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Travel Grants to attend ETD 2004 and JCDL 2004
by Mailing List Manager 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:35:46 +0530 From: Shalini .R .Urs <shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in> Travel Grants for attending ETD 2004 and JCDL 2004 Announcement Availability of Travel Grants for the ETD 2004, June 3-5,2004, Lexington, KY, USA and JCDL 2004, June 7-11,2004, Tucson, Arizona, USA. Here is a wonderful opportunity for young information professionals who have passion, commitment and a track-record of academic, research and practical achievements in digital library project initiatives, to attend two major conferences in USA concerning digital library initiatives Applications are invited from interested and eligible professionals for the above Grants. Travel Grants to support the participation of 5-6 delegates from India to attend the above two conferences are re available. ETD 2004 -the Seventh International Conference on Electronic Theses and Dissertations is organized by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) from June 3-5,2004 on the campus of the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA. The theme of this year's conference is - 'Distributing knowledge world wide through better scholarly communication'. For more information, please visit the conference website : http://www.uky.edu/ETD/ETD2004 JCDL 2004- the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries sponsored by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society and others is being held at Tucson, Arizona, USA from June 7-11, 2004. The theme of this year's JCDL is- Global Reach and Diverse Impact. Given the fact that these two conferences are scheduled back to back, it was possible to source funds from an international funding agency to support the travel and participation of 5-6 of delegates from India for both these conferences. The grant will cover the travel, accommodation, and registration of the selected participants. Recognizing the lack of opportunities for Indian Library and Information professionals to attend international conferences and workshop, this funding opportunity has been identified with the objective of encouraging committed and capable LIS professionals to participate and contribute effectively to the emerging global digital library movement. The main goal is to help build capacities in LIS profession. This would provide an opportunity for the selected candidates to meet, interact, learn, and network with the international DL community. Guiding Principles 1.. These awards are open to all Indian nationals who have contributed to the development of Digital Libraries / ETD efforts 2.. Preference will be given to young professionals, who have demonstrated their capabilities and commitment and shown promise. 3.. The selection of the candidates will be competitive and done by an Expert Committee constituted for this purpose 4.. The selection process involves the submission of applications in the pres cribed format - the applications may be downloaded from http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ETD-JCDL2004 5.. The selection will be based on the following criteria- 1.. Contribution towards the development of Digital Libraries and ETDs in the last 5 years through specific programmes/efforts initiated 2.. Quality Publications in the area 3.. Your future visions and plans for taking your institution to the global DL mainstream. . 4.. Submitted papers / accepted for JCDL 2004/ETD 2004 Those interested may contact the undersigned for further details. Shalini -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr.Shalini R.Urs Professor and Chairperson Department of library and Information Science University of Mysore Project Director Vidyanidhi-Indian Digital Library of Electronic Theses Manasagangotri, Mysore.570006. India Ph:91-821-2514699 Fax:91-821-2519209 Website:http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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OAI Service Providers: SciTech and SocSci/Humanities (ReDox)
by Mailing List Manager 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:58:00 -0600 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> OAI Service Providers: SciTech and SocSci/Humanities In my haste two weeks ago to (self-)promote [:-) my two recent articles about OAI Service Providers: SciTech and SocSci/Humanities, I failed to list the services eProfiled in each. In addition, I inadvertently mounted a read-only PDF version for each, which were replaced with read/printing versions earlier today. Please find below the names and URLs of the OAI Service Providers beneath the citation for each article: Gerry McKiernan. "Open Archives Initiative Service Providers. Part I: Science and Technology," _Library Hi Tech News_ 20 no. 9: (November 2003): 30-38. [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-SP-I.pdf] **Arc: A Cross A rchive Search Service** [http://arc.cs.odu.edu/ ] **Citebase** [http://citebase.eprints.org/ ] **my.OAI** [http://www.myoai.com] **Open Archives Initiative Information in Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics (Grainger Engineering Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)** [http://g118.grainger.uiuc.edu/engroai/] **SAIL-eprints (Search, Alert, Impact and Link)** [ http://eprints.bo.cnr.it/ ] AND Gerry McKiernan. "Open Archives Initiative Service Providers. Part II: Social Sciences and Humanities," _Library Hi Tech News_ 20 no. 10: (December 2003): 24-31. [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-SP-II.pdf] **AmericanSouth** [ http://americansouth.org ] **Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) [http://www.language-archives.org/] **Sheet Music Consortium** [ http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/] **UIUC Digital Gateway to Cultural Heritage Materials** [http://nergal.grainger.uiuc.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx ] Enjoy (again)! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Latte-drinking, Sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, Left-Wing Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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Nature Biotechnology - duplicate copy if available
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:02:06 +0530 From: Krishnan <krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in> Does any one have a duplicate copy of the following journal? We have this as missing in our collection. Please reply directly Nature Biotechnology, 20(5), 2002 Thanks Dr. S. Krishnan Head, Information Division National Chemical Lab, PUNE 411008, INDIA e-mail: krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in http://www.ncl-india.org

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The grip of death...
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:19:49 +0530 From: Aman Jha <aman.jha(a)ciionline.org> Dear friends I need availability details of the following book in India: "The Grip of Death: a study of modern money, debt slavery and destructive economics" by Michael Rowbotham (Jon Carpenter Publishing, 1998) Jon Carpenter Publishing, 2, The Spendlove Centre, Charlbury, Oxfordshire OX7 3PQ For credit card orders tel/fax. +44 (0)1608 811969 or +44 (0)1689 870437. UK price: �15 Distributed in the USA & Canada by: Paul & Company, PO Box 442, Concord, MA 01742 tel. 978 369 3049/fax. 978 369 2385. US price: $29.95 Thanks and regards, Aman Jha Librarian CII

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Nature Biotechnology - duplicate copy if available
by Krishnan 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

Does any one have a duplicate copy of the following journal? We have this as missing in our collection. Please reply directly Nature Biotechnology, 20(5), 2002 Thanks Krishnan Dr. S. Krishnan Head, Information Division 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 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.564 / Virus Database: 356 - Release Date: 1/19/2004

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News Industry Text Format
by Madhuresh 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Dear Friends, I would like to share the following item. NITF (News Industry Text Format) is a solution for sharing news. It is developed by News Publishers and it is for News Publishers. NITF uses the eXtensible Markup Language to define the content and structure of news articles. Because metadata is applied throughout the news content, NITF documents are far more searchable and useful than HTML pages. By using NITF, publishers can adapt the look, feel, and interactivity of their documents to the bandwidth, devices, and personalized needs of their subscribers. These documents can be translated into HTML, WML (for wireless devices), RTF (for printing), or any other format the publisher wishes. NITF was developed by the International Press Telecommunications Council, an independent international association of the world's leading news agencies and publishers. It is a standard that is open, public, proven, well-used, well-documented, and well-supported. For more details, see http://www.nitf.org/ Regards. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 562 158 Phone 8521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 Fax 852 6285 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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ICADL 2004 (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

