X%3D%3D). - As a tool to disseminate popular culture, the Internet has had spectacular success, even in "authoritarian nations" such as Laos, China, Singapore and Saudi Arabia. But, the author points out, its political impact has been negligible and, in some cases, "the Internet actually may be helping dictatorships remain in power." This in spite of the fact that pundits have been touting the political potential of the Net since it became more or less a mass medium in the mid-90s. Although "Internet usage has surged in many authoritarian nations," it has had little impact on "the political climate." Why? Because, the author says, it is not particularly useful "for expressing and organizing dissent," and -- technologically -- "it has proved surprisingly easy for authoritarian regimes to stifle, control, and co-opt." The author points out that the Internet is mainly used for individual rather than group activities. As one Laotian researcher quoted here observes, the Internet "is about people sitting in front of a terminal, barely interacting." Also, using the Net requires a relatively high level of literacy. The author provides examples of how different nations have attempted to control access to and content on the Internet, particularly China -- "Despite President Clinton's prediction, Beijing has proved that it can, in fact, nail Jell-O to the wall." And Western companies have proven only too eager "to sell the latest censorship technology" to any oppressive regime willing to ante up. Some dissidents claim the Internet actually facilitates monitoring of individuals by the government. Fascinating read; a don't-miss. - [42]SK Seebach, Peter. "[43]The Cranky User: Businesses Behaving Badly : Put Customers First Or Risk Losing Them" [44]developerWorks (4 March 2004) (http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-cranky38.html ). - The "Cranky User" is an occasional column on IBM's extremely helpful developerWorks site (the [45]Ease of Use section is wonderful). In this missive, the Cranky User complains about poor customer service. Poor customer service is a kind of action on the part of a company that produces a reaction in the customer, namely, a negative reaction. While I don't particularly agree with his example near the end of the column where he complains about contact email addresses being replaced by web forms, the notion that bad institutional practices have negative consequences is important to keep in mind. - [46]LRK Wells, Catherine A. "Location, Location, Location: The Importance of Placement of the Chat Request Button. " Reference & User Services Quarterly 43(2) (Winter 2003): 133-137. - Concerned that Chat Reference wasn't being used as much as expected, librarians at Case Western Reserve began experimenting with the size, shape, location and frequency of placement of the Chat Reference button on their site. They eventually found, perhaps to no one's surprise, that usage went up if the button appeared on the most heavily trafficked pages (home page, catalog page, database page). 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Google's Gmail arriving shortly
by Shyam Prasad pujar 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

Dear Members, Google is launching an e-mail service. Presently in beta testing, has the following features. Search, don't sort. Use Google search to find the exact message you want, no matter when it was sent or received. Don't throw anything away. 1000 megabytes of free storage so you'll never need to delete another message. Keep it all in context. Each message is grouped with all its replies and displayed as a conversation. No pop-up ads. No banners. You see only relevant text ads and links to related web pages of interest. For more information, please have a look at: http://gmail.google.com http://www.google.com/gmail/help/about.html Regards, S.M. Pujar ********************************************************************** Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * Phone: (022) 28400919-21 Extn: 514 * * Fax: (022) 28402752 * * E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in * * URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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2005 IFLA/OCLC Fellows Program
by Mailing List Manager 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:57:08 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> 2005 IFLA/OCLC Fellows Program Deadline Approaching ATLA seeks theological librarians for a new fifth fellowship The deadline to apply for the 2005 IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program is rapidly approaching. Complete applications, which include a cover sheet, a résumé, an essay of 1,000 words or less about the applicants professional plans and three letters of recommendation, must be submitted by Friday, April 23, 2004. Only complete applications will be considered. The Fellowship Program provides early career development and continuing education for library and information science professionals from countries with developing economies. OCLC and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions are happy to welcome a third sponsor for the 2005 program. This year, a fifth Fellow will be selected thanks to the generosity of the American Theological Library Association (ATLA). Established in 1946, ATLA is a professional association of more than 800 individual, institutional and affiliate members providing programs, products and services in support of theological and religious studies libraries and librarians. ATLAs ecumenical membership represents many religious traditions and denominations. Announcement http://www.ifla.org/V/press/pr110304.htm 2005 IFLA/OCLC Fellows Program Deadline Approaching Application information is available at: http://tinyurl.com/2oe55 or http://www.oclc.org/institute/resources/fellowships/ifla/default.htm More information at: http://www.ifla.org/III/grants/ecdf.htm

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DRTC COLLOQUIUM ON ICT FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
by Mailing List Manager 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:07:41 -0800 (PST) From: rajesh mishra <rajesh_mishra61(a)yahoo.com> INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Banglore-560059 DRTC Colloquium on ICT FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ABSTRACT The difference of classes has brought about the phenomenon of Digital Divide. This phenomenon made information accessible only to a few communities. Information Communication Technology (ICT) is one approach to fill this divide. This colloquium is an attempt to look closely at use of ICT to fill Digital Divide and various social and economic challenges associated to it. SPEAKERS TOPICS 1. Rajesh Mishra Overview on ICT 2. Sarandha Singh Digital Divide 3. Ravinder ICT Policies and Development 4. Rashid Hussain ICT Education and Training 5. Amit Jha ICT Models and Tools Venue: DRTC Classroom Date: 2nd Apr. 2004 Time: 2.00 PM All are cordially invited Dr. Devika P. Madalli

