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Journal of Genetics!
by Mailing List Admin 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:47:50 +0530 (IST) From: Riki Krishnan <riki(a)ias.ernet.in> Dear Member, We would like to know which library has the following volumes of the Journal of Genetics. We are archiving them on our website. Journal of Genetics: Vol.3, 4,...15. With regards Riki Krishnan Indian Academy of Sciences Sadashivnagar Bangalore

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Appreciate Uploaded Presentation
by Rajan 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

Dear Mr Sukhdev Singh, Your presentation is an excellent invitation to the digital world of medical information. Opening it to others for re-use is an act that deserves appreciation.As well, your focus on free information is really appreciative. It is heard that there are some others who conduct seminars in the name of free software like greenstone, dspace etc and propagate private interests. It is a glad news that you speak about open knowledge and practice it as well. Please upload such presentations in future too. Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:22:38 +0530 From: "Sukhdev Singh" <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] PPT Slides Available for REUSE on "Bio-Medical Information Retrieval from Net" To: iami_gen(a)googlegroups.com, indmed-forum(a)yahoogroups.com, medlib(a)yahoogroups.com, lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <c13c85220712112152m5e631857hd34799663a7b5fc4(a)mail.gmail.com> I have delivered a lecture at Lady Irwin College (New Delhi) yesterday on "Bio-Medical Information Retrieval from Net". I wish to share my lecture slides with you. The Presentation consists of over 90 Power Point PPT slides .... can be viewed or Downloaded (for reuse) from http://snipurl.com/1v51n --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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six techniques for better search results
by Rajesh Rangappa 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

Dear professionals I found an interesting and useful article, titled "Six techniques to get more from web than google will tell you" By Margaret Locher, CIO. Which will be heplful in searching better infromation specially on Science and technology & Current happenings in specific field etc. link is "http://www.cio.com/article/print/156900" Thanks and Regards -- RAJESH ALDARTHI LIBRARIAN (Jain Institute of vocational and Advanced Studies) #127/3, Bull Tempel Road, Chamarajpet, Bangalore-560096 Email: deepakdeepa89(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for an article
by Kshema Prakash 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

Dear colleagues, Can someone kindly help me by sending a copy of the following article? *Title:* Individual value structure and diversity attitudes: The moderating effects of age, gender, race, and religiosity *Author(s):* Olukemi O. Sawyerr, Judy Strauss, Jun Yan *Journal:* Journal of Managerial Psychology *ISSN:* 0268-3946 *Year:* 2005 * Volume:* 20 * Issue:* 6 * Page:* 498 - 521 *DOI:* 10.1108/02683940510615442 *Publisher:* Emerald Group Publishing Limited Thanks and regards, Kshema Ms. Kshema Prakash Faculty LIbrarian - Gr I Central Library Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University) Dayalbagh, Agra 282005 U.P. -- Mrs. Kshema Prakash Faculty Librarian - Gr I Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University) Dayalbagh, Agra 282005 Uttar Pradesh, India -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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PPT Slides Available for REUSE on "Bio-Medical Information Retrieval from Net"
by Sukhdev Singh 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

I have delivered a lecture at Lady Irwin College (New Delhi) yesterday on "Bio-Medical Information Retrieval from Net". I wish to share my lecture slides with you. The Presentation consists of over 90 Power Point PPT slides. It has been prepared keeping in mind the information needs of Bio-Medical Researchers. However it does not include Paid / Fee based services like "Web of Science". The presentation can be viewed or Downloaded (for reuse) from http://snipurl.com/1v51n Presentation starts with an emphasis need for having a planned search strategy and evaluation of the retrieved results. The best tool and Internet resource to explore would depend upon the type of information being sought from the net. For general non-scholarly information Internet Search Engines, Meta Search Engines, Web Directories and Subject Guides would be the best way to start with. However there is need to evaluate all such information. Simple criteria - like the authority behind the information; the date of creation and modification and commercial interests if any - can be used to evaluate the authenticity of the information retrieved. Medical websites with "HONcode" logo could be easily evaluated and trusted. For scholarly literature, researchers are advised to start with Bibliographic Databases. These databases provide references to high quality peer reviewed journals. PubMed and IndMED (For Indian Journals) are best known under this category. The presentation has some interesting pictures to explain the need for "Controlled Vocabulary" like MeSH. Other tools like Scirus can also be used for retrieving scholarly information. Google Scholar can be used to for limited "Cited By" information along with references. Coming to Full Text of articles, looking for libraries' holdings would be a better strategy. "Union Catalogue" is useful tool to explore collection of neighborhood libraries. Many good journals are now coming out from Open Access Publishers like BioMed Central and PLoS. Some of the good Indian medical journals are also available for free through Internet. NIC's medIND project and MedKnow (an Indian Open Access Publisher) have been instrumental in putting most of them online. Directory of Open Access Journals is a useful tool to find out Open Access Journals in a subject domain. Other resources for finding full text articles are Institutional (like EPrints@IISc ) and Subject Repositories (like OpenMED@NIC). There are now about 1000 such registered and OAI-PMH compliant repositories all over the world. Tools like ROAR can used to find a relevant repository. These repositories can also be searched through search engine like Google and some special OAI-PMH search engines. The presentation ends with some special type of resources like Cochrane Library (made freely accessible to Resident Indians through sponsorship by ICMR). --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Needed Help
by Mailing List Admin 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