The 7th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries ------- International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization Call for papers After its six-year��s efficient exploration in offering a forum to promote and share the latest development of technology of digital library, the International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) has turned out to be a grand annual event in the library and IT communities in Asia and the world as well. The 7th ICADL Conference in 2004 will be hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai Library in Shanghai, China from December 13 to 17. The theme of this conference is: ��Digital Libraries �C International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization��. Papers are solicited in a wide variety of digital library related areas, including (but not limited to): Main Topics: Service and Management ��New forms and models of DL services; ��Digital library performance, resources, usefulness, usability and evaluation; ��User studies: user communities, user needs, user behavior, usage pattern; ��Social, legal and economic issues related DL, such as privacy, intelligence property, information security, sustainability; ��Knowledge management and its application in DL; ��New institution roles and responsibilities of DL in 21st century. ��Live reference service ��Personalization service Collaboration and Localization �� Case studies on successful national, cross-regional and international DL collaboration projects and impact in Asia-Pacific Region; ��Preserving, organizing and disseminating Asian unique and indigenous knowledge and culture; ��Novel methods and tools for Asian languages information processing. ��Exploring a Cross-Culture Context for DL studies in Asia, social impacts of DL in Asia. Technology ��Digital library system: architectures, interoperability, mobile applications, agents related to DL; ��Access to distributed and heterogeneous digital collections: interoperability, scalability, relevant information discovery, meta-information integration, Mass storage; ��Information retrieval and data mining: novel IR technologies of text and multimedia, data mining; multi- and cross-lingual data access and searching, machine translation and machine learning; �� Information organization and content management: metadata and OAI, ontologies and semantic web, topic maps; ��Human-computer interaction: interfaces, visualization, portals, personalization; ��Technical standards��protocol in DL area and implication strategies; ��Grid technologies and digital libraries ��E-publication Proceedings Conference Proceedings will be composed of long (full) papers (10 pages), short papers (4 pages) and poster papers (2 pages) and be published by Springer��s Lecture Note Series in Computer Science (LNCS). Important Date: Submission of Abstracts (full papers only) June 10, 2004 Submission of Full Papers July 1, 2004 Submission of Short Papers July 1, 2004 Papers should be written in English and submitted in electronic format. More details will be released dynamically at the 7th ICADL Conference��s website: http://icadl2004.sjtu.edu.cn. And much more will be given around March. Please contact us if you have any questions: Mr. Yuan Guojing, Ms. Guojing Email: icadl2004(a)mail.lib.sjtu.edu.cn Tel.: +86-21-62933229 Fax: +86-21-62820892 The Organization Committee of the 7th ICADL Conference Shanghai, P.R. China

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Re: [LIS-Forum] LIBRARY SERVICES ON MOBILE PHONES WE ARE READY?
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Dear professionals, Have a good day and in respose to the mail of Mr. Mallikarjuan, In fact, Learning Resource Centre Beams Education Centre, Dubai has effectively utilizing the SMS of cellular phones/ mobile for providing readyreference services. The Learning Resource centres users are also uses the SMS of cellular phone for their general enquiry, reservation, renewals, and other purposes. The same system is introduce by self, in 2002 November itself. Regards Vijayakumar M

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Links related ETDs
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:42:54 -0500 From: Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur <rcgaur(a)tifr.res.in> Apologies for cross posting. Please feel free in forwarding this to others. Hi! Some of you who might be thinking to start / or working on ETDs in India, following links may be of some help: http://www.uky.edu/ETD/ETD2004/ http://etdguide.org/ http://www.ndltd.org/talks/index.htm http://www.ndltd.org/pubs/index.htm http://www.vtls.com/ndltd/ http://www.ndltd.org/etd_conf/ETD2003tutorial05.ppt http://www.ndltd.org/union.html http://www.ndltd.org/research.html http://www.ndltd.org/community.html http://www.unesco.org.uy/eventos/evento2000-10-20-0.html http://www.theses.org/ http://www.dissertation.com/library_frame.php http://www.diplomica.com/ http://tennessee.cc.vt.edu/~lming/cgi-bin/ODL/nm-ui/members/index.htm http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/home/index.html http://www.pitt.edu/AFShome/g/r/graduate/public/html/etd/ http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/gateway http://zeeb.library.cmu.edu/OLC/fall2001.html#ETD http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/ http://www.dlib.vt.edu http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/extended/indest-etd.pdf http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ETD/directory/browse.html http://www.rgs.uky.edu/gs/ETDintro.html http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/support/help/glossary/glossary.htm http://etdguide.org/content/1.2.htm http://www.etd.psu.edu/gen_info.html Best, Ramesh -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Visiting Scholar (Fulbright Program)( Till February 2004) Virginia Tech Dept. of Computer Science 660 McBryde Hall, M/C 0106 Blacksburg, VA 24061 +1-540-231-3615

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RSS feeds
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:22:00 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Dear Friends: This has nothing to do with RSS connected with BJP. I desire to bring to your attention about RSS feeds available from websites. Recently a Technology called RSS (=Really Simple Syndication) is available. Many websites offering news items also provide what is called an RSS feed. New Indian Express is the first such Indian Newspaper to offer RSS feeds. RSS feed is usually an xml file. This file has an URL (address of the page on the website). For instance the RSS feed for Indian Express is available at: http://www.xpressindia.com/syndications/ei.xml At the end-user's PC, one has to install a small program generally called RSS Aggregator. Many RSS readers (aggregators) are available for free download and Amphetadesk is one of them. After installing Amphetadesk and invoking it, one has to enter the URL of the XML page in this program. Thereafter, Amphetadesk automatically downloads frequently the XML page (RSS feed). We will then get on our desktop the latest news brought to us regularly every three hours. If we have entered five news channels then we would have latest news from five different channels. All of them have the URL of the actual news item plus a short abstract. In this way one can get himself updated easily with latest news from different newspapers (or web resources or portals) of his choice. Several sites give directories of available RSS feeds. www.feedster.com is such a directory. www.disobey.com the site that provides Amphetadesk also gives its own long list of several thousand RSS feeds. RSS feeds are also called Channels. There is a provision to display constantly updated news pages on your website using this technology. There are easy methods of providing such 'automatically updated' news services on your website too using this pull technology: html code to be inserted in your html page are shown in concerned websites offering RSS feeds. I suggest librarians to make use of this technology to offer better value added services to their clients. *Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre *ICICI Knowledge Park, Turkapalli Village, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA *Ph: +91(40) 2348 0053; Fax:+91(40) 2348 0007 Ph. Res: +91(40) 2784 6631 *Website: http://www.vic-ikp.info and http://www.iciciknowledgepark.com HAVE YOU TRIED OUR TRANSLATION SERVICES?

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Thomas Parry Library - E- Journals in L I Science
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:53:38 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] MALLIKARJUNA, C" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear professional Information on and links to more than 500 ejournals on LIS Annotated list of electronic journals in librarianship and information science. The list will be of use to anyone exploring electronic journals in the LIS field. Titles are listed alphabetically and for each entry a page of relevant information is provided, the accuracy and currency of links and information are checked on a monthly basis. URL:http://www.inf.aber.ac.uk/tpl/ejlib/ C.MALLIKARJUNA, ISEC LIBRARY, INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE NAGARABHAVI BANGALORE-560 079. hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in

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ELPUB2004 Electronic Publishing conference (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:01:46 +0100 From: Marian Polus <marian.polus(a)esat.kuleuven.ac.be> Dear Sirs, Could you forward the following message to lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, please? Thank you in advance. Regards, Marian Polus -------------------- http://www.elpub.net -------------------- Dear specialists and professionals in electronic publishing, On behalf of the Organising committee, I have the pleasure inviting you to participate as a contributor to the 8th ELPUB conference that will be hosted in June 2004 by the Department of Information Science at the University of Brasilia (West-central Brazil). This 8th ELPUB conference will keep the tradition of previous ELPUB conferences, which is to bring together researchers, developers, users and all those interested on issues regarding electronic publishing in widely differing contexts. Conference themes include the human, cultural, economic, social, scientific, technological, legal, commercial and other relevant aspects of Electronic Publishing. Elpub 2004 offers also a variety of activities, such as workshops, tutorials, panel debates etc. Details can be found on the above mentioned website. A first call for papers was sent out some time ago, but it might not have reached you. But now has come the moment I would like you to take a few minutes to consider submitting a paper, a tutorial theme, a poster or a demonstration. The deadline for abstracts, that have to be introduced electronically via a conference website submission page, has been fixed on January 31, 2004. The 2nd call for papers with all details has been attached to this email. If for any reason this attachment is not accessible or not present anymore, you will find it also at: http://www.docarch.be/engelen/Call_2_for_papers_Elpub2004.pdf Welcome to ELPUB2004, Jan Engelen ELPUB2004 Programme Chair ** With my apologies for possible double postings ** -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Jan Engelen | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | mailto:Jan.Engelen@kuleuven.ac.be Dept. Electrotechniek - ESAT | Onderzoeksgroep Documentarchitecturen | tel. : +32 (0)16 32 11 23 Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 | B-3001 Heverlee-Leuven | fax. : +32 (0)16 32 19 86 BELGIUM | or +32 (0)16 23 74 31 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marian Polus - Project Assistant K.U.Leuven - Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Heverlee (Belgium) tel: +32 16 32 18 65 fax: +32 16 32 85 39 http://www.docarch.be