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Open access - Comments on the posting of Arun, Chan and Barbara (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:39:51 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here are some comments on one of our earlier postings. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --------- Just some clarification on the posting of Subbiah Arunachalam, Leslie Chan, and Barbara Kirsop. Open Access to scientific documents as the solution for making articles visible to other users and thus maximizing their reading and citation (scientific impact) may involve various different forms of document space, effort-levels by the authors or their institutions, and degrees of success in achieving the aims of OA. 1. AUTHOR SELF-ARCHIVED, UNTAGGED PAPERS. The largest space of documents is raw, untagged preprints and scientific reports self-archived by their authors on their institution's webserver (e.g. on their research group's website). For Physics alone, we have already collected more than 500,000 such documents. These are harvestable with almost zero effort by our web crawlers. With Physnet <http://www.physnet.net> we have achieved already have almost complete coverage in some areas of Physics. (Clearly, however, the crawler of such websites can only be as good as the native language assistance offered to us: check a Finnish author!) Since the authors often provide their publication lists on their local websites, information on journal articles is also harvested. But because such authors have made no effort to tag their documents with metadata, retrieval is somewhat fuzzy -- yet almost complete for field-specific search engines such as PhysNet (started in 1995; but not so with google, scirus, etc.). 2. AUTHOR SELF-ARCHIVED, LIGHTLY TAGGED PAPERS. More functionality can be gained if the author adds some metadata, e.g., by using a web template such as <http://www.isn-oldenburg.de/services/mmm/> and adding that to his document source code or by using a shadow file that points to the document. (See <http://www.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/hydro/main_public.html> [year 2002 and earlier] In case an author finds this too tedious, we [the ISN] will do it for your lists!) At the moment, in physics the portion of the document space provided in this form is under 10%. Visibility is much increased, since most search engines understand these metadata, thus they rank them favourably. Costs are small. Let as call 1 and 2 "individual author self-archiving." 3. INSTITUTIONAL OAI-COMPLIANT SELF-ARCHIVING. A University, Research Institute, Department, or University Library may set up an OAI-compliant data provider. The local document space is small; visibility is excellent because of the systematically added metadata, the larger public visibility of the institution as such, and easy retrievability by OAI service providers. This is Distributed institutional self-archiving and it increasing exponentially currently: <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0043.gif> <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0036.png> <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0037.png> <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0023.gif> Costs may be larger (because library employees' salaries are involved). 4. CENTRAL OAI-COMPLIANT SELF-ARCHIVING. Authors send their documents to central archives, such as <http://www.arXiv.org> or the new European HAL <http://hal.ccsd.cnrs.fr> operated by the CCSD, supported by the French central research ageny CNRS, and under the auspices of the EPS with regard to physics. Costs depend on services (e.g., time stamp, permanent archiving, retrieval) and these are paid by the server's institution. Coverage is even smaller (ArXiv has some 269,439 documents to date) -- about 15% of physics journal publications at to date, but this may increase exponentially as more and more content authors convince others. 5. PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARCHIVES. The costs depend on the services offered. The prices charged are known. ACP (Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics) <http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/acp/> has pretty much automatized the processing and covers its costs with $20 per page paid by the author, serving the journal open-access, with features such as several levels of refereeing, annotations, communications added by readers, etc. The Journals doing this form of archiving may be: (A) OPEN-ACCESS JOURNALS ('gold' journals in the Harnad and Romeo color-code), sometimes recovering costs by charging authors. Physics has 66 gold journals by now; see <http://de.physnet.net/PhysNet/journals.html> (B) TOLL-ACCESS JOURNALS ('green' journals in the Harnad and Romeo color-code), charging the reader but endorsing individual-article self-archiving by the author in one form or other (see the ROMEO list). <http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/Romeo%20Publisher%2 0Policies.htm> Now to close with some speculations about possible future scenarios for journal publishing: Since the refereeing normally takes place (and so it should) *after* the preprint is self-archived on the web in one of the above ways, refereeing can be much improved and diversified and can take its time (as it does with ACP <http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/acp/publication_process.html> ). Subscribing to a journal is thereby decoupled from gaining access to the information content of the raw document, and money is spent only on the refereeing and polishing, as well as the archiving of the document. Such a process of publicly self-archiving a document first and getting it refereed afterward would save money with which institutional libraries could subscribe to journals and would allow those publishers to flourish who add real value. The expert would gain the desired document directly from the author's website or elsewhere using search engines. Small departments in remote countries would be able to get the unrefereed information without having to pay, but they would miss the real added-value services. Eberhard R. Hilf, Dr. Prof.; CEO (Geschaeftsfuehrer) Institute for Science Networking Oldenburg GmbH an der Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Ammerlaender Heerstr.121; D-26129 Oldenburg ISN-home: <http://www.isn-oldenburg.de/> homepage: <http://isn-oldenburg.de/~hilf> email : hilf(a)isn-oldenburg.de </ym/Compose?To=hilf(a)isn-oldenburg.de&YY=48797&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&vi ew=a&head=b> tel : +49-441-798-2884 fax : +49-441-798-5851

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Postponement of 4th ASSIST National Seminar
by Mailing List Manager 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

Date: 30 Mar 2004 13:29:55 -0000 From: Drbalabhim Shankarappa Biradar <bsbiradar53(a)rediffmail.com> Postponement of 4th ASSIST National Seminar As a part of Kuvempu Birth Centenary Celebration and the Decennial year Celebration of the Department of Library and Information Science, the Department and ASSIST was planned to organise two-day National Seminar on "Digital Resources and Services in Libraries" during 12th-13th April 2004. But the general election for Assembly and Parliament in Karnataka is Schedule to be held in two phases i.e. on 20th and 26th April 2004 and most of the Librarians and Library and Information Science teachers are drawn for election duty. Election Commission is holding training on 12th �13th April 2004 for the staff who are drawn for election duty and therefore, it has become inconvenient to most of the interested participants to participate in the seminar. In this context Organising Committee meeting was held on 28-03-2004 and unanimously decided to postpone the seminar to 30th April and 1st May 2004 in the interest of the participants. We request all the participants to note this change in date of the 4th ASSIST National Seminar and without fail kindly arrange to participate in the seminar rescheduled to be held on 30th April 2004 and 1st May 2004 instead of 12th-13th April 2004. For more information we request you to contact Dr.B.S.Biradar, Organising Secretary, 4th ASSIST National Seminar. Organising Secretary, 4th ASSIST National Seminar.

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J-STAGE
by Mailing List Manager 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

Date: 30 Mar 2004 08:07:31 -0000 From: Subbiah Gunasekaran <gunasekaran_subbiah(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Members: Please explore the website: http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/ It offers access to full text of many journals published in Japan. Thanks S. Gunasekaran CECRI Karaikudi

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GlobalSpec, a specialized online resource for engineering
by Mailing List Manager 30 Mar '04