Date: 10 Dec 2007 16:09:38 -0000 From: kirti vaishampayan <kitu1983(a)rediffmail.com> � Hello I am Kirti p. vaishampayan Student of S.N.D.T. M.L.I.Sc. course. my project topic is "RESOURCE SHARING - NEW TRENDS". So i am collecting information on Resource sharing,Library Networks and Consortia. Please can you suggest me helpful journals for this topics. - Kirti

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State Level seminar on IL and IT for School Librarians - Change of date - correction - reg
by Arunachalam Hariharan 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

Dear Friends, The date of the State Level Seminar on Information Literacy and Information Technology for School Librarians was wrongly mentioned in our earlier announcement. The correct date is: 5th JANUARY 2008 Registration: Free Last date for registraion: 31.12.2007 State Level Seminar on Information Literacy and Information Technology for School Librarians Jointly Organised by Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS Chennai Chapter) & Connemara Public Library, Chennai Date 5th JANUARY 2008 Venue Connemara Public Library, Chennai Registration: Free Last date for registraion: 31.12.2007 _____________________________________________________ SALIS & Connemara Public Library, Chennai ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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DRTC---Seminar on Next Generation Catalogues : User expectations
by Vinit kumar 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College Post Bangalore-560059 Seminar On *Next Generation Catalogues: User expectations* * * Since the days of Cutter, tools to access the resources of libraries are changing their structure and interface rapidly and dramatically to fulfill the dynamic user needs. Today almost every library user comes with expectations set and defined by their experience of using the Web. So the catalogues, which are offered by the libraries, need to operate at the same level of sophistication as other popular Web destinations. In the past decade people's expectations regarding search and *e*-access to information have dramatically changed. The proliferation of desktop computers, the increasing amounts of *"born digital" *content, and the advent of the Internet have all contributed to this. People expect to enter one or two words (or maybe a phrase) into a search box, click a button, get a ranked-list of relevant items returned, select an item from the results, and view/download the information. The process has to be quick, easy, and immediate. Even though people know that the information available from libraries is free and authoritative they often use libraries as a last resort because they see library systems are overwhelmingly associated with books, confusing, difficult to use, time consuming, complex and inconvenient. The seminar will examine the present developments and explore the likely future developments in re-designing the OPAC to support resource discovery. *Speaker:** *Vinit Kumar JRF** ***All are cordially invited*** Venue: DRTC Classroom Professor and Head Date: 14th December, 2007 DRTC Time: 2 p.m. -- Regards Vinit Kumar vinit(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in Junior Research Fellow Documentation Research and Training Cent re Bangalore M.L.I.Sc. (BHU) Varanasi -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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... WHO has the password ?
by Satish Munnolli 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

Recent issue of 'Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics' has an interesting editorial. Denying open access to published health-care research: WHO has the password? An 'extract' of the editorial is as below. The World Health Organization (WHO) has demonstrated exemplary foresight in highlighting that access to biomedical journals is a critical issue in developing countries and one of the many obstacles to improving health. In the year 2002, WHO initiated a unique program, HINARI, with the support of several major publishers. HINARI is presently providing open access to over 3,750 journal titles to institutions in 113 developing countries. Institutions in countries with GNI per capita (World Bank figures, 2006) below $1,000 are eligible for free access and those in countries with GNI per capita between $1,000 and $3,000 can gain access by paying a very reasonable fee of $1,000 per year / institution. However, clinicians and researchers in some very populous developing countries like India have been greatly disappointed that they are not considered eligible for HINARI. The GNI per capita as per the World Bank 2006 figures for some of the countries that have been excluded by HINARI, range from $770 for Pakistan, $820 for India, $1420 for Indonesia and $2010 for China. The HINARI website acknowledges that some developing countries with per capita GNP of less than US$3,000 have been denied open access through HINARI as 'the publishers participating in HINARI have not, for the time being, extended their offer to countries where they have significant levels of existing subscriptions and, in some cases, local sales staff.' It is unfortunate that business interests of western publishers has taken away the gloss from HINARI by denying open access to clinicians catering to the health needs of half of the world population. While the long list of 113 countries covered under HINARI looks very impressive, most of these are very small countries, with the combined population of countries in Band 1 being 1.2 billion; and in Band 2 as 0.3 billion. In contrast, the total population of China, India, Indonesia and Pakistan, the 4 most populous countries with a per capita GNI of less than $3000 but excluded from HINARI is 3 billion. Full text of the editorial is available at http://www.cancerjournal.net/article.asp?issn=0973-1482;year=2007;volume=3;… Interestingly, who support or oppose this call and has any suggestions are free to send their email response to the editorial of the journal site. Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 210 Ph: +91 22 2740 5026 Email: smunnolli(a)actrec.gov.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Workshop on Preserving Our Scientific Heritage
by Mohan Shivaramu 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

Dear Friends With reference to our earlier communication dated 21st Nov 2007, regarding the National Workshop on Preserving Our Scientific Heritage. We would like to inform that the deadline for registration is extended up to 1st Jan 2008. Kindly check the website http://www.iiap.res.in/archives/ for updated information on scientific program. We encourage you to register online for participating in the workshop. Contact: Dr. Christina Birdie, Convener, National Workshop on Preserving Our Scientific Heritage, IIA, Bangalore 21-22, January, 2008 chris(a)iiap.res.in Mohan B S Indian Institute of Astrophysics Koramangala Bangalore - 560 034 India -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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