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Fw: survey of aggregators
by Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

----- Original Message ----- From: "Astronomy Library" <astlibr(a)lepus.astro.utoronto.ca> To: <SLA-ST(a)welles.library.nwu.edu>; <SLAPAM-L(a)lists.yale.edu> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 2:27 PM Subject: survey of aggregators > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > --forwarded by M. Cummins UofToronto Astronomy and Astrophysics Library --- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > > >From owner-sts-l(a)listserv.utk.edu Fri Jan 16 12:58:31 2004 > Sender: "STS-L (Science and Technology Section, ACRL)" > > Subject: Announcing "A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services" > > ***Cross-posted announcement -- apologies for duplication*** > > "A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services." > By Martha L. Brogan. > Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources: > Washington DC, December 2003. > > http://www.diglib.org/pubs/brogan/ > [And available in print, 1st quarter 2004] > > This 100-page report, commissioned by the DLF, provides an overview of a > diverse set of more than thirty digital library aggregation services, > organizes them into functional clusters, and then evaluates them more fully > from the perspective of an informed user. Most of the services under review > rely wholly or partially on the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting of the Open > Archives Initiative (OAI-PMH). Each service is annotated with its > organizational affiliation, subject coverage, function, audience, status, > and size. Critical issues surrounding each of these elements are presented > in order to provide the reader with an appreciation of the nuances inherent > in seemingly straightforward factual information, such as "audience" or > "size." > > David Seaman > Executive Director, Digital Library Federation > Council on Library and Information Resources > 1755 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Suite 500 > Washington, DC 20036 > tel: 202-939-4762 > fax: 202-939-4765 > e-mail: dseaman(a)clir.org > web: http://www.diglib.org/ >

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SMS Development Tools
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 05:36:18 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] MALLIKARJUNA, C" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Professionals: SMS Development Tools: Short Message Service, A text message service that enables short messages of generally no more than 140-160 characters in length to be sent and transmitted from pc to a cellphone and other digital-based mobile communications systems. for these tools visit this web page: http://www.funsms.net/sms_development_tools.htm This Section is edited and maintained by Dr. Subrahmanyam Karuturi ( ksm(a)funSMS.net ) 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

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Change in URL for Web Enhanced Training Programme on WINISIS (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 06:13:03 +0000 From: Uma Kanjilal <uma_kanjilal(a)hotmail.com> Dear Member, With reference to the announcement on Web enhanced training programme on WINISIS, please note the change in the URL. The URL for the programme is http://winisis.ignou.ac.in . This message may kindly be posted at the earliest. Regards, Uma Kanjilal ======================================================== Dr. (Ms) Uma Kanjilal Reader, Faculty of Library & Information Science Indira Gandhi National Open University ( IGNOU) New Delhi 110 067 E-mail:uma_kanjilal@hotmail.com ======================================================== ________________________________________________________________________________ Send DD, pay no commission. Click here.

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

19 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:30:08 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is a posting to the GKD97 list I sent in early 1997. I wonder if things have cahnged much. Regards. Arun Dear GKD97 members: Mr P Jayarajan, British Council Division, British High Commission, New Delhi, asked me to give my comments on the impact of electronic publishing on the developing countries, for inclusion in a discussion at a forthcoming World Bank Conference. I thought many members of this forum might be interested in this question (even if they might not care for my views on it!). I reproduce my letter to Jayarajan. Your comments are welcome. My address: <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Dear Jay: Here are some random thoughts on Electronic Publishing and its impact on the developing countries. As bullet points, of course! * The transition to electronic publishing from print will widen the gap between the advanced countries and the developing countries, especially in the field of production and dissemination of knowledge. * Many developing countries, especially those with large populations, do not have the necessary infrastructure (computer terminals, networks, communication channels, bandwidth, etc.) and will take a long time to have it in place to be able to take part as equal partners in the worldwide enterprise of knowledge production and exchange. * While communication revolution is perceived as a liberating influence, what is more likely to happen is that in many developing countries (including India, I am afraid) scientists and scholars will be among the last to be reached by the revolution and therefore the relative disadvantage they now suffer from (in the matter of access to information and knowledge) will only increase. The number of institutions and individual scholars having access to Email and Internet in developing countries and the rate at which this access has grown over time will support this contention. * The transition to electronic publishing will make it much easier for scientists and scholars in the advanced countries to interact with colleagues and invisible colleges, and most Third World scientists and scholars are most likely to be excluded from this "worldwide" network, not because they are intellectually inferior but because they do not have the technological backup. The already existing gaps in the levels of science and technology performed in the advanced and the poorer countries will be widened further and this could lead to increased levels of brain drain and dependence on foreign aid of a different kind (knowledge imperialism). * Mastery of technology has led the West to dominate the world to such an extent that even in areas where the traditional societies of the poorer countries had a lead of millennia (such as ethnobotany and plant-based medicine), now it is the West which is exploiting this knowledge base and converting it into products (of modern medicine) and profits. What has happened in the area of plants and medicine will happen with even greater vigour in the area of knowledge production and dissemination (including publishing and patenting). * Most journals and databases are produced in the advanced countries and developing country scientists read articles written by their own countrymen in expensive journals produced by commercial publishers in the West and gain access to the same articles through exhorbitatntly priced secondary services produced in the West! Electronic publishing and online access will only make the situation even worse. * There is another very serious problem. The traditional knowledge systems, because their practitioners are not well-versed in electronic communication, will die out very soon. This has already happened, even before the arrival of electronic publishing, thanks to the homogenising effect of western cultures which made many facets of other cultures extinct. -----------------------

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

19 Jan '04

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:13:11 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Please visit http://www.jbc.org/misc/JBC_Open_Access.shtml to know about the open access policy of a publisher of leading biology journals. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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RE: summary of status of the 63 OA journals sent by Prof. Arunach alam
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:04:03 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is a physicist on the need to promote open access: http://newsobserver.com/front/story/3218830p-2886313c.html Arun

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LIBRARY SERVICES ON MOBILE PHONES WE ARE READY?
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 09:34:40 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] mallikarjuna chenna" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Professionals Mobile phones have become a part of the standard executive kit; usage of mobiles for messaging and information exchange is more widespread among younger cell phone users.We (librarians)can also use these technologies for our library service.for this we need special hardware and software tools. for this purpose Portalify Ltd. Tekniikantie 12 02150 Espoo FINLAND Developed " Liblet" software. We can intelink with our present libray systems.sending notices of arrived reservations to the user's mobile phone immediately and often results in same-day pick-up, making the material rotate quicker and allowing the library to serve more customers. for more details see below url link: http://www.portalify.com/products/liblet.html 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