30 Mar '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:25:35 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> March 29, 2004 - GlobalSpec, a specialized online resource for engineering, has launched a new interface, added more powerful search functionality, and has introduced a specialized search engine it is calling "The Engineering Web," which it says provides "engineering context and relevancy" and access to Hidden Web resources. The newly introduced engine searches more than 100,000 engineering and technical Web sites and provides searching of specialized content the company says is not available on any other search engine-application notes, patents, material properties, and standards. In announcing the enhancements, Jeffrey M. Killeen, GlobalSpec chairman and CEO said: "We have built the specialized search engine and content repository for engineers and technical buyers-everything of relevance, expertly classified and indexed in one place. In fact, we believe we have built the definitive search platform for the engineering community." John Schneiter, president and co-founder of GlobalSpec, said: "Extensive research of our online community, as well as our own engineering experiences, told us that engineers and technical professionals are frustrated with general search engines and having to wade through pages of irrelevant results. We have built what they asked us for-and what we frankly wished we had ourselves as practicing engineering professionals-The Engineering Search Engine." The company's proprietary SpecSearch allows users to search by specification more than 60 million parts in 1,000,000 product families from more than 10,000 supplier catalogs. GlobalSpec says it now has more than 1,000,000 registered users for SpecSearch (registration is free). Suppliers of the catalogs pay annual fees to GlobalSpec so that searchers can discover these products for free. New with this launch is the ability to compare products in suppliers' catalogs in tabular form and even compare specific parts across suppliers. SpecSearch is proprietary technology that has been developed by GlobalSpec over the last 8 years. Schneiter said that the company built its own extensive taxonomy as well, and continues to expand it organically as needed. The company also developed its own engine to search "The Engineering Web," though the results page looks and feels very similar to a results page at Google. However, a feature that offers suggestions to "Refine your Results" presents terms and topics that are generated on the fly from search results. As a feature of The Engineering Web engine, users have the option of searching specifically for information in companies' notes about their applications. An application note is a document that describes the use of a product, and may contain quite detailed information and drawings. It may list detailed design specifications, as well as data describing how the product functions in different situations and with different variables. GlobalSpec uses an automatic text classification system to identify candidate application notes from all of the sites identified for inclusion in The Engineering Web. To provide the other specialized content-patents, material properties, and standards-from the Hidden Web, GlobalSpec has partnered with other content companies. Abstracts of patents are available for free online and complete documents are available for purchase from its partner, MicroPatent. Patent information from the following sources are included: - USPTO (U.S. Patent & Trademark Office): Granted patents from 1982 - present; Applications from 2001 - present - EP (European Patent Office): 1982 - present - WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization): 1982 - present Access to standards is available through a partnership with IHS (Information Handling Services), which provides "the world's largest file" of active and historical standards, specifications, drawings, handbooks, and related technical documents. Users can search and see abstracts for free. Complete copies of technical standards are available for purchase, as hardcopy or as electronic downloads. IHS specializes in enterprise subscription sales, so this represents an additional distribution network for its products. Corporate customers of MicroPatent and IHS run the risk of their engineers paying piecemeal to obtain patents or standards via GlobalSpec that the company already has access to through enterprise subscriptions. GlobalSpec admitted this could be an issue, with companies paying twice for the same information when employees were unaware of available resources. But, thinking on the spot, Killeen said it was conceivable they could work with their partners to get the ISP addresses of customers and then send a notice if this was about to occur. GlobalSpec users can also search and get free abstracts of material property information for industrial materials, specifying attributes such as flexural modulus, flexural strength, hardness, density, deflection temperature, electrical resistivity, conductivity, heat capacity, etc. for any given material. The full text can be accessed for free by clicking a link over to the MatWeb site (http://www.matweb.com). MatWeb is a free searchable database designed by engineers. (The advanced features and tools on its site are available to those who register and to Premium users, who have full access for $49.95.). Killeen said GlobalSpec plans to add Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) to the site sometime in the second quarter of 2004. The company is also in active discussions with key engineering publishers to add full-text journal content. Many technical articles, tutorials, and white papers are now included in the section of the site called "Tools & Useful Links," which also offers research and reference links, calculators, and links to other engineering and technical sites. GlobalSpec, founded in 1996, is a privately-held company with about 130 employees based in Troy, New York (near Albany). While GlobalSpec's management feels that its search platform really has no competition, engineering professionals will continue to use other complementary resources as well. Engineering Village 2 provides comprehensive database searching and linking to full text, for example. Other sites, such as Engineering.com (which offers software, services, news, directories, etc.) will continue to fill a niche as well. Scirus, the science-only search engine includes engineering as a subject. But, given the accelerating rate of new user registrations on GlobalSpec, the growth in numbers of searchable parts, and the number of online visitors to the site, the company is obviously filling a need in the engineering community and has found a business model that is working.

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FW: Benefits of Open Access Archiving
by Mailing List Manager 30 Mar '04

30 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:03:49 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: In response to messages to the Health Information Forum discussion list [ <mailto:hif-net@who.int> hif-net(a)who.int] on Open Access benefits, we would like to add the following comments: The two parallel Budapest Open Access Initiatives paths (Open Access Journals/Publishing and Open Access Archiving) both aim to achieve the same objective - the freeing of the research literature from access tolls - but use very different mechanisms to achieve it. Perhaps the two routes should be dissociated in our discussions, since discussing both routes under the common term 'open access' can create confusion. The messages from Ayo Onatola and others are focussing on Open Access journals, but we would like to draw attention again to the benefits of Open Access Archiving for developing countries. Open Access Archiving is the archiving of already published and refereed research papers in interoperable, minimal-cost institutional archives. The advantages of this are: [1] Nothing need change regarding the future of the publishers (because they will continue to publish as before and in parallel with the OA Archives - as already proven to be successful in physics through the 13-year old archive <http://arxive.org> <http://arxive.org> and the major physics journals. Over 60% of publishers have agreed to the institutional archiving of already published papers in OA Archives, including Elsevier and Nature Publishing); [2] Nothing need change for the authors (because they can continue to publish papers in their favourite journals). However, the impact of their work will be hugely increased if they also archive their full text publications in institutional archives using the free software that allows interoperable searching across all archives. Authors would be wise to publish in one of the majority of journals that agree to OA Archiving in order to benefit from this much increased international impact. OA-compliant archives are now also searchable through the Yahoo search engine. [3] The research output of the authors' institutes will be greatly enhanced through the establishment of institutional OA Archives, show-casing their academic publications. OA Archives are set up using free software and there are many support organisations offering help if needed. Note: there are three major workshops on setting up Open Access Archives being held this summer in Brazil, China and India. [4] If institutes are unable to set up their own institutional archives, authors may archive their *already published* research in any of the established archives (eg Cogprints, Bioline International etc). It does not matter at all where papers are archived, since the archives are all interoperable. However, establishing institutional archives has the advantage of additionally promoting the research output of the institutes. [5] As more and more archives are established, more and more of the world's research becomes internationally accessible for free. Harnad of Cogprints says 'Archive unto others as you would have them archive unto you'. For the developing country institutes, sharing their research with countries facing similar research priorities has clear benefits, and making their research 'visible' internationally will lead to many other advantages. In summary, archiving already published research in interoperable institutional archives greatly benefits global science at almost no cost. This could be done now, without changing established publishing practices. For developing country science and medical research this offers enormous opportunities. Maybe WHO should consider supporting the setting up of an OA Archive for medical research publications so that all developing countries can benefit from free access? Useful OA institutional archives links: Registry of institutional eprints: <http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php> <http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php> Developing country bioscience archive: <http://bioline.utsc.utoronto.ca> <http://bioline.utsc.utoronto.ca> BOAI self(institutional)-archiving FAQ: <http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/> <http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/> Eprints software: <http://software.eprints.org/> <http://software.eprints.org/> Eprints Handbook for setting up institutional archives: <http://software.eprints.org/handbook/> <http://software.eprints.org/handbook/> Budapest Open Access Iniative <http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml> <http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml> Subbiah Arunachalam, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, India Leslie Chan, University of Toronto, Canada Barbara Kirsop, Electronic Publishing Trust for Development <http://www.epublishingtrust.org> <http://www.epublishingtrust.org>

