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by Manju manju 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

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Article Title: Assessment of Fire Damage to Pressure Vessels in a Refinery Unit
by Vandana.Karande＠ril.com 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

This is with reference to an article which was urgently needed......I had posted it in Lisforum....Mr.C. Jayakumar of Scientific Information Resource Division (SIRD),Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR)has helped us by providing a softcopy of the article. This is to request you all that the search is over. Please do not to work on the query. Thanks & Regards, Vandana Karande Information Specialist Corporate Development Group Reliance Centre Tel No. 30327139 This is with reference to an article which was urgently needed......I had posted it in Lisforum....Mr. C. Jayakumar of Scientific Information Resource Division (SIRD),Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR)has helped us by providing a softcopy of the article. This is to request you all that the search is over. Please do not to work on the query. Thanks & Regards, Vandana Karande Information Specialist Corporate Development Group Reliance Centre Tel No. 30327139

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M. Phil & Ph. D holder have more scope then UGC / NET qualified personnel
by badan barman 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

M. Phil & Ph. D holder have more scope then UGC / NET qualified personnel Respected all, I want to draw your kind attention to the fact that is happening Regarding employment opportunity, the M. Phil & Ph. D. holder have more scope in comparison to UGC / NET qualified personnel. As In the selection for different post the M. Phil and Ph. D holders where given 5 and 10 marks extra for their degree respectively. Whereas the NET qualified personnel does not eligible for such marks. So they are bound to lose when they come face to face with other M. Phil and Ph D candidate. This is happening in Assam, I don't know what the situation in other states of India is. Let me frank, Qualifying in the NET is a difficult task. It demands the exclusive subject knowledge from the candidate whereas the M. Phil and Ph D demand the time and money. (I apologies from the true research scholar) I personally know many candidates who are appearing for NET exam again and again but still they are unable to qualify. Now after the announcement of UGC regarding the exemption of M. Phil and Ph D holders from appearing NET they are joining the M. Phil programme under some mushrooming correspondent school, whose quality is doubtful. And after one year they are bound to challenge the NET qualified personnel and win the same. So, I personally feel that UGC by exempting M. Phil and Ph D holders from appearing NET without any clause, make another great mistake. It like the same of its previous announcement regarding the last date of submission of Ph. D thesis (December 2002 and revised date of December 2003) which degrades the quality of Research. Yours faithfully Badan Barman Research Assistant ICSSR Project "Rural Libraries of North East India: A machine readable database" Department of Library and Information Science Gauhati University, Assam (India). M. Phil & Ph. D holder have more scope then UGC / NET qualified personnel � � Respected all, � I want to draw your kind attention to the fact that is happening � Regarding employment opportunity, the M. Phil & Ph. D. holder have more scope in comparison to UGC / NET qualified personnel. As In the selection for different post the M. Phil and Ph. D holders where given 5 and 10 marks extra for their degree respectively. Whereas the NET qualified personnel does not eligible for such marks. So they are bound to lose when they come face to face with other M. Phil and Ph D candidate. This is happening in Assam, I don't know what the situation in other states of India is. � Let me frank, Qualifying in the NET is a difficult task. It demands the exclusive subject knowledge from the candidate whereas the M. Phil and Ph D demand the time and money. (I apologies from the true research scholar) � I personally know many candidates who are appearing for NET exam again and again but still they are unable to qualify. Now after the announcement of UGC regarding the exemption of M. Phil and Ph D holders from appearing NET they are joining the M. Phil programme under some mushrooming correspondent school, whose quality is doubtful. And after one year they are bound to challenge the NET qualified personnel and win the same. � So, I personally feel that UGC by exempting M. Phil and Ph D holders from appearing NET without any clause, make another great mistake. It like the same of its previous announcement regarding the last date of submission of Ph. D thesis (December 2002 and revised date of December 2003) which degrades the quality of Research. � � � Yours faithfully Badan Barman Research Assistant ICSSR Project "Rural Libraries of North East India: A machine readable database" Department of Library and Information Science Gauhati University, Assam (India).