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Registration Open - ICDL2004 (International Conference on Digital Libraries) www.teriin.org/events/icdl
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:04:41 +0530 From: Debal Chandra Kar <dckar(a)teri.res.in> Our apologies for cross postings ICDL 2004 New Delhi 24-27 February 2004 International Conference on Digital Libraries: Knowledge creation, preservation, access and management *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We would appreciate disseminating this mail to your colleagues. *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Hon'ble President of India, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam has kindly accepted the invitation to be the Chief Guest at the inauguration of the conference on 24 February, 2004 at 1200 hrs at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. Digital libraries and knowledge management are innovations, the implementation of which is still nascent in developing countries. However, they hold the promise of becoming key technologies for knowledge creation and management in the future. In February 2003, the Government of India launched the National Mission for Manuscripts, aimed at preserving the valuable manuscripts in India. The mission is designed to undertake elaborate surveys, run awareness programmes, and impart training in conservation/preservation techniques. ICDL 2004 would contribute to the objectives of the mission by assembling a galaxy of experts, researchers, and academics from across the world to exchange ideas on digital libraries, and related technologies and issues. Objectives .Bridge knowledge gaps between developing and developed countries .Initiate capacity building activities in digital libraries .Evolve a road map for the digitization of archives, manuscripts, and libraries .Provide a forum for facilitating interaction amongst participants .Formulate recommendations on digitization technologies, Acts, and policies Who should participate? .Policy-makers .Library and information science professionals .IT professionals .Archivists and museologists .Content developers and knowledge managers .IT service providers .Information providers and vendors .Professionals from electronic publishing and virtual electronic communities .All stakeholders in the digitization and knowledge business Patrons: Mr Jagmohan Hon'ble Union Minister for Tourism and Culture Government of India * Tutorials .Conference sessions .Panel discussions .Business sessions .Exhibition Day 1: 24 February 2004 (Tuesday) 8.00 a.m. Registration for Tutorials and Conference 9.00-10.30 a.m. TUTORIALS TUTORIAL 1A TUTORIAL 1B TUTORIAL 1C Finding information Ontologies and Institutional through the Internet Thesauri repositories and the WWW Nicola Guarino T B Rajashekar Paul Nieuwenhuysen 10.30-11.00 a.m. Tea 11.00 a.m.-1.00 p.m. TUTORIALS TUTORIAL 2A TUTORIAL 2B TUTORIAL 1C Build digital library Knowledge Management Automatic classification of using open source and Systems: development of documents, or the software (GSDL)/ applications automatic generation of Ian Witten Hsinchun Chen metadata/ Fabrizio Sebatiani 1.00-2.00 p.m. Lunch 2.00-4.00 p.m. TUTORIALS TUTORIAL 3A TUTORIAL 3B TUTORIAL 3C Dublin Core Metadata: XML/RDF Building DLs using Stuart Weibel Erich Neuhold DSpace, OAI-PMH Version 2, Handle System 12.00-1330 a.m. Conference Inauguration At Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi Inaugural Address By Hon'ble President of India Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Day 2: 25 February 2004 (Wednesday) 8.00 a.m. Registration 9.00-9.30 a.m. Keynote Address 1 9.30-11.30 a.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 1 SESSION 1A SESSION 1B SESSION 1C ePublishing, Digital library Digital library initiatives multimedia, and technology: Digital library planning, development, evaluation and management 11.30 a.m.-12.00 noon Tea 12.00 noon-1.30 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 2 SESSION 2A SESSION 2B SESSION 2C Digital library Country initiatives/ Digital library policy issues case studies architecture, network and technology 1.30-2.30 p.m. Lunch 2.30-3.30 p.m. BUSSINESS SESSION 1 3.30-4.00 p.m. Tea 4.00-5.30 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 3 SESSION 3A SESSION 3B SESSION 3C Digital divide Multilingual Metadata issues metadata issues 7.30 p.m. Dinner Day 3: 26 February 2004 (Thursday) 9.00-9.30 a.m. Keynote Address 2 9.30-11.30 a.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 4 SESSION 4A SESSION 4B SESSION 4C Content Knowledge Semantics, thesauri, management management and ontologies 11.30 a.m.-12.00 noon Tea 12.00 noon-1.30 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 5 SESSION 5A SESSION 5B SESSION 5C Copyright issues e-Learning System scalability and digital and inter-operability rights management 1.30-2.30 p.m. Lunch 2.30-3.30 p.m. BUSINESS SESSION 2 3.30-4.00 p.m. Tea 4.00-6.00 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 6 SESSION 6A SESSION 6B SESSION 6C Archiving and Retrieval systems Human-machine sharing cultural interface, user heritage and interaction history globally Day 4: 27 February 2004 (Friday) 9.00-9.30 a.m. Keynote Address 3 9.30-11.00 a.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 7 SESSION 7A SESSION 7B SESSION 7C Manuscript: archiving Digital library Digital library and digitization consortium communities 11.00-11.30 a.m. Tea 11.30 a.m.-1.00 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 8 SESSION 8A SESSION 8B SESSION 8C Futuristics Digital library Digital library services security 1.00-2.00 p.m. Lunch 2.00 a.m.-4.00 p.m. PANEL DISCUSSION Digital library policy and strategic planning 4.00 - 5.30 p.m. Valedictory session For programme details please go to icdl site: www.teriin.org/events/icdl Advisory Committee Conference Co-chairs .Mr Dhanendra Kumar, IAS, Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr R K Pachauri, Director-General, TERI, New Delhi, and Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Geneva . Prof. N Balakrishnan, Professor and Chairman, Division of Information Sciences, IISc, Bangalore; Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Members .Ms Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Mission Director, National Mission for Manuscripts, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India .Mr K Jayakumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi .Mr Yateendra Joshi, Fellow, TERI, New Delhi .Dr Abhijit Lahiri, Adviser, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr S Majumdar, Director, Central Secretariat Library, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr S S Murthy, Former Director, Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr T A V Murthy, Director, Information and Library Network Centre, Ahmedabad .Dr Usha Reddi, Director, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia, The Commonwealth of Learning, New Delhi .Dr S Sadagopan, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore .Mr H D Singh, Director-General, National Archives of India, New Delhi .Prof. M Tawfik, Director, UNESCO New Delhi Office, UNESCO Representative to Bhutan, India, Maldives, and Sri Lanka .Dr R K Verma, Executive Director, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Noida .Dr N Vijayaditya, Director-General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr Om Vikas, Scientist 'G' and Head, Computer Development Division, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India International Programme Committee .Prof. Jos� Luis Borbinha, Direction of Services for Innovation and Development, National Library of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal .Dr Hsinchun Chen, McClelland Professor of MIS, Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab; Director, Hoffman E-Commerce Lab, University of Arizona, Management Information Systems, McClelland Hall, Tucson, USA .Dr Gobinda Chowdhury, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1, Scotland, UK .Dr Jean-Marc Comment, Archives f�d�rales suisses, Archivstrasse, Bern, Switzerland .Dr Dieter W Fellner, Professor, Computer Graphics, University of Technology Braunschweig, Germany .Mr Simon Huggard, Systems Manager, Systems Support Unit, Monash University Library, Monash University, Australia .Prof. Leonid A Kalinichenko, Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia .Dr Yan Quan Liu, Professor of Information and Library Science, School of Communication, Information and Library Science, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA .Prof. Gary Marchionini, Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA .Dr Erich Neuhold, Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries, Professor, GMD-IPSI Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany .Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Head, Information and Documentation University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium .Mr John Paschoud, Project Manager, ANGEL, DELIVER, SECURE, Information Systems Engineer of the Library, London School of conomics and Political Science, London, UK .Dr Michael Seadle, Head, Digital and Multimedia Center, Copyright Librarian, 100 Library, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA .Dr Atul Sharda, E-learning Adviser, E-Learning Strategy Unit, Department of Education and Skills, London, UK .Dr Stuart Weibel, Executive Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, OCLC Office of Research, Dublin, OH, USA .Prof. Ian H Witten, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand .Dr Norman Wiseman, JISC Head of Programmes, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK Steering Committee Co-chairs .Mr K Jayakumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr Leena Srivastava, Executive Director, TERI, New Delhi Conference Coordinator .Mr Debal C Kar, Fellow and Area Convenor, Library and Information Centre, TERI, New Delhi Members .Dr Jagdish Arora, Librarian and National Coordinator, INDEST Consortium, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi .Ms Martina Bartel, Head, Information Department and Library Regional Coordinator South Asia, Goethe Institut, New Delhi .Ms Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Mission Director, National Mission for Manuscripts, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr P R Goswami, Director, National Social Science Documentation Centre, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Government of India, New Delhi .Mr P Jayarajan, Head, Library and Information Services (India), British Council Division, British High Commission, New Delhi .Dr H K Kaul, Director, Developing Library Network (DELNET), New Delhi .Dr S Majumdar, Director, Central Secretariat Library, Government of India, New Delhi .Ms Rebecca McDuff, Information Resources Office and Public Affairs - US Embassy, American Center, New Delhi .Mr M Moni, Deputy Director-General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr Usha Mujoo-Munshi, Librarian, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi .Dr V N Shukla, Director (Special Applications) Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Noida .Mr H D Singh, Director-General, National Archives of India, New Delhi .Dr Shalini Urs, Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science Mysore University, Mysore Eminent speakers .Dr Jagdish Arora, Librarian and National Coordinator, INDEST Consortium, Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi .Prof. N Balakrishnan, Professor and Chairman, Division of Information Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore .Prof. Rahul Banerjee, Computer Science and Information Systems Co-ordinator, Centre for Software Development; Assistant Dean, Distance Learning Programmes Division, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani .Prof. Jos� Luis Borbinha, National Library of Portugal, Direction of Services for Innovation and Development, Portugal .Dr Muniram Budhu, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Arizona, USA .Dr Vinod Chachra, Chairman & CEO, VTLS Inc., VA, USA .Dr Harish Chandra, Librarian, Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, Chennai .Dr Ching-chih Chen, Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, USA .Prof. Hsinchun Chen, Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab and Hoffman E-Commerce Lab, Management Information Systems, University of Arizona, USA .Dr Gobinda Chowdhury, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, UK .Dr Jean-Marc Comment, Integration Manager, Archives F�d�rales Suisses, Switzerland .Dr Dieter W Fellner, Professor, Computer Graphics, University of Technology, Germany .Dr Schubert Foo Shou Boon, Associate Professor and Head, Division of Information Studies, School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore .Dr Nicola Guarino, Senior Research Scientist, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC-CNR, Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Italy .Prof. Amarnath Gupta, Director, Advanced Query Processing Lab, Data and Know-ledge Systems, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, USA .Mr Simon Huggard, Systems Manager, Monash University Library, Australia .Dr Ernie Ingles, Associate Vice-President (Learning Services) and Chief Librarian, University of Alberta, Canada .Prof. Leonid A Kalinichenko, Professor, Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia .Dr Yan Quan Liu, Professor, Information and Library Science, School of Communication, Southern Connecticut State University, USA .Dr Javed Mostafa, Victor H Yngve Associate Professor of Information Science, Associate Professor of Informatics, Indiana University, USA .Dr T A V Murthy, Director, Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET)/UGC, India .Prof. Erich J Neuhold, Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries; Director and Professor, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany .Dr Liddy Nevile, Adj. Associate Professor, Applied Computing Research Institute, La Trobe University, Australia .Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Head, Information and Documentation, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium .Dr Peter Noerr, Chief Technology Officer, MuseGlobal, Salt Lake City, USA .Dr Douglas W Oard, Digital Library Research Group, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, USA .Dr Harsha Parekh, Librarian and Professor of Library Science, SNDT Women's University, India .Mr John Paschoud, Project Manager, ANGEL, DELIVER, SECURE, Information Systems Engineer of the Library, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK .Dr Darren Peacock, Director, Information and Communications Technology, National Museum of Australia, Australia .Dr Annelise Mark Pejtersen, Senior Scientist, Systems Analysis Department, Ris� National Laboratory, Denmark .Dr T B Rajashekar, Associate Chairman, National Centre for Science Information, Bangalore, Indian Institute of Science, India .Dr Andreas Rauber, Research Fellow, Department of Software Technology, Vienna University of Technology, Austria .Dr Anshuman Razdan, Director, PRISM, Arizona State University, USA .Prof. Bruce Royan, Chief Executive, Concurrent Computing Ltd, UK .Prof. S Sadagopan, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore .Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Director, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad .Dr Peter Schirmbacher, Director, Computing and Media Services, Humboldt-University, Germany .Dr Michael Seadle, Head, Digital and Multimedia Center; Assistant Director for Systems and Digital Services; Copyright Librarian, Michigan State University Libraries; Editor, Library Hi Tech; USA .Dr Fabrizio Sebastiani, Instituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy .Prof. Tengku Mohd T Sembok, Professor in Computer Science, Department of Information Science, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia .Dr Atul Sharda, E-learning Adviser, E-Learning Strategy Unit, Department of Education and Skills, UK .Prof. Shigeo Sugimoto, Koichi Tabata, Tetsuo Sakaguchi, University of Library and Information Science, Japan .Dr Shalini Urs, Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science Mysore University, Mysore .Dr Stuart Weibel, Executive Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, OCLC Office of Research, USA .Dr Norman Wiseman, JISC Head of Programmes, University of Nottingham, UK .Prof. Ian H Witten, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand .Dr Vilas Wuwongse, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand .Dr Takeo Yamamoto, Director and Professor, Multimedia Information Division, National Institute of Informatics, Japan .Ms Xu Yinchi, Professor, Director of Chinese Science Digital Library, Beijing .Prof. Halimah Badioze Zaman, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia Registration The registration fee covers the conference kit, pre-conference proceedings, lunches, dinner, and tea. It does not include other meals and accommodation. Registration fee* Delegates Tutorials Conference Conference and tutorials Indian Rs 2500 Rs 5500 Rs 6500 Foreign US$ 100 US$ 225 US$ 250 * Additional registration from the same organization qualifies for a 10% discount . * Students (full-time) can avail 50% discount. * 25% special discount for foreign delegates from developing countries. Registration A registration form is sent along with this announcement brochure. The form can also be downloaded from the conference web site. The completed form, along with the registration fee should be sent to the ICDL 2004 Secretariat. Payment can also be made through any of the following modes: local cheque / bank draft favouring TERI and payable at New Delhi; credit card; and bank transfer. Registration confirmation Confirmation of registration will be sent upon receipt of the completed registration form and payment. Cancellation and substitution policy No cancellation or refund will be possible after a firm registration has been made. However, substitutions may be made. Please indicate, by 15 February 2004, the name and other necessary details, of the delegate who will replace the original registrant. Conference venue: India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India For conference details,contact Mr Debal C Kar Conference Coordinator ICDL 2004 Secretariat TERI Darbari Seth Block, Habitat Place (India Habitat Centre) Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110 003 India Telephone: 2465 1629, 2468 2100, or 2468 2111 (extn. 2724) Fax : 2468 2144 or 2468 2145 E-mail : ICDL2004(a)teri.res.in Web : www.teriin.org/events/icdl India +91 * Delhi (0)11