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address info
by Mailing List Manager 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:30:16 +0530 From: prafulla(a)nisc.co.in Dear All: I am searching for the contact info of National Center for Children's Literature located in New Delhi. I shall appreciate any help in this regard. Have a nice day! T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor National Center for Children's Literature, New Delhi --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: PRESS RELEASE: Wiley InterScience Launches The Biotechnology, Biochemistry
by Mailing List Manager 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 06:07:34 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] MALLIKARJUNA, C" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Please find below, a press release from Wiley that may be of interest to your readership. **** Wiley InterScience Launches The Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Biophysics Backfile Collection; 50 years of leading research now available from the convenience of the desktop. Hoboken, NJ, 25 March 2004 - Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced the launch of its latest collection of digitized journal backfiles - The Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Biophysics Backfile Collection on its dynamic online publishing platform, Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). Spanning more than fifty years of content across fifteen leading journal titles, the collection provides a backfile resource for core research across the biotechnology, biochemistry, biophysics and chemical engineering disciplines, and includes full coverage, back to inaugural issues, of seminal titles, including Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Proteins, Biopolymers, the AIChE Journal, Chemie Ingenieur Technik and Chemical Engineering & Technology. With a quarter of a million digitized pages, the Backfile Collection contains more than 40,000 research articles and provides a unique historical perspective to this progressive field of study. Susan King, Ph.D., Vice President, Scientific, Technical and Medical Marketing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., says that the launch of the Backfile Collection meets two important objectives of Wiley's backfile program: "Crucial historical research is preserved for generations of researchers to come. Research at the intersection of the life and physical sciences is rapidly evolving, but researchers need to be able to look back to its roots to help direct current and future pursuits. The digitization of this legacy information, serves to improve the research pathway - ensuring discovery is as seamless and time efficient as possible. The dynamism of Wiley InterScience as a web resource means researchers can access vital archival information quickly and simply from the convenience of their desktop." Presented in fully searchable PDF format, with abstracts, essential bibliographic content, and literature citations all available in HTML, the backfile collection provides enhanced searchablity and linking capabilities. Reference links include internal linking to cited content located on Wiley InterScience and to the content of more than 290 scientific, technical and medical publishers via CrossRef. The Wiley InterScience Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Biophysics Backfile Collection is the latest addition to a growing collection of journal backfile content, created to ensure ongoing access to fundamental research material in the research communities’ format of choice. "All our Backfile Collections are the result of informed dialogue with our customers to ensure we provide solutions of lasting value to them", said Reed Elfenbein, Vice President and General Manager, Wiley InterScience and Global STM Sales. "Digital backfiles ensure collections can remain complete while saving our customers the shelf space and administrative burden associated with millions of pages of print content." An ongoing initiative, Wiley InterScience will release four additional Backfile Collections over the course of 2004: the Chemistry Backfile Collection, Analytical Chemistry Backfile Collection, Neuroscience Backfile Collection and the Materials Science Backfile Collection. Together with the Polymer Backfile Collection and the Angewandte Chemie Backfile, Wiley has already made available more than one million pages of digitized legacy scientific content. Note to editors: Journals included in the Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Biophysics Backfiles Collection are: Acta Biotechnologica, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering & Technology - CET, Chemie Ingenieur Technik - CIT, (CET and CIT are both edited and supported by the German Chemical Society (GDCh), the Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (DECHEMA e.V.) and the Society for Chemical Engineering and Process Technology (GVC)), Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology (an official journal of the Society of Chemical Industry - SCI), Biospectroscopy, Biopolymers, Cell Biochemistry and Function, Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, Journal of Molecular Recognition, Journal of Peptide Science (an official journal of the European Peptide Society - EPS), Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics, and Yeast.. An update in June 2004 will incorporate the AIChE Journal and Process Safety Progress - both official journals of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, now published by Wiley effective in 2004. About Wiley InterScience Since its commercial launch in January 1999, Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) has earned its reputation as a world-leading Internet resource for quality research material promoting discovery across the spectrum of scientific, technical, medical and professional endeavors. Today Wiley InterScience features a vast reservoir of must-have content from more than 1000 journals, books, reference works, databases and Current Protocols laboratory manuals. About Wiley Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., provides must-have content and services to customers worldwide. Its core businesses include scientific, technical, and medical journals, encyclopedias, books, and online products and services; professional and consumer books and subscription services; and educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong learners. Wiley has publishing, marketing, and distribution centers in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols JWa and JWb. Wiley's Internet site can be accessed at http://www.wiley.com. *** C.MALLIKARJUNA, ISEC LIBRARY, INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE NAGARABHAVI BANGALORE-560 079. hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Office:080+3215468 EXT-301 Mobile:080+36757228 Win an evening with the Indian cricket captain: Yahoo! India Promos. --0-371865072-1080281254=:38994 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Ann Okerson <aokerson(a)pantheon.yale.edu></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:44:14 -0500 (EST)<BR>From: Ann Okerson <AOKERSON(a)PANTHEON.YALE.EDU><BR>To: liblicense-l(a)lists.yale.edu<BR>Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Wiley InterScience Launches The Biotechnology,<BR>Biochemistry<BR><BR>Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:34:41 EST<BR>From: KimAllan(a)wiley.co.uk<BR>Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Wiley InterScience Launches The Biotechnology,<BR>Biochemistry and Biophysics Backfile Collection<BR><BR>Please find below, a press release from Wiley that may be of interest to<BR>your readership.<BR><BR>****<BR><BR>Wiley InterScience Launches The Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Biophysics<BR>Backfile Collection; 50 years of leading research now available from the <BR>convenience of the desktop.<BR><BR>Hoboken, NJ, 25 March 2004 - Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,<BR>today announced the launch of its latest collection of digitized journal<BR>backfile! s - The Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Biophysics Backfile<BR>Collection on its dynamic online publishing platform, Wiley InterScience<BR>(www.interscience.wiley.com).<BR><BR>Spanning more than fifty years of content across fifteen leading journal<BR>titles, the collection provides a backfile resource for core research<BR>across the biotechnology, biochemistry, biophysics and chemical<BR>engineering disciplines, and includes full coverage, back to inaugural<BR>issues, of seminal titles, including Biotechnology and Bioengineering,<BR>Proteins, Biopolymers, the AIChE Journal, Chemie Ingenieur Technik and<BR>Chemical Engineering & Technology.<BR><BR>With a quarter of a million digitized pages, the Backfile Collection<BR>contains more than 40,000 research articles and provides a unique<BR>historical perspective to this progressive field of study.