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D-lib magazine January/February 2008
by noufal palliparamban 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Dear Friends, Lastest issue of D-lib is available now http://www.dlib.org/ ,There are two intresting articles on interoperability and Preservation . regards ------------------------------------------------- Noufal.P.P Assistant Librarian (Gr.1) XLRI School of Business & Human Resources C.H.Area East Jamshedpur-831 001 Jharkhand,India. Ph.0657 3983322 --------------------------------- Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Free journal-ranking tool enters citation market
by Dr.N.C. Jain 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Dear All, The news item "Free journal-ranking tool enters citation market", published in the latest issue of Nature (3 January 2008) may be of your interest. Regards: Sincerely, Naresh Jain ___________________________________ Dr N.C. Jain Scientist 'F' Indian Council of Medical Research & Division of Publication & Information V.Ramalingaswami Bhawan, Ansari Nagar New Delhi 110 029, India Tel. Office :0091-11-26589384 R : 91-11- 22164154 / 22335682 Mobile :9868807284 e-mail :encejain@gmail.com __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ NEWS NATURE|Vol 451|3 January 2008, p 6 Free journal-ranking tool enters citation market A new Internet database lets users generate onthe- fly citation statistics of published research papers for free. The tool also calculates papers' impact factors using a new algorithm similar to PageRank, the algorithm Google uses to rank web pages. The open-access database is collaborating with Elsevier, the giant Amsterdam-based science publisher, and its underlying data come from Scopus, a subscription abstracts database created by Elsevier in 2004. The SCImago Journal & Country Rank database was launched in December by SCImago, a data-mining and visualization group at the universities of Granada, Extremadura, Carlos III and Alcalá de Henares, all in Spain. It ranks journals and countries using such citation metrics as the popular, if controversial, Hirsch Index. It also includes a new metric: the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR). The familiar impact factor created by industry leader Thomson Scientific, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is calculated as the average number of citations by the papers that each journal contains. The SJR also analyses the citation links between journals in a series of iterative cycles, in the same way as the Google PageRank algorithm. This means not all citations are considered equal; those coming from journals with higher SJRs are given more weight. The main difference between SJR and Google's PageRank is that SJR uses a citation window of three years. It will take time to assess the SJR properly, experts say. It is difficult to compare the results of SJR journal analyses directly with those based on impact factors, because the databases each is based on are different. Thomson's Web of Science abstracts database covers around 9,000 journals and Scopus more than 15,000, and in the years covered by the SCImago database — 1996 to 2007 — Scopus contains 20–45% more records, says Félix de Moya Anegón, a researcher at the SCImago group. The top journals in SJR rankings by discipline are often broadly similar to those generated by impact factors, but there are also large differences in position (see table). Immunity (SJR of 9.34) scores higher than The Lancet (1.65), for example, but The Lancet's 2006 impact factor of 25.8 is higher than the 18.31 of Immunity. Such differences can be understood in terms of popularity versus prestige, says de Moya Anegón — popular journals cited frequently by journals of low prestige have high impact factors and low SJRs, whereas journals that are prestigious may be cited less but by more prestigious journals, giving them high SJRs but lower impact factors. Thomson under fire The new rankings are welcomed by Carl Bergstrom of the University of Washington in Seattle, who works on a similar citation index, the Eigenfactor, using Thomson data. "It's yet one more confirmation of the importance and timeliness of a new generation of journal ranking systems to take us beyond the impact factor," says Bergstrom, "and another vote in favour of the basic idea of ranking journals using the sorts of Eigenvector centrality methods that Google's PageRank uses." Thomson has enjoyed a monopoly on citation numbers for years — its subscription products include the Web of Science, the Journal Citation Report and Essential Science Indicators. "Given the dominance of Thomson in this field it is very welcome to have journal indicators based on an alternative source, Scopus," says Anne-Wil Harzing of the University of Melbourne in Australia, who is developing citation metrics based on Google Scholar. Jim Pringle, vice-president for development at Thomson, says metrics similar to PageRank, such as SJR and Eigenfactor, have proven their utility on the web, but their use for evaluating science is less well understood. "Both employ complex algorithms to create relative measures and may seem opaque to the user and difficult to interpret," he says. Thomson is also under fire from researchers who want greater transparency over how citation metrics are calculated and the data sets used. In a hard-hitting editorial published in Journal of Cell Biology in December, Mike Rossner, head of Rockefeller University Press, and colleagues say their analyses of databases supplied