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Re: [LIS-Forum] FW: RRC Annual Convention
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 11:49:13 +0530 From: Sankaraiah <sankaraiah(a)vsnl.net> Dear Mr Deshmukh, Being far away from the Capital, I am unable to attend the panel discussion. However, wd it be paossible to post any important papers, points that emerge out of the proceedings on the LIS-Forum Thanks. sankaraiah > > Subject: RRC Annual Convention > Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:29:49 +0500 (GMT+0500) > > RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE, New Delhi >

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Indian Digitisation Activities
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:02:58 +0530 (IST) From: I.R.N.Goudar <goudar(a)css.nal.res.in> Dear Professionals, I am in the process of collecting information on Digitisation activities and Digital Library Initiatives in India. The objects digitised could be documents(books, journals, reports, patents, standards, manuscripts in any form like paper, palm leaves, metal sheets, etc), audio, video, graphics, paintings, models, photos, etc. I have got some details about few activities and still I may not be aware of many. If your organisation has some activity, please send me the details immediately (not more than a page). If not and if you know any institution carrying out this activity, please reply even if it is 3-4 lines or at least inform me the details (contact person and address, telephone, e-mail address, etc). THIS INFORMATION IS REQUIRED VERY URGENTLY. I will post the consolidated summary later through LIS-Forum. Thanks in advance. Regards Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-5086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-5235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-5268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road http://www.icast.org.in/staff1.htm BANGALORE-560 017 India

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ePaper version of TOI
by Madhuresh 16 Jan '04

16 Jan '04

Dear friends, This is to make you aware about the service started by Times of India newspaper. Now the ePaper version of TOI is available over the Net at http://epaper.timesofindia.com/ Through this epaper version, one can see exactly the same newspaper as it is published in hard copy and access all the city editions (Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Pune, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Lucknow and Hyderabad) along with the supplements for the current day and the past 6 days. Complete Newspaper can also be downloaded in PDF format. This value added service along with various personalization options is currently available freely. Later on they have the plan to offer this service at nominal rate of Rs. 50/ per month and the complete archive at Rs. 5000/ per month. Regards. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 562 158 Phone 8521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 Fax 852 6285 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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Can any such consortia be made?
by Madhuresh 16 Jan '04