<BR><BR>Susan King, Ph.D., Vice President, Scientific, Technical and Medical<BR>Marketing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., says that the lau! nch of the Backfile<BR>Collection meets two important objectives of Wiley's backfile program:<BR>"Crucial historical research is preserved for generations of researchers<BR>to come. Research at the intersection of the life and physical sciences is<BR>rapidly evolving, but researchers need to be able to look back to its<BR>roots to help direct current and future pursuits. The digitization of this<BR>legacy information, serves to improve the research pathway - ensuring<BR>discovery is as seamless and time efficient as possible. The dynamism of<BR>Wiley InterScience as a web resource means researchers can access vital<BR>archival information quickly and simply from the convenience of their<BR>desktop."<BR><BR>Presented in fully searchable PDF format, with abstracts, essential<BR>bibliographic content, and literature citations all available in HTML, the<BR>backfile collection provides enhanced searchablity and linking<BR>capabilities. Reference links include internal linking to cited content<BR>located on Wiley InterScience and to the content of more than 290<BR>scientific, technical and medical publishers via CrossRef.<BR><BR>The Wiley InterScience Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Biophysics Backfile<BR>Collection is the latest addition to a growing collection of journal<BR>backfile content, created to ensure ongoing access to fundamental research<BR>material in the research communities’ format of choice.<BR><BR>"All our Backfile Collections are the result of informed dialogue with our<BR>customers to ensure we provide solutions of lasting value to them", said<BR>Reed Elfenbein, Vice President and General Manager, Wiley InterScience and<BR>Global STM Sales. "Digital backfiles ensure collections can remain<BR>complete while saving our customers the shelf space and administrative<BR>burden associated with millions of pages of print content."<BR><BR>An ongoing initiative, Wiley InterScience will release four additional<BR>Backfile Collections over the co! urse of 2004: the Chemistry Backfile<BR>Collection, Analytical Chemistry Backfile Collection, Neuroscience<BR>Backfile Collection and the Materials Science Backfile Collection.<BR>Together with the Polymer Backfile Collection and the Angewandte Chemie<BR>Backfile, Wiley has already made available more than one million pages of<BR>digitized legacy scientific content.<BR><BR>Note to editors:<BR><BR>Journals included in the Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Biophysics<BR>Backfiles Collection are: Acta Biotechnologica, Biotechnology and<BR>Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering & Technology - CET, Chemie Ingenieur<BR>Technik - CIT, (CET and CIT are both edited and supported by the German<BR>Chemical Society (GDCh), the Society for Chemical Engineering and<BR>Biotechnology (DECHEMA e.V.) and the Society for Chemical Engineering and<BR>Process Technology (GVC)), Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology<BR>(an official journal of the Society of Chemical Industry - SCI),<BR>Biospectroscopy, Biopolymers, Cell Biochemistry and Function, Journal of<BR>Cellular Biochemistry, Journal of Molecular Recognition, Journal of<BR>Peptide Science (an official journal of the European Peptide Society -<BR>EPS), Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics, and Yeast.. An update in<BR>June 2004 will incorporate the AIChE Journal and Process Safety Progress -<BR>both official journals of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers,<BR>now published by Wiley effective in 2004.<BR><BR>About Wiley InterScience<BR><BR>Since its commercial launch in January 1999, Wiley InterScience<BR>(www.interscience.wiley.com) has earned its reputation as a world-leading<BR>Internet resource for quality research material promoting discovery across<BR>the spectrum of scientific, technical, medical and professional endeavors.<BR>Today Wiley InterScience features a vast reservoir of must-have content<BR>from more than 1000 journals, books, reference works, databases and<BR>! Current Protocols laboratory manuals.<BR><BR>About Wiley<BR><BR>Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., provides must-have content and<BR>services to customers worldwide. Its core businesses include scientific,<BR>technical, and medical journals, encyclopedias, books, and online products<BR>and services; professional and consumer books and subscription services;<BR>and educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students and<BR>lifelong learners. Wiley has publishing, marketing, and distribution<BR>centers in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The<BR>Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols JWa and<BR>JWb. Wiley's Internet site can be accessed at http://www.wiley.com.<BR><BR>***<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>C.MALLIKARJUNA,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>ISEC LIBRARY,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>NAGARABHAVI</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>BANGALORE-560 079.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><A href="mailto:hbmallikarjuna@yahoo.co.in">hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>Office:080+3215468 EXT-301 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>Mobile:080+36757228</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT> </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><p><font face=arial size=-1> <a href="http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://pepsizone.yahoo.co.in/pepsi3…" target="_blank"> Win an evening</a> with the <b>Indian cricket captain</b>: <a href="http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://pepsizone.yahoo.co.in/pepsi…" target="_blank"> Yahoo! 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A champion of OA i9s honoured
by Mailing List Manager 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:07:29 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Carl Lagoze of Cornell University, a key player in the open access movement, is honoured. Please join me in congratulating him. On this happy occasion let us all resolve to adopt open access and to set up and quickly populate interoperable institutional archives in all major Indian higher educational and research institutions. Best wishes. Arun 2004 LITA Frederick G. Kilgour Award winner announced Carl Lagoze of Cornell University is the winner of the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology for 2004. The award is sponsored by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., and the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association. "The Kilgour Award Committee takes great pleasure in acknowledging the important work and contributions of Carl Lagoze, whose research has lead to significant achievements in the areas of distributed digital collections, the harvesting of metadata, and establishment of open standards," said Mark Farrar, chair of the award committee. Mr. Lagoze's achievements include the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) which he co-created with Herbert Van de Sompel. This initiative promotes interoperability standards for metadata harvesting, with the specific goal of enhancing the ability to access all forms of digital material. The project has lead to renewed interest in shared metadata and the increased ability of scholars to locate relevant digital assets regardless of geographical location. Carl Lagoze and Sandy Payette co-invented the Flexible and Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (Fedora). This project is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with prior support from the National Science Foundation, and is being co-developed by Cornell University and the University of Virginia. Fedora is open source software for creating digital object repositories which allow the accessing of content through a distributed and dynamic infrastructure. Fedora plays an important role in the creation of digital and institutional repositories and is being used or adapted in various academic and corporate settings. The Distributed Interactive Extensible Network Server for Technical Reports (Dienst) was co-invented by Carl Lagoze and James Davis. Dienst is both a protocol and software that were freely distributed for non-commercial use. While Dienst was an early effort in using metadata, the web and distributed content servers, it proved to be instrumental in further developments in these areas. Carl Lagoze received his Master of Software Engineering from the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies in 1987. Mr. Lagoze founded the Cornell Digital Library Research Group (CDLRG), and he is currently a Senior Research Associate in the Information Science program at Cornell University . The award was established to honor the achievements of Frederick G. Kilgour, the founder of OCLC and a seminal figure in library automation. The award is given to a person who has amassed a significant body of research in the field of library and information technology. Particular recognition is given to research which results in a positive and substantive impact on the publication, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information. The award consists of $2,000, an expense paid trip to the ALA Annual Conference, and a citation of merit. Mr. Lagoze will be accepting the award at the LITA President's Program on Monday, June 28, 2004 at the ALA Annual Conference in Orlando.