by Thomson yielded different values for metrics from those published by the company (M. Rossner et al. J. Cell Biol. 179, 1091–1092; 2007). Moreover, Thomson, they claim, was unable to supply data to support its published impact factors. "Just as scientists would not accept the findings in a scientific paper without seeing the primary data," states the editorial, "so should they not rely on Thomson Scientific's impact factor, which is based on hidden data." Citation metrics produced by both academics and companies are often challenged, says Pringle. The editorial, he claims, "misunderstands much, and misstates several matters", including the authors' exchanges with Thomson on the affair. On 1 January, the company launched a web forum to formally respond to the editorial (see http://scientific.thomson. com/citationimpactforum). Declan Butler Thomson Scientific Impact Factor (IF) TOP TEN Rank Journal IF SJR 1 Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians 63.3 7.3 2 New England Journal of Medicine 51.3 3.7 3 Annual Review of Immunology 47.2 22.4 4 Annual Review of Biochemistry 36.5 16.1 5 Reviews of Modern Physics 33.5 2.7 6 Nature Reviews Cancer 31.6 9.2 7 Physiological Reviews 31.4 7.9 8 Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 31.4 12.2 9 Science 30.0 5.3 10 Cell 29.2 15.2 SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) TOP TEN Rank Journal IF SJR 1 Annual Review of Immunology 22.4 47.2 2 Annual Review of Biochemistry 16.1 36.5 3 Cell 15.2 29.2 4 Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology 14.2 26.6 5 Nature Immunology 12.5 27.6 6 Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 12.2 31.4 7 Nature Reviews Immunology 11.1 28.7 8 Immunity 9.3 18.3 9 Nature Reviews Cancer 9.2 31.6 10 Nature Genetics 9.1 24.2 (c) Nature Publishing Group -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Dr.Vengan's demise
by Mailing List Admin 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:28:32 -0800 (PST) From: Chandrappa S <chandrappas(a)yahoo.com> Dear professionals, Dr. venagan was really an outspoken and a good library professional, who did his DRTC, his carear started IIT, iisc and shifted to University of Madras , let us prey god to give more strengh to his family chandrappa librarian Trigent software ltd Bangalore

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condolences
by amudhavalli alagusundaram 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Dear Friends, With deep sense of grief and sadness, the Dept of Information Science condole the sad and sudden demise of Dr R Vengan, Librarian Madras University Library, Chennai on 14th Janaury evening. May his soul rest in peace. amudhavalli Prof.A. Amudhavalli Head, Dept. of Information Science, University of Madras, Chepauk, Chennai 600 005. Ph: 2539 9672 ( Off- Direct) Ph: 2245 5922 - Residence --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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DeLIver : an search system for engineering, physics and computer science journals
by sri priya 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

DeLIver is an experimental search system that you can access via the World WideWeb. It contains tens of thousands of articles from more than 50 engineering, physics and computer science journals published from 1995 to the present. DeLIver offers features not available in most other search systems. It allows you to search and view specific parts of the article, such as the figures, or references. This allows you to "fine tune" a search and get more relevant results. You can also access full-text articles from your desktop computer. http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/deliver/about.htm http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/deliver.asp Regards, S.Sripriya ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] "Content Management System"
by Nerida Hart 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Have you thought about using OPen Source CMS systems. I know we have been looking at them at work, but don't know the names of them. Nerida > Smita Srinivasan <smita(a)qmedin.com> wrote: > > Dear All, > > We are planning to implement a "Content Management System" to manage > the content in our organisation. Please let me know of any good CMS > application > that we can use. > > Please also indicate its user-friendliness, cost, ease of > implementation, if ready-to-use tutorials are available, size of > content it can handle, number of users. etc. > > Kindly share your experiences with the same. > > Smita Srinivasan > Information Executive > QMed Knowledge Foundation > Indian Medical Sites- www.indianmedicalsites.in > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Nerida Hart Lynsdale Park Burra Creek NSW 2620 0402 832 689 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Rare Books and Special Collections
by sri priya 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Rare Books and Special Collections http://www.cilip.org.uk/specialinterestgroups/bysubject/rarebooks/links A Selection of Internet Resources for Cataloguers compiled by PHILIP HIDER SILAS Philip_HIDER(a)nlb.gov.sg The following sites were selected as those the compiler considers most likely to be of interest and of use to the cataloguer. http://www.las.org.sg/resource/webcatalog.htm hesis on LIS : Global Library and Information Science : LIS - Books,Journals and Articles Archives. http://lisjournal.wiki.zoho.com/Thesis-on-LIS.html Scholarship opportunities for students of library and information science (prospective and current) http://www.newyorkbooks.org/stam/scholarships.htm World Public Library : Worlds Largest eBook Consortia http://worldlibrary.net/ Computer Science Info-sources http://comp.wikidot.com/ Mansfield University Library Resources http://lib.mansfield.edu/library.cfm Library Sites http://www.100toplibrarysites.com/ Commonly Asked Interview Questions - LIS http://www.geocities.com/aer_mcr/libjob/interview.html http://www.libsci.sc.edu/career/invufaqs.htm Regards, S.Sripriya ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Job: Library Cum Information Officer