16 Jan '04

Dear Friends, See the news item "Libraries unite to strike digital gold for NZers" appears very recently at http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/ED0401/S00014.htm The news item says - ...... In a move that is the first of its kind in New Zealand, public, education, research and special libraries have joined together to buy collective access to tens of thousands of electronic resources that can be used by people from all parts of the country. ......... ..... "This collaborative venture also realises the vision of making information more easily available to a farmer in Southland, a student in Kerikeri, or a researcher in one of the large metropolitan areas," adds Ms Carnaby. "It's a great step for information democracy in this country." Primary, intermediate and high schools around the country will also have access to the resources, at no individual cost - the Ministry of Education is funding every school library in New Zealand to be a part of the group for the first year. ............... Can any such consortia be made in our own country for the general public? There may be many hurdles in doing so (no need to mention) but whether anyone thought of doing such things? One may also be interested in the title "How to Digitize Eight Million Books", an interview with Michael Keller, University Librarian, Director of Academic Information Resources, and Publisher of HighWire Press and the Stanford University Press. One can read it at http://www.honco.net/os/ Regards. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 562 158 Phone 8521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 Fax 852 6285 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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MOVIE ORGANIZER &BOOK ORGANIZER( freeware tools)
by Mailing List Manager 16 Jan '04

16 Jan '04

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 07:05:09 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] mallikarjuna chenna" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Professionals! Here some tools for Movie & small libraries. You can download from this site free of cost.(FREEWARE) MOVIE ORGANIZER &BOOK ORGANIZER( freeware tools) MOVIE ORGANIZER Movie Organizer is fully integrated with MOOD, the Movie Organizer Online Database. When you add a movie to your collection you will be able to search MOOD for information which will be downloaded from the net and filled in automatically. You can also upload data to MOOD if you find that something is missing. Software Requirements: Movie Organizer can be run on Windows 9x/NT/2000/Me/XP. Movie Organizer features MOOD Movie Organizer is fully integrated with MOOD, the Movie Organizer Online Database. When you add a movie to your collection you will be able to search MOOD for information which will be downloaded from the net and filled in automatically. You can also upload data to MOOD if you find that something is missing. Advanced search and fast search These two search options makes Movie Organizer both powerful and easy to use. Search on any field in any combination. Sorting Your movie list can be sorted in any possible way. You can even combine sortings by first clicking on one field and then on another, and so on. And it's easy, you only have to click on the column header for the field you want to sort. Print Wizard The Print Wizard gives you very flexible reports. You have the following pr! inting features: * Select exactly what movies to print. * Select any field that is visible in the movie list. * Arrange the fields on your printout as you wish. * Select how many fields you want on your printout. * Select the size of the fields on your printout. * Sort the movies on your printout in any possible way. * Change caption, etc. CSV Import Wizard A very flexible import function. You can assign any CSV-field to any Movie Organizer field. Export to XML or CSV IMDb search Search the International Movie Database (IMDb) for information regarding your FOR DOWLOAD: http://www.movieorganizer.com/download.asp BOOK ORGANIZER: Book Organizer is a very useful program to organize books for small libraries view full details: http://www.bookorganizer.com/

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INTERESTING ARTICLE
by Mailing List Manager 16 Jan '04

16 Jan '04

Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 04:26:59 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] mallikarjuna chenna" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear professionals: For the first study of its kind (led by Roger Schonfeld of Ithaka)<?xml:namespac Regarding the comparative costs of handling, in a library, of print vs. Electronic journals over time, and for some surprises as well as Enlightenment, see the just published D-Lib here: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january04/schonfeld/01schonfeld.html C.MALLIKARJUNA, ISEC LIBRARY, INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL ECONOMIC CHANGE NAGARABHAVI BANGALORE-560 079. Office:080+3215468 EXT-301 Mobile:080+36757228

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FW: RRC Annual Convention
by Mailing List Manager 16 Jan '04

16 Jan '04

Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 08:26:09 +0530 From: Ratnakar Aspari <aspari_r(a)hotmail.com> For kind circulation on Lis-Forum Ratnakar _____________________________________ Subject: RRC Annual Convention Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:29:49 +0500 (GMT+0500) RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE, New Delhi Cordially invites you to X Annual Convention at the Tagore Hall, I Floor, Tutorial Building, Department of Library and Information Science University of Delhi, Delhi - 110 007 On January 31, 2004 Saturday at 10.00 A M There will be a Panel Discussion on "CHANGING ROLE MODEL OF LIS PROFESIONALS IN DIGITAL ERA" SUBHASH DESHMUKH

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Searching Vendor for Large Format Color Photocopying
by Mailing List Manager 16 Jan '04

16 Jan '04

Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:51:38 +0530 From: Samdarshi Pali <Samdarshi.Pali(a)relianceinfo.com> I am searching parties willing to do the Large Format Color Duplication at Mumbai/Navi Mumbai. This duplication work involve A0/A1 drawings for our Engineering Document Repository. I will be very thankful if anyone could help me in this matter. Regards Samdarshi Pali

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OAI Service Providers: SciTech and SocSciences and Humanities
by Mailing List Manager 16 Jan '04

16 Jan '04

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 09:47:06 -0600 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> OAI Service Providers: SciTech and SocSciences and Humanities I am pleased to announce the availability of two recently-published articles that profile various Open Archives Initiative Service Providers: Gerry McKiernan. "Open Archives Initiative Service Providers. Part I: Science and Technology," _Library Hi Tech News_ 20 no. 9: (November 2003): 30-38. [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-SP-I.pdf ] AND Gerry McKiernan. "Open Archives Initiative Service Providers. Part II: Social Sciences and Humanities," _Library Hi Tech News_ 20 no. 10: (December 2003): 24-31. [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-SP-II.pdf] Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Latte-drinking, Sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, Left-Wing Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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Can I get the full text of article?
by Mailing List Manager 16 Jan '04

16 Jan '04

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:34:20 +0530 From: Shivendra Singh <shivendra(a)niper.ac.in> Dear friends, Can I get the full text of article? A Mild and Efficient Method for Racemization of alpha-Amino Esters by U. Ramachandran, S. Kumar and H. P. S. Chawla. Volume 35, 1-637 (2003) 616-620. Published in Organic Preparations and Procedures International The New Journal for Organic Synthesis Thanks and regards, Shivendra Singh Electronic Information Retrieval System National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Govt. of India Sector-67, SAS Nagar (Mohali) - 160062 Phone: 91-172-2214683/87 Ext: 2017 Fax: 91-172-2214692 Mob:: 9815526163 http://sshivendra.tripod.com

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Web Enhanced Training Programme on WINISIS
by Mailing List Manager 16 Jan '04