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A SFC article on open access
by Mailing List Manager 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:50:11 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is an article from San Francisco Chronicle. Please see <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/2 8/BAGQE5SL3I1.DTL>. Arun The staggering price of world's best research Bay Area universities leading charge against publishers, arguing the knowledge in academic journals must be kept within reach Charles Burress, Chronicle Staff Writer <mailto:cburress@sfchronicle.com> Sunday, March 28, 2004 An alarm bell is ringing in the ivory tower. Something's gone terribly wrong, frustrated scholars say, when scientific journals cost as much as new cars and diamond rings. Critics are complaining with growing intensity that the most important advances in human knowledge -- the new research and discoveries of top universities -- have been in effect seized and are being held for ransom by commercial publishers. The companion journals Nuclear Physics A & B cost the same as a 2004 Toyota Camry sedan -- $23,820, according to a "sticker shock" calculator from UC Berkeley. The calculator is "our way of raising hell," university librarian Thomas Leonard said. Theoretical Computer Science goes for $5,619 a year, enough to buy an 18- diamond gold ring from Tiffany's, according to a similar calculator from Cornell University. An academic rebellion simmering for half a dozen years has begun to boil over, with much of the heat generated in the Bay Area and California. "It is ironic," said a Stanford faculty resolution passed last month, "that many Stanford scholars -- like scholars throughout higher education -- volunteer their articles and labor in the production, review and editing of journal content, only to have the final product sold back to Stanford, sometimes at exorbitant prices." University libraries are suffering from journal price increases in recent years that have far outstripped inflation while library budgets starve. They've been forced to slash book and periodical purchases so much that they say the quality of their collections has become compromised. The public also is cheated, many critics say, because much of the research is funded by government grants, yet taxpayers -- say, breast cancer patients seeking the latest treatment breakthroughs -- "cannot freely access the published results of research financed by their own tax dollars," Stanford biochemistry Professor Patrick Brown wrote in a March 2 statement released by the campus. A recent letter from UC officials called the present system "incontrovertibly unsustainable." The university cut book purchases 26 percent and journal purchases 6 percent from 1986 to 1999. The 10-campus UC system claimed a temporary victory in January when it used its combined clout to win something virtually unheard of -- a reduction in the price it pays to the publishing giant of scientific and medical journals, the Elsevier arm of the British-Dutch conglomerate Reed Elsevier. Elsevier has about 1,800 titles, or about 20 to 22 percent of the most expensive segment of the market -- science, technical and medical journals. Its titles include Nuclear Physics A & B and Theoretical Computer Science, and its prices range from the $105-a-year Nurse Leader to Brain Research for $21, 269, with the average last year being $525, according to company data. Harvard, Columbia and a consortium of North Carolina universities have recently balked at Elsevier prices and threatened to curtail purchases. The Stanford resolution singled out Elsevier and called for a boycott of pricey journals, while the UC Santa Cruz faculty called for a boycott of Elsevier in October. "There is no serials crisis," said Elsevier spokesman Eric Merkel-Sobotta. "What there is, is a library funding crisis." Library budgets fell from about 4 percent of university spending in 1982 to about 3 percent in 2000, he said. He acknowledged that the company makes a "healthy" profit but added that production costs are rising with increased research spending, highly specialized editing and peer-review responsibilities, as well as the technology needed to keep pace with the growing online use of the journals. Over the past 16 years, according to UC Riverside chemistry Professor Christopher Reed, the average price of Elsevier journals has increased at three times the rate of the Consumer Price Index. "Elsevier profits were up 26 percent in 2002," he wrote in the Chronicle of Higher Education. UC is Elsevier's second-largest customer, UC officials say, and last year, the university paid the company about $10 million for about 1,400 journals in one "bundle," a method of purchasing that has replaced individual journal subscriptions at many universities. With growing reliance on online subscriptions, many libraries also have had to reduce or eliminate paper copies to save money. Under its new Elsevier contract, UC will receive only one print copy of each journal, to be kept in a central repository for use by all campuses. Half of UC's online budget has gone to Elsevier, even though its titles account for only 25 percent of the use of such journals, according to UC data. Academic journals are published both by commercial firms and by scholarly nonprofit societies like the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which sponsors the journal Science. Though most of the criticism is focused on firms like Elsevier, complaints are directed also at the nonprofit scientific societies. The societies, whose journals generally cost less than commercially published ones, say they have to charge more than publishing costs in order to pay for other activities. Leading the attack on the current system is the "open access" movement, which seeks to publish top-quality, peer-reviewed articles free on the Internet. An influential example is the San Francisco-based Public Library of Science (PLoS), which launched its first journal, PLoS Biology, amid fanfare in October. Under the PLoS model, the article's author pays a $1,500 fee, ideally paid by the writer's university or a grant, while the rest of the publishing costs come from other sources, such as private foundations or federal education dollars now siphoned off to offset high-priced subscriptions to commercial publishers. Merkel-Sobotta of Elsevier said open access is "dangerous" because it depends precariously on charity and cannot muster the resources needed for rigorous scientific review and long-term survival. Some scientists also question the viability of open access and the sustainability of such journals' archives. In a statement earlier this month, former Stanford President Donald Kennedy, now editor of Science, said open access deserves support as an experiment that should coexist with nonprofit journals but that it faces the sustainability problem. One of the toughest barriers to changing the current approach, many scholars say, is the publish-or-perish mandate that keeps professors -- especially those seeking tenure or promotion -- aiming for highly prestigious journals controlled by commercial publishers. Open access was challenged March 16 in a joint statement issued in Washington, D.C., by leading U.S. science and medical societies. The statement, representing 48 nonprofit publishers and more than 600,000 scientists and clinicians, called for "free access" to research through "many publishing models" and opposed a system where the publishing costs are "borne solely by researchers and their funding institutions." The issue is stirring heated debate also in Europe, where a Parliament committee in the United Kingdom is investigating scientific publications. "Whether or not open access ultimately gains ground as an alternative," reported Outsell Inc., an information industry research firm, "it's clear that the current model is breaking up." Elsevier disagrees. Merkel-Sobotta said the firm and similar publishers show robust growth and "take their guardianship of the intellectual heritage very, very seriously." E-mail Charles Burress at cburress(a)sfchronicle.com <mailto:cburress@sfchronicle.com>.