by nagesh＠jncasr.ac.in 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Dear members, Jobs Posting: Library Cum Information Officer at(JNCASR) Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Jakkur, Bangalore-64 Advt. No. Advt. No.12/2007-2008 Please view http://www.jncasr.ac.in/advtno12200708.php for detailed information and application form. Best Regards, Nagesh Hadimani Library Assistant Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Bangalore-64 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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NewGenLib as open source
by Mailing List Admin 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:31:40 +0500 From: Upadhyay P K <pku(a)nic.in> Dear LIS Professioanls, Heariest Congrats to Dr L J Haravu on his fantastic initiative. Dr Haravu's this initiative is like Tata's gift of Nano car to people of India. On the same day also LIS professionals got the news of NewGenLib as Open Source. I have always been supportive of this type of development using Open standards and not adopting and depending on foreign open source LIS softwares like Koha, Dspace and Eprints. I was also working on porting eGranthalaya software using open standards. But now onwards I would be happy to work with Dr Haravu for making Indian Library sector fully automated using indegenous open source product. Although NIC has already initiated eGranthalaya digtal agenda using Microsoft technologies for automation and networking of all the libraries across India and during 11th five year plan target is to cover all the libraries of the country. wishing again a grabd success. with regards P K Upadhyay OIC Library National Informatics Centre New Delhi

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Re: [LIS-Forum] NewGenLib as Open Source
by Mailing List Admin 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:31:42 +0530 From: L J Haravu <haravu(a)newgenlib.com> Dear List Members I am responding to several mails we received after the announcement of NewGenLib as open source. In particular I am responding to the very relevant questions, suggestions of DR Arunachalam, Dr I R N Goudar and Shwetank Upadhyaya. 1. The development company, Verus Solutions Pvt. Ltd.., (VSPL) and Kesavan Inst. of Information and Knowledge Management (KIIKM) will continue to work on new versions and enhancements to the software. 2. We will soon contact Developer communities interested in ILMS software to download and join the development effort and/or give new ideas that would help enhance the software 3. Right now, we are busy with building a new version (3.0) with many new and customizable features and enhanced support to metadata and interoperabiltity standards. In fact the requirement specifications for this came jointly from FAO and us after a demonstration cum training programme that was held at FAO, Rome in June 2007. The new version, also open source, will become available sometime in June 2008. 4. Like other open source ILMS offerings, we hope that communities of practice will emerge over time so that there is healthy exchange of experiences and mutual technical support. 5. The discussion forum, https://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=210780 should be used to report problems and solutions right from download issues to those in the functional modules. There will be answers from the developers and others that will hopefully democratize the support of the software 6. There is already a specialist IT services company, a sister company of VSPL called Verus IT Services Pvt. Ltd. (VISL) which will offer customer-specific services beginning from Installation, data conversion/data migration, training and ongoing support. These services will be charged for and a package of services is being worked out and will soon be announced. The idea is to help libraries implement the software and build library networks via service costs rather than product investments. We are also considering the possibililty of subscription-based services. 7. We will be approaching funding agencies in India (DSIR, DOE, RRRLF, etc.,) and abroad to help us conduct workshops and training programmes in different parts of the country/overseas. We are also seeking support of training centres such as DRTC and Schools of Library Science; professional bodies such as ILA, IASLIC, RCIS, SRELS, INFLIBNET, other library associations to help us take the software to public, academic and research libraries. We will look forward to the suggestions and support of the List members. DRTC has already promised their help. Dr A R D Prasad as all of you know has been a champion of open source and he has also been a source of inspiration to us. I hope I have been able to answer some of the concerns and views expressed by various professionals and I look forward to your support and suggestions. L J Haravu Trustee, Kesavan Inst. of Information and Knowledge Management

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