16 Jan '04

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:51:13 +0000 From: Uma Kanjilal <uma_kanjilal(a)hotmail.com> Web Enhanced Training Programme on WINISIS<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> IGNOU-DSIR Initiative (http://www.winisis.ignou.ac.in) January 23- <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />February 22, 2004 Introduction: A pilot project of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) to develop a methodology for delivery of training programmes through e-learning mode taking WINISIS as an example. WINISIS is one of the most widely used information retrieval packages used for development of databases in library and information centres throughout the world. The training programme developed envisages delivery in both online as well as CD versions, providing multimedia based self-learning material with synchronous and asynchronous online interactive environment. The purpose of this training programme is to collect feedback from the participants about the effectiveness of the e-learning courseware. Objectives: The focus of the programme is to: � provide opportunity of learning the WINISIS package to those who are not able to do so otherwise; � facilitate self-learning through multimedia courseware; and � stimulate learning through online interaction with experts and peer group. Target Audience: The Programme is meant for: � LIS students minimum at degree level � LIS working professionals � LIS teachers This programme is at the beginners level. The advanced learners need not apply. The programme is available for both Indian and International participants especially from the SAARC and ASEAN countries. Course Structure The entire course content is divided into eleven modules. Each module contains reading material, slide shows, videos, e-tutorials and quiz. Some of the modules also have facility for hands on practice through simulation. Progress from one module to the next will depend on the successful completion of each module by self assessment tests. Modules Module 1 Database Concepts Module 2 Introduction to CDS/ISIS and WINISIS Module 3 WINISIS Installation Module 4 Menus and Dialog boxes in WINISIS Module 5 Database Design Module 6 Content Creation and Indexing Module 7 Information Retrieval Module 8 Formatting Language Module 9 Sorting and Printing Module 10 Database Conversion and Utilities Module 11 Web Enabled WINISIS Project Work (for final evaluation) The entire programme is required to be completed in 80 hours spread over a month�s time. Delivery Mechanism: The programme is designed in a manner that can cater to both category of users, those having unlimited as well as limited access to the Internet. The CD will contain the multimedia self-learning material whereas the Web will be used for the purpose of interaction both in a synchronous as well as asynchronous mode. Key features of the content delivery are: � Controlled Multimedia Components � Self Evaluation with Feedback � Interactive Learning Forum like Bulletin Board, E-mail, Chat sessions. � Additional Features like Calendar, Glossary, Related links, FAQs etc. � Online Project Evaluation How to Apply: Those desirous of participating in the training programme are requested to visit the training web site at http://www.winisis.ignou.ac.in for registration. Last date for registration is January 21, 2004. Only hundred participants will be registered on first-come first-serve basis. However, ten percent reservation is there for international participants. Selected participants will be informed through e-mail by January 22, 2004. Course Fee: Free Contact Person: Dr. Uma Kanjilal Project Coordinator (IGNOU-DSIR Project) & Reader, Library & Information Science Indira Gandhi National Open University Maidan Garhi, New Delhi Pin- 110 068 Phone: +91 11 26961845 Fax: +91 11 26961845 e-mail: ukanjilal(a)ignou.ac.in ======================================================== Dr. (Ms) Uma Kanjilal Reader, Faculty of Library & Information Science Indira Gandhi National Open University ( IGNOU) New Delhi 110 067 E-mail:uma_kanjilal@hotmail.com ========================================================

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FREE full text access to OCLC Systems and Services (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 14 Jan '04

14 Jan '04

Dear Moderator, Please ignore my earlier mail and post the following. Regards, Pujar -------- Dear Members, Emerald under its 'Journal of the Week' programme is providing FREE full text access to 'OCLC Systems and Services' journal. Available volumes are: Volume 10, 1994 to Volume 19, 2003. The access is availble till Jan 18, 2004. It can be accessed at: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/jotw 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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Conference Announcement
by DK SAHU 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

Apologies for cross posting As a part of the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, we have planned a conference in September 2004 for authors, reviewers and editors. The program is being jointly organized with INASP (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications) and WAME (World Association of Medical Editors). This will probably be the first such event in a developing country discussing all the aspects of journal writing and publishing in biomedical science. May we request you to kindly help us in promoting this event by appropriately including this information in your Calendar of Events or Forthcoming Events column/web pages? Title: JPGM GOLD CON: 50 years of medical writing - International conference on journal writing and publishing Organizers: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, INASP and WAME Dates: 23rd-26th September 2004 Venue: Mumbai, India URL: http://www.jpgmonline.com/goldcon.asp Main topics: Medical writing, editing, journal publishing, electronic publishing, open access, publication ethics Contact: Dr Atul Goel, Department of Neurosurgery, Seth G. S. Medical College, Parel, Mumbai - 400 012, INDIA. Phone: 91-22-24129884. Fax: 91-22-25032398, E-mail: goldcon(a)jpgmonline.com Thanking you, With personal regards, DK Sahu, MD Joint Organizing Secretary, JPGM Gold Con Managing Editor, Journal of Postgraduate Medicine www.jpgmonline.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus

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SOMLib Digital Library System
by Mailing List Manager 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 04:14:13 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] mallikarjuna chenna" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Professionals SOMLib project we create a digital library system that uses a neural network-based core for library representation and query processing. The self-organizing map, a popular unsupervised neural network model, is used to automatically structure a document collection. Based on this core, additional modules integrate distributed libraries and create an intuitive representation of the library, automatically labeling the various topical sections in the document collection. digital library system supporting intuitive, user friendly browsing of document collections by combining the benefits of conventional library organisation with the possibilities offered by digital collections. It is based on the self-organizing map (SOM), a popular unsupervised neural network, used to organize documents by content into bookshelves. Metaphor graphics facilitate the intuitive representation of the resulting document archive, allowing users to get an instant overview of its content and characteristics. New: SOMLib goes music!! They extended the principles of the SOMLib system to music archives, allowing you to organize and browse collections of music. mallikarjuna chenna

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RE: [LIS-Forum] SOMLib Digital Library System
by Sukhdev Singh 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

Thanks mallikarjuna chenna, I think LIS-FORUM would also be interested in knowing the software being used and availability of the software especially for R&D purposes. I would appreciate if you can educate us this aspect of SOMLIB. Regards Sukhdev >From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Subject: [LIS-Forum] SOMLib Digital Library System >Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:47:09 +0530 (IST) > >Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 04:14:13 +0000 (GMT) >From: "[iso-8859-1] mallikarjuna chenna" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> > >Dear Professionals > >SOMLib project we create a digital library system that uses a neural >network-based core for library representation and query processing. The >self-organizing map, a popular unsupervised neural network model, is used >to automatically structure a document collection. Based on this core, >additional modules integrate distributed libraries and create an >intuitive representation of the library, automatically labeling the >various topical sections in the document collection. >digital library system supporting intuitive, user friendly browsing of >document collections by combining the benefits of conventional library >organisation with the possibilities offered by digital collections. It is >based on the self-organizing map (SOM), a popular unsupervised neural >network, used to organize documents by content into bookshelves. Metaphor >graphics facilitate the intuitive representation of the resulting >document archive, allowing users to get an instant overview of its >content and characteristics. > >New: SOMLib goes music!! They extended the principles of the SOMLib >system to music archives, allowing you to organize and browse collections >of music. > >mallikarjuna chenna >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum _________________________________________________________________ Games, MMS cards, ringtones. Operator logos, picture messages & more. http://server1.msn.co.in/sp03/mobilesms/ Jazz up your mobile!

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Digitization of manuscripts
by sainul＠iiitmk.ac.in 10 Jan '04

10 Jan '04

Dear Friends, Can somebody give me the details of the Libraries which are invloved in Digitization of Old documents and Manuscripts/palmleaves etc With Regards, Sainul Abideen P Librarian IIITM-K Technopark Trivandrum This Mail has been sent from: ________________________________________________________________________ Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - Kerala, Park Centre, Techno Park, Thiruvananthapuram - 695 581. Kerala. India. Contact: Website: http://www.iiitmk.ac.in Phone: +91-471-2527567 / 3091334 Fax: +91-471-2527568 ________________________________________________________________________ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and /or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this in error,please contact the sender and delete the material from anycomputer.

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Good Articles
by Madhuresh 09 Jan '04

09 Jan '04

I would like to attract the attention of forum members towards the following articles. How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web http://www.miskatonic.org/library/facet-web-howto.html The recent issue of Cites and Insights (Midwinter 2004) is an A to Z Glossary of LIS terms, which is quite useful. http://cites.boisestate.edu/civ4i2.pdf "Recataloging Librarians" where author Allison Ogden has talked about A Technological History of Librarian Images; What do Librarians Really Do and What are Librarians Really Like. See it at http://www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/libr500/02-03-wt1/www/A_Ogden/index.htm Regards. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 562 158 Phone 8521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile: 98861 82822 Fax 852 6285 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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Free ISBN Search
by Mailing List Manager 09 Jan '04

09 Jan '04

Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 11:08:42 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Dear Friends: A free ISBN search of about 4 lac titles (still in experimental stage) is available at http://isbndb.com Please try it out! It gives Library holdings info too wherever available. *Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre *ICICI Knowledge Park, Turkapalli Village, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Ph: +91(40) 2348 0053; Fax:+91(40) 2348 0007 Ph. Res: +91(40) 2784 6631 *Website: http://www.vic-ikp.info and http://www.iciciknowledgepark.com HAVE YOU TRIED OUR TRANSLATION SERVICES?