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Tools: LIbrary Reference Services: Live Digital Reference Tools
by Mallikarjuna, H.B 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Tools: LIbrary Reference Services: Live Digital Reference Tools LiveRef(sm) is compiled and maintained by Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Science and Technology Services Department, Iowa State University Library.Ames, IA LiveRef(sm): A Registry of Real-Time Digital Reference Services is a categorized listing of libraries that offer real-time Library reference or information services using chat software, live interactive communications utilities, call center management software, customer interaction management software, Web contact center software, bulletin board services, interactive customer assistance system, or related Internet technologies. Use of the listed services may be restricted or limited to affiliated students, faculty, staff, or members. REAL-TIME DIGITAL REFERENCE TECHNOLOGIES * 24/7 Reference- * Anexa.com * AOL Instant Messenger(sm) (America Online) * Camden * ConferenceRoom(r) (WebMaster) * DesktopStreaming (tm) (Expertcity) * DigiChat (Digi-Net Technologies) * eGain Live (eGain) * eGain Voice (eGain) * eshare NetAgent(tm) 4.0 (eshare Communications, Inc. * eshare Re: sponse(tm) (eshare Communications, Inc.) * Groopz(tm) (Digi-Net Technologies) * GroupBoard (User Data Connections) * HumanClick(sm) (LivePerson(r)) * LiveAssistance (International Business Systems, Inc.) * Livehelper(sm) * LivePerson Chat (LivePerson(r)) * NetMeeting (Microsoft) * Netscape IRC * OnDemand(tm) (Convey Systems) * QuestionPoint(sm) (OCLC/Library of Congress) * Rakim * RightNow Live(tm) (RightNow Technologies) * Virtual Reference Software (Library Systems & Services, L.L.C. (LSSI)) * Virtual Reference Librarian (Docutek) * Volano * WebLine(r) (Cisco Systems) Source: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/LiveRef.htm Regards H.B Mallikarjuna, Indegene Bangalore. -- Regards H.B.Mallikarjuna Email: hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjuna.blogspot.com http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/libtech/ --"All power is within you, you can do anything and everything.Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... You can do anything and everything, without even the guidance of any one. All power is there......"--Swamy Vivekananda --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW Tools: LIbrary Reference Services: Live Digital Reference Tools LiveRef(sm) is compiled and maintained by Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Science and Technology Services Department, Iowa State University Library.Ames, IA LiveRef(sm): A Registry of Real-Time Digital Reference Services is a categorized listing of libraries that offer real-time Library reference or information services using chat software, live interactive communications utilities, call center management software, customer interaction management software, Web contact center software, bulletin board services, interactive customer assistance system, or related Internet technologies. Use of the listed services may be restricted or limited to affiliated students, faculty, staff, or members. REAL-TIME DIGITAL REFERENCE TECHNOLOGIES * 24/7 Reference- * Anexa.com * AOL Instant Messenger(sm) (America Online) * Camden * ConferenceRoom(r) (WebMaster) * DesktopStreaming (tm) (Expertcity) * DigiChat (Digi-Net Technologies) * eGain Live (eGain) * eGain Voice (eGain) * eshare NetAgent(tm) 4.0 (eshare Communications, Inc. * eshare Re: sponse(tm) (eshare Communications, Inc.) * Groopz(tm) (Digi-Net Technologies) * GroupBoard (User Data Connections) * HumanClick(sm) (LivePerson(r)) * LiveAssistance (International Business Systems, Inc.) * Livehelper(sm) * LivePerson Chat (LivePerson(r)) * NetMeeting (Microsoft) * Netscape IRC * OnDemand(tm) (Convey Systems) * QuestionPoint(sm) (OCLC/Library of Congress) * Rakim * RightNow Live(tm) (RightNow Technologies) * Virtual Reference Software (Library Systems & Services, L.L.C. (LSSI)) * Virtual Reference Librarian (Docutek) * Volano * WebLine(r) (Cisco Systems) Source: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/LiveRef.htm http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/LiveRef.htm Regards H.B Mallikarjuna, Indegene Bangalore. http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com/ -- Regards H.B.Mallikarjuna Email: hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjuna.blogspot.com http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/libtech/ --"All power is within you, you can do anything and everything.Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... You can do anything and everything, without even the guidance of any one. All power is there......"--Swamy Vivekananda Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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Need an article URGENTLY...............
by Vandana.Karande＠ril.com 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

hello Need following article urgently. Article Title: Assessment of Fire Damage to Pressure Vessels in a Refinery Unit Journal Title: Corrosion; May 1993 Thanks & Regards, Vandana Karande Information Specialist Corporate Development Group Reliance Industries Ltd Mumbai Tel No. 30327139 hello Need following article urgently. Article Title: Assessment of Fire Damage to Pressure Vessels in a Refinery Unit Journal Title: Corrosion; May 1993 Thanks & Regards, Vandana Karande Information Specialist Corporate Development Group Reliance Industries Ltd Mumbai Tel No. 30327139