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Elsevier Foundation Grants for attending International TICER School
by JK Vijayakumar 26 Mar '04

26 Mar '04

Dear All, The course "Electronic Resources and Electronic Publishing" will take place at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, from Tuesday evening 10 August up to and including Friday afternoon 13 August 2004, with an optional programme on Tuesday afternoon. Details are available at http://www.ticer.nl/04elres/index.htm Elsevier Foundation Grants (Last Date15 June 2004) Participants from developing countries can apply for an Elsevier Foundation Grant for the course "Electronic Resources and Electronic Publishing", made available by the Elsevier Foundation. The Elsevier Foundation are willing to sponsor 4 participants from Asia, Africa or South America. You can only apply for a grant if you originate from a country which is mentioned in the first five columns of the OECD "DAC List of Aid Recipients as at 1 January 2003", countries indicated in this list as developing countries and territories (official development assistance). The grant includes: the course fee (including 3 lunches and 3 dinners); accommodation in a student room for the duration of the course;an economy class return flight to an airport near Tilburg;travel and health insurance during your stay in Tilburg. The sponsorship does not cover costs which are not mentioned above, e.g., visa fee, transportation in your own country, public transport in the Netherlands from the airport to Tilburg and back, breakfasts, remaining dinners and lunches, and personal expenses. If you want to apply for this grant, please send an email to the course coordinator Ms. Anja Huijben at Anja.Huijben(a)uvt.nl before 15 June 2004. The email should contain the following information: -what organisation you work for; -what your job title is and what your work entails; -what country you are from; -a short biography or curriculum vitae; -your motivation to apply for this course; -why you are the right person to sponsor; -how you intend to distribute the knowledge your gained during this course in your country; -what kind of activities your institute develops in the field of digital libraries. Incomplete applications will not be taken into consideration. Please do not fill out the official application form as well, because you will then be treated as a normal applicant and will thus receive an invoice for your participation. The following international experts have confirmed their contribution to the course. The list is continuously updated. Jonathan Clark Technology Director, Elsevier, Netherlands Hans Geleijnse Chief Information Officer, Director IT Services and Librarian, Tilburg University, Netherlands Emanuella Giavarra Copyright lawyer, Chambers of Mark Watson-Gandy, United Kingdom Arnold Hirshon Executive Director, NELINET, United States Donald W. King Research Professor, University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences, United States Teun Nijssen Security Advisor, Tilburg University, IT Services, Netherlands Mark Patterson Senior Editor, Public Library of Science, European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom Thomas W. Place Deputy Librarian, Tilburg University, Library, Netherlands Hans E. Roosendaal Professor of Scientific Information, University of Twente, School of Business, Public Administration & Technology, Department of Computer Science, Netherlands Sylvia Van Peteghem Chief Librarian, University of Ghent, Library, Belgium Herbert Van de Sompel Digital Library Research & Prototyping, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library, United States Details are available at http://www.ticer.nl/04elres/index.htm Ticer B.V., PO Box 4191 5004 JD Tilburg The Netherlands telephone +31-13-466 83 10 telefax +31-13-466 83 83 e-mail Ticer(a)uvt.nl http://www.ticer.nl ---------- J.K.Vijayakumar INFLIBNET __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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Websites of UGC Infonet
by JK Vijayakumar 26 Mar '04

26 Mar '04

Dear All, Details of University Grants Commission's new initiative -UGC Infonet and E-Journal Consortia are available at the following websites. http://www.ugcinfonet.ernet.in http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/econsortia/index.htm http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/info/ugcinfonet/ugcinfonet.jsp -INFLIBNET __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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Re: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants
by Mailing List Manager 25 Mar '04

25 Mar '04

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 03:44:43 -0800 (PST) From: JK Vijayakumar <vjkjk(a)yahoo.com> George Soros is founder and chairman of the Open Society Institute and the Soros foundations network (http://www.soros.org/)Soros foundations are autonomous institutions established in particular countries or regions to initiate and support open society activities. The priorities and specific activities of each Soros foundation are determined by a local board of directors and staff in consultation with George Soros and OSI boards and advisors. As per the guidelines the fundings will go to the countries where Soros Network is active.Unfortunately India is not covered under this catagory (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/grants.shtml) I hope Shri Arun can utilise his international relations in open access initiative to activate Soros network in India, and then ask for fundings. > India is again excluded as was done earlier > with HINARI and AGORA! > > Arun