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Usefull tools for Indexing and Thesaurus
by Mailing List Manager 09 Jan '04

09 Jan '04

Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:53:00 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] mallikarjuna chenna" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear professionals! Useful tools are available for download (Freeware) librarians they can use these tools for their libraries. These tools are windows based (32-bit) and dos based also; They can be used in the production of indexes in HTML format. You can download from: http://publish.uwo.ca/~craven/freeware.htm C.MALLIKARJUNA, ISEC LIBRARY, INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL ECONOMIC CHANGE NAGARABHAVI BANGALORE-560 079. Office:080+3215468 EXT-301 Mobile:080+36757228

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Article required
by Mailing List Manager 09 Jan '04

09 Jan '04

Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 22:51:27 -0800 (PST) From: Srinivasan R <seenukkd(a)yahoo.com> Dear Members I would be grateful if anyone sends me a copy of the following paper as one of our senior scientists needs a copy of that paper urgently. Bibliographic information: Journal:Accounts of Chemical Research Title:Polarons, bipolarons, and solitons in conducting polymers Authors:Jean Luc Bredas and G. Bryan Street Issue details: volume 18, year 1985, pp 309 - 315 Yours Sincerely R Srinivasan Library Officer Central Electrochemical Research Institute Karaikudi With Best Wishes Yours Sincerely R Srinivasan Phone: 225904 (R) ; 227750 (O) 7, kambar Street Thilagar Nagar Karaikudi - 630 002

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urgently required
by Mailing List Manager 09 Jan '04

09 Jan '04

Date: 9 Jan 2004 04:35:05 -0000 From: KISHOR <kishorawachar(a)rediffmail.com> Dear sir, I am searching for the source & avalabilty of these papers International wokshop on geotext 1989 Banglore, India 1. Paper presented by V. Radhakrishanan Nair on- Maunt & application of coir as geotext 2. Paper presented by P Jaganntharao O P Yadav ,Jai Bhagwan- Erosion control &slope protection with geofabric KISHOR J R D TATA MEMORIAL LIBRARY INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE BANGALORE-560012 Dept. WebSite:- www.library.iisc.ernet.in patilkv(a)library.iisc.ernet.in

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Indian Insect life
by Hari Sridhar 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

Hari Sridhar Wildlife Institute of India Dehradun Hi, I'm looking for copies of the following book - Maxwell-Lefroy,H. 1984 Indian Insect Life: A Manual of the Insects of the Plains Jagmander Book Agency, New Delhi 595.7095400000001 Maxwell-Lefroy,H. 1978 Indian Insect Life: A Manual of the Insects of the Plains (Tropical India) Today and Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers, New Delhi 595.7095400000001 Can anyone tell me if it is in print still and where I can buy it from? Thanks Yours sincerely, Hari Sridhar __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus

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Open access
by Francis Jayakanth 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:15:29 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: If you are interested in promoting open access to scientific literature, you may find the following three sources very useful. Online Forum on Open Access <http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html> A complete archive of the ongoing discussion on providing online open access to the peer-reviewed research literature is available at the American Scientist Open Access Forum. Post discussion to: <september98-forum(a)amsci-forum.amsci.org> <<...OLE_Obj...>> Open Access News <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html> A blog edited by Peter Suber that focuses on efforts to create toll-free access to peer-reviewed research and scholarship. EPrints: Author/Institutional Archiving Software <http://www.eprints.org/> Provides open source software for self-archiving research, as well as running CiteBase and OpCit projects on improving online services such as reference linking. <<...OLE_Obj...>> You may also find The Scientist, the fortnightly journal for life scientists published by Eugene Garfield, useful. The Scientist includes a section called "Open Access Now". <www.the-scientist.com> Arun

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Engineering Information launches NTIS Database on Ei Village 2
by Mailing List Manager 07 Jan '04

07 Jan '04

Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 01:40:48 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Banda Shankar" <bandashankar(a)yahoo.co.in> Respected Professionals a useful platform Elsevier Engineering Information has launched the U.S. National Technical Information Service (NTIS) database on the Engineering Village 2, a Web-based discovery platform for the engineering community. Engineering Village 2 provides access to today's most important engineering content through one single interface: Compendex Inspec NTIS ENGnetBASE Patents from USPTO and esp@cenet Techstreet Standards GlobalSpec Scirus EEVL LexisNexis News further details at http://www.engineeringvillage2.org/controller/servlet/Controller with regards Banda Shankar, Student, DRTC.

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CNN.com: Information Visualization Article
by Mailing List Manager 07 Jan '04

07 Jan '04

Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:00:21 -0600 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> A very *timely* article published on the heals of my "New Age Navigation: Innovative Information Interfaces for Electronic Journals" article in _ The Serials Librarian_ [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/NewAge.pdf ] The Future *is* Now! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Next-Generation Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011

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Ovid database free access notification on LISFORUM (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 16:51:49 +0530 From: mkishore <mkishore(a)informindia.co.in> Dear Sir/Madam, We at Informatics request you to kindly put this notification for free access to OVID database from us on the LISFORUM for its members. The notification is attached here as a word file. Regards, Manish ================================================== Manish Kishore Product Marketing Informatics (India) Ltd. mkishore(a)informindia.co.in # 337, Karuna complex, Malleshwaram Post Box 360, Bangalore-560 003, India Ph: +91-80-336 7867/336 5940 F: +91-80-3344598, www.informindia.co.in " A PASSAGE TO KNOWLEDGE " ==================================================

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WIS and COLLNET Meeting at IIT Roorkee
by JK Vijayakumar 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

Dear All, International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Fifth COLLNET Meeting will be held at Central Library of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, India on 2-5 March, 2004 First Announcement and Call for Papers Scope Quantitative aspects of science of science. Collaboration and communication in science and in technology. Science policy. Combination and integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches. Theoretical, methodological and applied aspects, for example: - Emerging issues in scientometrics/informetrics/webometrics and history - Quantitative analysis of S&T innovations - Informetric laws and distributions, mathematical models of communication or collaboration - Information retrieval - Nature and growth of science and its relation with technological output - Evaluation indicators - Collaboration in science and in technology from both quantitative and qualitative points of view Please, note that these examples listed above give a broad outline of the scope of the workshop theme but do not limit it. Important Dates: Abstract: 30 th November 2003 Acceptance : 15 th December 2003 Full Paper : 15 th January 2004 Please send your abstracts to: Yogendra Singh Librarian Central Library Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee Roorkee-247667 U.A. India Tel: +91-1332-285239, 277587 Fax: +91-1332-277587, 273560 E-mail yogi(a)iitr.ernet.in, rulib(a)iitr.ernet.in r_kundra(a)yahoo.com Please send also a copy to: kretschmer.h(a)onlinehome.de Call for papers as PDF file is available at http://www.collnet.de/Roorkee.pdf ------------- Posted by J K Vijayakumar INFLIBNET, India __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus

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Query on Book
by Mailing List Manager 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 03:03:04 -0800 (PST) From: Mr.G.Bhojaraju <bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com> Dear Colleagues, Is any of your library having the following title, please let me know at your earliest. Radiation Processing of Polymers by Ajit Singh (Editor), Joseph Silverman Hope you will provide me the required information at your earliest. with regards Bhojaraju

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Continuation of the article links
by Ayesha Taranum 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

Hello, Links to all four articles by Arun Shourie in Indian express. Part 1 link : http://www.indianexpress.com/archive_full_story.php?content_id=38409 Part 2: http://www.indianexpress.com/archive_full_story.php?content_id=38528 Part 3: http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=38593&spf=true And the final part which appeared today Part 4: http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=38654 Regards, -- Ayesha __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus

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Re: oldage home info
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

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