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Journal editors unhappy with Elsevier's pricing policy (
by Mailing List Manager 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:28:05 +0100 (BST) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> A journal declaration of independence hits the mainstream press Gary Shapiro, A Rebellion Erupts Over Journals Of Academia, New York Sun, October 26, 2006. Excerpt: There's been a rebellion, not with pitchforks but pocket calculators. The nine members of the editorial board of the Oxford University-based mathematics journal Topology have signed a letter expressing their intention to resign on December 31. They cited the price of the journal as well as the general pricing policies of their publisher, Elsevier, as having "a significant and damaging effect on Topology's reputation in the mathematical research community." The subscription cost of journals can be difficult to determine, since institutions often subscribe to many periodicals in a single bundle. But according to Elsevier's Web site, in 2007 the cost of a single year (six issues) of Topology, in all countries except Europe and Japan, will be $100 for individuals and $1,665 for institutions. Founded through the vision of the Oxford topologist J.H.C. Whitehead in mid-century, Topology has an "illustrious history" with "some of the greatest names of 20th century mathematics" among its editorial and honorary advisory editorial board members, the editors wrote in their resignation letter, dated August 10. " Elsevier's policies towards the publication of mathematics research have undermined this legacy." A company spokesman, David Ruth, replied, "Elsevier regrets the decision taken by the editorial board of Topology, but we believe it doesn't fully reflect the changes we have made over the past decade, and continue to make, which have moderated price increases and provided considerably more value for customers, in terms of both cost per article and research efficiency." Board resignations have occurred at other Elsevier publications, such as the Journal of Logic Programming and the Journal of Algorithms, and also at a variety of other publishers such as Kluwer and Taylor and Francis. Of the Topology resignations, Mr. Ruth said, "Considering that Elsevier publishes more than 1800 journals, this still constitutes a pretty rare occurrence." ... One editor of Topology, John Roe, whose specialty is the relation between geometry and differential equations, said the rising cost of journals has concerned academics, not just mathematicians, for a long time. To those who favor free online access to scholarship, mass resignations of editors are "declarations of independence," a research professor of philosophy at Earlham College, Peter Suber, said. Usually, he said, an editorial board "has a long track record of failed negotiations with their publisher. The typical scenario is the editors resign, form a new journal at a lower price, and the old journal hires new editors." A Lehigh University mathematics professor, Donald Davis, who moderates an online algebraic topology discussion list, said, "University library budgets are no longer adequate to subscribe to all the journals they used to." The Head Librarian of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Library at New York University, Carol Hutchins, said, "The degree of choice is shrinking" and cited reasons such as the consolidation of publishing firms. "Elsevier's prices are very high," said an emerita mathematics professor at Barnard College, Joan Birman, who resigned a few years ago from the board of an Elsevier journal, Topology and Its Applications. She said her feeling was, "We do the work, we check each other, we referee the articles, edit and typeset them and send them to the publisher, which slaps them between two covers and charges a huge amount."... PS: Thanks to Gary Shapiro. This is the longest and most detailed article I've seen on a journal declaration of independence in the mainstream press. For background, see my blog post from August 11, 2006. I promise (as I've been saying since August...) to add this rebellion to my list of declarations of independence. Posted by Peter Suber at 10/26/2006 08:31:15 AM. ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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scientific paper of the future
by Subbiah Arunachalam 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Friends: You may like this presentation on the scientific paper of the future: http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/061014_eScience_Hannay.pdf Prof. Peter Suber alerted me to this paper. Regards. Arun Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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OCA makes good progress
by Subbiah Arunachalam 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Friends: Here is a statement from Brewster Kahle, founder of the Open Content Alliance. After its first year, OCA has now scanned and cataloged over 30,000 books, available on its site. Today, OCA scans about 500 books a day and expects output to increase tenfold by the end of 2007. OCA partners include Yahoo!, the University of California, the British Library, Smithsonian Institution, University of Illinois, Boston Library Consortium, European Archive, O'Reilly Media, Research Library Group, as well as many other academic, technological, non-profit, and government organizations. Perhaps most importantly, Kahle said the OCA discussions honed in on the "open" in the Open Content Alliance. For OCA, the effort is more than a race to scan library book content for a commercial index, but extends to the use of that content. With OCA, "public domain means public domain," Kahle noted. "That was one of the 'aha' moments, that open as we know it may not be open enough and that the digitized public domain must be public domain. Libraries understand this; so does Yahoo." That means, Kahle says, once public domain books are scanned, there are "no restrictions at all on users, and anyone can build any service on top of it." --- Which libraries in India and other countries in the global Soth would like to join the Open Content Allince? In a knowledge-based world initiatives such as OCA and institutional repositoriers play a very important role. Regards. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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ProQuest supports ETDs
by Subbiah Arunachalam 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Friends: Even commercial firms have started supporting open access. Oracle has plans to go the whole hog with Linux and is expected to buy a major Linux company very soon. Now ProQuest is supporting open access to electronic theses and dissertatations. Read Peter Suber's blog entry reproduced below. Best wishes. Arun ---------- ProQuest offers OA option for ETDs ProQuest has launched UMI Open Access Publishing. >From the site: Open Access is a term used to describe content that a reader can access free of charge. With the new UMI® Open Access publishing service, graduate students can now publish their dissertations and theses with ProQuest on an open access basis. Those graduate student authors that choose to publish their graduate works on an open access basis will be significantly increasing the reach of their research.... The primary benefit of Open Access publishing is that it guarantees the widest possible exposure of your graduate research. It can also help ensure that the officially published version of your dissertation or thesis is the most widely available version in the primary literature.... In addition to the standard features of our Traditional publishing service - rigorous quality assurance, assignment of an ISBN, permanent storage in our microfilm vault, and so on - the Open Access publishing service includes the following: * Free, public access to your graduate work in PQDT Open, our online repository of Open Access graduate works (launching in late fall 2006). * Free access to your graduate work for all institutional subscribers to ProQuest® Dissertations & Theses (PQDT), the database of record for graduate research. * Explicit author permission for the degree-granting institution to make the full text of your graduate work available to the world through their institutional repository. How does Open Access publishing compare with ProQuest's Traditional publishing service? Read more here about the details and see a comparison chart showing the benefits of our Open Access and Traditional Publishing services.... Learn more about how Open Access publishing works in our downloadable Overview, and check out our Open Access Publishing FAQ. Posted by Peter Suber at 10/28/2006 03:46:00 PM. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Google:Google Co-op - Custom Search Engine for Indian Libraries and Librarians
by Mallikarjuna, H.B 28 Oct '06