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[DIGLIB] New and Old Articles About Innovative Information Systems
by Mailing List Manager 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:47:47 -0600 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> I am pleased to announce the publication and availability of self-archived copies of two of my SCI-5 columns devoted to Innovative Information Systems: "New Age E-Journals, Indexes, and Services," Science & Technology Libraries, Vol. 21, No. 3/4, 2001 [2003], pp. 223-233. [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/EJIS.pdf] "Scholar-Based Initiatives in Publishing," Science & Technology Libraries, Vol. 22, No. 3/4, 2002 [2003], pp. 181-191 [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/SBI.pdf ] **************************************************************************** I am also pleased to announce the availability of self-archived copies of previously published articles that profile other Innovative Information Systems, etc: "eCONF: The SLAC Electronic Conference Proceedings Archive," Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 18 No. 5, 2001, pp. 16-23. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/eCONF.pdf ABSTRACT To promote the publication and expedite the availability of conference proceedings, an experimental archive titled eConf has been established under the auspices of the SLAC Technical Information Services department. At this time, the eConf archive is limited to proceedings in high-energy physics and related fields. The archive presently contains the conference papers of two proceedings: the 19th International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies (LP 99) and 20th International Linac Conference. http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/ **************************************************************************** "EnergyFiles: The Virtual Library of Energy Science and Technology," Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 20, No. 1, January/February 2003, 30-36. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/EnergyFiles.pdf ABSTRACT The targeted audience for EnergyFiles is end users and organizations having a need for energy-related scientific and technical information. Anticipated primary users include researchers, scientists, project managers, program, managers, academic (educators and students), and associated information professionals. NOTE: Review of previous version of interface and system http://www.osti.gov/EnergyFiles/ ************************************************************************** "Library Database Advisors - Emerging Innovative Augmented Digital Library Services," Library Hi Tech News Vol. 19, No. 4, May 2002, pp. 27-33. "Why should we make our users hunt down the best resource for a given information need and learn how to use its particular options for searching? Why not provide them with a simple way to get started?" || Roy Tennant || http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/LDBA.pdf **************************************************************************** "Web-based Journal Manuscript Management and Peer-Review Systems and Services," Library Hi Tech News Vol. 19, No. 7, August 2002, pp. 31-43. "* [A] paperless system would significantly reduce delays in all aspects of the dissemination cycle. The composition process itself should be speeded up and so should the whole interaction among writers, publishers, and referees." || F. W. Lancaster || [Lancaster, F.W., Toward Paperless Information Systems ( Academic Press: New York, NY, 1978), 127.] http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/PeerSoft.pdf **************************************************************************** And BTW: For the Irish amongst us, as well as those who wish they were [:-)]: Happy St. Patrick's Day! Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan New and Old Irish Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants
by Mailing List Manager 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:47:01 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> India is again excluded as was done earlier with HINARI and AGORA! Arun For immediate release � Contact: Melissa Hageman, Open Society Institute: (212) 548-0142 MHagemann@sorosny.org� Helen Doyle, Public Library of Science: (415) 624-1217 hdoyle @plos.org � Academic publishing made more accessible for scientists in developing world New Open Society Institute Grants Program Will Promote Open Access Publishing March 22, 2004 New York, NY & San Francisco, CA� The Open Society Institute (OSI) and Public Library of Science (PLoS) today announced a new grants program to support open access publishing in developing and transition countries. The grants will make it much easier for scientists based in developing and transition countries to submit articles to the premiere peer-reviewed research journals published by PLoS. "Scientists in poorer countries have been virtually excluded from the journal publishing world," said Darius Cuplinskas, director of OSI's Information Program. "Open access journals will remove barriers and make these scientists full members of the international scientific community. PLoS is a non-profit advocacy organization and a publisher of open-access journals, which are available free of charge online and are subsidized largely by author-side charges for publication. While this pay-to-publish system allows PLoS to make scientific and medical literature immediately accessible to anyone in the world with an Internet connection, many authors from developing countries cannot afford the fees. Now, scientists affiliated with the OSI-funded member institutions will be entitled to a waiver of publication charges for their articles in PLoS journals. OSI's Information Program has been a strong supporter of the open access movement. Its Budapest Open Access Initiative, launched in 2002, advocates for the support of two parallel strategies for the adoption of open access:� self-archiving and open access journals. The OSI/PLoS Institutional Membership grants will target developing and transition countries.� Authors from the least developed countries will receive a waiver of publication charge upon request, a policy PLoS has had in place since the launch of its first journal, PLoS Biology, in October 2003.� To ensure that ability to pay publication charges does not influence the review process, PLoS has a firewall in place to shield requests from all editors and reviewers. The debate about open access has shifted recently, said Dr. Helen Doyle, PLoS director of development and strategic alliances. Doubts about its value have been replaced with doubts about its viability. This commitment from OSI answers the question of how scientists in developing countries will be able to publish in our journals on a large scale. The complete list of countries and regions where institutions are eligible for the new memberships is as follows: Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Bulgaria Cameroon Cote d'Ivoire Croatia Czech Republic Estonia Georgia Ghana Guatemala Hungary Indonesia Kazakhstan Kosovo Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia� Lithuania Macedonia Moldova Mongolia Namibia Nigeria Peru Poland Romania Russia Serbia and Montenegro Slovakia South Africa Swaziland Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Ukraine Uzbekistan Vietnam Zimbabwe�� More information about the grants is available at http://www.soros.org/openaccess/grants.shtml . The joint OSI-PLoS announcement follows the January launch of the PLoS Institutional Membership program. More information about the PLoS Membership Program is available at http://www.plos.org/support.

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Fwd: Re: UK Select Committee Inquiry into Scientific Publication
by Mailing List Manager 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:38:52 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Of potential interest to the readers of this list: > > Press Release > > 22 March 2004 > > BioMed Central explodes Open Access myths > > Open Access is good news for UK research funding > > "A switch to Open Access would not negatively impact research funding," > BioMed Central declared today. The Open Access publisher issued a strong > rebuttal of arguments that have been submitted by opponents of Open > Access to the ongoing UK House of Commons Select Committee inquiry into > scientific publishing. > > In Open Access Myths, a statement released today, BioMed Central > counters claims that Open Access publishing would cut into research > funding, asserting: > > "The vastly increased access to research that is delivered by Open > Access will greatly increase the effectiveness of the research money > that is spent." > > The statement continues: > > "Open Access publishers are leading the way in using web technology to > reduce costs further, so the cost of Open Access publishing to the > scientific community will be significantly less than the cost of the > system that it replaces." > > Open Access publishing, which makes all original research articles > freely available to anyone, has been a major focus of the Government > inquiry. > > Today's statement from BioMed Central responds to each of the major > "anti-Open Access" arguments made during the course of the inquiry so > far. > > "We felt it was important, at this stage when many people are hearing > about Open Access for the first time, to dispel some of these myths," > says Jan Velterop, BioMed Central's Publisher. > > Other myths dispelled in the document include: "transferring copyright > to a publisher protects scientific integrity"; "UK researchers already > have all the access they need"; "industry will benefit from Open Access > at the expense of research institutes"; and "the public would be > confused if they had access to medical research". > > The BioMed Central statement appears on a new web page, also launched > today, which brings together links to all the publicly accessible > evidence that has been submitted to the Select Committee, together with > the uncorrected transcripts of the oral evidence sessions. This web page > will be continually updated as the inquiry proceeds, providing a central > resource for information relating to the inquiry. > > The site includes links to evidence from both Open Access's supporters > and its detractors. "We want people to read all of the arguments about > Open Access - both for and against," says BioMed Central Publisher Jan > Velterop. "We firmly believe that we have convincing arguments to > counter the objections to Open Access. We want to have an open debate." > > END > > The BioMed Central statement is available at: > > http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/inquiry/myths.pdf > > The BioMed Central inquiry website is available at: > > http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/inquiry/ > > For more information, please contact Grace Baynes. > press(a)biomedcentral.com > Tel: +44 (0) 20 7631 9988 > > About BioMed Central: > > BioMed Central (www.biomedcentral.com) is an independent online > publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to the > peer-reviewed biological and medical research it publishes. This > commitment is based on the view that open access to research is > essential to the rapid and efficient communication of science. In > addition to open-access original research, BioMed Central also publishes > reviews and other subscription-based content.

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