28 Oct '06

Dear Professionals, Specialized Custom Search Engine for Indian libraries and librarians I have been working on my Google custom search engine for Indian Libraries and Librarians. I am working on finding a way to include Indian libraries and librarians web pages. If you have other websites or even individual web pages that should be added, please send me the URL. My goals for this search engine are: Provide a searchable interface to selected resources, Show how useful Google Custom Search can be. And also, please give me your feedback on how useful this search engine is to you. I would be incredibly grateful if someone is willing to help me with this. I can be reached at my email: hbmallikarjuna(a)gmail.com. Once again, thank you for all of your help and dedication. I need your comments or suggestions on how to improve the search engine and make it more useful, When leaving comments, please let us know who you are and what you do, as this will help us put the feedback in context. If you ever have any problems, questions, comments, or suggestions, please contact. hbmallikarjuna(a)gmail.com. Available at: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=008216745263207366915%3As-dzhkvvpxk Small URL: http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb It is available at : http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Home page: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=008216745263207366915%3As-dzhkvvpxk -- Regards H.B Mallikarjuna Indegene, Bangalore-38. Mobile: 9980998157 -- Regards H.B.Mallikarjuna Email: hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjuna.blogspot.com http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/libtech/ --"All power is within you, you can do anything and everything.Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... You can do anything and everything, without even the guidance of any one. All power is there......"--Swamy Vivekananda --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW Dear Professionals, Specialized Custom Search Engine for Indian libraries and librarians I have been working on my Google custom search engine for Indian Libraries and Librarians. I am working on finding a way to include Indian libraries and librarians web pages. If you have other websites or even individual web pages that should be added, please send me the URL. My goals for this search engine are: Provide a searchable interface to selected resources, Show how useful Google Custom Search can be. And also, please give me your feedback on how useful this search engine is to you. I would be incredibly grateful if someone is willing to help me with this. I can be reached at my email: mailto:hbmallikarjuna@gmail.com hbmallikarjuna(a)gmail.com . Once again, thank you for all of your help and dedication. I need your comments or suggestions on how to improve the search engine and make it more useful, When leaving comments, please let us know who you are and what you do, as this will help us put the feedback in context. If you ever have any problems, questions, comments, or suggestions , please contact. mailto:hbmallikarjuna@gmail.com hbmallikarjuna(a)gmail.com . Available at: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=008216745263207366915%3As-dzhkvvpxk http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=008216745263207366915%3As-dzhkvvpxk Small URL: http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb It is available at : http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com/ http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Home page: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=008216745263207366915%3As-dzhkvvpxk http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=008216745263207366915%3As-dzhkvvpxk -- Regards H.B Mallikarjuna Indegene, Bangalore-38. Mobile: 9980998157 http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com/ -- Regards H.B.Mallikarjuna Email: hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjuna.blogspot.com http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/libtech/ --"All power is within you, you can do anything and everything.Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... You can do anything and everything, without even the guidance of any one. All power is there......"--Swamy Vivekananda Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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